The Daily Spectrum from Saint George, Utah • 32

8 Spectrum Sunday, December 29, 1991 News was in the making in the Beehive state during 1991 fellow Republicans and announced he was getting out of politics when his third term ends in 1993. That decision not only threw open a seat considered safe for Republicans, but injected a whiff of irony into the mix when Owens announced later he wanted to be Garn's successor. It was Owens who lost to Garn in 1974 when the seat first went to the senator who later flew in space. MAKE A PLEDGE. been censured by his former brethren in the church hierarchy.

Deedee Corradini ended 145 years of male dominance in Salt Lake City government when she became the capital's first female mayor-elect. Her defeat of Republican Dave Buhler gave the state's minority Democrats a boost heading info the 1992 election year. Hatch, the state's junior senator, used his seniority on the Senate Judiciary Committee to play a major and controversial role in defending Thomas against allegations of sexual harassment leveled by law professor Anita Hill. Many women and Democrats pilloried Hatch for his performance, but it played well at home. One poll showed 56 percent of Utahns thought Hatch had done a good or excellent job.

A rock concert by the heavy metal rock group AC-DC at the Salt Palace on Jan. 18 ended when a sea of surging fans in front of the stage yielded the trampled bodies of three teen-agers. The tragedy brought lawsuits and served as an indictment of festival seating at rock concerts. Garn, arguably one of the most popular Utah politicians ever, in May fended off entreaties from During the 18-hour ordeal, which included a baby's birth and ended without further bloodshed, Worthington let it be known he was seeking revenge against a doctor he said had given his wife a tubal ligation without his permission. Worthington, the father of eight children, pleaded innocent and his trial is scheduled for 1992.

The most significant result of the Legislature's redistricting plan hammered out in a four-day special session was that it prompted Rep. Wayne Owens, D-Utah, to run for the U.S. Senate in 1992. Owens said he had no choice after the GOP-dominated Legislature shaved some predominantly Democratic portions from his district. Elder Paul H.

Dunn, a retired general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, for decades was the faith's most spellbinding speaker and best-selling author. His personal stories of combat in the Pacific and professional baseball were legendary. They also were false, it turned out. The Arizona Republic reported in April that Dunn had fabricated many of the accounts. The churchman hedged a denial when the story broke, but months later conceded he had lied and issue," state Democratic Chairman Peter Billings Jr.

said in October. The trial of the lawsuit is scheduled in April of an election year in which voters will pick a new U.S. senator and governor. Utah's $56 million effort to land the Winter Olympics for its capital city after 25 years of trying went bust on June 15 when the International Olympic Committee voted 46-42 to give the 1998 Games to Nagano, Japan. The IOC's rejection of Salt Lake City was particularly galling to Olympics boosters confident that Utah's ability to host the Games was unrivaled among the five candidates.

Indeed, all signs, save one. seemed to point to the five gold rings coming to the Crossroads of the West in 1998. But that hurdle the awarding last year of the 1996 Summer Games to Atlanta apparently swayed an IOC unwilling to give the prize to the same country twice in a row. The top crime story of the year unfolded on Sept. 21 when Richard L.

Worthington killed a nurse and took over the maternity wing of Alta View Hospital in Sandy, threatening to blow up himself and eight hostages. of thousands in faraway Utah. Anxious friends and loved ones said goodby to some 4,400 active duty, national guard and reserve soldiers before allied forces drove the Iraqi army out of Kuwait. In three cases, the anxiety turned to mourning. Air Force Capt.

Michael Chin-burg, 26, an F-16 pilot from Hill Air Force Base, was killed during a night training exercise nine days before the allied offensive, Operation Desert Storm, began Jan. 16. He had been married five months. Jeffrey Rollins, an Army supply sergeant from Monroe serving with the 82nd Airborne Division, was killed in a vehicle rollover in February. Rollins, 23, had grown up in West Bountiful and left a wife and child.

Marine Lance Cpl. Dion Stephenson, a 22-year-old from Bountiful, was the state's only combat fatality. He died Jan. 29 with 10 other Marines in the first ground action of the war, a victim of so-called "friendly fire." Stephenson's father, James, a Marine who served in Vietnam, refused to allow his own grief to blur the significance of his eldest son's sacrifice. "Remember, above all we're Americans," he said.

"Nobody has the right to take freedom for TAKE THE KEYS. CALL A CAB. TAKE A STAND. Friends Don't Let Friends Drive Drunk. Sponsored by Southwest Utah Mental Health Alcohol Drug Center and The Daily Spectrum SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -Utah's contribution to swift victory in the Persian Gulf War, celebrated in yellow-ribboned homage for thousands of returning soldiers, was voted the top Utah news story of 1991.

The Beehive State's answer to the nation's call to arms edged abortion as the most significant story of the year in The Associated Press' annual poll of its newspaper and broadcast membership in the state. Seven of Hi news organizations responding to the survey made the Gulf War No. 1 and four had it as the runnerup. Five listed the state's effort to restrict abortion as the top story and three placed it second. The International Olympic Committee's rejection of Salt Lake City's bid to host the 1998 Winter Games, with one first place vote, was third, barely ahead of a bloody standof at a Sandy hospital, which had two first place votes and was fourth overall.

The Utah Legislature's once-a-decade effort to redraw federal and state political boundaries was fifth, while the exposure of a former Mormon Church official as a teller of false tales had one first-place vote and was sixth. The election of Salt Lake City's first woman mayor was No. Sen. Orrin Hatch's controversial role in the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was voted eighth, and a heavy-metal concert that left three dead was ninth. U.S.

Sen. Jake Garn's decision to step down after three terms was 10th in the survey, which included responses from Utah's six daily newspapers and three network-affiliated television stations. Ten points were awarded for first place, nine for second and so forth. The Gulf War collected 135 points; abortion 120; Olympics 117; hospital standoff 106; redis-tricting 46; Mormon official 43; Salt Lake mayor 41; Hatch 39; concert deaths 34 and Garn 32. Significant stories that failed to make the list included: misappropriation of millions of dollars by officials of agencies created to improve conditions on the Navajo Reservation: the Mormon Church's condemnation of independent scholarly symposia; a federal judge's refusal to ban non-denominational prayers at two high school graduations, and northern Utah flooding that caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage.

The lives touched bv Saddam C5 granted. Nationally, 14 percent of available reserve and national guard personnel were summoned to active duty in support of the Persian Gulf War. In Utah the callup rate was 21 percent. With an eye to challenging the Supreme Court's 1973 legalization of abortion, the Utah Legislature in January passed one of the nation's strictest anti-abortion statutes. The action was not considered politically risky in a state where nearly two-thirds of the residents consider themselves "pro-life." However, the enormous cost of defending the law against a constitutional challenge backed by the American Civil Liberties Union became a significant issue in October when the law firm hired by the state had to bow out over a conflict of interest after already being paid $95,000.

Estimates of the cost of taking the case to the U.S. Supreme Court range from $700,000 to several million dollars, but the Legislature appropriated only $100,000 for defense costs in the 1991-92 fiscal year. "I think the public is going to become increasingly disgusted with the waste of resources on this HAPPY NEW YEAR! 4 CASH DRAWINGS $500 AT 1:00 A.M., 2:00 A.M. 3:00 A.M. 00 nooo AT Health and 4:00 A.M.

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