The Daily Spectrum from Saint George, Utah • 4

News Watch THE DAILY Spectrum 4A Thursday, May 21, 1992 State Briefs Senorite meirgeimev did bill grows in I measure on Tuesday. Before then, the bill approved by the House with the president's backing would have provided for up to $822 million in loans and grants to rebuild Los Angeles businesses ravaged by rioting. emergency necessary to make the money flow. Bush on Wednesday termed "not acceptable" the $1.45 billion to finance summer schools, jobs and other programs in U.S. cities that the Senate Appropriations Committee had added to the billion summer jobs and schools package for all cities and a magnet for unrelated amendments.

Faced with a line of senators seeking to add their own projects to a package that seemed likely to pass, the Senate recessed Wednesday night without a vote. Senate leaders expected a vote late today. Still in doubt, however, was whether the House would go along with the larger package, and whether President Bush would change his mind and agree to declare the budget by William M. welch Associated Press writer WASHINGTON (AP) An emergency aid bill to help rebuild Los Angeles is growing in size in the Senate, becoming a $2 Was it a quake or (Small! FREE YOGURT EVERY ROLL OF PRINT FILM DEVELOPED OUR NEW STORE (Not good with any other specials) OFFER EXPIRES 6-15-92 ZION FACTORY STORES kvist at the Defense Research Agency said the Chinese had detonated a bomb in Xinjiang province, where they have carried out several nuclear tests in the past. The Swedish agency has been reliable in previous reports about nuclear explosions.

A magnitude of 1,000 kilotons twUUIIJ JT Four Days Thursday, 0 1 mday, Saturday T7 I I Mayor defends pay hikes, layoffs SALT LAKE CITY (AP -Mayor Deedee Corradini has defended her budget proposals calling for executive pay hikes along with employee layoffs. The elimination of as many as 69 Corradini jods is necessary to balance the budget without raising taxes Corradini said, adding that that is a separate issue from the pay hikes. The budget includes $1.6 million for pay raises. Most of the money is for 2 percent pay raises to keep pace with inflation, but $750,000 is earmarked for a small number of top administrators and elected officials. She said she views the city as a "a giant, $350 million-a-year corporation where the investment in top people is critical." Social worker may keep working SALT LAKE CITY (AP) The Utah Court of Appeals has allowed a social worker whose license was suspended because of alleged sexual contact with a former client to continue working pending her appeal.

Teresa L. Nelson, Park City, asked the court to stay a six-month suspension of her license until the judges ruled on whether the suspension and other licensing penalties were proper. Nelson's attorney, Ann Wassermann, argued the social worker was not a danger to the public and that the suspension would have a disastrous effect on her clients. National Brief 'Innocent man' put to death JARRATT, Va. (AP) -Coal miner Roger Keith Coleman went to his death in the eiectric chair for the 1981 rape and murder of his sister-in-law, proclaiming his innocence to the very end.

Coleman, whn had pleaded his Coleman case on talk shows, in newspapers and in magazines as well as in the courts, was executed shortly after 11:30 p.m. Wednesday, minutes after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his final appeal. "An innocent man is going to be murdered tonight," the 33-year-old Coleman, strapped in the chair, said as a prison chaplain held his typewritten final statement for him to read. "When my innocence is proven, I hope America will realize the injustice of the death penalty as all other civilized countries have." World Brief King's intervention halts protests BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) Troops and most demonstrators left the streets today, and the government freed thousands of prisoners under a compromise brokered by the widely respected king that halted four days of bloody protests.

But pro-democracy activists voiced fears that Prime Minister Suchinda Krapray-oon, a former army chief who led a military coup last year, would not soon reliquish power despite the agreement. In a televised meeting, Suchinda and opposition leader Chamlong Srimuang kneeled before King Bhumibol Adju-lyadejand and were told to reach a compromise through a constitutional amendment that would allow only elected lawmakers to hold the prime minister's post. nuke test? is equivalent to about 70 nuclear bombs of the size dropped on Hiroshima during World War II. The United States and the former Soviet Union have agreed to limit their nuclear tests to 150-ki-loton explosions. He said he believed the Hong Kong report of a quake was mistaken.

savings on four lWfe AMKA VOUNTRY NOW OPEN 628-20 05 JfrSL I I WITH AT HONG KONG (AP) Hong Kong reported that an earthquake shook northwestern China today, but Swedish military officials said the rumblings were caused by a powerful underground nuclear test. There was no immediate word from the Beijing government. In Sweden, Karl-Olov Berg- Task force wants probe continued SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Police and prosecutors have found no evidence of satanic child abuse in Utah, but a task force appointed to examine the issue says they should keep looking. The question of whether ritualistic child abuse occurs in Utah has been debated since last year's disclosure of a memorandum written by Glenn L. Pace, second counselor in the Presiding Bishopric of the Mormon Church.

The memo concerned interviews with 60 purported victims of ritualistic child abuse, including eight who said they had witnessed human sacrifices. No evidence supporting his allegations has surfaced. The purported victims were patients suffering from multiple personality disorder. Similar claims have been made around the nation, with a similar lack of evidence. Believers contend the perpetrators conceal the evidence.

Skeptics believe the claims arise largely from suggestions by therapists. Members of the task force asked' Gov. Norm Bangerter to keep them in business and to keep state investigators working on the issue. "We need to continue to exist to educate an incoming governor and new attorney general," said Noemi Mattis, co-director of the Task Force on Ritual Abuse. "This task force is the best group to do that." At the behest of the task force, the governor recommended the hiring of four new investigators in the attorney general's child abuse unit.

State lawmakers earlier this year appropriated $250,000 for their pay. The task force was told to disband last fall after state officials concluded that its work was done. BEAT THE HEAT THIS SUMMER. LEARN AN INDOOR HOBBY! Beginner's organ or keyboard course. No musical background needed.

10 easy lessons 19.95 includes materials For More information 628-4418 Find out how musically inclined you are. You can learn to play "the instant way." Size of class Success Guaranteed! CLASSES FORMING NOW! RED CLIFFS MALL and Monday winn 0 Cool your heels this season with popular styles: YOUR 250 N. Red Cliffs Drive phone: With your ZCMI charge account CH0ICrBr A. Esprit 'Blush' in red, yellow, white, metallic or black 9.99 B. Esprit 'Surf in choice of white or black 9.99 C.

Mootsies Tootsies 'Anna' in white 9.99 D. Mootsies Tootsies 'Comfy' in white 9.99 Women's Fashion Shoes; also at ZCMI II-Fashion Place and Foothill. Shop all stores Monday through Saturday 10-9 (except Salt Lake Downtown, Ogden and ZCMI II: Saturday 10-7): order bv In Salt Lake, 579-6666; elsewhere in Utah and in the U.S., 1-800-759-6666..