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Show Country singing legend Tvitty dies at age 59 will be FEMA's fault Page A3 r Creative Dian Thomas offers fun at 'Home' earth-fak- e Monday's Page Sunday, June 6, 1S93 A4 Page It's Barkley vs. Jordan, Suns vs. Bulls in finals E1 Centra! Utah's Newspaper for 120 Years, Provo, Utah igpmiii h ui 1.C0 Court pick nears riiiooie - OY - roao en Outstanding in his field om hi. B1 Page iuwiii. . Clinton selection likely this week By JOHN KING AP Political Writer political implications." And with his public image bruised, his economic plan on tenWASHINGTON President uous in the Senate and his Clinton's Supreme Court search health footing care plan in the w ings, Clinhas been a journey through the ton can ill afford a polarizing SenDemocratic Party's ideology, ate confirmation battle. This was opening with an entreaty to a liber- underscored last week as Clinton al star but ultimately turning toabandoned Lani Guinier, his nomiward the political center. nee to head the Justice DepartWith an announcement likely ment's civil rights division, in the this week, Clinton was focusing on face of opposition from moderate a handful of candidates who share Senate Democrats. a few traits: all are known as "I think what is happening here sus-builders, moderates and is the president is letting a large set reasonably safe choices for the of outside circumstances factor in first high court vacancy of Clin- his court decision-makin- g ton's presidency. process." said Kermit Hall of the h As Clinton's search of Oklahoma Law nears its end, there are a number of University School and editor of a book on the intriguing subplots in the quest to high court. "It leads me to believe replace retiring Justice Byron he is going to end up with someone White. safe from the middle. ' ' The president is trying to reSome of the intrigue involved in shape the court as he works to the pick has little to do with Clinrecast his administration, quelling ton. any talk that he would seek a liberBecause Republicans have held al legal scholar as a counterweight the White House for 12 years, the to the court's conservative tilt in pool of Democratic potential nomthe Reagan-Bus- h years. inees on the federal bench is more "Everything that says he is limited than the president would committed to the mainstream ap- like. So the administration has proach is helpful now," said Demover state Court ocratic strategist Geoffrey Garin. pored and even Supreme looked outside rosters, "On the court search they seem to be looking down the road at the (See COURT, PageA2) - .4 jr x ill, - z v:y- V? n V It Si V consen- three-mont- -- 4? .. . - V. Herald PhotoPatrick J. Krohn Tom Kummer, of American Fork, weeds the beautiful flower beds at the old County Courthouse on University Ave. in Provo. Kummer and his keep the landscape immaculate during the busy summer season. Yeltsin rival storms m of oonveniioi By ALAN COOPERMAN Associated Press Writer President Boris MOSCOW Yeltsin opened a convention on Saturday to draft a constitution for Russia, but the session was thrown into turmoil when his chief rival was denied the microphone and stormed out. Yeltsin said the 700 delegates would continue their work in the Kremlin's glittering Marble Hall despite the "premeditated provocation" by Ruslan Khasbulatov, Congress speaker of the Soviet-er- a of People's Deputies. Although the walkout by Khasbulatov and about 50 other delegates spoiled Yeltsin's carefully scripted opening session, it seemed unlikely to derail the convention. The Russian president urged early adoption of a new constitution that would strengthen the ex- - F3 F6 Crossword.... Entertainment Garden Fl E4 A7, F3 Legals Movies Nation Obituaries Opinions Sports State World Fl .A3 A4 A12 Bl A5 A6 Weather Today through Monday, periods of rain and cool, with thundershowers mainly in the afternoon and evening. See Page A7. ecutive branch and replace the Communist-dominate- d Congress. He called for elections by October for a new bicameral national parliament. In his opening address, broadcast nationally, Yeltsin hammered the Congress. "The present legislative organs were elected on the basis of a Soviet election law ... They are not legitimate under a democratic system," he said. A few blocks from the Kremlin, 3,000 to 5,000 diehard Communists and nationalists rallied in Square, outside the headquarters of the former KGB, to denounce Yeltsin. "Long Live the Soviet Socialist Constitution!" said a banner carried by the marchers. An elderly woman waved a sign that read: facilities By JOSEPHINE ZIMMERMAN Lows , mid-40- 5. . Air Quality Saturday's air quality was good in all Wasatch Front areas, with little change expected. See Page A2. Special to The Herald A benefit screenPROVO director of Stephen Spieing lberg's newest film will boost dinosaur research efforts at Brigham Young University when the University Mall Cine-ple- x Odeon shows "Jurassic Park" June 14 at 7:30 p.m. The BYU Earth Science Museum is one of 15 organizations selected from hundreds of applications nationwide to receive the nod from Universal Pictures for the special screening, according to Janita Andersen, director of program development at the museum. The event will begin at 6 p.m. with a reception at the museum, 1683 N. Canyon Road, west of Cougar Stadium, followed by a showing of the film at the movie complex. Museum guides will conduct tours and show the collection non-prof- it PROVO Residents looking for biking trails and new picnic areas will have expanded facilities at Nunn's Park in Provo Canyon this summer. Utah County Engineer Clyde Naylor said Nunn's, a historic park in the canyon, has been renovated and new picnic facilities installed. 15-ac- re f On ka (See YELTSIN, Page A2) Herald Staff Writer w J "We built a loop road around what was previously a wilderness area at Nunn's and built pull-ofacilities for cars at 15 new picnic taNes," he said. In some areas the grade has been changed and topsoil added and mulched, preparatory to reseeding wiih native grasses. The two existing picnic areas by the old house and by the old power plant building will remain in place, he said. Naylor also said the bike trail has been separated from ff AP Photo Congress speaker Ruslan Khasbulatov, bottom, walks past Boris Yeltsin, left, on his way out of Saturday's constitutional convention at the Kremlin in Moscow. CI Business Classified Ads mid-60- s. t 'Jurassic Park' screening to benefit BYU museum Find it Highs Nunn's Park expands e n White House ignored eariy Guinier warnings By NANCY BENAC Related stories, A9 and preparation rooms as patrons receive refreshments and hear musical entertainment. Reservations for tickets at $20 each can be made through the museum, Mondays through Fridays from p.m. While Universal is not donating the film, it is allowing its use for benefit purposes on June 14. "I have been working on this since February, and 1 think what intrigued Universal Pictures were the 125 tons of unprepared Jurassic fossils stored under BYU's stadium that we want to get out of their plaster casts and into the research lab for future exhibit," she said. We will do this when we have the needed funds. "We certainly offered them 378-368- 0, -5 (See JURASSIC, Page A2) Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - The alarm bells started ringing even before President Clinton tapped Lani Guinier to be the nation's top civil rights official during an upbeat ceremony in a sunny Justice Department courtyard. "Breathtakingly radical," the conservative Institute for Justice called Guinier in a statement released in March. The White House wasn't listening. With Guinier's nomination on April 29, the ringing got louder. Guinier's writings about minority representation raise "substantial questions" about her nomination, wrote the American Jewish Congress, a group normally aligned with liberal civil rights groupsr With such early warning signs disregarded and the import of Guinier's writings clearly underestimated, White House officials now acknowledge the nomination was mishandled from start to finish. It ended with Clinton's anguished announcement Thursday that he was withdrawing the nomination, a retreat all the more painful because Guinier was an FOB a Friend of Bill (and Hillary) Clinton stretching back to their days at Yale Law School. Problems on Capitol Hill developed from Day One. Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee immediately began scouring Guinier's legal writings and sending anxious messages to potential allies among law faculties, editorial boards and elsewhere. Democrats, too. soon started to pay attention. Within a week of her nomina- tion, "some of those concerns were sent down to the other end of the avenue." said a Democratic congressional source who spoke on condition of anonymity . To 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the White House. Guinier's controversial views 7Z (See WARNINGS, Page A2) the road as well. Nunn's sas been one of the less-use- d picnic areas in the canyon until now. It is the site of the historic power plant where power, for the first time, was transmitted over a long distance. Power generated at the plant was used at the mines in Mercur. The roof and window frames of the old power plant building were destroyed in a fire six years ago which may have been the work of vandals. Naylor hopes the building may be restored in the future and turned into a museum. He said some of the old generating equipment is still available and could be placed on display in the museum. This week the Utah County Commission turned down an application for federal highway enhancement funds that could have brought $200,000 to the county to restore the old (See PARK, Page A2) |
