European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 12, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday june 12, 1991 the stars and stripes b Page 5after election Kemp wants a new Job Washington apr housing Secretary Jack Kemp said monday that he would like a new Cabinet Post after next year s presidential election. Kemp who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 1.988, went out of his w a in an interview to say he planned to support a Bush ticket next year that includes vice president Dan Quayle. A i do want to help Bush and Quayle president and vice president the Bush Quayle ticket get re elected in �?T92,�?� Kemp said in an interview. Kemp a former professional football quarterback and nine term congressman from update new York did not say what he would like to do next. Quot obviously you serve at the presidents pleasure so you have to do pretty much what he asks you to do a Kemp said. Quot i have also said parenthetically i Don t want to spend the rest of my life at Hud so i guess that was kind of a signal that in the second term of Bush a administration i might like to do something equally exciting and he also did not Rule out the possibility of running for office again but did not say what office he might seek. Quot i would if it were the right thing to do a Kemp a. A. A a Quot -. A a a a in a not going to play games with you a he said. A i m just going to say i Don t know. I done to want to apse the option or close out the option. I done to want to Send any silly Little signals that in a a sitting around plotting a future run. I m not. A those things have got to be spontaneous. If its the right thing to do and its the right time to do it it la obviously you serve at the presidents pleasure so you have to do pretty much what he asks you to do m a Hud Secretary Jack Kemp open up to me and if not 1 can be very Happy having had three Good careers football. Congress and the Bush Cabinet a Kemp said. A it Isnit so much the right office As much As whether i be got to decide whether i love serving in the Bush Cabinet As whether or not 1 Ever want to run Kemp called the department of housing and Urban. Development a a swamp Quot when he got the Job two years ago. He still compares that to cleaning out the stables of augers one of the 12 labors of Hercules in greek mythology. For eight years under the Reagan administration and then Secretary Samuel j. Fierce jr., Hud had been be elected by the White House but was besieged by the a s a. A a. V a a a Well connected try ing to make a Buck. A special prosecutor is still sifting through the wreckage of influence peddling mismanagement and theft left behind by the Tierce years. Kemp said he and his predecessor have not talked in. The past two years and while he blames fierce for what happened he feels sorry for him and Calls him a a decent and very honorable Public a i done to think he Ever personally took a Penny out of Hud a Kemp said. A however you cannot look at the mistakes of the previous decade and not Lay the blame for these mistakes at he previous Hud Secretary Quot Paul Adams Hud s inspector general just sent report saying that a a significant Progress has been made by Secretary Kemp to instill competence ethics and accountability into programs and . A a. A a a a Adams who also was inspector general under fierce said monday that Hud is a better place to Wank in than it used to i think it s substantially improved a he said. Kemp credits Bush with setting the ethical tone for the department even though some of those who reaped the Money flowing from 11ud during the fierce years were associates of the then View president. The influence peddling has stopped he said a it is a lot easier to say no a Kemp said. A and i done to get any pressure from the White. House other than to do the right Quot Council oks higher taxes Connecticut City in Bridgeport Conn. A property owners in the states largest City which filed for bankruptcy Protection last week will face higher taxes under a plan the City Council adopted monday night. The Bridgeport common Council voted 9-8 to impose a 5 percent increase in property taxes that already Are the states highest a a a a a. The Council rejected an 18 percent increase recommended by a state panel that in the stars and stripes oversees the City a finances. Three Council members were absent. Mondays meeting was the councils first since mayor Mary c. Moran on thursday sought Protection for the City. From creditors under chapter 9 of Federal bankruptcy Law a the largest City Ever to take the step. Under the plan adopted monday residents will pay $63.30 for every $1,000 in assessed property value. Previously they paid $60.30. New Orleans singled out As vulnerable to hurricanes Tiara Han la up a of Mexico coastal communities should prepare last resort Refuge shelters for people who done to evacuate soon enough to escape a Hurricane. National Hurricane Center director Bob sheets said monday. He cited new Orleans As a specific example of vulnerability. A i done to think its reasonable for a local official to say a Sony folks our plan is you were going to be out but you re not out so you re on your i done to think that a reasonable a sheets said. Sheets said he understood the reluctance to accept moving people into High Rise structures but some sort of last resort Refuge should he worked out. 10 years ago june 12, 1981 a israeli prime minister Menachem begin said that the israeli air raid on an iraqi nuclear reactor also destroyed a secret facility the iraqis constructed 132 feet below the Structure to. Build nuclear weapons for use against Israel. 20 year Sago june 12, 1971 a Danang South Vietnam a second largest City was placed off limits to . Servicemen Bers by the . Military come after a major confrontation Between Gas and vietnamese civilians following a traffic Accident. 30 years ago june 12,1961 a sen. Henry m. Jackson d-wash., urged resumption of underground nuclear weapons testing a at the earliest possible Date a after continued delays by the soviet Union on negotiating a test ban agreement. 40 years ago june 12, 1951 a Britain a foreign Secretary admitted to a perturbed House of commons that a two week manhunt of Western Europe had not solved the mystery of two missing British foreign office House hopeful about hostages Washington apr the White House said monday that recent contacts with Syria and Iran have left it hopeful that the Western hostages in Lebanon might be released. I. But spokesman Marlin fit water added a we have not seen the White House welcomed a British initiative seeking Freedom for the 13 westerners held in Lebanon by shiite Muslim fundamentalists. They include six americans and four britons. A senior British foreign ministry official Douglas Plogg arrived in Beirut on sunday for talks with religious leaders and others believed to have influence Over the pro iranian said Hogg a Mission a fits in with the goals we have been trying to achieve As Fitzwater said Secretary of state James a. Baker Iii discussed the hostage Issue in recent talks with president Hafez Assad of Syria and . Officials also raised it in contacts with the iranians through the Swiss government in the last month. The longest held hostage is Terry Anderson chief Middle East correspondent for 111e associated press who was kidnapped on a Beirut Street in March 1985. Other contacts with the iranians have been through Swiss intermediaries he said since the United states does not have diplomatic relations with Iran. A that has occurred Over the last month or so and is the highest level and most recent overture a he added. Captive s 7th year marked Washington of a ceremony marking the beginning of hostage Thomas Sutherland a seventh year of Captivity was held monday at a memorial to lebanese american poet Khalil Gibran. Robert Polhill a former hostage released last year after 39 months in Captivity in Beirut took part in the event sponsored by the organization no greater love. ,. John Murray a Counselor a George Mason University in Virginia who is Sutherland a brother in Law briefly recounted the circumstances of Sutherland a capture. A a a a Sutherland the Dean of agriculture at american University in Beirut was seized june 9, 1985.ceremony organizer Carmella la Spada said the event was the first to be. Held in the Kahlil Gibran peace Garden since its dedication ago. There Are 13 Western hostages believed held in Lebanon. a fill hostage Thomas Sutherland a we be had some responses from Iran that suggest they would be willing to use their influence a fit water said. A a we be Tad some responses from Syria and others that there might be a release but we have not seen it. There have been no specific a we continue to pursue this matter at lower Levels through people who Are in the Region and continually working on it and we re hopeful that this latest series of contacts might have some usefulness Quot he said. A the. British Effort we certainly Welcome and i think it fits in with what we be been trying to achieve As Well a he added. Quot so we Are hopeful that they will be successful and we will be
