European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 11, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes Friday november 11,1988 Bosh plans to bring in fresh faces former sen. Tower May be defense department head Houston apr president elect Bush says he plans a major turnover of personnel to reinvigorate the govern ment. Moving with unusual Speed. Bush announced a handful of key appoint ments headed by the nomination of longtime ally James Baker As Secretary of state. Secretary of stale Georges Liz endorsed Baker s Fuller Bush s vice presi Delia chief of Statt and Campaign bake pollster Robert Tucler will share authority Over Bush s transition team in a declaration sure 10 Send shudders through the ranks of the 5,000 political appointees in i he Reagan administration. Bush said i will for the most pan bring in a Brand new team of people from across the in my View that will re invigorate the process Bush , he carefully Ift room for some Reagan holdovers to join his administration. There will be. A major turnover bul some people at various lev Els May he asked 10 Bush said he. Wants to announce heres of his Cabinet soon. It is widely assumed Bush will ask Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady at Lorincy general Dick Trio Burgh an education Secretary Lauro Cavazos to stay on. All three joined the Reagan administration in recent months. Former sen John Tower of teas alarms negotiator in the Cagan administration who advised Bush Campaign on National Security matters is expected to be in 1 Ine for Secretary of Dore Mclaughlin is believed Likely to keep her Post As labor Secretary or get another Cabinet position. Former transportation Secretary Elizabeth dote wife of one time Bush rival Bob Dole also is mentioned As a candidate for an other Cabinet Job. For the powerful Post of budget chief the favorite is Richard Darman a one time senior aide to Reagan and later Dep Uty Secretary of Treasury. Darman s name also has been mentioned As while House chief of staff Al though Fuller and new Hampshire Sununu Are frequently discussed Tor that Job. Sununu also is a candidate for Secretary of Energy. Richard Burl ambassador to West Germany is known to be interested in the Job of National Security scowcroft who served in hat role for president Ford is mentioned for i again. Bush has 73 Days to till his Cabinet make other key appointments and deter mine the policy priorities to help him Moke a Mark in the critical first i 00 Days of a new will have a game plan Bush prom i cd. Part of what the transition i about is to spell out the priorities. I spelled them out in Broad terms interns of keeping the economic expansion going and in terms of world the election ended now he mid he will have to gel specific. Over the next 2vi months Power will begin to shift from Reagan to Bush As the Federal bureaucracy and foreign govern ments look to the incoming president for president elect Rush in t forgetting thai Reagan s still in charge during transition. A signal of his intent , Bush said president Reagan is still the president of the United stale Sand i will not be using the transition to try to make or unduly influence decisions hat Ore properly the president policy matters aside. Bush indicated mismanagement style will be different from Reagan s. For example he said he will debriefed directly every Day by the Cia on intelligence matters instead of relying on the White House National Security adviser for an update As Reagan had. Altogether there arc 5,000 political appointments divided Between presidential appointments and those made by Cabinet secretaries and Agency Heads. Even though Bush put Washington on notice o expect a House cleaning of personnel one aide described the transitions a Friendly on that basis Bush said he anticipates a somewhat leaner transition organization than we had in 1080" when the Reagan team including volunteers swelled to 1,500. Insurance firms Stop writing policies los Angeles a at least 47insurance companies refused wednesday to write Auto insurance policies in Cali fornia under the 20-percent rate Rollback provisions of a state proposition ques Tion. / the ballot question aimed at skyrocketing insurance rates narrowly passed in tuesday s election and was immediately challenged wednesday in mate supreme court by insurers. In a related move a los Angeles Supe rior court judge ruled wednesday that two los Angeles surety Bond companies be temporarily exempted from reducing rates As required opening the door for other challenges. The approval of the initiative was a heavy blow to the insurance Industry which spent at least $60 million backing its own measures and battling the Initia Tive and another rate cutting proposal by Consumers and trial lawyers. Under the proposition insurers mus lower almost All insurance rates including Auto Home and business coverage by an immediate 20 percent below no vember 1987 Rales. It would require a additional 20 percent Cut in Auto insurance rates for Good Drivers. The measure also puts control Over future rate increases in the hands of an elected insurance commissioner strictly limits use of territorial rating to set Auto insurance premiums and subjects the Industry to slate antitrust and unfair Busi Ness practice Laws. Insurers argued that proposition 103was unconstitutional because it forces corporations to operate at a loss. Som companies said rate cuts would Force them out of business in filing a lawsuit seeking to Block the cuts. Fireman s fund chairman William Mccormick said we have no Choice but to Imine i ally Lake action to protect our business and our rights. We Hope that this Situa Tion will be corrected so that we can maintain our Strong presence in the stat of california.". In new York stocks of several Compa Nies handling Large amounts of insurance in California dropped in Early trading with the news that the Ralph Nader backed initiative had passed. Paper declares puerto Rico governor beats m Mckay Wihn e r candid ate backing 5tatehbod Scala Fla. A some editions of wednesday s Ocala Star Banner declared Democrat Kenneth buddy Mackay the Winner in his race against Republican Connie Mack for the buddy you re a senator headline on 5,000 copies of Mae Kay s Hometown paper. The headline parodied a television and used by Mack to put Down Mackay As a Liberal the Only problem is uncounted Absen tee ballots will decide the race. Editors decided to use the headline at2 1 s . Wednesday when Mackay was ahead by 10,000 Voles. V san Juan puerto Rico a Hernandez cold who wants puerto Rico to remain a , narrowly Defeated Stavft cod adj Vocate Baltasar Corrada Del Rio to third term according to nearly cop election returns wednesday. Corrada Del Rio. The new for of Sanjuan conceded defeat Al noon wednes Day 21 hours Falc Rifle polls closed i tuesday s Etc Giorl i will con tips fighting for statehood but obviously with Hernandez Colon in the governors office this will be difficult he told a news conference at his new progressive party Headquarters. He Iran Doz Colon had claimed Victory r a night but his opponent Clung Toopes of pulling out a Victory from late returns from san Juan and the capital suburb of Bayamon. As those came in the governor s Victory became apparent. Ill 1,650 of 1,754 voting centers re official results gave Hernandez lon"tlj3,013 Voles or 48,7 percent and Corr a Del Rio 802,438 Voles or 45.8 pc Cen candidate Ruben berries Mani Cittad 94,443 votes or5.3 percent. Bush from Page 1 Cussion of real issues ended tues Day with Bush winning by a mar Gin of nearly 7 million votes. Bush won 426 electoral Voles lo112 by his rival. The president actually is elected by the Electora College in which a candidate wins All or each stale s electoral Vole when he wins a majority of the popular vote. Despite Bush s Victory far the presidency democrats prevailed in congressional races. With a close Florida race undecided wednesday democrats could count on at least 5 s seats in the new Senate a gain of at least one democrats also strengthened their grip on the House gaming at least two seals for a 259 total. Democrats also picked up a net gain of Ocbo Vurnor s office. The voting tuesday marked the first since the i960 election of Democrat John of Kennedy that the party which lost the White House gained scats in both houses ,.,it signalled that Bush is Likely headed for conflict with the demo cratic majority in republicans however insisted he1 could still enjoy a honeymoon if he takes a moderate stand on the Bud get deficit housing and the envy was the most expensive Campaign in history with More than100 million spent on television ads travel and Campaign organizations
