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TUMA WOMB 86th No 121 inal Home Edition Tulsa Oklahoma Tuesday January 15 1991 ENTIRE CONTENTS (Cl 11 WORLD PUBLISHING CO 35 Cents Walters Sworn In as 24th Governor By Chuck Ervin World Capitol Bureau OKLAHOMA CITY Sounding a call for austerity and excellence David Walters was inaugurated Monday as the 24th governor of Oklaho ma The 39 year old Walters took the oath of office and be came governor at 11:53 am He stressed education eco nomic development correc tions and law and order prom ising improvements in all those areas At the same time AST TAKE David Walters became Oklahoma's 24th gover nor Monday He promised improvements in state schools prisons and the economy More ast Takes on A 4 he pledged to keep a tight grip on the purse strings of state government There was a strong populist tone to his inaugural address and more of his campaign themes critical of state government Also sworn in were Lt Gov Jack Mildren Treasurer Clau dette Henry Attorney General Robert Henry state School Su perintendent Sandy Garrett Au ditor and Inspector Clifton Scott Insurance Commissioner Gerald Grimes and Corporation Commis sioner JC Watts Walters said voters in the last election rebelled and sent a mes sage to public officials He said Oklahomans can be proud the state was the first to limit terms for legislators allow ing them no more than 12 years in office And he repeated his cam paign pledge of new taxes without a vote of the He was interrupted 10 times by applause The crowd of about 5000 responded most enthusiasti cally when he promised a crack down on crime particularly on juvenile offenders promised an expanded prison system and vowed to enforce the death penal ty The first governor from west ern Oklahoma also drew a strong response when he reminded the audience that not everyone can live in Tulsa and Oklahoma City and pledged to develop rural Oklahoma promise you today that this is one farm boy who is not going to forget his said Walters who grew up on a cotton farm in Washita County Walters with his wife Rhonda and their four children seated nearby said he would clamp down on spending when neces sary even if it is politically un popular afford the things we need if unwilling to cut the things we he said The recurrent theme of the in augural address was that Oklaho ma can be He said the state can be the best in economic development and the creation of jobs Instead of increasing the size of the Department of Commerce it should increase its effectiveness with direct grants and technical assistance to communitiesand re gions with workable plans to put more people to work Walters said He added that in its first 90 See Walters on A 4 1 1 Cm Kt rA David Walters Inaugurated in Oklahoma City rance Offers Last Minute Associated Press GUL AT A GLANCE Mr rom Staff and Wire Reports 1 AP Laserphoto Warm but Wet Tulsans Prepare for War But Hope Pray for Peace INSIDE Wednesday Index Tuesday Rain likely 42 Lo 32 Hi 42 Lo 28 SPORTS: Montana Scores Another Honor Rain contribution Any effort should come from Saddam Alone among leading Western nations rance has suggested the Palestinian issue might be part of a peaceful resolution of the gulf crisis Iraq has said it would only Late Monday with little pros pect for a peaceful solution to the Middle East conflict the world braced for what may be its bloo diest confrontation in decades Tulsans recoiled as well though some still held out hope that a solution other than force might materialize still uncertainty as to when military action will occur I think we all find it hard to believe it will happen even though events and facts and logic tell us that it has become Mayor Rodger Randle said think the real thoughts of most of us go to the human trage US Mannes from the 8th Tank Battalion 2nd Marine Division based at Camp Lejeune NC surround a pile of burning shipping pal lets in a cold rain in the encampment in Saudi Arabia on Monday Heavy rains have soaked parts of the desert for several days consider leaving Kuwait if Israel left the occupied territories With Israel flatly rejecting such a possibility the United States and its other EC allies op pose any linkage of Kuwait to Pa See Peace Plan on A 7 Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev on Monday defend ed the bloody military assault on Lithuania and said he learned of it only after a local military commander executed it A 4 By Rob Martindale World Senior Writer By Janet Pearson World Senior Reporter Occidental Petroleum Corp stock closed a quarter of a point higher Monday after a massive restructuring plan was an nounced that includes slashing dividends and selling unprofit able assets 5 Skies will be cloudy Tuesday 'ith rain likely The high will be 2 and the low 32 A 10 look what the reaction has he said me this shows the oil industry has had a terrible image for many many years for decades Unfortuna tely the political powers that be have not had the political back bone to strongly support the oil and gas industry and even more importantly have not been willing to educate the non produc ing states as to the significance of a strong vibrant oil and gas in Bartlett said he is frustrated because total dependence upon imported oil could have been avoided to a large but he does not think even war in the Middle East will foster a compre hensive national energy policy no one can understand the strategic significance of the oil industry he said no one will ever understand Tulsa stockbroker Dan Pente cost assistant vice president for Merrill Lynch feels that bly unfortunately this (war) is our last though he also feels a solid front on the part of the US and its allies could avert the possibility who has been in the military and served in a war knows this is the most wasteful way we can solve this problem certainly in terms of human re sources as well as other re said Pentecost who as a Navy fighter pilot served two tours of combat duty in Vietnam from October 1968 through May See Anticipation on A 7 With Iraq and the United States seemingly locked on a course for war heading into the Tuesday midnight UN deadline for the withdrawal last ditch peace ef forts were multiplying In addition to the rench plan to be presented to the UN Securi ty Council on Monday night Yemen and the Palestine Libera tion Organization were floating proposals ambassador Abdul Amir al Anbari said rench or eign Minister Roland Dumas would go to Baghdad presumably to discuss the proposal UN dip lomats said the visit might occur Tuesday rance's six point plan calls for peacekeeping forces to re place the multinational force cur rently in the Persian Gulf and non aggression guarantees for Iraq once it pulls its troops from Kuwait The most controversial aspect is a call for a peace conference on Palestine an appropriate and the appropriate after Iraq's withdraw al from Kuwait US Ambassador Thomas Pickering appeared to reject the proposal saying do not be lieve the creation of linkage is a dies on both sides that will be the consequence of he said Randle was among those still hoping for a peaceful resolution saying he genuinely believes there will be no war have to believe that our na tional leaders have better plans than one that would end in mas sive loss of he said have to believe that there are contin gency plans for how we go to the brink but keep ourselves from falling City Councilor Dewey Bartlett Jr who also is a partner in Keener Oil Co a local explora tion and production company was net so optimistic He said he believes war is inevi table appears all diplomatic avenues have been exhausted It appear that the govern ment of Iraq will be reasonable and recognize the worldwide sen timent against their As an oil producer the likeli hood of war evokes in him a sense of irony and of frustration During the past two decadesdomestic oil production for vari ous reasons has dropped by more than one million barrels a day Bartlett noted when the oil industry was going through this devastation there was no public outcry I would have at least expected that from a strategic standpoint but that was not the he said When Iraq invaded Kuwait last summer the US lost about a mil lion barrels a day worth of im ported oil said Bartlett never was a good war or a bad Those words penned by Benjamin ranklin more than 200 years ago expressed the mindset of Tulsans Monday as they pondered the prospect of war just feel terrible about said Dr John Wolf minister of All Souls Unitarian Church candidly I think in a state of denial I keep telling myself this is not going to hap pen but I know perfectly well it probably is going to hap rance offered a last min ute proposal Monday to avert war in the Persian Gulf but the United States appeared to reject the plan because it called for talks on the Pales tinian question in exchange for pullout from Kuwait the highly charged nature of the Palestinian issue was underscored when a Palestini an commander reported that a renegade bodyguard Monday night assassinated two senior aides of PLO chief Yasser Ara fat in Tunis site of the PLO headquarters Iraq and the United States appeared nearer to war Monday rance prepared an 1 1 th hour appeal to Iraq Yemen and the PLO tried to keep hopes for peace alive with new proposals A 1 The White House said Iraq will be living on "borrowed after Tuesday's deadline for withdrawal from Kuwait Tuesday midnight EST (1 1 pm CST) that's the end of the United Nations grace period for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait A 7 People in Africa Asia and Europe prayed Monday for peace in the Persian Gulf while demonstrated against war Anti war demonstrators burned an American flag in Minneapolis blocked a street in Chicago and disrupted traffic in San rancisco New York and Washington Demonstrations for and against US military action took place in Tulsa and Stillwater Monday About 500 American citizens the majority women many with dual citizenship remain in Iraq and Kuwait as Tuesday's zero hour approaches Israel beefed up its military forces Monday in case of a pre emp tive Iraqi attack end held chemical warfare drills A one story factory in Philadelphia continued filling a rush order from the Pentagon: 16099 body bags for soldiers who may die in Operation Desert Shield The military is not ready to provide medical treatment that would be needed for 45000 US casualties 10000 dead and 35000 wounded from a full scale war in the Persian Gulf a Nobel Prize winning physicians' group told Congress The Muskogee Veterans Administration Medical Center is one of 165 veterans hospitals alerted to take casualties in case of war 3 Oklahoma's new Gov David Walters said the United States' increasing dependence on foreign oil is one of the reasons for an impending war in the Middle East 3 Tulsa emergency officials are getting prepared for any Persian Gulf war contingency 1 Army Amunition Plant employees at McAlester will begin a production line next week to make thermal coated bombs INTERNATIONAL: Soviet Backs Violence BUSINESS: New Plan or Occidental mail collection box A search was made but they weren't located although others have been Ms Haefner said Keys toothbrushes and ball point pens are routinely discovered in mailboxes Some of the more unusual items are underwear and bill folds get all kinds of Ms Haefner said old some Ms Abel said she thinks a high percentage of the billfolds have been stolen stripped and then tossed into mailboxes average probably a billfold a she said something every post office in the country gets Items received range from inter office mail and cassette tapes to corkscrews and jewel ry and a can of beer Also a dead frog small parts for cars wedding rings cash mail order knives and bank night deposit box envelopes Some of the things that appear in the mail are the result of poor packaging she said Missing your underwear or your wallet? Call 599 6969 You might have put them in the mail Or somebody else might have The US Postal Service in Tulsa each day comes up with articles ranging from tooth brushes to keys found in postal collection boxes Bobby Hopper wherever you are your missing name tag is at the claims division of the post office It says you are a custodian And Amanda Gage your missing white neck lace with your name inscribed on it is there Unusual items found in the mail are kept at the downtown Tulsa Post Office for four weeks then sent to a central office in Atlanta said Mary Carpenter Abel manager of mailing require ments where someone who lost his false teeth a few months ago might find them Tulsans who think they might have accidental ly dropped their shorts or toothbrush in the mail should call the claims division at 599 6969 Ms Abel said have all kinds of she said The unusual items are sent to the central post office from outlying postal stations said Min nie Haefner the claims clerk got a carton of eggs one day and a large yellow onion" she said She said the carton of eggs might have been left on a counter in a post office maybe the one downtown of the eggs was she said Ms Haefner said some of her favorites are "teeth loose teeth I guess some people are mail ing them someplace to sell the One Tulsan once called the claims division and said he was missing his false teeth and be lieved he might have inadvertently put them in a San rancisco 49ers' quarterback Joe Montana has repeated as The Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year This newspaper is printed in part on recycled paper and is recyclable Chance ol rain If You Can't ind Your Keys Try Looking at the Post Office A Peace Plan US Skeptical OhI IM WO flH 1 'MM 4X I 5 KT' I i i ast Takes A 4 Complete Weather A 10 Action Line 6 Ann Landers 4 Business 5 8 Classified Ads 5 8 Comics eatures 0 1 1 Editorials A 8 Entertainment 2 Horoscope: 10 Living 4 Sports 4 Telling Tulsa 9 Today's Events 4 A 4 Ifh A.