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Show PHYSICS OF DANCE SOCCER MVPS | How ballet defies gravity B-1 | KINGSTON TRIAL Tribune namesall-staters C1 Detense witness falters D-1 heSalt Lake Gri http: www.sitrib.com une Urah’s Independent Voice Since 1871 Volume258 Number 50 © 1999. TheSalt Lake Tribune 143 South MainStreet 1801 Salt © City, Utah8: THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1999 DEATHBY BIAS NATO Bendsin Peace Offer to Milosevic Racism, Sexism _ Among Doctors , May Kill Patients BY JEFFREY WEISS DALLAS MORNING Across America, doctors are stepping upefforts to find a cure for difficult and sometimes unwilling patients: them- selves. They face a grim diagnosis, made three months ago in one of the country’s most prestigious medical journals: that somedoctors are unknowinglyafflicted with a dangerous combination of racism and sexism that maybekilling some of their patients. From the U.S. surgeon generalto the American Medical Association (AMA), Proposed deal, most of which Russia supports, includes concessions from earlier demands COMBINED NEWS SELVICES Russia and Finnish President Martti \litisaari pre Signaling thatit eagerly wants an end to the war in Kosovo, NATO offered Yugoslav President Slobodan sented theplan to Milosevicin a two-hour meeting A cessions from its earlier demands While NATOofficials had insisted earlier that all Serb troops leave Kosovo andthat thealliance control questions and wantedtime to study the ofier Talks resume today. The Yugoslav Parliament also maydebate the plan today The diplomatic mission to Belgrade represented the first time NATOand Russia, Yugoslavii's major ally had agreed to most of the crucial details for a peace Milosevic a deal Wednesdaythat includes several con- any international peace force entering the province once the war ended, Clinton administration officials said the concessionsinclude: spokesmanfor Ahtisaari, whois representing the Eu ropean Union, said Yugoslav leaders asked some deal. Before leaving for Belgrade. Chernomyrdin @ Placing “nominal numbers” of Serb Police along Kosovo's bordersand at customsstations said, “At the moment, thereis arealistic chance that ® Allowing separate NATO-led and Russian forces to keep the peace in Kosovo. Calling the international peacekeepers a “United Nations force’ — even though NATO would control all troops. @ Ending the bombing with a “demonstrable” pullback of Serb troops from Kosovo. but what constitutes “demonstrable” remaineddeliberately vague. In Belgrade, peace envoys Victor Chernomyrdin of the war will end.” what to do if current efforts to broker a deal with Belgradefall through. the Washington Post report ed. Someof the proposals would involve moving 1 deployground troops. sources said At the most ambitious endof the modest proposals includelimiting an invasion to Ko sovo, or, at a minimum, establishing a “humanitarian corridor’ to ferryassistai to the hundreds of thou sands of ethni Ibanians inside Kosovo. All these scenarios. officials said. would involve Clinton within weeks providingclarity to a question that he has steadfastly tried to keep blurred during 72 It it doesn’t, there aresigns the warcould escalate. After 212 months of declaring the allied air cam. paign will work if given time, President Clintonin recent days has begun what advisers describe as a painful confrontation with thepossibility that his pre- dictions were wrong — andthat timeis nolonger on NATO'sside. Recent White Housedeliberations have focused on days oftheallied air campaign: What will NATO do if Milosevicdoes not yield to bombing? In Washington on Wednesday, to NATO's arsenal. Defense Secretary William Cohen said Clinton and topmilitary advisers todaywill dis cuss the possible use of ground troops. BLM Bails On Costly |' Computers ers and someindividual doctors into an increasingly urgent effort to figure out howtodo the right thing for all their patients. ‘Thefinding hasinspired White House meetings, acceleration of new medical curries ula and talk of congressional hearings and federal legislation. “As a rule, people tend to think that physicians are different in termsofbe- ing more caring and humane,” said David Satcher, the U.S. surgeon general. “Despite the fact that we are supposed to be different, when it comes to the role of covert racism, we havesimilar problems to other people in society.” he research, published in the Feb. 25 $400M later, agencyscraps system that just won't work New England Journal of Medicine,indiated that black people — and particu- BY CHRISTOPHER SMITH ly black women — wereless likely than whites to get proper testing for se- 1999, THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE rious heart disease. That was true even After spending millions of dollars ‘hough the doctors believed that black women were just as likely to benefit | Clinton increased the U.S. commitmentto a Kosovo peacekeepingfor: from4.000to 7,000troops and added 68 U.S. aircraft the research has prodded medical lead- | spectrumaredis cussions of a full-scale invasion of Yugoslavia. More and more than a decade developing an electronic system for employees from the test. the study was not thefirst to gauge prejudice among medical professionals, but doctors sayit has provoked an unustial amount of reaction becauseit iso- andthe publicto get instant online access to millions of federal land and mineral lease records. the Bureauof Land Management (BLM) says the computer program doesn’t work lated racial and genderbias. In past sti tics. erities have attributed differ” ance The federal agency that controls 42 percent of Utah's land base has i care to patients’ income, insur- pulled the plug on the much-antici ov other factors. pated “Automated Land and Miner. al Record System” (ALMRS) soft Jor this study, more than 700 doctors lore ly in family practice — diag- ware, with further development work by BLMemployeesand a pri ‘roth The Assoriated Press nosed a videotaped “patient” compiaining, of cardiac symptoms. The eight “‘patient e actually actors with identical seripts, personal backgrounds Two menlook over the wreckage of an American Airlines MD-82 jet that skiddedoff a runway, broke up and burst into flames late Tuesday at the Little Rock, Ark., airport. At least nine people were killed in the crash. vate softwarecontractor suspended indefinitely. Plans to install the program in 200 BLMfield office computer “work. stations” around the West also have ind medical histories — except that they differed in age, gender and race. is the bottom line: People are getting sick who shouldn't be getting ick, and people are dying who should not be dying,” said Edgar Kenton, neuroloyy professor at Thomas Jefferson University in Pennsylvania and a mem- ber of the national board of the Dallas- based American Heart Association. Many doctors — black and white — said the study only confirmed long-held suspicions \s I have reviewed records over the years, | have at times come away won- dering why certain tests had not been given to certain patients,” said Clyde Yancy, medical director of Baylor's heart-transplant program, head of a Fuel-Drenched urvivors Escape Deadly Crash TH SOCIATED PRES landing inafierce hailstorm, killing at LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — With f closing in and their clothes (| with aviation fuel, terrified pis heart program at the University of Tex- Cardiologists. And thereis no reason to believe that theeffects of prejudiceare limitedto Investigators want to know what the pilot was told about theviolent weather beforehe attempted to land Flight 1420 aboard American Airlines F) squeezed througha twisted e1 at the Little Rock airport. Theysaid exit and scrambledout gapiny: |oles u the fuselage. “All thought was that I w die,” said passenger Bonnie \\ mi ery. “Everyone was pushing i! pull ing to get out of that plane. W " causedor contributed to the crash. The flight data and cockpit voicere- our hands and knees, and|! as Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas-St. Paul Medical Center heart-transplant center and chairman of a committee for the Association of Black least nine people. includingthepilot however, that it was too early to say whether the rapidly moving storm corders, which were taken to Washing- tonfor analysis, should reveal what the pilot knew The turbulent flight from Dallas to Little Rock had beendelayed two hours because of bad weather. Lightning wasso thick wecouldn't bre ‘Even I pushed a few y cause your natural instinct from a fast-approaching storm had cracked around Flight 1420 as it ap just kicks in,” shesaid An American Airlines jet 145 people aboard ranoff| Wreckage ' ame over theintercom in usual and hetold us { our seat belts on Barrett Baber said the wl to be landing faster than v were going to be OK s that there was bad er said The plane was |. when we hit the ground about cardiac [testing] that would have given us a different conclusion for other services,’ he said ‘The problemis unconsciousbias rather than easilyidentified intentional big. otry, according to the researchers at Georgetown University and the Universi ty of Pennsylvania at makes theethical challenge difficult, because doctors who are prejudiced probably think they aren't Ann Landers 83 Asimov/Bridge 0-45 Business D4 Classifieds D414 Comics B4 Editorials A44 WEATHER: Thunderstorms. Details; B-6 LUNN, R COPY O1234 ALMRS promised The decision not to continue work onthe project comesin the wakeof several unsuccessful test runs of the trations or hope the government wouldgivein So tens of thousands of students of federal funding in Olympic prepa. Seijing had abandoned the square and returnedto campuses, although Officials from the General Ac counting Office (GAO), theinvestiga fromthecolleges and universities in ( rations classes had not resumed, or had sim tive armof Congress, have been in Salt LakeCitysincelast week. At the ply gone home. Another reason the number request of Rep. John Dingell, D: of people on Tiananmen Square had Square demonstration was runnit out of steamafter six weeks, Massive student and citizen demonstratio in the center of Beijing had nol budged the hard-liners in the Ch nese government, who insisted TRIBUNE STAFF and WIRE REPORTS. One group of congressional inves tigators is in Utah and another is headingto Atlantato reviewthe uses tudents to organize further demon: student led democracy amon Wing nanmen Squar dong Liang, a doctoral candidat University of Utah Departn Communication, witnessed the events while writer for the New na News Agency His rememt follow In S.L. and Atlanta brick wall, It madeno sensefor the Editor's Note: Friday marks anniversary of t On June 3, 1989, the Tiananmen a3 7 D413 C4 +44 8-5 uses and ownership that Olympic Spending Witness to History: No Students Perished At Tiananmen,Sut Blood hed Elsewhere SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNE Movies Obituaries Puzzles Sports StarGazer TVPrograms | Feds Pore Over BY JINGDONG LIANG INDEX | See BLM, Page A-10 ministrator for the federal Agency for Health Care Policy and Research and Legacy” computer system — which will fail midnight Dec. 31 — to a new year 2000-compliant computer operating platform. This transfer, or rehosting,” solves oneof the agen cy's biggest Y2K problems But the new Legacy 2000system still won't give employees and the public the ballyhooed quick electronicaccesstotextual land records dating back to the 18th century and computerized maps with spatial three-dimensional overlays of land senseof apprehension cardiac care, said John Eisenberg, ad- one of the study’s authors I don’t think there's anything special Instead, the BLMhas begun mov ing data from its current, outdated all knew something was going wrong becsise of all the turbulence. I had never flo nat night, but withall that wind nd rain, Lwas sure we would d Montgomery who was in proached Little Rock on Tuesday night Eventhe voice from the cockpit had a just before midnight Tues into pieces and burst intofl been scrapped We very few people" in the crowds wanted to create turmoil and negate the lead ership of the Communist Party and the people's government Thestudent demands for demo state and federal agencies about how federal taxpayer money has been Spent on the 2002 Winter Olympics. Dingell calledfor theinvestigation in February in the wake of the bribes-for-votes scandal involving to halt the army from entering the city, Premier Li Peng on May 20. 1989, ordered most of Beijing placed under martial law and commanded Salt be deployed throughout the city pic Committee (IOC) But for more than 10 days the army was stoppedin its tracks just outside Beijing. On June 3, there were obvious army advances from S ¢ TIANANMEN, Page A-12 Lake Olympic boosters and membersof theInternational Olym that the People’s Liberation Army cratic reform and an end to govern ment corruption ran up against @ 1 Mich., they are seeking details from thinned out was that many students and Beijing residents went out to major passes and intersections try ing to set up roadblocks and barriers Associated Prews file photo ‘The Goddess of Democracy” faces a portrait of Mao Tse-tungin Tiananmen Square during a May 30, 1989, rally. The GAO team is meeting this week with the U.S. Forest Service, which is heavily involved in the de- velopment of Snowbasin Ski Area See INVESTIGATION, Page A-13 4 |