MORE TOOELE LEAKS WHO GETS LAST WAC? C-L-0-S-E-D : League's final hurrah Saturday E-1 Scrabble letter plant shuts down D-4 In past two months, 24 incidents D-1 CheSalt Lake Sri http://www.sltrib.eom une Utah’s Independent Voice Since 1871 Volume 257 Number51 © 1998, The Salt Lake Tribune FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1998 Salt Lake A Safe Can BeSafe, But a Hollow Book Might Work, Too Westen govemors discuss waterissues Unsafe waterfoundin wells in Millard County WASHINGTON — New drinking-water standards announcedbyPresident Clinton on Thursdayare expected to protect mostof the nation from dangerous contaminants while adding $2 to many monthly water bills. As finishing touch for her holiday party finery, a woman plans to wear a prized inheritance: Grandma's diamond necklace Sheopens a kitchen cupboard, reaches in and screams. The Campbell's Creamof Pea Soup “But Mommy,” a small voice says f the utilities to use a finer mesh strainer in steadofthe onesthey currently use. Withfiner filters hey won't haveto ust much chlorine to kil sents, said an EPA official. The chlorine d other microbes to ensure that no communityever has parasite cryptosporidium — whichsickened 400.000 people and killed 100 people in Milwaukee in 1993 — and possible cancer-causing byproductsof disinfect ion chemicals. agencies figures the two rules will cost $1 billion a year The newrules, which go into effect in two years water more andusing chemicals less. The requirements are the technical equivalent of Todaythe new standards we put in placewill significantly reduce the risk from cryptosporidium and to endure an outbreaklike the one the peopleofMil waukee suffered,” Clinton said in Newport, RI What one EPA officialcalled “the next generation of drinking-water protection” will affect 140 million people who get water from 13,000 public drinking would require 13,000 municipal water suppliers to use better filtering systems to remove the dreaded can is gone. And the necklace with it AA3 D4 produce byproducts linked to cancer with ed exposure, hesaid as the most p f ply, said a University of Southern California waterutilities. The association of metropolitan water > See DRINKING WATER, Page A-13 U.S. Action We never eat pea soup. | took the can Retired University of Utah English professor Jan Harold Brunvand suggests On Rights the story is an urban legend: A plausible that did not happen to the story tell- r but to someone he/she knows. I amsuspicious,” he said Urban legend ornot, the fake soup can, imitation rock hide-a-key, false Is Blasted shaving-creamjar, pseudoice-cube tray or hollow library book are but a few in- waysto hide good stuff from bad folks. U.S. human-rights group iff Peggy Falkner does not recommend criticizes Clinton record While Salt Lake County DeputySher- gadget security, she acknowledgesit is not necessarily a bad idea. Few burglars are going to look through every book or BY DAVID BRISCOE shake every can THE ASSOCIATED PRESS And why should they? Most people hide valuables in their underwear/sock drawer. The next is be- WASHINGTON — The Cl ministration’s respons tween mattress and springs of Chilean Gen. Auguste : “You would be surprised how many failure to engage other onanarrayof abu people ‘hide’ jewelry, cameras, guns and money on a handy shelfin the closet,’ day from the large: man-rights group. she said. The best placefor valuables is still Ironically, in light of its long-stated safe-deposit box or safe »mmitment to Going to a deposit box is a nuisance. Si business is brisk at Fort Knox n and Fire Safes in Orem. Michael J. Miller’The Salt Lake Tribune USA women bobsledderstuneuptheir sleds at the Bob Housein ParkCityafter a training session on Thursday. keep guns awayfrom children and offer fireproof protection for family papers and photo albums,plus protection against theft,” DaveCox said Sledders Share House of High Hopes marketing manager A newtwist to the old lock is the vault door with electronic lock and inside release. ‘It makes a whole roominto a safe,” Cox said Like the soup-can fiasco, there are downsides to any security measure. Weget almost as many claims from clients who hide things and cannotfind Fifteen athletes pack their Park City residence with a commongoal: gold BY AMBER OLDER | PARK CITY —It should put Animal House to shame Theingredients are there: a bunch of twenty-somethings jammed together red flag saying there is something worth putting in it. Still under oneroof;dishes piled up in the sink: dirty pans onthe stove; a big bag “Locks are good, Anything that takes timeto open can discourage theft,” people wholock themselves out along Weekend of women’s Word Cup ES THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE themas we do because of theft,” State Farm Insurance agent Glen Phillips said. And having a safein the house is a Falkner said, adding that a small home safe shouldbe too big to cart off. Carey Dalton, service manager at Glens Key Lock & Safe Co., deals with of garbage desperately needing to be removed from the kitchen. But inside this rambling, three-story abode in Park City, something preventsall hell from breaking loose. | | | It is not the fact that five of the 15plus residents are women. Nor that with the bad guys mostof the housemates either have or are working toward professional de- grees. Neither is it because manyof them have always had roommates ‘The reasonthis house is still standing after two months of industrial U.S. bobsled teams. The U.S. and Skeieton Federation rents the house for the athletes. who live here either rent-free or at a nominal cost If the ability to coexist under lessthan-ideal conditions werean ( ympic sport, the: athle CLICK HERE be golden FORMOREDETALS @ It is 11°30 wewsttib.com |) side the m: “Cars are easy to getinto if you don't care about damage. Break a window. Then you get into the trunk with an in- side trunk release. Anti-car-theft systems worry him “Car makers are makingit impossible protective custody in the Salt Lake | | | The Human Rights Watch report said Pinochet's government was re Regardless of whether he stands Spain, his arrest “signals would-be tyrants that from nowonit four will be more difficult to escape accountability,” the report said. “That | | Gashissed out, followed by an explosion that was heard 30 miles away and hurled flames 200 feet into the air. Theignition source has not been determined. ‘I looked over and saw this dozer hit that line,” recalled one worker. “I yelled, ‘Shut down.’ [The tractor driver] jumpedout of the cab and weran. [The break] started steaming real bad and then a semi camepast on the highwayand the wholething ignited.” Scott Wilhelm, a driver for Dick Simon Trucking, said he was driving south on Highway191 and was about 100 yards fromthesite when he wasstopped by a worker I was driving down the road when I saw a white fog crossing the road. Just as I stopped, some guyran up the road and said I better get out and run becauseall hell was going to bust loose,” said Wilhelm, whose truck dou- bles as his home. “I jumped outof mytruck and ran up the road, and just a few minutes later a hugefireball blewacrossthe road. All I could think about was that ball complete high school had four or more partners. of fire wasreally close to my home.” For high-school graduates, the share with four partners drops to 3 percent. Amongthose who attended x ‘a college, 2 percent had four or more See AMERICANS, Page A-4 High- way 191 near the entrance to Arches National Park punctured an existing 10-inch pipeline with a bulldozer that 3.8 percent of women whodidn’t | states The blast occurred at 9:50 a.m., when a crewof at least 20 workers laying a newgas line adjacent to U.S. detailing the numberof husbands or cohabiting partners for women ages 15 to 44. ‘Thedata, collected by the National Center for Health Statistics, shows WEATHER: Wintry conditions, with rain changing to snow. Details: F-12 A R COPY that could be applied to American ac- and setting off emergency-responseplansat hospitals in added to the volumethis yearis one F2 6 C23 HM C24 BS for his trial and opposes any system tions abroad. THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE MOAB — Aruptured natural-gas pipeline three miles ment’s annual compendium of statistics about America, the Statistical Abstract of the United States. Among the nearly 100 new tables INDEX Movies Obituaries Puzzles Sports StarGazer TV Programs But the announcing i north of Moab exploded Thursday, injuring four people ‘Those are among the hundredsof facts added this year to the govern- Flagler said. Be C27 27 D4 C2 B4 system. U.S. government, while cooperation in seeking decia tion of documents related to Pinochet's rule, has been reluctant to push BY MARK HAYNES and BRANDON LOOMIS WASHINGTON — The moreeducation American womenget, the fewer marriagesthey are likely to have. A growing share of American youngsterslive with their grandparents. About one in five Americans engages in regular leisure-time physical activity. | | County AnimalShelter after a drug bust. Ann Landers Asimov Quiz Bridge Col. Business Classifieds Comics international justice Gas-Pipeline Explosion Injures Four Near Moab THE ASSOCIATEDPRESS with your key. That can be dangerous.” And that is no urban legend trial have invigorated advocates of an ile of thousands more. See SLEDDERS. Page A-4 BY RANDOLPHE. SCHMID | only way someone can steal your car is “You can bet the snake wassitting on the stash,” shelter director David Pinochet's detention in Britain and efforts to extradite him to S ain trial in after the morning's The women’s skeleto: Book Takes Look At American Life By the Numbers cars, Dalton dismisses locks as protection from car break-ins. Lights, barking dogs and common sense help. But some things are dead giveaways. Like the rattlesnake that wound up in countries. appearance” of atleast 3.000 people and the torture, imprisonmentand ex- —ea of the women’s team areser strengthliving is because everyone in it shares a dream: to become an Olympic gold medalist in 2002 Welcometo the Bob House, temporary home of the men’s and women’s threat to the universality of human rights,” Human Rights Watchsaid ina report and news conference that cused as much on U.S. failings as on outright human-rights abusesin of See HUMAN RIGHTS, Page A-20 businessinvolvesgetting into locked wayto bypass the computer system. The human sponsible for the execution and “dis- People often lose keys or forget combinations to safes,” he said. While his to steal a car from your driveway. A thief can get in the car, but there is no upholding rights at home and in its foreign policy, the U.S. government today poses a So many opt for homesafes | pro The cryptosporidium and chlorine byproducts rank to school for the food bank. Ah. The fake-soup-can trick backfires. | 84111 Clinton announcesnational standards meantto reduce exposure to deadly contaminants BY JUDY MAGID tHE SALT KE TRIBUNE ] Utah New Rules for Drinking Water THE HIDING GOODS genious City, Sgt. Darrel Mecham/UtahHighway Patrol Smokebillowsfrom thesite wherea fuel pipeline ruptured and exploded along US. 191 near Moab on Thursday. ' His truck was undamaged and Wilhelm was able to drive back north to Crescent Junction to wait for the road to reopen. See Babesicn, Page A-9 *