President [Bush] may advance a new U.S. position when strategic arms talks resume June 19 in Geneva, the White House confirmed Wednesday. He's considering asking chief negotiator Richard Burt, who was confirmed by the Senate Wednesday, to seek a ban on mobile missiles carrying more than one warhead. If so, it would be edging toward a compromise with majority Democratic leaders in Congress, who want to see the United States relax its opposition to the mobile missiles. Said White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater: ``The mobile missile question, among others, is one of those that the president is considering.'' CUTLINE:BURT: Confirmed as arms negotiator MUM ON HOSTAGES: President Bush, meeting with Saudi Prince Saud al-Faisal for 75 minutes, praised Arab League peace efforts for war-ravaged Lebanon - but didn't discuss the nine U.S. hostages there. Asked why, Bush spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said, ``It just wasn't one that came up this time.'' JUST THE FAX, MA'AM: White House staff chief John Sununu threw a curve to reporters when he quipped President Bush's minimum-wage action ``may be the first faxed veto in history.'' Inferred by many: Bush faxed his veto message as he flew to Nebraska Tuesday. Not so: Bush told aides in Washington to send- it to Capitol Hill. He didn't even sign the accompanying letter; aides used the ``auto pen'' employed for most of Bush's signatures. ALSO WEDNESDAY ...

Conservative Rep. Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., who sparked the ethics probe of ex-House Speaker Jim Wright, also used it as a GOP fund-raising tool. He wrote potential GOP donors four times the past year, asking them to pressure the House ethics panel - and give money. He wrote as head of GOPAC. The group, which tries to elect GOP state lawmakers, said it raised $1.9 million in 1988, up $500,000 from '87, but couldn't say how much was because of Gingrich. The letters: