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Show I mm agwt(iiws. Herald editorial examines issues in SandbergWarner firing flap w 3IE organization in Boise gives women an alternative An CafrI Uteirti Kwp;er fori 1 5 fear - Bush urges Soviets BYU to use restraint !ssu Ho. 143, Ut, 65-6- 0 yz. - tops Wyoming in Laramie 1X5 "to ozens dead as Soviets battle ' in Azerbaijan .... - law2-- ' 4 :.k MOSCOW (AP) Soviet soldiers waged fierce street battles with militants Saturday in the southern republic of Azerbaijan, and at least 57 people were killed, the govern- ". v.''J C''.' J-- rtS - ir';t - v C tAr ' ij' ff - . .f jl I ment said. Witnesses said the death toil could be far higher. "The street is covered with blood," Vadim Korsh, an editor of Azerbaijan's official news agency, Azerinform, said of the scene at a military garrison in the capital, ''r- - nrVi Baku. One activist said more than 100 '.;r Herald PhotoTrent Nelson Assistant Park Superintendent Jim Williams checks the water level at Utah Lake. low water level could stop boaters By PATRICK CHRISTIAN Herald Staff Writer Utah The Lake is down once more. And its worrying Steve Carpenter considerably. "When I came here as superintendent of Utah Lake State Park ;in1986 the lower parking lot was still underwater," Carpenter said. In the couple of years before he arrived, the entire park had been flooded and the water was slowly subsiding when he assumed his duties. Carpenter had to wait for the water to subside back into the the boat harbor before boaters could park's main customers use the boat ramps again. . Now boating is threatened again, but this time its too little water. The superintendent said the boating year may be shortened to two months if more water doesn't arrive. Assistant Park Superintendent Jim Williams said the lake is usually nearing its annual high point around this time, and while it is now higher than it was in August, it should be 3 feet higher than it is. Utah County Engineer Clyde Naylor said the last measurement recorded the lake elevation at 4,435 feet above sea level, 5 feet below the established maximum compromise. An 1855 agreement signed in Lehi ruled that the lake would not be allowed to rise above 4,489 feet. But Naylor said unfortunately there was no rninimum lake level established, so when precipitation and flows from the nine principal waterways that flow into the lake are down, Salt Lake City water users can continue to pump water at the dam from Utah Lake. "I've suggested that there should be a minimum compromise level," said Naylu But he said so far no major move has been made to seek a minimum level. He indicated that it could entail buying water rights in the lake. Naylor said except for public and private organizations that rely on boating, the lowering lake levels presents no major problems. Other boat harbors on the lake include the Lindon Boat Harbor, American Fork Boat Harbor, Saratoga in Lehi, and the El Nauti-c- a, located on the west side of the lake. "Looks like we could be out of business this year," said Greg Wood, operator of the Saratoga Boat Harbor. "We may be able to get through the first two months of the boating season, but unless we get more rain we will be in trouble." Wood also said he supported a minimum compromise level. He said representatives of Salt Lake water users have been dredging near the dam and pumping station so it can take the lake even lower. Utah trapped in 'quiet crisis' Attorney general says taxes going uncollected Lifestyle: By JOSEPHINE ZIMMERMAN Doll artists across the counhave brought fantasies to Herald Staff Writer try A decade of underfunding, combined with skyrocketing legal case- life through the medium of fabric and thread. See Page CL Accent: Wheu residents of the tion's capital awoke last they learned what a ference a day makes for See Page DL naFri-)h- y, difthen-mayo- r. The World: Out of work and with bleak for being thrown a K- xpects oe bark home, the tint batch of East German border guard dogs arrived in West Germany. See Page AS. ., - one-tim- ' Find it ; ArttEntertainment Oanlfled Ads M. Cwnics...............-.........-A- .......C7-C1- Q ..B1-B1- 0 7 XY(wd.M.M " Horoscope ......................CI Bl ....... Legal Notices Lifestyle CM Movies... National A4 Obituaries .................. .........W Optoiooi A5 StateRcgiott Sparta C1-C- D7-D- .A4 Vflitber....M.......""" World ..................."A8 loads have created what Utah Attorney General Paul Van Dam is calling "a quiet crisis in Utah state government." Van Dam told The Daily Herald Friday that funding for the legal arm of state government, the Attorney General's Office, has been falling behind other branches of the state and has reached the point where his department is in a state of crisis. Van Dam has asked for a budget increase of $3.8 million, but the governor's budget includes only (500,000 for the base budget and $1 e million in a supplementary appropriation. "That supplementary appropriation can't be used to hire more staff members. We could only use it to hire outside legal help, which is considerably more expensive, as much as three to five times more costly, than doing the work in house," he said. Van Dam emphasized that the attorney general is both public prosecutor and legal adviser for a state of 1.7 million citizens and legal counsel to a $3 billion "public corporation" with nearly SO f'CO em- state employees Eloyees, including and public education, plus 210 departments, boards and com-(Se- e VAN DAM, Page A2) Herald PbotoDivid Dhl Utah Attorney General Paul Van Dam Is lobbying for increased funding for his office, which be says Is understaffed. .i local troops at the garrison joined the militants in fighting Soviet soldiers, thousands of which were sent to quell a week- of ethnic and separatist violence. It was the first report of rebellion in local ranks. By evening, residents were reporting that the sound of gunfire had stopped in the barracks and in the city center. elsewhere ' Azerbaijani President Elmira denounced the "gross violation of the republic's sovereignty" by the Kremlin's declaration of a Ka-faro- state of emergency without the approval of local authorities. "The people of Azerbaijan will never forgive anyone for the tragic way their sons and daughters have been killed," she said. In Moscow, President Mikhail S. Gorbachev went on nationwide TV to appeal for an end to the violence that the government says has killed more than 129 people, wounded 500 and chased thousands of Armenians from their homes. "In the last two years, the central authorities have sought to act in a patient and thoughtful manner, trying to solve difficult problems exclusively by peaceful, political means," Gorbachev said. But militants had begun threatening to take over the government by force and are killing people, he said. "This had to stop," said Gorbachev, who also has had to deal with nationalist movements in other republics, including neighboring Geor-(Se- e SOVIETS, Page A2) State quake equipment is obsolete reportedly - SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Scientists and engineers for years have relied on obsolete equipment and research on California's geology to map earthquake hazards and potentials in Utah. That's just not good enough anymore, say backers of a $3 million bill that would upgrade the state's seismic instrumentation system to give an accurate picture to geologists, seismologists and emergency managers. "The historical reality is that we have significant seismic activity," said Sen. Craig A. Peterson. "We are playing Russian roulette." The Orem Republican wrote his bill after the Utah Policy Panel on Earthquake Instrumentation, composed of seismic experts from around the nation who gathered last August for a three-da- y brainstorming session at Alta. The panel emerged with a five-poiprogram for a network of instruments linking the Utah Geological and Mineral Survey, the University of Utah Seismograph Stations and the Division of Comprehensive Emergency Management. Peterson presented the measure Friday to the Senate Energy, Natural Resources and Agriculture Committee, which unanimously endorsed it for consideration by the fault-riddl- nt full chamber. Dr. Walter Arabasz, director of the Seismograph Stations, said the few instruments in use now were manufactured 20 to 30 years ago and are becoming ever more unreliable with age. "We're just struggling with ridiculously obsolete equipment," he said. "From the viewpoint of science and engineering, there's a great body of information we simply cannot capture." Moreover, Utah engineers have been forced to rely on seismic guidelines from California, which has a much more sophisticated system of earthquake analysis. UGMS Director M. Lee Allison said research has shown that the geology of Utah, bisected north to south by the Wasatch Fault and its subsidiaries, differs significantly from that of California. For example, he said, the Salt Lake Valley has a heavily populated floor of uncompacted earth that would react in an altogether different way than the bedrock of the encircling mountains. Indeed, he said, Salt Lake City is considered the nation's third most dangerous seismic area, lagging behind only Los Angeles and San Francisco, where an October earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter (See EARTHQUAKE, Page A2) Buckey sues for $1 million parents LOS ANGELES (AP) Peggy McMartin Buckey, acquitted in a preschool molestation trial that lasted nearly three years, plans a return to court for a $1 million lawsuit that alleges malicious prosecution. "I feel I have a right to have a home again," Mrs. Buckey said Friday. "My husband and I worked hard for what we had. And to take everything away from someone who's done nothing it's a night- be the result of coaching by and therapists. A mistrial was declared on 13 other counts, all involving Raymond Buckey. The district attorney's office will have to decide whether to try those counts again. The nation's longest criminal trial cost over $15 million. The lawsuit contended that all defendants joined in a conspiracy to have the McMartin defendants indicted. mare." Buckey said the family has been living off her husband's earnings as an aircraft company electrical technician, her and her mother's Social Security, their daughter's teaching salary, and help from their church. At a packed news conference, Buckey and members of her family told of death threats issued in the aftermath of the verdict, and said they are considering moving out of Southern California. "My husband was threatened in court yesterday," Buckey told reporters. "They told him, 'You're gonna bekiUed."' The Mrs. Buckey, and her son, Raymond, 31, won acquittal of 52 felony charges on Thursday because jurors said bizarre allegations of molestation at the McMartin appeared to Pre-Scho- ol Weather Fair with increasing haze. Increasing high clouds late .Monday. Highs in the upper 30s. See Page A2. Air Quality air quality was good along the Wasatch Frout but pollution levels are expected to rise. See Page A2. The |