Show r mranmnzzi SUHDAY Forecast: Gusty winds and showers V I w 2A f ¥ M MS i i'M Cooler c - iV p’' k Mki ZZ3 The first day back to vork Women returning after maternity leave IF SERVING NORTHERN UTAH SINCE OGDEN UTAH v TTT 1888 $125 Kurdish leaders make their case v Refugee plight spurs negotiations REBEL HEADQUAR- TERS Northern Iraq (AP) — Leaders of four Kurdish groups are in Baghdad trying to negotiate a peaceful settlement to the rebellion against Saddam Hussein rebel sources said Saturday The talks started Friday after Saddam expressed readiness “to discuss everything with the Kurdish side except secession” said one source close to the Kurdish leadership All of the sources spoke on condition of anonymity The Kurds had been reluctant to negotiate fearing Saddam would renege on any agreement once his government recovered from its shattering defeat in Kuwait But a spokesman for one Kurdish group said rebel leaders were spurred to act by the plight of hundreds of thousands of Kurdish refugees who are struggling against cold hunger and disease in the mountains bordering Turkey and Iran The refugees fled their homes in northern Iraq when Saddam’s forces crushed the rebel uprising which began after Iraq lost the Gulf War The United States and other Western nations are sending troops into northern Iraq to build camps for the Kurdish refugees and protect them from the Iraqi D KURDISH CAMPS: Too many people and too few supplies 6A army But the allies made clear they would not intervene to help the Kurds’ rebellion and Kurdish leaders have conceded they could not topple Saddam without foreign help A rebel source said the leaders went to Baghdad after consulting with the permanent members of the UN Security Council — the United States Britain France China and the Soviet Union “They were asked whether they would be prepared to guarantee any agreements reached with Saddam and some have already agreed to do so” the source said The source would not give any specific details A US diplomat at the United Nations who also spoke on condition of anonnmitysaid she was unaware of any discussions with the Kurds in New York But she said the permanent members had a regularly scheduled meeting Monday and that the Kurdish situation had been a prominent topic in their recent meetings The White House said Saturday it had no knowledge of the meeting in Baghdad but did not object to talks that might lead to a peaceful return for the refugees Green movement gets more down to earth Boston Globe clutches his new mother’s hand as he navigates the mysteries and Romanian adoption process on ID Lois Gibbs the Love Canal crusader who has come to symbolize one of the worst environmental disasters in this century doesn’t call herself an environ- mentalist “When you say ‘environmental- By CHARLES meeting on Romania Stott said to give prospective parents an idea of what they are getting themselves into The exchange has sent people from its Denver headquarters to Romania twice to assess conditions there and to help the adoption process The exchange also has references for people considering such an adoption to help them prepare for what they will find in Romania But the exchange’s main business is finding homes for American babies Of those it has a large supply But Stott is candid in admitting they aren’t what most American families want What most American families want she said arc white babies who are healthy What she has she said are black and Hispanic babies who aren’t “I understand people’s overwhelming desire for healthy Caucasian babies” she said “I don’t agree with it but I understand it” See BABY on 2A F TRENTELMAN Standard Examiner staff SALT LAKE CITY — When the Rocky Mountain Adoption Exchange held an information meeting on Romanian babies more than 300 people showed up No big deal you say? Well consider: they held that meeting Jan 16 the night US planes started bombing Iraq The whole world was watching television that night Everyone apparently but the people desperate for children “I hate to think what we’d have had if it had been a normal night" said Suzanne Stott adoption consultant for the Exchange Romania has in the past six months become a kind of “El Dorado" of the adoption business Hundreds of people from the United States and other Western countries are going there to adopt children abandoned in its orphanages and hospitals Thousands of homeless Romania has in the past six months become a kind of (EI Dorado’ of the adoption business children are the result of the citizenry following Romanian government policies under former dictator Nicolae Ceausescu that promoted large families but didn’t provide any way to care for them at home Ceausescu’s government was overthrown in December 1989 part of the massive wave of revolution that sw'ept Eastern Europe Ceausescu and his wife Elena were tried and executed Dec 25 of that year and the country opened up to the West allowing news reports for the first time of the massive abuses and squalid conditions of among other things the country’s jammed orphanages Since then hundreds of US families dozens from Utah have made the trip to adopt those children The Jenkins family of Roy brought back two children late last year The Dunkley family also of Roy adopted a little boy in February The Rocky Mountain Adoption Exchange isn’t in the Romanian baby business Most adoptions it handles are handicapped and abused children m the United States There are 35000 such children now eligible and ready for adoption The exchange held the ist’ the image you get is of some person eating yogurt or bean sprouts” says Gibbs a working mother of two “We folks at the level are generally people who smoke cigarettes drink Budweiser and like to eat at McDonald’s” Like many community activists fighting toxic dump sites or sludge incinerators in their backyards Gibbs hasn’t found much common ground with what she perceives as a chic middle-clas- s movement that keens for exotic rain forests but neglects the victims of industrial pollution in the ghettos and rural backwaters at home Twenty-on- e years after the first Earth Day environmentalism is still often seen as a luxury typified by yuppies buying expensive recycling bins for their custom kitchens In much the same way that feminism initially appeared to have little relevance to poor and minority women struggling inner-cit- y communities rarely have had the time or the inclination to save the whales Now an increasingly vocal core of activist groups is pushing to grass-root- s blue-coll- ar EARTH DAY 1991 bring Earth Day down to earth to expand the nation’s mainstream environmental focus to include public-healt- h concerns as well as the health of the planet and its creatures It is a difficult and sensitive crusade aimed at integrating the naturalism of the days of John Muir and Teddy Roosvelt with the radical politics of the 1960s Unavoidably it unearths thorny issues of elitism class and race “We’re trying to reshape the whole notion of what the environmental movement is in America to make it more inclusive" says Benjamin Chavitz Jr director of the national Commission for Racial Justice of the United Church of Christ “We are witnessing a convergence of values and understanding where what e would normally be a social-jus-Se- EARTH on 2A T"" Schwarzkopf due back on American turf today RIYADH Saudi Arabia (AP) — Gen H Norman Schwarzkopf bid farewell to Operation Desert Storm on Saturday and headed home to an adoring public that lionized him as “Stormin’ Nor- man" He flew away with much of the staff from his US Central Command headquarters declaring: “We completed our mission" Schwarzkopf ended 257 davs of command operations and officially brought to an end the US combat role in the Persian Gulf Tewcr than 260000 American servicemen and women remain from a peak of 540000 during the Gulf war lucrative speaking engage- - ments job offers and book deals await Schwarzkopf as docs the persistent speculation about a political future for the popular hero of the crushing allied victory over Iraq He gave no hint about what he plans to do after he retires this summer after 35 years in the Army but he knocked down speculation he would run for a US Senate scat from Florida next year Asked if he had plans for a career in politics he replied: “None " “Fm going to go home That’s what’s next lor me” he said As many as 20000 people were expected to jam MacDiU Air Force Base outside Tampa Fla multimil-lion-doll- ar this morning for the arrival of Schwarzkopf and nearly 400 of his staff members — so many that base officials urged the public to stay home and watch it on television As he boarded his military jet at Riyadh Air Base the general turned at the top of the steps saluted smiled and gave a sweeping wave of the’ hand In his farewell speeech Schwarzkopf also bid farewell to Saudi Arabia “Obviously I am looking forward to getting home to my country and my family” he said “But I also feel I am leaving a family behind me here and I feci I am leaving a country behind” In his farewell speech he expressed sympathy for the more than 40000 refugees in southern Iraq and the estimated 23 million Kurds who fled their homes in northern Iraq after their uprising against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein failed He said American troops would remain in a newly established UN demilitarized zone to protect “every single refugee in the southern part of Iraq" until the United States is assured they will be safe from reprisals by Saddam Schwarzkopf will continue to command US forces in the Persian Gulf from Tampa ' Gen H Norman Schwiarzkopf i |