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THE BANNERGRAPHIC January 7,1989

Inauguration heady stuff for girl who had no junior prom date

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Susan Bayh is normally an upbeat, independent-minded career woman, but the thought of becoming Indiana’s new first lady sends her into peals of nervous laughter. “It hasn’t sunk in yet,” she said. “I feel a little like Cinderella, hoping the coach won’t turn back into a pumpkin.” THE FAIRY TALE analogy is appropriate for Evan and Susan Bayh. With their energy, gumption and his-and-her good looks, they represent a sort of political Camelot for the 19905. The stage may be Indiana instead of the White House, but Bayh’s November victory over John M. Mutz put this educated, two-income couple front and center. It ended 20 years of Republican rule in Indiana and gave the nation its youngest gubernatorial couple. Evan is 33 and Susan is 29. Hoosiers can watch the Bayhs on Monday when the inauguration will be televised live around the state for the first time in years. That’s heady stuff for the girl from Pasadena, Calif., who likes to tell people that she didn’t have a date for the junior prom. “IT’S NOT THE END of the world. You can live, you can marry Evan Bayh,” she said, laughing. “There is a tremendous amount of love for the Bayh family in this state and when I became Evan’s wife they just transferred that to me.” Mrs. Bayh was busy studying to be a lawyer before she married the son of former three-term U.S. Sen. Birch Bayh. After earning an undergraduate degree from CalBerkeley, she worked as a waitress, a Universal Studios tour guide, gymnastics teacher and reigned as Miss Southern California before graduating from law school in 1984. illiteracy and education will be two projects that receive the first lady’s attention. she Cites statistics showing there are 600,000 functionally illiterate Hoosiers and

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few of them seek help at literacy centers in 81 of Indiana’s 92 counties. “There are some students coming in but it’s not the number it should be,” said Mrs. Bayh, who wants to serve as a spokesman for the centers. When she’s not promoting her special interests, Mrs. Bayh will be found working three days a week in her new job at Eli Lilly and Co., the pharmaceutical giaiiu SHE LEFT HER JOB as an associate lawyer at Barnes & Thornburg on Thursday. “I decided to leave because of the conflict of interest problem,” she said. “Working at a corporation, they could better segregrate me.” Mrs. Bayh will work on federal regulatory issues in Lilly’s pharmaceutical division. “I do like my independence and I put myself through college and law school to become a professional, and I’m not sure I’m ready to give that up yet,” she said. HER HUSBAND’S burgeoning political career has forced her to withdraw from the areas of corporate and utility law, which have close ties to state government. Mrs. Bayh had earlier changed her specialty to litigation and any of her cases at Barnes & Thornburg were scrutinized for possible conflicts. “If there is even an appearance of impropriety, I don’t take the case,” she said. “Let’s say some case becomes more controversial later on, I take myself out of it.” That occurred when Mrs. Bayh was working on a utility case involving the Subaru-Isuzu Automotive plant under construction near Lafayette. Her husband’s criticism of the financial incentives offered for the plant was a major issue in his gubernatorial campaign. “YOU CAN’T SAY no to everything and at that point I didn’t know my husband was running for governor,” Mrs. Bayh said of her former role as

Fatal flight odds still astronomical

BOSTON (AP) Deregulation has compromised air traffic safety, but domestic air travel is still so safe that odds are a person could take a flight every day for more than 29,000 years before being involved in a fatal crash, according to a Massachusetts Institute of Technology study released Friday. The 1977-86 figures for domestic non-stop flights with established carriers indicate travelers are at 10 times less risk today than they were during the 19605, but the skies could be safer. “ONE CAN COME up with a

Prosecutors: More indictments can be expected

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) Prosecutors in the Pentagon procurement investigation say an initial 27-count indictment is just the start of an expected wave of court activity in the prosecution phase of Operation 111 Wind. U.S. Attorney Henry Hudson of the Southern District of Virginia said the pace of the investigation that began more than two years ago is moving with unprecedented speed, given the complexity of the case.

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EVAN, SUSAN BAYH: Monday’s the big day

an attorney for Subaru-Isuzu. In spite of the need to be cautious, Mrs. Bayh said the couple’s dual careers are important “Anymore you need two fulltime incomes to make ends meet,” she said. “Having a first lady and a governor that are more similar to the regular people is good.” Even as she prepares for a three-day-a-week law career, Mrs. Bayh said she doesn’t consider such a move to be a sacrifice. ‘T LOVE WORKING with him. I think that if I was not married to Evan Bayh, I’d be on his staff,” she said. “I’d be figuring some way I could get volunteers to go behind him because I respect him that much as a statesman and I respect him as my husband.” But the woman who sported a ‘Thank Heaven for Evan’ button during the campaign said she will leave the governing to her husband. “I don’t think that I will lake any policy positions,” she said. “I will advise Evan like any wife would probably give him a lot of opinions he doesn’t want or hasn’t asked for.. But it would be very private. I don’t pull any strings.” AT 5-FOOT-lO with her blonde hair flipped under, Mrs. Bayh was a welcome sight on the campaign trail. It was during

very long list of things that make one nervous about flying, but the good news in that very rarely have these horrible genies really come out of the bottle,” said MIT Prof. Arnold Bameu, who compiled the fatality statistics with Pentagon analyst Mary K. Higgins. But Barnett said lax air traffic control, substandard maintenance, undertrained cockpit crews and aging equipment were all liabilities associated with airline deregulation. The death risk per flight in the absence of deregulation would have

“IN THE NEXT FEW months you will see a great deal of additional activity,” he said. On Friday, a federal grand jury filed the first charges in the procurement case, accusing a defense contractor, a Navy employee and five other men with crimes including conspiracy, bribery and theft of government property. Hudson, who is leading the nationwide investigation into the Defense Department’s $l5O billion-

Libya claims U.S. attacked with 14 planes

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) The Libyan government, challenging U.S. justifications for the downing of two Libyan jets, claims its planes were overwhelmed by 14 “hostile American aircraft.” A government spokesman said the U.S. assertion that two American jets had acted in selfdefense after being dogged in the air by the Libyan MiG-23s was “a fabrication.” The Libyan account echoed on national television and by the official news agency JANA appeared intended to counter the U.S. government’s vigorous presentation of its own case. WASHINGTON HAS provided television stations with videotape said to be from Wednesday’s attack, as taken by one of U.S. aircraft, and has shown blurred photographs to the U.N. Security Council of what it said was a Libyan plane carrying four bombs that was downed in the encounter. The council met in emergency session Thursday and Friday to consider Libya’s request

an appearance at a Northwest Indiana high school that Mrs. Bayh made a celebrated gaffe. A student asked her about the case of Paula Cooper, the teenager who was sentenced to death for the brutal murder of a Gary Bible teacher. Mrs. Bayh replied that Cooper should die for the crime, but the next day Evan Bayh disavowed himself from his wife’s statement “EVAN, TO HIS credit, never said, ‘Hey, you did the wrong thing.’ He just said, ‘That was a lesson everybody learns in politics, you learned yours today.’ It didn’t hurt us.” Laughter punctuates much of Mrs. Bayh’s conversation and it is with such high spirits that she hopes to make her mark in the Governor’s Residence. SHE LABELS TALK of a future White House bid by her husband premature, however. “I truly believe, and I know there are some Republicans who would disagree, Evan will be an eight-year governor,” she said. “He Ukes his job. I think he’ll run for re-election if he feels he’s done a good job.” For now, Mrs. Bayh knows her job as well. “Finding enough time to do everything that I know I want to do, and making sure that I spend my time on the important things rather than on the little things,” she said.

been about 35 percent lower than that actually recorded, according to the study. BARNETT ALSO said the record among the approximately 20 carriers established after the 1978 Airline Deregulation Act was relatively weak. “The new carriers that came about after deregulation as a group did not do as well as the more established airlines,” Barnett said. “The new entrants pushed the overall risk level for domestic jet flights up by more than 50 percent.”

a-year purchasing system, said the indictment “strikes at the very heart” of alleged corruption in the procurement process. KENNETH WALTON, an FBI official, said the “No. 1 priority” of the bureau’s white collar crime program is fraud in the Defense Department. The 86-page indictment focuses on activities alleged to have been undertaken by Teledyne Electronics, a branch of Teledyne Industries of Newbury Park, Calif.,

for a condemnation of the U.S. act The council is to resume its session Monday morning. Libyan U.N. envoys have contended the planes were unarmed and on a simple reconnaissance mission when they were downed over the Mediterrean Sea. MEANWHILE, IN other developments: At least two MiG-23 jet fighters sat at Tripoli’s airport Friday, poised to enter the takeoff runway. A day earlier, no military planes were seen on any runway. Increased security was noted at the headquarters of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. A Western diplomat in Tripoli said he believed the United States and Libya had had “contacts” through a third country to defuse the tension. Reports circulated that Gadhafi had ousted his military chief, but the reports could not be confirmed. Rajab Abou Dabbous, secretary of the information ministry, told a news conference Friday that the U.S. Navy jets launched a premeditated attack. He disputed Washington’s

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Hirohito dies, ending reign of 62 years

TOKYO (AP) Emperor Hirohito, once venerated as a living god and made into the guiding spirit of a world war, died early Saturday of intestinal cancer, ending a 62-year reign that saw his nation recover from ruin to riches. He was 87. Crown Prince Akihito, oldest of the emperor’s two sons, became the 125th occupant of the Chrysanthemum Throne. In a solemn, wordless four-minute ceremony, a sword, jewels and the imperial seals were placed on a table in front of him, and he bowed. HIROHITO DIED without ever having shed much light on his World War II role. Historians generally agree he was a figurehead who was required to approve decisions of the military leaders, until he decided the Japanese had suffered enough atomic bombing, firebombing and invasion and personally announced surrender in August 1945. His death followed a 3 Vi-month illness during which reports on his blood pressure and temperature became fixtures of Japanese routine and many festivities were postponed or canceled. The government proclaimed a six-day formal mourning period and named the new emperor’s reign Heisei, or Achieving Peace. Hirohito’s reign, which began on Dec. 25, 1926, was called Showa, or Enlightened Peace. Thousands of people went to the palace to sign condolence registers. Japan’s stock markets closed, but banks and many shops remained open. IN WESTERN TOKYO, police arrested 10 members of the radical leftist Chukakuha (Middle Core Faction) on charges of assembling weapons for a demonstration against the nation’s monarchy. About 100 faction members tried to demonstrate, and “some of those arrested tried to push through with bamboo rods against riot police,” said a police spokesman, who spoke on condition of anonymity. He said 15,000 riot police were being mobilized around Tokyo against possible sabotage. ABOUT 90 PEOPLE peacefully marched in another Tokyo district with banners bearing such slogans as “No more emperor” and

and three men: Navy procurement specialist Stuart E. Berlin and private consultants Fred H. Lackner and William L. Parkin, a former Navy acquisitions official. Specifically, the indictment charges that Teledyne and three of its officers agreed to pay Parkin $160,000 to assist them in obtaining a Navy contract related to radar worth SIOO million. THE INDICTMENT contends Parkin paid Lackner, a Californiabased private consultant, who “in

Hand surgery for president WASHINGTON (AP) * • President Reagan was undergo- ■ ■ ; ing surgery early Saturday on ; his left hand to correct a mys- ; terious condition known as I Dupuytren’s contraction, which : caused his ring finger to curve inward. ; “The procedure has begun,” ' ' White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater reported shortly after ’ : 7:30 a.m. The spokesman said ’ the president’s doctors had begun administering drugs to * numb the president’s hand. Reagan entered Walter Reed Army Medical Center Friday evening to prepare for the earlymorning operation, which was ' expected to last two to three hours. Accompanied by his wife Nancy, Reagan told reporters he felt “fine” as he entered the military hospital. Reagan planned to remain in the hospital until Sunday.

suggesting Hirohito bore responsibility for the war. ♦ ; “I could not stand the thought ’ that people outside Japan are going to think ... everyone is crying over ! his death,” said organizer Ryuichi Harada. “It is about time we should I learn that the image of him being a ? pacifist and warm and kind old man ' was forced on us.” • * ' The formal state funeral is plan- - ned for Feb. 24, Kyodo news ser- ■ vice reported, quoting government ’ ► sources. There was no immediate government announcement Until Hirohito’s death, palace officials refused to acknowledge that the emperor was suffering from cancer. Japanese rarely inform cancer patients of their disease. AFTER HE FELL seriously ill on Sept. 19, 67.8 pints of blood transfusions helped keep Hirohito alive. In September 1987, Hirohito had undergone intestinal bypass surgery, but doctors said at the time that a growth found there was not * cancerous.

turn paid Stuart E. Berlin ... for his , assistance in manipulating the procurement process to insure that ’ the ... contract was awarded to’-’ Teledyne,” Hudson said. ’ ’ Berlin participated in various decisions within the Navy affecting the contract and is accused of giving Teledyne advance informa- . tion so the company could tailor its" *' bids, Hudson said. If convicted of all charges, Ber- ~ * lin, Parkin and Lackner could face maximum penalties of 185 years.

account that the two planes, which were attached to the U.S. Navy’s 6th Fleet, were threatened by the Libyan MiGs. ‘THE TRUTH IS that 14 count them attacked two Libyan planes on a normal reconnaissance flight,” said Dabbous. “The (U.S.) statements of the last couple of weeks show a pattern of premeditation,” he ad-', dcd. “It is not by chance the (U.S.) fleet was off our coast.” In a special program Friday night, official Libyan television said: “While (the Libyan jets were) carrying out their duties, seven groups of hostile American aircraft suddenly appeared at 1100 hours.” It said the U.S. planes flew away, but one pair “suddenly reappeared and fired at our aircraft while they were in their regular flight.” The television program and JANA said the issue was not whether the Libyan planes were carrying missiles, but one of U.S. “premeditated aggression.”