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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.
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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.
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The American atti
tude ... is a very
serious obstacle to
the GATT negotia
tions.
— Durieux
deputy French trade
minister
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“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
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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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