FOLK FOUNDATIONS MURRAY COP SHOT MALONE’S THE ONE Dylan, Simon music stalwarts B-1 Officer stable, suspect in custody C-1 NBA MVPaward madeofficial F-1 CheSalt Lake Cri http: www.sitrib.com une Utah's Independent Voice Since 1871 FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1999 © 1999. The Salt Lake Tribune IT CAME FROM THE WASH New HomeHorror: What Evil Lurks In the Laundry? Western leaders warn breakthroughis only first step on long road, pledge to continue attacks COMBINED NEWS SERVICES BELGRADE, Yugoslavia — Hammered for 72 con- secutive days by NATO warplanes, Yugoslay President Slobodan Milosevie’s government agreed Thurs- BY ELIZABETH NEUS GANNETT NEWS SERVICE CHICAGO — Throw somebleachin with that next load of dirty underwear. Your washing machine can be a most-un- expected source of disease-causing bacteria usually Yugoslavia Says ‘Yes’ to Peace Deal thought to be spread large- ly through undercooked food With most households nowusing cold or warmwater (o wash dirty clothes, the chancethat bacteria such as E. coli, salmonella, adenoviruses (which cause colds and diarrhea) or hepatitis A will survive has grown, researchers day to the U.S.-led alliance’s demands, promising to pull out all soldiers and police from Kosovoandpermit Western troopsto help escort the province's warshocked populace home. PresidentClinton welcomedthe news as “encourag- ing” but added that, in light of what the West sees as Milosevic’s record of breaking his word, “we must also be cautious.” He vowed that NATO will press ahead with its air war until Yugoslav forces had be- gun a “verifiable withdrawal” from Kosovo. What seemed to be the long-awaited breakthrough in the Balkanscrisis came after linnish President LUN. warnsof health disaster in Yugoslavia AS M Bosnian rock bandto visit Utah on charity tour AS after Milosevic met with party leaders and urge: them to accept it The settlement would require the return of anest mated 850,000 ethnie Martti Ahtisaari and Russian envoy Viktor Cherno- myrdin handed Milosevicthefirst detailed peace plan supported by Russia, an ally of Yugoslavia. and the U.S.-led Atlantic alliance Previously, Milosevic had refused to nance a full-scale military withdrawalfrom Kosovo « prov ince of the main Yugoslav republic, Serbia [He also hadinsisted that NATOplayonly a marginal tole ina U.N. peacekeeping force But in a closed-door session that some participants described as “rowdy,” members of the Serbian parlia Macedonia The plan makes no mention ofthefate of Milosevi indicted along with four top lieutenants last week by an international tribunal on charges that they are ac countable for murders, forced deportation and perst cution of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo The Finnish president said plenty of fine print stil! needs to be agreed upon to flesh out the two-pag agreement. including a precise schedule for wiih ment approved the blueprint, 136-74. on ‘Thursday See PLAN. Page A-5 Across U.S., Race Affects iversity of Arizona said They washed sterile cloths in loads of laundry Albanian refugees who been expelled mostly to neighboring Albania an donein 100 homesin ‘Tampa, Fla., znd Tueson Ariz. as well as in loads of underwear contaminated with hepatitis A and washedin thelab Between 10 and 20 percent of those cloths came out of the wash contaminat- | Cop Ratings | ed with E. coli, and similar percentages were contaminated with salmonella, adenovirus and hepatitis A. A long cyclethrough the dryer — up | Blacks morelikely to be to 45 minutes — killed the E. coli, but not the other contaminants. In some dissatisfied with police cases, bacteria were found on laundry done 24 hoursafterthe first contaminat- ed load BY PETE YOST Theupshot is you could be blowing your nose in organismsleft over from THE ASSOCIATED PRESS the underwear in the previousload, said Charles Gerba, professor of environmen- WASHINGTON — Blacks’ dissatis. faction with policeoutstrips whites’ by tal microbiologyat the University of Ari- -to-1 or more in NewYork and Chica go andnearly that in a number of oth zona, speaking at the annual meeting of the American Society for Microbiology. er cities, the government said ‘Thurs While few outbreaks of illness have been linked to household laundry, hospi- day police \ workers thought had been properly launtransferred he moves the wet laundry from the the dirty laundry, wash your handsafter touchingit, he said. Andto sanitize the Pool Photograph Polygamist David Ortell Kingston is led away in handcuffs after a 3rd District Court jury in Salt Lake City convicted him ofincest and unlawful sexual conduct with his niece, who said she wasforced to marry him laundry and washer, bleach does a good job, he said. Always make your undergarments a bleach load, or make your last load a bleach load, to sanitize the machine Salt Lake Polygamist Convicted of Incest At a Laundromat, he said, do the bleach loadfirst survey of a dozencities last year compared with 10 percent of whites fromthe laundryto a person's hands as washer to the dryer, Gerbasaid. To avoid passing around germs from coming amid the indicated: that. 24 percent of blacks were dissatisfied with local police dered. The bacteria are generally in a report controversyover “racial profiling” by tal workers andpatients have beenin- fected with meningitis linked to sheets though the figures varied substantial ly by city Many black Americans believe they are treated differently from whites said Deputy Atty. Gen. Erie Holder who announced the results Calling the 24 percent black-dissat isfaction figure “too large.’ Holder said law-enforcement agencies andall segmen!s together of communities must work break down “thebarriers of mi you don't pick up other people's bacteria in your laundry Also, bewarethesorting table, where Kingston found guilty of having sex with his 16-year-oldniece,said to be his 15th wife people puttheir dirty laundry before the wash cycle and wheretheyfold the clean items afterward. Hot water and detergent could kill the bacteria in the wash, said home-hygiene consultant Elizabeth Scott, but most Americanwater heaters aren't set any- wherenear 140 degrees Fahrenheit, the temperature neededto kill bacteria. And turning up the water heater in an at polygamyis slowly being forcedinto BY STEPHEN HUNT THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Jurors rendered a split decision Thursday in the David Ortell Kingston incest trial, finding the 33-year-oldpo: lygamist guilty of two counts of having the public consciousness and into the laps of prosecutors, White said, add- ing, “There's not a single prosecutorin the state who is not watching what's been done heretoday.” Said former polygamous wife Laura quitting him of twoother sex counts Chapman: “Most importantly, it gives children within polygamy aglimmer of tempt tokill bacteria increases the risk away to await sentencing scheduledfor marriage, the state can step in and ‘The study of contaminated laundry re. flected the additional attention being tory. of accidental scalding paid to the microbial environment of the homethese days, as concern about food sex with his 16-year-old niece, andac ‘As Kingston was handcuffed andled July9, anti-polygamists declaredavic “This is not a polygamy free-zone anymore," said Douglas White, atlor ney for Tapestry of Polygamy. ‘The secretiveandillegal practiceof borneandother infectious disease grows, hope. If they don’t want an arranged help Kingston's case cametolight after the girl was severely beaten by her father for trying to run away from her arranged marriageto her uncle. Overall, 85 percent of residents sur veyed in 12 cities said t fied with local police. Three percent counts of incest and one count of un lawful sexual contact with a minor ‘The jury found him guilty of oneincest count and the unlawful sex count The split decision surprised court watchers, who expected Kingston wouldbeeither foundguilty or acquit ted of all counts. The eight-member all-male jury deliberated nearly four hours before convicting on the two counts in which the girl's story was the most consistent as to time andplace. Jurors refused to speak publicly said they werevery dissatisfied and12 percent said they weredissatisfied Latinos were included as either black or white in the survey based on their individual preference In Chicago, 31 percent of blacks were dissatisfied with police com pared with 11 percent of whites, Ir New York. the figures were 23 per cent for blacks, 11 percent for whites In Washington, the figures were closer together, 25 percent for blacks. nate panel member told The Salt Lake 19percent for whites. In Los Angeles 18percent of blacks were dissatisfied compared with 11 percent of whites See POLYGAMIST, PageA-6 See RACE. Page A-5 abouttheir deliberations. But analter Kingston was charged with three In homes in Wales where people came downwith salmonella, about 12 percent of the dishcloths used in those homes carried salmonella bacteria, Scott said And in salmonella outbreaks, there's a 60 percent chance that other people in the house will get sick not from eating the same food as the first patient but from touching something he touched without washing his hands. NewYork Senate Bid Nearly a Sure Thing For Hillary Clinton Keeping a homesanitary has become moreimportant as the home population living with illnesses that damagetheir immune systems and morechronically ill people are being cared for at home @ MajorUS. rivers contaminated AS Of $80 Million Satellite Mission BY LEE SIEGEL BY MICHAEL GRUNWALD and JOHN HARRIS changes, said Joan Rose, a water-quality expert fromthe University of South Florida, explaining that more people are USU Takes the Blamefor Failure 1999, THE THE WASHINGTON POST Hillary Rodham lite carrying a Utah-built telescope spun out of control, Utah State Uni Clinton's all-but-an. nouncedSenatecandidacy in New York became even moreof a foregone con: clusion Thursdayas the only other po tential Democratic candidate saidsheis versity engineers have found why the $80 million mission failed: An unex pected power surge from a $ electronic circuit made the telescope dropping out of the race becauseit is cover pop off prematurely Harry Ames of USU's Space Dy clear” that Clinton will run Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., on ‘Thurs: INDEX Ann Landers 84 Asimov/ Bridge D214 Births Busines Classifieds Comic Be first lady, and will instead run for a sixth House term. Clinton advisers said sheplans to announcetheformation of an exploratory committee in early July Obituaries Pur and while some still caution that she could change her mind, the adopted Sports 0-23 Lad state candidacy that once seemedal most too far-fetched to contemplate is looking morethan ever like a done deal Details: F-8 Clinton, who has never lived in New York and has never runfor elective of fice, met Thursdayto talk politics with Star Gazer TV Programs WEATHER; Lows in mid-40s, lames Or namics Laboratory (SDL) said Thurs daythe integrated circuit essential day said she is withdrawing from the Senate race to clear the field for the Movies Carville, the colorful consultant so central to her husband's }992presi SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Three months after a NASAsatel Hillary Rodham Clinton ly an inch-square computer chip made by Actel Corp. of Sunnyvale, Calif was not defective, but simply behaved in a way never before detected Because USU engineers did not find dential campaign. Carvillesaidshenev er declared to him during their chat that she was running, but hesaid the assumption was obvious I don’t know if I've ever declared to her that I'm a male,” Carville said. "It's understood Nowthat Loweyhas pulledout, Clin he is to blame for the failure of NASA’s Wide-Field Infrared Explor er (WIRE) shortly after its March 4 launch on a four-month mission to See SENATE, Page A-5 shouldrely on a,vone else ensuring the problem beforehand. study how wi after the univer As the pr SDL executive Ames said nd galaxies evolved » formed am manager and an 1 don't believe SDL Discovery leaves space station AY that we're doing our job correctly Ames said by phonefrom the North Logan laboratory. “In that respect, | personally accept accountability and responsibility for this failure Nevertheless, “I don't kick myself too hard” because the power surge which lasted a fortieth of a second also went undetected by NASA engi neers who tested WIRE before launch The integrated circuits called field programmable gate arrays have been used on many other NASA and Defense Department spacecraft but never before in a situation where the power surge was detected or caused a problem, he added The NASA-built’ WIRE satellite carrying USU's WIREtelescope, was launched March4 by a Pegasusrocket droppedfroma jet flying off Califor See USU, PageA-6