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Show A The Daily Herald Saturday, December 19, 1992 Snow powders much of nation riitwrfli.VirafliiMf The Accu-Weathe- Snow extended from the South- 10s -- Os 10s Qs n across the northern Plains on Friday, with up to 30 inches in Utah, and bitterly cold air pushed into Montana. Snow fell during the afternoon over sections of the southern Colorado Plateau, the northern and central Rockies, the northern and central Plains, and the upper Mississippi Valley. Heavy snow blanketed parts of Utah during the night. By Friday morning, 30 inches had piled up at Huntington Canyon, with 24 at Powder Mountain, 18 in Soldiers Summit, 17 at Sundance, and 12 inches at Orderville, Clear Creek Mountain, Sardine and Park West, the National Weather Service said. In California, snow early Friday in the Tejon Pass, about 40 miles northwest of Los Angeles, cut visibility and section of Interclosed a state 5, California's main highway. The mountains of southwest Colorado also got heavy snow during the night. Wolf Creek reported 18 inches in seven hours. vj I I I I i By The Associated Press J i 20s 30s 40s 50s. 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110s a u i t .i separate myri lemperaiure zones Tonne aay. a Dcuiu! west through the Rockies and wind-whippe- ' ' -- fiica OuUooIi forecast for noon, Saturday, Dec. 1 9. r" By The Associated Press UTAH SALT LAKE, OGDEN AM) PROVO; Today Tor morning fog otherwise partly cloudy. Highs . vnS (L) il 25-3- - 15-2- 28 15 10 52 31 55 Atlanta 58 15 6 AllanlkCns 49 14 V mid-20- WARM COLD STATIONARY 1992 mid-20- 5 Inc. Accu-Weathe- r, mid-30- s. Pressure H L HIGH LOW mostly 20s. SHOWERS FLURRIES RAIN SNOW ICE SUNNY PT. CLOUDY B CENTRAL IDAHO: Today increasing clouds. Chance of snow in the north. Highs mostly in the 20s. Tonight and Sunday snow. Lows in the teens and 20s. Highs mostly in the 20s. Extended forecast, Monday cloudy. Chance of snow showers. Lows in the single digits and teens. Highs 20s to the lower 30s. Tuesday and Wednesday partly cloudy. 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MILLS Associated Press Writer - The Federal WASHINGTON Communications Commission announced a record $600,000 fine Friday against the company that employs radio "shock jock" Howblock not to ard Stern, but decided the corporation's purchase of three more radio stations. The decision capped weeks of wavering over how to punish Infinity Broadcasting Corp. of New behavior, York for Stern's which the FCC has deemed legally indecent. The commission voted 0 to fine Infinity rather than subject the company to a hearing on whether it should lose its license, according to Maureen Peratino. an FCC spokeswoman. Commissioner James H. Quello said in a statement that he found the size of the fine was "amply warranted in view of an apparent pattern of indecent broadcasts on this show which Infinity produces a pattern that extends back to ir 5-- 1987." 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Va 40 14 sdy sn 45 Grand Rapids (oval Falls 49 37 01 115 28 06 36 22 27 21 30 32 53 29 55 44 cdy rn North Plane 52 Ok lahoma Cuy 57 30 52 pendent investigation by inde- Lawrence counsel E. clr Defense lawyers and Republican activists have been lobbying President Bush to pardon Weinberdefendger and other ants. Barr, however, declined to say in the USA Today interview what he had recommended. ra Justice Department spokesman Paul McNulty did not immediately return a reporter's telephone calls. lying to Congress and prosecutors affair. about the ra The FCC issued a warning to Stern in 1987 to avoid certain sexual innuendos and double The FCC defines indecent material as "language that describes in terms patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards ... sexual or excretory activities or organs." Separately, the commission voted 1 to allow Infinity to purchase three radio stations for $100 million from Cook Inlet Radio Partners, Peratino said. The Cook Inlet stations are in Boston, Chicago and Atlanta. In an unusual dissenting opinion, FCC Chairman Alfred Sikes said he voted against allowing sale of the Cook Inlet stations because he was not convinced that the license transfers would serve the public interest. "Although I have not reached a decision on whether Infinity has the requisite character to hold commission licenses, there are simply too many outstanding questions on this core issue for me to approve the assignment applications without conditions," Sikes wrote. But he and several of the other commissioners wrote that they did not wish to injure Cook Inlet, a minority-owne- d company based in Alaska. 4-- clr ing White House discussions of U.S. Iran arms sales by denying that he ever kept such records. -- Prosecutors found 1,700 pages of notes that Weinberger took dur- affair among papers he deposited at the Library of Congress. "I Iran-Cont- ra would have thought that the attorney general of the United States ... would be concerned about the effect he might have as the top nation's top law enforcement officer ... on a jury selected 2 12 weeks after he gave an extensive interview," Brosnahan said. The prosecutor made those Weinberger, 75, publisher of in response to defense is ments accused of Forbes magazine, Iran-Cont- 59 Among other things, he is accused of trying to conceal extensive handwritten notes he took dur- ing the Walsh. Iran-Cont- .01 .02 60 48 cdy clr clr 64 45 52 43 cdy m 7 cdy 86 74 clr 35 22 34 13 30 23 cdy sn 21 14 cdy sn 30 sn 42 39 m 44 cdy 55 47 cdy cdy sn 2.5 (12 cdy 33 25 sn NEVADA B NORTHERN AND CENTRAL NEVADA: Today variable s to high clouds. Highs in the Tonight increasing clouds with a chance of snow developing north and west by morning. Lows 0 to 10 east to teens and low 20s west. Sunday chance of snow north with a slight chance central mountains. Snow decreasing to snow showers west in the affternoon. Highs in the 30s. B SOUTHERN NEVADA: Today mostly sunny. Highs in the 40s to low 50s. Tonight fair and cold. Lows in the 20s to low 30s. .s to Sunday variable high clouds. Highs COLORADO B STATEWIDE: Today snow showers lingering mountains clearing elsewhere. Colder. Highs 20s and lower 30s lower elevations teens mountains. Tonight mostly clear and quite cold. Lows zero to 15 lower elevations zero to 20 below mountains and high valleys. Sunday sunny and not so cold. Highs 20s mountains and west, 25 to 40 east. mid-20- mid-30- s. mid-40- mid-50s- cou Ed be prejudicing Weinoerger jurors "an officer of this court" talking about a pending case, which is set to go to trial Jan 5. Barr didn't specifically refer to the Weinberger case. But his comments echoed Republicans who in recent weeks have criticized the ld cdy 46 SallUkeCily 82 cdy sn 18 AG 54 62 cdy cdy 05 sir ids 68 cdy 40 cdy c cdy sn 67 10 (Jrecnshoro 16 58 02 18 cdy 33 81 15 cdy m 10 36 15 cdy sn 37 68 in 43 24 78 0 clr 17 56 17 68 .12 cdy 39 50 29 08 clr cdy m cdy 50 27 HairKink. n ids sds ,Jy ids ill FCC levies $600,000 fine for 'indecent' Stern shows 1 il; ,01 .01 Dalla- - ra on-a- clr cdy 56 27 Chisago Cincinnati Columbia. clr Philadelphia Phoenix Coluiiirws.llhio WASHINGTON prosecutors complained Friday that Attorney General William P. Barr's criticism of their investigation could prejudice jurors in the upcoming trial of former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger. Prosecutor James J. Brosnahan complained to U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan about Barr's published comments that "people in the affair have been treated very unfairly." In an interview in Thursday editions of USA Today, Barr was quoted as saying "people in this matter have been prosecuted for the kind of conduct that would not have been considered criminal or prosecutable by the Justice Department." Brosnahan questioned the propriety of the attorney general and Iran-Cont- 02 67 ,dy Associated Press Writer Iran-Cont- 25 51 35 Cheyenne fosecufors: - 07 61 43 IK C Charlesion.Vk 18 By JAMES ROWLEY 0. IDAHO B NORTHERN IDAHO: Today cloudy. Snow likely in the north by afternoon. Highs 25 to 35. Tonight and Sunday snow. Lows mostly s in the 20s. Highs to near 30. Extended forecast, Monday, cloudy with a chance of snow. Lows teens to the lower 20s. Highs to Tuesday and Wednesday partly cloudy. Areas of fog. chance of snow showers. Lows single digits to around 20. Highs Slight FRONTS 25 06 5. 0. d Clurtouin.S 54 5. 5. Friday rcnipcralurestmlftliiHliLatcpreioudayNhit!harKlirternn;htliml.K LSI and oullook and tomorrow s lorccasi Todas', ii'inpcrauocs pm temperatures and outlook are in iherteht columns I udas Tiinwrnm Yesterday Hi. .lai Pre. Hi. .lai.OHk. Hi. .U.OIIk 14 16 4(1 18 sds 42 36 ids Albany. N Y Anurillo Amhoracc Ahcsil!c . s. The Associated Press 40 i 5. mm 23 ! 10-2- 0. a OIHBOfailll'OS 19 a clouds. Lows Sunday cloudy with snow becoi ... 5 afternoon. Morning south winds i mph switching Chance of measurai during the afternoon. Highs 30-3percent tonight then 60 percent on Sunday. Q NORTHERN UTAH: Today a few areas of mo, fog otherwise partly cloudy. Highs in the 20s. Tonight increasing clouds Lows 10-2Sunday areas of snow developing from the west. Highs 25-3Extended forecast, Monday and Tuesday a chance of snow. Lows 5 to 15. Highs in the 20s. Wednesday partly cloudy with a slight chance of snow. Lows Highs 25-3SOUTHERN UTAH: Today partly cloudy with some areas of to morning fog and a few lingering snow showers cast. Highs mid-20- s mid-30Tonight fair with local areas of fog. Lows 5 below to 10 above. Sunday areas of morning fog otherwise increasing clouds w ith a slight chance of snow by afternoon. Highs 25-3Extended forecast, Monday and Tuesday variable clouds with a slight chance of snow. Lows 5 to 20. to upper 30s. Wednesday partly cloudy with a slight Highs mid-20- s chance of snow. Lows Highs 25-40. north-sout- h Alhuc,ucrtue 0. 0. 20-mi- le By 10 comcom- plaints about local newspaper accounts of three mock trials staged by Walsh's office to prepare for trial. Two of the mock juries of local citizens recruited by a marketing research firm voted to convict Weinberger. The third panel was deadlocked. A member of the deadlocked panel contacted The Washington Post. Hogan said prospective jurors would have to be questioned about whether they were familiar with the accounts of the mock, trials. Brosnahan proposed asking the jurors if they had read the attorney general's comments. The judge, meanwhile, denied Weinberger's motion to admit into evidence results of a test he took earlier this year. The polygraph operator reported that Weinberger did not show deception when he said he didn't inten tionally withhold his notes from investigators. Hogan dismissed as irrelevant a defense allegation that a prosecutors misled the grand jury that indicted Weinberger. The defense charged that the FBI agent omitted from a report of his interview with Weinberger couldn't have g ten about his when questioned about it. forgot- habit note-takin- Defense attorney Robert Bennett, meanwhile, raised the possibility that he might try to call President Bush and former President Reagan as defense witnesses. BenWeinberger's former secretary nett said that could occur if Hogan that the Reagan Cabinet official did prosecutors leeway to present take detailed notes during meetings gave evidence that Weinberger lied as and phone calls. part of a cover-u- p to conceal Reain the Because the FBI agent was not gan's involvement affair. allegoing to be a trial witness the Bennett said he would be forced gation was "not relevant to any issues before the court," the judge to call former Secretary of State said. George Shultz and former AttorThe judge also refused to allow ney General Edwin Meese "if I have to disprove he was not proprosecutors to examine all of the the president." tecting diaries that Weinberger kept going dias his to California back days Hogan reserved decision on that issue but suggested that such evirector of finance in 1968. Prosecutors wanted to use examples of dence might be admissible to prove those diaries as evidence that motive. Iran-Cont- ra Clinton conside rinq bank deregulation By DAVE SKIDMORE Associated Press Writer - WASHINGTON One year after the enactment of tough new rules designed to rein in a troubled banking system, Presidentelect Clinton may be on the verge of relieving the industry of regulatory burdens his Republican predecessor could only talk of lifting. Earlier this week, at Clinton's economic conference in Little Rock, Arkansas banker William H. Brandon Jr. said easing regulations on banks would produce $86 billion in new lending. "There is a lot of excessive, overly redundant regulation, and actually super conservatism, out there that could be eliminated simply by moving back slightly towards normal," he said. An intrigued Clinton noted that would dwarf the $30 billion economic stimulus package he is considering and mused: "You heard the $86 billion figure. I've just been sitting here all day thinking about this." Brandon is the new president of the banking industry's largest and most influential trade group, the American Bankers Association, which has launched a campaign to roll back regulatory restrictions imposed a year ago by Congress. Bankers are hoping that Clin- a Democrat and Washington ton outsider without the baggage of having participated in past failcan do ures in banking policy what President Bush could not: persuade the Democratic Congress to prune back banking rules. Bush's Treasury Department sent Congress a regulatory relief bill this summer, but it went no- where. "I think Clinton will have a lot better luck," said L. William Seidman, a former chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. under Bush and Ronald Reagan. "It will be a newly elected president dealing with a Democratic Congress and a Democratic promise to create more jobs." Bankers also are hoping the industry's improved fortunes this year will help their cause. Thanks to the wide gap between interest rates on deposits and loans, the industry earned $24.1 billion during the first nine months of the year, well on the way to a new annual record. A year ago, when Congress enacted the tougher rules to accompany a new $30 billion taxpayer line of credit to the fund insuring banks' deposits, some analysts warned the banking in dustry was on the verge of a downward spiral. In particular, new rules permitting bankers to seize weak banks even before their owners' capital had been completely exhausted were supposed to produce a "December surprise" wave of closings after they took effect Saturday. But in fact, the surprise is turning but to be more of a December fizzle. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., which once thought that more than 100 banks would be affected, now says only 26 banks with $7 billion in assets are in danger of being closed under the new rules. The Office of Thrift Supervision says 20 S&Ls with about $20 billion in assets will be affected. However, many private banking experts are warning that despite high profits for many banks this year, serious problems remain. And they think lawmakers will resist any Clinton deregulation effort nearly as much as they would Bush's. Many of the senior Democrats on the House and Senate banking committees are proud of the they did following the loan crisis. And and savings many of them have seen colleagues lose their seats for seeming to be too soft on banks and S&Ls. "In terms of seeking changes in law," I certainly have not seen a case made for it as yet," said Sen. Donald W. Riegle Jr., chairman of the Senate Banking Committee. Rep. Henry B. Gonzalez, chairman of the House Banking Committee, said he too would be skeptical of bankers' pleas for relief. "If they mean letting the banks go back to taking unlimited risks with taxpayer-backe- d deposits, then I think they ought to be' ashamed of themselves," he said. "... We better make sure before we jump into the lobbyists' limousines that the brakes, the lights and horn are working. " Most recently, Clinton indicat"I don't think the political ened he is listening to worries he is is vironment particularly hospitable to accomplishing some of responding too readily to bankthose things right now," said ers. In an interview published in Friday's Wall Street Journal, he John D. Hawke Jr., a Washington attorney and former general said he would "give a lot of counsel at the Federal Reserve study" before proposing rule changes. Board. |