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Wednesday telling the Iraqi people
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On the eight-minute tape, which
be White House hopes will be
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ays the U.S. military is in the Per-
ian Gulf only to defend Saudi Ara-
ia from Iraqi aggression.
“We want a peaceful resolution,”
lush says on the tape, according to
pokesman Marlin Fitzwater. “We
rant peaceful coexistence with the
>eople of Iraq.”
The White House held off releas-
ng a transcript, but Fitzwater gave
n overview of Bush’s comments.
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ended to create internal problems
or Hussein by emphasizing Iraq’s
solation in the world community as
result of the invasion of Kuwait,
lush has said previously he would
lot be unhappy if the people of Iraq
emoved Hussein from power, and
he address stressed that Iraqis are
laying a heavy price for his actions.
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curity Council officials to come up
with the wording, Fitzwater said.
The Arab specialists were asked to
look at the wording “to make sure
that the tone of it translates well into
Arabic,” said one official, speaking
on condition of anonymity. “You can
write a speech that sounds perfectly
good to Western ears,” but might
“We want a peaceful
resolution. We want
peaceful coexistence
with the people of
Iraq.”
— President Bush
not convey the right impression in
Arabic, the official said.
Fitzwater described the message
as “a very candid but personal de
scription of our goals and our objec
tives in the region.”
“The president was forthright
and didn’t stage anything, just gave a
direct message,” said Sig Rogich,
Bush’s assistant for media consulta
tion who produced the tape for the
president.
The White House worked
Wednesday on adding Arab subtitles
and audio translation to the tape be
fore sending it to the Iraqi ambassa
dor via Deputy Secretary of State
Lawrence Eagleburger.
The Voice of America said in a
statement that it was doing the trans
lating before the tape is handed over
“to forestall any excuses for not us
ing the tape.”
Fitzwater said although there had
been no direct contact between the
two governments regarding the vi
deotape, “We expect that Iraq will
honor its invitation to allow this to be
addressed to the Iraqi people, and
we will ask them to provide us an air
time within the next five days.”
He told reporters that the White
House will release the tape to the
media after it is aired, or after five
days if the Iraqis do not show it.
Bush made the tape after the Iraq
government offerea to send a TV
crew to interview him and broadcast
the interview on national television.
Oil companies react to appeal
for more domestic exploration
NEW YORK (AP) — Oil companies are pleased to
lear President Bush calling for more domestic explora-
ion, but they said Wednesday it’s going take more than
/ords from Washington before they step up their dril-
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The American Petroleum Institute said Bush’s sup-
>ort for increased exploration and oil company tax
ireaks echoes some of what the industry has been
isking for. But it remains to be seen whether Congress
ill go along.
In a televised speech Tuesday night, Bush asked law-
nakers to speed the development of oil reserves in
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tear, because our industry is in the doldrums,” said
antes Merna, spokesman for the Independent Petro-
:um Association of America. “But he just didn’t come
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Environmental groups did not wait lor specifics to
•last Bush’s call for more oil wells, including the Arctic
'lational Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, believed to contain
he nation’s largest untapped, on-shore reserve of
rude oil.
“He’s an old oil man, and all he can think of in terms
of the shortage is to drill more,” said Dru Schmidt-Per-
kins, conservation analyst for the Energy Conservation
Coalition in Washington.
Bush shows few signs of supporting the conservation
measures that are touted by environmentalists as the so
lution to cutting U.S. dependence on foreign oil,
Schmidt-Perkins said.
The oil industry says more exploration is part of the
answer to reducing America’s addiction to overseas
crude. But despite the rapid rise in oil prices that fol
lowed Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait on Aug. 2 and the sub
sequent boycott of their oil, there has been no rush to
find more oil.
The major oil companies say they would need to see
higher oil prices in a more stable market for a sustained
period before they would bolster their drilling plans.
Majors account for a small proportion of the wells that
are drilled domestically, but they tend to go after larger
pools of oil in more expensive projects.
“We’ll have to look at prices today, plus what is a rea
sonable outlook for prices in two to five years and even
longer,” said Michael E. Thompson, a spokesman for
Amoco Corp. “Many of these projects are five- or ten-or
20-year projects.”
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Federal courts
permit cameras
in civil trials
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
policy-making arm of the federal
courts approved on Wednesday
an experimental plan to permit
television cameras to record and
broadcast civil trials in a handful
of federal courtrooms.
The three-year experiment will
begin in July and will be limited
to two federal appeals courts and
six trial courts. Judges who volun
teer their courtrooms for the plan
will have broad control over what
the public sees.
The U.S. Judicial Conference,
headed by Chief Justice William
H. Rehnquist, approved the idea
overwhelmingly by voice vote,
conference spokesman David
Sellers said.
Sellers indicated that Rehnqu
ist spoke in favor of the experi
ment.
The conference, with 27 fed
eral judges as its members, tradi
tionally meets in private.
Sellers said only a few judges
spoke against the experiment and
that “the pervasive view is this is
inevitable.”
He noted that some members
of Congress have been lobbying
hard for the idea.
T.A.M.U. STUDY ABROAD 1991
INFORMATIONAL MEETING FOR PROGRAMS TO:
Germany
TO STUDY
History & Music
Italy
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Music & Art
England
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England
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Theatre
Scandinavia/
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Business
Management
England
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Trop. Island Biology
Germany
Spain
Russia
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One of them, Rep. Robert W.
Kastenmeier, D-Wis., promptly
hailed the development in a
statement distributed to reporters
at the same time Sellers an
nounced the Judicial Conference
approval.
“The time for federal courts to
permit TV news coverage in
courtrooms has come,” Kasten
meier said. “Technology that per
mits us access to world events also
compels us to use that access to
make our own government avail
able to our citizens.”
Forty-five states have approved
the use of television cameras and,
supporters say, there have been
no adverse results.
Monday - Friday, September 10-14, 1990
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10:00 AM - 1:00 PM (Friday, Sept 14)
Wednesday’s action does not
mean federal criminal trials will
be televised. The Judicial Confer
ence left intact a rule banning
cameras in criminal cases.
Nor will Supreme Court pro
ceedings be televised anytime
soon.
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