'FAIR AND SQUARE' HEARINGS PLEDGED ON LOBBYING

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• Publication Date: April 29, 1986
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ON PAGE .,__.. NEW YORK TIMES
29 Apri1 1986
F'airand Square 'Hearings
PlecigedonI.obby ing
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h
By IRVIN MOLOTSKY
Special So Thu New Ywt Mum
WASHINGTON, April 28 - To
Senator Strom Thurmond, staunch
conservative and Reagan loyalist,
"things have got to appear right as
well as be right," a dictum that he
says he learned from his father.
But these days some things are not
appearing right, at least to some peo-
can has famd himself disagreeing
with President Reagan an whether
the lobbying efforts of Michael K.
Deaver, the former White House
aide, have been paper.
Mr. T hurmond has scheduled beam
logs beginning Tuesday on a bill that
would restrict lobbying by former
high-level AdministratIoa officials
and would have prohibited some of
Mr. Deaver's current activities, But
the Senator does not want to appear to
be targeting only Mr. Deaver.
"Some people feel it's aimed at
Deaver," Mr. Thurmond said of his
bill. "It is not. It is aimed at the
issue."
Some Deaver Clients
Mr. Deaver, who left the White
House about a year ago to start a pub-
lic relations concern, includes among
his clients the Governments of Cana-
da, Mexico, South Korea and Singa-
pore, a steel company in South Korea
and business interests in the Philip-
pines. He has also said in a report to
the Justice Department that one of
his aides had lobbied for the Korean
Broadcasting Advertising Corpora-
tion in a telephone call to a National
Security Council official five months
after Mr. Deaver left his job as
deputy White House chief of staff. Mr.
Thurmond's bill, which is before the
Judiciary Committee, of which he is
chairman, would prohibit this.
"We don't think that a person who
has dealt with forelxn governmenrts
-at the White mouse, in the C.T-
whatever - sbould by for any for-
eign "
said
1 would do three things," he
continued. "First, a Government offi-
cial couldn't lobby for one year. Sec-
ond, he couldn't lobby for a foreign
government for two years. Third, a
person in a high position could not
lobby ever for foreign governments."
When asked whether someone in a
position like Mr. Deaver's would
come under the proposed law, Sena-
tor Thurmond said that he would.
Those affected, be said. included
some Cabinet members such as
Secretary tats. Director if
Central Intelligence the rational curlty adviser top 25 officials
in ouse.
a t
e eve of his lobbying hearing,
Senator Thurmond pledged that they
would be "fair and square, with no newspaper," he said, add', both his staff and the General Ac-
something needed to be done tot two The ?' General ` Accounting Office in-
their the citizens respect for guiry began at the request of Repre-
their Government and because of na. seatative Jobn D. Dingell, Democrat
tional security considerations. of Michigan, who heads the Energy
The respect, he said, came from and Commerce Subcommittee on
what his father taught him about the Oversight and Investigations.
appearance of Correctness. Govern- While some in Congress or in the
meat is wholesome, he said, but there White House may try to ascribe Mr.
is a need "to improve the confidence Dingell's motives to politics, along
of the people in their Government." with a can for an independent prow
Senator Thurmond is an advocate ??cutor issued by the Democrats on the
of a strong national defense, and he is Judiciary Committee, they cannot
concerned that it could be harmed lay that charge at Senator Thur-
when people privy to secret strategic mood's door.
information in Government then wind 'I Support the President'
up lobbying for foreign governments. Since chairman of the Ju-
There are national security can. becoming
terns," Mr. Thurmond said. "Then diciary Committee after the 1980 elec
Is impropriety, people leaving gov tion>i, Senator. Thurmad bas been a
-
f White House a
st
rt
ernment and lining their pockets
from knowledge of government and
from their contacts."
There are times, the Senator said,
when an . official-turned-lobbyist
could take his knowledge and "use it
against our interests when lobbying
for a foreign government."
Has the attention surrounding the
Deaver matter enhanced chances for
passage of his legislation? Mr. Thur-
mond said he did not want to prejudge
the former White House aide.
"All I know is what I've read in the
p
rong suppo
er o
pointees. When Edwin Meese 3d was
moving from counsellor to the Presi-
dent to Attorney General, some
Democrats tried to block his appoint.
ment, but Senator Thurmond shep.
herded the nomination through the
committee and the Senate.
When William Bradford Reynolds,
an Assistant Attorney General, was
nominated to be Associate Attorney
General, the nomination was reject-
ed, but only after a strong advocacy
on Mr. Reynolds's behalf by Senator
Thurmond. The South Carolinian also
pressed Mr. Reagan's judicial nomi-
nations, such as those of Jefferson B.
Sessions 3d in Alabama and Sidney
Fitzwater in Texas, in the face of
strong Democratic opposition.
Senator Thurmond says that al-
though he criticizes what he sees as
inappropriate lobbying, his admira-
tion of Mr. Reagan remains intact.
"I support the President," he said.
"He has been the best President since
I've been in the Senate. I'm not going
against the President, but if he was in
my shoes, he'd take the same position
I am taking."
STAT
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