European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 28, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday december 28, 1992_ commentary the stabs and stripes a Pagejr Bush s pardons won t deter Iran Contra probe by Pete Yost the associated press president Bush a Christmas eve pardons will not write the end he seeks to the Iran Contra Case that has plagued two Republican administrations. Pardons or not Independent counsel Lawrence Walsh sounds determined to continue his six year Pursuit of the arms for hostages affair and the cover up he claims has followed. It turns out that Bush a like Caspar w. Weinberger one of the six men he pardoned on thursday a apparently jotted notes of key meetings in the Iran Contra affair while he was vice president and has kept silent about their existence since. Walsh now accuses Bush of  the outgoing president says Walsh and his investigators have carried on far too Long and at $35 million Cost far too much. The Independent counsel said his office was informed a Only within the past two weeks on dec. 11, 1992,�?� that Bush had failed to produce his own a highly relevant contemporaneous notes to investigators. Walsh a office dropped this Bombshell two hours after the White House announced Bush was pardoning Weinberger and five others in Iran Contra. What does All this mean that the six year scandal wont go away. Walsh vowed to run Bush a notes to ground. So pardons or not there a plenty of material for Walsh to continue investigating a unless Bush moves before inauguration Day to fire him. Either Way it Means weeks a if not months a of Public attention focused on a scandal that began unfolding in 1986. A we will Check our options and we will not close it Down until we Are certain that that a the Only appropriate course a Walsh said in an interview on abcs nightlife show. Asked if action might be taken against Bush he said a the action will certainly be taken to learn the facts then Well see where the action  Walsh said his office in recent weeks has received some but not All of Bush a notes. While the statute of limitations on prosecuting alleged Iran Contra crimes has run out Walsh said it a can always be revived by a false statement under  the presidents democratic critics were Quick to react to his decision to Grant pardons. His decision a undermines the american system of Justice a said sen. Carl Levin a Mich. Quot the president unfortunately has left the impression. That the alleged felonies of perjury and the making of false statements to Congress Are not to be taken seriously a said Senate majority Leader George j. Mitchell a Maine. Letting Weinberger and the others off the Hook is a political Issue. But Bush a alleged failure to turn Over his notes a the same act which led to Weinberger a indictment a raises the stakes. It could mean a replay of the operation in which Walsh a office spent the first half of this year subpoena ing former Reagan administration figures for questioning in front of a Federal grand jury. There the witnesses were confronted with Page after Page of Weinberger a 2,000 pages of notes. The prosecutors work resulted in Weinberger a indictment. Whatever the outcome of a Battle Over Bush a notes Walsh a persistence is not in doubt. The pardons did no to change that. Correctness engenders a colourful Cabinet what no native american no aleut no Oriental Only one hispanic what can the Man be thinking of the Rao on William Jefferson Clinton As henceforth our Bill will formally be known is that his Cabinet is not politically Correct. To listen to such professional whiners bleat ers and bean counters As Eleanor c. Smeal former head of the National organization for women you would think the president elect is snubbing women and minorities. Its a bum rap. The trouble with la Smeal and her sister Terma Gants is that they re using the wrong calculus. If they would apply the von Spielberg inverse proportionate factors they would find that our Bill is running up a fabulous score. The von Spielberg system named for the legendary analyst Ludwig von Spielberg of Potsdam a that is Potsdam . Awards Points on a politically realistic basis in the selection of Cabinet nominees von Spielberg scores one Point Tor every White male two Points for every White female 2.5 for every hispanic male or female2.7 for every Black male and 4.0 Points for every Black female. James j. Kilpatrick at this writing the president elect has named five White males a Lloyd n. Bentsen to Treasury Robert Reich to labor Richard w. Riley to education Les Aspin to defense and Warren m. Christopher to state. For these nominations he has earned a Lousy five Points no More. We Are assured of one White female Donna Shalala to health and human services. Two Points for minorities. The Cabinet will have at least two Black males Ronald h. Brown in Commerce and Jesse Brown in veterans affairs. At the going rate of 2.7 Points per head von Spielberg will award the governor 5.4 Points for the minority team. Henry g. Cisneros hispanic will be Secretary of housing and Urban development. Two Points. It was on monday that our Bill showed his Mettle. By nominating Hazel of Leary to become Secretary of Energy a let us have a flourish of trumpets a he scored four Points. Four Points the nominee is not Only female but also Black. She alone almost offsets the five White males. What a Choice what balance what hokum. On the von Spielberg scale it is clearly evident that or. Clinton a critics have nothing to complain about. With three Cabinet slots yet to be filled the score was White males 5, oppressed minorities 13.9. By any rational appraisal we have an Avalanche a landslide a rout. Moreover because the von Spielberg inverse proportionate factors apply Only to Cabinet positions even this lopsided score is misleading. Madeleine Albright will be ambassador to the United nations and Carol Browner will head the environmental Protection Agency. The administrator of the Epa is not yet a Cabinet member but she soon will be. Her Elevation would be Worth another 2.4 Points a two for White female a Bonus 0.4 Points for flaming activist. With the nomination of Alice m. Riv Lin to be Deputy director of the office of management and budget or. Clinton gains something but not a great Deal. As a White female in a sub Cabinet Post she ordinarily would earn 1.2 Points on the von Spielberg extended scale but the system As adjusted for or. Clinton gives Bonus Points for activism and deducts Points for excellence. Rivlin thus loses four tenths of a Point because of her Superior intelligence. _ for purposes of invidious comparison it should be noted that White males dominated Jimmy Carters first Cabinet by 10 Points to 6. Under Reagan they led 12-2, under Bush 10-9. In an interview on the a George Brinkley show Quot on to last sunday professor von Spielberg elaborated upon his remarkable scoring system. In their present form his weighted inverse proportional factors Are simplified extrapolations of the Goodman triptych. That in turn was an outgrowth of the Koch single Wing with two tight ends and one sober end. A resist Ein Verr Dickt la Herlich Politisch Berech Nung a said professor von Spiel a patience a we tent two  ovum Row Berg a omit Leber und  asked for a translation the professor said simply but with an old world elegance re the ladies got nothing to fuss about but the indians a they got to do better than just tying for fourth in the american  c Universal press Syndicate