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Show Today: Israel to consider young Arab ban Teacher convicted; sentenced to life in prison without parole Page A3 Saturday, March 23, 1991 - Page C Sports oppose Brady bill weekend games Page A5 Page Issue No. 235, Provo, Utah cy. On Friday, the committee decided that a state of emergency exists in Iraq, thereby justifying ail food shipments. The Security Council was meeting later to discuss the sanctions committee decision, but was not expected to take any action on it. Food and other shipments presumably could take place at once. Diplomats said that the committee is insisting, however, that it be notified of all shipments of food or other items to Iraq. Western diplomats said they hoped the decision would forestall resolutions pushed by Cuba, India and Yemen to lift the embargo entirely. The U.S. government has said it wanted to retain the embargo to keep pressure on Baghdad while the allies seek other goals, including a partial disarming of Iraq. The White House said Friday that Saddam Hussein was to blame for any Iraqi suffering, and President Bush declared, "You will not find America feeling guilty." Iraq has agreed to allow food distribution by U.N. officials, diplomats said, even though supplies would be sent to all areas of the country, including the Kurdish-controlle- d north and southern areas where Shiite Muslims are in revolt. Undersecretary-Genera- Ahtisaari that Iraq Martti l told a news conference need;, food, seeds, medi- cal supplies and other things, "but without fuel to drive refrigerators, generators, harvesting machinery, the relief effort will be incom- plete." of ic B1 50 Cents ltl food, fuel sanctions against later Friday. In its decision, the committee on sanctions agreed only to ease but not remove entirely restrictions on fuel, generators, spare parts and other essentials to repair water purification systems, power trucks and make humanitarian aid effective. The embargo imposed on Iraq four days after the Aug. 2 invasion of Kuwait covers all trade except in, medical supplies. Technically, only the Security Council can lift embargo restrictions. However, the sanctions committee had the power to effectively remove the embargo on food by declaring a humanitarian emergen set for Elite eight Congressmen A3 Central Utah's Newspaper for 117 Years U.N. officials U.N. UNITED NATIONS (AP) officials, declaring that war damage threatens Iraq with widespread disease and hunger, agreed Friday to allow food shipments and to ease restrictions on fuel, spare parts and other essential materials. The decisions were made Friday by the U.N. sanctions committee, made up of representatives of the 15 nations that have seats on the U.N. Security Council. The Security Council also met to consider a U.N. report stating that the allied bombing of Iraq had caused "near apocalyptic" damage and calling for immediate aid to avoid a catastrophe. It was expected to discuss humanitarian aid State World He said the nation was in a state "paralysis" because the econom- infrastructure was destroyed. you are alive, but "It's as though the nervous system is not functioning," he said. Iraq has no almost no foreign exchange to buy food, but food that it had purchased before the boycott Iraq could be released by the sanctions committee. The United States has proposed a resolution that Iraq destroy all its nuclear weapons-grad- materials e and ballistic missiles, as well as chemical and biological weapons. The measures are part oi a proposed Security Council resolution on steps Iraq must take before the allied military coalition agrees to a formal end to the war. A vote on the resolution, still in draft form, is expected next week. In other gulf developments, beginning Saturday, about 1,000 FOOD, Page A2) Ku-(S- OKs war costs bill Congress WASHINGTON (AP) passed legislation threatens arms-sal- e Congress that bans against on Friday six U.S. allies and suspends some aid to Jordan, but in a diluted variation that prompted President Bush to lift a veto warning. The Senate, whose original versions drew White House objections, sent the compromise pair of spending bills, including $42.6 billion for Gulf War costs, to the president on a voice vote. The chamber was nearly empty because many law makers had already left on their Easter recess. Minutes earlier, the House voted two-wee- k bill. And it for the war-coapproved, 34048, a $5.2 billion companion bill providing money for military aid to Israel and Turkey, tighter security at federal agencies and several other unrelated purpos379-1- 1 st es. White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said Bush would sign the measures. The legislation would freeze the million the United States planned to give Jordan this year. $57.2 The proposal was popular because King Hussein angered lawmakers by his verbal support for Iraq during the war, and because of suspicions that Jordan supplied weapons for Saddam Hussein. But in the face of White House arguments that the move would lessen U.S. influence with the king, legislators bargaining until just before midnight Thursday toned down (See CONGRESS, Page A2) Fitzwater: U.S. doesn't feel guilty about war's destruction - PresiWASHINGTON (AP) dent Bush's spokesman on Friday laid responsibilitv for Iraqi destruction fully on Saddam Hussein and said, "You will not find America feeling guilty." Asked about a U.N. report that allied bombing had left Iraq in "a age," spokesman al said the United States doesn't know how much damage was done. In any case, he said, "I just simply reject the argument that Marlin Fitzwater somehow there is a guilt associated with the destruction of a war caused by Saddam Hussein." The U.N. report, by .Undersecretary-GMartti Ahtisaari, said eneral that the rain of bombs had been "nearly apocalyptic." Fitzwater said U.S. officials "have no way of knowing" if the bombing damage was that severe, but "that certainly was not our intent." At the Pentagon, spokesman Pete Williams said, "The idea that we Air quality reponsibility of everyone, group says By ROBB HICKEN Herald Staff Writer Halting air pollution's detrimental affects is the responsibility of everyone, Utah Valley Community College students were told Friday. In a clean-ai- r symposium attended by more than 500 students, a panel including clean air specialists advised the more than 500 students attending that the ethical responsibilty of cleaning up air pollution begins with the individual. The panel consisted of Jon Lear, of the Sundance Institute for Resource Management; Dr. Steven Minton, of Utah Valley Regional Medical Center; Robert Solomon, professor at the University of Texas and Joseph A. Cannon, president of Geneva Steel. Consumer sovereignty only allows businesses to not do what they will, but creates a social responsibility to support or not support the groups or businesses that create the problems, Solomon said. There sometimes exists a tug of war between the environmentalist and big business, he said, which many times becomes a debate over who has the most money, the most lobbyists and the most legislation. "Where the environmental movement needs to go is right here; just sit down with one another and talk with each other," he said. Lear said that the environment problems are compounding at a massive rate. The scale at which problems are occurring is compounded because of the mere numbers of people in the world. "Things that we may have (See AIR, Page A2) bombed Baghdad back to the Stone Age is clearly not true." He said reporters in Baghdad had accurately stated that air attacks were limited to military facilities, with "very little collateral damage." Williams said there was "no doubt about it that there was lots of destruction and death, aimed at the Iraqi military. ... There were lots of people killed and lots of that's there vehicles destroyed (See GUILT, Page A2) AP Laserphoto Reunited Jaber Nasser is embraced by his mother, Malia Mohammed, left, and an unidentified woman as he is reunited with them for the first time Friday in Kuwait City since being released from captivity in Iraq. He was among the first group of freed Kuwaitis. Van Dam seeks a 'cease fire' in prayer debate; urges schools not to allow graduation prayers - SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Utah Attorney General Paul Van Dam in Friday called for a "cease-fire- " the high school graduation prayer debate and urged districts not to permit invocations at commencements this spring. Van Dam also said the U.S. Supreme Court has asked Utah to file a brief in a pending Rhode Island case. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court last July seeking to ban school prayer at graduations and other high school extracurricular friend-of-the-cou- rt events. "In the name of peace in the valley, I would urge (districts) ... to neutralize the issue. It's going to be in their best interest and would show good faith," Van Dam said. "I would like to see everybody use common sense. "I think there needs to be no prayer," he said. On another matter, Van Dam said he had all but decided to hire outside counsel to represent the state in its defense of a new law that outlaws most abortions. "We've completed analysis of our and ability to handle it we're leaning strongly toward outside counsel," he said. "We know it will be more than a little bit and probably more than a moderate amount of work." Van Dam said he had neither funding nor manpower to defend the abortion law passed by the 1991 Legislature. The ACLU has sworn to challenge the law in federal court, and the cost to the state has been estimated at up to $1 million. School districts named in the school prayer lawsuit and others remain either undecided or circumspect in light of Van Dam's plea. The ACLU, however, praised the advice and issued dire warnings to district choosing to ignore it. "Any school district that makes that choice puts themselves at risk Exsaid ACLU-Uta- h ecutive Director Michele Parish. "I would think that the school districts would take that seriously," she said. "It's not an idle threat on our part. It is a serious possibility." The ACLU's lawsuit names as defendants Alpine and Granite districts. However, Parish has warned Weber and Davis districts that they might drawn into the lawsuit if students there choose to hold commencement prayers. Weber district spokeswoman Sue Westenskow said district officials will decide the issue in a board meeting April 2. However, Granite and Davis districts remained defiant. "I think our position will remain unchanged," said Granite spokes of litigation," man Kent Gardner. "This is something we think the students ought to decide. "If they choose to put a prayer on the program. I think we would allow it," he said. Richard prayer this year might inflame, rather than disarm, the controversy. Like Granite, he said the decision rests Davis Superintendent Kendell said forbidding with students and their advisors. The ACLU contends students in Utah, where nearly 70 percent of residents are Mormons, are forced to participate in religious activities that violate their personal beliefs. The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it will hear an appeal of a Rhode Island court's ban on school prayer upheld last year by the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals. Witness says Geneva under USX was profitable By PATRICK CHRISTIAN Herald Staff Writer USX SALT LAKE CITY Corp.'s Geneva Steel in Utah County and Fairless Works near Philadelphia, Pa., were both profitable and had a good work force, Richard Cheslock said Friday. Cheslock, now of New Jersey, is a former U.S. rolling mill division manager at USX's Fairless Works, and testified for plaintiffs in Pickering vs. USX, in the fifth day of the civil bench trial in U.S. District Court. Pickering vs. USX, a civil lawsuit being conducted before Judge Bruce S. Jenkins, involves 2,000 current and former Geneva steel- - - workers who claim USX shutdown Geneva to escape paying hundreds of millions of dollars in pension funds in violation of federal law. During the first week of the trial, attorneys for USX have tried to make their case that the decision to close Geneva was based on a corporate restructuring and not to escape paying benefits. On Friday, USX attorneys finished cross examining Alan Reed, who plaintiffs' attorneys put on the stand Thursday. Under questioning by USX attorney Mike Larsen, Reed said he had not actually been involved in the USX restructuring and testified he was one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit. He said he is expecting to be paid for his serving as a witness and adviser to plaintiffs' attorneys. Reed criticized a USX rationalization study that it may have used in formulating restructuring decisions. Throughout the week, USX rationalization studies were linked to documentation that often preceded facility closures. Under questioning from Young, Reed said USX agreed to sell iron ore pellets from its own mine to Basic Manufacturing and Technology Corp. for $4 at ton cheaper than it had been charging its own Geneva Works. Plaintiffs' attorneys have maintained that steps were taken to close Geneva in spite of assurances in 1985 from USX President David Roderick that it wouldn't be closed until 1989, and in spite of it being productive and profitable. USX operated the plant beginning in 1944 under the name U.S. Steel Corp. and sold it to Basic Manufacturing & Technology Corp. in 1987. During Cheslock's testimony Friday, he said because both Fairless h and Geneva were older furnace operations, they were basically comparable and could be described as sister plants. 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