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Show TheSalt Lake Tribune MORNING BRIEFING TODAY'S BRIEFING BY: A2 © Thuan Elston and Peter S. Lozancich FRIDAY,July 25, 1997 THE WORLD'S GOOD NEWS GRABBING THE HEADLINES @ DinosaurFoot Discovered Tom Brokaw spurnedan offer from CNNandsigned Thursday for five more years as NBC’s chief anchor. TV Guide An Argentinescientist says he’s discoy- ered the foot of a 90 million-year-old di- nosaur — a meat-eating predator previously thought never to have made it to the Southern Hemisphere. said the contract would pay the “NBC Nightly News” anchor about $7 million per year. The CNN overture provided the only suspense in negotiations. “I had to look atit, but I said from the beginning here that it was highly unlikely that I FernandoNovasof the Museumof Natural History in Buenos Aires found a skeletal foot and a clawbelonging to the dinosaur while digging for fossils in the would leave, and they knew that,” Brokaw said. He has been anchor of the southern Patagonian province of Neuquen in January. nightly news since 1983, andit’s been one of his best years. Involved in a neck-andneck ratings battle with ABC, Brokaw’s show has been winning moreoften than not lately. Q i Freeway Reopens The double-deck freeway in West Oak- oO land, Calif., that collapsed during the 1989 earthquake, killing 42 people, reopened to traffic this week after $1 billion in repairs that make it, mile-for-mile, the most expensivestretch of highway in America. Waving and honking, motorists drove across the newfive-mile Cypress Freeway. The 7.1-magnitude quake John F. Kennedy Jr., George magazine publisher, and designer Tommy Hil- figer co-hosted Wednesdaynight's soiree and screening for “Air Force One” in Washington, D.C. Whobetterto invite to way were trapped whenthe upper roadwaycollapsed onto the lowerone. Qo @ Water Rationing Over STICKS AND STONES. . Mary Dell Pritzlaff, mother-in-law of Arizona Gov. Fife Symington, showsherdispleasure with the media Wednesdayafter Symington’strial ended for the day. He’s accusedof misleading lendersto getmillions of dollars in loans as a developer and then using hisofficeto try to skip out of paying them back. See A-5. The Puerto Rican government lifted water rationing this week, bringing an dishes. After rains this week, San Juan's Caribe Hilton Hotel and Casino stopped efforts to collect a voluntary $5 fee from guests to defray costs incurred after officials ordered rationing June 18. Oo @ Kidnapped Girl Released A 17-year-old girl reported kidnapped in Hermiston, Ore., by a stranger on a street near her grandmother's house was released in a restaurant parking lot more than 24 hourslater, police said. “She walkedinto oneofourlocalres- taurants and said, ‘I want to call my mommy,’”’ Police Chief Andy Anderson said early Thursday, Restaurant employees recognized Brittany Arterburn and called her family, who cameto get her, andthen called police, Andersonsaid. Qo Explosive Coverup: The federal gov- Malnutrition of Children: Thefirst scientific survey of malnutrition of children out from 1950s-era atomic-bomb tests carried through the atmosphere from Nevada to counties across the nation, some in North Korea, by World Vision, shows that 29 percent ofchildren tested at random were severely malnourished and 98 percent werestuntedin weight or height. as far away as upstate New York. Details: A-1 Details: A-12 A GiantDies: Retired Justice William Brennan Jr., one of the giants of the Su- preme Court, died Thursdayat 91, leaving a legacy ofliberal idealism that endures despite the conservative trend of the last two decades. Details: A-1 Donations to GOP: Former Republican National Committee Chairman Haley Barbour told the Senate campaign-finance hearings Thursday that he was unawareof illegal foreign donations to the GOP. But he faced suggestions that he should have known that a $2.1 million waslittle difference between the tax-exempt foundation for which hesolicited it and the RNC, for which he used mostofit weekend rains over Poland, had been expected for Thursdaybut wasdelayed, and riverlevels stabilized. loan was from Hong Kong and that there Details; A-4 Tahoein Trouble: Despite more than a centuryof popularity, Lake Tahoe, America’s most famous alpinelake, is in trou- _.. THE BAD @ Road Bombings once thought to be a useless byproduct of Guerrillas detonated two roadside insulin — one that insulin makers now bombs in southern Lebanon, wounding throw away — mayprotect against some The first bomb blew up Wednesday evening on a road near the Christian town of Jezzine as an armored patrol of the South Lebanon Armydroveby,the officials said. Three SLA militiamen were wounded, one of themseriously. Five hours later, another bombexploded, seriously injuring two militiamen who were driving along the mountain road near Jezzine, Oo @ Refugees Die in Bombing Sudan's air force bombed a camp in Nairobi, Kenya, for southern Sudanese displaced bycivil war, killing six people, including two children, an aid agencysaid Thursday. The bomber jets attacked a refugee camp Wednesday in Lubon, six miles from Sudan's border with Uganda, said Dan Effie of the Norwegian People's Aid Oneof six bombs dropped hit a hut, kill. ing a woman and her two children, Effie EUROPE/AFRII Yeltsin in Religion Trouble: The leader of the Orthodox Church — Russia’s dominant religion — denounced Boris Yeltsin’s rejection of a bill aimed at restricting evangelical Christians, Mormons and RomanCatholics. o Details: A-1 sapphire-blue waters a murky green. Details: A-6 Useless No More: A humanprotein of the devastating heart and nerve damage that diabetes causes, researchers say. Details: A-12 BUSINESS Fight to the Death and After: All his life, LawrenceBriggs has labored to coax a living from the land. He has earned a modest income and, although complaining at times of being taxed to death, he has given the government its share. But the 84-year-old Syracuse farmer draws the line at being taxed after death. Details: D-11 Another Broken Record: The bargainhunters were ready as usual Thursday, quickly transforming a dayof profit-taking into another record-setting session for the stock market. The Dow Jones industri- al average rose 28.57 to 8,116.93, erasing a 95-point slide en routeto its third consecutive record high. Stocks: D-10 The Artist vowed to party like it’s 1999. Now he has announced a world UTAH Blast of the Past: It was long on faith and short on jazz. But the grand finale of gritty latter-day pioneers and their dependable animals was unquestionably the highlight of Thursday's Days of ’47 Parade, celebrating 150 yearssincethefirst Mormonpioneers arrived in the Salt Lake Valley. _. AND GALACTIC tour jam that will stretch until then and end with a big bangin a secret locale. Along the way, he'll be joined by No Doubt, Carlos Santana, Chaka Khan and Lenny Kravitz. The Artist told a news conference in Manhattan that the tour began Monday in Detroit. Other dates won't be announceduntil a week before each showto discouragescalpers. He also announceda toll-free number — 1 (800) 639-3865 (NEWFUNK) — and Web site — love4oneanother.com — where fans Details: A-1 can order up his upcoming “Crystal Expanding to Idaho:Later this year, R.C. Willey Home Furnishing will set a date for construction to commence on a greeted with: “Dig if u will the picture . . . the Ist release by a majorartist sole- new store in Boise, the company’s first location outside of Utah. Details: D-1 Ball,” says USA Today. Webviewers are ly on theInternet.” MILESTONES Turning of the Sod: Mormonleaders. in 1940 envisioned an assembly building they tentatively referred to as ‘The Coli- Died: seum.” Now, 57 years later, they are building one. LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley on Thursdayled a delega- Saw Maung, the general who headed Burma's military junta when it seized power in 1988, on Thursday of a heart government of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, but officials insist the move will not lead to independence. tion of church and community leaders in the traditional “turning of the sod” for the giant structure. Brian Glover, the robust English character actor who liked to. joke about his hefty size, on Thursday of complications Details: A-11 Details: D-1 Leader Killed: The young leaderof Al- There Goes the Neighborhood: The geria’s most ruthless Islamicterrorist militia has been cornered and killed, along with upto 100 ofhis followers, in a major armyassault on ancient tunnels where the extremists were hiding, newspapers in Algiers reported Thursday. There was no official announcement to confirm the reported death of Antar Zouabri. Details: A-11 ee of Utah’s plans to turn the Ec- cles Mansion on Penrose Driveinto an office and reception center havehit a snag, thanks to a petition signed by about 250 nearby residents in the upscale Federal Heights neighborhood. Details: D-3 Ambush-SlayingTrial: Four West Valley City men whoallegedly waited in a carport to kill a man in August 1996 have been ordered to stand trial for murder and aggravated assault. SPORTS Details: D-4 Realistic Swinger: Johnny Miller® breezed into the interview room in Park City and became the first player in golf history to brashly predicthis finish in his first Senior PGA Tour event. That’s 15th place, in case you're wondering, Details: C-1 Bad Loser: Kris Ihle of Wisconsin was the unexpected woman’s winner of the Deseret News 10K, upsetting Russian pre-race favorite Olga Appell and making “Now I am not so happy I entered this race,” Appell said through an interpreter, Details: C-1 LastNight's Scores Royals 5, Twins 3. Red Sox 3, A's 0 Mariners 11, Indians 1 Phillies 7, Giants 4 from a brain tumor. He was63. Divorced: Riccardo “Mazzucchelli from Ivana Trump. Ed Rollins, onetime GOP consultant, from Sherrie Rollins, public-relations executive for ABC. Crowned — Again: Antonia Balint, stripped of her Miss Hungary crownsix years ago for posing naked,gothertitle back Wednesdayafter a Budapest court ruled against pageant organizers. ON THIS DATE In 1866, Ulysses S. Grant was named General of the Army, thefirst officer to Raspberry Days: If you have had your fill of raspberries this season, then don’t In 1868, Congress passed an act creating the Wyoming Territory, In 1909, French aviator Louis Bleriot flew across the English Channel in a monoplane, traveling from Calais to Do- hold the rank. read any further. Because if you head to Bear Lakethis time.of year, it's impossible to avoid the area’s premier crop — big, extra-sweet raspberries. Home & Family: B-1 ver in 37 minutes. In 1943, Benito Mussolini was dis- missed as premier of Italy by King Victor it hard for Appell to smile as she accepted her third-place award Thursday morning. attack. He was68. DAYBREAK EmmanuelIII and pied underarrest. OPINION Mussolini was later rescued by the Nazis Ship-Shape:It wasa significantly nostalgic event. Occurring on the country's Eastern seaboard, one more voyage under sail for the USS Constitution last Monday deserves as respectful a salute as the recreated 1847 Mormonwagontrain's Tuesdayarrival in the Salt Lake Valley. Editorial: A-14 said. The attack killed another three people and wounded 12 peared not at all jet-lagged from her flight from Italy, where she attended ‘Tuesday's memorial service for Gianni Versace. Freedom From the Crown? Scotland would getits first parliament in almost 300 years under a plan unveiled by the — seemingly illegally. ble. Erosion andalgae threatento turn its five membersof the Israeli-backed militia that controls the area, securityofficials said Thursday. ASIA/OCEANIA ernment is sitting on a potentially explosive report detailing how radioactivefall- The Oder River gave eastern Germany arespite from major new oe Thursday, allowing thousands of soldiers and rescue workers time to fodus on bolster- 4 THE AMERICAS a Moding Front ing dikes. A fresh wave of high water, driven by George publisher’s wife. Bessette ap- ROUNDUPOFTHIS EDITION’S TOP STORIES end to a crisis that threatened to derail the summertourist season. A droughton theisland had gotten so bad that at least one major resort requested vacationers pay extra for water and some restaurants served meals on paper plates because they couldn't wash it than Cristophe, who once gave President Clinton a controversial $200clip job as the said aircraft sat on an L.A. runway for an hour? Try Carolyn Bessette, the Michael Chow/TheAssociated Press killed 67. Mostof thosekilled onthefree- and re-asserted his authority. In 1946, the United States detonated an atomic bombat Bikini Atollin the Pacific in the first underwater test of the device. In 1963, the United States, the Soviet Union and Britain initialed a treaty in Moscow prohibiting thetesting of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere, in space or underwater, In 1978, Louise Joy Brown, the first test-tube baby, was born in Oldham, England; she’d been conceived through in-vi- NON SEQUITUR tro fertilization. In 1984, Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in ‘space as she carried out more than three hours of experiments outside i Who Owns Mars?” Three Yemeni menclaiming ownership the orbiting spacestation Salyut 7. In 1992, opening ceremonies were of Mars havefiled a lawsuit against NASA for landing on the red planet, a newspaper reported Thursday. “We inherited the planet from our an. held in Barcelona, Spain, for the 1992 Summer Olympics. In 1994, Israeli Prime Minister Yitz- cestors 3,000 years ago,” the Arabic-lan hak Rabin and Jordan's King Hussein guage weekly ending their countries’ 46-year-old for- signed a declaration at the White House Al-Thawri paper quoted the men as saying in one of the docu ments, mal state of war. In 1996,divers searching the wreckage of TWA Flight 800 off LongIsland, N.Y., The plaintiffs demanded the immedi ate suspensionof all operations on Mars recovered the flight data and cockpit voice recorders, until the Yemeni court delivers a verdict The Fult Lake Tribune USPS 476-360) <-> Established April 15, 1871. Published daily and Sunday by the Kearns-Tribune Corporation, 143 South Main St Salt Lake City, Utah 64111. 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