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Show GROUND TROOPS | NATOpoised to move in A-3 GRILL THRILLS | LATINO MBAS Barbecuing doneright B-1 Groupaims to hike scores D-5 CheSalt Lake Cribrne Utah's Independent Voice Since 1871 Volume 258 Number 42 © 1999, TheSalt Lake Tribune 143 South Main Street (801)237-280 Salt Lake City, Utah 84111 WEDNESDAY, MAY26, 1999 © SMOKING BAN Clinton Rejects Spy Blame GAME5: JAZZ 88, BLAZERS 71 Within Shouting Distance Clean Air Doesn't Snuff Out Tourism, Researchers Find BY NORMA WAGNER THESALT LAKE TRIBUNE The tobacco, restaurant and tourism industries were mistaken when they claimed that smoke-free eateries would hurt tourism, according to a new study of hotel revenues in Utah and other Mostof Chinese espionage came on GOPwatch,he says states. ‘The study shows that banning smoking didnot hurt tourism, and may helped lure more foreigntourists to the UnitedStates. Results are published in today’s Jour- COMBINED NEWS SERVICES nal of the American Medical Associa- WASHINGTON — The Clinton administration tion. Researchers from the University of walked a narrowline Tuesday in responding to a con gressional report on Chinesespying, expressing port for mostof its recommendationswhile disputing California, San Francisco (UCSF) chose locations where the issue of tourism was raised in the debate over smoke-free-res- its central finding that security at U.S. weaponslabs remains inadequate ‘The bipartisan, 900-page Cox report, namedfor the taurant laws. They compared hotel reve- nues before andafter the laws were congressional committee chairman, U.S. Rep. Chris: topher Cox, R-Calif., was released Monday While President Clinton pledged to “work very passed The review of 1997 showed significant increases in revenue growth in Utah; hard” to protect national Mesa, Ariz.; New York; and Los Angeles. During the same year, there was no significant change in Vermont, San Francisco and Boulder, Colo One city, Flagstaff, Ariz., experienced lowing in the rate of hotel-revenue ins, but no loss. In that city, the re- secrets, his administration also delivered a clear warningtoits opponents to think twice about trying to make political capital out of the report, given that most of the alleged espio- searchers said, “revenues tended to flat- nage occurred during Re- publican administrations. study debunks the tobacco-inlegation that smoke-free-restaulaws adversely affect tourism,” said It would be a mistaketo attempt to use this ergy Secretary Bill Rich- UCSFand a member of its Institute for Health Policy Studies. Researchers also looked into the to- ardson. Thereport details three decades.” But thatdid not deter a host of Republicans, includ bacco-industry claim that smoke-free ing the presumptive front-runnerfor the party’s pres idential nomination, Texas Gov. George W. Trent Nelson/TheSalt Lake Tribune Portiand Coach Mike Dunleavy vents his wrath on referee Ronnie Garretsonjust before being ejected Tuesdayin Salt Lake as the Jazz wonhandily. Blazers’ Greg Anthonytries to intervene. information about China’s espionage, this administra tion apparentlydidnot takeit seriously, did not react properlyandisstill trying to minimizethe sco extent of the damage done,’ Bush said in a statement Bush, whosefather also pursueda policyof engage ment with China and ‘he result that smoke-free ordi- nances did not hurt, and may have The Jazz usually come alive helped, international tourism was sur- prising because of the commonly held belief that Europeans are morewilling to tolerate secondhand smokeandless supportiveof clean-indoor-air regula- Gordon Monson says the when threatened with having > Jazz seemingly rediscovered their season end. They avoided elimination again Tuesday. forcing a Game 6in Portland on Thursday. just might keep playing awhile longer themselves in Game 5, and was president or vice The Trail Blazers nearly lost Coach Mike Dunleavy toa suspension after he stopped president when many ofthe alleged spying incidents occurred used the report as a just short of bumping a refer- ee in the fourth quarter vehicle for a broad al tack on the Clinton Stories on Page C-1 tions than are Americans,” the authors administration's ap wrote. proach to China Utah officials quoted in the study in clude Rick Davis, director of the Salt Lake Convention and Visitors Bureau. When Utah legislators in 1992 were discussing making Utahthefirst state to ban smoking in restaurants, Davis said Utahstoodto lose $50 million from three major conventions considering coming to Salt Lake City — the Women's International Bowling Congress, the Vet erans of Foreign Wars and the American BY DAVID HESS feedback that, if we banned smoking in concerns about coming to Utah,” served by a thoroughvetting of theissue by Hyde's Legion. Thestate's smoking bantook ef. fect in 1995. When wewent to their conventions in advanceof making the bids, we saw that many of them were smokers and we were concerned because they did give us restaurants, many of them would have All three Davis partner,’ committee. KNIGHT-RIDDER NEWS SERVICE Thebill passed by the Senatelast week would re quire buyers at gun shows to undergo background checks. It also bans the importof large ammunition clips for assault-type weapons, requires safety devicesto besoldwith all guns purchased from dealers prohibits any adult with a serious juvenile crimere cord from ever owning a firearm and bars anyone younger than 18 from possessing anassault weapon. OnTuesday, Hyde changed his mind, saying heis supportive” of theSenatebill. With Hastert's bless ing, the House Judiciary Committee will hold hear tience, maintaining that the public would bebetter The Janet Reno House Republicans Find New Attraction to Gun Control WASHINGTON — Inanabout-face, House Republicans have decidedto incorporate some modest new curbs on gun salesin a bill that toughens penalties for crimes committed byjuveniles House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., and his high commandhadbalkedat embracing a juvenile-justice bill that contains some new Democrat-backed gun controls, Instead, Hastert and HouseJudiciary Com: mittee Chairman Henry Hyde, R-Ill., counseled pa recalled Bush from pouncingontheissue. “Presented with detailed What they found surprised even them European travel in New York. The Utah data showed no significant change either Christopher Cox suspected espionage that allegedly spanned over restaurant laws would adversely affect international tourism from countries such as Japan and Germany. International tourism from Asia increased significantly in California, as did report for political gain,” said En- Stanton Glantz, professor of medicine at See GUN CONTROL, Page A-4 hesaid. current ad ministration calls China a ‘strategic “China is not America’s strategic partner. China is a competitor, a competitor which does not share our values but now, unfortunately shares many of our nuclearsecrets Members of bothpolitical parties have criticized the Justice Department's investigationofthe alleged spying. Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., called for the resignation of Atty. Gen. Janet Reno because she re fused to authorize electronicsurveillance of Wen Ho Lee, a scientist dismissed fromthe Los Alamoslab in New Mexico, back in 1997 Reno saidevidence at thetimedidnot justify wire taps, andaides said the attorney general would not resign White HousespokesmanJim Kennedy said Clint hasno plansto dismiss Reno, calling the attacks coun See CLINTON, Page A-4 conventions ended up co ing, “and there were few complaints, he sai But Davis pointed out that smoking Salt Palace Expansion Project ness don't haveany correlation with the Breast-Cancer Drug Research To Include 200 Utah Women Replied Glantz: “Did the skyfall the Study compares medicines’ ability to prevent deadly disease City waiting for confirmation that area is not in quake zone bans have little to do with hotel revenues, which are tied more to community economic health and other factors. ‘The ups and downs of the hotel busi- Poised to Resume This Week smoking banin restaurants,” Davis said way[Davis] said it would? “This is not a paper about the global determinants oftourism. This paper was asking the question: Weretheclaims being made correct? That's all And the answer is ‘no. BY NORMA WAGNER THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE The HuntsmanCancer Institutein tendsto enroll 200 Utah womenin one of the largest breast-cancer preven: tion studies ever undertaken — a na. tional clinical trial comparing two promising drugs. tamoxifen andralox ifene. Ann Landers 8&3 Asimov/Bridge D-44 Business 05 Classifieds D40 Comics 84 Editorials A410 Movies Obituaries Puzzles Sports Star Gazer TV Programs WEATHER: Stray showers. ie ce D412 C4 D413 = Details: A-12 Nationally, 2,200 women at more than 400 medical centersin the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico will be cer can't be cured of the disease de spite chemotherapy treatments, bone marrow transplants andsurgery,” said John Ward, chief of oncology at the University of Utah and the study's principal investigator. “The real way to make difference in breast cancer. or any cancer, is to either screen for it and find it early, or develop preven: tive strategies Tamoxifen was shown to reduce breast-cancer rates by 50 percent in randomly assigned to take either ta moxifenor raloxifene during the next more than 13,000 high-risk women who took the drug during a national 5. year clinical trial in which the Hunts. ifene is as effective in preventing man institute participated. It was the first cancer-preventiontrial in history five years to determinewhether ralox breast cancer but with fewertoxic side effects Breast cancer is the No. killer of womenin Utah. 1 cancer Thetrial was launched Tuesday by the National CancerInstitute, the U.S. government's main agency for cancer research. Womenwith advanced breast can andtheresults were published in Sep tember in The Journal of the National Cancer Institute But thosepatients were followed for only five years, so researchers do not know if tamoxifen will work long term See BREAST CANCER, Page A-9 { cials that thearea did not sit on a fault BY PHIL SAHM 909, THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE while another consultant, Simon-By If preliminary tests are confirmed, a southern end of the Wasatch Fault's building permit to resumetheSalt Pal ace Convention Center expansionwill comethis week, thecity’s director of Community and Economic Develop ment said Tuesday Thepermit hinges on whether aCal ifornia consulting firm determines that an earthquakefault lies under the 200 South in downtownSalt Lake City But the most recent tests indicate the areais freeof a fault, said Stuart Reid The boring has been completed said Reid. “At this junctureit does not master Inc., said the area lay at the Warm Spring segment The city hired Cotton, Shires & As- sociates of Los Gatos, Calif. to the matter The firm will review data from recent borings taken by Klein. felder Inc Reid expects a final report from Cotton, Shires possibly today Even if a building permit is issued today, that would not be soon enough for the sponsor of three recreational trade showsthat take place atthe convention center look like there is a fault If work on the $47.5 million expan sion does not start soon, Miller Free- fault lay in the area. Since then, two man, which sponsors the Outdoor Retailing Winter and Summer markets and the Fly Fishing Retailers World The expansion was halted in Janu ary after geologists said an earthquake engineering teams produced conflict ing reports on whether a fault runs through the expansion area. One firm, Kleinfelder Inc., told offi Trade Expo, will find another city for See SALT PALACE,Page Ag —_ |
