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Tuesday, July 2,1991
Bush gives Cheney final say in base closings
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi
dent Bush said Monday it is
"highly unlikely" he'll reject an
independent panel's report clos
ing 36 military installations.
But Bush left open the possi
bility he might change the list if
Defense Secretary Dick Cheney
tells him there are targeted bases
that must be kept open for na
tional security reasons.
"I'm not going to go in there
and override some decision on a
political ba
sis. These are
tough calls,"
Bush said at
a news con
ference in
Kennebunk-
port, Maine,
the day after
the panel re
leased its fi-
n a 1 list.
Cheney, meanwhile, indicated
George Bush
Shell Oil plans reduction
of workforce by 15 percent
HOUSTON (AP) — Shell Oil
Co., responding to disappoint
ing financial results this year, an
nounced Monday plans to re
duce its U.S. workforce by up to
15 percent.
Shell employs about 31,000
people in the United States,
meaning as many as 4,650 peo
ple could be affected by the re
ductions.
"Shell's business reviews indi
cate the need for workforce re
ductions," Shell spokesman
H.R. Hutchins said. "Our best
estimate today is that reductions
could reach 10 to 15 percent
overall nationwide. They will be
done over a 12- to 18-month pe
riod beginning immediately.
"It's a response to disappoint
ing financial results," Hutchins
said.
The Houston-based petro
chemical company, a wholly
owned subsidiary of Royal
Dutch Shell Group, said it first
will seek to reduce the workforce
through voluntary retirements,
attrition and cutting down on
the use of contract workers.
"The first thing is to offer vol
untary severance plans to certain
employees," Hutchins said.
"Once those all are identified,
then there still may be some in
voluntary layoffs. We also will
reduce the use of outside con
tractors where practical and
hope that natural attrition will
also play a factor here."
Hutchins said involuntary lay
offs are likely. He declined to say
what Shell divisions would be
most severely affected by the
layoffs.
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he would lend his support to the
independent panel's choices.
"It looks to me as though they
approved about 90 percent of
our recommendations," Cheney
told reporters in an impromptu
meeting outside the Pentagon. "I
want to have the opportunity to
sit down and talk at least with
the chairman of the commission
before I make a final recommen
dation to the president, but over
all it looks to me like they did
good work that I am hopeful
we'll be able to support."
The Defense Closure and Re
alignment Commission, headed
by former Rep. James Courter,
finished work late Sunday and
forwarded its report to Bush.
Texas bases on the closing list
include Carswell Air Force Base
in Fort Worth, Bergstrom Air
Force Base in Austin, and Chase
Field Naval Air Station in Bee-
ville.
Asked if he would reject the
commission's list. Bush said: "it
is highly unlikely, but I will rely
heavily on what Secretary Che
ney tells me."
The president said his major
concerns are ensuring the mili
tary is properly prepared, and
saving money.
If Bush rejects the package —
he must deal with it as a whole
instead of making substitutions
— the commission has 30 days to
review the president's recom
mendations. Whatever happens.
Bush must act by July 15.
If Bush approves the package,
it will be sent to Congress where
lawmakers have 45 days to ap
prove or reject the entire list.
Courter, appearing at a press
conference, defended the pan
el's work, saying, "data was
scrubbed carefully, decisions
made carefully."
Algerian unrest persists
President deploys army to restore order
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — The army
moved on Monday to silence the opposi
tion and restore order, occupying the
headquarters of the main Muslim funda
mentalist party and detaining hundreds of
le.
e actions came a day after the arrests
of the two top leaders of the powerful Is
lamic Salvation Front, which is challenging
President Chadli Bendjedid's government.
Sporadic unrest was reported Monday,
ana tanks and soldiers with automatic
weapons were deployed in the capital. But
there was no widespread violence.
During the weekend, at least four peo
ple, including a policeman, died in anti-
government clashes in the capital and else
where. Forty people have died in unrest in
Algeria since June 4, when the Muslim
protests turned violent.
Military authorities said 700 people were
arrested Sunday and Monday. Fundamen
talist Muslim sources put the figure at
2,500.
Officials also closed two mosques that
are considered centers of fundamentalist
activity.
Armed soldiers on Monday guarded the
headquarters of the Islamic Salvation Front
following the arrests Sunday of its presi
dent, Abasssi Madani, and vice president,
Ali Belhadj.
The two men were accused of "foment
ing, organizing, triggering and leading an
armed conspiracy against the security of
the state," a military communique said.
"The attempt at dissension to gain
power, for which they are responsible, has
cost human lives as well as the destruction
of much property, and has not definitively
ended," the communique said. It said the
men would be put on tnal.
Madani and Belhadj called Friday for a
"jihad," or Islamic holy war, unless the
government lifted the state of emergency.
They defied summonses served after their
speeches.
Premier Sid Ahmed Ghozali said the Is
lamic Salvation Front posed "a very se
rious threat for safety, stability and na
tional unity." The Cabinet, which met
with President Bendjedid, called for "calm
and confidence."
Helmeted riot police units surrounded
the Salvation Front's headquarters at mid
day Monday, evacuated its personnel and
took over the building. Pedestrians were
barred from the adjacent sidewalk,
bridget
Trade growth carries possible dangers
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Southwest border can expect a
mixed blessing from a U.S.-Mex
ico free trade agreement, says a
report Monday that warns eco
nomic expansion may be accom
panied by environmental decay,
crumbling social services and
rapid growth.
The report, a series of studies
on the impact of a free trade
agreement on the "borderlands"
of the Southwest, predicts there
will be increased investment in
the economically impoverished
region that stretches from San
Diego to Brownsville.
But the increase in trade could
also spur urban sprawl, pollut
ion and increased demands on
already strained water supplies,
housing, transportation,
schools, health care and social
services.
The result could be a "situa
tion of economic overheating,"
the report said.
"This will act as a constraint
on growth, and will dictate a
barely acceptable quality of life
for the poorest residents in both
countries," said one of the aca
demic studies, which were com
piled by Baylor University for
Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas.
The report said the population
expansion in the region could
both outstrip the supply of
homes and overwhelm already
strained social services.
"Transborder aquifers are dry
ing up, and the use of the Rio
Grande is at capacity," one study
said. "There is no additional wa
ter available — conservation and
reclamation are the only an
swers. Without water there is no
possibility of border growth."
The study also notes that out
side investment in border com
munities could drive up prop
erty costs and displace small
businesses and low-income
households. Small retailers that
depend on Mexican shoppers
and U.S. banks that depend on
Mexican depositors could also be
hurt if their products or services
can be provided south of the Rio
Grande.
Judge stops euthanasia
Husband of brain-damaged woman has
right to keep her on respirator, judge says
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A judge on Monday
turned down doctors who wanted to unplug the
respirator of an elderly, severely brain-damaged
woman despite the wishes of her husband.
"I think she'd be proud of me," Oliver Wanglie
said when a judge granted him power to make
medical decisions for his wife of 54 years, Helga.
Doctors at Hennepin County Medical Center
had asked District Judge Patricia Belois to appoint
an independent conservator to decide the fate of
the 86-year-old woman.
They hoped a conservator would permit them
to take her off the machine that has helped keep
her alive since May 1990, when she fell into a per
sistent vegetative state after a respiratory attack.
Belois ruled that such decisions are best left to
family members when they are competent.
"Except for unconvincing testimony from some
physicians and health care providers at the Hen
nepin County Medical Center, there is no evi
dence that Oliver Wanglie is unable to perform
the duties and responsibilities of a guardian," the
judge wrote.
"He is in the best position to investigate and act
upon Helga Wanglie's conscientious, religious
and moral beliefs."
William Miller, an attorney for the county-
owned hospital, said there likely will be no ap
peal.
Doctors at the hospital routinely yield to family
wishes about life-support systems, but rarely do
families disagree when doctors recommend termi
nating care, said Dr. Ronald Cranford, a medical
ethicist at the hospital.
Doctors sought a conservator in the case be
cause they believed Wanglie did not fully under
stand his wife's hopeless condition. Cranford said
it is morally wrong to use a respirator on a se
verely brain-damaged person who has no hope of
recovery.
"Society will have to look at whether it should
support spending $800,000 for the care of some
one in a persistent vegetative state when there are
37 million people in this country who are under-
or uninsured and without adequate medical
care," Cranford said.
"Perhaps what you should do if you want maxi
mum care in this country is fall into a persistent
vegetative state."
Wanglie's medical costs have been paid in full
under the family's insurance policy.
Midwestern states complain about trash
WASHINGTON (AP) — Gar
bage is creating a stink in Con
gress.
More and more, Midwestern
states are complaining to the
House and Senate about trash
from New York and New Jersey
oing to landfills across state
nes.
"The prairie is America's
bread basket, not its waste bas
ket," several heartland lawmak
ers wrote their House colleagues
recently, urging support for leg
islation to let states block inter
state dumping.
"You don't have to live on the
f jrairie to suffer from this prob-
em," their letter said. "As long
as it is cheap and easy to ship
waste to other states, no state
will be forced to deal responsibly
with the trash it generates."
The states with surplus trash
do not see it that way.
Sen. Bill Bradley, D-N.J.,
warned that a ban would force
his state to reopen environmen
tally unsafe landfills. He said
New Jersey needed more time to
implement a new waste manage
ment initiative, including a goal
of 60 percent recycling by 1995.
Currently, states cannot stop
the flow of trash from outside
their borders because the courts
have ruled it would interfere
with interstate commerce. The
main defense for most states is to
enforce their laws governing
proper operation of waste
dumps.
The Senate approved an inter
state trash ban proposal by Sen.
Dan Coats, R-Ind., last year on a
68-31 vote, but the measure died
in a House-Senate conference
committee.
Coats is again pushing his leg
islation, which would permit
states to ban out-of-state trash
after they adopt 20-year plans for
managing wastes generated
within their own boundaries.
States attempt
to balance
late budgets
The Associated Press
State workers in Maine ral
lied outside the capitol Mon
day, demanding paychecks
and a state budget, after the
governor shut down all non-
essential services in a fiscal
showdown with the Legis
lature.
At least eight other states
entered the new fiscal year
without budgets. In Connecti
cut, the governor threatened
to follow Maine's example.
"We want to be paid! We
want a budget!" shouted
some of the 200 or so idled
Maine workers who were
held back from the office of
Gov. John R. McKernan by
two police officers.
Deriding the governor, they
also chanted, "Stop hiding,
Jock" and "Impeach McKer
nan."
Budget negotiations contin
ued in Maine, Connecticut,
California, Ohio, Massachu
setts, Louisiana, Pennsylva
nia, North Carolina and Illi
nois.
Nevada, New Jersey,
Washington state and New
York City reached agreement
on budgets within minutes of
their midnight Sunday dead
lines.
Late budgets are a tradition
in some states, but this has
been a particularly difficult
year for most. Debates have
raged over such tough choices
as imposing new taxes, cut
ting welfare benefits and lay
ing off workers.
New York City balanced its
$28.7 billion budget only by
laying off 10,000 city workers.
New Jersey's new $14.7 bil
lion state budget could force
the layoffs of 2,300 workers.
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