Show NATIONWORLD The Salt Lake Tribune A13 Sunday July 24 1994 – - Mexico 'mulches Crusade DALLAS MORNING NEWS MEXICO CITY — Less than five weeks before Mexico's elec- 10 tions the attorney general is hurriedly combating crime trying to convince a skeptical public that the authorities — and not the crooks — are in control Under orders from Atty Gen Humberto Benitez police and federal agents around the country are pursuing gunrunners kidnappers highway bandits smugglers and other transgressors of the law The new crackdown is taking place amid scattered unconfirmed reports that armed groups are hiding out in isolated parts of the countryside Authorities deny the existence of guerrillas outside Chiapas state where the Zapatista rebels control large stretches of territory But officials in many states — including Durango Veracruz Hidalgo Yucatan and others — acknowledge that they are beefing up their police power and buying millions of dollars in assault rifles vehicles and other post-electio- riot-contr- n - ?- 't 4 al 4 - Pd ' ' LOS ANGELES — OJ - -- e Lig111' ! NolktxA ''''Atmoo"1 -- ""-- him more than $15000 a day sources say And that just for his top layer of lawyers Simpson has hired seven law- charges that he murdered his Nicole Brown Simpson 35 and her friend waiter Ronald Goldman 25 on June 12 On Friday Simpson 47 entered a plea of "absolutely 100 percent not guilty" at his arraignment One lawyer who has handled recases long-tercent said that by the end of the year Simpson's defense will be at least try war between 'itsbutnota awar mies two between many mies" he said arar- The government immediately denied it Another quick denial came after Mexico City's El Financier° newspaper reported that a secret attorney generars report had warned of political turmoil The newspaper said the 46- page document called "Mexico A Picture of Violence" described the Salinas administration as the high-profil- -- 1 '7 1 - -- ""-- -" NNIN l3miflion "It really doesn't matter to him how much it costs" said veteran - ' rg — dk ' T - v 40J''''' rZF '''-- - 4 ' 1 4 Simpson's 108 Ah the Good Life! Kindness Makes Society Richer 111 Continued from A-- 1 0 remind people of aim is only the kind impulses that fl of us tare remind people of sometl-irthey already Uow which is that it feels good to act on those img Pulses-" Around the worlt every day great horrors are easy to find And so in the face of it random acts of kindness sec nothdng to mean at all But Random Acts of Kintn1ess do loetn to add up It's pretty lasic stuff Do unto others Turn the other cheek Or as an onaline wordsmith reminded friends in estAerspace not long -ago Good is the most contagt ous St7TS one person's good beLarior p awns more good'" fine Ent what does th-- really hare to do with arythimg - I t jt y most turbulent in 36 years It cited the report as saying a lack of faith in elections had produced a climate of violence mass street protests and city hall takeovers The attorney general's office called the report a fabrication Salinas had no comment One thing is certain: The government has tried hard in recent weeks to improve perceptions of public security "They're trying to begin to correct the growing opinion that 21 They have broken up counterfeiting gangs arrested dozens of highway robbers and confiscated everything fro-r- i 4utomatic weapons to warehouses full of contraband electronics While goverynf-i- t officials are optimistic stliiIP Acurity experts doubt that tri cckdown will have long-terresluts n Tour Health-Car- e Ore — Like a general sending her troops to battle Hillary Rodham Clinton gave marching orders to hundreds of "health-reforriders" Friday as they set out on a nationwide bus tour to dramatize public support for a sweeping health plan "If we give our energy our hearts our souls to the next few weeks and make it clear that the American people want what the we members of Congress have will get it for every single AmericanClinton said as nearly 15000 supporters waved banners and cheered her on While leaders in Washington were talking the politics of compromise and moderation Clinton presided over a rally of true believers who say that when they journey complete the 3384-miland reach the nation's Capitol Aug 4 they will have the momentum to persuade lawmakers to vote for a comprehensive plan Clinton had to turn up the volume on her health-car-e pitch Saturday at one of her first stops as she tried to drown out shouting protesters at a Seattle rally Clinton had to turn her microphone on full blast to be heard over the chants and taunts of several hundred protesters galvanized by the passage last year of a state health-car- e plan similar to the Clinton plan GOP May Dump Goal of '91 Health Plan - - - ki i '"t t 1 1 I ''- 1 1 4 - ! 4f) LOS ANGELES TIMES LOS ANGELES — ' ' -- 4-- - ' - - t - — v14 I fr S rt — '-' '1 - 4 - r - 1t —' :k "" rio ? ': N411 f 1 P't 4 1 4e - t r i 'k yerl 0 4I I etelj 1 r-- i $ - 4 Aalt - k) ? - 3 T f V k - "- ' 4"- -e- t t 1 :71 - i t I - ---- - i ' ' :astetto The protesters exchanged i t 4 ' i 1 A --- 4 ' i i 'i 1 ! 1 I- 1 - - t '' t - t ( 1 r ( if L----- ----- ------- --- 777--'411411"- "7 TILLYKS FOR THE 1 RIDE erli kammallte Asomulawit Prees Space Shuttle Commander Robert Cabana of Minneapolis pats nose of Columbia at Kennedy Space Center in Florida NASA hustled thousands of animals off the orbiter after Saturday's smooth sunrise landing with seven astronauts A delay caused by offshore storms Friday s oyage America's longest space flight in more than 20 years made this y 14-da- Well for whatever reasons the idea Las Whitsett's manual a silly sort of book that will fit in your Lip pocket is orily one of several such efforts a piece G f somethirg bigger Oprah Wirirey Las devoted a stow to the idea Citizens have written letters to their editors and editors Lave assiped reporters to the story Anne Herbert a San Franciscoarea writer generely is credited pith coining the slogan "Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty- - in the early 1Os A response-- to constant news of another random act of violence" it has appeared on thousands of bumper stickers one of which inspired Whitsett to join A Bakersfield Calif college professor asked Lis class to commit such acts Billboards tare appeared along highways Reader's Diet told 20 Mon readers "Here's one underground moveto join- ment ycrall WilAn2 Damon a psychologist and professor at Brown University in Providence El dcoes not dSmiss the call -- Ifs only symbolic- Le said "triA we are a symbcol caut s-a- creating cul- symbol-consumin- g It is in smAll was through small messages that larger strides forward sometimes begin In a world of overwhelmirg trous bles guerrilla feel they are at least takitg a stand however modest -These little things that remind are upyou that people care Llting rather than degadingwith Lis said Damon wife of Some Do cam Contemporani Lives of If oral Commitment '114 an erpression of somethi--g people feel Las been diminishing in modern times — the sense that as a natural part of your everyday social' Lfe you tont-Lto other people's welfare You don't Lave to Lave a reason Making another peTIQUS life better is good in and of itself- Undertaken in that riirit Whit-se- tt explained his bock fiziply n some fun teat ll$rts you mn do to surprise people and feel good at the same time That's Annong Lis books "good- ideas: WriIe an article about for kizdness in your area- If a friend tas bad breath rs per-tap- or ute GI-fe- buy your friend a pack of mints or gum Tell your best friends that they are your best friends Send floxers to your partner at ter or Lis workplace Return anything you borrow in better shape than when you received IL U Consider leaving your body to a regional medical school g Wave to kids in school buses folks sitting on their front porches police officers firefighters truck drivers school crossing guards people in other cars totitr halloons on trains and on I at least 125 worth of so that you alcards ways svill have the right card to send someone you care for whatever the circumstance as soon as yora get news of the ocalsion Sever-a- l related books Lave been published seizg hundreds of copies Each carof ries its own flavor seasoned perhaps with New Age sentiment or a bit cf PollranLar or Zen And there are two other best sellers- - The B:kok of Virtzas William Bennett's compenlum of moral tales and Seven Ha till-- of Buy greeti--- 4 th071c-nr4- shouts with a smaller number of supporters and then heckled the first lady One of the protesters" signs read: you like how they deliver the mail you'll love how An opthey deliver your baby" -Give them read: posing sign Health Hillary" -It may be possible for some members of Congress who know what the riztt thing to do is to turn their backs because they can't stand the political heat: she said Friday -- But if we work hard enough in the next few weeks it will be extremely uncomfortable to do" s HigJy Effectire People a take on value-basemanagement by d Utah's Stephen Covey Maybe what its about is the fact that people are depressed" said Anthony Gwynn a recovering drug addict who makes it a point to give a little something somehow every day -There's a lot of harshness and the constant soimd of negativity Lock at the news at the streets It's all there making people nitmh" Gwynn said Sipping a soda at a Paducah Ky cafe -Yeah doing a little something extra that's good But what were really talking about is something cinch higzer something not too many people are willing to do Commit Statistics indicate that at best about 45 percent of Americans volunteer their time That MEWS' Ulf don't Food panties constantly are in short supply except around the holidays Schools forever are in need of vohrateers blocks in search of beautification sick in hope cf care Princeton sociologist Robert Writ evrl'ned questions of oomnitment in Ls' bock Acts of tozzrA the pool L-no- COMpf:-E5i7- 1 ad m year asAbandoning the about politisumptions cal cost of opposing health-reforlegislation an increasing number of Republican leaders say they believe their candidates could overcome being branded -legislative gridlockers" by that they supported arguing other versions of health reform and that Clintods proposed solution was worse than the problem The shift by the Republicans will make it harder than ever for the president to gain approval of the proposal that he has made the centerpiece of his domestic agenda d long-hel- m 1 And despite the conventional political belief that Congress not vote to require employers to pay for insurance Clinton would not back down on such a mandate But the colorful message — retanflected in a sea of ners balloons and hats — was nt without its detractors ActivistE for and against the inclusion cl abortion coverage in any national health plan stood side by side with competing signs Ross Perot supporters were there criticizinz Clintoifs plan And just plain folk showed up to say they are worried that the government would mess it up if it got too involved in health care ts of antipathy deep According to his research many Americans are held back from good works by a approach to life The focus is on individual gain What's the moral!! To those who see things the way Whitsett does s a question of cynicism And stermirg the tide Don't bite off too much of this troubled world he advises -But start" he said -- The idea is to start somewhere" So the short arswer is: Random Acts of Kindness won't do much But maybe just maybe they are more than a drop in the bucket Perhaps in some small way they ripple out and reach others no life crisis will be solved But guerriUa believe that someone who doesn't care who is LI despair may see another way and choose to pave it with a Ltfie scrnethimg positive -Making things better isn't going to happen through private crCer-air2- y gorvernment-qorisore- projects- d Whitsett said -- People are figuring that out It's goirg to take individual pecp:e individual acts individual actors — Lie you and ! I k Re- publican leaders meeting Saturday to gear up for the 1994 campaign demonstrated a growing conviction that the country and their party will be better off if no national health-reforlegislation is approved this e w Nicole Simpson : vt i 12-ho- wealth was estimated at million by her accountants - - I A Robert Shapiro and Johnnie Cochran Jr who regularly bill at least $300 an hour and are putting in 10-- and days on the case Shapiro has two assistants working with him who bill $200 an hour according to sources and Cochran recently said be plans to hire assistants to help him prepare for trial In addition to Cochran and Shapiro Simpson is being advised by constitutional-laexpert Gerald trelmen Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz and noted defense attorney F Lee Bailey who do not come cheap Another lawyer Robert KardashiAn a friend of Simpson's is working for free Simpson also has tired three leading private investigators all of whom bill up to $100 an hour not including gaff time and expenses And his defense team has lined up top forensic blood and DNA experts to help with the case and provide testimony at his trial The experts can earn as much as $5000 a day In 1992 while he was divorcing i:- 't sg Los Angeles defense attorney Harland Braun 'If be loses be loses everything" Simpson's team includes Los Angeles criminal-defens- e lawyers A4ii: 4 ' peasant revolt in Chiapas on New Year's Day the assassination of ruling-partpresidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio and the kidnapping of billionaire Alfredo Harp The attorney generals staff meanwhile has been working overtime cranking out bulletins on the crusade against crime The average number of news releases per week has jumped from 10 to NEWSDAY : - unprecedented violence: the ? o0 ' ' - PORTLAND ' e t On ft--- : i 4c - HRC Gathers Troops To Deliver Message i 1" ) Jotte Luis Magana The Astonated Press month that there are armed insurgents scattered across the coun ex-wi- fe " o Cuauhtemoc Cardenas Revolutionary Democratic Party candidate greets his many supporters Saturday in Mexico City newspaper La Jornada last yers to defend him against i i ff Simp- sons legal defense team is costing 'It - 0 con- fiscated 369 weapons and 75623 rounds of ammunition — more than in all the previous six months Officials say the seizures are part of an ongoing routine campaign The government's crackdown on crime comes after months of 1 ' period ending earlier this month its agents ol jr00 NEWSDAY in Mexico In a seven-wee- k 'rt ' t 1 - Ilu - Simpson Defense Running Up Tab Of $15000 a Day — For Starters ' i ing for the worst In what some consider a sign of that the Mexican army earlier this year bought a fleet of vehicles The purchase prompted outcry around the country Military authorities said they were merely replacing outdated equipment Government officials say their worry is crime not the prospect of political disturbances During this political year they have frequently played down reports that might indicate rising political tensions When Mexican newspapers said earlier this month that police had clashed with armed campesinos in Veracruz officials rushed to deny the story "You can be sure its not serious" said Gregorio Varela spokesman for the attorney general of Veracruz state "That Information is not real" The authorities and government foes often are at odds over what's real and what's fiction Subcommander Marcos the masked leader of the Zapatista rebels in Chiapas state told the than 1000 shiny patrol cars part of an acquisition that will include hundreds of weapons and bulletproof vests Some critics contend the government's crime crusade is only an excuse to jail potential troublemakers and round up weapons thereby reducing the threat disturbances of "It's logical The government's worried They realize some of their traditional support among farmers and workers isn't there anymore" said Bernardo Batiz a former federal deputy and current senatorial candidate for the opposition Revolutionary Democratic Party Support for the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party or PRI has dropped during each of the last three presidential elections Some opposition members say this election promises to be the most hotly contested ever They warn that unless the elections are clean there may be widespread civil unrest Some people wonder whether the government is quietly prepar The attorney general's office has been particularly active in seizing firearms which are illegal ''''''f – Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari traveled to Mexico state last week to show off more r — On Crime as Elections :Near By Tracey Eaton Mexico is a lawless society" said Michael Hershman president of the Fairfax Group an international security company with an office in Mexico City – apollp 4111140 conmo01-1od1010Lar-1 Al Ili AtV 4401lr AI At dm flU Am " Ag 144A11-4I- P ir --PI Al 01 JRAP 41 oa 00 go gm 4 4 AT --4- 4 0 A Ak " |