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THE BANNERGRAPHIC July 6,1990
NATO evolves with Bush’s ‘solemn commitment to non-aggression’
LONDON (AP) Western leaders agreed today to transform NATO’s nuclear strategy, and President Bush said the alliance is offering a “solemn commitment to non-aggression” to the Soviet Union and the new democracies of Eastern Europe. “NATO is changing,” Bush said, and the Soviet Union should now realize that the military alliance 7no longer is a threat.” AT A NEWS conference wrapping up a two-day NATO summit, Bush called for a series of Negotiated agreements to reduce Conventional forces in Europe, including for a unified Germany. | The president renewed his support for Soviet President Mikhail S. {Jorbachev’s program of reform, but said he continues to have “big problems” with direct financial aid so long as Moscow is spending billions of dollars for Cuba and for military modernization. NATO leaders made a dramatic overture to the Soviet Union, expressed by Bush this way, “We say to President Gorbachev, come to NATO.” He said he planned to speak by phone with Gorbachev. THE NATO MEETING was called to consider the shifting face of European security in light of the move of Warsaw Pact nations away from Communism. One nation, Hungary, has asked about possible admission to the NATO alliance. NATO Secretary-General Manfred Woemer told reporters, “We matched the historic challenge,” and said: “At long last we have the chance to make for the first time in history military aggression in Europe materially impossible and also politically meaningless.” ON NUCLEAR weapons, he
Pleasure cruise has new meaning on Detroit River
WINDSOR, Ontario (AP) Lace and spandex peel away readily aboard the Wayward Princess, a Detroit River cruise ship where men delight in discarded G-strings and women watch musclemen shed doublebreasted suits. The 110-foot, three-decked vessel opened for a preview voyage Thursday with dozens of photographers and reporters getting the first peek at the sexy gyrations of one male and four female dancers. “I’M DOING IT for the fun of it,” said Jacques Beauchamp, who developed the nude-dancing cruises when his business of renting the boat for private parties waned. Ontario strippers, unlike their Michigan counterparts, are allowed to remove all clothing in establishments where alcohol is sold. Windsor, a city of about 195,000 people, lies across the Detroit River from Detroit. It regularly attracts U.S. visitors to downtown clubs where women dance nude on stage or, for $5 a song, atop a box next to the table. BEAUCHAMP HAD staged chartered strip shows on the
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said the NATO leaders said they will “modify and adapt the task of their nuclear deterrent forces” and offered to eliminate all nuclear atrillery shells from Europe “in return for reciprocal action by the Soviet Union.” “Our alliance extends the hand of friendship,” Bush said. “We reaffirm that we shall never be the first to use force.” The president made his comments after a NATO session designed to steer the Western alliance away from a military orientation. From London, Bush was flying to Houston and next week’s economic summit of the world’s seven leading industrialized nations. DIRECT FINANCIAL aid to the Soviet Union is expected to come up for discussion. In another important development, the allies proposed that once a conventional arms treaty is signed expected in the fall that immediate talks begin to limit the
Wayward Princess until Windsor officials revoked his license two years ago. The city grudgingly approved a license two weeks ago. “Personally, I’d rather not see it,” city licensing Commissioner Ronald Reaume said. **But we’re not there to license the morality of the situation.” Beauchamp could face fines or imprisonment if the Wayward Princess crosses the river’s international boundary, said Detroit police Officer Dan Smith. KARA, A TALL brunette with braces and a deep tan, opened the show Thursday with a dance to the song “All Around the World.” The 21-year-old Detroit-area woman, who didn’t give her full name, strutted around the tiny stage in nothing but a G-string. The G-strings will drop on subsequent cruises. “It’s kind of exciting because it’s the only boat in the world that’s a strip bar ... where you can get totally nude,” Kara said. The ship’s maiden voyage for paying customers will be tonight. Beauchamp said he expected a capacity crowd of 325 passengers.
U.S. unemployment fell slightly, to 5.2 percent, in June
WASHINGTON (AP) The nation’s unemployment rate fell slightly to 5.2 percent in June, despite a continued slump in the nation’s manufacturing and construction sectors, the government said today. The civilian jobless rate, as measured by a household survey by
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numbers of troops in Europe. “With this goal in mind, a commitment will be given at the time of signature of the CFE treaty concerning the manpower levels of a unified Germany,” said a closing communique. THE ARMS TALKS are being held between the NATO and Warsaw Pact nations to shaqply reduce tanks, artillery and other nonnuclear weapons in Europe. The United States and the Soviet Union already have agreed to limit each side to 195,000 troops in the central region. The United States would maintain an additonal 30,000 in Britian and southern Europe. The commitment by West Germany to limit the forces of a united Germany was seen as a key move to reassure the Soviet Union. President Bush described the NATO decision as “an historic turning point” and said, “The London Declaration transform NATO’s nuclear strategy.” EVEN AS HE extended friendship to Eastern European countries, Bush made it clear he is not ready to accept any of the former Soviet satellites into NATO. Asked whether he would oppose permitting Hungary to join, Bush said, “not forever.” Bush made his comments after he and other NATO leaders concluded their two-day session by ratifying a written statement that proposed a mutual non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union and the other nations of the fading Warsaw Pact alliance. The 20-paragraph communique also: • Tightened the trigger guard on European nuclear missiles by stating they would be used only as a weapon of last resort.
URC regulators ring up Indiana Bell for probe into excessive earnings, profits
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - ndiana Bell, the state’s largest telephone company, faces a formal investigation by state regulators who want to determine if the company’s earnings and revenues exceed authorized levels. The Utility Regulatory Commission voted unanimously Thursday to launch the investigation, which the commission’s staff had suggested in a report earlier this week. THE STAFF, IN A report issued Monday, estimated Bell earnings in 1989 were $10.04 million to $21.23 million above authorized levels and its revenues were sl6 million to $34.2 million higher than authorized in Bell’s last full-scale rate case in 1985. Bell argues it isn’t collecting more money than it is entitled to under the 1985 order. The company contends the commission staff is citing outdated numbers in determining the utility’s investment used to calculate the rate and amount of return on investment the company is allowed to receive. ON THURSDAY, commission members were careful to point out that their unanimous vote to authorize an investigation shouldn’t be interpreted as acceptance of the staff report’s findings.
the Labor Department, dropped from the 5.3 percent registered in May. The nation’s unemployment rate has been fluctuating close to 5.3 percent for more than a year. PRIVATE INDUSTRIES produced 92,000 new jobs last month, a weaker number than the 125,000 payroll additions private
• Issued an invitation to Gorbachev and the leaders of the Warsaw Pact to visit NATO, probably in December. • Proposed the eventual elimination of nuclear artillery shells by “reciprocal arrangement” as well as “diplomatic liaison” at an unspecified level between the military alliances. DESPITE HIS CALL for pressing ahead with arms control negotiations, Bush said nothing that happened in London would prompt him to reconsider the costly strategic nuclear modernization program at home. Asked what message he wants Gorbachev to receive from the London meeting, Bush said: “Here’s an alliance that you should view, Mr. Gorbachev, as defensive, not threatening, and please convince your military and others in the Soviet Union of that fact” AFTER BUSH MET British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher over breakfast at her 10 Downing St. residence, the president made clear he had gotten almost everything he wanted in the communique. The Houston summit is expected to tackle an issue left unresolved here whether the West will commit billions of dollars in emergency assistance to help salvage the Soviet Union’s crumbling economy. The 20-paragraph draft of the NATO communique was fashioned early today by foreign ministers of the 16 alliance nations and approved virtually intact by the heads of state at their midmoming concluding session. “”It was pretty much our draft,” said Bush’s spokesman, Marlin Fitzwater.
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JAMES MONK What about equipment? “The fact that we have voted unanimously today to initiate an investigation by no means constitutes a pre-judgment as to the result of the investigation,” Commissioner Karl O’Lessker. Commission Chairman James Monk said the staff report “raises significant issues that can only be further addressed in a formal hearMONK SAID HE believes the commission needs to look, for ex-
analysts had been calling for. Job growth figures are derived from a separate survey of business establishments. That is often considered a more reliable indicator of economic activity than the household survey from which the overall unemployment rate is calculated. Today’s report, and its evidence of continued sluggishness, was sure to renew pressure on the Federal
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Snyder recalled as man of action for homeless
WASHINGTON (AP) Mitch Snyder is being remembered as a “man of action” for the nation’s homeless after his body was found hanged, victim of what police called an apparent suicide. Snyder, 46, was discovered dead Thursday afternoon in a 1,400-bed homeless shelter in a ragged neighborhood a few blocks from the U.S. Capitol. An autopsy was performed but results were not made public. THE WASHINGTON POST reported today that police believe he died Tuesday night or Wednesday, and that he had not been seen since Tuesday. A funeral is scheduled for Tuesday outside the homeless shelter. The gray, three-story building where Snyder’s body was found symbolized the cause in which he achieved national prominence and the tactics he used in his fight His group the Community for Creative Non-Violence was given the rundown government building by the Reagan administration only after he staged a hunger strike in 1984 to demand federal aid and publicize the plight of the homeless. REP. HENRY B. Gonzalez, D-Texas, chairman of the House Banking Committee, which handles housing issues, called Snyder “a man of action” who at times became depressed by the problems of the homeless. He was a “man on the edge at the cutting edge of the homeless and the street people and his own ethos and rationale for existence,” said Gonzalez. A police statement called the
ample, at the investments Bell has made in new equipment over the last six years. Bell argues that if its $1 billion worth of investments since 1984 are considered, the company isn’t earning a higher return on investment than regulators authorized. “The financial benchmarks for Indiana Bell need significant updating,” said Monk. O’Lessker said that if the commission agrees that Bell should be allowed to include the new investments in its rate base, “it may very well be that we will vote for higher Indiana Bell rates, rather than lower rates.” HOWEVER, AN attorney for a consumer group said the investigation could lead to a reduction of up to 25 percent in rates for basic, nofrills telephone service. Michael Mullett of the Citizens Action Coalition said he thinks the investigation could show that all customers are helping to pay for Bell’s investments in specialized services only some customers use. At the same time, the study could show that Bell’s cost of providing basic phone service is declining, he said. If the commission investigation reaches those findings, rates for
Reserve to lower interest rates and spur economic activity. THE NATION’S manufacturing sector, which has been on a downward spiral for months, continued its slide as factory payrolls fell by 31,000 jobs. It was the 14th time in 15 months that manufacturing jobs declined. Since reaching a post-recession peak in March 1989, about 335,000 factory jobs have been lost. The number of construction jobs fell for the fourth month in a row, reflecting continued weakness in the housing market, the government said. Construction payrolls, after seasonal adjustment, fell by 14,000. MEANWHILE, THE service
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death “an apparent suicide by hanging.” Spokesman Lt. Reginald Smith said a note containing “suicidal references” was found near Snyder’s body. “IT WAS A DOMESTIC situation, something to do with his girlfriend,” one source said. “The note indicates there were problems there.” Carol Fennelly, Snyder’s companion of 15 years and partner in running the shelter, said in a statement that the community was “greatly shocked and saddened.” She did not return telephone calls seeking further comment. Snyder first received public attention on Christmas Eve 1974, when he announced he would live with three other community members in plastic boxes on the streets to honor four homeless people who had died of exposure.
basic telephone service could be cut dramatically, Mullett argued. BELL SPOKESMAN Dennis McCabe said that sophisticated services that supplement basic service are fully paid for by the users of the special services. In many cases, charges for special services more than cover costs and thus subsidize regular phone service, he said. McCabe said the company believes the commission has already formally recognized the company’s new investments during earnings reviews in other Bell cases the commission has handled since the last full-scale rate case. If those investments are recognized as a legitimate part of the company’s rate base, then Bell’s earnings are slightly above the rate authorized by regulators, the company said. HOWEVER, THE earnings would not stay above the authorized level in the future if the commission grants the company’s request to reduce access charges long distance companies pay to connect to Bell’s network, said McCabe. Bell serves approximately 1.3 million customers in 80 of Indiana’s 92 counties.
sector, which has been providing most of the economy’s steam over the past several months, added 83,000 jobs, including 40,000 in the health services industry. Retail trade businesses lost 7,000 jobs in June, bringing the monthly increases in the first half of this year in that sector to 15,000, half the average for 1989. Wholesale trade added 7,000 jobs while business services added 5,000. Labor costs, which have been pushing up and are being blamed for fueling the nation’s inflation problems, continued to increase. Average hourly earnings posted a 0.3 percent rise in June to $lO.Ol, up from the $9.98 the average worker earned per hour in May.
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