| Show e I - - 17 '- ' - ---- -- 60 4 i 1 IN 1 I ' a 1 rl Utah is r' !r4‘ 1 rLi 1 Y :No A V I Wyoming 21 12 LI D Notre Dame 29 20 n Alabama Tennessee L A Weber State 47 Colorado State New Mexico Miami 7 51 It 1 I i 1 US i i - t - By Rita Beamish Associated Press Writer i' WASHINGTON — President Bush announced Saturday he will carry out his pledge to veto major civil rights legislation designed to combat bill job discrimination saying the hirwould prompt employers to use ing quotas : "The measure remains a quota bill because inescapably it will have the effect of forcing businesses to adopt quotas in hiring and promotion" Bush said as the administration unveiled its alternative version ' Bush urged lawmakers to accept the alternative but it came under im I i t I : ' 1 A 1 battle-se- asoned :kd : hhk pnt rod : 9is Anti-Wa--- eer MIAI Main Battle with a more Protests: r 1 t t ' 1 1 A-- 2 ------ 120mm gun will be in Saudi by the end of the year replacing older Mls that were brought from the United States a spokesman said The disClosure came as the first British Challenger tanks intended for use by Britain's 7th Armored Brigade the "Desert Rats" rolled off a ship at an eastern Saudi port The Challengers also fire a 120mm gun and are protected by what British officers call the world's best tank ar- mor the US command In Saudi Arabia said the M lAls were being drawn from storage areas in A statement by 1 t Cut Food-Ta- x 1 - Gaining Little Support John Furgrurson and Laura Neidhart Proponents of the Food Tax Initiative gained little ground in the last six weeks and are still running ten By t points behind c --- THE UTAH POLL S f ® i t 1 g t 0 t t ' ac- cording to the 1- Utah Poll Almost half of those polled said they are against the measure that would eliminate state and local sales tax on food purchased in grocery stores Thirty-nin- e percent favor the initiative and 11 percent are undecided Furthermore support for the measure dwindles when voters are faced with potential cuts in government revenues and services Only 34 percent said they would back the initiative if it caused the loss of $100 million in revenues Respondents were also asked how they would vote if passage of the initiative caused permanent cuts in government services In this context 31 percent support the initiative and 60 percent oppose Public opinion for the Food Tax Initiative is strongest with people ages 18 to 29 where 51 percent support the initiative Only 34 percent of those 60 older would vote for it The most polarized results are from Davis County voters where only three percent of the voters are undecided In that county 56 percent are opposed to the initiative and 40 percent in favor Weber County also shows very little support for the initiative however 14 percent are undecided Here are the latest results: Straight Ito Pot Against 39 49 11 Unchreided It state and local government loses $100 mitilon in revenues - 1 mediate attack from bill supporters Civil rights advocate Ralph Neas said the alternative "guts the Civil Rights Act of 1990" House Speaker Thomas Foley DWash was dubious about chances of enacting an alternative while Sen said Edward M Kennedy Bushed seemed to be "moving even father away from the strong measures that are needed" The bill approved Wednesday by Congress arrived at the White House on Saturday while the president was spending the weekend at his Camp David Md retreat He said he would veto it on Monday V 9 government services are cut 31 60 Against Undecided Bardsley lk Neidhart Inc an independent polling organization surveyed 902 registered voters October 8 through October 11 Maximum standard error is 33 plus or minus i -- -$ 1 Europe Despite the transfer it said they would continue to be counted as part of the US strength level permitted under the pending treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe The treaty to be signed by the end of this year calls for military cutbacks by both NATO and Warsaw Pact forces "We are proposing to our NATO allies that these tanks continue to be counted under the CFE treaty thus leaving NATO's tank destruction a I' 4 w-- t g tt 4 qLr Final Home Edition 0 With those changes he said Bush administration has never wanted a strong and effective civil rights act" "to- gether we can produce legislation that will strike a blow against racial bias without institutionalizing : ministration's process has been a shameful charade It is clear that the Bush said his alternative "includes those specific changes to the Civil Rights Act of 1990 that will make it acceptable" 11 1111 its c:31 - The bill represented the civil rights movement's top priority over the last six months It would overturn six Supreme Court decisions in job discrimination cases last year Provisions range from a ban on racial harassment in the workplace to punitive damages in the most extreme discrimination cases The most controversy however has focused on language that would make it easier to take employers to court in job discrimination cases Bush calls the provisions so stringent that employers would turn to quotas defense — to have a ready-mad- e dispute sponsors something White House legal counsel C Boyden Gray said Bush's alternative would: — Cap at $150000 total damages an employee could win in a job discrimination suit As passed the bill would allow unlimited compensatory damages in some cases and cap punitive damages at $150000 or the total of compensatory damages plus back pay whichever is greater quo- tas" He said his changes were "reasonable compromises" which some aides characterized as significant concessions "designed to accommodate the concerns" of sponsors Neas director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights said Saturday night however that the "ad 1mrtursotm Fr s t s''' k S it '''' i'"! 1 ' '— - 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- A-1- 8 E-1- 3 A-1- Food Lifestyle 6 8 Foreign Hall W-- 9 Jumble C-- 9 Local National National Obituaries Public Forum Sports Star Gazer Sunday Selections Washington A-1- 8 A-- 9 8 A-6- Totlars Forecast Salt Lake City and vicinity — Partly cloudy and cool Highs mid-50- s Lows upper 20s Details B-- 3 r : B-- 2 Editorials Entertainment I) a - con- gressional negotiators Saturday rank-and-fil- irt:':'''':::-::-'':- t"-s''- T-7- By John King 0 0 tax-write- rs Reds Relish Sweep I 4 1 un- The Soviets already had withdrawn some of their armored units from the European theater in keeping with President Mikhail Gorbachev's 1983 promise of unilateral reductions US officials in Saudi Arabia said the transfer would cost about $48 million No personnel will be moved with the tanks they said The MIAls will provide "improved capabilities" over the M1 Abrams tanks brought to Saudi Arabia with four US Army units already deployed under Operation Desert Shield A military spokesman Maj Doug Bid le said he did not know which unit would receive the new tanks or what would be done with the MU already in Saudi Arabia The MU are used by the 1st Cavalry and 2nd Armored Divisions and the 24th Methanized Infantry Division and 197th Mechanized Infantry Brigade The latter two units already have an advanced version of the Abrams tank fitted with improved firing systems for the standard 105mm cannon The 3rd Armored Cavalry Brigade currently on its way to Saudi Arabia is bringing its own M1A1 tanks Bidle said The MIAI has improved crew protection against nuclear biological and chemical attack and its 120mm cannon is more of a match for the TIraqis' best tank the Soviet-mad- e 72 Even so the US tanks could still which be outgunned by the have a 125mm gun believed capable of hitting targets at up to 3000 yards compared to the 2400-yarrange reported for the German-designegun carried by the MIA' Both tanks as well as the Challenger are protected by advanced armor first developed by the British and adopted by several countries now-famili- 34 57 For A9oinst Undecided For 24 Iowa ( b 1 Aa 8 (:41 1 requirement under the treaty changed" the statement said tful t t:x 341 1 By Richard Pyle Associated Press Writer ' DHAHRAN Saudi Arabia — The United States is shifting several hundred of its best tanks from Europe to Saudi Arabia to counter Iraq's armored units are better able to and nuclear ahg guns still may not nt :e Lk those on Iraq's best t 0 zo t US Tanks in Europe To Head for Mideast - 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