Show :: i f '' ' i - N ' ' 4 I i I I ) 4 ! ? 2 tifV- 1 1 - 1 1 1 PI - 2 -- I I 1irlv - 1 111P:n 1 1 ob ) 1 z9 III I- Vol 243 No 104 SUNDAY January 26 Salt Lake City Utah r- Thin NE For people like Robert Irons life in a wheelchah has been a struggle for acceptance Finishing up his training as a paralegal he's about tc roll the pavement again in search of a job The last time school the after attending a travel-agecould not find a position If be fares any better this time he could owe his succefs to the Americans With Disabilities Act the most s bill ever passed for the disabled significant population Previous laws regarding disabled people have generally aimed at physical barriers things like wheelchair ramps and curb cuts But ADA the first phase oi which goes into effect today requires employers retailers and others to do everything reasonable to allow disabled people to function as productive members of society "ADA will draw out more disabled people" predicted Mr Irons confined to a wheelchair by a birth defect "People will become aware of us learn to work with us" Others aren't so sure See A-- 4 Column 1 THE SALT LAKE nt -- Il ' 1- 40' ' ld 33 't 'me i 't - ) I &ill-right- - - ' k l A i - e s a 4'1 1 I 1 of - i- Targets ME LSSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Russian President Boris Yeltsin said Saturday 1 intends to stop targeting US cities with nuclear missiles and no longer considers the United States a potential enemy Yeltsin said "we want to change our military doctrine" anti "turn our intercontinental ballistic misLiles away from all cities the United States" Yeltsin said he has informed President Bush of his intentions will make a statement on the matter Monday and will do se again Friday at the UN Security Council in New York The military posture of Russian leaders will be to 4At - '- - Nuclear-Missil- e 1 i ' 4 A ' i ' "no longer consider the United States our potential adversary- Yeltsin told ABC News However Yeltsin did not address the issue of Russian nuclear missiles pointed at US military targets The network broadcast only a portion of what it billed as an exclusive interview on Saturday saying t Al Hartmanialbe Salt Lake Tribune Robert Irons attends paralegal class a 1 r(0)0414A 'E1992 The Salt Lake Tribune k t c 1992 Says They'll No Longer Be 1 — e 2 - I Yeltsin 'Frees US Cities Disabilities Act Tackles Historic Challenge: Tearing Down America's Invisible Barriers By Jack Fenton c": the full interview would be aired on an evening newsmagazine show next Friday Yeltsirfs move would be the latest step signaling a stand down from the Cold War era of nuclear confrontation between the United States and the former Soviet Union Meanwhile the Bush administration has decided to halt indeiinitely the nation's building of nuclear bombs (See story: It will cancel production of the only nuclear warhead on the US military's order books Other developments: Bush intends to move toward eliminating the nation's force of 50 NIX ballistic missiles eliminate Midgetman missiles and plans for scale back the Minutemen III missile force Pentagon sources confirmed A US military advisory panel urges cutting the nuclear arsenal in half The study prepared for an Air Force general says the United States should tarnuclear force on potential foes othget a scaled-dower than the former Soviet Union At least one critic of the study says the cuts should be even deeper The existence of the study was disclosed earlier this A-- single-warhea- d n month - The Paradox Of Health Care By Gilbert M Gaul NEWS SERVICE KNIGHT-RIDDE- American health care is a jumble of contradictions The United States has the most sophisticated and expensive medical care in the world yet it cannot afford vaccinations for its poorest children Americans blame government for the estimated 34 million people without health insurance but put up an unholy fuss if anyone suggests raising taxes to cover them Asked if they are satisfied with the personal medical care they receive Americans reply yes Polled to see if they are system happy with the US health-carAmericans spew diatribes about high cost paperwork and bureaucratic bun- ittA e - gling In a survey last year nearly half the respondents favored scrapping the medical system for national health insurance Yet these same individuals rejected placing stricter limits on spending or freedom of choice — key elements of any nationalized health plan Is it any wonder analysts say that the system is spinning out of control? Column 2 See A-- - public-p- rivate - 2 INSIDE - eig5altfaktrtriblint - - - - - Jeff AllredThe Salt Lake Tribune smog covers the Salt Lake Valley with Wasatch Mountains left and Oquirrh Mountains right Homes parthily seen are in Sandy Inversion-trappe- d Utah's Polluti sin By Lex Hemphill iti THE SALT: LAKE TRIBUNE If the air we breathe came with packaging it would say'"Caution: This stuff is hazardous to your health" Yes the gray gunk that fills valleys along the Wasatch Front in winter really is rank It is afflicting sensitive breathers and according to some scientists even killing them Consider this: While Provo may be the most livable city in the United States by Money magazine's standards the Environmental Protection Agency considers it one of the nation's worst carbon monoxide problems In one 1990 ranking of days in which metropolitan areas exceeded federal CO stan- Provo-Orewas in the top five cit- - dards les choking on polluted air joining Los Angeles kichorag Las Vegas and Sacramento Salt Lake County is classified as a area — meaning it doesn't meet federal standards — in four of the six pollutants monitored by the EPA In the agency's figures for particulate pollution in the first half of 1989 Salt Lake and Utah counties were among the top five nationally for the 10 dirtiest days And last week the air in Provo was so dirty schoolchildren couldn't go outside for recess Utah has one industry Magnesium Corp of America in Tooele County that i ' i T N11:taz -7 Lt224 ) ' 1:-- I- f z-- 11 1--- 1 i ft - ! -- 1 10 c"? F' 1 LC ? : e- i- :4 ) cr - (7-:- ( t ‘ ::: lit- - : cFk ulki (IL- 1 1 ) 1 1 i- I 4 t I c—L i f 71i: -- ' ''L--- cl 6 ( - i- - " L-- P f' 1 it it I 8:---1 k 1 ii: r !go : : : ‘ s ) ' ) i 1 I 1 a 1 i gained national notoriety a couple of years ago as the largest single source of toxic air pollutants in the country Studies of other cities have shown that death rates increase proportionately with the amount of particulate pollutants in the air And the Wasatch Front has one of the nation's most acute particulate pollution problems One doctor claims that about 50 Utah County residents die each year from air pollution By Sid Moody I a THE ASSOCIATED PRESS I i 'Tis 1992 and the season to bash Christopher Columbus on his quincentennial for everything that ails the New World from boll weevils nagging backaches and n fund Congress to teen-ag- e pregnancy drives and water in your carburetor Formerly a hero every 100 years Chris this time has been whipsawed posthumously by revisionist public-televisio- i : Scoreboard Star Gazer 0-- SPORTS Monday History of air pollution on the Wasatch Front Tuesday The health toll on plants animals and The Tribune today introduces complete box scores for every NBA game The new boxes containing everything from blocks to turnovers to minutes for each player in each game helps NBA fans and Fantasy Basketball players track their favorite players Page D-- Wednesday 3 humans Just what is our 'DIE ARTS government doing about it? Thursday Folks in Elko Nev are busy preparing for a major cultural event the annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering Page I The future will be much worse E-- COMMENTARY Editor's Note: A sailor of no small skill himself AP Newsfeatures Writer Sid Moody figures Christopher Columbus is getting a bum rap from revisionist historians especially those who question his seamanship Moody sailing in Columbus' wake found that the explorer was a remarkable navigator "with an oceanic sixth sense amouet4 to genius" 4 8-- Sciffech B-- 2 An overview of the Most estimates put the national price of health care at $20 to air pollution-relate$40 billion annually On a personal level health expenses increase from $10 to $25 annually for each individual with each increase in particulate pollution of only one d microgram per cubic meter As grave as the problem is it could get much worse in the next two decades Residents in the four urban counties along the Wasatch Front (Salt Lake Utah Weber and Davis) now own about 750000 automobiles By the year 2010 that number will mushroom to about 13 million And since motor vehicles are the major source of air pollution that means more carbon monoxide and ozone in the air Drivers have an accomplice in fouling offithe air — industry But dais maintain that polluting industries such as Geneva Steel and Kennecott air-quali- ty See A-1- 1 Co lumli 1 historians If he'd stayed home they argue fellow Europeans wouldn't have decimated the Native Americans plundered the Americas and outraged the environment Seems a bit ex post facto and unfair like blaming Adam and Eve for VIP Medellin Cartel As a fellow navigator who has sailed in Columbus' wake from the farthest Antilles and across the Atlantic to Spain I rush to his defense Whatever else he was or was not or may or may not have started Christopher was a helluva mariner Helluva Chris and I have made landfalls in the Bahamas I did so with a portfolio of charts an accurate sextant and timepiece volumes of navigational tables the size of phone books an electronic depth sounder and direction Legislators are finally prescribing treatment for the ailing health-carsystem but until they find ways to e control costs a cure remains elusive Page 2 BUSINESS Utah travelers find overseas air fares are a steal — but don't look for bargains on domestic flights Page I D-- TRAVEL Revisionists Are Landlubbers — Columbus Had 6th Sense of the Sea I C7 81 Northern Utah will see rain or snow showers while southern Utah can expect cloudy skies Page nt ' 8-C-- Jumble local News Obituaries News of Weird Public Forum Quotes of Note WEATHER itifiLir m 8-- problem t The Salt Lake Tribune and KUTV have teamed up for a series of stories on winter pollution the critical and growing threat to the quality of life and health —indeed the lives —of residents on the Wasatch Front As a public service the Tribune and Channel 2 Newscooperated in gathering background information for this massive project and are timing their reports to coincide m luti t n TODAY 71) 1 r1 : 5'-----3- S Ann Landers Barbed Column Births Classified Ads Crossword Earthworks Editorials Evens on Media Hall Column finder — and a specific idea of destination Columbus (me too) had a compass a calibrated piece of wood with a weighted string to sight the North Star and noon sun (which he rarely used) 1200 feet of line with a weight to fePl fPr the brittcr a halt hour glass and no charts other than the misguided belief that Japan or China lay up ahead With only those but an oceanic sixth sense amounting to genius he crossed the Atlantic and back four times In his Conquest of Paradise Kirkpatrick Sale questions Chris' seamanship for losing his flagship Santa Maria tc a reef near Cap Haitien Haiti early Christmas Day 1492 Well the watch captain had abandoned his pest for See A-- 2 Column 5 Northern California's Lost Coast proves that the best roads travelers can find are those they make for themselves Page F-- I b LIFESTYLES A program for spouses of foreign students at the University of Utah combines food and English in a melting pot of accents Page F-- 7 PARADE Spending less than $10 on a meal for six doesn't necessarilv mean pauper stew "Chicken for a 'King" will allow royal dining without royal costs Magazine Insert - - t- Iaround — I- NI t |