Show I - i be ertv nIt F--- - - fakt Ztibtlitt rr v 4r ( 1 - '''''' ilk The lobbying bill will require lobbyists to obtain a license from the lieutenant governor's office disclosing who they represent Lobbyists or those who employ them who spend at least $100 annually on legislators or members of their families will be required to file annual reports of their lobbying expenditures When more than $100 is spent on an individual public official or a member of that official's family the recipient will have to be named along with the date location and purpose of the expenditure I r f Legislative bills and executive actions that the lobbyist attempted to influence by such expenditures must be itemized and reported Public officials employed by lobbyists as independent contractors must be disclosed In addition to annual accountings supplemental reports of the same activities will be due 10 days after legislative sessions close and a week before general elections Campaign contributions by lobbyists during legislative sessions would be barred The bill also would outlaw the hiring It would be extremely helpful if po- I lice could identify and arrest the motor 1st who almost shot to death University of Utah basketball player Paul Afeaki Not just because such mayhem is is against the law and this obviously a public menace but also because incidents like this require more gun-carri- I ! i It er attention The episode is definitely bizarre but not unique Evidently responsible last Wednesday for cutting off another vehicle in Salt Lake City's night-tim- e traffic Mr Afeaki and his wife were then followed by the offended motorist But when the U of U athlete stopped got out of his truck with the apparent inten tion of discussing the situation his taller fired a 45 caliber automatic at the Tongan fortunately only wounding him superficially in the upper back Since the quickly fled the Incident was no simple misunderstanding It was a senseless and potentially murderous assault similar to kinds reported from major US metropolitan centers more congested with people and traffic than Salt Lake City ld gun-tot- er Another Viewpoint i i 1 i ri From The Los Angeles Times Anger with the press is never far below the surface in America but it has risen as the horrors of war have been brought home — and as the sometimes rough ways of the press htve become ever more visible — with extensive broadcast and print coverage of the Persian Gulf War The headlines scream of hundreds of civilians killed correspondents in briefing rooms verbally joust with military officials who refuse to tell them all they want to know This is not the first living room war but it is surely the first war whose is at least partly visible in the living room That has created many armchair media critics And if recent polls are to be believed many Americans do not like what they are seeing To them the press seems like an intrusive annoying presence at a moment in history when all Americans ought to be closing ranks While the performance of the press is sometimes praised — the Los Angeles Times' coverage of the war for instance has generated many supportive letters to the editor as well as criticism — the general trend is not positive CNN in particular has taken a lot of heat for correspondent Peter ArnettS transmissions from Baghdad Recent newspaper headlines about the gruesome shelter bombing in Baghdad have been denounced by some as playing into Sad-dafIussein's hands m T' :4 xe IS 0: Y'''::ts 41021' ' ' :::'' - ' 470 " CI' 11'''-47:::--- :''''N--' 1: t ' ' 1 : 6 - l'tyi r- '- -! - N --4 Nf i J ' ' Such criticisms of the press are a healthy sign that vigorous debate in America thrives The press is a prominent institution in this society Why should it be immune to criticism? The press faced with conflicting information and brutally frequent deadlines can and will make mistakes It must learn from them But it is precisely this culture of criticism that allows the press to breathe For if in many societies the press is a controlled organ of government the press in America is not And that of course is sometimes the nub of the problem If the government is embarked on a relatively popular action like this war and the press is embarked on its critical mission of reporting the news as it sees it rather than as the government would wish to have it then the American people may wonder whose side the press is on The answer is that the press is on the people's side — on the side of a society that welcomes dissent and criticism that encourages hard and probing questions that looks at the official version of events with an educated eye and that seeks to serve only the truth The press in an organ of a democratic society not of the government We are no more than eyes and ears of the citizens and as the people's surrogates our mission is to act as an agent of democracy by helping to ensure the free flow of information ideas and news That is our job - -- p -i- - AWIN - 'Ile 2 Ave "- - - - NbZ) Ww I 'I q :ot )' -- rr -- tlit -- 1: --- - --- r oi - - — - ---- se V 4Q60 4104 El 1 A"it cr : - ''i ' - icz: !1 o L J rooto11'71ftiq - 4- --- - 1 - - f -- -- : : r --- :x - tttlW 4 - 11E ------ - - :- ::14p 411 r ''''''"4t - ” -- — - 0 : - -- ri 1hP' '''' a:b''-:-7-''- ''' -:: ti ' 'Attt---------- : - - RA at - - : 1 r ' ---- "--- ' -- ' - 4::- r : -i- --- !- -- zo 5m-9- - al 1 e"" ' 0 -- - r 7s t Gulf War Economy Will Drive '92 Vote Washington Post Service WASHINGTON — A year ahead of the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary just as the nation's political writers were beginning to despair of a story George McGovern has come to our rescue The 1972 Democratic nominee wrote on the op-e- d page of the New York Times that "In my soul I know my qualifications for the presidency are better at 68 than they were at 48" so "get ready for McGovern in '92" The former South Dakota senator is nothing if not persistent He was a candidate for the nomination at the 1968 convention after the murder of Robert Kennedy the nominee in 1972 and a contestant in the early primaries in 1984 where he was a model of tact and good humor Maybe the fourth time will be the charm but the likelihood is that McGovern is simply — and temporarily — filling a vacuum that will in time be occupied by more serious contenders Just as he yielded the stage early in 1984 to Walter Mondale Gary Hart and Jesse Jackson Gentleman George will probably allow himself to be upstaged again by candidates presumed to be more plausible than the man who lost 49 states to Richard Nixon One has to wonder why there is such a hunger in the press for the political games to begin The public properly preoccupied with the drama and anguish of the Persian Gulf War is certainly not clamoring for the Democratic challengers to make their entrance And the possible contenders have every reason to bide their time A tense moment in c effort to conclude the the gulf war is hardly the ideal time to put oneself forward as the replacement for the commander in chief Realistically what happens in the 1992 election rests much more in George Bush's hands than in the decision of any Democrat about challenging him That is almost always the case when a president is seeking another term: No matter who the challenger the election is likely to be largely a referendum of approval or disapproval on the incumbent's first four years It is emphatically so in Bush's case because of two decisions he made in the summer and autumn of last year when he sent American forces to the Persian Gulf and scrapped the pledge in order to achieve a long-terbudget agreement The gulf deployment decision which im military-diplomati- i According to attending physicians' Mr Afeaki was lucky He could have been killed That he was only wounded doesn't diminish the shocking and disturbing puzzlement of the matter When minor traffic conflict prompts gunfire something morbid threatens the community Fright anger and resentment caused on such occasions are understandable an unprovoked attempt to kill with gunfire is not Chicago Tribune Service Clearly the person who shot at Paul WASHINGTON — Well now we know Afeaki needs to be apprehended and perhaps confined before he succeeds what the presifent's ultimate war aim is: Presnext time in actually causing death with ident Bush wants the head of Saddam Hussein his drawn weapon The inciIn seven years of Vietnam neither Richdent calls out for more than arrest and ard Nixon or Lyndon Johnson ever called for however punishment the assassination of Ho Chi Minh Yet just It's time to determine what has en- hours after the Iraqi leader offered to withtered or influenced contemporary socidraw from Kuwait Bush dismissed his offer as a "cruel hoax" and called on the Iraqi ety in ways that raise the level of ranpeople twice in written statements to overdom inexplicable violence Not that Mr Afeaki's assailant need be excused He throw the tyrant Bush does not want a negotiated settleneeds foremost to be separated from his ment Bush wants an unconditional surrender could But if also his be behavior gun That's the message Saddam Hussein got better understood it's possible urban Friday: Either walk out of Kuwait with your a at least could made be surroundings tail between your legs — and your armor left few more degrees safer behind — or US troops throw you out Either ly --:- - c: individual officials is more problematic Some legislators argue that if a lobbyist wants to bend a lawmaker's ear about something there's nothing wrong with the paid advocate picking up the tab for a luncheon meeting Admittedly that's pretty innocuous legislators probably aren't going to be influenced by a free meal Free weekends for legislators and their families at ski resorts are something else again Lawmakers themselves probably have difficulty sorting out whether they're unduly influenced by such lavish entertainment What's indisputable though is that the proposed lobbying disclosure law is a major improvement over the status quo Utah now has the dismal distinction of being one of only a handful of states with no meaningful law requiring public scrutiny of lobbyists and their activities For that reason House Bill 94 should be passed into law too-easi- - t' '"''t-- ' - 09 d' it - -- 0:- ‘340 jegia''''''''A ' '1rati woonnuneino -- ''''' :::-- t- - - 'ik: N A 430 kti 44114 skl4sacloCnit' p s40'''''' - - to'sc'ektICZ2‘ ''''' - - o v - 00-0T' ) ""t'Or: - :001i''' - 7 - A ''''' 1'7' ftr-tt------ rr1-8--- bribery It would not limit at all a constituent's right to harangue or sweet talk an elected representative or give public teetimony nor would it prevent public officials from doing the same This bill is aimed at paid advocates There are some holes in the proposal It does not prohibit elected and appointed government officials from acting as paid lobbyists which it should Members of the State Board of Regents for example or mayors should not be allowed to accept payment beyond their official public compensation to influence legislative or executive decisions The practice invites improprieties The question of where to draw the line on the public disclosure of gifts to In War Press Performs Vital Function coverage-bypress-conferen- g of lobbyists on a contingency basis that is where payrnent depends on whether certain legislation passes fails or is amended Lobbyists would be forbidden to influence a legrislatoerr biy atattermptttho lawmaker's Penalties for violating the bill's provisions would include license revocation and fines up to $25000 The lobbying law would take its place in the statute books next to existing laws that already prohibit corrupt political practices such as graft or Frightethng and Puzzling 4 - - $4' Lobbyist Bill Would Shine Light Into Sometimes Murky Practices '0 0' i" :4 -- i tr3 kcVkkoS141varb N 6 4 ' I4dC'el s lAill Page 10 the light - 7:4 sy:r :!' - ' SI- 7- Thursday Morning February 21 1991 When is a gift from a lobbyist to a legislator harmless and when does it amount to an attempted bribe? Utah lawmakers are wrestling with that question and others as they debate a new lobbying disclosure law Some argue that any gift worth more than $25 be it a fancy lunch or a Jazz ticket should be disclosed others claim a value of $100 is more realistic There is no ideal place to draw such a line but those boundaries are not the heart of this legislation anyway The critical importance of the proposed Lobbyist Disclosure and Regulation Act is that for the first time it will require paid lobbyists and the people and organizations who employ them to disclose how much they're spending to influence legislation Every interested Utahn will be able to find out who the big hired guns on Capitol Hill are who they represent and how much payola they're packing Coupled with the new campaign finance disclosure bill that's also moving toward enactment it will bring the now shadowy power of Utah lobbyists into - :'751 '4 tlidc' prN ' Section A I r-1'- :TVIII4-- i - la David Broder I1 - tor' i Ask yourself what accomplishment any of the potential Democratic challengers could put into his ads that would evoke the response a Persian Gulf victory would provide for Bush Will he say "I passed a major school-- 1 reform program in my state?" Or "1 spon4 Bored the last trade bill?" It hardly matters ! The Bush decision to make a budget deal last summer is second in importance only to the gulf intervention Clearly it involved high costs His credibility risks — and short-terwas damaged by his public abandonment of! I his "no new taxes" pledge His leadership was weakened by the open and temporarily successful rebellion by con gressional Republicans And he left dozens of his party's midterm candidates — including several able House members he had recruited for Senate campaigns — hanging out to dry thus damaging at least for a time his party's ambition to regain a foothold in Congress But again the potential payoff could make the identity of the Democratic challeng-- i er almost irrelevant The budget deal was pushed in anticipat tion of the recession which now has occurred It was made in recognition of the fact that the traditional recession remedy of fiscal stimulus would not be available to Bush because of the extraordinary level of ongoing deficits Bush's economic advisers told him that the only hope for keeping the recession short and shallow lay in the Federal Reserve Board's applying prompt and heroic measures after the recession's onset to expand the money supply and ease credit And the Fed would do that Bush was told only if he had achieved a long-terbudget agreement that gave credible promise of reducing the structural deficits by significant amounts over the next five t years He made the deal And now the Fed is re: sponding to the recession as promised The economy is still threatened by serious problems in the banking manufacturing re- - 7 fields But the tail airline and foreign-trad- e stock market and most private economists are betting that the recession will be over — and economic growth resumed — well before the 1992 election The gulf war and the economy are the forces that really are driving the dynamic of the 1992 campaign Compared to them an-- 'T nouncements of candidacy by George McGovl em — or anyone else — are footnotes to the main story i plied the readiness to fight a war took Bush to a level of risk — and potential reward — literally beyond the reach of any challenger The Judgment about when and where to risk lives in combat is the ultimate exercise of presidential power If it turns out badly the unfortunate commander in chief is left with the bleak alternatives of retirement or defeat But if the war goes well the military success and the emotions it engenders can create an almost unstoppable political momentum 1))11 (CI- -) 1-qt I - 7 1 '' zr :'SF iii ' - - ill foo 11 reoffe - r Ile lb eaglear )o Irtlik11110 Tribune - George McGovern ii Bush to Fight Until He Has Saddam's Head: d ttI Pat way Saddam faces defeat and disgrace ::nd fter that an Iraqi nation he has led to ruin Denied a fig leaf to hide the nakedness of defeat Saddam may prefer to go down fighting Whence come Bush's expanded war aims? First from the heart Since Aug 2 the president has come to bear an intense personalI animus toward Saddam Hussein In what some of us saw as another Mideast tyrant not Bush came to unlike Syria's Hafez see the incarnation of evil Where we saw a desert despot making a conventional land grab Bush saw Hitler seizing the Sudetenland As with Captain Ahab in his pursuit of Moby Dick conviction has given Bush an iron resolve that is remarkable in a man his enemies used to call a wimp Yet the truth is: Saddam Hussein was never Adolf Hitler his army was never the Wehrmacht After five weeks of war and 80000 sorties we have lost perhaps two dozen pilots and soldiers to enemy fire Were this a boxing match the referee would have stopped it in the first round And ! he should survive the last thing Saddam will want is a rematch with Gen Norman Schwarzkopf But added to his personal contempt for the man Bush sees the survival of Saddam as irNew World Order he reconcilable intends to build in the Middle East Here he has a valid point Sad-daImagine the first Arab summit where makes a postwar appearance For whom would the Arab masses roar in Rabat — Saudi Arabia's King Fand the reinstalled Emir of Kuwait or Saddam Hussein? If Saddam survives can Egypt's Hosni Mubarak or Icing Fand ever sleep peacefullv wie c! world-shakin- is v ' - ' ' 1 ' ea: t to Buchanan y ! 4-4a' tt i again? Holding our coat as we smashed Sad- dam's country they have earned the undying enmity of a man who does not seem to be the sort to forgive or forget Bush's postwar agenda does not include having the Beast of Baghdad growling in his cave Having wounded the animal he feels he must finish him off And the intensified prep- &rations for ground war suggest Bush does not want the Soviets Iraqis and Iranians working out some deal to enable the beast to survive Throughout the gulf crisis President Bush has been the more implacable of the adversary ies For all the talk of Saddam Hussein being a madman "worse than Hitler" the Iraqi dicta tor's actions since Aug 2 appear less those of 'Y'''''''''''') 4 t 4 4 ti I SI - 1- -w- - a ri lk - - - z: - mpairl ' 4 -- Yre: if ''' - — -- k I -- I dr! f - '2 ' '"'-- a v' -- - m II g some conquerer than a cor- - 4 nered and perplexed leader casting about for t a way to avoid a war he knew he could not win li Consider Saddam's actions before and l -a since Aug 2 First he did not even intervene in Kuwait until told by the US Ambassador April Gla- - ' 4 spie that we did not consider the emirate to be worth a conflict between the United States 'I k and Iraq After invading Saddam stopped at MO Saudi border He did not attack us even when': 1 He did i his forces outnumbered ours not challenge our planes or ships Using hos- - 4 tages to prevent a US air attack he turned ' them all loose before Christmas He did not start the war after Jan 15 we t attacked him first He has employed neither i terrorist tactics nor chemical weapons When I Americans were enraged by televised "confessions" of US pilots he halted the odious practice putting out instead graphic footage I of Iraqi civilian casualties He has now said he i will get out of Kuwait 4 S d am' s to use terrorism o poi gaad hfailure son hc mean total war suggests be dnsis the war limited and hopes to survive 11 In the transfer of the cream of his air force to Iran is hardly an action in the mold of Adolf Hitler who intended to die in his bun ker and take down all of Germany with him Such actions seem less consistent with a demonic figure than with a calculating ruler trying to salvage "honor" and regime while r retreating before the superior military power of the United States t But if Saddam is not winning converts among the Arab masses why do we have to kill him? Why not force him out of Kuwait with air power spare our ground troops and ' let it go at that? If it is not vital to our national interest to destroy his regime or kill hi m what price should we pay in US casualties to accomy plish that? The president who took us into war obviously believes it is worth a high price in s deed For Saddam's survival is a threat now to the emir the king President Mubarak and the Israelis who do not want to see survive the man who by latmching Scuds into Tel Aviv has become the great Arab hope of the Pales '' tinian people They all want him dead and they want us to do it Demonizing Saddam as the new Hitler we elevated a regional tyrant to mythic status we created Frankenstein now we have to kill hirn — that's the Bush message from last Friday w IF ‘ Saddam Hussein I ik -- 14 !) ( i t i k ok I -I |