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Show MORNING BRIEFING SATURDAY,July 12, 1997 HEADLINERS af Tennessee: Judge says bullets differ from rifle in King assassination Hunter S. Thompson,the substance-abusing gonzo journalist, has been excused from serving as a juror in the drunken-driving case against singer John Denver. Thompson, famous for books and a Rolling Stone column chronicling his pharmaceutical adventures across America, reported to court Thursday. He was immedi- Pacific Ocean nee | A means { } ately excused from service for medical reasons: a case of ‘ Bosnia: Serbs post extra guards to ici ~cri / protect officials from war-crimes trials A ae » f North Carolina: mattDischarge recommended for sergeantin pinnings ay of “ sciatica that he said makes sitting for lo: nt periods of % fos aes Denver, ietes ae a iving-while-impaired charge in on drinkenina 1604 drchiaer-drietag easeHoompaca eataped 7%, ‘ i i tt, driving charges himselfin a plea bargain last April. Thailand: Scores Abad in Hotal blake |S" : De ~~? oe | 1 ) WAN vine CeesPah reA} () ‘mtverean Y Ty G — y es & re ov Qs eh,” As Tce ‘COLORADO ) TODAY'S BRIEFING EDITORS: Tom Baldwin and ThuanElston THE AMERICAS Little Help: The Clinton administration acknowledged that the much-debated NAFTA produced only modest benefits for the United States, but rejected argu- ments that the law was bad forthe nation. Details: A-1 ASIA/OCEANIA Deadly Stay: Scores of people were vatives finally were able to declare at least a partial victory Friday in their long struggle to do awaywith the National Endowmentfor the Arts Details: A-1 Pinning Mess: The practice of “blood pinning” at Camp Lejeune was brought to light in January by a ‘Dateline NBC” broadcast. A Marine general recommended Friday that a sergeant be discharged for a videotaped 1993 ritual in whichuniform pins were poundedinto paratroop- ers’ chests. Details: A-3 Shot From Past: Ballistics tests on bullets fired from therifle JamesEarl Ray was i of using to Martin Luther King Jr., have turned up differences, according to a judge in Tennes- see. Details: A-3 No Tow on Mars: Pathfinder's rover spent a second day stuck on a Martian Royal Jomtien Hotel in the resort of Pattaya, Thailand, on Friday. Many of the dead were found near chainedexits. ing radio commands Thursday when Path- their once-a-day opportunity to transmit instructions. Details: A-9 Spy Gets Prison: Robert Kim,a former Navy computerspecialist whosaid he passed classified documents to South Korea to help his native country, was sen- tenced Fridayto 9 yearsin prison. He also wasordered by U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema to serve 3 years probation. Killer Sentenced: Glen Rogers was convicted in Tampa, Fla., of murdering 34-year-old Tina Marie Cribbs. He also was accused ofkilling four women in a cross-country crime spree. Rogers was sentencedto the electric chair Friday. BUSINESS Almost, But No Cigar: The DowJones industrial average rose 35.06 to 7,921.82 Friday after retreating from a 68-point gain that had put the blue-chip barometer within 45 points of the 8,000 mark. Stocks: B-8 A Rock By Any Other Name... A brewing trademark dispute between the people at Dugway Proving Ground. Details: A-1 Details: A-4 Rebel Tribe: San Juan Pueblo on Fri- On Guard: A day after a prominent North Korean defector warned of war, South Korea said Friday it will prepare day became the 11th Indian tribe in New Mexico to enter into a gambling compact with the state, but one other tribe has decided not to accept the proposed terms neededtolegalize its casino. itself for a possible North Korean attack onits crowded capital. PlayingIt Safe: Wary of China’s wrath, Details: A-8 Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto will stay awayfroma shrinethat sanctifies the souls of Japan's war dead — including war criminals. Hashimoto wants to avoid stirring up criticism before visiting China in September to commemorate the 25th anniversary of normalization of ties be- False Tactics: Some police departments are questioning North Salt Lake police’s tactics of giving false information to the public during the investigation of Jill Allen's murder. Details: B-1 tween Japan and China. Another Inmate Death: Sheriff's homicide investigators say prison guards have mishandled another inmate death, this time moving the body of a prisoner whodied from a heroin overdoseand con- EUROPE/AFRICA Pre-March Violence: Several British soldiers and police were shot at a checkpoint in north Belfast, Northern Ireland, taminating a potential crime scene. Details: B-1 late Friday. The attack occurred on the eve of Protestant marches through a predominantly Catholic neighborhood. Translation Order: After a baby girl was born prematurely with cocaine in her system, the state Division of Child and On Alert: Bosnian Serbs posted more guardsto shield senior officials from being taken into custody by NATOtroops to face war-crimestrials. Details: A-11 order, the division never translated a written version of the plan into Spanish for the father of the baby. Details: B-1 Details: A-9 rock. Scientists made the mistake of send- finder’s receiver was turned off, losing Family Services took her into protective custody in July 1995. But despite a court Woodruff Fly-Fishes the Bear River; AnIll Brigham Young Stays Behind Editor’s Note: To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Mormon Trail, The Salt Lake Tribune is offering this day-by-day account of the Mormonpioneers’original trek from Winter Quarters, Neb,, to the Great Salt Lake Valley. Tribune history writer Harold Schindler,using diaries,letters, journals and reminiscences that have cometo light this century, has fleshed outthe following narrative. July 12, 1847 HRCin Europe: In hertenth solo trip as first lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton brought her global crusade for women’s rights to the nascent democracies of Eastern Europe on Friday. She urged female leaders from 19 post-communist coun- Fatal Wish: Sixteen-year-old Summer Johnsontold a friend she wanted “every- He opened a wallet ofartificial flies and selected a half-dozen, body dead” who helped steal her car and which he fastened two feet apart on rip out the radio. On Jan. 19, Summerallegedly tried to make that happen, according to testimony at a 3rd District Court preliminary hearing Friday. tries to “give voice to the voiceless” through a new agendaof civic values, Details: B-2 RELIGION SPORTS Act of Faith: About 6,000 Jehovah's Witnesses from Utah and surrounding states gatheredat the faith's District Convention in Ogden last weekend, and 62 of them took the plungein baptism. Golfer Afire: Pete Stone, 15, a sophomore at Judge Memorial, has pulled off a huge upset Friday after a 3-and-2 matchplay win against Utah Amateur Golf champion Doug Bybee.It was the biggest upsetin the event's 99-yearhistory. Details: C-1 Details: B-1 OPINION Last Night's Scores Chicago Cubs 7, St Louis 1 Return to Tyranny: One-time Pol Pot Houston 10, Pittsburgh 0 disciple, Hun Sen, has bullied his way into the tyranny of Cambodia again as when Toronto8, Boston 4 Vietnam put him in power in 1979. The people of that country have suffered enough and world powers should take measures to punish the tyrant with eco- nomicand political pressures, Philadelphia 13, Florida 3 Editorial: A-10 the line. Woodruff stood for a moment, contemplating the current and eddies of the deep channelin front of him. Helifted the rod and, in a single easy motion, cast the line up- stream and watched as the feathered artificial flies dappled the surface: “My objectin visiting the river before the camp was to try my luck in ketching trout as it was a stream famed for containing that kind of fish. The moi was cloudy and cool. I foundit a difficult stream to fish in with the fly in consequence of the thick underbrush. I fished for several hours and had all sorts of luck, good bad and indifferent. “I some of the time would fish a half an hour and could notstart a fish. Then I would find an eddy with three or four trout in it and they would jumpat the hooks as though there was a bushel of trout in the hole. And in oneinstance, I caught two at a time. “I fished some of the time on horsebackriding in the middleof the stream which was about three rods (50 feet] wide and whenI could not descend any longerin the stream for swift and deep water, I would have NON SEQUITUR to plunge my horse through the bear thickets... hard work. . . I knew not at what moment I would havea grizzly bear on myback or an Indian arrow in myside, for I was in dangerof both. ... I finally wound up my fishing started after the camp havingcaught [several speckled]trout in nwoodruff caught up with the wagon train about noon as the pioneers rested their teams “‘alittle east of a pudding stone formation” (the Nee- dies), as Orson Pratt described it The camp had crossed Bear River(a dozen miles or so southwest of Evanston) and followed Coyote Creek to the Needles, Here B: im Young was taken sick, so sick that he chose to stay behind. A.P. Rockwood had been TAL ©1907 Wiley Miller dist. by Washington Post Writers Orowp WEB SITE: WtAnnlapenaara — Wileyeowlleytoons.com ° alt Lake Tribune . (USPS 476-360) = SUBSCRIPTION RATES Established Apri 18,167, Publsed daily and Sundayby tbe Kear Tribune Corporation, 143 South Main St, Salt Lake City, Utab #4111. Periodieals postage paid at Salt Lake City, Utah. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Salt Lake Tribune at the above address cant Oe ne ky a a ae Sida ui ein ADVERTISING & CIRCULATIONNUMBERS = For same-day missed fore Seatonite Re eine. Lake, areas Davis ‘All other % ' ' wrt tien tenet. tse aptenein % 1800-662.0076 etal, Netlonal Adv #0 and 20 09 = # 7 Piedmont amid a cloud of dust kicked up by a record 53 wagons. “We're picking up wagons Tom Whitaker of Midway. “There really have not been too many problems with the additional wagons, although someoftheir horsesarea little squirrelly. But it does makefora longtrain.” Piedmonthas aboutsix va- cant log buildings, three 25- foot-tall “coke” kilns and a small cemetery on a hill. A stream, Muddy Creek, meanders through the ghost town, creating a picturesquesetting for the wagon-train encampment. Friday, the train covered morethan 18 milesafter leaving Fort Bridger, mostof it on a county road. During the journey, a day-rider accidentally stepped off a moving wagon. “She fell pretty hard and hurt herhip, so they took her into the hospital, but we hear she should be OK,”said Whitaker. On Thursday, a team of mid-wives — with a medical evacuation helicopter standing by — huddled in a sanitary tent at Fort Bridger to deliver 8-pound 4-ounce Henry Freestone Bentley to Dana and Cliff Bentley of West Jordan, Although Henry was the first child born during the MormonTrail re-enactment, the Bentleys drove to Fort Bridger with their midwife during a lull in contractions Wednesday evening and drove back homeshortly after the delivery. Teamsters, whose wagons still must endure the mostrugged section of the trail in Utah, have been doing lot of doctoring of their own. boltfor a brake bar came off the Whitaker family wagon, but Whitaker andhis sons fashioned some leather hobbles to re-attachit. “It was on the coolside all day long,” said Whitaker, “If you didn't have at least a Jacket, you were in trouble.” ‘The train travels 14 miles today to the Bear River crossing, camping five miles south of Evanston just off state Route 150. Public viewing of the wagon-train encampment is possible today and Sunday, with local entertainment and a rodeo planned. morning.It bore signs of having been used as a camp; the pioneers had Heber C, Kimball, Ezra T. Benson, and Brigham's brother Lorenzo Dow Young = their six wagons elected to stay behind with him. from which sprang tender, sweet grass, ‘The pioneers named it Mathews Vale, for Joseph Mathews, Woodruff, a notoriously speller, called it “Mailers Vath yin following Coyote Creek to where it = = Yellowae and made camp five miles farther, fut in eightof acave that Return Jackson Redden scouted that lathe Pate RiverVale thuy. John Smith, with the second M: i sotdown toa brea fast of buffalo meat, “The first we ever tasted. It was excellent.” Tbs rest of tha camp moved om, fu joria Editonal Writers m2019 277-2085 Sports (ne scores) m Peatures/Daylireak. 237-2075 eee his 357-2015 Scorn (S¢/min) 1-900-806-1851 Natiooa! Desk 257-2000 Recreation 207-2000 Trt Store Saeed 22-2815 Chantiod Advertsing tee * town cametolife Fridayas the sesquicentennial Mormon Trail Wagon Train clattered into fe ee aren neeeee soil = NUMBERS ae eee actment Trek Day 82 Wyoming ghost browse. The valley featured excel- Hu Solan tay ne Member Audit Barven of Cireulathoos Se Be es A been told trappers frequently used it had been left “quite deranged" by as a cache. And it was home to nufever. Many historians and scholars merous swallows. have for years thought that Young biaroge it Redden’s Cave, but Poe in — es Se it is known as Cache Cave. jocky Mountain spotted fever. Butit Hunters brought in 10 antelope and is conceivable, even likely, that they the esnertentities ae to stricken for several days and, in fact, The Li as wegetcloser to Utah,” said While the CampofIsrael was preparing to move this morning, Wilford Woodruff saddledhis horse and rode three miles to the Bear River; he looked out over the Bear River Valley with anticipation. There was considerable grass in the valley and sometimberand thick bushes on the banks ofthe river. Instead of turning backto join the pioneers, Woodruff dismounted and unwrapped a small thin bundle he carried with him. As his horse grazed on the sweet bunch grass, Woodruff deftly assembled the 14-foot cane fishing rod he had purchased nearly two years beforein Liverpool. trendy Slick Rock Cafe in Moab and the worldwide Hard Rock Cafe chain has been resolved out of court. Apparently, the local restaurant can keepits name. Details: B-8 uelStatin Things That Go Boom: Whenthe experimental X-33 space plane makes up to seven Utah landings in 1999, the main effects will be sonic boomsthatbriefly startle birds, foxes, Goshute Indians and killed and injured when a kitchen fire swept through the 17-story, 450-room, Partial Win: House Republican Conser- oPrntors + UTAH/REGION ¢ 4 a e 4 |
