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March 1, 1991 Friday Vol. 73 Issue 89 Bowling Green, Ohio The BG News Iraq-U.S. talks slated by Terence Hunt Associated Press writer Fighting finished, but war's WASHINGTON - One day MW& after halting the war, President Bush announced Thursday Iraq had promptly agreed to talks on a permanent cease-fire and the re- end not official Coming home: turn of prisoners of war. Already, thoughts on the "We are going to get back our home front were turning POWs and we're going to do it Thursday to reunions and fast," Bush declared. parades as thousands of The administration said Secre- Americans prepared the tary of State James Baker will fly biggest party in decades to to the Middle East next week to welcome back victorious begin charting the postwar future U.S. troops. of the Persian Gulf. He will stop Dianne Maley of Opera- in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria and tion Orange Ribbon in Cin- Israel, as well as Turkey. cinnati said, ''We're going Baker will also go to the Soviet to have the biggest party Union. you've ever seen." As long as Saddam Hussein Vietnam veteran Kris remains in power in Iraq, the Tourtellotte through his administration will urge the U.N. "Operation Welcome Security Council to maintain a Home," hopes to decorate ban on all weapon shipments to the airport, bus station, that nation, officials said. train station and the homes Bush met with the ambassador of soldiers from Rochester, of newly liberated Kuwait. He N.Y. "No matter where then went to the Rose Garden to they look, they're going to announce Iraq's willingness to see 'welcome home,'" ne discuss peace terms set out said. Wednesday night in his announ- cement of a conditional cease- Flights returning: fire. The cease-fire in the Per- Bush said Baghdad had taken a sian Gulf War prompted first step by agreeing to name some airlines to announce military commanders to talk with Thursday they would re- U.S.-led allies about battlefield sume flights to the Middle arrangements to make the pause East. in fighting permanent. "We will Airlines suspended most go promptly back to them with service to the region after the arrangements," Bush said. the war began Jan. 17. He said the meeting will take Some, fearing terrorism, place very soon. interupted service even ear- The return of POWs and seized lier in the crisis. Kuwaitis will be a primary sub- The airlines said war damage to airports in C See Gull, page 4. Baghdad and Kuwait City would delay resumption of flights to those capitals. Ethics hearings concluded Health plan for grad War costs estimated: Congress will trim several billion dollars from Senate committee judges Keating Five to be 'improper' students suggested President Bush's request for $15 billion to finance the WASHINGTON (AP) — Its immediate focus was Keating and his associates donated $1.3 million by Jeremy Slone Weber Persian Gulf War, Demo- upon the Keating Five, but the Senate Ethics to the campaigns and political causes of the five staff writer cratic and Republican law- Committee took at least passing aim at a broader senators, most of it while the Federal Home Loan makers said Thursday, cit- problem: the political money chase that also puts Bank Board was conducting its examination of ing the rapid allied victory. pressure on the Other 95. Keating's now-failed Lincoln Savings and Loan of Graduate Student Senate is stepping up its efforts to provide health It is estimated that if The savings and loan scandal has effectively Irvine, Calif. care to all University graduate students, despite the administration's combat ended for good this ended the career of one senator, and tarnished After long hearings and closed-door debate, the belief that such a plan is fiscally impossible. week, the price tag for the those of four others. It also has spurred calls for Ethics Committee issued a report Wednesday that GSS President Wayne Berman said the senate's welfare committee conflict since Oct. 1 would the broadest campaign finance reforms since said it found "substantial credible evidence ' that is working with Graduate College Dean Louis Katzner to develop a be about MB billion. Watergate. Sen. Alan Cranston, D-Calif., committed major Slan which would cover all graduate students. This follows a Feb. 8 The United States might "The old way of doing business is no longer ac- ethical violations. The panel thereby set the state SS resolution reaffirming the right for all graduate students to have foot little, perhaps none, of ceptable," said Tom Mann, director of the for possible censure of Cranston, who recently health insurance. the war bill if allied coun- governmental studies program at Brookings Insti- underwent therapy for prostate cancer and Berman said the committee and Katzner are still in the initial tries deliver aid they have tution. already has announced he won't run again in 1992. stages of planning a coverage proposal. Eromised. To date, the allies And the old way, for most incumbents, involves The other four senators — Dennis DeConcini, "We're looking at several options and closing in on which looks avepledged $53.5 billion in an unrelenting quest for money to finance re- D-Ariz., John McCain, R-Ariz., John Glenn, D-O- best," Berman said. "The real problem will be coming up with a prac- assistance, although only election campaigns that cost millions. hio. and Donald Riegle, D-Mich. — escaped with tical way to phase in the plan." $14.9 billion of that amount It comes down to this: a Senate term is about little more than a slap on the wrist. One possibility would be developing a policy which would cover only has been received. 2,190 days in length. For their 1990 campaigns, 17 DeConcini and Riegle "gave the impression of graduate assistants, Katzner said. senators raised more than $2.2 million. That aver- being improper" in their dealings with bank regu- "The issues are very complicated and unfortunately we're doing Damages to be seen: ages out to raising money at a rate of more than lators, said the Ethics panel. this in an environment in which the budget picture is very clouded, Kuwait's ambassador to $1,000 a day for six years. Glenn and McCain were chided for "poor judg- he said. "We're in the earliest stages of trying to figure out what to the United States invited It was in that atmosphere S&L operator Charles ment." do." members of Congress on a H. Keating Jr. used political contributions to de- Common Cause, the public interest lobbying University President Paul Olscamp said he does not believe a fisca- "freedom flight to visit his velop ties to the senators who became known as group that filed the original complaints against the lly sound health insurance policy can be developed, considering the war-torn country next week. the Keatine Five. University's current financial crunch. "They will be able to wit- G See ETHICS, page 5. See INSURANCE, page 5. ness firsthand the dev- astation," Ambassador Saud Nasir Al-Sabah said Unpaid bills Thursday. "We hope many will be able to attend." Al-Sabah said his country affect credit has a "deep appreciation" for the support of Congress, President Bush and the al- of students lied forces in liberating his country. by Thomas W. Kelsey The ambassador said he staff writer will be giving oil contracts — estimatedto total nearly $100 billion — to the coun- Skipping out on off-campus tries that gave the most to housing bills or dodging student Operation Desert Storm: loan payments after graduation the United States, Britain can have a serious effect on fu- and France. ture credit ratings, according to a local collection agency manager and a representative of the Ohio Baby boom: Student Loan Commission. A pregnant Coolville, O. Ed Hanlon, vice presi- Army reservist said she was dent/general manager of the sent home three days before Credit Bureau of Toledo, warns the Iraqi Scud missile at- students to pay off bills or face a tack that killed 28 people on potentially bad credit rating for the barracks where she was up to seven years, no matter staying in Dharhan, Saudi wnere they reside. Arabia "If a student is legally respon- First Lt. Shirley Cox, 27, sible for a [financial obligation], of the 383rd Quartermaster it can become a part of their cred- Rear Detachment, said she it record," he said. "It's possible lived and worked in the bar- [the debt [can follow them to any racks for three months. community they choose to settle She said she discovered in." that she was pregnant in Hanlon said a bad credit rating late January but didn't want •O N*w(/Todd Swanson begins with a landlord or utility to leave Saudi Arabia. She Where's The Fire? company "selling" a negligent was sent home Friday after comsumer's account to a local Employees and visitors re-enter the Administration Building Thurs- alarm was due to a malfunction, perhaps triggered by an elec- credit bureau.