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Show The Satt Lake Tribune i ___ PAGE 2 A2_ TODAY'S BRIEFING BY:Angela Curtis and Don Robinson Ba Zz iz 2a == =| SATURDAY,April 10, 1999 [EFING GRABBING THE HEADLINES ————_—_—_—_—_—— Elizabeth Taylor had to leave her Sugar behind on her first trip to Britain in seven years. The actress arrived Fri7} day in Londonwithout her Mal- | tese terrier because of Brit- ain’s strict law requiring a sixmonth quarantine for visiting Kosovo Conflict: A barrage of NATO. U.S.pets. She notedthat“a rat @ could hitcha ride on taxi ora truck” and makeits way into the country viaferry, but not pets. Taylor was in town for Sunday's British Academyof Films and Television airstrikes across Yugoslavia on Ortho- dox GoodFriday sent afireball soaring from afuel depot and choked nearby vineyards under black smoke. A Cyprus envoy blamedthe bombing for a Yugoslay decision not to free three captured Art awards. Shewill receive a special award for out- U.S. servicemen. standing contributionstofilm. Details: A-1 aa Actress Brooke Shields andtennis player Andre President Dies: The president of Niger, who survived repeated army mutinies anduprisings during three yearsin Agassi aresplitting up after two years of marriage, a publicist for the couple said Friday. The couplefiled for divorce in Las Vegas, where they have a home, said publicist Mia Ricchiuti. She would not say when the papers werefiled. "We havethe utmostlove and respect for each other and will remain the best of friends,” Shields, the star of the NBC comedy “‘Sud- power, diedina hail of gunfire Frid slain by his bodyguards at the Niamey airport, foreignofficials and witnesses sai Details: A-3 denly Susan,” said in a statement. Ricchiuti refused to say why the couple decided to split up. Agassi, who is currently ranked 12th in the world, reached Police Discrimination: A groupof big- city policeofficials called Friday for a national standard ontraffic stops, re- the semifinals of the Salem Open in Hong Kong on sponding to concerns among civil-rights leaders that police are discriminating Friday. Agassi, who wonthe gold medalfor the United Statesin the 1996 Olympics, has won three Grand against minoritydrivers. Slam titles — Wimbledon in 1992, the U.S. Openin Details: A-3 @ Eduardo Verdugo/TheAssociated Press congressman is grateful, but doesn’t know who to thank. Former U.S. Rep. Laurence Burton inadvertently dropped - MILESTONES Back-and-Forth Victory Masked Zapatista supporters hold their children in San Andres Larranizar, in Chiapas, Mexico, on Friday. Hundreds of supportersofleftist Zapatista rebels stormed the town hall of this mountain village in the southern state Thursday and ran off the police officers who had seized the municipal building a day earlier. $3,000 in cash as he got into a Details: A-1 Older Workers Lose Place in Japan Appointee: A Salt Lake City businessman andformer diplomat is taking on a One longtime employee commits suicide when recession takes awaylifetime job fied finder slipped it under the windshield wiper ofa police car new challenge. Jon Huntsman Jr. has been appointed by Gov. Mike Leavitt as chairmanof Envision Utah. Details: D-1 Accidents, Injuries: Personal injury was incurredduring separatebus crash es undericy andsnowconditions on Fri day, with 19 students crash on Interstate 15 treated after Cedar City whileseveral membe! he University of Utah track teamsustained injuries n accident on I-84, 20 miles east of Burley, Idaho Details: D-1 RELIGION [fy Classic Battle: Chrristian Scientists nope they will be allowed to choose medical care that suits their beliefs while the s are fighting to I urchandstate Details: C-1 Think Again: thinks Mor mon humor s not looked benez ath the faith’s c structed imag: ght sobriety 1 ‘on. to see the horsela' THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WORLD FOCUS TOKYO — After nearly 40 years onthe job, Masal aka was getting the squeeze. His bosses him, cut his salary and thenoffered On March 23, he met with Kaizaki him early retirement in a reception roomat Bridges Hedid not go quietly Growing agitated, at the end of the meeting he stripped down to his underwear and plunged a 14-inch knife I think thebest way is to die in anger,” Nonaka, 58, wrote in a protest letter sent to the Japanese into his belly, Hedied at the hospi- media in February It was no idle threat. A monthlat- tal A second knife — unused — was foundat the scene. No one else was injured, and company officials said er he stormed into parent company Bridgestone Corp., protested to Pres ident Yoichiro Kaizaki and stabbed Kaizaki did not witness the suicide. himself to death with a kitchen knife. Pavifie Ovean All over Japan, older workers are being prodded — somesaybullied — into early retirement. Companies say the staff cuts are alast resort ployment was taken for granted. In but for people like Nonaka, trained arket ven 4 gain of 4. 37 gave ecutive record h Stocks: D-8 a Dialing for Refunds: The settlement of longtime dispute over US est's in a $36 one-me ath ere 4 against restructuring in general and for decades to skip meals, brave fa- stone Sports, where he headedthe 1992, he was transferredto Bridge Bridgestone in particular general-affairs department turing policy, arguing that much of In the meantime, business prac for a jobfor life, it’s like being ex- communicatedby their families tices were changing at Bridgestone The company bought Firestone of Therestructuring is born of neces. sity the United States and went on a campaignto trim the fat and com pete globally. By last year, the com japan is battling its deepest, most persistent recession since theend of World War II, and manytop-flight panyhad cut 3,700 jobs from its staff of 16,300. corporations are grapplingwithhef- Nonaka was caught in that wave cutting 15,000jobsin the records we set The Nasdaq posted | is second straight new 06, For the S&P white-collar “salarymen” and has unleashed a streamof criticism tigue and forgo vacations in return In 1997, when he hit the company’s management retirement age of 56. next three years, and Sony Corp. is 86 points Friday closi The case has becomea causecele- bre for the country’s legions of Mike Millor’The Salt Lok the pressure was on. In accordance cutting 17,000 jobs and closing fac 84. In two oth He called for a change in policy, criticized President Kaizaki’s restructuring efforts and then said he vas willing to die to make his point and suggested he might take Kaizaki with him. at Bridgestone Sports Co. demoted Electronics giant NEC es, however with companyregulations, he was Japanese white-collar workers are dependent on their compa nies. The companyis like a commu nity,” said KiyotsuguShitara, head of the Tokyo Manager's Union. But it offers tempting incentives A companyspokesmansaid Nonaka agreed to quit early, accepting a $230,000 package — double what he would have gotten without the spe- cial deal. The moneywill nowgo to his family For Bridgestone, the trim-the-fat policyis working. The company an wanted him to retire He was bitter cord $864.5 million in 1998, the lat even forgot to eat and sleep and didn't even have time to care about er is a recordof the 1 He joined Bridgestone now one of the world’s premier tire-makers in 195, just Japan's economy was about to take off. Lifetime em the downsizing has been accomplished byreducing the number of new hires. The company alsosaysit neverpressures older workersto re tire early demoted and suffered a pay cut, By last year, it was clear the company Bridgestone was built up by em ployees who worked hard They “But these days, employers are beginning to sa that no longer exists. Bridgestone standsbyits restruc- their families,’ Nonaka wrote in February in aletter provided by the Asahi newspaper But these days our colleagues are being forced to retire nouncedthat net earningshit a re- est in a string of good years, andits foreign sales are booming To Nonaka, however, the new cor porate ethic meant a cruel turning of the tables on a loyal employee. He killed himself a week before he was to work his last day at Bridgestone. Thereis no other waythanthis he wrote. NON SEQUITUR the telephone his summer, a he company’s busin istomer Details: D-6 sports <> Jazz By One: Karl Malone sec and made three free throws wi nd left that ¢ op the Utah Jazz a 93-92 win over the Phoenix Suns on Friday night Details: B-1 \ er 3 t1 Vily oe SUBSCRIPTION RAT - By Mall of (A. week period: 4 Ma " ‘ Lak "i *} ji » een The Salt fake © Tribune at ail Lak & t Carrier Delivery (4 week period’ Dally ar ily and Sunday ou nie Sundays $250 Only & Thanksgiving ro Wember Audit Burren of Cirrulations he above address 4 whento open an impeachmentvote againstPresi- © dent Boris Yeltsin i By President Clinton, Friday as “National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day.” Settled: Thefirst lawsuit over heart damage from fen-phen, with a reported $500,000 going to a Dallas woman whousedthe diet-drug combination. Found: A rifle buried near the home of abortion doctor Barnett Slepian, who was killed in his Amherst, N.Y., kitchen by a sniper's bullet last fall. Today's Birthdays: Actor Harry Morgan is 84 Country singer Sheb Wooleyis 78, Actor Max von Sydowis 70. Rock singer-musician Brian Setzeris 40. HE MILLENNIUM JOAN OF ARC: Joan of Arc, a shepherd of peasant stock, began a campaign in 1429 to unify France and drive outits English invaders. The English and their allies controlled most of France, and the French throne was in dispute. One claimant, Charles Vil, was an uninspiring leaderoflittle military experience. Joan came to him proclaiming that, since 13, she had heard saints’ voicestelling her to liberate France and have Charles crowned. Won over, Charles put her at the head of thousands of soldiers. She galvanized dispirited troops and led them to Orleans, wherethey broke an English siege. Other military victories followed, but during a 1430 campaign, Joan was captured, tried on sorcery charges and burned at the stake. But Joan —later portrayed in film by Ingrid Bergman — had given France a new senseof nationhood and purpose. A reinvigorated France was onthe wayto retaking its territory and re-establishing its nationalidentity. N THIS DATE In 1866, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was incorporated. In 1912, the luxury liner RMSTitanic set sail from Southampton, England,onitsill-fated first voyage. In 1925, the novel The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, wasfirst published by Scribner's of New York. In 1963, the nuclear-powered submarine USS Thresherfailed to surface off Cape Cod, Mass., ina disaster that claimed 129lives. In 1972, the United States and the Soviet Union = joined 70 nations in signing an agreement banning biological warfare. 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