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GOP members split over delegate seating
-LANSING, Mich. .(AP) -
-Playing up concerns about the long-
term health of the state party,
'bhckers of Vice President George
Bush hope to chip away at a
rbonservative coalition of Pat
"Robertson and Jack Kemp forces to
Win a crucial fight when the
Michigan Republican State
Committee meets this week.
-, At issue is whether some 1,200
FOP officeholders and unsuccessful
-,candidates - most of them sup-
porters of Bush's presidential bid -
will automatically get to be "at-
4aige" delegates at Jan. 14 county
conventions.
The county conventions will elect
'dlegates for the Jan. 29-30 state
convention at which 77 national
Sdnvention delegates will be chosen,
ntinking Michigan the first state to
sdelect Republican delegates in 1988.
The complex process began with
the election of about 9,000 precinct
delegates on Aug. 5, 1986, when the
highly organized Robertson forces
stunned the powerful Bush effort by
flitting nearly evenly the majority
ti delegates. Kemp, a New York
:dngressman, came in third.
All the delegates are technically
uncommitted until the county
conventions, so exact figures for
each candidate aren't available.
However, representatives from all
sides say the addition of the
nominees and officeholders as county
delegates would give Bush an edge.
- The problem the 101-member
state committee must solve
tomorrow night is whether the
ambiguous state election law allows
the automatic seating.
Bush activists, and state party
chairman Spencer Abraham, say it
does. The Robertson-Kemp
coalition, which controls 55 to 60
seats on the committee, contends it
doesn't.
The Robertson faction is
staunchly behind that stand as it
pushes for a strong Michigan
showing by the television
evangelist. But, some members of
the Kemp camp believe the
nominees and officeholders should be
seated.
Those votes will be the big ones
tomorrow night, said Peter Secchia,
a Bush co-chairman in Michigan and
a member of the Republican
National Committee.
"I see this as a showdown
between the responsible party
builders and the people who just
want to win a presidential election,"
Secchia said, referring to
Robertson's backers. "That group of
people is trying to destroy the party
as it exists. They don't ever elect
anybody, but they love to fight.
"The responsible Kempies are
siding with us and the kamikaze
Kempies are going against us on
this issue.
"If we didn't have this Robertson
factor, we wouldn't have this
vitriolic ferocity. They're committed
to electing their man with any
sacrifice to the party. If I can
convince Michigan Republicans
that's how they feel, then I'll win,"
he said.
Secchia and John Long, the
executive director of Bush's
Michigan campaign, agreed the
exclusion proposal would penalize
the GOP stalwarts, many of whom
say they didn't run for precinct
delegate posts because part officials
guaranteed they could attend the
conventions as at-large delegates.
Long condemned the effort as
short-sightedness "on the part of the
most rabid elements of the anybody-
but-Bush movement. They're doing
this without any regard for the
Michigan Republican Party."
He pointed out that two of the
Kemp campaign co-chairs, state Sen.
Dick Posthumous and Larrain
Thomas, were against the exclusion.
"They're not doing it to help
Bush. They're not doing it to help
Jack Kemp. They're doing it because
it's the fair thing to do. The
intellectually honest thing to do and
because it would help the Michigan
Republican Party," Long said.
Dick Minard, Kemp's Michigan
campaign manager, acknowledged
that the Kemp camp was split on the
issue.
"Basically, our official position
all along has been that we support
the seating of all legally eligible
delegates. Our people have a
disagreement over what legally
eligible delegates are. It appears a
majority of them are supporting the
proposal for seating only those
elected precinct delegates," he said.
"I believe if one gets to the real
question, which is a political
question, this is an attempt on the
aprt of the Bush camp to stack the
deck, if you will, to add more
delegates."
He dismissed as "hogwash"
claims that the Robertson-Kemp
coalition was out to ruin the party.
"The Bush people really lost in
August 1986 and they're trying to
make up for that failure and salvage
the campaign. They need more
delegates and this is the only way
they can get them."
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Bork 's future rests
with split Senate
IN BRIEF
Compiled from Associated Press reports
Iran stalls U.N. peace mission
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de
Cuellar took his peace mission to Iraq after Iran's president told him
Sunday that Iraq will keep fighting until a Nuremburg-style court
punishes Iraq as the aggressor.
Earlier in the day, Iraq threatened what one official called a "more
severe war" unless Iran accepts the U.N. Security Council's July 20
resolution demanding a cease-fire in the seven-year-old war.
Iran says the was began when Iraq invaded in September 1980. Iraq
maintains the conflict broke out two weeks earlier when Iran shelled
border towns.
Asked whether the U.N. leader failed to get Iran to accept the cease-fire
resolution, the spokesman, Francois Giuliani, refused comment.
Vietnam gives amnesty to 6,685
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Vietnam is releasing 6,685 prisoners,
including generals and senior officials of the South Vietnamese regime it.
toppled in 1975, the official Vietnam News Agency said yesterday.
The agency said the communist government ordered the amnesty and
reduced the terms for 5,320 other prisoners to mark two anniversaries. It
said some of the prisoners already were freed.
Among those granted amnesty were 480 military and civilian
personnel of the former South Vietnamese government including two
ministers, 18 administrative officials, nine officers of general rank, 248
field officers and 117 junior officers, it said.
"They were all convicted of crimes against the people," said the
agency, monitered in Bangkok. "However, the government applied a
lenient policy toward them by sending them to re-education camps. In
the process, they have shown their resolve to mend their ways."
Soviet Foreign Minister arrives
to discuss new summit meeting
WASHINGTON - Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze said
yesterday a decision on another superpower summit meeting depends on
the outcome of his talks this week with President Reagan and Secretary of
State George Shultz.
"We have come here in order to roll up our sleeves and work,"
Shevardnadze said on his arrival from Moscow.
The white-haired Soviet official brought with him a letter for Reagan
from Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and "a degree of optimism."
In a brief airport news conference, Shevardnadze added, "I would say
cautious optimism, maybe."
Ford workers prepare to strike
DEARBORN, Mich. - For 104,000 rank-and-file Ford Motor Co.
woikers, little was left to do yesterday but watch and wait for word on
whether union and company bargainers will reach a contract by today's
11:59 p.m. deadline.
At most of the UAW's 53 local Ford unions, the picket signs have
been printed, the strike duty rosters have been prepared and local contract
negotiations have slowed or stopped until bargainers hear of progress in
nationaltalks.
UAW President Owen Bieber scheduled a meeting of the union's 23-
member executive board for Sunday evening, but UAW spokespeople
declined to give a reason for the gathering of union executives and
regional directors.
EXTRAS
Mark Farella, where are you?
A pair of season tickets to all shows presented by the University's
Office of Major Events, including concerts by the Beach Boys, REM and
the Michael Brecker Band, are waiting for Mark Farella at the Michigan
Union.
Farella is the Grand Prize winner of the Michigan Union Party Raffle,
which was held Tuesday as party of the Michigan Swing-In for incoming
students. He has not shown up to claim his prize yet, however, according
to Noreen Ball of the Union communications office.
Several third place winners of free videocassette recorder rentals from
Study Break have also left their prizes unclaimed, Ball said.
Ball said winners of the raffle may pick up their prizes at 1310
Michigan Union between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Farella could not be reached for comment. Obviously.
-Rob Earle
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WASHINGTON (AP) - To his
supporters, Robert H. Bork would
give the Supereme Court a lasting
conservative legacy. To his liberal
foes, he would end three decades of
progress for women, blacks and civil
libertarians.
After waging an ideological
struggle through rival news
conferences, studies and letter
writing, the rival camps will move
their battleground Tuesday to the
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place where it counts: the Senate
Judiciary Committee.
More than 100 potential
witnesses have asked to testify in
support or opposition to the 60-year-
old Bork, whose fate is now held by
a large group of undecided senators
on a political hotseat.
Much is at stake in these
televised proceedings, because
according to both sides, the court has
reached a turning point following the
retirement of Justice Lewis F.
Powell Jr. It can move toward
moderation or strict conservatism.
For that reason, lobbying groups
from both sides have been spending
freely to whip up their members and
convince senators that they are right.
Conservatives want a justice who
would protect the rights of the
unborn, be tough as nails on'
criminals and put religion back in
the schools.
Liberals want a swing vote on the
court who, when it counted, would
prolong a string of pro-civil rights-
civil liberties rulings that began
with the 1954 decision outlawing
school segregation.
Senators and viewers will hear
concerns about free speech, privacy,
segregation, antitrust, resect for
Supreme court precedent, and the
1973 "Saturday Night Massacre" -
when then-Solicitor General Bork
fired Watergate special prosecutor
Archibald Cox, after Attorney
General Elliott Richardson and
Deputy Attorney General William
Rucklehaus refused to do so.
Yet Richardson is one of the
prominent witnesses scheduled to
testify in favor of Bork. Another is
retired Chief Justice Warren Burger,
who said previously that Bork "has
got it all."
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