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National Wednesday, May 30, 1990 The Daily Herald, Provo, Utah New Orleans, New York finalists for Democrats' 1 992 convention 1 1 I 4 4 11 5iw-' 5 r4 i WASHINGTON (AP) Without a presidential candidate in sight, Democrats are leaping ahead with 1992 convention preparations by designating New Orleans and New-York as the finalists to host the meeting, party sources say. The party site-selection committee's recommendation of those two cities to party chairman Ronald H. Brown puts the Democrats on track to their earliest settlement of a convention site. Brown plans to visit both cities, probably next week, and announce his choice by mid-June. The con- in challenging Bush for re-election and none is engaging in the sort of covert early maneuvering usually picked up at this early stage.

"Normally at this stage of the game you would have least one or two out making all the body language, doing the fundraising, denying they were a candidate," said former party chairman John White. The 46-member site-selection committee visited four cities this year, including the two finalists, Houston and Cleveland. The Cleveland presentation impressed the panel with its enthusiasm. The city's convention hall in suburban Brook Park was described as the equal or better than the facilities in competing cities. But Cleveland's shortage of nearby hotel rooms was a fatal handicap.

vention is scheduled to run from July 16 through July 19, 1992. The Republicans are receiving bids for their 1992 convention and plan to announce their decision in January. While the GOP will visit potential sites and weigh their bids, President Bush could make those efforts academic if he decides to express a choice. New Orleans was the site of the 1988 GOP convention that nominated Bush for president. New York hosted the 1976 Democratic convention that nominated Jimmy Carter, the last Democrat to win a national election.

Some senior Democrats have recently expressed concern about the lack of activity by potential 1992 presidential candidates. So far no Democrat is expressing any interest a5 i I 1 mf- House disclosure forms reveal lots of honoraria A huge Soviet flag is raised in front of the Old Executive Office Building in Washington today. Gorbachev to meet with Roh WASHINGTON (AP) Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, in a bid to expand Soviet contacts with industrialized countries, will meet in San Francisco after the Washington summit with South Korean President Roh Tae-woo, U.S. officials said today.

The two countries have no formal diplomatic relations and the Soviets maintain strong ties with Korea, which conducted a brief and now-suspended dialogue with the government in Seoul. Gorbachev is struggling to get a grip on the Soviet economy. As he left Moscow for talks beginning on Thursday with President Bush, the Soviet capital and other cities were experiencing panic buying in anticipation of broad price hikes pegged to adoption of a market system. U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the meeting with Roh would be held while Gor WASHINGTON (AP) Rep.

Howard Coble won $600 in a pinball tournament. Rep. Silvio Conte sold $250 worth of hay. And Rep. Olympia Snowe got $9,914 in wedding gifts.

Those nuggets are among the information, from the momentous to the trivial, spread on the public record Tuesday when the House released its annual financial disclosure forms. The forms illustrated how for most House members, the salary the taxpayers paid them in 1989 was only part of their total income. And they showed how widespread is the practice not only of accepting speaking fees from special interests, but also of accepting expense-paid trips to make the speeches. For example, Rep. Robert Livingston, who is on the panel that doles out money for defense, made separate trips to California in February and December, collecting $6,000 each time from defense contractors.

Rep. Billy Tauzin, reported 24 free trips during the year to speak to interest groups. Often the travel appears to be less than all work. The American Horse Council paid for two days in Lexington, for Rep. Toby Roth, and his wife, including tickets to the Kentucky Derby.

And winter speaking trips often aro to destinations warmer than Washington. Illinois Rep. ATTENTION Poindexter's conviction upheld Cities tape employees to reduce comp fraud PITTSBURGH (AP) A growing number of cities are secretly videotaping municipal employees on workers' compensation fixing roofs, shopping, lifting heavy objects and doing other things they claimed they couldn't do. Pittsburgh hired private detectives last fall to tape employees suspected of faking injuries or occupational diseases. So far, the project has reduced the number of workers' compensation recipients, helped slow the escalating costs of the program and provided city Finance Director Ben Hayllar with more than a few good stories to tell.

In March, for instance, the city stopped paying compensation to a man who held down a second job delivering packages even though he claimed he couldn't return to his city job because of an injured back and leg. The city captured the unidentified man on tape delivering heavy objects. "While we had him under surveillance, he started to get paranoid and was convinced he was being followed. So he called city police. The police investigated and discovered he was being watched but by us," Hayllar said.

"They told him, 'Hey, you are being followed, but the city's doing Eventually, the man took himself off the workers' compensation rolls, said Bruce McKnight, Pittsburgh workers' compensation administrator. The city hasn't been filing charges against the cheats but is using the evidence to get them back to work. Pittsburgh's approach is not unusual, said John Moskal, vice president of Sedgwick James a company that administers workers' compensation programs for public and private employers across the nation. Moskal said the company also coordinates surveillance of sus-pected chests About 299 of Pittsburgh's 5,400 employees receive workers' compensation, government-supervised insurance that pays medical bills and a percentage of salary to employees forced off their jobs. Before the surveillance, an average of 320 employees received it yearly, Hayllar said.

40 YEARS! Hfe. -f-W ,1 it. bachev was in San Francisco as part of his sight-seeing expedition after the summit talks concluded on Sunday. Gorbachev also is stopping in Minneapolis after his four days in Washington. The meeting is the most dramatic gesture by the Soviets toward South Korea, a foe for more than 40 years of Moscow-backed North Korea.

Moscow is emerging as a promising trading partner for South Korea, and trade and other relations are expanding rapidly. In December 1989, the Soviet Union and South Korea opened "consular departments" in their trade offices in each other's capitals and began limited consular service. The arrangement restricts the functions of the departments and the qualifications of officials working there. The departments cannot North, former President Reagan and others "bore some of the responsibility for activities with which the defendant has been charged." Neither North nor Reagan, who gave a videotaped deposition for the trial, "were willing to relieve defendant of culpability," the judge said in an 85-page opinion that rejected Poindexter's motions for a judgment of acquittal. "Other than an attempt to weaken the testimony of the government's witnesses through cross-examination, Poindexter simply did not have a defense of his own," the judge observed.

The retired Navy rear admiral, who served as Reagan's national security adviser from late 1985 until the Iran-Contra affair unraveled in November, 1986, is scheduled to be sentenced June 11. He could be ordered to serve up to 25 years in prison and fined $1.25 anti-slavery statute, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Carol Gillam. Two ranch foremen, Naju Lnu and Paringer Singh, were named in a criminal complaint filed last month. "This is a very significant case that involves very serious violations of people's human rights," Gillam said.

The charges were developed based on allegations by former workers and ranch documents, Gillam said. Ives' attorney, Robert M. Talcott, has maintained that Ives was not aware of any abuses at his Griffith Ives Co. ranch in Somis, in Ventura County about 50 miles northwest of downtown Ix)s Angeles. The indictment alleges that Ives supervised the ranch operation and on one occasion personally recruited an undocumented worker and told another that he could not leave the ranch until his smuggling fees were paid.

nomination Tom McRae. Four other candidates divided the remaining 7 percent. Clinton would have faced a runoff had he fallen below 50 percent. McRae, former president of the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, had campaigned on a theme of change, saying Clinton had been in office too long. Clinton, now 43 and considered a potential presidential candidate, was the nation's youngest governor when he was first elected in 1978.

He lost a re-election bid in 1980 but was elected again in 1982, 1984 and 1986, when the term doubled from two to four years. "The most dangerous thing for an incumbent in my position is running against someone who basiciaily says, 'The guy's been there long enough, I can do Clinton said Tuesday night as the votes III WASHINGTON (AP) A federal judge, upholding John M. Poindexter's Iran-Contra convictions, says the former national security adviser mounted a weak defense to compelling evidence that he lied to Congress. U.S. District Judge Harold H.

Greene refused Tuesday to set aside Poindexter's five felony convictions, saying that "proof of defendant's guilt of the charges is compelling." "There can be no question," Greene said, that the evidence "supports the jury's verdict: defendant was an integral and important part of the unlawful activities known as Iran-Contra." By contrast, Greene found that "the defense mounted against the charges was neither broad nor particularly convincing" and consisted mainly of attempts to show that former White House aide Oliver L. Edward Madigan and his wife made such forays to Rancho Mirage, Orlando, and Phoenix, Ariz. Two of the trips were to speak to groups affected by the House Agriculture Committee, on which Madigan is the senior GOP member. Rep. William Gray, got five days with his wife in Jamaica for a conference sponsored by the Aspen Institute, which also paid for a separate trip for Gray to Bermuda.

Related story, B1 Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, was the overall speaking fee champion, collecting $285,000 during the year. Members are allowed to keep only $26,850, so Rostenkowski gave the rest to charity. Others receiving top dollar for speaking were Gray, the No. 3 House leadership figure, who took in $164,098, and Rep.

Patricia Schroeder, who claimed $160,517. Speaker Thomas S. Foley, reported he received $32,000 in honoraria, and Majority Leader Richard Gephardt, reported $34,500. Republican Whip Newt Gingrich of Georgia collected $67,491, and handed over $29,304 to the Atlanta Zoo. SMOKERS 3RH 40 YEARS! Redeem Coupon On Saturday June 2nd 'n i wVi AP Laserphoto fly national flags, and officials working there are denied normal diplomatic privileges.

In March, South Korean news reports said the Soviet Union has proposed opening full consular ties with South Korea as a prelude to establishing formal diplomatic relations. The proposal from Soviet officials came as Kim Young-sam, leader of South Korea's governing party, visited Moscow and said his country's basic position is to move directly to formal diplomatic ties without going through an intermediary step, the news reports said. South Korean Foreign Minister Choi Ho-joong signed an agreement in Prague in March establishing formal diplomatic relations with Czechoslovakia. Last year, Poland and Hungary set up ties with South Korea. million for five felony convictions of conspiracy, obstructing Congress and making false statements to lawmakers.

Poindexter was found guilty April 7 of lying to Congress and destroying documents to conceal a covert operation to arm the Nicaraguan rebels and to hide the U.S. role in a 1985 Israeli shipment of Hawk missiles to Iran. The judge rejected Poindexter's contention that he was acting with Reagan's authority and therefore lacked requisite criminal intent to violate the law. "There is no evidence in this record to support the proposition that former President Reagan ordered or authorized the conspiracy, the obstruction, the false statements" or efforts to arm the Con-tras despite a prohibition enacted by Congress, the judge said. Prosecutors maintain the workers toiled l(j hours a day for a fraction of the minimum wage.

In addition, workers were required to buy food and basic staples from a company store at inflated prices, the indictment said. "As a result of these deductions, the alien workers often received net pay for over 160 hours of work in a 15-day period of less than $100, and in some cases, actually no pay, because the deductions exceeded the amount of the paycheck," the indictment said. One worker allegedly suffered permanent head and back injuries during a beating. Ives refused to pay for treatment in the United States and instead gave the worker $100 to help pay for treatment in Mexico, the indictment said. Also named in the indictment were Pedro Pinzon, 30, Rony Hav-ive, 30.

Alvaro Ruiz, 39, Josue David Pinzon, 23, and the alleged smuggler, Mauro Casares, 64. for 5th term were counted. The GOP primary was the culmination of a rancorous race between Nelson, former head of Arkla the major natural gas utility in Arkansas, and Rep. Tommy Robinson, former police chief and sheriff from Pulaski County. Both were Democrats until last year.

With 94 percent of the precincts counted, Nelson had 47,690 votes, or 55 percent, to Robinson's 39,515 votes, or 45 percent. The campaign had revolved around three figures Robinson, Nelson and Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. Jones was a lifelong friend of Robinson's and a business partner of Nelson's. Robinson had criticized a business deal between Arkla Inc. and a company owned by Jones.

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Ranch owner Edwin M. Ives, 54, and five other people face up to 52 years in prison and $2 million in fines if convicted of all 15 charges in the indictment, federal prosecutors said. The charges involve labor and civil rights violations and a federal Clinton wins By The Associated Press Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton captured the Democratic nomination for a fifth term, but by less of a margin than expected, and will face businessman Sheffield Nelson, the survivor in a bitter Republican race against a congressman. In the other major primary Tuesday, Kentucky Democrats boosted former Louisville Mayor Harvey Sloane into a U.S.

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