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Show POWER OUTAGE SOCKS THE WEST / A-11 | CheSaltLake Cribunc mm 1896-1996 Utah’s Independent Voice Since 1871 Volume 252 Number 119 143 South Main Street (601)237-2800 SUNDAY/AUGUST 11, 1996 http://www.sltrib.com TODAY'S READERSHIP: 407,000 © 1996, The Salt Lake Tribune SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 84111 Even Utah Has the Dole-Drums Most GOP Supporters Are Predicting a Loss © 1996, THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Even in a Republican citadel such as Utah, Bob Dole has his work cut out for him. A statewide FQR PRESIDENT Salt Lake Tribune poll has the pre- Do you believe Dole is the best Repubican candidate to challenge Clinton? (Asked onty of those respondents pckang Dole) sumed GOP nominee running almost even with President Clinton among committed respondents. Perhaps the moretelling result of this past week's canvass was a perception among Utahns of Dole's vulnerability. Even a majority of his own following doesn't believe he can beat the Democratic presi- Yes (RRR 47% No CRI 46% Uesure am Independent of how you will vote or wish the outcome to be in Novem- ber, which candidate do you predict will win? Bob Dole MMM 15% 8 Cin I 6e*. Unsore GN 17% dent come Nov. 5. Thesurvey of 507 registered voters or those whosaid they plan to register before Election Day showed 36 percent for Clinton and 31 percent for Dole — considered a dead heat given the 4.5 percent marginof error. Still, Dole’s chances for winning Utah remain high, since 28 percent of the r were und Unsure aay 16%, and, as a group, tendedto lean Republican, according to Valley Research of Salt Lake City, The Tribune’s independent pollster. But his potential Election Day voters appear unexcited atthis point. The survey was conducted before Dole’s selection of supply- Ht you could only have one result, which Kemp as a running mate and measures only how Utahns would vote ‘Do you support (presidential candidate Bob Dole's call for) an average 15% cut in income taxes and a $500-per-child tax credit? Yes NE So%. No MEER 26% Cliff Schiappa The Associated Press Jack Kemp and wife Joanne,left, join Bob and Elizabeth Dole, with daughter Robin, right, in Kansas on Saturday. Teaming Up, Bearing Down side-economics advocate Jack if the election — still about three months away — were held today. Minor-party candidates garnered 5 percent of the vote in The Tribune's hypothetical election. Even so, the results demonstrate Dole’s most critical challenge: making people believe he can beat Clin- Utah Delegates Hope GOPTicket GetsLift It Needs ton. Here is what the survey found: Q:=: who of what oughtto have the final say on whether a woman has an abortion? BY DAN HARRIE THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Most of Utah's 56-member delegation Of those who said they would vote for Dole, 46 percent thought the Republican Party could have fielded a stronger nominee. @ Whenit comes to which candidate Utahnsbelieve will win in November, some 2 in 3 respondents — including 57 percent of those who said they would vote for Dole — answered Clinton. to the National C ion — including contingents of anti-abortion ac- tivists, business leaders and elected officials — arrives today in San Diegoto join Monday's kickoff of the partisan bash culminating Thursday in the nomination of Bob Dole. “If you like politics, it’s the place to @ By more than a 2-to-1 margin, Government § 3% The woman (MATARGIED 69% Doctor IB 9% Other 10% ‘Survey by Valley Research inc of 509 adult be,” said Gov. Mike Leavitt, the delega- tion leader come taxes and a $500-per-child But San Diegois not the place for suspense. tax credit. @ When asked which was more Religion | 1% Unsure Gi 8% Utahns identify with Dole’s proposal for a 15 percent reduction in in- Ca No surprises await the thousands of GOP loyalists, whose job during the next four days is not so much to make Dole their presidential candidate as it is to important, balancing the budget or lowering taxes, Utahns by almost 3to-1 gave budget problems top pri- make himlook good. Thereal audience is not in the San Diego Convention Center, but at home,in frontof the tube. See TRIBUNE POLL,Page A-3 Dole, Kemp Pledge To Go All-Out To Beat Clinton i GOP CONVENTION [Utah's Leavitt to address America A2 Uphill battle is just starting for Dole @ Perotlikely to get Reform Party’snod BA puzzling thing about third parties @ Politicians have forgotten poverty ‘Corporations cash in on conventions Norma Matheson still is serving Utah AS AS _A-9 A-20 4 4 The functions that used to be what po- litical conventions wereall about now are just formalities. Dole sewed up the nomi- nation months ago during the primaries and dispensed with the last big decision Saturday when he unveiled Jack Kemp as his running mate. All that’sleft for delegates is to ratify the done deals and cheer See UTAH DELEGATES, Page A-2 Bomb-Building Made Easy For anyone bent on making a pipe typing a few words. “It's extremely easy,” said Utah Coun- ty sheriff's Sgt. Jim Tracy, the department’s bomb technician. “If you have a connection to the Web, you can getit.” And itall is legal. ¢ it is against the law to construct or possess a bomb,it is notillegal either to put a instructions on the Net or to download them into your computer. In fact, bombrecipes have been around in libraries and bookstores for years. And the pubiications have faced the same First Amendmentfights that the Internet is grappling with today. “The Internet is not a sourceofinfor. See BOMB MAKING,Page A-6 @ How the intemet can be addicting A? <oncaneenasenaeppnnennniieisanrnemaneliliditin, Kemp, a former professional-football hearts” of all Americans. We want to and intend to represent the whole American family,’ Kempsaid. “No onewill be left behind and no one will be turned away. That's the Bob Dole vision for America.” Kemp sounded most exuberant when he praised Dole for embracing massive See RUNNING MATES,Page At? Utahnsare discovering that child advocacybylitigation is a slow-moving process. BYVINCE HORIUCHI THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE ing manuals such as the Anarchist’s the White House. quarterback, pledged a tireless campaign from the “boroughs of New Yorkto the barrios of California,” reaching out and “shaking the hands and touching the INSIDE AndIt’s Luring Utah Teens, Others Into Web of Danger Cookbook. Because the Internet's World Wide Webis simple to navigate,all it takes is ly buried the hatchet Saturday as they embraced one anotherat a colorfulrally in Dole’s hometown and vowed to work together to drive President Clinton from Sunnyandsizzling hot statewide. _WEATHER,PageB-8 Onthe Internet bomb like the one that ignited the fatal blast at Atlanta’s Centennial Olympic Park, detailed instructions are just a few keystrokes away. Now,it is easier than everto find such directions on the increasingly popular Internet. It does not take much computer savvy to find copies of how-to bomb-mak- COMBINED NEWS SERVICES RUSSELL, Kan, — Undera vast prairie sky, Bob Dole and Jack Kemp official- “ “1 was beaten so much, I didn’t feel anything anymore.”’ We were no longer men, We became KEMAL MEHINOVIC , ae >. 1 was losing my animals.” mind. . . You aren't the sameperson.”” HASAN SUBASIC SEAD MEHIC “We were all scared because it was right next to Serbia.”? THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE If international war-crimes prosecu- tors ever need more evidence for their cases against Serb atrocities in Bosnia, they should visit Salt Lake City. Here they would find Ado, Hasan, Kemal, Mehmed, Osman, Re Ridvo, Salco and Sead ‘These men, who are among some 1,000 Bosnian refugees in Utah, were witnesses to and victims of someof the worst crimes against hemanity to occur in Europe since World WarIl Though their names and faces are unique, each man tells a similar story: Each was arrested at or near his heme by were constant. All eventually wound up in Batkovic, a concentration camp near Bijeljina in northeastern Bosnia. “We were no longer men. We became animais,” says Hasan Subasic, who at age 27 is the youngest of the Batkovic survivors now living in Utah, where they were relocated by international charitable organizations. Five ago, Subasic — a welder, married with a newborn daughter — was living a comfortablelife in Bosnia-Herzeoe, & prospering republic of Yugosla- THE ARTS,Page E-1 A formerSalt Lake attorney has lios based on social causes are a losing proposition, BUSINESS, Page F-1 Woodstock legacyis a flock of Utah musical extravaganzas. Utah’s Bosnian Refugees Recount the Horror of Captivity Serb police. Each lost all of his possessions. Each was taken to a makeshift prison, where beatings, torture and murder four Utahnswill be in the cast. set out to disprove that pertfo- REDZO KURBEGOVIC HEART OF DARKNESS BYBRENT ISRAELSEN UTAH, Page B-1 A 3-run homerin the ninth beats the Buzz in Colorado SPORTS,Page C-1 When the national tour of “Les Miserables” returns to Utah, ATTITUDE,Page J-6 Then war broke out in neighboring Croatia, which declared its independence from Yugoslavia. Serbs in Croatia, backed by the powerful Serbian-based Yugosiav army, rebelied, taking centro! prbcogale along the Bosnian borer. In the spring of 1992, anticipating Bos- nia’s declaration ofi face,Servs in Bosnia, also backed by Yugoslavia, began taking contro! of eastern and northern Bosnia, town by town. One of the most militarily strategie of those towns was Bosanski , known simply as Samac, on icuitural-indnstrial city of about 33, people located See REFUGEES, Page A-14 4 hanLanderg 43 ModeColumn. 59 Barben/Bel... BS Moves... 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