Banner Graphic, Volume 18, Number 49, Greencastle, Putnam County, 3 November 1987 — Page 2
THE BANNERGRAPHIC Novembers, 1987
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Weinberger said about to resign
WASHINGTON (AP) Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger intends to resign, after presiding over a huge Pentagon buildup for seven years, and will be replaced by President Reagan’s national security adviser, Frank C. Carlucci, sources say. The sources, speaking Monday night on condition of anonymity, said the change of the guard would be announced soon, possibly Thursday, and that Carlucci’s deputy, Lt. Gen. Colin Powell, will take over as Reagan’s national security adviser. Powell will be the first black to hold that position. Neither Weinberger nor Carlucci would comment on the job shift, and the White House also declined to put it on the record. But White House officials did not dispute the report. Although he has disagreed with Secretary of State George P. Shultz over arms control policies, Weinberger, 70, is stepping aside for personal reasons, largely related to his wife’s deteriorating health, rather than any policy dispute, the sources said. Jane Weinberger, according to acquaintances quoted in today’s Washington Post, has undergone radiation treatments for cancer and has been troubled by arthritis.
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Carlucci, 57, grandson of an Italian immigrant stonecutter, is a veteran of three decades of government service, including senior domestic and international positions. He was second in command at the Office of Economic Opportunity and deputy to Weinberger at the Office of Management and Budget in the Nixon administration. He also was second in command at the CIA under President Carter and second, again to Weinberger, at the Pentagon from 1981 to 1982. He became Reagan’s fifth national security adviser when the IranContra affair forced Rear Adm. John M. Poindexter to resign. Powell, 50, one of the highestranking blacks in the Army, once commanded the 101st Airborne Division. William E. Jackson Jr., senior fellow at the Fulbright Institute of International Relations at the University of Arkansas, said Weinberger’s resignation “will, intangibly, improve the atmosphere’’ at the U.S.-Soviet summit conference opening in Washington on Dec. 7. “The Russians will read this as a positive sign,” Jackson said. Weinberger is a strong advocate of the “Star Wars” programs.
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REAGAN, GORBACHEV Summit time and talking is easy
Gorbachev eyes 'concrete results'
MOSCOW (AP) Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev says he will go to the summit with President Reagan next month to seek a breakthrough in space weapons policy that eluded the two leaders in their last meeting. “We will work unremittingly at these meetings for a palpable breakthrough, for concrete results in reducing strategic offensive armaments and barring weapons from outer space the key to removing the nuclear threat,” the Communist Party chief told the nation Monday. His speech opened a week of festivities marking the 70th anniversary of the Russian revolution that brought the Communists to power. The ceremonies continued today with speeches by foreign leaders and representatives of various segments of Soviet society. The traditional Nov. 7 military review and parade through Red Square will cap the celebration on Saturday. Gorbachev called the agreement banning medium- and shorter-range nuclear missiles, to be signed at the summit beginning Dec. 7 in the United States, “very important in itself.” But he said that issue basically was resolved a year ago at the Reykjavik summit, which collapsed over Reagan’s insistence on proceeding with development of the space-based defense system known as “Star Wars.” “The world expects the third and fourth Soviet-U.S. summits to produce more than merely an official acknowledgement of the decision agreed upon a year ago, and more than merely continuation of the discussion,” the 56-year-old Soviet leader said.
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The Soviets earlier said the promise to sign the missile ban agreement in Washington was tied to the Reagan administration’s willingness to at least discuss the future of Star Wars. In his address, Gorbachev also said the recent selling frenzy on the New York Stock Exchange and world markets is a symptom of economic woes growing out of heavy military spending by the capitalist West. He questioned whether capitalist economies can flourish without military spending to prop them up. Regarding his own domestic policy aimed at overhauling the Soviet economy and society, Gorbachev accusing his critics of being too timid or too impatient to follow his plan for modernization, known in Russian as “perestroika.” or restructuring. Gorbachev also called for a “truthful analysis” of the role of the late leader Josef V. Stalin and his legacy in Soviet history. He announced creation of a special commission to resume the rehabilitation of Stalin’s victims, a task which was begun in the 1950 s but suspended after the ouster of Nikita S. Khrushchev in 1964. He praised Stalin’s collectivization of agriculture and industrialization, saying they were central to the revolution, but accused Stalin of “enormous and unforgivable” crimes relating to the execution, imprisonment or banishment of millions of Soviets the dictator branded as “enemies of the people.” Western historians say 8 to 10 million perished in the 1936-38 purge alone, and Stalin’s terror continued for many years after that. Gorbachev referred only to “many thousands” of Stalin’s victims.
Court ponders Illinois abortion law
WASHINGTON (AP) - Abortion would become a less-available alternative for many of the more than 1 million American teen-agers who become pregnant each year if the Supreme Court reinstates an Illinois law now under study. The justices were to hear arguments today over the constitutionality of the Illinois law, similar to those in about half the states. A decision in the case, the only abortion controversy currently before the court, is expected by July. The Illinois law, enacted by the state General Assembly in 1983 over Gov. James R. Thompson’s veto, required that unmarried girls under 18 and still financially dependent on
Ginsburgs mum on views, background as dissecting begins
c. 1987 N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg and his wife, Dr. Hallee Morgan, were living quietly in northwest Washington, enjoying classical music, good books, daily swims in their backyard pool and occasional forays into the kitchen to concoct what their friends describe as gourmet dinners. Then Ginsburg, a 41-year-old member of the United States Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia, was nominated to the Supreme Court and the Ginsburgs found themselves under the Washington microscope. What are his views on privacy? What are her views on abortion? Last Thursday morning Morgan, an obstetrician who is currently not practicing medicine but devoting herself to bringing up their 2-year-old daughter, readily answered the telephone only to have to excuse herself abruptly when her daughter, Hallee, in a tussle with the family dog, ended up scratched and bleeding. This week, however, the Ginsburgs have gone discreetly underground. A recorded message answers calls to their home: “You have reached the home of Douglas Ginsburg and Hallee Morgan. We are sorry we are unable to come to the phone at the moment.” It has been said that Ginsburg, with less than a year on the bench, has left “no paper trail” to pursue for his views on such issues as abortion and privacy. So all kind of tea leaves are being read. People are seizing on every scrap of information about his family, personality and way of life; for example, there is the fact that his daughter Hallee bears her mother’s surname, which is also her grandmother’s name: Hallee Morgan. “When the grandmother is visiting,” says Robert P. Bedell, a friend and colleague from the Office of Management and Budget, “it can get mighty confusing.” Ginsburg’s daughter from his first marriage, Jessica de Secundy, a 17-year-old student at Choate, the preparatory school, also uses her mother’s surname rather than Ginsburg. According to Ginsburg’s first wife, Claudia de Secundy, it was her husband’s idea. “He wanted somehow to preserve the history of my family,” de Secundy said in an interview. “He said there were lots of Ginsburgs around. No one else in my family was having kids.” Married on May 31, 1968 in a synagogue (“Primarily, because of his mother; neither of us was particularly religious,” explained de Secundy), the couple did not join a congregation after their marriage.
their parents notify their parents 24 hours before they abort their pregnancies. The notification requirement could be waived altogether if the girl proves to a state judge that she is mature enough and well-informed enough to make the decision on her own and that notifying her parents would not be in her best interest. Failure to comply with the requirements was made a crime. After doctors who perform abortions challenged the law, a federal trial judge struck it down. But the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals did not go that far. The appeals court ruled that the 24-hour waiting period was an impermissible infringement on the
Sandinista defense minister defects to United States
By The Associated Press A top Nicaraguan military official familiar with the Sandinista government’s tactics, strategy and intelligence has defected to the United States, according to reports published today. Maj. Roger Miranda Bengoechea, 34, abruptly left Nicaragua on Oct. 25, The New York Times reported today, quoting diplomats, politicians and a Nicaraguan government communique. The Washington Times quoted a well-placed source as saying Miranda was spying for the United States for a long time before he defected, and is now being debriefed. The newspaper did not say where Miranda was. The U.S. State Department declined to comment and the American Embassy in Managua said it had no information on Miran-
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Although she was involved with a civil rights group and a nuclear disarmament group in those years, her husband was not a political activist. “He respected my involvement, but he wasn’t an activist in that way he wasn’t political,” said de Secundy. The Ginsburg nomination is supported by the National Right-to-Life Committee, though his views on abortion are not known. Some people have cited the fact that Ginsburg’s wife, Dr. Morgan' performed two abortions and assisted in another during her residency at a hospital, as if that would shed light on his position on the issue. The Justice Department confirmed Monday that Morgan performed abortions as part of her medical training at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston in her first year of residency in 1979-80. During her next year of training she agreed to assist with a particularly difficult abortion, but has performed none since, said Terry Eastland of the Justice Department. De Secundy said: “I don’t think he would want legislation that would keep a black person from having an abortion because she was poor and letting a white person have one because she could afford it. But he also believed that abortion shouldn’t be used as birth control.” Pregnancy because of rape may be a different issue. De Secundy recalled that Ginsburg had once ad-, vised a friend who had been raped to-1 “have a D&C immediately,” referring to the procedure for scraping the uterus. De Secundy has remarried and she' says that she and Ginsburg have remained close. As for his politics, ; she observed, “He’s conservative • when he believes it is right to be conservative; he’s liberal when he believes it is right to be liberal.”
right to have an abortion. But it left to the state Supreme Court the issue of whether the 1983 law sufficiently protected confidentiality and anonymity. The state court has not yet ruled on that issue. The nation’s highest court first must decide whether the state’s appeal from the 7th Circuit court’s ruling is premature in light of the state court’s inaction. The justices may decide merely to send the case back to the lower courts, without deciding any of the constitutional issues. Or the court could end up deciding only the constitutionality of the law’s 24-hour waiting period, as the appeals court did.
da’s whereabouts. The reported ; defection came at a critical time diplomatically, with a Central American peace accord scheduled so take effect Thursday. “Even if he has not been working for the CIA all these years, he is still a gold mine for them,” a foreign military officer who studies the ; Nicaraguan army told the New York newspaper. The New York newspaper quoted ’ Miranda’s associates anonymously as saying he supervised the staff of . Defense Minister Humberto Ortega, brother of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega. Miranda also directed the military’s public relations effort. A Defense Ministry commmunique said Miranda had left with at least $15,000 in government funds as he was being investigated for ‘ * various anomalies. ”