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Morris adds a spark PAGE B- -t Utahs Independent Volume 255 Number 136 1998 The Salt Lake Tribune C-- 1 i Utah mill to close I Tough textile conditions Voice Since 1871 BY LEE SIEGEL BY JOHN HEILPR1N THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE President Clinton arrived in Utah on Thursday night hunkering down in a Hollywood moguls Park City home so his daughter Chelsea could hit the ski slopes on her 18th birthday today The first familys private ski trip Demmarked the first time the two-terwhose designation of ocratic president National the Grand Staircase-Escalant- e has Monument angered many Utahns ventured to the Republican-dominatestate since a 1992 campaign appearance At 6:16 pm with the latest snowstorms clearing the presidents Air Force One touched down on an icy runway at the Utah Air National Guard Base near Salt Lake City International Airport The planes landing sent up a white plume of ice and snow d hat and casuSporting a al outdoor jacket and slacks the president stepped off the plane took his hat in hand and was greeted by Utahs highest-profil- e Democrat Salt Lake City Mayor Deedee Corradini The two spoke privately for a minute and Corradini gave Clinton three hats bearing the emblem of Utahs 2002 Winter Olympic Games He said Well this is where Chelsea wanted to come and so here we are Corradini recounted And I said Please tell her happy birthday for me Im thrilled and right after Nagano and all weve been through the timing just couldnt be better she added Hesa anxious just to get up there and start personal vacation Clinton who made no public statement has planned no official meetings with any Utah visit groups during his three-da- y disease like Imagine what will happen as researchers find the genes involved in obesity intelligence happy temperament homosexuality or predisposition to heart disease at age 40 Philosopher Philip Kitcher worries parabout a world in which middle-clas- s ents not only obsess about the best preschool or college but also try to create designer children by aborting fetuses with imperfect genes or selecting test-tub- e embryos with socially desirable Tay-Sae- Its a world where the struggle for advancement will start before birth The rat race in the womb is a foreseeable reality Kitcher said Thursday at the University of Utah Within 15 years this will be happening There will be large numbers of genetic tests and people will be doing everything they can to make sure their kids succeed in social designer children competition See CLINTON Salt Lake Mayor Deedee Corradini and Lt Col S Craig Widen head of Utah's Air National Guard greet President Clinton upon his exit from Air Force One Utah House OKs Plan to Insure Kids Comics TV Programs WEATHER: Partly sunny Details: JlilHIL v OKLAHOMA another CITY Mike health-insuranc- k health-insuranc- it? The bed tax has been in place seven years It has been used to generate part of the state matching funds to attract federal Medicaid dollars But it is scheduled to expire this summer Under Leavitts plan contained in House Bill 137 sponsored by Rep Peter Knudsen City the bed tax would be reauthorized The revenue would capped at $59 million annually be switched over to provide the state match for CHIP Federal funding of about $24 million would come from a naincrease tionwide cigarette-ta- x Hospitals have agreed to continue colestimated at $620 lecting the bed tax as the Legislaas long daily per patient ture comes up with an extra $33 million appropriation to fully fund the matching portion for Medicaid CHIP is aimed at providing free health insurance to children whose parents earn too much money to qualify for Medicaid See INSURANCE Page 8-- 7 when one spouse dies and the other wants to reserve the adjacent plot The next two digits are carved in when the person dies The 19 was supposed to ease the burden of funeral costs But if those who bought the stones dont die by the end of 1999 their families may have added expenses Sure it can be patched up but theres no way that it will look like a natural stone said Robert Helton division manager for Tulsa Monument Co The cost to have it done right could begin in the range of $2000 The problem is another part of the Year 2000 Glitch Many computer systems are programmed to recognize only the thus last two digits in a date 2000 would be misinterpreted as 1900 A presidential council recently was created to help federal agencies with the problem J 4 D-- 2 then-Mormo- n David O McKay President Nixon was a guest at the 1970 Days of 47 Rodeo and also met with Mormon officials President Carter came to Salt Lake in November 1978 receiving an award from The Church of JeSaints for sus Christ of Latter-da- y his support of National Family Week President Kennedy visited Utah in September 1963 two months before his assassination A-- 6 Campaign-financ- e proposal dead A-- 3 A Senate panel WASHINGTON unanimously approved a Jill Thursday that would protect from creditors the tithes and pledges churches receive from people who have declared bankruptcy Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin and Sen Charles Grass-le- y Hatch the bill in one of the first attempts to resurrect protections under the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act which was largely voided by the Supreme Court last year Since then courts have asked several churches to surrender to creditors money from donors who had declared bankruptcy 2-- 1 Such judicial action seriously threatens the ability of religious institutions not only to function but also to survive Hatch said in a statement His bill would prevent federal bankruptcy judges from forcing churches and charitable organizaother tions to return donations of up to 15 percent of a debtors gross annual income The bill protects tithing No date is set for a floor vote on the has inbill Rep Ron Packard troduced a companion bill in the House by more than 100 lawmakers including Speaker Newt Gingrich a That measure has yet to be consid- pt ered by the House Judiciary Committee Since President Clinton signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act in 1993 courts considering the law have ruled that government has compelling interests in enforcing participation in the Social Security system maintaining prison security by regulating inmates religious ceremonies and promoting school safety by banning the carrying of ceremonial kmves on campus But courts have split over issues that arise when the act and the bankruptcy system collide In a ruling Minnesotas 8th Circuit court said keeping the bankruptcy trustee out of the churchs offering plate would not undermine the bankruptcy system Supporters of the act including Hatch had been upset that the Clinton administration initially supported the bankruptcy trustee in the Minnesota case The administration pulled out of the case the day it was argued before the 8th Circuit panel in 1994 The Justice Department said it withdrew because Clinton decided that its position adopted a narrower view of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act than statute his understanding of the Washington Dreams About Iraq Without Saddam BY JOHN DIAMOND THE ASSOCIATED US Britain push resolution in UN PRESS The capital is abuzz WASHINGTON with talk of plots to topple Saddam Hussein Ideas such as naval blockades widened y zones paying saboteurs and broadcasting propaganda are bouncing between the White House Capitol Hill and the CIA Whatever else might be said about such proposed operations its getting awfully hard to call them covert Public disclosure of covert operations are by definition not helpful one intelligence official said Thursday The official said the CIA and other US intelligence organizations are examining a range of possibilities against Iraq but said the impetus is coming from policymakers and lawmakers not the no-fl- J--' """mil A-- D-- 1 fund- raising dinner President Reagan visited Utah twice in 1982 and two years later when he addressed the American Legion convention in Salt Lake City during the 1984 campaign President Johnson visited in September 1964 meeting with Church President THE ASSOCIATED PRESS carved with a 19 where the year of the persons death goes The 19 is found mostly on 2 More news from the Legislature Governor's use of fund questioned H Leavitt talks about Games money Republican e $300-a-plat- BY LAURIE KELLMAN gravestones that are already 5 D-I- Taft every US president since 1911 has visited Utah once either 16 in during his term or after it all President Clinton was in office five years before his presidential visit to the state On Thursday he joined first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and daughter Chelsea for a weekend ski outing in Park City Candidate Clinton visited Utah in 1992 to campaign against incumbent Republican President Bush Bush made a Utah appearance in September 1991 speaking at a A-- 4 Clinton opposes Net tax PRESS Beginning with William Howard 0 The Starr investigation Heres problem companion stones purchased Leavitts initiative to proe vide coverage to an estimated 32000 children of working-poo- r Utahns took some body blows Thursday version but survived in a scaled-bacHouse conservatives attacked the proposed Childrens Health Insurance Program (CHIP) because its funding depends tax which they decried on a hospital-be- d as immoral and a sick tax said it Rep Margaret Dayton was a sobering hypocrisy to design a e program paid for with taxes added to the hospital bills of people ill enough to require hospitalization We are stepping on the people who are the least able to help themselves" Dayton said Do we really want to be the Legislature that had the chance to eliminate the sick tax and instead continued D-- 4 little-know- n that will arrive with the year 2000: what to do with those prepaid THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Gov Puzzles B-- 6 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BY DAN HARR1E 2 Star Gazer Prepaid Headstones On Its Funding Source INDEX f-- 2 THE ASSOCIATED Hatch Bill Shielding Tithing From Creditors Clears Panel Year 2000 Headache: But Not Without an Attack times abort female fetuses because those societies tend to neglect and abuse girls People who have access to medical concerned middle-clas- s parents care will continue to recapitulate social prejudices in design of their children and will continue to narrow the idea of what is an acceptable human life Kitcher said He said avoiding such abuses requires addressing underlying social inequities so parents will have support for bearing children Health care for ail is a necessary condition of just use of genetic technology he said Give far greater support to people who suffer various disadvantages Invest far more in kids who have learning difficulties Invest far more in programs that help people who dont have high intelligence Reduce the income disparity between people pursuing careers as doctors and as maintenance workers D-- 8 PageA-1- Michael J MillerThe Salt Lake Tribune Neglect and Abuse: He cited China and northern India where women some- Movies Of Presidential Visits wide-brimme- Discriminating Parents: Unraveling the human genetic blueprint will feed into societys existing prejudices inequalities and injustices said Kitcher author of the 1996 book The Lives to Come: The Genetic Revolution and Human Possibilities He said genetic testing will enable people to make ever more fine discriminations about the kinds of people they want to bring into the world as their descendants Parents who cannot afford health care or prenatal testing will give birth to a genetic underclass of people who are sick obese or otherwise dont meet societys ideals said Kitcher a professor at the University of California San Diego Once we begin to unravel predispositions to diseases shapes sizes and other the decisions will be characteristics there said Ray Gesteland the University of Utahs chairman of human genetics How we will figure out the right way to deal with this is far from clear U biologist Jon Seger questioned the extent to which children can be designed noting genes for traits like intelligence inevitably are linked on chromosomes to lots of bad stuff like genes that make you more susceptible to colon cancer or nearsighted or who knows what Kitcher said while abortion foes disagree many people believe it is compassionate to use genetic tests to identify and abort a fetus with some terribly debilitating neurological condition thats going to cause him or her to die very young Most people find it morally repugnant to select a child for facial structure or eye or hair color he added But what about other inherited traits that may be disadvantageous or disfavored but dont prevent a quality life things such as progressive blindness predisposition to obesity or cancer hyperactivity homosexuality or poor performance on scholastic tests? There will be pressure on people given society doesnt value these things to have the test and abort the fetus early Kitcher said before his U lecture Obituaries In a Long Line d traits 4 Clintons Is the Latest THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE For years prenatal testing has allowed parents to abort fetuses doomed to die early from debilitating genetic disorders B--3 Sait Lake City Utah 84111 President Begins His Utah Holiday Gene Science Poses Scary Prospect of Designer Children D-- 143 South Mam Street (801)2372800 27 1998 FRIDAYFEBRUARY WHO SURVIVES? Ann Landers Births Business Classifieds D-- 8 Jassim Mohammed The Associated Press US officials want to wipe the smile off Saddam's face CIA Distrust of Saddams willingness to allow full weapons inspections a growing sentiment that the Iraqi president must go and a A-- 6 sense in Republican circles that President Clinton is vulnerable to being seen as soft on Iraq have created an atmosphere in which ideas usually kept private are being bandied about in news conferences Theres more than a consensus theres virtual unanimity that Saddam Hussein has a to be deposed Sen Arlen Specter said Thursday Secretary of State Madeleine Albright told a Senate Appropriations subcommittee Thursday that the administration will try to help opponents of Saddam We look forward to working with a regime Albright told lawmakers We have worked with opposition groups in the past and well be working with them ef-R-P- post-Sadda- See DC MUSES Page A-- 6 |