Salt Lake Tribune | 1996-03-26 | Page 2

MORNING BRIEFING A2 THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE TUESDAY, MARCH26, 1996 HEADLINERS |Montana: Federal agentsarrest F | head of militia-style group bS Whatdo youdoafter you insult the president and his personality Don Imus, you gloat “It doesn’t get any radio wife face-to-face at a black-tie soiree? If you're he better than this,” Imus said Mondayof the uproar caused last week at the annual Radio and Television Correspondents Association in Washington. Imus joked about President Clinton's alleged extramarital affairs Atlantic Ocean and Hillary Rodham Clinton's financial doings. Critics Fs Pacific Ocvan called the act tasteless and said the Clintonssat stonefaced, but Imus said that’s not true. “Someofit they loved. Someofit they hated,” he said. In fact, “I actually Pacific Ocean i Washington: Top Whitewater prosecution witness gets prison time y cut them someslack. This thing was so watered down I Terry Murphy, head of the correspondents association was embarrassed. of and a vice presidentof C-Span, felt compelled to send the Clintons a letter an Indian Ocvran expecting apology. Imuscalled the group “gutless weasels’ and said he is apology, too. The homeofthe late George Burns has beensold for about $2 million. more Burns, who died March 9 at age 100, lived in the large white house for Allen, than 60 years, since he built it for his wife and acting partner, Gracie the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday. The seven-bedroom., six-bathroom house, about 6,000 square feet, appeared in “The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show,” which ran from 1950 to 1958. Burns and his friend Jack Benny bought lots near each other in 1935. Burns paid $79,000 to build the house, pool house and pool. The house reportedly was sold to a local buyer who plansto live there. TODAY'S BRIEFING EDITORS:PeggyBoss Barney & Jennifer Sokolowsky Show's Over: China cooled its rhetoric and ended its war games Monday, and Can This Tether Be Trusted? Shuttle astronauts are preparing for Wednes- day's spacewalk in which Rich Clifford needed to build the planned joint U.S.Russian spacestation. The two will float that alarmed their Asian neighbors and shuttle by onlya tether. drew in the U.S. Navy, now are looking for ways to get relations back to normal. 248 miles abovethe earth, attached to the Details: A-L Wild Senate Debate: Utah wilderness cord producersaid his efforts to record an album with Celine Dion collapsed because people around her ning high on both sides. The controversy “were more interested in controlling the project than making history. You don’t tell Shakespeare what playsto write, or how to write them,” the reclusive Spec- Details: A-1 how to write them. And you certainly don’t tell Phil Spector what songs to write, or howto write them; or is such thatthe fate of the Omnibus Parks Bill, with its dozens of noncontroversial measures, remains clouded. Dormsin Danger: University of Utah Montana Militant Arrested: Federal agents in Montana on Mondayarrested Standoff in Kashmir: After a furious firefight that killed at least seven people LeRoySchweitzer, the leaderof a militiastyle group that is bent on gaining sovereignty from the United States and has and separatist militants on Monday were officials are eager to get started on a multimillion-dollar dormitory-construction project that will double as an athletes’ village during the 2002 Winter Olympics. But delays in acquiringa site at Fort Douglas is postponing the project at Kashmir's holiest site, Indian forces locked in a tense standoff at the shrine Details: A-1 Separatists were holed up inside. Any government strong-armtactics could disrupt NewDelhi’s plan to hold elections in the disputed state in May. Monolingual: In the face of a growing backlash to the use of Spanish as a second ChargesPlannedin Disco Fire: Hundreds in the Philippines held a late-night threatened law-enforcementofficers and judges, the FBI said. language in much of the nation, the Su- | daughter, Erica, dead with their throats cut. He wasthestate's first witness in the retrial of his eldest brother, Ron, in the double murder Details: B-1 Waterfall: David Hale, the top prosecution witness in the Whitewater trial of three formerassociates of President Clin» ton, was sentenced Mondayto 28 months in prison and fined $10,000 arising out of | his plea agreement two yearsago. Details: A-9 | | Nosey AboutNicotine: Smokers wanting to kick the habit will soon be able to | say chargeswill be filed today against six city officials and five owners in connection with the fire at the Ozone Disco Pub in suburban Quezon City. Intersection Open:South Jordanlead- UROPE/AFRICA ers have decided to open a controversial railroad crossing, where three teen-agers werekilled last year, to avoid a court battle with the city of Sandy and several busi- Special Thanks: Protected by sharpshooters, Hillary Rodham Clinton swooped into a military zone by Black Hawkhelicopter Mondayto deliver a personal “thank you, thank you, thank you” try a nicotine nasal spray that is stronger to U.S. troops. than nicotine gum and more powerful Details: B-2 Details: A-4 than nicotine patches. The Food and Drug Administration has approved the spray, designed to quell cigarette cravings nesses. South Jordan leaders had hoped to build a new frontage road to bypass the intersection, but didn’t get enough money from thestate. Electric Issue: Bowing to complaints from residents, the Salt Lake County Bone of Contention: Britain on Monmillion cattle, saying the latest scientific advice indicates British beef is safe. Deadly lilness: A deadlyand rareill- ness related to meningitis has attacked 70 people in southern Haiti this year,killing more than half of them, the U.N. mission reported Monday. U.N. spokesman Eric Falt said that since health officials began recording cases of the blood disease meningococcemia in March 1994, 200 cases have been reported, with about a 60 per- Meanwhile, European Union veterinary officials, in a 14-1 vote with Britain standing alone, imposed an immediate and in- definite ban on British beef imports. strong showings in Sunday's Germanelec- : BUSINESS | Dow Creeps Up: Stocks ended Monday tions for the three ies in the ruling coalition are an endorsementof the government, Chancellor Helmut Kohl said Monday.Butanalysts said the results may have more to do with dislike of the opposi- : most of the session from end-of-the-quar- tion than with support for the status quo. Basebali on Deck: Taylorsville High baseball team is No. 1 in the season-opening Class 5-A rankings, but coach Steve Medical History: Talbert Medical * Grouprecently struck a deal with United - HealthCare of Utah to provide medical services to its 100,000 insured members. | It is the first managed-care contract se- cured by the physician network, which » was reorganized under FHP last year. Details: B-7 | | Hundreds of groupies massed outside City Hall in the well-to-do suburb of Paris, Neyilly-Sur-Seine, where the # ceremonywas conducted by the mayor. Hallyday, credit- ed with bringing rock to France in 1959, has been among | France's top singers for decades. His songs include Let's Twist Again” and “‘Cheveux Longs, Idees Courtes (Long Hair, Short Ideas).”’ DEATHS Lola Beltran, a popular singer and actress in Mexico for more than four decades, died Sunday of a stroke: she was believedto bein her late 70s. J.D. Miller, whose song, “It Wasn't God Who Made Honky-Tonk Angels” became a hit for Kitty Wells in 1952, died Saturday of complications from heart surgery; he was 73. Vaclav Nelhybel, composer, conductor and former musical director of Radio Free Europe. died Friday; he was 76. BIRTHDAYS Today's: Retired ArmyGen. William Westmorelandis 82. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor is 66. Actor-director Leonard Nimoyis 65 TODAYIN HISTORY 1804 — TheLouisiana Purchase was dividedinto the Territoryof Orleans and the District of Louisiana. 1827 — Composer Ludwig van Beethovendied in Vienna. 1874 — Poet Robert Frost was born in San Francisco. 1892 — Poet Walt Whitman died in Camden, N.J. SUNDANCEFILM AWARDS & THE WORLD'S BIGGEST STAR OPINION ter profit-taking. The Dow Jonesindustri- al averagerallied in the final minutes to » close up 7.22 points at 5,643.86. Stocks: B-8 | electric wires and poles along 7000 South in Cottonwood Heights. Details: B-2 To the Top: Few places in Utah offer the solitude of a March ski tour to the summit of Delano Peak in the Tushar Mountainsin southern Utah. And Delano may just be the easiest peak over 12,000 feet to hike in the West Outdoors & Recreation: C-1 SPORTS mixed, after coming under pressure for o French rock legend Johnny Hallyday got married Mondayforthefifth time, to a freckle-faced teen-ager 34 yearshis junior. The 53-year-old “Idol of Youth” said 19-year-old Laeticia Boudou “was the lady I needed.” Actor Alan Arkin is 62. Actor James Caanis 56. Author Erica Jong is 54 Journalist Bob Woodwardis 53. Singer Diana Ross is 52. TVpersonality Vicki Lawrence is 47. Comedian Martin Short is 46. TV personality Leeza Gibbonsis 39. Actress Jennifer Grey is 36. DAYBREAK It Beats the Alternative: Surprisingly . cent mortality rate. Tina Turner. action comesin reaction to Utah Power's plans to install new high-voltage overhead Commission is considering a six-month moratorium on erecting utility poles. The day lifted the death sentence against 4.5 — Spector produced hits by the Righteous Brothers, the Ronettes and Ike and choking back tears, testified on Monday about how he came home one day in 1984 to find his wife, Brenda, and their baby at an overcrowded nightclub, Prosecutors | what records to produce, or how to produce them.” Emotional Testimony: Allen Lafferty. the at least 157 victims of a March 18 fire er reviving an Arizonavoterinitiative that makes English the only language for ‘‘all governmentfunctions and actions.” Details: A-3 tor said in a rare statement faxed to Entertainment Weekly. “You don't tell Mozart what operas to write, or and has someofficials worried Details: B-1 vigil and memorial Mass on Monday for premeCourtsaid Mondayit would consid- * > » > » ~ Mess with Phil Spector, originator of rock ‘n’ roll’s Wall of Sound, and you're messing with genius. The re- legislation dominated debate in the U.S. Senate on Monday,andfeelings are run- ‘Taiwan proposed a significant trade concession to Beijing, suggesting that the rivals, having plunged into a confrontation and Linda Godwin will test technology o UTAH/REGION ASIA/OCEANIA THE AMERICAS Cramblitt says the rankingis just based on history and winning a championship in Utah gets harder everyyear. Details: D-1 Bad Call: Square dancers are being banished from their traditional downtown hoedownthe night before the Pioneer Day parade and sent off to Wheeler Farm. Whatever the reasons, it’s not a square Taylor's Death Wass Quick... Bui Some Weren't So Lucky _Keatoe & =e Cybergap Amongthe Classes deal and the dancers’place in the celebration should be restored. Editorial: A-10 Last Night's Score Jazz 103, Dallas 86 THE CINPLIFIED ORGANIZATIONAL IT DOESNT MATTER WHICH ONE YOU ARE (T ONY MATTER WICK Wieyz26 } ; 3 ; } ; +ie + + t ai a e : Tt une (USPS 478-360) FS “Established age 15, 1871. 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