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Show The Salt Lake Tribune __PAGE 2. A2 TODAY'S BRIEFING BY:Angela Curtis and Jennifer Skordas THURSDAY, December3, 1998 GRABBING THE HEADL Parents should keep con- fj doms around the house for their teen-agers, Sharon Stone says. “No matter how WORLD / much we guide our children within our families, within our churches, within our schools, we are not stronger than the §f power of sexuality — particularly to a teen-ager,” the “Basic Instinct’ star told a panel 7 discussion on AIDS and youth Tuesday at the United Nations. Stone recalled how she never told herparents she was havingsex in the back seatof a car asa teen-ager. “If you truly, truly love your children, you needto supply condoms in a place in your home,ata quantity that makes it a nonjudgmentalsituation for Slot Cheat Tells All: In the past 22 years, Dennis Nikrasch has raked in millions of dollars Nevada’s premier slot cheat. Now he’s promising totell gambling regulators how he and his counterparts rip off the state’s casinos for about $40 million a year Details: A-1 EspyInnocent: A federal jury cleared former Agriculture Secretary Mike them to have them,” she said. “I mean, put 200 condomsin a box in some placein the house where Espy of all 30 charges against him Wednesdayin theclimaxtoa four-year. $17 million corruption investigation everybody isn’t all the time so that your kids can take them." She added: “If they want to make water balloons out of them, great. If they want to carry them so they feel tough, great. If they want to give them to headedby a prosecutor who Espy called a “schoolyard bully their friends, even better. Details: A-3 aan The four-year marriage of Dudley Moore and wife No. 4, Nicole Rothschild, is officially over. Details of the settlement weren't disclosedby the actor's publicist, Michelle Bega, but she confirmed Wednesday that the divorceis final. Moore's divorcepetition cited irreconcilable differences. The marriage, which produced a 2-year-old son, wasturbulent from the start. ann House Probe Widens: House impeachment investigators reviewed se- cret memosinvolvingalleged fund-rais- ing abuses in President Clinton's campaign under a judge's order Wednesday, whilethe president's law- yers demandedtosee thesensitive ma- terials to wage a “vigorous defense. Details: A-3 Prostate Cancer: Waiting for blood tests to reveal prostate cancer could People Power said Wednesday Details: A-5 of cancer Oct. 3. Bates’ term was announced Tues- @ Saved by Beer Imitating Ants: To most of us, ants are merelya nuisance. But to a handful of scientists who want to improveairplane travel, Gunning for Change: Concealed weapons would be outlawed in schools, and churches would havethe option of banning them, undera bill being pro- tele networks andInternettraffic, ants are pureinspiration. Scientists thinkif they can learn howants do so muchand adaptso well. they might beable to apply the same insights to the world of humans. Health & Science: B-1 posed for the 1999Legislature ments” mayprompt Salt Lake Organiz- ing Committeeofficials to move the premier ice events of the 2002 Winter BUSINESS Sale On Track: The owners of Utah's smallest railroad arein negotiations to to West Valley City sell the Salt Lake City Southern to Park Sierra Rail Group, headquartered in Napa, Calif eery About Legacy: West Valley concerned about the highway’s poten tial effect on neighborhoods Bobbing at 9,000: The Dow Jones in: dustrial average fell as much as 178 points, but closed just 69 points lower at 9,064.54, rebounding fromaslide below 9,000 for the secondday in a row. Details: C8 Details: C-1 raped by two menatknife-pointin Sep tember onInterstate 15 fabricated the Announced: ThatMicrosoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates would donate $100million to help immunize children in developing countries against meningitis and respiratory and diarrhealillnesses. Demanded: Russia's Communist-dominated par- switchedto adif erent train, whichRil ey said he thoug t was headedback to Hamilton, abou 25 miles northwest of Cincinnati. Inste i, it was bound for the liament, the release of Boris Yeltsin's medical records Wednesday, asking the country’s highest court to clarify how to determine whena president is fit to govern, Ruled: A South African judge that 30 young elephants had been treated cruelly, awarding tempo rary custody of them to the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Changed: A Missouri execution date that coincided with a papal visit. The Missouri Supreme Court delayed without explanation the execution of Dar rell Me lease, 42, who was convictedofkilling a for mer drug partner, the m. 's wife and the couple's disab! led grandsonin 1968 Died: Aisha Abdul-Rahman, Egypt's leading ennale Islami ic writer, philosopherand literary criti Tues- Miller Brewing Co. rail siding at Tren- ton, NJ - shut and locked, leaving the boys without heat, light, food or water. It was eight days later when brewery employ ees taking inventory in the rail yard heard someonepounding onthe sideof the boxcar, andthe boys werefreed Theboys, cold andhungry whenthey were freed Tuesday, were taken to a hospital where they were treated and released. Bar y Staley, a family practitioner in West Chester, said drinking the beer might have savedtheir lives by warding off dehydration dayai fter a heart attack. She was85. Today’: 's Birthdays: Singer Andy Williamsis 71 Rock singer Ozzy Osbourneis 50. Actor Brendan Fraseris 30. .--AND THE BAD Actre: ss Anna Chlumskyis 18. B Too Muchof a Good Thing could beriskier than thealternatives. Some cardiologists are warning that doctors are overusing stents tubular metal implants that reopen clogged arteries in heart patients who could benefit fromsimpler and cheapertreat ments vith about 800,000 implanted in more than Dry Draper: If Draper chooses to dry” town, it will send a messag intolerance, closed-mindedness and moralistic — even religious — conde scension. Is that really the image it wants to project? Editorial: A-24 story, Nowshe may face a charge of 500,000 Americansthis year alone. nts are a major advance in the treatment of heart disease, most cardiologists agree. And two studies intoday's New England Journal of Medi cine add to a growing body of research showing that stents arerelatively safe — as the opening-night Rape Hoax: Investigators say a 19. year-old woman who med she was About two miles up the track, they Theuseof stents has boomed in the murder-mystery comedy called “Cook- premiere of the 1999 Sundance Film Festival. Details: C-1 thugs chasing them. But authorities are picious of that part ofthe story, and Grimes said they were running away from home. four years since they were approved Sundance Opener: erick Robert Altman will show his latest work — a ie’s Fortune” MILESTONES Details: C-6 City Council members, generally sup- to widen 5600 West, are beginning to “I didn't drink that much, justalittle somethingto get my mouth wet,” John Wayne Riley aid Wednesday. He saidhelost about 20 poundsduring the escape a beating from a half-dozen e—o———o—o—o— short-track speed skating. wouldswitch proposed Legacy Highway. They are Green Tomatoes” and “The Waterboy.” Somehow, the boxcar doors slammed Riley said he and 12-year-old ay moved from the E Center to the Delta question how committed they areto the project that could becomepart of the returned to a brewe! Ray GrimesJr. had jumped Olympics, Men’s ice hockey could be portive over the pastfive years of a plan beer from mostly empty bottles being moving train in Hamilton ou Ws: Center, while figure skating. along with C1 ‘Two boys who hopped freight train in Hamilton, Ohio, andgot locked in a boxcarsaythey survivedfor morethan a week drinking the cargo — stale ordeal. Details: A-1 Venue Swapping: “Technical require- ery." She has also appeared in “Titanic,” “Fried WORLD'S GOOD NEWS Details: A-19 STATE OF UTA day. Bates, 50, won her Academy Award for her portrayal of an obsessed fan in the 1990 movie “Mis- Supporters of presidential candidate Hugo Chavez, many wearing his trademark red parachutist's beret, cheer for him during a closing campaign rally in Caracas, Venezuela, on Wednesday. The 44-year-old excoup leader has capitalized on public disgust over corruption and decadesof declining living standards to become the front-runner in Sunday's race. His candidacyhas divided rich and poor Venezuelans. and better than balloon angioplasty for many patients But some doctors say that there is no proof stents help some of the patients ) get them, and that the devices @ Teen Shooter Sentenced Ateen-ager got 210 years in prison for killing a student andprincipal in a high-school shooting rampage he had hoped wouldendinhis owndeath Evan Ramsey, 18, received the maxi: mumsentence Tuesday of 99years for eachkilling, plus 12 years for attempted murderandassault. He was convictedin February In 1997, Ramsey walked throughthe halls of the Bethel Regional High Schoolin Bethel, Alaska, firing a shotgun. He killed a basketball player who hadteasedhim, and theprincipal Whenaskedif he had anythingtosay Ramsey spokein avoiceso soft only his last few words could be heard: “I’mso sorry making false police report eoee Mideast Tension: Ten days before President Clinton is scheduled to arrive in Israel to promote the Middle East peaceprocess, Palestinians rioted in the West Bank and Jerusalem. The Israeli government, in turn. implementationofthe latest peace agreemerit until the violence stopped and blamed Palestinian authorities for encouraging it Kathy Batesreplaces the late Roddy McDowall on the Academy of MotionPicture Arts and Sciences governing board. Bates joins Gregory Peck and Karl Malden on the three-person board, the first to be madeup entirely of Oscar winners. McDowall died Ricardo Mazalan/The Associated Press prove fatal for black men andothers at high risk for the disease. a researcher ON THIS In 18 18, Illinois was admitted as the 21st state. In 1828, Andrew Jackson was elected president of the United States. In 1967, surgeonsin Cape Town,South Africa, led by Chri istiaan Barnard, performed the first human e heart transplant on Louis Washkansky, wholived 18 days wit ith the new heart. In 1979, 11 people werekilledin a crush of fans at Cincinni fati's Riverfront Coliseum, where the British rock group The Who was performing, In 1984, more than 4,000 people died after a cloud of gas escapedfrom a pesticide plant operatedby a Union Carbide subsidiaryin Bhopal, india In 19: 193, Britain's Princess Diana, saying she was fed up with media's intrusions, announced she would belimitir ing her public appearances. Details: C-1 NON SEQUITUR WHY WAS | THIS BORING | GAME EVER INVENTED P! LET'S FACE IT... 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