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VFrSf'SH Page 2 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Tuesday March 5 1996 wm Wa GOP attacks light rail plan Nixon joins race against Waldholtz SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — administration promise last year Republican Party leaders are to foot most of the bill for the demanding the demise of a light-ra- il $3(X) million project The vote puts the central comsystem through Salt Lake County putting them at odds with mittee on a collision course with their governor and some of the Gov Mike Leavitt who supports state's congressional delegation the light-ra- il concept as part of an The party's central committee overall plan to relieve growing traffic problems along the on Saturday voted by a 1 marWasatch Front gin in favor of a resolution sponx faction of the sored by an As governor Leavitt is the group calling for a halt to plans nominal head of he GOP in SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Carol Nixon former head of the Utah Arts Council and chief of staff to former Gov Norm Bangcrtcr will seek the Republican nomination for the 2nd Dis- 2-- trict seat held by Rep Enid Greene Whldholtz Waldholtz beset by questions over her personal and campaign finances has not yet announced whether she will seek Nixon said considered running for the office last election but backed off because she liked her new job as deputy director of the Utah Department of Community and Economic Development and anti-ta- by the Utah Transit Authority to build a commuter train between Sandy and downtown Salt Lake The action followed demands last week by Rep Jim Hansen that federal transportation dollars be spent on highways instead particularly in his Davis County district A day later Rep Enid Greene Waldholtz — whose 2nd District Utah Both of Utah’s Republican senators Orrin Hatch and Bob Bennett also support the concept 13-mi- le Leavitt spokeswoman Vicki Varela said Monday the governor has not spoken to any committee members and had no comment about their vote She did say the governor found the vote “unex- ah pected” includes Salt Lake County — highway instead of light Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher signs copies of her books for on lookers at the ZCMI department store Monday in Salt Lake City Thatcher is spending a week In the city on a UtahUnited Kingdom trade promotion Thatcher visit Nor was Leavitt surprised that “Hansen wants a West Davis reiterated doubts that Washington will make good on a Clinton rail” Varela said Former safety chief: TAD incinerator unsafe SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A former safety manager munities used the time to renew calls for Congress to stop arms incineration claims it is so unsafe that there is bound to be some type of accident Steven Jones who was Tired by the contractor building the plant when he refused to certify it as safe and later Tiled suit made his latest allegation at a news conference on Monday at the Chemical Weapons Wbrking Group in Washington DC “It’s just a matter of time before someone is killed cither inside the plant or worse they have an accident and they have casualties of civilians in surrounding communities” Jones said The plant at Tooele is scheduled to begin burning nerve agent this spring The Chemical Weapons Working Group an alliance of groups nationwide opposed to incineration near their com The group would rather see alternative technology implemented such as the use of other chemicals to neu- of a chemical arms incinerator at Tooele Army Depot SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Supreme Court has taken under advisement a request by convicted child molester and suspected murderer Roberto Arguelles to overturn a 1992 sexual abuse convic- Arguelles had served y Arguelles who is serving sentences at the Utah State Prison did not testify during his 1992 minimum-mandator- minimum-mandator- We Buy Aluminum Cans sen- y SUITS T Craig Williams national spokesman for the Chemical Weapons Working Group also alleged the Army is using misleading or false data about dangers from prolonged storage to push for quick incineration instead of developing possibly safer methods i'’'' USPS 241-82- im ( 0 tried to obtain information by offering to be a volunteer Enid said ‘My people are chomp- -' ing at the bit to get at you and I'm holding them off’ ” Nixon said in the interview last December However Nixon now says of Waldholtz: “She’s a friend and a fine person” Nixon denies that a pack of Republicans who would probably end up voting the same way as Waldholtz is now smelling blood Custom Butlts Computer UraTED- -l nPTAII IMft? 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HpralH Tnnmal TV rain such as intervening mountain ranges that might who also disappeared in the spring of --XWE now do custom — Compare to "Mmli WrarimiK1 at $275 1 years for the murders of two girls whose bodies )17995 $27995 Valley Metals Inc 145 No 1000 W Logan 752-057- 11 were found buried in a recking trench at a west Salt Lake County pig farm Arguelles led investigators to the bodies of the girls ATHLETIC-CU- 400 Per lb Si le tences for those crimes And investigators say he is a suspect in child sexual abuse trial During oral arguments Monday appellate attorney Ronald S Fujino said that Arguelles previous lawyer Robert Macri wrongly advised his client against testifying because of prior convictions “MP worst-possib- attempted criminal homicide and aggravated sexual assault of two teen-ag- e girls in March 1980 He was on parole for those crimes when he sexually abused a brother and sister ages 7 and 8 behind a West Valley elementary school in 1992 He is currently serving consecutive tion' i tralize the weapons without burning Jones said because nerve agent is combustible as is the propane and natural gas used in the plant an explosion and release of agent would be possible Such an accident could kill people up to 40 miles downwind he said But Marilyn Tischbin spokeswoman for the Army's chemical demilitarization project manager said the only studies she is aware of that suggest such a wide danger zone were for accidents for storage not arms destruction She also said such studies refer to accidents “that hapweather conditions aimed at the pen in the highest population areas" The studies Tischbin said did not take into account ter would spend whatever it took to beat Democratic incumbent Rep Karen Shepherd Waldholtz succeeded in ousting Shepherd but her $2 million in 1994 campaign spending and personal finances are under investigation by the FBI “Who would have dreamed homicide suspect appeals previous conviction Pig-far- m Waldholtz made it clear she AP photo : |