European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 28, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Qualms Over Quayle by Susan Page new Day v ice president Dan Quayle was standing Ina 1 Jyh door room of the Dell Vuc hotel i Philadelphia and talking la it into the phone urging a  senator in washing onto oppose a  on cambodian Aid being considered by the foreign relations committee i Veur a been Over  " Quayle was saying gesturing Lorce Lully to no one in particular this is not what pc need it s it Gong to complicate our efforts there " there were 850 people eating Salmon and asparagus at a world Al mrs Council luncheon in a ballroom downstairs wailing Lor Quayle to deliver what had been promised to he a map address on his 12 Day tour of Australia. Indonesia. Singapore and Thailand it was his first trip to Asia but the vice president who visited a cambodian refugee Camp on tie thai Border Ono Day and met Prince Norodom Sihanouk exiled ruler of Cambodia on another was All avid attention Asho relayed his new found expertise to the senator a smile spread Over Quayle s Laco As the senator promised to reconsider his support of Iho measure backed by foreign relations chairman Claiborne Pell. Dri which would ban u s Aid to any coalition government in Cambodia that included the Khmer Rouge. J. Danforth Quayle who As Iho gop vice presidential nominee became the butt of what an analyst called almost a gone of humor is As Earnest As a boy Seoul Asho Bailies to overcome his re Pullion As an intellectual lightweight and political embarrassment to president Bush s administration. Sometimes that leads to a Litlo hyperbole i m one of the few people in our country who has been Over hero knows the complexities of the Issue has spoken with the leaders and knows whal needs to be  Quayle said in an interview with new Day. Explaining his new interest in Cambodia there Are very lev people who have that kind of  actually. Vice president Waller Mondale and first lady Rosalynn Carter each visited the thai Camps during the Carter admits Lvalion Jimmy Carter himself visited the Camps alter he loll office and dozens of senators and representatives have poured them since the exodus of refugees irom Cambodia Vietnam and. Loos reached crisis proportions More than a decade ago Bui Quayle describing himself As one of a new generation of leaders coming to Power around the world would not be deterred his Visil to the sprawling refugee Camp known As site b was a very important  to declared he said he had succeeded to some Exlene in raising the consciousness of americans about Cambodia that trip which in Lack garnered the. Most publicity when Quayle greeted a crowd of american samoans As Happy campers was part of a concerted Effort by Quayle and the while House to show that the vice president is a serious and substantive Public figure worthy of respect publicly that plan has included a lot of travel around the country to attend political fund raisers speak at vice president Dan Quayle meeting during his asian tour with exiled cambodian Leader Norodom Sihanouk. Of National Mollico has not Boon answered yet. For several months Aller Iho election Quayle studied the Job meeting with Lormer vice presidents Richard Nixon Gerald Ford Walter Mondale and conferring Wilh former while House advisers. He hired a highly regarded Stafl. He formed a close Alliance Wilh Bush s chief of staff. John Sununu. A fellow conservative who has taken his own lumps in the Media. Since then. Oua Ylo has received generally High Marks for his performance. Particularly in contrast to the Low expectations Sot during the Campaign. While it is hard to judge How seriously Bush takes Quayle s counsel the president has made sure the vice president is invited to key meetings including those on the crisis in Panama and encouraged to express his views. His voice is one that s listened to very carefully in the policy councils in the while House said James w. Cicconi. Ono of Bush s top aides. Another White House official said that Bush in particular has turned to Oua Ylo for his reaction on How proposals will play in the Media and with conservatives. Commencement exercises to named father of the  tour Day care a colors Lay wreaths visit schoolchildren and speak to civic groups. To already has made two foreign trips to latin America As Well Aslo Asia and is planning additional ones perhaps next to Africa privately he has been speaking out in while House policy deliberations in a Way George Bush As vice president never dared Oua Ylo pushed Iho administration to pursue Tho proposal dubbed Brilliant pebbles thousands of Small missiles orbiting in space that would attack incoming warheads As part of Tho strategic defense initiative. He also urged a hard Lino against Compromise in the minimum wage Ballilo with Congress. And he says to intends to play a major role in Selling space policy 35 head of Tho new Cabinet level National space Council. But the headway Quayle has made to Date underlines just How far to has to go. Several recent National polls show Tho vice president Lias gained no ground on the question of whether he is qualified to be president a a oily of americans still says to in to according to a Gallup poll in May. Tho polls also show no increase in the percentage of americans who say they hold a favourable opinion of him 33 percent in one television network Survey conducted last month just 15 percent in another. But they do show thai a declining proportion View him Una adorably. More than one in three americans now say they have no impression of Quayle at All Quayle s lop advisers interpret this As Good news As Iho creation of a Blank slate on which Quayle can write even his critics say Quay la was never the a reply headed Golf crazy Guy to was sometimes portrayed to be during Tho bruising Campaign last All in a study of Quayle s congressional career completed before Bush selected him As his running mate political scientist Richard of Fenno or. Of the University of Rochester concluded thai  undistinguished terms As a u s representative Quale became a serious member of the Senate enthusiastic optimistic impatient and conservative but willing to Challenge conservative nostrums. But the question of How he plays on Iho bigger Slago sunday May 28, 1989 sceptics remain. I suspect he s learning said Paul c. Light Assoc Ialo Dean of Tho Hubert h. Humphrey Institute at the univer Sinyol Minnesota and author of a Book on Iho vice presidency. But is Dan Quayle today prepared to step Inlo the office of the presidency which is the fundamental and primary responsibility of Iho office i d say not yet " he questioned whether Quayle Ever would be a truly influential vice president. I Ihrk he s Olf to a pretty Good  demurred Richard Moo. A democratic strategist who served As chief of staff for Mondale when he was vice president. James Cannon a Republican Sara Togiol who was a top Senate aide when Quayle arrived there agreed i think he has succeeded in beginning Iho re evaluation of Dan Quayle Public person to said. That s just line Wilh Quayle who still bristles Al the mention of Iho Campaign in which questions about his mediocre academic record and his National guard service dominated. It s a Long process and one that i m in no hurry to turn around because i have plenty i time he said. I feel we re Oil to a relatively Good  the stars and stripes Page 17