| Show mi g '9 Uij pniiijiii Af Chickadee May 27 1993 KM Friday's fcecast High 76 Lew 57 C2fl£ Partly cloudy P Hot drivers 7 condos fac ROAD ahead ®w Nature Center contest is stnetiy for the birds Turning up the heat on aggressive drivers i NEXT —- - IB I 31 2 S Still on the brink I 5 MIUES Sj- ! v: So "Rested "Jazz ready 7pmKJZZTNT 0 tandard Examiner vvww http standard net i 50 cents imm SERVING THE TOP OF UTAH SINCE 1888 War crimes court indicts INSIDE: Yugoslavia dismisses the It was the first time an international court has charged a sitting head of state with saeh crimes and atrocities The UN court's chief prosecutor Louise Arbour said arrest warrants have been issued for war crimes dating from the beginning of this year If Milosevic can be brought to trial and is convicted he would face a maximum life sentence charge9A The Associated Press THE HAGUE Netherlands - In a histone announcement an international tribunal said today it indicted Slobodan Milosevic and four powerful aides calling the Yugoslav president personally responsible for planning and carrying out a gruesome campaign of war enmes in Kosovo President Clinton welcomed the indictments saving it should “reassure the v ietini' oi Belgrade's atrocities in Kosovo” and “deter tuture war crimes hv establishing that those who give the orders will be held ac- countable” Critics said the indictment may have the effect of further empowering the Yugoslav leader m Serbia An indictment of Milosevic had been widely expected with ethnic Al ©S©¥C banians feeing his brutal regime giving investigators detailed accounts of massacres rapes and other atrocities since March when waves of relu-gee- s - thousands in columns close aide of Milosevic laiko Serbia's interior minister and Dragoljub Ojdame head of the Yugoslav army ic -- were forced to fee the ethnic purge The tribunal said it has evidence of war crimes “on a massive scale" Besides Milosevic the others were: Milan Milutinovic president of Serbia Nikola Sainovic a Yugoslav deputy premier and a “There is a credible basis to believe that these accused are criminalresponsible for the deportation of 740000 Kosovo Albanians and for the murder of 340 Kosovo Albanians” from ages 2 to 95 a somber Arbour told a news conference ly Mecham: Layton woman living an Olympic dream Funds issue helped derail rodeo move commissioner: Ogden mayor “grasping at straws” Ex-Web- er By GEOFFREY FATTAH i Standard Examiner staff 4 i OGDIN - Mayor Glenn Mecham said It r'" questionable financial planning by Weber County commissioners led to the reversal of js his opinion to move the Ogden Pioneer Days Rodeo to the new Golden Spike Arena Mecham said after months of failed negotiations with the county he decided to take a look at the county’s binding for the 527 mil- I if I a" ' f I ' c 13 lion facility What he found was that the county had pulled $800000 in funds from a budget dedicated to the construction of a recycling and waste X V V3 ’ f JOHANNA ON THE BOBSLED IN UNE TO BE BRAXEMAN FOR 2002 GAMES: The Ogden bom Jen Davidson who now lives -- in Layton WORKMAN Standurrd Examiner works out at Weber State University From track star to bobsled brakeman rather than skating skiing or sledding Her Olympic dreams involved sprints and hurdles in the Summer Games She enjoyed some high LAKE CITY -- Two years ago school and college acclaim and became a 1996 laid had never eyes on a Big West Conference champion m the She didn’t care for w inter hurdles as a Utah State student She failed and had never taken to skiing to make the 1996 Olympic team because or snowboarding Neverthewindy weather corrupted her less last week she almost inqualifying time WC&EXtR stantaneously became a 2002 After that disappointment Olympian all but dropped out of she V for more coverage A combination of random competitive sports But during wwwstandardnet excellent inspiration timing the 1998 Winter Games in and wisely seized opportuniNagano Davidson found herties led to the self helplessly glued to her Leam GO ONLINE: how Layton resident's placement television set She announced on the US women’s bobsled you can be involved in to her friends and family that of read the history team last winter If she can bobsledding she’d give almost anything to stay on top of her game then the sport and see members of participate in the Olympics USA Bobsled Team she should remain in the the when they come to Salt Lake brakeman's position in the City number one USA women’s She to do so sled through 2002 as a volunteer But then a friend had a wild “I think every athlete dreams about being idea an Olympian from the time they start competKristen Bartenhagen works at McKay-De- e I in was ’’When sixth ing” Davidson said Center in Ogden where Davidson is Hospital grade I was definitely thinking about being in an exercise physiologist Over lunch one day the Olympics” Bartenhagen mentioned to Davidson that Bom in Ogden and raised in Idaho Davidshe’d heard of former sprinters and track stars she son was a competitor from the start but See BOBSLED6A focused her talents on track and field events See RODEO12A By BOB WARD Once a hepatitis haven Utah drops below US average Standard Examiner staff SALT transfer station to help build the arena The county has charged “tipping fees” at its landfill for several years on all city waste carriers to fund a new waste facility In addition he said the county did not live up to its initial plans to build 7000 seats Instead the arena ended up with only 6000 and ran 51 million over budget 1 outbreaks bad memory with Top of Utah case seen in ’99 Earlier only 1 By RYAN R OLIVER Standard Examiner stall half-expect- GEARING UP: Jen Davidson does wind sprints as part of her training The number of hepatitis A eases in Utah could be the lowest in years with health officials reporting the virus to be on a rapid retreat So lar this year only one ease has been reported in Weber County and none in Davis County It was only three years ago a hepatitis A outbreak swept across the state leaving Utah with an incidence rale nearly five times the national average But with an 80 percent decline in cases between 1996 and 1998 Utah has fallen back in line wuh the rest of the country This year could fare even better with the state dropping below the national rate Only 15 See HEPAT1TIS12A Discovery blasts off to station 1st launch in 6 months carries Utah-bui- lt satellite Standard Examiner staff and wire reports CAPE CANAVERAL Ha -Space shuttle Discovery blasted off for the new international space station today ending a th launch NASA 6 08773 0000 11 Printed on recycled paper OR COPY drought for "It has been a long time" launch director Ralph Roe said once Discovery was safely in orbit “We’re all just extremely happy to be launching again” The 45 million-poun- d ship carrying seven astronauts and a full load of space station supplies blazed into a hazy sky at 6:49 a m as a brilliant yellow sun emerged above the horizon On board the shuttle is a spherical satellite being dubbed the "world’s highest disco ball" that a number of Utah students helped build The Project Starshine satellite is 19 inches in diameter with a skin of 878 circular and aluminum mirrors Spinning at a rate of one revolution per minute the satellite will reflect flashes from the sun every few seconds which can best be viewed just before sunrise and immediately after dusk Students tracking the satellite will be able to use the stars to determine its position They'll then submit their data through Project Starshine’s Web page Much of the design for the satellite came from Utah State University’s Space Dynamics Laboratory And the aluminum mirrors were stamped out by students at the Bridgerland Applied Technology Center in Logan and polished by students around the state About two dozen Bountiful students watched Discovery lift oil' with their satellite y mission Dunng their astronauts will fix broken US and Russian equipment I f - DISCOVERY CREW: Julie Payette waves as she and other astronauts walk out of the crew quarters this morning on their way to the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center SCOTT AUDCTTr The Afi itfx wind Press |
