Banner Graphic, Volume 21, Number 277, Greencastle, Putnam County, 29 July 1991 — Page 2

THE BANNERGRAPHIC July 29,1991

Democrats’ intra-party race makes many uncomfortable

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Dwayne Brown is in a tough spot, and he has plenty of company. Like many activists and supporters of the Democratic Party, Brown faces the unhappy prospect of seeing two friends, Joseph H. Hogsett and Baron Hill, compete for the party’s 1992 U.S. Senate nomination. THE CLERK OF the state appellate courts, Brown worked as an attorney in Hogsett’s secretary of state’s office. Last year, he worked side by side with Hill’s Senate campaign staff, relying on its counsel and aid in his own campaign. Now his two benefactors are rivals, leaving Brown in the uncomfortable position of remaining neutral when friends could most use his help. “I think both of them are excellent candidates, but I’m staying neutral,” said Brown. “Both men were instrumental in making sure I was elected to statewide office. “I HOPE THE primary’s not divisive to the party, but I know that eventually people will have to choose up sides,” he said. Before

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DWAYNE BROWN Caught between friends

that happens, he added, “deep down, we all wish it would be settled.” That’s a sentiment shared by many labor leaders, financial contributors, party leaders who don’t relish an intra-party rivalry that tests friendships, strains past commitments and could open new wounds in a party that has tried for years to heal its old ones. “It’s not easy, but in anything when you have a contest, people will begin to choose sides,” said state Democratic Chairman Michael Pannos. THE DISCOMFORT that will cause is “why probably a lot of people saw a window in last week’s story that Baron was (considering dropping) out,” said Pannos. “That probably gave some people great hope that they weren’t going to have to be the one to sit there and look a friend in the eye and say I’m for the other guy.” But last week, Hill decided he would stay in the race, forcing many people to weigh the choice they wanted to avoid. Hill’s decision sets up the party’s most significant primary contest since 1976, when Rep. Phil Hayes unsuccess-

GOV. EVAN BAYH Pulling labor for Hogsett?

fully challenged incumbent Sen. Vance Hanke. “There might be some uncomfortable folks out there looking at this soap opera,” said Brose McVey, the campaign manager for Sen. Dan Coals, the Republican incumbent. THE DILEMMA could be most perplexing for organized labor, many observers believe. Labor groups rallied strongly behind Hill’s unsuccessful 1990 Senate campaign. Some labor observers suggested the union rank-and-file responded more warmly to Hill than any Democratic candidate since former Sen. Birch E. Bayh, father of Gov. Evan Bayh. But the unions also have heartily supported the younger Bayh, Hogsett’s political mentor, and the secretary of state. Now, labor will be asked to choosp “FT’S A TOUGH one,” said Lawrence Parrott, executive director of the Indiana Conference of Teamsters. “It’s an unfortunate situation. We’re reviewing it” before deciding what to do. State Republican Chairman Rexford C. Early said he envisions pos-

sible conflicts between union rank-and-file loyal to Hill and labor leaders who want to support Hogsett in order to avoid angering the Bayh administration. “A lot of the rank-and-file really like Baron as a person, I think, and yet they’re going to be getting the full-court press from others to line up for Hogsett,” said Early. MANY LABOR leaders groan when the Hogsett-Hill contest is mentioned and prefer not to talk about it for the record. But the race is a hot topic of conversation in private meetings. At a recent meeting with the governor, some labor leaders strongly urged Bayh to intervene and prevent a contested primary. “There are some people (in labor) who are looking to him for some leadership,” said Hogsett. Bayh and Pannos say they are neutral. But the governor last week reserved the right to intervene if he sees the party becoming divided and hurting its chances against Coats. IN ADDITION TO party officials and labor, financial contributors also could feel the squeeze. Last year, Hogsett and Hill used common lists of donors compiled during the governor’s two previous statewide races. “You’ve got people who gave a lot of money to Baron or to Joe, and a lot of people will show up on both reports as giving to both people,” said Pannos. “Sure, that puts people in a trick bag.” Given the competing loyalties of party leaders, labor and donors, Pannos like Brown and others would like to see the HogsettHill rivalry resolved before it could possibly grow into a riff “I THINK IT’S counterproductive,” said Pannos. “I would like to avoid a primary. I don’t think it’s in our best interests.” “The truth is it’s a good sign for the Democratic Party,” McVey said.

Summit comes amid Soviet transformation

MOSCOW (AP) As President Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev prepare to seal a nuclear arms reduction deal at their fourth summit, their emphasis already is turning to a new search for mutual economic prosperity and peace in the Middle East. Bush and Gorbachev will sign a treaty Wednesday to cut long-range U.S. and Soviet nuclear arsenals a symbolic gesture compared with the hard Soviet reforms that lie nhcnci BUSH DEPARTED for the Soviet capital today after a relaxing weekend that included a golfing session Sunday near Washington with professional tennis player Andre Agassi and film star Kevin Costner. Gorbachev remained out of the public eye over the weekend following a punishing week of domestic politics. “The signing of START (the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) will be very important, but it will be a symbol,” Bush told reporters Sunday. “It will be a symbol that we’ve done something that has been in the mill for some time.” “We’ve accomplished a first. A significant reduction in these strategic arms offers hope,” he said. THE ARMS RACE has dominated three decades of superpower summits. But once-searing issues such as the Berlin Wall and the Warsaw Pact have disappeared and the Soviet army is retreating within Soviet borders. “This is the first post-Cold War summit in a sense,” Bush said Sunday. “A lot has happened; a lot of change is still going on.” Serious political and economic problems have emerged from the breakdown in Soviet communist authority. Gorbachev is pushing the 15 Soviet republics to approve a new Union Treaty, and he seeks Western aid to help introduce a market economy. THE STATE TASS news agency said Sunday that economic issues will be a top priority at the summit, the two leaders’ first in the Soviet capital. “As the Cold War has receded into the past, trade and economic matters move to the fore in relations between the Soviet Union and the United States,” Tass said.

Milwaukee mass murderer began with slaying in Ohio

AKRON, Ohio (AP) Jeffrey L. Dahmer drew detectives a map of his parents’ former home pinpointing the remains of what may be his first mutilationslaying victim a hitchhiker killed with a barbell 13 years ago, authorities say. Authorities plan to use the map Tuesday when they excavate the yard in suburban Bath Township for the remains of Steven Mark Hicks, 19. “WE FEEL AT this time it may have been his first,” said Sheriff David Troutman. Dahmer, 31, has admitted drugging, killing and dismembering 11 people whose remains were found in his Milwaukee apartment last week, police said. Wisconsin authorities have said he may have killed and dismembered as many as 17 men over the past decade. On Sunday, Troutman said Dahmer told authorities his first victim was Hicks, a 19-year-old from suburban Coventry Township who was hitchhiking to a rock concert when he accepted a ride from 18-year-old Dahmer to his parents’ home on June 18, 1978. DAHMER SAID the two shared a few beers, and when Hicks wanted to leave, he hit him over the head with a barbell, Troutman said. He strangled Hicks with the barbell, cut up the body and buried the remains, the sheriff said. In a three-hour interview Saturday, Dahmer identified a photo of Hicks and drew a map of his parents’ former home, pinpointing where on the wooded, two-acre property the remains were buried, Troutman said. “He gave us information in reference to personal belongings that we didn’t even know about,” the sheriff said. Police verified the information with Hicks’ parents, he said. OHIO AUTHORITIES questioned Dahmer after Wil-

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Presidents Bush, Gorbachev: Reducing arms

Bush said, “Our main task on this trip is to chart a course for our relationship in the 19905, at a time when the U.S.S.R. is going through an incredible economic and political transformation.” “THE U.S.S.R. IS in the midst of an astonishing transformation, as is our relationship to this great state,” Bush said. Areas of contention remain. The state of Soviet-U.S. economic relations “can hardly be described as satisfactory,” Tass said, blaming low trade levels on Washington’s denial of most-favored-nation status to the Soviet Union. Bush told reporters there had been “some technical hangups” in giving the Soviet Union most-favored-nation status, which would lower tariffs on exports to the United States. BUSH AND Gorbachev are ex-

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JEFFREY DAHMER Began killing in 1978

liam Berger, who now owns the house, learned about the Milwaukee slayings and gave police a human bone found while landscaping a year ago, said Bath Township Police Chief Bill Gravis. Dr. Thomas Marshall of the Summit County coroner’s office said he couldn’t confirm that the bone, a piece of the humerus, or upper-arm bone, belonged to Hicks. Authorities hoped to find more remains so they could identify the victim. Dahmer didn’t say if he killed others in Ohio, Troutman said. TELEPHONE calls to the Berger home weren’t immediately returned Sunday. Dahmer has told authorities he engaged in homosexual acts with several of his victims but didn’t have sex with Hicks, Troutman said. After serving in the Army from 1980 to 1982, Dahmer lived with a grandmother in the Milwaukee suburb of West Allis from 1982 to 1989. He then moved to the apartment in Milwaukee.

pected to sign a variety of documents to carry out some of the promises made at the recent London economic summit for Western technical aid to the slumping Soviet economy. Bush plans to meet Gorbachev in the Kremlin on Tuesday and hold talks later with Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin. Bush will greet other reformers at a dinner Wednesday. The START treaty, to be signed Wednesday, is the first treaty to reduce the number of nuclear-tip-ped intercontinental missiles. U.S. and Soviet negotiators met in Geneva over the weekend to complete the 600-page treaty, which would cut such arsenals by 30 percent. Bush said he also planned to discuss “how we can build on our cooperation in the Gulf War” and promote peace in the Middle East.