JAZZ ECLIPSE SUNS UTES LOSE TO LOBOS ONE MORE FOR AGGIES Utah beats Phoenix 107-95 D-1 BYU ona roll — men, women win D-1 USUbeats Boise St. 67-48 D-3 Ghe Salt LakeGribiinie Utah’s Independent Voice Since 1871 Volume 261 Number 145 ©2001, The Salt Lake Tribune SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 2001 2 SUPER G ~ 143 South Main Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 94111 Telephone numbers listed on A-2 CourtGives FIRED UP ON THE ICE Senior Skiers Utah Clergy Racing to Win AtMasters Cup Protection BY DAN EGAN THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE PARK CITY — Anotherskirace, another Austrian win. Dismissal of negligence suit against LDS Church is upheld “Now I makethe yodeling!” joked JosefNocker, moments after taking thetop spotin an international super G race at Park City this week. BY STEPHEN HUNT Forgive Nockerhis giddiness. This guy probably would have been smiling had hefinished deadlast. Nocker is 70 years old, one of about300 racers from around the City’s Olympic course this weekfor the “Masters Cup World Criterium.” The event ends today. TheSalzburg hotel ownersaid he races mostlyfor fun, but the best wayto havefun is to win. “Thatis the pointon the ‘i’ — that’s what we Citing First Amendmentsafeguards against govern- mentintrusion into the practice of religion, the high court unanimously upheld trial judge’s decision to dismiss a child rape victim’s lawsuit against The Churchof Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The alleged victim, Lynette Franco,claimed her LDS say in Austria.” While entrants kept a keen eye bishop and stakepresident were negligent by mishandling herplea for help after she claimed to have been sexually abused by a teen-age church member. Butthe high court shied away from defining a stan- onthe leader board, race organizers said the competitive juices that flow so hard in these races are almost neverbitter. “You run a super G when you're in your 80s, and you’ve already dard ofcare for Utah clergy. That, wrote Justice Leonard Russon, would “embroil the courts in establishing thetraining, skill and standards applicable for members of the clergy in this won,” said Bill Skinner, the mas- ters coordinatorfor the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association. Races draw menas well as wom- state in a diversity of religions pro- fessing widely varying beliefs. “This is as impossible as it is 80s. Some are carrying on with the skills picked up as young competitive skiers. Others have barely tarted. “Tstarted whenI was 62,” said Nate Grifkin, a 78-year-old retired lease the churchwas satisfied with the ruling. “The decision preserves religious liberty andfree- dom forall and confirms that lawsuits like these have no merit,” Bills said. “We regret that Lynette Earl Franco and her family are unhappy with the Church and hope that they can find peace.” he is carving better turnsas a 72- year-old than he did when hewasin his 20s. “Sometimes people ‘Larry, aren’t you afraid of getting hurt?” Franco’s attorney, Ed Montgomery, said the ruling See COURT,Page A-9 said Voelker.“If I wasafraid, I wouldn’tdoit.” Others confessto getting jittery over the growingbrittleness in aMorereligic Teligion news their bones. ‘ahoe. That wasin the mid-1990s. Bernardfeels fine physically, but he said the crashes did leave scars. “Tt affects you, but mostly mentally. You take a tumble coming down here onthis course, and you can get hurt.” Skinnersaid the international Steve Griffin/The iit LakeTribune Canada’s Catriona Le May Doan sprints to a win in the 500-meter race Friday and becomes world championatthe Utah Olympic Ovalin Keams. Le May Doan broke her own world record,loweringit from 37.40 to 37.29atthe World Single-Distance Speedskating eee!It wasthefirst world record brokenat the venue.peeairal aleD-1. CIA Off Mark onSoviet MissileThreat Exaggeratedestimatesofthe Cold War enemybuildupinfluenced U.S. defense spending flavorof the competition adds to the fun. He pointed specifically to Austria, which hosted the World Championshipsin St. Anton earlier this winter. There, U.S. Ski Team member Daron Rahives grabbed the glory to which the Austriansareso accustomed. Skinnerfigured some racers showed up in ParkCity to avenge Palle s’ surprise win in the super “The dayafter Rahlves wonhis super Gin St. Anton, wehadeight entries from young guys. All Austrians,” said Skinner. “ ink they wanted to returnthe favor.” Andthat theydid. By Thursday, the Austrians had won more med: als than any other country. But who was counting? Almost everybody. “Nobody hereis going to make the Olympics. . . We'redoctors, lawyers. Wegot oneguy over there whois in the spa business, And that guy over thereis a waiter.” BY JONATHANS. LANDAY KNIGHTRIDDER NEWS. I Bush advisers don't see eye to eye on foreign policy VICE WASHINGTON For more than 10 years during the Cold War, U S. intelligence forecasts greatly exaggerated the pace at which the former Soviet Union would improve its long-range nuclear forces, a newly declassified CLA document indicated Friday. The summary of a 1989 CIA internal review said that every majorintelligence assessmentfrom 1974 to 1986 period covering at least three presidencies a “substantially” overestimated the Kremlin's plans to modernizeand expandits strategic nuclear arsenal. Soviet Union was. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union’s force of nuclear-armedintercontinentalballisticmissiles (IC)'BMs), submarines and long-range bomberswas the U.S, intelligence community's primary target. But today’s spies try to keeptrack ofinternational terrorists, rogue nuclear: ind computer hackers. more than 19,000 pages ofdocuments sified for a two-day conference on the ofthe oviet Union from 1947to 1991, which it Princeton University in New Jersey. The taken analyses influenced U.S. military spending and documents werescrubbedof materialstill considered im Washington's defense andforeignpolicies. ‘The persistent errors also raise troubling questions about the intelligence community’s ability to collect portant to national security. Sce CIA. 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BY SHLEY ESTES THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Utah Division of Child and Family Services Director Ken Patterson was fired Friday as head of a childwelfare system underintense criticism for moving too slowly in meeting its goals and the terms of a legal agreement to improve services to abused andneglected children. “We've made tremendous progress, 2 that,” said Robin Arnold-Williams, executive director of the state Departmentof Human Services, which oversees the division. “He is up there with the best, in my mind,in terms of visioning and dreaming.” But to move forward, she said, thedivision needs“a differentset of someone whowill kindof move everythinginto full leadership phase.” aid Patterson's vision didnot translate into action duringhis 3 r tenure. “There seemed to be a lot of stagnation in moving forward,” said Darryl Hamm, a staff attorney for the See DIRECTOR, neoAS A-5 mark. Idahoans know blight only as the sporadic appearance ofthe fungus that caused the Irish potato thing gagging Boise residents D414 C4 D9 State Child-Welfare Boss Loses Job Amid Criticism population tops the half-million the smokefromtheir woodsto’ That was before a California re ~ INDEX. Jumble DAG Movies D-15 Obituaries ee __ Economic SuccessPropelling Idaho From Ruralto Urban —for a Price Skinner. AnnLanders C5 AS reliable information on today’s targets, which-are more diverse and even harderfor spies to penetrate than the ‘The documentraised new questions about how well the CIA andotherU.S.intelligence agencies judged the Soviet Union's aims andintentions, and the extent to which mis:- Andtheyall shareonethi Asimov Astrology WebLinks Visit LDS Church spokesmanDaleBills said in a news re- restaurateurfrom Boston. 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Ages range from the 30s to the aretired engineer from Lake 3 The Utah Supreme Court on Friday banned lawsuits overallegationsof clergy malpractice, a landmark ruilx ing that grants broad protections to church leaders when they counsel members oftheir flocks. globe who havereported to Park “T’ve broken my femur and had a compoundfracture in my lower : ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE make sense of the census data. 4 to fifth ‘The good news, somesay, is that idaho is ahead of its counterparts in the West's larger population centers, debating transportation policy and urban design before its largest metropolitan area's famine, not urban decay. “Boise has a great future,” Mike Wilson, former fordable and’ less-hassledretireand businesses in discussions about growth management. Idaho's transformation from rural to urban was arguably the nation’s starkest of the 1990s, when growth erupted by nearly 29per. cent and focused mostly in and Sce IDAHO,Page A-4 Brandon Loomis ‘The Salt Lake Tribune North-end Boise, Idaho, resident Danette Henderson is increasingly wary of through traffic on her neighborhood's once-quiet Streets as new developmentpushesout to the Boise Foothills, 1 N