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Show Heber City's Summerhays wins Kroger Classic i Monday September Utah Valley Edition 13, 2004 wwwJarktheheraklcom SO CENTS ' YOUR NEWSPAPER YOUR TOWN YOUR NEIGHBORS It's A horizontal Blizzard' .; Mushroom c cloud stumps .t' S. Korean, " v.i i U.S. officials ' ,Vj Powell: No evidence N. Korean explosion is ; . related to nuclear tests Christopher Torchia THE ASSOCIATED SEOUL, South Korea Q 1 DANIEL AQUILARReuters b seen outside the remains of its home on Sunday after the building was destroyed by Hurricane Ivan. The storm has killed at least 60 people in the Caribbean and caused heavy flooding and mudslides when it brushed past Friday night and Saturday. A Jamaican family Ivan thrashes Cayman More than 1 million evacuate&f rom their homesin western Cuba to prepare for what could be the most; powerful hurricane to hit the island in 80 years; So far, the storm has killed at least 60. Jay Ehrhart THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands Hurricane Ivan battered the Cayman Islands with ferocious h winds Sunday, flooding homes, ripping off roofs and toppling trees three stories tall as its powerful eye thundered past just offshore. Ivan has killed at least 60 people across the Caribbean and was expected to strike western Cuba, where residents have dubbed the storm "Ivan the Terrible ," on Monday. More than 1 million Cubans were evacuated from their homes. The storm also could brush the Florida Keys and parts of Florida's Gulf Coast. Mexico issued a hurricane watch and tropical storm warning for the northeastern Yucatan Peninsula. The hurricane, which grew to the most powerful Category 5 with 165 mph winds Saturday, lost some strength before tearing into the wealthy Cayman Islands chain, a popular scuba diving destination and banking center. chairman of the British territory's National Hurricane Committee, es' timated that as niany as half of Grand Cayman's 15,000 homes were damaged. At 5 p.m. EOT, Ivan's eye was about 225 miles southeast of Cuba's winds western tip. Hurricane-forc- e extended 90 mites and tropical storm-forc-e winds extended 175 miles. Ivan was moving at near 10 mph and was expected to turn northwest by Monday. It was projected to pass near or over Cuba's western end by Monday afternoon or evening. The US. National Hurricane Center in Miami said the storm surge could reach 25 feet with dangerous, battering waves. The Cayman Islands were better prepared for the punishment than Grenada and Jamaica, which were slammed by Ivan in the past week though Jamaica was spared a direct hit Saturday. The Caymans have strict building codes and none of the shantytowns and tin shacks common elsewhere in the Caribbean. The Hurricane Center said ham radio operators on Grand Cayman reported that people were standing on the roofs of homes because of ' storm surges of up to 8 feet above . and U.S. officials said Sunday, but they said the cause was a mystery. Secretary of State Colin Powell confirmed that unusual activity had recently been detected at some of North Korea s atomic sites, but said there was no concrete evidence the North's secretive communist regime was preparing for its first nuclear test explosion. - f . n, See y CLAUDIA DAUTReuters man loads his belongings into a motorcycle-drive- n can during the evacuation of the coastal town ofSurgidero de Batabano on Sunday, prior to the arrival of Hurricane Ivan. A Cuban "It's as bad as it can possibly get," Justin UzzeD, 35, said by telerefuge in phone from his fifth-floGrand Cayman. It's a horizontal or blizzard. The air is just foam." High winds prevented officials from assessing damage immediately. But Donnie Ebanks, deputy ' See HURRICANE, Crime mte for 2003 holds steady at fcyear low level ' PRESS . The nation's . WASHINGTON crime rate last year held steady at the lowest levels since the government began surveying crime victims in 1973, the Justice Depart- - ' ment reported Sunday. contri-butio- n . The study was the latest trend in V to a decade-lon- g "which violent crime as measured . by victim surveys has fallen by 55 and property aime by 49 pen percent. That has included a 14 v ; ; percent drop in violent crime to 2002-200from 2000-200- 1 the lowest expe-are rates "The . N. KOREA, A4 Nearly 60 dead in Iraq: Rebels pound Baghdad in day of heavy fighting Robert THE : ' rienced in the last 30 years," Justice Department statistician Shan-na-n Catalona said in the report. "Crime rates have stabilized." ' The 2003 vident crime rate assault, sexual assault and armed stood at 22.6 victims ' robbery for every 1,000 people age 12 and ' older. That amounts to about one violent crime victim for every 44 US. residents.. ; g ' By comparison, there were 23 vt olent crime victims per 1,000 peo-pi- e in 2002. In 1993, the violent ,. crime rate was 50 per 1,000 people, ; or about one in every 20 people 3. See.antill.A6 . H. Reid ASSOCIATED PRESS Insurgents hammered cenone of their most intense mortar and rocket barrages ever in the heart of the capital, heralding a day of violence that killed nearly 60 people nationwide as security appeared to spiral out of control At least 37 people were killed in Baghdad alone. Many of them died when a U.S. helicopter fired on a disabled U.S. Bradley fighting vehicle as Iraqis swarmed around it, cheering, throwing stones and waving the black and yellow sunburst banner of d terror organization. . Iraq's The dead from the helicopter strike included BAGHDAD, Iraq tral Baghdad on Sunday with most-feare- See IRAQ, A6 A4 f Curt Anderson is The South Korean news agency Yonhap reported Sun-cla- y that a mammoth explosion in North Korea produced a mushroom cloud more than 2 miles across Thursday. It said the blast was stronger than an April explosion that Colin Powell killed 160 people and injured an estimated 1,300 at a North Korean railway station when a train carrying oil and chemicals apparently hit power lines. "There was no indication that was a nuclear event of any kind," Powell said of Thursday's incident. "Exactly what it was, we're not sure." Kim Jong-mispokesman for the South Korean west-northwe- st 150-mp- THE ASSOCIATED A huge mushroom cloud that reportedly billowed up from North Korea was not caused by a nuclear explosion, South Korean O - PRESS Al Gore - the uncensored voice of the Democrats 1 Nancy Benac zen. Al Gore unleashed. Speaking with a freedom and passion less frequently seen in his own political campaigns, Gore is WASHINGTON Al Gore's stiff jokes are gone now, replaced happily making speeches, raking in money and generally raising hell by recount jokes. The cautious campaigner of 2000 for John Kerry and the Democratic is gone, too, replaced by a Parry these days. In his spare time, he's also teaching at fhree universiBush basher. ties and raising money for himself When Gore delivered his latest-sTflPI fit through various business ventures. ANALYSIS In recent weeks and months, as the Republicans an uncensored voice for the Demolast week, faulting cratic cause, Gore has skewered Vice President Dick Cheney for "sleazy and despicable" criticism of President Bush's team for moral the Democrats, a White House cowardice, the lowest sort of politics imaginable, aligning itself spokesman dismissively respondwith "digital brownshirts" who ined "Consider the source." ' AE0M MrtOMAM Associated Pims , Consider Al Gore. timidate the press," and political tac: Former vke preskkntAl Gore addresses a rafly in the WeJJ, he used to be the vice presk tics as craven as those of Richard Nixon. Just to cite a few examples. dent. Philadelphia suburb ofNarberth on Thursday. It's red meat for loyal Speaking with a freedom and passion less frequently And, as he likes to say, he used , seen in his own political campaigns, Al Gore is happily , to be the next president of the Unit-e- d Democrats, to whom Gore is the v States. making speeches, rakingin money and generally See GORE, A4 rnisBuj heU for John Kerry and the Democratic Party. Now, he is Al Gore private citi-THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ? INSIDE - ' . v Partly BASEBALL O NFL COMICS M OBITUARIES HISTORY B5 OUR TOWNS PI HOROSCOPE B5 SPORTS O ' CVS 04 urcasTYLE n utah valley m NATION&WORLD A3 WEATHER DC . ' sunny . , iC:i79 VOLUME 82 LC.V47 KSUE44, . . iioiq . 1 - i |