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Show mm i t Prison populations increasing in U.S. i ii Local homeless search for place to stay Page A4 Thrift and other stores Redskins earn sweep of Cowboys Sunday need holiday donations Page C1 Page C5 Page B1 Wood Burning Conditions XlQ OK Bum Day Monday, December 4, 19SS Central Utah's Newspaper for 122 Years, Provo, Utah By SALLY BUZBEE Associated Press Writer & I Senate WASHINGTON Majority Leader Bob Dole is challenging fellow Republican presidential candidates to join him in supporting President Clinton's plan to send troops to Bosnia. "We have a responsibility to the American forces there. It shouldn't be political," the Kansas Republican said Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation." Dole made it clear he wants the president's plan altered, but he urged his GOP rivals to follow his lead. Sen. Bob Dole "I'm going to support the troops," Dole said, "I think Pat Buchanan will. I hope Phil Gramm will." Gramm, the Texas senator, has been one of the loudest oppo nents of the plan to send U.S. troops to Bosnia. Presidential spokesman Mike McCurry said today White House officials were discussing with members of Congress how they could "express some of the reservations they have" in a resolution on the deployment of troops. He said "skeptics in Congress" were intent on demonstrating their support for the troops, even if they have reservations about the policy. "The White House would be grateful for that expression of support," he added. Buchanan, appearing on ABC's "This Week with David Brinkley," said Congress should keep fighting the president to keep troops out and avoid another Beirut or Soma- - SO lia. "Why, in a democratic republic, when the American people are opposed and the Congress of the United States is opposed, would you launch an American army into an area where the prospects ... are very for high a debacle?" Buchanan asked. While Gramm said last week he would not support Clinton's Bosnia action, his national camSen. John paign chairman, hinted Sunday McCain, that Gramm may eventually change that stance. "Senator Gramm does not want to do what Pat Buchanan is seeking. He does not want to cut off funding," McCain said on the z., Brinkley show. ' "He wants to express his disapproval, which many congressmen do. But they also know they have an obligation as elected officials to go ahead and see how they can best make the situation more viable," McCain said. Dole made it clear the tightrope Gramm must walk. "We have forces on the ground now, and the American people are going to rally around the American forces," Dole said, "If Phil Gramm wants to say he doesn't support the American forces there, I'll be glad to have that debate with him." Both Dole and McCain expressed strong reservations about the peace agreement the Clinton administration negotiated in Dayton, Ohio, and the existing cents plan to send troops. Senators are drafting a plan that would require the United States to train and arm Bosnian Muslims so they could defend themselves when American troops leave, Dole said. The Clinton administration has said it would arrange for another country to do that. "If Bill Clinton is going to have the entry strategy, the rest of us should have the exit strategy." Dole said. McCain, a Navy pilot who was held prisoner during the Vietnam War. said it was inevitable troops would go. Sitting next to Buchanan he cautioned: "It was very damaging to our morale to be played anti-wspeeches by aspiring politicians." ar Committee Defendant says U.S. military coerced confession njwv supports Waldholtz SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Like the Utah Republican Party's executive committee, its larger central committee has affirmed its support for Rep. Enid Greene Waldholtz. Some 90 members of the committee, meeting in Salt Lake City on Saturday, overwhelmingly approved a resolution expressing "full support and confidence" in Waldholtz while she prepares to explain her tangled finances at a Dec. 1 1 news conference. Her estranged husband, Joe Waldholtz, is the subject of a federal investigation into a $1.7 million check-kitin- g scheme. While most GOP loyalists were supportive of the congresswoman, a handful said it is foolish for the party to embrace her until members ascertain the truth. Her most fervent defenders also agreed she must provide satisfactory answers to alleged improprieties. "She's terrific. I know the caliber of her personality, but the current situation is she needs to explain. There is no question about that," said Ben Ferry, Box Elder County GOP chairman, who was quoted in a copyright story of Sunday's Salt Lake Tribune. Ferry offered the resolution supporting Enid, which previously was passed by the party's executive committee. The resolution essentially gives her formal, unconditional party backing until she appears in an undetermined Salt Lake City location in a week to explain her prob. lems, her responsibility for them and to answer questions. Over the past several weeks, Enid Waldholtz has blamed her husband for her financial troubles an explanation Republican activists appeared ready to accept. "When your finance director is also your husband, you sort of have to rely on your spouse to tell you the truth," said central committee member Tom Santise of Davis County. By EDUARDO CUE Associated Press Writer PARIS A strike by public workers intensified today with major unions urging the private sector to join the walkout and Prime Minister Alain Juppe calling an emergency meeting of his government. strike has idled French trains, buses and subways, unnerved millions of commuters and hobbled an already weak The 11 -- day economy. There was no immediate indication of what would be discussed at the Cabinet meeting late this afternoon. Until now, the government By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press Writer Waff'..1 , aT " 9 "' f , vtm JIiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii,iiiWM mtunuM wi.ii.m...i j,dhi urn m. ' 1 One of NAHA, Japan three American servicemen accused of abducting and raping a Japanese schoolgirl testified today that U.S. military investigators coerced him into confessing to a rape he did not commit. Marine Pfc. Rodrico Harp, 21, of Griffin, Ga., has acknowledged he helped to plot the Sept. 4 rape and abduct the girl but has denied participating in the actual rape. In testimony at Naha District Court today, Harp said Naval Criminal Investigative Services police, who originally took custody of the three, woke him up at 4 a.m. on Sept. 6 and began taking his statement. "When I told them what did happen, they pressured me to go in another direction," he J said. Harp said investigators told him to say what the "Japanese would like to hear" namely, that he raped the girl. He said they refused to believe his assertions that he did not. The attack has caused a furor in Japan, touching off huge protests against the heavy U.S. military presence on the small southern Japan island and damaging support for the U.S.Japan security alliance. At the trial's opening session on Nov. 7, Navy Seaman Mar- (See TESTIMONY, Page A2) AP Photo TV crew tapes a slogan protest- U.S. stationed in Okinawa. The soldiers ing A Japanese trial against three U.S. servicemen continued today with testimony from Marine Pfc. Rodri- - co Harp, 21, of Griffin, Ga., and his wife, Denitrease Harp. Native Americans contribute much to journalism By SHEILA SANCHEZ The Daily Herald Native Americans have made significant contributions to mainstream journalism, a report by The Freedom Forum First Amendment Center reveals. Beginning in the 1820s with Cherokees inventing their own alphabet, followed by the contributions of Elias Cornelius Boudinot has held firm to its plan to overhaul the social security system and slash the $64 billion deficit. Two unions flatly reject wage freezes for all 5 million public employees and cuts in their benefits. A third major union has accepted some of the proposed revisions in health and retirement benefits. Transport, utility, postal and other public workers remained off the job today. The strike has shut down 57 of France's 137 post offices. Financial markets today reflected concern that the strike could spread to the private sector. By early afternoon, the CAC 40 Index of most actively traded stocks was who in 1827 became the founding editor of The Cherokee Phoenix, Native Americans have left an impressionable mark on mainstream journalism. Written by Mark Trahant, executive news editor of The Salt Lake Tribune, the report, Pictures of Our Nobler Selves, also hails the contributions of Ora Eddleman Reed, a Cherokee who became the first Native American talk show host in 1924, and Hattie Kauffman, a Nez Perce journalist for ABC News who in 1989 was the first American Indian to report a news story on national television. And the report mentions others: Edward Bushyhead, a Cherokee, and founder of the San Diego Union Peter Navarre, a Prairie Band down 2.7 percent. President Jacques Chirac, speaking Sunday night in Benin at a summit of French-speakin- g nations, reiterated that he would not back down. "France is at a crossroads," Chirac said. "This is the path, the path of reforms that have been put off for far too long." Union leaders also talked tough, demanding that the government's plan be withdrawn as a condition to opening negotiations. Dock workers in the port of Marseille in southern France voted to join the strike today. About 400 Air France maintenance workers protested at Orly Airport. th UmM mmmm i cl of Potawatomie member and own- Find it er of the Rossville Reporter in Kansas William G. Pugh, a Lakota and owner of The Martin Messenger Leon Boutwell, an Ojibway, a former professional football player and owner of the Mechanicsburgh, Ohio, Daily Telegram Zitkala Sa or Gertrude Bon- (See JOURNALISM, Page A2) cJtXh r Arts C6 Business Classified Ads Comics Crossword Legals Lifestyle Movies Obituaries Opinions Sports State Television Weather World c B7 C8 B6 1)6 C8 C5 C6 C2 C4 Bl C3 C6 A6 A7 Weather Tonight mostly cloudy and cooler. A few Iiht rain or snow showers "mainly near the mountains. Lows near 30. See Page A6. Air Quality AP Photo the middle of cars Jamming the Porte Mail-lA Parisian rides his The strike by public workers grew more seriParis in today. plaza ous as unions encouraged the private sectors to join the walkout. Commuters have been forced to fend for themselves for more than 11 days now as French trains, buses and subways sit idle. bike In 344-254- 3 et ' wt ) r ; lit Today is a. "green" day for all Wasatch areas. The air quality was pood for all areas the Wasatch Front. burn Front today along |