Show 1 i 4 blc i: - r gy 1 1' Vol 242 No 8 Final Home Edition 11 - 1 11:30p- n s v MONDAY April 22 1991 - Household I Tii1:'-':i9i:9:- i'eMbonnsloplmm 1 : 1 "I don't think it's dangerous" : s economist Bruce Steinberg of Merrill Lynch Capital Markets said "I don't think it means mass consumer bankruptcies or that people are going to lose their homes Still the record debt could slow consumer spending and thus temper a recovery from the recession "In the '90s at best consumers' spending will keep track with their Incomes unlike the '80s when debt spending grew so much faster than Incomes" Steinberg said Consumer spending accounts for of all economy activity and is critical to the strength of a recovery from the recession The study shows that home mortgages and consumer debt rose from two-thir- ' tend rice patches bicycles carry vegetables to market outhouses of corrugated tin rust in the sea air This is the bleaker reality behind the world's No 2 economic power of pros- whose hurried Wakafinished In is half perity only yama state good jobs are scarce roads and sewer systems are rudimentary and the "catch-up- " spirit of 1950s Japan still prevails "Wakayama is our Tibet" said Kazuaki Tsuda senior managing director of Suntory Ltd of Osaka a distillery that is one of the region's biggest businesses "It's so close to Osaka but executives really don't want to live there" The state is part of an industrial region that was the heart of Japanese commerce for centuries with Osaka as its center The gross product of the Kansai region which includes Wakayama and five other states nearly equals Canada's Yet Wakayama looks and smells like a backwater Its capital a fishing port of 400000 seems largely deserted at midday except near the railroad station In an empty park pale grass grows long and wild around a corroded sliding pond Aging steel and chemical plants dot the mountainous seaside state which also has many orange groves and a wealth of unspoiled beauty High ridges of pine and feathered bamboo seem too thick and unSee A-- 2 Column 1 Inside The Tribune Tribune Phone Numbers: A-- 4 Business Classified Ads C-- 8 Editorials Entertainment Lifestyle A-- 8 A-1- 0 7 Local Obituaries Public Forum Sports Star Gazer 8-- 3 A-- 9 C-1- C-- 7 Today's Forecast Salt Lake City and vicinity — Cloudy possible rain Highs mid608 Lows upper 30s Details B-2 et rft' 'I f re 4 4 - t ir 40' 4: 444441t ii "-Y- ' 7 I - Boston Globe flurry of recent research has found that contrary to the secularism of popular culture Americans believe in God and identify themselves as strongly religious But analysts who have studied the data say the spirituality of many Americans may only be skin deep "Our biggest problem is not secular humanism but interest in religion that doesn't turn into commitment in everyday life" said Martin Marty a prominent US church historian Seven of eight Americans identify with a Christian denominatiln according to a study by the Graduate School of the City University of New York II‘ I 1 Details on I:1'- - 40 ' op) ' ft ::0 '' ' '' ' 1 : ' '''' 3: ) fr'L'e :4 II:: ':: '' ii r ( I' A 74 31111411: etk ' ' i: : I'--' ' 4!:'!: I ' : ' e' ' fl i: ' V: 0' S 1:''' V 43 ' 0 4 "Vi ''' 4 ' ' t ' fir '11'''t: b3 1 '' "" I ) - L v Ii:: :S4''4 ' :1 I s' - Auv ' ''' ' Nws00"- )40-- ' V 2:fc:iC '' ' ' 1) ' ' : ' Y::: A ' -- 4P'''' 7 ' 4 ' ' :'t :4 Associated Press Gen Norman Schwarzkopf makes way through a sea of fans on arrival at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa Fla I Some 2000 turned out to welcome the Gulf War's allied commander who is due to retire from the Army in August Conquering Hero Returns to National Embrace Los Angeles Times Service TAMPA Fla — Gen H Norman Schwarzkopf virtually an unknown soldier when he left here for the Persian Gulf eight months ago returned home Sunday to a hero's welcome and widespread speculation about his future career It wasn't the size of the crowd as much as the intensity of emotion that distinguished the homecommander coming given the burly of allied forces "You have not only proven to be a great general a great planner and strategist but a gentleman at the same time and the pride of the nation" said the Kuwaiti ambassador to the United StateP Sheik Saud Nasir al Sabah who flew down frxn Washington Just prior to Schwarzkopf's arrival "It's great to be home" exclaimed Schwarzkopf "Mr Ambassador I'm proud to report to you that Kuwait is free" The general stepped off his staff plane a Boeing 707 precisely as scheduled at 9 am and beaming broadly snapped off a smart salute at the top of the stairway Then as he descended the stairs he spread his arms wide to greet his family waiting on the Tarmac at MacDill Air Force Base Only 2 percent of 113000 adults surveyed over 13 months refused to reveal their religious identification and only 75 percent said they had no religion The survey found 865 percent of Americans identified with Christian denominations including 26 percent Roman Catholic and 60 percent Protestant Two percent of the respondents said they were Jewish The university study came on top of a March Gallup poll that found a record percentage of Americans — 60 percent — believe in eternal damnation in Hell and another Gallup poll last year that found 96 percent of the population of 242 million Americans believe in God However according to Marty who has studied the poll data in depth "only about half of that 86 A —I "41 '" t : 1 '' i t - :!2: i ' '''''“ '' But the welcome for Schwarzkopf complete with martial music from the 24th Infantry Divihis old unit based at Fort Stewart Ga sion band — was really a national embrace for a man who captured millions of American hearts with his batg manner tlefield prowess and Due to retire from the Army in August he reportedly has been flooded with offers of executive positions in private industry a university presibook contracts dency and multimillion-dolla- r Many Florida Republicans hope that he will consent to represent the party in a 1992 challenge to Democratic US Sen Bob Graham Florida GOP Chairman Van B Poole of Tallahassee admits that he has not heard from Schwarzkopf does not know his political views and indeed does not even know if the general could consider himself a Republican ' '0' ' f' ' 4 t '''''' ":' ' P L ''''' ' '' 1 'h' 1 - k!ts ''' Unitaria- ' ( k : t'i- k' '''' 4 42 lk ttliE " i 0 er'' t i it 4 ' ' 4 “ t 1 '''474t ' '': ' '' 41 t''"e''' '' 1 '''' C'' ' 'it-li - 1 c 15 ''1 plain-speakin- " ti nal' t re o''''' i i it '"01044Ar 4' t ''': till''‘ 914S it 1 '1 131 ttit'' ' 4‘1 ' ' ''':' tt1: 1 A 4 k V t it'i 1 44 - ' '''''' "Bear" Christian denominations in the CUNY survey has any sort of ongoing participation in a body of believers For the others religion seems to be an ungraspable utterly private and practically invisible thing in their lives" Marty noted that for example a far larger percentage of respondents identified themselves as n-Universalist than that denomination can find in its membership Marty professor of American Christianity at the University of Chicago said that while Americans say they are spiritually inclined "The faith of many Americans is a vague oblong blur" that gives them "no more than a warm tingle in the bathtub" I' ' The first to embrace the hero of the decisive war against Iraq was his daughter CMdy 20 Also in line for hugs from the man nicknamed "The Bear" were wife Brenda carrying a yellow rose and a small American flag son Christian daughter Jessica and the family's black Labrador also called 100-ho- percent majority identifying with f ' I I s - t r ' ' ‘ s I ) 1 4 t t ‘ - t ' ' 1 I 4 'l I ' I n build the camp So far 32 blue tents topped with white canopies had been pitched for returning refugees at the first camp two miles northeast of Zakho city Upon its completion the prototype camp is to hold about 5000 tents in quadrangles with food lavatories and medical care for 20000 to 25000 people A multinational protective force is being deployed as 10 to 15 such relief centers go up for the refugees that allied forces are hoping to down from the mountain with Turkey The army newspaper siya said "The American dream is to fragment Iraq and to impose complete US domination over it" As Iraqi military units withdrew from the area Sunday 1400 US Marines took control of the n in northern Iraq They encountered a virtual ghost town in Zakho — a city drained by 32-te- V' H But water shortages and medical care remain serious problems for the 800000 Kurds along the border "They have basic food In that sense there was a turning point reached last week" said Constantin Sokoloff a field officer for the United Nations high commissioner for refugees Inside northern Iraq Sunday US Marines began constructing the first relief center in hopes of luring back the hundreds of thousands of Kurds who have fled their homeland Convoys of trucks crossed the border about five miles from here carrying equipment too heavy to airlift sysincluding tems bulldozers and forklifts to help water-purificatio- ' ' began on March 5 It is not clear how many remain in allied hands since several thousand ' gave themselves up to allied forees after hostilities in the Persian Gulf War ended on Feb 28 The Red Cross is now trying to register the latecomers and to determine whether they indeed qualify as POWs US officers in the field have said many civilians who oppose the Iraqi government and sided with the resistance movement that Saddam Hussein crushed turned themselves in as POWs to escape reprisals Estimates from US and Red Cross officials are that between 13000 and 16000 Iraqi POWs remain to be repatriated Iraq has returned 45 allied POWs including 21 Americans ) t "" '' ::ic:' ' ' - 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' 4e''''' :: r4 Iti 1 Red Cross officials said Sunday that more than 62000 Iraqi POWs have been returned to their homeland since tne exchange of prisoners Tribune Wire Services UZUMLU Turkey — Three weeks after the Kurdish exodus from Iraq an international relief effort has sueceeded in feeding most of the refugees camping in the Turkish moun- t 41 4 Vk zi: ''' 6 1 11 :: ! :N F ''7'''1Lii: '4:: i' 1 i i 0 '': 1'33b : t': l'' 1l fi -- N- k ' jt '' Nir?' 'A :'" ' - t :' :: j ' ' '':ry S ' 4rit - lk 1)Lak ' ?e I vi i different political factions of the Iraqis or by guards trying to break up another riot Red Cross officials refused to disclose specific information on camp conditions citing the Geneva Con- vention on treatment of POWs tains say relief officials and vco:wo 'It 7?! t S - I r:st 1 C :48-1sr- ( 0010' ' 1 !"0 ' 7 ' (--- t f ' A - " I s - ''4 ji !Ze ' y :" e ''' (t:::00111 a' 4''F I A 1 4vit '" tr s :''' ' : ( 01y- - ' ":' '''- 'i1 '' ''' '41' ' i 2 '4'1 :1'344'7 1 ' f' 41‘ ' -" —4"'' ' 71 44"t4 OP' ' te- -- ' Kurds Get Food But Lack Water ir - — et- t" 404 4 - IrIP'' 4' arp000'søø"J :t ' C--1 The Jazz finished the regular one season with a record of 54-2- 8 game below last year's standard Phoenix finished at 55-2- 7 ?!!!!!'" 1 sI 1 defeat with humbling N4t Are Religious Americans Spiritually Shallow? A homecourt advantage 1 't '' Prose Olga Shalygittittasociated Mark Eaton stands his ground but Jazz give up It Yir''' "4 1 N AZ :— k4 :!'o'Ii'': -- '' 01C' & r 34 '''' allied-operate- - - r ' if - tl"'047 tl'iie ' ' ' 1 t'' ''') 'Acoor- 4 7 - '' 1' k t '" p 1 It t r0('''V' ""-t- 1141 ' - 't' A101401° fk I"O 1147 ' ) ‘) t ft - 1 0' t:Ibtodp d—11‘ I It '' ''T vv -- r‘ -t ) 0e-e-e6- Op ' RIYADH Saudi Arabia (AP) — The large-scal- e repatriation of Iraqi prisoners of war is expected to be completed soon now that the Moslem holy month of Ramadan is over For Western relief officials it's none too soon Tensions psychological stress and political differences among the Iraqis have reportedly run high in some d of the camps leading to at least one riot Western military and diplomatic sources said US military sources said 150 Iraqi POWs rioted recently in a Saudi camp to protest the temporary suspension of their repatriation The sources did not give the date of the riot and said they only had sketchy information on the incident ' A Saudi guard fired into the ground to break up the riot but some of the pellets ricocheted and hit a POW the sources said on condition of anonymity He was not seriously wounded The sources said there was another incident in which one POW was killed and two were wounded But they were unable to provide any other details or to say whether the casualties were caused by fighting among 4 ' '' ' '''4) I !? t- -- 1' I d - self-portra- it ' r ) :to- - 4 elderly women d 6 i 4 4 ' - i WAKAYAMA Japan (AP) — An hour by train south of Osaka one of the world's most prosperous cities is a countryside reminiscent of Japan before the economic miracle Hunch-backe- first-roun- 7:fti'i 'itr""4"'" rA': ii'"44t": t 125-10- 41 p" 't 'e I' - p Khf Rural Japan Still Lives In Squalor s win the NBA's Midwest Division on the final day of champii-Tishithe regular season The Jazz needing only to beat Golden State at Oakland Sunday afternoon to secure the title lost 6 badly to the Warriors and finished second in the Midwest by one game to the San Antonio Spurs More importantly the loss cost the Jazz a homecourt advantage in the first round of this week's NBA playoffs The Jazz who would have earned the No 2 seed in the Western Conference and a meeting against the Warriors with a victory Sunday instead must settle for the No 5 seed and a first-roun- d series with the fourth-seede- d Phoenix Suns beginning Thursday night in Phoenix The Suns who beat the Jazz in five games last year without the benefit of the homecourt advantage will have the home floor this time after clinching the No 4 seed Sunday with a victory over Portland and Utah's loss debt which inlines of credit cludes home-equit- y totaled $26 trillion at the end of consumer debt 1990 while amounted to about $800 billion Consumer debt includes credit cards and automobile loans Economist Samuel D Fuji Securities in Chicago said the repayment period for automobile and some household loans often is longer now than in the past although the net worth of US households had increased over the decade "In 1975 net worth was 24 times the rate of income By 1989 it had jumped up to nearly 45 times the rate of income" he said Other Federal Reserve statistics show consumer debt declined for three straight months through February as the recession deepened the longest stretch in four years But Kahan contends "once con-Se- e A-- 2 Column 1 e Home-mortgag- -- '''' d 1 ‘ Among Iraqi POWs t For the second year hi a row the Utah Jazz have lost their chance to $13 trillion at the end of 1980 to just under $34 trillion at the end of 1990 It was conducted by Glenn B Canner and Charles A Luckett and published in the April issue of the Federal Reserve Bulletin Salt Lake City Utah lg h 1' ' I WASHINGTON (AP) — Eighty- five percent of all American house-owe- d 1Tlds money at some time last year — on mortgages and automobiles credit cards and department store wares US household debt nearly tripled in the last decade according to a Federal Reserve study But analysts say there's no need for alarm : I In Midwest Title Quest 1 - ino n )iiiii1 I ' '' 1 i 4 1 -- 4- ' Associated the eight-mont- UN embargo h against Iraq the gulf war the Kurdish insurrection and Iraqi reprisals and the flight of nearly the entire population for the Turkish border Also Sunday Turkish troops shot and killed an Iraqi Kurdish refugee and wounded five others Sunday g while trying to control a mob at a point the Anatolia news agency reported The deputy governor of the Hakkari province Necdet Ozeroglu said the riot broke out at a camp near the border township of Cukurca one of several sprawling refugee settlements along Turkey's border with c stone-throwin- 4 - safe-have- Press General is reunited with wife Brenda and three children — Cindy Jessica and Christian — after 8 months apart Iraq Report on Sex Shakes Presbyterian Church Washington Post Service A national committee of Presby- terians has shaken the church of John Calvin to its core by recom- mending the denomination rid itself of sexual taboos and view sexual relations as a gift to be enjoyed by everyone including single men and women gays and lesbians and responsible adolescents The report on human sexuality the first of several expected by major Protestant denominations within the next year will be voted on by the full assembly of The Presbyterian Church (USA) in June Six of 17 committee members dissented and produced a minority report for the assembly that will meet in God-give- i n The majority report attacks the sexual attitudes of the church and this country as patriarchal homophobic and biased toward heterosexuality It questions the importance Americans place on marriage affirms masturbation and petting among teenagers and says that maturity not marriage should determine when teens engage in intercourse It says the church should endorse new family structures including same-se- x couples with adopted children Homosexuals should be able to be ordained into the ministry the report says and gay and lesbian couples should enjoy the same rights as heterosexual couples The report has become a Presby i Published in terian February it has sold 20000 copies at $5 each and requests continue at the rate of about 1000 a week "I've never seen anything like it" said Marj Carpenter longtime public information director at debest-sell- nominational offices in Louisville "Middle-clas- s America hadI a heart attack" said committee chair John J Carey "At least we've gotten their attention" Larry Rasmussen professor of Christian ethics at Union Theological Seminary in New York said the report is the first public sign of a "genera reappraisal of Christian sexuality" under way among sev- ) i ) eral Protestant organizations "These reports are going to look very different from traditional reports" he said - 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