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Show .11 Handicapped Services head quits in wake of child abuse allegations " "" Friday, January 1C, 1C:3 A. p. AlvM jS" .J . -- Indians protest closed talks on treaties with tribes A Tax change would aid big investors Just io,13, Cougars fly past Air Force 35 Cents Pre,, Utah Bmh pushes tower oimtieiresti rates, tones & r - ATLANTA (AP) President Bush told the slumping homebuild-in- g industry today that he wants interest rates to drop further and ssid a federal commission will study ways to make home ownership more affordable. Bush, on the eve of the first anniversary of his inaugurastion, declared, "The 1990s must be another decade of lower taxes and lower interest rates." The president told several thousand members of the National Association of Homebuilders that Congress must adopt "fiscal policies as sound as those of the average American household." Bush's comments added impetus to administration efforts to pressure the Federal Reserve Board into an easier credit policy. "We cannot allow the high costs of housing to suffocate the financial life of America's young people," the president said. "When it comes to housing, this must not become a society of haves and have-notsObserving that the cost of new homes has been steadily increasing for the past "decade and a half," Bush said more and more young Americans are finding themselves priced out of the home market. He vowed to work with Housing Secretary Jack Kemp to cut federal red tape "to create decent housing that people can afford." He noted that he had asked Kemp to convene a commission that would study burdensome bureau-(Se- e BUSH, Page A2) ." mayor busted on drug charges DC Herald PhotoBrian Tregaskis The course is clear When the winter weather looks nice, the if the golfer goes golfing course is clear. At Cascade Golf Course in Orem, employee Shad Westover die-har-d scrapes snow off the No. 4 green, helping to speed up the melting. Using a tractor that pulls chain-lin-k fencing behind it, workers break up the snow on the fairways, giving Mother Nature a hand there, too. According to golf pro Randy Anderson, as soon as it's clear, he'll be open for golfing. Federal clean air bill cost disputed WASHINGTON (AP) As gress moves toward enacting er air pollution controls, one Con- tough- of the biggest mysteries is how much it will cost. Figures range from $14 billion a year to more than $100 billion, and some argue that doing nothing may be most expensive of all. The nation's largest corporations unveiled a study Thursday suggesting that if some of the most stringent proposals for cleaning up the air are enacted, the cost of compliance could soar as high as $104 billion a year. The study by the Business ! i Lifestyle: The move to the suburbs has aggravated an overriding problem travel Driven are hav- ing difficulty just getting around. See Page BL Stocks: prices pushed ahead today in what analysts described as a technical rally after the market's recent declines. See Page A7. Stock The World: East German Communist Party factions are demanding the party's dissolution, with elcctioni scheduled for May. See Page A6. Find it ArtsEntertainment Classified Ads... B2 B7-C- 4 Comics B5 Crossword... B9 B4 Horoscope Legal Notices 36 Bl Lifestyle B4 Movies ...... .. National Obituaries.... Opinions .................... StateRegion.. Sports Utah Valley Weather World ......A3 D2 ... D4 D3 8 Dl A7 A6 Related story, see Page A5 Roundtable, an association of the heads of the 200 largest corporations, was the latest estimate of how much the tighter air pollution controls now before Congress will and their customcost business and how they might affect ers the economy. But supporters of the tough pollu tion controls argue inaction has a pricetag of its own. A study being released today by the American Lung Association maintains that current air pollution from automobiles may be costing Americans up to $93 billion a year in added health care expenses. Many of these costs would be eliminated under the pollution curbs being considered in Congress, says the report. President Bush has estimated that his proposal similar to legislation advancing in the House would cost from $14 billion to $19 billion a year. He urged Congress on Thursday to "preserve the careful balance" between cleaning up the air and preserving jobs. Democratic sponsors of a Senate clean air bill, expected to be brought to the floor next week, say it is not much more expensive than the president's version. But the Bush administration disagrees and opposes key provisions of it as being too costly. Environmentalists, responding to the Business Roundtable cost estimates, contended that industry exaggerated the expected impact of the 1970 Clean Air Act when it was debated 20 years ago. Face abortion issue head-on- , Atwater tells GOP candidates - WASHINGTON (AP) Republican National Chairman Lee Atwater advised GOP candidates today to face the abortion issue squarely, without "vacillation, waffling or doubletalk," saying voters will accept differences but not ducking. "In 1990, no candidate can run for office without squarely facing the abortion issue," Atwater told the winter meeting of the Republican National Committee. President Bush, the party platform and Atwater all are firm opponents of abortion, but the GOP chairman said that doesn't mean all Republican candidates have to agree. "There is no litmus test on any issue which would be grounds for repudiating a Republican who believes in our overall philosophy Atwater said. The ssue figured in Republican defeats for two governorships in 1989, and ever since, Atwater has been telling his party that its candidates must stake out their own positions clearly and early. Otherwise, he said, Democrats will define the issue in their terms. "What no voter likes is vacillation, waffling or doubletalk," Atwater said today. "And they don't like the appearance of vacillation, waffling or doubletalk." He said the Republican Party "is big enough to accommodate different views," saying that is one of the growing pains involved in becoming a majority. Atwater and other Republican leaders have been recommending of the abortion issue ever since the defeats of 1989. Vice President Dan Quayle said Thursday that people on all sides of the abortion issue can be comfortable in the Republican Party, but there was a distinct level of discomfort at the national committee meeting. Idaho Republican chairman Ran-(Se- e ABORTION, Page A2) that handling - WASHINGTON (AP) Mayor Marion Barry, embattled by repeated accusations of drug use, faced arraignment today on a misdemeanor narcotics charge after a federal sting operation that law enforcement officials said caught him on videotape smoking crack cocaine. According to court papers filed by federal prosecutors, the mayor was observed by an FBI agent through a surveillance camera giving "a quantity of currency" to a cooperating witness in return for a Novell fined $100,000 for improper exports By PATRICK CHRISTIAN Herald Staff Writer Novell, Inc. is being fined $100,000 for alleged unauthorized exporting of computer equipment to certain foreign countries. The equipment is viewed by the U.S. government as having possible military uses to certain foreign countries. U.S. Department of Commerce spokesman John Thomas said Novell is alleged on 13 occasions between July 1984 and Dec. 1985 to have exported or attempted to export controlled computer equipment. He said the equipment is controlled by the Commerce Department because of national security. The equipment was said to have been shipped from the United States to South Africa, Hong Kong, Austria, the Netherlands, Great Britain and West Germany without obtaining the required export license, claims Thomas. Commerce Deparment representatives also allege that Novell representatives made false statements on some shipping documents. This morning, Novell General McMartin acquittal draws cries of outrage - LOS ANGELES (AP) The former operators of a preschool wept when Jurors acquitted them of 52 child molestation charges, but outraged parents of children who attended the school expressed fears for youngsters nationwide. Jurors in the nation's longest and costliest criminal trial Thursday deadlocked on 12 other sex abuse counts against Raymond Buckey and a single conspiracy count against him and his mother, Peggy McMartin Buckey. Superior Court Judge William Pounders declared a mistrial on the 12 counts and dismissed the deadlocked conspiracy charge against Mrs. Buckey. He set a Jan. 31 hearing to determine whether the 13 unresolved counts will be dismissed against Buckey. Buckey, 31, who spent nearly five years in Jail before making bail, and his mother, who was Jailed for almost two years, cried as they heard the verdicts. "If it can happen to seven Innocent people it can happen to you, too. If it had not been in my faith in God, I wouldn't be here today," Mrs. Buckey said. Buckey avoided reporters afier the verdict. InInitially, five other teachers, and mother cluding Mrs. Buckey's daughter, were charged. The trial cost about $15 million and lasted nearly three years. Mrs. Buckey planned today to file a lawsuit in federal court, contending her civil rights were violated, according to attorney James H. Davis. But some parents whose children attended the once prestigious, but now defunct, McMartin gasped when the verdicts were announced. "The anger is beginning to rise," said Mary Mae Cioffi. "We have programs all over the country that tell children to run and tell when somebody hurts them, and our children told. Some of them spent 35 days on the stand and they get a 'not guilty.' It shows that our Jus Pre-Scho- quantity of the illegal drug. "Mr. Barry put some of the crack cocaine in a smoking apparatus, lit the crack cocaine and smoked it," FBI Agent Ronald D. Stern said in an affidavit. Accompanied by his wife, Effie, Barry entered the U.S. District Courthouse through a crowd of reporters and other observers. He did not speak. The cocaine possesion charge is a misdemeanor. If found guilty, Barry could face up to one year in (See BARRY, Page A2) tice system needs a revamp for kids." Although they did not testify, she added: "I know my children were molested. I had my daughter sleep between my husband and I for a whole year because she was so afraid somebody would come and get her, that they would kill her, because she told." The investigation of alleged mass molestation at the family-ru- n school in suburban Manhattan Beach ignited a nationwide wave of worry about child abuse when it came to light in 1983. It produced widespread fear among working parents that their children might be at risk (See MCMARTIN, Page A2) Council Dave Bradford said Novell takes issue with the allegations and denies them. But he said Novell has agreed to pay the penalty, because it does not want to become embroiled in a prolonged court battle. "A legal battle with the U.S. government would cost us a minimum of $200,000," said Bradford. "These allegations go back to a time when our company was an infant company still trying vo feel its way in exporting," Bradford said. He said that company representatives were trying for the first time to export to foreign countries without the aid of an export consultant. Bradford said Novell now has an export consultant and has the required export licences to continue shipping its equipment to the six countries listed in the allegations and other countries, as well. Bradford chose not to comment on how much export equipment was involved or the dollar value. The penalty for alleged violations of the Export Administration Act (See NOVELL, Page A2) se ill B nil ij -- " ... !" i , Weather Chilly but iair and partly cloudy tonight through Saturday with some patchy fog; lows below 20 and highs into the low 40s. See Page A-- 5. Air Quality Air Quality was good up and down the Wasatch Front this morning, but stagnation Increased pollution loomed. See Page 5 MS' A-- and levels |