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Show v Sunday Utah Valley September 5, 2004 Edition wwwJbartaheherald.com $150 YOUR PAGE A2 TOWILOi YOUR NEWSPAPER IGHBQRS f LIFE & STYLE Slow-movin- g Frances inches toward Florida o sillies iLsviiiil vy fo'.--.- BYU TOPS SPECIAL REPORT Notre dame Death Rides $ theWemd a FRANK players Todd Watkins, left, celebrate at the end of BYlTs BYU BOTTDaily Herald and Matt Berry 20-1- 7 win over throw in Notre Dame. Watkins caught a the final minutes of the fourth quarter, securing the Cougar's victory. See Sports. 53-ya- Bush widens lead in race ! y against Kerry for president I LI Ron Foumier THE ASSOCIATED PRESS In a seesaw campaign, Bush has opened a lead over John Kerry in uieir uiive iu wmie nuuse vitiuiy uy niaKuig gains in the Midwest and solidifying his Southern base. The race is spread over 19 states, with the fiercest competition in Ohio, Florida, Iowa, Minnesota, New Mexico and Pennsylvania, according to state polls and interviews with strategists in both parties. Two months before Election Day, the president has 20 states firmly in his column and eight leaning his way, for a total of 237 electoral votes. It takes 270 to win the White House. The Democratic challenger has 11 states plus the District of Columbia in hand, with five states leaning his way. That puts Kerry at 211 electoral votes. Just two weeks ago, state polling was breaking toward Kerry on the heels of the Democratic convention in Boston. Surveys had shown him opening nar-roleads in Florida, Michigan, New Hampshire and a few other hotly contested states. Campaign aides WASHINGTON 4 i w FRANK See ELECTION, A9 BOTTDaily Herald Victims of radioactive fallout criticize nuclear weapons research they say will lead to renewed testing, such as this underground test, named Baneberry, on Dec. 18, 1970, at the Nevada Test Site. For nearly 50 years, the government tested nuclear weapons, showering the country with radioactive fallout and lied about the effects. Now some of the people whose lives have been bent or broken by those bombs don't believe assurances that renewed weapons research won't lead to a resumption of the deadly tests. S o Death rides tho wind (First of two parts) Daily Herald ByN.S.Nokkentved efore dawn oq Monday, July 16, 119 tne nuciear age exploded in . a flash desrrihMl as "hrichf at than a thousand suns." f"" 1 TVip nnrirm's first nurkar tvwnh test, Trinity, went off at 50 am, lighting up a desolate stretch of New Mexico or Jourdesert known as Jornada del Muerto ney of Death at the Alamagordo Bombing and Gunnery Range, now called White Sands. After nearly 50 years o showering the popua- tion with radioactive fallout and participating in an international nuclear arms race, the nation , stopped testing nuclear weapons in 1992. 63 But recent congressional action and the Bush administration's budget request for renewed nuclear weapons research and improvements at the Nevada Test Site have rekindled suspicions among Utah Downwinders that the government wants to resume tests. V. "It's a dead certainty said J Truman, founder and director of Downwinders, a loose-kn- it organization of victims of radioactive fallout from past nuclear weapons tests. . "You cant build 'em, if you dont test 'em," he said. . Truman was born in 1951 in Enterprise, the year ' ' '','' ' - See 1 . NUCLEAR, A6 About thb terles For decades, the government tested atomic bombs in the Nevada desert Today and Monday the Daily Herald takes a closer " look at the tests of the past, some of the effects of those-tests-, and proposed new weapons that some fear will lead to more tests. Former president Carter makes stop at Sundance Elyssa Andrus ' ' DAI1.Y HERALD As American soldiers battle enemy forces in Iraq, former US; president and 2002 Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter spoke Saturday at Sundance resort about a different conflict the Revolutionary War. He called it rieriwst important part of ourmrtion'slbistay'C''''' Carter's appearance in Utah County was part of Sundance's Tree Room Author Series, which brings See INSIDE HISTORY LOCAL WEATHER OBITUARIES ' ' 1 CARTER, A9 Siinny Q ct- - a ' ? C4CS UFE&STYLE 01. OPINIONS A8' HOROSCOPE M. SPORTS B1 HIGH 74 ftCW4S"; VOLUME 82 ISSVE 36 1 1.1 6 0015l7,u5 |