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Bush fills final Cabinet vac ana
President announces choice
for transportation secretary
WASHINGTON (AP) - Fill
ing the last vacancy in his Cabinet,
President Bush on Wednesday
named Deputy Chief of Staff An
drew H. Card Jr. as the nation's
11th transportation secretary.
Card, 44, a former Republican
legislator in Massachusetts, man
aged Bush's campaign in the GOP
presidential primary in New
Hampshire four years ago.
background. But transportation!
The nomination came as some
thing of a surprise. Congressional
staff members said they had to
send out for copies of Card's re
sume in a scramble to learn more
about his background.
If approved by the Senate,
Card would replace Samuel K.
Skinner, who resigned as secretary
earlier this year to become Bush's
chief of staff and Card's boss.
The secretary oversees a $30.5
billion annual budget and a work
force of 109,000 people nation
wide. He also commands the
Coast Guard.
The department celebrates its
25th anniversary this year.
Bush saluted Card for his ser
vice at the White House.
"I have valued that experience
often in the last three years ...,"
Bush said. "As deputy chief of
staff, he has offered wise and loyal
counsel.
"Scores of people from all
walks of life know him as the
White House manager who will
listen to their concerns and get
things done."
Card seemed to be largely un
known, however, among trans
portation specialists on Capitol
Hill.
"I think that nomination took
everyone back," said one congres
sional aide who asked not to be
named. "He has a lot of political
"We can't say ar
derogatory or complimentaryl
cause we don't know much ale
him."
Card told reporters he won
"carry on the fine tradition|
Secretary Skinner brought
Department of Transportation
Skinner's biggest achievement!:
year was congressional passage
a six-year, $155 billion surfat
transportation bill.
On this year's transportatio
agenda is the reauthorization
the Federal Aviation Administi
tion, which operates the nation
air traffic control system a
serves as a safety watchdog c
the commercial aviation system
Activists sense turning point
Anti-abortionists hold march on anniversary of Roe v Wade
WASHINGTON (AP) — Abortion foes massed
70,000 strong Wednesday on the national Mall, mark
ing the 19th anniversary of the Supreme Court's deci
sion legalizing abortion with a new optimism that
the ruling's days may be numbered.
"I just feel it," said Vi Randall of Godfrey, Ill.,
pointing to changes that have swung the high court
rightward since its landmark decision in 1973.
A day earlier, the court agreed to review a restric
tive Pennsylvania abortion law, and activists on both
sides of the issue have said the justices may well use
that case to undermine the Roe vs. Wade decision.
Anti-abortion activists also rallied in dozens of
other cities Wednesday, including a crowd of 5,000 in
Atlanta who heard Roman Catholic Bishop James
Lyke declare that America has been "torn asunder
over a law ... which makes life cheap." Most of the
marches were accompanied by smaller groups of
counter-demonstrators.
President Bush, addressing the Washington
crowd over loudspeakers, got cheers when he said:
"I want to reaffirm my dedication and commitment
to the simple recognition that all life is a precious
gift, that each human being has intrinsic dignity and
worth."
"There's a change in attitudes, especially the atti
tudes of young people," said Mary Ellen Fattori of
Havertown, Pa., an English professor at Villanova
University.
"They have a conscience like they haven't had for
15 years. The apathy has gone away."
Michael Quinn, 69, of Bay Shore, N.Y. said, "Peo
ple are impressed that we fight and die to preserve
freedom all over the world, and they realize that they
should also preserve the lives of babies right here."
The sense of a turning point was also evident
among abortion-rights proponents staging counter
demonstrations, including several hundred who
lined a block of Constitution Avenue to exchange
chants and finger-pointing with the marchers.
Aundrea Cika of Alexandria, Va., 28 years old
and eight months pregnant, said it was the first abor
tion-rights demonstration she had ever attended.
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Survey depicts sluggish economy
WASHINGTON (AP) ~ Eco
nomic weakness pervaded virtu
ally every part or the country as
the new year began with retail
ers, factory owners and bankers
all complaining about the slug
gish state of business activity,
the Federal Reserve said
Wednesday.
The Fed's latest survey of
business conditions depicted an
economy mired in stagnation
with little suggestion of a re
bound outside of some modest
gains in housing sales.
"Activity was lackluster as
the year drew to a close," the
central bank said in a survey
compiled from reports from its
12 regional banks.
The Fed did hold out the
prospect of better days ahead,
noting that "business and bank
ing contacts generally anticipate
that economic conditions will
improve by mid-year."
The survey noted production
cutbacks in a number of indus
tries in the face of falling de
mand, an overhang of unsold
goods at many retail stores fol-
Christ-
all detected some improvement
in single-family construction
with bankers in Philadelphia,
Cleveland and Kansas City fore
casting healthy gains in sales
during the peak spring sales sea-
lowing a disappointing
mas season and little demand for
new loans at banks outside of a
rush to refinance old mortgages.
One of the few bright spots
in the Fed survey was a slight
upturn in housing sales and con
struction activity in many parts
of the country in December as
first-time home buyers have
been lured into the market by
the lowest, mortgage rates in
nearly two decades.
The report said that St. Louis,
Kansas City, Dallas and Atlanta
That view seemed to be bol
stered by a separate report
Wednesday that showed new
construction of homes and
apartments jumped 2.6 percent
in December to a seasonally ad
justed annual rate of 1.103 mil
lion units, the fastest pace in 13
months. Building permit appli
cations improved even more in
December, rising by 5.8 percent.
Housing is the sector of the
economy most sensitive to
changes in interest rates and of
ten helps lead the country out of
recession.
DETROIT (AP) - A physic!,
who developed suicide machin
and used them to assist three
ing women in killing themselvi
is proposing a nationwide ne
work of doctors who could he
people end their lives.
Dr. Jack Kevorkian outline
the plan in an article in February
American Journal of Forensic Psi
chiatry, a quarterly for psychii
trists who serve as expert witnes
es in legal cases.
The 85-page issue is entireli
devoted to the article, "A F
Safe Model For Justifiable Me
cally Assisted Suicide (Me
cide)," and responses from
psychiatrists.
"He's an unusual thinker,
very avant-garde thinker,
serious thinker," said Edwan
Miller, executive director of th(
journal based in Laguna H
Calif.
Miller said he learned
Kevorkian through reports of the
three lethal-injection suicides
which the doctor assisted
Michigan. Medical authorities
suspended Kevorkian's license
and a grand jury is considerin'
whether to charge him in the twe
most recent cases, in October
Michigan does not have a specifk
law against assisted suicides.
Kevorkian recommends estah|
lishing panels of suicide special
ists, whom he would call "obiti:
trists," who would review rt
quests from people wishing tokil
themselves. Would-be suicides
would need a doctor's referral
the poanels.
"This is a way to do it without
abuse," Kevorkian said Wednes
day from his home.
"It certainly would be abused
if every doctor could do it/'he
said.
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Political parties prepare for primaries
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic presi
dential hopefuls crisscrossed the nation's capi
tal Wednesday, wooing labor support, big-city
mayors and abortion-rights activists. Republi
cans picked a conservative senator to lead the
party through a 1992 platform fight over abor
tion.
While they jockeyed for support in Wash
ington, three presidential contenders —
Democrats Tom Harkin and Paul Tsongas and
Republican Patrick Buchanan — launched new
ads aimed at voters in New Hampshire's lead-
off primary.
GOP sources said President Bush had ten
tatively picked Feb. 12 to formally announce
his re-election bid.
The Democratic race is growing testier by
the day as New Hampshire's Feb. 18 election
approaches. Harkin, an Iowa senator, who is
bringing up the rear in New Hampshire polls,
has been taking the most aggressive tone.
In an appearance Wednesday before the In
ternational Association of Machinists, he
slammed into two Democratic rivals, faulting
the records of both Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton
and Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey.
He dismissed Clinton's emergence as an
early front-runner as "media hype,"
added, "If you're built up by the papers yom
support is paper thin."
He faulted both Clinton and Kerrey foi
supporting a free trade agreement with Mexi
co, derided Clinton's record as governor and
reminded his audience about alleged child la
bor law violations at Kerrey's Nebraska restau
rant chain.
Abortion is a favorite issue for Democrats
trying to attract women and moderate voters,
and abortion-rights forces within the GOP are
fighting to change a Republican platform
plank that recognizes the "sanctity of life."
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