| Show 404tzt S :- - dor -o- ti e t - VOLUME 245 NUMBER 171 SATURDAY APRIL I Told Cops He Didn't Do It By Michael Phillips - : - THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE West Valley City police threw James Jones in jail for rape even after the victim said he was not her attacker "I knew they had the wrong guy" the woman told The Salt Lake Tribune "They ran this guy through because they didn't have anyone else Seeing an innocent man locked up — I couldn't stand it" Mr Jones spent five weeks in jail for a crime he did not commit He said inmates assaulted him because he was a black man accused of raping a white woman He missed the birth of his firstborn a daughter while he was locked up And he lost his job and apartment forcing his family to live in a downtown Salt Lake City shelter Officers arrested Mr Jones minutes after a man raped the victim at knifepoint threatening to "slice her up like a tomato" if she screamed Mr Jones 30 was walking through a grocery-stor- e parking lot a block west of the Tanglewood Apartments where the assault occurred He roughly matched the victim's description of the black assailant The woman did not see her attacker's ' face clearly But she told police she recognized his voice and stature as that of a man who had harassed her several times before At the time of his arrest Nov 15 Mr Jones told officers he had been drinking at a wedding reception Officers said they arrested him for public intoxication after he slurred his words and gave ambiguous answers Mr Jones made what police regarded as a suspicious statement before he became the prime rape suspect One officer reported him saying: "I don't have any weapons I don't have any blood on me I haven't hurt anybody I'm not the one you're looking for" Mr Jones acknowledged pleading he had done nothing wrong He said he was overwhelmed and confused "I was scared out of my head" Mr Jones said "There were five or six policemen asking me questions Two of them held my coat up to the light and kept looking at me I knew they weren't there to arrest a black guy who had one too many beers" Two days later Det Tracy Cowley asked the rape victim to inspect eight mug shots including one of Mr Jones "He asked me if I could identify the guy" she said "I couldn't So the detective asked me if I could narrow it down Could I eliminate anybody? I picked out Jones right away" The detective said rape victims often are too traumatized to reliably identify attackers the woman recalled black-andwhit- :1-- 4 t- - - 741-- r frs Yeltsin Hints Aid Yeltshi's Hopes Won't Be Enough first encouraging words were tered in Vancouver k '41 A L- SefYoms Clocks Ahead Before You Go to Bed Be sure to set your clocks ahead an bimr before you go to bed to- night The official time for the change is 2 am Sunday but you won't want to get up then to reset your clocks because you will lose an hour of sleep anyway as most of the country switches to daylight-savin- g time The time will not change in Arizona Hawaii and parts of Indiana which stay on standard time all year For Utah and the rest of the country standard time returns Oct 31 the last Sunday of the month A 1987 law advanced the start of daylight time from the last Sunday in April to the first Sunday in the month ItIDEX Mn Landers C-- 7 C-- 7 Movies ObHuaries C4 Asimov Quiz Births D4 Record C--2 Bdefing Business A-- 2 D-- 1 B-- I Classifieds Comics Crossword D-- 5 C-- 6 Religion Sports Star Gazer Stocks Television Editorials Al UT Jumble D-- Utah News 14 DI 7 Dateline D4 0-- 8 B-- 9 C-- 8 C-- I Sunny skies over most of the state will warm Details C-up Utahns a bit UTAH WEATHER: 2 4 ut- US-Russi- Lynn R JohnsonThe Salt Lake Tribune James Jones spent five weeks in jail but the rape victim says she told police early on that "they had the wrong guy" "Up to that point I felt the cops did what they were supposed to do" she said "This made me feel uneasy I kept thinking this is the wrong guy But I had to have faith in the West Valley police" After meeting with the detective she said she underwent several sessions of treatment in the psychiatric ward of a private hospital She is taking medication to cope with emotional scars left by the brutal attack But she remains certain Mr Jones is not the assailant "I kept wondering why they never asked me to identify him face to face if they were so sure he was the one" Det Cowley declined comment His commanding officer Sgt Lynn Hanson said the department knew the victim had not identified Mr Jones "We didn't expect an the identification" he said "The point photo identification was not to identify the rapist It was to identify the man who had harassed her We tried it just in case it turned out to be Jones" The next day Mr Jones was charged with aggravated sexual assault based on Det Cowley's statement that he "fit the same description as the suspect" Bail was set at $100000 Third Circuit Judge Michael Hutchings acknowledged that "bail was a little on the high side" but he refused to reduce it "It was within the normal range for such a se nt eyeball-to-eyeba- ll E See A-- 2 per-capit- large-scal- 4''- ' -' a G-- 7 a n 1 -- - 6'114 '''' - Column 4 A-- 2 Column See Column A-- 2 AVM i ' tt : - 4 '':r P' - - ment spent $4599 for every American last year $317 more than the year before the Census Bureau reports Nearly 12 cents out of every federal dollar was spent in California The government spent the most money per person in Alaska $6783 It spent the least per person in Indiana $3529 It spent $3924 per person in Utah Altogether federal spending in the states totaled $12 trillion during the government's 1992 fiscal year which ended last Sept 30 That's 9 percent more than the year before More than half that money went directly to individuals as retirement disability Social Security or other benefits The Census Bureau tally excluded some spending such as interest on the federal debt international payments and foreign aid and spending by the CIA and other intelligence agencies Out of each dollar spent by the government about 17 cents went to buy things for federal agencies' own use 15 cents was given to state county atid city governments as grants and 14 cents was paid to federal civilian and military employees as salaries and ' ' wages Spending grew fastest for pro grams that help people in need Payments to workers whose low incomes qualified them for the tax credit rose 59 to $85 billion Unempercent ployment compensation was up 51 percent to $364 billion Government health payments also were up sharply Medicaid rose by 29 percent to 678 billion Medicare by 26 percent to $1479 billion Spending on goods and services for the Defense Department fell by 8 percent last year to $1291 billion For all other agencies purchasing was up by 4 percent to $711 billion California led the states in government spending $1397 billion e - ''' '7 " 4 - ' ' - - nr 1441) - VI - Y ''F': 1 i - ! ki - A - i -- 1 e" ' : ehNn N - 4 " - : Pals See Oaks' Lighter Side Stern Staunch LDS Apostle Knows Humor Can Be Fun and Effective Little-know- THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Legend has it LDS apostle DaIlin H Oaks once was involved in a "bank robbery" In the late 1940s young Oaks and several friends from Brigham Young High School in Provo staged an Al Capone caper as a teen-agprank With hats pulled low and draped in trench coats they charged into a Springville bank carrying violin cases It was part of his fun side took no had no and weapons money They Thus they got in no serious trouble But the story lives on in the Oaks inner circle Elder Oaks even boasted about it in college Today as the 163rd Annual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens on Temple Square in Salt Lake City few of the faithful will see the humorous side of Elder Oaks increasingly one e d See A-- 3 Column 1 - POOR COPY In Religion Section D-- 1 facts High jumper Alma W Richards was the first Mormon to win an Olympic gold medal for clearing during the 1912 Olympics The only known septuplets were born to California Mormons Sam and Patti Frustaci in 1985 America's longest surviving triplets all LDS turned 75 in 1975 The largest cookie (20 feet by 30 feet) in 1985 the largest pie (42 feet in diameter) in 1950 and the largest milkshake (92 gallons) in 1986 all were created by Mormons The coldest fall conference was 30 degrees in 1890 Source Paul More IDS news n about the LDS Church and its members By Peggy Fletcher Stack 13 1 A- '''''''-- - N r411tr-- fit IT'8' ' A ' ' t-- t t' r S:" - 'A 9041-- 4' Lae 31t-a- ry 1-- Nw ipok— 1 - -- likIK-4- Kittr4444111to44':714Elc:01:1E: ' 'If 4 - k 144' cel - 4e c : fL - i A -- N 4: p - R N A ki E NT g 4 - t — ' h ie'l9 - t A1e : A i -- '4114' it ia tr :4!-- 1 - of Jeff Allredlie Salt Lake Tribune BYE-BY- E BRADLEY Shawn Bradley the basketball sensation stunned BYU fans Friday by announcing he will turn pro when his LDS mission in Australia ends in June The star center tells why on soon-to-be-ric- B-- 1 h Clinton Gore Vow To Solve Jobs vs Environment Issue By KNIGHT-RIDDE- Robert S Boyd NEWS SERVICE PORTLAND Ore — Like a family therapist trying to bring a quarreling couple back together President Clinton on Friday set out to heal the deep wounds caused by years of clashes between environ- mentalists and timber workers of the Northwest With Vice President Al Gore at his side Clinton and five members of his Cabinet spent five hours listening to both sides air their stories of hardship and suggest solutions "The process we begin today will not be easy" the president said "Its outcome cannot possibly make everyone happy Perhaps it won't make anyone completely happy But the worst thing we can do is nothi Clinton and Gore insisted that a middle ground can be found making it unnecessary to choose between jobs and the environment "A healthy economy and a healthy environment are not at odds with each other they are essential to each other" the president said Gore described the standoff between loggers and tree lovers as a battle that "no one won and many lost — their jobs their way of life the wilderness they grew up to love" "The status quo cannot continue" the vice president added "We must break the gridlock" Clinton stopped in Portland en route to his summit conference with Russian President Boris Yeltsin in Vancouver to carry out a campaign promise to mediate the timber controversy — symbolized as a struggle between the spotted owl and the Northwest's embattled timber workers During the conference Clinton and Gore sat at a long wooden table along with the secretaries of labor commerce agriculture and interior and the environmental protection administrator who has Cabinet rank Joining them were rotating panels of loggers environmentalists business executives scientists and forestry experts Buzz Eades a burly logger whose family has worked in the woods for almost 200 years said timber workers respect the forest but face "a fearful future as modern Paul Bunyans hiding in the car while their wives buy groceries with food stamps" "My people are forest people" Eades said "We love it and we don't want to hurt it But my three grandchildren deserve as much consideration as we are lavishing on the spotted owl" Mike Draper a carpenters' union leader appealed for permission to continue logging in federal forests or "the next endangered species will be the timber - k Apostle Da llin Oaks tells funny stories and jokes about his hair friends say now-guarde- !' IV-- - ri i ' 4' life-or-dea- th (1:fogo 4 ‘ l t- - - ' Viv '' '444' ing" i ' 11‘ I— G-- 7 3 j S "One of the things we're going to continue focusing on is making sure all the countries are engaged with us" said Stephanopoulos "And so far so good" He said Clinton called Yeltsin "to get a sense of how the two days would go general goals and operation says that Mr Yeltsin hopes to return to Moscow on Monday a stronger president than when he left He added that 4 - 4 ' ' '' so Arl I colt ' 01 ' "c-l4 kyo export-impo- rt e-v- bk 14-1- 5 d Russian-Canadia- 1- Ag - 1 I'V trs: 2 e THE ASSOCIATED PRESS earned-incom- - the stage for his first superpower summit President Clinton telephoned Russian President Boris Yeltsin on Friday and briefed him on the $1 billion-plu- s aid package Clinton will present in their weekend talks Mindful of polls showing that most Americans oppose increasing aid for Moscow administration officials stressed that international lending agencies and Western allies will be tapped for the financing that Russia needs But in Moscow Yeltsin suggested Friday that Russia will need more than the $1 billion in foreign aid he is expected to get from Clinton: Speaking before leaving for Vancouver Yeltsin said "West Germany in order to cope with the Communist hydra in East Germany invested $100 billion That's the price of it" As part of his summit preparations Clinton telephoned former President Reagan on Thursday to discuss Russia's problems White House communications director George Stephanopoulos said Clinton had consulted with all five living former presidents over the past several weeks Officials said Western nations would announce their own packages of direct aid in advance of an April meeting of finance and foreign ministers from the Group of Seven countries in To- Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney who is the host of this weekend's summit declared his support for the embattled Kremlin leader and promised an increase in Cana than aid to Russia "The international community should agree as soon as possible on urgent support for President Yeltsin and the reform process in Russia and approach the needs of Russia with flexibility and creativity" Mr Mulroney said in an impromptu meeting with reporters at the Vancouver Trade and Convention Center "Canada has already delivered more assistance to memRussia than any other ber except Germany and we are ready to offer more" Mr Yeltsin certainly will appreciate this support from the Canadian leader — who used to be one of the staunchest opponents of cooperation with the Soviet Union And the Russian president never has concealed his high expectations of Mr Clinton's economic assistance But at least one Russian visitor to Vancouver voiced the opinion held by a lot of former Soviets: Mr Yeltsin overestimates the political side of US support Andrei Stulov a Russian entrepreneur who heads an Ottawa-base- - : 4 WASHINGTON — The govern- N ' 7 : v- - 40 Ore — Setting PORTLAND VANCOUVER British Columbia — President Boris Yeltsin was still aboard the Russian version of Air Force One on Friday when the 7 American in '92 11 " r4'10:' TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICES THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE e Loe 4 "44t-le----k-- ' Michael Nakoryakov By $4599 for Each king : 'F'i Uncle Sam Spent 4ott -- 01993 THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SALT LAKE CITY UTAH 84111 Mulroney Buoys 8 See Iiinrbegms a Sunda) - 63 : Day ight Saving r - t 0 0 1993 3 - On Eve of Summit Clinton Briefs Russian President - - - Rape-Victi- m: o 1993 I t - ilz-- - TODAY'S READERSHIP: 344500 - 's111411Pr r B Skousen The Salt Lake Tnbune family" "We don't ask that people be placed above the environment" Draper said "We ask you to remember that people count too" Bill Arthur director of the Sierra Club's Seattle office was one of the witnesses who argued that logging is destroying the few remaining stands of trees "We no longer hunt buffalo We don't kill whales We can't sacrifice the last 10 percent of forest" Arthur declared Nat Bingham a commercial fisher said the once-vasupply of Pacific salmon is threatened with extinction along with the spotted owl by excessive of forests ruins streams and logging destroys the natural habitat salmon need to survive he said Bingham estimated that 65000 jobs are at stake in the fishing industry about half as many as are employed in the timber industry Clinton and Gore listened patiently throughout the day occasionally asking questions and encouraging bashful witnesses to speak up "If we commit today to move forward together we can arrive at a balanced solution and put the stalemate behind us" Clinton said d old-grow- st Clear-cuttin- g 1 i ! |
