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Show The Satt Lake Tribune PAGE2 A2 TODAY'S BRIEFING BY:Brian MacIntyre and Don Robinson WEDNESDAY,December2, 1998 GRABB THE HE Alan Alda, Harrison Ford and Barbra Streisand are among the nomineesin three new People’s Choice Awards categories in which Internet users will determine the winners. In celebration ofits 25th anniversary, the awards added the categories of “All-Time Favorite” stars of television, movies and music. The nominees Slick Deal: Exxon, the biggest oil companyin the United States, announced ‘Tuesdaythatit will acquire Mobilto becomethe biggest in the world. Theall- in those and 15 other categories were announced stock deal, valued at about $77 billion Monday and determined by a national Gallup poll. Tuesday, will be the biggest mergerin USS. history and create the biggest com- Nominees in regular categories include “Dawson's Creek," “There's Something About Mary” and “Titanic’’ co-stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. The Jan. 10 awards ceremonywill air live on CBS. based on Exxon’s closing share price pany on the Fortune 500. Details: A-1 from Pasadena,Calif. aan Soonafter a healthy dose of Hollywood bashing, Ellen Degeneres says she and Anne Heche are quitting Tinseltown for at least a year. “We've quit our agents, let go of our publicist. We'reselling our house and leaving town," DeGeneres said in Tuesday's Los Angeles Times. The couple had told the paper's Sunday magazine that Hollywood turned against them after they and DeGeneres’ character NewSpaceRace:With hours remain- ing before the first space-station construction flight, the international space station still lacks an official name. For lack of anything better, NASAcallsit the international space station or ISS. But America’s ideas, children have other Details: A-3 on “Ellen” cameout as lesbians last year. DeGen- Debts to Society? Government audi- eres, whosesitcom was canceled earlier this year, said she has canceled development of a new TV series and an HBO comedy special. “| know everyOne is going to saythat our leaving is just another bid tors recommended Tuesdaythat President Clinton repay $7 million and Re- publican nominee Bob Dole pay back $17.7 million in federal funds that went to their 1996 presidential bic both illegally benefited from issue ads for attention, but what we've foundis thatthis is a runbytheir political parties, Murad Sezer/The Associated Press Details: A-4 that their hosts enjoy, the Supreme Court concluded 5-4 on Tuesday Details: A-5 or Ojai, near Santa Barbara. ane Hard Times Rights Limited: Short-term visitorsin- vited into a homefor business purposes don’t have theconstitutional protections against unreasonable police searches very hard town to betruthfulin,” said DeGeneres, who hinted the couple mayrelocate to San Francisco Shirley MacLainewill receive the Golden Bear awardforlifetime achievementat the Berlinfilm festival, organizers said Tuesday. Festival director Moritz An elderly Afghan lies in bed at the Alilabad Hospital in Kabul in total desperation. After two decades of war in Afghanistan, Kabul is a cruel city. Entire neighborhoodslie in ruin. In July, dozens ofaid groupspulled out of Kabul to protest a Taliban orderforcing them to relocate to abandoned school dormitories. Negotiations are under way for some to return. At least 15 groups are expected to come back soon. de Hadeln praised MacLaine’s“extraordinary versatility” and said she embodies Hollywood glamour. MacLaine, 64, will receive her award Feb. 18. The 1980film “Being There” will be among MacLaine’s films shownat the festival, which runs from Feb.10- Gone With the Wind: Underheavy police guard, Gen. Augusto Pinochet was 21. spirited out of a north Londonhospital STATE OF UTAH YummyGifts: Looking for something different yet practical for neighbors, co- workers or extended family members this gift-giving season? Your kitchen is a struction on Jan. 8. The board named Steven O. Laing to succeed him. smoking zones Details: D-1 could free a 2-year-old girl from anintravenousfeeding tube, the Utah Court of Appealshas ruled the onesat the malls.” Turnaround: The Dow Jones industrial average continued downward in early trading Tuesday, then turned around to close the day up by 16.99 at 9,133.54, Technology issues paced the revival, ing the Boeing Co. to seale back produc- tionof several commercialjetlines, re- A New Twist: Texas geologists on OPINION Details: D-1 ing on a new look and notably absent amongthe appointeesis Mel Brown, the Midvale Republican who is not seeking an unprecedentedthirdtermas speaker and hasdeclined a committee post Political Theater: When President Clinton responded to the House Judicia- ry committee's about the accusatory 81 question Lewinsky affair, this was not a chapter ina rigorous impeachmentin- quiry, it was thelatest scene in whatis really apiece of political theater. Details: D-1 QD Vv F SPOR’ The children, ages 6 to 14, suffer from cancer, blood diseases and mental Editorial: A-14 @ Faltering SingerKills Self A Cleveland opera singer who was said to be distraughtovera bad rehearsal hangedhimselfin a hospital psychiatrie ward Edward Russell White, a 6-foot-6 bass-baritone, was found Sunday hanging bya bedsheettied to a cast-iron sewer pipe atthe Cleveland Clinic Hehad beentakento theclinic from his hotel room, where on Fridaynight he hadtaken80pills of a medicationto treat seizures or panic attacks, police Sgt. Mark Hastings said Opera officials said White, 46, was upset following a Friday rehearsal for the Cleveland Opera’s upcoming production of “Lucia di Lammermoor.” “Thereis pressure in showbusiness, but nobody asked him to dothe impossible,” said David Bamberger,general di- rectorof the opera. “He apparently had verydeeply seated insecurities,” oO @ Teen Accused of Murder Spree An 18-year-old Muskegon, Mich. mancharged on Tuesday with fatally shooting his parents, grandfather, brotherand his brother'sgirlfriend con- fessed to the killings and said he wasn’t getting along with his father, the prosecutor said. Seth Privackysaid he would have had to move out Sunday — the dayof the shootings, Prosecutor Tony Taguesaid Theteensaid heshot the fivein their heads at close range, execution-style, Tague said. Privacky’s classmate, 18-year-old Steven Wallace, was arraigned on the same charges, Both werejailed on $5 millionbail WARPED Ldoruarion, BY GROUPS: INK KEN STARR IS A NATIONAL HERG... ficiating. saying it has never been worse THINK THAT KEN STARR GROULD GO AWRY... than it was during the holiday weekend And one of them owns a team that won William ClayFord, 73. ownerof the Detroit Lions, thought theofficiating in Thanksgiving's 19-16 win overthe Pitts- THINK THE INDEPENDENT COUNSEL SHOULD BE burgh Steelers was the worst he had RING? STARR Details: C-1 SUBSCRIPTION RATES ae changes to The Salt Lake Tribuneatthe above add ‘ 4 N THIS DATE In 1804, Napoleon was crowned emperor of France. In 1823, President Monroe outlined his doctrine opposing European expansion in the Western Hemisphere. In 1859, militant abolitionist John Brown was hanged for his raid on Harper's Ferry the previous October. In 1954, the Senate voted to condemn Sen. Joseph McCarthy, R-Wis., for “conductthat tends to bring the Senateinto dishonor and disrepute.”* In 1961, Cuban leaderFidel Castro declared himself a Marxist-Leninist who would lead Cuba to Communism. In 1982,in thefirst operation of its kind, doctors at the University of Utah Medical Center implanted a permanent artificial heart in the chestof retired dentist Barney Clark, who lived 112 dayswith the device. In 1990, composer Aaron Copland died in North Tarrytown, N.Y., at age 90. h OnLine Today’s Highlights at: www.sltrib.com © © © m wwwasltrib.com/polities/ — Visit Utah Politics, The Tribune’s new Web magazine devoted to politics and election information. ° @ www.sltrib.com/stocks/ — Complete stock : @ hbz.sitrib.com/ — Check out Elroy’s Riddleo- © | quotes and analysis from Metastock for Java. Polis in the Headbone Zone, Utah OnLine’s fun and brain-teasing area for youngsters. e The Salt Lake Tribune Utah BAiL Penodic tage City, Utah POSTMASTER: Send address Rock musician Nate Mendel (Foo Fighters)is 30. Tennis player Monica Seles is 25. murder and aggravated child abuse. Hue andCry:Apair of old-guard own: ers joinedinthe outery against NFL of. seen. Former Secretary of State Alexander Haig is 74 Actress Julie Harris is 73 (iD THE BA Stocks: B-9 of the Asian economiccrisis is prompt- Actor Leo Gordonis 76. to bury three because you will not see the kids again.” Oviedo was charged with attempted dren for Lapland Appeal Cutback: Slackening demandbecause that Upheaval Domein southeast Utah Appointees: Committee leadershipin Utah’s House of Representativesis tak. er and cousin before driving off with the children: “Tomorrow, you're going trip sponsoredby the Irish charity Chil- 2,003.88 workers over the next two years Details: B-7 clusionthat contrasts with that of NASA scientists who believe it is the eroded crater of a meteorite. separated from her husbandand angry at what she regard: ed as meddling byherrelatives, inves' gatorssaid, She allegedlytold her moth- United Arab Emirates, is one of 15 children with terminal diseases who left Mondayfor a visit to the mythical abode of Santa Claus in Finnish Laplandon a with the Nasdaqsoaring 54.34points to sulting in the reduction of 20,000 was created by an earthly force, a con- Oviedo, 27, was Raghavan,an Indian living in Dubai, Details: D-1 Tuesdaypublished compelling evidence A man jumpedinto a canal and saved his estranged wife and their two children after she drove her car into the water in an alleged murder-suicide attempt in Boca Raton, Fla. Ingrid Oviedo and the children, ages 3 and 7, were not hurt. sparkling behind wire-rimmedglasses. “And I want to meet the real Santa, not BUSINESS Convicted: A gay-rights activist in London on Tuesday of “indecent behavior in a church’ under an 1860 law and given a token fine — about $30. Peter Tatchell, who headsthe British gay-rights group Outrage, was arrested after he staged a brief protest as the Archbishopof Canterbury was about to deliver his Easter Sunday sermonat Canterbury Cathedral. Agreed: By Atlanta’s Emory University to pay a $66,400fine for safety violationsin the death of a scientist who contracted the Herpes B virus when she was splashedin the eye by a laboratory monkey. Today's Birthdays: Actor-playwright Adolph Greenis 83. W@ Suicide Thwarted meeting Santa Claus andseeinghis first snow outweighed fears of traveling “Twantto see snow andthrowit at the other kids,” said Raghavan, his eyes Ruling: Medicaid should not pay for an experimental growth hormonethat end physical handicaps, el tin Vijaya Raghavan, the prospect of withouthis family. Details: A-1 Airport Ban: A changecouldbeinthe offing for the Utah Clean Air Act. Abill being preparedfor the 1999 legislative session would declare new ed buildings at public airports as no- @ Off to See Santa For 10-year-old leukemiapatient Ni- goodplace tostart cooking up possibiliFood & Drink: B-1 MILESTONES aon ties. Unexpected Change:In a surpriseannouncement Tuesday, Scott Bean told thestate Board of Education he would retire as superintendent of publicin. 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