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Bush begins his July 4th holiday early KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine (AP) President Bush is getting the jump on the Fourth of July by treating his neighbors to a fireworks display tonight, during a holiday trip marked by a marathon of sporting activities. “I’m tired,” Bush, 65, confessed after a day of jogging, tennis, swimming, fishing, golf and then more fishing on Sunday. MEANWHILE, THE vacation White House today was anxiously awaiting fireworks of another sort from the Supreme Court. Fitzwater said a statement would be issued in Bush’s behalf if the court issued a ruling today on whether it will allow states to limit or outlaw the right to abortion. Bush said Sunday he regretted the decision of Adm. William J. Crowe to step down as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in September. “VERY CANDIDLY, I’d like to have had him stay,” Bush told reporters on the golf course. “He did an outstanding job and is doing an outstanding job." Crowe announced his decision Sunday on NBC-TV’s “Meet the Press.” Hundreds of people were expected to line the shoreline of this occanside resort to watch the Bush fireworks this evening, to be set off from his six-acre compound on Walker’s Point.

Bayh administration not taking blame

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The Bayh administration took office six months ago, but it still isn’t ready to take the blame for problems in state government. From corrections to commerce, the new Democratic regime of Gov. Evan Bayh and Lt. Gov. Frank O’Bannon has recently made public a series of problems officials say they inherited from past Republican leaders. THE BAYH administration denies it’s trying to pin 'Ae blame for all of its problems on the GOP. But Republicans say that’s exactly what the administration is doing. “We’re not attempting to say these guys were terrible people,” said Fred J. Nation, Bayh’s press secretary. “What we’re attempting to say is there are problems here. “It lets people know the problems were not created in the

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Over attack at diplomatic quarters U.S. Embassy files protest

BEUING (AP) The U.S. Embassy filed a protest today over what it called a premeditated army attack on the apartments of American diplomats and other foreigners two days after clearing the city center of student protesters. The move was likely to further worsen relations already made tense by U.S. criticism of China’s violent suppression of the prodemocracy movement ALSO TODAY, TWO Taiwanese reporters said a colleague was taken away by security forces after he reportedly met with fugitive student leader Wang Dan. The reporters said they feared Wang also was arrested. U.S. Embassy spokesman Sheridan Bell said Embassy Charge d’ Affaires Raymond Burghardt delivered the note of protest about the shooting incident to the Foreign Ministry, which did not immediately respond. Chinese soldiers fired hundreds of bullets into the Jianguomenwai apartment compound on June 6, a day after die State Department sail the U.S. Embassy had given refuge to two Chinese dissidents, Fang Lizhi and his wife, Li Shuxian. A U.S. EMBASSY report on the shooting charged it was premeditated but did not link it to China’s anger over U.S. protection of Fang and Li. The United States filed one protest shortly after the shooting. The new protest challenges for the first time the Chinese account that the soldiers were responding to sniper fire from within the apartment compound.

last six months by Evan Bayh and Frank O’Bannon, that these are long-standing problems,” said Nation. BUT REPUBLICAN strategists say the Democrats are trying to fault past GOP leaders by using a time-honored tactic that both insulates current officeholders from criticism and sets them up to accept praise if problems are solved. “If you can’t create a contrast bad guy, good guy, white hat, black hat it’s impossible to gel credit for doing a good job of running government,” said R. Mark Lubbers, who was press secretary and a top policy adviser to former GOP Gov. Robert D. Orr. “People expect government to be well-run. It’s not something they’re going to give you credit for, especially if there’s no contrast,” said Lubbers. “So in order to get

Sickout at Westville WESTVILLE, Ind. (AP) At least 50 employees at Westville Correctional Center called in sick early today to protest working conditions, and more were expected to join a two-day sickout, an organizer said. Correctional officers and nurses refused to report at midnight Sunday as part of a demand for more employees, better security and better treatment, organizers said. Westville employs about 800 correctional officers and civilian employees.

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At the time, Radio Beijing said one soldier was killed and three were injured, and plainclothes officers who went into die compound brought out a Chinese man they claimed was the sniper. NO WITNESSES reported seeing Chinese soldiers hit, however. The U.S. report said the arrest appeared to have been staged. It also said the soldiers fired not only from the ground but from a building across the street, where they had taken up positions the day before. A diplomat from another Western country, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed that some bullets were fired from the opposite building and whizzed over the heads of children playing in the foreigners’ apartments. He said the shooting appeared intended to intimidate foreigners. NO ONE WAS hurt, but most

credit for running government well, they have to create a contrast and, unfortunately, the only way to do that is to say the way it was done is bad.” FORMER LT. GOV. John M. Mutz, whose stewardship of two departments was the topic of news conferences by O’Bannon last week, shrugged off the criticism. “Here’s someone coming into a new situation. He has to make tough decisions,” said Mutz, who lost the governor’s race to Bayh. “He (O’Bannon) would rather be able to blame those problems on someone else. “I understand that. It’s part of the political process,” said Mutz. IN RECENT WEEKS, the Bayh-O’Bannon administration has proclaimed the departments of correction, commerce, personnel and employment and training services

Credit cards used to find child support delinquents

PAOLI, Ind. (AP) child support payments, you might be rejected for a credit card, a home mortgage or a car loan if your delinquency has been reported to a credit bureau. Starting this month, the office of Orange County Prosecutor Steve Owen will report the names and Social Security numbers of people more than SI,OOO behind in their support payments to the Harrison County Credit Bureau in Corydon. THE INFORMATION then will go into the computers of the Trans-Union Credit Information Bureau, one of the three largest credit-reporting companies in the country. It’s all part of a plan by some southern Indiana counties to use credit reports as a new way into the wallets of people who owe child support. About two-thirds of the nearly 500 men owing child support in Orange County are more than

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foreigners evacuated the compound later that day. “There is no doubt, in this Embassy’s opinion, that certain apartments were deliberately targeted,” the U.S. Embassy report said. CHINA HAS AGREED to pay for damage caused by 'he shooting, which the U.S. Embassy estimated in the thousands of dollars. The Bush administration, in its other responses to the Chinese crackdown, has criticized it and cut off military aid. WANG, A HISTORY student at Beijing University, was a key leader of seven weeks of student protests in Beijing for a freer society. He went underground after the army crushed the student-led protests in Beijing on June 3-4, killing hundreds of unarmed civilians. Police grabbed him as he left his hotel just before noon and pushed him into an unmarked car.

have management or fiscal problems. Administration officials have also sounded alarm that some costs of the Statehouse complex expansion project weren’t made public, and O’Bannon has scrapped the state’s “Wander Indiana” tourism campaign, arguing it was poorly received outside the state. Nation insists that policy considerations, not politics, govern the administration’s decisions to make the problems public. He noted that Bayh and O’Bannon have been careful not to personally criticize Orr and Mutz. “IF WE JUST wanted to lay out problems, I suppose we could do one a day,” said Nation. “But we’re really concerned for those that are going to have a large fiscal impact

SI,OOO behind, said program administrator Jean Stanfield, and the problem is getting worse. “WE’VE GOT A lot of them who are remarried and they’re looking to get a new house or a new car,” Stanfield said. “It’s just another way we’re hoping to avoid taking these gentlemen into court’’ Men are the most common providers of child support. Lawrence County will begin reporting to the credit bureau by the end of the summer, and Perry County hopes to start when its new computer system is running. ALTHOUGH MOST counties now intercept state and federal tax returns for those behind in their payments, administrators say many delinquents get around that method by working for cash or by being self-employed and declaring losses on their tax returns. Others have simply disappeared and can’t be located by the local offices.

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Soviet diplomat Gromyko, 79, dies

MOSCOW (AP) Andrei A. Gromyko, the tough-negotiating former foreign minister who survived five Kremlin leadership changes and weathered the dramatic turns of East-West relations in a half-century of public life, has died at age 79. Soviet news reports said the grim-faced Gromkyo, who oversaw Soviet foreign policy for 28 years, died Sunday. THE CAUSE OF death was not announced, but a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Friday that Gromyko had been hospitalized after surgery for a vascular problem heart or circulatory system that was not further identified. President Mikhail S. Gorbachev announced the death to the Supreme Soviet legislature today. “The deputies at the session, with a minute of silence, paid homage to the memory of the outstanding government and party leader,” Radio Moscow said. THE OFFICIAL Thss news agency said Gromyko was “one of the major Soviet diplomats and statesmen of the senior generation” and added that the country “lost one of its most prominent leaders.” There was no immediate announcement of funeral plans. As a diplomat, ambassador and foreign minister, Gromyko helped forge the Soviet-American World War II alliance, joined in drafting the UJ9. Charter and sat in on superpower talks that shaped the face of the modem world. GROMYKO SURVIVED several purges and outlasted Soviet leaders Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid

Soviet Union man finds July 4th special in return to Chicago

CHICAGO (AP) Abe Stolar is coming home to celebrate the Fourth of July after 58 years in the Soviet Union, a time that began with Depressionera dreams of finding a workers* paradise and ended with a fight to emigrate. Despite it all, the 77-year-old Stolar is still a Chicagoan. When he talks, the accent is pure West Side. STOLAR LEFT THE Soviet Union in March, departing abruptly after fighting for 14 years to go to Israel with his wife, his son, his daughter-in-law and two grandchildren. He and his wife, Gita Rozovskaya, are arriving in Chicago on Wednesday, the first stop in a 12-city U.S. tour that will take them from Anchorage, Alaska, to ML mi before it winds up in Los Angeles on Aug. 13. “His memory of Chicago is just frozen in time, in 1931,” said David Carle, a spokesman for Sen. Paul Simon, D-111., who helped draw attention to Stolar’s efforts to leave the Soviet Union. Home Chicago has changed. THE DEPRESSION is over. The skyline is taller. Humboldt Park a working-class neighborhood populated largely by Eastern European Jews when he left is largely Hispanic. But Wrigley Field looks much the same, though the venerable ballpark now has lights. Stolar is to watch Wednesday night’s game there between the Cubs and the San Diego Padres. STOLAR ALSO HAS vivid memories of the grand 3,000room Stevens Hotel, now the Conrad Hilton and Towers,

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ANDREI A. GROMYKO Cause of death unannounced I. Brezhnev, Yuri V. Andropov and Kostantin U. Chernenko. He served as Soviet ambassador to the United States, Britain and the United Nations, which he helped found. Tass once said he took part in “the rost important foreign political developments of our time.” After Gorbachev rose to power in March 1985 and revamped the leadership, Gromyko was gradually eased into retirement. HE WAS REPLACED as foreign minister that summer by Eduard A. Shevardnadze, a newcomer to foreign affairs, and named to the then largely ceremonial post of president. He stepped down from the Communist Party’s ruling Politburo Sept. 30 and was replaced as president by Gorbachev a day later.

which has invited him to stay in its Chicago suite on the 23rd floor. While he gets reacquainted with Chicago, Stolar plans to visit with old friends, Ms. Opper said, and there is even talk of a high school reunion. Stolar was 19 when at the height of the Depression his Russian-born parents headed home to help build a new Soviet society. “ABE PLANNED to stay only a short time,” Ms. Opper said. But Russia was changing, and history got in the way. After World War 11, he worked as an announcer and translator for Radio Moscow, married and had a son, Michael. ONE DAY STOLAR’S son came home excited at winning a school contest “He looked at his son, so full of hope, so full of enthusiasm, and he thought, ‘This boy will never go anywhere in this country. We’ve got to get out,”’ Ms. Opper said. He made his first move in 1975, but he and his family were held up over “a slight problem” with his wife’s visa. THE PROBLEM, concerning information she had access to at her job as a chemist, took more than 10 years to resolve, years that brought Stolar a daughter-in-law, Julia, and grandchildren, Sarah, .3, and Choni, 1. Then, Julia’s mother refused to sign a financial-release waiver she needed to leave the country. Finally, in March, the family was allowed to leave.

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