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Show The Salt Lake Tribune PAGE 2 A2 TODAY’S BRIEFING BY:Melissa Galbraith and Don Robinson SATURDAY, November6, 1999 ——| An exotic-car designer is suing Jay Leno, accusing the “Tonight Show” host of making disparaging com- ments about him at a car show and other events. The “Tonight Show" host was accused of calling Claudio Zampolli a crook during last years classic car show in Van Nuys, Calif, and dis: cussing rumors that Zampolli sold cars he never delivered. “There were several events where Mr. Leno madeslanderous remarks,” said Zam Microsoft Ruling: Although a federal judge ruled Friday that Microsoft is a thonopoly, it does not necessarily Mean that the software empire built by Bill Gates will losethe case. polli’'s attorney Tristram Buckley. Details: A-1 Leno did not return a call for comment. The Superior Court lawsuit, filed Wednesday, seeks $150 million in damages tor allegedly damaging the car designer's reputation Compromise: Although the package contained $2.6 million more than Re: publicans initially wanted for the Middle East process, economicassis tance and other programs, the House Van Halenis 0-for-3 on lead singers. Gary Cheroneis leaving the band to pursue “new musical ventures,” he said in a statement Thursday. The departure “was both mutual approved a compromise $15.3 billion foreign-aid package Friday Details: A-4 and amicable.” “| had a great time singing with the band and | wish Eddie [Van Halen], Alex Bottom of the Sea: Sounds emitted by black boxes from ptAirFlight 990 could be detected Friday by a robot ng the bottom of the Atlantic {Van Halen] and Michael [Anthony] all the best,” Cherone said. Cherone, 38, joined Van Halen in 1996 after a stint in the band the aircraft crashed Sunday 7 people aboard Details: A-7 Extreme. quit in 1985 to pursue a solo career. “Gary is a brother and he and | will continue to have a personal and musical relationship,” Eddie Van Halen said Slaughterhouses: In apparent vio: lation of a federal program requiring hew owners to pledge they will not sell the animals for slaughter, nearly 200 i ris Fontaine/The Associated Press wild horses ended up in slaughter housesin thepast two years. Details: A-7 Bright Idea American philanthropist Bernard Krisher has started a project to supply schools with solar power and computers connectedto theInternet. Solar panels provide enough energyto run the computerforfourto five hours a day. Migrating: Killer bees that have been feported in Mesquite, Nev., are ex Japanese Find Loans a Bad Bargain pected to migrate to Utah, but officials sayit is uncertain how long it will be beforethey do. A-1 For Sale: While exquisitely pat- Deniedby banks, many turn to high rates of cutthroat lending industry terned rugs ondisplay this weekend in Park City reflect hundreds of years of rich Navajo culture, they BY KATHRYN TOLBERT take on a Separate importance to Navajo women THE WASHINGTON POST year to produce the intricate works. Details: D-1 TOKYO The phone calls from the loan collector got increasingly more who toil at their looms muchofthe threatening. “You with the quickly Light-Rail Decision: City Council members have voted to revoke Salt LakeCity’s supportforlight rail on the meaning that the writing on the contract a guarantee limitof $95,000, and can’t imagine doingthat becauseit would be so far have to come up beyondhis resources.“If 1 knew I was going to be responsiblefor that amount, I would never have signed it,” he told his lawyer. You have The loan companywas Nichiei, the ers onlyhaveone. Youcanget $28,000 haveto wait until after the 2002 Winter biggest ofthe shoko loan firms. It counts big Japanese andforeign banks among its investors and creditors. for a kidney. You can get $9,500 for an yeball,” said the collector, Eisuke e ording to tapes of the ca By this time the person r Olympics. BUSINESS the calls, a retired metalworker, so frightened that whenhe heard dogs tors coming after him, his lawyer ing at 10,704.48. Stocks: D-8 The Job Picture: An unemployment rate level of 4.1 percent in October marked the best performance during the nation's economic expansion, which began in March 1991 Deta D-5 responsible for paying off a big loan whenheagreed to be a guarantor, and nowhe was nearing a nervous br down. His lawyer, who askedthat his client's. name Domestic Traditions: Home altars qreintegral to sacred rituals and cere: monies of many faiths, providing a link between church and residence. Details: C-1 . Born in Adversity: The Mormon Battalion set American military records with its march of more than 1,500 miles over unbroken deserts, thountain ranges and rivers to claim be published, pany in thesmall-business loan indus: try, which has thrived in Japan's recession, charging interest rates of 30 Mike Miller/‘The Salt Laki needed to payhis workers’salaries, al Supervisory Agency, Japan’s financial regulator, asked 13 Japaneseand foreigninstitutions, including Citibank and Merrill Lynch, to report on their lending to Nichiei andits main competitor, Shohkoh according to Kenji Utsunomiya, the retiree’s lawyer. JapanBroadcasting Corp. reported Thepresident ofa small waterpuri fier companyaskedtheretiree to be the guarantor fora $19,000 loan the businessmansaid he desperately The companypresident wa: broadcast the recorded threats repeat for many Japanese of loan collectors in a popular comic book What has angered manypeople is that banks are refusing to lend to many small- and medium-size busi nesses, forcing them to turn to the ed, bowing his head nearly tothetable. He even wrotealetter high-interest loan companies. But the promising neverto cause him any trouble. Sothe retired man agreed. It was a considerable amount of money for him to gi ntee, more than his annual pensionof $11,400, All this was These “shoko loan” firms will lend money to small businesses without Last year, the waterpurifier com. pany went bankrupt. In thespring. banks fund the loan companies. Fund, the Yomiuri Shimbunand fouryears ars. ago. than20 percent plus handling charges, pushing the total to more than 30 percent. The business has beenquite profitable. It’s not fair that taxpayer money has beenused tobail out banks, which refuseto lend to small businesses but instead lendto these companies, said <iyoshi Uedaof the opposition Demo: cratic Partyof Japan. “Citizens then have to takeout high-interest loans a collectorgiving him the news, but informed of the final amount being borrowed until the collector shows up fromloan sharks and some of them hang themselves. This is what's hap: borrowed $109,000, of which he, as one pening,” hesaid at a recent meeting of the HouseofRepresentatives’ finance pened to the man in suburban Tokyo. in Schenectady, N.Y. The temperature was about 45 degrees. Kelly Roman, 30, could face up to two yearsin prison if convicted. Settled: A_sexual-harassment lawsuit filed against The Citadel by Jeanie Mentavios, oneof the first female cadets. In the agreement, the Charleston, S.C., military college admitted noliability. The settlement sum was undisclosed Today'sBirthdays: Director Mike Nicholsis 68. Actress Sally Field is 53. NBC-TV newscaster Maria Shriveris 44. THE MILLENNIUM) KEPLER: German astronomer Johannes Kepler made the universe a little less perfect anda little more realistic. In 1594, Kepler began working out the elaborate laws by whichplanets in our solar system moved. It was widely believed that the universe was perfectly constructed, which meant planets could travel only in the one perfectpattern: a circle. But using the painstaking observations of such great astrono- mers as Tycho Brahe of Denmark, Kepler showedthatthe orbit of Mars could not possibly be a circle, It was an ellipse, as were the orbits ofall the planets. This was no minordistinction: It helped fracture the entire theoretic structure of the solar system asit had been taughtsince the ancient Greeks, and it even improved on the revolutionary theories of Nicolaus Copernicus. Kepler's laws of planetary motion were vital to Isaac Newton's discoveries of the laws of gravity. Loan companies can borrow from the banks at 2.3 percent interest and lend to struggling companies at more collateral, as long as there is a guaran: tor. But guarantors are often not demanding payment. That's what hap: bandit has held up 10 stores in the past seven months in Maryland and Virginia. The bandit, dubbed “Dishonest Abe” bypolice,is still at large. Charged: With child endangerment, a mother whoallegedly left her 9-year-old daughter and 20-month-old son in a cold parked car while she spentup to six hours inside a bar ‘Thursday. to 40 percent. National television has edly, making the lurid port RELI not advised himto tape the phone calls, which he did. With that tape, he filed thefirst criminal complaint against a com and for a lower ceiling onthe interest rate, which is currently40 percent. But the companies defend themselves by sayingthey fill a gapin the finan- barra)Toa Oi) said. He never dreamed he would be Nasdaq Tops 3,100: The Nasdaq Politicians havecalled for the moneylendinglaw to be tightened fe barking he thought it was debt collec jay, finishingat 3,102.20for a sixth ght record close. The Dow Jones industrial average climbed64.84, clos: money andsaid he couldn’t pay. He told his lawyer that he doesn’t recall two, don't you? Many of our borrow- 2.5-mile route will passed the 3,100 mark for the first time Theretiree didn’t have that kind of WORLD FOCUS money. Sell your house . Sell yourclothes andall yourbelongings.” Andthen: “Sell a kidney. 400 South-500 Southcorridor. possibly MILESTONES Disguised: As Abraham Lincoln, an armed A technician adjusts satellite dish as Cambodian children look on at a school in Robap, Cambodia, on Thursday. STATE OF UTAH ar Details: He replaced Sammy Hagar, who becamethe lead singer after David Lee Roth theretired mangot a phonecall from also a great shock, The company had of twoguarantorsto theloan, owed $54,000. In 1893, composer PeterIlyich Tchaikovsky diedin St. Petersburg, Russia, at age 53. In 1900, President McKinley was re-elected beating Democrat William Jennings Bryan In 1913, Mohandas Gandhi was arrested as he led a marchofIndian miners in South Africa. In 1977, 39 people were killed when an earthen dam burst, sending a wall of water through Toccoa Falls Bible College in Georgia. Utah OnLin committee. Details: 9° California for the United States. 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