Show SATURDAY MEPECEMBER33J9 TODAY: 7TX Fair to partly cloudy Dense fog TOMORROW: Areas dense fog Page 2A GET REVENGE EPILEPTIC BOY IMPROVES Lakers vin since teams met in plaoffs Page IB Family pleased with bov's progress since brain surgery Page 1C JAZZ DON’T of first game Roy 89 Viewmont 81 I Bonneville 85 Woods X 72 Clearfield 55 Davis 31 Judge Memorial 84 OHS 72 Timpview 93 Layton 53 rm 50 CENTS SERVING NORTHERN UTAH SINCE 1888 OGDEN UTAH Morgan must hold vote again Agent ‘watched’ Swapps aim guns By PHIL JENSEN s S arxJdra Examiner and SCOTT BONTZ j't MORGAN — A 2nd District judge has ordered Morgan County to scrap of the Nov 8 election for two seats on the Morgan School Board and conduct a new election Judge Rodney Page informed county officials Friday that he will be issuing directions on how to proceed with a new re-su- 'ts COALVILLE (AP) — An FBI agent testified Friday he saw Addam Swapp and Jonathan Swapp shoulder and point rifles the morning a fatal shootout ended a police standoff with their polygamist clan last January Special Agent Cal Clegg was among 10 witnesses who testified in the opening day of tnal for tiie Swapp brothers and John Timothy Singer who are murder in charged with second-degre- e the death of state Corrections Lt Fred House during the gunfighL The tnal resumes Monday Clegg a hostage negotiator said he was watching a television monitor at an FBI command post about a mile away from the clan’s Manon farm at about 830 a m on Jan 28 He said he saw the Swapp brothers turn abruptly and appeared to look straight at the video camera which was not equipped for sound “They both looked surpnsed and put rifles to their shoulders I observed Addam Swapp go down real hard real fast and Jonathan Swapp took off to the house” he said Clegg said he learned 30 minutes r 1 lat- er that there had been shooting and that House had been killed as he directed attack dogs toward the Swapps The impasse had begun 13 days earlier after clan leader Addam Swapp bombed a nearby Mormon chapel and with 14 clan members holed up in the e main log residence on the compound Clegg said he was manning a direct telephone line to the farmhouse later the day of the Jan 16 bombing and established communication with Addam Swapp He said Swapp told him the family was prepared for a siege and that “his God would pour out vengeance” on anyone who moved against two-acr- them and 2 where election in Precincts unauthorized voting occurred County Commission Chairman Jeff London said he is pleased with the judge’s decision and hopes to hold the election before the end of the year No date has been set “I agree with the judge's decision in the sense that due to the controversy around the schools up here this is the reasonable way to go” London said Page who had the issue under study for the past two weeks also cited ongoing disputes with the Morgan School Board in deciding to order a new election “The judge called our county attorney today and said the overriding concern was all the controversy surrounding the schools and that in view of that controversy this was the wise way to go" London said The school board is under investigation by the sheriffs department for allegedly holding illegal secret meetings at least one of which was called to discuss how to cope with “radical detractors” London said county officials were attempting to reach the five candidates interms late volved for the two four-yeFriday afternoon to notify them of the decision “This is all new ground for us We’ve never gone through anything like this before” London said “There will be a lot of details to work out" County Clerk Jams Widdison said the voting problems were detected after the Nov 8 polls closed County officials immediately announced that no winners would be declared then turned the matter over to to the courts The county does not have authority to call a new See MORGAN on 2A ar Chad Gibbs an editor at KUTV said he received a call at the station on Jan 17 from a man who identified himself as Addam Swapp He said the caller read a statement saying the bombing was a stand against “corruption and wickedness” Don Kusulas an FBI agent from Colorado Springs Colo testified he was with a surveillance team at a neighbor's home during the siege when he saw the Swapp brothers working outside one of the other homes on the compound He said both men noticed him as he stood outside and Jonathan Swapp pointed a rifle at him “I raised my 6 rifle and pointed it at Jonathan In the event he tried to fire at me I would try to fire back ” He said that after about 10 seconds Swapp lowered the weapon and the pair walked back to the log house Earlier Friday a defense attorney told jurors hearing he would ask them to consider the lesser charge of negli M-1- gent homicide m House's slaying Fred Metos attorney for John Timo- thy Singer conceded the convinced by the jury likely would be wheelchair-bound his that prosecution client fired the shot that killed House “It’s not whether or not Timothy Singer killed Lt House The circumstantial evidence likely will convince you the bullet came from his gun This is not a mystery case it’s not a whodunit” Metos said in his opening eight-memb- er Spy satellite called tempting target for Soviets WASHINGTON (AP) — The new military spy satellite carried into space on Friday is viewed by some experts as capable of gathering such important information that it is only a matter of time before the Russians begin to think of ways of destroying m the event of war Like the roughly 200 military satellites already deployed in space by the United States and Soviet Union the $500 million Lacrosse satellite reported to be aboard the space shuttle Atlantis is not armed It is a surveillance satellite carrying a sophisticated radar that can look down from space piercing even cloud cover to reveal what’s happening on the ground “As military satellites become more directly applicable to actual combat they become much more attractive targets for destruction” said John Pike an expert on spate systems with the Federation of American Scientists here Thiokol booster rockets pass second test CAPE CANAVERAL Fla (AP) — Atlantis’ twin rockets helped push the shuttle into orbit without apparent problem Friday passing their second test since the Challenger disaster spurred redesign and intensified scrutiny of the giant boosters “We of course watched the first two minutes of the launch with great interest It looked very very good to us” said Rocky Raab spokesman for Morton Thiokol Inc the booster manufac “Lacrosse provides a good example of he said "It's going up there to find targets for the new stealth bomber and to look for long-rang- e targets deep behind the lines in the Warsaw Pact Now if I've got all that riding on my that" turers The rockets burned about two minutes before dropping off and fell into the Atlantic Ocean some 160 miles away as planned “Splashdown was eight miles from the recovers ships Above the waterline they looked very good” Raab said Divers from the two recovery ships gave a quick look to the boosters tossed in rough seas with winds of 20 satellites the Soviets would be crazy not to try to shoivt them down ” “Space is already militarized” agreed William Arkin an authority on nuclear weaponry with the Institute for Policy Studies a liberal think tank in Washing UN votes to move meeting so Arafat can give speech UNITED NATIONS (AP) — In a harsh rebuke to its host country the General Assembly on Friday voted to move a meeting to Geneva so it can hear an address by PLO Chairman Y Aralat who was denied a visa to enter the United States The assembly voted 154-- to hold the 5 The session in Geneva on Dec United States and Israel were the only as-s- er 2 13-1- O-ri- cold-weath- ton “The question is whether we're going to avoid the weaponization of space " The United States now has approximately 75 to 80 military satellites in s space while roughly 125 of the As approximate as the tallies are they demonstrate the growing reliance of the two superpowers on military space systems It was only three decades ago — in 1957 with Russia's Sputnik — that mankind developed the abilitv to put a manmade object into orbit Now mihtarv satellites are in orbit spying on tacilmcs and tones scanning the radio waves as electronic terrets watching for nuclear explosions or missile launches and mapping the Larth's surface See 150-plu- art News Vt ASHINGTON — Their ps smi'ed and their hands met but everything about the meeting Tridas between George Bush and Michael Friday wjs awkward and straned lace to face for the first time since the election Dukakis and Bush talked in private at the vice president's residence Dukakis went down a list ot priorities he had raised in the campaign that he would like the Bush president to address the deficit health care education child care college opportunity the environment and homeW ARAFAT on 2A I lessness and hts Democratic opponent Gov Michael Dukakis wave toward reporters before meet ng Vi radar-imagin- g satellite SHUTTLE on 2A Bush Dukakis meeting strained but cordial nations voting against the measure Britain abstained It has said tne United States should allow Arafat to speak but opposed the harsh criticism of the United States in the U N resolution The unprecedented shift to Geneva was ordered because the United States rejected UN appeals to reconsider and admit Arafat who it accuses of being an See to 30 knots and saw no obvious damsaid NASA spokesman George Dillcr The boosters have drawn close attention because their failure was blamed for the Jan 28 1986 Challenger explosion that killed all seven astronauts aboard The Rogers Commission that investigated the disaster said a that failed to seal in booster conditions allowed flame to escape and ignite a fuel tank age Russian satellites now in orbit arc thought to have some military use The numbers are approximate because neither government talks about the matter The Pentagon for example considers the Atlantis launch a classified military mission for which no information will be provided It will neither confirm nor denv that the cargo is a Dukakis sat in Bush's living room on couch and Bush sat in a chair After the meeting both came out of the house to tak to the press 3 Bash thar ked Dukakis for coming hnstmas and wished him a merrv He said "We ha a l J discussion of the issues that are t uirc this country J will “ d vac e in a sprit ol He sa d the two mo “h id to check on each ot’ cr s tan’ es and talk about tht a little bit I h k f vrward to work-- ii g with the g n error and other goverc sc nors in some o pressing problems that a'e facing our country I thork unv president can learn a lot who are on the from tve goverri rs cutting edee ot solving some of the mavr problems that we face" Bush saJ Dufakis’ vis t which earlier he had said somewhat testily was delayed at Dukakis’ convenience was “in the finest tradition of American See BUSH on 2A C 1 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