Salt Lake Tribune | 1996-01-28 | Page 2

The Salt Lake TribuneSUNDAY PERSPECTIVE Sunday, January 28, 1996 THE ROLLY REPORT Utah's Political Newsletter by Paul Rolly publican presidential front-runner Bob Dole visited Utah to pocket a quarter- million dollars in campaign donations Jan 15, he formally was endorsed by Gov. Mike Leavitt. Dole already enjoyed an endorsement from Sen. Bob Bennett and got the nod froma number of other Republicanofficeholders. But not Orrin Hatch The senior senator from Utah acted as ites among the presidential candidates. Dole, however, with only a 30 percent master of ceremonies at the $1,000-perticket gala for Dole’s presidential bid Hampshire, seems to be a weak front- one breaks awayfromthefield LawSchool. All three said no o MEANWHILE While the Democrats don't have even Tuesday and| will go on the stump for a nibble, Leavitt has been busy up his campaign financing. Le: the Republican candidatejustlike I did for Reagan andfor Bush ers during the past year, raising money WANT TO RUN? If you are boredwith life and havea little sparetime, give Utah State Democratic Chairman Mike Zuhl acall He needs a candidate for governor for his own political-action fund, The Capitol Committee He has had fund- With the gubernatorial election nine months away, the Democrats have no shoring vitt has held a series of fund-raisers in New York, Washington, D.C., and several in Utah — in Logan, Ogden, Provoand Salt LakeCity. He has close to $400,000 in hand oO Ronald Reagan and George Bush. And Dole, of all the Republican hopefuls. seemsthe closest to Hatch ideologically They have been linked on most issues for the past 20 years. Hatch has been on the stumpat several notable fund-rais: Scott Matheson), it looks as if a primary Bob Steiner and Carl Hawkins, retired dean of the Brigham Young University People have approached me whoare looking for a supplysider, someonelike Reagan he said. But he downplayed the idea he would everbe a candidate. ‘The candidatewill be picked on Super the coming a third Democrat to enter is listed congressional fray. Pignanelli e. as one of the supporters for McConki Atty. Gen. Jan Graham and former Gov iuchi, State Sen. and business executive about being a possible candidate if no eral reasons. Doletraveled to Salt Lake City in 1994 to keynote a fund-raising luncheon for Hatch at Little America That event netted better than $100,000. Hatch alsohas beenaleading campaigner for past Republican presidential candidates, thumping long and hard for mary (the only two Democrats to survive a primary then go on to win a general election in the last 20 years have been three different people last week: Salt Lake County Commissioner Randy Hor- runner. And Hatch acknowledgeshe has been approached by different groups later in the election year. Hatch’s silenceis interesting for sev- District seat seems to be growing. If Democrats were hoping to avoid a pri- idea who will challenge incumbent Republican Mike Leavitt. The party appointed small delegations to approach favorable rating in the polls in New But he was careful not to join theofficial endorsees, raising speculation about his own possibilities as a presidential candidate if no clear favorite emerges dissatisfied wit h either candidate. Reportedly, people on McConkie and Anhav had disderson en dorsementlistss have Leader cussions with House Minority about beLake, D-Salt i, Pignanell Frank Greene Waldhi oltz’s 2nd Congressional raisers in recent months in California Texas and Florida and has netted more than a quarter of a million dollars. But heearmarked those fundsfor other Senate candidates, not presidential hopefuls When I endorse somebody, it will probably be Dole,” Hatch says. Bob Dole and I are good friends andI like him a lot I also like Steve Forbes and Dick Luger. Those are mythree favor- WHERE IS ORRIN HATCH? WhenSenate majority leader and Re- GETTING CROWDED The number of wannabes for Enid will occur. Candidates Jim McConkie Anderson, both Salt and Ross “Roc LakeCityatto: rneys, have released impressive endor: sementlists. McConkie hi as longtime Democratic Party stalwart: 's Peter Billings, Bobbie Coray, Scott Daniels, Larry EchoHawk, Jan Graham, Dale Lambert, Eddie Oo BACK-ROOM SMOKE Two former Republican legislators, Russ Cannonof Sandy and Robert Sykes of Salt Lake City, have expressed an interest in running against Atty. Gen. Jan Graham ... Richard Rousseau, an aide to political independent Merrill Cook, met recently with State Republican Chairman Stan Parrish and said Cook would beinterested in rejoining the Republican Party. After some discussion, however, it was unclear whether Cook would enter the convention battle with other Republicans for the 2nd congressionalseat or go backto his original plan of running as an independent, then join ington if the Republican caucus in W: Linda RoseHill, a lobbyist in he wins Mayne, Gunn McKay, Wayne Owens, Pat Shea, Ted Wilson, David Yocom, Doug Anderson and Kelly Atkinson Anderson's | ist includes Frank Moss, Frank Wilkins, Paul Van Dam, Blaze Wharton, Bob Steiner, Millie Peterson, Mike Dmitrich, Stewart Hanson, Jim Bradley, Sara Eubank, Ed Firmage, Da- vid Watki: . Willem Kolff, M. Walker Wallace, Boyer Jarvis and Eldon Money Perhaps the most striking proof that this promisest 0 be a divisive intraparty battle is that MeConkie’s endorsement list includes Salt Lake County Commis- Hawaii, has been working for groups, including the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, to get a bill sioner Randy Horiuchi. Anderson’s list passed in Hawaii that would outlaw includes Franc es McConaughyHoriuchi (the commissioner's wife) Even so, some Democrats, even on one or the other's endorsement list, seem same-sex marriages. By Steve Newman ARY OF THE PLANET. Floods Inclusion Takes More By Andrea Otanez Advisers tell me I’m beating a dead caballo, but it’s hard not to sound off about the big centennial re-enactment . Anger and fatigue mixed in my gut as I read TheSalt Lake Tribunearticle concerning the lack of minorities in most of the celebration. My feelings weren't aimedsolely at the Centennial Commission, although its members certainly weren't very smart about planning the big send-off. (To the commission’s credit, there are myriad events throughout 1996 to high- rooms What bothered me was how wearisome, eventrite the whole issue was Veteranos, or Latinos who for years have been lamenting the lack of minority representation in all things Utahn, figuredlargein the story. Their quotes could have been plugged into discussions of other issues: lack of minority teachers, professors, legislators, policeofficers; lack of representation in books and curriculum and so on Not that their mantra isn't valid: it is. But hasit lost its effectivenes And, at the risk of sounding cynical, canthe paltryinclusion of Utah's people of colorin the cen- tennial re-enactment really surprise anyone? As an African-American friend said to me recently, “It’s still their state.” A lot of us avoided the whole centennial scene, maybe antici- pating that we'd be left out. So, are we to blame? Perhaps. Consider, though, how years of exclu- sion just might lead to apathy Consider also that the“newhistory” of Patty Limerick and the like looms solargein our brains that we don't expect tobewritten back into history unless we do it ourselves. So, that question is before us: How shall we be included in Utah? Take the centennial parade. Should we have been on float wearing sombreros and rebozos with tortillas, pan flutes or min- er’s picks in our hands? Would that be enough? It's not about displaying us — and allowing ourselvesto be displayed as kitschy souvenirs. Representation of Utah’s people of color has to be about more than token appearances. Inclusion has to be about giveand-take. Cross-pollination About taking responsibility for worst flooding to strike the regionin and board- rooms. Familiarity doesn’t have to breed contempt. In fact, it may head it off. The rest of this year is packed with opportunities to learn more light the history of minorities in Utah.) about Latinos. Herearejust a few @The 78° Oz Bol Toko, decades. Blizzards just two weeks earlier had set the stagefor the dis- And in orderto haveourlegacy better represented, we have to educate that we are more than a mariachi in Mayorcolorful costumes filing down Main Street once a year Wehavetoinvite non-Latinos — and they must accept ourinvitation — to cross into our church front vc" em US. by rapid snowmelt, ice jams and heavyrains earthweek @ aol.com http://www. slip net/~eartheny a a5 ed claimed the lives of 32 people in the our own representation. halls, x Rivers and streams raised eal overtheirbanks inthe east- Than Token Displays Because of that high-profile position, Hill last week was removed as President Clinton’s campaign coordinator in Hawaii 5th Annual Hispanic Unity & Andrea Otanez Youth Leadership Conferenceis scheduledfor Salt Palace Convention Center ay 3-4. Storyteller Jerry Tello will be featured. Henry Cisneros: U.S. Housing and Urban Development secretary, also has beenin- vited @ National ImageInc., a national organization of Latino professionals, will hold its 24th annual aster by blanketing some areas with up to three feet of snow. The end of several years of drought in Mozambique came as a mixed blessing last week when cyclone Bonita drenched the coun- try. The Buzi Riverin Mozambique's heartland burst its banks, inundat ing crops and destroying scores of homes. At least seven people died in the inundation. Severe storms lashing northern Morocco and much of Spain for a second week |For the week ending unleashed Januaty 26, 1996 widespread flooding that killed 12 people. The region had received scarcely any rain during the past few years until a regular succession of storms began two months ago. Now Quakes werealso felt in Japan's Hokkaido Island, Taiwan, South mostof the reservoirs in both countries are replenished. Korea, Irian Jaya, southwest Mex- ico, the island of Hawaii, western Algeria, coastal Peru, and Washington State Atlantic Spill Thousands of dead lobsters, clams and starfish washed uponthe shores of Rhode Island after the worst spill in thestate's history dumped 828,000 Nuclear Contamination @ Planning sessions for Chicano awareness activities — lectures, dances, readings — at the University of Utah and other uni- Etna Eruption Sicily's Mount Etna produced another eruption in the current series which the British Antarctic Survey. They reported in the journal Nature that it was not clear whether the disappearance of the ice shelves was part of anatural cycle or caused by man made global warming Milk by Mozart study released by a Ger=v man agricultural federation and Purdue University concludes that cows respond well to the beganin 1992. The strong blasts hurled hot rock and ash outof the cancer, have been found near crater for 10 hours, but did not sound of Mozart, and show their France's Mururoa Atoll nuclear test threatenresidents in the area appreciation by producing more tive iodine 131, which can cause waters. The 340-foot barge, Cape North, ran aground on a sandbar near Point Judith, causing the vessel to break apart at the bow and site since the currentseries of explosions began in September. The French Atomic Energy Commission stern. Rescue workers managedto (CEA) wasaccusedin the report of pumpthe oil remaining onthe barge into other vessels, preventing further contamination in stormy seas trying to prevent the findings from Earthquakes The strongest earthquake nificant damage while drilling for rock samplesfollowing eachblast small amountsof radioac- gallons of heatingoil into the coastal Ba to shake way’s Alta 1930 rattled nerves second duration, but = has previously admitted that very small leaks of radioactive materials, such as iodine andtritium, occurred Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper reported that conference in Salt Lake City May 20-25 Both conferences will feature workshops, keynote speakers and cultural events |e CRA ST8RE Chronicle Features northern Norregion since during its fivecaused no sig- Antarctic Warming British scientists reported V[[fe that Antarctica’s ice [-_~"] shelves are melting away milk. A Mozart melodyin the manger resulted in "substantially more milk,” said the Purdue experts who carried out the study for the WLV federation in thecity of Munster. To test their being made public. The newspaper as temperatures over the said aFrench official told of the leaks at a gathering of prospective signatories of aComprehensive Test Ban Treaty in Washington last Novem- frozen continent rise by about 12 the barn with a blast of degrees Fahrenheit per year. At volumein heavy metal from the rock group ber, but then askedthe otherpartic- dramatically over the past 5 0 years, proval and milk production declined. ipants to “forget what they had just saying the data was heard, ‘extremely confidential. The CEA during which temperatures have risen by 4.2 degrees, according to Additional Sources: U.S. Climate Analysis Gente, a USS. EarthquakeInformation Center nd the World Meteorological Organization least five of the thick ice shelves that make up Antarctica have retreated David Vaughanand colleagues at theory, scientists pumped up the Kiss. The cows mooedin disap- versities are currently under way Centrodela Familia will celebrate 21 years of service to the community with a fund-raising dinner on April 10 at the Red Lion Hotel. Ed Pastor, congres- PIGEON DROPPINGS DROP MARQUEE Movies about Nevada's casino life always seemto revolve around gangsters, call girls andstool pigeons. In a shocking reversal of sional representative from Arizo- that trend, na and chairmanofthe Congressional Hispanic Caucus, will be City this month pigeon stools brought down the marquee of the Golden Spike Casino in Carson al affairs. We are concerned about it,” casino coowner Jim Bawden told the Reno GazetteJournal in an article sent in by helpful reader Patrick Williams. A crushing load of pigeon droppings causedpart of the casino’s marquee to collapse onto a heavily traveled sidewalk Theyare keenly aware that Latinos will be the largest minority upotherparts of the marquee bowing under group in the United States by the weight of what the Journal described as the keynotespeaker. This is only a sampling. And, in fairness, a number of businesses and politicians have becomeloyal supportersof some of these annu- 2000. They understandthat, if nothing else, exclusion simply pragmatic isn’t anymore. Andrea Otanez is a bookeditor and a native of Salt Lake City. She also is a former news editor for The Salt Lake Tribune. Otanez welcomes comments through e-mail, [e-mail]. years of pigeonpoop.’ Bawden and co-owner John Serpa continue to search for tenants for the building, which has stood emptyfor 11 years. ALONE AMID THE ARCHES Also standing empty, for the first time writer Jim Stiles can remember, was Arches National Park in Utah. Back when he was In an apparent attempt to minimize conflict between manand cow, a herd of seven Herefords from Alberta lumbered awayfrom a Canadian customs checkpoint into the hinter lands of northern Idaho last summer Frustrated, their owner gave up the search in November, declaring open season on the renegades. The efforts of local hunters to bag a to find six of the cattle on Harvey Mountain north of Bonners Ferry ‘I couldn't believe what we were seeing, ED MARSTON Greg Niewieroski of Watertown, N.Y., told the Spokane Spokesman-Review. “We looked at each other and said, ‘Holy cow!’ Then they each dropped a 1,500-pound cow, New York longtime dream, thanksto the shutdown of the federal government Stiles crossed a barricadetoenter the park’s 70,000 forbidden acres. But nothing happened. “I couldn't find a ranger anywhere, he wrote in the Canyon Country Zephyr. “In fact, I concludedit’s almostas hard to find a ranger whenthe park is closed as it is when the park is open.” style — with a shot to the head Ed Marston is the publisher of High Country News, the award-winning biweekly newspaper of news and opinion that covers West- ern lands and communities. HCN welcomes comments and suggestions for “Heard” at P.O. Box 1090, Paonia, CO 81428 or [e-mail] HOW TO GET CONNECTED SUBSCRIPTION RATES Carrier Delivery (4-week period) week period ’ 00M NUMBERS delivery information, new subser ions, restarting subscriptions, can cellations and billing information, call Monday through Friday, 4 a.m. to 8 pm, Saturday a.m, to 10.a.m,, Sunday 4 a.m. to | p.m. Lak Davis coun a rang- er, Stiles fantasized about finding true solitude there. In November herealized his ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION bovine were equallyfruitless. 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