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BUSH LEADS THE WAY
Ronald Reagan, New York Times Editorial
June 10, 1992

Here I go again. . . . Ten years ago, in a speech on the Capitol steps, I urged Congress to adopt a balanced-budget amendment. I reminded Congress of a warning by Thomas Jefferson: "The public debt is the greatest of dangers to be feared." Since then, Congress has refused to work with the President and pass the amendment and has shown little restraint in ...

LIMBAUGH, BUSH'S HOUSE GUEST
Jeffrey Yorke, The Washington Post
June 9, 1992

Rush Limbaugh, until recently an outspoken supporter of conservative Republican presidential hopeful Patrick Buchanan, went to dinner and the Kennedy Center Wednesday evening with the president and Barbara Bush. They were accompanied by Roger Ailes, Bush's media adviser and the producer of Limbaugh's television show, set to debut in the fall. Limbaugh later spent the night in the Lincoln Room, Ailes in the Queen's Room. ...

U.S. TOLERATED ARMS SALES TO IRAQ AFTER IRAN WAR; DECLASSIFIED 1989 STATE DEPT. CABLE INSTRUCTED AMBASSADOR NOT TO PROTEST HELICOPTER DEAL
R. Jeffrey Smith. The Washington Post
June 11, 1992

House Foreign Affairs subcommittee chairman Sam Gejdenson (D-Conn.), who has been investigating U.S. policy toward Iraq, gave reporters copies of a declassified November 1989 cable he obtained that instructs the U.S. ambassador in Indonesia not to protest a planned sale of Super Puma helicopters to Iraq.

U.S. officials have previously said that the policy of official U.S. tolerance for other nations' arms sales to Iraq...

HOUSE DEFEATS BALANCED-BUDGET BILL; LAWMAKERS ALSO EXTEND JOBLESS BENEFITS, BUT BUSH VETO LOOMS
Eric Pianin, The Washington Post
June 10, 1992

Rep. Barbara B. Kennelly (D-Conn.) and other Democratic leaders offered the measure as a statutory alternative to changing the Constitution. But opponents charged that it was a transparent attempt to siphon support from the balanced-budget amendment by offering "political cover" to those who favor deficit reduction but are reluctant to amend the Constitution.

Rep. Charles W. Stenholm (D-Tex.) and Sen. Paul Simon (D-Ill.), the chief ...

FILES DETAIL AID TO BUSH BY NIXON WHITE HOUSE; QUESTIONS LINGER ABOUT WHETHER BUSH REPORTED A $6000 GIFT
Jeff Gerth with Robert Pear, Special to The New York Times
June 11, 1992

WASHINGTON, June 10 -- In the early 1970's, even as President Richard M. Nixon became enveloped in the Watergate scandal, he helped elevate, George Bush, a former Texas Congressman, to national political prominence...

SPECIAL COUNSEL PROBE IS URGED OF CONTRIBUTIONS BY TWO TO GOP
Maralee Schwartz, Charles R. Babcock, The Washington Post
JunE 10, 1992

In a letter to [William P. Barr], Fred Wertheimer, the group's president, cited the controversy surrounding contributions by James R. Elliott, president of an Illinois company, Cherry Payment Systems, and Michael Kojima, head of International Marketing Bureau of Los Angeles.

BUSH CAUGHT IN TEAR-GASSING OF PROTESTERS IN PANAMA CITY
Ann Devroy, Edward Cody, The Washington Post
June 12, 1992

President Bush was rushed from an open-air speech in the center of Panama City to a U.S. air base today after the one public event of his short visit erupted into an angry, surging melee of protesters, audience and Panamanians rushing to escape volleys of tear gas fired by U.S.-trained riot police.

The demonstrations reflected resentment still felt by many Panamanians at the December invasion...

BUSH ON U.S. ROLE IN YUGOSLAVIA: 'WE'RE NOT THE WORLD'S POLICEMAN'
John M. Goshko, The Washington Post
June 12, 1992

The [Bush] administration acknowledged yesterday that it is looking at ways for U.S. military forces to help the United Nations ease the suffering in Yugoslavia. But President Bush played down speculation that such action might be imminent and said the United States is "not the world's policeman."

When senators pressed him for further details, he declined to discuss possible U.S. military actions, but said that ...

COMPETITIVENESS COUNCIL IS CRITICIZED ON HILL
Dana Priest, The Washington Post
June 12, 1992

At a spirited closed-door session of a House Appropriations subcommittee, Rep. David E. Skaggs (D-Colo.) this week offered an amendment to eliminate the $86,000 staff budget for the Council on Competitiveness run from Vice President [Dan Quayle]'s office.

"In my opinion, what the council has been doing is illegal and unethical," Skaggs said in an interview yesterday. He said the council's "deliberate subversion" of the ...

EARTH SUMMIT CREEPS TOWARD COMPROMISES; BUSH SAYS U.S. WILL BE FIRM; SOME KEY DEADLOCKS REMAIN
Julia Preston, Michael Weisskopf, The Washington Post
June 12, 1992

In a last-minute effort to improve the United States' battered image before President [Bush]'s arrival tonight, U.S. delegation chief William K. Reilly announced a plan to implement the global warming treaty to be signed here. But the measures Reilly mentioned had either been unveiled earlier or already are mandated by other environmental statutes.

Before departing this morning from Andrews Air Force Base, President Bush struck ...

STAFF QUESTIONS LATEST FEMA MOVES; SCHISM BETWEEN POLITICAL APPOINTEES, CAREER EMPLOYEES WIDENS
Dana Priest, The Washington Post
June 11, 1992

Colleagues said the meeting was the first the official in question, Executive Director Thomas McQuillan, had heard of his transfer. But they thought they knew the reason for it - McQuillan was to be the fall guy for negative publicity about the agency after an openly gay employee was forbidden to take a business trip abroad unless the employee divulged names of other gay employees ...

CONTRIBUTIONS TO GOP TRIPS A PROSPECTIVE ENVOY; SEN. SARBANES SAYS NOMINESS DONATED 'AT THE SAME TIME' HE WAS SEEKING POST IN THE NETHERLANDS
Charles R. Babcock, The Washington Post
June 10, 1992

INFO-GRAPHIC,,Michael Drew CAPTION: DONATIONS AND AMBASSADORIAL APPOINTMENTS Team 100 members who have given $100,000 in campaign donations to President [Bush] who were nominated for ambassadorships: ...................... Country Name ................. nominated for ......Status Charles Cobb ......... Iceland ........... Left post in February Joseph Gildenhorn .... Switzerland ....... Current ambassador Glen Holden .......... Jamaica ........... Current ambassador Charles Hostler ...... Bahrain ........... Current ambassador Nicholas Salgo ....... ...

COMPLETION OF HOMES OFF
New York Times
June 11, 1992

WASHINGTON, June 10 (Reuters) -- The completion of new homes plunged 8.5 percent in April, the Commerce Department said today, adding to signs of spreading weakness in the housing industry...

PRODUCER PRICES UP 0.4%; RETAIL SALES RISE 0.2%: ECONOMISTS ARE DISAPPOINTED WITH THE FIRST REPORTS ABOUT MAY
Robert D. Hershey Jr., Special to The New York Times
June 12, 1992

WASHINGTON, June 11 -- Retail sales edged up a scant two-tenths of 1 percent in May while prices at the producer level spurted to their biggest increase in 19 months, Government figures showed today.

INVESTIGATION INTO FUND-RAISING DINNER IS URGED
New York Times
June 10, 1992

WASHINGTON, June 9 (AP) -- The public-interest group Common Cause called today for an independent counsel to investigate contributions to a $9 million Republican fund-raising dinner headlined by President Bush. The group said an investigation by an outside counsel was warranted because the Attorney General, William P. Barr, has ties to President Bush and the Republican Party.

QUAYLE ATTACKS A 'CULTURAL ELITE,' SAYING IT MOCKS NATION'S VALUES
Andrew Rosenthal, Special to The New York Times
June 10, 1992

WASHINGTON, June 9 -- Vice President Dan Quayle today presented the sequel to his attack on the "Murphy Brown" television show, portraying the 1992 campaign as a war between traditional values and a cultural elite that mocks families, religion and patriotism.

VANCE URGES U.S. TO STRENGTHEN U.N. ROLE
Special to The New York Times
June 10, 1992

WASHINGTON, June 9 -- Cyrus R. Vance, the United Nations special envoy for Yugoslavia, appealed to the Bush Administration today to strengthen its involvement in international peacekeeping operations...

WHITE HOUSE VOID
Richard Cohen, The Washington Post
June 9, 1992

In [George Bush]'s case, the question comes down to this: Why seek reelection? After all, the polls tell us that about two out of every three Americans would choose someone else - either Bill Clinton or Ross Perot. It must both pain and confuse Bush that upward of a third of these Americans are Republicans and that many of them do not simply prefer someone ...

UTILITY INDUSTRY OVERHAUL: SURPRISINGLY STATIC-FREE; APPROVING ENERGY BILL, HOUSE ACTED IN RARE HARMONY TO JETTISON 57 YEARS OF REGULATORY POLICY
Thomas W. Lippman, The Washington Post
June 11, 1992

One such staffer was William B. Conway Jr., senior counsel to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, who converted [J. Bennett Johnston] into the most fervent advocate of what came to be known as "PUHCA reform." Two others were Jessica Laverty and Sue Sheridan, Republican and Democratic staff members of the House energy and power subcommittee. When [Linda G. Stuntz] was on Capitol Hill, ...

LAWSUIT ASSERTS INTERIOR DEPT. ACTED ILLEGALLY ON SPOTTED OWL
The Washington Post
June 11, 1992

Environmental groups sued the Bush administration over its decision to suspend the Endangered Species Act and allow logging on 13 Oregon timber tracts that are home to the northern spotted owl...

HEAVY METAL SUFFRAGE; ROCK THE VOTE'S YOUNG CROWD REGISTRATION
Carla Hal,. The Washington Post
June 12, 1992

"It's the lowest percentage of eligibles of any other demographic," says Patrick Lippert, the 34-year-old executive director of Rock the Vote. "But it depends on how you look at it. Less than half are registered, but consistently they have the highest percentage turnout of any demographic. If 12 million are registered, 9 million turn out. Well, let's get 'em registered."

Jason Geer, 21, recently walked ...

STUDY SAYS POVERTY ROSE TO 25% IN NEW YORK CITY
By Thomas J. Lueck, New York Times
June 10, 1992

A new analysis of poverty in New York City concludes that one in four of the city's residents had incomes in 1990 that fell below the Federal Government's poverty threshold, more than at any time during the previous decade...