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Show : | Blame being traded | for immigrant crashes t Sewer work teering up Tempt picky eaters Mapieten streets with healthy snacks Page 01 Page Ci Page 81 Page AS Famillarity breeds respect for Jazz, Spurs | The Daily Herald War crimes trial begins First such court since Nuremburg sat impassively in the prisoner's dock wearing a baggy blue suit, flanked by two U.N. guards and listening to a translation of the By MIKE CORDER proceedings over a headset. He Associated Press Writer faces a maximumpenalty oflife in prison if convicted. “Through this trial we will embark on an examination of offenses of unspeakable horror,” the chief prosecutor, Grant Niemann of Australia, said in a statement detailing Tadic’s alleged THE HAGUE, Netherlands A Bosnian Serb bar owner accused of murder and torture in a reign of i Serb g camps on trial in thefirst crimes. Crimes against humanity are the primary charge against Tadic, Ousan Tadic more Musiims and Croats and na dozen female ind the camps. fense attorney called ent victim of mistak- en identity, and inte a scapegoat for an mal community hungry ale and drawn after n custody, Tadic, 40, who prosecutors say killed and tortured Muslims in and around the Serb-run Omarskaprison camp in northwestern Bosnia in 1992. Tadic allegedly acted as a roving thug at three camps in Bosnia’s northwestem Prijedor region from May through December 1992. He also is accused of rounding up Muslims and Croats in the region, killing or assaulting some, and driving others into the camps. In one incident, Tadic allegedly forced a prisonerto castrate anoth- AP Photo Rep. Bill Brewster, D-Okia., shows the proper aiming technique Heather Wilson, a legisiative aide to Rep. Randy Cx (See TRIAL, Page A2) A-Calif., during the first annual Congressional Shootout Monday in Gienn Cale, Md. and of Democrats admit Rep. Orton discusses assault GOP has power to repea | gas tax By STEPHEN J. SIEGEL é Daily Herald gtcn Correspondent Wi By DAVE SKIDMORE WASHINGTON — Inhis first public comment about the assault he suffe in March, Rep. Bill Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON ntity andindicated it him with three compressed Daity Herald PhotofMatihew F. Smith Provo City Council member Shari aot responds to questions the local to bring a professional baseball team to Provo as Dougles Foxley, team promoter, watches, at a press conference afternoon. site of the stadium is at Enough signatures obtained, but baseball vote put on hoid North Park would provide the necessary buffer zone between the Provo team and the Salt Lake Buzz. More than 38,000 registered voters signed petiPromoters who want to bring a Class A minor By ALEXANDER STOCKS The Daily Herald AMS jyiepas kehieds Business .... Classified Ads Comics ... Legals .. Lifestyle Movies Obituaries Opinions Sports . . State ..... Television .. . World ...... Note Due to a filing error, the crossword does not appearin today’s edition of The Daily Herald. Two crosswords will appear in Wednesday's Herald. Weather See Page A8. Air Quality See Page A2. Senate Republicans to temporarily cut the federal gasoline tax. But they said today they can slow it down. “They're in the majority. They have the votes.” Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., said Monday. Senate Majority Leader Bob the presumptive GOPpresidential nominee, had said he want ed to vote on the tax cut today and back and constant pain t continues today Orton D-Utah, was rammed in the back March 29 as he was walking in the basement of the by Frank (See ORTON, Page A2) — Democrats concede they can’t block an election-year push by e attack a case of The Utah Democrat and his tal ve declined to talk about th kK until now, viewing it as nC ton and, in Orton's non-story.” But interest from the news media and the public convinced him to speak on the subject, which remains a bit curi ous Theincident occurred as Orton Congress bragging : in the skeet and trapshvot contest, with the winning. See story, Page AS. leaguebaseball team to Provo have obtained enough signatures to force a vote on creating a mew county asa keeal maneuver around le: tules, but have the 34,145 signatures needed to put the initiative on the July baliot. Sincelast fall, league rules require that there be a thousands and thousands of petitions from people decided not to oes for a vote this year, one-county buffer zone between team franchises. Creating a county out of Provo's baseball diamond at tions calling for the vote, or more than 4,000 above “As you can see here today, we haveliterally (See BASEBALL, Page A2) Gas gouging? Cost per 100 miles for self-serve reguiar unleaded gasoline, based on a 25 miles-per-galion average: would discuss the timing of the vote with Daschie as weil as the possibility of voting on the minimum-wage increase long sought by Democrats. But Sen. Byron Dorgan, DN.D., said today Dole wasn’t likely to obtain the unanimousconsent necessary to bring the bill up cn short aotice unless he agreed to ee Source: AAA ae Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., said today the driveto cut gas tax- consider Ds ndments. “We are goingto insist that you es highlighted the basic phil amendment that guarantees that drivers and the taxpayers in this country, not the oil industry, get bearing the headline “Gas Tax Cut give us the opportunity to offer an ical difference between Republicans and Democrats. He brandished a newspaper Inevitable” and said that “the last the benefit of the reduction ofthe time the Democrats were in change jas tax,” he said. of the Congress this headline And GOPleaders were still trying to agree on a plan to pay for the tax cut. Speakingto a breakfast meeting of Republican women, House would have read, “Gas tax increase inevitable.” While under heavy political (See GAS, Page A2) Phone companies want to raise monthly rate by $10 By JEANNINE AVERSA Associated Press Writer nies are proposing that the cost of the most basiclevelof local phone service be allowed to rise a total of $10 a month over the next Cy= for most en a coalition of consumer groups say Inhe filingbe Middiody to the Feder- al Communications Commission, the Conican Association of Retired Persons ed the increase after examining 13 sal service”filings The regi and nati were Bell telephone | The phone companies acknowledge the basic rate increases in their FCC filings, oo phone bill affordable.” lationwide, the cost of basic service Stillman said. Local Bell telephone company Nynex and long-distance provider MCI, ehion hon tema according to which is moving into the local phone busi- industry officials. ness, were the only two that didn’t out of The phone documents were my telephone companies surveyed, he filed as part of a ing to i the 1996 Telecommunications Act. The “We don't believe a local basic rate FCC, at Congress’ behest, is looking into increase is consistent with the Telecommu- revamping the current system used to pay nications Act,” said Nynex spokeswoman for and make telephone service affordable t9 Jamie DePeau. “We have worked out agree- rural and other high-cost areas aadto fae ments with many of our states that cap local income customers. Proponents of the Telecommunications tates. We intend to comply with those agreeAct had argued that provisions of the new telephone service) onto the local ments." ‘The rate increase proposals have drawn law designed to foster competition would Mee sewedeyitman some initial opposition at the POC. Today's exert pressure on phone companies to keep phone service,” said con- editions of The Washington Post quoted the prices down. Opponents said the possibility telecommunications director $n:chairman, Reed Hundt, as saying, of mega-mergers in the telecommunications ——— totaily focused on the need to keep the industry would tend to drive prices uy basic service rates would rise but contend WASHINGTON — Telephone compa- t“univer- by seven four Association and Pacific. Telesis Pacific Bell, which filed jointly. that for most consumers the total bills would a. us gdiparway ydey yadhesod services, such caller ID or call waiting, wld 5 a “The basic rate msy go dut not the total dill,” said Bill MeCloskey, a spokesman for BeliSouth Corp. “Consumers should get reductions in other parts of their bill.”” “Essentially, what the companies are ask~ addy cbs Lacie |