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Show MOVING AND SHAKING IN THE SMITH’S CHAIN / D-7 CheSalt Lake Cribune Utah Centennial 1896-1996 Utah's Independent Voice Since 1871 VOLUME251 NUMBER108 Copyright 1996 TUESDAY January30, 1996 TODAY'S READERSHIP; 321,000 ‘END OF STORY’ SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH 84111 So Magic Is Back, Would China Use Force on Taiwan? And Malone Says That Suits Him Fine Bj John Omicinski GAN ETT NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON — Chances are great that China would useforce to take Taiwanif Ta pei’s leadersassert independence, U.S. China experts said Monday THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Thetelephonebegan ringing at Malone BySteve Luhm ‘No China leader could stay in power who wasnot willing to use force if Taiwan declares its independence,” said Banning Garrett, senior ociate for Asian Properties Inc. as soon as Magic Johnson studies at the Center for Strategic and International announcedhis return to the NBA. USA Todayandthe “Today” show 300d Morning America” Several urged, however. that China should be doing a better job of weighing the consequencesof its increas ingly volatile words and deeds. The conferees met as U.S.-Chinatensions in the region mounted On Dec 19, the Pentagon has confirmed. the carrier USS Nimit passed throughthe Taiwan Straits, separat ing the island from the mainland. in a symbolic show of force. The Defense Department confirmed the Nimitz’s trip throughthe raits. It was thefirst U.S. ship through those diplomatically sensitive waters since 1979, when Washington switched diplomatic recognition from Tai Studies (CSIS). China experts at a CSIS conference that assessed stra- and ESPN. Thenation’s news media besieged Malone on Monday. The Utah Jazz office fielded calls fromall over the world. Everybody wanted to hear what Karl tegic threats in Asia agreed that U.S.-Chinarelations are becoming “more hazardous” every day, but offered few pei to Beijing Meanwhile. China during the weekend disp ayed the erack Red First Regiment one of the so-called “fist new ideas for easing tensions units of the People’s Liberation Army PLA). The Red First will be dispatched into Hong Kong at midnight July 1, 1997, when the Chinese reclaim the British colony as a special administrative region Hong Kong was taken from China as part of the We: te ern booty in the 19th-century “Opium Wars” that hu- miliated China and trig zered the fall of its dynasties In Beijing, marking a newly overt nationalistic aggres siveness about Hong Kon a “countdown clock’ is marking off the days — aring 500 — until China moves into the South China Sea peninsula and island next year After Hong Kong. China has set its sights on reclaim @ See CHINA, Page A-10 USU Wishes Malone says — not about his game or his businesses orhis team. The world wanted Malone’s reaction to Magic’s comeback to the Los Angeles Lakers Just this once, however, the Mailman is not too eager todeliver “I'm notgoingtoturnthis intoa traveling media show,” Malonesaid. E.T. Would “I’m not Phone Home goingtolet it be a disruption to me or my teammates. So I'll clearit up right now ‘Magic brings the league something it needs. He’s a legitimate superstar who plays every night. That's what the NBA Satellite Quit Transmitting Last Month After Launch has been missing lately. So I'm glad he’s back. Andthat’s it. Endof story Not quite sy Lee Si Johnson's return to the Los Angeles Lakers has revived accounts of his initial retirement, his first comeback and his secondretirement in 1992. That is when Malone enteredthis truelife drama, andthat’s whyhis namewill be foreverlinked with Magic Johnson's. Reservations Expressed: OnOct. 27 The Skipper satellite 1992, the Jazz played a preseason game in New York. Afterward. Malone told reporters that, yes, he had someconcerns about competing against an opponent spend 30 days in orbit, While the two nations previously cc cut during an exhibition game. Magic no- It won't happen again Sometimes the media has a way of beating a dead horse,’ Malone said. “But you've got to let stuff go sometime. Soif Magic wants to come back, I say Great Nothing to Fear: Lynn Meinor, manager of AIDS education for Utah’s Bu reauof HIV/AIDS, says athletes need not erated on shu where the pre-Magic battle featured Se- attle, Houston, San Antonio and Utah. The Lakers and Jazz will meet Sunday night in Inglewood, Calif. “They were al- ready a good team,” Malonesaid, “But this turns themintooneofthe best teams in the West Former BYU star Michael Smith, who lives in the Los Angeles area and has played on Magic's touring team, agrees. “Magicwill impact that team so much,’ said Smith, “that it will be unbelievable He gives them a legitimate shot in the West Heworks so hardandis such a competitor, he won't let those other guys play any other way In fact. and Mir space-st missions s said Skipper was first spacecraft jointly designed, per.” apparently because its solar panel failed to recharge its battery, Utah State University spokesman Lee Roc k said Monda Transmissions b t bee 2 received since orbit 12 on Dee. The Associated Pres: Fire and smoke from a Navyjet crash billow above the trees in an image captured from a Nashville TV broadcast WhenAircraft Go on a Collision Course F-14 Fighter Jet Crashes In Nashville; 5 People Killed, 3 Homes Burn HAFB Counts Blessings: Most Planes Went Down In Isolated Utah Areas By Dade Hayes THE SALT LAKE Since F-16 fighters ForceBasein 1979 fighterjet heavy with fuel crashed in a huge fireball into a neighborhood Mon day, demolishing three housesand kill- arrived at Hill Air ave gone dowr Most crashes occurred in the west dé blamed for a previous accident Threeof the dead werein a housethat took a direct hit from the Tomcat, as the and luck have been on the base's side Unlikethe crash of a Navy F-14 in Ten F-14 is known. Theothers killed were takenlives on the ground We like to think nothing like the plane’s two-member nessee on Monday, no Hill jet has ever crew that The Navy identified the pilot as Lt Cmdr. John Stacy Bates, 33, originally will ever happen here. We'recertainly of Chattanooga, The radar interceptor officer was identified as Lt. GrahamAl- that possibility.” said Hill spokesman Len Barry. “But no one can guarantee an accident can’t or won't happen at any given place and time. We have to doing everything we can to minimize den Higgins, 28, from Doyer-Foxcroft Army Finds Women Carry Their Weight By Robin Estrin NATICK. Mass. — With enough strength training. women load fix heavy equipment ers — like Karl and John[Stockton] for us. They get tired physically and tired emotionally. They'll have playedall the time, and he doesn't haveto go through that. The league should mandate some policy as to whena guy comes back to a study by Army re: searchers Seventy-eight percent of the wo: men tested could qualify for Army ording jobs considered “very he volving the occasional 100-pound loads, said Everett Har man, the Army scientist who headed the study The results prove that “women are capable of bein form tasks.” most very heavy Harman said Before D-4 Jazz beatthe Pistons D-4 at the Army's Natick Labs. only 24 percent of the women tested could lift 100 pounds The volunteers — all but one of them civilians — were lawyers. bar @ See HAFBJETS, Page A-5 @ See ARMYSTUDY, Page A-4 Ricky Rogers/TheAssociated Press. Dawn Williams, right, eight months pregnant, grieves for her grandparents killed by the jet Force has three programs designed to tenders. mothers and Lots of Happy Talk at Micron Meeting, But No Answers About Recent Shake-Up Appleton hadquit in an apparent dis By John Keahey THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE BOISE — Working the crowdlike a seasoned politici 87-year-old Idaho French-fry baron Jack Simplot grabbed of Micron Technology Inc. shareholders Monday, repeatedly bellowing the cry Hang on, This company’s going places The damage-control efforts by Asimov Quiz C5 Letters to Ed. AS Business D-7 Movies c3 Classifieds. Comics. Crossword Daybreak B-5 C-4 B-6 C4 Obituaries Puzzles Recreation Sports D5 BO Ci D4 Landers A8 8-2 C3 Star Gazer Television Utoh News 87 C5 B41 WEATHER: Mountain snow, ers north: cloudy south Mi valley show Details: C-6 pute with individual board members — including Simplot and longtime Simplot crony Allen T. Noble, Micron’s second largest shareholder Appleton said Mondaythat his resigna tion and return had nothing to do with money, and he refused to answer whether it was a tactic to solidify his prestige and authority over Simplot and Noble The dispute appears to have been cen tered on the and financing of Micron’s ambitious expansion plans. includ ing the $2.5 billion manufacturing frontation Amidglowing reports of new products complex in Lehi, Utah waiting in the wings for the right market conditions, however, questions about the board voted unanimously to rehire Api give him full authority to do stunning Jan. 18 departure — and return ninedays later — of Chairman Steve Appleton went unanswered the Lehi project We've proved we endedour dis, ute and we're on the way,” Simplot said at the meeting. “I'm just a farmer a potato farmer. If you want to sue someone, sue me ~ POOR COPY In a stunning reversal Friday, the keep the company — and Noble and othe track yard members were mum Monday, declining to address the nearly 1,000 shareholders jammed into a downtown Boise convention center @ See MICRON, Page A-10 | | | the training study began doesn't Lt. John Smith, spokesman for the 388th Fighter Wing at Hill, said the Air cron’s largest single shareholder — he controls 22 percent — came during the company's annual meeting. after nearly two weeks of corporate angst and con INDEX military continue to do our best to make sure it carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, Bates lost control of his F-14 and crashedinto the Pacific Ocean during maneuvers || trained to per In the earlier crash, off the aircraft armsand slapped the backs of hundreds @ Will Johnson be ‘Showtime’? i backpack as well as many men, ac Neither ejected before the crash Maine. @ See FIGHTER JET, Page A-5 in without going through what his peers have. You look at the other team’s play- | march under the weight of a loaded Th sert; others have comeclose to homes But so far training, safety procedures ing five people. The pilot had been Dynamics Lab @ See SATELLITE, Page A-4 trucks. By Laurie Sullivan Maddox THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NASHVILLE, Tenn.— A Navy F-14 He said officials who operated Skippe from USU’s Space one Jazzman suggests John son's late-January return is unfair He'll have the benefit of coming in halfway throughthe season, like Michael Jordan.’ said Adam Keefe. “He'll come built and operated by both countries They simply lost contact with Skiy fear playing with Johnson. “Their risk of becoming infectedwhile playing with him is extremely low. He really needs to be treated with compassion and courtesy andnot beostracized becauseofhis infection The Lakers suddenly become more fearsome in the Western Conference f inc ning enemymissile ticed the stares of opponents and teammates. In a Salt Lake Tribuneinterview two months later, he said that was the precise moment hedecided to re-retire. Johnson, however, waited days to make his decision public. In the meantime, Malone’s comments made headlines. WhenJohnson mentionedthefears of opposing players, everyone assumed he meant Malone Initially, Johnsondid little to clarify get in every city the Jazz visited. skipping in and and Russ defense officials impr their ty to detect the “signature One night earlier, Johnson had been fied. Called everything from uninformed to unintelligent, he became a mediatar. was designed t out of the upper atmosphere to help U.S who is HIV-positive the sequenceof events as Malone was vili- 1 A Star Wars military-research satellite built in Utah and Russia has been orbiting uselessly for more than a month since mission controllers in Logan lost radic ontaet with the $6 million spacecraft a day after it was launched from Kazakh stan Jack Simplot encourages the Micron Technology ne. shareholde students | || |
