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Wednesday, September 13,1989
ush begs children to refuse drugs
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi
dent Bush, in a televised appeal to
millions of schoolchildren, said
Tuesday that refusing drugs “won’t
make you a nerd” and urged young
sters to help others stay away from
narcotics.
“I’m asking you not to look the
other way,” Bush said in an address
beamed live from the White House
to thousands of schools across the
bountry.
Saying everyone knows someone
who has a problem. Bush added,
“I’m asking you to find someone
who needs you. And offer to help,
['ll say it again: If you’re not in trou
ble, help someone who is.”
On another front, as Bush made
his speech, the White House un
corked a toughly worded, partisan
attack against congressional Demo
crats who are criticizing the adminis
tration’s anti-drug efforts as inade
quate and underfunded.
White House press secretary Mar
lin Fitzwater said Democrats were
trying “to play price-tag politics”
with the administration’s plan, which
calls for more prisons, more pros
ecutors, tougher sentences and aid
to Latin American nations to help
combat drug cartels.
“Their first answer was to tax
more,” Fitzwater said of the Demo
crats. “Then they had a daylong con
ference to decide why they can’t win
a presidential election. And now
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The
ouse moved Tuesday toward ap-
roval of legislation to restore crimi-
al penalties for flag burning, seek
ing to overcome an unpopular
iupreme Court decision.
House action in the form of a stat
ute appeared likely after Speaker
Thomas S. Foley promised a vote
later on a constitutional amendment,
the remedy demanded by President
Bush and many congressional Re
publicans to undo the court’s ruling
st years, that flag burning could be a pro
jected form of free speech.
"I remain opposed ... and I think
for (alilthe leadership is opposed to a consti-
Robint sutional amendment,” said Foley, D-
t of dial Wash., calling such action unneces-
ere talk; ary.
However, he said he had assured
those seeking an amendment they
havetoUwould get their vote, and he denied
hat that marked a political setback.
He suggested he would work to keep
fhey a
the amendment from getting the
two-thirds vote needed for passage.
Some seeking an amendment soft
ened their opposition to the statute,
once assured that the Democratic
leadership would not use it to block
their alternative.
Rep. Sonny Montgomery, D-
Miss., chairman of the House Veter
ans Committee and co-sponsor of
Bush’s amendment, stood up in the
House and announced he would
vote for the statute.
“I still have doubts that we can do
the job by statute, but this is a step in
the rierht direction,” he said.
At the White House, spokesman
Marlin Fitzwater said, “We believe
that this bill is insufficient to provide
the protections that we seek, and
therefore continue to press for a
constitutional amendment.”
But he stopped short of any veto
threats.
their new answer is to spend more.”
On Capitol Hill, Sen. Robert
Byrd, D-W.Va., chairman of the
Senate Appropriations Committee,
proposed legislation to boost anti
drug spending to $10.1 billion, or
$2.2 billion more than Bush’s pro
gram, in fiscal 1990 which begins
Oct. 1.
Byrd proposed across-the-board
cuts in many domestic and Pentagon
programs of 0.575 percent. Bush
had suggested taking money away
from a handful 'of domestic pro
grams to pay for his program.
Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole,
R-Kan., indicated that despite the
White House opposition, he liked el
ements of Byrd’s plan.
“He may have the best solution on
the funding side of the equation,”
Dole said of Byrd’s proposal. “I’m
not certain of the amount, but per
haps that’s something we can work
out.”
White House spokesman Fitzwa
ter said Byrd’s proposal “throws
money at the problem rather than
providing a plan.” The White House
said Bush’s advisers would recom
mend he veto the Democratic ver
sion.
While the White House argued
with Democrats, the administration
offered a new price tag for the long
term cost of the drug war.
William J. Bennett, the national
drug control policy director, told the
House Foreign Affairs Committee,
“I don’t think it’s unreasonable to
say that we are talking about a $50
billion program over five years.”
At the White House, Bush spoke
for 15 minutes to schoolchildren in
an address carried live by the four
major television networks as well as
educational cable systems.
The Education Department had
alerted 15,000 superintendents and
55,000 principals of the broadcast,
and some schools arranged to hold
assemblies where students could
watch the speech and discuss the
drug problem.
“Presidents don’t often get the
chance to talk direcdy to students. So
today, for each of you sitting in a
classroom or assembly hall — this
message goes straight to you,” Bush
said, speaking from the presidential
library.
Texas Air investors
meet to decide future
of Lorenzo air empire
NEW YORK (AP) — The fu
ture of Frank Lorenzo’s airline
empire may well be on the line
when the Texas Air Corp. chair
man faces shareholders Wednes
day at a long-delayed annual
meeting.
Eastern Airlines, one of its two
main subsidiaries, is in its seventh
month of a bitter strike and tortu
ous bankruptcy proceeding. The
Miami-based carrier recendy dis
closed to creditors that it will have
about $370 million less in cash by
year-end than first projected,
having abandoned a plan to sell
its Latin American routes.
As a result, Texas Air may un
derwrite some of Eastern’s opera-
dons — a prospect unlikely to
cheer Texas Air shareholders. A
hearing is scheduled for Wednes
day in U.S. Bankruptcy Court on
a proposal for Texas Air to pay
part of Eastern’s $100 million
pension payment due on Friday.
While Eastern has been buf
feted since early March by the
strike by Machinists, pilots and
flight attendants, its sister carrier
Continental Airlines appeared to
enjoy stability and even turned a
modest profit. But in a surprise
move, Lorenzo announced on
Aug. 24 that he was considering
selling all or part of Houston-
based Continental.
The “noise” at strike-torn East
ern was hurting non-union Conti
nental’s business, Lorenzo re
cendy explained. “We have to be
responsible to our shareholders,”
he said. “We have an obligation to
look for alternatives.”
East Germans fill refugee camps in West
PASSAU, West Germany (AP) — Thousands
of East Germans crowded refugee camps Tues
day to begin building new lives in the West after
crossing the border from Hungary, and officials
said the historic emigre flood could exceed
15,000.
Communist East Germany issued a formal
protest to Hungary’s reform-minded govern
ment for permitting the exodus that will deprive
the East of thousands of young, skilled citizens. It
demanded the movement be halted.
East Germans who had camped outside the
West German Embassy in Prague, Czechoslova
kia, also hoping to go West, gave up after prom
ises they would not be punished, but thousands
more flowed out of Hungary into West Ger
many.
Officials in Hungary said thousands more East
Germans were arriving in the Warsaw Pact coun
try, which opened its doors to the West at mid
night Sunday. It was unclear how many would
follow their countrymen to the West.
Residents in the border city of Passau greeted
new arrivals with cheers, hugs and offers of jobs
and shelter. Several tent camps and a reception
area in the city’s convention center were set up
for the emigres, mostly young people fed up with
Communism.
“This reception is really amazing,” Ute Kindi,
a refugee, said. “I’m really speechless over the
warmness and kindness here.”
A large banner outside the center bore the
words “Herzlich Willkommen” (heartfelt greet
ings). Red and silver helium balloons with the
same message bobbed in the welcoming crowd.
Bulletin boards listed jobs and apartments.
Labor Minister Gebhard Glueck in the West
German state of Bavaria predicted that the total
number of East Germans taking advantage of the
chance to emigrate “could top 15,000.”
Bavarian border police said the number that
had arrived in the past two days was “over
10,000.”
East Germany’s state-run ADN news agency
released a government statement calling for the
“immediate rescinding” of Hungary’s decision to
“unilaterally suspend” bilateral agreements on
border controls.
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