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Show r Checkerboard Primary Beckons Utah Voters Today diet kt-- hoard" municipal miarv election beckons many Utahns Tuesday In nat mw down the numl'ci ot candidates (or maynr and i ity council There will he balloting in 17 of the stale's 220 cities and towns, ranging A pi alphabetically trom Aurora to Willard But oters shouldn't tie put off bv the spotty nature of the primary The importance is no less since v oters w ill lie choosing the caliber ol candidates to apiear on the ballot in the Nov 3 municipal election It does reipiirc voter attention since in some primary communities i nters throughout the entire city will hallotiiic. and in other places onl portion ot the city will vote on certain candidates lie a Foilin'. Harrs. H- -I Salt Lake City is an example ol the Its onl pt unary is in Citv latter Ihstnct 5 That district has highly irregular boundaries But the tnilk lies between 300 Hast and 1500 Fast, from 900 South to 2100 South. A district map was carried in The Tribune's Sunday edition There is one tfimu uniform The polls will be open everywhere from 7 a m toSpni And there is help close Council at hand if uncertain about voter district locations The county clerks and respective eit recorders and town clerks can provide this information Within Salt Iaike County, theie is the county elections clerk. 535 7731. and The Salt laike Tribune's Infor niation Department. 217 2001 47 Cities, X Spawns Towns To Vote Military, Civilian Kilt Candidates Vie Across State Polling places will be open from 7 Tuesday in 47 cities and towns holding primary elections to nominate candidates for municipal offices. The primary elections involve the more populous cities along the Wasatch Front and some of the smaller towns throughout the state. Voters will be balloting for mayoral and city council candidates in the primaries designed to nai row down the number of candidates for each office to two aspirants to be voted upon ir. the Nov. 3 municipal election. A variable but generally light turnout ot the voters is anticipated. Only One S L. District Balloting in Salt Lake City is limited o only one of seven City Council districts, involving ,34 voter districts, which have been combined into 17 polling places. Councilwoman Alice Shearer is being challenged by attorney John Faul Kennedy and broadcast engineer Barry Barlow. will be The top two nominated to face off in the Nov. 3 municipal election in this southcentral City Council. District 5. Other Salt Lake County cities holding primaries are Draper, Midvale, Murray, Sandy. West Jordan and West A alley City. Davis County municipalities holding primary elections are Bountiful, Cen- When the polls close, the Utah Flection Service will be in place to report results from election judges The UKS is sponsored hy The Tribune, KSL TV, KSL Radio, KTVX, KW MS. KUTV. the Deseret News. Associated Press and United Press Iuterniition.il a m. to 8 p m. Panel Opens Debate On Reagan Decision n -l long-rang- vote-gette- terville, Clearfield, Farmington. Layton, North Salt Lake. South Weber and West Bountiful. No Incumbent Candidates Some of the more active voting can be expected outside of Salt Lake City. For example, incumbent mayors are stepping out of office in Logan, West a move Jordan. Orem and Tooele lhat has drawn competition for the top See Page 2, Column 1 six-yea- r, Associated Press Laseronoto Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger talks to press, while President Reagan watches, after luncheon at White House for figures of former administrations who want AWACS sale. "Irresponsible in Extreme Haig Blasts Illusions on AWACS to Saudis By Jim Adams Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON In a furious attempt to salvage an $8.5 billion arms deal to Saudi Arabia, Secretary of State Alexander Haig charged opponents with "illusions ... irresponsible in the - extreme Monday while President Reagan unveiled support from six previous administrations. Haig, in testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, personally assailed Democrat John Glenn of Ohio for what he termed the Republicans Hatch, Packwood Square Off on Abortion Issue Two Republican senators disagreed sharply Mona day over which is inviolable woman's right to choose between motherhood and abortion, or the right of a fetus to live. "We simply disagree," said chairman Orrin G. Hatch, of the Senate Judiciarys Constitution Sub WASHINGTON (UPI) committee, in opening seven days of hearings on proposed constitutional Abortion Series, C- -l amendments to outlaw abortions. I see the inviolate right as the right of the unborn to life." Doubled Cigarette Prices Anger Poland Workers GDANSK, Poland (AP) Angry workers threatened on Monday to strike at mines and factories across Poland unless the Communist government rescinds a "provocative" price hike that doubled the cost of cigarettes. But the Polish government said it would be impossible to suspend the price hike, ignoring a virtual ultimatum from Solidarity union chipf Lech Walesa that the action would spark a national "brawl." organizers said, despite an appeal from Walesa to delay any action until the congress decides what to do next. Protest Any Price Hikes We firmly protest against any price increases without the approval of society, said workers in a statement from one of Polands two biggest cigarette factories in Krakow. The government has gone from slithering price increases to provocative ones." Union leaders from Silesia threatened protest strikes in the coal Criticizes Solidarity Congress Meanwhile, the Communist Party mines. daily Tr buna Ludu criticized the Solidarity congress, saying the current debate on price hikes gave "rise to profound anxiety, deep concern for the future ... and for continuing the line of Tribune Telephone agreement and dialogue between the and the Numbers Page A-- 2 government member union. Other price increases announced Saturday on trout, carp and canned fruit provoked little public reaction. All the price increases became effective Monday. Hut angry protests alxiut the cigarette hikes poured into the Solidarity congress trom woikshnps and offices across Poland, union leaders said. And in many cities smokers found there were no cigarettes to buy, Clear Salt Lake City and vicinity Solidarity leaders in dozens of cities worked furiously to calm workers who and warmer. Highs in the 70s, lows in the 4(K Weather details on Inside The Tribune i t By Don Waters Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Monday that a key element of President Reagans proposed buildup of strategic forces was approved over his objections, and Senate Minority Leader Robert C, Byrd likened the package to "putting our money in a used car." But Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger insisted that the Reagan administration will not reconsider its recommendation to build 100 B- bombers nor resurrect a e MX missiles plan to shuttle among desert shelters in the West. The split between the Pentagons top civilian and military leaders was aired as the Senate Armed Services Committee opened hearings on the $180.3 billion strategic modernization program announced by Reagan last Friday. His disagreement was with Sen. Bob the hearings first Packwood, witness, who said the public supports the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, and that attempts to overturn it hy constitutional amendment pose a threat to other American liberties. These modern-da- y Puritans are convinced they are right and they are prepared to impose upon us. if they can, their view of Gods will," Packwood said. Restrict All Liberties "It is a dangerous and pernicious theology and those who hold it if they are successful in this effort will not stop until they have imposed upon us a restriction of all of our liberties with which they do not agree." Hatch countered by saying he has watched advocates of women's right to abortion work into a frenzy over saving seals and whales while doing nothing about the rights of the unborn. The National Abortion Rights Action League, in a news conference before Hie hearing, said Hatch had launched "a crafty strategy" in what it called "the most devastating attack yet on abortion rights." Hatch's amendment would give Congress and the states the power to prohibit abortions. Pull the Woo!' "He has introduced his 'federal control' constitutional amendment disguised as a simple attempt to share legislative power." said the Abortion Rights Leagues acting executive director. Judith Widdicombe. Buzz words like 'States rights and 'New federalism are being used to pull the wool over the eyes of the public. Monday's hearing featured a debate oil the issue between two legal scholars John T. Noonan Jr. ol the University of California and Laurence H. Tribe of Harvard University. "That pregnancy in an ideal world would never be unwelcome, and no (hild ever unwanted, stales a dream but not vet a reality " Tribe said "imaginary" claim that a compromise could be worked out calling for joint U.S. Saudi manning of the five AWACS radar planes at the heart of the sale. -- The president, meanwhile, assembled 13 defense and foreign-policofficials from Washington's past for a Air Force Gen. David Jones, chairman of the joint chiefs, testified that the mobile basing plan was dropped over his objections in favor of an interim program to put about three dozen MX weapons in strengthened underground silos now occupied by Titan and Minuteman missiles. Jones, saying he was speaking for himself and not necessarily all of the service chiefs, said, "I remain to be convinced" that the missiles can lie made to withstand a Soviet attack by any means other than the shell game" of multiple bases that the Gaiter administration had advanced. Questioned later Monday by Rep. Norman Dicks, at a House defense appropriations, subcommittee hearing, Jones denied that he was trying to resurrect the multiple shelter plan. "The president has made his decision, even though I recommended something different," Jones said, adding that he personally places greater importance on the B-- l program, which he favors, than the MX. Senate committee chairman John a strong proponent of Tower, e the MX, said he hoped it will get a new look when the administration makes a decision in 1984 as to how to deploy the 100 new missiles permanently. Weinberger dashed that hope, sayAs far as the president ... the ing: administration ... and I are concerned, we have made a flat recommendation shell-gam- White House display of bipartisan support. The officials included former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, who served presidents Nixon and Ford, and Zbigniew Brzezinski, the national y Outnumber AH the Dead? NEW YORK Barry Goldensohn, a poet on the faculty of Hampshire College, was reading a poem early this year and came across lines that there are jarred his credulity. now more of us alive than ever have been dead, William Matthews had written in a poem published in the Box N 4 periodical, Vegetable . 4 . Could this be true? Goldensohn asked a colleague, Dr. Arthur H. Westing, professor of ecology and dean of natural science at the college in Amherst, Mass. No, Westing replied, and after several weeks of research and calculations he arrived at an estimate of how many humans have ever lived: 50 "... billion. But if the poet were exercising his license the w'orld population explosion was nonetheless reinforced by Westing. If the 50 billion estimate is approximately correct, it means that the 4 4 billion people alive today represent 9 percent of all Homo sapiens who have ever lived over a period of 300, 000 years. It means also that more people are alive at this moment than lived and died through the entire Paleolithic age, the preperiod agriculture hunter-gathere- r that spanned 86 percent of human tenure on earth. Westing published the results of his calculations in the issue of the journal BioScience. July-Augu- noting that his estimate updated and improved on previous calculations of all time human population. The estimate, he said, could prove useful to biologists studying evolution and genetics as well as to anthropologists. archaeologists and historians. In lus report. Westing said that Column Column See Page 1 1-Ho- By John Noble Wilford New York Times Writer 2. 2, 2, Column 4 High Court Will Examine Veto Validity of Do the Living See Page See Page 5 By Richard Carelli Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON The Supreme Court, opening a new term with one of its busiest days in history, said Monday it will decide the constitutionality of how Congress does much of its spending. With Justice Sandra Day O'Connor making her public debut as a working member, the court issued some 1,000 orders and began hearing arguments in cases already accepted for study. The justices said they will decide the e veto, under validity of the which either house of Congress may set aside decisions of the president or government agencies. A federal appeals court said the much-use- d legislative an element in more than procedure 200 laws dictating the spending of is unconstitutional billions of dollars The Justice Department and lawyers for the Senate and House now must try to convince the nation's highest court that the appeals court was wrong. In other matters Monday, the court took thee actions' Agreed to decide whether there is a constitutional right to bail. The justices will use a Nebraska case to resolve whether states can deny freedom to all people accused pre-triof certain crimes. A lower court said such blanket denials of bail is unconstitutional. Refused to allow group prayers during student assemblies at a public high school in Chandler, Ariz. The court, without comment, left intact decisions barring such prayers. Agreed to decide whether a woman who says she was raped in 1931 by the Scott shorn Boys, nine black youths whose legal case became part of the use nations race-relation- history, may sue s NBC for libel over a 1976 television movie. Rejected attacks on state laws barring most adopted people from inspecting official records showing their true parents identities. Ended the legal life of a lawsuit that had charged the FBI and the Corp. with undercutting Karen Silkwoods nuclear plant union organizing drive. The justices left intact a decision dismissing conspiracy See Page 3, Column 1 Kerr-McGe- e one-hous- Today's Chuckle Personally," a father remarked, "I have my doubts about solar energy. My son has spent most of his life on the beach, and he has less energy than anyone I know." Hoti Ratifies Extension Of Voting Act WASHINGTON (API In a rare congressional victory for liberal Democrats and civil rights leaders, the House gave overwhelming approval Monday night to an indefinite extension of the 19h5 Voting Rights Act. n'he the 389-2- vote sent the extension to Republican-controlle- d Senate where a much tougher fight is expected on legislation described by supporters as the most successful civil rights law ever enacted. Every one in a series of efforts by House Republicans and some southern Democrats to loosen the federal hold over enforcement of voter discrimination law was cashy rejected by the Democratic majority of the House. Many of those leading the fight for extension were black and Hispanic House members who said that without the law they would have not been elected to Congress. As the frequently bitter, nine-hou- r debate wound toward a close. Rep. Thomas F. Hartnett, RS.C., complained that as a southern politician, See Page 2, Column I i |