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Show Ghe Salt LakeTribune PAGE 2 —S == 5S SS SS SS SSS SS Ha SaaS 5 22225 SE SESES = 2=s= S2 SS 3 SE BS SSS Saas = aS = = Sf ee oe BSSS 5 === + 2S S23 SS ! ! yi | == ==. = SSS a Baa SS=E=E=> SS S335 =. SS SS SS £5 SS == SSS. SS == SATURDAY,June5, 1999 eeeecceoee A2 TODAY'S BRIEFINGBY:Jennifer Skordas and Don Robinson SSSS5 25 GRABBING HEADLINES James Brown donated $4,000 so that his hometown could buy 1,000 gun locks and give them awayto gun owners. The Godfather of Soul wrote the check after being approached by Mayor Bob End in Sight? NATO leaders agreed Young, who said he got the paign against Yugoslavia and the Penta- idea after seeing the success of a gun lock giveaway in Hen- Friday toeasetheir relentless air cam- gonsaid the bombing could end by Sun- dersonville, Tenn. "It was nota hard sell at all because Mr. Brown is concerned about kids and he loves this community,” Young said. day if President Slobodan Milosevic keepshis promise to begin withdrawing forces from Kosovo. Details: A-1 a Tiananmen Remembered: Only two people in Beijing succeeded Friday in defying China’s efforts to make sure no one publicly commemorated the 10th anniversaryof the June 4. 1989, crackdown against student democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square. In con. trast, tens of thousands gathered in a park in Hong Kong. Uncle Miltie hadto skip his dayin court, but hestill got thelast laugh. jury that heard a lawsuit against comedian Milton Berle on Thursday rejected a ca- sino bellhop'sclaim that Berle hurt him with playful punch to the genitals during a 1994 appearance here. Brian Cooke, a bellhop at Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort, sued Berle in 1996, seeking Details: A-5 e Gun Registration: President Clinton said Friday that Americans should be e e testified via videotape from his Beverly Hills home e because heis in failing health. He said he didn't remember the incident. After an hour of deliberations, thejury found that Berle had struck Cooke but e owneradv whohavelong argued thatregistration couldbea step toward e e new restrictions, even confiscation. e Details: A-8 e e e But Foremost, a Teacher: While he has servedasspeaker of the Utah House and nowis a paidcorporate lobbyist Utah's Republican Party bos Bishop pointsto his educator as the wor! Details: A-1 Admissions: Utah's top two public universities. the U. of U. and USU, have relatively lax undergraduate admission policies, but the presidents of the schools want to tighten requirements. WHO hopes that nets treated with insecticide lower Africa’s annual death toll of 1 million Police Arrest 17: \ yearlong under- cover operation has culminated in the arrest of 17 violent gang members and confiscation of dozen of firearms. Details: D-1 WORLD FOCUS BOANE. Mozambique Death starts at dusk for the children of Boane. That is when the mosquitoesfly in from the Umbeluzi River, carrying with themone of Africa's biggest kill- site that causes malaria Overshadowed by the more notori- ous scourgeof AIDS, malaria has been on the rebound in recent years after Andy Warhol's life that were devoted to religious subjects, including more than 100versions of the Last Supper. Details: C-1 to Kirby: Humidity is counter to your spiritual well-being This pretty much means that everyone in the Deep South is going to hell Details: C-1 the failure of widespread eradication programs based oninsecticide spraya year, malaria is one of the conti nent’s worst health problemsanduntil last year was the leading cause of death. Most of the dead arechildren The World Health Organization re: the condomfor AIDS Upswing: The Dow Jones industrial ing at 10.799 84 Stocks: D-7 Airlines: With various versions of a passenger bill of rights” introduced in Congress, air travelers may wonder where things are heading A hearing Wednesday in the Utah Capitol could help shed more light on the matter Details: D-4 create a barr er between human beings and the or- ganism that causes thedisease Thehealth agencysays treated bed nets havecontributedto a 98 percent decrease in malaria in Vietnam over the past decade. Trials in the African nations of Gambia, Burkina Ghana and Kenya have reduced ma laria deaths in children by 25 percent to 40 percent But the methodhas met withlimited success in places like Boane (boe-AH. neh), an hour's drivesouthwest of Ma puto, the capital. because of the cost Even thoughsubsidizedby the govern ment, thenets still cost roughly$5, be OPINION yondthe reach of many Mozambicans, Mandela's Legacy: year worldwide, be- hind and_ only AIDS tuberculosis Sued: The World Wrestling Federation,by pro wrestling champion Sable who says the organization e 2 scripted her defeatafter she refusedto participate in lesbian story line and expose herbreasts on ie e For Sale: A prisoner of war campin northeast England. The 17-acre camp, whichhas50prison huts, Mike Miller’ The Salt Lake Tribune who on average earnlittle more than five times that a month Down at the riverbank, where women scrub and slap clothes against rocks in shin-deep water, Amida E; osso told of how her 3-month-old baby Isabel died of malaria in February She had a high temperature and was coughing,” blankly. the 20-year-old said “It's difficult to live here be- causeof the mosquitoes. Her family of six had only onenet andher parents slept under it. That is typical. A study of whether thenets wouldwork in Boane foundthat adults — those mostresistant to malaria — weremost likely to use them. The study also found a realistic price for encouraging purchases of the nets wouldbe $2.30each, but the government doesn't have money for a chapelanda theater, wasbuilt by italian POWsin the early 1940s, then used to hold captured Germans. Askingprice is $160,000. @ Doomed: Duty-free shopping within the European e Union. EU leaders Fridayfailed to agree ona re- e iS prieve for the popular travelers’ perk which will almost certainly end June 30. © Broadcastjournalist Bill Moyers is 65. e ° e Actor Spalding Grayis 58. Rocksinger Laurie Andersonis 52. Jazz musician KennyG is 43. e Actor Mark Wahlbergis 28. e e e e e AIRLIFT:The BerlinAirlift was history's greatest e humanitarianairlift and the first major confrontation e e e e e Gen. Lucius Clay, U.S. military commanderin Germany, began airlifting food andfuel to West Berliners on June 28. Each day, U.S. and British forces flew 646 e e It is not just the poor who suffer © tonsofflour and wheat, 109 tons of meatandfish, 144 tons of dehydrated vegetables and hundredsof Portuguese colony recovering from a long civil war that ended in 1992, was buzzing in mid-April when a promi- ~ a youngsters. With planes coming in three miles apart aroundthe clock, theairlift flew 277,569flights, aver- the disease e ging 25 an hour, good weather and bad. Stalin called off the blockadeafter 10 months. could not believe it,” said Cristina Horta, a librarian of Portuguese descent who said she has suffered four serious bouts of malaria in her 50 e Maputo, the capital of this former © tons of other supplies. Candy was dropped for nent civicfigure, Carlos Botta, died of People were so shocked. They : ON THIS to a hospital A cornerstone of WHO's anti-malar- © ia strategy, whichaimsto halve malaria deaths by 2015, is early medical in tervention. A vaccineis far away Another pillar is prevention, with the focus on the nets — treated with pesticide to keep themeffective if further subsidies. Given the competi the nets can benefit because the nets tion for donor dollars to fight AIDS ing about In 1917, about 10 million American men began registering for the draft in World War| In 1933,the United States wentoff the gold standard. In 1967, wareruptedin the MideastasIsrael raidentered the conflict In 1968, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded just after claimingvictory in Cali fornia’s Democratic presidential primary. Gunman Sirhan Bishara Sirhan was immediately arrested. In 1975, Egypt reopened the Suez Canal to international shipping, eight years after it was closed be- reduce the number of mosquitoesfly. causeof the 1967 warwith Israel NON SEQUITUR Utah OnLin Today's Highlights at: www.sltrib.com M www.sltrib.com/polities/ — Visit Utah Pollties, The Tribune's new Web magazine devoted to politics and election information 1 www.sitrib.com/stocks/ — Complete stock quotes and analysis from Metastock for Java. W _hbz.sitrib.com/ — Cheek out Elroy’s Riddleopolis in the Headbone Zone, Utah OnLine's fun and brain-teasing area for youngsters. WITH ANOTHER % BANNER YEAR! JL this is only a prelude to something big Details: B-1 MEVe-4 The Salt Lake Tribune Ii 46-3802 > Established April 15, 187] Published daily and Sunday by the Kearns Tribune Corporation, 143 South Main St Salt Lake City, Utah BALL] Periodicals Postage Paid at Salt Lake City, Utah POSTMASTER Send address changes to The Salt Lake Tribune at the aboveaddress: 7 om ed Egyptian military targets. Syria, Jordan and Iraq they tear or becomeuntucked from a bed. Eventhose whodon't sleepunder ger: the World Special Olympics Sum mes in Raleigh, N.C Eo years. Shesaid Botta neglected to go e sports < _ Just a Warm-Up: More than 1,000 ath of the Cold War. On June 24, 1948, Soviet leader JosefStalin cut off land and water access to West Berlin, 110 miles inside the Soviet-controlled East German zone. Without permission from Washington, ° Editorial: A-6 letes are participating in the Special Olympics Utah Summer Games. this weekend BYU. For some of them THE MILLENNIUM e e peaceful election in South Africa serves as an appropriate definition of thelega Today's Birthdays: . Wednesday s cy of Nelson Mandela, one of the world’s most remarkab! aders of the second half ofthe 20th century TV. Sheis seeking $110 million. e e e and most victims are children under 5 infectious disease Health officials are turning to a new Theprinciple is much the sameas million people a among communicable diseases. Almost all malaria deathsare in Africa, weapon, whichis being tried out in this rural district in a government project average onFriday climbed 136.15, clos the disease. WHO saysit kills about 1 ported May 11 that AIDS has sur passed malaria as Africa's deadliest nization — mosquito nets treatedwith insecticide morefundsis dim. And nearly everyone here knows morethanone person whohasdied of The cause of nearly1 million deaths spotlightedby the World HealthOrga BUSINESS OI 5 Andy's Art: A new book documents fragile in Africa, the prospect for Malaria, a disease marked by fever. shivering, joint pain, headaches and vomiting, has surged in recent years, Mosquitoes are growing more resistant to insecticides and parasites to drugs. Breedingsites are increasing as forests are cleared and irrigation put in place. People without natural resistance are migrating to malarial areas. Virtually everyone in Boane suffers frequent bouts of malaria, which the World Health Organization estimates costs Africa $2 billion a year in lost productivity and medical costs. ers: plasmodium falciparum. a para- 200 paintings in the last two years of and other diseases that makelife so MILESTONES @ e © In the War on Malaria: Mosquito Nets BY DANIEL J. WAKIN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS that no damage was done. e Health Officials Are Testing a ‘Condom’ Details: D-1 According e e Denis Farrell The Associated Press Amida Enossofeedsa child as otiver villagers wash clothes in the UmbeluziRiverat Boane, Mozambique. !n February, Enossolost a 3-month-old babyto malaria, one of the continent's leading causes of death STATE OF UTAH he looked good for an 86-year-old man. Berle, 91, e iy required fo register guns as they do cars, waving a red flag in front of gun $865,000 for what he said were permanentinjuries. Berle allegedly threw the punch after Cooke told him NE By Mail week period) Daily ‘Sunday (Utah, Ida, Wyo $1400 Daily Only (Utah $960 Sunday Only (Utah) $1200 Dally & Sunday (Outside of Region) $25 80 Dai Dai and Sunda Sundays Only & Thanksgiving Member Audit Bureau of Cireulations For same-day missed delivery 1 lacement weekdays and Saturdays, call before 10 a.m, Sund call before 1 pm. 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