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2 FRIDAY, JANUARY 11 THE DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE 2002 am CAMPUS EVENTS The one tragedy is that he can't talk. JESS MCCALL EDU CHRONICLE NErtS EDITOR JARCO WHITLEY JWHlTLEVCHRONlCLE.UTAH CHRONICLE WiRE EDITOR SHEENA MCFARLANO SMCFARLAhDSChRONICLE.UTAH.EDU - SALT LAKE CITY iJMiii (far (c Ufel) (ton The first group headed for Cuba on Thursday reportedly included around 20 prisoners. The Pentagon has not said how many will be transferred. In preparing security for the operation, the military has been examining earlier uprisings by Taliban and al Qaeda prisoners particularly one in November at a prison outside the northThat revolt ern Afghan city of took three days to suppress and left dozens dead including a CIA operative, Johnny "Mike" Spann. "We arc determined to make sure we do not said repeat the mistakes of Jarvis, spokesman for the Marines at Kandahar airport. "There will be no breach of security." In Washington, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said commanders at Guantanamo and those involved in the transport had "reviewed and other pristhe uprising at oner revolts. The commanders could use "appropriate restraint" for the prisoners, he said. "There are among these prisoners people perfectly willing to kill themselves and others," he told journalists. Rumsfeld would not confirm whether the transfer had begun. Mazar-e-Shari- f. Mazar-c-Sharif- Mazar-c-Shari- ," f" KC-13- Afghan war. The base in the southwestern province of Baluchistan, an area of vast deserts and rugged mountains has been used by the U.S. military as a forward staging point. U.S. officials said there was no indication it had been hit by hostile fire, but the cause was unknown. Afghan forces have steadily been turning over captured al Qaeda members to the Marines, and more have come from Pakistani troops intercepting fugitives trying to flee across the border from the bombed-ou- t mountain hideouts at Tora Bora and Khost in eastern Afghanistan. But U.S. officials on Thursday repeated their demands that the Afghan government hand over captured top Taliban and al Qaeda figures, after seven Taliban leaders including the minister were set free after they surrendered in Kandahar. Anti-Talib- an ex-justi- ce mum mm UN!T sooner federal officials approve Yucca Mountain in Nevada as a permanent storage spot for nuclear waste, the sooner waste could leave Utah, say supporters of a nuclear waste plan to store high-levin Utah's Skull Valley. Not so fast, say opponents of the Skull Valley plan, who sec Utah SALT LAKE Tom Ridge stepped onto a helicopter Thursday for a tour of Olympic sites, he was convinced everything possible had been done to make next month's Winter Olympics safe. Nothing the nation's domestic security chief saw on his morning fly over ski slopes and ice arenas changed his mind. After a visit designed to bolster the nation's confidence about security protection for the Olympics, Ridge declared the $300 million plan to protect the games as complete as humanly and technologically possible. "I believe one of the safest places on the globe from the beginning to the end of February will be Salt Lake CITY-T- he el becoming a permanent storage dump and say the Nevada site is de-fac- to not a sure thing. U.S. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham on Thursday gave his approval to the Yucca Mountain site, 80 miles northwest of Las Vegas, as the country's permanent nuclear waste storage site. Government officials in Utah are adamantly opposed to the plan. UNIVERSITY WEATHER 1 WASHINGTON agents smashed a Federal drug and drug-smuggli- distribution ring run by Middle Easterners Thursday, charging more than ioo people with selling common-col- d tablets smuggled from Canada for conversion to methamphetamine. n people have been arrested and another 54 arrest warrants were issued in Chicago, Detroit and 10 other cities, Drug Enforcement Administration officials said. They said the alleged smugglers, the majority of whom are from the Middle East, purchased barrels of pseudoephedrine pills in Canada and transported them to the U.S., mainly through Detroit. From there the pills were sold to methamphetamine laboratories in California and Mexico, said Joseph Keefe, head of the DEA's special operations division. Pseudoephedrine is a prescription antihistamine used in cold and flu medicines that is also the main ingredient in Sixty-seve- over-the-count- er 3927 FRIDAY: Did You Know... 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Editor in News Sports Feature Opinion Magazine Photo Chief Editor Editor Editor Editor Editor Editor Production Manager MATT CANHAM mcar,ham:hronicltutahdu JARED WHITLEY jr.'!?chtciciutitdu ERIC "WALLY" WALDEN WYNNE PARRY LAURA B. WEISS KATHRYN utah edu f vUhtij w.:hsm:t C0WLES MATT HATFIELD ea'dfn?;h-c"i:i- t r,i:hion,c jtahedi. Wrti mr, ior, mrutlifitJicfi'omcK ulahfjj DAVE HOWELL flhonfllJchiomtimtihuJu MARK 0C0EN mogdenJchiomcif utah edu Online Editor Business Manager ADAM WARD wirdch(onicl utah edu Accountant KAY ANDEPSEN irchioni utah tin Advertising Manager JASON C00MSS jcoombsf chronicle utah edu thresh ths Olympic ViHsgs on Jan. 17 before it is closed to the public. The tours are limited to students, faculty and staff with current university 10 from 2 to 5:30 p.m. in front of the Union. Tickets are free, and are available on e basis a Union today at 8 a.m. at the front nk or U Hospital cssMfrt office. Calf 581- 50C?-- (or more information. first-com- first-serv- e, JANUARY 15 The Hinckley institute of Politics is hosting a speech titled, "America, Mongolia and World Politics In the 21st Century" at 10:45 a.m. in Orson Spencer Hall Room 255. The Mormon Studies Brown Bag Series presents a report titled, "Anthropology of at noon in Room 103-of the Stew3rt Build- U.S.-Grce- ce relations were on full display at Thursday as President Bush thanked Prime Minister Costas Simitis for being a friend in the fight against terrorism. Before news cameras in the Oval Office, Bush also credited Simitis for easing longtime tensions with rival Turkey. And the two leaders shared a laugh when Simitis presented Bush with a sweat shirt for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. As the two sat down to their private meeting, Bush said the world is better off now that Greek relations with Turkey have improved. "I want to thank you for your vision, for your foreign ministry's hard work to make the world more peaceful," Bush said to the prime minister. Simitis also showed off two Euro coins and said he hoped Europe's new common currency would come to symbolize "a new feeling about the the, .White House possibilities of Europc.and closer B ing. As part of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration, a panel discussion titled, "Reaching Every Patient: Hsa'th Csre for Divers Communities, " Is taking place at noon in the Huntsman Cancer Institute Auditorium. The Stegner Center of the College cf Law and the Marriott Library's Unrequired Reading Group present John Campbell reading from "Abssnce end U$bt: Meditations from tha Klamath Msrshe3 Dead West" at 7 p.m. in the library's Gould Auditorium. JANUARY 17 Professor Robert Goldberg is delivering a speech titled, "Enemies Within: Ths Culture of Conspiracy In Modern America" at 10:45 a.m. in 0SH255, Israel Bulldozes Courtesy Todd Foisy, The Union is offering tours Mor-mcnls- Blue is the favorite color of 8o percent of Americans. Yep, you're unique, just like everybody else. www.met.tjtah.edujimsteenams RED Sw cooperation with the United States." SATUSSJtY: THE JANUARY 14 Meanwhile, Pakistani and U.S. recovery teams 0 converged on the crash site of a Marine refueling tanker that struck a mountain and exploded in flames Wednesday near Pakistan's remote Shamsi air base. Seven Marines were killed, the worst American casualty toll of the Nuclear Waste Site Agents Stop Drug Greek Ruler's Visit Stirs Controversy Ring in Chicago Sign of Relations Even before City," Ridge said. JANUARY 12 Last day to drop a class. UTAH Nat'l Chief Likes Olympic Security S r iiiifii KANDAHAR. Afghanistan The first planeload of al Qaeda prisoners departed a Marine base at Kandahar's airport Thursday night, flown to a U.S. military detention camp in Cuba, a spokesman said. Small-arm- s fire erupted from the northern edge of the base as the plane took off, and the Marines responded with heavy fire, Marine Lt. James Jarvis said. A sustained fircfight lasted at least 30 minutes, witnesses said. Military helicopters circled the area, looking for the source of the incoming fire, Jarvis said. "We have encountered enemy fire and we are engaging them," Jarvis said. He said he knew of no reports of injuries or deaths at the base. The military said it's taking no chances as it transfers al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners from this base to a new detention facility being built at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Heavy security is being imposed to prevent a bloody uprising. Prisoners were to be chained to their seats and possibly be sedated, forced to use portable urinals and be fed by their guards during the flights to Cuba, according to USA Today and television reports. More than 300 prisoners are held at Kandahar. ' '"J ON CLEM. THE FORT DOUGLAS GHOST StripIsrael Bush to Push for Pakistan Action WASHINGTON-Presid- ent Bush sent tanks and bulldozers into a Palestinian refugee camp early Thursday, knocking down dozens of buildings in retaliation for a raid on an army post that left four soldiers assured India's home minister on Thursday that the United States will press Pakistan for tougher action against those suspected in terrorist dead. top adviser on security issues to Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, said India appreciated Bush's pledge but The army said the buildings were hide-out- s used by gunmen, but the Palestinians said the bulldozers destroyed residents' homes. Angry residents retrieved a few belongings a mattress, a pot, a stroller from the rubble. tensions . grew Meanwhile, between Islamic militants, some of whom say they will renew attacks lull, against Israel after a month-lon- g and Yasser Arafat, who issued a call Dec. 16 for an end to the violence. Pressure on the Palestinian leader has increased in the wake of Israel's seizure of a ship carrying 50 tons of weapons that Israel and the ship's Palestinian captain say were bound rain-soak- ed for Gaza. attacks against India. Home Minister Lai Advani, a would otherwise reserve judgment. "In India, Pakistan's acts will be judged not by the statements it makes, but by the actions which accompany such a statement," Advani said. Advani saw Bush during a meeting with national security adviser Condoleczza Rice. He said Bush assured him that he expected Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to "abandon terror as an instrument of state policy." Powell, preparing for a trip to India and Pakistan, said Wednesday that Musharraf could work harder to ease renewed tensions with India. Chicana writer, activist and teacher Elizabeth Martinez is delivering the keynote address for the 2C02 Msrtln Luther King, Jr. Celebration at noon In the Union Ballroom. Dsn Barry will present a seminar titled, "Spsccfllcjht from a Physician Engineer's Perspective" from 1 to 2 p.m. in Room 102 of the Engineer Mines Classroom Building. Dr. The Winter Olympics: An International Lecture Series presents the speech "Olympic Symbols" at 7:30 p.m. in the OSH auditorium. The Associated Students of the University presents a lecture by Utah Public Safety Commissioner Robert Flowers titled, "Olympic Security," at noon in the Union Panorama Room East. ADDITIONAL EVENTS CM WmDA5lYrjTAHCHROS5!ClEXOM r. POOR