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THE BANNERGRAPHIC January 7,1992

Speaker wants legislature wrapped up in six weeks

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The first day of the 1992 Indiana General Assembly could typify the whole session: a little work, a lot of rhetoric and everybody goes home early. Legislators began their new session Monday already trying to decide how quickly to end it HOUSE SPEAKER Michael K. Phillips, D-Boonville, told representatives he wants to meet every weekday, except Jan. 20’s Martin Luther King holiday, for the next six weeks and conclude the session on Feb. 14. That, Phillips said, would save the state about $612,000 in legislative expenses that would have to be paid if lawmakers met until March 15, the deadline for concluding the 30-working-day session. “It may not be possible, but I think it’s a goal worthy of our consideration,” said Phillips. “I think we can successfully and swiftly achieve all of our goals and at the same time reduce costs.” AS ANOTHER example of legislative belt-tightening, the House should leave vacant any staff jobs that become open as people leave during the year, he said. That could save another $200,000, he said. That may not be a lot of money, but during recessionary times such savings would at least show Hoosiers that lawmakers are prepared to make sacrifices similar to those taxpayers have had to make, said Phillips. Senate President Pro Tern Robert D. Garton, R-Columbus, said he thought it might be possible to finish the session by the middle of February. However, he was unsure that the mechanics of printing and proofreading bills would permit that. WHILE MONDAY’S session

Live sheriff a surprise in man’s trunk

OKANOGAN, Wash. (AP) A man accused of trying to hire mob hit men to kill a business partner opened a car trunk to check on the body and instead found a live sheriff.

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was all talk and no action, lawmakers plan to get down to work today. Committee hearings were scheduled to consider bills on parimutuel wagering, living wills and telephone regulation. Phillips said there’s nothing on the Legislature’s agenda this year that can’t wait until 1993. He pointed out that the 107th General Assembly has already done its heavy work, passing a budget and a reapportionment plan in last year’s regular and two special sessions. “It seems to me the state of Indiana is in a position today to survive without any of the proposals I have introduced or you have introduced,” Phillips told lawmakers. WHILE PHILLIPS urged fast action by lawmakers, House Minority Leader Paul S. Mannweiler, R-Indianapolis, said legislators should spend some time reflecting on the state’s fiscal condition. Democrats and their governor,

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Evan Bayh, don’t want to reopen the two-year budget approved last year. Any spending cuts that will be required by declining revenues should be handled administratively, said House Ways and Means Chairman B. Patrick Bauer, DSouth Bend. But Mannweiler said the state needs to come to grips with its fiscal problem of “spending more money than we’re taking in.” At present, Indiana government is spending an average of $1.4 million more each day than it lakes in revenue, he said. DEMOCRATS blame the recession for the financial difficulties, said Mannweiler. But he argued, “This problem is of our own making,” caused by three consecutive budgets that engaged in deficit spending. He urged Bayh to tell lawmakers about specific spending cuts he proposes, to say whether he supports a tax increase and to support a balanced budget amendment Republicans plan to offer. The governor intends to give his views on financial issues in his State of the State address Thursday night. ON MONDAY, Bauer came to the governor’s defense, arguing that under Bayh’s leadership Indiana has avoided some of the fiscal problems that have plagued other states in recent years. “I think the state is doing remarkably well. I think Governor Bayh is doing remarkably well, and he ought to be congratulated,” said Bauer. During a 30-minute partisan exchange at the House microphone, Phillips said he expects a lot of that kind of speechmaking in an elcc-tion-year session with little to do.

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Kennedy and Krushchev worried of crisis revival

WASHINGTON (AP) For three weeks after the Cuban missile crisis supposedly ended, President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev were worried that lingering disagreements could revive the threat of nuclear war. The concerns were made clear Monday with the Slate Department release of 15 letters the two leaders exchanged in the aftermath of the 1962 crisis. SOME OF THESE issues were public knowledge at the time, but the letters underscored the depth of worry. The correspondence also reflected a mutual mistrust, as well as an abiding hope that somehow the tensions of that unhappy Cold War period could be lessened. Release of the heretofore sealed files was prompted, in part, by a four-year campaign for disclosure by the National Security Archives, a foreign policy research group. Their release also was influenced by the opening of a conference on the crisis Thursday in Havana that is to involve Soviet, American and Cuban participants. President Fidel Castro is scheduled to give a detailed account of the Cuban view of the crisis for the first time. THE CRISIS ended when Khrushchev agreed to dismantle Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba in return for a Kennedy pledge not to invade the island. The Khrushchev commitment was widely viewed as a victory for

Quayle, Bush didn’t talk until after announcement, newspaper claims

WASHINGTON (AP) Dan Quayle and George Bush never had a private talk about teaming up for the 1988 presidential campaign until Bush had already presented Quayle to the public as his running mate, according to a newspaper biography. The Washington Post, in the third installment of a week-long profile, says in today’s editions there was no early private moment for talk between the two after Bush’s selection of the junior Indiana senator stunned even his own advisers.

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Kennedy, but the Soviet leader saw the no-invasion pledge by Kennedy as a vindication of his decision to deploy the missiles in the first place. As a result, Khrushchev wrote Kennedy two days after the crisis, “there has been practically achieved the purpose which had been intended.” THERE WAS worldwide relief when the crisis was resolved that Oct. 28, but the correspondence made clear that tensions were still running strong. Kennedy was worried that the Soviets might have hidden missiles in Cuban caves instead of withdrawing them and he also demanded the removal of about seven or eight IL-28 bombers the Soviets had given to Cuba. “These bombers could carry nuclear weapons for long distances, and they are clearly not needed, any more than missiles, for the defense of Cuba,” Kennedy wrote. “THUS, IN THE present context their continued presence would sustain the grave tension that has been created, and their removal, in my view, is necessary to a good start on ending the recent crisis.” After three weeks of sparring, the crisis over the bombers ended with their return to the Soviet Union. But Khrushchev had his own list of concerns. He questioned the good faith of the American side and told Kennedy a week after the crisis

“WE WALKED right up on stage,” Quayle told the newspaper. “Boom, that’s it. And the private moment was in the car on the way back to the hotel.” Quayle’s performance at that announcement on the second day of the Republican National Convention did not enhance his reputation. In his first moment in the national political spotlight, Quayle grasped then-Vice President Bush by the arm and shoulders several times and cried out to the crowd: “Let’s go get ’em.” The Post quoted Quayle’s wife Marilyn as criticizing Bush aides, particularly campaign chairman James A. Baker 111, who advised Quayle during those first weeks. Quayle was beset with questions about his qualifications and his past, including whether he relied on family connections to gain admission to the National Guard and thus avoid possible military service in Vietnam. MRS. QUAYLE said Baker, now the secretary of state, called Quayle at their New Orleans hotel room shortly after Bush had invited him to join the ticket. She said Baker told the Quayles to make their way to the Spanish Plaza, where the rally was taking place, but that Quayle said he could see on television that the area was jammed with thousands of people. She said Baker said, “Trust me. Trust me. ... We’ll find you in the crowd. We’ll get you in there.” But, she said, “They didn’t send a soul. Nothing.” Mrs. Quayle said relations were strained between the Quayles and the Bush campaign advisers on the campaign plane. She said that Joe Canzeri told her staff “we couldn’t have food on the (charter) flights because it cost too much.” As a result, she said, she lost nearly 14 pounds in a week and “was so thin my skirt would move around.” Canzeri denied this, the Post said.

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Recently released letters traded between Soviet Premier Nikita Krushchev and President John Kennedy show the two leaders not only shared a concern that the Cuban Missile Crisis could be repeated due to continuing strong tensions, but that both felt they had accomplished their respective goals throughout the crisis. (Photo courtesy ABC News)

supposedly had ended that the danger was not yet over because of American actions. HE WARNED OF grave consequences if the United States did not lift the blockade against Cuba and also continued to violate the island’s air space and territorial waters. “If this continues, confidence in your obligations will thus be undermined ... and throw us back to the positions to which we must not return after the liquidation of such a dangerous situation,” Khrushchev wrote. In the end, most of the issues raised at the time of the exchange of the letters were never resolved. The United States continued overflights of Cuba for years because Cuba never went along with a Soviet promise that U.N. inspectors would confirm the removal of the missiles. IN ADDITION, the United States never formalized its promise not to invade Cuba because the conditions demanded by Kennedy were not satisfied. The significance of that disagreement faded over time as successive American administrations chose not to take military action against Cuba. Last May, however, in a bid to encourage the Soviets to disassociate themselves from Cuba, the administration for the first time unilaterally promised not to use the military option against Cuba.

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“We walked right up on stage. Boom, that was it. And the private moment was in the car on the way back to the hotel.” —V. P. Dan Quayle