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Show MORNING BRIEFING A2 THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE ° HEADLINERS Ne ‘ Pennsylvania: Philadelphia grocer »> shot to death by 13-year-old boy Atlantic Pacific Ocean Ocean New York:Limbaugh's fans | say heis getting too soft é career spanned six decades. In the 1960s, boysclub that included performing at the Sands Hotel with the Hollywood Thehotels paida similar Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr. and Peter Lawford. tribute to Davis after his 1990 death. Indian Ocean Bosnia: Only 2,400 of 20,000 |. U.S. peacekeepers havearrived Georgia: Victim of suspected police execution may have been hit by stray bullet Montecito. paid $4.2 million for the of Crest Films, which makes TV movies. Thecouple house in 1988. Oo TODAY'S BRIEFING EDITORS:Michael Nakoryakov & Tom Harvey BudgetTalks: On Friday, budget negotiators in Washington kept struggling to narrow differences over welfare, taxes and spending and getting the government back to work. Details: A-1 Rebel No More: Some Rush Limbaugh’s fans say the rebel outsider has mellowed down andnow is a memberof the conservative political establishment. Details: A-1 . First Gay Marriage: In 1996, the United States mayseeits first legal gay marriage, which could occur this summer in Hawaii. When it happens, it maytrigger a big fight about the family and gay rights Details: A-3 Toy Story: Won Joo Choi, a 47-yearold grocer known as “Mr. Toys” because of his penchantfor playing with neighborhood children onthe front stoop, was shot to death in a holdup by a 13-year-old boy Details: A-3 Talks Move to D.C.: Peace negotiations between Israel and Syria wereshifted from Maryland’s Eastern Shore to Washingtonfor the holiday weekend, and Israel said that Syria had reaffirmed its interest in concluding a peace treaty. Details: A-8 Stray Bullet? Bullets ricocheting at close range killed a 23-year-old man during a shootoutat a motorcycle shopin AtJanta, the coronersaid Friday. Details: A-8 Emergency Landing: A bombthreat forced a Delta jet to make an emergency landing Friday night in Greensboro, N.C., causing injuries to eight passengers. Delta would not commenton the threat. Anniversary Interrupted: Government armypatrols interrupted Friday celebrations of the second anniversary of a guerrilla uprising in Chiapas — Mexico's southernmost andpooreststate. BUSINESS Dow Ends Year Up: The Dow Jones industrial average closed the year at 5,117.12, up 21.32 points Friday. The index gained 1,282.68 points in 1995, a healthy 33.45 percent. Stocks: D-8 Retailers Rejoice: Utahns appeared to go against the national grain and spend, spend, spend during the Christmas shopping season. Nationalretailers that operate in Utah say Utah’s boom economy was reflected in their holiday sales. A Dillard’s spokesman called sales “nothing short of remarkable.” Details: D-8 Oo congressman? About $9 Price for an ocean-view home owned bya former elling million. Former Rep. Mike Huffington and his wife, Arianna,ares Huffington, a their four-bedroom house, saying they don't use it enough. the Senatelast Republican who waged an unsuccessful $28 million bid for nearby in year, said work has kept both of them awayfrom the 4-acre estate is chairman The Huffingtons will move to Los Angeles, where he * THE AMERICAS ie e Jerry Lewes reminisced aboutthe good times Shirley MacLaine, amongdoztime i s ens ofothercelebrities, re 2 private memorial service in with Dean Martin during he to the Strip helped bring i Los Angeles, the glitter lowered Vegas hotels dimmed for 10 minutes as Las o Hilton, the Sands their lights in his honor. The Flaming took part in the Hotel, the Stardust Hotel and othersChristmas Day of Thursday nighttribute. Martin died first stage appearrespiratory failure at age 78. Martin’s comedy ance wasat the Flamingo Hilton, aspart of the —— Russia: Yeltsin returns to work after two months of treatment & Pacific Ocean 1995 SATURDAY, DECEMBER30, UTAH/REGION ASIA/OCEANIA Kidnapped in Philippines: Gunmen who on Wednesdayabducted six U.S. resi- dents and seven Filipinos vacationing at a resort on the southern island of Mindanao, threatened Friday to begin killing them if they don’t pay $57,000 in ransom. Hunger Strike Ends: Former South KoreanPresident Chun Doo Hwan,64, reportedly has agreed to end his 27-day hunger strike in police custody after a sharp deterioration in his health, President from 1980 to 1988, Chun had been fasting since Dec.3. BombingRaid:Israel bombardeda village in south Lebanon on Friday,killing one and injuring threecivilians, U.N. officials said. Flechetteshells, an internationally banned weaponthat sprays hundreds of metal darts, was used. UROPE/AFRICA More Work to Be Done: The bridge over the Sava River that divides Croatia and Bosnia was almost ready Friday, but only 2,400 of the expected 20,000 GIs werein former Yugoslavia 20 days before thefirst phase of the peace accordis to be completed. Details: A-1 Boris Is Back: With much of Moscow down with theflu, President Boris Yeltsin returned to the Kremlin on Friday after two monthsof treatmentfor heart disease and stepped out in the snow to talk politics with passersby. Details: A-8 Oklahoma Link? A man held ina maximum-security Dutch prisonis fighting extradition to the United States, and newspapers reported Friday he is linked to OklahomaCity bombing suspects Timothy McVeigh and TerryNichols. Fighting in Liberia: New fighting between rival rebel factions forced thousandsofcivilians to flee a northwestern city of Tubmanburgon Friday andthreatened a cease-fire in Liberia's civil war. SPORTS Go, Luther: No Ute graduate in modern times has reached such NFL rookie heights as LutherElliss. He has started and played at least two to three downs every series, coming out only in third- down passing situations. Today, Elliss is starting his 17th straight game. Details: D-1 Last Night’s Scores USU77,S. Miss 65__ Weber St. 79, Kent66_ Won'tSit Still: Springdale won'tsit quietly any longer as the shutdownof Zion National Park strangles its economy. Residents and business owners plan a march Monday. Details: A-1 Tax Bomb:Joseph Bailie boasted that he did not pay taxes. Ellis Hurst kept to himself. Now the government says the pair planted a bombat the IRS building in Reno, Nev. Details: A-8 Standoff Ends: A child custody dispute drove a 33-year-old electrical contractor to shoot it out with police, then hole up in his Sandy homeafterstealing a patrol car. Gerard Gasparo endeda threehour standoff bykilling himself. Details: C-1 No Rating: University of Utah officials were not surprised to find their genetics and biochemistry programslisted among the top in the country. But they questioned why their English program, or any other humanities program, weren't rated. Details: C-1 Joe Talks: Joe Waldholtz, estranged husband of Rep. Enid Greene Waldholtz, said it’s too early to say whether he'll strike a deal with federal pri about his wife’s role in their finances. He spoke in a 20-minute interview aired Friday on KUER. Details: C-1 Water Woes:Forthe past three weeks, Paul Hofheins has been driving to relatives’ houses to take showers. Hofheins and two other families have been without water for most of Decemberafter South Salt Lakeofficials cut off service to their apartment building. Details: C-3 RELIGION State’s Thanks: Gov. Mike Leavitt has declared Wednesday — the last day of Utah's first century of statehood — as a day of Thanksgiving. Utahnsare asked to pause and “give thanks to those who have gone before and madeourstate great.” Diana's happier A Christmas card from Prince Charles and Princess of Al Capone fetched days brought $2,475at an auction, and a signed photo pictured on their a record $17,600. The prince and princess of Wales were The card 1990card, along with their sons Prince William and Prince .Harry. yearslater The card was was signed by both royals, who separated two Darvick’s autoboughtby a Beverly Hills autograph dealer. Also at Herman Oswaldsold Harvey graphauction Thursdaynight: A 1962 letter from Lee wasa record for a for $10,450. Darvick said the price for the Capone photo to Joe Cook, a 20th-century signed photo. It was undated and inscribed favorite waiter of the gangster. Charlton Heston returned to his role as Moses to part the waters for Northwestern’s football team. The team will play Southern California in the Rose Bowl on Monday, the Wildcats’ second-ever postseason game. AS partof the send-up, the players got a VIP tour of Univera staff sal Studios. Heston provided the drama Wielding that he used in the movie “The Ten Commandments,” Heston parted the moat’s water, turning it Northwestern purple as a tram carrying the Wildcats passed through. bearing ‘Then he gave coach Gary Barnett a stone tablet, a new football play and proclaiming “Thou Shall Not Lose.” “I don't think the Wildcats need any help from me,” said Heston, who attended Northwestern until leaving to serve in World “It was WarII. Barnett said he'll try out the new play on USC. Afterall, written in stone,” he joked DEATHS Lita Grey Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin's second wife, died Friday after a long illness; she was 88. Oscar Judd, who in 1943 becamethefirst Canadian to be namedto the American League's all-star team, died Wednesday; he was 87 BIRTHDAYS Today’s: Actress Jeanette Nolanis 84. Singer-musician Bo Diddleyis 67 Baseball Hall-of-Famer Sandy Koufax is 60, Singer-musician Michael Nesmith is 53. Actress-singer Tracey Ullmanis 36. Runner Ben Johnson is 34 TODAY IN HISTORY 1853 — The United States bought some 45,000 square miles of land from Mexico in a deal known as the Gadsden Purchase. 1922 — Vladimir Lenin proclaimed the establishment of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 940 — California’s first freeway, the Arroyo Seco Parkway connecting Los Angeles and Pasadena, wasofficially opened by Los Angeles Mayor Fletcher Bowron. 1972 — The United States halted its heavy bombing of North Vietnam. 1990 — Iraq's information minister, Latif Nussayif Jassim, said President Bush “must have been drunk” whenhe suggested Iraq might withdraw from Kuwait, and added: “Wewill show the world Americais a papertiger.” Details: E-1 OPINION Out of Touch: No one can seriously expect states to charge children for their disabled parents’ nursing-homecare.It’s an unrealistic idea that would burden parents, children and government agencies alike. Americans might expect better of their leaders. 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