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Ags'are howl out PAGE U C-- 1 Y C-- Utahs Independent Volume 255 Number 47 1997 The Salt Lake Tribune 1 Van Horn vs Jazz i I wants to play PAGE Ex-U- te C-- 1 Voice Since 1871 SUNDAYNOVEMBER 143 South Main Street 30 1997 (801)237-280- 0 Salt Lake City Utah 84111 Less Booze Less Blood on US Roads BY ROBIN ESTR1N THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BOSTON The refrain is by now so familiar it seems like it has been part of the lexicon forever: Dont drink and drive Yet it was only a decade ago that the campaign began And with it Americas social conscience shifted gears Since the campaign started in 1988 drunken-drivin- g deaths on American roads have dropped by more than 25 percent from 23628 in 1988 to 17126 last year Much of the reduction is the result of stricter laws enacted over the past 10 years highway-safetexperts said For one the drinking age now is 21 in every state But a good part of the drop also can be attributed to y the basic refrain: If youre going to drink use a designated driver Beginning this weekend the nations major television networks are broadcasting a new message by President Clinton urging Americans to use a designated driver The Harvard University School of Public Health created the campaign This year besides the plea to drink in moderation and choose a designated driver Clinton says in the spot: Be sure everyone in your car uses a seat belt It's not by chance that this addition comes three months after the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed who were not wearing seat belts when their car crashed in Paris The only survivor bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jone- s was properly buckled in the front seat The driver Henri Paul was later found to be drunk The designated-drive- r campaign was devised at a time movement had begun when the losing momentum The success of Mothers Against Drunk Driving or MADD which began in the early 1980s was leveling off Media attention had shifted elsetraffic deaths where and the decrease in alcohol-relate- d had leveled off Enter Harvards designated-drive- r concept modeled after an initiative in Scandinavia Soon after its inception public-servic- e announcements were aired as often as 20 times a week and popufrom Cheers to The Cosby lar television shows Show incorporated the message into their scripts By See DRIVERS Page Orphans of the A-- 4 Can Humanity Drug World Outlive Next Millennium? mother Tamika Triggs practices denial hygiene with a toothbrush she shares with her HIV-positi- Tamika brushed first because her mother's gums were bleeding Such is life for the d children of parents Visit their world in "Children of the Lost" drug-addicte- World Population Growth May Be Biggest Threat SUNDAY BY MATT CRENSON M THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Just a couple of years til the millennium and alls well The Dow has risen to dizzying heights The Russians are our friends Harrison Ford still looks as good as he did in Star Wars" for goodness sake So what have we got to worry about? asteroids A giant chunk of Well rock could come screaming out of the sky and wipe out a major city even civilizain no time flat tion itself Or maybe theres a deadly disease capable of wiping out the human race lurking in a tropical rain forest right at this moment Then again there could be some terrorist group planning a gruesome biological weapons attack or an unstable nuclear submarine commander keen on vaporizing the globes major capitals And what about global warming ozone depletion nuclear Armageddon? What if aliens come and eat us? Kind of makes you nervous After all we had our share of close shaves this millennium what with wars cataclysms epidemics and interleague play threatening our existence at every turn Can we really expect to make it through the next thousand years? The turn of a millennium just naturally raises that question The last one probably found the Constantinople constabulary dealing with guys standing on street corners ranting about judgment and See MILLENNIUM Page A-2- Confessions Of a Chronic Shoplifter BY MARK CURNLTTE THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER Thirteen years CINCINNATI after she first stole a pair of earrings chronic shoplifter Amy (not her real name) has figured out how to get through the holidays: Stay out of the stores and take a second Christmas is such a hard time says the married homemaker and mother of three from the Cincinnati area I need to stay emotionally lifted Until her July arrest she was among the increasing number of 23 million or 1 in 1 1 Americans who steal from stores people Many arent stealing for need nor are they teens who steal as a rite of passage Theyre not part of organized theft rings Like Amy 28 theyre middle- - and adults who express a variety of emotional problems by shoplifting And the holidays are to these shoplifters what an open bottle of booze is to a problem drinker Its so much easier to steal at this time of year Amy says You can get lost in a crowd of shoppers and stores put out a lot more merchandise on tables Even if you have money to buy people gifts you want to get them more And if youre in the habit youll steal Its the heightened expectations 2 A Section G J A Z I M E inside the Trasel section INSIDE Some clouds some sun and highs in the 40s north 50s south WEATHER Page C-- 1 4 Its a shame the United States be among the 110 nations signing a ban on land mines wont Christopher Former Idaho Congressman George V Hansen's tumultuous career took him from Capitol Smith The Salt Lake Tribune Hill to federal prison GEORGES NEW CRUSADE Idahos Hansen Is Basing His Latest Cause in Utah THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE At a time Idaho conwhen other former seven-tergressmen are counting strokes on the golf course George Hansen is counting his teeth Hes missing 24 from his three stints in prison along with all his toenails Hansen doesnt sit on any corporations board of directors or manage his investments from a downtown suite He lives in a rented Pocatello apart ment and drives a leased white Honda He doesnt hang out with congres sional cronies or lionize his career Indeed hes lucky if some of his former colleagues even return his calls A lot of people have forgotten about the flamboyant forGeorge Hansen mer Idaho congressman whose rocky adventures with foreign policy the Internal Revenue Service campaign finance and the federal prison system dominated political headlines in the Intermountain West for most of the 1980s hes back and leading a Utah-base- d group seeking an investigation into the death of federal prisoner Kenneth Trentadue On the political landscape of the Intermountain West few characters stand out like George Vernon Hansen a Mormon kid from Idaho who climbed the ladder of political power only to plunge in a belly-flop of scandal financial ruin and imprisonment He was George the Dragon Slayer a moniker loyal followers bestowed for his ceaseless battles with the IRS Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Immigration and Naturalization Service on behalf of ordinary people He was Poor Old Lonesome George a title he gave himself in a bawling 1984 speech on the House floor before he was reprimanded for filing false financial disclosure reports He was Globetrotting George who went to Iran twice without authoriza- But BY CHRISTOPHER SMITH POCATELLO Te-ton- ia Hansen and wife Connie in 1986 I I Phone tip launches a story chronological biography A COMMENTARY Page AA-- 1 Utah Democrats all but conceding the top 98 congressional elections to millionaire Republicans turn their attention to the state Legislature races UTAH Page B-- 1 "The Miracle Worker opens Wednesday at Pioneer Memorial Theatre in Salt Lake City THE ARTS Page D-- 1 Take a look at the commercial side of the Winter Olympics BUSINESS Page 1 Want to wear a bow tie? Need help learning how to tie it? ATTITUDE Page J-- 8 The former Yugoslavia is again attracting tourists as peace takes hold in a war-tor- n country TRAVEL Page 1 E-- H-- Elliipili A-- 2 A-- 7 See HANSEN Page A-- 6 nt upper-middle-cla- ss See CONFESSIONS Page A-- 9 Joe Asks Enid to Trust in His Trustees Editor's Note: The author is a former Utah journalist whose book Blind Trust The True Story of Enid Greene and Joe Waldholtz from which the following exclusive excerpt was taken is being released this weekend BLIND TRUST! Enid Cries for Help Exasperated by Joe's inaction BY LEE BENSON at clearing up questions regarding their finances and alarmed by a federal investigation into the matter Congresswoman Enid Greene Waldholtz finally cried to Jim Parkinson her brother-in-laa California attorney for help SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNE Jim Parkinson was in the kitchen when the call came from Georgetown Sue answered She handed him the phone Whats up? he said Jimmy its Enid Outside of his wife and a few close friends Enid was the only one who called him Jimmy Shed called him that the first time they met when she was 12 and Sue and brought her college boyfriend home for dinner shed called him that ever since At first she did not have Jimmys undivided attention a bowl of He was halfway through his usual breakfast Grape Nuts Frosted Flakes Wheaties and Cheerios mixed As soon as he polished that off chased by a Diet Coke he would be out to the garage for an hour on the treadmill then hed fire up the Lexus and drive the 10 minutes to the Palm Desert law offices of Regar & Parfirm with an envied reputation kinson a personal-injur- y in the Coachella Valley Jim liked to get to the office Last of 4 extrpt$ w reasonably early He was an early riser It was just before 6 in the morning California time when the call came from back East In our nations capital it was three hours beyond that approaching He idly wondered if they had a bad connection Then he realized Enid was whispering Jimmy she said You need to come back here mid-morni- Now! Even when whispered even when its your wifes kid sister who insists on calling you Jimmy even when youre halfway through breakfast when someone says POORCOPY D Not So Fast is the gospel according to Enid & and it conveniently leaves some crucial voids says Dan Harrie senior reporter on The Salt Lake Tribune team that exposed the financial shenanigans of former Congresswoman e Joe WaldEnid Greene and holtz Harries review of author Lee Benson's new book is on Page 2 Blind Trust Co spouse-at-the-tim- A-1- it gets your attention Jim put down the spoon instincts maybe it was Maybe it was his his family instincts maybe it was just instincts period but the next words out of Jimmys mouth were these: Dont you want Joe to hear you? "Just come she said Please Enid hung up the phone and talked herself back into composure This was new ground for her She had never betrayed her husband before Well OK betrayed might be a little harsh All she had done was ask Jimmy to come to Washington without telling Joe You didnt need to tell your husband your every move did you? The vows didnt go that far But the thing was she always had told him her every move They were a partnership a Now! trial-lawy- See JOE ASKS ENID Page A-1- 2 |
