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Show THE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL• SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY• WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1997 . ~. WORLD DIGEST PSC REJECTS PLAN FOR SERVING PANGUITCH AT COST TO OTHER CUSTOMERS: T h e Public Service Commission has rejected a Mountain Fuel proposal to provide natural-gas service to Panguitch with other Utah customers h el ping to pay the bill. For nea rl y a decade, city officials and Mo untain Fuel have discussed ways to extend a gas line n ear C ircleville so uth about 20 m iles. They concluded th e $3.9 millio n cost wou ld be too expens ive fo r the community o f about 1,600. An alternative proposal was to have Panguitch residents pay a $30-a-m o nth assessment over 15 yea rs and charge othe r Mo untai n Fuel custom ers about 32 cents a m onth over 15 yea rs to subsidize roughly 40 percent of constructio n. UVSC STUDENTS PROTEST FIRING AND USE OF FUNDS: The prot est began and ended un like any o ther - with a polite welcoming and a thank-you -forcoming - but the grievan ces at Utah Valley St ate College were no light fare. Som e 40 young m e n and women o n Mo nday waved placards, c ha nted and cheered speakers pro testing th e use o f student funds for an events cente r and the fi rin g of a popular s tudent adviser. The stud ents arc angry that$ l million in s tudent funds went toward scats fo r the David 0 . McKay Event Center. The students also prot ested the firing of Nancy Hill, a popular s tudent adviser and associate dean of student life. College officials refu sed to give reasons why Hill was fired . CLINTON WILLING TO CONSIDER DEMOCRATIC ABORTION PROPOSAL: Th e White House said yesterday t hat Pres ident C linton cou ld supp ort a Democratic bill to ban late-ter m abortions except when a pregnan cy poses a threat to th e mother's life o r the risk of "grievous injury." The bill, a possible way Bill Clinton t o resolve a diffi cu lt iss ue fo r th e pres ident, - - - - - is an alternative to a m eas ure Clin ton vetoed las t year to ban som e late-term abortions. Senate Mino rity Leader T o m Dasch le, D -S.D ., last week offered an alternative to stop all late-term abortions - but with exceptions to protect th e m oth e r's life or protect her from "grievo us injury." $300 MILLION OFFERED TO CLEAN UP ABANDONED PLANTS: T he federal governm e nt will s pen d $300 millio n to leverage billio ns in pri vate investme nt fo r th e cleanup and redeve lo pm ent of aba ndo ned factories and other industria l eyesores, Vice Preside nt Al Gore said yesterday. As part of the adminis trat ion's " brow nfi elds" initiative, Gore a lso Al Core announ ced redevelop m ent project grants of. up to $200,000 each to 34 com muni ties that hope to turn abandoned lo ts and factories into new businesses. That brings the gra nt program , la unch ed in N ovem ber 1993 to help local gove rnm ents assess propert y contam in atio n, to a total of 11 3 sites. U.N. HEALTH MEETING: HUMAN CLONING ETHICALLY UNACCEPTABLE: A committee of the 19 1-nati on Wo rld H ea lth Assemb ly declared yesterday that c lon ing humans would be "ethically unacceptable," but said it saw po tential benefits in the duplication of oth er species. T he assembly, the govern ing body of the World Hea lth Organizatio n, was expected to give its for m al endorsem ent today. While the assembly lacks en forcement power, the resolu tio n would set globa l standards t ha t scientis ts would widely respect. STRONG EARTHQUAKE HITS SOUTHERN JAPAN; 27 INJURED: A strong earthquake hi t Japa n's so uthe rn is land of Kyus hu yes te rday, setting off landslides and injuring 27 people. The quake, with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2, was centered near the tow n of Sendai, o n Kyushu, a bou t 12.5 miles unde rgro und, th e Central Meteorological Agency said. Mitsuteru Yoshinaga of the Kagoshima prefcctural police said the quake damaged 24 houses and touched o ff lands lides at 53 sites. " THE WORLD Jl TI,I Witness: Bomb-truck key found FBI says truck key found near McVeigh's alleged getaway car spot DENVER (AP) - T he key to the Ryder truck FBI had found the key to the Ryder tru ck in that used to bomb the Oklah oma Cit y federal alley?" building was fo und in a nearby alley w here " I didn' t know that," Fo rt ier sa id. "This is the Timothy McVeigh allegedly parked his getaway first I' ve heard. " car, an FBI photograph er testified yesterday. Prosecutors then called FBI photographer The key was Dawn Hester, introduced to who tes tified bolster the that an FBI testimony of agent star discovered the prosecution key in the witness alley three Mi.chael da ys after the Fortier, who April 19, 1995. said he was She identified with McVeigh the key in when he cased court. , "I the federal building and . ~ photographed a decided to park , ~ key," she said. his car a block ~ I:! " I wrote in the away in an J 4 •• i ~ log I always alley behind a : • ~ keep what it YMCA ~ was. " building. The L-~~~~~~~~~~~--~~~~.....-----...__......... ~ The truck key was fo und FBI photographer Dawn Hester uses a pointer and a m odel during was linked to in that same the trial of Oklahoma City bombing suspect Tim oth y McVeigh the bombing alley. in Denver yesterday, as seen in this courtroom drawi.ng. through th e Fortier vehicle repeatedly rejected suggestions during crossidentification numbe r on a mangled axle found examinatio n that h e made up th e getaway-car after the blast. The key was then traced to the testimony after seeing news reports about truck through Ryde r records of key-cutting McVeigh possib ly leaving a car near the codes. bo mbing site. Another witness testified M cVeigh picked up In redirect questioning, prosecutor Joseph that truck from a Ryder agency in Junction C ity, Hartzler asked Fortier: " Did you know ... the Kan., two days before the bombing. Zairian government sets curfew KINSHASA, Zaire (AP) - Zaire's increasingly unpopular government imposed a curfew o n IUnshasa yesterday and called on civilian s to help the army defend the capita l against advancing rebels. Fearing a bloody battle, foreign m ediators made a last-mi nute effort to keep peace talks o n track between President Mobutu Scse Seko and Laurent Kabila, the rebel leader fighting to end 32 years of Mobutu dicta torship. Kabila's ann y c laimed its fighters were already in IUnshasa, but Zaire's governm ent denied that. Raphael G hcnda, the in fo rmatio n minister in the rebel-held city of Lubumbashi , hundreds of mi les from Kinshasa, sa id "our first troops a re in Kinsh asa." He had no further details, and there was no sign of fighti ng in the capital yesterday night. T he gove rnm en t has reported h eavy fi ghting on the road to the capital, but spokesman Leon Ka lima said the rebels were not yet in Kinshasa. He said the 8 p.m. to 6 a. m. curfew was ca ll ed only to prevent looting and unrest. A Western dipl o mat also denied that the rebels h ad reached Kinshasa. But the diplomat, speaking o n condition of anonymi ty, added that the rebe ls were closer than ever and had reached the Black River, about 60 miles outside the city. At a news conference, information minis ter Kin -Kicy Mulumba issued a clear call for residents to use force and weapons, if necessary, to fig ht off the rebels. "The government signals that the population has the legitimate right to defend itself with proportional m eans to the rebels," he said, witho ut elaborati ng. There were no si.gns that civilians were paying much attentio n to the government's call. At the same time, the government said it was " putting all of its hopes" into peace talks between Mobutu and Kabila, set for toda y in Pointe-Noire, Congo. In addition to imposing a curfew in Kinshasa, Mobutu's government announced that looters wo uld be shot. Kabila's men ha ve seized threefo urths of this vas t natio n since September, and governm en t soldiers have looted m any cities before re treating. There were signs of heightened tensions in the capita l yesterday. Shops and stalls at the centra l market closed earl y. Long s upermarket lines showed some residents were preparing to stay h ome through today. Plainclot hes police roamed downtown, stopping peop le to demand bribes. In a bid to increase pressure on Mob utu to resign, o pposition parties ca lled for th e general strike today to coincide with the pres ident' s planned talks with Kabila in Pointe-N oi re, Congo. A leaflet circulating o n the streets urged civilians an d soldiers to fly white flags and sing "songs of joy" to s ignify their support fo r the rebels. In Lubumbashi, in sou t heastern Zaire, rumors spread that IUnshasa had fallen to the rebels. Joyo us residents shot off firecrac kers, ran through the st reets cheering and s inging, and sang funeral songs for Mobutu while chanting Kabila's name. Because of Mobutu's lack of support among both civilians and troops, Kabila's army has had a relatively easy time moving toward the capital. Soldiers in most cities have put up litt le resistance. But as the rebels m oved closer to Kinshasa, fi ghting has increased. The rebels and some foreign diplomats say that's because of help from former Angolan rebels called in by Mobutu - a charge the government denies. |