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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 4, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday May 4, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 7popular Gorbachev begin . Tour Santa Barbara Calif. A former president Reagan and former soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev one time superpower adversaries who helped end the cold War exchanged hugs and kisses saturday As Gorbachev began a 13-Day . Tour. Arriving aboard a private Jet named a capitalist tool a provided by Forbes inc., Gorbachev walked Down the ramp at Santa Barbara municipal Airport and hugged and kissed the former president and Reagan a wife Nancy. The reagans and Gorbachev and his wife Raisa chatted As about 500 people cheered from behind a Fence. A Gorbachev 1 think is the greatest Force for peace in the past 20 years a said Carmen Lodise 52, of nearby Isla Vista. Lodise carried a placard with the words a thanks Gorby on one Side and a peace Symbol on the other. Although the wives of the former presidents have been known for their sometimes Chilly relations there was no sign of animosity As they held hands smiled and talked. About 15 minutes after their arrival the Gorbachev left to spend the night at a private Home. They were to see the reagans again sunday morning when they tour Rancho Del Cielo the sprawling Reagan ranch 15 Miles North of Santa Barbara. Gorbachev a 13-Day . Tour is to include several speeches in seven cities. Its his first visit to the United states since he resigned As president of the soviet Union late last year during that country a final Days. He came to the United states at the invitation of Reagan who praised Gorbachev in a recent letter As a Man who a will live forever in  on sunday Reagan was to take the Gorbachev by jeep on a tour of the 600-Plusacre ranch. Today the Gorbachev Are to visit Reagan a presidential Library in Simi Valley 50 Miles Northwest of sex president Reagan greets former soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his wife Raisa at the Airport. Los Angeles. The visit is Gorbachev a third major International trip since he quit political office on dec. 25, 1991. Always popular abroad no matter what his standing at Home Gorbachev was warmly received during visits this year to Germany and Japan. Other stops on the . Trip include Washington and new York. Gorbachev is also scheduled to deliver a major speech in Fulton mo., where Winston Churchill delivered his a Iron curtain speech in 1946. Tie trips purpose was to offer Gorbachev 61, a Chance to see America in a Way not possible when he was in office said Jim Garrison who Heads the Gorba Gorbachev a . Trip Mikhail and Raisa Gorbachev Are visiting the following cities in the United states. Chev foundation Usa a san Francisco based nonprofit Agency sponsoring the visit. A the has been very explicit in his conversations with me that he wants to meet a Cross Section of americans that he  meet when he was president a Garrison said. Gorbachev has kept a Low profile since his resignation. But last week he disclosed he has no intention of retiring from Public life and hinted he May have a second political life similar to that of the late French president Charles de Gaulle. A de Gaulle returned to political life at 68.1 still have seven years left a Gorbachev  ties Bush Quayle Campaign to 88 cover up by Stephen Labaton the new York times Washington a in a footnote to the 1988 presidential Campaign a Federal prisoner tried to step Forward four Days before the election to assert that he had once sold marijuana to Dan Quayle. His accusation was never substantiated and he returned to the obscurity of his cell. But now evidence collected in connection with a lawsuit by the inmate Brett c. Kimberlin indicates that the Bush Quayle Campaign was involved in a decision by the highest official of the Bureau of prisons to silence Kimberlin and place him in solitary confinement. No evidence has surfaced to indicate that Quayle personally intervened in the Case although in recent Days his press Secretary David c. Beckwith has called several radio talk shows to Chal Lenge Kimberling a assertions. But government documents and testimony from officials of the Justice department the Bureau of prisons and the Campaign show that the director of the Bureau of prisons in Washington personally ordered Kimberlin into solitary confinement four Days before the election. He also cancelled a news conference that had been planned by authorities at the Federal correctional institution in Al Reno okla., where Kimberlin was imprisoned after a Campaign official complained about it to the Justice department. Evidence compiled recently supports Many of the allegations in the lawsuit parts of which have been reported in Legal times a weekly Trade publication for lawyers. It shows that Campaign officials were More nervous than they let on publicly about Lith hour accusations that Quayle used drugs. A a we re not concerned with the drug allegations a said Howard Rosenblatt Kimberling a lawyer with the firm of Arnold a Porter which has taken his Case without a fee As a Public service. A this is a first amendment Case and the evidence has been adding to the conclusion that Federal officials punished or. Kimberlin and locked him up to keep people from hearing what he had to  Kimberlin filed the lawsuit in Washington in 1990, asserting that cancelling his news conference and putting him in solitary confinement until after the election violated his first amendment rights. Courts have held and prison regulations generally require that prisoners be permitted to meet with reporters. Kimberlin was confined to a 4-by-6 foot cell late on the Friday evening before the election. Except for a Brief respite he remained there until six Days after the election. Kimberlin 37, was convicted of drug smuggling and explosives charges Ana began a 51-year prison sentence in 1979. His conviction came after a series of bombings in Speedway ind., a suburb of Indianapolis. He was eligible for release in 1989 after serving 10 years. The parole commission has scheduled his release for february 1994. Prison officials in Washington maintain that the actions of the Bureau director j. Michael Quinlan were not motivated by political interests. But they also acknowledge that Kimberlin is the Only known inmate to be placed in solitary confinement on orders from a Bureau director. Clinton still inching toward goal As Maine assures Bush nomination from wire reports Washington a president Bush clinched the Republican presidential nomination saturday More than three months before the August convention assuring his Success with a sweep of Maine a delegates. Bush added eight More delegates in Wyoming later saturday. A we did in fact beat out Wyoming and Maine is putting George Bush Over the top a a smiling gov. John r. Mckernan or. Told cheering delegates to the Republican state convention in Augusta. Democrat Bill Clinton still faced another month of campaigning to win enough delegates to guarantee him his party a nomination. Spokeswoman Dee Dee Myers said Clinton scamp does not elect to put the race on ice until june 2 primaries in California and five other states collectively offering 700 delegates. A a we re inching Ever closer a she said. In Maine on saturday Bush won every one of the states 22 delegates to the National convention. That gave him a total of 1,114 delegates nine More than needed to assure nomination according to an associated press count. In new Orleans meanwhile Clinton on saturday called the crisis in los Angeles a your fire Belg in the night and warned that millions in the inner cities have lost Contact with the values and aspirations of the rest of the country. Clinton made an impassioned plea for racial Concord emphasizing moral values Over government programs. Clinton also sought to turn the cause of a Safe streets into a crusade by both Blacks and Whites arguing that Urban disorder was one of the gravest problems facing Black America. A the people in the other America deserve the same Law and order that the rest of us demand a Clinton declared. Clinton charged that republicans had deepened racial divisions for political purposes and said that Republican economic policies had made social problems  blamed teacher for not graduating police say by the los Angeles times Olivehurst Calif. A As dropout turned gunman Eric Houston spoke with authorities this Rural farming town struggled saturday to make sense of Why the brooding Young Man who liked guns now stands accused of turning his deadly anger on a popular High school teacher and on students he did no to know. Yuba county sheriff Gary Tindel speaking at a saturday news conference said Houston waived hit right to a lawyer and was talking freely to detectives. But the sheriff could offer no explanation for the rampage at Lindhurst High school except to say that Houston z0, complained of failing to graduate and blamed teacher Robert Brens who had flunked him in a american history class in 1989. Houston is charged with four counts of murder. He was in the Yuba county jail saturday night with no bail set. Brens and three students were killed in the siege that lasted 8v4 hours Friday. Eight other students and an adult staff member were wounded. Armed with a 12-gauge Shotgun and a sawed off .22-caliber Rifle and carrying an ammunition Belt Over his shoulder a gunman killed Brens 28 Junior Judy Davis Sophomore Beamon a. Hill and senior Jason e. White  
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