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Show THURSDAY,January 28, 1999 : GRABBING —_ os a a : A2_ TODAY'S BRIEFING BY: Peter S. Lozancich and Jennifer Skordas THE HEADLINES el Elle McPherson was in a tight, mink-trimmed suit. Baby wore white lace. Photographers gathered outside the Rome church of Sant’ AgosH tino on Wednesday as the 4 . a | Bipartisanship Derailed: The “impartial justice” that the 100 senators swore to pursue in President Clinton’s im- _ peachmenttrial evidently means all but model-turned-mom arrived for the baptism of 11-month-old Arpad Flynn Alexander Busson, whose father is French 4ill financier Arpad Busson. The =wasfollowed by a luncheonhosted by the baby's godfather, Fiat magnate Gianni Agnelli. one senatorvoting along partylines. By identical 56-44 margins Wednesday, one Senators rejected a call to dismiss the isa Marie Presley dropped her lawsuit against charges against President Clinton and the National Enquirer, which had said she wassuicidal. “I am satisfied with the settlement,”Presley said Wednesday, explaining the lawsuit was designed to send a messageto tabloids that she won't tolerate publication of untruths. Terms of the settlement weren't disclosed. Enquirer editor Steve Coz was outraged by Presley's announcement. “Sheis lying if she means to suggest that she provedfalse the 1997article,” Cozsaid from his Lantana,Fla., office. approved a plan to question three wit- messes — one of them Monica Lewinsky. Details: A-1 Opposing the Death Penalty: Pope John PaulII, preaching an unpopular cause to U.S. RomanCatholics andtheir political leaders, in on Wednesday issued his most direct appeal yet for an end to capital punish- mentin the United States. “If Lisa Marie wanted a public airing of the facts Details: A-1 Quake Looters: Driven by hunger, survivors of a deadly earthquake clashed with police and stripped super- market shelves clean Wednesday as shortages of food and antibiotics worsened the misery wrought by one of Co- Quake Survivor administration said early today thatit has won preliminary agreement from Details: A-1 Poor Security? KSLbuilding employees are questioning whether better response by security after a woman walked into the building and began shooting Jan. 14 could have prevented AT&T employee AnneSleater’s death Details: C-1 the whole world smiles with you. Unless your cheesysmile is the color of cheddar. That's why thousandsof Utahns are buying bleaching gels and toothpastes or having their teeth professionally whitened by a cosmetic dentist. Science & Medicine: B-1 tects the city from Olympic-related debt. Details: C-1 ‘2002NOT’ Gets Nod: After initially nixing the request, the Division of Motor Vehicles will give an anti-Olympics motorists license plates reading “2002NOT." Thedecision was madeafter discovering several plates have “political” messages — including pro-Olym- pics sentiments. Details: C-1 e denceexists of pesticide’s danger to humans and animals. WA Suspectin Ear Infections Researchers sayheart-attack patients fare bestin the nation's top-rated hospitals because of a surprisingly low-tech treatment — aspirin and beta blockers — that could be duplicated in small, rural hospitals. A common microbeappears to be the leading virus causing painful middle- Severalstudies have shown the benefits of beta blockers, which reducethe heart's workload, and aspirin, which thins blood, Although medical groups pitals and doctorsstill aren’t routinely earinfectionsin children. Three types of bacteria are consid- ered the most commoncauses of such infections, but viruses that cause respiratory infections are also known to be majorculprits. Terho Heikkinen andothers fromthe University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston studied 456 sufferers be- tween the agesof 2 months and 7 years. Theyfoundrespiratoryvirusesin the giving them to patients. A study, reported in today’s New England Journal ofMedicine,tracked Buying Streak: Zions Bancorporation across its eight-state operatingterritory in 1998, adding $5.8 billion in deposits and 93 newbranchesandofficesto its already extensive operations. shareholders of the Salt Lake id the cases of 149,177 Medicarepatients hospitalized for heart attacks in 1994 or 1995. The big difference among hospitals came not from high-tech equipment, but the use of the two everydaydrugs, the researcherssaid. Details: D-5 the case may be nearing an end. Sued: The state of Massachusetts by a suburban Boston couple whoacted asfoster parents for a jz 15-year-old girl who later seduced the couple's 11- fe e e year-old boy and borehis child. The family claims the state hid thegirl's troubled past from them. Received: Motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel, a ° long-awaitedliver transplant on Wednesday. He wasin stable condition, recovering at Tampa Gen- e @ e © lungs of186of the children. The syncytualvirus, or RSV, was mostfrequently implicated in ear infections, present in the middle-earfluid of 48 children 9,200. Stocks: D-7 Journal of Medicine concluded that an effective vaccine for RSV would greatly © 5 ..AND THE BAD the Utah tutional balance that governs oversight of the state's judiciary. Last week, the high court took the extraordinarystep of reversingitself barelysix months lat- er. Though The Tribune supportedthe plane to make an unmanned,mile-long flightin 1896. But the Wrights, a pair of bicycle mechanics, made A Berkley, Mich., high-school honor student and gymnast has been charged with armed robbery and is a suspect in Wednesday howheallegedlystrangled A Greek sailor showed police on Wright brothers’craft, which they called the Flyer, is his American girlfriend before hurling Washington,D.C., underthe sameroofwith craft that have broken the sound barrier and flown to the moon. several others, allegedly to support a her headless body into a swamp, au- heroin habit thorities said. George Skiadopoulos, 24, In all ofthe stickups, the robbersaid she had a weaponbut did not showit, police said. Michigan lawrequires only the threat of a weapon for an armedrobberyconviction. Defense attorney Howard Arnkoff said Plumb should have been handled as a juvenile and should have been mer’s holding was a mistake armed robbery, since no weapon was displayed Editorial: A-10 thefirst mannedflight of a heavier-than-air craft. The @ Police Find Decapitated Model originalruling, it now recognizes, with a 4-1 majority ofthecourt, that last sum Wilbur. Taking turns, the brothers flew three more timesthat day. Others had takento the air before, in hot-air balloonsorgliders. U.S. inventor SamuelPierpont Langley got a miniature, steam-powered air- ® HonorStudentFalls From Grace tence. Wise Reversal: Last July, Supreme Court upseta delicate consti KITTYHAWK: OnDec. 17, 1903, Orville Wright flew for 12 seconds over the sand dunes ofKitty reducethe incidenceofear and respira- * Hawk, N.C., in an airplane he designed with brother tory infections. Sarah Plumb, 16, is in a juvenile lockup, awaitingtrial as an adult on charges that could land her life prison sen- OPINION ~ Musician-composer AckerBilk is 70. Actor Elijah Wood is 18. THE MILLENNIUM What Goes Up... The a Jones industrial average broke a y winning hes dropping 124.35 to ies at eral Hospital in Tampa, Fla. Today’s Birthdays: The study in today's New England City- based bank holding companycan expect morethis year. charged with something less than ondisplay at the National Air and Space Museum in led au- thorities to a swamp in northern Greece, where he showed them the location of Julie Scully's burned and dis- ON THIS DATE membered remains. Apolicediver discovered the former model's body packed inside a suitcase beneath five feet of water. Divers later combed a nearby beach where Skiadopoulos, a cruise-ship pettyofficer, told police he had thrown her severed head. In 1853, Cuban revolutionary Jose Marti was born in Havana. In 1916, Louis Brandeis was appointed by Presi- lice, Gen. Pavlos Roubis, said Skiado: dent Wilson to the Supreme Court, becomingitsfirst Jewish member In 1986,the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 an argument on a muddy farm road. seven crew members. Thechiefof the Athenssecurity po- poulos was “blinded byhis passion” on Jan. 8 whenhestrangled Scully during seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, killing all NON SEQUITUR Utah OnLin { OUR MOVIES WILL BE MORE SPORTS | GUCCESSFUL IF WE STAY OUT oF THE WAY AND LET THE | CREATIVE PEOPLE CREATE eo | | EXGCUTIVEG Today's Highlights at: www.sltrib.com MORE MOVIES ABOUT \ SHIPWRECKS! © www.sltrib.com/polities/ — Visit Utah Pollties, The Tribune's new Web magazine devoted to politics and election information. Center of Attention: Bret Jepsen may yet become the player his coaches, teammates and BYU basketball fans think he can. Until then, he will continue to drive themcrazy. The Cougars’ physi cally gifted, maddeningly inconsistent center again is struggling. Details: D-1 The Salt Lake Tribune omen ® Established April 18, 1871. Published daily and Sunday by the Kearns Tribune Corporation, 143 South Main St Salt Lake City, Utah $4111. Periodicals Postage Paid at Salt Lake City, Utah POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Salt Lake Tribune atthe above address , IT. In a report released Wednesday, the Sol stated that sufficient scientific eviSummoned: All the paparazzi implicated in the Princess Diana investigation to appear before @ Heart-Attack Treatment encourageuse of the drugs, many hos- Reassured: MostSalt Lake City Coun- cil membersaresatisfied with a letter from Goy. Mike Leavitt restating his support for a 1991 agreement that pro- humanrights. Urged: The Ve ee Fundthat a global ban be Judge Herve Stephan onFridayin Paris,indicating Pearly Whites: When you're smiling, continued to gobble up competitors Not My Fault: When you're the gover- the United Statescutoff aid to Israel and the Palestinians until they better observe their people’s e WORLD'S GOOD NEV BUSINESS nor, most people think you're responsible for everything. But Mike Leavitt is clear onthis point: He is not responsible for the Olympic scandal. ‘I did not view myself to have had any kind of oversight responsibility,” the governor said Wednesday, referring to the bid committee. Roman Catholic, Protestant and otherclerics, that e ; Details: A-6 STATE OF UTAH. Recommended: The Search for Justice and Equality in Palestine/Israel, a group of American e e to deal with raw racial sensibilities, an official who used the wordin a conver- in Florida on Wednesdayaccusingcigarette makers of marketing to minors and concealing the dangers of smoking. e e Armenia, Colombia, on Wednesday. Acevedo survived 44 hours under heavy cement slabs. Monday's magnitude-6 quakekilled more than 800 people and injured more than 3,000in the region. See story, A-3. 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