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Show Wednesday. January 8. 1991 The Daily Utah Chronicle - Page Three Utah's highways in poor condition due to underfunding, study says World Briefs. By Jason Wood Chronicle Staff Writer Associated Press Utah's deteriorating highways require repair, rehabilitation or and receive replacement, insufficient public funding year after year, according to a study Bush campaigns to open Japanese market to U.S. released Tuesday. How bad the situation is and what can be done to alleviate the problems of Utah's transportation mecca was the subject of the study done by a ever-growi- TOKYO President Bush declared Tuesday, before meeting with Japan's prime minister, that the United States will not be satisfied with "piecemeal trade agreements" in its campaign to open Japanese markets. Beleaguered American automakers angrily denied they want favors from Tokyo. In a symbol of U.S. determination to break down trade barriers, Bush brought a delegation of 18 business executives, including the chiefs of Chrysler, Ford and General Motors. The businessmen followed behind the president in a procession of solidarity down the steps of Air Force One. "We don't have to apologize to anybody," Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca said. Nor do they want "Mr. Miyazawa's sympathy." General Motors chairman Robert Stempel added in a reference to Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa's statement of "compassion" for the struggling U.S. auto industry. "To say we are coming to Japan to get a souvenir or we're going to sit around and accept whatever favors they can bestow on us that's not the game," Iacocca said. "The game is, you've got to change the basic trading relationship between these two countries." The trade showdown in Tokyo is the finale of Bush's y tour through Asia and Australia. Strapped by a recession and sinking popularity ratings. Bush is under intense political pressure to bring home trade concessions from Japan. ng it Washington, consultation firm. transportation D.Q-base- d, non-prof- . The study focused on funding sources for the needs of the infrastructure and the technical and economic aspects of determining future priorities of state transportation funding. The study completed by TRIP, (The Road Information Program), showed the 1987 motor fuel tax increase of 5 cents per gallon enabled the Utah Department of Transportation to begin or complete the most critical areas of construction and reconstruction on the state highway system. However, the study concluded that the backlog of needed repairs will remain the same while the price to correct the backlog can CHROMOE PHOTOComroi Corpentar . of Utah's highways and bridges are going to receive Only needed repairs over the next five years due to lack of funding, according to an independent study released Tuesday. one-thir- d increase as much as 12 percent yearly. The study estimated Utah needs The current budget for the state's roads and bridges over the next five years is roughly 36 percent, ($900 annually until 1996 to improve the needed to cover the improvements. - an influx of about $500 million state's substandard highway system. According to UDOT statistics, d of state roads need nearly about 4 percent of and improvement the state's bridges require attention. one-thir- million), of the projected funds 12-da- According to TRIP regional manager James Lewis, the growing traffic volume and congestion is a main contributing factor to Military council opens fire on president's supporters see "highway" on page four LutheranEpiscopal Campus Ministry Presents: TBILISI, Georgia Fighters loyal to the military council that drove President Zviad Gamsakhurdia from Georgia opened fire Tuesday on thousands of people rallying in support of the deposed leader. Two people were wounded. The rally began at the train station, with people shouting "Zviady! Zviady!" and holding pictures of Gamsakhurdia and waving red, white and black Georgian flags. Eventually the crowd grew to about Tie Jimilee Lecture Series Discussions with University of Utah Faculty on justice issues, from a perspective of faith. Jan Poverty. Community and Our Spiritual Selves 9 Irene Fisher (The Lowell-Bermio-n Community Service Center) Jan. 16 Christian Commitment and Universal Heath Care Dr. John Francis (Department of Political Science) Jan. 23 Sheltering Values Peter Atherton (Graduate School of Ms. Architecture) Kathryn Brooks(Women's Resource Center) . . w ' The Social Justice Challenge of the Third World Dr. Kenneth Jameson (Department of Economics) Feb. 6 Feb. 13 . Feb 20 Feb 27 Mar. 5 , As demonstrators began to march through the capital, onlookers waved and cheered from balconies. At one point, someone threw a smoke bomb into the crowd and fired into the air. The marchers continued. After marchers passed a hotel, a group of eight to 10 armed men loyal to the ruling military council some wearing masks appeared and formed a line across the street. They fired into the air and then some fired at the crowd. People panicked and began running wildly. A rally at the train station was broken up Friday and two people were killed and 25 were masked by gunmen wounded. The military council has banned demonstrations in Tbilisi and took responsibility for dispersing today's rally. ....... New commonwealth faces military, economic strife From the Goodness of Our Heart?Women & Leadership in the Church Jan. 30 4,000. Education and Conscience: Toward a More Just World Dr. Jackson Newell (Department of Educational Administration) Justice for Divorced Families: How Can We and Our Churches Respond? Dr. Betty Vos (Graduate School of Social Work) Stewardship and the Environment Dr. Leslie Francis (Department of Philosophy and College of Law) Justice and Warfare . Dr. Peter Appleby (Department of Philosophy) MOSCOW Military and economic disputes rocked the new commonwealth Tuesday, as former Soviet soldiers refused to pledge allegiance to Ukraine, and angry shoppers forced some cities to roll back price increases. A scandal also flared around former president Mikhail Gorbachev when a Russian newspaper reported the KGB formerly gave him secret reports on the personal lives of rivals, including Russia's Boris Yeltsin. Russia's chief prosecutor has opened a criminal investigation, even though Gorbachev never used the illegally obtained information, Jhe Daily Robachaya Tribuna reported. Commonwealth of Independent States that The succeeded the Soviet Union has inherited many of the union's woes, including a nearly worthless ruble, food shortages and disputes over control of the military. Since voting overwhelmingly for independence on Dec. 1 , Ukraine has moved to create its own armed forces by taking over all Soviet troops, aircraft and ships based on its territory. But the independent Interfax news agency reported Tuesday that 100 former Red Army units have refused to pledge allegiance to Ukraine and were redeployed in Russia. er non-nucle- ar truce observers killed when helicopter shot down EC federal MADJAREVO, Yugoslavia A jet from the air force shot down a helicopter Tuesday carrying five European Community truce observers, killing all aboard, officials said. The cease-fir- e in the Croatian civil war. attack endangered a A companion EC helicopter also was attacked, but made a safe landing, the Belgian Foreign Ministry said. The helicopter that was destroyed blew up in the air 30 miles northeast of Zagreb, the Croatian capital, after being hit by an missile fired by a federal warplane, the Croatian Interior Ministry Serb-dominat- Mar. 12 Can Faith and Prejudice Coexist? Dr. 3 Theresa Martinez (Department of Sociology) Lectures open to the University community 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. Thursday Evenings LutheranEpiscopal Campus Ministry 1334 East 100 South, Salt Lake City 4 For information, call 359-072- ed air-to-a- ir said. Italy reported four of the EC military observers aboard the helicopter were Italian and France said the fifth was a French soldier. There were no survivors, French and Italian officials said. The Portuguese Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying the helicopter was shot down by the federal air force. Portugal holds the EC's rotating presidency. |
