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THE BANNERGRAPHIC JULY 20,1988

Democrats rouse the rabble Kennedy bashes Bush, Jackson calls for unity, Duke waits

ATLANTA (AP) Energized by waves of rhetoric ridiculing George Bush, the Democratic Party awards its presidential nomination tonight to Michael Dukakis, suburbanite son of immigrants and spokesman for a new political generation. Both Dukakis and Jesse Jackson will have their names entered in nomination at the Democratic National Convention but when the roll is called, it will be the steel-tem-pered Massachusetts governor, not the fiery preacher-politician, who will triumph. DUKAKIS WILL claim his prize with an acceptance speech Thursday night following the convention’s ratification of his choice of a Southern moderate, Sen. Lloyd Bentsen of Texas, as running mate. Jackson had his night in the spotlight Tuesday, delivering a graceful swan song before a noisy and excited house. Citing dangerous overcrowding, police sealed all entrances to the Omni shortly before Jackson spoke, locking out about 1,000 delegates, guests and reporters. Inside the hall, Jackson declared, “We meet tonight at a crossroads, a

Unisys shuffles one division after its own probe finds ‘unethical activity’

WASHINGTON (AP) A major Pentagon contractor is firing all its defense consultants and shaking up management of one division based on an internal investigation separate from the massive government bribery inquiry now being presented to a federal grand jury. The federal grand jury in Alexandria, Va., heads into its second day of closed-door testimony today, with a chief prosecutor promising “there won’t be any luminaries” testifying soon. MEANWHILE, UNISYS Corp., the giant computer company based in Blue Bell, Pa., announced that an internal investigation of its defense consultants by former Watergate special prosecutor Henry Ruth had uncovered possibly unethical activity in one division. Unisys Chairman W. Michael Blumenthal said the company began the Ruth investigation last fall without knowledge of the ■' nearly 2-year-old federal investigation, which was first revealed by coordinated FBI searches on June 14. No one has been charged in the investigation of the $l5O-billion-a--year Pentagon purchasing system. But government documents allege

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point of decision. Shall we expand, be inclusive, find unity and power, or suffer division and impotence? “THE ONLY TIME we win is when we come together,” Jackson said, as his supporters waved a sea of red banners proclaiming, “Jesse.” On orders from Dukakis’ floor leaders, the governor’s supporters kept their own blue-colored placards out of sight. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, DMass., and other speakers trained their sights on Vice President Bush, the certain nominee when the Republicans convene next month in New Orleans. Kennedy derided Bush as the man who “keeps burying his head in his hands and hiding from the record of the Reagan-Bush mis-

W. MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Unisys investigated itself that some defense contractors and consultants bribed Pentagon officials for contracting details vital to winning contracts worth billions of dollars. AT UNISYS, Blumenthal placed a Long Island, N.Y., division under new management, put some employees on administrative leave and terminated “all consulting contracts with those who represented the company before the federal government on defense-related matters.” A Unisys plant on Long Island was searched by federal agents June 14, as were the offices or homes of several Unisys employees and consultants. Unisys was for-

Cutbacks force 4,000 layoffs at Eastern

MIAMI (AP) Eastern Airlines may lay off at least 4,000 people and implement service reductions affecting 15 to 20 cities in what could be the largest labor cutback by the ailing carrier, The Miami Herald reported today. The layoffs would affect nonunion airport and reservations employees and Eastern’s service primarily in the West, especially in the company’s Kansas City hub, the newspaper said, citing sources who

takes.” Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower told the delegates that Bush was a “toothache of a man” who doesn’t care about the problems of anyone but the rich. “GEORGE HAS always been in another world. His is an upper-class world in which wealth is given to you at birth,” Hightower said. “He is a man who was bom on third base and thinks he hit a triple.” Even before Jackson mounted the podium, the convention had rebuffed his calls for higher taxes on the wealthy and a pledge to reject the first use of nucleai weapons. Instead, delegates approved a Dukakis-endorsed platform worded in such general terms that it won’t provide much of a tar-

med by the $4.8 billion 1986 merger of Sperry and Burroughs. In Alexandria, an attorney for defense consultant and former Navy official Melvyn Paisley filed motions Tuesday to quash 11 subpoenas from the grand jury and to be advised if the government conducted any illegal electronic surveillance of his client. IN ALL, 275 subpoenas, mostly for documents and records, were to be answered in Alexandria on Tuesday. Sharon Dibbley, spokeswoman for U.S. Attorney Henry Hudson, said the government had arranged a location, which she would not identify, where those under subpoena could deliver records without being observed by reporters. Many of the subpoenas are to people who are only potential witnesses, not targets of the investigation. Ms. Dibbley had no comment on the Paisley motion and knew of no objections filed to the other subpoenas. The only recognizable figure arriving for Tuesday’s session of the grand jury in the U.S. Courthouse was Jack A. Sherman, a civilian Marine Corps employee whose office was searched by federal agents June 14. SHERMAN, WHO sources said was transferred to non-procurement duties pending the outcome of the investigation, was a supervisory contracts negotiator for the Marines’ installation and logistics

asked not to be identified. Boston also will be affected, the sources said. The financially strapped carrier, which last November laid off 3,500 employees, mostly in Miami and Atlanta, and closed a reservations center in Chicago, is also considering closing one or more of its remaining nine reservations centers, the Herald said. The embattled Miami-based carrier has been contemplating deep cutbacks in service and labor for the fall. The reported plan, if carried out, would cut Eastern’s work force of 32,000 by 12.5 percent

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get for Republicans. Showing no sign of defeat, Jackson told the delegates, “Tonight I salute Gov. Michael Dukakis. He has run a well-managed and dignified campaign. No matter how tired or how tried, he always resisted the temptation to stoop to demagoguery.” YET, JACKSON did not offer Dukakis an endorsement, probably because his own candidacy is alive for a few more hours. “I’ll make the appropriate decision at the appropriate time,” Jackson said later. Stressing the need for unity with Dukakis, Jackson said, “His foreparents came to American in immigrant ships. My foreparents came to American in slave ships. “But whatever the original ships, we are in the same boat tonight.” In a message he had sounded hundreds of times on the campaign trail, Jackson said, “I was bom in the slum. But the slum was not bom in me. And it wasn’t bom in you. You can make it.” “Keep hope alive! Keep hope alive! Keep hope alive,” he shouted in conclusion, sparking an eruption of cheers and applause. TONIGHT, DUKAKIS’ name

office. Neither Sherman nor his attorney would comment It could not be determined if he was actually brought before the grand jury. Other witnesses, however, were seen entering and leaving the grand jury room later in the day. Tuesday afternoon, Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Aronica, who is in charge of the grand jury, told reporters “there won’t be any luminaries” soon. Paisley’s attorney, E. Lawrence Barcella, said he filed a motion to quash the 11 subpoenas issued for Paisley, who served as assistant Navy secretary for research, engineering and systems from December 1981 to April 1987 when he became a consultant. BARCELLA SAID, “We asked the government to affirm or deny whether they used illegal electronic surveillance. Even the fact that they may have gotten authorization does not mean their wiretap was applied for and carried out in a legal manner. Before we comply with a subpoena, we want to insure that the government has carried out its responsibilities under the wiretap statute in an appropriate and accurate manner.” Earlier this month, the government released its search warrant for Paisley, which indicated that FBI agents were investigating whether he received payments from General Dynamics, McDonnell Douglas and Pratt & Whitney while he worked for the Pentagon.'

Eastern spokesman Robin Matell declined to comment “The (flight) schedules themselves are still being worked on,” he said. “The next schedule change would be for Aug. 31.” The company’s fall schedule is expected to be announced Friday. Managers who supervise the affected areas have been summoned to Miami for briefings Friday, when negotiators for Eastern and the pilots union are also scheduled to meet. Eastern has asked its 3,500 pilots for $69 million in savings through productivity increases and reductions in benefits.

JESSE JACKSON Swan song for supporters

will be put in nomination by Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton, who said he wants to make clear “why he’s the right person for president for this time.” Kennedy said that on the IranContra scandal and other issues, “I think it’s fair to ask, where was George?” The audience took up the chant, “Where was George?” as Kennedy cited a litany of problems. “George Bush is the man who is never there and he won’t be there after the clock strikes noon on Jan. 20.1989,” Kennedy declared.

Attorneys agree McKay took liberties with Meese

WASHINGTON (AP) A prosecutor decides he won’t seek an indictment, but tells the world that the subject of his investigation Attorney General Edwin Meese 111 probably broke the law. Why wasn’t Meese charged with a crime, and was it unfair of independent counsel James McKay to announce that the attorney general likely violated two criminal tax statutes and, on two occasions, a federal conflict-of-interest provision? “IF THIS HAPPENED in a routine case, if (U.S. Attorney) Rudy Giuliani said, ‘l’ve been investigating ABC brokerage house and I’ve concluded they violated the law and I could probably convince a jury, but I’m not going to indict,’ that’s not a proper use of prosecutorial power,” said Stephen Gillers, a New York University law professor and ethics expert. In that context, “there’s something to Meese’s argument” that McKay treated him unfairly, Gillers said. “But I think McKay and Meese are a different animal. McKay has an obligation to explain the reasons for his actions. The attorney general gets extra scrutiny and that comes with the territory.” Others, particularly conservatives, disagree. “WHAT MCKAY HAS done is turn the office of independent counsel into an engine to destroy reputations without any judicial trial,” said Bruce Fein, an associate deputy attorney general in 1981-82 and formerly with the conservative Heritage Foundation. “It’s an absolute disgrace and blatantly unconstitutional. Civil libertarians should be denouncing this.” Meese said he was outraged and appalled by McKay’s finding that he probably broke the law. “It’s profoundly ironic that the attorney general is attacking the integrity of Mr. McKay for exercising some discretion in his (Meese’s) favor” by not prosecuting, said Louis Seidman, a professor of law at Georgetown University. “It seems to me that the existence of the special prosecutor law

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EDWARD KENNEDY Demo Bush basher

Rep. William Gray, D-Pa., chairman of the House Budget Committee, accused the Republicans of fostering a “waste now and want more philosophy” and “a credit card spending spree of buy now and pay later that will take generations to repay.” Bush emerges today from the seclusion of a fishing trip in Wyoming to go on the campaign trail and try to divert attention from Dukakis’ triumph. The vice president will campaign in the Detroit area in the first stop on an eightstate tour.

(the 1978 Ethics in Government Act) has allowed the exercise of prosecutorial discretion. If Meese had been cleared by a subordinate in the Justice Department, there would be a major scandal.” THE LAW SETTING up the independent counsel process “allows him to give Meese a break which he may well deserve,” Seidman said. As to why Meese wasn’t prosecuted on tax violations, guidelines in the Justice Department’s tax division and the Internal Revenue Service spell out terms undo - which prosecution of cases may be authorized, noted Gerald Feffer, a criminal tax lawyer with Williams & Connolly who, as a deputy assistant attorney general from 1979 to 1981, oversaw criminal tax cases in the Justice Department. The relatively small amount of tax Meese owed, $3,479, and the fact that Meese’s tax problems stemmed from a single instance rather than a pattern of failing to report capital gains point against prosecution. IN ADDITION, McKay found evidence that Meese had intended to file an amended return, and in fact Meese did so in February, albeit nearly a year and a half late and in the midst of a criminal investigation. “In the tax area, unlike any other area, there is a national review process that goes forward to provide uniformity and to examine each case with structured standards of prosecution,” said Feffer, who says prosecution would not have been instituted in similar circumstances against a less prominent taxpayer. McKay’s report found that Meese probably twice violated the conflict-of-interest law by participating as attorney general in matters affecting the telecommunications industry while he was holding regional Bell telephone stock. McKay decided not to prosecute after concluding there was no evidence Meese acted from motivation for personal gain.