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Show A2 TODAY'S BRIEFING BY:Melissa Galbraith and Don Robinson SATURDAY,October 9, 1999 TODAY GRABBING . THE HEABLINES SSE Michael Jackson's second wife filed for divorce on Friday after three years of marriage and two children with the pop singer. Legal papers filed on behalf of Deborah Rowe Jackson cited irreconcilable differences. They said the couple had woRtD / NATI108 been separated since July 45. The couple “mutualiy A FormalPian: Unionleaders and agreed to end their marriage,” Jackson spokes- religious groups want to solidify their relationship with a formal plan to boost wages and improve working man Howard Rubenstein said. “Michael and Debbie remain friends, and they ask that the public respect their desire not to further com- conditions on farms andin hotels, restaurants and industries. other ment or speculate upon the reasons.” Jackson, low-wage 41, married Rowe, a nurse in his plastic suron's office, the sameyear he and Lisa Marie Details: A-1 resley endedtheir two-year marriage. More on the Way: A new line of storm clouds was headed toward Mexico where the death toll continues to mount from mudslides and flooding considered the worst natu: ral disaster strike the country this decade. Details: A-5 Novelist Carlos Fuentes, a former ambassador and diplomat, was awarded Mexico's highest civilian honor Thursday for distinguished service to the nation. The 71-year-old author of Diana, Old Gringo and The Days With Laura Diaz was presented the Mexican Senate’s Belisario Dorninguez medal by President Ernesto Zedillo. Fuentes has served as Mexican ambassadorto Paris, has lectured at Growth Rate: India, where the ount apparently had reached 1 Harvard and Yale on Latin American literature, ion in August, is adjusting. its populationclocktoreflect the coun- and worksas a columnist,political analyst and critic. try’s declining fertilityrate. Details: A-5 MILE lea! P UTAH. Political Odd Couple : Depending on what hehearsfromthe FBI, Utah Re. publican Rep. Merrill Cook maycon: sider taking a bizarre 1996 wiretap- se involving former Demo‘ongressmanBill Ortonto the top of the Justice Department. Details: A-1 Legacy Route: Although the Envi ronmental Protection Agency believes there has not been enough research done ontraffic patterns and volume to show sufficient need for the Legacy Highway, Gov. Mike Leavitt an nounced F that a compromise has been reachedontheportion ofthe route through southern Davis County, noting that construction is scheduled to begin in 2001 Details: D-1 Old Town: With downtown Layton losing its. postoffice, a large commer. cial anchor and a steady stream of business failures during the past de cade, merchants are teaming with city officials to helpsave it from blight Details: D-1 Dean E. Murphy/TheLos Angeles Times Dentist Raymond Damazo examinesa Nkoilale Primary Schoolstudentfor cavities in Masai Mara, Kenya. Tourists’ Sweets Yield Rotten Results Candy especially harmfulin region with few toothbrushes, fewerdentists BY DEAN E. MURPHY THE LOS ANGE TIMES fari lodge where Damazo staff membersand their families. “These kids don't have money to buy sweets, but when it the command “Open wide” in Masai. comesfree fromthetourists, they Here we go again, Raymond Dam: thick spectacles inhis best [-told-you so dentist's voice. Anotherjawof cavi Indian ores ties so far gone the teeth saved. And Kiminta Ene Yenkonis barely 6 years old says thelittle girl, the she continues in Masai Damazo huffs. He knows the sweet The Dow Jones in on Friday climbed The Nasdaq gained 2,882.46 story well. A perfect little mouth laid Stocks: D-7 road The bumpy dirt thoroughfare be yond Nkoilale Primary School is a main route to the Masai Mara Game Reserve, one of Kenya's most popular RELIGION | | Was HePraying? Columnist Robert Kirby says he has tried everything to tay awake in church, but to no avail He even tried paying only made it worse attention, which Details: C-1 ~\ to waste by sucrose, glucose, dextrose and fructose from halfway around the world Damazo hates LED fs LD on the those “ose nations. It has Posthumous Baptisms: Records show that temple work in the LDS Church has been done vicariously for the chief perpetrator of the Holocaust Adolf Hitler, and many of his Nazi henchmen Details: C-1 take as much as possible.” The couple's yardstick of Africa's dental health is a Masai school just azo announces frombehind a pair of candy from the tourists on the road,” no name harmless, but it might as well be the road to Hell, Damazo fig ures. It is paved with countless good intentions, all of them deliciously uugar-coated they are doing the worst thing possi the bad teeth with the point of a ‘The Salt Lake Tritune », Damazo's wife of two months and loyal assistant in bushdentistry Sage has seen the shredded gums that come with knife dentistry, Thedig ging and wrenching are so primitive that good teeth often get botched up with th bad. A simple toothache be comes an agonizing mouth of horrors. “We try to do BS muh eanear an ED prevention as possible, who is studying to become adental hygienist 1 the couple's home in suburban » But it isn’t nearly ps yanking teeth Last year, the couple| uged more than 11,000 miles on their custom built Land Rover, hauliny everything from d mn ray machine to dental floss yrasslandsof Ken e and South nothing for their Africa hey cha ervices and pend And Damazo k ble in the world,” the dentist says of the game park visitors, some of whom arrive lugging pounds of the stuff a ifts for the children. “They have no dentists here, no pain medicine, and ultimately the chiefis going to rip out knife Ouch. Just talking about it brings a pained furrow to the brow of Gail Mike Miller enough. The sightseers keep coming. These tourists with candy think they are being kind to the poorkids of Africa who don't have anything, but $50,000 a year keeping the mobile practice going In 11 year ence game of the season @ Africa, Dam: 120 has never seen such awful decay oman mis sing teeth and so much gum dise se as during his pa: st few visits Ona continent where dental amounts to picking $ teeth with a frayed branch hygiene ofter NRT SPORTS A_” — Utes at Home: In the University of Utah football team’s last nonconfer outside theeastern entranceto the Masai Mara reserve, They make a point of going to the school every year. They examine 200 or so pupils and track their findings The rotten mouths speak for them: selves. in the Jate 1980s, Damazo would find about four children with cavities or missing teeth caused by decay decade late includingones such as Kimint schoolgirl whose baby teeth are rid. denwith holes and whose first perma nent molars are Esther Mutwota, who he community educationpro, Colgate-Palmolive in Kenya, say: some dental problems eanbeblamed ona changing diet and the growing availability of sugar-sweetenedsoft drinks. Not so long ago, the Masai five years ago, will today, take on the v is 58. Singer Jackson Browneis 51 TOLSTOY: Any short list of best secondmillennium novels will include War and Peace (1869) or Anna Karenina (1877) by Russian |it- erary giant Leo Toistoy. But Tolstoy's ownlife painstakingly recorded in diaries he kept for decades — was asriveting as hisfiction. War hero, visionary, farmer, educator, troubled husband, loving father and monumental writer, Tol- stoy wasliterally larger thanlife. His religious beliefs — centering on personal responsibility — influenced India's revolutionary ascetic Mahatma Gandhi. War and Peace and Anna Karenina reflect Tolstoy's conclusion that every: day life ‘ived by ordinary people is far more important than generals, political leaders and system-building. His views isolated him from Aussia’s intellectuals, whopreferred ready solu- tions. Tolstoy, revered andreviled, contracted pneumoniaand died in 1910 at age 82. ON THIS DATE In 1701, the Collegiate School of Connecti- chartered in New Haven. In 1776, a group of Spanish missionaries In 1967, Latin American guerrilla leader Che Not to mention Coca-Cola Also, Mutwota says, the toothbrush Guevara was executed while attempting to incite revolution in Bolivia is a hard sell. It is widely perceived as something for whites only, Even those blacks who can afford them often don't use them. She estimates only half of Kenyansbrush their teeth died in Frankfurt, West Germany In 1974, Oskar Schindler, credited with sav: ing about 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust properly The Masai are very careful to clean their teeth with a stick, but what they do is incomplete,” she says Utah OnLin; NON SEQUITUR Today's Highlights it www.sitrib.com @ www.sitrib.com/jazz/myp/ Aret rospective on Karl Malone's career, pho tos and stories on his second Most Valu able Player award. 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Now there against Louisiana-Monroe, senior runningback Omar Bacon could bigger share of the ball-carrying chores, with all-conference back Mike Anderson resting sprained foot Details: B-1 gars in Provo Donated: By an anonymous giver, $100 million rings TentedC can is the champion of sweet talk But if isn't what you might think. nga enkutuk!” y-causingbacteria. ssing tourist vehicle | of sweets,” says Kipkoe who runs a medical ¢ tled with a spear, a 70-year-old Ameri Sweets,” Healthy Gain: dustrial average 112.71 to 10,649.76. 21.76, closing at i MASAI MARA, Kenya Here on the untamed plains of the Masai peo: ple, where boys hunt lions as a test of bravery and manyquarrels are set only English word she knows. “ BUSINESS sugar is a mouth's worst enemy. When left in an unclean oral cavity, as thedentists liketo it helps breed WORLD-FOCUS Nominated: By President Clinton, former Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun as ambassador to New Zealand. 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