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Show Friday Utah Valley September 3, 2004 Edition www.harktheberakl.caai 50 CENTS YOUR TOWN - YOUR NEIGHBORS YOUR NEWSPAPER 1 REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION Notre Dame "Bust liiveis agenda foriitoe fans put on party face Plan includes steps for education, investment, deficit and health care before game school testing, encourage investment in poor communities, force deficit reduction and expand health Scott Llndlaw THE ASSOCIATED PRESS " ' .. President Bush 'care..'-The thousands of Republican sought to take the edge off a confaithful in Madison Square Garden servative image sharpened by three years of war and aggressive exploded in cheers of "Four more tax cuts, casting himself as a years! Four more years!" Bush basked in the adoration, but his steady and compassionate leader who would use a second term to words were aimed at a television build a more hopeful America. audience of millions in a presidenBush asked voters Thursday tial race deadlocked two months m 1 li a. : t i.L- - v before Election Day. cies of the past." He spoke from a stage laden "We are on the path to the future with imagery meant to remind and we are not turning back," viewers he is already their comBush said in a speech to the Repubmander in chief. Bush stood on a lican National Convention, where circular floor emblazoned with the he accepted his party's nominatioa presidential seal, and the backdrop He unveiled modest new proposals, See BUSH, A4 including steps to tighten high- NEW YORK .1 "4 Jason Franchuk DAILY HERALD in h I come to Provo as They'll pioneers the wagon load, of a land to call own at least for this weekend they're not But STEPHAN SAVOIAAssociated President Bush unveib new proposals, including steps tol&hten high-scho- Press, testirur, force ol LDS. Fans of Catholic Notre Dame will be storming Utah Valley, bastion of the LDS faith, to see their football team take on BYU, the light on a hill for millions of Mormons. Pass the mustard. And no thank you, they'll probably skip the art museum. Notre Dame fans are known to be and to travel everywhere. About 200 members make up the Utah fan club, most of whom are Notre Dame graduates, though it includes some few parents and a handful of other people who havent seen the school at all except through the eyes of "Rudy." Whatever their connection, they'll pep rally and party, break bread and drink booze, having a "gentile" good time in a famously dry land. Maybe, some joke, they'll loosen up a few Cougars along the defcit reduction and expand health care, at the convention on Thursday in New York Militants free some hostages IE ill L J-- .L ! UU neignooruness. ' "Notre Dame fans are famous for starting the game day early," said Pete Heinbecker, a psychiatrist at Utah State Hospital in Provo. "We'll a gooa-nanire- See NOTRE DAME, A4 Bel Mapleton wants more from polluted 1 L aquifer settlement . r9i Todd Hollingshead DAILY . "SY Mapleton city officials and residents made it known Thursday they were not satisfied with the state's proposed settlement with Ensign-Bickforthe company responsible for contaminating the city's groundwater. At an open house hosted by the Utah Department of Environmental Quality, residents contested the $12 million settlement that will clean up nitrates and RDX chemicals in the city's groundwater aquifer, saying the plan doesnt fully rectify what 's Trojan Plant 4 VJX HERALD mm d, Ensign-Bickford- damaged See . ; - VICTOR INSIDE Mike Eckel THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ;, BESLAN, Russia ::,!..:, Camouflage-cla- d commandos carried crying babies away fran a school where gunmen holding hundreds of hostages : freed at least 26 women and children Thursday during a second day of high drama that kept crowds of dis-- :rrr linn iijiiiaiitiiiwiiitlM'iliWliWnrmTn'Hrl'-'fY-'Witf- "SfflSSet when the militants fired grenades at two cars near the compound ringed by ' ' security forces, and later two grenade blasts interrupted a nervous traught relatives on edge. calm during the night. A policeman Men and women wept with disap pointment or hugged each other with was reported injured by one of the reuei as a man reaa ine names oi uie expwsKxis eariy rriuay, President Vladimir Putin said ', ;k freed hostages over a loudspeaker, ; Some of the toddlers released were t , everything possible would be done to. naked, apparently because of the sti- end the "horrible crisis and save the fling heat in the school, where the : ; children and adults being held at the school in Beslan, a town in the gouth--" hostage-taker- s refused to allow authorities to deliver water, food and - em region of North Ossetia. ; But it was uncertain how much either side was willing to give to avoid further bloodshed in the siege the latest incident in a series of violent attacks believed linked to Russia's war in Chechnya. A dozen people . WEATHER Q OBITUARIES PS LIFE&STYIE B1 OPINIONS A6 HOROSCOPE B8 MOVIES B5 SPORTS a COMICS ' Scattered storms KIGH66 LOW 44 VOLUME 82 ISSUE 34 M See RUSSIA, A 7 5 1 VPH Pt LOCAL were reported killed by the attackers when the school was captured Wednesday, but one official said Thursday that 16 died, v" Reports after:the standoff began Wednesday said the attackers demanded the release of people jailed (3: D3.D5 UTAH At least 26 released, but some fear hostage count is higher thm originalfy believed TP- I II 6 " "II" "I H ""61055,,00050I,M8 rmmmmmatmmmmtmmMmmMtmmmtmmimrmmmi f cv'-.'- Mm ' li UliO Qu A7 KOMTAYEVReuters polka officer carries a released baby from the school seized by heavily armed masked men and women in the to'wnofBeslan, North Ossetia, Russia on Thursday. The militants released at least 26 women and children on Thursday. A Russian t MAPLETON, m im |