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Ethics Commission critical of Bayh moving maneuver
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Gov. Evan Bayh, under fire from the State Ethics Commission for accepting nearly $2,000 in free moving services, has barred the moving company from doing any business with the state. Eldred Van & Storage Inc. of Terre Haute, agent for North American Van Lines, sent three employees to help the newly inaugurated governor and his wife, Susan, pack their belongings last Friday. And on Tuesday, seven Eldred employees hauled boxes from Bayh’s downtown condominium to the governor’s residence on North Meridian Street “WE ACCEPTED this (service) not because it was going to benefit me but taxpayers,” Bayh said Thursday. “TTiis company will be barred from doing business with the state.” The governor asked his legal counsel to draft a letter to the company. Asked if he would refuse future offers for donated goods and services, Bayh said, “You have to lake these things on a case-by-case basis.” Rick W. Eldred, co-owner of the moving company, said he merely wanted to lend assistance to the Bayhs, and that the company also wanted to do its part in reducing government expenses. ELDRED SAID OF Bayh’s decision barring the company, “I hate to hear that I’m outlawed from even placing a bid with the state. But I don’t want to put the new administration in a bad light, so I’d abide by that”
Man held trying to buy nerve gas
NEWARK, NJ. (AP) A Korean-American businessman arrested in an alleged conspiracy to purchase nerve-gas bombs had contacts in Britain, South Korea and possibly Iran, but officials say it’s still unclear who wanted the weapons. Juwhan Yun, 48, was arrested Thursday and was being held without bail at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City pending a bond hearing Tuesday. A federal complaint accused Yun of conspiring to violate the Arms Export Control Act by seeking to ship bombs containing sarin, a gas
Reagan questions sincerity of some civil rights leaders
WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan says some civil rights leaders are doing so well by “keeping alive the feeling that they're victims of prejudice” that he sometimes wonders whether they “really want what they say they want” Reagan made the statement in an interview to be broadcast Sunday on the CBS television program, “60 Minutes.” Portions of the interview were broadcast Thursday on the CBS Evening News. THE PRESIDENT defended himself against criticism of his civil rights record, saying he was a lifelong foe of discrimination and “one of the great things that I have suffered in this job is this feeling and this editorializing comment that somehow I’m on the other side.” Of the black leaders who have criticized him, he said, “Sometimes I wonder if they really want what they say they want because some of those leaders are doing very well leading organizations based on keeping alive the feeling that they’re victims of prejudice.” He declined to name names. MIKE WALLACE OF “60 Minutes" conducted separate inter-
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SEN. JAMES R. BUTCHER Ethics panel chairman ; James R. Butcher, ethics commission chairman, questioned whether accepting free assistance from the moving company was appropriate. “There is some question, at least in my mind, as to whether this is appropriate,” said Butcher, a Kokomo Republican who served in the state Senate from 1979 to 1986. “I realize this is very subjective, but I also realize $2,000 is a major gift” BUTCHER SAID EVEN if the moving company has no interest in a state contract, it still deals with state agencies that oversee highways and regulate commercial trucking operations. Butcher’s colleagues on the fiveman commission agreed. “The guy is accepting a gift.
that causes convulsions and death by attacking the central nervous system. YUN NEGOTIATED with an undercover U.S. Customs Service agent posing as an arms dealer to purchase 500 quarter-ton bombs and other weapons, said Richard Mercier, chief agent at the federal agency’s Newark office. He described the gas as a “very rapid, odorless, colorless poison which can enter the body by inhalation, absorption or injection.” No weapons were ever delivered, officials said. “I can’t say that there was any indication there was ever any plan
Quayle off to Venezuela? WASHINGTON (AP) Caracas, Venezuela, is likely to be the destination of Dan * Quayle’s first trip out of the country as vice president He likely will attend Carlos Andres Perez’s presidential inauguration Feb. 2, an official in President-elect Bush’s transition said Thursday. The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said a final decision will not be announced until after Bush and Quayle take office Jan. 20. But he said Bush is expected to select Quayle to represent him at the event.
views with Reagan in the Oval Office and with first lady Nancy Reagan in the presidential residence. He also interviewed them together in the residence. Asked whether she had ever worried during the Iran-Contra crisis about the possibility of im-
Senate panel hears testimony on Pease’s bill
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Greater efficiency and the ability to draw top-notch judges would be the big benefits if the Indiana Legislature approves a restructuring of the state’s trial court system, judges and attorneys say. Changes in the way courts operate have been proposed in Senate Bill 12, sponsored by Sen. Edward A. Pease, R-Brazil, who represents the southern portion of Putnam County in the Senate ‘THE BILL IS needed and, more importantly, I think it’s doable,” Lake Circuit Court Judge Lorenzo Arredondo told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday. Arredondo added that judges in Lake County have unanimously
that’s for sure,” said Charles C. Vemia, a Democrat from New Albany. “Whether it’s good or bad, I don’t know.” Farrell N. Duckworth, a former Republican state senator from Bloomington, said the arrangement “gives a bad appearance.” Leo A. Fleener, a Democrat from Cynthiana, said he did not understand why Bayh did not reimburse Eldred. Victor E. Kaiser, a Batesville Republican, said he could “definitely see some problems” with the gift and indicated he would raise the issue Wednesday at the commission’s regular meeting. BAYH’S NEWS secretary, Fred Nation, said the Democrat, who took office Monday, did nothing wrong. “We view this as a gift to Indiana, not to Evan Bayh, because the state Department of Administration was set to move him at state expense,” Nation said. The Indiana Code of Ethics for the Conduct of State Business, guidelines written by the commission, says state employees shouldn’t accept gifts or services in which it can reasonably be inferred the gift would give the giver special consideration by the state employee in his official capacity. IT ALSO BARS state employees from accepting gifts of more than $250 from anyone doing business with the state. Retiring Gov. Robert D. Orr said he had declined an offer by Eldred to help him move from the governor’s residence to his noithside condominium.
to use it or in fact there was actually an end purchaser who had plans to deploy it in any fashion,” said Michael P. Chertoff, first assistant U.S. attorney. AT ONE POINT in the dealings, the purported destination for the bombs was Iran, but that has not been verified, Chertoff said. Yun also contacted the undercover agent about the possible purchase of TOW anti-armor weapons and Stinger anti-aircraft missiles, apparently for delivery to Iran, the complaint said. IF CONVICTED, Yun faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
peachment, Mrs. Reagan said, “No, well, no. I mind until somebody said it on television, and then that word is a frightening word.” “It’s like it’s like having somebody say cancer to you. You know, you... you... you freeze.” Mrs. Reagan did not say who it was she heard discuss the possibility of impeachment No impeachment moves were made against the president, who repealed during the interview his denial that he swapped arms to Iran in an effort to secure release of American hostages. MRS; REAGAN ALSO said in the interview she believes John Poindexter, who lost his job as the president’s national security adviser because of the Iran-Contra affair, “should have told Ronnie" about tiic diversion of profits from the arms sales to Contra rebels in Nicaragua. The president has said he did not know of the diversion. Asked if she disagreed with her husband about his description of Poindexter aide Oliver North as a national hero, the first lady replied, “Sometimes we disagree.”
supported the proposal, which would place all circuit, superior, municipal and probate courts in a one-tier system. Each new court would be called a circuit court and would have general jurisdiction. The measure also would have the state pay the entire cost of the trial court system rather than share costs with counties, and would increase judges’ salaries. JEAN MILLER, AN Allen County attorney and president of the Indiana State Bar Association, said a system of courts of general jurisdiction “would grant flexibility to those courts that they simply now do not have.” Although adding new judges is one way to deal with overcrowded
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It’s Quayle by a landslide in study of campaign jokes
WASHINGTON (AP) to who was the butt of more jokes on late-night television, George Bush and Michael Dukakis would be sharing the White House and Dan Quayle would be president for life. A study of monologues by Johnny Carson and David Letterman found that the score during the general campaign was almost a tie: 51 jokes about Republican Bush to 50 about his Democratic opponent, Michael Dukakis. THE STUDY BY Robert Lichter and Daniel Amundson of the private, non-partisan Center for Media and Public Affairs found that the biggest target was Quayle, the vice president-elect and 1969 DePauw University graduate. He drew 52 barbs more than 10 times Democrat Lloyd Bentsen’s total of five. The president-elect did better as the political season progressed. During the primary campaigns, Bush was on the receiving end of more jokes than all his Democratic opponents combined. “George Bush’s improved media image this fall even reached into the realm of late-night comedy. But Dan Quayle got stuck with Gary Hart’s role as the all-purpose political joke,” said Lichter and Amundson. SOME OF THE study’s findings: When Bush mistakenly referred to Sept 7 as Pearl Harbor Day, Carson played up the gaffe for three days. One example: “A reporter pointed out to Bush that the Japanese attacked on Dec. 7 instead of
Quayle’s dad critical of media
HUNTINGTON, Ind. (AP) The untruths and distortions printed during the 1988 campaign of Vice President-elect Dan Quayle could fill a 12-volume encylopedia, says his father. “But I’m not going to make a federal case or pursue it until I die,” said James Quayle, publisher of the Huntington Herald-Press, at Wednesday’s Huntington County Chamber of Commerce’s annual dinner. “T HOPE NOBODY AT the Herald-Press does to you what the media did to Dan,” Quayle told about 170 people attending the dinner Wednesday in his first public statement regarding his eldest son’s candidacy and the media coverage that followed his being chosen as George Bush’s running mate. The elder Quayle said the Boston Globe published stories based on “lousy research.” The Globe repeated that James Quayle encouraged his son to run for Congress in 1976 against 4th District Rep. J. Edward Roush. But it was Allen County GOP Chairman Orvas Beers and Fort Wayne NewsSentinel publisher Ernie Williams who encouraged
General Foods closes Lafayette site
LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) Some 450 workers face losing their jobs as General Foods closes its Lafayette plant because of declining consumer tastes for gelatin and pudding products. Ervin Shames, president of General Foods USA, told a news conference Thursday production will be phased out and shifted to one or more General Foods plants by January 1990. “The most painful thing about
court dockets, having flexibility to distribute cases from courts with heavy loads to those with lighter ones is another way with a track record of efficiency, she said. Miller said her group’s House of Delegates also endorsed the bill’s salary increase proposal for judges, saying the current pay is not high enough to lure and retain the highest quality judges. AS OF JAN. 1, Indiana was 45th out of the 50 states for judicial salaries, she said, noting that the pay is about $75,000 in Illinois, $84,000 to $102,000 in Michigan and $65,000 to $75,000 in Ohio. Although the national average salary for trial court judges is $70,000, Indiana’s highest-paid
Sept 7. Bush said that’s what made it a sneak attack. He said, ‘lf they showed up on Pearl Harbor Day, it wouldn’t have been a surprise.’” Carson on a typical Bush photo opportunity: “He was humming ‘My Country Tis of Thee’ while Mother Teresa spoon-fed him apple pie.” Carson on Bush’s appeal to Hispanics: “George is a good man but he’s not the most ethnic guy around. Somebody asked him what he thought of Cinco de Mayo and George said, ‘Oh, I’ll just have regular coffee.’ And he had a bad opening. He opened with ‘lch bin ein gringo.’” Letterman on “The Top 10 Reasons Dan Quayle Would Make a Good President.” Among them: “Would not seem like a brainy egghead when visiting the nation’s injured professional wrestlers;” “Boyish good looks would cause Mrs. Gorbachev to fall in love, reveal state secrets;” “State of the Union Address would be three minutes, tops!”; and “Impossible to pick himself as VP.” Carson on Quayle’s foreign policy expertise: “He was asked today if he would send military aid to the Straits of Hormuz. He said, ‘Okay, but the Gays of Hormuz are on their own.’” Carson on Dukakis’ short stature and “the controversy over whether they should stand during the debate or sit during the debate. Dukakis originally wanted squatting.” Carson, again, on Dukakis’ alleged lack of forcefulness: “Somebody asked him who he’s going to vote for, and Dukakis said he was undecided. He was going to wait until after the debate tomorrow.”
his son to challenge Roush because they couldn’t find anybody else, James Quayle said. Cox Newspapers reported that James Quayle was a tough kid from Chicago who married Eugene C. Pulliam’s oldest daughter. Quayle said he grew up several miles from the tough Chicago neighborhoods and that he did not regret marrying Pulliam’s daughter, Corinne, and entering the newspaper business. Quayle said he received about 1,500 letters and the No. 1 issue was his son’s National Guard service. THE SECOND MOST popular topic was the “you’re no John Kennedy” comment made by Lloyd Bentsen during the vice presidential debate. Responses on both were overwhelmingly in his son’s favor, Quayle said. The elder Quayle said that when his son was first elected to Congress, it was exciting to sometimes see him on television. But during the GOP Convention in New Orleans “our appetite was sustained. In fact, we were overfed,” the elder Quayle said of television coverage.
the closing is that it was based on the market place, and not on local plant management or workforce,” Shames said. HE SAID EVERY effort would be made to relocate employees within General Foods or its parent company, Philip Morris, or to help people find other jobs. None of the 450 currently employed at the plant will be laid off before April 1, he added. Another 150 workers at the plant
judge, the chief justice of the Supreme Court, earns only $68,500 a year. S.B. 12 would increase pay for judges by 27.7 percent to 33.9 percent, depending on the court in which they preside. Nancy Klose of the League of Women Voters said her group heartily supports the bill. HIGHER SALARIES would increase the size of the pool of potential judges and would help “people look at this as a career and not a jumping off place,” she said, adding, “You get what you pay for.” Richard J. Cockrum of the Association of Indiana Counties said his group had some concerns about
have been laid off since August 1987. THE PLANT PRODUCES Jell-0 gelatin and pudding and Stove-Top stuffing. It used to produce Maxwell House coffee, Birds-Eye frozen vegetables, and powdered Kool-Aid products, but those lines were eliminated over the years as demand for them dropped. The average employee earns $12.50 per hour.
funding, including budget uncertainties. A REVIEW BY the Legislative Services Agency indicated that the restructuring would cost the state an additional $30.4 million in fiscal year 1990 and $66.2 million in fiscal 1991. However, counties would, be expected to save $68.6 million in calendar year 1990 and $74.8 million in 1991. Also expressing support for S.B. 12 on Thursday were Chief Justice Randall Shepard of the Indiana Supreme Court, the Indiana Judges Association, Common Cause of Indiana and the Probation Assert. Although the committee took testimony on S.B. 12, it deferred a vote.