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Show The Salt Lake Tribune FRIDAY, December 4, 1998 A2 TODAY'S BRIEFINGBY:Peter S. Lozancich and Don Robinson {fee (aid ri ° ° ° e ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° e e . ° e e ° ° . e e ° ° ° ° ° ° e e ° e e e ° . e ° ° e ° e ° e e e e ° . . ° . e e ° e e e ° e ° ° e ° e o ° . e . e e e . . e e e ° e e . e . ° ° ° ° ° e e ° e ° e e ° e ° ° ° ° ° ° . ° ® ° ° ® ° . ° e . . ° ° . ° . . ° ° e e ° ° e ° ° e . Water Rules: New drinking-water standards announcedby President Clin- ton on Thursdayare expected to protect mostof the nation from dangerous contaminants while adding $2 to many monthly waterbills Details: A-1 Rights Rating: The Clinton adminis- tration’s response to the arrest of Chilean Gen. Augusto Pinochet and failure to engage other governments on an array of abuses drew fire Thursday from Human Rights Watch, the largest U.S. yased human-rights group. Details: A-1 GOP Pulls Back: Republicans jetti soned campaign fundraising from their impeachment inquiry Thursday, likely clearing the wayfor a historic House Judiciary Committee vote next week on President Clinton's relationship with Monica Lewinskyandhis effort to cover it up. Details: A-6 A Remedy in Russia? The Russian government gave preliminary approval Thursdayto an action plan designedto pull its economyout ofa dive. The plan includes laws and measures aimed at lowering taxes and increasing investment, but it does not address the severely out-of-balance federal budget — the keyto any internationalrescue plan Meditation on a Massacre Details: A-12 The IRS in Cyberspace: Buried by Mayan Indian women gather around a grave Wednesday on the eighth anniversary of a massacre in Santiago Atitlan, west of Guatemala City. A mass washeld in the graveyard for the 11 victims of the 1990 massacre, believed to have been committed by the Guatemalan Army during the nation’s 36-year civil war. mountains of paper, the Internal Revenue Service announced an ambitious goal of having 80 percent of taxpayers file their income-tax returns electronically by 2007. Details: A-21 GOOD NEW Launch Postponed: A loud, flashing alarm wentoff in the cockpit of space shuttle Endeavourwith just 442 minutes to go in the countdown Thursday, fore- ing the postponement of NASA's first space-station constructionflight. Details: A-23 Feeling Listless? Since there are so manythings to do this time of year, when you think of a gift idea, a newdis for holidaydinner, or those small chores STATE OF UT. that must be done, write them all down Voila! No morelistlessness. Utah Life: B-1 About Bad Behavior: Sledding for Gold: All the occupants of the Bob House at Park City share a dream: to becomean Olympic gold medalist in 2002. They are members ofthe men’s and women’s U.S. bobsled teams, and they will be competing this weekend for World Cup honors Details: A-1 Hemorrhaging Possible? The cuts are expected to be so severe that publichealth threats quelled in previous years could reappear. That'sthe evaluationof “Happiness,” openingtodayat Salt LakeCity's Tower Theater, was written and directed by Todd Solondz, whose previous movie wonthe juryprize at the 1996 Sundance FilmFestival. Calendar: F-1 That Other Kind of Jazz: Diana Krall. oneof thefastest risingstars injazz. has a way of making the difficult appear natural. She'll be singing Monday and Tuesday at the Salt Lake Hilton, Calendar: F-1 Salt Lake City-County Health Department officials, who are anticipating a department budget with $1.7 million sliced fromit for next year Tiny Leaks: A munition being pro incinerator in Tooele County has been plagued by two dozentiny leaks over a two-monthperiod Details: D-1 Boil the Water: Healthofficials have advised residents of central Utah’s Milford Flats area toboil their waterafter 20private water wells were found to have been contaminated by fecalcoli formbacteria Details: D-1 TrunkDeath Toll: The Centers for Dis- ease Control and Prevention, reporting More Profit-Taking: The stock mar- ket's weeklong bout of profit-taking seeped into the technology sector Thursday, contributing to could have been prevented. Of the 11 five died Aug. 8 in West Valley City the Dow Jonesindustrial average slipping below to reduce the temperatureof 25 people on working in Brunswick, Ga. Staying who had suffered severe strokes found that 14 survivedinstead of the expected five. The researchers found that certain gainfully employedis a condition of his parole, which runs until 2001 ‘And while somemightthink the jack- cooling techniques reduced brain tem- pot would turn his life around, Dukes, 40, said that has already happened perature and helpedrelieve pressure on the brain Everything has changed since I’m not drinking and drugging anymore. And in a separate study, Spanish re- said Dukes, who got out of prison in searchers found that people whosuffer 1996. Earlier this week, Dukes opted for a $10.65 million lump sumrather than high fevers within 72 hoursof a stroke have ahigher death rate than those who do not. The two studies were published annual payments in the Sept. 19 draw- in Thursday’s issue of Stroke, a journal of the Dallas-based American Heart As- ing. It was the largest Georgia Lotto sociation jackpot ever .--AND T BAD firmed the deaths and said the ethnic Albanianswere trying to cross the borderinto Kosovoillegally 9,000. The Dow fell 184.86 to 8.879.168. In the worst breach of the Kosovo cease-fire, Yugoslav border guards killed eight ethnic Albanians on Thursadding newurgency to the efforts of the U.S. envoy who is trying to nego- Christopher Hill pre- Merry Computing: A plunge in the cost of computer chips, economic prob: lems in Southeast Asia and efficiencies The eight armed ethnic Albanians were killed near the town of Prizren when nine of them fired on Yugoslav ucts, in case you're pondering a comput er for Christmas. Details: D-4 It wasn't vandals or bumbling boat thieves whofired up the engines on a 70-footyacht andsent it zoomingacross the harbor, smashingseveral other v sels and a marinain Davie,Fla No, inves ators, y , theyacht start editself up. ‘The incident caused $7 million in damage Policeoriginally assumedthe Nov. 15 smash-up wasa theft gone wrong ‘The $3 million yacht, Hat Trick, was released to its owner and no charges were filed Several other armed incidents were reportedas envoy sented Serbian President Milan Milutin- gained through mass production. It all addsup tobargains in electronics prod. Oo @ Poltergeists? tiate a permanent peace. ‘The Nasdaq dropped 40.88 to 1,954.33. Stocks: D-6 it 11 children died last summer when they were trapped in car trunksin sweltering temperatures, says the deaths Lowering stroke victims’ body temperaturewith cooling blankets and other means can improvetheir chances of survival, researchers say. German researchers who took steps prison since the 1970s won a record $31 million Georgia lottery jackpot. Despite his new status as a multimillionaire. KennyDukeswill have to keep Bloody Border Details: D-1 cessed at the Army’s chemical-weapons @ Stroke Study @ Parolee Strikes It Rich A parolee whohasbeenin andout of ovic with a revisedplan forthefutureof the Serb province soldiers guarding the border with Alba- nia, the pro-government Serbian Media Center said. Yugoslay troops werenot injured, thecentersaid. Yugoslavia's army command con- WARPED Details: D-2 NIIWOON WEN CENSUS TAKERS HAVE NIGATMARES... 5 You WAVE LUXEMBOURG | You WANE LIECATENSTEIN S47 AND, MR. GMITHERS, YOUNE GeT CHINA! 4 % A > New Grizzly: Utah Grizzlies Coach- General Manager Butch Goring finally made a move to help his struggling team. The Grizzlies acquired veteran center Don Biggs from the Cincinnati Cyclones for forward Fred Knipscheer. Details: E-1 Maton " — Established April 15, 1871. 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Michael pleaded no contest to lewd conduct, paid an $810 fine and wasordered tope form 80 hours of community service. an Moving trucks rolled up to Sylvester Stallone’s Miamiestate to haul away exercise equipment, paint. ings and other belongings as he awaits completion of a dealto sell the mansion. The actoris living in a hotel room in Los Angeles, where his new movi “Detox” is beingfilmed, said his spokeswoman, Ro: sario Kennedy. He isn’t getting out of South Florida for good, she said. “He still plans to make Miami his permanent home," Kennedysaid. Stallone put his bayfront mansion on the marketin August 1997, asking $27.5 million. London's Orient-Express Hotels Inc. has made a $24.7 million offer to build 200 villastyle rooms on the property. The deal hinges on whether the hotelier can get zoning approval. MILESTONES Announced: Otto Ardon Medina, the public prose- cutorinvestigating the bludgeoning death of a Roman Catholic bishop in Guatemala, on Thursday that he will resign his post and leave the case. He did not say why. The church’s Human Rights Office of the Archbishop had called on Medina to step down, saying he had wrongly accuseda priest in the April 26 slaying of Bishop Juan Gerardi Con- edera. Ordered: The government Thursday that airlines keepfuel in the center tanks of Boeing 747s out of concernthat a prematurely aging part in somefuel pumpscould throw off sparks if used when the tank wasdry. Announced:Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday that his country will not be pres sured into signing a nuclear test-ban treaty. Asked: O.J. Simpson that an appeals court in Cali- fornia reverseits decision ordering a new hearing into whether he should have custody of his two children. Pleaded: Democratic fund-raiser Yah Lin “Charlie” Trie innocentin Little Rock, Ark., on Thursday to federal charges he obstructed a Senate campaignfinance investigation by ordering subpoenaed documents hidden. Today's Birthdays: Actress-singer Deanna Durbin is 77. Rock singer Southside Johnny Lyonis 50. Actress-model Tyra Banksis 25. Country singer Lila McCann is 17. In 1783, Gen. George Washington bade farewell to his officers at Fraunces Tavern in New York. In 1816, James MonroeofVirginia waselectedthe fifth president of the United States. In 1965,the United States launched Gemini Seven with Air Force Lt. Col. Frank Borman and Navy Cmdr. JamesLovell aboard. In 1978, San Francisco gotits first female mayor as City Supervisor Dianne Feinstein was named to replace the assassinated George Moscone. In 1980, the bodies of four American churchwom en slain in El Salvador two days earlier were unearthed. 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