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THE BANNERGRAPHIC January 14,1992
Gingrich slams U.S. Japan plan; claims Bush is vulnerable
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Japanese markets can be penetrated but it takes more than a one-shot trip by President Bush, House Minority Whip Newt Gingrich said. And unless Bush shows more leadership in pulling the country out of the recession, he may be defeated in his bid for a second term, Gingrich, R-Ga., said Monday. THE SECOND-ranking Republican in the House of Representatives told the Economic Club of Indianapolis that Bush should have made his trip to Japan into only a first round of trade talks with that country. Successful business people have learned that cracking Japanese markets requires constant effort. “The trip to Japan was exactly the right idea, badly executed," Gingrich said. While Gingrich and Bush are both Republicans, the Georgia congressman said the president has slipped in the polls because the administration hasn’t come up with a solid plan to lead the country back toward economic prosperity. Bush must present such a plan in
Clinton climbs in latest poll
NEW YORK (AP) A national poll of Democratic voters found rising preference for only one of the party’s five major presidential candidates, Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton. He moved from 9 percent in an early November Gallup poll to 17 percent in a CNN-USA Today-Gal-lup poll released late Monday. SUPPORT FOR former California Gov. Jerry Brown remained at 21 percent, which pollsters said reflected his advantage in name recognition, the pollsters said. Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey rose from 10 percent to 11 percent, while lowa Sen. Tom Harkin dropped from 10 percent to 9 percent, and former Massachusetts Sen. Paul Tsongas, from 7 percent to 6 percent On most of the major issues, USA Today pollster Jim Norman
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his State of the Union address Jan. 28, he said. “CLEARLY THE burden is on him to lead the country out of the recession,” Gingrich said during a news conference before his luncheon speech. Bush’s prospects for a second term are suffering, he added. “George Bush could lose the election this fall." House Minority Leader Bob Michel, R-111., has cautioned Bush to avoid a renewed fight with Congress this year over extending unemployment claims, which Bush resisted last year before finally signing. The current extensions expire in June. “We ought to pass an economic growth bill that includes extended unemployment benefits,” probably covering 13 weeks, Gingrich said. IN HIS REMARKS to the Economic Club, Gingrich called for eliminating the “welfare state" he said has dragged down American competitiveness. Federal tax and welfare law must be changed to make Americans work-, savings- and investmentoriented, he said.
said he found the Democratic Party has a big edge over the Republicans. But voters think the GOP does a better job of handling trade by 52 percent to 32 percent and foreign affairs by 57 percent to 28 percent, the poll found. THE POLLSTERS reported earlier Monday that only 49 percent of the nation’s voters said they think President Bush deserves reelection. And the overall population was split on how he’s handled his job percent disapprove. Bush’s approval rating has been on a steady slide in polls since its record postwar high of about 90 percent in March. But the president maintains his popularity will come back as soon as the economy picks up again. “THERE’S PLENTY of time for things to turn around for him,” Gallup Vice President Larry Hugick acknowledged.
House considers bingo bill amid protests
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Only hours after protesters held a “save our bingo” march on the Statehouse, the Indiana House turned aside attempts to make major changes in a bingo bill. Representatives debated House Bill 1050 for about an hour Monday but adopted only two of six amendments proposed for the bill. Those amendments inserted language intended to keep out-of-state companies from running Indiana bingo games and deleted another minor provision in the bill. LEGISLATORS defeated amendments that would have required the State Board of Accounts to audit the Hoosier Lottery annually and that would have imposed the state’s 3.4 percent income tax on lottery winnings over S6OO.
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Jeffrey L. Dahmer: Guilty but mentally ill?
Dahmer plea troubles families of his victims
MILWAUKEE (AP) Jeffrey Dahmer’s decision to plead guilty but insane in 15 dismemberment slayings has relatives of his victims worried they may never learn details of the killings. “The reason why I come every time Dahmer is here is because I want to know what happened to my brother,” Janie Hagen said at the courthouse. “We don’t understand why they’re keeping everything hush-hush. We want to know everything.” DAHMER CLAIMED he killed Hagen’s brother Richard Guerrero in 1988 at Dahmer’s grandmother’s home. Dahmer identified Guerrero through a photograph, and police said his remains were never found. Dahmer, a 31-year-old former chocolate factory worker, told police he killed 17 young males since 1978. Police said Dahmer admitted he drugged and strangled his victims, had sex with some of the corpses, dismembered them, boiled some of the skulls and saved one victim’s heart “to eat later.” On Monday, he pleaded guilty but mentally ill. That means he will not undergo a trial to determine whether he committed the offenses. Instead, the case will move directly
An amendment to make bingo illegal, as it was before 1990, was withdrawn before it could come to a vote. Another amendment that would have established a charity gaming commission to police bingo was ruled out of order because it was similar to a bill still pending before a House committee. Urns, the debate left substantially intact bingo provisions that sponsors claim would drive professional bingo operators out of the state and that opponents contend could also affect charities that have learned how to compete with the big-time operators. The measure was eligible for a final House vote today. REP. B. PATRICK Bauer, DSouth Bend, said the original purpose of legalizing bingo in 1990 was to let small charities benefit
Senate bill would rework legislative calendar
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Slow down, you move too fast, goes the refrain. Senate Republicans who are tired of singing that song to the Indiana House are seeking more control over their own legislative calendar. Senate Bill 1, sponsored by Sen. Joseph Harrison, R-Attica, would do away with the “session day” concept and retool the calendar that runs the Indiana General Assembly. hoosier lottery. Lotto America Lottery Line INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Here are the winning numbers selected Monday in the Hoosier Lottery: Daily Three 8-3-0 Daily Four 8-7-2-3 Lotto Cash jackpot Estimated at $2.5 million Lotto America jackpot Estimated at $2 million
to a proceeding that will determine whether he was sane at the time of the slayings. PROSECUTORS have said that if they had to prove Dahmer’s guilt at a trial, the details of the crimes would emerge more fully. “Since Day One, everything has been done to protect Jeffrey Dahmer’s rights,” said Carolyn Smith, sister of victim Eddie Smith. “My brother had a right to live.” “It’s not sparing me by not letting me know,” said Dorothy Slaughter, the mother of 17-year-old victim Curtis Straughter. Family members said the plea also angers them because if found insane, Dahmer could petition for release from a mental institution after a year of treatment. He would have to prove he no longer is a threat to society. IF DEEMED sane, Dahmer would receive a mandatory sentence of life in prison for each of the 15 counts. Defense attorney Gerald Boyle and District Attorney E. Michael McCann said the chances are slim Dahmer would ever be released. “I don’t think anybody needs to be alarmed by this,” Boyle said.
from holding games. But in the two years since then, professionally run games have driven out charities in many areas. “The idea is to try to allow charitable bingo to be legal” and profitable again, said Bauer. To do that, Bauer’s measure would lower from SIO,OOO to $5,000 the prize limit on one day’s series of games and allow bingo to be held at a single site only two days a week. THE MEASURE also turns regulatory responsibility for bingo over to the Indiana Lottery Commission. The secretary of state currently registers bingo games. As the House prepared to debate the bill Monday, more than 100 bingo protesters, most from South Bend and Mishawaka, marched
The product of a 1990 legislative study committee, the measure was scheduled to be heard today by the Senate Rules and Legislative Procedure Committee. “IT GIVES SOME flexibility in this process. Whether that’s good or bad, that’s what the debate is going to be about,” Harrison said. Under current law, each day that the Senate or House of Representatives convenes is a session day. Those days define the calendar for each legislative session. During this year’s 30-day short session, bills must clear their house of origin by the 16th session day and be approved in the second chamber by the 25th session day. The final five days are reserved for conference committees to iron out differences between House and Senate versions of bills. THE CONFLICT occurs under current law when one house meets and uses up a session day and the other chamber would rather not. “The problem is that sometimes one chamber or the other has a lot more business to do than the opposite chamber,” Harrison said. That happened Monday, when the Senate met for 31 minutes with little on its calendar and the House met for more than two hours. Senate President Pro Tem Robert
Cuba got Soviet missiles in 1962 to repel attack by U.S.
WASHINGTON (AP) Cuba secretly equipped itself with Soviet short-range nuclear warheads to repel a U.S. invasion during the 1962 missile crisis, drawing the two superpowers closer to nuclear war than previously thought. Soviet Gen. A.I. Gribkov made that revelation during a closed meeting of Soviet, U.S. and Cuban officials in Havana and indicated local commanders were prepared to use the missiles if President Kennedy ordered U.S. troops to attack. ROBERT S. McNamara, Kennedy’s defense secretary, said Monday he was previously unaware of the short-range missiles but was “99 percent” certain Kennedy would have ordered a retaliatory nuclear strike had the Soviet missiles been used on U.S. forces. “We came closer to nuclear war than anyone had ever imagined,” said Philip Brenner, one of several American scholars to attend the conference. “There is absolutely no question that we were right at the brink.” The crisis was precipitated by the discovery of intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Cuba, which eventually were withdrawn after days of tension. But the presence of the short-range missile was not disclosed until the conference last week. McNAMARA, A participant at the meeting, was quoted in today’s editions of The Washington Post as saying the revelation of the shortrange missiles changed his assessment about how close the crisis came to nuclear conflict Another conference participant, former CIA Deputy Director Ray Cline, previously felt the danger of nuclear war had been overstated but changed his thinking after listening to Gribkov, said Brenner, a professor at American University. As Brenner described it, Gribkov said the Soviets had given authority to the local commander in Cuba to fire the short-range missiles if Kennedy had ordered U.S. forces to the island. BRENNER SAID U.S. experts knew Cuba possessed tactical weapons but none believed the
near the east steps of the Statehouse. They chanted “save our bingo” and carried signs with slogans such as “Leave Our Bingo Alone” and “Keep Grandma Off The Streets: Support The Local Bingo.” Richard Mulhaupt of South Bend said the protesters were players and members of charities that run games at Morris Hall, a former grocery store in Mishawaka. THERE, SEVERAL charities including amateur baseball leagues, a swim club and American Legion post have joined to share overhead costs in a large bingo hall. Each charity gets one day a week to conduct games. Mulhaupt said he has no problem with the goal of trying to drive bigtime professional operators out of business by lowering the prize
D. Garton, R-Columbus, said the session day concept allows the leader of one house to dictate the schedule for the other. “IT RAISES THE stress level between the two leaders, and I don’t think that’s necessary because it can be avoided,” he said. “It creates an artificial conflict that can be removed.” Although Garton has not publicly criticized House Speaker Michael K. Phillips, D-Boonville, this session, other Republicans have complained about Phillips’ plan to meet nearly every weekday and finish the session by midFebruary nearly one month before the March 15 deadline. The result, they say, will be too many hasty and careless decisions. Under Harrison’s measure, legislative deadlines would be fixed by the calendar. During a short session, bills would have to leave the first house by the fourth Monday in January and pass the second house by the third Monday in February. Each house could meet on as many days as necessary leading up to those deadlines. The deadlines also could be extended through a vote by both houses. SENATE MINORITY Whip
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FIDEL CASTRO JFK would have done same Soviets would arm them with nuclear warheads. All felt the Soviets would use conventional weapons, he said. Kennedy was under heavy pressure by the joint chiefs of staff to invade Cuba on Oct 29 but he was spared that decision when the crisis ended the day before. Under a compromise settlement, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev agreed to withdraw intermediaterange missiles from Cuba in exchange for a pledge by Kennedy not to invade the island. THE TACTICAL weapons described by Gribkov have a range of about 40 miles. The Soviet-in-stalled medium range missiles that precipitated the crisis have a range of up to 1,000 miles. The U.S. attack plan advocated by the joint chiefs of staff would have targeted these medium-range missiles as well as all military airfields and military camps. Since the United States was unaware of the short-range nuclear weapons disclosed by Gribkov, they presumably would not have been on the U.S. target list and thus been available for use against an invading U.S. force. CUBAN PRESIDENT Fidel Castro said at the conference he would have approved the use of the short-range missiles in case of invasion because “if John and Robert Kennedy were in my place they would have done the same,” the Post reported.
limit. However, he said the bill’s limit of two days of bingo per site would put the charity coalition out of business because it couldn’t cover overhead expenses. “It would make it virtually impossible for us as fund-raisers to be able to run our games,” he said. THE ONLY GAMES left would be those in church basements, he predicted. “I think something should be done. What they’ve created is a nightmare,” said Mulhaupt. “But don’t knock out legitimate organizations.” In addition to the bingo provisions, H.B. 1050 would rewrite Indiana’s 1989 pari-mutuel wagering law to try to encourage a developer to build a horse racing track in the state.
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SEN. ROBERT GARTON Will reduce stress level Lindel O. Hume, D-Princeton, agreed that the legislative session needs reworking but said Harrison’s measure may make it difficult to finish a session earlier than the March 15th deadline. “We occupy the time we have. If we have less time, we do the job more quickly and just as well. I think the general public would like to see us out of here earlier, as well,” Hume said.