| Show EbfSaltfelifSritmnf A2 TODAY'S BRIEFING BY: Kirk Millson and Ann Poore MORNING BRIEFING THE WORLD'S GOOD NEWS TUESDAY December 2 1997 GRABBING THE HEADLINES t Kurt Vonnegut and Nick Nolte separated at birth? Vonnegut wants to see some of his books turned into movies including his 1973 Breakfast of Champi- Selfless Gesture A man seriously injured two years ago in an oil well blowup gave up most of his $423 million jury award Monday in Corpus Christi Texas after the well operator agreed to come up with a safety plan to ons writes syndicated columnist Liz Smith According to Smith Vonnegut wants Nolte to play the lead in "Breakfast" because he is "a dead ringer for me" The book features a car salesman who suffers a nervous breakdown and believes in UFOs Vonnegut himself once sold cars and wrote science fiction prevent future accidents : John Caballero 42 was hurt in an October 1995 blast when he was testing a well owned by Esenjay Petroleum Corp He is giving up $30 million in punitive damages the jury awarded him in July "The only reason I'm doing this is so no one else will have to go through the pain ' Barbara Barrie who plays Brooke Shields' grandmother on "Suddenly Susan" wants the world to know she also is a colon cancer survivor "I hope they say 'Oh yeah she's the one who had the serious colon cancer Look at her she had a colostomy She's jumping around on the furniture' " Barrie said Barrie recently released her book Second Act: Life After Colostomy and Other Adventures She said she wants to share her story so other people won't be afraid of their own health problems "I'm going to bring it out into the open It shocks people" Barrie said in a recent interview with The Associated Press She has been free of cancer for three years suffering and disfigurement that I went through One cannot put a monetary value on personal human suffering" said Caballero of Victoria Caballero still will get actual damages D That's the Spirit! Worried about South Korea's multi-billio- n dollar financial crisis employees in a Seoul government office gathered up spare change from their desk drawers and donated it to their country And a homemaker went to the bank to exchange foreign coins left over from vacations abroad — including old New York City bus tokens she hoped would help As the South Korean government began negotiating a huge loan from the International Monetary Fund last week Koreans across the nation and expatriates around the globe vowed to pitch in: Newspapers pictured hundreds of employees of one company lined up with their right hands in the air to take a "frugality pledge" Expatriates in the United States Brazil Canada and elsewhere have vowed to send home foreign paychecks buy Korean cars or give only Korean-mad- e presents at Christmas Collection boxes were set out on the streets for donations of spare bills and coins A boy came clutching a paper bag loaded with the coin collection he'd been saving for years EI ' Diana Tribute A charity tribute album to Princess Diana featuring a who's who of musicians went on sale in Britain on Monday "Diana Princess of Wales — Tribute" fea- tures songs by Paul McCartney George Michael Bruce Springsteen Eric Clapton Sting Annie Lennox Peter Gabriel and Luciano Pavarotti D Turmoil in Pakistan tenuous truce among bickering Supreme Court justices collapsed Monday raising fears that a political feud embroiling all branches of Pakistan's government would end only with a military takeover Pakistan's powerful army chief met with the president for the latest in a series of emergency talks Riot police erected barbed-wir- e barricades and were deployed by the hundreds to guard the Supreme Court from a repeat of a mob attack Friday In the dispute at the center of the crisis Chief Justice Sajjad Ali Shah is presiding over a contempt hearing that could oust his political enemy Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Their feud has divided Parliament and the 17 Supreme Court justices A Q Explosion at Russian Mine At least 35 miners were killed and dozens were missing after a methane gas explosion Tuesday in a coal mine in southern Siberia officials said A huge explosion ripped through the Zyryanovskaya Mine in the city of Novokuznetsk according to the Ministry of Emergency Situations in Moscow Officials said 67 people were in the mine on the overnight shift when it was ripped by the explosion At least 35 people had been killed and the other 32 were still missing according to ministry spokesman Viktor Beltsov Special rescue teams were heading for the region S Deadly Bachelor Party Michael Jackson's "world of childhood" will be built in Poland not Italy insists the pop star's Polish representative Jacques Tourel on Monday denied a report in the Italian newspaper that Jackson has chosen an Italian town as the site for a $500 million amusement park "Michael still wants his park to be built in Poland" Tourel told the Polish state news agency PAP "Investment plans in Italy are a completely different project" Jackson signed a letter of intent for the project with Warsaw officials in May saying he was "moved" by Poland Tourel acknowledged that the Polish letter of intent gives both sides a year to explore options He said Jackson plans to visit Warsaw again in May Utah Sen Orrin Hatch back in Salt Lake City on Monday relaxes in his office while he goes through his mail — which probably doesn't contain any fond notes from Atty Gen Janet Reno Hatch on Sunday said Reno might ignore broad evidence of wrongdoing by President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore and not name abuses Her decision is expected today an independent counsel to investigate alleged campaign-fundin- o g SUMMARY OF TODAY'S TOP STORIES THE AMERICAS ASIAOCEANIA UTAH Life in America: The infant mortality rate in the United States has fallen to an e low while life expectancy at birth has reached a new high at 761 years Details: A l Warming to Compromise: The United States showed a surprising willingness to compromise as the Kyoto Japan conference on global warming opened on Monday After insisting all along that all the developed countries should be required to meet the same limits on pollutants negotiators said America would consider signing on to a treaty that sets different emissions levels for different countries Details: A-- l Monolith: A monument by the Fraternal Order of Eagles inscribed with the Ten Commandments stands alone on Salt Lake City's 3rd District Courthouse lawn But a 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling could allow others to erect monuments bearing their own messages Details: A-- l all-tim- Unprepared? The US government is not preparing adequately for the most likely security threats of the early 21st century including "information attacks" at home and urban warfare abroad a panel said in a report Monday Details: A-3 Suit: Borrowing a method used to root out housing discrimination a nonprofit legal group Monday filed a federal lawsuit against a Chicago security firm alleging hiring discrimination against two black applicants The action utilizes a new strategy — sending fake applicants or "testers" to apply for job openings — that soon may be adopted by federal employment authorities Details: AS Children Shot Dead: A man shot and killed his three sons and his daughter because he was afraid he never would get custody of them police said Monday in Shelbyville Tenn Details: 7 's 4-- Students Killed: A boy who warned last week that "something big's going to happen" inserted earplugs drew a gun and shot eight students as a prayer meeting ended in a high school lobby Monday Three girls were killed in West Paducah Ky Four students remain hospitalized ' Details: A-7 BUSINESS It's Just a Ploy: Israel s plan to pull its troops from more West Bank land — an offer with several strings attached — is merely a ploy to keep control of the territory Palestinian officials said Monday as they rejected the proposal Details: A-- 9 EUROPEAFRICA Not Our Spy: The US Embassy in Moscow denied Monday that a California businessman arrested last week in southern Russia was spying for the United States Richard L Bliss an engineer working under contract for the telecommunications firm Qualcomm of San Diego was detained on Nov 25 Details: AS AIDS Around the World: AIDS activists around the world marched prayed and wore red ribbons Monday to mark the ninth World AIDS Day — while AIDS victims in poor nations did what they do every day: Lived struggled and died in obscurity On Monday at least their lives were honored Details: AS SPORTS Dow Leaps: The Dow Jones industrial average jumped 18998 points — its fourth biggest point gain ever — to finish at 801311 Monday in heavy trading with banking and financial stocks in the lead Story: BS Stocks: B-6 Internet Smut The online industry hoping to keep government intervention at bay promised Monday to do more to help parents keep Internet smut away from their children Details: BS Superman: Call Drew Hansen a "studentand risk winning an Understatement of the Year Award Yes Hansen is an athlete He's a starter on the University of Utah's unbeaten basketball team But Hansen is more than a student He is a scholar — a classroom Michael Jordan who with one exception has earned an "A" in every class at Utah Hansen's efforts in the classroom have led him to the brink of a Rhodes Scholarship Details: D l -athlete" Ogden Grant: MILESTONES Died: Costume designer Piero Farani whose clothes were featured in movies of Federico Fellini and Franco Zeff of liver cancer Sunday in Rome he was 75 Died: Stephane Grappelli a French jazz violinist who helped shatter the image of jazz as an exclusively American art form on Monday of complications from a hernia operation in Paris: he was 89 A nonprofit agency in Ogden has new life after learning Monday that it will retain a $14 milanti-pover- lion annual federal grant Details: li Bl Brothers Killed: A Clearfield family returning from a Thanksgiving weekend in New Mexico was shattered Sunday morning after three brothers were killed in a car wreck The boys were following their father's vehicle Details: B l Today's Birthdays: Actor Leo Gordon is 75 Former Secretary of State Alexander Haig is 73 Actress Julie Harris is 72 Singer Michael McDonald is 45 Tennis Tracy Austin is Budget Surgery: After slashing more than $40 million from departmental wish lists last month the Salt Lake County Commission is preparing for more cuts next year And a $12 million increase for county taxpayers to staff the new jail Details: B l Hall-of-Fam- 35 ON THIS DATE Healthy Kids: Hearing dental and vision services and immunizations are recommended in a proposed benefits packfamilies About age for working-poo- r 30000 Utah children' would be eligible Details: B-- 1946: 2 Fashion designer Gianni Versace murdered last July was born DAYBREAK Big Bucks: Utah hunters and anglers pay among the highest fees in the West to enjoy their sports If the state wildlife board has its way they could be paying even more in 1999 Outdoors & Recreation: C--l OPINION If In 1804 Fine Truants' Parents: When children are truant their parents should be subject to penalties Rep Duane Bourdeaux Lake would send truants and their parents to justice court to receive fines of up to $250 This is a promising approach Editorial: A-1- 0 is BUT TUC EVIDENCE ciecuwcTwrrusL coming rcoM k very Established April 15 1871 Published daily and Sunday e Corporation 143 South Main St Utah 84111 Periodicals postage paid at Salt Lake City Utah POSTMASTER Send address changes to The Salt Lake Tribune at the above address Y Co THE PRoCECUTtNC BEN? 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