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Show THE NATION'S BEST | SHOOTINGVICTIM DIES S.L. volleyball player is the tops C-1 | SUNDANCE STUFF New mom wasinjured in Triad attack D-1 T-shirts, tote bags ofthe stars D-8 CheSalt Lake Cri http://www.sltrib.com une Utah's Independent Voice Since 1871 Volume 257 Number101 © 1999, TheSalt Lake Tribune 143South Main Street (801)237-2800 Salt Lake City, Utah 84111 SATURDAY, JANUARY23, 1999 EE! TARNISHED RINGS: 2002 BRIBERY SCANDAL Sydney Olympic Officials Offered $70,000 Payment on Eve of Vote In Scandal’s Wake, Sponsors Wary Of Linking Names to Olympics BY GUY BOULTON ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE NEW YORK — Don’t look for any new Olympic sponsors to be announced until the bumper-to-bumper investigations into the escalating scandal are complete. That is the assessment of John Krimsky, the man charged with sign- ing corporate sponsors for the Winter Games and for the U.S. Olympic ComTwo companiesthat plan to sponsor the 2002 Winter Olympics are holding off on announcing their agreements. includes the third in a series of full-size posters onthis season's Grizzlies players Find yours on the back of today's Spozts section Page C8 ‘TRIBUNE STAFF and WIRE REPORTS Oneof the two companiesis rumored to be BMW, which was a sponsor ofthe 1996 Summer Olympicsin Atlanta. The prospective sponsors’ wariness makesclearthe potential problem facing Krimskyashetries to recruit new sponsors during an unfolding scandal. “We will know Monday after the 10C’s initial report as to how fast we can really begin the healing process,” said Krimsky, USOC deputy secretary. 2000 Summer Games, the Australian two African membersof the Interna- tional Olympic Committee (IOC) in Monte Carlo. During the courseof the evening, he | And Halve It? BY JOHN HEILPRIN BYDANIEL Q. HANEY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ANAHEIM, Calif. — Bulletin from the THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE WASHINGTON — President Clintonlikely will be acquitted in votes that could comeas early as next week, as Republican and Democratic senators rapidly tire of the impeachmenttrial, Utah Sens. Orrin Hatch and Bob Bennett agreed Friday | job front: People work more than they wantto. A new study of two-career couples | finds that the numberof hours they spend on the job has risen substantially in the past two decades. And they don't like it. “People are working longer hours, and it's not because they want to,” said Marin Clarkberg, a Cornell University sociologist. Clarkberg and other researchers presented their latest findings on the workfamily time squeeze Friday at a meeting Thestark assessmentfor congressional Republicans’ hope ofousting the president comesin the face of increasing signs the 67 votes needed to convict and remove Clinton on the House’s perjury and obstruction charges simplyaren't there. The 100-member Senate finishes questioning the 13 House “managers” and White Housedefenselawyers today, taking up the businessof trial motions | and witnesses starting Monday. “We're getting weary. The Democrats probably are losing patience more than the Republicans,” | of the American Association for the Advancementof Science. Massimo Sambucetti/TheSalt Lake Tribune Both sexes feelstressed by the com. _—| peting demandsof job and home. But in When in Rome. . | some ways, the situation can seem worse for women, said Clarkberg, because they often have to choose between working Pope John Paul II tries on a sombrero aboard his plane en route to MexicoCity on Friday. This will be the pope'sfourthvisit to Mexico. On Tuesday,he will fly to St. Louis, where he will have a private meeting with PresidentClinton, speakat a youth rally and on Wednesdaycelebrate Mass.See B-2. full time or notatall. The reason: too few part-time jobs for women with families, and the ones that exist often pay poorly and do not offer health insurance or other benefits. Utah Bans Some Adoptions by Gay Couples Clarkberg's research showed that actually, men and women alike would often like to work something less than a stan- dard 40- to 50-hour week. Law coversstate-fostered children only. Unmarried straight couplesaffected, too | women said they work more hours than BY HOLLY MULLEN ALT LAKE TRIBUNE After more than two hours of intense debate, the board of trustees of the state Division of Child and women only because a quarter of them don’t have paying jobs. Family Services (DCFS) voted 7-2 Friday to ban unmarried heterosexual couples or gay and lesbians partners fromadopting state-fostered children. Amongthe findings they wantto. The numberis smaller for @ Half ofall the womenand20per men did this. @ Onlyabout 10 percent of couples said they prefer the traditional roles of the man as breadwinner and woman as But the move drew immediate scorn from gay-rights advocatesandcivil-rights lawyers, whopredicted le- gal challenges. Even members of the board's own advisory panels questionedthetiming and motivations of the trustees, given that only23 of a total 328 DCFS adoptions last year — fewer than 7 per- adoptions, and includes requirements for tougher criminal-background checks and child-abuse screening of each adult present in an adoptive home. The measurewill take effect immediately, said DCFS di- cent — were madeto unmarried rector Ken Patterson. applicants. “We are against anything that narrows the pool of good adoptive parents. There are so manychil. Trustees Paula Johnson and retired juvenile court Judge Regnal Garff voted against the measure. Those dren in need,” said Patricia Worthington, voting in favor were Chairman Scott Clark, who draft- full-time housewife, Yet 25 percent of the couples fit this mold Scott Clark who represented Platt, Kevin Packer, Gladys Hale and Becky Oakley A handful ofadoption attorneys and membersofthe mentadvisory councils andhadfiledletters of opposi However, twice that number actually do Other data collected by Clarkberg ultra-conservative Eagle Forum cheered thedecision, having argued that a married heterosexual couple of- Center for Lesbian Rights in San Francisco, said simi- 1972 and 1994, couples’ total average working time has increased by seven hours a week. 84 Movies Be Asimov Qui Births Bridge Col Business &7 D4 £7 DS Obituaries Personal Ads Puzzles Sports 5 be Co) cf the president said, Classifieds 4s Star Gazer bs for serious, deliberate, Comics 84 TVPrograms BS MNONT. ‘ COPY up the trial’s end. “The general mood among Republican senators is that the House managers did a better job than the White House lawyers as far as the question period is concerned. Other than that, there's no consensus developing over the issue of witnesses. I don’t know of any Republican who will vote for the motion to dismiss,” Bennett said. On Friday, the mood was confirmed when Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., announcedhis plan to offer a motion to dismiss the charges and end the trial Monday. Calling witnesses, hesaid, “‘will only fos- ter more of the same hallway press conferences andbattle ofpress releases that are contributing to the division of our parties and our nation.” A simple majority is needed to dismiss the charges and acquit Clinton. Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D. said, “Thetime has now come for us to dismiss the See SENATORS, PageA-8 DeLay See ADOPTION, Page A-2 cern and anxiety in the White House. ognizing they cannot defeat the shocked by a nerve gas attack in United States with military force, are seeking ‘new tools of destruc: Four years ago, the world was WASHINGTON — Warning that terrorists are seeking new ways to strike, President Clinton said Fri we must be ready” for attacks against computer net. works as well as attacks using Ann Landers Details; B-8 sentations, which were very cleverly geared to finding procedural reasons to vote against conviction,” Hatch conceded, floating his plan to speed Clinton Seeks $2.8 Billion More to Fight Domestic Terrorism BY TERENCE HUNT WEATHER: Showers north. number. a yw.sitrib.com “The Democrats have been shored up bythe White Houseattorneys’ pre- tion with the board. Shannon Minter, a staff attorney with the National fers the moststability and legal protections for chil- THE ASSOCIATED PRE: INDEX Senate questioning began as Hatch, whois part of a three-member GOP team screening Republicans’ questions, submitted questionsfor Chief Justice William Rehnquist to ask. Democrats ofCLICK HERE fered a roughly equal FOR MORE DETAILS Adoption and Out of Home Place ed the policy, Annie Mason, Jim Anderson, Elaine show that when couples’ work hours are added up, theyarespending moretime on the job than ever before. Between said Bennett the want both spouses to work full time Just 14 percent of couples said they \ dren whoare often unwantedand abused. ‘Thepolicy wouldnotaffectsingleparents orprivate cent of the men said they wished they could work part time, But only 20 per. cent of the women and 6 percentofthe See SYDNEY, Page A-5 Hatch, Bennett say senators becoming weary of proceeding Yeah, You Wish © 43 percent of men and 34 percent of in jeopardy Trial May Be Nearing End Pe Rice een holds. lian IOC member said the reported payments could put the Sydney Games which defeated Beijing by two votes the next morning. Details of that 1993 encounter were disclosed Friday, the latest and oneof the most dramatic elements of the rap- eT ee CLICK HERE FOR MOREDETAILS www.sitrib.com AnAustra- in inducements to vote for Sydney, DO THE TIME SQUEEZE Her results were based on surveys of 4,554 married couples. They were questioned in 1988 and 1994 as part of the National Studyof Families and House- bility of the 2000 and 2002 games. said, he offeredhis two guests $70,000 See SPONSORS,Page A-5 B-4 idly growing Olympic corruption scandal that threatens the IOC's leadership and the sta- Olympic chief sat downto dinner with tee (IOC) commission investigating Salt Lake City’s Winter Olympics bid Take This Job MDid LDSculture affect scandal? LAUSANNE, Switzerland — The night before Sydney was awarded the TheInternational Olympic Commit- imittee (USOC). Today's edition of The Sait Lake ‘nbune ‘ED chemical and germ warfare. He urged spending $2.8 billion more to safeguardthenation. ‘This is not a causefor panic,’ “It is a cause disci plined, long-term concern,” He said that “we have a better than good chanceof success Clinton spoke of cyber-era threats in a speech before the Na tional Academy of Sciences, dwell ing on a subject of deepening con i | the Tokyo subway; morerecently there has been a rash of anthrax hoaxes in the Los Angeles area. “We do not knowof any immi- nent attack being planned in the United States using chemical or biological weaponsor using cyber attack techniques,” said Richard Clarke, the president's national coordinator for anti-terrorism programs. “But we do want to raise con sciousness that such attacks are growing increasinglylikely tion." “We must be ready — ready if our adversariestry to use comput ers to disable power grids, bank ing, communications and trans: portation networks, police, fire and health services of military as. sets,” the presidentsaid vise, Clinton said, “we have to detect andaddress a biological attack promptly, before thedisease spreads.” Clinton's $2.8 billion proposal he said at a White Housebriefing Health and HumanService: Clinton's $7.2 billion request for conventional counterterrorism se- tary DonnaShalala te Clinton said that terrorists, ree must be approved by Congress The money wouldbeinaddition to with Atty, Gen. 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