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Show c Inside Today: Nation Local officials note rising fuel costs during faro hearing UTA may be run by county Friday, December 21, 1990 Study: Soviets must rush reform UVEDA Page B2 Sports Atlanta Hawks whip Utah Jazz Page A3 PagoDI Pago B6 50 Cents Issue No. 143, Provo, Utah Central Utah's Newspaper for 117 Years C h vfe . V''' may mntkme ' fcir fk' I.. ?-f.- Of .1 i t? It-- ' r ' r V' V Y T! .t I v I 1 t 'J r '.( .J. '! I 1 V "S f ' aril K Al " It I w4 - 1 S Bt-- 5f f HEI V ? i F r' CSrr) 4F, " 0JU3 T A.- -" n I l I r " 3" v5'te Herald PhotoJason Olson Living Nativity Members of the Highland LDS Stake Young Adults are recreating the Nativi- ty nightly through Christmas Eve. The creche can be viewed from 6:30 to 9:30 Heritage Park. In Orem addition, Community Church, p.m. at Highland's United Church of Christ, is presenting its 10th annual living Nativity at 130 N. - 400 E., Orem, through Sunday night. The times for the living tableau are from 7 to 9 p.m. each night Parking is available on the church's west side. Cold snap causes area power outages From HERALD STAFF And Wire Reports SALT LAKE CITY Subzero temperatures and winds gusting to nearly 60 mph snapped power cables, caused some road and school closures and resulted in some Salt Lake area residents thinking the city was on fire. A power outage at the Amoco Oil Co. refinery north of Salt Lake City required fuel to be diverted from processing equipment to the flare vent, making the flame much larger than usual. Depending on where they were at - the time, residents perceived the flame as structure fires in various locations throughout the north end of the valley. Many of them called the Salt Lake City Fire Department. "There were about six runs we sent (fire crews) on" shortly after 8 p.m. Thursday, said a fire dispatcher. Crews arrived to find the buildings intact. The refinery lost power for about 30 minutes, said Plant Manager Randall Couch. A Utah Power & Light dispatcher said power was knocked out when a guy wire stabi- - Related stories, A4 lizing a line tower made contact with a 47,000-vo- lt power line. Unable to process all the gas it would under electric power, the plant was forced to burn it. "It's not a happy profit situation for us because we're having to burn the product," Couch said. The gas flares often are mistaken by residents for fires. Orem recorded 9 degrees below zero last night, setting a record for Sixty Utah Air Guard members called up - t, SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Sixty members of the Utah Air National Guard's 151st Air Refueling Group have been called to active duty in support of Operation Desert Shield, officials said. The Thursday order activates 12 air crews, which will now answer to the Strategic Air Command, said group commander Col. Gordon Hill. The activation order means that E all six of the group's tankers are now being controlled by SAC, Hill said. The group's tnission is aerial refueling of U.S. and allied aircraft worldwide. KC-135- temperatures, at least for the past 10 years, according to Dale Stevens, professor of geography at Brigham Young University and director of the weather station. Orem also experienced strong canyon winds between 30 and 40 miles per hour, creating a wind chill factor somewhere between 40 and 50 degrees below zero. The temperature at BYU's Kimball Tower was minus 2 degrees, while some other areas of the county recorded temperatures of around minus 5 degrees. (See COLD, Page A2) low The crews include pilots, copilots, navigators and boom operators. By The Associated Press Air raid sirens blared and about 1 million Iraqis carrying blankets and food streamed out of Baghdad early today in an evacuation drill to test the nation's readiness for war. As Iraqis jammed roads out of the capital, tensions grew between Israel and the United States over a Persian issue at the United Nations. Israel's foreign minister said the United States showed weakness by supporting a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Jerusalem. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has repeatedly tried to link Gulf-relat- In addition, crew chiefs from the 151st Consolidated Aircraft Maintenance Squadron have been activated. that while the callup is the first formal activation of the unit since 1951, he said its members have volunteered for numerous other missions. cated Shevardnadze might keep some post in government. "You don't resign and shut the door of the Cabinet behind you in one minute," Ignatenko said. Gorbachev will study foreign reaction to the resignation before deciding on a replacement, Ignatenko said. It was not known whether Shevardnadze would take part in a Moscow arms control summit Feb. 3 between Gorbachev and President Bush. Shevardnadze's resignation prompted worldwide concern over the course of Soviet foreign policy and the future of the nation's internal reform program,--- Earlier today, Gorbachev aide;; Georgy Shakhnazarov said Shev ardnadze would stay "on Gorbachev's team," but offered no other details, said the state news agency Tass. 11-1- Shevardnadze told parliament Thursday that he did not want any part of a "dictatorship" being created under pressure of hard-linerHis resignation dominated discussion in the Congress of People's Deputies this morning, and a Ukrainian lawmaker later said a right-win- g coup was going on under the parliament's nose. s. Vladimir Chernyak, a deputy (See SOVIET, Page A2) Decision on spotted frog will he delayed By JUDY FAHYS Herald Washington Bureau The U.S. Fish WASHINGTON and Wildlife Service, which said last week it would formally seek protection for the spotted frog under the Endangered Species Act, announced Thursday it would take a few more months to make its decision. The announcement came on the heels of what the agency's Denver office describes as "more concern than necessary at this stage" that the federal protection could impede progress on the $2 billion Central Utah Project. Galen Buterbaugh, the Fish and Wildlife Service's assistant regional director in Denver, issued a press release Thursday saying the existence of spotted frogs in nine states makes the task of pinpointing "the species' status, biology and habitat - requirements difficult and time consuming." He added more biological data continues to be received in Denver. "That complicates matters and makes an overall decision extreme-i- y difficult," Buterbaugh said in the press release, which was forwarded to The Daily Herald by the office of Sen. Jake Garn, ' A formal decision on whether to add the frog to the federal list of 19 "threatened" or "endangered" amphibians was due last May, under the strict timetable set out by the Endangered Species Act. T liOBi c- J l WCC&," iCUCiUC ji:r UUi" nUiUliC cials said they had only to put the final touches on their report recommending "threatened" status. They had collected reports from the affected states and Canada that showed what they described as an .(See FROG,-Pag- A2) e Iraqis evacuate Baghdad during air drill The callup brings to more than 2,000 the number of reservists and guardsmen activated since Iraq invaded Kuwait Aug. 2. Hill said - MOSCOW (AP) President Mikhail S. Gorbachev met with Eduard A. Shevardnadze today, one day after the foreign minister's stunning resignation, and a presidential aide indicated Shevardnadze might retain a government post. The two Soviet officials discussed the Persian Gulf crisis and arms control treaties, several government spokesmen said. When pressed, presidential spokesman Vitaly Ignatenko indi- 1 1 I John Major alcohol and hospid talized since Sunday. The soldiers, from the 101st Airborne Division, are the first d known casualties of liquor since U.S. forces were deployed ih Saudi Arabia, a Moslem country that bans all alcohol. During the drill many Iraqis stayed home, residents said. Participants ran on foot to civil defense centers or sped out of town in cars. Hundreds of buses waiting at centers took Iraqis to shelters north, east and south of Baghdad. Roads leading out of the capital were jammed with thousands of (See GULF, Page A2) home-brewe- Related story, A7 the Palestinian problem with the gulf crisis. That has made it difficult for the United States to. remain loyal to Israel without offending its Arab allies. President Bush was to meet later today with John Major, Britain's new prime minister. In several television interviews today, Major said the question of war was "in hands." Saddam Hussein's Also today, the U.S. military command said eight American soldiers have been poisoned by home-brewe- Utah group narrows search for cancer gene - Re...WASHINGTON (AP) searchers in California and Utah report, in studies published today, new advances toward isolating the gene linked to a susceptibility to breast cancer in some families. . Mary-ClaiKing, leader of a laboratory group at the University of California, Berkeley, said her studies have narrowed the search for the breast cancer gene to a specific chromosome. Comparing the work to a quest, King said in an interview, "We're now at the point of knowing the handful of hay in which this needle lies, as opthrough posed to having to search ' the whole haystack." A research group at the Universi re needle-in-a-haysta- ck ty of Utah Health Scienqes Center, meanwhile, reported finding that proliferative breast disease, a condition known to be a precursor of breast cancer, has been found to be inherited in some families. "Based on this study, we believe the genetic susceptibility to breast cancer is more common than previously thought," said Dr. Mark H. Skolnick of the Utah group. Both groups have been research-- , ing families with large numbers of breast cancer cases. Their studies are published today in the journal Science. Skolnick and King said their studies could lead eventually to tests enabling women with known breast cancer risks, based on their family histories, to be treated even before the smallest of tumors have formed. "The long-tergoal of this kind of work is to try to develop diagnostic techniques that will allow the detection of aberrant cells in the breast at an extremely early stage," said King. "Those cells could be removed and the woman go on with a normal life." With such tests used, widely, she said, "it would be possible that there would be no mortality from breast cancer." Such clinical applications of the two studies, however, are many years away, King said. In the California project, the scientist said her team studied m more than 400 members of 23 families with a total of 146 cases of breast cancer. Breast cancer in those families, she said, tended to develop at an early age arid often involved both breasts. By analyzing blood samples and then comparing genetic patterns, King said, the scientists found nine families in which susceptibility to the early onset of breast cancer was linked to chromosome 17q, one of the 46 chromosomes found in human cells. Now, she said, the researchers are attempting to find the specific breast cancer gene within that chromosome. King said that even when the' (See CANCER, Page A2) Weather Find it ArtsEntertainment .....C4-C- 6 Classified Ads Crossword D2-D- 8 D3 Movies C4-C- 6 National Obituaries Opinions Stocks Comics Weather World The Daily Herald recycles and uses recycled newsprint mid-teen- A3 B2 B4 B6-B- Sports 8 A6 ; cloudy and a little breezy tonight and Saturday; continued very cold, with tonight's lows zero to 10 below, and Saturday's higbs reaching See Page A4. up to Partly C7 A4 A7 s. Air Quality . Air quality was good in all Wasatch Front areas, with an increase in pollution levels expected. See Page A2. |
