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Show ready to unveil new activity center .Crews continue Exhibition shows spirit of artist with cancer UVSC oil splIS cleanup Page A3 Page Magic post sweep of Houston Rockets Page A7 C1 Page B1 Wood Burning Conditions: OK Burn Day Centra! Utah's Newsps,?sr for 122 Years, Pwa, Utah 53 cents - 'Ml ! I i , Leaders b icker as debt cemn ooms again By NED KILKELLY Associated Press Writer After the worst flooding to hit the East in years, swollen waterways slowly receded and thousands of evacuated residents returned home to find floors caked with' mud and basements turned into icy swimming pools. Melting blizzard snow combined with heavy rain turned waterways into torrents, forcing weekend evacuations in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, New Jersey and New York. At least 32 deaths, mostly from drowning, were blamed on heavy flooding, and three people were missing in Pennsylvania. "We had eight feet of water in the cellar. It was filled right to the bp," said Barbara Meuller, from her home along the Delaware in Harmony Township, N.J. "We have seen the water come up Jo the banks many times, but never anything like this." t Normally smooth as a lake, the n Delaware's water on Sunday raged under a bridge crossing to New Hope, Pa. "There were hot tubs floating down there, people's shacks, tires, barrels, you name it," said Mike Smith, one of many who jammed the bridge to watch, some videotaping the spectacle. President Clinton on Sunday declared six Pennsylvania counties a disaster area, including the cities of Harrisburg and Wilkes-Barrand the federal government added 4 9 other counties to the list today. .;;JGov. Tom Ridge had said earlier he, was pressing for federal help " once-plac- id By JIM ABRAMS Associated Press Writer ConWASHINGTON gress returns to action this week with President Clinton and Republicans bickering over who caused the breakdown of balanced budget talks and GOP leaders issuing new threats they won't raise the debt ceiling without movement Riv-fe- r, toward a budget deal. Efforts by Republicans to 4 cocoa-brow- ; e, "House votes to give money to state park : L By DONALD W. MEYERS The Daily. Herald fcVV 5ALT LAKE CITY This Is The Place State Park will get state centennial fund-- 4 .0 . . gets back the money it is pay-- r ing for the Beehive State's 100th birthday celebration. The House voted 65-- 0 to approve a bill sponsored by Rep. Jordan Tanner, which would transfer leftover Utah Centennial, Trust funds to an account ,for maintaining the park, located at the mouth of v Emigration Canyon, with an : No, it's not Venice. Dwayne Johnson paddles a canoe through the Old Town section of Alexandria, Va., Sunday. Melting snow, warm weather and heavy for an even wider area, covering 58 of the state's 67 counties. "We've got people dead and missing. We've got families walking around in shelters with only the clothes on their backs. We have roads under water and ice," Ridge"' said. "We have lost bridges ... but according to them, we've got flooding in basements and that's about it." .' , ' By MAXIM KORZHOV Associated Press Writer Chechen GROZNY, Russia rebels reportedly offered today to exchange 29 abducted power plant workers for guerrillas Russian troops captured last week. The workers were seized Tuesday in the Chechen capital, Grozny, while rebel gunmen battled federal troops in the southern republic of Dagestan just across the border from Chechnya. A separate group of hostages was taken in a Jan. 9 raid that set off the Russian military offensive in Dagestan, and today a rebel commander reaffirmed plans to release most of them on Tuesday. Rebels have never claimed to be Find it Arts that the fund ' jnust first reimburse the :. state for its appropriation to I the Utah Centennial Com- -' mission. The park, with its This Is The Place Monument and 4 ,01d Deseret Village, pays tribute to the arrival of the Mormon pioneers and the - Establishment ot Salt Lake City. It is named for the '"' statement Brigham Young ' made when he first saw the " Salt Lake Valley in 1847. .' 0 " Tanner said new build-- ; dur-- ings have been added and centennial the year, Hng that it would be appropriate ;to dedicate leftover Centen- f"' Yiial Trust Fund money to "the park's maintenance. The Centennial fund was financed through the pur-- j chase of Utah Centennial ; ." " ' license plates. 'This is part of our centen-- r nial legacy. We will benefit "I by doing this," Tanner said, 'j ' But legislators questioned the move, in light of the fact seek- -' ; that the commission was ing an additional $500,000 in funding from the state. V- - said Sunday. rains combined to overflow the banks of the Potomac River on Sunday, flooding parts of the Armey's comments on NBC's "Meet the Press" drew an immediate response from White House Chief of Staff riverfront city. Governors in New Jersey, New York, West Virginia, Maryland and Ohio also said they were seeking federal disaster relief. In central Pennsylvania, some bridges remained closed today and railroad tracks east of Harrisburg were covered, forcing Amtrak. to reroute passengers onto buses between the city and Lancaster, Harrisburg firefighters had to p wade through water early in fire reach a an to evacuattoday hip-dee- Leon Panetta, who said Republicans were courting disaster by pushing the federal government toward its first default ever. That could happen on Feb. ed historic neighborhood. Four houses were destroyed and three others were damaged. Some 2,000 Ohio residents evacuated from homes along a stretch of the Ohio River river from East Liverpool to Martins Business Classified Ads Comics Lifestyle Local Nation Obituaries ....CI A3 ........ ..C2 Opinions Sports State Weather World . ... C4 B5 C7 C6 .A7 A6 Bl C3 ...A4 ....A5 Veather Tonight partly cloudy and colder. Chance of evening snow showers. Lows in the teens. Tuesday increasing clouds and continued cold. See Page A4. Air Quality Today is a "green" burn day for all areas along the Wasatch Front. The air qualU ty today Is good for Utah County. The forecast calls for little change in pollution levels. See Page A2. ; : ; negotiate the budget with the Congress in front of him," he said. , : Talks broke down last week:, with the White House saying;; the Republican tax cuts andj-propose- ,from savings Medicare and Medicaid were too large, and Republicans-insistinthat Clinton's plan nothing to address fundamen-- 1 tal problems in entitlement-;- i t d Z did---- ; : programs'. Prospects for an agreement'? were "quite doubtful," Senate? Majority Whip Trent Lott, R-- ? Miss., said on ABC's Week With David Brinkley.'? "I thought that the president., was serious about getting a budget agreement. Apparently ' it was all election year poli- - ' "This: D-M- Russian troops devastated Pervomayskaya last week after Chechen rebels refused to hand over an estimated 100 hostages they seized Jan. 9 in a nearby Dagestani city. Many of the Chechen fighters were killed, but some made their way back to Chechnya with an estimated 20 to 30 hostages. The rebels proposed exchanging the workers for about 30 guerrillas the Russians captured during the fighting in the Dagestani village of Pervomayskaya last week, Interfax said, quoting officials of the Moscow-backe- d Chechen government and the power company. The electric plant workers, split into groups of two or three, were being held in mountain villages. They were "alive and well," said Chechen government spokesman ; - (See FLOOD, Page A2) holding the power plant workers. But the Interfax news agency reported today that officials made contact with the abductors, and described them as supporters of rebel leader Dzhokhar Dudayev. . tics." House Minority Leader 15 when interest payments Dick Gephardt, push spending past the debt appearing with Lott, said;,'. ceiling and Panetta urged GQP Democrats were eager for a;;? leaders to "not play games balanced budget deal "if the-- j with the full faith and credit of Republicans would just give'" " "this country." up" on their large tax cut. The firestorm over the debt The first crisis to emerge came a week after another from the budget talks impasse prominent Republican, House comes on Friday when the latBudget Committee Chairman est temporary measure to keep John Kasich of Ohio, predicted some federal programs funded his party wouldn't stand in the runs out. Armey confirmed that way of an extension of governRepublicans probably would ment borrowing and a day extend that deadline but before lawmakers begin return"under rigorous and demandk break to a ing after a ing circumstances" that would deeply divided capital. give Clinton "greater incentive On Tuesday night Clinton to get more serious about the takes his case to the nation in budget." .'."' the annual State of the Union The current stopgap meaaddress to Congress. sure that ended a second partial White House spokesman government shutdown funds Mike McCurry said Friday that-th- programs at about 75 percent president will challenge the of 1995 levels. Panetta said the Republican Congress to come president would, likely sign such a bill, but not a bill that to terms with him on an agreement to balance the budget by attaches conditions on the debt . 2002, but. will concentrate ceiling. 37-mi- le ebels attack Russian troops Inside :? ''"amendment nek AP Photo IS28 Ciah . downsize government "will have to be attached to the debt ceiling increase or it won't go through," House Majority Leader Dick Armey, more on broader issues facing the nation rather than the minu-- ; tiae of the budget dispute. ; "Don't expect the president; to don a green eyeshade and stand up there and attempt to-- , two-wee- Today, Chechen commander Akhmed Zakayev repeated the Chechens' promise to release the Dagestani hostages unconditionally on Tuesday in Novogroznensky, 20 miles east of Grozny. -- All Russians, including Interior Ministry troops, will be kept as prisoners of war and could be exchanged for the captured rebel . fighters, he said. Ruslan Martagov. Opponents to abortion r ooserve anniversary dent' t-t- oe By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press Writer "For three years Bill Clinton has used his position as president to dramatically advance the WASHINGTON As they have every year since, thousands of abortion opponents gathered in Washington today for impassioned the demonstrations against Supreme Court ruling that made pro-aborti- and agenda," Long said. At the White House, spokesman Mike McCurry said, "The president is confident they know his views on the importance of choice for women. They also know that he hopes that very divisive issues such as choice can be addressed by the American people in a way that minimizes hostility and violence and maximizes understanding and most .abortions legal 23 years ago. The mix of celebration and sorrow surrounding the anniversary in this presidential election year came as President Clinton, an abortion rights supporter, has threatened to veto Congress' first attempt to prohibit a specific abor- -' tion procedure since the Supreme Court's 1973 decision. But despite the fact that budget and tax matters have dominated debate much of the campaign-trathese past few weeks, abortion remains one of the most deeply .emotional and divisive public and " il political issues. "Prebora children are not subhuman,", said Nellie Gray, president of the March for Life fund, which organizes the annual rally and walk from the White House past the Capitol to the Supreme Court for a protest. Carol Long, director of the' Right to Life Political Action Committee, said the group's top priority "is to replace e Bill Clinton with a presi-- National pro-lif- ! ? I I I I 8 A ft E 7 common ground." V V; Abortion opponents want the i procedure outlawed. They believe life begins at 'conception and e i equate abortion with murder. But abortion rights advocates ' are equally united in the belief that ., the Roe vs. Wade decision is one of the most important on behalf of I women. The high court, ruling in the case of a Texas woman, declared a constitutional right to abortion based on a woman's privacy. The .'"j.Vf decision legalized abortion nationwide. AP Photo "The 22nd of January is an opportunity to celebrate nearly a Norma McCorvey, tha "Jane Roe" in the 1973 Roe v. Wad decision, quarter of a century of American is embraced by Reverend Robert L. Schenck of the National Cisrgy Council before she addresses a memorial service at Georgetown University In Washington, D.C., Sunday. McCorvey Joined aoortion opponents in their annual protest march today. A2) (See ROE, Page a ; POORCO" :7 , ; |
