Show 0HEEIEHZZZ3 SATURDAY Forecast: Sunny and warm today fair tonight 2A Wanner Sunday OGDEN 3 ILQCA U iiWiltoMnriiifflifa Single dads cherish kids Old Calory Men learn lessons of love and nurturing 6A Flag Day 1D Army’s birthday has its day DDO marks SERVING NORTHERN UTAH SINCE 1888 UTAH 50 CENTS Utah plays waiting game today Supporters cross fingers that Olympics bid works By RALPH WAKLEY Standard Exam nef staff SALT LAKE CITY — Salt Lake City will be selected to host the 1998 Winter Olympics Lt Gov Val Oveson predicted Friday night during a rally at the Salt Lake City and County Building “We're here to celebrate Salt Lake being awarded the 1998 Winter Games tomorrow'” Oveson told about 1000 people attending the downtown block party The gathering of Utahns to be entertained by two bands and a fireworks show was on the eve of the International Olympic Committee's meeting in Birmingham England to select the Will Winter Games host Salt Lake is the United States candidate to host the 1998 Winter Ohmpics The other finalists are: Aosta Italy Ja-c- a Spain Nagano Japan and Ostcrsund Sweden The party which continues today is being called the “Beacon to Birmingham” As part of that residents on Friday night were asked to leave a porch light on and one side of the City and County Building was covered in light bulbs The crowd which was invited to bring flashlights swelled as the night wore on Oveson said he had talked to Gov Norm Bangerter who was among more than 200 Utahns attending the IOC meeting and that Bangerter “was very optimistic about our chances We anticipate there will be several ballots” by the IOC three or possibly four Oveson predicted before the winning city is determined When the IOC votes members cast ballots until one city has a clear majority Even if fortune does not smile on Salt Lake City’s bid today the Utah city eventually will be successful said former Olympian William Spencer of Sandy “Eventually it will come here probably in 2002” said Spencer who competed in the biathlon in the 1964 and '68 W inter Olympics “Salt Lake already has most of the facilities to do a good job I just hope the Utahns with experience from previous Olympics would have an opportunity to provide that experience to make the Salt Lake Winter Games a success” Participants in the ‘Beacon to Birmingham’ By WENDY OGATA Standard Examiner staff BIRMINGHAM England — Late Friday afternoon about 24 hours before Salt Lake City would find out if it gets to host the 1998 Winter Olympics Tom Welch was as elusive as light off water He had been in the Salt Lake Olympics Bid Committee office in the Hyatt Regency but then someone said he had gone over to a news conference and someone else said he was at the media center in the International Convention Center His wife Alma didn't know where he was His son Chris had checked out the news conference and said his dad wasn’t there wide-scree- His secretary Stephanie A skydiving exhibition another fireworks display II musical or dance groups and skiers exhibiting their skills on a plastic-covere- d alpine slope and a jump and on a track made of 30 truck loads of snow hauled down from the Wasatch Mountains also will entertain the crowd today y' Olympic steeplechaser Henry Marsh will carry a torch from the steps of the Utah Capitol this morning and hand y skier Ingrid Butts who will ignite a it off to larger Olympic torch on the square cross-countr- Salt Lake City watch the celebration from a flag monument Friday night Welch bid committee have no regrets The outcome of the IOC vote will be shown live on a sun telex lsion on the City and County Buildper north plaza The results are expected to be ing's announced about noon today cross-countr- in predicts Salt Lake City will be hosting the 1998 Winter Olympics Val Oveson sug- gested trying the media center and if he wasn’t there she didn’t know where he might be After pushing through a couple of doors to enter a long hallway to the media center’s rear entrance Welch’s familiar figure was spotted leaning casually against a wall talking to someone After breaking off that conversation he spent a few minutes reflecting on the bid that he has chaired concluding that he won't have any regrets whether Salt Lake City gets the 1998 Games or not Yeltsin: Communism can’t be saved MOSCOW (AP) — Boris Yeltsin said Friday there was no way to save the Communist system and his top priority as the Russian republic's first popularly elected president was pressing ahead with radical reforms In his first public comment on his victory eltsin pledged to restore the historic Wednesday ties between Soviet Union's biggest republic and Europe He also said he hoped to start a dialogue with the United States during a visit to Washington next week Yeltsin was in a buoyant mood at the Russian parliament raising his glass in a champagne toast with visiting Ukrainian lawmakers in an ornate reception hall with a panoramic view of the Moscow River “It seems to me that Communists and honest Communists are starting to understand the system is beginning to collapse and there is no way to save it" he said speaking to reporters after the meeting Yeltsin's grand vision of a Russia with family farms private businesses and easy links to the outside world would transform seven decades of centralized Communist rule Yeltsin said Soviet President Mikhail S Gorbachev telephoned him Friday to congratulate him on his election The two men discussed their future cooperation he said Anatoly Lukyanov chairman of the Supreme or parliament denied at a news conference in London that Veltsin’s victory was a decisive rebuff either for the Soviet Communist Party or for Communism itself “The concept of perestroika is the reconstruction of a society which has made a socialist choice” said Lukyanov a close ally of Gorbachev Lukyanov said Yeltsin would now have to switch from playing the role of opposition leader to one where his responsibilities would be greatly in- See Yeltsin on 2A So-vi- et “I don’t know in looking back if we could have or should have done anything different than we did” he said That seems to be the general albeit informal agreement: that Salt Lake City would be the best city in which to place the Games Welch said But Atlanta’s hosting of the 1996 Summer Games is a major mental hurdle to overcome for the International Olympic Committee members of which have rarely awarded k games to the same country “Our job (today) in the final presentation is to make it as difficult as we can for them to not select the best city” Welch said The bid chairman said he expects today to be pretty calm for him “I’m going to spend the morning thanking the committee and the staff that have worked so hard for so many years” he said “I’ve brought some personal mementoes that I want to give them” Welch said he’ll also probably spend time reviewing the final presentation to be given to the IOC members by the bid group and visit with the 240 or so boosters from Utah in England “Then we’ll do our presentation and following that we’ll either have a celebration or a wake” Bid vice president Dave Johnson said he had no regrets in the last 24 hours leading up to the decision “Everyone’s done an incredible job from the business See WELCH on 2A back-to-bac- Louisiana governor vetoes abortion bill BATON ROUGE La (AP) — Gov Buddy Rocrner said Friday he vetoed a strict bill anti-aborti- overwhelmingly that’s the word of doctors Ex-presiden- June 15 1991-- Vol 104 No 166 remains to be tested for poison t’s Kv (AP) — The crypt of Zachary Taylor will be opened Monday to test an author's theory that the 12th president of the United States was assassinated LOUISVILLE with poison The 141 US years ago Department t of Veterans Affairs planted approval Tridav for Jefferson County Coroner Richard Greathouse to open the crypt in the Zachary Taylor National Cemetery vvhJ contains the remains of Tavlor and his wife Taylor C lata Rising of Holder I la who is gathering information for a book on Taylor planned to be present when Greathouse removes a sample of Taylor's remains for analvsis Gieathouse plans to see if there's anv traic of poison through the analysis of a piece of hair fingernail or hone Dr William Maples a forensic anthropologist at the I University of Florida in Gainesville who specializes in skeletal remains also is expected to be on hand Monday He believes Taylor's symptoms were consistent with arsenic poisoning History books would have to be rewritten should Taylor's death be confirmed as a homicide Abraham Lincoln the nation's 16th president is regarded as the first American leader to be assassinated But another expert who wrote a recent book on Taylor believes there's little chance for a rewrite of history Dr Elbert B Smith professor ementus of the University of Maryland Department of History said he’d be “shocked and astounded” if there was any evidence that Taylor was poisoned Taylor died of gastroenteritis which became acute because of malpractice by the attending physicians Smith said Smith author of "The Presidencies of Zachary Taylor and Millard I illmore" said there would have been no motive or oppoitunity to kill Taylor Buddy Roemer last approved week by the Louisiana Legislature setting the stage for an overrnde effort Rocrner said the bill puts too much pressure on doctors and burdens rape victims with a requirement they report sexual attacks within a week "As the bill stands now it’s definitions and terminology are so vague that doctors will be unwilling to risk their liberty and professional careers by terminating any form of pregnancy at all” he said “And not me " Rocrner had met with advocates from both sides of the abortion issue including doctors and had lunch with abortion rights activists at the governor's mansion before the announcement The bill sponsored by Rep Sam Theriot could imprison doctors who perform abortions for one to 10 years and fine them up to $100000 Its backers hope it will be used to overturn the 973 Supreme Court decision that established abortion rights 1 Theriot said he'll lobby to over- turn the veto and supporters said the may call for an override vote as early as next week Roemer said he still considers himself an opponent of legal abortion in most cases but that exceptions in the bill allowing abortions Although he Is against abortion in most cases he says the bill was too restrictive for victims of rape and incest were too restricti vely drawn Roemer vetoed similar legisla- tion last year because it didn’t allow abortions for victims of rape or incest Theriot's bill did The governor's floor leaders tried to persuade lawmakers to liberalize rape and incest provisions and to allow abortions in cases where fetuses are so badly deformed that they wouldn't live long past birth “Once again the governor has sided with the abortion providers He is clearly a candidate” said Sharon I ontenot of the Louisiana chapter of the National Right to Life Committee pro-aborti- Roemer’s action was praised by the National Abortion Rights Action league in Washington Lxecu-tiv- e director Kate Michelman said the bill was dangerous to women and urged state lawmakers not to override the veto 'I |