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Show SUMMER CONCERTS: PEARL JAM TO PETER, PAUL AND MARY/ E-1 CheSalt LakeCribune VOLU 50 NUMBER FRIDAY May26, 1995 2 TODAY'S READERSHIP:354,400 é ©1995, THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 84111 $16.4 Billion in Spending HUMANE WAR? High-Tech Arms Cuts Face Clinton Veto Aim to Maim But Have Drawbacks By Neil Winton REUTER NEWS By Edwin Chen LOS ANGELES TIMES WASHINGTON — The Senate put the Republican-controlled Congress on a collision course with the White House over spending priorities Thursday, passing the first bill that President Clinton has vowed to veto: a measure that slashes $16.4 billion from funds already appropriated But because the bill also contains more than $6billion in disaster-assistance relief for California, Oklahoma and other states, Republican leaders urged the president to back down from his threat even as they conceded that they lack the votes for an override. Noting that the so-called rescission bill would cut the budget deficit by more than $9 billion, House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., said it would be “a greatdisservice to this country” and “a major, major mistake” for the president to veto this “first step toward a balanced budget.” Appearing at a rare, joint Capitol Hill news conference, Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan., added: “I would strongly urge the president to ICE LONDON — Computer-game and comic-book heroes have for years conquered the bad guys with the POW! and ZAP!of overwhelming technological power, leaving the enemy disheveled and helpless, but alive. Science now is close to providing modern armies with the technological trickery — lasers, glue guns, stun guns, electronic jamming — which in theory could allow advanced nations to impose their will on muscle-flexing aggressors with minimalcasualties. Butfar from being hailed as mankind's final liberation from the threat of premature death and destruction, many experts fear devices that seem to promise a quick, clean route to victory actually could induce moreviolence. And they doubt the claims madeby the supporters of these so-called ‘nonlethal weapons” that they will cut down drastically on battlefield casualties. “Ourstatistics show that in a conventional battle, 60 percentof the casualties will make a full recovery, 25 percent to 30 percent will die, and 10 percent to 15 percent will have some kindofdisability but will live,” said Louise Doswald-Beck, senior legal adviser to the International Committee of the Red Cross. Designed to Maim: “Using so-called nonlethal weaponslike lasers, will leave the vast majority of casualties blinded for life. If someone develops a weaponthat will give severe permanent disablement, we don’t think that’s really an advance,” Doswald-Beck said in a telephoneinterview from her Geneva office Modern armies are apparentlyclose to deploying a wide range of futuristic, high-technology weapons aimed at destroying an enemy’s ability to fight. Governments are hoping to develop weaponsthatwill offer a hitherto Utopian option — forcibly bringing to heel warring factions, but with a significantly reduced risk of casualties. Adam Ashton’s heart saveda life. West Jordan Boy Who Was ‘All Heart’ Gives the Gift Of Life to Arizona Woman By Norma Wagner THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE As Adam Ashton hiked near Mount Nebo Loop, frightened his sisters with campfire ghost stories and ate more than his share of hot dogs, a heart patient 736 miles awaylay in critical condition, knowing she probably was goingto die. At 9, Adam’slife was just beginning. At 46, Monti Spiegel’s heart was winding down, Now, the Boy Scout’s heart is beating strongly inside the Sunday school teacher’s chest, a twist of fate that has left a Utah family grieving, an Arizona family blessed. When Arizona physicians transplanted Adam’s heart into Spiegel on Monday, “‘it just took off immediately, which surprised them,” Monti’s husband, Bill Spiegel. said. “It doesn’t surprise me,” said Adam’s father, Wayne Ashton. ‘That little boy was all heart.” At his funeral Thursday, Adam’s family mourneda go-cart rider and bugcollector whoslept on Ninja Turtle sheets and built modelcars and airplanes. A typical third- sign it.” But their pleas fell on deaf ears at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue Just minutes before the Senate passed the measure, Clinton told reporters in the White House Rose Garden that he would veto the bill “if it passesin this form.” Thepresident's main objectionto the measureis that it cuts too deeply into programs on education, housing, airport improvement, job training and the environment — but too little into wasteful “pork” construction projects. “Lamfor making a down payment on the deficit reduction in this rescission bill,” Clinton said. “I certainly want to get the money out to OklahomaCity, to finish our obligations in the California earthquake, to deal with the floodsin the South.” The bill also contains $250 million @ See BOY SCOUT,Page A-3 In theory at least, United Nations forces could decide to quell the fighting between factions from the old Yugoslavia. Chemicalagents that makesteelbrittle would cause tank or jeep engines to disintegrate. Other warvehicles would be stuck to the roads, or their tracks and wheels would be spinning helplessly. Soldiers offering resistance would be sprayed with glue, enveloping them with ropelike gunk, or they would beflattened, not by bullets, but by beanbag firing guns that disable them temporarily. Pockets of resistance would be flushed out with “infrasound,” low-frequency sound generation that can induce vomiting, bowel spasms, epileptic seizures and general disorientation Conventional War? “Makingit easier to contemplate action might tempt countries to jumpin too quickly. It might lower the threshold for conflict, which would then invite conventional retaliation from the other side, This might not have happened without the temptation of hightech nonlethals [weapons], said Nick Lewer, research fellow at Bradford University's Center for Conflict Resolution “But anything that makes war more hu- maneobviouslyis a good thing, although there's great difficulty in judging the power of these new weapons. They might be called nonlethal, but if the dose is not right, they could kill,” adds Lewer. Philip Sabin, senior lecturer at Kings College London’s Department of War Studies, says countries like the United States have been reluctant to use nonlethal weapons because thetactics needed for their use differ greatly from conventional weapons. U.S. forces were expected to back their withdrawal from Somalia with glue guns, but apparently declined to use them. And he suggests that they may be a passing fashion. “The development of weapons that stun and don’t kill is entirely dependent on the current belief that humanlife is important. I can foresee a nightmare where the aims were very different; where you want different kinds of weapons, where lethal might be the main requirement, to push back wavesof barbarians similar to Iraq trying to stem waves of onrushing Iranian troops.” INDEX Ann Landers Asimov Quiz Births Business Calendar Classifieds. Comics. C7 C5 B40 842 B41 2 C4 DayBreak C4 Intermountain. Lotterstofd. Movies Obituories Personals Puzzles. . Rollyand Wells, Sports A414 A30 .B2 B40 B42 20 B4 Dt Editorials A30 Stor Gazer B24 For The Record, &2 Television C5 Headliners. A2 Utah Dateline, B44 Home & Family, C4 Utah News, MM WEATHER: Continued cool, chance of rain over much of state. Details: B-16 / : x) Hill Is No. 1, UtahnsTell Base Panel By LaurieSullivan THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE NAVAL STATION TREASURE ISLAND, Calif. — Utahofficials’ last big pitch for Hill Air Force Base on Thursday was all numbers and confidence — and repetition. Foroncethestate hada killer case, and its politicians wanted to be sure the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission (BRAC) knewit. Hill’s OgdenAir Logistics Centeris the best in the world, they stressed to the three BRAC commissioners who stayed put for Utah's presentation. Just ask the Air Force. “It's very simple.” said Gov. Mike Leavitt. “Hill and the Ogden Air Logistics Center are ranked ‘top tier’ by the Air Force, both as an operationalinstallation and a maintenancebase. ‘Whatelse is there to say? What more could I say?” Thathigh Air Force rankingis the centerpiece of the state's case for keeping Hill open, and to underscore its importance, Utah politicians brought in an Air Force three-star — Lt. Gen. Lawrence Farrell — to confirm it. Thevice chief of the commandoverseeingall five Air Forcelogistics centers said each has unique missions that could not be duplicated elsewhere As for Hill, Farrell added, it is “very high ranked” and would be the most expensive ofthe five to close. It also would be virtually impossible, he said, to duplicate two specific Hill missions; its maintenance of landing gear for the entire Air Forceand mostof the other services, and the $00,000-acre Utah Test and Training Rangein the west desert. “That's the finest training opportunity anywhere in the world,” Farrell said of the range. So self-assured were the Utah presenters that when they weren't reminding the commission of the top rating they were urging them to give Hill more work. At the least, said Rep, Jim Hansen, return the tactical missile workload the 1993 base-closure commission moved from Hill to Pennsylvania, “Hill and the Ogden ALC should be the entire Department of Defense source on F-16 repair, missiles and landing gea Hansen said, “That's what they do best.” Hill and theother four logistics centers were added two weeks ago to a group of more than 150 bases the BRAC panelis reviewing for closure or reduction, Final for anti-terrorism efforts in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing as well as $275 million in debt relief for Jordan, expendituresalso favored by Clinton. The White House-Congressstandoff — coming at a time when the Senate has been mired in a protracted, partisan debate on a balanced-budget resolution — underscores the difficulties ahead in reducing the deficit, a goal that both parties embrace. The GOP's budget blueprint would slash more than $1 trillion during seven years, largelybycutting the rate of growth in orderto erase the deficit by 2002. The rescission bill is the first major spending-cuts measure to come before the new Congress. Most of the $16.4 billion in savings would go toward deficit reduction. Earlier this year, each house passed Utah Official Acknowledges Overlooking License Violations in North Star Program ByChristopher Smith THESALT LAKE TRIBUNE. PANGUITCH — The Utah Division of Licensing is just as responsible for the death of Aaron Baconas are staffers and leaders of North Star Expeditions, the fatherof the teen said after hearing a state official acknowledge that he overlooked numerousviolations in the operation of the Escalante wilderness-adventure pro‘am. Ken Stettler is the former licensing specialist responsible for ensuring that North Star was in compliance with state rules to protect the health and safety of teensin treatment programs. He testified Thursdaythat although he found violations after Bacon’s death March 31 last year, he gave North Star a cleanbill of health and allowedit to remain in operation. Stettler said during an inspection of North Star two days after Bacon died, he discovered that staffers had allowed the boy to go without the state-required minimum of 1,800 calories of food a day and without proper sleeping gear as punishment for dropping his pack on thetrail Stettler said deprivation of such essentials represents a complianceviolation. But this week’s proceedings in 6th District Court have revealed that such deprivation was part of North Star’s standard operating procedure, with defense attorneys contending that Bacon “knew the consequences” of abandoning his supply- laden backpack Although Stettler learned of the violations April 2, he said during the preliminary hearing on criminal child-abuse and neglect charges against North Star that he chose not tc declare the program out of compliance After discussing the violations with leaders Lance Jagger and Bill Henry, “I received assurances that that would not occur in the future,” Stettler said. He then penned a May5 letter to the pro- gramdeclaring there were no violations in its operation and thanked Jagger and Henryfortheir cooperation. “Mr, Stettler is as guilty of child abuse as North Star, and it angers mehe is not charged with anycrime and that the state @ See NORTH STAR, Page A-4 Babbitt Accuses GOP Of Trimming Budget To Close U.S. Parks By Jim Woolf using budget cuts as a “side-door attempt” toclose national parks, In- terior Secretary Bruce Babbitt claimed Thursday. Babbitt said the 36 percent bud get cut recommended for the Na- tional Park Service by the House Budget Committee would leave him no choice but to “pull rangers off the landscape, close many parks and limit access to others.” This is part of a strategy Western conservatives are using in their “ideological war" against the Na tional Park Service and other feder al land agencies, argued the Democrat and former Arizona governor. “They've got their park-closing bill, but they're saying that just in case we don’t strikea solid, eviscer ating blow there, we'll go after the L.G,Pattorson/The Associated Prowse SUPER SOGGY SCENE Missouri River floodwaters wash out a section of train tracks Thursday near Overton, Mo, See story on page A-17 k be budget,” said Babbitt in a telephone interview with The Salt Lake Trib @ See BABBITT, Page A-3 1Bls public land headed for sale? Ad ( Wildemess bill draws Utahns’ ire B4 ' its own version of therescission bill The differences were reconciled by House and Senate negotiators in a con- ference committee that met over the past two weeks After they produceda final version of the measure, Clinton made known his veto threat But the House, undaunted, passed the final bill without change last week andsentit to the Senate, which debated the measure late into Wednesday night. The Senate approved it early Thursday morning before lapsing back into another dayof debate on the Republican budget resolution. Howwill cuts affect welfare? B Senate votes to balance budget $267billion defense package @ House OKstelecom-reform bill AG A-7 AT B45 Serbs Blitz Cities After NATO Raid By Ljuljeta Goranci THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TUZLA, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Bosnian Serbs answered a NATOairstrike Thursdaywith a defiant barrageof shells aimed at government-held cities, including carnage that killed as many as 70 peoplein this northern city Twoshells landedinfront of a cafe in Tuzla, the largest government-held city other than Sarajevo, hours after NATO warplanes struck near the Bosnian Serb headquartersin Pale Bodies and bodyparts lay in the bloody street outside the cafe, while horrorstricken residents helped ambulance crewsbring victims to the hospital Estimatesof the death toll steadily rose through the evening. Doctors initially said they thought 20 to 30 people died but Bosnian presidency member Ejup Ganic later put thetoll at 50 Teufik Tulumovic, a physician treating the victims, estimated that between 50 and 70 people were killed and another 150 were wounded. Tuzla, like the capital Sarajevo, is a U.N.-declared “safe area” in which civilians are supposed to be spared attack Bosnian Serbs launched mortar attacks Thursdayon Sarajevo, but no casualties THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Congressional Republicans are @ See BASES, Page A-4 4 Joe Marquette The Associated Press Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole of Kansas,left, and his counterpart in the House, Newt Gingrich of Georgia, answer questions Thursday after the Senate passed a budgetplan aimed at wiping outthe deficit by 2002. were reported. They also reportedly shelled three other safe areas — Gorazde. Bihac and Srebrenica Theescalation in violence made more NATO airstrikes nearly inevitable. “This is a slap in the face of the United Nations and the international community, and the Serbs will have to suffer the conse- quences,” U.N. spokesman Alexander Ivankoin Sarajevo said of the Tuzla shelling. “There is only one option available and thatis to use air power. NATOlaunched the airstrike on Pale after Bosnian Serbs ignoreda deadline to return four heavy weaponsto the depots Under a NATO ultimatum, all heavy weapons are to be excluded from a 12.5. mile radius aroundSarajevo. But Bosnian Serbs haveflouted the order and have continued to shell the capital The Serbs had been given until noon Thursday to return four heavy weapons taken from the depots, Four hours after the deadline expired, NATO warplanes struck at Serb headquarters in Pale, No casualties were reported. The Serbs face another ultimaturh at noon today to put all heavy weapons around Sarajevo back under U.N. con. trol a \ |
