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Show 3 Accent Also in this section: Primetime E2 Opinions E4 O Business E6 Sunday July 8, 1990 E, 9ji Poll sought on Bush's tax raise turnabout Herald Washington Bureau DAY LATE, DOLLAR SHORT: It seems a bit late, but the White House has decided to conduct a poll to see what Americans think about President Bush's reversal of his famous campaign slogan, "Read my lips; no new tax- es." Chief of Staff John Sununu says he has ordered a poll, but even when he gets the results, "I'm not going to tell you," he chided Whits House reporters. Relaxing with Bush at the president's Kennebunkport, home over holiday, Sununu also indicated the administration won't support an,, income tax hike. Sununu said political realities will probably take over when the debate on an income tax rise erupts. "There's no Maine, vacation the Fourth of July way the president is not aware of the fact that in order 'to get something passed it needs both Democratic support in the House and Senate and Republican support in the House and Senate," he added. SWAPPING FISH STO- RIES: There were no reporters around to witness it, but President Bush says he actually caught some fish during a brief vacation at his home in Maine over the Fourth of July holiday. "Big fish ... a lot of them," he boasted. During his first presidential summer in Kennebunkport last August, the "First Fisherman" went nearly three weeks without a bite, hooking a single bluefish on the last day. - But Bush paid the price !in blood for his latest fish-,in- g triumph. Holding up a 'bandaged hand, Bush said he caught 10 fish July 3 and then speared his hand with a knife while cleaning them. "I was just cleaning the fish," he said, explaining he had "just punctured" his hand and no stitches were required. BEEPER BLUES: If it hasn't happened already, it's sure to happen some day, and when it does, there's going to be a whole room full of people at some hotshot Washington reception and all of a sudden all of their beepers are going to go off simultaneously. With so many tones, beeps, whines and clicks, it could sound like a John Cage symphony. Of course, the same thing would happen out on some of the streets in Washington where young.beeper-totin- g drug dealers are known to congregate. But that's less likely to happen now that there's an effort afoot to strip dealers of their beepers. Not surprisingly, according to a report in the new issue of Congressional Monitor newsletter, the beeper dealers' trade association opposes Mfume's bill. Other bills already in the hopper are less threatening to peculiar concepts like liberty and freedom of speech. City of 7,000 got first station on East Center goes the environment way is that? But which tional liberation: Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians, Armenians, Georgians, Byelorussians, Ukrainians, Serbs, Croatians, Montenegrins and Slovaks, to name a few. Canada struggles to keep Quebec and faces growing calls for cultural from its indigenous peoples. Even Guam has demanded independence from the United States. This raises serious questions about environmental protection. Some would-b- e nations like MonaTheir co look like a mega-statparliaments could meet in a phone booth. Can puny principalities cope with global ecological problems? Surprisingly, the answer may be "yes." Woodrow Wilson sowed the wind, and we reap the whirlwind. of peoples was an idea unleashed by the 28th president in 1918, as a rationale e. tM Q tt assistants." Provo started out with one fire station located at 50 E. Center St. n A American horse-draw- rv tnr ce Steamer was purchased to be used by the fire department volunteers as well as a brand new hose wagon with 1,000 feet of hose. A bell tower at the first fire station would alert the firefighters of a fire and, by the number times the bell was rung, the firemen would know which side of town the fire was on. It was about that time that Provo started installing its water hydrant system. "We have a great water supply here today," said Provo's assistant fire chief Rod Jones. "I think it's unsurpassed anywhere. There Geswai J- A are very few places around the city that aren t hydrant accessi-ble." The Provo City Fire Department didn't buy its first motor- ized fire engine until 1917. Today's firefighter, his role and image have drastically changed over the years. The days of the firefighters sitting around playing games until they are called out to a fire "are long since gone," Jones said. 0 Provo has grown to nearly residents and now boasts 85,-00- GUNNISON touches and equipment tests, work on the first phase of the Central Utah Correctional Facility, a maximum-securit- y prison with very few trimmings, is finished. Department of Corrections officials will take charge of it within a couple of weeks, show it off to politicians and the public for awhile, break in new staff, fill it with inmates and then lock it down. Constructed of pale bricks the color of the surrounding terrain, the new prison is perched on a dusty hillside overlooking the quiet town of Gunnison in Sanpete County. "It blends right in, doesn't it?" Photo courtesy Provo Fire Department Firefighters in 1902 pose in front of Provo's first fire house at 50 East Center St. The company's first niece of 11. J n fx il i i.Ll ciiupuicui was uc Aiuencaii juar raoce oieamer, on ngm, puuea oy ine two wmie norses. UHah Stonema(AP) sons, carpenters, electricians and other craftsmen are packing up their tools this week and relinquishing their product to murderers, rapists, drug dealers and other criminals. Except for a few finishing m ! 1 three fire station's with 63 employees. That number includes 57 firefighters of which 26 are also paramedics. The emergency medical technicians were first implemented in the early 1960s. Provo's first ambulance was a 1961 Chevrolet station wagon, Jones said. "Our paramedic services are probably the best anywhere," Jones said. "They all have to recertify every four years and they are very good at saving poison Frederick Van Der Veur said from atop one of the two towers that offer unobstructed views of the prison compound he will supervise as warden. "This faculty will rank among the top of the best." Van Der Veur credits Corrections Director Gary W. DeLand for developing the concept for what proponents call one of the most functional and and what prisons in the nation critics call a complete waste of money. Those concepts include "controlled mobility," which dictates the movements of inmates and which perstaff, mits continuous visual monitoring of inmates from central control cost-effecti- ve "line-of-sight- ," rooms, and "segregated function," which promotes safety and facilitates daily operations. DeLand's geometry makes it possible for a staff less than half the size of the national average to operate the prison safely and effi The eco-pundi- nizations can save the Earth. Threats such as air and water pollution, goes this thinking, transcend regional boundaries, requiring transcendent institutions to stop them. As Jonathan Porritt, director of England's chapter of Friends of the Earth, told me recently, "Pre- - inmate-to-sta- ff ratio will be in the first phase of occu1 pancy, gradually increasing to by the time the third and final phase of the facility is complete. And DeLand's arithmetic two inmates per cell significantly cut construction costs. The first phase has beds for 623 inmates and much of the support facilities for an eventual inmate population 1.5-to- -l 4.5-to-- of 2,159. At a cost of about $37 million for Phase I and $45 million for the nest two phases, the price per cell works out to about $40,000, or 40 percent below the national average. But Salt Lake attorney Ross Anderson, who has formed an organization called Citizens for Prison Reform, is unimpressed with the cost savings. "The crime rate has leveled out and yet our incarceration rate has more than doubled," he said. remeo?5s for breaking up the great axis empires Germany, Turkey and Austria-HungarIt ignited the first great wave of nationalism of this century, which redrew the map of Europe, ended classical colonialism, imbued Arabs with a new sense of identity and laid the foundation for the state of Israel. The second wave, fueled by Soviet decline, is in full swing. But no one knows where this ferver is headed. It could promote freedom and prosperity. But it could create a far more dangerous and less stable world. In any case, it is on a collision course with the agenda of organTo ized environmentalism. only strong central governments and international orga- tfae585'y ciently, said Van Der Veur. 50-fo- ot "ON THE ENVIRONMENT' " N venting global warming will require an international agency with enforcement powers to keep each country on an assigned carbon budget." Presumably U.N. Secretary-General Perez de Cueliar would tell George Bush how much wood he could burn in the White House fireplace. Similarly, American activists of every shade of green seek centralized solutions to ecological problems. Establishment groups such as the National Wildlife Federation and Aubudon Society increasingly focus on lobbying in Cong Earth gress. Even First ecoteurs advocate federal tree-spikin- material response vehicle which lives." Provo's fire department the firefighters built themselves on their own time and with much of their own money, Jones said. To celebrate its 100th year, fire Chief Bill Blair is organizing several community activities. han- dled about 4,000 calls in 1989 and of those calls were medically related. "We are all constantly training in the new technical breakthroughs," he said. "One thing we have been trying to do over the years is to teach fire prevention to the citizens and I think our city has a very good fire prevention system." Provo also has a hazardous two-thir- A Centennial fun run is scheduled for Sept 1. Recognition for some of Provo's residents is in the making and the celebrating will wind up on Dec. 15 with a Firefighter's Ball at the Excelsior Hotel. nearly compile "Underlying it all is a very shortsighted view by corrections officials in Utah." Meanwhile, fans and foes, state and local government officials, area residents, community leaders and a host of individuals and organizations are lining up for tours of the new prison. Salt Lake architect Abram G. Gillies said the Department of Correction's operational philosophy not only reduced costs but also determined what the prison would look like. "Our primary concern was to make it work from the inside out," Gillies explained. Access points, window sizes, location of doorways, building forms and locations all were predetermined by narrowly defined function. Yet the sensibilities of the people of Gunnison could not be ignored, Gillies said. The prison covers 288 acres, roughly the size of the town below. Its inmate and staff population will eventually be twice the size of Gunnison's 1,300. "We didn't want it to overpower the city of Gunnison. If we were not careful, the prison would become Gunnison," Gillies said. So, the architects designed structures in a campus-lik- e setting. The color of the brick was chosen for its compatibility with low-profi- le the landscape and the yellow sandstone blocks of Sanpete Coun- ty's historic homes, public build- ings and churches. "It was designed to disappear," Gillies said. While the prison is by no means invisible, it is not as imposing as some valley residents had feared. At night, however, the light towers set the compound aglow like a ballpark. It is surrounded by big-leag- two security fences bristling with razor wire. Between the fences is an electrically balanced particle field, an above-groun- d electronic moat 12 feet wide by 4 feet deep. to evolutionary survival. More multiplicity offers greater options industries. subsidizing rust-be- lt To be sure, many environmen- in the environment. Likeise, cultural diversity and local autonomy are sources of environmental health. tal threats inevitably demand for coping with changes Chase 1 ... may save eswim&me&rS Alston y. Almost weekly another ethnic group announces its fight for na- r The Provo Fire Department kicked off its centennial celebration this past week as part of the city's Fourth of July Parade. On Dec. 15, 1890, a Provo city ordinance was signed to create Provo's first fire department. Soon after Brigham Young Academy lost its Lewis Building in a devastating fire on Jan. 27, who 1884, Provo's residents had increased from just a few pioneers to 7,000 strong in 1890 believed it was time to have their own fire department. Mayor John E. Booth and the Provo City Council signed into law an ordinance which created the Provo City Fire Department in 1890. Since that time, Provo and the fire department have grown and seen many changes. In those early days, the ordinance required that there be "not less than 25 able bodied men, (volunteers), ... to keep their engines and implements in good order and ready for drill, and on the alarm of lire, they are thereby required td leave other business and repair to the engine house with all speed and remove their engine and hose to the place of fire, and operate for the extinguishing of said fire, under the directions of the chief or his MepeoM'fc&iiGe As Lithuania and Quebec go, so Y By ANTON GARRITY Herald Staff Writer solutions. Campaigning for more federal wilderness areas, these backwoods bandits are indirectly demanding a stronger Washington role in the boondocks. But history suggests that the capitals of empire are poor at protecting the . Earth. Decisions made at the center tend to be at the expense of the periphery. Just as Rome stripped the forests of kingdoms it conquered, so Moscow laced the soil of Latvia with toxic waste. Similarly, Congress requires the EPA not to look for nuclear dump sites in the East (where more votes are), and the Clean Air Act is gutted by codicils strong federal or international action. When Ohio smokestacks turn Maine forests brown, Congress must step in. Likewise, pollution in rivers that cross international boundaries, such as the Danube and Rhine, or decimation of sea life in international waters can be stopped only by coordinated multinational response. But much perhaps most environmental decline is best fought at the local level. Asking federal or international govern--menlto compose coherent regulations for natural preservation is like expecting the Incredible Hulk to perform brain surgery: His fingers are too clumsy to tie the knots. As ecologist Allan Savory likes to say, each ecosystem is unique, like a fingerprint. Uniform national policies can never anticipate the vagaries of ecological processes. It is an axiom among ecologists that biological diversity is a key s Small governments can react more quickly to emerging threats, and many governments can experiment with a variety of strategies, learning what works best. The trend is therefore may be a healthy one for the environment. Rather than producing a Babel of microstates, it may, balanced by the countervailing evolution toward a economy, encourage a new kind of federalism. Even the English now realize that no country is an island. So we may soon be seeing a world of smaller countries, each with a government ab'e to act locally, but bound together by institutional structures fostering international cooperation. The European community represents this new kind of one-wor- ld |
