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Show JAZZ’S LAST CHANCE STARZZ’S 1ST CHANCE NEW GARDEN PAGE Everything to lose C-1 Team loses opener C-1 Great grasses E-8 CheSalt Lake Cribune p://www.sitrib.com Utah’s Independent Voice Since 1871 Volume 256 Number59 143 South Main Street (801)237-2800 Salt LakeCity, Utah 84111 FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1998 © 1998, The Salt Lake Tribune Helping Kids: Bill Targets bs) Sex Predators BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS Truth Commission Hears of Science’s Apartheid Horrors a BY PAUL HARRIS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS House crackdown aimedat those whouse Internet to harm children CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Casting light into the murkiest corners of the apartheid state and the humanpsyche, a panel probing South Africa's humanrights abuses is revealing a world of science gone mad. In the first hearings on the apartheidera government's secret biological-and chemical-weapons program, the Truth BY DARLENE SUPERVILLE ‘THE ASSOCIATEDPRESS WASHINGTON — The House unanimously passed a bill Thursday to crack down on sexual crimes against youngchildren, particularly where the Internet played a role. The measure, which passed 416-0, would create a and Reconciliation Commission has been listening to scientists talk about concocting poisoned chocolates, plotting to induce brain damage in Nelson Mandela and trying to find germ-warfare agents and anti-fertility drugs that would target series of new child-sex offenses and increase existing penalties for adults who seek and engage in sexual activity with children. blacks — while sparing whites The Clinton administration said it supports the bill, which advanced to the Senate. Offering an explanation for their twisted schemes, the armyscientists said they had been brainwashed by government propaganda promoting the message that South Africa was on the brink of falling to communism andblack rule. Theytestified they were willing to do almost anything to defend white power. “That was the psychosis that pre- vailed,”” Daan Goosen, who led a covert biological research laboratory, recalled Thursday. Retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu said this week’s testimony was the most shocking he hasheard as head of the Truth Commission, which has taken statements from hundreds of witnesses since it was set up in 1995 to heal racial divisions. “Here are people of high intelligence, coldly and clinically in white laboratory coats, working on things they know were meant to be instruments of destroying people,” Tutu said. The commissionis looking into black and white violence from the apartheid years, and can grant amnesty to those whofully confess to politically motivated human-rights abuses. As to the white role in the bloodshed, the overriding question for the commission is: Did leaders of the apartheid governments sanction the killings of blacks? So far, despite examining the minutes of state security meetings and subpoenaing ex-presidents, it has been unable to trace such a policy to the highest levels of the apartheid regime. Andthis week's revelations, though The Jazz Bros. — from left, Dell Curry, Karl Malone,Darrell Griffith, Rickey Green, Thurl“Bailey and Carey Scurry — onlylasted a year, but the players formed friendships that endure today. Mixing Boards & Chords LINDAFANTIN BY THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Onewitnesstestified this week that a shirt infused with poison — one ofthe The actual soundtrack of The Jazz Bros. songs can be heardat www.sitrib.com as grand Butthis time, he was stumped. “The Jazz Brothers . ." mulled Rui- that his producerlikens to Lou Rawls, Bailey became the nucleus of The Jazz Bros., a singing group with a six-man fin, rummaginghis booth at the Chicago BluesFestival. “Never heard of them.” The radio host of WBEZ-Chicago’s jazz program also was tinaware that one the group’s better backup vocalists has starting lineup: Bailey, Darrell Griffith Rickey Green, Carey Scurry, Dell Curry and Malone. been performingall week at the United Center. It’s a forgivable transgression, Thurl given that the NBA superstar in the band has gone on to break more records than he has sold. A power forward with pipes? “Karl Malonehad a pretty nice falsetto back then,” insists Thurl ‘Big T” Bailey, who was with the Jazz when Malonewasdrafted in 1985. wrenching, did not change that. @ Want to Hear? and-white satin vest was as subtle as a Steinway, and his knowledgeofjazz just The next year, Malone was the star on the court. But in the studio, Big T was the go-to guy. With a voice from ourchildren andcreatescarsforlife.” Other sponsors said that children who seemingly are safe in the comfort of their living rooms, bed- rooms and classroomstoo often become victims of Few remember, but there was a time when Jazz were. CHICAGO — Mark Ruffin’s black- Rep. Bill McCollum, R-Fla., the sponsor, said use of the Internet by more than 10 million children has contributed to a ‘chilling mix" that has resulted in “far too manyterrible tragedies that steal innocence sexual predators who view the Internet as a tool with which they canterrorize children anonymously. “The technology of computers and the Internet have gotten ahead of the law,” said Rep. TonyHall, DOhio. “This bill is an attempt to catch up.” The measure, added Rep. Jennifer Dunn, R-Wash. another co-sponsor, “tells cyber-predators that the information superhighwayis not a detour for deviant behavior, but rather a dead end.” During committee hearings, an Illinois woman told how her family's life was disrupted after someone included her 9-year-old daughter's name, home telephone number and other information in an Internet messagestating that she wasinterested in having sex with adult men. Among its provisions, the bill would. W Establish fines and up to 5 years in prison for anyoneusing the mail, Internet or other means to contact a minor for criminal sexualactivity @ Doublefrom5 to 10 years in prison the penalty for enticing a minor to cross state lines to engagein illegal sexual activity, and increase from 10 to 15 After just one season together, the group disbanded — despite enthusiastic years the maximum penalty for persuading a minor to er had to worry about being traded to an expansion team. It was a short-lived public-relations experiment that produced lifelong friendships, improved the players’ relationships and contributed to their bud- as individuals who commit federal sexual assaultsaf. Bailey support from fans. Unlike Curry, Keith Richards nev- See JAZZ SINGERS, Page A-8 engagein prostitution. @ Mandatelife in prisonforserial rapists, defined ter having been convicted twice of sex crimes. @ Allow federal investigations of child kidnapping cases to begin immediately @ Make it a crime to use the mail, Internet or other meanstodistribute personal information about a mi en to a black activist who then loaned it to a friend. The friend wore the shirt and died. Hornacek: From Skinny Kid to NBA Hero nor for sexual activity. M Prohibit unsupervised access to the Internet by federal prisoners, encouragestate officials to take similar steps and requirethe U.S. attorney generalto survey statepolicies But no witness spoke of any firm decision to employthe horrid death plots against the black population at large. Never-ending hard work and keen understanding of the game launched career caterr age14, if the death penalty is not imposed tools developed by scientists — was giv- Oneresearcher, Andre Immelman, kept freeze-dried supplies of deadly cholera and anthrax in a small refrigerator locked in his office safe. The amounts were enough to cause major epidemics. Other scientists said they supplied apartheid hit squads with poisoned drinks and cigarettes. Any researcher who broke ranks because of doubts about the ethics of his workfaced assassination, scientist Schalk van Rensburg said Wednesday. “We had beentold in no uncertain THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE ankles, usually undersized and often overpowered and, accordingto his mother, always understoodthat he never would bea star Jeff Hornacek has proven himself wrong. Uninten. tionally, of course. After 12 years in the NBA — four with the Run through front companies, the bio- He quoted Bassonas saying: “One day the black peoplewill take over this Editorials WEATHER: ‘loudy, in what I would call a civil war,” said Dobson There are those who say God ‘Is. he said, “On the other side are those who say God ‘Isn't.’ And if God does not exist, every thing changes and you make CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS up your rules as you go www.sitrib.com along La Grange, the Chicago And, hesaid, the godless ball beginnings are the stuff of legend even in INDEX e w20 Society is split now into two broad camps that are suburb where he grew up. His humble basket Daddy, what did youdo to prevent this?’ my consciencewill beclear.” side is winning, as evidenced by what hesays are some twisted societal morals the Land of Jordan We've all heard the stories about how hard Perwonal Ads Puzzles D2 AAB D-40 27 Star Gazer -23 TV Programs 7 Details: C-8 cool, ART POOR COPY Jeff worked," says Jim t is still a $25,000fine, if you canbelieve this, a 000 fineto kill an eagle's egg,” Dobson said dur ing an hourlong speech "Andit's not even a misde point guard for Horna eight months along in gestation team. "Knowing he went 4 third-trimester abortion meanor to take a little baby who is six or seven or Pollozani, the starting Jeff Hornacek in high school radio programthat reaches millions of Americans. But Hornacek needs no best-in-the-NBA banners to achieve MVP status in country. When my daughter asks me, Comics _ Dobson is a member of the First Church of the azarene, While not a Southern Baptist, he touts many of their same conservative values on his Colora do Springs-based expires. tist recalled having tea and biscuits with Classified godless world tire at the end of next season whenhis contract Basson during a break fromtheir deadly research, Obituaries their moral crusade in what hesays is an increasingly The 35-year-old has said he probably will re. However, Goosen gave somepossible insight into Basson’s mind-set. The scien- as Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting, tell ing the morethan 8,000-strong gathering to keep up which no team ever has overcomein the Finals. part of an alleged side businessofhis. Business graphic to makea point. Thursday, Dobson spoke on the last day of the fast: Utah trails the Chicago Bulls 3-1 heading into tonight's game at the United Center, a deficit lawyers have tried to keep him from testifying. They argue that he if were to appear it would prejudice his upcoming trial on charges he allegedly manufactured and sold Quaaludes and ecstasy — Movies If arch-conservative Focus on the Family President James Dobson has anything in commonwithliberal Hollywood, it likely is that sometimes you must get has no championship rings. And his hopes of getting one are fading logical and chemical weapons program B BY DAN EGAN THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Utah Jazz — Hornacek was controlled by a Dr. Basson, whose Ann Landers Births Anti-Abortion Speaker Rallies Baptist Crowd BYLINDA FANTIN and BRANDON GRIGGS LA GRANGE, Ill. — Hewas a scrawny kid with bad terms, if you let the side down you are dead,” van Rensburg said @ Mandatelife imprisonment for anyone convicted xual offensethat causes the death of someone He then dived into 4 thoroughly R-rated anatomy of cek's former high-school it is, it's murder during delivery,” know guys like me have a chanceto makeit, too Pollozani is spending the first three weeks of his summer vacation helping Lyons Township High See HORNACEK, Page A-4 not what he said to a sus They call it partial birth abortion, That here, knowing what kind of player he is, it lets me Tree n’The Sait Lake Tribune Sue and John Hornacek, Jeff's parents, fly the Jazz colors at their homein La Grange, Ill See ANTI-ABORTION, Page A-6 & Boplists vole on women In military and gay rights AG @ Delegates’ stands make Califomia memberwince A} |
