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Man in the News; Stealthy Capital Go-Between: Nicholas Edmund Calio

Date: 04 July 1992

By Clifford Krauss

Clifford Krauss

Nicholas E. Calio, the White House liaison to Congress who shepherded the negotiations that yielded this week's $5 billion urban aid package, says he is most effective when he remains invisible and lets more senior officials take the credit for policy successes. Since taking the job in February, Mr. Calio has been successful in keeping his stealth profile. He is still not a household name, even in Congress, where he blends in with the army of lobbyists who like him stalk Capitol Hill wearing striped suspenders and tasseled loafers, and who play golf with the top staff members who write the nation's laws.

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Keeping the Hearts Racing

Date: 05 July 1992

By Chris Hedges

Chris Hedges

Action News, touted as the Arab world's first tabloid and filled with the staple tales of love and gore, burst onto newsstands three months ago and has shaken the foundations of the stodgy Egyptian press. The weekly paper, which often sells out quickly, is now the second largest in the country, with a circulation of 750,000 copies, just behind Al Ahram, with nearly one million daily.

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At Work; Bidding the Wage Wars Goodbye

Date: 05 July 1992

By Barbara Presley Noble

Barbara Noble

When Ron Moore went to New York last spring to appear on a television show, he was immune to the enticements of that holy city of conspicuous consumption. Not for Mr. Moore, an avowed skinflint, designer celery at triple-digit prices in the latest Manhattan chic-ery. Mr. Moore and his wife, Melodie, run Skinflint News, a monthly journal of frugality and practical advice, out of their Palm Harbor, Fla., home. Mr. Moore is no mere sunshine skinflint. Because he knew the television appearance would give him a $50 food allowance , he packed a brown bag at home. "I had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and a fried bologna sandwich with mustard, a huge bag of popcorn and an orange from a neighbor's tree," Mr. Moore recounted in the May issue of Skinflint News. He ate doughnuts at the noon-time taping, during which he suggested such money-saving strategies as collecting the final slivers of bar soap and grinding them in a food processor into laundry powder. He saved his real appetite for the airline lunch on the flight back to Tampa-St. Petersberg and arrived home with the $50 intact. "It went into the general fund," he said.

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Bush on the Environment: A Record of Contradictions

Date: 04 July 1992

By Keith Schneider

Keith Schneider

The people who live here in the hazy valleys cut by the Ohio and Big Sandy Rivers, where the air has been among the most polluted in the country, are benefiting from cleaner air these days, thanks to changes in weather patterns as well as to a law passed two years ago. President Bush saluted that law, the Clean Air Act, and said it would "make the 1990's the era for clean air."

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Mitsui Pleads Guilty in U.S.

Date: 04 July 1992

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

Mitsui & Company (USA), a New York-based unit of the Japanese trading company, has pleaded guilty to filing a false application for a loan guarantee by the United States Commodity Credit Corporation, a Mitsui official said today. A Federal District Court in Atlanta ordered Mitsui to pay $8.32 million in restitution. Mitsui will also be barred from business with any Federal Government agencies for three years, he said.

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Thomson-CSF May Revise Bid

Date: 04 July 1992

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

Thomson-CSF may make an announcement soon about revising its proposed acquisition of the LTV Corporation's missile unit, a Thomson spokesman said today. The spokesman confirmed that Thomson-CSF, a French military electronics contract- or,was in talks with the Northrop Corporation, the American maker of the B-2 bomber, but declined to be more specific.

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 05 July 1992

International 3-11 CLOUDED ECONOMIC SUMMIT

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 04 July 1992

International 2-5 SLOVAK LAWMAKERS OUST HAVEL With Slovaks casting the decisive vote, Czechoslovak lawmakers rejected the re-election of President Havel, the spiritual and intellectual father of the revolution that overthrew Communist rule in 1989. 1 JAPAN'S TRADE SURPLUS SOARS After several years of decline, Japan's trade surplus with the rest of the world is soaring once again to record levels. 1 U.S. HOPES TO SHINE AT SUMMIT The White House is trying to turn the economic summit meeting in Munich into a pep rally for growth to demonstrate Mr. Bush's determination to do something about the sagging American economy. 5 Munich prepares to show off its castles and world-class beer. 5 RUSSIA IS COMING UP SHORT The Russian budget deficit is growing at a rapid rate, undermining the Government's attempt to sign a lending agreement with the International Monetary Fund. 5 AIRLIFT TO SARAJEVO EXPANDS A United Nations airlift of relief supplies to Sarajevo hit full stride, but an effort to restart talks between the warring sides proved fruitless. 3 Greece gains allies in a fight to withhold the name "Macedonia."3 SEETHING ON FRANCE'S HIGHWAYS Many Western Europeans began their summer break with an all-too-familiar dose of pain, this time the result of blockades thrown up by angry truckers across France's major highways. 4 STRIKE PARALYZES INDIAN TRADE Still struggling to recast its old socialist economy, India has been hit with a trucking strike that threatens to bring nearly all of the nation's commerce to a halt. 4 NEAR EQUATOR, A FRENCH AURORA Attracted by superior salaries and social benefits befitting a European Community nation, many Brazilians are making a perilous river journey to French Guiana. 4 JOLT TO ARGENTINE POLLUTERS In a campaign to combat inertia, an Argentine judge shut down 17 factories and jailed 32 executives and managers for dumping poisons and other pollutants into a river. 5 BALL IN PALESTINIAN COURT Now that Israel seems to be on the verge of getting a Government that is serious about peace talks, Washington wants Palestinians and other Arab parties to make some realistic compromise proposals. 3 Another step toward allowing commercial whaling. 2 An African National Congress leader rejects the President's appeal. 2 Luxembourg approves a treaty on European union. 5 National 6-9 BUSH AND THE ENVIRONMENT Campaigning four years ago, George Bush often said he wanted to be known as "the environmental President." Now his critics, acknowledging that he often took strong pro-environment stands in the first two years of his Administration, complain that the recession has steered him from his course. Nowhere is that criticism more in evidence than in the attacks on Mr. Bush for his approach to the Clean Air Act. 1 CHANGE IN THE BUSH CAMPAIGN The latest unemployment figures have caused Bush campaign strategists to abandon their confidence in a coming economic recovery that the President could ride to victory in November. That change may portend a more negative fall campaign than either Mr. Bush himself or his advisers have predicted. 1 The Clinton camp hired an aggressive New York ad agency. 7 LIFE IN A TRAILER Nearly 16 million Americans now live in mobile homes. For the most part they are people who, if not in poverty, are only one rung above it, people who grasp at the American dream but can clutch only a fragment. 1 THE BATTLE OF THE SHORELINE After years of legal wrangling and a Supreme Court decision this week, David H. Lucas and the South Carolina Coastal Council are left with the question that brought them together in the first place: When is a beach house a public nuisance? 6 YUCCA MOUNTAIN CONFRONTATION When an earthquake rattled southern Nevada a few days ago, at least two things did not shake: the competing positions in the battle over whether the area should be the home of a proposed nuclear-waste repository. 6 WHERE THE FOUNDERS GATHERED For the second straight year, Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia has been designated a particularly endangered historic site. The Government has promised to refurbish it, but the promise appears threatened by budget constraints. 8 THE NAVY'S NEW CHIEF The Acting Secretary of the Navy is a Tennessee native, a Foreign Service veteran, a former spokesman at both the White House and the Pentagon. To right the naval service, which is listing from its sex-abuse scandal, he'll need all that experience, and more. 8 The Army charged a Reserve sergeant with raping a solider. 8 THE MAN WHO BROKERED URBAN AID Man in the News: Nicholas E. Calio, the White House liaison to Congress who shepherded the negotiations that yielded a $5 billion urban aid package this week, is a person of low, even stealthy, profile. 8 Metropolitan Digest, 21 LEGISLATURE ADJOURNS The New York State legislative session ended in exhaustion and bickering without action on two major economic initiatives. 1 WOOING IMMIGRANTS With the foreign-born now making up more than a quarter of New York City's population, politicians are in uncharted territory. 1 Business 31 Obituaries 10 Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum, father of modern Christian-Jewish dialogue Sports 26-30 Auto Racing: New safety rules at Indy 500. 30 Baseball: Vincent's change of heart. 27 Yankees rally over Rangers. 27 Steinbrenner clears major hurdle. 29 Columns: Vecsey on Olympics. 27 Olympics: Albania learns to crawl. 30 Oscar Schmidt, shooting star. 30 Sports People 26 Tennis: Rain stops Wimbledon. 27 Seles receives death threat. 30 Consumer's World 38 Arts/Entertainment 11-15 New mix of culture and computers. 11 Artists amid urban change. 11 Classical Music in Review 15 Soul singer from Brazil. 15 Kelly Garrett. 15 Dance: The Kirov in "Apollo." 11 Editorials/Op-Ed 18-19 Editorials 18 D.C. could do something. Fire work. The students left behind. Richard Mooney: Tall Ships. Letters 18 Russell Baker: The glory of us. 19 Five frames on America: Mary Ellen Mark, Joseph Rodriguez, Robert Adams, Eugene Richards, Sylvia Plachy. 19

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JUNE 28-JULY 4: The Economy; A Jump in Unemployment For Second Straight Month Is Bad News for Bush

Date: 05 July 1992

By Steven Greenhouse

Steven Greenhouse

Although President Bush has presided over three and a half years of unusually slow economic growth, his campaign staff had been encouraged by studies showing that voters are influenced heavily by how the economy does in the six months before Election Day. But Bush supporters who were cheered by the economic pickup in the first three months of the year suffered a rude shock last week when the Government announced that the jobless rate had risen from 7.5 percent in May to 7.8 percent in June, its highest level in eight years. It was the second large jump in two months; the April rate was 7.2 percent. "It's not good news," President Bush said. Instead, he hailed as good news the Federal Reserve's decision to cut the discount rate to 3 percent; it was the lowest level since 1963 for the rate at which the Fed lends banks money. The President and many economists hope the move will spur banks to lend more and businesses and consumers to borrow more. But many analysts say the main reason the economy seems to be held down by invisible weights is that the debt explosion of the Reagan years is preventing consumer spending from taking off.

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THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: White House; Bad Economic News Forces Bush To Refocus Re-election Strategy

Date: 04 July 1992

By Michael Wines

Michael Wines

Shaken by an ominous jump in the unemployment rate, White House strategists said today that they were reassessing the assumption that an improving economy would revive President Bush's political standing before the November election. Instead, they said, they must focus their campaign more on social problems and character issues. The change in emphasis had been under serious discussion since late last month, but it was propelled Thursday, when it was reported that the June unemployment rate had surged to 7.8 percent. The shift in strategy portends a tougher and possibly more negative re-election effort by Mr. Bush than he or his advisers had predicted. Short on Confidence and Time Mr. Bush's re-election chairman, Robert M. Teeter, said today that the campaign was making only subtle changes in the campaign's overall strategy, which always included messages about social problems, "family values" and Mr. Bush's standing as a world leader. But the decision not to rely on good economic news for an autumn "kick" nevertheless removes an underpinning from the assumptions that Mr. Bush himself has carried into the race.

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