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Tuesday, October 5,1993
House Republicans Jockey for Position in Leader Race
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON - House GOP
Leader Robert Michel’s retirement ignited
an immediate race for a successor Mon
day, and the combative Newt Gingrich
emerged as the early front-runner. Other
Republicans jockeyed for position.
Mfchel, the Illinois lawmaker who had
led House Republicans for 13 years, made
an emotional farewell in his hometown of
Peoria as he announced he would not seek
a 20th term in Congress next year.
The announcement of his departure
which will take effect after the 1994 elec
tions —comes at a time when Republicans
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still are groping to mold a role for them
selves now that the Democrats control
both the White House and Congress.
The race to replace Michel is seen as
both a contest of styles and a battle over
who can best define and develop strategy
for the minority party in Congress.
“I don’t know if it will be a fight for a
soul of the party as much as it’s going to be
an issue of perceived style the lower
key, more conciliatory style versus being
antagonistic,” said freshman Rep. Peter
Hoekstra, R-Mich.
Gingrich, the outspoken Georgian who
holds the number-two GOP job as minor
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ity whip, wouldn’t comment on his inten
tions Monday. But he scheduled an an
nouncement Thursday and told colleagues
he would be running for Michel’s seat.
Other candidates surveyed the land
scape, too.
Rep. Gerald Solomon of New York,
ranking Republican on the Rules Commit
tee, is considered a potential candidate and
scheduled a news conference.
Rep. Henry Hyde of Illinois, who heads
the Republican Policy Committee, has built
up formidable stature with his 19 years in
the House and has voiced an interest in
Michel’s job. Hyde issued a statement say
ing he had no present plans to run, but he
noted the contest was 14 months away
"an eternity in political affairs,” he said.
Rep. Bill Archer of Texas, the ranking
Republican on the Ways and Means Com
mittee, said through a spokesman he had
been approached by several colleagues and
urged to run but had not made up his mind.
Rep. Dick Armey of Texas, the
chamber’s number-three Republican, isnot
inclined to run because he is too allied with
Gingrich on conservative issues, said an
aide in the Republican leadership.
Gingrich starts out as the front-runner
because he is already in the leadership
ranks and because of his record as an ag
gressive, articulate GOP spokesman.
Gingrich appears to have been groom
ing himself for Michel’s job and there was
speculation he would challenge Michel
next year, regardless of Michel’s plans.
Gingrich has toned down his sharp wit
in recent months, many lawmakers say, in
a calculated bid to win over more moder
ates and has tried to prove his bipartisan
ship by meeting more with Democrats.
Many lawmakers said they were look
ing for a leader who could tell Americans
just what it was the House’s 175 Republi
cans stood for.
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U.S. Won’t
Issue Trade
Sanctions
For Whaling
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON—The United States
will forgo trade sanctions against Norway
for its resumption of commercial whaling,
but will try “all good faith efforts to per
suade” the country to halt the activity,
President Clinton said Monday.
Although Norway is violating an inter
national ban on commercial whaling,
Clinton said he would not impose sanc
tions at this time despite calls by environ
mental and congressional critics for strong
U.S. action. Instead, Clinton said the ad
ministration would prepare a list of prod
ucts that could be targeted for sanctions if
Norway continued its whaling. A poten
tial target would be S7O million worth of
marine products, including 22 million
pounds of fish such as ocean salmon.
“I believe our objectives can best be
achieved by delaying the implementation
of sanctions until we have exhausted all
good faith efforts to persuade Norway to
follow agreed conservation measures,”
Clinton said in a letter to Congress.
“It is my sincere hope that Norway will
agree to and comply with such measures so
that sanctions become unnecessary."
The United States already has made its
position clear to Norway. In a meeting last
week between Vice President A1 Gore and
Norway’s Prime Minister Gro Harlem
Brundtland, Gore “expressed U.S. disap
pointment” with Norway's whaling activi
ties, said Gore spokeswoman Marla
Romash.
Clinton’s decision infuriated environ
mental activists, especially after the U.S.
government had officially warned Nor
way in August that it risked U.S. sanctions
because its hunt of the minke whale under
mined the commercial whaling ban by the
International Whaling Commission.
Norway contends it will not kill enough
creatures to affect the viability of the minke
whale as a species, but environmental ac
tivists say Norway’s activity will reinvigo
rate the world demand for whales and will
encourage other nations to resume whal
ing. “Letting Norway off the hook now
will send the wrong signal to the handful of
other nations that are already sharpening
the harpoon tips in hopes of renewing their
hunts,” Gerald Leape of Greenpeace said.
After certifying under U.S. law that
Norway was impeding the international
whale conservation effort, Clinton had 60
days, with Monday the deadline, to ex
plain to Congress what he would do about
it. Last winter the House passed, 347-0, a
resolution condemning Norway’s whal
ing. Rep. Gerry Studds, D-Mass., chair
man of the House Merchant Marine and
Fisheries Committee, called commercial
whaling “an anachronism" that at one
point had brought most of the world’s
whale species near extinction.
Studds wrote a letter Wednesday to
Clinton urgingsanctions, saying other “pro
whaling nations are certain to use our ac
tions on this issue to evaluate whether they
should resume commercial whaling also. ”
At its May meeting in Kyoto, Japan, the
International Whaling Commission, with
U.S. support and Norwegian opposition,
renewed its ban on commercial whaling.
Norwegian Foreign Minister Johan
Holst said Monday that Norway found
“some of the reaction to our policy very
surprising and completely inconsistent with
sound environmental policies and concepts
of sustainable developing.”
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