| Show L n BOND ISSUE US OLYMPICS LDS HISTORIAN STILL AT ISSUE HOPES REBUILD FACES PAST leader says PTAs misused to get out vote Page 1C Janet Evans shatters her Woman treats Mountain Meadows Massacre as a tragedian Page IF Tax-prote- st own world swimming record Page IB 'ANBARB EXAMINE -- OGDEN SERVING NORTHERN UTAH SINCE 1888 UTAH 50 CENTS Wright on defensive for remarks about CIA sabotage peace talks He told a reporter later that CIA officials had made the admission under congressional question- WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Jim Wright defended himself today against charges that he improperly disclosed a covert CIA operation in Nicaragua as Republican leaders formally asked for an investigation of his actions “I haven’t revealed anything that was committed to me as secret or classified” Wright told a reporter “I am not a member of the (House) Intelligence Committee I have not been present at the secret classified briefings I have simply said what is generally known and what is true” But Wnght declined to specifically say how he had learned of the covert operation in Nicaragua or whether he had been told of it informally by as ing Jim Wright He won’t say how he learned of covert operation an Intelligence Committee member Wright on Tuesday said he had received “clear testimony” from the CIA that the agency had fomented opposition demonstrations in Nicaragua to provoke the leftist Sandinista government and He repeated the assertion to reporters today noting that the Reagan administration had not disputed it “In late August of last year I became aware that elements of the US government were seeking to foment disturbances with a view to seeing if they could provoke” the Sandinistas into a crackdown that would derail peace talks Wright said “That seems to me just intolerably he said Wright added that he had been given “indirect assurance” that the practice has now been halted To bolster his case that the CIA activ two-face- d” ity already was well know'n Wright dis- tributed a list of news stories that document agency activity in Nicaragua The list included past CIA actions such as mining Nicaraguan harbors secretly resupplying the Contra rebels and supporting opposition groups but contained no specific mention of covert efforts at fomenting civil unrest and demonstrations Meanwhile House Minority Leader Bob Michel and Rep Dick Chechairman of the House Reney publican Conference asked for an investigation of Wright’s actions in letters late Wednesday to the House ethics and intelligence committees “Because of the possibility such a disclosure (of classified information) may R-I- ll R-W- have occurred we are writing to ask your committee to promptly and thoroughly investigate the circumstances sur- SALT LAKE CITY — Depositors in five failed Utah thrifts could have 80 percent of their money by Christmas because of an compromise hammered out late Wednesday by state officials Senate Republicans met early Wednesday morning and publicly rejected a settlement proposed two weeks ago by Gov Norman Bangerter then spent the day chewing on a counterof- in Ogden rt By KRISTINE M LOOSLEY Standard Examiner staff Federal regulators moved into Utah Wednesday and took over an Ogden-base- d savings and loan then reopened it this morning with absolutely no change in operations day-to-d- The tired lawmakers emerged from a private caucus just before 6 pm to announce CALM: MountainWest tors remain calm their plait Immediately thereafter they went back behind closed doors this time in the governor’s office to further refine the compromise Dozens of elderly depositors wearing handmade signs saying “Thrifts NOW” packed the intermittently open caucuses and spent the rest of the day camped outside locked doors Senators closed the doors for good at 5:30 pm when an emotional depositor yelled curses and urged the lawmakers to action “You people are an abomination” screamed depositor Michelle Stratton “I’m sick and tired of waiting for you to get your acts together Do something to help these people They’re old they’re dying I’ve watched people die while they wait for you” Bangerter also criticized lawmakers during a 5 pm news conference “I think they’re doing a lot of talking and wasting some time up there” he said “I wish they See THRIFT on 2A Thrift IE LOSE: Nation's savings and IE Federal Home Loan Bank Board officials declared MountainWest Savings and Loan insolvent They simultaneously issued paper work making a technical change in the institution’s charter that effectively wipes away the bulk of the institution’s overhanging debt and gives current management a fresh start to continue a fragile rebuilding of the company’s assets Pat McJoynt vice president of mergers and acquisitions for the federal bank’s Seattle branch em- phasized the need for depositors to remain calm about the changes Gary depositors hold a discussion By JENNIFER PAUL in Clafkatanttord-Examine- r front of mural at the state Capitol as lawmakers caucus over thrift plan won’t delay shuttle launch Standard Examiner staff The Discovery shuttle launch likely won’t of old and be delayed because of a mix-u- p newly remodeled nozzle rings NASA olficials said today “The bottom line is we feel like this won’t have any impact on the launch” said NASA spokesman Dominic Amatore “If the records show that the old rings are of good quality there would be no safety or flight concern” Morton Thiokol and NASA are looking through paper work and plan to review previously taken of the nozzle rings in question The sleuthing ought to confirm that the right parts are on the two boosters of the Discovery perched for liftoff a week from to X-ra- ys day at Cape Canaveral in Florida A few days ago an inspector doing final checks discovered that rings were used in a nozzle on the fifth and final motor tested at Thiokol’s Utah plant to OK the shuttle for launch said Richard Perry director of program assurance with NASA headquarters in Washington DC “He ought to get a pat on the back” Perry said “It looks like an old error that finally caught up with us This nozzle was built up several years ago before we had improved our tight controls in quality assurance It’s very disappointing to us to have it come out at this time” Perry said the inspector was going over the final test motor and discovered an improper old-mod- el Study: State’s population to hit J deposi- loans continue to lose billions Mix-u- p SALT LAKE CITY — Utah’s population will hit 24 million by the year 2010 with Davis Morgan and Washington counties leading the growth charge say projections released by the state Office of Planning and Budget “Utah can be expected to experience continued relatively good growth through the remainder of the 20th century and well into the 21st The population growth rate in Utah is projected to be almost tw ice the grow th projected for the nation" the report said If the projections hold true census lakers in 1990 will find Utah has a population of I 8 million io ailing S&L ' Standard Examiner staff and wire reports hf Regulators take over By KRISTINE M LOOSLEY Standard Examiner staff fer to and events recommend appropriate action to the House of Representatives” Michel and Cheney said in a letter to ethics committee chairman Julian Dixon In a separate letter to Rep Louis Stokes chairman of the House intelligence panel they asked for an immediate meeting of the committee “to discuss these matters to ascertain whether any unauthorized disclosures have in fact occurred and to decide on an appropriate course of action” House Republicans were meeting today to discuss the Wnght matter and in See WRIGHT on 2A Officials reach compromise on thrifts out-of-cou- these rounding and just more than 2 million in 2000 Utah is expected to have close to 17 million people by the end of 1988 Much of the growth over the next 22 years will be from births “It is projected that 910000 births will occur to Utah residents between 1987 and 2010 While the number of births is expected to taper off for the next few years another surge is expected in the late 1990s" the report said noting that the number of deaths also will increase as more people age into the population group The report also predicted that will exceed out-m- i gration by 180000 over the projected period Washington Davis and Morgan counties are projected to get more than 2 percent of the population increase each year Washington County is expected to lead the state's population growth with a 31 percent yearly increase The county’s 1987 estimated population of 41000 could rise to more than 65000 by 2010 Davis County with the second-faste- st projected population growth should more than double its 1980 population of 148000 to 300000 m 2010 The county’s estimated population in 1987 was 179000 ring The rings are integral parts of the nozzle which is created by wrapping “carbon phenolic” cloth around a form The special material is shielding metal parts from furiously venting gases and helping direct its flow outside boosters as they lift off the shuttle during the first two minutes of heat-resista- flight “The nozzle is built of various segments of rings to form the whole nozzle and this is one of those segments” Perry said “It’s part of the insulating layer that’s built up over the metal the part that chars when you fire” Both the outdated and redesigned rings work well but the older ones were a little less resistant to heat Perry said Both have been See NOZZLE on 2A 24 million d us” said Sommcrkom assistant planning director for the county “It's about what we’ve been figuring on for some time We just have to figure out a way to handle it” Sommerkorn said much of Davis’ growth can be attributed to its proximity to the capital “A lot of growth from the Salt Lake area is coming into Davis County and has been for a long time because it’s so close to downtown Salt Lake And of course you have some job growth occurring at Hill” Along with the growth comes a bunch of challenges for county officials to deal with such as how ‘It’s not news to nt Wil-for- “As far as depositors are concerned nothing’s changed” she said Federal deposit insurance remains securely in place and the changes are generally regarded as a step toward profitability and potential recapitalization Federal officials have been trying all summer to find a merger partner for the struggling institution MountainWest was put on a national list of 21 savings and loans up for a special “expedited sale” McJoynt said Potential buyers were turned off however by lawsuits pending against the institution in at least three states she said Wednesday’s action insulates MountainWest from all liability and sets the stage for a merger infusion of new capital Wednesday’s action effectively squelches all the lawsuits through a tnck of paperwork The major legal threat is a suit by officials of the Teamster’s Union pension fund which has won judgments against former parent compaWinn Enterprises of ny See CHANGE on 2A Moun-tainWest- by 2010 to handle the numbers of school-ag- e children and providing services such as sewer and water he said “And how do you keep the whole area from looking like one giant suburb? How docs Centerville stay Centerville and Kays-vill- c stay Kaysville so that people can recognize them as separate distinct communities?" Sommerkorn said planners figure that Davis County m the next 10 to 20 years will become the first county in the slate to be cities" Aside from the mountain areas which are largely federally owned lands the See GROW on 2A 8 EOULO tMEDAU&TANDINGSl through Thursday Country ’s Sept 22 (Day 6) G S B T “wall-to-wa- ll ta Complete medals listing on Page 48 I |
