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THE BANNERGRAPHIC January 6,1992
White House said eyeing tax credits for health care
WASHINGTON (AP) The White House is considering several proposals to help people buy health insurance, including possible tax credits, but hasn’t settled on one plan yet, White House Chief of Staff Sam Skinner says. “It’s fair to say that a lot of what we see in the newspaper represents ideas that have been put forth by people,” said Skinner when asked about the published report during an appearance on the CBS program Face the Nation. HE ADDED THAT the president “wants to be able to offer some of the options that are being talked about in the newspaper. ... He just isn’t ready to make a decision yet.” The New York Times, quoting unnamed administration sources, reported Sunday that Bush intends to propose tax credits to help individuals and businesses purchase health care insurance, while also proposing to trim Medicare benefits for the most affluent. The idea of using tax credits to help pay for health insurance is a key feature of a health-care bill offered last November by Sen. John Chafee, R-R.1., and a number of other Republican senators.
Japan easing imported car regulations
TOKYO (AP) Japan will relax inspection standards for imported cars to boost the sale of U.S. vehicles, reports said Sunday, two days before President Bush was to arrive with demands for more open Japanese markets. Kyodo News Service said the changes would meet about 80 percent of U.S. requests for easing standards for imported cars. It said they would be listed in an “action plan” to be released by Bush and Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa after talks this week. UNDER THE PLAN, Japan will accept the results of U.S. tests on imported cars’ brakes, and international inspection of headrests, heat sensors, side lights and front blinkers, Kyodo said. Currently, those items must be retested in Japan on imported cars. Bush’s national security adviser, Brent Scowcroft, told ABC television that he was not aware Japan had made such promises. “If the document is already written, if the fix is in, I haven’t seen it,” he said from Seoul, where Bush was visiting Sunday. “What we want is an open market for U.S. automobiles and for U.S. auto spare parts.”
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Bush is expected to outline proposals to ease health-care costs as well as his strategy to revive the economy during a State of the Union address Jan. 28 and provide additional details when he presents his proposed fiscal 1993 budget a few days later. BUSH ALSO IS considering a number of other middle-class tax breaks, including a possible tax credit of up to $2,000 for first-time home buyers, as part of an economic recovery package, according to administration and industry sources. The administration hopes to pay for those tax breaks in part from cuts in defense spending. Bush is expected to ask Congress to renegotiate a 1990 budget agreement so that additional savings from defense cuts can be used on domestic programs aimed at boosting the stalled economy. LAST WEEK, AT a news conference during a visit to Singapore, the president hinted that he might call for some tax cuts as part of an economic recovery package, saying that to stimulate the economy “alterations in the tax system” might be needed.
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Bush arrives Tuesday in Japan with 18 U.S. executives including the chairmen of the “Big Three” automakers, and is expected to pressure Japan to lower its trade barriers. He has said more sales overseas mean more jobs in America. AUTOS AND AUTO parts account for about three-quarters of Japan’s s4l billion surplus in trade with the United States last year. American cars account for only 0.4 percent of the market in Japan, compared with the 30-percent share of the United States vehicle market captured by Japanese manufac-
Georgia president flees capital
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) President Zviad Gamsakhurdia, his loyalists providing cover with heavy gunfire, fled the capital with his forces before dawn Monday after a bloody two-week siege by opposition fighters. Gamsakhurdia was reported to have reached neighboring Azerbaijan. That republic’s Turan news agency said he was seeking asylum in an unspecified foreign country. REBEL LEADERS claimed they let Gamsakhurdia escape from his stronghold under Tbilisi’s parliament building and said they would attempt to form a civilian coalition government that could call new elections as early as April. “We said we were leaving them
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turers. On Saturday, a high-ranking trade official pressed Japan to buy more U.S. cars and auto Darts. MICHAEL FARREN, U.S. undersecretary for international trade, emphasized the issue of standards for imported cars in talks with Koji Watanabe, Japanese deputy vice foreign minister, the Foreign Ministry said. A ministry official, speaking on condition of anonymity, hinted that Japan might agree to take stricter measures against automakers and dealers that discriminate against foreign cars.
an exit on purpose, so that they could leave without bloodshed,” a rebel leader, Dzhaba loseliani, told reporters. By an overwhelming margin, Gamsakhurdia became the former Soviet republic’s first popularly elected president in May. Rebel leaders say he then became a dictator, jailing opponents and closing down critical newspapers. Gamsakhurdia’s flight followed a heavy rebel pounding of the parliament building on Sunday with rockets and machine-gun fire. SOURCES SAID the president was persuaded to abandon his stronghold through an elaborate plot devised by the man he ap-
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freezing of prices has caused most Soviet shoppers to rethink their buying habits. (AP Wi rephoto).
In other developments: —Toyota will increase its purchases of General Motors Corp. parts by up to four times within the next few years and start distributing GM cars here. —Mazda Motor Co. will boost sales of cars made by Ford Motor Corp. from 1,500 last year to 4,000 this year, the Yomiuri Shimbun daily said. —Honda Motor Co. will boost sales of Chrysler Coip.’s Jeep model, while Mitsubishi Motors Corp. is considering importing passenger cars it will produce jointly with Chrysler, the Yomiuri said. JAPANESE AUTO makers already have announced plans to nearly double purchases of U.S. auto parts. Japan’s leading economic newspaper, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, also reported Sunday that during Bush’s visit, the two sides would agree to maintain the dollar’s recent downward trend against the Japanese yen. A lower dollar makes American goods less expensive in Japan, and Japanese goods more expensive in the United States. The dollar ended 1991 trading at 125.25 yen, down 10.15 yen from a year earlier.
pointed Sunday to command his troops. Turan said 12 cars carrying the president, his family and supporters arrived this morning in Gyandzha, Azerbaijan, 100 miles southeast of Tbilisi. Tengiz Nurdzhia, an official at tiie Georgian mission in Moscow, said the president took with him an undetermined amount of rubles, refusing to confirm a report by the Interfax news agency that Gamsakhurdia had 700 million rubles. Gamsakhurdia’s group left Government House at 3:30 a.m. in military vehicles and buses, his troops firing steadily at rebel positions.
Newspaper biography says Quayle ran for Congress on Carter ideas
WASHINGTON (AP) Dan Quayle won his first race for Congress in 1976 by waging an antiWashington campaign and borrowing some of Democrat Jimmy Carter’s “outsider” rhetoric, according to a newspaper biography of the vice president. The Washington Post, in the second installment of a weeklong profile, said it was not family power or wealth but a dogged, grassroots campaign that helped Quayle win a congressional seat from Indiana in 1976. QUAYLE, THEN 29 years old, and his wife Marilyn decided not to mention the word Republican in his campaign literature, and printed his signs and posters in green, the same color used by Carter in his drive for the White House that year, the newspaper said. Quayle told the Post, “I ran a
’9l seen as worst sales year since ’B3 for automakers
DETROIT (AP) The Big Three automakers, hammered by the recession and waning consumer confidence, closed out one of the worst years in recent history. Automakers Monday were expected to report sales of about 12.3 million new vehicles in the United States in 1991, down from 13.8 million the year before. It would be the worst level since 1983, when 11.7 million new vehicles were sold, according to the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association. The Honda Accord was likely to be the best-selling car in 1991, as it was in the two previous years. IN 1991, THE AUTO industry took a beating and governmental trade sabers were rattling problems that sounded strangely familiar to folks around in 1983. Nine years later, legislation is pending in Congress that would establish trade barriers against Japanese automotive imports if a timetable for reducing the s4l billion U.S. trade deficit with Japan isn’t met. During the first nine months of 1991, General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler Corp. combined lost around $5 billion. GM, THE WORLD’S largest automaker, lost $2.2 billion during the third quarter last year. It an-
Indy couple bear no grudge against diligent policeman
CLARKSVILLE, Ind. (AP) A Clarksville Town Council member has made an Indianapolis couple’s unfortunate holiday detour a little more palatable. After hearing that Joe and Jennifer Barrett had their car impounded by Clarksville police on Christmas Eve, John Krueger sent them $450 to covet their expenses. THE PROBLEM arose during a routine traffic stop. The Barretts were en route to spend Christmas in South Carolina with their car filled with wrapped presents, luggage, three dogs and four puppies. They pulled off Interstate 65 for gasoline and were stopped by Clarksville police SgL Dale Abell because the sticker on their license plate had expired. To complicate matters Joe Barrett’s driver’s license had also expired and that he had no proof of insurance. So Abell impounded the car after allowing the couple to drive to a local motel and unload the vehicle. THE INCIDENT cost the couple about SSOO, including S7O for the room, $l5O for a rental car to return to Indianapolis, and $260 for an airplane ticket that Jennifer Barrett used to fly to the reunion. Joe Barrett stayed in Indianapolis until the Friday after Christmas to renew his tags and driver’s license. He then drove the rental car back to Clarksville, recovered his own car and drove to South Carolina with the gifts and dogs. Krueger said that when he
somewhat populist campaign. Washington’s wrong. Anti-busing, anti-welfare, anti-big government. I was saying a lot of the things Carter was saying, but I was saying it as a Republican.” The Post said Quayle’s reliance on his wife as a key strategist “did not sit well with the Old Guard Republicans” in Indiana’s Fourth District. “Many of them felt she complained too much.” Mrs. Quayle told the newspaper her critics were “a bunch of little boys who were used to doing things their own way” and blamed them for “the real erosion of the Republican Party in the Fourth District” The seat Quayle once held is now occupied by Democrat Rep. Jill Long. THE POST’S TWO most famous reporters, David Broder and Bob Woodward, spent sue
Auto sales DETROIT (AP) Here is a year-by-year listing of cars and light trucks sales in the United States since 1971 as compiled from manufacturers and the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association.Figurcs are in thousands. YEAR CARS TRUCKS TOTAL' 1990 9,339 4,450 13 789' 1989 9,876 4,680 141557: 1988 10,572 4,873 15 446 1987 10,208 4,667 14,876 1986 11.443 4,605 16 048 1985 11,032 4,402 15 4341984 10.390 3,208 13,598 1983 9,182 2,477 11,659’ 1982 7,982 1,965 9,947" 1981 8,536 1,587 10.123 1980 (x) 8,979 1,735 10,714 1979 10,673 2,636 13,309 1978 11,314 3,406 14 720 1977 11.183 3,012 14,195 1976 10.110 2,663 12,773 1975 8,624 1,974 10.598 i 1974 8,858 2,109 10,967 1973 11,424 2,470 13,894 1972 10,940 2,103 13,043 1971 10,242 1,679 11,921 x Beginning in 1980, passenger vans previously reported as cars were counted as trucks. nounced plans last month to close 21 plants and eliminate 70,000 jobs. Through the first 11 months of 1991, the Big Three held 70.4 percent of the U.S. market down 1.4 percentage points from a year before and Japanese automakers had 26.8 percent, up 1.9 points from 1990. ANALYSTS SAID part of a reason for a halt in the slide of Big Three market share stems from increasing confidence that GM, Ford and Chrysler vehicle quality has improved dramatically.
learned the story had appeared in papers across the country, he decided to take matters into his own hands by reaching into his own pocket “IT’S MY WAY of preserving Clarksville’s good name,” said Krueger. “We don’t need the kind of publicity we got over that deal. “At Christmastime people shouldn’t be treated like that,” Krueger said. “I realize the officer was just doing his duty, but there are rules and there are rules that can be bent a bit.” The Barretts said they don’t hold any ill will toward the officer. “I understand that he was simply doing his job, but I felt he could have been a little lenient considering the situation,” said Joe Barrett. “I guess it’s stories like that give policemen in small towns that bad rap, but he was within the letter of the law.” Barrett thought it was “just wonderful” that Krueger sent the check. He said he didn’t intend to badmouth Clarksville. Acting Police Chief Dwight Ingle said he was satisfied that Abell handled the situation properly. “HE ACTED WITHIN the - scope of the law,” Ingle said. “What everybody has overlooked is that the man’s tag had been expired for 11 months, he had an invalid driver’s license and no proof of insurance. “The officer told him that when he got new plates, the ticket would be voided, and it was,” Ingle said. “He was treated no differently than anyone else is treated.”
months preparing the exhaustive series cm Quayle, interviewing the vice president 20 times. Their reports will be published as a book by Simon and Schuster in March. On Sunday, they wrote that Quayle waged a quiet, six-month campaign in 1988 to persuade George Bush to put him on the GOP ticket. The Post said Quayle’s selection was “the happy result of months of subtle, even stealthy planning a quality not commonly associated with his name.” Quayle told The Post, “You don’t run for vice president. But ... thereTe ways you can be put on the available chart.” The Post described Quayle as “a skillful player of the political game” who “too often skates on the surface of issues.”