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Show Region Opinions Iran's wrath really a writer's dream Sports LDS family dies in plane crash Page A6 ftfl Orem falls in 4A hoop tourney Page B2 115TH YEAR, NO. 177 PROVO, UTAH, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1989 Page B3 Herald r $6.75 A MONTH - PRICE 35 CENTS a air calls quality top priority angeirter By SHARON MORREY Herald Staff Writer In a press conference called early Monday, Gov. Norman H. Bangerter commissioned a n task force to deal with air pollution, naming attainment of air quality standards as one of Utah's highest blue-ribbo- priorities. Bangerter listed four counties guilty of violating National Ambient Air Quality Standards including Utah County for exceeding carbon monoxide and fine particulate levels. Bangerter then dispatched the commission to formulate and Utah County Commissioner Brent Morris, Geneva Steel recommend policies and plans to bring the Wasatch Front counties into attainment for CO, PM10 and Ozone. Bangerter is asking for the both short-terrecommendations and long-terby Janu- President Joseph Cannon, member Julie Mack. m 1990. made up of representatives of Commission members include Utah legislators laying claim to commission is The m ary Pro-v- o Mayor Joe Jenkins, and Utah County Air Coalition industry, political factions, lisher of the Deseret News, State Senator (Dist. 5) Dix Mc-Mull- in and (Dist. Health, Harry McSwain, chairman of the Utah Air Con t 4 70) Mike Representative Dmitrich. Dr. Robert Mackie will of ' k servation Committee, Frank Davis, representing Utah Power and Light, Jim Mortimer, pub- state agencies, air coalitions and the general public. Those members include University of Utah President Chase Peterson, representing higher education, Suzanne Dandoy, director of the State Department AIR, Page " ,; ';VV p. repre-(Se- e A2) .'."W1- ? V v -- A: damage awards SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -The House has approved a bill that would make it tougher for plaintiffs to obtain punitive damages in lawsuits and would give half the money to the state if damages are won. In other action on Monday, the House approved a bill that would require lobbyists to disclose who is paying them and how much they spend while trying to influence lawmakers. The Senate approved the punitive damages bill earlier in the session, but must agree to an amendment inserted by the House before the bill goes to Gov. Norm Bangerter to become law. Under the bill, a plaintiff who receives a punitive damage award would be entitled to legal fees and $20,000. Then, the amount that remains would be divided equally between the plaintiff and the state. The bill would increase the legal standard for punitive damages from negligent behavior or reckless disregard to malicious or willful conduct or knowingly reckless disregard. The latter standards are more difficult to prove. In addition, the current standard that the plaintiff can prove his case for punitive damages by showing a preponderance of evidence also would become more difficult. Plaintiffs would have to demonstrate "clear and convincing" evidence charges are true. V: his ' V ik8 J , .1 - Finally, the bill would prevent plaintiffs' attorneys from intro- (See DAMAGES, Page A2) Brian Tregaskis Photo Adjournment nears as salons struggle with tax cut plans Snow too much for One of the first barns built in Spring- - Floyd Duke, 604 S. Main, who rents the ville collapsed yesterday, under the property, the 1,000 - square-foot barn was weight of the season's snow. According to about 100 years old. It was empty, except SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -One day away from adjournment, the Legislature's Republi- new prison and other building projects. Meanwhile, the governor narcan majority today struggled to rowly averted defeat on his reach a consensus on whether it proposal to place a statutory will honor Gov. Norm Bangert-er'- s cap on state spending. The Sencall for a $19 million tax ate defeated the bill but on should be it done. how reconsiderait later and cut, passed Republicans on Monday re- tion in a 1 vote. jected Bangerter's recommenfirst called for a dation on how to make the cut. taxBangerter reduction when he unveiled But, while agreeing that they his proposed $2.9 billion state don't want the governor's plan, in December. He rethe House and Senate disagree budget fused to say how it should be on what they do want. implemented until Monday, House Republicans voted in a when he urged the Legislature Monday caucus meeting to to reduce the state income tax stick to their position of cutting increasing the deductibility the sales tax by a quarter cent, by of federal taxes from 33 percent while Senate Republicans voted (See TAXES, Page A2) to use the money to pay for a 14-1- 3, 17-1- 9in9 Miners barn 100-year-o- ld for an old wrecked car. "We'll just tear it down and haul it away," he said. "There was nothing salvageable left." to work Geneva deal opens mine Geneva nounced a Steel today coal-purcha- se ancon- tract that will reopen Carbon County's idle Sunnyside Mine. Geneva on Friday signed an agreement to buy 840,000 tons of coal over the next two years. That agreement means work for 80 to 100 miners, Geneva officials said today. The weekend contract agreement led a Denver bankruptcy court judge on Monday to allow Colorado-base- d Sunnyside Reclamation & Salvage Co. to acquire and Coal's idle Kaiser re-op- en No.l and No. 3 mines. "We actually could have pur- chased less expensive coal from Colorado, but we chose to go this route and help provide lurgical coal is about 75 more expensive than fegular coal. Therefore, without the Ge- neva Steel contract, the Sunny- side Mine would not be opening. Included in the sale is Kai- ser's north lease, which con- tains an estimated 50 million tons of coal reserves. - ft - ( Congress and shredding documents to conceal his support of the Nicaraguan rebels, a prosecutor told jurors today at the opening of the former presiden- i J k. FN. Ns tial aide's JV I Iran-Cont- trial. ra Associate independent counsel John W. Keker said North's lies to congressional committees and to the attorney general amount to "a crime that goes to the soul of our But North's lawyer, Brendan Sullivan, countered that "the defense says to you, he is not guilty on all charges. He never broke the law ... he followed instructions of higher author- ity" AH Lasrrphoto A jury was sworn in today to begin hearing arguments in the trial of Oliver North. Keker, then Sullivan, delivered their opening statements, each describing a different North, the first person to go on affair. trial in the Iran-Cont- ra Foggy weather j T,om!ht and th mid Wed?esd,a? Pa.rtK ,wlth patCahyf "ftSTgL "He was doing his job as he understood it; he was doing his duty as he understood it. " North lawyer "Congress enacts the law, the president approves it and enforces it. If they start lying to each other our system of government is not going to work." A 1984 year after it passed the Boland Amendment ban- ning U.S. military assistance to the Nicaraguan Contras, Con- gress received news reports that North, then a Marine lieutenant colonel, was secretly raising money for the rebels "He was doing his job as he from foreign countries and priunderstood it; he was doing his vate donors and providing tactiduty as he understood it," Sulli- cal military advice. van said. "If he didn't, then North and his boss at the there could be death resulting to the people he worked with time, national security adviser and dangers resulting to the Robert McFarlane, "decided United States." they didn't want Congress to "The need for secrecy is no know what Colonel North had excuse for lying to Congress," been doing. They decided they Keker told the jury. "Lying to would not tell Congress," Keker said. "They decided they would Congress is a crime." "You don't have to be a place themselves above the law political scientist to understand and not tell Congress about why that's so," Keker said. Colonel North's activities." in Wednesday 40s- - more jobs and an additional boost for the Utah economy," TO Geneva President Joe Cannon said in making today's an. nouncement. The Sunnyside Mine is one of Kaiser Coal filed for protec- - Classified Ads very few sources of metallurgiunder Chapter 11 provi- - Legal Notices tion cal coal, which is necessary for of the U.S. Bankruptcy Lifestyle sions steel production, in the Western two Code years ago. It idled its Movies United States, and Geneva is operations in April of National Sunnyside west of coal such user the only Obituaries ( See GENEVA, of the Mississippi River. Metal- Page A2 ) negiuuai Was North just doing his job or . . . .... did he place himself above law? OlivWASHINGTON (AP) er L. North "placed himself above the law" by lying to Today Wnere TinCI It 5SlZZZZZZZ! B6-- 9 B6 A7-- 9 A9 A3 A3,B2 A4 World It's a bird ... It's a plane ... It's my baby! Calif. CRESTLINE, (AP) wanted A boy to fly like Superman made a dive out of a second-stor- y window but was uninjured. The boy had just finished watching "Superman" on television Monday when he made the leap, said Steve Bennett of the Crest Forest Fire Protection District. who 25-fo- ot "Luckily, he took his pilwith him," Bennett said. "Pretty tough little kid." The mother said she heard the boy crying and found him outside, dressed in diapers and a low rt. |