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Show Page THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, B6 SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Amber Peterson lies in Salt Lake hospital a quietly room. Stuffed animals hang from the ceiling while her grandmother softly teases her. "I see a kiss," Gladys Wagger-b- y see a kiss right tells the girl. here and I'm going to steal it." Waggerby kisses her granddaughter's chin a loving gesture she i; convinced the Tooele can feel and understand. Others aren't so sure. And that is the hub of a dispute brewing between Waggerby and the child's father. -Six-- year-old i first-grad- er Wednesday, January 1, 1992 Amber has been comatose since November, when the car she was riding in plunged off an Interstate 80 offramp into the Great Salt Lake, trapping her without air for about an hour. Amber's mother, Melissa Peterson, and Michelle Hamilton of Salt Lake City drowned. Rescuers said the dying woman apparently pushed and held the child in an air bubble inside the car, which was submerged in several feet of frigid water. Neurologists have told Amber's father the girl has no chance of regaining her ability to reason or tomorrow and running down the hallway," she said. "I want her just the way God will leave her. To me, she's perfect." Amber is not brain dead, Sampson said. Autonomic functions such as her heartbeat and breathing continue. She receives oxygen through a tube in her nose, and a block in her mouth prevents her from swallowing her tongue. Her brown eyes are open, and she occasionally seems to watch her cooing grandmother. Although she responds to pain, doctors have said she will never regain more complex brain func communicate. Kurt Peterson, 25, asked Surgical Center doctors to withdraw his daughter's feeding tube last week, but has since agreed to continued care until a 3rd District Court hearing Feb. 13. "He's just a kid listening to doctors," said Peterson's attorney, Charles P. Sampson. "If Amber's capable of suffering, it's going to be very difficult for someone to say, 'Let's let her suffer more." Waggerby wants to take Amber home, whether or not her condition improves. Amber won't be "out of the bed Dox-ey-Hat- ch tions, Sampson said. "She's living and breathing and she has a right to do that as a human being, " Waggerby said. Utah law trusts parents to make decisions for their children. young They have no specific criteria to follow before deciding to withdraw a child's medical care, said Assistant Attorney General Doug Springmeyer. If Amber's relatives can't agree on her future, Waggerby faces a tough battle against laws that favor a child's parents. "Grandparents have no rights at ng all, except state statute gives them reasonable visitation rights when it's determined to be in the best interest of the child," said Salt Lake attorney Steve Kuhnhausen. To gain custody, a grandparent must be able to show the parent does not have a strong mutual bond with the child and is not willing to make sacrifices for the child, said Kuhnhausen, who has handled custody disputes involving grandparents. Concedes Waggerby's attorney, Delano Findlay: "We have a hard law to buck." Fake I.D. key to criminals on the run - SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Bogus identifications multiply the difficulty of tracking down fugitives, and such fake documents and cards are relatively easy to get in Utah, authorities say. "Everyone we're after has an alias, and it's hard to know which is the real person and which is the phony," said Utah FBI Agent Tim Screen. "And they usually always have a phony identification to back it . -W Ji f2; I L'- - fwfd One fugitive used 25 different names and identifications to cover his trail, the agent said. "And most of those IDs came from legitimate sources," Screen added. "They were just obtained illegitimately." Utah is no exception. 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