Show IIf - vtiw'tt'4Lt"ohis-e-'fr6- - - - I '4r 4 11CP v '4 li''''""e"zi-revi-or404'''- r - 1- - - t I: 4: 1mk I Ii 528 The Salt Lake Tribune Sunday Adds Respect to 2 1 cH0 - - --- 4 - 1 r sounds dm IN piot tato 11 wacky guys no tot Covross end Ono is th bubblottooded pwww other a hayseed thio end in ohict tom down $ouk hove boon may Oho tow with end lion Jones but II was the Ito to Noe down it rwe ' ' - - l I ' ': ' 1 '' - - r t A ) - - flag-burnin- ' - ' I A - ' i A i 1 I t hard-workin- fun-lovin- I i 1 4 f I 1 i ' e 1 ! ' 4 4 - I' dinbroads" be told a ner audience "And the red I just wasted" 1 I to ( t T - t 1 4 - ::::- 1 wk- - t - I 4c -( 1 t:4 k '''''11- -e - IP I -- ‘- I i 4 Aosocisied Preto After years playing Gopher on "Love Boat" left Fred Vt-- 1 A - dr"–' -‘k —N1 Jones took the same positions on and the NEA at the risk of offending the Democratic Party Ä g ' i4r' Iii - ? i00--' i fit ' -- prize-winnin- Zr Lgokiel- - ' ? A ' O tI 1 I low-run- Nicaraguan Contras despite his state's strong peace movement :' soha served him uw'easil His share of the vote last year nearly 72 percent In January he was awarded Ways and Ma eseansat coonmmithe tinfltecuential ' gionnaires: "The best way to deal with is to drop 'em off at the American Legion Hall around 11 on a Friday night" Jones bucked his party leadership in 1989 by supporting a capital gains tax cut promoted by the GOP But he toed the line last fall and supported a highly controversial budget flag-burne- rs ' The two actors are enjoying the re: spect they demand as congressmen: the kind they never got as a hick auto mechanic in a baseball cap and a comic cruise-shi- p officer in abort pants Maybe that explains why neither man found time to pose for a joint photograph "We gotta be careful" Grandy g says only "Somebody will make a pilot: two wacky guys go " to Congress half-jokin- 0- ' ush Shociwd Powell by Jumping Gun in Kuwaiti Crisi 1 H ( Scoweroft immediately called Cheney and said that the president wanted to help the Saudis "Get Bandarin and brief him on what we can do for him" Show him the best we have Scowcroft said referring to the US Operations Plan military's contingency for defending Saudi Arabia The president did not want any half measures He had given his word To convince the Saudis or the peril they faced the president wanted Cheney to show Bandar the satellite photos of the Iraqi army's latest movements Cheney had known Prince Bandar for years and liked him He was intrigued that a mere ambassador was able to have such a wide impact in the US government Washington and the world Bandar also acted as the de facto Saudi connection with England's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher the Soviets and the Chinese But Cheney worried that the prince had his own agenda and might not be a 100 percent clear channel to King Fand : When Bandar arrived in Cheney's third-floo- r Pentagon office later that afternoon he took a seat at a small round conference table with Cheney and Powell Paul Wollowits the undersecretary of defense for policy and National Security Council (N SC) Middle East expert Richard Haass also joined them 'll'he president has instructed me to brief you on what the United States can do to help the kingdom defend itself" Cheney told the ambassador Cheney knew that Bandar was about to leave for Saudi Arabia to speak directly to the king he wanted to make sure Bandar received the message loud and clear - The United States could fly a mission off one of the aircraft carriers and drop a few bombs on Saddam's head but that would Just make him mad Cheney said That wouldn't solve any real problem The key would be forces on the ground - ' 90-10- ' i ' top-secr- et ' 1 — L A - 4 i ' 1 1 I: 1 4 : I ' 4 ' 4 '' I A 1 ' ' $ I ' I I L ' I -- Cheney and Powell produced overcopies of the head photographs and pointed out thd three Iraqi armored divisions thathad carried out the initial thrust into Kuwait One division-abou- t high-resoluti- - L 4 ' I "How many are you talking about?" Bandar asked Powell said 100000 to 200000 Bandar let his breath out audibly "Well at least this shows you're seri- ous" If this kind of force was there in Saudi Arabia now Bandar said the kingdom would be able to take aggressive actions such as shutting But this is like if your homeland is about to be invaded" the president you grab a replied pitchfork and go to the border" down the Iraqi oil pipeline Without a defensive force of this size his majesty's hands were tied because Saddam could come in and overrun Saudi Arabia Bandar said he favored the plan He promised to advocate an immediate American deployment when he briefed the king and his father the Saudi defense minister After Bandar left Wolfowitz expressed surprise at the serious mood on both sides He proposed they start the process of alerting US forces particularly the airborne troops that would go first given Bandar's obvious receptivity "He blows smoke" Powell said "I don't think it's time to start alerting the 82nd Airborne" When Bandar called King Fand to report on the meeting he was blunt The threat was genuine he told the king The satellite photos showed it "Have you seen — with your own eyes — have you seen the overheads?" Fand asked "Yes sir" "Then tell them to come and bring the overheads" tiamo Worrying About the Saudis The next morning Saturday Aug 4 Cheney Powell Wolfowitz and Gen H Norman Schwarzkopf the commander of US forces in the Persian Gulf flew by helicopter to Camp David to brief the president on the US military options As Bush and his advisers at around a conference table at the mountain retreat's big lodge Schwarzkopf reviewed Iraq's fighting capabilities and what he would need to defend Saudi Arabia He told them that it would take 17 weeks to put in place the full deterrence force required by Operations 10000 men and several hundred moving through Kuwait in the direction of the Saudi border Still more Iraqi divisions were taking places behind the armored units just as they had before the invasion of Kuwait two days earlier The streak of divisions was like a sword Plan 200000 to 250000 Army Navy Air Force and ready to strike at the Saudi kingdom Powell launched into a Marine troops That would take until summary of Operations Plan 90- - December "The Saudis worry whether we're 1002 noting that it included more than four US divisions three airreally serious" Scowcroft told them craft carriers and many air attack Bush entered the discussion "My squadrons He allowed Bandar a worry about the Saudis" the presipeek at the large book containing the dent said "is that they're going to be plan and charts showing the ones who are going to bug out at the last minute and accept a puppet how the forces would be deployed over the coming months "That's a regime in Kuwait We should be askrather large force" Powell said ing them how committed they are" tanks-wa- s ' ' - te I I ' I 1 I I 1 i Continued From Al bad just put his personal honor on the line ' '-- by a flve point margin — be says it would have been six but for the budget vote - in a district that has swung back and forth between the parties for years g He was resarded with a 1 Democratic leadership post — s Grandy' independence among other things be supported aid to the 1 t 1 '7 I --- ''t 4s - - I - ti - f- ' '1 '4'1 '1' '1 '" 4 - -- 11 i t it P t o Ano-"- Grandy went home to Iowa and won a seat in Congress: Jones won t --- flag-burnin- ------ z )t phemers" long-schedul- ''"''' 7 ' nt conservatives who had sent his evangelical predecessor to the House He had 'Driving Miss Daisy" to help him make his case for an unfettered NEA The agency granted $18000 to Alfred Uhry an obscure Georgia playwright resulting in a g play and the hit movie that was filmed in Jones' district But some issues have made for awkward moments Like the time a American Legion appearance fell the day after Jones voted against the constitutional amendg ment to ban "We should not amend the Bill of Rights because some malcontent burns a flag" be says What should we do? Here's what Jones deadpan said he told the Le 4 i- flag-burni- flag-burnin- - - Grandy was supersensitive when he arrived in Washington an earnest agriculture expert with little use for his past Rumor had it that he fired an intern for calling him Gopher Not true Grandy says although he admits to some overcompensation — he was very serious very intense — in his quest to shake off Gopher "It's something that I have not had to live down but it's not something I necessarily need to showcase" he says Grandy's role these dsys is that of single-pare- iot!')i - ct 4 high-power- an unrepentant moderate Republican in a party tilting rightward Last summer he chastised the Iowa Republican Party for urging a constitutional amendment against "We come off looking like a bunch of thought police be told them When a speaker at a GOP meeting last month denounced families and urged that government help go only to households in which Morn stays home with the kids Grandy said the conference had taken on a worrisome "Shiite cast" He's been equally outspoken on whether the National Endowment for the Arts should limit grants to inoffensive projects Grandy says the conservatives supporting the restrictions most of them Republicans were "misguided political opportunists trying to take a broad swipe at the artistic community and say that they were pornographers and blas- -- :40 a 4 - ful fourth marriage Jones was able to joke about his past "There was a time in my life when I spent 90 percent of my money on booze and 4110111 ' - - Ex-Acto- rs OM It saying they found his candidacy "hilarious — a two-b- it actor from a stu- ANIL tk pid television show" Nevertheless Grandy was elected to I ix on his first effort and Jones made it 11 on his second try in 1988 reuniting two actors who hadn't been cast together since 1976 That was the year they made "The ' 6 By Jill Lawrence Lincoln Conspiracy" a forgettable : ":' Associated Press Writer film in which the two played — So you watma of John Wilkes Booth in t WASHINGTON be a political star? Listen up: Get a the assassintion of Abraham Lincoln Q "I think he was shot and I was 'airly part on an escapist TV series t was a real stick with it for years then run for hanged" Grandy says "It classic One of the worst movies I've 'Congress ' ' Hey it worked for Gopher and ever seen in my life" I intersecCooler Except for their one-tim- e 416 M ' - The bumbling purser on "The tion in Savannah to make the movie -'Lotie Boat" and the hayseed garage Grandy and Jones followed dramatii Mechanic on "The Dukes of Has-larcally different paths to television respectively are living proof and Washington For Grandy it was prep school that clownish sitcom roles can disHarvard a year as a congressional serious politicians guise im- ' The featherweight prime-tim- e aide and on to the insecure life of a I ages projected by Reps Fred Grandy beginning actor in New York City could He he auditioned for Ben Jones and (Cooter) anything (Gopher) kboocitted trees Iteve dissolved to reveal two blunt find including a frozen vegetable and thoughtful lawmakers They commercial in which he played a pea Rep Ben Jones aren't afraid to defy conventional and Henry Winkler who gained TV A folksy Georgia Democrat fame as the Fonz played an onion Wisdom their parties or their conalituents on occasion And they don't Neither of them got a part ing in 1977 "The rent hadn't been paid for Eventually Grandy landed the role thy away from sensitive issues such g or censoring on "The Love Boat" and moved to several months The electricity was as banning Los Angeles cut off" Jones recalls "I woke up 'arts grants they've been outspoken "I didn't think the show would run lying on the floor in dts delirium treopponents of both - In the late 1970s and early 1980s 13 weeks" he recalls "I thought mens the shakes and I was in a panthe two were on TV shows that were why would anybody watch this?" ic I was absolutely sure that I was Nine years later the show still going dying I was in a free fall I'd lost all light fare to say the most "I did a lot of acting with chimps strong Grandy went home to Sioux control I did not want to go on living and animals" says Grandy an Iowa City to run for Congress — "drag- as I was living and I was very much Republican He has no illusions ging the dead weight of Gopher" as afraid of dying I got through that one writer put it about Gopher: "He was the amiable day without a drink and I haven't On balance Grandy says being had one since" wisecracking cute oafish second ofAt that point Jones says he was a ficer who usually acted as a foil for known as Gopher was better than not veteran of three divorces and "dozthe captain He usually didn't get the being known at alL "You're going to spend 75 cents of ens of shattered relationships I'd be girl" Jones a folksy Georgia Democrat every campaign dollar just getting the last person anyone would ever has gentler memories He compares people to remember your name" think would be a political candhis character to Little John or HuckGrandy says "Quite honestly it is idate" was better to have people say But he continued working won the the Finn "Cooter quinreally leberry tessential good or boy" Jones something terrible about you than Cooter role remarried had a son and in 1986 took on Patrick Swindrawls "He'd give you the shirt off not know you at all" g unJones lived in Atlanta and com- dall a religious right congressman his back He was muted to Los Angeles during his sevwho had a supposed lock on the subpretentious and en years as Cooter His sitcom image Wells maybe But the bottom line urban Atlanta district Running with Is Cooter fixed cars and Gopher as while no more profound than little money and lots of publicity about his past Jones nevertheless be says now mainly stood by the Grandy's was less wimpish But Jones carried other baggage: cruise ship door and said "Welcome managed to win 47 percent of the an alcoholic past during which he vote He woke up the next day and aboard" went through wives at a brisk clip started his 1988 campaign Who could blame their opponents for making a little hay when they ran and was thrown in jail "a dozen times By then Swindall had been indictat least" on charges such as trespass- ed for perjury and was in deep troufor congress? :"The Democrats were saying I was ing and assault ble The race degenerated into a cona real dummy I was Gopher Who As far back as college in Chapel test between Jones' dark past and wants Gopher to be their member of Hill NC through years of theater Swindall's morass of legal and ethicongress?" Grandy recalls of his and film work in the South Jones cal problems Jones walked off with 60 percent of the vote maiden race in 1986 says he had spent most of his off: That same year Once in Washington bolstered by according to stage time "getting messed up" on 12 years of sobriety and his success Jones Georgia Republicans were alcohol Until one particular morn ' k - May 5 1991 top-secr- et t "It's a chicken-and-eg- g problem" Scowcroft said "They can't go out front until they know whether we can kte counted on" 'But this is like if your homeland is about to be invaded" the president replied "you grab a pitchfork and go to the border" 'But this is the Middle East" Scowcroft said He reminded them that the Kuwaitis hadn't mobilized when they were threatened The discussion came back to the unanswered questions: What did Saddam really want? What were just his tactical moves? What were his ultimate objectives? "Even if the Iraqis go all the way back" Powell said the situation in Kuwait and elsewhere in the region had been forever altered "This is all designed to be attractive to the Arab League" Scowcroft said Arab League meetings were generally designed for the purpose of showing Arab unity kissing and making up "Kuwait is not popular among the Arabs" Scowcroft added "That's why our defense of Saudi Arabia has to be our focus" Bush finally said Making the Pitch After the meeting ended Bush and his top advisers stayed to look at some very sensitive intelligence on the Saudis The report showed as had happened so often in the past that the Saudis appeared to be giving some consideration to buying their way out of the threat by offering billions of dollars from their oil revenue to Saddam There was a pessimism in the group about the Arabs in general They could not be relied on they would pay off the thief at their throat It was decided that the president wouid call King valid to take a sounding and make a pitch That afternoon the president called the Saudi king Saddam was piling up forces near the king's border Bush told Fah& The Saudis had to act Fa lid said that Saudi Arabia did not need ground troops to defend itself The Saudis only needed help with air power and perhaps some equipment He also said that Prince Bandar had reported to him on the previous day's briefings from the Pentagon I understand you are going to send a team to brief me on the latest overheads and your capabilities to help us defend ourselves the king told Bush "Where's this briefing team you're going to send?" Bush did not have the foggiest idea what the king was talking about "I did not know you were expecting one but we'll put one together" he told Fah& Bush and Scowcroft realized that the team idea was all the king and Bush had agreed upon and it was not clear what kind of team would be best Who should be sent? For precisely what purpose? When? The president wanted to use the team to increase the pressure on Fand "I want to do this" Bush told Scowcroft "I want to do it big time" And later he added "I want to send somebody personally It has to be with the understanding they will not come back with no decisions having been made" Bush raised the possibility of sending Scowcroft A high-levteam would make it more difficult for the king to delay or say no Later after they left Camp David Cheney and the others tried to unravel where the team idea came from Cheney said all be had offered to Bandar the day before was to send Schwarzkopf as head of a coordination team so that US forces if invited in would arrive in the right spots Bandar thought he had mentioned the idea of a team to Scowcroft Scowcroft didn't recall When Powell heard about the "team" he immediately saw Bandar's hand The prince had been working overtime Bush's inclination to help and Cheney's suggestion that Scliwardopf be used to coordinate a el high-visibili- ty Waving his finger growing visibly hot Bush said '7 view very seri- ously our determination to reverse out this agThis will gression not stand This will not stand this aggression against Kuwait" NM possible operation had been transformed into a team to make a presentation to the king Powell called it "convenient confusion" on Bandar's part Bandar had cleverly moved the two nations into each other's arms Scowcroft worried that the team might be doomed to failure He had a series of conversations with Bandar If the team wasn't going to get results he told Bandar the president would send a lower-levState or Defense official But if it had a chance of succeeding if some US official could persuade the king or provide the margin of difference el Bush would send someone senior At the same time he wanted to know if it was possible for the king to agree to accept the US forces before the president selected someone to send Bandar said the king was not yet ready to make any commitments intense discussions were going on ‘vithin the royal family He himself was leaving for Saudi Arabia that afternoon to join them and add his arguments for accepting US forces He promised that after be had arrived in the kingdom and talked with the king he would call Scowcroft Bush decided that Cheney should head the team if the Saudis would accept him He was senior enough to act as the president's personal representative and as secretary of defense be could speak with complete authority on military matters Scowcroft called Cheney at home and explained how the early Bandar discussions had been molded and stretched by Bandar into the notion of a team But this might help the situation by forcing the king's hand Scowcroft said and the president wants you to head the team There was however some doubt for the moment about whether the king would accept someone as highly placed as Cheney because it would make it almost impossible to say no Meanwhile the president spoke with the Kuwaiti emir Sheik Jabir Ahmed Sabah A taciturn man who has headed Kuwait's large ruling family since 1978 the emir had escaped by car to Saudi Arabia just minutes before invading Iraqi soldien arrived at his palace to take him prisoner or kill him With the emir Bush was sympathetic and emotional He made a vow to the exiled Kuwaiti leader: The United States would help win back his country and would ensure that he was restored to power Laying Down A Marker When Bandar met with Fand in Saudi Arabia the next day Sunday Aug 5 be explained again to the king that he had seen the overheads There was a debate among the king's advisers Much doubt was expressed Bandar said the king ought to see for himself and he might as well accept repreCheney not some sentative King Fand finally agreed Scoweroft called Cheney "It's a go" he said Departure time was set for 2:30 that afternoon Powell didn't get word that Cheney was off to Saudi Arabia until Cheney was almost in the air As Powell ran over the events of the past several days in his mind be was unable to pinpoint precisely when the president had decided that this major deployment was what he wanted to do There had not been a piece of paper that laid out the decision or the alternatives or the implications There had been no clear statement about goals The one thing that was clear was that the president was deeply even emotionally concerned about the fate of Saudi Aralow-lev- el bia That afternoon Powell was watching CNN as Bush returned from Camp David and stepped off his helicopter on the White House lawn "Are you going to move militarily?" the president was asked by one re- porter "I will not discuss with you what my options are or might be but they're wide open I can assure you of that" Bush was clearly angered "Iraq lied once again They said they were going to start moving out today and we have no evidence of their moving out" Waving his finger growing visibly hot be said "I view very seriously our determination to reverse out this This will not stand aggression This will not stand this aggression against Kuwait" "Uh-oh!- " Powell said to himself The president had now clearly categorically set a new goal not only to deter an attack on Saudi Arabia and 4 : zk 7 -- defend Saudi Arabia but to reverse the invasion of Kuwait Powell was 0: stunned He had not been consulted: He had not spoken with Bush since the Camp David meeting the previ-'- : ous morning There had been no: NSC meeting no debate It was true that Bush had said the first day after: the invasion that he wanted it to be reversed but it had not been set in stone Now here it was a personal ! t and emotional declaration Powell had seen presidents get off helicopters and pop off like this be-- : fore At times it was an accident at times it was intentional He could not understand why the president bad laid down this new marker changing radically the definition of success It : was one thing to stop Saddam from: going into other countries like Saudi Arabia it was very much another : ' thing to reverse an invasion that was s accomplished In military terms it : was night and day A defense of Saudi Arabia might be accomplished 11:' without a fight Schwarzkopf told Bush that it would take eight to t 12 months to build US forces up to I a level adequate to kick Saddam out ! of Kuwait Reversing an invasion i was probably the most difficult military task imaginable and Powell the No 1 military man had been given no opportunity to offer his assess!: o o it ment tv Powell marveled at the distance Bush had traveled in three days It t was almost as if the president had : in both hands and he was blazing away NEXT: Convincing King Fah& rs (01991 by Bob Woodward Prom the forthcoming Look THE COktMANDERS by Bob Woodward to be published by Simov & Schuster Inc Printed by per- mission Distributed by The Washington Post Writers Group $ w r i' r Parking for Service To Be in Capitol Lot Y I t Parking arrangements for those k attending Sunday's memorial service for social 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