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Show aa ao ee %~eeo0 0 GOB werLtrurteee ee) LOCAL SPORTS Lawmakers tour island R E N I M A X E D R A STAND Legislators see beauty up close in bike tour. 1 SERVING NORTHERN UTAH SINCE 1888 OGDEN, UTAH 90 CENTS Senate quandary: Who’stelling the truth? Nomination takes a back seat to larger issues of harassment Thomas impugns ‘lynching’ ‘uppity blacks’ by committee Knight-Ridder Newspapers WASHINGTON — Aninfuriated Clarence Thomasaccused his Senate interrogators Friday night of “lynching” hina with “sleaze” and charged that Anita Hill had lied when she said he had discussed pornographic sex acts with her. “From mystandpoint, as a black American,it is a high-tech lynching Clarence Thomastakes oath. If American men still don’t get it after Friday, they may never. Television's daylong coverage of accusations against Judge Clarence Thomas provided a graphic, discomforting national classroom on sexual harassment. Its legacy may prove moretelling to the women’s movement than anypast legal victories. The issue’s knotty components were there for all to witness during diametrically conflicting testimony and analysis interwoven on ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN and public radio: allegations of a man’s persistent offensive behavior, a woman’s suppressed anxiety to go public and male attitudes that prompt many womento declare, “They just don’t get it.” caricatured by a committee of the U.S. Senate rather than hung from a tree,” exclaimed Thomas, who will resume his self-defense today. Thomassaid he had not watched Hill’s earlier testimony on television because “I’ve heard enough for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to lies.” “I think he made a mistake,” ob- do for themselves, to have different served Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., who had cross-examined Hill. Had he watched Hill's testimony, Thomas “could have been more responsive,” Specter said. In her testimony, a poised and articulate Hill provided lurid details she had not furnished earlier to FBI agents or committee investiSee HEARING on 2A ideas,” Thomas said, glaring at members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Thomas, battling for his reputation and for a Supreme Court seat that may be slipping away, said the “disgusting” committee hearing was “a circus” that had delivered “a message that unless you kowtow Chicago Tribune to an old order, this is what will happen to you. “You will be lynched, destroyed, Anita Hill testifies Friday. After Thomas’ bristling opening, in which he aggressively portrayed himself as victim, aibeit with no small tinge ofself-pity, it seemed fitting that professor Anita Hill entered the hearing room like a prizefighter striding to the ring in a championship match. She was surrounded bysecurity, a personal entourage and an electric air. This was to be less a welldesigned investigation with clear, traditional rules of procedure than untidy combat — with networks scrapping most commercials to let us watch. Even more poised than Thomas, the church-going Hill recited events with a descriptiveness given to TV talk and tabloid shows but not congressional hearings. See HARASS on 2A Republics to sign trea House approves drug tests Decision to affect millions of workers MOSCOW(AP) — At least 10 of the remaining 12 Soviet republics agreed at a high-level meeting Friday to sign an economic treaty Knight-Ridder Newspapers next week to save the Soviet Union WASHINGTON — The horror fromtotal coll=pse. of the New York City subway The members ofthe ruling State crash, blamed on a drunken motorman, has forced a long-reluctant House to approve mandatory drug and alcohol blood tests for “safetysensitive” transportation workers. Once enacted, the measure is expected to subject from 4 million to 6 million employees of airlines, railroads, trucking companies and bus carriers to random testing. Estimates vary. The Senate had passed randomtesting bills a dozen times since 1987, citing overwhelming support from the traveling public. But Council also decided to “liquidate” the KGB's monopolyoverstate security, the news agency Interfax reported. It said the KGB would be replaced with three separate agencies, within a joint command: an independent central intelligence service, an inter-republic counterintelligence service, and one in charge of border control. Soviet President Mikhail S. Gor- Democratic House leaders, yielding to pressure from labor unions and civil liberties groups, always kept the issue from reaching a vote. The politics changed after the Aug. 28 derailment in New York, in which five people died and 130 were injured, even though some critics continued to complain that Congress did not adequately debate such issues as the cost of random testing and protection of employee rights “This New York incident created a political environment such that people couldn't oppose it,” said Robert Molofsky, legislative director for the Amalgamated Transit Union, which represents over 160.000 workers in the United States and Canada. While some union leaders switched their position to favor esting, ¢ ht his union continued to : the preobiem war- “We never felt rants the kind of at most union conpermit pre-emp! pos screening — Ss Ww S nt drug usua sts — screen g when we r HOB CLARK JR./Standard-Examiner After watching for months from the outside, the general public finally got a chance Friday to view the Delta Center’s interior Fire breaks out in Chemobyl generator room LONDON (AP) — Fire broke Out in a generator at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Soviet Ukraine, but the blaze was quickly —— put out early Saturday. reports 4 massive 1986 explosion d fire at the plant spewed radian around the world No injuries or radiation release were reported from Satur r was immediate- \ de Britain’s IndepenNews said, q 1g a ne. piant eS tor was idled one minute after the fire began, the statement said. “The radiation situation is normal.” It was not immediately clear if the blaze began late Fnday or early Saturday. The cause also was not known, though the pilant’s three reactors remaining in operation since the 1986 accident have been criticized for shoddy safety standards Earlier, Russian Radio monitéred by the British Broadcasting Corp. reported from its correspondent in the Ukraine that the roof of one of the generating rooms of the s been put ou r work h n nce ner re n | N Suailies, ne Saic message reported. 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Soviet thorities say 32 people died as a direct result of the explosio worst disaster i n the histo latory Commission Chairman | selin investigated Cherr Said it bar passes R £ after ribbon-cutting ceremonies at noon. The open house continues today. Story on Page 1B. bachev already had announced plans to create a separate foreign intelligence operation, and named longtime aide Yevgeny Primakov to head it. Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin returned to Moscowto take part in the State Council meeting and lend his critical support to the treaty. Tanned and looking fit after his 17 days’ rest on the Black Sea, Yeltsin sat at Gorbachev's right hand during the meeting. His backing for the treaty ended a two-week dispute in his government over whether Russia would sign it. In convening the session, the first 10 minutes of which were carried on state television, Gorbachev warned that people’s patience following the August coup attempt was “wearing thin,” and said the country was counting on _ State Council to “act resolutey. Nursultan Nazarbayev, the president of Kazakhstan, told a news conference Friday night that at least 10 republics would sign the treaty on Oct. 18. The two wavering republics are Georgia and Mol- bud Veg “Th ~ ‘ se © aS a s. grown In D Nope his role in u , ‘Sanford and scen $ Fan soun tin peared retr m \. Ik mond Wilson played his When r Lam nh long-su S tened 1 » Oug hy ed > _— ar « Kevs : k } » ‘ ce : hank k ms m ht > 4 Me |