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Show Pfege A2 - THE HERALD, Provo, Monday. January 20. Utah, 1992 Shamir vows nothing Springsteen names baby LOS ANGELES ruce (AP) -B- Springsteen and his wife have named their new baby Jessica Rae Springsteen. The girl was born Dec. 30 but wasn't named until the past few das. publicist Marilyn Laeri said Sunday. TV The rocker and his wife, backup binger Patti Scialfa, have another child, Evan James. Springsteen's hit albums include "Born to Run." "Born in the U.S.A." and "Tunnel of Love." may have hurt Lincoln if producer of PBS' RADNOR. Pa. (AP) Ken Burns, acclaimed "Civil Wars" series. sas Abraham Lincoln proba-b- l wouldn't have been elected had television been around then. With his warts and lanky build. Lincoln probably would have found television an obstacle. Burns said unsur-mouiuab- le in the Jan. 25 issue of TV Guide. And he did w in, he might not have kept the job. Burns said. "There would be an expose on the fact that he was a depressive." he said. "His absolutely shrewd political manipulations would be used as evidence that he was not good." By Burns' reckoning, Lin- coln isn't the only president who couldn't have made it in the TV age. BETAR HUT, Occupied West Bank (AP) Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir launched his campaign today by saying "no force in the world" would stop the construction of additional Jewish settlements in the occupied lands. U.S. officials have repeatedly condemned the settlements, built on land seized in the 3967 Middle East war, as obstacles to peace with the territories' 1 .7 million Palestinians. Washington II - W .... - ill Jul stop settlements will - Iff TUff , , wants Israel to freeze settlement construction in the interest of promoting Middle East peace talks, and has linked the issue to Israel's request for $10 billion in U.S. loan guarantees. Shamir appears publicly undeterred by Bush administration warnings. "We say to ourselves, and to the gentiles of the world and to the next generations, here will be our homeland, here w ill be our home, forever and ever," he told a cheering crowd of 300 in this Jewish settlement. -- 3at ... - V V ultra-Orthod- About 450 religious families live in Betar, six miles southwest of Jerusalem. Eight thousand WORKI (Continued from Page Al ) ,mm because of inabilities with communications and basic mathematics. As for those already employed: More than hall the companies reported major employee skills deficiencies in basic math, reading and problem-solvin- g. the report states. American companies are crippled in apply ing technological advances and in otherwise improving productivity, which is the source of improved living standards. Two findings demonstrate As a consequence, why: Thirty percent of companies said thev couldn't reorganize work activities because employees couldn't learn new jobs; 25 percent said they were unable to improve product quality because workers couldn't learn the needed skills. The survey found more than 55 percent of the respondents provided training programs, usually in quality and productivity enhancement, but only 20 percent or fewer offered remedial education and basic skills. Ominously, one in four companies responded to the problem of poor work skills by lowering en standards, in part because they believed they had no other choice but to do so, no matter what the impact on quality. The future, according to the survey: "Sixty percent of new jobs will requre more than a high school education. However, 70 percent of new entrants into the work force will have less than a high school try-lev- el degree." In short, not only is the nation's competitiveness and future standard of living being damaged, but social problems ?.re being created ' 'the seeds of a and compounded new underclass," according to the Division of Air Quality. The complete report is available bv telephone at 373-956- 0. Condition as of 8 a.m. were as follows: Res. iential Areas UTAH COU NTY unhealthful Sah Lake County moderate Wieber County moderate Dow ntow n Areas Salt Lake unhealthful PROVO moderate moderate Ogden Overall Air Clarity Today's air qu.:'ity was moderate to unhealthful in all areas along the Wasatch Front. Outlook Today 's forecast called for an increase in pollution levels with a clearing index of 50. Yesterday's Highs North Prov o 44 oz good Li ndon 85 moderate pa Downtown Provo. co. .56. .moderate The Scale 0 0 air: moderate: good 9 unhealthful: 200-29- 9 very unhealthful; 300 and above hazardous. 101-19- Abbreviations carbon monoxide w ozone sulfur dioxide so pa particulates Note The Utah County residential area reading is taken from the Lindon monitoring station. The State of Utah has identified the follow ing as primary sources of sources of pollutants in Utah Counvehicles: oz vehicles ty: co and gas vapors: and pa heavy industry.) co settlement resident before his speech beneath a blue and white tent that matches the Israeli flag Shor-sha- only Western state to lose population during the decade. More recently, the nationwide recession has slowed but not stalled the region's growth. From April 1990 through July 1991. the West grew at an annual rate of 1 .9 percent, compared to a 1 . 1 percent national rate, the Census Bureau says. Some Western growing pains: Crowded schools. The West has the nation's highest birthrate and the highest percentage of residents under age 18. Public school enrollment is expected to increase 1 3 percent by 2000. faster than any other region, according to a recent Westrends report. More crime. Westrends predicts the West this decade w ill need about 360 new prisons costing SI 3 billion, mare than any other re- gion. The region's crime rate, highest in the nation, is explained partly by a lack of community ties, Grose said. Half of all Westerners were born somewhere else, and once here they tend to move more often than other Americans. Culture shock. About 38 percent of all U.S. immigrants during the 1980s settled in the West, more than in any other region. Many immigrants speak little English: many work minimum-wag- e jobs or not at all. straining welfare and other services. Schools struggle w ith language barriers, and racism erupts as immigrants change the face of once predominantly white communities. Clogged highways. On average. Westerners drive more miles each year than Americans in any three, said she moved here because prices w ere cheaper than in Jerusa- n. are representative. There are thousands like them ' Wilson said. "It's something over nothing," Murphy said. In his speech, Wilson poetically described the men's' troubles. For example, he said he had "seen the kindly face of a carpenter who could find no work framing houses and now makes children's toys for m free." Wilson said the error began with a misunderstanding between him and spokesmen in responding no questions from the San Jose Mercury News about who the unidenti- fied workers and businessman were. other region, and the decade's unparalleled growth has put more cars on the road, aggravating an already serious backlog of highway construction and repair, Westrends said. Urban sprawl. A half-milli- new houses popped up in Southern California during the 1980s, half of them within 80 miles of downtown Los Angeles. South of Seattle, the Green River Valley once was known as the "Head Lettuce Capital of the World." Now its fertile soil is buried under parking lots and industrial warehouses. Growth is not all bad, of course. It has helped forge a prosperity allowing the West to weather the current recession better than much of the nation. Western cities like San Diego, up 27 percent in population between 1980 and 1990, or Boise, up 23 percent, are the envy of shrinking Eastern cities like Pittsburgh, down 13 percent, or Chicago, down 7 percent. Even within the region, some depressed areas wouldn't mind a Fast-growi- few growth-relate- d problems. Western cities are sucking up most of the new arrivals, while many once-vitrural areas based on logging, farming or mining are withering away. The uneven growth has intensified longstanding rivalries. In Oregon and Washington, urban areas west of the Cascade Range are gaining economic and political clout at the expense of rural areas east of the mountains. Booming Las Vegas has thrown h Nevada's traditional of out whack. balance political And California, the nation's most populous state with 30 million residents, has gained the enmity of neighboring states, where residents lump all the evils of unbridled growth under one easy label: Cahfornication. al fast-growi- north-sout- They look at the sprawling Los where commutAngeles basin ers spend up to four hours a day crawling along clogged highways and fear that their own communities may be headed down the same road. To control growth, Washington state legislators last year completed a package of laws creating planning guideg lines for the state's areas. Belatedly, California officials are starting to forge their own growth-manageme- nt fastest-growin- statewide plan. "You have even a super boom-tow- n like Las Vegas saying, 'Hold on, we have to slow down and take a look at long-tergrowth," Grose said. It's all part of what Charlie anxiety, weight loss, psychosomatic pain or illness, and many other tears or phobias. W growth-manageme- nt urban-growt- fine-tun- age of the ideal society: high-densi- ty cities with vibrant downtowns, i A a W' r k ht sion in economic activity, has now given way to a new era of servicing that debt, which has the reverse effect of slowing the economy," he said. And the debt, he contended, w as caused by the era's "inflation psychology," which encouraged consumers and businesses to spend because any savings would be eroded by rising prices. In addition to price stability, (Continued from Page Al ) of setting off a wave of price increase. The Labor Department reported last week that inflation was just 3 1 percent last year, the lowest since . 1986. As has Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan and other economists. Kelley attributed much of the economy's problems to the enormous buildup of debt during the last dec- growth requires "subsincreased investment," tantially long-ter- m he said. Kelky noted that U.S. investment as a percentage of gross national product is just 4 percent, compared to 20 percent in Japan, 11 percent in Canada and 10 percent in Germany and Italy. ade. "The consequence of crossing this watershed is that the 1980s era, wherein w e w ere creating debt that financed an extended expan- surrounded by farms and forests unmarred by suburban sprawl. of that land is inhospitable desert, or federally owned and reserved for wilderness, grazing or timber production. The Census Bureau say s 86 percent of all Westerners are crammed into urban areas, compared to a national average of The debate no doubt will continue. Western population growth is expected to slow slightly this decade but remain far above the national rate well into the next century. Managing that growth will present a special challenge for independent-minded imit , sky 75 percent. "Across the West in this decade, we're going to see a whole lot Westerners. The West still has vast tracts of open land, making it appear there's plenty of room to grow. But most more interest in preserving the quality of life and less about economic growth," Grose said. m Hales calls the drawbridge syndrome. "You get people moving here from some other area who think they've found a piece of heaven," said Hales, of the Home Builders Association in Portland, Ore. "It's only human to say, 'Well, I've got mine, now let's pull up the drawbridge and make sure those other suckers don't get in." " Planning for growth forces cooperation among cities, counties and states that are more accustomed to competing. And while planners stake their hopes on regional coordination, it's hard enough even at the state or local level to find agreement on what the West's future should be. Consider Oregon, where legislators in 1974 enacted a statewide plan that is still the most comprehensive and controversial in the West. It h sets boundaries for each of the state's 241 cities. A land-us- e reform group called 1 ,000 Friends of Oregon hopes to e that law to create its im- 1 Includes: 1555 Worth Freedom Kwiavant, P.O. Box 717, Prove, Utah General information 9 Facsimile No hidiien costs. Parkinson, Publisher Steve Steele, Pressroom Foreman About Your Paper The Daily Herald is published daily, Monday through Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday morning, by Scripps League Newspapers, Inc.. Our daily business hours are 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The Herald business office is closed weekends. If you have a news tip, call the city news desk. If you have a complaint or suggestion, call managing editor tarl Biederman at extension 271, or publisher Kirk Parkinson at extension 244. 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"You people should be of the speech El in Gaza ... and this construction will continue, and no force in the world will stop this construction," Shamir told the Betar Hi it settlers. The visit came a day after Shamir's coalition government lost its parliamentary majority following the pullout of two parties opposed to the peace talks in in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip two years ago. In 3991 . at least 25 percent of all public construction took place there, according to Israeli legislators. Shamir vowed the pace would continue. "We see the construction in Betar, we see the construction in all of Judea, Samaria (West Bank) and "I don't understand why the media is making such a big deal out ic (Continued from Page Al) Washington. Hawaii. Colorado." Oregon. Idaho and Montana. Wyoming, down 4 percent, was the worker prepares the ground for a new trailer brought to the Jewish settlement of Beit Occupied West Bank Sunday. Forty five new trailers were set up. A Governor explains gaffe first-ter- and-bas- AP Laserptioto colors. lem. Betar Wit resident Leah Shamir's right-win- g governmother of ment launched a settlement drive a SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) A businessman, an unemployed carpenter and a farm worker mentioned in Gov. Pete Wilson's state of the state speech were introduced to reporters who had written that report. they were made-u- p characters. It calls for companies to boost The very real men criticized the school reform through involve- media for failing to focus on the transition essence ment in school Wilson's speech, but of programs, but it concedes that in- Wilson said the error was a staff dustry to date has developed little mixup. consensus on legislative or regulaReports last week that Wilson tory action. had used allegorical "composites" and doz- in the Jan. 8 It is because of this speech embarrassed that the the ens of economic reasons governor with critiWhite House proposals, when they cism that he was out of touch with are made, are of extreme importreal Californians suffering in reance. cessionary times. Without improved education Carpenter Shad Murphy, farm skills, and the ability to worker Concepcion Meza and a develop basic skills to a higher lev- businessman Wesley Seastrom el, the only way in which full em- were introduced to reporters at a ployment can be achieved is rare Sunday news conference. through lowered living standards. "They are not composites. They WEST: The follow ing information is taken from the Wasatch Front air pollution report compiled by the Utah housing units are planned, settlement officials said. Shamir was made an honorary POSTMASTER: Send change of address to: The Daily Herald, P.O. Box 717. Provo, Utah &4603-071- 7 The Dally Herald is a member of the Associated Press, and the Audit Bureau of Circulation Copyrights Scrtpps Leeoue Mewspapert, Inc., f&91 |