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Bush, Gorbachev plan shipboard summit
WASHINGTON — President George Bush
announced Tuesday he will hold a shipboard
summit in the Mediterranean with Soviet
President Mikhail S. Gorbachev Dec. 2 and 3
“to put up our feet and talk” informally prior
to a full-blown superpower meeting next year.
Bush described the weekend meeting as an
open-ended discussion with no fixed agenda.
He said neither he nor Gorbachev “anticipate
that substantial decisions or agreements will
emerge” on arms control or other matters.
The talks will take place on U.S. and Soviet
naval ships on alternate days. The precise loca
tion was not announced, but a site off Italy
appeared likely since Gorbachev is to visit
there from Nov; 29 to Dec. 1.
Bush acknowledged he originally had op
posed the concept of a get-acquainted meeting,
favoring instead a well-planned meeting with
assurances of concrete results.
However, he decided that with dramatic
democratic changes sweeping across Eastern
Europe, the leaders of the two superpowers
“should deepen our understanding” of each
other.
“I don’t want to have two gigantic ships
pass in the night because of failed communica
tion,” Bush said. “I just didn’t want to - in this
time of dynamic change - miss something,
something that I might get better firsthand
from Mr. Gorbachev.”
The president said he expected “a lot of
discussion” about Eastern Europe.
The summit was jointly announced in
Washington and in Moscow, where Soviet
Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze said
the talks between the two leaders were “aimed
at allowing them to know each other better”
and would “contribute to broadening the
changes taking place in the Soviet-Amcrican
relationship.”
Shevardnadze said the meeting “should be
regarded as the most important stage in prepar
ing negotiations which will lake place during
the official state visit by Mikhail Gorbachev”
to the United States next year.
Much of the planning appeared still to be
done.
white House cmci ot statt John bununu,
asked what country Bush would use as the
staging area for the talks, said, “We don't
know yet.”
Officials also said they did not know which
ships would be used or whether first ladies
Barbara Bush and Raisa Gorbachev would
accompany their husbands.
Bush said he decided to meet on a ship so
“we can do it without too much fanfare ...
where there’s a relatively few number of
people, not a lot of crush of bodies out there and
a chance to put our feet up and talk_I think
it’s easy logistically for both sides.”
It will not be the first shipboard summit.
Minimum wage hike
agreed upon for
House vote today >
WASHINGTON - The While
House and congressional leaders
Tuesday agreed to raise the minimum
wage to $4.25 an hour by April 1991,
ending a lengthy political stalemate
and clearing the way for the first
boost in the base wage since 1981.
Both sides made significant con- I
cessions to reach the deal, which for
the first time wou' i create a submini
mum wage for teen-agers with little
or no job experience.
The compromise was struck be
tween White House chief of staff
John Sununu and House Speaker
Thomas Foley, D-Wash. Other law
makers who have in the past been
involved in the issue agreed to it,
although some complained of being
kept out of the discussions.
i ne compromise measure is 10 be
put to a House vote today. Senate
approval likely would follow rapidlv.
“No side will get the victory for
this,” said Rep. Augustus Hawkins,
D-Calif., chairman of the House
Education and Labor Committee.
Hawkins, the House author of a $4.55
minimum-wage bill President
George Bush vetoed earlier this year,
said he was not involved in the talks
that led to the deal.
Rep. Austin Murphy, D-Pa., au
thor of the latest Democratic pro
posal, said he would reluctantly sup
port the compromise.
“I think we could have done a
little better if we’d held their feet to
the fire,” he said.
The deal was reached even as
Bush told a morning news conference
he would again veto the Democratic
bill if it was not changed to meet his
standards.
But a short time later, the compro
mise was presented to the House
Rules Committee as a bipartisan
substitute for the Murphy bill set for
debate in the House today. The agree
ment ends a nearly nine-year fight by
the Democ ratic congressional leader
ship and organized labor against the
Reagan administration and now the
Bush administration.
Andy Manhart/Daily Nebraskan
Arizonan carves elaborate eggs
SCOTTSDALE, Anz. -- At the
turn of the century, Karl Faberge
created treasured art by adorning
eggs with jewels, gold and fine
fabrics for the Russian czars. Bob
Hoke of Scottsdale has taken the
art of the egg to a new level.
Hoke carves the surface of os
trich eggs and eggs of other large
birds with high-speed dental
equipment, creating detailed im
ages surrounded by swirls, flowers
and other background decoration.
The finished product on the
eggs, some with shells only one
sixteenth of an inch thick, re
sembles porcelain, with detailing
similar to that found in some ivory
carvings.
“As far as I know I am the first
one to do this,” Hoke says. “Fab
erge cut a doorway into the egg and
would find ways to decorate it, but
1 know of no one who has used the
egg to do relief work.”
Hoke’s work is receiving some
recognition. He traded one egg
with a family’s coal of arms on it
for a Jeep. Ripley’s Believe It or
Not bought two eggs last year for
S600 to place in its museums in the
Virgin Islands and Grand Prairie,
Texas. Hoke also sent an egg to
former President Ronald Reagan.
The highest price paid for one
of Hoke’s works so far is $1,200
for a carved goose egg which was
on display at the Valley National
Bank Building in Phoenix last
spring.
Jo Ann Johnson, concourse
events coordinator for the Valley
Bank Center, says Hoke’s work
“is part of a larger show that has
been going on every Easter for
nine years. Many of the eggs have
ethnic designs, such as Polish art,
or are painted. But on the other
hand Bob carves his eggs with his
own designs. I think his eggs are
quite beautiful.”
Hoke says one egg can take
anywhere from 180 to 400 hours to
complete, depending on the type
and the design.
“I believe this is absolutely on
par with the great masters in terms
of hours spent on the actual art,”
he says. “When I take a blank egg
shell, it’s like a blank canvas, but
it’s so much more difficult to work
with.”
Hoke, 37, used to sell water
softeners. Now he delivers pizza.
He says he “dropped out of life”
about three years ago, around the
lime he bought some dental equip
ment with the idea of doing some
etchings on glass or steel.
“I didn’t really like working
with all those micro-bits of glass,
so I started playing around with
eggs,” says Hoke, who had once
seen a goose egg with some basic
flowers carved in it.
He began to work on goose eggs
and then moved to rhea and ostrich
eggs. Hoke buys the unfertilized
eggs from the Phoenix Zoo.
“The bigger eggs arc quite
durable,” he says. “You can actu
ally stand on them.”
Hoke’s process of turning an
egg into art begins when he cuts a
hole in the bottom of an egg and
drains it. He draws the design on
the egg before beginning the tedi
ous task of carving background
designs and adding the detail relief
work.
"Let’s face it” he says, “wcall
come from eggs. In some cultures
the egg is very spiritual. I take that
• meaning and add another meaning
of my own and create unique art.”
Two more bodies
found in rubble
of Interstate 880
SAN FRANCISCO - Workers
searching the twisted wreckage of
Interstate 880 found the bodies of a
woman and a man in separate ve
hicles, some two weeks after the
earthquake, a police spokesman said
Tuesday.
The body of Joyce Ann Mabry, 31,
of Berkeley, Calif., was found around
7 p.m. Monday, said Alameda
County Sheriffs Sgt. Jim Knudscn.
Around 7 a.m. Tuesday, searchers
found the body of James J. Flores, 39,
of Rohnert Park, Knudsen said.
'We have no rea
son to believe
there are any
more bodies
there.'
—Knudsen
“We’re checking the vehicles for
personal belongings,” Knudsen said.
“We have no reason to believe there
are any more bodies there.”
The discoveries raised the death
toll in the quake’s worst disaster to 41
and the overall number of people w ho
died in the quake to 66.
Mabry was the mother of a 3-year
old boy and Flores had a teen-age
child.
Those who survived the catastro
phe struggled to recover from their
injuries.
Cathy Scarpa, 37, remained hospi
talized Tuesday with multiple frac
tures in both legs and a crushed hand
suffered when her carpool van was
smashed in the collapse of Interstate
880. Five of the University of Cali
fomia-San Francisco co-workers
who were with Scarpa were killed in
the van.
Jubilant residents shout victory
Israel takes down barricades
Btil I oAnUUK, UCCUpiCd WCSt
Bank -- The army took down the
barricades around this Palestinian
town Tuesday, ending 42 days of
seizing cars, furniture and other
goods to crush a tax boycott. Jubilant
residents took to the streets to shout
victory.
But as hundreds of townspeople
waved "V” signs and sang, military
authorities said they had succeeded in
breaking the revolt, seizing the
equivalent of more than $1.5 million
to make up for unpaid taxes.
‘‘We are always collecting taxes.
We have always collected taxes. We
are the authorities,” said Brig. Gen.
Shaike Erez, head of the West Bank
military government.
Hanan Banura, a 25-ycar-old
mother of two whose husband is in
jail for refusing to pay taxes, said the
town’s defiance strengthened the 22
month-old Palestinian uprising
against occupation of the West Bank
and Gaza Strip.
“We won something here,” she
said. “ We did what we wanted to do,
not what they wanted.”
The bulldozers that pushed away
the earthen mound blocking off the
Christian Arab town of 10,000 people
ended Beit Sahour’s unlikely role as a
symbol of the revolt against occupa
tion.
I» a town of large, prosperous
looking homes of sun-bleached stone
located down steep, winding roads
from Bethlehem. Until recently its
middle-class residents were derided
as “rich revolutionaries” by poor
Palestinians in refugee camps who
fought Israelis with stones and fire
bombs.
Of the more than 600 Palestinians
killed in clashes with soldiers or ci
vilians ip the uprising, only one died
in Beit Sahour.
But Beil Sahour, known mostly
for the fields where shepherds first
learned of Christ’s birth, kept up the
boycott of Israeli taxes ordered by the
PLO-backcd leaders of the uprising
long after most other Palestinians
gave in to Israeli pressure.
Much to Israel’s consternation,
the tax revolt has gotten as much
publicity as the uprising’s persistent
violence. Journalists who sneaked
into Beit Sahour described refrigera
tors, rugs, cars, televisions and all
manner of goods being hauled away.
On one side, townspeople com
plained against “taxation without
representation. On the other, Israel
claimed it was seizing goods only to
collect taxes to support schools, roads
and other services.
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