Show ct f 5 v o r i fVghteondualonaaramoralMy to 6a gathand out at a mutttude ct kind of tonguaa than through any aufcxfiath refaction m ' i jww(ictm(i) I ‘Tha Hamid Journal Logan Utah Page 13 Tuesday July 21 1996 Oor vlecr Why not use public land TX facilities and protection of the spillwo articles in the July 10 way at the dam's north end The Herald Journal shared a common safety issue involves die dam burst thread although it may not have ing and a wall of water wiping out anyone below iL been obvious But if die dam has truly deterio- Some residents of the Cliffside rated to that point then other peo- area said Logan'is plans for a park already in danger and the overlaying two retention nonds Ple lake should be drained immediately could be improved and tbs Bureau the safety issue is just being of Rcchmaflon denied a request to H out as in the realm of possi-1- 5 thrown create a nature meserve out of 10 to acres of lowlanAsin Little Bear bilities however regular inspec- tions of the dam should allay that Hollow below Hyium Dam ' No matter how you feel about the fear Another objection to allowing the city's plans for the park we say to use public land is “protecland otherwise vacant public using public for recreation is a good idea And tion of existing water works" we say it's also a good idea at Little which means keeping vandals away from a few buildings But putting a Bear Hollow ' But die South Water Users good fence around the buildings Association doesn't agree The would protect them from vandals as association lobbied the Reclamation well as they are protected now The last objection “protection of Bureau not to change the property the from to recreational spillway " actually means pro- designation “primary jurisdiction zone" which tecting people from the spillway is bureaucratese for “taxpayer- - since it would be pretty difficult for owned property closed to all but a people to damage iL And part of die select few" spillway is already open die public The reasons the Reclamation anyway so what's the point? Bureau gave for not changing the Tbusit seems the water users are use of the land were public safety just being overly possessive of protection of existing waterwork something that isn't even theirs ' : j - - Scrtppe Howard Nawe Service Mrs Carlson survived and courageously testified But she has changed her name and lives in fear that her attacker may ictims of violent crimes fre? n ooeday he felfascd When I was mayor of SaoFfcanciscp hc called me several quendy find their rights trampled by times to notify jpe fhat Paveaa was up i that is blind to their needs focased largely on the rights of the wastqjfeMrs1' his parole hear- accused and u too easily manipulated by ilo find out defense lawyers adept at machinations tags were This case is a travesty of justhat cause further pun and suffering to tice — It just shouldn't have to be that the victims way I believe it should be the responsiFar the sake of people who have faced bility of the state to inform crime vKtims such hardships — the 9 million victims that their attackers ate up far parole and of murder rape armed assault robbery ' they should have the opportunity to a statement at that herring and other violent crimes in the United States each year — we must do everyOur Founding Fathers when they thing Jn our power to ensure the legal included the rigten of the accused hr the Bill of Rights did not think to include System is hrougfat back into balance Thankfully we are now at a historic the rights of crime victims Then again moment in this process A bipartisan there weren't 9 million victims of violent crime every year at that time In fact majority of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Inly 7 approved a victims’ there are more victims of violent crime each year far this country now than then Rights Amendment to die UX Constitution This amendment which Sen Jon were people in the country when the and I fint introduced more Consti tution was written Kyi than two yean ago now awaits a vote of There is good reason wfay defendants were granted a number of constitutional states already have enactTVenty-nin- e rights and the rights of victims were not ed some level of constitutional protecspelled out The way the criminal justice tion for the rights of victims But this system worked then victims did not legal protection is inconsistent from state need guarantee of these rights in the lo state and while these measures have judicial process In America in the late 18th century and well into the 19th censtrengthened victims' rights the ions often fail to withstand tury public prosecutors did not exist Victims could and did commence aim-fatby defense attorneys who hold the cases themselves by hiring a sheriff mate legal trump cand: the UX Coustitu- to arrest the defendant and initiating a Cuncndy the UX Constitution spells private prosecution The core rights in out IS Inalienable rights to the accused our amendment — to notice to attend : in our society But not one word is menand to be heard — were inherently made available to the victim tioned in the Constitution for victims As our criminal justice system has The Victims' Rights Amendment would guarantee crime victims and their evolved since the mid 19th century however the role for victims in the process families the following rights: lo be notified of proceedings in their case not to diminished to the point of near exclube excluded from the trial and othcMiub-li- c sion The bottom line now is that victims have no guaranteed rights in the judicial hearings to be notified of the offender's release or escape to be heard at process today Giving basic rights to viccertain crucial stages in the process and tims of violot crime will not take away j to have the victim's safety considered in any rights of the accused It will merely give courts the ability to balance legitidetermining a release from custody ‘An exanqde of why this amendment is mate interests on both sides This can needed can be found in a tragic case of only be eccomptished by firing victims which I am personally very familiar It constitutionally protected rights equal in involved a man named Angelo Pavageau weight to those of the accused who murdered Rank Carlson in his San Sen Faina tain la a mamOor of the Jtomcisco house He also taped Orison's Youth Vtoienea subcommittee of the Senate wife broke her bones slit her wrist and tNOnvy WOmnKMl V ar R-A- rir al ’ ‘ I A Maine — Steve UGUSTA Brooke steers his Boston Whaler np the Kennebec River past half a Blue Heron stan£ other companion on this summer day remembers succinctly It wu vile” But today Maine is moving forward by running the reel of history backward The mills are long gone and in the wake of the Clean Water Act chemicals and sewage have been reduced The fish are coating back AH that remains now is the dam We drop anchor new the Edwards relic built in 1837 For Dun a 161 yean tins dam hu blocked at least 10 species of fish from 18 miles of 917-fo- ot ct their home on fire Miraculously Sen Dianne FWnatain By Elan Goodman The Boston Gtotoa ing like dignified entries along the Country needs constitutional amendment for crime victims By From dam-building to busting Above us are the ospreys and beneath us are die striped bus who have found their way back home But looking out at this bucolic scene he says flatly This was an open sewer 20 years ago" Brooke who has helped coordinate the Kennebec Qqalitiou o restore this water-wa- y traces his ancestry back to the beaver trapping party that ventured here in 1629 He knows that the history of rivers is in some ways the history of America Once the Kennebec wu a fishery so full of shad and salmon alewife and sturgeon that in 1723 a French priest wrote a person could fill 50000 barrels in a day if he could endure die laborM In time it became a waterway for the sloops bringing granite to the big cities a power source for the mills and then finally disgracefully a watery wute dump When the smell of sulfur peeled paint off the walls of buildings along the banks the city of Augusta turned its bad to the river warning children away from its dangers As Tim Glidden of Maine's Natural Resources Council our ancestral spawning grounds u This morning if on cue a if to sturgeon leaps out of the water make Brooke's point: They to go up” )too Tfcrt By this time next year the fish and the free-flowi- ng u u progress Here hydropower once ran Of mrrfts a mill that employed 800 workers But when a coalition of anglers and environmentalists finally woo out over a power company this year the dam's removal became the symbol of progress For the fint time they chose the future of the fish over the power of the past They ruled that restoring the river wu mate important than maintaining a dam that produces a mere of 1 percent of Maine's electricity Now an agreement hu been signed to restore not a single species but an entire habitat So the dam is coming down To describe this as a sea change the turning of a historic tide is far too aquatic a ooe-ten- th dam-buildi- ng Is one of attitudes u u well economics As Tim Glidden describes it The idea of progress was ooce to harness Now the nature bend it to our will center of gravity hu shifted from controlling and exploiting natural resources to conserving arid restoring them” Out west this week Bruce Babbitt the secretary of the interior put a symbolic sledgehammer to two other dams doing dam-busti- ng more harm than good on spawning streams in California and Oregon He declared it one small blow far salmon” Dams are not the Pyramids of Egypt not eternal structures” Babbitt said in a phone interview We need to think of them tools of society And the mix of needs for society hu changed a whole lot” Dams now will be judged by that u mix Back 160 years ago nobody ever thought there might be a day when salmon were rare when a fishery would be more important than a mill We never thought there would come a time when the energy and pride that went into con- trolling nature would go into putting things back where they belong But now the rivers offer a different sense of place The great public works” protects of our own time are shifting from building to restoration The sense of the future Is shifting from conquering nature to sustaining fa This day u we return to shore Brooke steps gingerly out of the Whaler and waving goodbye offers the old political a new environmental prophecy adage As Maine goes so goes the nation'' u Ofhor US military playing slumlord St Petersburg Times The UX military is playing a new role that no one should salute: It has become a slumlord After decades of inattention and a rehabilitation program that hu become a mullimillion-dollfiasco the 30- - and buildings that house many of the nation's troops have become a dilapidated mess The aufflMiag accommodations are a national ctobanusment not to mention a serious health and safety coocern How bad is it? Troops living in homes leased or owned by the government complain of peeling lead paint flaking ar ld linoleum flocn falling cabinets broken doors and windows and other major problems with their living quarters The situation hu become so dire the military hu given up trying to deny the crisis u admits that at least two-thirof its family housing units are substandard a feet 1996 the Defense Department promised confirmed in a Pentagon study that that eight to 10 projects totaling 2000 new housing units would be awarded within a year The department hu since or replacement spent nearly $37 J5 million oo consultants without breaking ground oo a single new found 200000 of 300000 existing military homes in need of major renovation The source of the problem in part is housing unit Only two Navy projects the bureaucracy at the UX under way before the program began Department of Defense But much of the have been funded blame rests with a failed experiment Congress is now threatening to scrap authorized by Congress three years ago that allows the Pentagon to hire develop- the bousing initiative when it expires in ers from the private sector to renovate 2000 Unless there is evidence of progreu by that time lawmakers ought and replace military housing The program offers loan guarantees to end the program before it becomes an land leases commercial incentives and even bigger boondoggle In the meanother perks to private contractors It wu time the Pentagon needs to get its act together and take care of its housing supposed to speed repairs and cut costs Neither hu happened mainly because problems It is shameful that troops servthe military has spent too much time ing this country are denied decent houshaggling with prospective contractors In ing slow-movi-ng lie if ArtyoRN TltaJ tf&fvns? f&PMEfc tSpZjQCM u river will once again tun free This is the remarkable story being played out on this waterway When the dam wu built water powered the industrial revolution A river wu wasteful and a dam wu cheered seen rlailard Flllmero FfatfCOOlP ot metaphor even for a morning on the Kennebec But there it is to The change from ybo CAM If wmr )txj cm oust MA&V&r' wxrtX ftXW-rt- b stmtyj Ut Herald Journal J The OpMon page is branded to acqudrt ov WNpora on nwtmr public bnportaneo and prewde members at toe comtmmsywtto a forum tar toeir views Personal oolumna cartoons and Mots Sara readers reflect toe opMonedtaar writes and creators Edflottea under toe heading ur i ef Sis Herald Journal represent W board Members toe adaonal board: rawwi wbw m vmey d d BRUCE SMmvputiSahor CHARLES McCOllUMAnanagingadaor MIKE WENNERGREMdty adRor CWDV VURTHtoatoee adSor li The Herald Joumd waioomes Mats to toe not be nubSahed howsMr and toe editor reserves toe right to ettoal Mars to conform to toe length and stylo requirements ol tic sriS Lenars rtMdd be: to Typewritten and double apacad No mors than 450 words In langto Addressed and hetodo daySmo phone number tor purposes vcrttcsSon to Signed by toe author IndMduaia are Smied to one pubSahod ha-twflhin any 30day period Addraee Mara to tyMarOhinewaxom Quad ate also welcome and are run rt d toeadSofadMeSon |