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New Hampshire daily with Martin Murray coming up in about a minute at 5:30 it's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from National Public Radio and today President Bush talks with NATO and what Europeans are saying about last weekend's superpower summit. Also health concerns over a widely used fungicide that keeps mold and fungus from growing on fruits and vegetables. And after 17 weeks striking telephone workers and Nynex reach a settlement. That's coming up at 5:30 on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from National Public Radio here on WB vieux. Carre one of you will be on at 7:00 o'clock with classical music and then later jazz. And at 10:00 o'clock tonight you can hear live coverage of President George Bush's press conference from Brussels Belgium That's at 10 o'clock this evening. Here's a look at the weather tonight mostly clear tomorrow mostly sunny highs 20 to 25 clear and cold Tuesday night and Wednesday increasing cloudiness with a chance of light snow highs in the upper 20s to lower 30s. It's 5 o'clock. From New Hampshire Public Radio this is New Hampshire for Monday December 4th

1989. I'm Martin Murray. On today's program we'll talk live with Israeli counsel general to the U.S. language commentary and today's legislative debate centers on proposed ethics legislation. John I have heard that argument by. Recruiting candidates for only $100 a year so many times. That's like saying that you pay a hundred dollars a year and you want to have ethics to unnerve Those stories and more. Look at the day's news. From National Public Radio News in Washington I'm Frank stay show. President Bush is on his way home tonight after briefing NATO's allies on his talks with Soviet President Gorbachev. NPR's Jim Angle has more from Brussels.

The president told NATO allies been laid to reporters that the climate for discussions in Malta aside from the weather was good. The president was asked about his decision to return to the U.S. as Belknap in rough weather Saturday afternoon where he was then stranded for the rest of the day. President said there was no risk and that he hadn't had that much fun in a long time. A reporter asked if he wasn't hot dogging by going back to the ship in choppy waters not talking you know that you know he's charismatic macho visionary guys they'll do anything. Yeah. Mr. Bush argued that it didn't interfere with the summit that it was a non issue and he said it was sheer pleasure. I'm Jim Angle with the president in Brussels. More than 200000 East Germans rallied today in Leipzig to demand German reunification the dissolution of the Communist Party and an end to corruption. Yesterday East Germany's entire Communist Party leadership bowed to grassroots demands and resigned. In Prague more than 150000 people gathered in Wenceslaus Square today

protesting the new mostly communist coalition government. NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports. Representatives of the opposition. I think for now the general strike next week. I mean it's very clear that the government the atmosphere today in freezing weather was more tense and angry or that other rallies of the past two weeks I think was a cause for your actions for quite a spike next July and stepped up demands for the resignation of President. That holds back the man who took over power from Alexander correct 20 years ago I put a conference later civic form Coxon corresponds special commission to investigate completely I'm going to call responsibilities object leaders implicated the right to 68 invasion the press conference and you know Joy you know with the surprise announcement that in Moscow it was thought that government could then the intervention was apart. Sorry this is so helpful actually Philippine President Corazon Aquino his government today proposed a temporary ceasefire with Army rebels so it could

evacuate hundreds of foreign tourist trap by fighting in Manila's financial center. Tourism officials made the offer after the mutineers perched on the rooftops of buildings bombarded positions of loyalist forces with grenades bazooka rockets and artillery fire. Confusion over application of El Salvador state of CS laws resulted in a delayed today in a pretrial hearing for us church worker accused of hoarding arms for leftist guerrillas. Jennifer consoler was arrested during the height of a rebel offensive in San Salvador on Wall Street the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose almost 6 points today to close a twenty seven fifty three point four one. This is NPR News. More world national news later on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. This is New Hampshire daily Good afternoon I'm Martin Murray the state's second largest utility has jumped on the Northeast Utilities bandwagon as bidding for Public Service Company of New Hampshire enters the homestretch. New Hampshire Electric Cooperative today announced an agreement with Northeast that addresses power supply and transmission rights for the co-op as well as its debt

associated with the Seabrook nuclear power plant. Lesley Bennett has more. The New Hampshire Electric Cooperative the state's second largest utility uses public service company of New Hampshire transmission lines to supply its 60000 customers with electricity. The agreement was needed to ensure continued use of the power lines in the event that Northeast Utilities is successful with its takeover of bankrupt PSN H. General Manager of the co-op John Allen says the co-op has one hundred and sixty million dollars of debt from its two point two percent ownership of the Seabrook nuclear power plant. He says this agreement will keep the co-op from going bankrupt as an agreement to work together to redo this but there are systems and guarantee of handling the appropriate amount that was originally guaranteed and sell back. That would provide that foundation with the two of us working together working together with our EAA to restructure our debt associated with Seabrook and to avoid our bankruptcy.

Alan said all of the details still need to be worked out and the plan needs to be approved by the state. The federal bankruptcy court and the are say the Rural Electrification Administration reporting for WEO This is Leslie Bennett. In other news utilities throughout New England are asking customers to go easy on the electricity this evening. The extremely cold weather combined with some mechanical problems has caused problems in trying to keep up with the demand for power in New Hampshire public service company and Concord electric as well as granite state electric are asking customers to voluntarily cut electricity use as much as possible between now and 10 o'clock tonight the search for tourism dollars has always stretched beyond New Hampshire's borders now the head of travel promotion for the state is looking overseas for new visitors Jeff Lyons has more. Chris Jennings was part of a New England contingent attending the annual World Travel Market in London. Nearly every country on earth was represented by professional travel agents and individual travelers. Joining start the European market is opening up more for New England thanks to

the American habit of 20 people. Colonel Jennings said as Europeans spend about five times more money when they travel to the U.S. than American tourists do in New Hampshire. Jennings and other New England representatives said they were hoping for a lot of snow this winter because the interest among Europeans to come skiing was seeing an increase. I'm Jeff Lyons reporting for W E v o news. New Hampshire's largest insurer says it's coming out of red letter days and into a forecasted 17 million dollar profit this year. Blue Cross Blue Shield has been in the red for two consecutive years. The company cites a number of reasons for the turnaround including raising rates and controlling costs. Company spokesman Clark Dumont says the insurance carrier saw inflationary pressure in health care before most of its competition did and it reacted quickly. The company employs 840 people. It reduced 30 percent of

its workforce as a way to cut costs. It said most of that reduction was achieved through people quitting or retiring. I talked with Israeli consul general yuck off levy that's coming up next on New Hampshire daily programming on New Hampshire Public Radio is made possible in part by contributors to the New Hampshire features funding audiology and hearing instruments in New Hampshire and 194 Pleasant Street in Concord celebrating 10 years of continuous service to the hearing impaired hearing testing and hearing aids services. Well it's not often that the Middle East including Israel gets knocked off the front page of our newspapers but that's what's been happening lately while the startling events in Europe have unfolded. The Honorable yank off levy is the Israeli consul general to the United States serving the New England area specifically since last August. Mr. Levy what has been the Israeli view of the governmental reform and changes that we are now seeing in Europe. Well we've been watching with great excitement all these events unfolding in Eastern Europe

and as much as we'd welcome the democratization of these countries sharing with us Americans and Israelis these principles of democracy which we so cherish. Now we've been viewing it with a particular angle in addition to that namely the Eastern European countries had all broken diplomatic ties with Israel in 1967 following the Six Day War. That is except for Romania. We're looking now to increase ties with the Soviet bloc. We've relaunched diplomatic ties with Hungary establish ties with Poland and Consular Relations with the Soviet Union. So we are looking forward to the revival of Jewish culture in the Soviet Union and particularly to massive immigration. We're looking forward to hundred thousand Jews coming over to Israel in the next two or three years from the Soviet Union. Now what about Western Europe. Mr. Levy specifically what about Germany how Israelis reacted to the crumbling of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent talk of a reunified German state.

Well the crumbling of the wall has been viewed with great excitement. However there is a particular concern in Israel about the specter of a united Germany based on the tragedy which befell the Jewish people during the Holocaust. One might recall that East Germany has not until this date taken responsibility for her part in the Holocaust. So you're still waiting for some signal from East Germany. Well that's on the Israeli East German relations but on the whole we view with a pretension the specter of a united Germany because of the tragic events which unfolded in the first part of the century. We mention Mr. Levy that events elsewhere have really taken the world's eye off Israel and its neighbors for the time being yet there are a few of what some might term critical developments taking place that there was a vote scheduled for today Monday in the U.N. General Assembly on a resolution that would upgrade the observer status of the PLO the Palestine Liberation Organization from an organization to that of a state within the UN. We've heard that the PLO did not press for a vote today what's your opinion why no vote.

Well we view that development as negative for two reasons. First it would detract from the dialogue which we're trying to create today in the Middle East between Israelis and Palestinians. Now there was an Israeli peace initiative early in May and we're trying to follow through on it together with the U.S. administration. Secondly because with the increase of the world consciousness of the specter of terrorism we view with particular concern any added dignity which would be confirmed on the PLO which essentially wrote the book on terrorism of the last 20 years. Any ideas why in your opinion the PLO did not press for the vote did not have the votes in the general assembly. Perhaps they felt the reaction of other countries to it particularly the American and Israeli reactions. There are efforts ongoing to open up a dialogue between Israel and the Palestinians. One series of talks is intended to focus on proposed elections in the West Bank and Gaza. Now the PLO last Friday expressed approval for the talks but insisted that it name the member of the members rather of the Palestinian

delegation. The U.S. apparently wanted Egypt to select the delegation is that PLO insistence going to delay or perhaps destroy the talks. Well indeed there is talk about a dialogue. Israel made a proposal in May which has four points the essential one is calling for a free and democratic elections for Palestinians to come forward and select a delegation for talks with Israel if conducted leaves will probably be the first and only free and democratic elections in the Arab world. We're looking for authentically elected Palestinians to conduct dialogue with us. Rather than to self-imposed groups which have practiced terrorism in the past and even continue it today in spite of verbal denials of it. So therefore we would place the emphasis on talks with the Palestinians rather than the PLO nominating delegates. There are efforts Mr. Levy right here in New Hampshire to encourage dialogue between Jews and Arabs an organization with that objective exist in Manchester for example does Israel encourage those efforts.

Well I don't know about local initiatives I know that in Israel both Arabs and Jews are continually in dialogue in spite of the differences which still divide us particularly between the 800000 Israeli Arab citizens and the 3.7 million Israeli Jews because if we have to co-exist together we have to talk into dialogue. We'd like to bring into effect the dialogue with the Palestinian elected delegation. That's what we are working forward in the direction of that in these very days the prime minister of Israel came to Washington and met with President Bush and Secretary Baker to further these very issues. Mr. Levy thank you very much for joining us today. Thank you. Your coffee Levy is the Israeli consul general to the New England states. The New Hampshire legislature may consider a bill to establish a committee to study ethics standards similar bills have failed in the past with lawmakers opting to continue with the honor system now in place. Ethics is the subject of today's debate between State Senator Wayne King of Romney and Representative Donna scientific of Salem.

We begin with state Senator King. Donna just before Thanksgiving this year Congress finally got around to passing in the ethics reform package bill. It's time that we in New Hampshire did the same thing today in New Hampshire the public has the right to know about nearly every aspect of their government. The people of our state believe so strongly in that right that they put it in the Constitution. Yet when it comes to knowing about the income sources of our legislators the message to the public has been hands off it's none of your business. Well it is their business. If a legislator has income or stock which could cause him or her to benefit from the passage of a bill or killing a bill the House rules say that that person should not vote on the matter. But in recent years that's not been the case. Legislators chair committees where they have a financial interest. Legislators who own gravel pits vote on gravel bills legislators who are in the real estate business vote on bills that could impact on their financial interests. It goes

on and on and on. Now the bulk of legislators in the New Hampshire House and Senate are good honest people. But the fact is that leadership has not been presented that has helped them to make ethical decisions about voting on bills. And I think that we need to do something immediately to make it clear to legislators where a source where they can go to for information to help them make ethical decisions. When I think it's a mistake to call the issue at hand an ethics issue. I think what you're really talking about is increased financial disclosure. Now let's take a look at what we already have on the books as elected officials we already report three categories of contributions. We report gifts of over 100 dollars from anybody but our family. We report our sources of income greater than $10000 and we report our campaign contributions. I that I agree that in this last area campaign contributions we should close the loophole that exempts a candidate from reporting if he spends less than $500 on his campaign. And I also think it's fair

to ask candidates a constitutional office like speaker and President of the Senate to report their contributions they're currently exempt and I don't think that's right. Beyond that I think you have to tread carefully. It's hard enough to recruit candidates for $100 a year job and you have to ask yourself how much about personal finances as opposed to campaign finances. You can ask before we lose the services of some decent honorable people who serve New Hampshire well over the years. Don I have heard that argument about recruiting candidates for only $100 a year so many times. That's like saying that you pay us $100 a year and you want to have ethics to the nerve. Well the fact is that we should demand the kind of ethical standards from our legislators that we demand from legislators that are paid in the United States in the Congress and the Senate of the United States. And we're not doing that. The financial disclosure of $10000 or more from your income source doesn't tell people that you have $8000 in a

bank stock that might be affected by an interstate banking bill. It doesn't tell people that you have $5000 in insurance stock or in some other stock or that you have a source of income that is nine thousand nine hundred ninety nine dollars. That may impact on your decisions and may affect the quality of your decisions. The fact is that people have a right to know what your sources of income are and I think from from anywhere from a thousand dollars or more would be legitimate. And if they have that right to know and if they know that then they can make an educated decision at the polls. If there isn't leadership in the house in the Senate that helps people to make ethical decisions. When I have to agree with you that perhaps the $10000 limit on disclosure of sources of income needs to be re-examined because after all the legislature should be like Caesar's wife we should be even above the appearance of impropriety. But you run into some practical problems when you impose really tough restrictions if everybody who had a real estate license

or had some involvement in real estate had to abstain on development bills or bills that were related to their profession. You might have trouble getting a quorum because we know that that's a popular part time job here in New Hampshire. If everybody who had stock in a utility refused to vote on the upcoming issue in this special session you might have trouble getting a quorum. So I think we have to be very careful where we draw the line where we asked people not to participate in the decisions that they were elected to make. That's interesting that you say that Don and I think that that's true and that's really where the issue of leadership comes in. If you do not have leadership in the house in the Senate who are giving guidance to legislators who have questions about whether or not they should vote on a particular bill then you have I think a real void in terms of serving the public's interest. Now I know that you have abstained from voting on bills that had to do with your source of income in the past and I commend you for that but theres an awful lot of legislators who dont do that. And in fact there are

legislators who have gone to the Senate president and the speaker of the house and said I'm supposed to vote on this bill but I have a financial interest should I do that. And they have told them that they can go ahead and vote on that. That means that there's not the leadership available to give guidance to legislators to make ethical decisions. And that is where we have a problem. And the only way that you can get around that without providing adequate leadership is to have some kind of a panel to give guidance to legislators. I don't know whether that is the answer or not but leadership would help a lot. You are aware of situations where people have gone to the leadership and been advised to vote were probably unaware of the other other members of the House or Senate who have gone to leadership and said they had a conflict and chose not to vote or weren't there on the day the vote was taken. Just because there isn't a formal mechanism to get advice on whether you should vote doesn't mean it isn't happening. I think the fact that the

issue has been raised the profile of this issue has been raised this session is going to make people a lot more cautious I think that members of the House and Senate will look for advice from the leadership and from their colleagues because it's really up to the individual member to decide for himself whether he has a conflict the decision rests on his shoulders. He's going to be accountable to his constituents. State Representative Donna sidetrack and Senator Wayne King debate subjects of interest to the state legislature Monday. Before you buy yourself a typewriter and dream of writing your first novel you may want to listen to a few words of advice from a language specialist in today's commentary. Richard letter writing is not as easy as it looks. If you ever heard the story of the overly confident young writer who beseeched the famous editor with a barrage of requests to read his latest manuscript eventually and

reluctantly the editor agree. Three days later he received the cable from the impatient writer must have immediate decision as other irons in the fire. The publisher wired back suggest you extract irons and insert manuscript. Well that's one way for a beleaguered editor to exact revenge. Another way is to save the fractured phraseology that floats like a lead balloon through the prose of even those who hope to become professional writers. And today I'm going to offer a collection of executable excerpts plucked from unsolicited manuscripts sent to a prominent editor of fiction an editor who quite understandably wishes to remain anonymous so here they are and they're all real and these are professional manuscripts. Captain Stevens was tall and dignified and commanded a full head of hair. Her fool's golden hair was so tightly knotted in back that she looked bald when viewed from the front. Bernie's virginity fell before Catarina like wheat before a

hailstorm. I just can't believe you're home. I don't know what to say. Darlene admitted. Then one day after the nose operation I looked into the mirror and I was beautiful. I hadn't realized that the rest of me a cute little body round the just right and with small pointed breasts and a heart shaped face with blue green eyes and so on was really OK. You can imagine how out of things I feel never to be able to discuss how my husband hasn't touched me for months the way all my girlfriends do. Perspiration beaded on her forehead and slowly migrated to the brow word formed they say a line mote. Captain Haskins got his name from his hair which was the color cotton Haskins sorry got his name from his hair which was the color of wheat. She stood B side her handsome husband as he

ate the rare prime rib she had prepared gently stroking his wavy brown hair. His head ate a few things were as stressful as planning the murder of a spouse in his late middle age Floyd had found this young beautiful woman and had poured all his pent up love on her. Love is like swallowing a shard of glass. The pain moves through you constantly a reminder that you are not empty. The bartender smiled compassionately at Lottie. Don't feel bad about being a salesman he said. Everybody sell something. I sell liquid happiness. Her tongue was busy again and I decided I really wasn't going to have my teeth cleaned this week after all this. Val let's try this one. He's moaning louder doctor. I'll handle this nurse the doctor rasped officially. Val was an expiring

writer confident on showing the world he could be a success. So now it's time for all you expiring writers in weibo land out there to show the world how badly you can write. I want you to create your most leaden clunky short prose passage that you can imagine and send it on a postcard to Richard letter and you'll get the address at the end of this Carol. We've all and I will broadcast the best worst in one of these spots and I will send each winner a signed copy of my. Get thee to a pottery This is Richard ladder and you can send your prolific prose entries or other comments on language to Richard a letter in care of twenty six Pleasant Street Concord New Hampshire zip code 0 3 3 0 1. Business news is next on New Hampshire daily. Yeah.

Good evening this is Steve McRae reporting from the offices of PaineWebber in Concord. The stock market weathered some profit taking a move higher with the help of a strong performance from the technology stocks buying interest in the group some bellwether issue. IBM made a major contribution as the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained six points to 2007 53. The gain also reflected a surge in U.S. Steel inspired by takeover talk in the broad market prices drifted in choppy trading for the first half of the session as traders took profits in the wake of Friday's advance in which the Dow Jones industrial average jumped forty one point three eight points. But the market later found its direction as investors looking for bargains latched on to the technology group. One of the few sectors which hadn't participated in the earlier rally. Traders and analysts expressed concern however that the market hasn't attracted the kind of broad based buying support that may be needed to sustain its

recent gains and fuel any challenge of the record highs set earlier this year. Some stocks of local interest American Telephone forty three and three quarters down five eights Chichi e sixty nine and seven eighths of one and a half IBM ninety nine and a quarter up to 1 1 a. 9 x 85 in three quarters of one eighth and national co up 35 in three quarters one quarter. In summary the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 2000 753 up six points on a volume of one hundred fifty two million shares. This is Steve McRae reporting from PaineWebber in Concord. Have a nice evening. For a look at whether this weather report is made possible in part by a grant from Johnson and fuel Corp. suppliers of petroleum products throughout New Hampshire and Vermont. Here's Rob now everyone. Winter Light winds will gradually relax in the wake of the big

storm. Following the order of drifted by gales from the northwest across northern most New Hampshire and Maine. On top of one to two feet of snow already on the ground. Just like the middle of the harshest of winter now even though it's just early in the season we are going to have a few days to recover from this harsh weather before the next system approaches very late in the week. Tonight then the waxing moon overhead literally called in Dr fair skies. 5 below with the wind calmed down from near zero over the remainder of the region. Clouds early will bright some sunshine still a very cold breeze the high near 26 at 30 degrees. Tuesday night mainly guys at 50 and flurries early Wednesday will give way to breaks of sunshine Hina 30 at 34. Just the west and northwest and

30 mph over the granite state Portsmouth. The temperature there for Monday the fourth day of December 1989 and programming on New Hampshire Public Radio is made possible in part by Certified Public Accountants and management consultants offering accounting expertise and strategic business consulting services. With. All things considered is coming up next. Twenty nine minutes past 5:00. And. If your name is drawn on New Year's Day

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saying Congress corrupted the truth that the Savings and Loan scandal New York telephone workers go back to work after a 17 week strike machinist's that Eastern airlines are in the ninth month of their strike. Pilots and flight attendants have given up and the president won't interfere. That really hurts when. You see him pounding like will answer on the back saying that rah rah rah for the solidarity and in his own in his own country it's sorry. Government has no business in a labor dispute. Also an introduction to the 20th century music starting with Stravinsky. Now this news. For National Public Radio News in Washington President Bush said today the U.S. will keep military forces in Europe as long as the allies want them. Speaking in Brussels after his weekend summit meeting the president said that it's too early to proclaim an end to the Cold War but that Soviet leader globally.