European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 8, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday january 1989 the stars and stripes Page 3 Bush names key envoys fills state department jobs Washington a president elect Bush announced nominations for top ambassador ships and state depart ment jobs Friday including the selection of his longtime National Security adviser Donald p. Gregg As ambassador to South Korea. In another matter Bush said he will go before a joint session of Congress soon after his Jan. 20 inauguration to spell out his idea of a flexible freeze on spend ing to bring Down the Federal budget deficit. The Gregg nomination could spark controversy because of the former Central intelligence Agency officer s involvement in the Iran Contra affair while he served on the vice president staff. Bush also named Lawrence s. Eagle Burger a protege and associate of Henry Kissinger to be Deputy Secretary of state but gave no Indica Tion of when he will fill the two remain ing Cabinet level vacancies of Energy Secretary and drug Czar. Eagleburger was a career foreign service officer who Rose to the no. 3 Job in the state department As under Secretary for Politi Eagleburger Cal affairs in 1982 before retiring in 1984 to join Kissinger in a consulting Busi Ness. He is president of Kissinger associates inc. The transition office also announced that Bush will nominate Henry e. Catto a former White House protocol chief As ambassador to Britain and Vernon a. Walters the departing . Ambassador As ambassador to West Germany. The president elect was remaining out of the Public Eye Over the weekend. On Friday evening he surprised his wife Barbara on their 44th wedding anniversary by taking her out to dinner with friends at a posh italian restaurant Tibe Rios followed by seeing the play sheer madness at the nearby Kennedy Cen Ter said a Bush spokeswoman Alixe Glen. Earlier Friday Bush told reporters that he will unveil ideas for reducing the deficit to a special joint session of con Gress after his inauguration but gave no Date. Bush will not make a state of the Union address until next year but aides said they expect the new president to address Congress a few weeks after the inauguration. While expressing support for presi Dent Reagan s decision to Back a 50 per cent pay increase for members of con Gress and other top Federal officials Bush said he May review the pay question when he is president. Related Story Page 7. I Don t know whether we can afford anything other than to get this deficit under control he said adding that when the Buck is stopping on my desk i May have something else to say about it. On monday Reagan will Send con Gress a lame Duck $1.2 trillion budget for fiscal 1990. Administration officials say it will hold the deficit to $92 billion. I won t have time to submit a Bud get this thick said Bush holding his hands a foot apart. But i will have time to Analyse the president s proposals a budget incidentally that will go up there without raising taxes and say Here s what i la add Here and take off a Little there something of that  fiscal 1990 begins oct. 1,1989. White House spokesman Marlin Fitz water said Reagan will propose eliminating 80 programs Many of them survivors of past Reagan hit lists. I hasten to emphasize that this is a Reagan administration budget and not a Bush administration budget said Fitz water who will also be Bush s spokes Man. Bush will make some alterations and change some priorities Fitzwater said but this is not a Good cop  also Friday Bush briefly told re porters that Iran Contra prosecutor Lawrence Walsh did the right thing in moving to drop two key charges against Oliver North because of National Security concerns. Related Story Page 2. I think he properly found that there Are legitimate National Security interests that need to be protected the vice president said. Bush s appointments Friday include five top positions at the state depart ment under Bush s Secretary of state Des Ignate James a. Baker Iii. In addition to Eagleburger the others nominated for state department posts Are Robert b. Zoellick As Counselor. He served As a Treasury official under Baker and issues director for Bush s Campaign. Margaret d. Tutwiler As assistant Secretary for Public affairs and spokeswoman for the state department. Vernon a. Walters. New envoy to West Germany she is a former assistant Treasury Secre tary who also served under Baker at the White House. Janet g. Mullins As assistant Secre tary for legislative affairs. She is director of congressional relations for the presi Dent elect and was Deputy National Polit ical director and Media director of his Campaign. Dennis b. Ross As director of the policy planning staff with ambassadorial rank. He was Bush s National Security adviser during the Campaign and a Mem ber of the National Security Council staff from 1986 to 1988. The transition office also announced that Bush is keeping m. Alan Woods As head of the Agency for International development and nominating Joseph Verner Reed or. As chief of protocol. All of the posts except Ross s re quire Senate confirmation. Reed does not have to be reconfirmed. 3 nations give Plo embassy status Amman Jordan a Jordan China and Qatar announced saturday they will upgrade Palestine liberation organization missions in their capitals to embassies bolstering Plo chairman Yasser Arafat s peace initiative. Eight countries now have Given embassy status to the Plo. The others Are saudi Arabia Algeria Bahrain Iraq and the United Arab emirates. They Are among about 70 countries that have recognized the Independent palestinian state proclaimed in novem ber by the Palestine National Council the Plo s parliament in exile. Boundaries of the still symbolic pales Yasser Arafat salutes the palestinian Flag flying Over the new embassy in Amman. Tinian state have not been defined. Offi Cial radio Jordan said that at King Hus Sein s direction Jordan has decided to consider the Plo office in Jordan the embassy of the state of  Plo sources said Arafat would Lay the embassy s Cornerstone in Amman on saturday. China s Xinhua news Agency quoted a foreign ministry spokesman As saying Beijing s move will strengthen Friendly relations Between the chinese and pales Tinian people. China Long has been a supporter of the Plo and other Arab causes. It says it will not normalize relations with Israel until it returns land seized in the 1967 Israel Arab War. Qatar s foreign ministry said the Plo office in Doha was upgraded because of the persian Gulf state s desire to bolster the National legitimate rights of the palestinian people especially their right to self determination and establishing their Independent state on their National  leaders of the 13-month-old palestini an uprising in the israeli occupied West Bank and Gaza on saturday called on european countries to upgrade Plo offices there to embassy status. France on thursday elevated the Plo s representation in Paris to Gener Al delegation of  that fell Short of diplomatic recognition but still was considered a significant political response to Arafat s moderate policies. Earlier saturday Hussein met Arafat at the government guest House in Amman to review the challenges facing the Arab Community in addition to bilateral relations Jordan s official Petra news Agency reported. Jordan s prime minister Zaid Rifai was present with several Plo executive committee members. . Warships Stop in Israel for leave Jerusalem up thou Sands of sailors from the . 6th Fleet were in Israel on saturday for Shore leave including service members from the John f. Kennedy the aircraft Carrier involved in the skirmish with libyan Jet fight ers. The Kennedy which arrived with two other Fleet vessels Friday in Haifa was the aircraft Carrier from which two Navy f-14 Tom cats departed before shooting Down two libyan Mig-23s Over International Waters wednesday. . Embassy spokesman Don Cofman in Tel Aviv said the four Day port Call for the Kennedy the nuclear powered guided missile Cruiser Bainbridge and the guided missile destroyer Macdonough had been scheduled for several months and was unrelated to the libyan incident. Another 6th Fleet ship the ammunition ship Santa Barbara is scheduled to arrive sunday. Sixth Fleet sailors often participate in Community activities such As repair and maintenance of hospitals and other institutions during their Haifa port Calls but this visit will be too Short for such events said Uso spokeswoman Rachel Tabor Stirber. Members of the Fleet however visited children at Rambam hos Pital shortly after their arrival Fri Day