Show 4m:taw 4011110p r al qoin VOLUME 244 NUMBER 119 TUESDAY TODAY'S READERSHIP: 324700 LA CATEDRAL PRISON Colombia — Journalists allowed Monday into the prison drug lord Pablo Escobar and nine of his henchmen escaped from on July 22 found what looked more like luxury apartments than a maximum security jail The opening of the prison to about 90 foreign and local journalists — for the first time since Escobar and his lieutenants escaped — showed that they enjoyed rooms with huge double beds elegant wood floors enormous color television sets and the latest stereo equipment They had track motorcycles remote controlled model cars a lighted soccer field roulette pool table tennis and a sophi- sticated gymnasium with S 1 By N 1:13(?-- ‘ ) ( (0 -- 2 (1V ' i 10 1 t- LI ‘ - I Republican Committee Adopts Controversial Abortion Plank HOUSTON — words in a the Republicans' plank on abortion quickly became the focus of controversy Monday as GOP leaders started drafting their party platform advocates easily won the first debate in the party's Subcommittee on Individual Rights Good Homes and Safe Streets where delegates voted 17 to 3 in favor of including a an-life amendment to the Constitution Such an amendment called for in every Republican platform since 1980 would give fetuses the rights of persons equating abortion to murder nationwide The full platform committee will consider the plank today or Wednesday when advocates vow they will try to change the Republicans' position "If they want to commit political suicide there's nothing like this platform to do it" said Ann Stone head of Republicans for Choice who contends that 71 of all Republicans are But many platform committee members said they doubted those polls adding the party should maintain its position because it is morally right "The role of government is to 71-pa- Anti-abortio- n hum- anti-abortio- n pro-choi- e pro-choic- anti-aborti- THE ASSOCIATED Ii f E' - S ' A '' ' - ' August t 3 't : ' s ' ' ' '4' 4: - " - - ' " ': - " 4:- '11''4 i 't: : - e r - 1 4' 2 3 " t4e i: ' Al4 '' ? 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'41 - ''C'e''''' I 1 t i 1 ': 1 '''' dikMa 'i' - 414 I i 1 I 4'P' i A - ' i 1k - two g e The Associated Press Sen Joseph Lieberman left police officer Thomas Malcolm discuss perils of radar guns "No warning came with my radar gun telling me that this type of radiation has been shown to cause cancer III had been an informed user I could have helped protect myself" — Just weeks after an Environmental Protection Agency panel concluded secondhand tobacco smoke can lead to cancer activists have intensified their campaign to get smoking banned in public places groups are using the EP A report — still in its draft stage — in lawsuits and lobbying campaigns The goal: to ban smoking in places ranging from restaurants to sports stadiums "The surgeon general set as a society by the goal a smoke-freyear 2000 and that could happen — with the exception of a few diehard Southern states" said John Banzhaf director of Action on Smoking and Health an antismoking group in Washington The EPA study also may be used in childicustody cases by parents who do not want their children living with smokers ac Anti-smokin- - - 1 I I ' NEWS SERVICE GANNETT WASHINGTON d Partly cloudy skies over most of the state with continued warm temperatures Highs in Southern Utah to reach 106 Details B-- ' "k1 I ' a n - ' ' Pro-choic- on Monday they fear the radar guns they use to catch speeders are giving them cancer but scientists differed on whether there is any evidence of a Bilk The officers complained the government isn't doing enough to warn troopers or to investigate the medical effects of microwave radiation emitted by the traffic radar guns "Hand-helpolice radar guns should be restricted or banned" said Thomas Malcolm a police officer in Windsor Locks Conn who blames his testicular cancer on using a radar gun for 15 years "No warning came with my radar gun telling me that this type of radiation has becn shown to cause all types of health problems including cancer" Malcolm said "If I had been an informed user I could have helped protect myself I am not a scientist but a victim of a lack of communication and regulation" Faced with increasing reports alleging a link between use of radar guns and cancer in officers Connecticut recently passed a law banning use of handheld radar guns and requiring that fixed units be mounted outside the police car At a hearing before a Senate governmental affairs subcommittee an official of the federal Centers for Disease Control said more research is needed but that so far no evidence supports the officers' claims "At present the experimental and epidemiological evidence do not suggest that the levels of radiation emitted by traffic radar devices can be hazardous" said Bryan D Hardin Washington director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health which is part of the CDC But another researcher said there is cause for concern Dr W Ross Adey a veterans medical researcher said standards established by industry for maximum safe exposure levels are inadequate Microwave emissions of the sort emitted by radar guns "may carry a significant biological and biomedical risk" said Adey associate chief of staff for research and development at Pettis Memorial Veterans Medical Center at Loma Linda Calif Research suggests potentially hazardous effects at exposure levels far lower than the standards he said alleging that the standards "have become a refuge for special interests" that want to minimize the potential effects He urged the federal government to step in to develop and enforce new safety guideemissions lines for microwave and Forecast s' g 4 ''i k — Police officers told Congress radio-frequenc- ' - ' ''' 'IV 'li Bosnia-Herzegovin- 4( ""''' ' '4''''''''' i 1k k i' k 1 '''' 4 1- IN between a law prohibiting abortion and a law prohibiting murder" said Mary Potter Summa the subcommittee's chairwoman who added she was four months pregnant "What's in me is not a rock It's not a Coke bottle It's a human life that's now kicking me and sitting on my bladder" Virginia Phillips a delegate from Alaska told the panel her husband forced her to have an abortion She said she discovered firsthand how much violence the procedure causes — not only to the fetus but to the pregnant woman's emotional health Three women delegates on the subcommittee asked their colleagues to consider a more moderate abortion plank but none of them proposed specific changes They said they realized they could not win and did not want to do anything to hurt party unity But Stone complained that delegates were being intimidated by party leaders who are trying to prevent the abortion issue from erupting during their convention e advocates would like the party to either remove all abortion language from the platform or somehow moderate its views so Republicans feel welcome in the party Some suggest including a rape and incest exception for abortion Police Fearing Cancer Urge Restrictions on Radar Guns WASHINGTON ' ' protect life There's no difference It's only 98 document but ' ' a' ONIARSKA — When the camp guards looked in another direction the detenprisoners at the Serb-rution camp here broke into nervous whispers -There's no doctor here" one of them breathed "As soon as you get sick you are shot" A handwritten note was slipped to a journalist "About 500 people have been killed here with sticks hammers and knives" the note said "Until f ''' 10"'""' 4 ‘ - 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' 11 t'4 Column 2 A-- 2 kAl'‘'4''''' 1 - it--- 1 : :1 'l ? 1 '' ' '5 4 N ' :a1C' con14 of r‘ 94 IA ' ' :- t 1 ' l 1 staff 0 See 1V-- if tc- - v 1: Peter Maass THE WASHINtiToN POST - I- e i 1( l' - 1 - : 1 (-- : The government has said it did not know about the luxuries which officials say were kept secret by corrupt prison specially 1 ‘7''' ''''''' porters The prison Inmates Say Camps Now a False Front 1 A ") weights and exercise machines to keep them busy "Escobar lived like a king It wasn't a prison it was a mansion" one policeman told re- verted for Escobar and ) - - t GANNETT NEWS SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UTAH 84111 Save Us From the Serbs Prisoners Cry Out Escobar 's Life of Crime Led to Life Of Luxury in Plush Prison Cell REUTER NEWS SERVICE THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE fç1992 AUGUST 11 1992 —Officer Thomas Malcolm who says radar gun caused his tealcular cancer d Where to Find: Ann Landers Births Business Classified Ads Comics Cl D-1- 0 11 D-- 1 C-- 6 can stand" Annually nationwide tobacco smoke causes 150000 to 300000 respiratory infections in babies 8000 to 26000 new cases of asthma in children and up to 1 million cases of worsened asthma in children the report said anti-smoki- POST along roadsides In some remote villages the barely living sit alongside the dead in their huts they are too weak to bury them Those who can make it to town centers such as this one where relief agencies are providing some emergency food tell of relatives who have died along the way trying to make the trek Hundreds possibly thousands are believed to be dying each day from starvation and hunger-relateproblems such as diarrhea Hundreds more are dying from untreated tuberculosis that health workers say is affecting much of the adult population — and as many as 70 of the children — in towns like this one now swelling with hungry refugees who flock in daily from the countryside d LocalRegional Movies 1 Sports Star Gazer D-- 2 Editorials 0 Obituaries D-1- 0 Stocks A-- 7 Public Forum A-1- 1 TV A-- 2 Scoreboard Headliners represents 18000 restaurant chains "An increasing number are in the process of banning smoking" he said "There is not a chain in the country that is not considering it today" Corporate America also is taking steps to ban smoking said Keith Poston a spokesman for the National Alliance of Business "It's just a matter of time be fore smoking is completely banned in the workplace" he said "It will happen in 10 years — maybe less" The groups' use of the report upsets the tobacco industry which says it is being used as an excuse to violate the MERCA Somalia — This country appears to be dying A bloody civil war has ripped Somalia apart and left it in violent anarchy pitting clan against clan Now the country is in the throes of a devastatfamine that is depopulating ing partly man-mad- e entire villages and leaving people literally starving CrosswordJumble Family rights of smokers — who they say to 29 account for 27 of the US population Thomas Lauria a spokesman for the Tobacco Institute said moves to ban smoking rising cigarette taxes and health studies have hurt the industry But Lauria said tobacco producers will do everything in their power to fight the EPA report "EPA is going to get the challenge of their lives on this report" said Lauria "I don't think they've ever dealt with the Tobacco Institute before We just don't believe this thing Somalian Peasants Starving as Rich Hoard Crops THE WASHINGTON Police unions and concerned officers contend the prolonged exposure to microwave emissions from radar guns inside police cruisers are the cause of various types of cancers including rare eye and testicle cancers that have appeared in police officers radar They say many officers who used hand-helguns routinely placed the guns between their legs while turned on but not in use Others they say kept the antenna of radar guns by their head or shoulder Gary Phillip Poynter an Ohio state police trooper and head of research for the National Fraternal Order of Police said he has found 164 police officers with cancer that may be attributable to the radar guns Industry officials disputed the link "The current allegations of harmful effects to operators of police radar guns have no support other than that which can most accurately be termed coincidence" said John Kusek senior vice president of Kustom Signals Inc a Lenexa Kan manufacturer of radar guns tivists say The debate over secondhand smoke is affecting restaurant policies according to Jeffrey Prince a spokesman for the National Restaurant Association which A-- 6 C-- 4 Schedule Utah Dateline C-- 1 C-- 7 B-- 6 Part of the tragedy of Somalia e current catastrophe is that much of the There is food available in Somalia any visitor traveling south of the capital will pass lush fertile lands corn fields and men watching over flocks of goats and herds of camels But in Somalia's societal structure of clans and subclans most of the land the crops and even the water rights and private wells are under the traditional control of the most powerful clans — at the expense of the smaller weaker ones During the civil war which led to the fall of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in January 1991 the largest clans were able to capture or purchase large quantities of sophisticated weaponry which added a deadly modern dimension to their traditional warlordlike ways Relief workers speak in apocalyptic terms of this as one of the world's worst humanitarian crises more devastating than even the 1984 Ethiopian famine that attracted much wider international atten IIII See A3 Column 1 News Quiz Utah Index What is the name of the largest black opposition group in South Africa? 18500: Average monthly employment in Utah mining industry in 1980 C-- 7 B4 is man-mad- Answer In A-- 4 Story 8602: Average Utah mining employment in 1990 A I z:' |