| Show --- -- : t 1 9 t rr"71k ) 237-:-01- MONDAY " tIN rgui-k: t r 77t 7-77-11- February A i L r Al0 192 17 - tr!1tZalt fataZritrant "Finj T)k '440'e "mtg '54 14 11 I W fi Li I cl Legure rnarazment Of the Utah (7er to the trite It's tut protahly the an 1mperfe7t best one Ever since oil ro:aties began to produce significant re enues for the fund in the late Utah has strug7led with its role as A series of lawsuits and scandals plagued the fund: the latest brike m November when a legislative audit revea:ed conflicts of interest fraud and incmpetence particularly within Nava tusinesses that received grants of dollars have teen viiated or stleri Over decades the :f:ate has tinkered with the structure cf thP funds administration trying to meet its duty as trustee while allowing San Juan county's Navawill be spent jos to say how the Those two goals have proven contradictory and attempts to talance them have failed In the wake of the latest au'dit a bill is moving through the Legislature that would impose tight ccintrcis on how the fund is managed This shou:d restore the integrity of the fund eliminate corription and make the state a trustee in fact as well as name but it will do so at a high price The Legislatie Fiscal Analyst has estimated that administrative costs will devour about half of the funds annual income A board of state officials and a professional administrator will guide the funds operations and the Navajos will be reduced to an advisory role through a committee In light of the recent audit Utah I tree rri:-ne- - ' Law School and had extensive experience in government and a private law practice Ifs possible of course that the prin- cipal Mr Shea approached for one reason or another didn't want the benefit of this lawyers services because they didn't suit the schools curricular needs Perhaps there were doubts about his ability to communicate with high school students Or maybe the principal simply didn't realize that the state with what is called "eminence certification" permits people with special skills to teach — for pay — up to two classes a day without a regular teaching certificate A regular certificate by the way requires nearly a year's worth of teacher education courses and practice teaching within a bachelor's program focusing on subjects to be taught When obtained after college graduation the license may take a year or so to complete As of last fall there also was another way for professionals to qualify for public school teaching without having to re I gerter's administration is negrtiating ith the tribal government in Windryw Rock in an attempt to see that the interests of San Juan County's Navajos are protected if control of the fund is transferred The emerging arrangement is problematic but at least it offers an alternative to the failed policies of the past 30 years Another Viewpoint From The Los Angeles Times 000111100010111mnieN I The UN Security Council is expected in a few days to accept Secretary-Genera- l plan to send as Boutros Boutros-Ghali13000 as peacekeeping troops to many Croatia where bloody internecine strife over the last seven months has taken as many as 10000 lives most of them civilian The dispatch of the multinational force is strongly supported by roost European countries and nas been recommended by S - 1 special UN envoy Cyrus Vance who in early January succeeded in negotiating a between Croats and Serbs shaky cease-fir- e in the republic that declared its independence from Yugoslavia last June It will not be an operation run on the cheap cost for supporting a UN size the of anticipated is estimated at force WO million The A one-yea- r longstanding formula apportions about half the expense of peacekeeping operations among the five permanent memberS of the council with the US share about 30 percent Is it worth it? Consider the alternatives to trying to arrest the infection from this deep It:alkan wounit continued ethnic conflict where turn to college Thanks to the Utah Legislature they can apply for alternative certification which allows them to with provisional credenteach tials After two years of successful supervised teaching they are eligible for full-tim- e full certification As many as 180 people have inquired about the program so far and a handful of them now are teaching with a provisional license according to Roger Mouritsen the state school offices certification coordinator There is a glitch Someone who starts out as a teacher with certificate in hand and then pursues another career cannot obtain "eminence" or "alternative" licensing No matter their professional expertise or past teaching experience they must obtain additional college credits before resuming teaching The purpose of alternative forms of certification is to give students the benefit of the best teachers available by recruiting successful professionals — people like Pat Shea a walking demonstration of the value of mastering certain subjects Making such alternatives more widely available has become one of the White House's priorities for public education reform For now while budgets for education salaries are limited removing unnecessary certification barriers with- out recklessly reducing safeguards against poor teaching may be one of the most affordable quickest ways for Utah's school system to improve teaching noncombatant are the chief victims: the prospect of thousands of refugees fleeing to neighboring states: the further destruction of historic sites and of Croatia's economy a growing temptation for outsiders to intervene in less than benign ways Yes it's very clearly worth it It will not though be a operation Experience elsewhere has made clear that the blue helmets of the United Nations do not assure immunity from attack Milan Babic leader of the Serb enclave of Krajina in Croatia and an opponent of UN intervention is already warning of "large casualties- when foreign troops arrive Franjo Tudjman Croatia's president ineicates he's ready to accept the UN force though with reservations What will have to be anticipated is that this peacekeeping mission could in fact go on for some time as other supposedly short-terUN interventions have since enmity berealistically the centuries-oltween Croats and Serbs is unlikely soon to abate About 30 nations — not including the United States or most major European countries — have nonetheless offered to contribute forces A risk to these forces exists But the effort is necessary and worthwhile for in the end the human costs and the threat to regional stability of letting the situation fester would far outweigh any of the costs associated with trying to control the bloodshed risk-fre- d ! 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' 4 i "'it 1 1 16t4 -4 a Iii ri11 ' ''It' 'Avg-- 1 4 El Columnist Finds Solace In Salt Lake City wvsse-re- seaeieE — On CITY the way into SALT LAKE town from the airport I descovered that is aIso my taxi driver one Mike Ma the president of the Omni Mortgage Si Investment Company of Salt Lake City So the mortgage bankl:ng business here is terrible right? Wrong Moghimfs cornpany like the rest of the economy in Utah is doing very nicely thank you Mozhimi like his counterparts elsewhere is enjoying the boom in refinancing mortgages induced by low- interest rYes Necessary Early UN Move to Croatia uPPCBP 1s rftt rrl I tr ' '''wk P412 ' it' r Removing Teaelilno- Barriers announcing his candidacy for governor the other day Pat Shea talked a lot about education He specifically chided Utah's public school system for erecting barriers to citizen participation in the schools His offer to teach constitutional law at a Salt Lake City high school was rejected he said because he lacked a teaching certificate It does seem ridiculous for a public school to turn down an experienced professional's offer to donate expertise to the schools After all here is a Harvard Law School graduate who taught constitutional law at the University of Utah 1) 0 '4 54S ! t ' tt 14 1 " ! really hss no choice but to create this kind of mechanism to make sure the as trustee state L:'3 3 exaersolution this Unfortunately hates the dilemma at the heart of the l'Cavajo trust: It puts white people from Salt Lake City in charge of Navajo fund The wav to eliminate that dilemma is rerrive Utah as trustee a job that only Congress can perform Utah's Legislature probably 1011 ask Congress to turn the Utah Navajo Trust Fund over to the Navajo tribal g3vernment in Wind3w- Rock Ariz some Utah Nsvajos say that's no solution either since the tinbal government ha-- sho'A-- little ccncerri for the “fare of its people in Utah San Juan County Commissioner Mark Maryboy hirriself a Navajo has said the Utah Na' aos rnav have to secede from the tribe to protect their interests He also says that the Bureau of Indian Affairs might make a better trustee than the tribal go ern:Tient Those are questions for the tribal members to decide but if a majority of San Juan Count-i- s tribal leadtrs asks the state to support them in a decon it should In the meantime Gov Norm Ban- Ott CI° It S - - In !A t I s40 t 1 t i k Emerging Navajo Fund Refonn Makes Sense for State Indians laving cround- t' ' L The w ork to turn " rh7-1(t--' t Why then is he moonlighting by driving a taxi? Just to keep busy in the evenings he says As he completes his discourse on the healthy state of economic affairs here Moghimi hands a nosy reporter a list of the 100 biggest employers in the Salt Lake City area It's refreshing in the midst of recession and a downbeat mood elsewhere to find a thriving community with plenty of confidence in itself and in the future Once again one is reminded that the United States over its huge geographical sweep is not a single economy but a group of regional economies at different stages of the business cycle Utah recorded the highest composite growth rate of any state in the Union in 1991 according to the First Security of Salt Lake City This is an index Corp that covers personal income new jobs and building permits Utah western headquarters for a growing number of communications and transportation giants joins the Pacific Northwest as part of a truly booming segment of the overall American economy Salt Lake City enjoys a low crime rate high literacy and benefits from a state government surplus that was $39 million in fiscal 1991 the fourth consecutive black-inrecord Local people brag that single-famil- y k 74 :::- ee1-- owl - it V kot 1 hub also gives Sat Lake unusual access for a city of its size to the rest cf the country To be sure there is also a downside and that is the prospect of further slipinpage in defense and defense-relatedustries Last year the huge Hill Air Force Ease as well as defense contractors incluning Hercules Unisys Litton National Semiconductor and Volvo all laid off workers If Congress accelerates cuts in defense prograrns beyond those already budgeted it will have a senous impact here Already the First Security Bank is forecastto 55 ing a rise in unemployment for percent And although others credit the tnfluence of the Mormon aurch for helping to produce a highly skilled and literate labor force that attracts business Fortune magazine in a recent story mentioned this as a potential negative factor: "The Mormon Church influence is a bit much for the secular community: Nonetheless Fortune which once ranked Salt Lake City as No 1 among the ten "best cities for value" in the United States still places Salt Lake City No 6 This rating combines access to quality labor with a attitude Politically Utah is solidly republican Eut my conversations with several business leaders uncovered a growing dissatisfaction with President Bushs inability to get the national economy going and his failure to control the massive federal def- - r t11P-Tt'l L' 1 tl Ilobart Bowen d n- VI 1 to keep its educational system intact after suffering a crashing blow from collapsing Oil prices in 1986 Utah in contrast to other states in the affected -- oil patch" raised taxes "We Iike to think of ourselves as the Japan of the West" First Security's senior vice president and economist Kelly K Matthews said in an interview We have strong ties like they do to family community and to jobs" A key element supporting the economy here is rapid population growth including immigration from other sections of the country that creates a seemingly inexhaustible supply of lator Yet the unemployment rate at the end of 1991 was only 52 percent about two full points below the national average The secret of the success according to Matthews is that wages are about 15 percent below the national average and 20 percent to 25 percent below wages on the of living here is West Coast But the also lower so real wages compare favorably with those in the big cities elsewhere Two core industries in Utah long have been defense and tourism — mostly for skiing But in recent years the assured or trainable lasupply of bor has attracted some corporate giants in the communications and financial industries such as American Express Company and WordPerfect which have their headquarters for the entire Western region in Salt Lake City A Delta Airlines highly-traine- 12 pro-busine- ss icit Like other states in the west Utah displays little sympathy for the rising crescendo of calls to Buy American or for d the hysteria gaining force trade missince the president's sion to Tokyo Says banker Matthews: "The one thing that could tip us into a depression would be to go on a (higher) Japan-bashin- g ill-fat- tariff binge" Life On New Hampshire Campaign Trail UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE Nit -- MANCHESTER NIL — The temperature even with the bright sunshine was 8 degrees above zero As we trudged down houses in a street of modest single-famil- y Ward Seven my traveling companion Alison Fong a native Californian remarked objectively "I think my ears are about to fall off" '"' '' : t-- wI ray' is r 'i'1 i g Mon-dale- 's This year's campaigns all have young volunteers although none to match the size and intensity of the fabled Eugene McCarthy legions of 1963 The candidate still roams the margins of the campaign and Vietnam is back too thanks to Gov Bill Clinton's disputed draft record IV 11C'-'7- 4 t Alison a 1991 graduate of the University of California at Irvine is a volunteer in the presidential campaign of Sen Bob Kerrey Her partner in the voter canvass was David Ginsberg 27 erstwhile Seattle fishing company accountant who heard Kerrey announce for the presidency researched his record in the public library and decided to chuck it all and come east to work for him I went along because a foot canvass the equivalent of infantry duty in Moscow during the Napoleonic wars was my last hope of penetrating the hearts and minds of the notoriously professionally enigmatic Granite State voters Thirty percent of them have yet to make up their minds who they're going to vote for six days before the primary Canvassers dream of being invited into the warm and of being offered coffee It hardly ever happens but knocking on doors is worthwhile In 1980 tenements in Manchester disclosed voter wrath against Sen Edward Kennedy in his campaign against Jimmy Carter In 194 a morning tour of Naahua suburbs revea:ed the lethal lukewarmness in Walter suprort '' At first she didn't want to let us in she had just washed her hair and feared the cold air But finally Ann Poullos 63 and full of chat opened her front door "Four for a Cuomo write-i- here- - she announced gaily He was always our first choice and we heard him again last night from Harvard and we decided" She spotted David's Kerrey fliers and said kindly "We like Kerrey too In December after Cuomo backed out we were for him We had thought about Clinton but changed our minds You want to hear the truth "It wasn't the running around" she explained "You hear that all the time It was his wife: She came on too strong talk- ing about 'when we get to the White House' We had enough of Nancy Rea- - c - ' IMary McGrory n I Alison took the houses with even numbers: David the odd I went with whoever had the sunny side of the street They had cards with names of people who voted Democratic last time and fliers for the notat-homAlison and I didn't see a human being until we came upon firefighter Tom Reno getting into his car to go to work He told Alison to zip up her jacket and ire that he'll be with Bush again despite the economy because he doesn't think Patrick Buchanan "has the horses to pull it off" I switched to David As we trudged along he said that as usual his fingers had gone numb and he couldn't write I said my face had frozen and I could not get my stiff upper lip around the names of the two major parties in the United States A corner variety store miraculously appeared like a castle out of the mist We found coffee hot chocolate and voters The storekeeper Roy Donahue is for Bush despite the rack and ruin in New Hampshire because "I am not angry enough to take a step toward someone I don't know" Bill Finn 42 a special education teacher came in to choose a video for his sick daughter He is underirled between Kerrey and Sen Tom Harkin He will spend the weekend researching their records on human services Reluctantly we went back into the cold We were rewarded e d 4 - gan" Although she is herself a Greek from Massachusetts Ann Poulios never considered Paul Tsongas "A closet Republican" she called him She had offered us coffee but we had miles to go She sent us off with a typical New Hampshire farewell "It's CUOM3 now By Tuesday knows?" As we walked down the front steps a Clinton van drew up In the back Kevin Scott 23 a Clinton volunteer was pre- paring to plant a Clinton yard sign in the Poulios' lawn "The ground is like cement" he explained "lieu pound the pipes in with a sledgehammer then drive in the stakes" He was doing just that when Ann Poulios appeared at the door "I have written permission for this" he called out to her "Unh-uhshe said "I have a piece of paper in the van honest to God" he pleaded "Not here doll" she said and crestfallen he pulled up the stakes This is New Hampshire getting ready to make a president " I |
