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Show Wednesday, July 15, 1981, THE HERALD. Provo, l tah—Page 5 Many‘VP’ Jokes Bush Stays in Limelight reviewed and claimed the process had saved $15 billion to $18 billion for the public According to the report, the about two bi ‘One was lost at sea, the other becameVice President and also was never deep-sixing such regulations an Education Departmentrule ‘‘subjecting schools toloss of heard from again.’ federal funds if their dress codes distinguish last July, the New England-born transplanted Texan wasnot exactly on top of the world. His campaign for the Republican presidential nomination had been crushed by the Reagan juggernaut and Bush went to Detroit essentially withoutpolitical prospects. Many were astonished when Reagan chose Bush; some wereoutraged. Bush had been1980's ,moderate’’ool hope and wasperceived f the deep-dyed conservatives who n's staunchest supporters to be a that the tax reduction would so invigorate business that federal revenues would rise to wipe out any deficit it caused without any budget-slashing. Onthe campaign trail, Reaganflatly endorsed Kemp-Roth, and talked ‘only in generaltermsof budget cutting. When the Reagan strategy for deep cuts in federal spending and the actual form ofhis tax plan becameclear, Bush had no trouble beating the drum for the package. Reagan was morespecific about his plans to clear the federal paperwork jungle and regulatory swamp.Just two daysafter takingoffice, he put Bush, who also had railed at overregulation in his campaign, in charge of the war on red tape. Bushwasgivena cabinettask force ordered to comb through proposed and existing federal regulations and dump those 11 believed were werehurting the country more than helping. The first task was to freeze scores of ‘‘midnight”’ regulationsissued in thefinal days of the Carter administration and examine them under the morestringent standards of the Reagan team. Last month, in an interim report, Bush an- Atlantain the effort to end that city’s (ragic killings of young men. There was a lot of back-biting and hip-shooting from all quarters in that unhappy episode, but Bush got caught in little of the crossfire Thus far, Bush hasnot been called upon to don the other major hat the President assigned him early in the administration. After aninternal tug-of-war with Secretary of State Alexander Haig, Bush won the designation as administration “‘crisis manager,”’ a job that will carry immense power should some major international or domestic problem flare up It will include mobilizing all the departments and agencies of the federal government that could possibly help deal with whatevercrisis has arisen. The designation of Bush, the onlynationallyelected official other than the president himself, as ‘‘manager’’ for such episodes, recognized that it mightbedifficult for a cabinet secretary to assert control over other departments in the intensely turf-conscious federal es- tablishment. As it turned out, Bush was aloft in a plane enroute to a speech whenthefirst crisis of the administration arose — the assassination attempt on Reagan. But the spatting between cabinet members and the confusion at the White House in the first few hours of the incident dramatized the need for a crisis management system. Vice presidents traditionally have acted as emissaries to foreign countries, but Bush didn’t get that kind of assignmentuntil recently, when he went to Paris to establish a link between Reagan and Francois Mitterand, the new president of France, and to London to confer with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The following week Bush went to Manila for the inauguration of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, who has been in power there for years. After Paris, where he expressed the United States’ discomfort with Mitterand’s appointment of Communists to his cabinet and in Manila, where he praised Marcos’ record, Bush learned part of such assignments is to be a lightning rod. Some Paris newspapers and Philippine opponents of the Marcos regime sharplycriticized Bush for his public comments, which,of course, weretheofficial position of the U.S. government. One great advantage Bush has as vice presi- Tiny Trio Monkeys Around Three of the majorattractionsat the St. Louis Children’s Zoo are (left to right): Johnny, a male chimpanzee, softspoken magazine editor once told a visitor, ‘‘She will not understand if they arrest me for something she cannot think is bad.” That was in late 1979. when authorities were starting to put curbs on China’s brie: flirtation with free speech. Seventeen monthslater, the knock on the door finally came. Xu Wenli. a 44-yearold railway electrician who edited one of the most sought-after magazines of the democracy movernent, was taken from his homein April by public securityofficers And at least 18 others involved in the publication of similar magazines, laboriously handwritten and printed in private homes. have been taken into custody recently. according to their sympathizers. The democracy movementappears to be with the president every Thursday or Friday That is something other vice presidents have not enjoyed: Harry Trumanrarely saw the inside of Franklin Roosevelt's White House; Dwight Eisenhowerclearly did notlike Richard Nixon; and John F. Kennedy — whether inadvertently or on purpose — made Lyndon Johnson feellike a fifth wheel. All three share the same area of the children’s zoo, wear diapers and depend heavily on security blankets. in its death throes oratleast headingin, a long hiatus. Dissident publications have disappeared, Even establishment writers have been told they should not stray beyond strict confines laid down by the Communist Party. Those detained were some of the mainstays of the loosely linked movement calling for morecivil rights and closer supervision of the governmentbythe people in the unlikely environment of a socialist state. The fate of half a dozen or more other prominentfigures in the movement was unknown. Thetiming of the police swoops in major cities across China coincided with a deadline reportedly set by the party to silence all dissent by last month to pave He-way for the plenary session held June thepolitical tradeoffs made byVice Chairman Deng Xiaoping in exchange for sup- port from other top leaders for things he considers more important — the economic program, theelevationofhis associates to key posts Some democracyactivists, who believed they had helped Deng regain power from his Maoistfoes in 1978. cried betrayal. “Tf citizen Deng Xiaoping were a firm reformist who refuses to bow to pressure from the conservatives (Maoists). he definitely would not view the youth democracy movement as his enemy. He would see it as his supporter. as he did before the 3rd plenum of the 11th party congress (in December 1978)."’ said an editorial in one of the last issues of “Responsibility the national magazine of the movement. The editor of Responsibility, Fu Shenqi, The virtual demise of the movement was one of those known to be under custody was seen by westerndiplomats as one of 9008 Utleton Northglenn Westminister Wheat Ridge Connecticut: Danbury Fairfield Stamford West Haven Florida: Altamonte Holey, dent is an apparent friendly personal rela- tionship with Reagan. He has a private lunch born Dec. 21, 1980; Luke, another male chimp, born Oct. 25, 1980 and Chewbacca, a male orangutan, born Dec.5, 1980, 1 Telephoto China Quells Democracy Movement PEKING (UPI) — Glancingathis wife and his crude mimeograph machine, the t ri ne ow me Ho Questions about ing? 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Springfield Woodbridge Thursday, Friday, Saturday Aaswey UMOIPPI, UOSIPZ Arizona: Glendale Mesa Paradise Valley Phoenix Scottsdale Tempe thfucson Colorado: Aurora Boulder nounced that in the first phase more than 180 regulations had been withdrawn, modified or Additional areas of regulation to be ex- OC Virginia: Fairfax Herndon Reston McLean’ or0OK} i Rockefeller-type Repaican. to be considered worse than a Demi The New Right stillhasn't swallowed Bush Hegota polite reception at the annual National Conservative Political Action conferenceearlier this year but a numberofthelions of the Right remain hostile to the vice president. Actually, Bush had beentakingrelatively conservative positions all during the campaign, and when hejoined the Reagan campaign, had only to perform a few turnabouts to getintoline with his former opponent. One was on the ‘voodoo economics” label he attached to Reagan's tax cut proposals. WhenBushis asked about that now during one of his many appearances on behalf of the administration budget and tax cut proposals, his response, according to spokesmanPeterTeeley, is, “That was a different program.’’ oy says Bush was attacking the ‘‘pure’’ Kemp-Roth tax bill, a massive, multi-year reduction in taxes which ignored, indeed scorned, the long-held Republican faith in balanced budgets. Kemp-Roth required a belief Budget. amined will be announced in several weeks Bush also was Reagan's contact man with poomayE] pjoyeeij Si@pUR|4 IIH Au@yO :AesIEP MON YORAg WEY ISeM YOREG OURdWIOY ajiAUos ~Oe* His profile may not be the highest in the Reagan administration, but Bush has been seen and hear:| from with someregularityin the six monthssince taking office Jan. 20 When Reagantapped Bushashis running mate betweenboys andgirls. The assault on excess regulation continues — mostly under the regis of people detailed from David Stockman’s Office of Management and Denver bay, The presentvice president knewall about that whenhe took the job, but so far very fewpeople have hadtoask, ‘Whatever happened to George Bush?” Colorado Springs WASHINGTON (UPI) — Next to mothers-in law, vice presidents may be the favorite butt of American jokes. Alben Barkley’s favorite was Somerville Totowa Union Whippany| |