Show p" Perennial Red Butte March 31 2002 prankster in full bloom WEATHER: 6240 Sunny and mild 9B SPORTS: The Cravens debate 1 C Peeps mystery solved this morning 25-ye- ar IB BUSINESS: Calling to Ogden 1 Spring provides plenty of beauty at gardens E ID Standarc cxammer & © 6 ? £©©© w 6 ffi) ife' pk SERVING THE TOP OF UTAH SINCE 1888 wwwstandardnet 0 06 ai $150 Officials: Lindh treated Lots of talk about fairly Taliban soldier not mistreated they claim the plans for resort The Asscxaated clouds INSIDE: Lawsuit horizonIIA lawyers By CHARLES F TRENTELMAN staff Standard-Examin- valley - Nordic Service Ogden Ranger Ruth Monahan went skiing at Nordic Valley over Christmas She was wearing civilian clothes so nobody knew who she was It was fascinating she said to hear people on the runs and lifts talking about how next year the ski runs at Nordic will extend up into public land east of the resort That was news to Monahan who is in charge of that public land Those rumors she said are not true but show just how much talk there is about the future of the resort which is being fueled by the plans of the two parties trying to buy it Both of those visions are very big Both have also raised hard questions in the minds of Weber County planners and the US Forest Service In the vision of Ayla White Burnett Nordic Valley would ' be a stereotypical German village A mountain tram would take hikers and skiers to the top of Skyline Ridge where they could gaze at the Great Salt Lake off in the distance The Web site advertising it (wwwnordicvalleycom) is illustrated with pictures of thatched huts and forest chalets in Kitzbuhel Germany to give an idea of what it will be like - “only smaller” Mike Burnett of Nordic Valley Golf Course claims damaging landscape and breaking sprinklers in the process county-supervis- engineers dug large percolation test holes on the golf course Extra holes cause grief Nordic Valley expansion plans at course By CATHY McKITRICK staff Standard-Examin- NORDIC VALLEY - The Nordic Valley Golf Course now sports several new Wasatch-Cach- e holes In this case that’s not good news for golfers Ayla White Burnett owner of the golf course said it won’t be open for business this year because of damage caused by soil tests she did not request and which were performed without her and her hus- t band’s knowledge The holes some 6 to National Forest See PLAN11A Standard-Examin- 10- - See COURSE11A Britain’s Queen Mother Elizabeth a favorite royal dies at 101 Queen Elizabeth II was at her years old After years of frailty and ill mother’s side when she passed away health the queen mother died at The queen mother had been rarely The Associated Press Royal Lodge Windsor outside Lon- seen in recent months because of her don the Palace said She was beloved failing health The queen mother “had become LONDON - The Queen Mother by generations of Britons despite ups Elizabeth a symbol of courage and and downs in the popularity of the increasingly frail in recent weeks dignity during a tumultuous century royal family Her death came seven following her bad cough and chest inof war social upheaval and royal weeks after the death of her younger fection over Christmas” said a Palscandal died in her sleep Saturday daughter Princess Margaret at age ace spokesman who was not named in keeping with tradition Buckingham Palace said She was 71 INSIDE: Profile of the Queen Mother’s 101 toughness2A I March 31 2002 Vol115 No 90 A Obituaries Sports Theaters Top of Utah B 8C 8-- 1 0D 3D 9B wni READ! RECYCLE Pnntedon recycled papff i mother of Queen Elizabeth II and grandmother of Prince Charles She was remarkably active for her age and her funeral is expected to attract crowds massive Elizabeth Tali- anyone However the court filing said the United States “had not plucked John Walker Lindh out of the California suburb where he used to live and dropped him into a metal container in the middle of Afghanistan” Lindh entered that country sought out training at an camp in Afghanistan learned to use shoulder-fire- d weapons and grenades and swore allegiance to jihad or holy war the government said Lindh is charged with con- spiracy to murder US nationals providing support and services to foreign terrorist organizations and using firearms and destructive devices during crimes of violence Three of the 10 charges carry a maximum life sentence and the other seven have maximum prison terms of 90 years ians and two Israelis have been killed in the two days of fighting in Ramallah RAMALLAH West Bank - Israeli troops In a new attack a suicide bomber blew rounded up hundreds of Palestinian men for himself up in a crowded cafe in Tel Aviv’s a battled and gunmen imposed questioning entertainment district Saturday evening curfew in the West Bank’s main city Saturkilling himself and wounding at least 32 peoofhis in was Arafat Yasser penned up day including four who were in serious confice surrounded by Israeli troops and trying ple dition and one in critical condition police to keep up his staffs morale aides and wit- and said A militia linked to Araparamedics nesses said fat’s Fatah movement claimed responsibiliIsrael’s military offensive launched Fri- ty day to hunt down militants after a series of heading into IsraPalestinian attacks will last as long as it el Two other Palestinians to conduct a suicide attack got into a gun-batt-le takes “to guarantee the safety of our with Israeli police at the edge of the homes” Defense Minister Binyamin See MIDEAST7A told Israeli television Eleven Palestin The Associated Press 3D Life schedule Weather generations as the n Another suicide bombing Arafat still surrounded by Israelis BusinessEco’nomy Classified ads DearAbby Editorials & letters Travel She was best known to younger American-bor- ban John Walkqr Lindh was treated as well as US soldiers during his captivity in Afghanistan federal prosecutors say Rebutting defense claims prosecutors said in court papers filed Friday that Lindh shot in the leg received “the very same medical treatment provided to wounded United States military personnel” He was fed the same Meals Ready To Eat in the same quantities and was given warm comforters in freezing weather they said “While the Navy physician who was treating him had to sleep on a concrete floor in a sleeping bag in a room with a hole in the wall and a hole in the ceiling Lindh slept on a stretcher in a container that protected him from the elements” prosecutors said The defense had argued that incriminating statements Lindh made to interrogators should be thrown out in part because he was interviewed after being confined in a freezing metal container bound with circulation-cuttin- g handcuffs and blindfolded The government did acknowledge that conditions in a US military camp in Afghanistan weren’t ideal for J Fierce fighting in Ramallah continues WHIK TV Press WASHINGTON - Far from enduring the horrific conditions claimed by his Ben-Eli-ez- er 4 1 07730 I 002 “1 i r J |