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I s IN41414041c4 - :- -- I d- ' P: - - -- F-1- el Fouad A jami a prominent Middle East analyst said the Saudis had proved to be a responsible ally of Washington in the Gulf War against Iraq and that the kingdom needed the jets for defensive purposes "There are legitimate US economic grounds for this sale and we cannot really afford great ten 1""d1K -- 1 - 'The service of Avelicy's Top4ob Muxo - "There may be a perfect opportunity here to have a dual use The base itself is not going anysaid Muxo who noted wherethat the base still has 31 other fully funded tenants including US Customs and Navy operations Transportation Secretary Andrew Card who heads President Bush's hurricane relief task force said donations of building supplies are still welcome but water and clothing no longer needed to be sent The Army said it has burned 40000 truckloads of debris at 11 sites creating huge bonfires visible for miles at night By day plumes of brown smoke hung ovcr battered homes left open to thundershowers and an occasional breeze Holders Lack Background COX NEws SERVICE WASHINGTON — When Ma- jor P "Phil' Ilay was appointed Southeast regional director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA in 1981 his experience consisted of six years in the district cffice of an Alabama congressman — and six months helping Ronald Reagan's presidential ciimpaign Grant C Peterson who manpro-raages ITMA's disaster-relie- f was a television executive and former county commissioner in Spokane Wash The Lgency's regional director Phdadelphia Paul P Giordano ran an Italian food catering F-1- Diftrui-- GANNErf NEWS SERVIcE — Is Ross WASHINGTON Perot prepping himself to be the "October Surprise" of presidential politics in 1992? The Texas billionaire denied Friday that he's planning any fall political "surprise" by jumping into the presidential race although he didn't close the door on that possibility "There's no plan for an October surprise or a September surprise" Perot said during a relationsion in the ship" Ajami said Ajami stressed that the United States had not abandoned its line in the sand between selling arms to friends like Israel and Saudi Arabia while refusing to supply Iran and Syria with weapons US-Sau- UN to Beef Up Somali Relief Push As Starvation Stalks 2 Million n Democratic rival Bill Clinton said he would have to be certain that was the case before he would endorse the sale However he also said the Saudis were an important partner in the Gulf War and "deserve to have their forces modernized- re- stigators for House the - moGADisiw Somalia — The United Nations is planning a huge increase in its relief operations to starving Somalia top UN offidais said Friday Private aid groups have accused UN relief agencies of doing too little too late to avert the worlds worst humanitarian crisis Aid workers estimate that about 2 million people are in immediate danger of starving to death and calculate more than s of the entire population of around 7 million needs emergency food assistance "You will see a sizable increase and a in the UN presence considerable increase in the relief effort" said UN Undersecretary-Gfor Humanitarian eneral Affairs Jan Eliasson who is leading the most senior UN team yet to visit Somalia He said the relief drive would include both emergency aid and assistance "We have to long-terdeal with an acute relief situation here but at the same time we have to send a message of hope to the people" Eliasson said The United Nations pulled its staff out of Somalia during heavy fighting that preceded the January 1991 fall from power of two-third- m soldi- Mohamed Siad er-dictator Barre In a country carved up into clan fiefdoms ruled by the gun aid workers say security is the single moi-- important factor hampering rel:ef efforts The United States has offered to provide aircraft to bring in a tatal of 500 troops to protect relief supplies and convoys from marauding looters who have hampered efforts to feed starving Somalis Belgium will send at least 500 paracommandos to protect fam ) me relief in Somalia when the United Nations gets agreement from local warlords for further troop deployment Belgium's Foreign Minister Willy Claes said Friday "Ifs a humanitarian operation" Claes told a news conference after ministers formally approved sending a battalion of paratroopers supported by armored vehicles and helicopters to the Horn of Africa nation ' Our paras who will be volunteers aren't going there to interfereClaes said But he noted that -- In the case of attack they will have the right to defend famine-stricke- n themselves" Canada said Friday it was joining in international efforts to help save the starving millions in Somalia Lt Col John Jensen chief of the Canadian military team said in Nairobi three transport aircraft would be used to ferry food today CanadiJensen said the an mission would fly to any destination requested by the International Committee of the Red Cross and the UN World Food Program Some 16 tons of maize will be sent to the southern town of Bardere today for the survivors of a famine that has already killed thousands Canada has also offered to send 750 troops to guard relief operations in northeastern Somalia — a relatively stable part of the country — as part of the 3000 extra troops called for by the UN Security Council A technical hitch has held up the first batch of UN troops bound for Somalia to guard famine relief supplies from looting their commander said Friday 90-da- y I Further details on 0 SOUTH A-- - ir t ' '' amwo1 e " - gr co r 4:1e k awiloo--- - - Desmond Tutu George Peppard Desmond Tutu in Memphis Tenn to receive an award from the museum at the motel where the Rev Martin Luther King Jr was slain called the site "holy ground" and called for racial peace "When the law of an eye for an eye operates the people will all end up being blind- - the Anglican archbishop said paraphrasing King during a speech Thursday at the National Civil Rights Bush and Clinton Find Religion But Who Will Faithful Follow? 0 Continued A it from Al ing Only race exceeds religion in influencing how people vote says Kenneth Wald a University of Florida professor More Americans identify with a denomination than a political party he says Catholics make up the largest religious group in the country — about a fourth — but almost as many people now identify themselves as evan- gelicals as call themselves mainstream Protestants Those conservative Christians also are among the most reliable Republican voters since Ronald Reagan first courted them in 1980 "The Christian Coalition is attempting to put some people in public of God-fearin- -- V 7 The United Nations is planning a huge increase in its relief operations to starving Somalia top UN officials said "You will see a sizable increase in the UN and a considerable presence increase in the relief effort" says a UN official Further details on AFRICA resident FW de Klerk welomes the ANC's willingness to Jiscuss violence but the army :hid accuses the black opposiMOZAMBIQUE on group of seeking to assassi-iatThe government appeals for help to combat starvation a homeland leader caused by drought and civil war Fifteen years of civil war GEORGIA and southern Africa's worst drought in a century have combined to leave more than 3 million people in danger of 'rime Minister Tengiz Sigua starvation and dependent on donated food The civil war reays government troops and has killed more than 600000 people and sent a million el forces in the breakaway as refugees to neighboring Malawi and other counfleeing of Abkhazia have pulled tries Violence and theft also has prevented donated food ack from the front line after a from reaching all part of the country lonth of bloody clashes e 0 n A-- 2 0 TAJIKISTAN Former Tajik President Rakhmon Nabiyev declares that his resignation this week was forced from him at gunpoint and charges former Soviet central Asian republic is under the influ- ence of Islamic militants 0 ECUADOR students are shot and wounded at protests in Quito against President Sixto DuranBallen's economic reforms Two Senior Federal Execs Ask Congress to Head Off Pay Cuts POST WASHINGTON — Leaders of a group that represents senior federal executives appealed Friday to Congress to enact all federal salaries into law a step they say could thwart President Bush's plan to cut the pay of top federal workers Officials of the Senior Executives Association described their request — a reaction to Bush's pledge to cut the salaries of all federal workers making more than $75000 a year by 5 — as a measure to "safeguard career federal employees from partisan political manipulation" A day after Bush announced his plan in a Detroit speech it was unclear how the White House expects to implement the pay cut Judy Smith deputy White House press secretary said she did not know what the administration will do But she said the Office of Personnel Management has advised the White House that the president could unilaterally impose the cuts on members of the Senior Executive Service (SES) and Senior Foreign Service Pay reductions for most of the 54102 federal workers who earn more than $75000 would require legislation Smith said Officers of the Senior Executives Association which represents members of the SES an elite corps of federal managers created by the 1978 Civil Ser flee" says Terry Vliek 56 a father of four from Jacksonville Fla who listened to the president's speech Friday The real difference this time observers say is that the religious rhetoric is coming from the Democrats as well as the GOP With the recession hitting many evangelical Christians and other conservatives across the South's Bible Belt Clinton sees an opening to win back some of that constituency they say "They are playing the religion card and aiming it at some of the more moderate and liberal Christian groups" Had-demiddle-incom- e n said Clinton and his running mate Al Gore both Southern Baptists bring up religious faith often Japanese Fuming At Rumor Russia 0 SOMALIA °Oa 0 g a 3 THE WASHINGTON otv Peppard's publicist Cheryl Kagan The couple met at a charity benefit for the homeless in March They plan to honeymoon in Hawaii later this fall he said - 0 BOSNIA C 1 George Peppard married a banker three decades his junior actor and Laura Taylor 33 of West Palm The Beach Fla were married Thursday in a church ceremony said Friday's action should benefit Bush in this region where many people are dependent on the defense industry that has been suffering with the end of the Cold War The same is true of last week's announcement in Texas where thousands of General Dynamics workers also had been threatened with layoffs 1114 senior Bush administration says the United States is zonsidering a ban on military ghts over Bosnia and is coniulting with ailies on how that Nould oe implemented "i - Spike Lee is being sued for alleged copyright infringement over his use of footage from the videotaped beating of motorist Rodney King in his upcoming movie "Malcolm X" George Holliday who videotaped police beating King on March 3 1991 filed a lawsuit in US District Court in Los Angeles on Thursday asking that the footage be excised from the film due for release Nov 20 Holliday's attorney Ronald Grigg said Lee bought the tape from an agent who had been fired by Holliday and had no authority to negotiate rights to it llolliday said he has received threatening calls and letters since the videotape was broadcast nationally on television and that his wife had gone to Argentina to live "in peaceful obscurity" lie also is seeking $120000 in damages and a statement from Lee that he had no right to use the tape which appears in the film's opening sequence A telephone message left for Lee at his Forty Aci as and a Mule production company in New York was not returned Warner Bros which is backing Lee's film and its parent Time Warner also are named as defendants t! ELI:TER NEV'S Et(V1('L I - Appropriations Committee " The deal which the White House said would cover the sale of 72 planes and be worth about $9 billion will save some 7000 jobs at McDonnell Douglas assembly lines in St Louis and in Oklahoma the company said It also will be good news for thousands more parts suppliers and workers in other states — some 40000 workers according to the White House and Republican Sen Christopher Bond of Missouri If Congress wants to stop the sale it has 30 calendar days to pass a resolution to that effect The president then could veto the resolution to reinstate the sale program on "There's nothing planned" But many political experts wonder "More like a November surprise" surmises presidential scholar Stephen Wayne of Georgetown University who can see a scenario in which Perot is a spoiler in a tight race come Election Day "Ross Perot is not going to be the next president" Wayne Ross Perot could said "But affect the outcome" call-i- Administration officials sponding to withering criticism of FEMA for its stumbling response to Hurricane Andrew in Florida have denied congressional allegations that the agency is a -- dumping ground" for lackluster political appointees But of the 21 political appointees who hold most of the top jobs at FEMA half had no background in emergency management — or their job specialities — before joining the agency Some have been shuffled from agency to agency before landing in FEMA With 33 political appointees on its payroll including lower-leve- l "schedule C" appointees FEMA has one for every 85 career employees far above the government average according to inve- Fighters to Saudi Arabia 5 for a No ember Surprise? e Asmtclated Pro after Friday afternoon's heavy rains Experience Homestead city manager Alex Perot in a September y - ' 1 making nations a green light to the Middle Eat Other analysts said the Saud are a pillar of Arab moderation in the volatile region and that the sale is a legitimate step to save thousands of aircraft-industrjobs and win Bush votes in the November election Yet others argued that if the United States did not sell the F15s then the British would sell Tornado jet fighters to the Saudis who already own 84 and still are officially at war with Isra- rt Va -- - Two boys play in the puddles in a homestead Fla tent city jor airport an idea endorsed by I e Spike Lee 1- ' - r r I t - ' y Oe''' '''' ':'' :3 - 16411110W i 1to) - - t- :t t ' - - v'u- - - ' kt-- t I I :' l'- 14 -- - 4 - ' '' Good morning! It's Saturday Sept 12: Actress Linda Gray turns 52 and singer Barry White 48 today ' 1 I 4 1 A f 1 ' - - :-- t 4 § - t — 11 S - Bush Announces US Will Sell 72 Continued from ii -— - A 4 w lATEI) Force Base may be a lost battle and suggested a less expensive commercial airport in its place The base accounts for more than 25 of an economy flattened by hurricane Andrew and provided more than 5000 jobs and homes for 1800 Residents were hoping for $480 million to restore its military operations but a Senate committee rejected the request Thursday It approved only $26 million to remove rubble and plan the base's possible reconstruction "If we can't get the votes on homestead Air Force Base then we'll need to get dollars to turn it into a commercial airport" Chiles said "We've got to be prepared to move to other plans" Also Friday the death toll from Hurricane Andrew rose by two to 55 overall and the top federal recovery coordinator said donations of water and clothing were no longer needed Chiles who served 18 years in the Senate and lobbied his former colleagues this week in Washington let his frustration show earlier Friday in Tallahassee saying "every rat looks aftr himself' on the Serwte Appropriations Committee "I was on that committee and was one of those I don't say that - he disparaginglyquickly added Chiles also noted that some of the senators recently lost bases in their states to budget cuts Now he hopes to get $260 million added to the $38 million relief bill to create Dade County's second-m- t i ' - l!' HEADLINERS - 4 t Saturday September 12 1992 - mi N - - : - Homestead Air -ravaged i4 ----- -- --- - 1 MIAMI — Gov Lawton Chiles said Friday that getting money from Congress to rebuild hurricane- El NATIONWORLD The Salt Lake Tribune vice Reform Act said Friday they will seek legislation to protect their members' pay "Members of the Senior Executive Service are the only federal employees whose salaries are not set by statute and for whom the president has the authority to act unilaterally within a pay ceiling and a floor" the associa- tion said Carol Bonosaro president of the group cautioned Friday that if Bush implements the pay cut a large number of federal workers are likely to retire immediately She said 30 of those in the federal executive force are eligible to retire and many will have no incentive to remain because federal retirement pay is based on a worker's top three years' pay The costs of those retirements coupled with the salaries paid to new workers would hardly represent "a savings" Bonosaro said In addition to SES employees a large number of those affected would be Grade 14 and 15 workers in the general pay schedule according to the Federal Managers Association Bonosaro also said the pay cut plan represents a change from a joint statement the association issued with OPM in 1989 praising new pay legislation and declaring "Both the administration and SEA are deeply concerned that the pay of SES members has seriously eroded" Has Leased Island LOS ANGELES TIMES TOKYO — Japanese tempers flared anew Friday as a Russian government unit reportedly agreed to lease to a Hong Kong company land on one of four islands claimed by Japan in order to develop a vast leisure center for Asians who want an affordable getaway Chief Cabinet Secretary Koichi Kato and the Foreign Ministry's spokesman Masamichi Hanabusa called the reported contract "impermissible" and said that Japan would officially protest to the Moscow government if the report were true "Japan cannot condone a contract between Russia and a third party that treats Moscow's illegal occupation of the northern islands as an accomplished fact" Kato said at a news conference Foreign Minister Michio Watanabe branded the report as "outrageous" and promised "resolute action" The Russian newspaper Sovietski Sakhalin reported Friday that the Southern Kuril District had signed a $1 million lease with a Hong Kong development company called Carlson & Kaplan Co The company reportedly plans to tract — develop the three times the size of Tokyo Disneyland — on the east coast of Shikotan Island into a resort area with hotels and casinos the Russian newspaper reported NHK Japan's semigovernmental radio and TV network reported that the Hong Kong company was not located at the address it registered with the British colonial government The TV network however televised a copy of the contract on its evening 687-acr- e news show |
