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Show 2006 All-Valley boys hoops team | sports Wal-Mart goes green, looks to stock organic products| BUSINESS = Doily¥Herald = YOUR TOWN: YOUR NEIGHBORS * YOUR NEWSPAPER Better sate than sorry speaks toa crowd during State plans for possible bird flu outbreak The Governor's Summit: Utah Plans for Pandemic Ki berly Jahnke DARD-EXAMINER Influenza at the Davis Conference CenterFriday. will be signed in all 50 states. Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr., who could not attend Friday because he is traveling to Iraq to visit Utah troops, signed the resolution earlier secretary of U.S, Health and Human Services, andstate officials Public health leaders don't want to wing it if a bird flu pandemic strikes. Lt. Gov. Gary Herbert convened a summit in Layton on Friday of MATTHEW HATFIELD Standard Examiner for a pandemic. Similar resolutions At the summit, Michael Leavitt, federal, state andlocal health leadersto discuss andplan the state and nation’s response to a potential influenza pandemic. adopted a planningresolution for this week, The summit, held at the Davis pandemicinfluenza preparedness Conference Center, was spurred byconcerns aboutthe avian flu and unveiled a newstate Website to provide information for pan- demic planning. The summit was the firstof its kind in Utah. Theresolution outlines the re- virus H5N1, which has infected wild and domestic birds in dozens of Asian, European and African sponsibilities of federal, state and local governmentsin preparing See BIRD FLU, A7 Report: Russians tipped off Saddam Robert Burns THE ASSC ESS WASHINGTON— Inhis struggle to figure out and foil the Americaninvasion plan as it was unfolding in late March and early 4 April 2003, Saddam Hussein may havefielded a few tips from an old ally: the Russian government. But it seems possible the Russians’ “help” created more confusion than clarity for the clueless Iraqi leader. i As described in a lengthy report released Friday at the Pentagon, Iraqi documentscaptured by U.S. troops say the Russians collected information about U.S. troop movements and battle plans at the outset of the invasion by tapping suurces inside the American military. Andtheysaythe intelligence was passed to Saddam. But was the information useful? In atleast onecase, the Pentagon report suggestsit did more harm than good for Saddam.In fact it mayhavereinforced in Saddam's mind a mistaken impression about the timing of the U.S. ground assault into Baghdad — an impression that permitted U.S.forces to preserve an elementof surprise. . ROBB COSTELLO/Daily Herald Walter Noot, a concerned Alpine citizen, speaks to a group gatheredat Alpine Elementary Schoolon Friday to discuss a plan for a new charter schoolin Alpine. Referring to a Russian letter to Saddam thatclaimed the Russians had “sources”inside the U.S. Central Command,which planned and executed the invasion, the Pentagon report said, “Such external sources of information were only oneof the fog generators obscuringtheminds of Iraq's senior leadership.” Thatletter was dated March 24, five daysinto the war. The unclassified Pentagon report does not assess the value or accuracy of the information Saddam got Alpine group protests new charter school Concerned with the safety of Alpine neighborhoods, about 60 residents gathered Friday night to discuss their options of preventing Mountainville Academy,a charter school, from mov- a Schoolto discuss issues ranging from “We recognize the arrogance with increased roadtraffic to costs imposed the people that we are dealing with," he on the city to accommodatethe influx said at the beginning of the meeting. of 675 students. Noot said hefeels the developers Althoughit has not been approved —_and proponentsofthis school have by the Planning Commission, Nootsaid _not adequately assessed the negative he feels strongly that legal counselis impact this would have on 100 South, a must to ensure everything isdone to theroad wherethe schoolis slatedto or offer details on Russia's infor- ing in next fall. protect the residents of Alpine from be built. The roads thatwill be taken mationpipeline.It cites captured Headed by Walter Noot, Alpirie residents met at Alpine Elementary traffic hazards and unwanted coststo the city associated with the school. to the school cannot support the traffic of 675 students being dropped off and Katie Ashton DAILY HERALD. See RUSSIA, A7 system of iustice he i justice is presumed . ” innocent... Peter Striba Hoe defense attorney f But this study isn’t accurate,he said, See MOUNTAINVILLE, A8 ‘ 21 counts; of sex abuse |W, INSIDE G—> |ho. Huntsman | is with to vist Doctor charged "Under our picked up,hesaid. —_In a Planning Commission meeting where charter supporters showed a film depicting whattraffic would looklike at the school, Nootsaid there’ would be,with the estimateof 326 ve_hicles coming daily, 16 vehicles dropping students off every minute. | Heidi Tot drew’s attorney Peter Stirba said. ae wines B es a is A Springville fertility specialist. has been.charged with 21 counts of forcible.sex abuse. he is presumed innocent, and at the appropriate time and in the appropriate way I’m sure he will respond to the charges,” he said, to be a sexualwey without the knowing lary consent of the patient,”"he said According to a newsrelease sports OPINIONS AG OBITUARIES eas warm G HIGH 66 LOW 34 months after Dr. Larry Andrew’s license was suspended by the State's Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing and about a month after it was reinsed=e he returnedtowork. The charges from complaints from numerous wi said County Attorney David Some of the women were employees in Andrew's med—_ical clinic, others were patients. partment,the charges outlined are eran to have occurred ay een 2002 and 2005;the invoeen started in December eeee went to the Springville PoliceDepartment MOVIES WEATHER toae and his family, An- Andrew in some cases, under the DAILY HERALD “Under our system of justice The charges came almost three is devastati declining to: further. “The allegations are that Dr. pretext of cases with treatment, touched them in what weallege from the Sprit Police De- See ANDREW, A8 ESSER THEVSION B3 a | Utah in Ir troops I oe | Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. traveled _ tolrag on Friday assper ofa del- VOLUME 883 005 Cain, R-Arizona. Huntsman said in a staternet that he would be meeting with membersof the Utah National! Guard. 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