YE | pe BUSINESS: & ete mea PASSINGS: oe TheSalt Lake Trib /www.slirib.com Utah's Independent Voice Since 1871 Volume257 Number 74 © 1998, TheSalt Lake Tribune SUNDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1998 1998 Utahn of the Year exposés by this newspaper concerning Utah's “dirty little secret” shocked the state to its social and cultural soul Decades of society and government looking the other he thought of returning to school gave her the courage to keep walking that May morning. Thethought of playing with teens herownage, learning, having fun, growing up normal droveher, step after step. for two hours along the way had permitted polygamy to flourish in Utah, a state that isolated road in northern Utah The thought of declared the practice uncon. someday stitutional becoming a nurse or a lawyer,of fertile ground in such lifestyles also took seed and Kingston's courageous deci to “The Farm,” whereshe had been sion last May opened the seamiest compartment in poly gamy’s Pandora's Box. The King. ston family and othersin the state's taken to be belt-whippedfordis. obeyingher father's illegal wishes for daring to dream teen-age girls can do more than simply get married and half-dozen other polygamous clans underwent legal and media scrutiny Much ofwhat Utahns discovered start having children The futurewith all its uncertainties wasscary, butthe world fromwhichshe was bolting was morefrightening. The dreaded thought of returning to it guidedherstraight for the pay phone at Tri-Valley Chevronin thetiny farm crossroads of Plymouth, near the stunned and embarrassed them. In some poly settings. children, especially girls, routinely ar out of school without official inquiries, 14- and 15-yearold females are forced into “marriages” and teen motherhood, often incestuously. and a life doomed to repeat itself each eration. Many are made to work long Thoughts of abandoning forever is punished often by psychological banishment or family and familiarity, of having physical beatings to support herself, of main Kingston’s story is headed toward a happy productiveending. She loves her fosterfamily as Tlustration/ Sean Nayee she did — andstill does her birth parents. brothers and sisters. She remains a brave committedindividual who is doingwell in school Kingston plans to attend college and is moving toward her dream of becoming a nurse or lawyer. wrenching. But she wanted to goto school likeotherteens. M. become unacceptable: asmall,dilapi- ceed bungalow behind a Salt Lake County Soal yard; indentured servitude: a forced. e to her unclein a secret ceremony two monthsaltershe Himnied 16; childhoodinnocencetorn asunder: the isolation, the mindcontrol, the intimidation, the ever present demand for absolute loyalty to the extended family description necessary at this junctureof her amazing life And Utahns haveyet for women and children who are subjected to patriarchal bondage. But we are closer to those goals becauseof the courage of one 16-year-old girl. For that acre bravery and the broad reaction it prompted, The Salt La ibune recognizes M Kingston as its 1998 Utahn of the Year ia FA * \ vigilance from school and state agencies in spotting and to fully accepttheir collective guardian ad litemresponsibility dialed 911 and terminatedhersentenceasthe15thwifeto her uncleandlife in a polygamous gulag. Her story and other Cyberterrorism Question: Not If, But When? An Ethnic Evolution e ® BY VINCENT SCHODOLSKI {1CAGO TRIBUNE LOS ANGELES —Mention terrorism and images of a Is Certain to Remix bombed-out World Trade Center and a nerve-gas-filled Tokyo subway come to mind 9 Utah’s Array of Colorssce" se © * amneleh * Next century will alter the demographics, = but somesay thestate couldprepare better Legislature to pass a law making English Utah's official language? BY SHAWN FOSTER THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Like the rest of the country, the color of Utah is changing. And in thenext century, it will change even more. ror December 12-16 Valley Research In 1996, for thefirst time in Utah’s history, whites accounted for less than 90 percent of the population. By 2025, the number of Latinos in the United States is expected to growto nearly 18 percent of the nation’s population. In Utah, Latinos are expected to account for How do white Utahns andresidents of color view the changing demographic landscape? Someare hopeful that Utah can avoid mistakes madeby states with larger ethnic-minority popula INSIDE SECTIONS | i tions. Other Utahns doubt that everyone can get WEATHER Touch of snownorth. ma Just more than half — 54 percent — of residents Page B-8 - - surveyed by ValleyResearch for The Salt Lake Trib- UTAH Petitions being circulated pro- unebelievethat the growth of ethnic-minority com munities hasa positive effect on Utah’s quality of life while 23 percent say it has a negative impact on the state. Others — 14 percent — saidthere would be no effect at all. Valley Research conducted thestatewide poll Dec. 11 through Dec. 16 posethat voters decide whether Draper should be dry. BUSID Page C-1 Ss In ZCMI's 130-year history, only one womanhas becomecorporate vice president aa INDEX =a Ann Landers. J2 Book Reviews O-5 Chestied Ath. 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F9, 42 StrGamr FMT —— MT | 1M MIM \ i Incentives: Program wish they’d known more about the risks includes $27 million BY GLEN WARCHOL © 1998, THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE © 1998, THE SALT LAKETRIBUNE It'sa trutheveryroadbuilder under whatit takes to make an omelet: You have to crack a few houses to build a government officials, business eaders and demics are turning their attention to the vulnerability of the nation’s infrastructure to attacks by determined cy berterrorists who could dis: rupt a panoply of things ranging fromelectricity and water supplies, to railroad and air See TERRORISM, A-3 subcontractors and consultants and enough gravel, steel and concrete to build a sidewalk across the American West Exasperated commuters would set- tle for 17 miles of smooth road that gets them downtown intime for work. But for transportation tion professionals around | the The project's success is expected to change the way highways and other projects are conceived and says homeowner Gary Dorst, who claims he ney er would have bought his new house last year if road builders had told him his built worldwide. The whole world foundation was likely to that pressure yoing be they just Lake's and construction theories They're going to be hurting other people People Salt way procurement. design gan last year. crack under the world, freeway project is a gutsy $1.6 billion experiment testing cutting-edge high- Downs, I-15 project direc FoeETEttee a Htrib.com sworn is watching the 1-15 recon struction,” says David CLICK HERE fj tor and the Utah Depart ment of Transportation's (UDOT’s) point man for this industry revolution After 20 months, thefirst significant milestones — including the 600 North interchangeand21 of the project's 144 bridges — are moreor less open. The project, thanks’ in part to a lengthy streak of mild weather, is a few weeks aheadofschedule. But even I-15 opti mists hesitate to trumpet the historic pacebecause asevere winter or a clas See CRACKS, Page A-13 See INNOVATION, Page A-12 B Project problems don't delay builder bonuses A-12 More Tough Talk in Iraq, Which Vows to Defend Its Air Spac . ‘ 0 Ows e en )MBINED NEWS SERVICES WASHINGTON — The United States on Saturday 2 ed_ Iraqi President Saddam Hus in of lookfar taere Thee confrontation after Gag aircraft repeatedly tried to lure Americ: 1 andBritish warplanesinto missile traps and Iraq's vice presi- dent openly threatenedcoalition air ir u S ace Vice President Taha Yassin Rama. Il fire on war dan said Baghd planes violating its airspace E s Al ee Ramadantold Qat television that Ir ‘aq would not the flights of U S. and British in the zones over northern andsou @T™ Iraq We say frankly nowthat any patrols Since the endof Operation Desert Fox, the Clinton administration has been increasingly concerned about a pattern of incidents, over zones chal no-fly”including southern Iraqand attempts to attract coalition aircraft into areas where Iraq couldfire missiles at them, ac. cording to senior U.S, officials Andon Saturday — just hoursafter Iraq claimedthat its anti-aircraft lation of Iraqi airspace will be _Iraqi fire,” Ramadansaid The United States, Britain and Franceset up the no-fly zones in ons et oe a aint Shinorth = and in the Kurdish rebels ite Muslim rebels in thesouth Iraq has never recognized the 20nes and has occasionally confrontedaircraft flying in the area. In Washington, National Security Council spokesman P.J. Crowley said gunners haddriven off an attack by the threat would not compel the See UTAH’S COLOR, Page A-8 enemy” warplanesthat flewin from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia — raqi . bureaucrats and construc- "| property owners before the four-year project be don’t give a damr The experiences of Dorst and five of his neighbors with damaged foundations and walls has the Utah Depart ment of Transportation (UDOT) re viewing its public-affairs campaign and checking to ensure there is ade quate notification to property owners in future construction zones Ten other buildings are known to and mortar volves 1,200 road workers, an army of bed the way Wasatch Construc as in the 17-mile rebuild of Intersi iny wet, sandy groundnearby is bound to react like a sunken souffle. Engineers knew that homes andbusinesses next “== to the widened freeway couldsink right along with the roadbed. But some homeowners say a clearer warning was needed for than brick That's the realm of cyber est ongoing public-works projects, in. freeway through a populatedcorridor like the Salt Lake Valley When workers pile up mounds of learning Incr Salt Lake Valley's Interstate 15 re- construction, oneofthenation’s larg stands, the same way a chef knows that is much harder to defend space surprise forlegislators BY BRANDON LOOMIS ing to the U.S. Census Beaver County in south CLICK HERE western Utah has the highFOR MORE DETAILS est percentageof residents www.sitrib. of ee S Siaee oh aie percent — who describe their ancestry as Englis! Scot-Irish, Scottish or British Beaver County, however, is the exceptioninstead of the rule ; In what were oncenearlyall-white enclaves found ed by Mormon pioneers in the 1800s, local phone booksnow list Perales and Perez along with Pace and Petersen. 34945 02345 Cracks: Homeowners Unfortunately, there remain thousands of M. Kingstons in protecting victims of domestic abuse. andalifestyle not of her choosing, So it was on May 24 at 12:37 p.m. that a shaking but stubbornly determined 16-year-old M. Kingston, all the name and cae And Missteps polygamous “prisons.” There remains a need for increased Z taining a sense ofself in a critical world were soul- 0 I-15 Milestones days in family businesses, often paid in scrip to be redeemed only infamily-owned enterprises. Rebellion Utah-Idaho state line. a Leah Hogsten Th Salt Lake Tr 1-15 work cracked foundation of Gary Dorst's Salt Lake City home. flourished would pick her up and return her Whateffect does the growth of ethnic communities have on the ago. welfare abuse that finds looking over her shoulder, ex pecting to see a family car that despised ma century related child. spousal and defiance might reap, she kept The past had a Allowing consenting adults to live their own lifestyles is a commendable trait of the live. and-let-live West. But the dreaming routine dreams, drove her to walk across dangerous interstate 15 to reachagas station ared of what her act of \ See IRAQ, Page A-3 — = ™ pariaaa aaa Economic prospects look dim as Iraqis cenduct business at Baghdad exchange Saturday.