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Show !PA~ES STATE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH POLICE INVESTIGATE HATE CRIME NOTES: A family living in University of Utah housing is fearful of its safety after receiving racist threats . Notes have been left in the family's mailbox, its car and · even on the doorstep. Jason Dazley and his wife Marilu , who is from Nicaragua, but a long-time resident and citizen of the United States, mel at the U and have been married three years. They say for the most part, they've always felt comfortable and welcome, until now. One of the notes the Dazleys have received read "Go back to your country.· Another read, · You're still here, beware." University police are investigating 'the notes. checking for fingerprints. Police also say that another couple living in the same university housing area has received similar threats. POLYGAMY BILL ON CAPITOL . HILL: Utah's Capitol Hill is buzzing following an unexpected visit by members of the known polygamist clan , the Kingstons. Two members of the Kingston family went before state lawmakers Monday to oppose a tough new polygamy bill. Elden Krngston says Senate Bill 146 is harsh and unfairly targets people like his family . Under the new bill , a person who performs marriages without authority or a valid license and parents and guardians who allow minors to be illegally married could all be slapped with a 3rd degree felony. The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved the polygamy bill. It now goes before the full Senate for a vote . OLYMPIC SCANDAL TRIA&:.: Former Salt lake Organizing Committee leaders Tom Welch and Dave Johnson were in federal court Thursday to ask that all 15 criminal charges _against them related to the city's bid for the 2002 winter games be dropped . For more than four hours the defense and prosecution debated back and forth whether the charges should be dropped and if the case should even go to trial. Attorneys for Welch and Johnson told the feaeral judge that the government has no case against them. The pa ir are accused of paying bribes to members of the International Olympic Committee in an attempt to bring the games to Utah. A judge is expected to rule on the request to dismiss the charges sometime in the next several weeks . The prosecution says it is now preparing to go to trial in June. NATION CHARGES FILED I N WHITE HOUSE SHOOTING: The U.S. Attorney's office Friday filed federal charges against the alleged gunman who fired shots outside the · White House . charging him with assaulting a ...._.w.;.....:.._ _ _..... federal officer with a Robert Pickett deadly weapon . The charge carries a maximum of 10 years in prison. Robert Pickett, 47, is the Indiana tax accountant who fired shots south o.f the White House grounds Wednesday. After a 10-minute midday standoff with police , he was shot /~ ~he knee an'd' taken to the hospital , UNIVERSITY JOURNAL FOCUS: THE WEEK THAT WAS where he is recovering in good condition. In the criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, U.S. Park Police officer Timothy Moser says Pickett brandished a loaded .38 caliber revolver and fired it twice during the standoff. A Secret Service officer shot Pickett in the right knee after hearing his gun click , Moser said. Police sources said they view Wednesday's incident as an attempted suicide by Pickett, either by shooting himself or by forcing officers to open fire , a practice sometimes called ·suicide by cop.· Pickett wrote a suicide letter to the Internal Revenue Service last week, and authorities said another letter, found in his car near a metro stop in suburban Virginia, could be construed as a suicide note. Prosecutors were still considering tocal charges in addition to the federal charges filed Friday. Both could be filed and prosecuted in federal court. The charge of assaulting a federal officer with a deadly weapon carries a penalty of up to 10 years in prison. Assaulting a federal agent without a weapon can carry a sentence of one to three years. O.J. SIMPSON POSTS BOND IN 'ROAD RAGE' CASE: Simpson turned himself in to police in MiamiDad_e County'. O.J. Simpson Florida, on Fnday and posted bond on two charges stemming from a December incident that his attorney described as "road rage misunderstanding ." Simpson, a former pro football star. is accused of grabbing the glasses off a man who had honked at hirn for ignoring a stop sign in Kendall. Florida. where Simpson now lives . Simpson is charged with a second-degree felony count of theft from an occupied automobile arid misdemeanor first-degree battery. Simpson walked into a Miam iDade County jail at noon Friday, then was taken to an unmarked police car and driven to the back of the sprawling jail for booking . He made no comment to reporters as he walked to the police car. W ith Simpson mugging for cameras after posting $9,000 bond, his attorney Yale Galanter read a statement to reporters: "Mr. Simpson is extremelithankful for the professionalism (of police) in allowing him to self-surrender and expediting his quick release .' Sim·pson could be sentenced to 15 years on the felony charge and a year on the misdemeanor. U.S. TO EASE MISSILE DEFENSE FEARS: The U.S. has reiterated it will press ahead with missile defense technology but has prom ised talks with nations wary of the plan. Secretary of State Col in Powell denied criticisms that the technology - to shoot down ballisJic missiles in flight - would spark off a new · arms race. Russia, China and a number of European Union countries. including the UK and Germany, have all expressed reservations about the National Missile Defense initiative . To develop the system Wash ington would have to either rip up the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty which outlaws NMD- or persuade Russia to accept alterations to the treaty . Powell said : "We are going to consult with our allies to hear their concerns . "But we are not going to be knocked off the track of moving in this direction as long as the technology points us in that direction.' Moscow warning Russia has strongly MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2001 criticized Washington's NMD plan . It has warned that not only does Moscow already have technology that would pierce NMD but also if the U.S. does develop the system it would spark a new arms race. Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev said old Soviet technologies developed in the 1980s to oppose Ronald Reagan's Star Wars·ptan could easily penetrate the NMD system. UK Foreign Secretary Robin Cook said NMD plans shoµld only be implemented in a way that does not increase tension with Russia . WORLD U.S. APOLOGY SWIFT AFTER SUB HITS BOAT; JAPANESE FAMILIES CLING TO HOPE: The families of nine people missing at sea anxiously awaited word on Saturday from rescuers combing the waters for survivors after a U.S. submarine surfaced and sunk a Japanese fishing boat near Hawaii. U.S. officials were quick to offer condolences and apologies to Japanese officials. Secretary of State Colin Powell telephoned Japanese Foreign Minister Yohei Kono Saturday morning to · convey his regrets and apology and also the president's regret and condolences ," said State Department spokesman David Denny. Tom Hubbard, acting assistant secretary for east Asian and Pacific affairs. called Japan's ambassador to the United States on Friday evening with a similar message . a State Department spokeswoman said. "The most important thing now is the search for the missing people,· Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori said. W I pray that there is some way that we will be able to find them soon." The 7,000-ton , Los Angeles-class nuclear attack submarine USS Greeneville plucked 26 people out of the water after it hit the 190-foot research vessel Ehime Maru at 1:45 p.m., about 10 miles south of Diamond Head , near Boat crash survivors Honolulu . T HOUSANDS RALLY AGAINST GERMAN NAZIS: Thousands of protesters have joined a demonstration against a neo-Nazi march in western Germany . About 7,500 counterdemonstrators rallied aga inst the march organ ized by the Federation of German Unions - far exceeding the 5,000 expected. Police sa id some protesters tried to break through barriers and disrupt the neo-Nazi march wh ich attracted 250 supporters. Germany is trying to combat a wave of hate crimes that have erupted since re unification in 1990. Hostility toward foreigners, who make up about eight percent of Germany's 82 million popu lation , is often especially strong in the east. where right-wing groups have created what they call "foreigner-free zones" through intimidation . The governor of North Rh ine-Westphal ia state , Wolfgang Clement, had called for a peaceful demonstration . The far-right march was allowed to take place only under strict cond itions - they were banned from wearing military-style boots or bombe r jackets , and were not allowed to march in rows or beat drums . . . 11 DIE IN KASHMIR POLICE HQ SHOOTOUT: Indian commandoes have gained control of the main police headquarters in the Kashmiri city of Srinagar after a 12-hour shootout which left 11 people dead. Four militants firing indiscriminately, and lobbing grenades at police guards. succeeded in storming into the central compound in a car and took positions inside late Friday. Troops launched an assault on the compound late Friday and secured the main control roorn 12 hours later on Saturday. However, two militants escaped despite an all-out police search . Nine policemen were killed and six other were injured. Two of the militants have been killed while the other two militants managed to escape, police official said . The attack was a joint operation by Kasnmir's Alumar separatist group, and the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba Islamic militants. SPORTS JETER SAYS HE VALUES PINSTRIPES MORE THAN PAY: Derek Jeter would rather count World Series rings than money . Still , after 13 months of negotiations, he sounded overwhelmed Friday when the New.York Derek Jeter Yankees rewarded him with the second-highest contract in sports history, a $189 million , 10-year deal. "I think everyone's blown away by the numbers ," the shortstop said. "I don't sit down and look at the numbers. I look more at that I have the chance to stay here." LEISURE 'HANNI BAL' DEVOURS COMPETIT ION IN MOVI E WEEKEN D: North American moviegoers were hungry for Hanniba l the Cannibal at the weekend . Hannibal, a thriller starring Sir Anthony Hopkins in a long-awaited follow-up to the 1991 hit The Silence of the Lambs, grossed a record-breaking $58 m illion in its first three days of release in the United ~tales and Canada , according to stud io estimates issued yesterday . If the numbers hold when fi nal data are issued today, Ha nnibal will replace 2000 's Mission: Impossible II ($57 .9 million) as the th ird-highest bow in movie history , after 1997's The Lost World: Jurassic Park ($72 million) and 1999's Star Wars: Episode One-The Phantom Menace· ($64.8 million). It also set new records for a non-summer '· opening , an R-rated release and for a release by domestic distributor MetroGoldY"Yn-Mayer Inc. Most industry expectations were in the $35 million-$40 million range. MGM distribution president Larry Gleason said he had hopetl to surpa~s the $42 mill ion bow of the 2000 horror spoof Scary Movie, wh ich held the record for an R-rated release .The film stars. Hopkins as elegant cannibal Hanniba l Lecter. When he's not disemboweling or dining on his hapless victims , he engages in a transatlantic cat-and-mouse game w ith FBI agent Clarice Starling,, played PY Julianne . -M0ore. |