| Show A i Vol 242 No 107 Final Home Edition 'Best' Drivers? Insurer Says Women Safest THE BALT1MURE SUN LONDON — The question has been around for years but in these days of political correctness few dare to ask it: Who drives better men or women? To some the question is regarded as illegitimate because if men and women are thought generally to have equal abilities how can they be differentiated when it comes to something so everyday as driving a car? Not to be intimidated by US social trends Britain's largest automobile insurance company Norwich Union spent a lot of money and time trying to find an answer to the question In June the company which insures more than 12 million motorists throughout the United Kingdom announced it would drop its rates by up to 25 percent for some women drivers discriminating in favor of women just as insurance companies do in the United States One reason for the discount was simple: women drive fewer miles than men and are considered more safety con- scious A spokesman for Norwich Union said its survey of more than a thousand drivers showed that 76 percent of the women had not put in a claim against the company in three years The overwhelming majority of the claims were made by men The survey also disclosed some other revelations One was that male drivers account for 99 percent of the reckless driving charges brought by the police They also have 93 percent of the speeding charges laid against them and 95 percent of the cases of driving w hile under the influ- ence Mike Fitzgerald is none too pleased with all this He finds women drivers perhaps a little too timid distracted much of the time and lacking road courtesy "That's just my personal opinion" said Fitzgerald head of Fitzgerald & Co also auto insurers "I don't have any statistics of my own" he added "but when I had my own auto fleet I found the women drivers had more accidents than the men But they had the smaller accidents the scratches and the scrapes They did not drive as fast as men" Inside Ann Landers Asimov Quiz C-- 7 C-- 7 Business Classified Ads B-- D-- 6 Comics C-- Crossword Editorials Entertainment Jumble Food Local News Obituaries Public Forum Sports Star Gazer TV Column TV Listings Utah Dateline ri6ar 6 D-- 6 A-- 6 B-- 4 D-- 6 C-- l B-- l ©1991 The Salt Lake Tribune WEDNESDAY July 31 1991 7PK Tsa si tJL 9 ills Kz-iTvrv- a Yeltsin Snubs Gorbachev Imitation Soviets Press For New Agreements By Will Englund THE BALTIMORE By Doyle McManus SI N LOS ANGELES MOSCOW — Everyone had to take Boris Yeltsin seriously Mon- day because he had just been invited by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to sit in on a summit session with President Bush Tuesday everyone really had to take Yeltsin seriously — when he Gorbachev by not both- ormo In anruasr Gorbachev was playing the role of the conciliator by inviting the T 4 ol - space "The business is not finished" Soviet Foreign Minister Alexander A Bessmertnykh told report- - § Doomsday Lite: A-Second in Series US Makes Promises Mideast Players: A-- 3 Russian president and portraying himself as above any petty squabbles the two might sometimes have Tuesday night Yeltsin said that he saw the invitation somewhat differently — as a chance for Gorbachev to use him as a convenient piece of window dressing "I believe this is something which dates back to the past traditions of the period of stagnation" Yeltsin said referring to the Brezhnev era "when we had mass audiences Well I don't think I fit into a voiceless mass audience" Yeltsin the most popular politician in the Soviet Union has been holding himself up to the world as the leader of a major country — the 150 million strong Russian Federation — ever since he was elected that republic's president by a landslide in June "Mr Gorbachev meets with many delegations and I don't feel I'm obliged to be a part of those negotiations" he told CNN "because those delegations also meet with TIMES MOSCOW — On the eve of the solemn signing of a treaty to slash the superpowers' nuclear arsenals the Soviet Union pressed the United States Tuesday for new arms-contragreements on strategic missiles chemical poisons naval armaments and weapons in one-uppe- d To Salt Lake City Utah o o me" Indeed Yeltsin already had an invitation to meet with Bush alone Tuesday afternoon and he did appear for that appointment What he skipped was a lunch with the US president the Soviet president and Nursultan Nazarbayev the president of Kazakhstan Bush caught in the middle commented only that he was glad to meet the Russian president because Yeltsin's visit to the United States right after his election had been "a big bit" White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said that Bush "is pursuing the need to establish better relations with the republics This is not a choice between the center and the republics" Vitaly Ignatenko Gorbachev's spokesman would only say somewhat cryptically that Yeltsin and Gorbachev had met Monday night and agreed that the meeting with Bush would happen the way it did Yeltsin said it was appropriate for him to meet Bush on an equal footing because "we are beginning to have direct contacts between Russia and the United States" He pointed out as well that he and Bush have the same policy toward the Baltic republics — that they should be granted independence — while Gorbachev is resisting their secession 2 ers "We are somewhere in the We believe that we middle should immediately go into another consultation and negotiations on further reduction of strategic armaments" 4- The AhKodjtlrtl Pr?NK President 6ush talks with Soviet President ident Boris Yeltsin They are adding more wrinkles to START summit in Moscow Mikhail Gorbachev and rival Russian Pres- - Soviet Offers Bush US Capital Plan Soviet economy: A tale of woes look at the Soviet Union's economic A situation Per capita GKP Serious drop In gross national product $23903 US estimates MOSCOW — If Soviet capitalism is George Bush's goal one entrepreneur says he has an offer 6 the US president shouldn't refuse "If America finds us enough experts to make a program of development for a factory" pitched Ivan Kadulin "Americans could get a share of the production" Soviet repreThe sentative of a Spanish consulting firm belongs to a generation of young unabashed who believe Bush should look to them not the Soviet government to further the growth of the nation's economy "To give anything to a ministry is just like giving it to a collective farm It's a waste It's absolutely useless" said Kadulin who also works as a journalist at the daily Mexco Soviet Union US In r-- ? ) are" A Official Soviet numbers I ———— i i 1 I i i i a Infant mortality Deaths per 780 r3! s b k In Eastern Europe 0 2 percent 000 live births 251 176 His caution echoed that of Bush who said before arriving here: "There won't be any bold new proposals on the part of the Unit- OECD flZZIi Union growth 8 fin percent 2 o ifi iiiillLL!J '79 '89 i — j START treaty 750-pag- e that caps nine years of negotiations Gorbachev's spokesman Vitaly N Ignatenko listed a series of areas that Gorbachev would bring Soviup mirroring et arms control concerns: weapons in space tactical nuclear weapons nuclear arms in Europe and chemical w eapons "These are the basic problems that will be covered by our two presidents" he said Bessmertnykh speaking to reporters shortly before a meeting with Secretary of State James Baker put more emphasis on the Soviet desire for deeper cuts in nuclear missiles and bombers the weapons that are covered by the START accord "Maybe it will be somewhat easier because we have established the cornerstones of the negotiations" he said referring to g d long-rang- e -- 44l44ffi) 2 4Y i I M I 79 I M j '89 1i8S inomtars of Drganizatlos for Economic Cooporatici and OBreiopmost Knight Ridder Graphic 1 fore they sign the sea-base- OECD Low agricultural Percentage range! j '89 Eastern Europe Soviet Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev were scheduled to discuss the future of arms control in their meetings Wednesday be- long-standin- 84 p i inflation skyrocketing ho liiiTn0 79 1 LJLyswJi nZZZjLr&anJi Soviet Union "89 744 716 w&m l 733 laws Column 2 years (1987) Male B Female Instead he said Soviet businessmen need advice and technical help on how to make a business profitable as they struggle in a fledgling free market with inconvertible currency and restrictive 2 -- Life expectancy being transported A-- t —r 79 Fewer sought to give a political boost to Mikhail S Gorbachev's beleaguered program of economic reform by announcing that he will move to grant the Soviet Union its ! step" newspaper Komsomolskaya Meanwhile President Bush f ol ed States for a dramatic next small-businessm- Pravda arms-contr- of Soviet GNP are more realistic than official Soviet numbers because of lack of accurate reporting from Moscow Annual growth in percent: TRIBUNE WiRE SEKV1CES See expectancy and life Infant mortality compared to other countries: But the areas in which Moscow wants to press ahead pose knotty problems for the Bush administration and the White House indicated that the United States was in no hurry for more negotiations Presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said it was premature to consider any specific new arms pacts Thus even as they prepared to sign the landmark Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty to cut their nuclear weaponry by an estimated 30 percent the two superpowers were at polite loggerheads on where to gc next "We are interested in pursuing the agenda" Fitzwater said but he added that the administration wanted first to "take stock of exactly where we START D-- 5 Vietnamese 'Cowboys' Terrorizing Refugees in US A-- 7 D-- Pistol-Packin- g l C-- 7 C-- 7 THE ASSOCIATED C-- 7 Forecast Partly cloudy afternoon thunderstorms Highs mid-90- 5 Details on B-- 2 Going Dutch Dutch oven that is For the real scoop on what's cooking Donna Lou Morgan talks to a local couple who have raised art to gastronomic this age-ol- d heights LifestyleFood C-- l Is Jordan Too Visible? Michael Jordan is the king of product endorsements but as he negotiates a new $18 million deal with Gatoracie his handlers wonder: how much is too much'' Sports l D-- The Shrinking Skies TWA becomes the fifth big airline since December to U S file for bankruptcy Business f B-- 5 PRESS W?ash — The bandits shouted in Vietnamese as they burst into the house: "Tell us where your jewelry is or we'll kill you!" Tying up the terrified Vietnamese family they forced the children to watch as one intruder twisted their mother's leg and threatened to break it if she didn't reveal where valuables were hidden Another bandit yanked the pants off the niece and woman's threatened to rape her This was no 1970s scene in Vietnam It happened last year in Renton a Seattle suburb The victims were Vietnamese refugees among the 12 million Southeast Asians who have resettled in America since 1975 And the bandits? They and others like them have become the scourge of Vietnamese refugee neighborhoods across the United States Banding together in violent gangs these alienated Vietnamese vouths roam the roadwavs coast to RENTON B-- 3 pistol-wavin- g war-tor- n 'Americanized' Asian Refugees Bring Unique Brand of Gang Violence to Salt Lake By Chris Jorgensen THE SALT LAKE TKIBCNE Police in Salt Lake City used to marvel at the absence of Asians in the courts Even when the city began to swell with thousands of refugees in the 1970s members of the Asian community staved out of trouble Then things changed While older refugees began to prosper younger Asians were becoming "Americanized" Some abandoned the strong family traditions of their parents for membership in Vietnamese Cambodian and Laotian youth gangs The gangs make up only a small fraction of Utah's gang population — just 50 of the coast bullying torturing robbing and extorting their own people Authorities call them "cowboys'' for the home invasions that have become their trademark The marauding gangs have existed for several vtars but now they're whoop-and-holl- gun-totin- g county's 1000 gang members are Asian But they have earned a reputation for sophistication and violence and their targets are almost always other refugees A Asian man was stabbed to death during a dance at a minority center this May by a man police believe is a Laotian gang member Frustrated investigators say they have been unable to charge a suspect because witnesses on the crowded dance floor won't talk A week ago Vietnamese gang members carrying guns stormed the home of a Vietnamese family and stole $16000 in cash The raid occurred in an area near 2500 S Redwood Road that police call "Little Saigon" growing bolder more violent and more organized experts say In February five gang members stormed the Queen of Vietnamese Martyrs Parish a Catholic church near Denver where 30 worshipers were celebrating the Lunar New Year The bandits demanded wal The terrorized family which kept its money at home because it didn't trust banks has refused to cooperate with police fearing revenge said Detective Dave Browning a member of the Salt Lake Area Gang Project "For every home invasion we hear about there are 10 that aren't reported" the detective said In 1987 three teen-ag- e Vietnamese gang members from California were arrested after a string of local Asian restaurant robberies The crime spree ended after a highspeed chase through Salt Lake City and a shootout with police The same gang members also were lets and jewelry When one man resisted they shot him in the leg The next day five suspects were arrested speeding down a Kansas highway In April four gang members ethnic Chinese from Vietnam took over an electronics store in sus-Se- e A-- Column 4 2 Sacramento Calif They demanded $4 million and free air passage to Thailand shooting two hostages to prove they were serious Police stormed the store three hostages were killed by gunmen and three e gang members were killed by Column 3 po-Se- A-- 2 |
