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Show UTAH’S DOOMSAYERS SPREAD THE WORD/ RELIGION:D-1 he Salt Lake Cribune SATURDAY VOLUME 250 NUMBER 43 TODAY'S READERSHIP: 345,600 JFK's LEGACY AKE TRIBUNE UTAH 84111 Foster Clears Hurdle, But May Hit a Wall Don’t Let It Be Forgot, Jackie Kept Alive Camelot COMBINED NEWSSERVICES BOSTON After her husband was shotin Dallas, Jacqueline Kennedy was hauntedby a single phrase from a musical that was muchlovedby the president. In private papers released Friday by the John F. Kennedy Library, she described how she wouldget outof bed late at night and play the song “Camelot” for her husband. “This line from the musical comedy has been almost an obsession with me,” Mrs. Kennedy told Theodore H. White, a Washington journalist and family confidant.“It was a song he loved.” Andtheline he most loved to hear was “Don’t let it be forgot, that once there wasa spot,for onebrief shining moment that was known as Camelot.” Thus was born the magical and enduring image that symbolizes Kennedy’s presidency. COMBINED NEWS SERVICES WASHINGTON — Surgeon-general nominee Henry Foster won thecrucial endorsement of a Senate panel Friday, but his nomination remains tangledin thepolitics of abortion and next year’s presidential race. By a 9-7 tally, the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee handed a vote of confidence to a candidate whose nomination once appeared doomed. Foster was backed byall seven Democrats and two Republicans on the panel — James Jeffords of Ver- mont andfirst-termer Bill Frist of Tennessee, whose decisive vote followed a meeting with the 61-year-old Nashville obstetrician-gynecologist Monday. Frist, a heart surgeon whoseoffice waslocated four miles from Foster's, said he ‘struggled with” his decision but added that he was confident Foster had the commitmentandintegrityfor the job because “I know him.” He urged his colleagues to “view this candidate away from the distractions and the hype of political expediency.” Yet Sen, Phil Gramm, R-Texas, reiterated his pledge to filibuster the nomination. And Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan., had suggested he might not bring the nomination to the floor regardless of the committee's verdict. But Dole said Fridayhe wants to “have the chance to talk with Dr. Foster. I will do that when we return in June, andI will then decide what action we'll take.” President Clinton thanked the committee Friday and said he was optimistic about Foster’s chances. “T look forward to going on to the next stage, and to See FOSTER, Page A-6 PresidentClinton with his nominee, Henry Foster. GOPPlans: Rich Win, Poor Lose NATO air raids on Bosnia 6 Feb. 28, 1994:U.S. F-16 fighters shoot down four Bosnian Serb | warplanes violating a no-fly zone in central Bosnia. ‘Life’ & Death: White interviewed Mrs. Kennedy on Nov. 29, 1963, a week after the assassination. That conversation becamethe basis for an essay published in the Dec. 6, 1963, issue of Life magazine. White donated the so-called Camelot documents to the Kennedy Library in December 1969, with the stipulation that they remain closed for a year after Mrs. Kennedy's death. The papers include handwritten notes and drafts of the original interview, including comments and revisions by Mrs. Kennedy. Mrs. Kennedy was remarkably candid during the interview, describing the moments before andafter the assassination in striking detail. Sherecalled that everywherethey went that day in Texas, they received yellow roses, but in Dallas, the roses werered. “I thought, ‘How funny. Red roses — soall the seat wasfull of blood andredroses.’ ” When the first shot was fired, Mrs. Kennedy thoughtit was a backfire, then she saw TexasGov. John Connally grab- Daeeen 's arms and saying, “No! : a = BE! No! Ney I couldsee a pieceof his skull coming off ... he was holding out his hand. ... Then he slumped in my lap....Wealllay down in the car, and I kept saying ‘Jack, Jack, Jack,’ and someone was yelling, ‘He's dead. He’s dead.’” At the hospital, Mrs. Kennedy begged the staff not to take the president away from her. Whenshefinally pushed her way into the operating room, one of the doctors tried to kick herout, but she said, “Tt's my husband.” “J thought, ‘I'll take care of him every dayof his life. I'll make him happy,’ but I knew he was dead.” While doctors looked for a priest, Mrs. Kennedy kissed her husband's pale foot, then pulled back the sheet. “His mouth was so beautiful,” she told White. “His eyes were open.I held his handthe wholetimethe priest was saying {the lastrites].”” Flame Still Burns: The transcript also shows her hopes a weekafter the assassination included privacy for herself and memorials for her husband. “] wanted that flame and I wanted Cape Kennedy. ... All I wanted was his name on just that one booster, the one that would putus aheadof the Russians,” she said, apparently referring to the rocket to the moon. ‘The eternal flamestill burns at JFK's grave at Arlington National Cemetery. ‘And while Cape Canaveral was renamed for Kennedy on the day of White's interview, the rocket that went to the moon was not. Cape Kennedy reverted to Cape Canaveral in 1973, although the NASA base there continuesto becalled the Kennedy Space Center. “J'm not going to be the Widow Kennedy,” Mrs. Kennedy told White. “When this is over, I'm going to crawl into the deepestretirementthere is.” Speaking of her 3-year-old son, Mrs. Kennedysaid: “I want John-John to be a fine young man. He's so interested in planes; maybe he'll be an astronaut or just plain John Kennedy fixing planes on the ground.” Sherecalled that her daughter, Caroline, “held my handlike a soldier.” John F. Kennedy Jr. is a lawyer and publisher. Caroline also is a lawyer and co-wrote a book on theBill of Rights; she is married andhas three children. And,finally, on White's manuscript, Mrs. Kennedy scribbled in an additional line after the “Camelot” quote: “and it will never be that way again!”” Editorials... AZT ala Uloh Dateline... BS For The Record. B&2 Utah Be News... Intermountain, . AAO WEATHER: Highs in 60s and 70s; small Details: B-10 chance ofrain. ) : CITY, May27, 1995 a F-16C Fighting Falcon | F-16C Fighting Falcon | © © apr: t0.8 11, 1908: day 1-Two | U.S. F-16s strike Bosnian Serb positions | near Gorazde. Day 2-Two U.S. Marine | FA-18s strike Serb positions near Gorazde. Serbs respondbytaking all strategic points around Gorazde. COMBINED NEWS SERVICES WASHINGTON — Republicans in Congress say balancing the federal budgetis so importantthat the nation no longer can afford to spend $1.6 billion a hee helping poor people pay their winter heating bills. Likewise, House Republicans say, the nation no longer canafford to spend $1.6 billion a year helping old and disabled Le U.S. A-10 Warthog e Aug. 5, 1994: poor people pay TwoU.S. A-10 jets destroy ananti-tank | Weaponnear Sarajevo,after Serbs seize heavy weaponsfrom d U.N.-guarded Ce ee e Sept. 22, 1994: NATO jets strike a Serb tank near Sarajevo after Serbs attack a French | armored personnelcarrier and | defy U.N. demandsto remove heavy guns violating a “no-weapons" zone. © May26, 1995: ATO warplanesreturn e Nov.21, 1994: NATO warplanesbombthe air base oe May25, 1995: NATOjets strike at a Bosnian Serb planes haveused to raid. Serb strongholdof Pale. The raid occurred after the Serbs a dozen missiles. NATO @ Nov. 23, 1994: About 20 refused to comply with a U.N. ultimatum to return heavy weapons taken from U.N weapons depots. Officials say the airstrike in Serb-held Croatia that Serb, NATO attack and support planes hit at least two Serb surfaceto-air missile sites near Bihac. ammunition depotnear the @ Dollar Days program. i oppose @ measure inwill and Senate budget plans agree that America still can afford to spend $1.4 billion a year publican budgetthat calls for replacing the dollar bill with a new$1 coin national-service to the ammunition depot nearPale andfire about But the House is in retaliation for Serb attacks after the NATO raid Thursday, AssociatedPress| BosnianSerbs StrikeBack, their rent; or $377 million on lawyers for poor people in legal trouble; or $281 million on tufe t pee ee Clinton’s dent Bye, George? No, President Clinton plans to buck the GOP and stick by the greenback. U.S. Mint Director Philip Diehl announced Fri- day the administration cluded in the House Re- Supsidizing prices for big sugar-cane farmers. Itstill can spend $2 billion a year helping high-tech companies build a space station. And oil companiesstill can keep tax breaks to offset their “intangible” drilling expenses, which cost the Treasury about $1 billion a | Take Peacekeepers Hostage year, if Republican plans prevail Thepointis that GOP plans to balance the budget would not spread the pain of sacrifice evenly The Houseand Senate GOP piansare political documents. Theytarget winners and losers. Winners would tend COMBINED NEWS SERVICES PALE, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Stung by two days of NATO airstrikes, Bosnian Serbs lashed back by seizing peacekeepers and chaining them upat targets aroundtheir headquarters Friday. They warned the hostages could die if NATO attacked again. The Serbs’ action, broadcast by their TV and flashed around the world, dramatically uppedthe stakes in their confrontation with NATO and the United Nations. The airstrikes raised the prospect of increased war and a pullout of the peacekeepers. But by late Friday, statements from U.N. headquarters in Zagreb, Croatia, indicated that moreairstrikes were on hold while diplomatic channels were being pursued, “We're still actively considering airstrikes,” said Chris Gunness, a U.N. spokesman. “Meanwhile, diplomatic channels with the Bosnian Serbs are open.It is always useful to keep a twin-track approach.” NATO jets made repeated runs Friday morning at six ammunition dumpsnear Bosnian Serb headquarters at Pale, triggering towitandexplosions raised fl that shook the cloud of smoke and dust a half-mile high. ig! NATO launched the raids in a blunt warning to the Serbs to stop shelling Sarajevo, the capital, and North Star Staffers Will Stand Trial By Christopher Smith THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE PANGUITCH — Eight employees of North Star Expeditions will standtrial on charges they ignored the plight of a dying 16-year-old boy enrolled in the Escalante wilderness-therapy program,6th District Judge K.L Melff ruled Friday nightat the close of a preliminary hearing Afterlistening to five days of testimony and studying of stacks of documents related to the death last year Aaron Bacon, Mclff determined that North Star was “fraught with a desensitizing mentality which a reasonable jury would conclude contributed to the offenses in this case.” Mclff bound overthe defendants onallbut oneof the 14 charges, dismissing a count of witness tampering against North Star medical technician Georgette Costigan. If prosecutors get new evidence to better support the allegation, they can refile the charge. Alleight defendants were arraigned immediately after Mclff’s ruling and entered pleas of innocent. “J don’tbelieve for a momentwe'll everbe convicted," Sheldon Wellins, defense attorney for North Star cofounders Bill Henry and Lance Jaggar, said after the ruling. “You didn’t see any of our case. Their case will never & any better and ours will get infinite times better and we will not get convicted.” As the top officers of North Star, Henry and Jaggar proalso have been charged with operating a treatment of gram in violation of state law in addition to charges child abuse and neglect. Lawyers on both sides predicta six-week trial late this year or next year with the possibility that some defen- @ See NORTHSTAR,Page A-4 t * BS sia | to be big businesses and the rich, who tend to support Republicans. Losers would be the poor and the less educated, who tend to yote Democratic. And Friday, the GOP-led Senate Finance Committee voted to wipe out the guaranteed federal safety net for poor womenandchildren. The plan ends Aid to Families with Dependent Children and begins a block-grant program for states to design their own welfare programs. Yet under Republican budget plans, subsidies to business — throughdirect federal spending andindi- A Canadian U.N. soldier is handcuffed to a polein Pale. other civilian targets. An Associated Press reporter watched Serbs detain 21 Frenchsol@ See BOSNIA, Page A-6 @ See GOP BUDGETS, Page A-6 Senate panelshifts welfare funding to the states Axa Next budgetbattle: GOP's inner war about tax cuts Ax IBHigh court may join statesin tug of warwith feds A4 i Kossebaumregrets voting for Clarence Thomas Utah Drug Use.Grades7-12 PERCENT WHO USED DRUG DURING PAST MONTH Axd Escape TheoryLives As Bid to Dig Up Booth’s Body Dies Marijuana Tobacco | Sieve Baker TheSaltLake Tribune , Inhalants Utah Kids Turn Again to Turning On By Jennifer Skordas THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE A recentsurveyshowsdrug use among Utah students has dropped during the past 10 years, but the improvement maybe leveling off ‘The Brigham Young University report also found that Utah teens use alcohol, cigarettes and marijuanaless than their peers across the country, but are keeping pace s with otherstates in the use of amphetamines, cocaine and inhalants ‘Something evidently has been working,” said Verne Larson, substance-abuse-prevention specialist for the state Office of Education, pointing to the overall decline, “But we have seen some slight increases that haveus concerned @ See FALL o Page A-3 COMBINED NEWSSERVICES BALTIMORE — John Wilkes Booth, R.L-P A judge refused Friday to let Booth’s descendants dig up the family plot where Booth supposedlyis buried to settle claims that he escaped Union soldiers and lived for 30 more years after he shot Abraham Lincoln in 1865. The history books say Booth was tracked to a Virginia farm 12 days after the assassination and shot in the neck as he tried to escape a burning barn. Speculation persists, however, that Booth escaped and lived underthe alias David George. “Unlike the escape-cover-up theory, the historical evidence which suggests that John Wilkes Booth was captured, killed and positively identified is indeed convincing,” Judge Joseph H.H. Kaplan said. Mark Zaid, a lawyer for the Booth descendants, said the ruling means. > the escape scenario will continue to thrive among conspiracytheorists. But Booth researcher Michael Kauffmantestified that as many as 100 friends, relatives, soldiers and governmentofficials ‘saw the body and said it was Booth’s.” |
