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Show ! hi Fomalo inmates Cannon disputes Ortoh's voting record prefer chain gangs Page A3 Doctors challenged by operation on twins after rare 3-- 0 start Page C1 Page D1 EM Paga Lobos confident 3b to I r 1 CUikfeNs3S?f1Ys Fall is on its way Q:gi(glkD 4) if BE b)!raoin) Foes of procedure face tough odds c By JIM ABRAMS Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON Opponents of partial-birt- h abortion face tough odds in the Senate after celebrating a House vote to reverse President Clinton's veto of a bill banning the procedure. . "We have an uphill battle in the Senate. I don't think there's any secret about that," said an abortion foe Rep. Charles Canady, who led the 285-13- 7 vote Thursday to override the presidential veto. - The vote, four more than needed for the two-thirmajority required for overrides, was a forces who have major victory for made the drastic form of late-terabortion their key issue this election year. Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole, who supports the ban and has criticized Clinton's veto in campaign speeches, said Thursday that as Americans learn details of the procedure "the president has been left almost alone, defending the indefeasible." Last April, Clinton, surrounded by five -women who had undergone the procedure, 0 ds anti-aborti- on m Daily Hwald PhotoJason Olson Undon residents Scott Hutching, left, and- his brother John fish on the Provo River Thursday. - the recent Leaves are changing colors and can be seen in the cool weather, fall is well on its way. With canyon. In the valley, temperature lows should In the high 40s this weekend. . i be (See ABORTION, Page A2) Airdl should ::end conflict In By ANITA SNOW Associated Press Writer MEXICO CITY Guatemalan guerrilla leaders in suits and ties shook hands with army officers in uniform after signing an agreement to shrink the military and move closer to ending Central America's last and longest war. Thursday's accord makes the end of the conflict in Guatemala virtually a certainty. It calls for cutting Guatemala's 43,500 troops and defense spending by a third next year and eliminating elite units. Diplomats, human rights activists and Guatemalan government officials applauded and cameras flashed as the two sides signed the accord, the last pact before a final ceasefire agreement "We are near the signing of a (final) peace," said government representative Gustavo Porras. "Our country needs it. 36-ye- ar cy Guatemala is in a crucial time." Gen. Otto Perez, a top government negotiator, said the military was ready to accept the cuts and submit itself to civilian authority. The pact was reached earlier this week by government representatives and the Guatemala National Revolutionary Unity, representing the country's four major rebel groups. It was among a number of accords dealing with issues including agrarian reforms and indigenous rights that the rebels insisted upon before considering a final peace agreement. ; "We are optimistic,' rebel commander Rolando Moran said. "We have absolute confidence in all sectors of Guatemalan society." The Guatemalan government on Tuesday announced a crackdown on corrupt military and other government officials, a move that rebel leaders saw as a sign of good faith. . Nineteen people were arrested, including a former deputy defense secretary, as part of a crackdown this week on a nationwide the administration of President Alvaro Arzu. smuggling ring. . During talks, the guerrillas and allied civil groups called for a smaller, better-traine- d Both sides have stuck to a March ceasefire and are to sign a final truce in Oslo, Nor- military dedicated solely to protecting the way, in October. country's border and answerable to civilian The final accord is expected to be signed authority. later this year in Madrid and will lay out Arzu purged the military's top command plans for demobilizing up to 2,000 guerrillas shortly after he took office in January, forcstill hiding in the Guatemalan countryside. ing four generals into retirement and susGuatemala's leftist rebels have fought to pending three others. In another concession to the rebels, the overthrow a series of rightist governments has begun demobilizing they contend ignored the needs of the coun- government try's impoverished Indian majority. The Guatemala's rural militiamen, who were conflict has killed more than 140,000 peoblamed for massive human rights violations . ple, most of them civilians suspected of in the 1980s. rebel The militia often and collaborators. served as being eyes, ears, "Guatemalans have lived a dark era durassassins, for the military in the heavily ing which authoritarianism and the lack of indigenous highlands where the worst of the institutions, far from solving the tensions in rights abuses took place. While officially volunteers, many militiamen were practicalsociety, worsened them," Moran said. Peace talks picked up speed this year ly conscripted, believing that refusal would under the guidance of the United Nations and label them as subversive. . New monument won't be By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press Writer Find it D4 B5 Arts Business Classified Ads. Comics Crossword Legals El C7 E7 El Dl Lifestyle Movies D6 .B2 .A6 Obituaries Opinions Sports State CI .BJ D6 Television ..A5 World Weather Tonight and Saturday partly cloudy. Lows See Page A4. Highs 45-5- 0. mid-70- s. SALT LAKE CITY Ameri- ca's newest national monument will offer up utter solitude to the hardiest of hikers, . but its labyrinthine canyons and vermilion cliffs will be too forbidding for tour buses and RV vacationers. At a ceremony Wednesday at the more accommodating Grand Canyon National Park, President Clinton created the largest national monument in the lower 48 states 1.7 million acres saying it would protect the landscape's scenic beauty and rich resources for future generations. But those venturing onto the NationGrand Staircase-Escalan- te al Monument's high plateaus of slickrock or descending into -explored narrow canyons would be to talk to the few people who have gone there. "There are no smooth, canyon bottoms to follow ... nor any published hiking guides. Routes are pencil lines on a topographic map," warns a description of the lonely Karparowili Plateau. seldom- Air Quality The air quality today is good for all areas along the Wasatch Front The forecast calls for little change in pollution levels with a clearing index of 1,000 plus and there is little change in the trend. See Page A2. well-advis- ed well-water- ed an Indian word Kaiparowits mountain home of "the meaning is a main feature these people" of the monument and contains at least 300 known ancient Indian sites. The plateau stretches from the small town of Escalante southeast to Colthe orado River. It has been described as one ot the uatemala vehicle-friendl- y of Kaiparowits challenges inches wide a burning buff-colore- d, UOailtlOn petrified and dunes orange stone Related stories, canyons cut the Pages B1 & B3 by Escalante least-visitRiver and its wild areas in the Southwest, and tributaries draining into the Colorado River, which serves as the the names given some sites are fitting: Death Ridge, Carcass monument's eastern border. The monument abuts Capitol Canyon, The Scorpion and Last Reef National Park to the northeast Chance Gulch. According to the Utah Wilder-- : and Bryce Canyon National Park ness Coalition, "It is a fierce and on the west. Hikers can also wend their way dangerous place, and it is wilder-- 1 ness right down to its burning on foot through the maze of the some of Escalante Canyons core." But while the blue-gree- n wedge them 100 feet deep and just 10 d ot and and is to its Wilderness that can open into amphitheatres. At the southern border is the Grand Staircase, a 7,000-foincline of redrock cliffs and terraces, their strata filled with fossils dating back some 4 billion years. The "staircase" climbs steadily from the Grand Canyon in northern Arizona to Bryce National Park, one of nine national parks, monuments and recreation areas already established in the southern part of the Beehive State. The region is one of the most arid in the country and land managers say failure to pack in water is one of the biggest hazards for hikers. And when it does rain, dirt roads are quickly transformed into muck. ribbons of slick, grease-lik- e Entire sections routinely arc washed out. "I got trapped myself up there last week," Verlin Smith, manager of the BLM's Kanab Resource area, said Thursday. "I tried to wait it out," Smith said, "but it got to the point where we just walked out eight miles to (the town of) Escalante." smooth-walle- - "It i By STEPHEN J. SIEGEL The Daily Herald Washington Correspondent ! WASHINGTON Frank j Goode, the man convicted for ; a rare and unprovoked attack on Kep. Bill Orton in the basement of the U.S. Capitol last spring, was sentenced I I? Thursday j I u hut V'W l .Cgiven no I Miorton jail time. Instead. uooae, ji, was piacea on probation, required to stay 2 away from the U.S. Capitol complex and the area imme- diately around it, and was ordered to get psychiatric jj 1 counseling. 3 The incident occurred J March 29 as Orton, was walking to the House floor from his Capitol Hill office building. Goode, then an employee" of the architect of the Capitol, -approached from the opposite 2 direction. He banged shouI:3 ders with Rep. Ron Klink, D--Z Pa., who was walking ahead" 1 of Orton. 2 Orton asked Klink if bethought the bump was intejvj tional, but before the conv5; sation could be concluded; 5 Orton was hit from behind by Goode with sufficient force to J knock the Utah lawmaker fij the ground. Klink and Rep. Kareg-Thurmcalled 2$ 2 Police, wo2 nearby Capitol quickly arrested Goode. Goode had no criming record, and he was rrpt acquainted with Klink , - I5 the most experienced hiker, there are areas on the northern borders of the monument that tourists can see from a vehicle. State Highway 12, considered is fierce danger- one of the wilder- most scenic it place, drives , in right down America, core." winds ush th.c Utah ous ness Orton's ;; attacker sentenced ' ed ' f Jj an, D-Fl- lZ (See ORTON, Page A2)j: 3 i1a''iEfiig!BlmiVigiHiat3fftaEg' 1 T |