European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 8, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday june 8. 1991 the stars and stripes Page 3 Washington apr members of Congress Are skipping one of their favorite junkets this year a the Paris air show a opting to stay Home when headlines about government travel Are More miserable than Washington a summer heat. Only two lawmakers told the . Embassy in Paris that they a be attending the worlds Premier air show. The last show in 1989 attracted a 100-member congressional delegation. Rep. Dante b. Fascell d-fia., chairman of the House foreign affairs com Mittic said Many members Are not going because a i Don t think anybody wants to get beat up by the news Media. -. A a Fascell himself has attended past shows but decided not to go this year because a i can to find the  some House and Senate members blamed the sparse attendance on recent news stories about White House chief of staff John Sununu a travels on government air planes. The articles Dis closed that Sununu frequently used military planes even for vacations and trips to the dentist other reasons Given for avoiding this years air show a Republican senatorial Golf and Tennis fund raising event at Williamsburg va., june 14-16 the press of congressional business fathers Day on june 16. The air show known for its Aerial demonstrations stationary displays and parties runs from june13-23. Sen. Malcolm Wallop. R-wyo., is scheduled to attend As president Bush s official representative at the show and _ will officially open the us. Pavilion at Lebourget Airport. Also scheduled to attend is rep. Joseph Mcdade of Pennsylvania the ranking Republican on the House appropriations committee and also the top gop member of the panel s defense subcommittee. A at the 1989 show the congressional delegation a including spouses and aides a numbered about 100, Accord. Ing to Jerry Prillaman press attache at the Paris embassy. Fascell called the air show Quot an important trip that exposes lawmakers to the military capabilities of other countries. But he added Quot it s unfortunate that because of the administrations problems with. Summit s trips that this trip is a washout. 1, done to think any Tody a going and i can to blame  Sci. Don Nickles r-okla., commented a i imagine it has a lot to do with the Sununu Public disclosure. Air travel and junket costs have greatly reduced the number of pleasurable junkets. Weil still have travel for arms control and other legitimate trips but for marginal trips members will find something else to  Wallop said he asked several colleagues to be part of the official delegation but they declined. The Wyoming Republican said he did t ask senators Why they refused but ing Paris he noted the Republican fund raising event was scheduled during the show. "1 would argue that More ought to go.�?�, he said because the . Aircraft Industry has a lucrative foreign Trade. Rep. Lee Hamilton. A ind chairman of the House foreign affairs subcommittee on Europe and the Middle  the Sununu publicity a had an Impact because it Quot made members More cautious Quot about attending. Quot that a probably the a a most visible congressional t rip a he said sen Nancy Kassebaum a Kan. Said the Paris air show trip Quot was always viewed As being   she added Quot everything s gotten expensive not Only companies but members Are looking at it travel with a More critical  sen. Fed Stevens a Alaska said he thought of attending but pointed out that june 16 is fathers Day. Quot family obligations Are too Strong a he said. Baker delivers Bush s new ideas on Start Geneva apr president Bush offered a a new ideas Friday to the soviet Union to try to conclude an elusive mis Sile reduction treaty but the two sides acknowledged they had much work ahead before the pact could be signed at a summer Summit. Secretary of state James a. Baker Iii said he did not even discuss the timing of the Moscow Summit with his soviet counterpart during three hours of talks an indication of the amount of ground still to be covered. \ Bush and soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev postponed the Summit last february partly because the treaty was not ready and . Officials indicated on Friday that the meeting was unlikely before next month. Soviet foreign minister Alexander a Bessmer Nyoh said he would promptly convey the undisclosed proposals Bush outlined in a letter to Gorbachev. He said there would be a Quick reply from his government concerning the strategic arms reduction treaty that has been under negotiation for nearly a decade. A the two governments have decided to concentrate very actively on completing the Start agreement a Bessmer Nyoh said As a Light rain fell outside the soviet Mission where he had met with Baker. Bessmer Nyoh said the sticking Points we re sub Stan t Ive As Wel i As technical indicating a serious discrepancy Between the two superpowers position on How to reduce their arsenals of Long Range nuclear missiles bombers and submarines by about 30 percent. He said the two sides would upgrade their negotiating teams Here and that experts would be added to the discussion of one of the toughest remaining problems How much information from missile bight tests is to be exchanged while prospects for a breakthrough on the treaty were unclear Baker Ami Bessmer Nyoh faced a possible setback on another front. Word was circulating in Israel that a prime minister Yitzhak Shamir Hail rebuffed a proposal by Bush to give the United nations a role in the Middle East peace talks that Baker and Bessmer Nyoh have tried for months to set up. Ies on fear and race for political gain Jackson says he a no King Tut workers unload a 5,000-Pound statue of Baineses the great near the base of the great american Pyramid which is under construction in Memphis. Tenn. The statue is a replica of the original in egg it. Baineses the great ruled from ancient Memphis in Egypt about 33 centuries ago. A a Washington a Jesse Jackson said Friday that president Bush is practising a the politics of fear and race that would eventually Lead the nation to hatred and violence. In the keynote address to the Rainbow coalition convention Jackson also said the persian Gulf War Cost billions of dollars a yet failed to bring peace and stability to the Middle  he spoke just 24 hours before the Gulf War Victory Parade at which Hundred of thousands of people were expected to line streets to Welcome . Troops Back from the War against Iraq. Hundreds of marines were staying at the hotel there Jackson spoke. Sen. A1 Gore d-tenn., one of the few democrats who voted in favor of the. Use of Force in the persian Gulf told the meeting Quot i believe this country feels Good about the fact we Are welcoming Home the men and women who fought in the persian Gulf. Quot we re saying to them a Ami at Long last to the Vietnam veterans a Welcome Home a said Gore one of several potential Jackson democratic presidential candidates invited to speak at the Rainbow convention. Quot we Are now facing a White House that consciously uses the polities of fear and race to Divide the country in Pursuit of electoral Victory a Jackson said. Quot Raee bait politics divides and distracts a he added. Quot and it works Short Temu false Comfort Lor ignorance and fear leads to hatred and  As the founder and president of the Rainbow coalition Jackson was never far from the spotlight lie also decided who spoke and when which was bad news Tor gov. Bill Clinton of Arkansas. A Clinton was the Only Likely contender for the 1992 democratic presidential nomination who was t invited to speak. A t it was Sweet Rev cime for Jackson who was denied a Chance last month to address the democratic readership Council which Clinton Heads. A we invited everyone we knew who was expressing some interest in 1992,�?� said Jackson who said he did no to know Clinton was interested in running Tor president. _ in addition to Gore sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia also was on the Agenda. A. House majority Leader Richard Gephardt of Missouri who says he a unlikely to run in 1992,. And sen. Lorn Harkin of Iowa who says he a considering it appeared on thursday giving their Standard stump speeches. _ a. Former Massachusetts sen. Paul Tsongas the Only declared candidate for the democratic nomination invited Jackson and any other democrats to join him. Quot the democratic party has a responsibility to Field. The Best team that it can out there in the primaries a Tsongas said. ,. Jackson proclaimed himself Quot the front runner in. The race for the nomination but Sai it la e has not decided whether to make a third run for the. White i Louse. Goes. L. Douglas Wilder of Virginia and Mario Cuomo of new York were unable to appear. At his opening hews  said he sees Little difference Between the democratic and rep Sibli can parties. His comment Drew an implied rebuke from democratic National chairman. Ronald 11. Brown who was Jackson s convention manager when the. Democrats met in Atlanta in 19.ss to nominate Michael Dukakis for president. Lira luncheon speech As Jackson sat a Lew feet away Brown talked of people who say Quot it does t really matter what party it  r Quot i Here a nothing wrong with honest sincere debate among  the Patty chairman said. But he added. 1 done to know any institution in the world where its members Are harder on each other than they Are on our real adversaries. We be got to change  ,. Quot