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Show Page C6 - THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Wednesday, September 26, 1990 Weather Briefs CEO Ex-Silvera- do - takes Fifth The former DENVER (AP) chairman of the failed Silverado savings and loan took the Fifth Amendment times at a zt 14 con- - ,;;? flict-of-intere- hearing t;i d..Vi Another ado against "i ... f-J;- TUT Silver-- ; executive, meanwhile, testified the thrift's board of directors knew of Bush's, business relation-- 1 Michael Wise ship with Kenneth Good when it $900,- granted Good a 000 line of credit. The testimony came as an administrative hearing opened Tuesday on whether to bar Bush from the financial industry for his actions as a Silverado director. As the hearing opened, Silverado's former chief executive officer, Michael Wise, invoked his Fifth Amendment right against 14 times Panels agree on deposit insurance plan Administrative Law Judge Daniel J. Davidson let Wise testify in the judge's chambers to be "spared the ordeal of going through a futile gesture of taking the Fifth." But in the chambers, Wise still took the 14 times. Fifth The federal Office of Thrift Supervision has alleged that Bush, as a Silverado director, improperly voted on loans and credit for Good and Bill Walters, both of whom contributed to Bush's oil and gas exploration company. The two businessmen defaulted on more than $132 million in loans from the thrift. Silverado collapsed in late 1988 at a cost to taxpayers of $1 billion. Today, attorneys were to defense witness Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr., a Yale law professor who says Bush acted legally when dealing with Good and Walters. son President Bush's did not attend the opening session. He is scheduled as the final witness at the hearing, expected to end Thursday. - - The WASHINGTON (AP) chairmen of the House and Senate Banking committees agree on key elements of a sweeping plan to revamp the deposit insurance system, improving the chances for passage of major banking legislation next year. Sen. Donald W. Riegle Jr.. chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, on Tuesday introduced legislation that would force regulators to abandon their - A defense CINCINNATI (AP) attorney described Robert Mapple-thorpe- 's sexually explicit photos in detail to gauge the reactions of prospective jurors at the nation's first obscenity trial of an art gallery and its director. The Contemporary Arts Center and director Dennis Barrie are charged with obscenity and dis-- O playing nude photos of children at a Mapplethorpe exhibit. The prosecution questioned the first group of eight potential jurors Monday, and Barrie's lawyer questioned the panel Tuesday. Seven of the 175 photos from the exhibit are the basis for the criminal charges. One photo shows a man urinating into another man's mouth. Others show anal penetration with objects and other homosexual or sadomasochistic images. After describing the seven photographs in detail, lawyer H. Louis Sirkin asked several prospective jurors, "Are you willing to see those photographs before making a decision as to whether any of them is obscene?" All answered that they were. Sirkin said later that he didn't describe the photographs for shock value, although he was interested in seeing the potential jurors' Sales of guns and burglary alarms have picked up in the nation's fourth-largecity since the courts ordered the release of more than 270 inmates to relieve overcrowding at the Harris County Jail. All the freed inmates had been jailed on misdemeanors. But for some Houston-are- a residents, that's no more reassuring than hearing Houston trails Miami, New York, Los Angeles, Dallas and Detroit in HOUSTON (AP) st inmates freed on personal recognizance bond since Sept. 14 are already back behind bars, police said. Sev At least at large banks. San Francisco 31 of the 276 - MaPASADENA, Calif. (AP) gellan's latest pictures of Venus show meteorite craters the size of Los Angeles, a river of solidified lava 200 miles long and a collapsed volcano twice as deep as the Grand Canyon. "These ere extremely jazzy images," said Gordon Pettengill, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientist who leads the spacecraft's radar science team. NASA displayed the pictures of d the planet at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Tuesday. "Believe me, it's giving us a revolutionary new view of Venus," said Brown University geologist Jim Head, a Magellan scientist. With Magellan only 10 days into mission to map the its 243-dplanet, Head advised: "Don't touch cloud-covere- ay o three-dimension- al map-makin- o o n Los Angeles 80 o o I A ipenveri7r. ' Albuquerque 86 Vr Ocean 1990 in SHOWERS Vm K ? VAlEiPaso93 I r. jL Ljf Pacific mates, your dial. We think we have a blockbuster fall season." Steve Saunders, Magellan's chief scientist, displayed a computer-generate- d videotape of images showing Venus from the perspective of someone swooping down to and around a crater on its surface. Magellan started its $744 million g mission picture- - and Sept. 15, two weeks later than planned because engineers temporarily lost radio contact with the spacecraft twice in August. One picture displayed Tuesday shows two volcanoes, each with a windblown fan of debris extending about six miles from the mountain's summit crater. NASA said the fans look like "fallout from volcanic explosion plumes." - 70 h'-ot- en have been charged with felonies, including armed robbery in one case, police said. "We're just arresting the same people. We're letting them out and arresting them again," said Sheriff Johnny Klevenhagen. "The citizens of Harris County have again been victimized by the system." The jail, designed for 4,200 innow has about 6,300, down from a peak of 8,800 a year ago. The early releases were set in motion when the county missed an Aug. 31 deadline set by U.S. District Judge James DeAnda to reduce the population to 6,100. A- . Seattle 67 His bill would impose losses on depositors with more than $100,000 in a failed bank or savings and loan institution. Currently, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has an unstated policy of protecting all depositors in large institutions whose failure they fear would ripple through the financial system. Magellan photographs craters, volcano o o forecast for daytime conditions and high temperatures Accu-Weath- Gun sales up since inmates freed early crime. Prospective jurors hear photo details Thursday, Sept. 27 of protecting all deposits, regardless of amount, Inc. $ esj m m m & TSTORMS FLURRIES SNOW RAIN ICE SUNNY in PT. CLOUDY CLOUDY Associated Press GrophusNl Rain possible, highs in 70s By The Associated Press 70s to the lower 80s. Lows mostly in the 40s. UTAH Statewide: Partly Treasure Valley: Tonight and Thursday partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers or thunder-shower- s. Light winds tonight. Lows upper 40s to the lower 50s. Highs upper 70s to the mid-80East central mountains: Tonight and Thursday partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers or thundershowers mainly evening and afternoon hours. North central mountains: Tonight and Thursday partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers or thundershowers in the south. NEVADA Northern and central Nevada: Partly cloudy tonight with a slight chance of showers. Scattered mainly afternoon and eveThursday. ning thunderstorms to mid-40- s. Lows in the mid-30- s Highs upper 60s to near 80. cloudy through Thursday. Scattered afternoon and or early nighttime showers and thunderstorms. Local breezy south winds western valleys daytime hours. Highs to 70s to near 90. Lows mid-40- s upper 50s. Salt Lake, Ogden and Provo: Tonight chance of thunderstorms in the evening, otherwise Thurspartly cloudy. Low of Chance cloudy. day partly afternoon showers or thunder0 storms. Southerly winds mph. High in the mid-t- o upper 70s. Probability of measurable rain in any one spot is 30 percent early tonight, and 30 percent Thursday afternoon. Dixie: Tonight isolated thunderstorms ending. Partly cloudy. Thursday partly cloudy. Isolated afternoon thunderstorms. Extended forecast for Utah: Friday through Sunday, partly cloudy with scattered showers or thunderstorms Friday. Fair to partly cloudy with widely scattered afternoon showers and s. 50-5- 5. 10-2- thunderstorms Saturday s. COLORADO Some cloudiness through Thursday with scattered late-da- y showers and thunderstorms mainly over mountains and east. Cooler east Thursday. Highs Thursday 80s and upper 70s east, 70s and lower 80s west and IDAHO Idaho: to- s. Sunday. Highs in the 70s and 80s. Lows mid 40s to near 60. Southeastern Fair Southern Nevada: night. Mostly sunny Thursday. Breezy in the afternoons with southwest winds around 20 mph. Highs in the mid 80s to mid-90to mid-60Lows in the mid-50- s Partly cloudy through Thursday with a slight chance of mainly afternoon and evening showers or thundershowers especially over the mountains. Daily highs mid- - and 60s and 70s mountains. Lows tonight 45 to 55 east, mid 30s to lower 40s west. West, Northeast get rain By The Associated Press Rain dotted the Northeast and West early today and fair skies prevailed in the nation's midsection. Showers fell in Pittsburgh and thunderstorms plagued Anchorage, Alaska. Cooler temperatures were expected today in the northern Plains. More warm weather was forecast for the Plains and the Mississippi Valley. Scattered showers and thun Temperatures Tuesday in the Plains were as much as 20 degrees higher than normal for late September. Hail IV2 inches in diameter fell near Salt Lake streets in City and Redding, Calif. rain-flood- The high temperature Tuesday in the Lower 48 states was 102 degrees at Borrego Springs, Calif. Houston Temperatures - By The Associated Press Tuesdav Temperatures winter Ever suffer through that first night because you put off getting your natural gas furnace ready? You wont have to this year if you do something about it now. Four simple steps you can take to get your furnace readyforwinter. 1 . Clean or replace filters . 2. Check blower belt and oil blowrer motor. (Make sure blower doors are replaced properly.) 3 . Make sure air ducts and ventsflues are unobstructed. 4. Remove objects from around the furnace and give a test run. j these simple checks yourself, or look in the eilow Pages under Heating Contractor. Do For more information call Mountain Fuel. But don't wait. Winter certainly wron't. Mountain fix Fuel A QUESTAR COMPANY indicate previous j day's high and overnight low to 8 D.m. EDT. Hi. 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