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» d s=- - NF WS DTGF ST Edited by Alan Phelps X li—/ Y Y W-/ I 4 1 X Clinton begins transition work, plans economic summit LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Prcsi dcru-clcct Clinton on Monday de tailed plans for a pre-Christmas eco nomic summit and began work in earnest on a White House transition that aides said was unlikely to yield many quick decisions. Clinton opened the week by exer cising his reach as both a sitting gov ernor and president-elect, speaking by phone with three world leaders, meeting with his stale Cabinet and lieutenant governor, then conferring with key members of his transition team. Aides set out to organize a summit of American business and economic leaders, and to form transition “clus ter groups” that will develop rccom mcndalions in various areas of gov ernment policy. As he left his statehousc office for the Governor’s Mansion, Clinton de scribed the summit as a outgrowth of his campaign promise to put eco nomic recovery at the topofhisagcnda. “I want to bring in some of the brightest people in the country, a broad range of backgrounds, talk to them about the gravity of the situation, deal with whatouroptions arc,gclas many good ideas as 1 can,” Clinton said. Earlier in the day, Clinton met with his stale Cabinet and his appar ent successor, Lt. Gov. Jim Guy Tucker. Tucker said he and Clinton had agreed on a slate transition sched ule but were not ready to provide details. Clinton asked his Cabinet to iden tify any major decisions he needed to make before resigning, and senior aides said they believed any transfer of state power was several weeks away. From the stalchousc, it was back to the Governor’s Mansion, where Clinton met with Vice President-elect Al Gore and senior aides, including transition director Warren Christo pher. Spokesman George Stcphanopoulos said Clinton planned a conference call Tuesdtiy with his full transition board and that the group would likely meet in Little Rock next week. This week’s goal, he said, was “working on his timetable for the whole transition period. Who exactly will be in place at what particular time we don’t know yet.” That suggested no major decisions were imminent, a view echoed by a senior Clinton aide close to the tran sition process. “We’re just getting started, remem ber,” the adviser said, recalling that several past prcsidcnts-clccl held off major announcements until Decem ber. Slcphanopoulossaid Clinton spoke by telephone Monday with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and South African President F.W. dc Klerk. Brian Shellito/DN EC ponders reprisals in face of U.S. tariff BRUSSELS, Belgium — Euro pean ministers agreed Monday to seek a quick resumption of talks with the United States to avoid a trans-Atlantic trade war, but also went along with France’s demand for the EC to prepare its own list of retaliatory sanctions. Italian Foreign Trade Minister Claudio Vitalone said the 12 EC states asked the bloc’s Executive Commission to draft a list of U.S. goods to be targeted for trade sanc tions if Washington imposes puni tive tariffs on while wines and other EC products. “The need has been stressed to come to a conclusion with the Americans... before the end of the year,” said Nico Wcglcr, an EC Commission spokesman. The ministers issued a state ment in which they expressed “grave concerns at the dangers in herent in the present situation.” The statement made no mention of trade retaliation, but both Vitalone and French Foreign min ister Roland Dumas told reporters the EC slates had formally re quested the EC Commission draw up an Amcrican-goods hit list. Last week, the Commission said that any trade retaliation would be proportional to any U.S. sanctions. France has urged other EC mem bers to remain tough with Wash ington, which last week said it would impose stiff tariffs on Dee. 5 on wines if the farm subsidies issue was not resolved within 30 days. “We cannot have a constructive dialogue where there arc threats of retaliation,” said Bruno Durieux, deputy French minister for foreign trade. The Bush administration vowed to impose sanctions on $300 mil lion worth of goods exported to the United Stales after the two sides failed to break an impasse over EC subsidies to European farmers pro ducing competitively priced grain . products. The dispute over subsidies is holding up an overall accord be tween the 105 nations of the Gen eral Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. - t* The American atti tude ... is a very serious obstacle to the GATT negotia tions. — Durieux deputy French trade minister -99 ~ “The American altitude ... is a very serious obstacle to the GATT negotiations,” Durieux said. Durieux said France was not alone in its refusal for concessions to Washington. “They want us to think it is but it’s not,” he told reporters. The American tariffs arc largely targeted on French white wines, an obvious move to hurt France, with a powerful farm lobby and the most resistant to any effort to slash sub sidies to the EC’s 9 million farm ers. An Irish official said Ireland would side with France on resisting giving concessions to Washington, but would not goalong w ith French demands for instant retaliation. Italian Foreign Minister Emilio Colombo said Italy supports the French position but added the EC hoped to avoid starling its relations with a new U.S. president on a bad footing, i German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkcl urged EC negotiators to go back to the table, stressing the need to sew up a cross-Atlantic deal before the promised Dec. 31 dead line and before President-elect Clinton takes office in January. “We’ve come very close (to an agreement) and we ’ vc got 30days” until U.S. sanctions arc scheduled to lake effect, he said. “It would be a stupid thing if we had a trade war now.” British officials avoided the question of whether Britain would support the idea of drawing upa list in case U.S. sanctions did take ef fect next month. Germans mark anniversaries Berlin Wall’s fall, ‘Crystal Night’ remembered BERLIN — Germany marked the 54 th anniversary of the Nazis’ “Crys tal Night” attacks on Jews with sol emn memories on Monday of de stroyed Jcwishcommunilicsand warn ings about a wave of neo-Nazi vio lence. In Berlin, Mayor Eberhard Dicpgcn helped lay the cornerstone of a new Jewish Museum intended to draw the world’s attention to today ’ s treatment of Jews in the city where the Holo caust was planned. Germans also marked the third anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s fall. The euphoria of unification gave way long ago to worries about the cost of merging the country’s bankrupt formerly Communist eastern lands with its long-prosperous west. The burden has been compounded by the cost of caring for lens of thousands of foreign asylum seekers. All over the country, observances ol what Germans call the “Pogrom N ight” of 1938 were colored by worry about the right-w ing violence and new signs of anti-Semitism. Vandals painted swastikas and slo gans saying “No to Arabs and Jews” on a monument to 19th century Prus sian royalty in Berlin late Sunday. The head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Ignatz Bubts, said at a ceremony in Bremen that the wounds of the Holocaust were not yet - it The rebirth of a unified and democratic Berlin is also a symbol, the symbol of a new time, a time of overcoming not only the division of Germany, but also of all Europe. Gorbachev — former Soviet leader ff " healed, and he admonished political leaders to stand up to extreme right ists. Weak leadership was a prime cause of the collapse of Germany’s posl World War I democracy, the Weimar Republic, Bubis said. Nazi thugs attacked synagogues and Jewish homes and businesses lhroughoutGcrmanyonNov.9,1938, leaving so much broken glass it be came known as “Crystal Night.” It marked the start of open persecution of Jews and ushered in the Holocaust, which claimed the lives of 6 million European Jews. On the same dalq in 1989, the Berlin Wall opened, so Germany marked contradictory anniversaries Monday. To celebrate the end of the city’s division, Berlin granted its highest award — honorary citizenship — to former President Reagan, former So viet President M ikhai I Gorbachev and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl in rccogn i lion of their services to end ing the Cold War. “The old and new wounds arc hcal ing,” Gorbachev said in his accep tance speech. “The rebirth of a unified and democratic Berlin is also a sym bol, the symbol of a new lime, a lime of overcoming not only the division of Germany, but also of all Europe.” Reagan did not attend. German politicians tried to put the best face on the rally that was dis rupted by leftist radicals Sunday. About 350,(XX) people marched to the rally, but a liny minority of protesters booed and threw eggs. Kohl had to be escorted away, and federal President Richard von Wciz.sacckcr was spat tered by eggs as he spoke. “The democrats came out, 350,(XX) and more, and demonstrated in Berlin. That didn’t happen in the Weimar Republic, and that is the difference,” Dicpgcn said. The rally was boycotted by Kohl’s conservative Bavarian coalition part ner, the Christian Social Union, which derided it as a meaningless gesture. Top New York judge stands accused NEW YORK — As ihc suite’s top judge, Sol Wachtlcr seemed to have it all: a brilliant career and a happy,4l ycar marriage. The FBI painted a darker portrait — a man so obsessed with an attrac tive socialite he may have ruined his life for her. Within two days, Wachtlcr, 62, went from respected jurist, prominent Republican politician and admirable family man to tabloid headliner. He was arrested Saturday on charges of trying to blackmail his mistress after she ended their affair. While his associate judges in Al bany considered whether to suspend him from his S120,(XX)-a-ycar post, Wachtlcr was confined to a small room at Long Island Jewish Hospital. He was under 24-hour guard for (car he might kill himself, said Flip Lorcn/om, chief deputy U.S. marshal in New York City. Wachtlcr was scheduled for a bail hearing Tuesday in federal court in Manhattan. His accuser was identified as Joy Silverman, 45, a Republican Parly lund-raiscr. She is estranged from her husband, an industrialist, and lives in a Park Avenue apartment with her teen-age daughter. She has a weekend house in affluent Southampton. The FBI complaint detailed stalk ing and harassment that resulted from passion gone sour, a plot that could have been lifted from the pages of a new Danielle Steel novel. Wachtlcr was charged with mak ing telephoned threats and sending obscene letters to his ex-mistress from all over the country. Some of the calls were made with a voice-disguising device, investiga tors said. The father of four sent a lewd letter containing a wrapped condom to Silverman’s 14-ycar-old daughter and demanded S2(),()(X) from Silverman in exchange for embarrassing tapes The calls to Silverman taped by the FBI don’t sound like a man who was considered a potential gubernatorial candidate and mentioned as a pos sible U.S. Supreme Court justice. Nor did they illustrate Wachller’s famed skills as an orator. “I’ll tell you what you are getting back, lady,” one taped call went. “If you don’t do that, if you (expletive) me at alI, I promisc you il will cost you S200,(XX) to gel your daughter back.” Gay sailor turned away by Navy SAN JOSE, Calif. — The Navy on Monday refused lo give a homosexual sailor his job back, despite a court order against the military’s ban on gays. “The day I had hoped for appar ently has nolarrived,” Keith Mcinhold told reporters outside the gales of Moffett Naval Air Station. “I will never back down until the policy is changed. I will fight this to the end.” Mcinhold, 30, is a petty officer who trained radar crewmen aboard P 3 submarine hunters. A 12-ycar Navy veteran, he was given an honorable discharge in August after telling a Television news program he was gay* After he wasdischarged, Mcinhold filed a lawsuit seeking reinstatement, arguing that the Navy violated his constitutional rights by discharging him because he is gay. On Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Terry J. Hatter Jr. in Los Ange les issued a temporary order reinstat ing Mcinhold to his former rank. When Mcinhold showed up at Moffett on Monday, all he was given was a letter referring h im to the Office of Naval Personnel in Washington. The Navy said in a statement: “Mr. Meinhold’s current status remains unchanged pending eval uation of pos sible responses to the judge’s ruling.’’ Moffett spokesman John Shacklcton said officials ai the base weren’t authorized to reinstate Mcinhold. Meinhold, who has been working as a computer salesman in Palo Alto, wore a civilian coal and tic as he walked onto the base. He said he hoped to walk outdressed in the Navy uniform taken from him when he was discharged. John McGuire, one of Mcinhold’s lawyers, said he and his client hoped President-elect Clinton would fulfill his campaign promise to issue an ex ecutive order ending the ban on ho-... moscxuals in the military. 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