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Show Sunday. In overseas debut, first lady shedding the executive bureaucracy with a single phone call. "Right now, while my husband is president, I have the responsibility to talk about issues that I think I can make a difference on," Mrs. Bush said before leaving Hungary for. Prague on Satthrough By SANDRA SOBIERAJ Associated Press Writer PRAGUE, Czech Republic First lady Laura Bush has come a long way miles 4,895 from the image she carried into the White House 16 months ago. In her overseas debut, Mrs. Bush lashed out at Palestinians who incite teenage suicide bombers, rose to defend her embattled husband and let it slip that she a pet project greased political-wallflow- er urday. It has been a familiar line for American first ladies since Eleanor Roosevelt set the standard for championing a cause. But playing it safe was how Mrs. Bush acted, sticking to. speeches open all summer. The Olympic rink will be cove ered next week with a Continued from Al indoor soccer field; the Rabner is capitalizing on ice, with its Olympic logos, the interest by offering free will be maintained underlessons to parents who neath the soccer surface for enroll their children in the use next fall and winter. Rabner hopes the ice fesbeginners' courses. He also has tival and the Learn to Skate scheduled an ice festival programs build interest for from 10 a.m.-- 4 p.m. on June hockey in Utah County. 1. Anyone who signs up will "Right now, I'm not sure is enough interest to there a skatget free, a minor league lesson in sesa support ing group sion. hockey team," Rabner said. "These really are family "But someday, I think well activities, these are family be able to feed a Junior B sports," Rabner said. "We're team in this area with playtrying to teach parents this ers from Utah." The Eagles averaged is something they can enjoy fewer than 200 fans per kids." with their doing Parents who enroll their game. A team of BYU stuchildren in a program get dents, the Provo Ice Cats, simultaneous skating les- has drawn as many as 1,800. sons for free. "BYU already has a natuThe ice festival also will show off the arena's indoor ral following," Rabner said. soccer field and a new mini-fiel- "Even the high schools The minifield is being sometimes do. better. The constructed at the west end Golden Eagles had great of the arena's Olympic rink, hockey, but there wasn't a where temporary stands natural fan base for them. "There's an education were placed during the Wincurve for the community. ter Games. The field will house floor It's getting better. I hope hockey and inline hockey hockey will grow here like classes and leagues, and soccer. Twenty or 30 years provide an area for ice hock- ago, soccer wasn't all that ey teams to practice stratepopular in the United gy without scheduling ice States. Now, whenever you drive by a soccer game, time. Indoor soccer for teams and smaller chil- there's a huge crowd." dren also will be available on the new field. Tad Walch can be The arena has a second reached at or at ice rink, which will remain twalchheraldextra.com. about childhood learning and literacy. Just last week, Paris' Le Figaro newspaper welcomed Mrs. Bush to France with an article observing, "Laura listens more than she speaks." Until now. In Paris, she condemned Palestinians who deploy young "martyrs" strapped with explosives to Israeli markets and bowling alleys. In Budapest, Hungary, she scolded her husband's critics and accused them of using the Sept. 11 victims' families as political pawns. May 19, 2002. THE DAILY HERALD, (www.HarkTheHeraId.com), Provo, Utah political-wallflow- There is not much political risk in condemning terrorists or defending one's husband. But this is a woman who busied herself with two weeks worth of household chores at the Bushes' remote Texas ranch just 10 days after they moved into the White House. "Nice" and "ladylike" were the two words most people came up with when asked about Mrs. Bush in a Pew Research Center poll last July. In that same survey, 61 percent of respondents said that, compared with previous first ladies, Mrs. Bush image er had less influence with the president on matters of policy and politics. So who could have foreseen her diving into the Mideast crisis and political furor over the president's pre-Sep- 11 briefings? t. Jeanne Phillips, for one. "I think she has surprised people. But I've known her for 20 years and I think she's remarkably the same. Her friends, we all know she's very smart, very direct," said Phillips, the U.S. representative to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris. Pew director Andrew Kohut expected Americans and more of Hillary Clinton in Mrs. Bush. "They've seen Laura Bush as someone distinctly different from Mrs. Clinton and not being involved in decisions or her husband's presidency in a policy or politics sense," he said. "Mrs. Bush may now be in the process of redefining herself Given the high esteem she has in the public eye, I don't think it will undermine her popularity." will now see more SKATE full-siz- Are three-or-six-we- te (7 Big-i- or Blew d. -3 592-312- 2 pharmacy? ShopICo pharmacy has so much to offer: i i Thousands of insurance plans accepted and tear up and reseed the roads when the work is done to keep ATVs out of the area. 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