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Show A2 Page - THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Friday, Aug. 10, 1990 U.S.: People (Continued from Page Al) Sheen checks into center - LOS ANGELES (AP) Charlie Sheen has checked into a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center for a month, his man says. The actor, who played a raw recruit in toon" and a rookie securities trader in "Wall Street," is suffering from "extreme exhaustion due to an arduous filming schedule of four features back-to-back- ," Jeff Barnard said Thursday. The spokesman refused to say whether Sheen has a drug or alcohol problem and would not disclose where the actor was undergoing treatment or when he checked in. Sheen is the son of actor Martin Sheen and brother of actor Emilio Estevez. In his most recent movie, "Navy SEALs," he plays a member of an elite squad. He also has leading roles in "Men At Work," which opens Aug. 24, and "Cadence" and "Rookie," due to be released next year. anti-terrori- st Brando defends his son SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) Marlon Brando commanded "center stage in his son's murder case, promising to post the $2 million bail and declaring, "My son is not a mad dog killer." The usually reclusive actor stood on the courthouse lawn and 'spoke with reporters for an hour, accusing "the sleaze bags" of TV news and "the carrion press" of turning the case into "a circus ... some kind of animal show." Bail for Christian Brando, 32, was reduced to $2 million from $10 million Thursday. He has been in jail since the fatal shooting on May 16 of Dag Drollet, the boyfriend of Bran Racers climb MUELENEN, longest staircase has six times as many steps as the Empire State Building and is nearly twice as long as its nearest rival in China. But it is virtually unknown, even in Switzerland. Swiss medical student Chris- tian Aebersold averaged 223 steps a minute to complete the dizzying course in 52 minutes, 26 seconds. Jairo Correa of Colombia clocked 53.11 minutes. Correa is the world champion of mountain racers, whose sport involves running up mountains. In a bid to end its obscurity, do. Brando said his offspring suffer unfairly because of his celebrity. He admitted his son, an unemployed welder, has a history of alcohol and drug abuse. But he said: "My son isn't a mad dog killer and I hate to see anyone portrayed that way. There is another Christian and I hope to have the opportunity to present that." Defense attorney Robert Shapiro was uncertain how long it would take for Brando to post the bail, either by putting up the cash or offering the deed to his $4 million home in the hills above Bel-Ai- r. The trial is set for Oct. 9. 11 ,674 steps this week staged the first official race up the 11,674 steps of Mount in the Swiss Alps. Nie-se- n, " Organizers say the run will be an annual event, attracting the world's top racers in a test of stamina and skill up a hodgepodge of concrete, wooden and metal steps. For the rest of the year, the steps give maintenance workers access to a cable railway and are off limits to others. The railway runs from this Bernese Oberland village up the 7,794 feet mountain. "Niesen-treppen- 400 stop his (Continued from Page A2) North in Orem in 2010 during the peak hour of traffic in the city. However, the statement also says traffic volumes on the canyon road will increase whether the road is expanded or not, with only a slight increase in particulate emissions. Only 1 to 1.5 percent of total particulate pollution in Utah County is due to motor vehicles, according to the statement. A recent announcement by the Environmental Protection Agency of requirements cutting sulfur in djesel fuel 80 percent to help lower particulate emissions is good news, .Rushforth said. But the issue of health, risk still remains. "This is significant because it is ;an improvement ... but the problem still doesn't go away," he said. "We'll take anything we can get, but we have to continue to work to decrease diesel emissions." David B. Magleby, a representative of Citizens for a Safe Community, said he was concerned about health risks from possible chemical or oil spills from the trucks. "What are they going to do if they have a spill at 800 North and Air Pollution ' Cheyenne Bran- r, East because some guy can't rig at the stoplight?" Magleby asked. "We're TRUCKS: ; half-siste- local enthusiasts Switzerland The world's (AP) do's The following information is taken from the Wasatch Front air pollution report compiled by the Utah Bureau of Air Quality. The complete report is avauame Dy leiepnone at as of 8 a m were as Conditions talking about homes within 50 feet. There's a school two blocks away." Rushforth said he didn't think there was a legitimate argument against limiting truck traffic in the canyon to those vehicles with stops in Utah County Comparing bringing trucks down in Orem's 800 North and down Salt Lake City is not realistic, he said. Rather, trucks would have to travel down North Temple and State Street in Salt Lake City for the comparison to be accurate. "If we had an interstate belt route in this valley, then maybe it would not be such a good argument," he said. Alan Mecham, preconstruction engineer for the Utah Department of Transportation, said although it in Salt Lake City was was true built specifically to carry traffic s, it was hard to such as justify a ban of trucks in Provo Canyon to the trucking industry. "They're all public roads" that the trucking companies pay taxes on," Mecham said. "We are perfectly willing to look at taking the trucks off the highway if it's an alternative," Mecham said, adding he would like to re main neutral on the issue. Prnstnirtinn tft exnand the can- yn's road would deter traffic from the Pa"" Mtecham. Mid;. The slon PrJect or..10 cntinue availapending on funding semi-truck- f Dllltv- - JJ-yoo- u. UTAH COUNTY good Salt Lake Weber good good Downtown Areas PROVO good Salt Lake good good Ogden Overall Air Clarity The air quality for today was good in all areas along the Wasatch Front. Outlook Forecast calls for little change in pollution levels with a clearing index of 1000 . (Index) Highs North Provo North Provo oz co Lindon pa Provo co 17 11 20 33 Thc (Index) Scale moderate; 101- good air; 9 199 unhealthful; very un- healthful; 300 and above hazardous. Abbreviations co - carbon monoxide 51-1- 0-- 200-29- oz so pa - ozone sulfur dioxide particulates Note The Utah County residential area reading is taken from the Lindon monitoring station. The State of Utah has identified the following as primary sources of pollutants in Utah County: co vehicles; oz - vehicles and gas vapors; and pa - heavy industry. gQjpg on his vacation - WASHINGTON (AP) President Bush is headed to Maine on a 3lj- week vacation, saying "life goes on" despite the Persian Gulf crisis. Bush and his wife Barbara were leaving the White House for their summer home in Kennebunkport, three days after Bush sent Ameri- can troops and warplanes off to defend Saudi Arabia against Iraqi aggression, "Life goes on," Bush said Thurs- day evening when asked if he really planned to go on vacation. "Gotta keep moving. Can't stay in one place all the time," the president said, bantering with re-porters after leaving the Oval Of- ficc. He later went out to dinner with his wife, who had flown down from their oceanside home for the day. She had been in Maine with grand- children since July 27. The White House said Bush was taking extra staff with him to Maine to help monitor events in the Middle East in the wake of last week's Iraqi occupation of Kuwait and the deployment of U.S. troops to Saudi Arabia. Bush also will fly back to Wash- ington on Wednesday for a military briefing, then return to Maine, where he will stay until Labor Day, Sept. 3. has "an enormous and sophisticated war machine" near Kuwait's border with Saudi Arabia. In a separate letter detailing the U.S. sanctions against Iraq, Bush told Congress that Iraq has "has tightened its unlawful grip over the territory of Kuwait and has installed a puppet regime that in no f'-rr- .msmx way represents the people or legitiof Kuwait." mate government Concerns about the more than 3,500 Americans apparently trapped in Kuwait and Iraq were paramount. "Our only interest is getting them out. We believe the best way ... is to be cool, to sit tight," one U.S. official said. Several thousand American combat troops already are on Saudi soil, supported by a powerful contingent of air and naval forces. Their mission is to defend the Saudi kingdom amid hopes that worldwide economic pressure will force Saddam Hussein to withdraw from neighboring Kuwait. U.S. officials have refused to publicly reveal the scale of the troop deployment, code-name- d er. But several Pentagon and administration sources, who declined to be identified by name, revealed planning that could involve the largest deployment of U.S. ground troops since Vietnam. "We have contingency plans that could result in the insertion of up to 200,000 to 250,000 ground forces before it's all done," said one source, who added that the troop transfer also could be capped at any point. Such a deployment would take up to 60 days to complete, the sources A r'n v A m v a 1 y LaVA i ... r tit 1 'I 11 AP Laserphoto Thousands of protesters march in Amman, Jordan, today in an demonstration. anti-Weste- rn "Desert Shield" and aimed at forestalling an Iraqi invasion of the Saudi kingdom, the world's largest oil export- said. VM'a ,iy s Pentagon official said troops could come from units in Colorado, Kansas, Texas, Georgia, Kentucky and North Carolina. "Hussein's response will determine exactly how much combat power we put on the ground," one source said. (Continued from Page Al) "one full of peril," and called on the 15 U.S. allies in the Western alliance "to examine how you might help" enforce the boycott of Iraq approved by the U.N. Security Council. "It is not only economic progress that is threatened," he told them. "If might is to make right, then the world will be plunged into a new dark age." At the Arab summit in' Cairo, Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak said time was running out for the Arab world to act to resolve the crisis. As Kuwait's deposed emir lookel on, Mubarak told Arab leaders the must either persuade Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait or face "a for-- eign intervention in which we will have no say or control." "It is an unbalanced and explosive situation, which gets worse every day and holds within its folds huge dangers for us all. The Arab umbrella to get us out of this crisis represents a reasonable choice," said Mubarak, who has emerged as the prime mover in Arab diplomatic efforts surrounding the invasion. But even before Mubarak spoke, Saddam's foreign minister, Tarek Aziz, insisted to reporters that Kuwait is, and will remain, "part and parcel of Iraq." Iraq annexed the emirate Wednesday, a move that was condemned by the U.N. Security Council on Thursday. Saddam himself did not attend the Cairo summit, although the other Arab nations were represented by kings and presidents. The summit was to have begun Thursday but was delayed by a day, reportedly over a dispute over who would represent Kuwait its government or the fallen monarch, Emir Sheik Jaber Iraqi-install- GAS: (Continued from Page Al) awhile he was only making .4 a gallon because he was afraid he'd lose customers, he said. "I feel we deserve to make 10 a gallon, but we've never been able to make that. Most businesses make anywhere between profit on their merchandise. IRAQ: 10-5- 0 Could you imagine clothing or shoe stores profit." said operating on a 3 Ashton. "All the oil companies raised their prices so we needed to also." There are so many things going on right now that it's hard to predict what prices will settle at, but until the situation in the Middle East is resolved the prices will stay about where they are, he said. "There's no doubt in my mind that the oil companies are getting filthy rich off this but they're just exercising free enterprise and if (President) Bush wants to regulate the money they make, then laws need to be passed which would tax the oil companies or could simply make them justify their price hikes." Ashton said, "I think we've hit the high in the prices and that they'll stay between $1.20 and $1.25 a gallon for awhile. If we become sure that we won't be getting any futher Iraqi or Kuwaiti oil, then prices may rise a little more, but there's so much extra crude supplies right now that there's not too much of an immediate concern." With the high price of oil right now, anyone with any crude will be trying to get it on the market and with other nations such as Central and South America pumping more oil there shouldn't be a shortage. "I think the only way prices will go down is if (Saddam) Hussein leaves Kuwait and I personally don't think that will happen. There's nothing that tells me that gas will go much below $1.20 in the near future," Ashton said. "I think what we'll (United States) do in the future, is move towards pumping more domestic crude and getting ed ed h. In Saudi Arabia, more U.S. fighter planes arrived to bolster the buildup of U.S. combat troops. Britain, France and Australia on Thursday announced they were sending ships and planes to the gulf in response to U.S. appeals for an international force to defend Saudi Arabia the world's largest oil exporter. A Pentagon source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the United States was prepared to put "many divisions" in Saudi Arabia. "We have contingency plans that could result in the insertion of up to 200,000 to 250,000 ground forces before it's all done," said the source, who spoke on condition that further identification be withheld. The U.S. troop commitment in Vietnm reached 550,000 at its peak, plus additional personnel in other Southeast Asian countries. The United States was dispatchand other ing about 140 s, warplanes, including "tank killer" s, Pentagon and other sources F-I- reported. Three aircraft carrier groups were also being stationed in the region. The Pentagon reported that 50,000 Iraqi combat units were moving south inside Iraq, and that if they entered Kuwait, the total invasion force would number about 170,000. Only a day earlier, the intelligence estimates had put the Iraqi force at Sources in the Middle East said the U.S. units were being deployed at strategic airports and bases across Saudi Arabia, but the main grouping was in the remote northeastern region of Hafr d Kuwait. near Travelers leaving Saudi Arabia said the flow of American forces to the border region appeared to be increasing Thursday. n, Iraqi-occupie- Besides the ground forces, powerful Navy units were converging on the tense Persian Gulf area. $ t o larger quantities from countries 7 PEAKS: (Continued from Page Al) Forest Service land, Provo city has an obligation to upgrade that basin," said McBeth. Any renewed application must fit within the guidelines of the existing environmental impact statement, he said, plus answer the questions that have since arisen. Currently, the Forest Service is doing nothing more, he said. "We're not going to expend public energy with nothing to cause us to do anything." According to McBeth, Borcherds had not been issued a permit. The decision was made to issue one, he explained. "We're not going to issue one again until all the ducks are lined up," he added. A permit for development was issued to Heritage Mountain promoters that was rescinded in 1986, he said. During the application process, the administration costs are covered by the applicant. But once the project begins to generate income, the base fee of 5 percent switches to a percentage fee. McBeth said the financial projections for the ski resort show a profit in the third year. He emphasized that money made from the use of public land goes into public coffers and not to Forest Service officials. Opponents said the pristine beauty of the mountain will be ruined even if the Forest Service requires a bond "to restore" the mountain in the event of a project failure. They asked for a citizen's task force to help study the proposal and informational, hearings to assess public opinion. Othnrs asked if a project that will use the area only two months each year warrants destruction of the natural landscaping. McBeth said population estimates and growth projections show enough skiers start each year to keep a new ski resort busy each year. But several In the audience pointed to the lack of success at Sundance as evidence that another resort Isn't needed. like Mexico and Venezuela." If oil companies aren't regulated, they'll continue to do what they're doing, he said. "We have to change laws if we want what's happening to change. Economic pressures have forced the prices to this point. The oil companies are filthy rich and I'm not happy about it but there are economic factors that justify it," said Ashton. "We're at the mercy of the oil companies." People need to realize there are many station owners who really care about their customers. "We raise the price when we buy the loads of gas. 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