European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 24, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday november 24, 19b8 the stars and stripes Page 5 Bush meets mexican president elect hails Canadian vote Renews budget concern Houston a president elect George Bush promised tuesday to never neglect our friends in this Hemi sphere As he met incoming mexican president Carlos Salinas do Gortari and heralded the election Victory of Canad an prime minister Brian Mulroney As a Triumph for free Trade. On a key Domestic subject Bush also told Republican governors he would name negotiators for budget talks wit Congress on the first Day of my presi  but he also said he viewed his election As a mandate against new taxes. He said he has t decided on a defense Secretary despite news reports he will name sex sen. John Tower of Texas. New Hampshire nov. John Sununu who Wilt be Bush s Chic of Shaft told re porters the vice president still was looking at a lot of people for the Post. A spokeswoman for Tower said he was on hold  hush and Salinas used upbeat Lan Guage to describe their two hour session at he Johnson space Center in Texas. They gave few specifics in Brief remarks afterwards but Bush aides said topics in eluded drugs immigration Trade and Mexico s si02 billion International debt. "1 am absolutely confident after this initial visit that we re both committed to improving a bilateral relationship that is essential in my a jews As far As the United states of America is concerned bus said. Salinas called the session a positive respectful and cordial dialogue which Iam certain will do a great Deal to improve the relations Between Mexico and the United  thanked Salinas for coming to his Hometown. Salinas who has degree from Harvard University invited the vice president to visit him in Mexic City. Before tuesday s meeting Bush had called it the first of Many important president elect George Bush confers with mexican president elect Carlos Salinas it Cortaro during in informal meeting tuesday in i Loushin. Bilateral meetings with world leaders. In Toronto Mulroney fresh from his Victory on monday said he had spoken to Bush by Telephone and was willing to meet with him before the Bush s inauguration Jan. 20. Accompanying Bush were Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady whom Bush has announced will keep that Job and James a. Baker 111, Bush s Choice for Secretary of state. Aides said the lunch session Between the to presidents elect would Likely cover Trade the ailing mexican Economy and drug enforcement. But Bush himself said in Advance thai there was no specific Agenda. Speaking with reporters on the trip from Washington he said the meeting was just a visit to Manifest the importance 1 place in our Mcxican-u.5. Rela  addressing the Republican governors association in Point Clear Ala. Bush said the . Relationship with Mexico is very very important. We must never Lake in for  As 1 look at the world we must never neglect our friends in this hemisphere in our own front Yard Bush said mentioning Mexico and Canada. He told inc governors group the out come of the Canadian elections was a spectacular win for Mulroney and a endorsement by canadians of the free Trade pact negotiated by Mut Roncy an the Reagan administration. In his address to the cop governors. Bush said in addition to engaging nearly deficit reduction talks with con Gress he planned to Convene a Confer ence of All 50 governors to discuss Educa Tion. As for Federal slate relations. Bush promised to continue what Ranald Rea Gan and i began in 1980 to Stop the How of Power to Washington and re turnip where it belongs to the  Bush told reporters he had made no decision on his defense Secretary and indicated there would be no announce ment this week. He said he Hopes to finish naming his Cabinet within a month but expressed mild irritation about Reading these Sto Ries about what 1 have  someday somebody will understand that i set How those things Are going to work he said. The Tower Story is not right. No decision has been made Dush added. Pressed on inc subject later at a photo session with Salinas Bush said Only that he wanted a person As defense Secretary who will fulfil the defense initiatives discussed in the  Bush travelled to Texas on the same aircraft that carried president Kennedy s body and president Johnson Back fro Dallas 25 years ago tuesday Delta much improved still deficient Faa says new York not a government Agency winding up a inspection prompted by an aug. 31 crash that killed14 people said on tuesday that Delia air lines had made significant safety improvements but that numerous deficiencies uncovered a year ago had still not been corrected. The deficiencies cited by the Agency the Federal aviation administration were actually discovered in a 1�b7 sur vey that followed several hazardous Inci dents involving Delta planes. The report by an Faa team said that1delta had taken major actions that had improved pc rations and training compared with a year ago. But it added that some of these actions had not yet been fully carried out or had not yet be come effective the team observed competent performances in the majority of Delta cockpits and an improvement in Delta s Overall operation the report said. However the team observed lapses in Crew coordination and discipline in a Small but significant percentage of  for example it said inspectors had seen cases in which Crews had reviewed flight preparation checklists from Mem Ory instead of from a written tabulation. It also reported inadvertent lapses of Crew  a checklist covers a lengthy series of actions or verifications Crew is required to perform in preparing for successive phases of a night Suchias checking the proper positions of Many controls and switches. The latest Faa report will be a Pri Mary exhibit at a hearing the National transportation safety Board will con duct next week on the August crash which occurred at the Dallas fort wort International Airport. " the Delta plane a Boeing 727, faltered just after lifting into he air fell Back to the ground and skidded to a flaming Stop about3,000 feel beyond the end of the Amway. While 14 of those on Board were fatally. Injured the other 94, including the three pilots managed to gel out. Evidence produced in the Investiga-.". Lion of the crash by the safety Board showed that the plane s flaps which pro vide extra lift in takeoffs were not Civ tended properly Jim Cindy a Delta spokesman said of the latest aviation Agency report we arc in Basic agreement with  asked about the charge that deficiencies found a year earlier persisted in some instances he said some of the things we have done take time. This is nol something you can implement  Sands of time diver May have . Cooper s Parachute Vancouver Wash. A diver seeking clues to the Fate of . Cooper the Hijacker who disappeared 17yean ago says he found a Small Parachute in the Columbia River about Amile upstream from where s5.soq of Cooper s Ransom washed up in t.980. The diver 33-year-old Curtis Raincy of Portland. Ore., was working for Rich Ard Tosaw a lawyer from Ceres calif.,who has spent each thanksgiving season for seven years searching for Cooper . A the Nylon Pilot Parachute used for deploying the main canopy of a Parachute such As the one Cooper Hadr was found monday about 5 Miles West of. Vancouver on the Washington Side of the River Raincy and Tosaw  parachuted out Ofa Northwest air lines 727 with $200,000 in Ransom Money on thanksgiving Eye in 1971. Except for the waterlogged Bill that washed up on the Banks or the Columbia nine years later no Trace of him has overturned up.  admitted there could be Man explanations for the discovery but he noted it was the most interesting piece of evidence he s found since he made the Cooper search his Hobby,-.- the interesting thing is it was found in a place where be pretty much has Tobe give or take a mile or so he said Raincy plans to have the Parachute examined by Earl Cossey who packed Cooper s Parachute. V we talked to him last night Tosaw said tuesday. He said he could t say without looking at it. We re going to show in to him thursday he Saiof he could Tell in five seconds if it s part of the  " Tosaw who has written a Book titled ". Cooper dead or alive said methinks Cooper drowned and his remains became Hung up on one of the rows of pilings that extend into the River about every half Milc to prevent erosion. The Parachute was found shagged among such pilings about a mile up Stream from the Beach where 8-year-old Brian Ingram bund 15,800 of Cooper Sloot in 1980, Tosaw said. In the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Nov 24, 1948 the . Delegation to the United nations disclosed it would oppose efforts to make Spanish a work ing language of he organization due 10the increased Cost of $1 million per year. 30 years ago today. Nov. 24. 1958 at on auction inner York Pablo Picasso s Early painting of Mother and child was Purchase for s152.000 by new York Art dealers. Rosenberg and slice cd. 20 years ago today. Nov. 24, 1968 president Charlesze Gaulle defiantly resisted an onslaught of speculative pressure against his nation currency and declared he would not devalue the franc. To years ago today nov. 14, 1978 the coffin of  Ryan d-calif., killed in the tragic series of events in Jonestown Guyana was carried through a crowd outside a South san Francisco Church. .