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Show im Polios conducted sting at Timpview Hatfield joins ranks of resigning senators Christmas is different when married to grinch stops Nevada teams Page B6 Page Page A3 Page A12 Utah County trio B1 Wood Burning Conditions vTJ7 "31 ps s I'l.'y f OK Bum Day Ssturdr;, Dccabr Central Utah's 2, 1335 Nwpaper for 122 Years, Prcve, Utah 50 FT f Illnesses prompt school to close early .r- I III By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press Writer SALT LAKE CITY Utah cit- izens who open their weekend newspapers or watch television Wednesday evening will be instantly enlisted in the state's like costly struggle with growth it or not. Whether they just skim the headlines or tune in for the entire three-damultimedia blitz called "Utah's Growth Summit," they won't escape this message from' their governor: Billions of taxpayer dollars must be spent to ease traffic congestion, secure adequate water supplies and protect some land from the bulldozer's blade if Utah is to intelligently manage the rampant growth that is transforming the Beehive State. The summit is another of Gov. Mike Leavitt's "grand strokes," uniquely designed to give the issue of growth enough public momentum that lawmakers will be compelled to take action in January. "It has to be big enough and broad enough to create the expectation that we are going to do something about it," Leavitt said of his summit, unprecedented in Utah. "It does create a political will." Not that lawmakers wouldn't eventually fund a refurbished highway or develop precious water resources. But Leavitt fears if extraordinary growth doesn't get extraordinary attention now, a crisis will ensue before government blistered by public outrage takes action. y, I , , ST" "Democracies are inherently Sftrff bad planners," the governor said in an interview. "They tend to be driven by crisis because it's hard to Hie1' 4 "5 get people to act until they sense a "XL.., 4 threat." The first-terRepublican already has proven his theory of democracy by trying for two years to get the Legislature to spend growth-relate- d money on long-terprojects like rebuilding Interstate 15. But the conservative GOP Legislature was bent on cutting taxes as record surpluses poured into the state treasury. Leavitt gave in on I the tax cuts, while finessing about $80 million in extra funds for AP Photo highways. It wasn't until Salt Lake landed Vickie Varela, deputy of communications in the Growth Summit with graphic designer Corey Maylett the 2002 Winter Olympics and Utah office, reviews proof sheets for in her office at the Capitol building in Salt Lake governor's computer chip giant Micron Techpublic service announcements for next week's Tuesday. The announcements will run this weekend. nologies chose Utah for a $2.5 billion plant that Leavitt saw his event. chance to create a political con"The governor's an idea man for and this is a hell of an idea," said growth. stituency His chosen vehicle was a sum- House Minority Whip Kelly mit to address the topics of trans- Atkinson. "But he's weak in The next evening, public staBy MATTHEW BROWN portation, water and open space, understanding the political process tion KUED will air a Associated Press Writer issues he believes bridge partisan of the Legislature. And in his For at "town meeting" where resiSALT LAKE CITY differences and are of natural naivete he threw it out on the table least one hour Wednesday dents are invited to gather statewide interest. thinking good people would put Cottonwood evening, television viewers inside High For example, urbanites are desaside partisanship and go along without cable channels will School's auditorium in Salt perate to relieve traffic congestion, with it." have two choices: turn it off or Lake County to question rural residents are seeking a secure Atkinson said the minority watch policy makers discuss Republicans, Democrats and future water supplies and both Democrats were still smarting local government leaders on ways to manage Utah's explopopulations are eager to preserve from the last time they went, along how to manage growth. sive growth. and farmlands undeveloped with a GOP economic scheme. The cooperative, exhaustive Every television station in That was in 1987, when1 Gov. acreage. event is Utah and dozens of radio sta- coverage of a three-da- y But when Leavitt approached Norm Bangerter pushed through a tions have agreed to sir the first unprecedented in Utah and posleaders of both parties last summer $200 million igniting a ...... hour of the Utah Growth Sumsibly in America,. about staging his summit, he was tax revolt in the 1988 election mit. (See MEDIA, Page A2) blindsided by arguments about the the off (See SUMMIT, Page A2) political logistics of pulling -- ' By PAT CHRISTIAN The Daily Herald m A few workers at Manila Elementary School in Pleasant Grove were taken to the hospital Friday after becoming ill at school. Students were released from school early, but school officials were still uncertain of what caused J Summit will be all over the problems Friday. Jack Reid, assistant superintendent of kindergarten through sixth grade with the Alpine School Disg workers trict, said were the first to notice something amiss. "When the custodian and the lunchroom workers came, they thought they smelled something bad like gas or fumes or whatever," Reid said. He said they used fans to clear the fumes out and started cooking for school lunch, until a few lunch workers reported feeling ill. Reid said the workers were taken to a local hospital and checked for carbon monoxide levels, but no elevated levels were detected and the women were sent home. "We had Mountain Fuel Supply come and check for leaks. But they didn't find anything and then during the course of the day we had an air quality firm from Salt Lake City come and check for harmful gases with very spphisti- early-mornin- TV te ; tax-hik- cants e, (See ILLNESS, Page A2) it Bosnia mission not By TERENCE HUNT AP White House Correspondent President DUBLIN, Ireland Clinton said Friday he will caution U.S. troops primed for entry into e Bosnia that it is "not a mission." Ireland's prime minister forcefully underscored Clinton's rationale for putting American lives on the line. "It's important to recognize," Prime Minister John Bruton said, "that if you have genocide of the kind that was occurring in Bosnia, that's not just a European problem, it's a problem for the world at large." visy After a triumphant it to Dublin, Belfast and Londonderry, Clinton will fly to Baumholder, Germany, today. There he will address Army troops of the First Armored sion, who will soon be heading for the American headquarters in Tuzla in northeast Bosnia to help keep the peace after Europe's worst war in a half century. By February, 20,000 Americans are to be in Bosnia. "What I will tell them is that it e is not a mission," the at a news confer- said president risk-fre- t risk-fre- e . j 2 I t sive, indeed with overwhelming force." Tens of thousands of adoring Irish men, women and children president a gave the his ancestral welcome to rousing travel-wea- ry risk-fre- two-da- "I will tell them that we have done everything we can to minimize the risks." - ft a r 3 President Clinton ence with Bruton. Indeed, being in the military is not risk free, with troops killed even in training, he said. "I will tell them that we have done everything we can to minimize the risks," the president said. Clinton said the troops' safety is uppermost in his mind. "We have guaranteed for them very robust rules of engagement so that if anyone attempts to interfere with their mission or to take action against them, they can respond with deci- - 5.4.':--"- homeland. Waving American and Irish flags, crowds filled a downtown plaza and spilled down side streets to see and hear Clinton. "To look out into this wonderful sea of Irish faces on this beautiful Irish day- I feel like a real 'Dub' today," Clinton said, referring to the nickname of Dubliners. The friendly greeting here and in British-rule- d Northern Ireland was a refreshing tonic for a president facing a hostile Congress and battle next year. a it W m , - 'f"va-- i. ml AP Photo People wave Irish and American flags as President Clinton, center, receives tumultuous applause fol- - lowing his speech in Dublin Friday. Baumholder, Germany, today. Clinton flies to America Online now allowing word 'breast' By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press Writer Weather Find it Arts B9 All Business Classified Ads Comics Crossword Bll ...B4 C7 B6 Family Legal Mini page Movies Bll Obituaries B7 B9 A3 Religion .A6 Sports Bl Stocks .A9 3J it"4 Today much colder. Chance of showers early, becoming mostly sunny by afternoon. Highs near 50. Tonight clear and cold. Lows in the mid-t- o upper 20s. Sunday mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. Monday through Wednesday mostly cloudy. See Page A 12. Air Quality Friday's air quality was good for Utah County. Friday Mas a "green" woodburning day. The forecast calls for little change in pollution levels. 1'- - n r BOSTON words and the The racial epithets were easy. There was wide agreement that America' Online should ban them from cyberspace. But the word "breast?" That, too, got axed in the effort to clean up the net, until the councommercial computer sertry's largest vice reversed itself, having never considered the word a key to vital discussions of cancer among women. America Online began purging the word breast last week in accordance with regulations prohibiting "use of obscene or vulgar language." But in a statement Friday, the company said die ban was an error. The company said its service agreement doesn't specify what words are considered vulgar, but "body parts that might be named in medical diagnoses do not fall e under the category of offensive four-lett- er " . on-li- ne on-lin- With a debate flaring in Congress over whether to hold 'services responsible for knowingly transmitting pornography to children or allowing their systems to be used as a conduit for pornographic material, some in the industry' say the AOL "breast" controversy may be a harbinger of things to come as services rush to censor themselves hoping that Congress thus won't see a need to do it. "I think they're doing it out of fear," said Mike Godwin, general counsel for the Electronics Frontier Foundation, formed five years ago as an Internet civil liberties group. "There are a lot of congressmen who think that America Online and other systems are hotbeds of immoral behavior," he said. With such fears of harsh congressional censorship in the air. The New York Times reported in Saturday editions that some civil liberties services have agreed to supgroups and e port a proposal to jail people who transmit smut by computer. The proposal is being drafted by Rep. Rick on-li- on-li- on-lin- ne as a compromise to a telecomWhite, munications bill that has already passed the Senate but not the House of Representatives, the Times said. White's proposal would impose prison sentences and fines on people who transmit pornography that is deemed harmful to children and without redeeming literary or social value. However, it would also offer added protection efforts to services that make good-faitto keep pornography out of the reach of chilon-li- h ne dren. . service providers have not met formally to vote on the proposal but there is a general consensus among them to support it, the Times said. If legislation like that passed by the Senate becomes law, Godwin said people can expect more such instances as the breast controversy. "I think this incident illustrates precisely what kinds of things will happen," Godwin said. On-lin- e (See BAN, Page A2) |