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Show The Salt Lake Tribune UTAH/WORLD Friday, November18, 1994 Fruits of Peace Turned Back at Israeli Border LOS ANGELES TIMES JERUSALEM — The first fruits of Israel’s peace with Jordan — a 20-ton truckload of ripe tomatoes bound for Israel — was turned back at the bordercrossing Thursday by Jordanian agriculturalofficials. The tomato turnaround at the Jordan River — ordered because the vegetables were of inferior quality — was badnewsforIsraeliconsumers.Theyare suffering a tomato shortage that is causing near-panic in a society that commonlyeats the vegetable at breakfast, lunch anddinner.Israeli officials want to import Jordanian tomatoes to help bring prices down. In October, the Israeli market saw only 8,000 tons of tomatoes; the normal monthly volume is 13,000 tons. By Thursday, tomato prices hit about $1.50 per pound in grocery stores. The shortage hasled to charges that the Labor government has destroyed Israeli agriculture by trying to end subsidies andinsti- Survey Reviews American Indian Lifestyles THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DENVER — TheIroquois tribe had the highest median The Cherokeetribe wasthe largest followed by the Navajo (225,298), Sioux (107,321), family income at $27,025, the Chippewa (105,988), and Choc- and Language, wasreleased today by Deputy Commerce Sec- Gun Panel: Let State Call the Shots @ Continued from A-1 “Following the Finance Ministo an unprecedented price increase of vegetables andfruits, the state's capacity to provide the citizens with the basic foods... at reasonable cost is in doubt,” charged Shalom Simchon, general secretary of the cooperative farm movement. Atthis timelast year, tomatoes wereselling for less than 60 cents a pound. During the summer, farmers sold tomatoes wholesale for as low as six cents a pound. The low summerprices sparked demonstrations by farmers, who pelted Agriculture Minister Yaacov Tsur’s office with tomatoes. TheIsraeli Agriculture Ministry already has been importingtomatoes from Hollandto try to al- leviate the current shortage. But transportation costs make the Dutch tomatoes as expensive as local ones. In desperation, the Agriculture Ministry turned to Jordan.Israel signed a peace treaty with the neighboring Arab state last month, and the treaty wentinto effect last week. followed by the Sioux (44.4 per- cent), while the Iroquois had the lowest(20.1 percent). @ Morethan10 percentofthe population had college degrees in four of the 10 largest tribes — Choctaw (13.3 percent), Creek (12.7), Iroqouis (11.3) and Cherokee(11.1). M@The Creek tribe had the highestrate of high schoolgraduates (73.2 percent), followed retary David Barram here on the 50th anniversary ofthe formation of the National Congress of American Indians. The report was based on 1990 census data on 329 tribes with 100 or morepeople in the UnitedStates. Amongthehighlights: tute marketprinciplesin farming. try’s disastrous policy, which led taw (86,231). ™@ The Navajo had the highest proportionof people in poverty, Cherokee tribe was the largest with 369,035 members and the Navajo (48.8 percent) had the highest proportion of people in poverty, a study says. Thestudy, the Characteristics of American Indians by Tribe racy, they believe in anarchy.” But the panel’s action was a sweet victory to gun-rights advocates who packed the meeting, lining up two-dozen deep with impassionedpleasto protect constitutionalrights. State Rep. Reese Hunter, RHolladay, warned fellow taskforce membersthatgiving cities authority to pass stricter gun-control laws wouldleadto disaster. “You're going to have a revolution in this state. Weare notgoing to continue to take away peoples’ rights and havethem takeit.” Hunter offended several lawenforcementofficers and elected officials on the task force when he suggested thatif they opposed his constitutionalist views they should step down. “Public officials, if you don’t feel you can uphold the Constitution you swore to uphold, then you oughtto resign from public office and look for other work,” Hunter snapped. Constitutional arguments were the most frequent ones aired in favor of uniform, statewide gun by Iroquois (71.9), Sioux (69.7) and Cherokee (68.2). @ Sioux (36 percent) and laws. Butother residents opposed local gun-control authority on grounds it would be useless as a crime-fighting tool. West Valley City gun dealer Rod Orullian said: “Never in my career have I come across a gang member trying to legally purchase a gun.” Summit Park resident Kenneth Nessenencouraged lawmakersto arm more Utahns. “The armedcitizenis the greatest deterrent to crime in this country,” he said. But task-force member and community activist Colleen Minson warnedagainst writing state law to appease “extreme advocates of the Second Amendment.” “Gunsare not going to protect me and they are not goingto protect my children in a deteriorating society,” said Minson. Corradini was dismayed at newsof the task-force action, but vowed a spirited fight against the recommendation on Capitol Hill in January. “Our hopeis we canstill prevail in the Legislature on a local-control proposal,” Corradini said in a telephone interview after the meeting. “State legislators tend to be the first to want local control on any issue I can think ofbutthis one,” Corradini said. “‘They just don’t have the kinds of drive-by shootings and crime problems in Panguitch that wedoin Salt Lake City or West Valley or Magna.” Corradini insisted that restric- PUBLIC AUCTION Chippewa (33.1) had the largest proportions of families maintained by women without husbands, while Navajo (10.3) and Sioux (9.8) had the largest percentage of families maintained by men without wives. @ The American Indian population rose 31 percent from 1.4 million to 1.9 million from 1980 to 1990, with the biggest percentage gain in Canadian and Latin American tribes, from 7,800 to 27,000, up 248 percent. @ There were 449,000 American Indian families, including 65 percent madeupof marriedcouple families. @ Occupations andtheir percentages ranged from execu- tives (8.6 percent) to laborers and helpers(5.7 percent). tions on gun purchases by young people in the city have been an important part of her successful anti-crime campaign that includes some 20 new programs. “Weareclosestto the problem. Local control is what is needed for most issues,” the mayor said. Assistant Salt Lake City Attorney Steven Allred declined comment on whether the proposed recommendation would wipe out gun-purchasing restrictions enacted more than a year ago. Butlegislatorscloseto the issue agreed the recommendation, if passed by the Legislature, would trim back gun ordinancesin some Salt Lake Countycities and pre- vent new ones from being imposed. Task-force leader and state Rep. Michael Waddoups, R-Taylorsville, said the panel's proposal is similar to legislation he unsuccessfully pushed last year aimed at precluding local gun-control laws. Hepredicted the bill now will pass the Legislature. Task-force member and state Rep. Dave Jones, D-Salt Lake City, agreed. “What's recommended hereis whatwill passin the Legislature,” said Jones, an advocate of local control. “The outcomeis predetermined atthis point.” _AS Study Links Brain Traits To Sexual Orientation ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — keypassageway between two parts of the brain may bebigger in gay men thanin heterosexual men, according to a studythat offers new evidence that sexualorientationis at least partly a matter of biology. Butit is not clear whether the brain differences found so far really influence sexual orientation, and they mayevenberesults of it, he said. Noris it clear whether the brain differences affect mental functioning, he said. Thesize difference appearedin and cell biology at the medical school at the University of California at Los Angeles, also said the size differences in Witelson’s study might simply have been due to chance. Gorski, a professor of anatomy the communication conduit between parts of the brain used for understanding speech and perceiving objects. Thefinding suggests that sexual orientation may be part of a larger package of brain charac- Scientists are debating Witelson, a psychiatry profes- sor at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, discussed the work before presenting it Thursday in Miami Beach, Fla., at the annual meetingof the Society for Neuroscience. Studies in 1991 and 1992 rePorted size differences elsewhere in the brain that were related to sexual orientation. Roger Gorski, co-author of the 1992 study on brain differences between homosexual and heterosexual men,said the discovery of anotherdifferenceis no surprise. “I’m sure we're going to find others,” he said. 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But some of the gay men hada thinneristhmus than someof the heterosexual men, so an individual's isthmussize cannotreveal his sexual orientation, Witelson said. teristics, so that gay men as a group may have a different pattern of mental skills than heterosexual men,said researcher Sandra Witelson. She stressed that her study of 21 men was small and must be confirmed by further work. She also said its results and implications apply only to groups and not individuals. ETELY INSTALLED WITH PAD Letthe carpetexertsGrae handle 4yorHowcovering needs, Calid! LAYTON Monday 10-9» Toenday 10-7:38 Veetian Wednesday 10-7:30 «Thareday 18-7:28 546-6886 ‘Saterday 10-7» CLOSED SUNDAY ce |
