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Show Saturday Dec. 29, 1990 B Saturday riefing Quayle returns tto slopes from sand trap of discrimination The vice president is still a member of the - WASHINGTON (AP) Vice President Dan Quayle canceled a second round of golf at the Cypress Point golf club in California on Friday, saying he didn't know the facility was mired in a racial controversy when he played there a day earlier. Quayle's office said he was "unwilling to leave any impression that he condones any form of discrimination" so he left California and returned to Vail, Colo., where he had been on a skiing vacation. te Quayle, an avid gclfer, is an honorary member who plays at the Burning Tree Club outside Washington, which has an membership and bars women from playing. In California, Quayle shot more than 18 holes Thursday at Cypress Point, which was ruled ineligible for its share of the 1991 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Atournament next month because it has no black members. The tournament traditionally has been played simultaneously at Pebble Beach, Cypress Point and Spyglass Hill, all near Monterey. Cypress Point, one of the nation's all-ma- le -- J 1- m - ; j AP Lascrphoto Vice president Dan Quayle plays the 14th hole at Cypress Point Club in Pebble Beach, Calif., while U. S. Ambassador to the Bahamas Ebersole Gaines looks on. Burning Tree Club all-ma- le are important and the vice most elite golf courses, refused to admit black members in time to conform to the Professional GGlfers Association's new guidelines holding that no host tournament club can discriminate against blacks or women. Cypress point has admitted women. According to club pro Jim Lan-gle- y "We have no discrimination clauses in our bylaws, but we do not have black members. We have a waiting list of approved applicants of several years, and we couldn't bypass them." Quayle's visit to the exclusive seaside golf course prompted criticism from Monterey County Supervisor Sam Karas, who said, "I have great concern about the vice president of the United States playing at Cypress Point and not being aware of the sensitivity of the issue that revolves around it." But Quayle's spokesman, David Beckwith, said the vice president had been "unaware of the controversy" until he heard about it from news accounts. "He has been assured the club does not discriminate and has never had a policy of discrimination," Beckwith said. "But perceptions presi- dent is unwilling to leave any impression that he condones any form of discrimination. He has therefore canceled his round of golf today," Beckwith said. Asked how Quayle could be unaware of the highly publicized banning of Cypress Point from the PGA tournament, his chief of staff Bill Kristol said in a telephone interview: "It proves he's not spending time reading the golf pages." Quayle went to Cypress Point at the invitation of his college roommate, Mark Rolfing, a media golf commentator, according to local sources. He teed off Thursday with two Cypress Point Club members who are Bush administration offiDonald B. Rice, secretary cials of the Air Force, and Ebersole Gaines, the top U.S. diplomat in Bermuda. As to the Burning Tree club, Beckwith said Quayle is not a "dues-payin- g member." But the club's membership roster lists him as an honorary member, and he has played there many times. The exclusive Bethesda, Md., all-ma- le ? if flower-bedeck- Utah Marine unit deployed - TOOELE (AP) Company C of the Marine Reserve 4th Division's 4th Light Armored Infantry Battalion has been deployed for duty in Operation Desert Shield. USMC Gunnery Sgt. Robert G. Crosier Jr. said Company C left for Camp Friday that the Tooele-base- d Lejeune, N.C., on Nov. 26. The unit joined the U.S. mobilization in Saudi Arabia earlier this week, Crosier said. Company C is attached to Company E of the 2nd Light Armored Infantry Battalion of the 2nd Marine Division, he added. Couple bound over for trial OGDEN (AP) A Roy couple has been bound over for trial Jan. 24 in 2nd District Court on charges desecrating the body of the woman's son, which police found buried in the couple's back yard. During a hearing Friday before 2nd Circuit Judge W. Brent West, Debra A. Thomas, 28, and James H. Thomas, 30, waived a preliminary hearing. The judge then refused a motion for reduction of bail, set at $35,000 apiece. The two were charged after the body of Nicholas McGuire was dug up on Dec. 17. The boy had been reported missing. The couple's four other children have been placed in foster care with the state Division of Family Services. Deputy Weber County Attorney Bill Daines successfully argued against bail reduction, saying an investigation is continuing that may result in further charges. First case of flu reported - SALT LAKE CITY (AP) The flu season has officially arrived in Utah, with the first case of influenza being reported in Salt Lake County. Health officials said that before the winter-tim- e malady is through, thousands of Utahns likely will have been bitten by the flu bug. "If you start to feel like you're coming down with the flu, stay home, get plenty of bed rest and try to take care of yourself the best you can," said Linda Nielsen, the state Health Department's manager of communicable disease control. Temple to be built in Missouri - SALT LAKE CITY (AP) The Mormon Church on Friday announced plans to build a temple to serve the St. Mo., area. Church spokesman Don LeFevre said construction of the structure, used for Mormon marriages and other private religious ceremonies, will await completion of architectural plans and obtaining necessary local government approval. Currently, the closest temple available to St. Louis-are- a Mormons is located in Chicago. The member church has 44 ojxratiiig temples, with another currently under construction in San Diego. But Kristol said, "I don t think playing at Burning Tree is inconsistent with opposing discrimina-- ; tion. Lots of people with good antU discriminatory records have played golf at Burning Tree." Burning Tree's members have long included some of the most powerful men in the government. The club last year lost a court battle to regain a tax break' the Maryland Legislature had revoked in 1986 because of its refusal to admit women. Last April, Sen. Sam Nunn; I Ga., drew speculation about possible presidential ambitions by re signing his membership in the club ! for "personal reasons." ; '1 ; - - WASHINGTON (AP) President Bush on Friday ordered forgiveness of the remaining $1 billion of Egypt's $6.7 billion in military debts as a reward the country for its cooperation with the U.S. efforts against The family of two SALT LAKE CITY (AP) women shot to death in a northern Utah cabin burglary felonies. ', Debt down to zero Family is urged to forgive was urged at their joint funeral Friday to forgive the killers. More than 200 people crowded into the chapel in an IDS chapel in suburban Salt Beth Harmon Lake for the services for Tidwell Potts and her eldest daughter, Kaye Tidwell Tiede, 51. The women were gunned down Dec. 22 at a family cabin near the tiny northern Utah community of Oakley, about 45 miles east of Salt Lake. The mourners were asked to recall that Jesus Christ's last words from the cross were of forgiveness. "It is painful to be the victim," said LDS Bishop Bruce Johnson, who presides over the congregation attended by Kaye Tiede and her husband, Rolf, in Humble, Texas, a Houston suburb. "But have you not learned how much more painful it is to be the offender?" Johnson asked. Rolf Tiede, who was shot twice in the face when he arrived at the cabin later, led about 30 family members behind rose and ivory caskets into the chapel. His face was bandaged in several places and part of his head had been shaved. Also in the family procession were Tiede's daughters, Linae, 20, and Tricia, 16, who were kidnapped and briefly held hostage by the assailants. Summit County lawmen arrested two, men, Von Lester Taylor, 25, and Edward Steven Deli, 21, following a brief chase in which officers fired on one of the men. They have been charged with capital homicide, aggravated burglary, kidnapping, arson and other 1922, World Nation State bastion since a refuses women members and generally bars them from the prop-- , erty. Quayle was not commenting on the issue, Beckwith said. He 'said he had no explanation for Quayle's playing at Burning Tree except to say, " He encourages all clubs to adopt policies."? "It is a major controversy in this sport," Beckwith said of theidis-' crimination issue. club, if i t i5' P ' 'f, J , f , '. I I A i f v WW ffX ; Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. The president said the action was necessary for "the success of DeserJ Shield," the code name for the 'U.S. military operation in the Persian Woman commander 1 Joe Cruzan, right, carries the body of his daughter Nancy to its final resting place Cemetery Friday in Missouri. A AP Laserphoto at Carterville Cruzan's death called 'gift of freedom' - father, Joe Cruzan, said in a statement read by the family minister. Nancy, 33, died Wednesday at Missouri Rehabilitation Center in Mount Vernon, 12 days after her family won court permission to disconnect the feeding tube that kept her alive. The family's legal efforts to end her life led to a landmark Supreme Court decision June 25 that patients like Cruzan could be allowed to die if there was "clear and convincing" evidence that was their wish. Cruzan had been in a persistent vegetative state after suffering severe brain damage in a 1983 car accident. Barry leaving office Inc. emergency request by to block consummation of the deal set for Saturday. sought a postponement until a foimal antitrust challenge could be mounted. A federal judge in Arizona and the San Francisco-base- d 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals previously had turned down request. It will be the largest Japanese purchase of a U.S. company, providing giant Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. the entertainment "software" it programs of all kinds needed to complement its electronics Go-Vid- - By any meawas a terrible year for Mayor Marion Barry. It began with his videotaped arrest in a drug sting, and saw him convicted of cocaine possession and defeated for a lesser office. And in the WASHINGTON (AP) sure, 1990 end, his wife moved out on him. Barry, once one of I the nation's most ,"S prominent and prom- 101115 uiavrt AJiiwcicuu, m is set to leave office Jan. 2, unemployed and with a jail sentence hanging I over his head. But the former civil rights worker, who has relished the rnle in a 30- MarkmBarry year career in the even public eye, insists his chin is up after being forced to abandon plans to term and run for a fourth, four-yesuffering a humiliating defeat in his bid instead for a city council seat. "Some people would be sad, other people would be disappointed ... sort of downcast," Barry said in an interview. "I feel relieved. Some people would feel regret, but that's not here with me maybe it ought to be, but it's not." f' V th ar Purchase ruled - OK A Supreme WASHINGTON (AP) Court justice Friday refused to block the $7.4 billion purchase of moviemaking MCA Inc. by Japan's largest electronics company. Justice Antonin Scalia, acting without any written opinion, rejected an Go-Vid- "hardware." The combination mirrors one struck by Sony Corp., which bought Columbia Pictures Entertainment Inc. for $5 billion a year ago. Kids' script sells - WAYNESBORO, Va. (AP) who createda Three script for an afternoon children's show about a vacation gone wrong will travel to Los Angeles next month to sign a contract with Steven Spielberg. Renee Carter, Amy Crosby and Sarah Creek created an illustrated story book for an episode of the show, "Tiny Toon Adventures." It is produced by Spielberg, whose movies include "Jaws," "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," "Raiders of the Lost Ark," and "E.T." "It was a miracle our idea was ever accepted," said Miss Crosby. "They told us the studio usually returns unsolicited material without even opening it." Studio officials said someone at eighth-grade- 200-pa- rs : Bush's action, directing the Treasury department and Pentagon t reduce the debt to zero, completed the debt forgiveness which Congress approved as part of this year's ;$15. billion foreign aid package. 5 JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) Nancy Cruzan's family gave her "the gift of freedom" by disconnecting her feeding tube and allowing her to die after nearly eight years in a vegetative state, her father said Friday at her funeral. About 170 relatives and friends gathered at a chapel to bid Cruzan goodbye. "Today, as the protester's sign says, we give Nancy the gift of death an unconditional gift of love that sets her free from this twisted body that no longer serves her, a gift I know she will treasure above all the others, the gift of freedom," her ' Gulf. Former said it was her desire to die rather than live in such a state. Cruzan's father said requests for living wills, which allow adults to decide whether they want to be kept alive by artificial means, increased since her case got national attention. "I believe that these facts alone speak to the legacy that Nancy left us," he said. "She did not die in 500-fo- ld vain." Cruzan was buried in Carterville, just north of her southwest Missouri hometown of Joplin. Warner Bros, which syndicates the show, mistakenly opened the manuscript package, hked it, and passed it on. The manuscript passed from desk to important desk, impressing all readers, until it arrived in front of Spielberg. He liked what he saw. Warner Bros, lawyers were said to have advised against pursuing the script. They said it would create a precedent and that the studio would be swamped with scripts from school children. "But Steven wanted it, and you don't say no to Steven Spielberg," said Jean MacCurdy, vice president and general manager of Warner Bros. Animation. Speaker indicted Gib Lewis, AUSTIN, Texas (AP) of was Texas the House, speaker indicted Friday on two misdemeanor charges of violating state ethics laws when he allegedly took a gift from a law firm and failed to disclose it. "Although these crimes are misdemeanors, they are among the most serious crimes a public official can be charged with," prosecutor Ronnie Earle said. State District Judge Bcb Perkins set bond on each charge at $5,000 and said he would consider releasing Lewis, a Fort Worth Democrat, on his personal recognizance. The speaker's attorney denied any wrongdoing and said the Fort Worth Democrat will plead innocent to both charges. high-powere- d A woman has; been ROME (AP) named commander of an active-- U.S. Navy vessel for the first time, officials said Friday. Lt. Cmdr. Darlene M. Iskra! was installed as commander of the salvage vessel USS Opportune on Thursday night after Cmdr. Edgar J. Jones was flown back to the United States for a medical emergency, said Lt. Scott Campbell, public information officer for U.S. navjl support activity in Naples. "We've never had a female commanding officer of a deployable ship or shto that can be sent overseas," Campbell said. "There's a little bit of navjl history being made here." ; Iskra will command an crew of about 100, Campbell said. J Iskra, a special operations officer, is the most senior female diving officer in the Navy and is a graduate of officers' all-ma- le candidate school in Newport, Campbell said. R.I., Man climbs palace - LONDON (AP) Eugene Smith said Friday he had scaled ihe walls of Buckingham Palace to ask Queen Elizabeth II where he could find "his lost love. Smith, who had picked up a rock to smash his way into the palace if the doors and windows were closed, failed to make it. Police arrested him in the palace grounds and charged him with carrying a piece of masonry without lawful excuse with intent to destroy Crown property. Peter Codner, Smith's attorneyj told Bow Street magistrates' court,' that the jobless Irishman came to London from Dublin after becoming infatuated with a woman who claimed to be the queen's niece, and that his only desire was to find her. He called Smith's actions "strange" but said that sometimes people get so profoundly moved that they do peculiar things. Smith was conditionally discharged by magistrate Ronald Bartle, .who said if he came before the court again within 12 months he would have to pay $950. Bus flips; 12 killed - A bus MADRID, Spain (AP) carrying passengers leaving the capital for the New Year's holiday flipped over and smashed into a sign post Friday four miles north of Madrid, killing at least 12 riders and injuring 27, officials said. Investigators blamed apparent excessive speed, a spokesman for the Civil Guard Traffic Office said. He said the bus veered off 0 city ring road onto a new access road leading to the Madrid-L- a Coruna highway.- The spokesman, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said at at least four of those injured, including . the driver and alternate driver, were in critical condition. The bus was bound for Vigo," on Spain's northwest coast. ' M-3- |