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Show ofc a aa ee Utah’s Orrin Hatch, a Republican. Many minorities in Utah are very concerned about job opportunities and being denied the right to advance to the decision-making positions in private enterprise as well as the Utah celebrates Martin Luther King Day Jan. 21 Many Utahns took time out to celebrate Martin Luther King Day in Utah on Monday, January 21, the day the federal government has set aside to honor the deceased civil rights leader. All government offices, post Dr. King was extolled as a man of peace and good will, and questions were asked if Dr. King was alive today, how would he react to the war offices, and some business merchants of our fighting men there are black — men and women who joined the military not for war but were forced to join to find job opportunities denied them in civilian life. 7 In Ogden, Bishop M.A. Givens, publisher of the Mountain West closed their doors and appeared at special services in churches and other programs in the community that in- cluded dramas, banquets, and speeches in tributes to the memory of a great American. In Salt Lake City, the local NAACP hosted a gala affair at the Little America Hotel and in Ogden the Community Action Program hosted a Dr. King breakfast. Tutu lauds students’ activism New Rochelle, N.Y. now going on in the Persian Gulf, especially since more than 30 percent Minority Reporter in Salt Lake, told an Ogden audience of approximately 200, ‘“We must stop electing all of these old bald-headed bigots to the Congress of the United States who overall racial climate in the Beehive state. Utah is the only state that does not have an affirmative action plan or program going down with the civil rights bill of 1990 as in the words of its opponents as something that leads to quotas. (AP) — Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu said last Tuesday that young people played an important role in the passage of United States sanctions against South Africa. Tutu, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for his efforts to end apar- SINS theid, spoke to about 3,000 people at the College of New Rochelle, where he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree. ‘In 1984, when you went around and suggested to people that one of the most effective instruments of ending apartheid would be the imposition of sanctions, people gave you strange looks and often suggested it might be a good thing to make an appointment with your psychiatrist,’ said Tutu. But the sanctions were approved — and Congress was able to override drry. Mart her King dr vote against every civil rights bill that is introduced.’’ The 1990 civil rights bill was voted down in a fight led by ~ a presidential veto, which Tutu described as ‘‘an incredible achievement,”’ he said. The college, which has an all-female enrollment, is establishing a scholarship in Tutu’s name. February 4, 1991 war strategy in gulf U.S. pilots rule the skies over Iraq and Kuwait. A gulf ground war will probably come later than sooner and President Saddam Hussein remains an unpredictable foe who seems bent but not broken. The assessment is made by General Colin Powell, chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff of the United States Armed Forces. The assessment was made to a standing room Wednesday at only briefing the Pentagon last in Washington, D.C. Obviously sensitive to criticism by the media and Capitol Hill that U.S. officials have been less than forthcoming about how the war is going, Powell said he hadn’t come to give ‘‘happy talk,’’ but was a see Jesse Jackson greets crowd at the victory c elebration following his election to the U.S. Senate from Washington, D.C. Senator- elect Jackson received more than 105,000 votes to win the nonpaying ‘‘shadow-senator’’ position for a six-year term. Jackson’s role in the Senate will be to lobby for Washington, D.C. statehood. Navajo chief, son guilty of bribery by Brenda Norrell Special for USA TODAY Suspended Navajo chairman Peter MacDonald was convicted in Arizona of bribery and other crimes for accepting money and favors from business people on the Navajo Indian reservation. His son and co-defendant, Peter ‘Rocky’? MacDonald, Jr., a lawyer, was convicted on 23 similar counts by the same six-member tribal District Court. The prosecution argued that the elder MacDonald, convicted on 41 of 42 counts, illegally sought and received loans, cash, plane rides, and use of a car from business people seeking favors. MacDonald’s lawyer said his client ’ would appeal, and Rocky MacDonald’s lawyer said his client probably would, too. After the verdict, the elder Mac- Donald said: ‘‘No surprise. All along I’ve said the prosecution is snowjobbing the jury.’’ Navajo reaction: — ‘*All these lawyers were saying it. would be a hung jury. They didn’t give enough credit to the people on the jury, who were quick to make a decision,’’ said Loyce Phoenix, 40, from Window Rock, Ariz. ‘‘He was as innocent as Agnew, Richard Nixon, and Lance,’’ said Lonnie Begaye, Fort Wingate, N.M. The defense said the gifts nonetheless upbeat. The Iraqi army is “‘sitting there ... analysts still weren’t im- vince the American people that what we're doing is wonderful,’’ says retired admiral Eugene Carroll, assistant director of the Center for Defense Information. The picture of the war painted by Cheney and Powell was unquestionably positive. But they expressed caution about quick results, and gave no timetable for the war’s conclusion. Cheney said only that the operation shouldn’t ‘‘take that long.’’ Both stressed that Saddam, though now ‘‘hunkering down,’’ remains capable of air strikes and terrorist attacks. The Iraqis, Powell said, ‘‘are questioning whether we can keep this up for an extended period of time and it will be,’’ Powell said. But he add- whether or not the political will and public support will be there to keep ed, “‘No one wants to declare that he this up.”’ (Saddam) no longer constitutes a threat. That would be a very serious Said Cheney, ‘“There’s no doubt in my mind but what the United States and our allies ... have the staying power to see to it that the job gets done, that he will quit long before we waiting to be attacked and attacked mistake.’’ Cheney warned, ‘‘There may well be surprises ahead for us.”’ Powell and Cheney, in a slick presentation complete with charts, maps, and graphs, also seemed to underscore that ground operations are being viewed as a last resort. There’ll be no rush for ground conflict, Powell said. ‘‘We are not look- ing to have a large number of casualties.”’ Bad weather has interfered with Allied bombings, he said, necessitating four or five more days of air operations and delaying a ground assault — if any — for at least another week. The briefing — offering still fragmentary evidence of damage Spiro Burt 38, of done to Iraqi targets by Allied bombers — was Cheney and Powell’s were third since the war began and gave perhaps the fullest picture yet of Continued on page 2 Some pressed. ‘‘It’s to show, tell, and con- Desert Storm. will. ‘*Time is clearly on our side ... each day, each week goes by, he gets weaker and we get stronger.’’ Details: In the air. Having flown more than 12,000 sorties, U.S. and Allied pilots have achieved air superiority over Iraq and Kuwait. Powell said, *“We have free run of the area as much as possible.’’ Iraqi sorties have been cut from 235 in late December, to 31 to 40. In the few times Iraqi planes have challenged the coalition, 19 Iraqi planes have been lost to perhaps one for the allies. Those shootdowns combine with ground hits for a total of 41 Iraqi combat aircraft lost, most of them F-1s or MiG-29s. Ten U.S. aircraft have been down- ed, Powell said — 16 total for the coalition — and increasing attention will be paid to Iraqi ground fire, including surface-to-air missiles. About five of Iraq’s 66 airfields still show activity and radar defenses have been slowed by 95%. Powell added that the fleet of more than 800 bomber fighters and interceptors ‘thas a latent capability ... if they can ever get their act together.’’ Two nuclear reactors are ‘‘finished ... out of business,’’ Powell said. Saddam’s chemical. weapons plants are hurt but operating and his biological weapons capacity “‘is seriously damaged.’’ | Research analyst Lora Lumpe of the American Federation of Scientists said fallout from the weapons plants shouldn’t be a serious long-verm threat, assuming the Iraqis cut down production. The search for Scud missile sites — particularly the mobile sites presumed to be the source of recent attacks on Israel and Saudi Arabia — has been a ‘‘vexing’’ problem that ‘‘is taking more of an effort on our part ... than we had anticipated,”’ Powell said. ee Cheney and Powell also said they still assume Iraq has the capability of firing Scuds armed with chemical — warheads. Bae : At sea. Calling the Iraqi navy a force of ‘‘limited capability ,’’ Powell said Allied forces have sunk several patrol boats, knocked out a Silkworm missile site, and destroyed 24 freeContinued on page 2 a |
