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'' 1 1 : I i I - erillilkt 67 07 VOLUME 244 NUMBER 67 TODAY'S READERSHIP: 340200 - -- t CS' By Peter Aleshire it'NF 20 chanting among the rocks white-face- d non-India- vision-questin- g Reports Stir Nicotine Patch Probe " ' :1 - ' v - patches in the United States are American Cyanamid Ltd of Summit NJ and Marion Merrell Dow Inc of Kansas City Ciba-Geig- y Mo The AP reported an FDA representative as saying the agency is taking the reports of heart attacks "very seriously" Alternatives to patches are classes and acupuncture behav- ior-modification - : i07:: "' -- - J:":o4:4--:- - - - - ji z ' Robert James is a Navajo "road man" or priest for the Native American Church which borrows from Christianity fr ‘4- 7:- 1'1"::::----:"---"- ' - i:'"4'fii4: - 1 '' t: ' 'i - ' '''' tr 1 7 - f r ? 4r-- ' k --- ' B-- 2 41 - - "- - 4 - i k 4 Utah Free to Ship Its Waste as IJItal The Supreme Court decision upholds part of the law that allows Utah and other rastates to send dioactive waste to lIanford Wash Utah is a member of the Northwest Compact an agreement among seven Western states to send radioactive waste to Hanford Utah Washington Alaska Hawaii Idaho Montana and Oregon are all members of the compact "We are pleased with the Supreme Court decision" said Ken Alkema director of the Utah Department of low-lev- low-lev- Environmental Quality "INe as a compact can say that other states cannot send their waste to Wash- ington" Regional compacts can set rates and refuse waste from other states 1941 ruling its new decision made it clear that officials are now forbidden by the Constitution to charge a fee when they think it is "necessary to provide security for parade participants from angry crowds opposing their mes- sage" Justice Harry Blackmun writ- ing for the majority declared: "Speech cannot be financially 8 See A-- 2 Column 1 1 k I : ' $207 Million Toxic Accord a Record - 4 1 I i I - 1 LOS ANGELES I 1 I " 4 i A - — j ' ' '1 I '- - ' - ' 4 southeast of downtown Houston TIMES — Chemical decompanies and a veloper have agreed to buy up an entire neighborhood in Houston and pay for the college educations of 700 children who live there in what is believed to be the largest settlement of lawsuits over a dump in US history Children with severe illnesses such as leukemia and birth defects will receive millions of dollars each it was reported Friday In all the developer the chemical concerns and their insurers will pay $2075 million in damages to 1700 parents and children in addition to the cost of buying the homes next to a dump known as the Brio forSuperfund site The mer dump is located 20 miles real-estat- e I I "4 ' - II ' ' WASHINGTON : : 1 r r aste e - Jo i tt ri i toxic-wast- Ik 1 f 58-acr- - It 1 4 s" The Associate WELVBERGER GOES TO COURT et Press Iran-Contr- a A-- 4 NEWARK NJ — A New Jersey couple were charged Friday with kidnapping and extortion in connection with the disappearance of Exxon International President Sidney Reso seven weeks ago officials said In a statement the US attorney's office in Newark said Arthur and Irene Seale of Washington NJ were charged with kidnapping and extortion but gave no further details Reso 57 still is missing authorities said Exxon said in a statement that it was aware of the arrests and was cooperating with authorities The couple were arraigned in Newark late Friday but the exact role they were alleged to have played in Reso's disappearance was not immediately known Reso who vanished April 29 from the driveway of his home is the head of Exxon's largest division its giant overseas operations in Morris Township NJ His car was found with the engine still running and a door left open The arrests came just days after Reso's wife Patricia made a dramatic plea for his return saying she prayed for his safety every - art-journ- al 44 at tor 4i During his year in office Ye Itsin has become the hero of the newly emerging entrepreneurial class which has flourished thanks to his relaxed restrictions on private and public commercial activities But he also has become a 4 target of criticism from those struggling to make ends meet under his market reforms Yeltsin still is the most popular politician in Russia although his rating has slipped in recent - - day A group calling itself Rainbow Warriors has claimed it kidnapped Reso but according to officials it produced no evidence that he was in their custody The Scales each 45 years old face life in prison and fines of $1 million if convicted the statement said months Meanwhile in Ottawa Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mul- Arthur Seale is led into court in the kidnapping of Sidney Reso Political priorities of the nation have shifted If the presidential election were held today most Americans would vote for the young Elvis roney promised the Russian leader that Canada will provide further financial aid to the beleaguered former Soviet republic even though Russia already has rf Where to Find: Comics C-- 6 Ann Landers C-- 7 CrosswordJumble Dal Births D-- 3 Editorials Business B-- For the Record Classified Ads D4 LocalRegional A-1- 0 e MOSCOW Like Mikhail Gorbachev Boris Yeltsin is finding that being the toast of the West doesn't necessarily translate into more popularity at home Some ordinary Russians suffering from soaring prices and falling living standards were unimpressed with Yeltsin's successes in a visit to the United States and Canada "He's an old bureaucrat and I don't trust him It's the same old people and just a slightly different regime" said Tamara Saltiedikova 62 a retired '4 Former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger arrives at US District Court in Washington scandal He pleaded innocent to charges of lying to Friday for arraignment in Bush played a passive role in the affair Story: President indictment The says Congress 2 Charged in Exxon Exec's Disappearance But Victim 57 Still Has Not Been Located e Movies A-- 6 Obituaries D-- 2 Public Forum 4-1- 1 The $2075 million payout is the sum of the agreement reached Thursday just as a lawsuit consolidating most of the claims was about to go to trial and previous settlements with companies involved in the dispute The insurer for Farm & Home Savings Association the Missouri thrift that developed the subdivision agreed to buy out the mortgages of 212 families still living near the waste dump who were part of the lawsuit TRIBUNE WIRE SERVICES ( - 06 REUTER NEWS SERVICE tection Agency's Superfund program which was created by Congress to clean up the nation's worst toxic sites Like Gorbachev Yeltsin illore Popular in the West No Sign of POWs - ' The settlement ends one of the most contentious disputes in the history of the Environmental Pro- toxic-w- t Nothing Serious Mostly sunny weather for the weekend throughout Utah Highs in the north in the upper 80s and in the south reaching 97 Details - 1 -- - Forecast i s k ts el state-incom- e 5-- - : 4 i : - ?: cl ' 4 I Mont) Koessel - in a partial victory Voting for New York the justices said exceeded its power Congress when it required states without disposal sites to become the unwanted owners in 1996 of radioactive waste Most of the waste is from private commercial sources In other rulings Friday the Supreme Court said an appeals court erred when it overturned the convictions of reputed mobsters ruled on court jurisdiction for suits over blood tainted with the AIDS virus rendered a decitax and adsion on dressed the issue of permits for community parades and rallies In a significant blow to local governments' authority the court said cities and counties may not force organizers of controversial marches and demonstrations to pay the added costs of providing police to protect them The courts ruling on the costs of protecting demonstrators against hecklers put in doubt a 1941 constitutional ruling that permitted local governments to assess marchers for the greater public expense of policing such an event Although the majority did not say that it was casting aside the low-lev- - 1 - L - - radioactive their bor- l ders - '"- - '''''' - r 41Y - low-leve- waste generated within - 6-- 3 N ' 3"- 4 1 - for the "rf rc 44- ft"e4- e that way Companies marketing the TRIBUNE WIRE SERVICES t WASHINGTON — Declaring that the federal government "may not conscript state governments as its agents" the Supreme Court on Friday held unconstitutional a central portion of a law aimed at making states take responsibility - Column" A-- 7 1:: k ''' lower-dosag- - - ' - THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE silver-dollar-siz- h t 1 ''' 4' 4 By Dawn House The Food and Drug Administration is investigating reports that people suffer heart attacks when they smoke while wearing nicotine patches Labels on the patches which are designed to help people kick the smoking habit include cautions against smoking while wearing them The FDA began investigating its records after officials at Sturdy Memorial Hospital near Boston reported that since April five of their patients had suffered heart attacks according to The Associated Press Assaad Maalouf of the Cardiology Department at the University of Utah said all smokers are at risk of naving heart attacks and people who smoke and use the patches are no exceptions "It's conceivable that if you take a big dose of nicotine by wearing the patch and smoking you increase risks" said Dr Maalouf "But you would have to have underlying heart problems to bring on a heart attack" Nancy Fahrenback of the Heart Institute of Utah in Salt Lake City said patches secrete nicotine into the body for 24 hours through the skin while an alternative to the patch — nicotine gum — releases the drug only when patients chew it "It's pretty difficult to smoke and chew gum at the same time so there's less risk if a patient has a relapse and smokes" she said "We only give patches to patients who are totally committed to kicking their addiction" The patches have rung up more than $400 million in sales since being introduced to the market last December Each patch costs only a few dollars but they are bought in large quantities so that patients can be weaned off nicotine by using ine creasingly patches Dr Maalouf said he knows of no patients in Utah who have suffered heart attacks after using the patches A spokesman for the companies that market the patches said the firms have not conducted studies on the effects of smoking while wearing the patches because their products are not meant to be used - A n ' t ' See 12 - — Court Backs States In Waste Disposal near-mirac- le power-compan- y q THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SALT LAKE IITY ITAH k4111 t ' speaks from burning bushes On the other hand it does seem to require at for American Indians to least a receive protection for their sacred sites in American courtrooms Decades of litigation have resulted in almost complete defeat for tribal nations seeking protection for sacred sites on land Congress passed the Native American Protection Act in 1978 in an attempt to redress a century of suppression and disregard for Native American religions But in two subsequent landmark decisions the US Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment provides little protection for sacred sites or religious practices that the rest of society finds objectionable Those decisions have ensured repeated defeats for tribal lawyers trying to protect sacred sites Recent cases have included an Apache sacred peak defiled by a telescope an ancient prayer wheel being turned into a tourist attraction in Wyoming the use of the drug peyote by the Native American Church and a host through the sand misting through the air administrative-laThe judge from New York sat silently beside the sacred waterfall in northern Idaho under the watchful eyes of representatives lawyers and tribal elders Presumably he also was watched over by Nopika the god of the Kootenai people The Kootenai had brought this judge to the falls in an effort to persuade him to order hydroelectric companies not to shut off the flow of water in a remorseless quest for cheap electricity The Kootenai hold the falls sacred as a place where seekers of harmony can find peace and wisdom and a spirit guide A century ago Nopika warned the tribe's visionaries that the falls would one day be threatened When the threat materialized in the form of turbines and concrete tribal elders received new visions directing them to bring the judge to the falls Evidently it worked He ruled in the Kootenai's favor Pat Lefthand member of the Tribal Council medicine man and reluctant lobbyist says Nopika did it i :: fl992 - d murmuring 11 I 1!442 - "Nopika convinced the judge right then and there how he should vote" said Lefthand if you don't beThat may seem lieve in a creator who marshals sea gulls and Kootenai Falls sang its ancient sacred song I SATURDAY After Losing in Court American Indians Need Miracle to Preserve Their Religion SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNE 1 I Sports Stargazer Stocks C-- 7 D-- Religion Al TV 6-- 1 Scoreboard CAI Utah Dateline Schedule 6-- 6 C-- 7 D-- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PECHORA Russia — Russian and American investigators who visited a Stalin-erlabor camp in northern Russia said Friday they found no signs that American prisoners of war were being held there But William Davnie of the a US Embassy in Moscow said at a news conference that "work will continue and our report will be made public only after everything See A-- 2 Column 2 fallen behind on payments for grain purchased under a $2 billion credit line extended in February Mulroney pledged to press other industrial nations to do the same Mulroney introducing the Russian leader to Parliament called Yeltsin "a historic symbol of courage and purpose so long as free men and women sit in El See A-- 2 Column 1 4641iiimaCatoWmMtbWAWiwA BniilfttbAf444C&S C-- 1 Found in Camp News Quiz Utah Index a The spotlight is shining on a former defense chief and the Oval Office Name the special prosecutor in the case Answer in A-- 4 story 725956: Salt Lake County 1990 Census population 263590: Utah County 1990 population 187911: Davis County 1990 population Iran-Contr- |
