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Show PLAY TONIGHT WHEN CROCS ATTACK NEW NORDSTROM JAZZ This book’s a lifesaver B-1 Fashion Place store to grow B-6 Malone’s knee a concern D-1 he Salt LakeGritiine Utah’s Independent Voice Since 1871 Volume260 Number 25 ©2000, The Salt Lake Tribune TUESDAY, MAY9, 2000 VOCIFEROUS VOICES Political Life Not Suitable Forthe Timid ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Mapletonofficials scold residents after they shout down a plan to shut down thecity’s Police Department. Republican delegates roundlyboo their party’s standard. bearers at the state convention. Telephone numbers listed on A-2 Dreamers Line Up for Shot at Record Prize Want to Be a $325 Millionaire? bers — some carefully chosen, others computer- weet” mamasazn picked — would changetheir lives. “They're dreaming of what they’ll do with it for that minute they’re buyingit,” said Kevin Finne- Ages, STATES swamped Monday with people hoping their num- BY ERIN McCLAM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTA Just how big is the Big Game jackpot? Nineteen times bigger than all of the prize money given away on “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.” Enough cashto pay the entire Minnesota Twins baseball team until 2020. The jackpot ballooned Mondayto $325 million — an amountalmost inconceivable to just about anyonebutsuperstar athletes and dot-com tycoons. BY MARK EDDINGTON 143 South Main Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111 If it goes to just one person after tonight’s drawing, the jackpotwill be the richestlottery prize in worldhistory. In the seven states where the Big Game is ran, owner ofa Li'l Peach convenience store in South Boston, Ga.“Peoplelove talking aboutit for that minute.” The Big Gameis played in Georgia, Illinois, Va. Any a $162.5 million prize In Cana, Va., just across the North Carolina state line, 200 lottery playerslined up at an Exxon See LOTTERYPRIZE,Page A-6 $52withheld million tax Ma. (28% federal, 4% state)" Total paid: $110.5 million Ted Hebert, University of Utah political science professor, says what happened recently in Maple- On Table ular all the time. ... As Harry Tru- man said,‘If you can’t stand the heat,get out of the kitchen.’ That's whatall elected officials need to know.They will have to withstand some heat at,times and find ways to cope with it. Certainly, reaction on both sides of the Mapletondivide was heated. Just howcivil the debate was or Utah would get $38M a year to buy, preserve public acreage BY H. JOSEF HEBERT Key well leaders coped is less cer- THE ASSOCIATEDPI 4 hope you havethree votes for your job security,” an angry resident warned Mapleton City Manager Keith Morey during a public hearing on the proposal to replace city police officers with county WASHINGTON — Tocriticsit’s a pork-barrelland grab, but to others an environmental landmark.It’s a massive conservation bill that calls for spending nearly $45 billion over15 years to buy public lands to create new urban parks, protect wildlife and restore eroded beaches, and the Houseis expected to approveit this week. Despite thebill’s endorsement by 314 of the 435 House members, it has infuriated some Republican conservatives, mainly from the Intermountain West, particularly sinceit’s being championed bya staunch allyin the property rights sheriff's deputies. “The guy’s an absolute a-hole,” an elderly woman chimed in from the back. Ata later hearing,elected officials returned the verbal volleys. MayorRichard Young blasted “a vocal minority”for berating him andfellow officials. Councilman debate — Resources Committee Chairman. Don Young, R-Alaska. Young, who wasinstrumental in crafting the Conservation and ReinvestmentAct,calls concerns ofproperty rights advocates “utterly ridiculous” and maintainsthebill specifically protects landowners from havingto give up their John Roylance resigned over what he called “mobrule.” “We gottreated like criminals for trying to save a few tax dollars,” lamented Councilman Richard Hjorth. propel Even thecritics acknowledge House approvalisvirtually assured as lawmakersfindit hard to oppose bill that will funnelbillions of federal dollars to their states whileletting them show support for the environment during anelection Fortheir part, residents did not like being compared to a mob. “They slammed lot ofcitizens, year. The Clinton administration andthatis notright,” said Shelly Simpson. “We are not a mob. We President Clinton met with the measure’s Democratic and our Police Departmentand cameto- GOP sponsors and urged that thebill be passed this year, getherto try and keepit.” lawmakerssaid. “What dothey expect?” another for,” he said.In short, leaders need to be good referees before votes and good sportsafterif they lose. Thatis notto suggest the public is above reproach. Troy Smith, assistant political science professor at Brigham Young University, believes too many people misunderstand the process. He says early Americans understood the importance ofelecting intelligent people who then would use their best judgment in makingdecisions. “The public’s perception now is that representatives are elected to do exactly whattheir constituents tell themto do,” Smith said. That is what Mapleton council members which announced its own, more modest $1.4 billion “land legacy” initiative last year supports the bill. Shortly before Earth Day last month, are a community who cares about “That’s what public hearings are $221 million Example shows one state's tax law; depending on a variety of circumstance, ix bal may be larger, nc move ray be owed to IRS Puts $45B ton andelsewhereillustrates that the political process can get nasty. Butany blamefor publicincivility, he says,cuts both ways. People do scream sometimes,” Hebert said. “Butelected officials mustrealize that they can’t be Pop to enjoy the process — even when $4 milliontax withheld each year” $8.5 million Land Plan democracy in action? constituents take them to task. annually, 2000-2025 eachyear,after tax ©2000 KRT ners is going on?Is it mob rule or resident remarked. “You don’t just do awaywith thepolice officers whokeepour streets and neighborhoods safe and expect us to keep quiet aboutit.” Indeed, what should publicofficials expect? To be criticized at times,for starters. Hebert advisesofficials to learn $12.5 million paid 3 Wd. » station before sunrise. One man bought $3,050 in tickets, and gasolinesales suffered all day because EES $325 million prize andVirginia. CELEBRATING THE CARDINAL tually paralyzing City Hall. Whatin the nameofMiss Man- Ba Mass. © Mich.| Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey played, gas stations and grocery stores were Feuding West Jordan leaders pop off for the better part of a year, vir- BIG GAME Ed Bailey/The Associated Press More than a thousandpriests enter St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York on Mondayduring a funeral for Cardinal John O'Connor. The procession took 45 minutes to pass O'Connor'scoffin. See story on A-4. Thebill’s prospects in the Senate, where one or two senators can ll legislation, remains unclear. The legislation is to get its first Senate test next month in a committee vote. See LAND PLAN,Page A-16 Utah ShakespeareanFestival Wins Tony as Best Regional Theater The Antoinette Perry “Tony” Regional Theatre Award,instituted in 1976, honors a BY CELIA R. BAKER ‘THESALTLAKETRIBUNE The Tony Awards are presénted by the American Theatre Wing andthe Leagueof the Utah Shakespearean Festival in Cedar City has won the 2000 Tony Award as regional theater company that has displayed a continuous level of artistic achievement contributing to the growth of theater nationally. A $25,000 grant from America’s Outstanding Regional Theatre. Adams, executive producer of USF, coveted Tony medallion. Fred Adamsweptas he announced that Clairol’s Nice 'n Easy accompanies the broke newsof the prestigious award before The award will be presented June4 to 350 actors gathered in Cedar City to begin workon this year’s festival. “The idea of a little rural community even being considered — even the thought Adamsat Radio City MusicHall during the live television broadcast of the 54th Tony Award presentations, hosted by Rosie said O'Donnell. Adamswill be there to accept the award, along with Cameron Harvey Adams. “But to have the most prestigious honorthat can be given in theater awarded and Douglas N. Cook, producing artistic directors; R. Scott Phillips, managing di- of being nominated is wonderful,” to us; it says that we've been doing something right.” rector; and Sue Cox,festival Board of Gov: ernor’s chairwoman. American Theatres and Producers. Utah ShakespeareanFestival was nominated for the award by the American TheatreCritics Association, made up of writers for print and broadcast media around the country. Thecritics association's 1997 conventionin Utah includeda trip to the Utah Shakes: pearean Festival organized by Nancy Melich, then The Salt Lake Tribune's the- atercritic. Utah Shakespearean Festival joins a distinguished roster of regional theaters that have received the award, including the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago, the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis and the Denver CentreTheatre in Colorado. Chris Wiger, director of marketing at the Denver Centre,notes that receiving the award in 1998 gave the Denver Centre : bility that we didn’t have.” In speak ing of the Utah § jpearean Festival's achievement, he big if the Jazz had won the NBA championships, or the [Denver] Broncos winning the Super Bowl. It’s onthat level amongtheaters.” Donovan Marley, artistic director for the Denver Centre, found that being a Regional Tony winner has instant cachet among the theater professionals he con. tracts for productions. “There’s no question that the theater community across the nation is awarethat Sce UTAH FESTIVAL,Page A-6 did whenall five voted to keep the Police Department even though some clearly favored shuttingit down to save money. In Utah,religion may contribute to a misunderstandingofthe political process. A majority of Utahns are Mormons used to church governance by so-called “commonconsent.” WhySierra Leone Is a Mess BY STEVEN MUFSON sentative form of government.” y U.N. Brennan LinsleyThe Associated Press A rebel fires on protesters Mondayin Sierra Leone. 4 committed atrocities murder, rape and dismemberment as bad as any Balkan war criminal, But peacekeepers to INDEX Ann Landers Asimov/Bridge Astrology Births Business Classifieds _C-9 0-12 0-10. B5 B46 D6 Comics Movies Obituaries Puzzles Sports TVPrograms ce C7 B-4 o9 DI C® collect the rebels’ weap- ANALYSIS was an unpalatable but necessarystep to achieve peace in the West Africannation. Few doubted the rebels had not going to happen in our repre- C1 C2 of sending a massive NATO mili tary force to rout the rebels, the in: ternational community sent negotiators and then a hodgepodge of When the United States and other nations brokered a deal that took Sie rra Leone's rebel leader from death row to a Cabinet post, Clinton admin. NEWS istration officials said it sustain leaders’ decisions,” said Stan Lockhart, Utah County GOP chairman and 2 memberof the LDS Church.“The bottom lineis that’s Leone was a place of no strategic significance, and instead ‘THE WASHINGTON POST. “We're used to having people raise their arms to the square and ® Convention aftermath = County GOP head quits_ Sierra ons and implement the ea!Ten monthslater, the WEATHER: Slight chance of rain, highs in 60s north; mostly sunny, 70s central; sunny skies, 70s, 808 Dixie. Details: C-10 agreement signed with therebels is in tatters, Sierra Leone is in turmoil and the United See DUBIOUS DEAL,Page A-5 Ml Ul 234Ill i ‘ |