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Show Page A2 - THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Monday, February 22, 1993 U.N. to setup war crimes tribunals for Balkans war ble war criminals Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, BosAssociated Press Writer nian Serb leader Radovan UNITED NATIONS The Karadzic and eight other Serb or Croat military or prison Security Council took aim at '"ethnic cleansing,' mass killcamp leaders. ings and systematic rape in the While the Security Balkans by deciding today to set Council worked to end war up the first international war crimes, the United States was crimes tribunals since World moving to force humanitarian War II. supplies through to starving U.N. diplomats hoped their residents of unanimous vote to approve The Clinton administration creation of a war crimes court was preparing to drop supplies would deter further atrocities in into eastern Bosnia by air rather Yugoslavia and its former rethan use stranded truck conpublics. voys. However, establishment of Merimee expressed concern the court and its rules for operathat the air drops might not be tion are months away, and Bosprecise, because he said the nia's U.N. ambassador cast United States was considering doubt on whether war crimes While flights. will stop. such flights would be better "We should not kid ourprotected from ground artilselves that war criminals are lery, they would not be able to going to be deterred by just the target areas as well as planes establishment of a tribunal," flying closer to the ground. Muhamcd Sacirbey, the BosniToday's action comes as inan envoy, told reporters. ternational talks are set to reFrance's ambassador, sume at U.N. headquarters to Merimee. welcomed end the war in the resolution as a "clear mesBosnia. About 28,000 people sage that they (war criminals) have died in fighting in Bosnia will be held responsible for and Croatia since 1991. their acts." The creation of the court Serbs, Croats and Muslims could lead to proceedings simiall allegedly have committed lar to the 1945-4- 9 Nuremberg crimes in the war that broke out trials of Nazi leaders and the as Yugoslavia disintegrated in Tokyo war crimes trials. U.N. investigators Those trials led to new defihave blamed the Serbs for the nitions of war crimes and worst atrocities. crimes against humanity that In December, the U.S. State were added to the 1949 Geneva Department identified as proba Conventions. By ANDREW KATELL - Bosnia-Herzegovin- a. high-altitu- Jean-Berna- rd Court agrees to take up civil rights case - sexual-harassme- nt 1. The second case granted review by the high court today came from cancer-causin- strip-minin- Ohio, where Maurice Rivers and Robert Davison sued Roadway Express Inc. after they were fired in 1986. Both had been longtime employees, working as garage mechanics. Legal briefs filed in the case did not state where the men worked. Their lawsuit accused Roadway Express of racial bias, but the case was dismissed after the Supreme Court in 1989 that limited protections offered by an 1866 law to hirings, not bias. The 1991 civil rights law overcame the 1989 ruling, and now the high court must decide whether the 1991 law should be applied retroactively to Rivers' and Davison's g. case. Most of FEMA's budget used on secret program WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. working telephone. Instead, h FEMA sent vans capable of sending coded, radio messages to military aircraft halfway around the world. A FEMA spokesman did not return a call seeking comment. The national security program National security programs ac- money appears annually as just a counted for 78 percent of FEMA's single line in FEMA's budget SB98 would also effectively rebudget from 1982 to 1991, dwarf- "submitted under a separate packmove the cities' ability to amortize ing the amount spent on natural age," according to the report, nonconforming billboards which disasters just 6.6 percent of the which said a third of FEMA's could be located in residential budget, The Palm Beach Post reemployees work in the project. (Continued from Page Al) The network includes a fleet of ported Sunday. neighborhoods, the ULCT said. A nonconforming status in perpetuiinvestigation by 300 vehicles in five mobile units City officials also worry they Cox Newspapers found that scattered from Washington state to ty. will not be able to accomplish "If a government entity at- neighborhood improvement and FEMA spent most of its money on Massachusetts and from Colorado tempts to prevent the rebuilding of revitalization if the bill becomes the program, which was to Georgia, the report said. a nonconforming billboard by rebuilt around a vast communicaThe units include generators law. tions network. y quiring the new construction concapable of powering a form to local zoning codes, that The report also was critical of airport terminal. Sensitive radio, "If this bill passes it will be jurisdiction would be required to almost impossible, without a great FEMA's effort to provide relief telephone' and satellite gear is deal of cost, to ever get rid of after Hurricane Andrew devastat- stored in custom-buitrucks. immediately compensate the billboard company despite the fact one," said Orem Mayor Stella ed south Florida last fall. In Thomasville, Ga., FEMA that the city did not remove the Welsh. "What it will amount to is For example, it said, the city built a bomb shelter at the Federal the ULCT said. we cost allow "This won't sign." just billboards, pemanager of Homestead, Fla., Regional Center in 1971 when to local taxpayers is totally unwarriod." radios there was the threat of a Soviet pleaded for 100 hand-hel- d ranted." because the town had only one nuclear attack. The agency spends Sign companies would have to Billboards are often packaged in be paid for theprice of the signs groups for sale as a "showing." and any leases and effect it would The proposed legislation would inIn order to keep all traffic on one have on the other signs, Welsh clude paying damages for all billside said. of the river, UDOT's current boards in a showing based on the alternative calls for drilling twin loss of a single billboard, the Provo Mayor Michael Hill said, tunnels into the hillside just north ULCT said. "We object to the state taking of Wildwood. A third tunnel, (Continued from Page Al) In order to remove a billboard, a away the cities power to legislate downstream from the twin tunnels, community must not only pay the billboards." struction of at least two homes in will remain unchanged in the plans value of the structure, but also the However, Hall said the bill is the summer home development of for n traffic. value of the lease and any "damsimply trying to allow the sign Wildwood, located adjacent to the The highway would also move ages" to the billboard not associatcompanies to obtain just compen- Sundance-Alpin- e Loop turnoff . 15 feet closer to the river's high ed with the site. sation for the billboards, if they The twin tunnel alternative now have to be moved. includes two parallel tunnels for water mark, and retaining walls Under current regulations, cities both lanes of traffic at Wildwood, would be installed. n can declare signs as nonconformand a single tunnel in the Keane told the commission that lane at The Narrows. ing and remove them without payengineers had rejected the twin UDOT and its consulting design tunnels because the alignment ing their owners for their value. few a who are "There people engineers, Parsons Brinkerhoff would have meant the destruction The following information is cities the for realize that most Quade and Douglas, have been of two homes and a common area part the from Wasatch Front air taken come up with the money to pay for looking at what could be done to at Wildwood. Now, however, the the pollution report compiled by Utah Division of Air Quality. The this with tax dollars that would better the twin tunnel alternative. engineers believe that by replacing otherwise be used for something A "false tunnel" at the a dirt sound berm with a concrete complete report is available by telin else cities the most ... mouth the tunnel would reudce sound wall they can move the lanes of people ephone at closer to the community without Air quality as of 8 a.m. Monday don't want their money used this the required rock cuts, and retainw as as follows: ing walls and a difference curve destroying homes. way," Hall said. But Provo executive administraconfiguration would reduce the Wood Burning Lucille Taylor, president of the tor Nancy Smith said if the city has property taken at Wildwood, they burnis wood and Today green Homeowners AssociaWildwood a piece of property with a sign it reported. ing is allowed; residents are asked said her group regrets the tion, wants to develop or sell, it must Retaining walls can also be built to use their wood burning stoves bridge idea didn't fly, "but we'll the the full value to sign pay company keep a minimum distance of 15 be glad to sit down and work with and fireplaces in a proper manner, of the sign and no depreciation. feet away from the Provo River. to help reduce emissions. on "We lose the right to redevelop The cost of the twin tunnel alterna- you this plan." Wildwood homeowners supproperty that has a billboard on it tive would be similar to the bridge Residential Areas the bridge plan, but fisherported without paying them off," Smith alternative, said UDOT consultant UTAH COUNTY good men feared the bridge would desaid. "We have some people in our Lee Abramson. Salt Lake County good the canyon's most scenic area who have some strong The plan would keep all four stroy Weber County good community well as wildlife. as feelings about regulating bill- lanes of traffic on one side of the Downtown Areas boards river through The Narrows, and by size and content. Charlie Thompson, fishery spePROVO good a large contingency in have land homes and would "We cialist with the Division of Wildlife protect Salt Lake good who are very, very opof Wildwood. people said, "There's no othResources, good Ogden Julie Mack, spokesperson for er river like this in Utah. You posed to any billboards. They want Overall ir Clarity won't find the number of fisherThe air quality for today was to be able to maintain the integrity Sundance, said her group is gratibillstick indicate found a to which fied to to and UDOT the way men on this rh er anywhere else." right in the all areas along Wasatch good boards go in their neighborhoods the original plan not to bridge the Front. At the commission meeting, or on their streets and roads and river or condemn any cabins in Outlook Sam Taylor said he was chairman best in interest the our Wildwood. of that's The forecast is for little change "I feel it would benefit the com- "more comfortable" with the twin in pollution levels with a clearing citizens." Reagan Outdoor Advertising munity to hear that UDOT's pre- tunnels on one side of the river index of 1000 and showing little than the bridge. However, he exhas 55 billboards in Provo, Smith ferred alternative has changed," change. she said. said. pressed disgust with Sundance en Yesterday's Highs North Provo ....co good mid-199- act's application to pending cases," the appeals court said. To date, five other federal appeals courts have agreed with the 5th Circuit court that the 1991 law was not intended to be retroactive. But one appeals court, the Sah Francisco-base- d 9th U.S. Circuit . Court of Appeals, and several federal trial judges have said the law , was intended to be retroactive . public school districts' obligations tile work environment" for to pay for the private schooling of Landgraf and make her employer Associated Press Writer students with special educational liable under Title VII of the Civil WASHINGTON The Suneeds. Rights Act of 1964. Let stand rulings against atpreme Court agreed today to deBut lower courts ruled that cide whether the Civil Rights Act tempts by the of a retarded Landgraf was not entitled to back parents of 1991 applies retroactively to girl to collect damages from the pay because she could not prove court cases pending when Con- government for an Army base ci- she was "constructively disgress enacted the law. vilian doctor's failure to diagnose charged." The justices said they will use the mother's pregnancy in time to a Texas woman's two cases Landgraf had to prove that even prevent the girl's birth. lawsuit 1989 Refused to free the Environthough she left her job voluntarily against her former employer and mental Protection Agency from "working conditions would have two black garage mechanics' lawbeen so difficult or unpleasant that g enforcing the ban on suit against their to pesticide residues in processed a reasonable person in the employdecide the issue. foods. ee's shoes would have felt comThe court's eventual decision, Refused to let environmentalpelled to resign." In ruling against Landgraf last expected some time in 1994, will ists create one nationwide case affect thousands of cases in which from lawsuits against July, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of In the Texas civil rights case, employment discrimination is alAppeals said the sexual harassment Barbara Landgraf sued USI Film Landgraf experienced was not that leged. In other action today, the high Products after working at its Tyler severe. court: Under the 1964 law, only back production plant for 16 months. Before she quit in early 1986, pay was available in such cases. Rejected rock V roll legend Chuck Berry's plea to move his Landgraf worked the overnight But under the 1991 civil rights law legal battles from state to federal shift as a machine operator making enacted by Congress and signed by court. The singer says Missouri plastic bags. President Bush, compensatory and officials are trying to destroy him Fellow employee John Williams punitive damages against employers are available. financially. subjected Landgraf to what a fedTennessee divorcee eral and However, the 5th Circuit court Rejected judge called "continuous Mary Sue Davis Stowe's appeal to repeated inappropriate verbal rejected Landgraf s argument that use seven frozen embryos to bethe 1991 law should be applied comments and physical contact. " come pregnant against her Lower courts found Williams' retroactively to her case. wishes. "There is no clear congressionsexual harassment to be severe al intent on the general issue of the Agreed to decide the scope of enough to make the plant a "hos By RICHARD CARELL1 For every dollar spent re(AP) sponding to natural disasters over the past decade, the Federal Emergency Management Agency spent $12 for a secret program to protect the government from a nuclear attack, a newspaper reported. high-tec- multi-frequen- PROVO: 2,-7- millions of dollars each year maintaining it and other underground facilities. The communications network is part of a government effort whose participants have included former White House aide Oliver North, who was implicated in the Iran-Contscandal. In his 1991 book, "Under Fire," North said the program was known inside the government simply as "The Project." He said it began during the Carter administration and was expanded during the Reagan years. North said it grew out of the Cold War fear that a Soviet nuclear attack would send out "enormous GOP: $140,000 a year, couples above $1 80,000, the 20 percent of Social Security retirees with the highest incomes, and on corporations. ra bursts of electromagnetic energy which would immediately disable our communications equipment." es 00 six-mon- th (Continued from Page Al) Bentsen said the administration, sure whether it will insist that the income tax increases be retro-- : active to Jan. 1. Because of the likely delay in getting the plan approved, he suggested, they might be deferred until July 1 . White House Budget Director Leon Panetta acknowledged that Congress is likely to make some changes in the plan but predicted the fundamental principles would be approved. "People, deep down, in the Congress can talk a good line on deficit reduction, but won't propose anything specific that really has much chance of passing," Panetta said on NBC's "Meet the top-secr- et three-stor- lt UDOT: down-canyo- Hir duality down-canyo- billion over the next four years. When fully effective, the proposal would shrink the deficit by $140 billion in 1997. The plan's only tax increase on middle-incom- e families is a new levy on most energy sources, beginning July 1, 1994. Income taxes would be raised on single people making over about vironmentalists for accusing UDOT of trying to sneak through the plan for the 1 ,000-fo- ot bridge. He said he knew of no project that has provided more opportunity for public involvement than this. r Lindon 10 pa . . 0 101-19- 51-10- 1555 North Freedom Boulevard, P.O. Box 717, Provo, Utah General IrJcrmstisn Fscsiziila Kirk good 1 1 . CLINTON: 0 200-29- 9 (Continued from Page Al) from his address to Congress last week. "The price of doing the same old thing is a whole lot higher than the prices of change." And, borrowing a theme he borrowed from President Kennedy, "You can't just say, 'What's in it for me.' You have to say, 'What's in it for us.'" But like any campaign speech worth its salt, Clinton sprinkled in some rhetoric that hit his audience close to home. Previewing today's address to Boeing employees in Everett, Wash., Clinton had some tough words for Europe's financing of the aircraft manufacturing consortium, Airbus, and strongly suggested again that the U.S. might have to counter the subsidies. "The last several years we've stood by while Europe spent $26 billion to develop Airbus to push Americans out of work," Clinton said. Of the layoffs, Clinton said, "part of that is defense cuts, but Boeing makes a lot of other planes, too. ' ' Airbus Industries, based in France, is a consortium of Aerospatiale of France, Deutsche Airbus of Germany, British Aerospace, and CASA of Spain. It builds liners that compete for world markets with Boeing and other U.S. manufacturers. In a slate where thousands have lost jobs to the scale back of the defense industry, Clinton reiterated his pledge to retrain workers moving from defense to civilian work and said he was releasing $500 million in funds to help communities do that. 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