| Show a - l 17 1 I 'C : ' i - ::: '''''''''" ' t '" '" "7 i 11S41 a)n vv I J- 4 1 tl tb tz----- 61 A ar And in interviews many poll respondents who opposed a government ban on abortions said they favored Utah's law restricting abortion access The law passed in 1991 would restrict abortions to cases of rape incest or when the mother's health is threatened The law is not being enforced pending a decision from the US Supreme Court on a related case out of Pennsylvania About 31 percent of respondents in the most recent survey conducted in the first week of June by Valley Research said they oppose abortions and supported laws to make them illegal Two of every five respondents said they would vote for a candidate who agreed with them on everything except abortion More than a third of those surveyed said they would vote against a candidate who held an opposing view on the issue That number is higher than the national average of 20 percent to 25 percent according to Jim Burns president of Tehila Associates a market research firm with clients across the country Ray Blackham a retired soil conservationist from Sal Ma describes himself as "very very strongly against abortion" But he plans to vote for independent presidential candidate Ross Perot — who supports abortion rights "1 take into account all of a candidate's Column 1 Americans Favor Legal Abortions i ----- J w - V' I " 'NS" -- ''''--- d A- ':14C6: 1' 292 Or Here's a demographic breakdown of the poll Column 2 I clownish drunk" The year: 1864 The nominee in question: Abraham Lincoln The wife: Mary Todd Lincoln The vice presidential candidate: Andrew Johnson And for those who bemoan today's presidential campaigns featuring bimboistic low jinks character crevasses and generally dirty pool let them take some solace from the White House race of 1928 This is known among cognoscenti of mud-bapolitics as "the vilest PRESS Politics have never been dirtier? Well ladies and gentlemen where have you been? Here are some sound bites — bites with that claimed pointy poisonous fangs the presidential candidate was: An ape buffoon fiend lunatic drunkard perjurer robber coward traitor ignoramus and ghoul And murderer His wife was possibly an enemy spy His running mate was -- an insolent ' 4 i Unfortunately mud balls in presidential elections are as American as a cream pie in the face Or preferably in the back "Dirty politics have always been with us says Gary Copeland a professor in telecommunications at the University of a book on Alabama who has the subject "Things aren't any dirtier today They've just taken on new forms By way of proof here is a brief quiz on presidential mudslinging and assorted I ll a See Male:: Column A-- 5 1 234 A N- 278 - Male - 42 I 18-3- 261 I 36-55- L ----1 55 357 Oppose elective abortions but government should not prohibit them -13- 42 1332 36-55- L - '1 - : - ----- - --- ' ' - '"c ''4- 4 ':iiiiy-:'- ei ' - - 4 4- :: r t ' c ' - ' Je f - xsk n'' ) i t' '4'44' V - -- ip 46:7 t 11 ' : 44'-- ' ? zl ' :e- - : - : :' ''n: ' ' ' - "- ' - ork - - Ayel"- '- 7- '' :1 :v -' i:- - - - - 1 !''-''' -- it '4 V li ' ‘S ''t - ' t - 1 :i - Y - It' - " t t '''''-' ' - '':" i - :t-J- c 0 ''' '4 L'ta ""- - ' :--' -- ' 't''''' :: ' t 4: ' - ' ' :'7:' '' ''' ' '3''-- - — - -- N ' C' A ' ' ' 4 0' - r ‘ - -L'i— A '" !' ek rri ' it— - - ':- A -- --- - - - -' 71 ! :- 1-- The Avwtiated Prt African police open fire on throng of protesters who were demonstrating against a visit by President FW de Klerk S Police ire On s Mbb A? 1 L'74 1-lcan -- 1 35-5- 337 1265 I Vo 55 Refused 6 0 36-55- n 55E-- 3 46 a 1 oh By Religion BOIPATONG FW de Klerk came to this grieving township Saturday he said to offer condolences for the massacre that had left at least 39 people dead last week But he was chased away by 2000 furious residents before he ever got out of the car The visit led to four more deaths Just minutes after de Klerk's vehicle sped away at least one person was killed and more than a dozen wounded when police opened fire on the throng South Africa — President blood-soake- d e Column 3 A-- 2 Support laws prohibiting elective abortions 4821 Active LDS! 1102 1154 Inactive LOSE Other' ReligionEl 9 13 Oppose elective abortions but government should not prohibit them Active LOSE I 326 P :r 7-1 42-76- Inactive LDS Other' I 294'c DM No Religion' ii rp ! Inactive LDS' 43-6- Other' '''47 : : 0 INSIDE : Zht5a1tfakeZtibunt 4 4N Ils I t 11 I ' r1 - — -- "4 - 4 7t7')P ' V -s- 4 4 o'4 4 ii T 465i Unsure I Refused ISSni 86 Inactive LDSO 31 mull 29 No Religion0 47 Politics By Active --- - 463! I 1143 I 25300 Oppose elective abortions but government should not prohibit them I Republican! Democrat' Other 299°4 31 9cYo 7 37700 Support elective abortions 1183 Republican I Democrat' Other' :c-1 e I ' L 'llri-4- -- 1302 40040vMotorcyclists cattle and collectors are threatening 20 species of Utah plants such as the Si ler pincushion cactus (above) These delicate desert flowers occupy pockets of the state in numbers so small they are on the verge of extinction Federal law protects the plants But that doesn't stop people from digging up Wright fishhook cactuses or crash ' )'1-4- 1 ifs j I A r- ' "44' 4 !1?:41t::7 By Bob 055 Woodward and John Mintz POST Would you vote for a candidate who agreed 10- with you on all other issues but took a position opposite yours on abortion? n3 - 204 WASHINGTON — Ross Perot could no longer contain his anger After months of President dickering with then-VicGeorge Bush over a plan Perot thought would provide information about U S soldiers still missing from the Vietnam War he concluded that Bush had let him down "This world is full of lions and tigers and rabbits" Perot later said he told Bush "And you're a rabbit" As Perot has recounted it to others the 1986 conversation marked the end of his hope that Bush would assist aggressively Perot's crusade to find evidence of Americans missing in action being held in Southeast Asia It also marked the begin e ------- Yes 422 No 375 Breakdown by Politics Yes By Leslie Dreyfous '462 THE ASSOCIATED 445 Other1 kFaftgl q Republican' Democrat I Other! 40 1291 Unsure I Refused I165 i132 264 Source Vakey Research 600 Interwews ot registered voters statemde 1- 4 margin ot error Cooynohl 1 992 The Sett Lake Tribune Graohc 0 Related Story —Page A-- 3 d d lyn Abortion rally turns ugly PRESS Alicia NEW YORK — Fanning grew up without a father So did her sometime boyfriend Ronald who fathered six children before he was out of his teens Now there is a seventh child Ronald Jr And like both his parents he is growing up without a father around the house Happy Father's Day Ronald 21 won't spend the day with Ronald Jr or with Alicia They've just moved to Florida: she dichft want her son growing up at Red Hook year-olone more fatherless kid in a tough BrookSixteen-year-ol- No bearclaw-poppie- s Last week The Salt Lake Tribune examined Utah's endangered animals Today in the last of two parts appearThe Tribune looks ing on Page at the states endangered plants — where they are and what threatens each A-1- project Not that they saw much of Ronald when they lived there Red Hook wasn't his turf he had other things to do t 8-- Jumble C-- Classified Ads C-- Local News B Obituaries 8-- Al 1 News of Weird Public Forum 84 For The Record Quotes of Note Hall Column F1 Scoreboard Headliners Ao2 Star Gazer Bo 1 WEATHER 3 Skies fair to partly cloudy throughout Utah Highs in lower 90s in the north 100 or higher in south Page B-- 2 ning of a new Perot effort: find evidence that would demonstrate Bush was what Perot believed him to be — weak indecisive and perhaps even corrupt In the next year Perot launched what would become a series of investigations ongoing until recent months in pursuit of information that might uncover improper conduct by Bush: In 1987 Perot and Tom Luce his longtime attorney and current presidential-campaign chairman paid $10000 to a Washington law firm to look into a $48 million tax deduction obtained by Pennzoil a company chaired by J Hugh Liedtke Bushs Texas oil partner in the 1950s The results of their efforts to un SPORTS The Jazz will choose a player in Wednesdays NBA draft but don't ex- pect him to make the team Page D-- I LOCAL '80s Bonneville PaBorn in the go-gcific Corp made millionaires of its directors and believers of its investors The Tribune gives an overview of how the good times started to go sour Page I o B-- THE ARTS The Utah Arts Festival shakes off the dust while Sundance shows off its new outdoor stage Page E-- 1 COMMENTARY Congress can either fork out a few billion now for Russia or possibly pay trillions for more weapons later Page 2 See A-- 4 Column 6 Baby Like Mom Faces Fatherless Father's Day 348 I dwarf High Tech Births Editorials 1 fences and trampling ing through Fo7 Earthworks Peeved Perot Investigated Bush's Public Private Conduct THE WASHINGTON Republican El 55 Democrat Other E:" 66cyo l'Z12122174?"'-'177- Ann Landers Crossword 444 A Unsure I Refused Republican I Democrat' Other' - 1 : 0--fc- No Religionl Unsure! Refused Elt (44-- - L''''441041iill U II 9 ":: il - Support elective abortions Adive LOS 1106 Republican Democrat' 1 Eyewitnesses said a line of police dropped to one knee and began blasting into the thickest part of the crowd A journalist described the firing as "completely random" De Klerk was hounded out of the township by enraged blacks chanting "Murderer! Murderer!" and accusing him of responsibility for the massacre The escalating violence pushed South Africa's reform process to the brink of crisis with the African National Congress threatening to suspend negotiations with the govern-Se- TRIBUNE WIRE SERVICES Support elective abortions No ' 1358 551 - :' f k - cY0 2770 1 '" 'A -- t - Support laws prohibiting elective abortions : - "":-- '' '4 By Age Unsure 7 f-- ' 191 '"- c i I 't-- Refused NI' 0 4 'r i i 41yrk- - fo" FemaleL r-- - o Support elective abortions Male 'h i LLA 328 1360 Female El - E ' - Oppose elective abortions but government should not prohibit them Unsure '' ''4 - - - 352o Female Male' - - : Support laws prohibiting elective abortions FemaleL- '''-‘'-' '" A''' By Gender Other' one-fift- h Compared to Past Mudslinging Tame Nowadays Oppose elective abortions but government should not prohibit them °emu-rai- date's position on the abortion issue according to an Associated Press poll The abortion issue could take on unusual prominence this year in state and national elections because the US Supreme Court is expected to rule this summer on a Pennsylvania law restricting abortion rights If the Supreme Court reverses its 1973 ruling and lets each state make its own abortion laws 57 percent of those polled would want abortion to remain legal in their state while 27 percent would want it illegal The remainder were not sure or would want it illegal in some cases of the 1009 Americans Just polled are opposed firmly to abortion And just half of those abortion opponents said the issue would matter in voting for their state legislator Some 3 in 5 Republicans and 2 in 3 Democrats and independents said they would not vote on the basis of a candidate's position on the abortion issue The 25 percent who would vote on that basis holds among registered voters and the overall adult population but it is higher 30 percent among women Candidates who use the Supreme Court case as a springboard for making abortion rights a campaign theme should have a big pool of support The poll found that 58 percent of adults think a woman should be allowed to have an abortion as long as a doctor agrees to perform one An additional 16 percent would permit abortion in some circumstances The poll was conducted May 29 through June 2 by ICR Survey Research Group in Media Pa Considering the margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points the results are roughly unchanged from a 1989 AP poll In the 1984 and 1988 elections Presidents Reagan and Bush did better among voters for whom abortion was a compelling issue than among voters in general exit polls found But since numerous polls show majority A-- 1 Support elective abortions Ne Republican PRESS - THE SALT LAKE TMELNE SALT LAKE (ITV tIAH Is41 s 19142 By Sid Moody Support laws prohibiting elective abortions NEW YORK — Americans support legal abortion in their states by a ratio of and 1 in 4 would base their vote on a candi- C See ( : ) 1992 21 THE ASSOCIATED 6 io 308 n 't'intill- Refused Unsure laws abortion" THE ASSOCIATED ' 4 the issue of prohibiting elective abortions For a third time in 10 months a statewide poll has found that more than half of all Utahns oppose a government ban on elective abortions Slightly more than three in five of the 600 registered Utah voters surveyed this month said they either favor abortion rights or believe that government should not prohibit abortions even though they personally oppose the practice A poll by The Salt Lake Tribune and KUTV found that a majority of all ages and both genders opposed a ban on elective abortions Republicans and active members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were more likely to favor such a ban The results virtually are identical to those in a poll last month and one in August 1991 Julene Jolley said she became in college out of disgust with fellow students who used abortion as a form of birth control But years later Ms Jolley helped a family member brave taunts by abortion protesters outside a health clinic as the woman tried to seek an abortion to save her life "1 don't approve of elective abortions" Ms Jolley a West Valley mother of five said recently "But everybody can imagine a situation where they would want to get an A-- 4 - abortion do you Support Semerad anti-abortio- -- 413IBUN 1992 THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE 0 See F 11-- SUNDAY JINE Utalms Oppose Legal Ban On Abortions By Tony c i In' s VOLUME 244 NUMBER 68 TODAY'S READERSHIP: 457380 Cei il° I i "He's supposed to be working somewhere in the mall sometime soon" says Alicia hopefully But so far Ronald is still unemployed Still messing around going with new women coming up with little moral support or cash It would be wrong to say that this isn't the way Alicia expected things to turn out The truth is she had no expectations at all Like her pregnancy this parenthood is not carefully choreographed It has nothing to do with the family planning and relative order of life in the suburbs Such stability is something Alicia has never known She isn't a product of the traditional family that Vice President Dan Quayle II See A-1- 5 Column 1 BUSINESS Franklin Quest did it WordPerfect may do it soon "It- is the way several Utah companies have found for large gaining new riches: going public Page 3 TRAVEL Rodeo craze ropes in senior citizens Page F-- I LIFESTYLE(' TV spot says "life The public-servic- e has changed- for Dana Mathews of Altamont Because she was not wearing a seat belt in an auto accident Dana now is a quadriplegic Life also has changed for Dana's mother Page F-7 PARADE A look at how much workers earn from accountant to welder Magazine Insert |
