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Democrats eye Bayh for the presidency By RON GROSSMAN Chicago Tribune INDIANAPOLIS Gov. Evan Bayh is sitting in his study in the governor's mansion on the outskirts of Indiana's capital. Friends and foes have a hunch that the address just might be a stopover on the way to the White House for the young Hoosier, whose father, Birch Bayh, was the state's longtime senator and Bayh a Democratic contender for the Oval Office himself. "Is it right to distrust someone," a reporter might ask, "just because Recyclables he looks like a movie star and says all the right things? It's not his fault he was born with a ballot box in his mouth." A jaundiced eye comes with the journalistic territory. So, too, does an ear that recoils when politicians paraphrase the Boy Scout Handbook.

"History," Bayh says, fixing his gaze, "will look at our government deficits and ask why our generation spent the nation's riches. What are we going to reply?" Lacking an answer, one's temptation is to stare back and compulsively search for evidence that he has started shaving. It has been only two years since Bayh was elected governor, the youngest in the nation. Yet already, he is being considered for higher Acceptable Preparation Polystyrene Foam Egg cartons; meat, produce and deli GRADE trays; cups and plates only. Check containers for this symbol: All items must be washed and dried.

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Recycling program to begin in Muncie Marsh Supermarkets Inc. is enhancing its efforts to protect Related articles the environment with a new on page 3 community recycling program that will begin next weekend in Anderson and New The collection sites also will Muncie, accept steel and aluminum Castle. Under the called beverage and food cans and all program, colors of Recycle Plus, a variety of glass containers. will recyclable materials including accept Community and sort items volunteers taken to polystyrene foam, glass and the collection sites, to plastic containers, cans and according will be collected Tom Schamp, Marsh's program newspapers coordinator. first collection Muncie All polystyrene collected will monthly for reprocessing.

The in will be conducted from 9 a.m. to be processed for recycling by 3 p.m. next Saturday at the Lions Sep-R-Cycle in Richmond and Delaware County Fairgrounds. returned to Dolco Packaging in Decatur for use in In a news release, Mary Ann manufacturing new egg cartons. Pahud, co-chairman of the will be to Marsh Environmental Task Other materials given Rumpke Waste in Richmond to Force, for the was be distributed said Muncie chosen as a site program to recycling because of local interest in companies.

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1 awareness of polystyrene HDPE plastic containers, according to Marsh. Continued on page 8 office by a Democratic Party that held its own in last week's state and congressional elections but is starved for a presidential victory. Bayh might be regarded as a thinking man's Dan Quayle, a fellow Hoosier. Yet for all his charisma a and popular support, Bayh is an enigma even to political allies. His motto seems to be: If you don't know me, you can't hate me.

To date, it has been a winning strategy. At close range, it is hard to believe that Bayh will turn 35 the day after Christmas, especially when he's fresh from his daily run, a ritual he keeps even on the campaign trail. Wiping his brow with the sleeve of his sweatshirt, Bayh runs through a litany of his political objectives: He is for the environment, he worries about our kids' schools and he wants to rebuild the state's infrastructure, the deteriorating roads and bridges upon which its economy depends. "No, I haven't even thought about national office," he assures a reporter. "I just want to make: a contribution here." A reporter's mind toys with such adjectives as "pampered" and "arrogant." Then it comes up short with the realization: Wouldn't John F.

Kennedy have seemed similarly brash beyond his years when he was a young member of Congress from a well-connected family? In fact, the comparison is already being made by Democratic Party leaders, hungry for viable presidential candidates after decades of fielding also-rans every four years, with the lone exception of Jimmy Carter. Earlier this year, Bayh was invited to be the principal speaker at the Georgia Democratic Party convention, a rare honor for a firstterm governor from a non-Southern state. Charles Schroder, the party's executive director, reports that Bayh was a smash hit, although he arrived in Georgia hardly a household name even among political pros. "The sky is the limit for that guy," Schroder says. "With his performance at our podium, Bayh planted the seeds down here for the support he needs to go for national office.

He has all the tools: being raised in a political family and being so darn good-looking. Also, getting started as young as he has, he's got a jump on other presidential hopefuls of his generation." Such is heady praise for a man who is still a month short of being constitutionally eligible to be president. Yet Bayh has always set his life on fast-forward. His wife, Susan, reports that Evan alerted her to those biorhythms on their first date. "Our marriage is a kind of political fairy tale," Susan Bayh says.

"Our mothers became friends as delegates to the ill-fated Democratic convention of 1968 Chicago. So when I came to Washington, I looked Evan up and he took me on an outing to the national aquarium. He was working for a law firm but said he planned to go into politics, which meant being in Continued on page 8 THE MUNCIE Muncie, Ind. Saturday, November 10, 1990 evening press "Where the Spirit of the Lord Is, There is Cor. 3:17 The Muncie Evening Press 2nd Coats aide leaves over scandal By FRAN RICHARDSON Associated Press writer INDIANAPOLIS An 11th-hour campaign scheme labeled "clearly unethical" by Sen.

Dan Coats, R- has left two top aides out of jobs. Campaign manager La dick resigned Mike director of programs Coats, was in the aftermath of a pre-election telemarketing campaign Sharp, confirmed Coats hired iels law Mike and Connell, voter for fired Coats targeting Rep. Phil for defeat, aides the Baker and Danin Indianapolis to Goodall fails to get post State Rep. Hurley Goodall, D- Muncie, is likely to be reappointed assistant House floor leader after failing to gain the floor leadership job Friday. The House Democratic Caucus elected Rep.

John Gregg, D-Sandborn, floor leader during a meeting at the Indiana Statehouse. After being elected to his seventh term Tuesday, Goodall expressed interest in the leadership role. He has been assistant floor leader for the past two years. Goodall said Friday that he has been assured reappointment to the assistant leadership position by House Speaker Michael Phillips, D- Boonville. Goodall was in the running with Continued on page 7 Baker says By BARRY SCHWEID AP diplomatic writer PARIS Secretary Of State James A.

Baker III wound up a long diplomatic journey today saying the United States and its allies were making preparations to go to war with Iraq if its forces were not withdrawn from Kuwait. "I don't see how the message can be any clearer," Baker said after holding what he described as "a very positive and successful meeting" with President Francois Mit- investigate the controversy. "Senator Coats has asked that a careful examination be done to make sure there is nothing else connected to this that we don't already know," Coats aide Dave Hoppe said Friday. He declined to provide details of what the Coats camp has uncovered or to say specifically whether Laudick's resignation was forced. "It's fair to say a discussion of all the factual evidence was held with Mike last night and at the end of that discussion he tendered his resignation," Hoppe said by telephone from his Washington office.

Connell also was fired from his part-time job for the Indiana State Republican Committee, officials said. The firings came amid allegations Connell gave Matrixx Market- ing of Ogden, Utah, an anti-Sharp script that was read to thousands of Indiana voters for two days before Tuesday's election. The script, which attacked Sharp on various issues, was read to voters who responded that they supported Sharp rather than Republican challenger Mike Pence in the 2nd District congressional race. A Matrixx production assistant said scripts were provided by Connell. Coats said the scripts apparently were generated by Connell and Tony Payton, a member of the National Republican Congressional Committee.

Neither could be reached Friday. State Republican Party Chairman Keith Luse confirmed Friday that Laudick, who worked for the Pence campaign in 1988, contacted him shortly before the telemarketing campaign began to seek funding for the project. "I said no. in principle, have a problem with attack phone banks. Secondly, this would require a considerable expenditure of funds for the Pence campaign when I had other Republican candidates for Congress out there asking for money as well," Luse said Friday.

Sharp aide Bob McCarson said he was heartened by Coats's efforts to resolve the controversy. Sharp and Coats "spent eight years on the Energy and Commerce Committee. They're good friends. 1 I think he wants to get to the bottom of this just as much as we do. I appreciate his willingness to cooperate, and I know Congressman Sharp does," McCarson said.

Seedy tale of a hot tomato and the drip that got her mixed up with cops BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) These are hardly another call. And another. salad days for Montgomery County law officials. Deputies tracked down Linda Hurst at her Deputy sheriffs last week received an emergency mother's house.

call to Linda and Danny Hurst's home. They entered, I told them I'd locked my house and there their guns drawn, searching for whomever had shouldn't be anyone in there," she said. called dispatchers 10 times. Police, concerned that someone had broken in, The time: 1 p.m. The suspect was spotted hanging asked Mrs.

Hurst to meet them at her home. over the telephone in a wire basket, dripping juice She parked in front of the house and walked up to into the couple's answering machine. the front door. The caller? A bright, red, overripe tomato. "But they said, 'Ma'am, step back I "I didn't know the answering machine could even looked back and they had their guns drawn.

They dial out," Mrs. Hurst said. "It's just supposed to take were serious," Mrs. Hurst said. "They went through messages.

the house, but they couldn't find anybody so I went Police were testing the county's 911 system, inside." scheduled to begin operating at the end of the month, It was her brother who finally found juice when the dispatcher began receiving calls that were dripping from the tomato into the answering traced to the Hurst home. She called back, but the machine. line was busy. When she hung up, she received Continued on page 7 allies are terrand of France. "We have built a consensus, we have increased the pressure on Saddam Hussein," Baker said in a review of his seven-country trip.

"We have isolated him, but we haven't yet succeeded in reversing his As Baker said, "we must heighten the pressure further. Indeed we have to lay the foundation for the use of force should that become necessary. Clearly, one way to do that is to get ready DESPITE THE UNLIKELIHOOD OF DEC. 3 DISASTER Midwest should be prepared for earthquake Browning bases his forecast of a quake on or about Dec. 3 on the sun and moon being aligned and closer to the earth than they have been in nearly 70 years.

He says the gravitational pull created by these forces would be SO severe the Earth's crust could rupture along weakened faults. To his credit, many contend Browning successfully forecasted 1989's San Francisco quake and the eruption of Mount St. Helen's in 1980. Though his forecasts of a New Madrid quake have been widely publicized, scientific agreement with Browning has not been as widespread. Many, like Alan Samuelson, chairman of the Ball State Univer- preparing militarily." Earlier, a senior U.S.

official said Baker would fly home without having run into any opposition to a U.N. resolution to authorize force to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi invaders. Baker, at a news conference, cited President Bush's announcement of another buildup of U.S. troops in the Persian Gulf as evidence the United States was getting ready to use force against Iraq. diction.

"Not as far as Dec. 3," he said. "If it does happen then, it's by chance or coincidence." Others agree. A group of scientists, in a report prepared for the National Earthquake Prediction Evaluation Council, said projecting earthquakes is purely speculation. "Such a projection implies a level of detailed knowledge that simply does not exist for the New Madrid or any other fault zone in the world," the group reported last month.

Speculation aside, if a quake occurs, do Delaware County residents need to worry about the ground moving from beneath them? Continued on page 7 for war Baker said he had taken steps during his trip to sort out questions of troop command and how the troops would be supplied. The stop here was critical. U.S. officials had said it was not clear whether French troops would go into combat. Baker declined to say directly whether Mitterrand and Foreign Minister Roland Dumas had told him they would fight.

But he hinted as much. He said the meetings here Continued on page 8 By HOLLY RAVER Evening Press reporter When it comes to natural disasters, Hoosiers have typically been more worried about tornadoes than earthquakes. But thanks to the prediction of Iben Browning, a New Mexico climatologist, many Midwest residents are all shook up about harbingers of a December quake on the New Madrid Fault. And perhaps some fear is justified. The fault, which runs from Marked Tree, across southeastern Missouri to southern Illinois, has a history of acting up.

It is best known for the series of three quakes that occurred in late 1811 and early 1812. Geologists estimate those quakes were the strongest ever recorded in the United States nearly 10 times as powerful as the one that rocked northern California this past year. great New Madrid Earthquake of Dec. 16, 1811, which devastated portions of the Midwest, was said to have caused the Mississippi River to reverse its course and to have rung bells and rattled chimneys in Boston and Washington D.C. And in the past year, five Madrid Fault-originated quakes were felt in the Midwest.

Their measurements on the Richter scale were a 2.8 quake on Jan. 9, a 3.1 on Aug. 7, a 3.4 on Aug. 29, a 4.6 on Sept. 26 and most recently, a 3.6 this past Thursday.

IOWA Earthquake Epicenter ILL. MO. Madrid KY. fault line TENN. 1 Madrid ARK.

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