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Show HOW NOT TO GET THE OVERSPENDING BLUES/ B-1 Che Salt Lake Cribune 143South Main VOLUME 251 NUMBER44 Street (601/237-2045 SALT LAKECITY, UTAH 84111 Copyright 1995 MONDAY November 27, 1995 TODAY’S READERSHIP:316,600 A Deal’s a Deal, U.S. Warns Serbs PUBLIC SUPPORT Presidents Take To Airwaves for COMBINED NEWS SERVICES WASHINGTON — AsPresident Clinton prepared to address the nation tonight on his plan to send U.S. A Direct Approach troops to enforce the Bosnian peace agreement, admin- istration officials insisted Sunday that they will stick with the accord despite threats from Bosnian Serbs. “We are not going to renegotiate this agreement,” Defense Secretary William Perry declared. Duringthe past several days, Bosnian Serbs haveprotested against treaty provisions that grant control of Serb-held suburbs of Sarajevo, Bosnia’s capital, to the Muslim-led Bosnian government. ‘Whatis wrong with the . . . agreement[is that it] has created a new Beirut in Europe” by ceding control of Sarajevo to the Bosnian government, Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic told British television. Karadzic’s comments appeared aimedat frightening By Richard Benedetto USA TODAY WASHINGTON — When President Clinton goes before the American public on TV tonight to appeal for support in sending U.S. peacekeeping troops to Bosnia, he will be following a path blazed by Franklin Roosevelt, who used his racio “fireside chats” to calm the nation during the Depression. Using radio, then television, presidents have found they can circumventthefilter of the news media, reach huge audiences and gain rapid support by making their pitch directly to the Americanpeopleina prime-time speech. skittish U.S. legislators into rejecting Clinton's plan to deploy some 20,000 U.S. troops to help enforce the peace accord. Western diplomats in the former Yugoslav republic dismissed Karadzic’s threats as desperate, last-minute posturing bya politician — indicted on warcrimes charges — whose days in power are numbered. Administration officials said Sundaythat the treaty, which wasinitialed by the presidents of Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina in Dayton, Ohio, last week, will be signed next month in Paris withoutrevisions. “Dayton wasan initialing,”’ said Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke, the principal U.S. negotiator in the Daytontalks. “Paris will be the signing. There will be no change between Dayton andParis.” Likewise, national security adviser Anthony Lake said on the ABC program ‘This Week With David Brinkley” that the administration expects Serb President Slobo- dan Milosevic to “be able to enforce discipline on the Bosnian Serbs [and] that the cease-fire will hold Although Karadzicinitialed the agreement Thursday in a meeting with Milosevic in Serbia, he since has demandedthat the treaty’s provisions on Sarajevo's suburbs be renegotiated before the Paris signing Karadzic, whohas beenindicted by a U.N. war crimes tribunal, is unlikely to attend the ceremony Congressional Republicans have led the opposition to Clinton’splansto contribute troops. But two key Republicans on the Senate ArmedServices Committee suggest ed that the traditional tendency of Congress to foliow the president's lead on major foreign-policy issues might again prevail Congress hasn't defied a presidenton military matters since it cut off funding for the bombing in Cambodia in 1974, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said Sunday on CBS Imagine Life With That is what Clinton hopes to do to- night. Whenpresidents take to the airwaves to seek support in foreign affairs, they usually getit, at least in the short term. Harry Truman showed how during the early daysoftelevision when he went before the nation in the summerof 1950 and made the case for U.S, intervention in Korea. The speech washailed as a landmark in the presidential use of television as a strategic policy tool. New York Times TVcritic Jack Gould wrote: “For the first time in a national emergency, the person at homenot only heard the fatefulcall for sacrifices to preservehis freedom,butalso saw the grave A Budget Balanced By Mark Memmott USA TODAY Mortgage rates near 5 per- expression of the president as he ex- cent. plained to the country what it would mean.” along with a steadyjobless rate of living that’s on the rise again because wagesfinally are grow- A Presidential Staple: From thatpoint on, the White House TV address evolved into a staple in the presidential repertoire: @ Dwight Eisenhower won support in 1956 when hesent U.S. Marines to Lebanonduring the Middle Eastcrisis. John F. Kennedyrallied the nation during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962 when he grimly announced a blockade against Soviet ships carrying weaponsto Cuba. Richard Nixon temporarily gained public supportfor his Vietnam policies in the face of strong anti-war demonstrations with his memorable “silent major- ing at a decent pace. Atradesurplus. Experts say that’s what life could belike in 2002, or sometime aroundthen, if the federal government balancesits budget over the next seven years rheREN As the budget battle in Wash- ington has heated up, two key questions havebeen lost in the shouting: @ What wouldlife belike for most people if the budget were balanced? Wis all the pain and anguish worth it? Economists nearly are unani mous in their answers. ity” speech in November 1969. @Ronald Reagan used Oval Office speeches to reassure Americans of the reasonsfor invading Grenadain 1983 and bombing Libyain 1986 George Bush madeseveral Oval Office speeches during the 1990-91 Persian Gulf erisis to sustain support for the deploymentof U.S. troops. @ And Clinton himself used a Sept. 17, 1994, Oval Office address to announce that rebel dictators in Haiti had agreed to leave and U.S. troops would gointo restore democratic rule OUT OF THE COLD Day One ofits As the United States bundlesup for winter, Rio de Janeiro’s |p; anema Beach bursts with bathers Sunday, from November to March. summer season. Travel agents expecta million Brazilians an d 600,000others tovisit Rio From Alsatian to Vlach, Little Tongues Speak Up By Paul Ames THE ¢ The Domestic Front: Presidents also have used TV addresses to push domestic issues, raise national moraleortry to get themselvesoutofpolitical problems: Truman used the first presidential TVspeech, on Oct. 5, 1947, to discuss the postwar world food crisis and to urge Americansto conserve. M Eisenhower went on TV after his September 1955 heart attack to assure the public he was healthy enoughto continue serving. BA Vietnam-embattled Lyndon Johnson stunned America in March 1968 when he announced, “I shall not seek, and will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your president.” ® Nixon, in August 1971, used a tele- SIATED PRESS BRUSSELS, Belgium — As child, Jaume Masdeu, like millions of other Spaniards, was forced bya dictatorshipto learn reading and writing in a language that was nothis own, Booksin his native Catalan were banned Children were forbiddento use the language at school. Police looked with suspicion upon citizens speaking anything but Spanish Today, two decades after the Franco dictatorship ended, Masdeu broadcasts in Catalan to 6 million peopleas a reporter for Catalonia Television — or Televisio de Catalunya in Catalan, The network is financed by a regional government that con- ducts its own business in the once-pro- vised address to announce wage-and- scribed language. “Things changed completely. I never thought that, in so fewyears, Catalan could have jumpedso far,” Masdeusaid. Catalan’s revival after decades of repression is perhaps the most spectacular success story in a renaissance of minority languages across western Europe. FromLapland kids learning Sami in Aretie schools to Mediterraneanislanders performing theaterin Sardinian, almost 50 million speakers of lesser-used languages within the European Unionare regenerating their native tongues. “Tt has revived over the past two decades. Sami nowhastheability to survive,” Sami representative Mikael Stuyonni said in a telephoneinterviewfrom northern Sweden. Since 1983, local organizations represent- ing the likes of Frisian, Frulian and Sorb have worked together through the Europe- them when they were buried, and there are no photo- INDEX Ann Landers Asimov Quiz Births Classifieds. Comics B2 BS 7 D5 B4 Letters to Ed. A410 Movies Bo Obituaries C7 Puzzles... v5 Rollyand Wells. D-4 Daybreak BA Sports. Ci Star Gazer Television Utah News Ds B-5 D4 Argentina in 1901 with Sundance’s girlfriend, Etta Place. WEATHER: A few snow showers north; partly cloudy south Details: C-8 e and homesteaded a ranchin the Cholila Valley. By 1905. though, they were backto robbing banks. Most historians believe Butch and Sundancedied in a Nov. 6, 1908, shootout in San Vincente, Bolivia. Discovered by a patrol in a rented hut, the two soon were surrounded. A gun battle ensued, stopping with the onset of darkness. comes to the economy. Probably Senate Must Tackle Thorny AbortionBill ByLaurie Sullivan Maddox THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE WASHINGTON — Sen. Orrin Hatchconsideredit noteworthy, but not surprising, that the daylong hearing of the Judiciary Committee on Nov. 17 did not draw much attention Daniel Buck and Anne Meadowsargue that documents graphs[of the bodies] “But, then, no one has proven they cameback, either. Then you build a positive circumstantial case that they were the two guys who died in Bolivia,” he said in a telephoneinterview Butch — Robert Leroy Parker when he was born to Mormon pioneers — and Sundance — whose real name was Harry Longabaugh — plied their outlaw trade in the Rocky Mountains area during the 1890s, holding up banks and trains. Underincreasing pressure fromthe law, they fled to International. “And no matter what the public maybelieve, the vast majority of Americans do have boats to sit in when it @ See BUDGET,Page A-8 unearthed after a decade-long search deal a blowto fanciful tales of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid surviving a 1908 Bolivian shootout Old West historians are not so sure. Theysay the papers mined from a long-lost Argentine police file do tip the evidentiaryscale toward a violent demise for the leaders of the Wild Bunch, but legendsto the contrary persist in lieu of proofpositive. Buck and Meadows, a husband-and-wife writing team from Washington, D.C., wouldn not haveit any other way “There's nevera final word,” Buck conceded. ‘You can only build circumstantial cases here. No one identified ‘LT haveto believea rising tide does raise all boats,” says Michael Englund, leading economist at the consulting firm MMS @ See EUROPE, Page A-4 communities speaking it within the frontiers By Bob Mims “Many of you have not believed that we definitely is worth the pain. of Belgium, Italy, Denmark and France Frenchis an official language in the Aosta Valley region of the Italian Alps, Czech Croat and Hungarian linger in Austria, legacies of the Hapsburg Empire. With financing from the European Union, the bureauseeks to protect almost 50 minority languages in the 15 EU nations. They reflect a cultural and ethnic mosaic that ignores national borders. Take German, Hardlya minority language in most people’s book, but exactly that to THE ASSOCIATED PRESS really have an energy crisis,” he said “But this winter has madeallof us realize that we have to act.” Tonight, Clinton will ask Americans to rally ‘round the flag as he prepares to send the military's men and womeninto Bosnia. Poils showthat the public is skeptical. But many Americanswill be paying close attention to the Bosnia situation for the first time. For most people, the; y. life would be better. And the gain 80 percent or more would clearly benefit” with a balanced budget that helps bolster the economy Says economist Todd Buchholz, author of From Here to Economy, “1 can tell you things will only get worseif we don't balance the budget or come closeto that The key to why balancing the budget could be so good for the economyand mostpeoplelies in the complex relationship be- an Bureau for Lesser-used Languages. Butch and Sundance: Dust HasYetto Settle price controls to battle rising inflation. @ Reagan moved many Americans to tears in a Jan. 28, 1986, address after the explosionof the space shuttle Challenger: “Wewill never forget them, nor the last time we saw them this morning as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and ‘slipped the surly bonds of Earth to touch the face of God.’ ” @ And whocould forget a sweater-clad JimmyCarter, sitting next to a crackling White Houselibrary fireplace on Feb. 2, 1977, urging us to conserve energy? Editorials A410 For The Record. 0-2 Intermountain... A An economy that purrs around 5.5 percent. A standard True, the budget showdownwas in full swing and Joe Waldholtz had just surfaced. But, as Hatch later suggested, Judiciary’s subject that day may have been toostiff a dose of reality Under scrutiny was a gruesome typeoflate-term Nevada Historical S ty/The Associated Press Butch Cassidy, seated right, and the Kid, seated left, and their gang pose for a portrait that they sent with a thank-you note to a Nevada bank they had robbed. Later that night, townspeople reported hearing screams and two shots. In the morning, the gringo outlaws were found dead, victims of an apparent death pact. Buck and Meadows believe that rather than be captured, Cassidyfirst shot Sundance in the forehead, then fired a bullet into the side of his own head Since 1985, the writers had sought rumoredpolicefiles that would nail down thepair's identity. Then, in September, theyfinally received a nine-pound, 1,500-page package of photocopied reports on outlaw bandsthat terrorized southern Argentina in the early 1900s. In an article for January’s True West magazine, Buck and Meadowsrecall finding a letter and three notes from to Butch, all in his handwriting; two other letters referring the outlaws; and a Spanish translation of a letter from Sundance M See OUTLAWS, Page A-8 <4 abortion, which most Republicans and a sizable num- ber of Democrats in Congress want outlawed but neither side cares much to talk about They maysoon haveto. After diverting the issue to Hatch’s committee three weeks ago as a delaying move, the Senate will get it back from Judiciarytoday. Known technically as dilation and extraction (1a- beled “partial-birth abortion” by opponents), the procedure involves delivery of all of the babybut its head, which then is collapsed with scissors and suc- tion while still in the birth canal so that a dead fetus can be removed. Hatch had nocertain figures on howoften the procedureis performed, but it occurs from the late second trimester on It makes people uncomfortable when they hear about it,” said Kate Michelman, president of the Na- tional Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League. But not uncomfortable enough to give up the option without afight After the House passed the ban on a 288-139 vote @ See ABORTION, Page A-4 |
