| Show I ' - - EIMamed mmsmemommapmegw1MakinalMVilMINIPMW - AM '' t- 1 I 1 i L I' -- - liddribildatlidimatIIKIIadomdedadadddlaaladioddli k I 52 1 When Lobby Morley Talks Lawmakers isiten il 1:'t: : 01 109 Zion Park 103 1 By Robert Dvorchak AP National Writer More lobbyists than ever are swarming through state legislatures spending more money than ever before tn influence IKE lawmakers But a pERsuADERs look at lobbyists by The Associat-lis- h ed Press found s 3 few states effec- - St George r vict Green River 105 asea 104 Detta 103 Salt Lake Idg :01 102 t 101 — 50-sta- Vat Watt Valley inaa Murray Orem - atetiaa: tf 100 44:it: TooeleOgden tively monitor their activities Rules regulating labbYts" lobbyists are rid- AMERICA died with loop-figaMMIINI holes and the leg- islators who make those rules receive lobbyists' campaign contributions meals and gifts e' at - i Details: eea B-- 1 1 -- a t "4 11 11 sues as the environment abortion gun control smoking restrictions and car insurance Pick any aspect of life and there is apt to be a lobbyist for or against it Lobbyists represent baby doctors and undertakers insurers and the lawyers who sue for claims environmentalists and companies who bury toxic waste gun control groups and the National Rifle Association health care providers and tobacco and liquor interests churches and casinos and unions corporations t t 4-i It A --- 141 1- 1 1J it t It l'N 1 11 Ill s Oil Flowing Again to VIP Full Political Union - s - Associated Press Writer EAST BERLIN — In a historic step toward reshaping Germany the German states united their economies and erased their borders Sunday while 10000 East Germans waited in line for Western currency on the huge square where they toppled Communism A treaty that went into effect at the stroke of midnight transformed the nations into a single economic entity and began East Germany on its swift difficult transition to a free market Fireworks exploded toasts were drunk and the currency of the former Communist regime was flung into the air as the West German mark became the official money of a transformed East Germany All remaining border controls between the two nations were officially eliminated Virtually overnight the Germanys merged their monetary economic and social systems The economic unification marks the effective end of East German sovereignty and the most important step toward a single Germany The German states now will work on a political treaty that will likely result in common elections and the creation of a single nation in December East Germany is expected to face widespread joblessness as its newly independent factories and businesses are forced to compete with the West At least 10000 people lined up at the only bank known open at midnight appropriately located on the Alexanderplatz where massive protests helped bring down the former Communist government last autumn A deafening cheer broke out as the clock struck midnight and the doors to the West German Deutsche Bank opened and allowed people to draw on their newly converted savings accounts Andreas Schildberg 18 strolled down Alexanderplatz throwing away East German coins and bills "It's worthless anyway in a couple of minutes It has always been worthless" First in line was Corsalle 41 who delivers coal for a living He planned to withdraw the equivalent of $1200 from his account and take his family on vacation "I work so hard during the week that during the evenings I'd be too tired to stand in line" he said "Tomorrow I can sleep in" Fourth in line was Alexandra Meier 19 who saw the day as the beginning of proaperity "I hope that we'll never have to stand in line again" she said "Hopefully we'll be able to buy whatever ea we Away "Nobody is going to go home without his money" said Deutsche Bank spokesman Helmut Harmann The line got longer The scene was markedly different in little towns along the border where frontier controls have been relaxed for the last several weeks In Philippsthal on the border of the West the East midnight y border guards fired several shots from a flare pistol to mark the historic day Stores were closed nationwide during the weekend as workers red modeled the former shops and stocked them with truckloads of Western products that stand to dominate the newly opened consumer market Prime Minister Lothar de Maiziere See A-- 2 Column 3 - : ae es later e People began queueing up Saturday night at the bank on Alexanderplatz !a :: E sa a' :' ' ' ' 'l a s slava 40041asca4 'i r 4 : '''s I i 1 "t I r k0-- aa - - s i i - i 1 g- f k'es'' - r I fss 1 ts " se I 4 1 i Frances Farley Refuses to Attend Bash 1) 14- - a- - - - i ri ' EAST BERLIN (AP) — More than 1000 young Berliners from both sides of the wall gathered at a former secret police barracks to celebrate s C V - 3 19) 4) sr a"' r s - -ar - 7D LT ill ' es - " !la- ' ' 1 44 -' ' 61 IN - 44e - 0(0 : - 's There's too little to drink and the food's running out too" said organizer Christa Schwartz — — Inside The Tribune Tribune Telephone Numbers on A-2 Arts Barber! E-1- B-- 2 Business Classified Common Carrier Crossword F-1- A-2- Editorials Entertainment Food Lifestyle 0 E-1- 0 A-1- W-1-- Foreign Jumble 8 8 W-- 2 Local National Obituaries Public Forum Sports Star Gazer Sunday Selection I A-2- A-1A-3- 0 1 4 Washington Riamm110 Today's Forecast Salt Lake City and vicinity — Partly cloudy and continued hot Highs near 100 Lows 60s retails B-3 Shabbily clad East Berliners d West Berliners joined to bid a final farewell to four dec- well-dresse- ny's currency The police barracks were decorated with Communist regalia A bust of Karl Marx the 19th century economist whose theories were commuthe basis of modern-da- y nism looked down on a punk band called "The Princes of the Prov- inces" A portrait of ousted East German - - - -- 4 -- :- e a - - ' aoss1-- - A' ' - : 7' - N ' - 4'' ' ' IV ii ? a It s 111 - ' 1 '- - - ti sai - 0 - S 4 - 41' 4 - 0"1"$C' t 04 ' - IA p3 f t '' t e - - - a - as s-- a - e vir 4—' 411' 'a ts rt1 ' 114 'a - s Press Loserphoto East Germany as the monetary wall dividing the two nations comes tumbling down Door on Marxism leader Erich Honecker gloated over the slogan "Our Communist Party Program Will Live" Upstairs in the bare concrete-andgranit- e building some 500 people e East German films watched old-tim- 50s- - got under way because of the enormous crowd Downstairs there were several bars and food stalls as well as a stand and postcards comselling German memorating the East-Weeconomic merger At the stroke of midnight an announcer bade "Farewell to you our beloved our hated nation the Ger- st man Democratic Republic Tomorrow everything will be different" Couples kissed and the loudspeaker system blared three full stanzas of East Germany's national anthem as a whistling and cheering crowd tossed East German coins into the air Asked what he would do with his first West German money Andreas Chile a postal worker said "I want to live just like before I have no intention of becoming a totally different person some kind of consumer or other" At the Glanz Ecke bar elsewhere in the district Thomas Weisz said he would buy a new car Bush Approves Disaster Relief As Californians Count Losses By Richard de Atley Associated Press Writer SANTA BARBARA Calif — Firefighters tightened a ring around one of California's most destructive brush fires Saturday while first steps were taken to restore ravaged neighborhoods and federal assistance was offered The 4900-acr- e blaze that burned hundreds of homes on the outskirts of Santa Barbara smoldered northeast of town but was 90 percent contained Containment means completion of a fire line Helicopters dropped water and ground crews toiled in an area aptly named Windy Gap as the weather outlook took an unfavorable turn and hot dry winds were forecast to return Sunday "It's a very very critical portion of the firefight It cannot be lost" said Santa Barbara County Fire Marshal But this year Rep Ronald J Lake gets to go beOckey cause he is leaving the House of Representatives to run for a seat being vacated in the Senate in a traditionally strong Republican district So he is expected to soon be a member of lt of the Utah Senate called "the club" by some of the more cynical Capitol observers will frolic in the sun on the shores and in the waves of Bear Lake with a small group of selected lobbyists The annual party hosted by Senate President Arnold Christensen Raffair alSandy is an invitation-onl- y most exclusively for the senators and their wives Sen Frances Farley DSalt Lake the lone woman in the 29- member Senate is always invited but never goes Only the senators are invited to the party centered around Sen Christensen's Bear Lake cabin members of the House of Representatives are not normally invited i 11r- 19d- Saturday as East Germany embraced capitalism and the West German currency Beer ran out minutes before mi night and organizers had to turn away hundreds of people who hadn't bought tickets for the party The celebration at the Felix Dzerzhinsky Guard Regiment barracks was one of the biggest organized events to mark the arrival of West Germany's powerful Deutsche Mark as legal tender in both nations "We didn't count on this rush - 1 — I °' - Huge crowd hails the opening on Saturday of a West German bank branch in Halle )1 -! 44 al 4 i 7e1 Ali ss' a - ? ' a - l'7 Ik ow :4'''wf'd 1 T b':'1' - '''"as!' eas - :s ( 472zro- ise L al i i ''': t- : s 10git 1 s a 1 ij' ' : -t hsea - k 111 0 Lithuanians tit rl 1 I ? e e a u LO aas t - On July 13 and 14 most members t ii ' 7- - Goranctns- Close Tribune Staff Writer -' ° i - state-owne- By Paul Roily 1 i - - 711tsakvaummoomolmwmallomysallorl"16111"m1111"''Iwer"6"w7f Michael Bennett In its trail utility crews went in to restore electricity phone and gas serviceResidents met to figure out how tor cope with their losses or cleared brush to keep surviving homes safe Gawkers became a problem jamming streets until California Highway Patrol officers clamped down using loudspeakers to order curiosity seekers out "We're trying to get Edison and the telephone company in to restore power and phones" said Officer T Scott "They have to take up the street to do their job and we are getting a lot of lookie-loos- " The fire which killed a woman Today's Chuckle Scientists say man is the only creature that can reason That's because he's the only one who needs excuses Some Utah Lobbyists Very : ''' 7 31‘ came Off-dut- want" Banks nationwide scheduled special Sunday hours to mark the day that to many ranked in significance with the fall of the Communist government in October last year and the opening of the Berlin Wall a month Moot W WIN Hans-Joachi- ae i: Final home Edition Gerii:ii nys To IPether Ali am By Mark Fritz e 3 Salt Lake City Utah—Sunday Morning July I 1990 just Step asa a-s- a Government's registry four years ago when Ronald Reagan was in office "That new federalism Mr Reagan gave us didn't necessarily mean less government it sort of meant a change of address" said Roland Luedtke a former lawmaker and lieutenant governor in Nebraska Lawmakers insist they do not sell votes while lobbyists say they do not buy them Indeed examples of out- right bribery are rare but critics say the system is so ambiguous that wrongdoing becomes a matter of perception "It's ripe for abuse There's the potential for corruption and undue See A-- Column 4 0 Now - 20 percent from the Council of State local governments Lobbyists persuade lawmakers to pass kill or amend laws to benefit the special interest that hired them They have a constitutional right to air their side and they are an important source of analysis and expertise for understaffed legislatures that were created as citizen assemblies Lobbyists get little mention in civics lessons Yet leaving out lobbyists from the way a bill becomes a law is like having a road map with only interstate highways They are the access ramps back roads shortcuts cutoffs and detours Lobbyists outnumber lawmakers The AP survey found nearly more than 42500 registered lobbyists at state capitols an increase of Utah Lobbyists Enjoy Tree' Rein: A4 A-1- 0 0 farmers and bankers the media and i : 40 Vol 240 No 78 In most states it is virtually impossible to know how much lobbyists are spending and which legislators they spend it on (See story bottom ) "Money buys access and access buys a higher degree of success" said Chuck Sauvage of the Washington state branch of Common Cause which itself lobbies for more accountability by those who make and influence legislation "We're in danger of seeing government of the special interests by the special interests and for the special interests" The growth in the number of lobbyists comes at a time when the responsibility for funding social welfare programs is shifting from Congress to the states and legislatures are tackling such complex is- - t "the club" Besides the senators however a handful of the hundreds of lobbyists who register with the state for the privilege to wine dine and attempt to influence legislators are also in- vited to the weekend party These favored lobbyists will have exclusive contact with the Senate as they do every year at this party for a weekend in a party atmosphere with barbecues party games and water skiing But most senators say the friendships that have developed at these was set about 6 pm Wednesday Authorities revealed nothing about the arson investigation but said the woman's death is considered a homicide In Kennebunkport Maine President Bush declared disaster areas in Santa Barbara and Los Angeles counties His action makes the areas eligible for federal grants and loans to assist individuals businesses and local governments "It's a hell of a mess but at least the bureaucracy is in gear and going in record time" said US Rep Robert Lagomarsino whose district includes Santa Barbara Structural losses in Santa Barbara County were put at $280 million but county Supervisor Bill Wallace said the value might top MO million So far 438 homes 28 apartments 10 businesses and four public buildings have burned By Ann lime i Associated Press Writer VILNIUS USSR — The Soviet government in a spirit of compromise resumed oil shipments to Lithuania Saturday one day after the Baltic republic's parliament agreed to freeze its declaration of independence It was the Kremlin's biggest step toward lifting the economic blockade it imposed against Lithuania 10 weeks ago to force the Baltic republic to back off its independence drive "We're getting oil" said Alma Belskita of Lithuania's Mazhiekiai Refinery Lithuania is ern ely dependent upon the Soviet Union for its oil and gas which it receives at highly subsidized prices The oil cutoff April 18 was one of the toughest actions President Mikhail S Gorbachev took to make the republic of 38 million people rescind its March 11 independence declaration About 50000 of the estimated 11 million workers in Lithuania lost their jobs because of the shortages of fuel and raw materials In Kennebunkport Maine President Bush praised Moscow's easing of the oil embargo Bush and other Western leaders had been urging both sides in the conflict to compromise and negotiate "I'm very encouraged by that" he said Oil began flowing in at 7 pm Moscow time Ms Belskita said She said the Mazhiekiai plant would begin refining the oil later and that it would not reach consumers for at least two weeks for technical reasons "We're glad there will be work" she said of the mood at the plant in northwestern Lithuania It refines about 12 million tons of petroleum products a year a quarter of it used in Lithuania ' ' 0 1 !' ' The refinery employs 2000 - people who were thrown out of work by the cutoff The plant processed its last oil April 23 as the blockade exhausted reserves The refinery produces gasoline for the republic as well as Estonia Latvia and Byelorussia When the single pipeline feeding the plant from the Russian city of Polotsk was shut down Lithuanian President Vytautas Landsbergis criticized the Soviet Union for "economic coercion and economic warfare against a neighboring country" Vilnius Radio and Lithuania's offi- cial news agency ELTA said Soviet First Deputy Oil Minister Lev Churl-b- y promised to resume oil shipments in a phone call earlier Saturday to the republic's Council of Minister's or Cabinet ELTA said Soviet officials asked refinery operators if they could accept the maximum amount of oil The Lithuanian parliament voted 69 to 35 Friday to accept a compromise with the Kremlin It placed a 100-damoratorium on its declaration of independence — the moratorium takes effect once talks with Moscow begin — but it left in place all of the laws passed since then In exchange Gorbachev promised to end the economic blockade and start negotiations with the republic Lithuanian leaders said Landsbergis has not said when the See A-Column 4 ' a 1 — y ea - influence the way they decide to vote when they are back in Senate chambers in shirt tie and business demeanor "There has been some discomfort expressed over the years by some senators" said Sen Karl Swan DTooele who is retiring from the Senate at the end of this year and usually goes to the Bear Lake party "The discomfort among the different senators varies in degree But it all goes back to the way we all feel and that is that we carinot be bought regardless of the amount of time we spend in a friendly atmosphere with these people" Sen Fwan said But most of the lobbyists who attend the exclusive parties with the Senate members are among the most okat - eeras etas 4 e ( sea ae e rt - : 2 - '''::74 ed parties and other events that just certain lobbyists are invited to do not I - ae &fffirr!"11t Well-Connect- - lobbyists by businesses industries and associations wanting to influence legislators toward or away from legislation that would affect their groups "There is a small cadre of lobbyrun of the floor of ists who the Senate" said Sen Farley "They sit in senators' seats they act like they own the place "I find it very offensive and very inappropriate " she said "A small handful of lobbyists should not be al- lowed that kin of physical presence and the appeaaranacretoociathee kind of control t Sen Farley declined to name names but when read the list of lobbyists invited to the Bear Lake party she said the list was consistent with the lobbyists she mentioned as having "the run of the Senate floor" The lobbyists invited to this year's See A-- Column 1 sought-afte- r he 3 i ' ':'S" ' :: e - e se ' re ias s r - 7: ' a easesso- — '' - -- - s - a a: 1 t a - s se 4 I - - 1 aserassa s : l 'ts i :i - s '''''' 41 Arnold Christensen Defends Annual Party i - |
