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Show Tiger Woods' five years at No. 1 may end today . i sports Mondays Utah Valley September 6, 2004 Edition wwwJiarktheherald.com 50 CENTS YOUR TOWN ' YOUR NEIGHBORS YOUR NEWSPAPER Is top Saddam aide captured? Iraqi government claims nabbed in raid, other officials not sure al-Do- Ministry spokesman announced the T.Christian Miller LOS ANGELES TIMES Breakfast Serials uri cap- ture of one of Iraq's most wanted men, a trusted confiIzzat Ibrahim ,; BAGHDAD, Iraq Iraqi officials thought they had the king of dubs. On Sunday morning, the Iraqi Defense dant of Saddam Hussein and the highest-rankin- g regime official to remain free. In detail the spokesman told a U.S.- - IK p funded television station here how US. and Iraqi forces had stormed a medical clinic in the northern city of Tikrit was receiving where the feeble treatment for leukemia. Other government officials elaborated: Iraqi troops backed by U.S. helicopters and tanks battled their way through more than 170 loyal bodyguards, killing 70 and capturing 80. A few others got away. See vi ! AS Editor's note: Beginning today, the Life & Style section will run excerpts from the children's book, "The Valley of No Return," on our kid's page, BYO Brain (see B3). Written by John 0PECXAL XXEPOBT Tomerlinandillmtratedby Michael Lacapa, the story is about the lessons two young people learn as they struggle to survive. The series will run each Monday through January 2. w MM Returning 7 'V WfMpHl capsule may be grabbed if If' . 1 Jf by choppers Attempt by stunt pilots to grab object will be televisedlive. , Paul Foy THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SALT LAKE CITY -I- -- n a har- rowing feat high over the Utah desert Wednesday, two helicopter stunt pilots will try to ' snatch a floating space capsule that holds "a piece of the sun" and bring it safely down. Their biggest fear: What if they flub it on live TV? And that's entirely possible. '. The pilots rate it 8 or 9 on a difficulty scale of 10. "It's like flying in formation with a giant floating jellyfish," says pilot Dan Rudert. The stuntmen will be trying to Genesis caphook the sule as it hurtles 400 feet a minute. Inside it are fragile solar so small wind particles they're invisible which scientists hope will reveal clues about the origin of our solar system. The biggest challenge, the pilots say, will be flying at 40 mph. nearly a mile above the desert without any visual reference points to judge distance or speed as they close in with hook and ' cable on the capsule. The helicopter pilots will have five chances to snag the capsule in midair. Military pilots were unavailable for a mission that required them to commit to a task six years in the future. The civil-ia- n pilots have replicated the retrieval without fumbles in dozens of practice runs, but are terrified of failing as NASA television broadcasts a worldwide Jill VfJJt KU A:. "Hi-- Viil I lltt lilt! FRANK BOTTDaily Herald born in Payson in 1941, says he has no doubt that his thyroid cancer is linked to extensive nuclear weapons testing that was conducted in southern Nevada. The cancer causes his energy levels to plummet, so he spends most of his afternoons reading or resting. Tony Pickering, -- xr a q 400-poun- d IWil ViU KV By N.S. GENESIS, Daily Herald pea-size- If they miss and the Genesis capsule hits the ground hard, scientists say they'd have to spend months sorting through broken disks holding jewelry-studde- d the tiny solar wind particles. There are other opportunities for the $260 million mission to go awry, too. For NASA engineers a white- -' knuckle moment will be when the capsule must be steered through a "keyhole" high in the Earth's atmosphere. If the See Nokkentved 1 Downwinders decry prospect of renewed nuclear testing While shaving one September morning four years ago, Tony Pickering, d 63, noticed a lump sticking out from the right side of his neck. It was only the tip of a larger tumor, and only a hint of tip trouble to come. Tests did not show any cancer, but because of the tumor's size his doctor recommended having it ' about inches removed. During surgery doctors learned the sobering truth the tumor was cancerous and so was his thyroid gland. feed. : 9 T His doctor toldhim the cancer was related to his exposure to excess radia- tion It's impossible to prove the exact source, but low levels of radiation could be the trigger. ' A8 "There's no doubt what caused this," Pickering said. ' Utah residents born between 1936 and 1963 have a higher than average risk of developing thyroid' cancer from fallout from past nuclear weapons tests in Nevada, says the National Cancer In : stitute. "I am a child of the earth," Pickering said. "I ate the vegetables, I drank the milk, I played on the lawn." Pickering, his fate all but sealed by unrelenting cancer that has now spread to his lungs, still fears the gov- eminent may resume testing, continuing to poison Americans. The mere possibility is unthinkable, he said. The Bush administration has asked for nearly $485 million over the next THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Hurricane Frances' wind and water whacked e swaths of Florida with force Sunday, submerging entire roadways and tearing off rooftops FORT PIERCE, Fla. fire-hos- , before weakening to a tropical storm and crawling inland with ' heavy rain. More than 5 million lost and two people power, people were killed. , Over 13 inches of rain fell along Florida's central east coast, flood- - ,' tag some areas four feet deep, as a ; -, weakened Frances edged across the state toward Tampa and the Gulf of Mexico. In its wake, trees and power lines were leveled, broken traffic lights dangled and beachfront roads were littered ,: with coconuts, avocados and tree ' ' ' . limbs, , rides tho wind (Second of two parts) About this series For decades, the government tested atomic bombs in the Nevada desert Today the Daily Herald continues its look at fte tests of the past, some of the effects of those tests, and proposed new weapons that some fear will lead to more tests. years for research into new de-signs and uses for nuclear weapons,-- , and to shorten the process to, enable the Nevada Test Site to resume testing within 18 months it now takes, 36 months. Last month, both of Utah's senators, Orrin Hatch and Robert Bennett, joined the US. Senate in approving v more than $30 million to continue five See Hurricane Frances weakens to tropical storm Allen G. Breed Dcdth NUCLEAR, : A6 INSIDE B4 COMICS HOROSCOPE "I was just waiting for the house , UFtaSTYli to blow down, said Diane Wright, who rode out the storm in a mobile home in Fort Pierce.' ; . . Hers didnt But even shelters weren't spared: The roof at a - HIGH 80 LOW 48 B5 W 0 VOLUME 82 issue 37 PI LOCAL MOVIES' Sunny and nice v 7Y 85 ' OPINIONS :-- See HURRICANE; A3 SPORTS ) VVEATHER ' ' to a 6 "l,61055"00050l 1 |