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Show TUESDAY, December 7, 199; -A2 TODAY'S BRIEFING BY: Mark Hansen GRABBING THE HEADLINES SASSAEMIASS Danny : Glover, whd filed a complaint with the | city after five taxi drivets passed him py told a group of cabbies they should find anotherline of a work if We are afraid of people. “If a driver = fears for hislife if he takes a black person into his cab, then perhaps he has to have a total different understanding of who black people are and perhaps he needs to get anotherjob,” the actor told a forum of taxi drivers Sunday. Farooq Bahti, the headof a drivers group, responded:“Mr. Danny. accept our apology for what happened with you.” Gloverfiled’a complaint on Nov. 3. A weeklater, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani announced an undercover operation and threatened to seize the cabs of Miranda Musings: The U.S. Supreme «7. Court will review a decision by a Virteiginia federal appeals court that said Congress reversed the landmark Miranda decision with an act that has never been enforced. Details: A-1,4,5 Holocaust Wealth: After three years =" nounced the discovery of nearly 54,000 ~ Swiss bank accounts linked to people persecuted by the Nazis. drivers who refused to pick up minority passen- gers. Since then, 39 drivers have beencited. Details: A-i File Photo/The Associated Press Thebattleship USS Arizona belches smokeasit topplesinto the sea during the Japanesesurprise attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, i941. More than 80 percentof the 1,500-man crew went down with the ship. Emma Thompson has given birth to ; daughter, her agent said Monday. The baby wasborn Saturday at The Hospital of St. John and St. Elizabeth and weighed 7’ pounds, Lorraine Hamilton said. The father, actor Greg Wise, said the couple are still thinking about names. “At the moment, we are calling her jane.com,” he said. Thompson, a two-time Oscar winner, was formerly married to actor Kenneth Branagh. She has been with Wise for four years. Searching for a Brother’s Friend MILESTONES Shooting Confusion: A 13-year-old who emptied a 9 mm handguninto a crowdofhis classmates doesn’t fit the abels usually applied to perpetrators ~ of school violence. When asked why he * * did it he replied, “I don’t know.” Details: A-3 Get Out of Town: Russian planes dropped leaflets on Grozny, Chechnya, warningresidents to leave before a massive assault begins to smash >. Groznyresistance. . Details: A-6 Send Him Home: Cuban President = Fidel Castro demanded that 6-year-old ‘+ Elian Gonzalez be returned to Cuba by ‘Tuesday. The U.S.rejected the ultima. tum for the boy, who was rescuedoff ~ the Florida coast nearly two weeks ago. f Details: A-7 Riting and Rithmatic: Results from the Stanford Achievement Test show } that Utah students met or exc 50th percentile score, but elementary students lack reading and mathskills, andall gradesstruggle in language. Details: A-1 Sue Us, Too: The LDS Churchfiled a motion to become a defendantin an Man’s personal questto find a Pearl Harbor survivor began with family stories BY CHELSEAJ. CARTER Withlittle more to go on, Carter overthe years searched records. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS There was no Delbert Wueste at San Canyons Resort: Utah's newest hotel and condominium complex at The Canyons plans to open in Park City within just a few weeks. The $150 mil- lion complex will have about 500 roomsavailableat the time. Details: D-5 Stocks: The Nasdaqcomposite in- dex hit another record high, closing closed up 25.37, or 0.72 percent, at 3546.00. The Dow Jones industrial average closed down 61.17, or 0.54 per- cent, at 11,225.01 and the S&P500 index ended down 9.96, or 0.69 percent, at 1423.34. Stocks: D-7-9 1,177 men aboard whodied Dec.7, 1941, my father wondered again: Was the story true? It would take almost 15 yearsfor him to find the answer. This much Winston Carter knew: In November 1940, Burton dropped out of San Diego High Schooltofollow his best friend into the Navy. Hegot his father drunk to sign his enlistment papers. Thetwo boys hadbeen friends since the 7th grade, brought together by loveofpractical jokes andtheoc: casional brawl. Once in the Navy, the two wereassignedto the USS Arizona Burtonasa radio operator, his friend as a topside turret gunner. That is wherethe facts stopped and legend gan. Winston wasbarely 5 years old when Pearl Harborwasattacked. He rememberstheeventas a child does: A newspaperboy was walking throughthestreets, shouting “Extra! Extra! Pearl Harbor bombed!” ata kitchen table, crying and clutch- ing a pieceof paper. A telegram ad Winston Carter holds a photographof his brother, Burton, who died aboard the USS Arizona during the attack. A family story later would take him on a searchfor his brother's shipmate. March8, 1945, from CorpusChristi, makes land masses near the equator seém liberty from the Arizona onDec.6, 1941. He forgeda pas with anofficer's signature. The twofriends went to a dance andhada fewdrinks, At the endof the night, out of moneyand worried phone. Within hours, an AP records Texas. It was a birth announcementfor a Burton Weast. “That's it! Thisis it! This is the name,” he said, runningforthetelesearch turned up a Delbert and Bur- ton Weastliving in Oregon. “This is going to sound bit strange,” I told Burton over the phone, “but I think you're named after myuncle myuncle whodied at Pearl Harbor.” I quickly related the story and myfather’s efforts to find Delbert. he would get caught, Burton returned to the ship. The next morning, he was dead. Delbert survived because he stayedout. Helater was assigned to the carrier USS Hornet wherehis job was loading bombsonto airplanes. In 1985, after Winston made his pilgrim. “Yes, that’s us,” Burton Weastsaid. “My dadis alive.” Thefirst call between myfather and Delbert brought memories of long-gonelovedonesflooding back. age to the USS Arizona memorial and read the name “Burton Lowell Carter,” he becamedetermined to know more. He wasa history teacher, and he The family legend, it turned out, was part fact, part fiction — the melding of twostories. As Delbert explained, the two were aboard the USS Arizona until some weeks before the attack. Because they were assigned to different parts of the ship, Burton often swapped duties to be off at the sametime as Delbert and once forged the signature ofthe duty officer to get off the ship. At least several weeks before the attack, Delbert was transferred to Norfolk, Va., to become an ordnance specialist for a new bombersquadron survivors. Heaskedhis oldest brother, Stan, about the best friend. Who was he? Washealive? Whatelsedidhetell the famil. brother's friend. His name was Del- game bird species are more concen- him: Burton wantedtojoin Delbert on bert. And as young Winston grew older the story Delbert told, though imperfectly remembered, stayed with compass direction. Mercator's handsomely engraved maps were so popular that when he began calling the Western Hemisphere the Americas, the namestuck. ON THIS DATE In 1787, Delaware becamethefirst state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. In 1941, Japanese forces attacked American and British territories and possessions in the Pacific, including the home base of the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harborin Hawaii. In 1972, America’s last moon mission to date was launched as Apollo 17 blasted off from Cape Canaveral. in 1987, Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev set foot on American soilfor thefirst time, arriv- ing for a Washington summit with President Reagan. In 1998: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry Hyde said there was a “compelling case" for impeaching President Clinton. Atty. Gen. Janet Reno declined to seek an independent counsel investigation of President Clinton over 1996 campaign financing, Yes, Delbert was the uniformed Stan said the man’s namewas Del. bert Wueste. He remembered meeting Fowl! Weather: Hunters willing to brave the cold weather will have plenty of quarry this season as many smaller and those nearerthe poles seem larger. Greenland, which is smaller than Saudi Arabia, comes out looking larger than Brazil. But the advantage of his system is that navigators could plot a course as a straight line between two points on the mapandfollow it without changing later assigned to the USS Hornet. sailor who walked along a darkened all those years ago. “Burton was smart. He was a fun personto be around,” Delbert said. “So is my son. He couldn't havea bet: ter, more honorable name.” detail of the meeting. Wuestebrought alittle boy with him son he had namedBurton. NON SEQUITUR oe OnLi street with Winston and his mother “this Wueste fellow” s! after the war, butrecalled little. Stan's ex-wife, Barbara McCracken,later revealed a Navy uniform. The manhad been his intersecting at right angles. Any attemptto por- tray a_ three-dimensional globe on a twodimensional page will create distortions, and Mercator did, too. The Mercator projection about the bombing andthe writings of vised herthat the secondbornof her MERCATOR: Gerardus Mercator (15121594) was a Flemish cartographer who devised a mapsystem that greatly simplified navigation. Mercatorlaid out the world as a grid - meridiahs represented by parallel lines, with latitude lines died in 1961. One cousin handed Winston a 2-by-3-inch yellowed envelope throughthe midship deck at about 8 a.m., exploding in the crew compart ments wheresailors slept Hecollected personal testimony He remembershis mother,sitting THE MILLENNIUM addressed to his mother and dated. historian, including graphic details of the attack. One bomb had crashed darkened SanDiegostreetafter dinner with his mother and a manina Outdoors: D-1 ston went through old family photos, including somethat hadbeeninside a started gathering information like a And he remembers, three years later at age 8 or so, walking along a the year. kitchen table with two cousins, Winsuitcase belonging to an uncle who four sons was missingin action aboardthe Arizona, trated now than at any other time of Vegas proved a boon. Sitting at the Paul Koski/The Associated Press Scanning the USS Arizona's memorial plaque, bearing the namesof the ESS” part ofit had to be true, he reasoned. Weekslater, a chance visit to Las war. At Pearl Harbor, they ran around together. Thestory was that they hadforged liberty passes the nightofDec. 6, 1941. But Burton returned to duty andhis friend stayed out. Andthe friend was the one who cameback home. = Cartersaid that he wasn’t even sure about the story anymore. But it nagged Carter.It wasa storytold in the family abouthis brother, Burton. In thestory, twofriends wentoff to ACLUaction against Salt Lake City sent the church’sinterests. Details: C-1 na’s crew manifest. Hepicked the fading memories of family members. But none knew what had happened to Delbert. Was Wueste on another ship anchored in Pearl Harbor the morning ofDec. 7, 1941? still alive. Somethingelse waslessclear, and link its headquarters and Temple Square. Church officials contend that neither of the other parties can repre- over a proposed plaza which would Diego High School. NoneontheArizo- Ashe sat on a ferry motoringtoward therusty, twisted hulk ofa battleship sunkat Pearl Harbor, years of memories flashed through Winston Carter’s mind: imagesofan older brother leaving homefor the Navy, a newspaper boy carrying word of the Japaneseattack, a mourning mother dreamingatnight that her son was Dismissed: Charges against a New York art gallery owner who set out a bowl of free bullets for guests at an exhibit. Todays Birthdays: ActorEli Wallachis 84. Senator Thad Cochran, R-Miss., is 62. : Baseball Hall-of-Famer Johnny Benchis 52,". Basketball Hall-of-FamerLarry Bird is 43. Actor C. Thomas Howell is 33. i Pop singer Nicole Appleton(All Saints)is 24. Today's Highlights ®@ at www.sitrib.com www.sitrib.com/jazz/mvp/ — A retrospective on Karl Malone's career, photos and stories on his second Most Valuable Player award. A mustfor Jazz fans. @ www.sitrib.com/y2k/ All the lat est on attempts to deal with the Year 2000 computerbug. 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