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Show A8 OSes el The Salt Lake Tribune NATION/WORLD Sunday, August 8, 1999 _ Sources Say Atlanta Olympic Documents Point to eer Trips to Win Bid Congressionalinvestigation reportedly finds evidence THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTA — Olympic documents point toward possible scholarship and travel abuses during Atlanta's bid for the 1996 Summer Games, The Associated Presshas learned. Sources familiar with a congressional committee's investigation of thecity’s bid said Friday that the documentscontained “several referencesto Se oe relatives of International Olympic C mittee members and non-Olympic eal for some members. According to the sources, the docu ments mention gifts worth well over $1,000 that weren't previously acknowl edged by the local organizers. The sourcessaid manygifts involved corporations, and therefore did not turn up on the ledgers of the Georgia Amateur Athletic Foundation or the Atlanta Organizing Committee. For months, Atlanta organizers said they may have bent some IOC regulations, but never took part in outright mittee has had a chance to review our “We're not going to speculate about documents. . until tle Commerce Committee has had a chance to review our respase to their questions.” vote-buyingonthescale that occurred in Salt LakeCity response to their questions,” the spokes- man, Lee Echols,said. ‘The committee openedits investigation earlier this year after the Salt Lake scan- Lee Echois dal broke. On Thursday, Commerce Committee RR Chair Rep. ThomasBliley, R-Va., said investigators were concerned about the accuracy of the first report after reviewing Spokesmanfor Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young Organizersin Salt Lake Citygave cash, college scholarships and other gifts to 10C members and their families to win the 2002 Winter Games. The documents are filled with possible ences to scholarships went well beyond On Thursday, the House committee, saying the report had not been“totally accurate or complete,” gave them a chanceto revise it. FormerAtty. Gen. Griffin Bell, a part- memos contained ideas that were never Olympic organizers, askedfor the opportunity to change the report. A spokes- violationsnot previously disclosed, one of the sources said. The sourcessaid refer- ner in the previously disclosed memosfrom Atlanta OlympicschiefBilly Payne, whosaid the acted upon A spokesman for Payne andforter Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young. wo cosigned the original report to Confess as chairs of the GAAF, said they wer withholding comment until “a supplmental report was prepared.” “We're not going to speculat) about comment The sources would not specify which colleges or IOC members were involved or how manyoffers were made.Theyalso limit on gifts and sometravelviolations. eight boxes that Atlantaofficials are trying to keepprivate. arguing that GAAF — which put on the bid — wasa privateentity and not covered bythe state Open Re destinations were within the Jnited States and not Olympic-related firm representing the woman at Bell's office said he had no In June, Atlanta organizersfiled a re- port to the House Commerce Committee outlining 38 violationsof the 1OC’s $200 38 boxes of documents. The documents under review include would not say where the IOC mmbers traveled to, saying only that mostof the cords Act. Another 6,500 boxes have been released to the public, but The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and state Atty. documents we don’t know wheveris talking about until the Commere Com- Gen. Thurbert Baker have suedtoseeall the records. A public hearing on possible corruption in the Olympic bidding process is expectedto be held in September. Blistering Summer Brings Out Heated Debates on Weather see theeffects of longterm drought... .” logical doomspeakis flying fast and loose. Some forecasters are calling this the “drought of the century” Keith Eggleston Northeast Regional Climate in someareas. This week, Vice President Al Gorejoined television's Bill Nye Center sams “If we don't get some rain soon — in a couple of weeks — we're going to et BY JOHN YAUKEY GANNETT NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON — Astnuch of the country chokes through dry spells or full-blown drought after a month of deadly heat, climato- “The Science Guy” to warn fifth- Neen ists who study climate wish we would quit demonizing and oversimplifying the weather. Is it hot and dry? Yes, in some parts of the country. Is global warming or La Nifia to blame? searing suramer of 1988, which made global warming a household term But sofar, this year’s weather in the form of higher-than-normal precipitation to the mid-Atlantic region and other areas affected bytropical activity. impossibleto say. La Nifia: La Nifa is character- “We are taking small isolated events, albeit bad ones like this heat wave that has killed people, and broadening them way beyond matic Research. ized bythe cooling of the sea-surfacetemperaturesin the east-central Pacific, along the equator. Its greatest effect on North Americais to pull storms west and north, giving those regions more precipitation while leaving the southern and easternstates hotter and drierthan normal. “El Nifio and La Nifia are being thrown around so muchthey have become part of the daily lexicon. We attribute all kinds of things to cal storm activity While no one needs a hurri- the point they should be broadened,” said Laurence Kalkstein associate director of the University of Delaware's Center for Cli- then. According to mainstream scientists, here's the conventionalwisdom on: The Drought of the Century: Ths dependsentirely on geogra "%, far, accordingto the National Oceanic and ‘Atmospheric Ad- ministration, severe long-term drought has beenlimited largely to the mid-Atlantic region, where farmerslose crops and governors talk of water rationing. Here drought conditions are reaching a severity occurring only about twicea century, on average. The Northwest and some southern coastal states are experiencing less-severe drought, while most of the nation’s breadbasket remains drought-free Climatologists also point out that droughts occur over different time scales. Agricultural droughts, which affect crops pri- marily, can occur over a month or two and largely can go unnoticed —except in higher prices for pro. duce. La But during hurricane season, Nifia also can intensify tropi- cane, a few drenching tropical storms late this summerand fall could go a long waytoalleviate long-term droughtin the mid-At- lantic. Colorado State Universityforecaster William Gray, thefirst scientist to noticethe influence of La Nifia on tropical storms, predicting an above-average season: onl ; d aastan ms POPES HUES tay nine eee b Global Warming: Is the planet getting warmer becauseof indus- E CHOOSE FRO a“TIGHT Twist stream scientists believeit is, but > BERBERS veryfew will come out and attri- bute this summer’s drought to it heat CHOOSE FROM: UTPILE BERBERS trial emissions? 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