| Show 10A The Salt Lake Tribune Sunday July "1 1 Legislator's Job So Easy a 1980 ARIH WORKS Simple Ways to Save the Earth one call the Environmental Defense Fund's hotline at (800) CALL-ED- F (225-533You'll get a recorded message asking you to leave your name and address In EDF will send broresponse chures on home and office recycling a resource list of publica- If you want information about the environment there are plenty of places you can write But frankly a lot of us would rather pick up the phone Sometimes that tions and organization plus information on local recycling centers They say it'll take about three weeks to get the info makes sense: — If you can get information immediately Information there might be a better chance you'll actually use it — InforJohn Javna mation you get by phone is more likely to be — It's helpful to be able The Pennsylvania Resources Council (PRC) a group dedicated to educating Americans non-prof- about environmentally to ask questions if you don't completely understand something So if you want to reach out and touch some wonderful sources here are phone numbers you can call Energy Conservation — For general questions try the people at the Conservation and Renewable Energy Inquiry & Referral Service (CAREIRS) at (800) 9 They'll send you brochures on insulation caulking etc They'll also try to answer short questions but they caution that they're not experts on every subfollow-u- p 523-292- ject — For more technical questions the Department of Energy has a toll-fre- e hotline called the National Appropriate Technology Assistance Service (NATAS) Call (800) (in Montana call (800) NATAS has engineers standing by to research your questions Don't call this line for general information — it's for specific stuff ("I live in North Dakota and have two inches of fiberglass insulation in my attic How much more do I need?' ) Recycling Sometimes the hardest part of recycling is just finding a program nearby For assistance in locating 428-252- it DIA1 For the latest information on environmental legislation and how you can influence it call one of these recorded messages in Washington DC: — Audubon Society: (202) 547-901- ' Sierra — Club: (202) — National Wildlife 547-555- 7 0 Federa- 5 tion: (202) (news updates as well as issues to write about) Once you have information about pending bills call your representatives in Congress The number in Washington is (202) 797-665- 224-315- An 1 will con- operator nect you with your representative's office Hazardous Waste Laidlaw Environmental Ser- vices says it'll provide you with info on industrial and household hazardous wastes It can also help you set up a hazardous waste collection day in your area Call (800) 845-101- 9 Pesticides People at the EPA's hotline can answer everything you wish you never had to know about pesticides Call (800) in Homicides US Ranks For Young Males Study Says No 1 (UPI) — The United States has by far the highest homicide rate for young males among leading industrial nations with of the homicides linked to guns according to a study The overall homicide rate for American males ages 15 to 24 was 219 per 100000 population in 1987 — more than seven times higher than in Canada 20 times higher than in West Germany and 40 times times higher than in Japan said researchers from the National Center for Health Statistics Researchers said they focused on young males because they account of all homicides in the for one-fiftUnited States In a study published in the Journal of the American Medi- cal Association Lois Fingerhut and Joel Kleinman said they found large variations in homicide rates among states and among countries Among 25 states surveyed California had the highest homicide rate for young white males at 22 per 100000 Minnesota the lowest at 19 Among 22 states and the District of Columbia the homicide rate for young black males was highest in Michigan at 2316 per 100000 and lowest in North Carolina at 342 BOSTON three-quarte- h Among the 22 developed countries surveyed Scotland ranked a distant second to the United States with a young male homicide rate of 5 per 100000 people followed by New Zealand at 44 Israel at 37 Norway at 33 Finland at 3 and Canada at 29 The countries with the lowest rates were Portugal Denmark West Germany Japan and Austria all with one or fewer homicide per 100000 people Following California the states with the highest rates among young whites were Texas New York Arizona and Florida Rates in those states ranged from 209 to 128 per 100000 The study said the top five states accounted for 56 percent of all young white male homicides while having only 32 percent of white males in the 15 to 24 age group Following Michigan the places with the highest young black male homicides rates were California the District of Columbia New York Missouri and Florida all with rates above 120 per 100000 population The study said 81 percent of homicides among young black males and 69 percent among young whites resulted 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mostly from attractive women using laundry rooms of upscale apartment buildings Some articles have been recovered hanging from signs and trees around town — Glendale Calif repairman Thomas Joseph Bowman 46 was arrested and charged with stealing th ian rule allow the disassembly of its sprawling empire? And stcond: Can dozens of peoples who hate each oth- er become independent without slaughtering each other? We do not yet know whether Moscow will peacefully let loose The habit today is to say that the changes in Europe are irreversible and maybe they are But things are not stable in Russia let alone the USSR All it takes is for some Soviet general with 10 divisions to decide to march on Moscow proclaiming a desire to save the union and prevent chaos If another general decides to support the Poland? How would the West respond to an incursion into Eastern Europe by a serious factional army? And what would happen to the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons? Who would control them? Whose side would the Soviet missile subs take? We like to say that using nuclear arms is unthinkable but you can bet d Asian Napoleon that a would think of it Civil wars are not commanded by Albert Schweitzer Granted all of the foregoing is speculation The Soviet Union may finish doing whatever it is doing without incident and everyone may live happily together forever I wouldn't bet the children's college funds on it For my money the real hazard is not that the evil Reds will nuke Chicago if there ever was such a hazard The danger is implosion civil war and spillover half-civilize- tion is any guide another one could be a real horror If civil war comes about in the Soviet Union — and of course it may not — the worrisome question is whether it will be contained within the remnants of the Soviet Union The Red Army typically has been overrated but it is huge and if not as as we have imagined nonetheless heavily armed Whose side different parts of it might fight on isn't clear Desperate armies do not respect borders What happens for example if serious fighting erupts in the republics bordering Iran? Frontiers are not airtight in such places nor necessarIf one faction ily even found itself you can believe it would retreat across the Soviet-Iraniaborder rather than be destroyed At that point Iran will become a participant in the war Does Iraq take advantage of the opportunity? For that matter if real fighting occurred near Eastern Europe how sacred would say the Polish border seem to a losing commander who knew what would happen to him if his enemies captured him? He would probably know better than to cross a NATO border: NATO is heavily armed and somewhat unified But well-equipp- Two questions arise First: Will Moscow accustomed to authoritar- © 1990 Universal Press Syndicate hard-presse- AMERICA VIDEO WEST TEMPLE MORE THAN EVER FLY 185-700- n marches we've got a civil war Shortages of food and a deteriorating economy do not help Another possibility is that Mikhail Gorbachev or whoever succeeds him will get fed up and use the army to try to hold the empire together Chaos and dissolution encourage militaries to impose order My guess is that the army couldn't do it but it could sure make a dangerous mess by trying Central Asia would make a perfectly grand Afghanistan The potential for misery in the Soviet Union is beyond measure Consider famine alone What does prolonged war do to a collection of economic basket cases who cannot feed themselves in time of peace? 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NOW The surest way to prevent a major war is for me to predict one Nevertheless the creeping dissolution of the Soviet Union strikes me as being as dangerous as it is heartening EvSally erybody and his Great-Aun- t talk about the reduced risk of war in Europe Well it is reduced and that's worth talking about But the prospects for civil war in the Soviet Union or rather in the fragments of the Soviet Empire appear to me to be growing As of now the Baltic states have declared independence as have the states and now Central Asia has begun to crack with the Uzbeks deciding for secession Russia is also considering secession This begins to look suspiciously like a Over per Capture this holiday News of ' Chuck SAVE UP TO for 1800' 73190 t it ?v Of Civil War and Spillover Increase RENTALS 5120 ft Exp Pi in Torquay England last fall when police spotted him punching and yelling at someone on the street On closer inspection police discovered doll but the victim was a blown-u- p jailed Oliver anyway for disturbing the peace The Jasper Texas panty bandit (not related to the Salt Lake City or Tempe Ariz panty bandits) was arrested in January after an reign hampered by several victims' reluctance to report details of the crime to police Said the sheriff "People don't hold to nobody breaking into their homes and trifling with As Soviet Empire Crumbles Dangers C 5 428-171- sound shopping habits has a toll-fre- e line available for answering consumer questions: (800) If you have a pressing question give it a try Lead Story Health services legislation in the Florida House of Representatives was voted down in May with the deciding vote cast by Rep Mike Lang-ton'- s son 12 who was fooling around with the electronic vote machine on his father s desk on the floor of the House Rep Langtoh said he personally would have voted "yes" but had stepped away to make a phone call when the vote came up leaving his son alone Not Supposed to Happen — On May 19 Green Bay Wis restauranteur Philip Lee held a midnight seance on the 60th anniversary of an unsolved murder that took place on his property Two years ago he had held a successful Ouija board event that yielded the correct date of the murder Lee believes that unless he gets to the bottom of this spirits in the building will affect business — Rev James Bishop canceled the lunch he had promised to eat alone atop the steeple of his Glen Burnie Md Baptist church in April as pay- - 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