European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 26, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes sunday february 26,1989 Tower Bush prepare to do Battle hard hit nominee taking Public tack Washington a John Tower is going Public with his Campaign to become defense Secretary As president Bush vows to go face to face with wavering senators in an Effort to win enough democratic sup port to get Tower confirmed. Tower was booked onto a sunday morning network television interview show and is planning a speech probably tuesday at the National press club. Bush meanwhile said in Tokyo on saturday that he will meet individually with 10 or More democratic senators after he returns to the White House on monday from a four Day asian trip. Ill do it personally and i la do it As forcefully As i can the president said. I will encourage people to look at  some Tower opponents have said perceptions that he is a Drinker and a Womanizer and May have conflicts of interest Are valid reasons to vote against him even if they Aren t proved. That s not fair enough and that s not High enough a Standard when it comes to the confirmation of an important Nomi Nee of this nature Bush said. So i have made some Calls and i will be talking to whoever remains  the decision to assign a High profile role to Tower and have the president exert the Power of private Oval office meetings is part of a Battle plan worked out with sen ate Republican leaders to Salvage the Nomi nation or at least save face for a gop president on the Job Only a month. Senate minority Leader Bob Dole of Kansas detailed part of the plan on Friday hours after members of the Senate armed services committee dealt Tower a former colleague and one time chairman a crush ing blow. The committee voted 11-9 along party lines late thursday to recommend that the full Senate reject Tower s nomination. I cannot in Good conscience vote to put an individual at the top of the Chain of command when his history of excessive drinking is such that he would not be selected to command a missile Wing a Sac bomber Squadron or a Trident mis Sile submarine said sen. Sam Nunn d ga., chairman of the committee before other democrats echoed his View. Nunn also was booked onto a sunday talk show one airing in Washington in a time Slot just before the show featuring Tower begins on a rival network. On Friday Tower met at the White House with Dole and vice president Dan Quayle for a strategy session. Democrats hold a 55-45 majority inthe Senate meaning Bush must pick up at least five democrats to assure Tower s confirmation. Dole said he believed All 45 republicans were behind Tower. Dole said the White House is preparing a summary of a confidential Fri file on Tower that will be released in Hopes of showing that allegations against him Are baseless. Dole said Friday that a pitched partisan Battle could be an end to the honeymoon for both Georges the president and Senate majority Leader Mitchell of Maine. Nations to join Kohl coalition would lose majority protest against if elections were held now polls say Iran briton says London a a British official said saturday that other countries have agreed to join the 12 com Mon Market nations in withdrawing their ambassadors from Iran to protest Tehran s death threat against novelist Salman Rushdie. Sir Geoffrey Howe the foreign Secretary said aus Tria Finland and a number of other countries he did not identify have decided to remove their top envoy from Tehran. He spoke in a British broadcasting corp. Radio interview from Tokyo where he attended emperor Hiro Hito s funeral and met with representatives of various nations to seek support of the diplomatic move engineered by Britain. Howe also mentioned Norway Sweden and Canada but they already have recalled envoys for consultations. Rushdie born a moslem in Bombay India is a naturalized British citizen who lives in London. He has been hiding under police Protection since Iran s Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini called for his death saying his novel the satanic verses Blas themes islam. Iranian clerics placed a Bounty of up to$5.2 million on Rushdie s head. Meanwhile in Bombay on saturday police fanned out in Large numbers across the City to prevent further violence after Street protests against the novel left at least nine people dead and 40 injured Friday. Closed for inventory stars and stripes bookstores will be closed for inventory monday. The newspaper can be bought at other vending Points within the local communities. Hamburg West Germany a Chancellor Helmut Kohl s Center right coalition would lose its governing majority if National elections were held now according to two separate polls published saturday. In both polls Kohl s conservative Christian democrats and their bavarian sister party the Christian social Union lagged behind opposition social democrats. One poll gave the social democrats and leftist Green party enough votes to form a governing coalition. A poll released by the weekly news Magazine Der Spiegel said Kohl s party would receive 38 percent of votes if National elections were held sunday. Elections Are scheduled for december 1990. According to Der Spiegel the social democrats would get 41 percent and the greens 8 percent. The free democrats Kohl s Junior coalition partner came out with 9 percent. The Enid Institute conducted the Survey for the Magazine polling 2,000 v9ters Over 16 Days ending feb. 18. The Magazine did not give the margin of error. A poll released in Advance saturday by the Bild am sonntag newspaper gave the Christian democrats 35.5 percent the social democrats 39.3 percent the free democrats 8.4 and the greens 11.1 percent. Der Spiegel s poll gave the far right republicans 3 percent while the Bild am sonntag Survey predicted they would get 4.7 percent. The republicans garnered 7.5 percent of votes in Jan. 29 elections that won them their first seats in West Berlin s local legislature. Under West Ger Many s election Laws the republicans will automatically Send two deputies to the Federal parliament after the 1990 elections. Kohl s party lost its governing majority in West Ber Lin and the social democrats Are holding talks with the leftist alternative list similar to the greens on coalition City government. Kohl on saturday warned the social democrats against a coalition with what he called a Radical group that stands in a leftist socialist and anarchist Gray zone. Tragedy from Page 1 chairman of the House aviation subcommittee said the likeliest explanation for the Accident was stress failure perhaps complicated by maintenance prob lems. The missing Section of fuselage which included a cargo door appeared to have torn away along rivet lines he said. In july the government ordered airlines to improve cargo door lock systems on older Boeing 747s, saying the directive was prompted by a cargo door that partially opened in flight. United officials said they had followed the direct veto reinforce the doors. United spokesman Lawrence m. Nagin said the Jet had undergone a Complete four Day inspection 88 Days before the Accident and a less intensive Check on feb.16. It has no history of maintenance problems. This aircraft had a routine maintenance history Nagi told reporters in Chicago. Bush from Page 1 with 20 foreign leaders in the japanese capital had yielded a shared sense of satisfaction with the course of East West relations and Laid a Good foundation for advancing the Security interests of the United states and its allies. His Beijing talks were to focus on sino american ties with glancing Atten Tion to such Touchy topics As unification of Taiwan with the Mainland human rights in Tibet and Trade. Bush disclosed that he will meet in Beijing with cambodian opposition Leader Prince Norodom Sihanouk whom the United states favors As Leader of an interim government following a pullout of vietnamese occupation forces. The president said the United states is seek ing to prevent the chinese backed Khmer Rouge from returning to Power in Cambodia. At a separate meeting Secretary of state James a. Baker i and chinese foreign minister Qian Qicheng agreed that Vietnam should withdraw from Cambodia As soon As possible and expressed support for Sihanouk s peace efforts the chinese news Agency Xinhua reported. Bush s itinerary included meetings with the four leaders who Call the shots for China s government and communist party. His Agenda sunday includes a protestant worship service a private meeting with the Premier and a reciprocal banquet for chinese leaders featuring Texas barbecued ribs and Lone Star Beer. He also is scheduled to meet with senior Leader Deng Xiaoping attend a reception with . Embassy personnel and Confer with communist party Gen eral Secretary Zhao Ziyang. The first lady was to maintain a Sepa rate schedule for part of the Day visiting the childhood Home of China s last emperor up i and touring the forbidden City the sprawling walled residence of the Imperial rulers. On monday the president and his wife head to Seoul South Korea for a five hour visit that will conclude their far East trip. The korean government has put 120,000 police on Alert in anticipation of anti-. Protest demonstrations during the president s Stop. Before leaving Tokyo Bush held a news conference at the . Ambassador s residence where he vowed to continue the fight for defense Secretary Des Ignate John Tower s confirmation. Bush said he is firmly behind Tower whose nomination was rejected 11-9 by the Senate armed services committee on thursday. Bush said he has no fall Back planned except to lobby strongly with whoever has an open mind on  in fact White House press Secretary Martin Fitzwater told reporters accompanying Bush to China on air Force one that Tower would undertake a Public re lations offensive this week making a speech to the National press club and appearing on television interview pro Grams. He said Bush will meet with a dozen senators tuesday to seek support for Tower. Before leaving Tokyo Bush met briefly at the Imperial Palace with Japan s new emperor Akihito before sitting Down separately with presidents Jose Sarney of Brazil and Ibrahim Baban Gida of Nigeria bringing to 20 the number of foreign leaders he has met with in two Days. Summing up his fast paced diplomacy in Tokyo Bush said throughout All of our discussions. I found a shared sense of satisfaction. That East West relations Are now clearly proceeding on the basis of an Agenda favourable to the United states its allies