Show r' t - "' ' N4avrAiWig1 c 4 ':4Witric 11 att 1 Vol 239 No 117 y ih'nnte : Salt Lake City Utah—Thuraday 4 Si 1999 'ebruary 111 Soviets kit andon 1Party itó V By Michael Dobbs Washington Post VVriter MOSCOW — Moving away from seven decades of totalitarian rule Soviet Conimunist Party leaders yid id Wednesday to give up the par ty's constitution- U Itt )r ally guaranteed On monopoly 01141 CP Alr?"7 power and called i for creation of a ? 41111 -presidential sys- "Vs tem of govern nient Addreng a news conference at the end DI 8 Mikhail Gorbachev stormy three-da- y meeting of the Communist Party's policy-makinCentral Committee senior aides to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev hailed Wednesday's deci biOn-lab a turning point for the Soviet Union Jul they also suggested that ri 4 'fr- r oh g b the transition to westerrmityle party democracy will be 110W littd complicated with legal restrictions on formation of parties Since Gorbachev Ca Me to power five years ego the hoviet political system has steadily been liberalized to It How participation Of inforrilitt groupi ii”d movements that have won mass aupport kerobs the coun try Even so Wednesday' declare lion by the Central Committee marked a stunning 'kaolinice! rever saI for a party that once clainied be the twle force capable of repro senting the working clabil n4 build ing the world's fira mxialist elate "We have taken step of exeep tkouil magnitude" lib id Politburo member Alexander 1(akoviev a key member of the (21111 Itikt dtaftb4 proposed new party program 'Ibis showb that our party is undergoing changes Cif historic proportions Power is being transferred from lite Mum party to the "(twirl'" word for directly elected govern writ organ" Yakoview "aid that the Cornniunizt Party leaderhip would propmee chow to Article fi of the Soviet Constitution which de"erbeti the party act the "leading and guiding force of Soviet tateiely and lite nude u4 of 116 political "Went" The amendments will be considered st the next meeting of the Congreos of People's Depo tie" the country's ultimate legislative authority whh:i doe to convene in Key or June Wednetday'N vole fiJ4UW s a (UMW luoux yeur in Eiotern Europe where Communist Halle" have been forced to give up their einotitutional gums' tintee" of power Itiounart that lie "We exchole the somoibility or the creation of kity locos politicist movement Willeh uiri lb 110141 the renewol jf kileittliAm" l'iskofelev kohl utong fornoilo Oast uppeared to exclude legislinstion of overtly noilmietistost portivo Ile refuoist it) he more topeCitie purtieto WOUld be islloweii i aying thik would be k 1114010ton for the congregiii to decide l'urtiriputstsi its the meeting held in the Kremlin thid fhst the only Centrist Committee member to vote sin4 the drat progrerri wig Borns t4 tekder of the loorty't pispor Ind wing The former Mokrow Communikt holy chief who toes c kited tor In instnedirste trenhil ion to multi party iletimerkey tool k market emu ths not Pre-Daw- Blaze n if Kills Two in 7 I) tl : e 20 revideota viere Ji I hour on the 101h floor the blaze tlathed down the hallway Chief rbiJi otiot Virefighterv yelled of the trapped people over a loud 161Alker examining them to May in their opartments where itkey were vafebt The rebidenta wkre reavonably their oat for N te41)1 Mit hour oportments beeauke oat unit woo equipped with a special fir door Chief 'flow people who vtayed in their apartmenia aud vhut Weir doklrb ifwe A2 Column S Av :44 That resident Gerald O'Hara as found dead in the unavailable bah way of the 10tb floor ktfter he apparently rushed to warn others the chief bait A maintenance worker the building David Mortensen 52 was also found dead by firefighters near elevathe entranceAo the 1011-floo- r tor be sodded Most tf the beriuus injuries were related to smoke naialation said fire officials as ktesident brit) Butcher 80 transported to L1)6 Jlospital where she was listed in condition Arthur 14ersly 541 was Also taken to LIA Hospital where he was listed in critical but stable :eondition said At hospital spokeswoman Dora 6chreiter 80 was transported to Holy fross Hospital where she Witb listed in serious but stable condition said a spokeswoman Leona Burgess 71 L1) Hudson 87 Cliester huff 75 and ilosephDlibarri were treated at the same hospitd and later released the Spokeswoman said Barbara 'Murdock 69 and Bertha Peterson were both transported !to University Hospital where they too were treated for smoke inhalation and released said a spokesman rtc there tenth unidentified feinalevictim VIA taken to bt Mark's 'Hospital where she was treated and released Most of the building's 200plus elderly residents were immediately evacuated to :the first flour area and :later tram:ported by UTA buses to a nearby Mormon church building where they were received by rescue workers and volunteers 13y 9 stn those residents that lived on the eighth fluor or below ill the building were allowed to return A y many it$ spewed from the slop Wednesday two tulles off a popular Southern California head officials said heports indicated as much as 2500U0 gallons of North Slope crude spilled from the fully loaded till-loo- t American Trader according to Coast Guard hear Adin William Lime The Coasi Guard initially reported the tanker had struck a submerged plpehnc hut HuiWigton beach spokesman Have Kelly said the slap was punctured by Its own anchor As tile slap was ducking the anchor swung had alto the how breaching the forward compartment Kelly said Coast Guard officials expected the OH Would foul Huntington City beach Huntington btaw beach and Clacti Balsa State beach Au iboAronmentiilly sensitive marsh lieland — f: !: 41 ' 41: 3 4 41 ):: i rst : e:'' :4 i' t r: 111-1i- 0: A40 or I 4 1 g 14-- -7---- —ct- s- '4 taWSImounneweind eia--7- 271" q to004 -- - ' A rm!: 1 t A- 2: - r— vr 7 :: f i I 1: :ti -- - q '''''1:li'4''Pt - 4i ?4 -- f v -i 7' 4a"l:::47--g'-'''-t'7- bi' 414 ir ' ' 's!i':'i!:)Au-e-pa- - t 1 - - i §PO 60444 Paramedic remove body from Wootattb Manor apartment after flame and molge twrpt through 10th floor 4 AvoitY tAy two Vire ottnoking in bed kIt1Jn blamtd rn reildrnt wtoi I 1 it f rti blob 1tikyanov Gortinchesix deputy on the Supreme Soviet Lokylitiov Wait' Mid the new preentntiol pod would draw on Soviet kiwi Wextern experience but reluxed to otter de Inge Wood the likely extent of prem dential authority In addition to clout Dion of the Su Keine Soviet and general xecretnry of the Soviet Coinitionixt Party (Soy bitches ix commander in cling of iltP Sitroed forceix pod he holdx choirrtion of the Intenxe Council tax dimorient !mond he should be given more IHIWPT intoteer the St) viet Union through a critical tierind With tAlednelatey'a vote the tome of power appear to have glutted further toward Gorbachev Secretary of State Janie§ !taker who arTived Wedneof toy for hallos It her At Uiurnn 1 Bush Cautious On Shifts In E Europe fly 'Dori Santos tinned l'rtss President applauded eventa in the Soviet Union Wednesday lout mut he would he "emotions than less" in the fat of change in Vattern Voiroope 11tish also pressed his case ft defense posture toff a coloong agaonst those voila bank on "unful filled hopes for the future" In questiorianot antwer sessum in toohith he also asafter st sured listeners oof las safely ign gin up coming trip to Colombia bush nom praised Mikhail iloortoattoolfri Mier entre itt petiretut etkenge in thot Yast ern 'Moe tort sodded 1 ward too be inners very Oftirkfigt knout or Deere or saying how they ought too do Mina" dooeitiorn in the fon Woodoss-sday- 'a goviet Ihnom Po totoorok the Comma met ilxity'n WA on power ha Wed "I'm not hone too try too notioint or try to elope the 44111erier tome ot the genial einninitiee tn the Soviet t)oori thievety der tut do think there is an bwfut loot to he hopeful shout them" kosto's remarks eroppoql two days of high probte toore of delmote-r- e Wed farilities in Califonvia visituog the liotorenee Livermore nueleior voomporos latoorrotory too tmot tomtina tog torstarth isolopo the "Mir Wars" ronrooissite otorferosee arool a day of bili10411Lit mork aYar games Ail root Calif Moteasirog toks 1147 tollhom tokuprint for lista' Wil 'Posh also dortesodoett one of the tint Maim tett etinm Wort§ to pent dietenve tio014 tolmt4 10 of iloin in Cm Worm tenvy apeak of the Ale dend Pew discuss ttoe short-tertoss! of peatve" bststo saod in spesot tto the Cootrotorowea lth Clot 'There won toe costs as ow trom the toriolgoo a giollikir itigt — for otootaatord dosiries knit evorketv tor eson:two SAN Mosio r1r po-t- fi f 4 ift A! a : - :t tHilli '(11ftriii ' 1 rj - ' - i I!' i : ' I A: t 4 )''°P'-L-45- 11 1 - ! : 1 ' t 211 — e': ?4 :c e - : ' t 1 to ? tr ‘ i Ai i 1r 1 4 o i 7 ' '3 1 a i ' 4 ::f 4( t :i:'r4i-':1- i :1 '"6 7 114' ! !i a 42::ir r:114 teo1-s- 4 4i4 t : i ia:: - : :I f I 114 It f 4)t i' tr ' :: Jo e1e0 rdillin Olt :''' 474 : i :'''' r : e0"t---- : 4 4 i'':: 4 o funding legoiluture retically lie dismitted trf)111 the VIM Corronorozt Party irt the event of revolt tiguirmt hirn ': :: Ntiptt-sti- "The prexident About(' los repipon Alt& to ho people and elected by the people gent POlablJro tnember png 70-yea- r As Smoke Clears Volunteers Step In Cr 1 IgirgetAbel3 Tribuut Staff Writer Raney bOrey sat Wedriesday jj the 4ey room of the Wasatch Mawr oiearing a WOlaba'b toat high-ris- e trigbt 14r flower troarb piwied Co Three a La bOUrb four ebrr alarm blaxe had ripped thrusgh ' 414''' 4j ' the hallway outside Lis 110ILfloor apartuieut 1 wo pktupla including Lis 'nand Al grabbed Avtial I uould" Le said Dallas fieraoa as lie tugged his mat Auld smiled briefly "'here are other residents Au the glay room wearing slippers and clutching 'bathrobes tieveral others waited iu hue ut a pay telephone 'belatives of he residents trickled into the building titout Wednesday ou the tail of lieWS reports searching fur loved-one- s "1 WbS up iptlId firOUIACI anywoy the time the fire started" the Mr borey said 'heard year-ol- t 1:11- d Solneoue linilarivg and atieu opened the door sow O'Hara Auld he said 'Help me help me' orey said his friend Gerald O'Hara had been NetlfIlitig neighbors and had )ast coliapsed iv the smoicy hallway right at ins door Mr O'Hara one of the building's maintenance workers was found dead by firefighters "I could see smoke aid it was 'billowing all around linn and 1:onling into my apartnieut but O'Hara lb b big person aud too big for me to pick up j could liever help imp up I nal down tite hallway knuo!kilig oll door Oil Scars California Waters As Anchor Slashes Tanker Calif HUNTINCTON BEACH (AP) — A tanker's hull was gashed and hundreds of thousands of gallons of heavy Alaskan crude oil 4 v 'ki Ki ::'- lit 4 !0 (1 ' ft' 4f A 417r011: 1 )1 i4' 6' !1- :)-- i4i k" g '1 4x i r i'' 04 1 ‘'if' ( 41 - 4k z4 f 1 trapped for nearly don 4 4: 41 1 l'1 to By Chris Jorgensen And Stephen Hunt Tribune Staff Writers An explosive fire swept through apart-inep- t the lOtti floor of a bigh-risbuilding Wednesday killing two people and injuring10 others Dozens more were treated at the Acme of the 5 am fire for amals and smoke inhalation It took 54 'firefighters from three agencies more than an hour to contain the fire inch caused about $100000 damage to the 'Wasatch 200 Maier Apartments at 55 East The fouralarrn blaze described by fire officials as a powerful over fire" was apparently caused by a resident smoking in bed said Milt Lake City Eire battalion Chief Gur- 'N r $ rv '' F' it 1—' awl --- High-Ris- e i :PI 1' - '10 44 i rA iPt ' SL 4:1 i:iq :!A)Azii14 4 Itq PIt141 i Koviid uur sind mu) thew 1liu itof — - re IL may contended that the 1)1$111 wp Wit etiough 'lite vote in favor of the draft rep retented 4 significant political vie tory for Gorbachev after wevitti mounting critiritrn from hit rind Kremlin thief right The hitt peril ItOtAl fd the Not Iwo week! doweled with s handful of dote toilet rewriting the program to make It bereptutilp to the 24trmem ber Centrist torrimittre i binly &mit rutted by Volorvolive apporatchikt move that could further In po strengthen flortimehrv't Want ittid ihiaru til4 jwritiuuJ er ii1 from the party the Centrist Comillit tee called for the conigtemo In create the new vitt of pretident directly eterled executive with broad At preterit Gortiortirv power A2 Can Political licformA Itemene Economy? r: uie Chico tiolsa clearly ib threatened Porter said what the year we know' is that the currents wouid carry it in toward the tjtuii toward the northwest" Porter said The spilled crude was the sana' kind of oil that fouled AlattkV'b Prince William bound lust year when more than J0 million gallons spilled front tile Exxon Va Idiw in the tioirs worst oil spill Porter bit4 "About all we saw was the discolored surface of tile water a nate and a half onshore" said Huntington beach City Lifeguard Greg Crow -Then it got dark and we couldn't bee anything more" Porter illariti!tet rAed the incident as a -- major spill' and said the Coasi Guard b Pacific Area trk 1 earn route hat Oettli tellvittee and was P ralicisco trOill ihs busy Cleanup Cf0W: troth the Coast Guard tlic Orange County Iiiirhor Patrol and county Eire bepartillent and a privati contraithir went lu tile scene oficiais said "At this time Of I - lte leiy f out" 14r torey th leyhdor f gt4 0444 Another elsierly woman begetd group of flrefigu to rail tker aon Litit in her panic eouldet remember the telephone nuniher Db G'ud what will I do'? 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