Salt Lake Tribune | 1995-05-28 | Page 13

_ A138 The Salt Lake Tribune NATION/WORLD Sunday, May 28, 1995 Security Firms Cash Inor on1U.S. Fear CHICAGO TRIBUNE WASHINGTON — Theyare the offspring of fear: Pink geraniumsin reinforced cement pots. Decorative steel bars. Motion sensors shaped like tree stumps. HOLIDAY FLAGS Ben Gardner, a Scout from Americus, Ga., helps carry — and plant — the 17,000flags that will fly over graves at Andersonville National Historic Site for Memorial Day weekend. A First for Philip Morris: CompanyRecalls Cigarettes Colombian Rebels Blow Up Oil Line THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES TIMES Philip Morris, the tobacco industry giant that longhasinsisted on the safety of cigarettes, has launched a massive recall involving its top-selling brands, saying defective filters could cause dizziness andirritation. The companysaid it had asked retailers to remove from their shelves many lines of its Marlbore, Benson & Hedges, Merit, Virginia Slims and Basic brands. Officials said the numberof cigarettes to be destroyed would reach the “low billions” and that the recall could cost the company was due to contamination of a material knownasa plasticizer used to strengthen cigarette filters. The contamination at Philip Morris’ three U.S. plants triggered a reaction that formed a substance in the filters known as methyl isothiocyanate, or MITC. Scientific references say that in animals, MITC — which is used as a pesticide — causes corneal, liv- er and kidney damage. Little is known about its toxicity in humans. Philip Morris will cover the expense from its reserves. The firm $200 million. reported more than $11.1 billion in revenue from domestic tobacco sales last year and accounted for nearly 45 percent percentof U.S. cigarette sales. Consumers are being asked to return packs of the involved brandsto retailers for refunds, In turn, retailers were told to quit selling cigarettes in the affected packages immediately, pending visits from Philip Morris salespeople. For New York-based Philip Morris, the world’s No. 1 tobacco marketer, the announcement of what industry observers said was the first cigarette recall ever clearly was a huge embarrassment. Andit gave public-health advocates and other industry critics a chance to make the company the butt of their sharpest barbs. The companysaid the problem BOGOTA, Colombia — Leftist rebels blew up a section of Colombia’s largest oil pipeline, spilling 336,000 gallons, most of it into a nearby river, the state oil company Ecopetrol said. Theattack early Saturday targeted the Cano LimonCovenaspipeline, about 275 miles northeast of the capital, Bogota The 485-mile pipeline runs from northeastern Colombia to the Caribbean coast. Much of the oil spilled into the River Catatumbo and was heading downstream into Venezuela, Eco- petrol said. Guerrillas who oppose the export of Colombian oil have carried out hundreds of attacks on pipelines in the past decade in attempts to force international oil companiesoutof the country. Outside the White House or inside the most common new subdivision, Americans increasingly are obsessed with security, even as they try to hideall evidenceofit. The national sense of unease extends from the mostvisible address in the world. Responding to the bombing of the OklahomaCity federalbuilding,officials permanently closed Pennsylvania Avenue to traffic in front of the White House last week and later nabbed two fence jumpers racing across the presidential grounds. The real jumpin the security business, though, is amongprivate companies and families who already spend some $64 billion a year on alarms, security guards, closed-circuit television, even bullet-resistant siding, trying to create their own ‘safe haven” in the workplace and at home. Respondingto threats to life and limb is a major growth field. But just as the modernaesthetics of security rarely beautify, so, too, the more emphasis paueetcans place on security, the less secure they eel. “Where's the line between giving up any freedom and adopting a bunker mentality?” asks Joseph Ricci, a spokesmanfor the American Society for In- dustrial Security, a trade association planning an unusual conference in Washington next month to discusss domestic terrorism, prevention techniques and recoveryplans Thesize of the private security industry more than doubled between 1980 and 1990 from an estimated $20billion- to a $52 billion-a-year business. Industry experts and independent stock analysts believeit will double again this decade to about $103 billion. The growth of electronic security measures alone. from office access cards to tags on bluejeansat the Gap, is 15 percenta year. Just days before the Trade Center bombing, one of the country’s largest corporations nixedthe idea of a security gate at the entrance to its new suburban headquarters building. They also insisted on underground parking “A week later they were designing a gated entryway and a parkinglot that was away from thebuilding,” recalled Gary Schiff, a consultant whose Bastrop, Texas, firm helps architects design more secure buildings “For Americans unfortunately, security is going to becomea wayoflife,” said the consultant, who has anotherclient interested in using remote-controlled starters for all his family cars. “T hate to say this since you hate to benefit from people’s problems, but it meansbusinessis onlygetting better for us,” he said. Capture of Four Teens Ends Bombing Hoax DALLAS MORNING NEWS FORT WORTH, Texas — Four Fort Worth high school students linked to a terrifying truck-bomb hoax were captured early Saturdayin a van containing guns, hunting knives, shotgunshells and boxesof bullets. Police in the northeast Texas town of Greenville apprehendedPeter Jeune Koh, 18, along with his 17year-old brother, Michael, and two other teen-agers about12:15 a.m. after a convenience-store clerk recognized Peter Koh. The boys — all students at Paschal High School — disappeared after a fake bomb resembling the one used in the Oklahoma City attack was found in a Ryder truck outside a Fort Worth school district building May16. About 100 students were preparingto take a college advanced-placementcalculus test in the building about 7:30 a.m. when callersaid the truck contained a bomb. The threat prompted an evacuation. Peter Koh’s relatives say he was scheduled to take the test but worried about being unprepared;it was rescheduled the next day. Peter Koh was brought back to Fort Worth to face federal bomb-threat charges, which carry a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $5,000 fine. The honor student, who is accused of master- minding the hoax, looked solemn anddid not answer reporters’ questions. Michael Ainsworth/The Associated Press An FBI agent escorts Peter Koh, 18, from Greenville, Texas,jail en route to Fort Worth. Ae PHOTOQUALITY DEVELOPING O ty utPrue = With Every Roll of Film Processed at 29° Smith’s Photo Lab, Receive a Couponfor: { From This and Set of 3” x 5” | 4” x 6” Western Prints “plan Aheadfor Father's Day!” (6aye) 1 StoneNekit easy identifica 2 Detachable valet parking feature for vceunity 8 Memory jogging reference label © @ @ © @ (7 kaye. 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