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Show !MONDAY, AUGUST lS-, 1000 STATE BOARD OK'S ROMNEY'S LEGAL PLAN: Salt Lake Organizing Committee President Mitt Romney received unanimous support from the SLOC board Friday to pursue his proposal to resolve the issue of advancing legal fees to Olympic bribery scandal defendants Tom Welch and Dave Johnson. Speaking from California later Friday, Welch withheld judgment on the decision until he sees whether Romney "is going in to negotiate or is going in to dictate.· But, he added, if Romney is unwilling to budge from his position that Welch must give up all claims against Olympic organizers in order to get SLOC's insurance company to cover attorneys fees and other defense expenses upfront. then a settlement is impossible. ONE DEAD, TWO HURT AT THERMAL POOL: Two Salt lake City m en who survived a plunge into a thermal pool at Yellowstone National Park last Tuesday told doctors that they- along with a third friend who later died - had believed the water was cool and deliberately jumped in. The two 18-year-olds today are in critical but stable condition at the lntermountain Bum and Trauma Center at University Hospital in Salt Lake City. Lance Buchi of Sandy suffered thirddegree burns over 90 percent of his body. and Tyler Montague of Salt Lake City suffered second and third-degree bums over 97 percent of his body. Sarah Hulphers, 20, of Oroville, Wash., died at the hospital after suffering third-degree bUfT!S over her entire body. ......................_...... GUNSHOT MA Y HAV E KILLED RARE OSPREY INS. UTAH: Wildlife officials are investigating the death of a male osprey that Martin Tyner of Cedar for the pas~ three City cradles a chick years had hved from an abandoned with its mate in a osprey nest. nest next to the shore of the Minersville Reservoir in Beaver County in southwest Utah. The osprey, a raptor that lives almost exclusively on fish it catches by diving into streams and lakes, was found last week near the reservoir with a fractured wing and later died. Officials with the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are waiting for an autopsy to determine if the fractured wing was the result of a gunshot wound or an accident while it was fishing. After the loss of the male osprey, the . nest, on a platform on top of a 40-foot power pole, was abandoned by the female, leaving behind a pair of chicks. JOHN Q . UTAH, YOU ARE A WINNER: Some Utah consumers may be eligible for restitution payments totaling nearly $250,000 from a lawsuit settlement with Publisher~ Clearing House. The sweepstakes company, which mails out "You are a winner!" notices containing what look like checks for large amounts, has agreed to pay $18 million to 24 states and the District of Columbia to settle allegations it used deceptive promotions. UNIVERSITY JOURNAL FOCUS: THE WEEK THAT WAS The settlement announced Tuesday, stemming from lawsuits and investigations launched by the states during the past two years, calls on Publishers Clearing House to change many of its practices and provides money to reimburse some consumers. The money will go to the states to reimburse customers-who spent at least $2,500 with Publishers Clearing House between 1997 and 1999. Utah will receive its settlement in three installments, with the first one of $100,000 coming sometime in September. NATION FIRESTONE REPLACES NEARLY 1 M ILLION TIRES: Firestone executives announced Saturday they expect to pass the 1 million mark in replaced tires this weekend as dealers struggle to meet consumer demand after a massive tire recall. The company has also broadened its public relations effort with a television ad that promises a commitment to public safety. The company is also gearing up for a visit Monday from congressional aides, who are preparing for Capitol Hill hearings in September that will examine the recall of about 6.5 million Firestone ATX, ATX II and Wilderness AT models on the road. Ford trucks and sport utility vehicles, especially the Explorer, are among the chief users of the tires. NAVY INVESTIGATING MORE TAILHOOK ALLEGATIONS: The U.S. Navy said Friday it was investigating allegations of misconduct by military fliers at a Tailhook Association convention last week near Reno, Nevada, nine years after sexual abuse and debauchery at a similar gathering in Las Vegas battered the Navy's reputation. The Navy said criminal investigators were looking into charges by a civilian couple that they were harassed and that the woman was allegedly touched inappropriately as they tried to return to their room at the Nugget Hotel outside Reno by a group ~o they believed to be delegates attending the convention of retired Navy and Marine Corps aviators. CLINTON SENDING MbRE TROOPS TO HELP TAME RAGING WESTERN WILDFIRES: Firefighters battling the nation's worst wildfire season in 50 years got a boost Friday from U.S. President Bill Clinton, who ordered an additional 500 Army soldiers to the fireravaged West The president's move is part of a widening federal effort to commit even more troops and personnel to combat the wildfires, which show no signs of letting up. The administration's goal is to have five full battalions, 2,500 military personnel in all, on the front lines by labor Day, with one fresh battalion held in reserve. FIFTEEN SMUGGLERS ARRESTED, MORE THAN 1,000 IMMIGRANTS DETAINED: An immigration service crackdown focusing on airports and immigrant "drophouses· in Phoenix and las Vegas has led to the arrest of 15 suspected smugglers and the capture of more than 1,000 illegal immigrants, officials said Friday. Immigration and Naturalization Service PAGE 13 agents began round-the-clock surveillance two weeks ago of Phoenix's Sky Harbor International Airport and Las Vegas' McCarran International Airport to counter smuggling networks that use airlines to send immigrants to the East Coast and Midwest Since then, officials have noticed a decline in illegal immigrants trying to go through both airports and an increase in the numbers traveling by car through Colorado. investigation comes despite other observations that there was an internal explosion. The cause of the disaster probably will not be known until experts study the shattered submarine more closely, if it can be raised. Military prosecutors believe that vessel, which has not been found, violated safety rules and was directly responsible for the sinking of the Kursk. SPORTS WORLD FLORIDA STATE PUMMELS BYU: GULF AI R PLANE CRASHES: A Gulf Air Airbus A320 on a scheduled flight from Manama, Bahrain, to Cairo, Egypt, crashed into the Persian Gulf off the coast of Bahrain on Wednesday, Aug. 23. Bahraini television said Flight 072 fell from the sky at 8:40 p.m. with 135 passengers and eight crew members on board. No survivors have been found. The plane reportedly tried to land twice before it plunged int9 the sea. An air traffic controller at the Bahrain airport, described watching the plane from the tower circle the runway twice in an attempt to land, then on the third attempt crashing into the gulf and exploding into flames. Florida State did not appear comfortable in its role as defending national champion, but Atrews Bell was right at home Saturday night. Bell , a Jacksonville native, caught a touchdown pass and ran for another as the second-ranked Seminoles began their title defense with a lackluster 29-3 victory over Brigham Young in the Pigskin Classic. Florida State scored 15 points in the first 12 1/2 minutes, held BYU without a touchdown and cruised to its 13th straight victory, the longest current winning streak in Division 1-A. COOPER LEADS HOUSTON TO FOURTH WNBA TITLE: In a four- DIVERS OPEN HATCH ON STRICKEN SUB: Norwegian divers early last Monday opened the rear hatch of a Russian nuclear submarine that plunged to the bottom of the Barents Sea last week carrying 118 crew. Initial reports indicated the divers found no signs of life. A spokesman for the Norwegian armed forces confirmed that the hatch was opened and the trunk or tube below it was full of water and that there were no bodies in it. Deep-sea divers are now attempting to open an inner escape hatch to gain access to submarine's lower, interior chambers. Officials said that if the chamber beneath the interior hatch was full of water, it would mean there were no survivors inside the submarine - and the rescue operation would be terminated. year-old league, Cynthia Cooper won her fourth championship and fourth WNBA Finals M ost Valuable Player award as her Houston Comets beat the New York Liberty 79-73 in overtime. In what she says was her final game, Cooper scored 25 points including six in overtime, and added seven assists. Cooper helped the Comets top the Liberty in the Finals for the third time. New York also was their victim in 1997 and last season. Sheryl Swoopes scored a playoff career-high 31 points and Tina Thompson added 11 for the Comets. LEISURE DONALD DUCK CREATOR DIES: Cartoonist Carl Barks, who drew Donald .---,,--__,,.--,----, CLINTON Duck comic books for three decades, • turning the quacking, cranky waterfowl PLEDGES into an unlikely, universally loved U.S. HELP IN "Everyman," has died at age 99 at his NIGERIA'S home in southern Oregon , the Walt TRANSITION: Kicking off a three-day visit to Africa, U.S. President Bill Clinton on Saturday lauded Nigeria's transition to democracy as the most important change in Africa since the end of apartheid. In a warmly received address to the National Assembly and· President Olusegun Obasanjo, Clinton pledged continued support for Nigeria's budding democracy and lauded the West African nation for its higher profile in regional peacemaking. "Your fight is America's fight and the world's fight," he told the lawmakers. RUSSIA OPENS CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION: Saturday, Russian prosecutors have began a criminal investigation into allegations that the nuclear submarine that crashed to the sea floor two weeks ago had collided with a vessel that later escaped. The Disney Co. said. Associates of Barks in Grants Pass, Ore., where he lived for many years and maintained a studio, said he died of leukemia on Friday. As an artist, Barks was expert at creating "poultry in motion· and invented the character · scrooge McDuck," who went from the pages of the Walt Disney Comics & Stories to becoming a fullfledged film cartoon character on his own - the world's funniest miser. ONE 'SURVIVOR' SUES ANOTHER IN CHICAGO COURT: A found~r of the Grammy-winning rock band Su'""ivor will take legal action to prevent the name being used on a soonto-be-released soundtrack from the hit TV series of the same name, his lawyer said Frid.ay. lead guitarist Franklin Sullivan 111 , who trademarked the name Survivor in 1977 for the band, will ask a federal court in Chicago next month for a preliminary injunction against CBS Corp. ·-·····--- ~--- -··---- - --· ······ · ·---1• '. |