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Show Page A2 THE DAILY HERALD, Provo, Utah, Saturday, January 20, 1996 After L. A., there's f'f w.. T "T' - no place like home Someone once said that you can never go home. I'm here to teli you that it's a lie. The real question is why you would . even want to. I just returned from a trip to Los Angeles. Marj and I took the kids down to Disneyland because it's the off season and supposedly not crowded. Although I swore to limit visits to my old homeland to once a millennium, I went because I had to get away from work for awhile. It was driving me nuts. ) I thought the trip would do me good. It did, but not the way I , i 'imagined, We stayed with my old man. After listening to Jack complain about Newt Gingrich for two days, I got in the car and , went to visit my old alma mater. The station I patrolled out of for nearly a century was just as busy as I remembered it. "Manning" the front desk was a teenage girl wearing an LAPD uniform and sergeant stripes. She looked young enough to need a note from her mom in order to arrest someone. After telling Sergeant Barbie who I was, I ran down a list of names of officers that I had worked with years before. Only one of my former partners was still there. Still on patrol lo these many years, was Guv. He picked me up and we went cruising. It was just like old almost. For the first times hour, we did nothing but catch up on who was where. Between calls and high-spee- d runs, I learned that Ugly Bob was now a small-tow- n police chief in Kansas. Moon Pie and Willy were both retired. Coot was dead and Crazy Ralph was fired. Scutter was in a nursing home courtesy of a drunk driver. Nobody knew where Bongo went after he quit." Guv had been shot two more times since I left. Me, none. Guv was working on his s , ' Kv,rKi fourth divorce. I had remarried. Guv had earned two medals of valor while all I had earned back in Happy Valley was a slap on the back from the chief. "Bet you wish you had stayed, eh, Blitz?" Guv said after we compared wages and found out that he's making as much as the president of the United States, whereas I'm only making about as much as Chelsea. I don't think so. Although Guv and I are the same age, he looks older than the moon. The alley where I got shot one highly educational night is now part auto-lub- e joint and taco stand. Two girls were skipping rope on the exact spot where I once lost three pints of blood and about a yard of small intestine. The convenience store where my best friend Whitey was murdered is now a day - --care center. The Chinese restaurant where we used to eat got looted and burned down during the riots. It's a vacant lot with some cardboard transient condos in it now. The main thing I noticed is how busy L.A. had gotten. It seemed like the entire world had decided to live in my old beat. Half the people Guv talked to on his calls couidn't speak English while the other half were incoherent from drugs or political agendas. We got shot at, or at least Guv said we did. He wasn't sure and didn't stop driving to find out. Since most of the bangers we saw had better guns than the cops, I didn't wonder why. I saw other people I remembered. Angelica, an attractive teenage street walker seven years ago, now looked like George Burns in a Farrah Faw-ce- tt wig. Daddy Bones, a known drug dealer back then, now owns a thriving Mercedes dealership. Three days later, I drove my family back to Happy Valley at about 200 mph. I'm definitely home now. ' The best of Blitz, "Happy Valley Patrol, " is available at Buy the Book, 442 N. Freedom Blvd., Provo, ok by sending $12.95 to BUTZ, P.O. Box 281, Springville, UT 84663: SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) The grilling of O.J. Simpson by lawyers pursuing civil claims against him for the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman is all set for Monday, sources said. The judge in the civil case barred lawyers from revealing the date of the deposition, but sources confirmed it Friday, speaking on condition of anonymity. Simpson never took the stand in his criminal trial, which ended in his acquittal in October. He gave his only extensive interview about the night of the murders to police, and jurors were never told ' what he said. , Simpson has produced a videoin tape for sale through mail-ordwhich he gives his side of some of the issues, The lawyers have', demanded to see it, along with all the outtakes, but the video's producers filed a motion Friday hoping to delay submission for fear of a leak that would reduce their ... '.' v.. profits. Two companies Simpson was depending on to help distribute the video have bailed out, the tape's Hoffman, Tony. producer, " : explained. Technicolor Inc. of Burbank, the world's largest film processor and video duplicator, said it wouldn't be doing the duplication of the tapes. much-anticipat- . high-securi- (Continued from Page Al) accident because the congestion exiting the plant would cause commuters to be so impatient that they would pull out in front of vehicles traveling at 55 mph. That concern was heightened with the. eminent winter conditions approaching and Micron's projection that there would be nearly 6,000 construction workers enter-- , ing and leaving the site daily come February. "S.R. 92 is a unique road in that the wind whips through there and causes it to freeze up," Brunson said. "That creates a hazardous situation because there is a lot of black ice on the road." As difficult a situation as S.R. 92 has been in the past. UDOT officials are more concerned about the near future. With the opening of a new high school in Lehi and the open house for the new LDS Temple both scheduled for the fall, officials are hoping Micron will be able to have the road completely widened by that time. . Micron is backing off from its commitment to Utah.. "In answer to those uninformed and misguided rumor mongers who are claiming that Micron is backing off," Bradford says, "everything is proceeding as scheduled." Bradford uses as proof of Micron's commitment to Utah the By TRAVIS JACOBSEN Daily Herald Business Editor ; ty Micron Technology Inc., one of d computer just two memory chip makers, said Friday its expansion plans will not be ;' affected by the surprise departure of chairman, president and CEO (Continued from Page Al) Steve Appleton. support the Balanced Budget Act ; Appleton resigned Thursday issuance of 3 building permits in which will allow Utah to fulfill its apparently at the request of the the last 30 days at the Lehi site. plans as laid out in HealthPrini" company's biggest shareholder, Bradford acted as pointman for the letter read in part. potato billionaire J.R. Simplot, Utah County in attracting the Haymond said that so far he is The Idaho Statesman reported Frithat Orton ever respondunaware and Utah to semiconductor giant day. ed the to caucus's letter. incentive the set helped plan up j Simplot. who owns 20 percent which lured the chip maker to said Utah receives Haymond of Micron's stock, stated in a press Lehi. $168 less under the Clinton plan I 'release issued Friday that Appleton than under the GOP proposal that Micron has been trying to pay "took it like a man." Simplot did for its Clinton vetoed. He added the presout retained of expansion not elaborate other than stating cash or flow, earnings though ident's plan does include more that "Appleton was a solid profetotal dollars for programs nationexecutives have recently considy ssional who knew the Micron ered borrowing money in order to ally, but he said because the and knew the semiconductor finance the capital improvements administration plan fails to fix the business." Simplot said he was of the company in Lehi as well as major unfairness between the way "sorry to see him leave," stating in Boise. money is doled, out to the individthat "he was a good friend." felt quite the opposite' ual state, Utah would receive less. Appleton Simplot could not be reached about such money matters. As he He said the GOP plan better for comment Friday but expressed g said at the distribution and would I, July equalizes 'confidence in new Chief Executive 1995, in Lehi, Micron pledged that benefit Utah more. Tyler Lowrey and the rest of the would be funded out Micron's management, concluding of expansion retained earnings. . that "Micron's future is extremely According to industry analyst bright." Ron Bohn of Dataquest in San This is not the first time Jose, Calif., "Their managerial has gotten his way with regard (Continued from Page Al) preference is to protect equity and management. Simplot company fundamental issue A debt. avoid is, joalso ousted tive process by supporting the bill Appleton's predeces- - do you forward with spending go and; testifying during hearings sbr. company founder Joe Parkinplans that were set up in the midthe House Revenue and before conson, in September 994 over dle of 1995?" Taxation Committee next week. cerns that Micron was expanding The company now has on its bill already has 35 The fast. slate $4 billion in costs associated Legislation requires 38 The recent news appears to with its expansion in order to keep to the House of Repreclear votes have Utah County residents a bit pace with growing demand and sentatives. Sen. Robert F. Montand has raised many new chip technology. But some gomery, R North Ogden, will take rumors and concerns, within the nervousness crept up at Micron in up the cause in the. Senate, where i community as to the $2.5 billion recent weeks as memory prices Tanner said the bill could easily be J, expansion at the base of Traverse began to decline for the first time derailed. Bills need 15 votes to in two years, an unusually long i. Ridge in Lehi. pass in the Senate. The Boise, compa- - period of stability for chips. With so few votes needed for That uncertainty has been ny would not disclose more details passage. Tanner said it is easier for about the change in management, reflected in Micron's stock price, lobbyists to fight the bill, in the but said it would proceed with its which climbed from the low $20 house. upper range a year ago to around $90 and : capital expansion in Lchi. and his army of Tanner d It has Utah $30. since dropped to around In a statement by .Valley that lobbyist was down Associato $31.12 87 acknowledged 12 cents Economic Development there will be resistance from the .tion Director Richard Bradford to 12 Friday on the New York Stock tobacco companies, which keep " I ; the Utah County commissioners Exchange. x 10 lobbyists stationed outside the con The decried Associated Bradford 'Press Wednesday, and Senate chambers. House , Vehemently those who claim that thbuted to this report. , ' U.S.-base- !, HAYMOND: ; I 1 ; i !; com-pan- . ground-breakin- ' Lion loiferino Pier 39 Dockmaster Armando Cerda tries to scare away a California sea lion who decided to rest on a dock reserved for boats inttead of the adjacent sea lions' dock Friday in San Francisco. Friday marked the sixth anniversary of the sea lions'1 arrival to Pier 39. Cerda said the pier plans to put up plywood barriers to keep the playful pinnipeds from taking over anymore of the docks. Bosnian peace faces setback SARAJEVO, (AP) Dashing hopes that a major deadline in the Bosnian peace agreement would be met, a Bosnia-Herzegovi- planned nationwide prisoner release on Friday fell far short of its the accord's first big set-Bgoal ut officials of the NATO-le- d force backing the accord indicated that the pact's other important Friday deadline' had been largely met: the waning parties had moved back from most front lines to create 2 buffer zones. The failure to release all prisoners of war registered with the Red Cross a major test of the warring would parties' will for peace likely complicate efforts to track down unregistered prisoners and missing persons. "It's a mess," said Pierre Gau-thie- r, the top official in Bosnia for the International Committee of the Red Cross. "We are very disheart- ened." Just hours before the midnight (6 p.m. EST) deadline set for their release, only 225 of 900 POWs registered with the Red Cross had been freed. About 400 were to have been released by the Bosnian government, about 400 by the Bosnian Serbs and about 100 by the Bosnian Croats. . After being assembled at Sarajevo airport, 218 people were freed 68 Bosnian government soldiers and 150 Bosnian Serbs. Another seven Serbs held by the Bosnian government didn't go to the airport, but chose to stay in Sarajevo for the time being. The Croats didn't release anyone. Under the Bosnian peace plan, all prisoners were to have been released unconditionally by Friday, not swapped for prisoners held by the other side, as had been the case previously. The prisoner release was originally scheduled for early in the week. But the Bosnian government insisted it would not free its POWs until the Serbs accounted for some 20,000 missing Muslims. In northern Bosnia, Bosnian ture's Executive Appropriations Committee could fund the bill at somewhere between $250,000 to (Continued from Page A 1) $750,000. Gov. Leavitt has desanyone tell me that the treatment ignated $250,000 to go into the isn't working when I've stopped. treatment program. If there's five of us out there, that's "I want to do more," Killpack 50 people a week." said. "But I feel that there are he said dislikes weaknesses and strengths in the porKillpack tions of the treatment program, program. I don't want to buy a ' particularly group sessions, pig in a poke. I can't get statisbecause offenders get to recall tics to show me how effective or discuss their sexual offenses (the prison) program is." and other fantasies, often arousJensen warned that unless more sex offenders are treated ing each other with the stories. "You already have a heavy there will be more victims. burden on your backs. Then all There are about 3,800 inmates in of the sudden, somebody puts the prison system. Of those, another idea into your head. about 900 are sex offenders., It's k That's what irritates me," estimated only 20 percent are said. I participating in treatment proRep.. Steve Barth, D- - Salt grams. Lake City, said it's criminal for "These people are not being the state to deny all sex offendtreated," Jensen said. "We need ers the treatment they need money for treatment and to before being released into sociimplement effective' monitoring of these offenders. If we can ety. Edward S. McConkie, direccontrol their behavior, even if tor of Utah's Sentencing Comwe can't change their mind mission, predicted the measure about the addiction, then we still will be difficult to approve at can prevent further victims." current funding levels. "There The bill remains on hold. are some legitimate issues of Meanwhile, Senate Bill 26, whether treatment can reduce sponsored by Sen. Lyle W. recidivism, but we believe it's revising Utah's, child the best thing we have to try to statutes passed the Senate rehabilitate and make these with no debate. offenders safer. We can't keep' The legislation imposes new in them forever," mandatory prison sentences for prison McConkie said. sex offenders of six-- , 10- - and Killpack said the Legisla Serb forces also balked at freeing their captives, claiming not enough was being done to track down about 500 missing Serb soldiers. Gauthier said the international community would have to try ,to force the release of the remaining prisoners; but it was unclear .what could be done.: The NATQ-le- d Implementation Force has narrowly defined its duties as limited to military tasks, such as creating '. the front-lin- e buffer zones. "We are not in a prisoner-releas- e mentality, we are still in a prisoner-exchang- e mentality and that is a serious problem," said Gauthier Gauthier said all sides "were clearly still trying to use POWs 'as leverage for concessions, such "as information on missing people. Hopes had soared that the prisoner releases would go ahead ias planned after the sides agreed Friday to create a "working group" that would account for missing sol diers and civilians .. Li that followed the intervention Hoi-' of U.S, envoy Richard C. hronke who hrnkprerl the arrortt reached in Dayton, Ohio. 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