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Show WARYNEIGHBOR | WAITING FOR A MIRACLE Grantsville man stays andfights B-1 Big soccervictoryfor BYU D-1 heS tLake Gri & i y \ \ Veterans Day Volum | COUGS DEFEAT CAL If it doesn’t snow, ski races maygo to Colorado C-1 http: /www.sitrib.com une ° Veterans Day Utah’s Independent Voice Since 1871 amber 27 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1999 Sait Lake Tribune Hatch: No Proof NO CLOAK OR DAGGER FBI Today Looks, Acts Different From Old Times BY GRE "THE SAL’ Of Bias URTON /AKETRIBUNE JamesJarboe istheclassic He seeks to eliminate juvenile-justice probe federal agent: calm, laconicanddignified, His officeis clean andblue,nota picture askew. dJarboe joined a Federal Bureau of Investigationthat still hadthat natty, secret-agent air promoted by J. Edgar BY RAY RIVERA 1999, THE Hoover, whoforged the FBI's G-mancul One the Hol- some studies, including reports out of Utah and California, show youths of color are receiving more severe sentences than their white counter Photos by SteveG Hin/TheSalt Lake Trib Today, the bureau’s Quantico, Va., training centeris turning out agents who George Wahlenis reflected in the glass covering some ofthe military medals he hasreceived. can run, shootandhide. Ties are loosen- parts Vets’ memories combinehorror, that would scrap a 7-vear-old federal mandate requiring states to look loyalty, courage into ways of reducingdisproportion ate minorityconfinement The Hatch-Sessions provision i part of the Senate’s juvenile-crim: as been overshadowed by al gun-control element ation After a century of wars of unprecedented carnage, Ameri. Withthe new breed comes a new method oftraining. At FBI headquartersin Sait LakeCity, behind a metal doorwitha digital locking system,is the division’s training room, a world apart from Jarboe’soffice. Behind a second dooris a new virtual-reality shooting range. Whentested, an agent with a 9 mmSig Sauer handgun that shoots a laser beam facesa screen filled with imagesof the innocent and the bad. One features a burly gunrunner anda pigtailedgirl crossing thelineof fire. Thereareseveral ways to fail. If the test-takeris shot, a CD-ROM blipstoa bleeding agent squirming onthe ground. The agent's partner can be shot by the suspect or the agent. Bystanderscan be killed. So can a suspect without just cause, “Our agents must not only demonstrate marksmanship, but makesplit decisions ina nanosecond, ” says Special Agent Rick Rasmussen, a firearms trainer andveteran of the bloody end to the 1988 Swinger. Swappstandoff in Marion, Utah. Since Marion, the bureau's book on deadly force has grown fromseveral lines to severalpages. Three months ago, an FBI agent shot and killed a prison fugitive outside a Salt Lake City nightclub. The suspect was unarmed, butjerkedhis handasif he had agun, says FBI spokesman George Dough: erty. Thekilling was oneof a record 11 Critics say the bill would allow states to stop tracking the racial and cans whoneverhaveexperienced combat struggle to understand the incomprehensible. Where does the courage comefrom? “Americancivilians can never understand,” says Dan Schilling, a veteran of the Guif War and the Somalia conflict. “It’s not their minority composition of those in the See Painful Step Toward Peace “sacrifice.” Yet heroesareall aroundus. A grandfatherly Salt Lake crossing guard shepherds children to school. Fifty years ago, he was a wounded andterrified 18-year-old desperately holding a perimeter after three-quarters of his rifle company were killed or wounded. A half a century ago, a Roy real-estate appraiser ignored his own injuries to bandage wounded Marines. Unfortunately, the veterans BY REBECCA TROUNSON LOS ANGELES TIMES JERUSALEM It occurred four monthsa fter a corrections officer assignedto the FBI's Violent Crimes Task Force narrowly avoided gunfire from a robbery suspect Tidwell, eyeing oneof the bureau'slat est recruits, Mike Dupler, says many of theolder agents haveneverfired their weapons on duty. illegal outpost in the West Bank, the Cabinet took further steps along the road to peace Wednesday by over. whelmingly approving the transfer ofan additional 5percentoftheterri seen the most usually tory’s land to the Palestinians. The dual actions by the govern. saythe least. When pressed, they remember not duty and love of ment of Prime Minister Ehud Barak country, but fear and friendship. “You doit for your buddies,” drew mild praise from Palestinian officials and predictable anger from Israeli hard-liners, including a few says Carl Mott, a Sandyresident whowonachestfull of medals in Vietnam. “Individualsoldiers are politicians and some settlerleaders. But there also appeared to be broad backing in Israel, and even surprising political support, for Barak’s decision to send hundreds ofsol. diers and police before dawn Wednes to clear out the Havat let their buddies down.” Mott, an artillery officer, was awardedthe Silver Star in 1968, “I was in the wrong place at the wrong time,” he says. In truth, he had at infantry company to protect. Talways See HEROES,Page A-6 Maon encampment in the Hebron Korean Warveteran Bill Jaecke stopstraffic on State Street and 1100 South for schoolchildren crossing the multilane road. For more veterans news, see Page A-23. Sec PALESTINIANS, Page A-8 “I wanted to workviolent crimes,” says ® Hillary Clinton tours Israel Dupler, wearing jeans and an unzipped fleece vest. “I got just exactly what I wanted coming out of the academy.” BYSTEVE LUHM ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, Karl Malone made his namein agent dressed like [Dupler] he would have been handing out towels in the gym for the restofhis career,” says Tidwell. “But he's the NBA, Now hehas loaned it to the NRA, oneof the new, sharp,hard-charging . willing to go into harm's way.” And the critics already have WEATHE! 8-2 0-10 A-20 C4 D6 B4 jun, some clouds, appears in this week's issueof Time magazine, two pages in from the cover and facing the table of contents. Gunnmakesit clear that Utahns Against Gun Violence does not oppose hunting, or pene like Malone. It is the NRA’s tireless fight against oy control that Gunn andhis group oppose. ‘¢ not anti-hunting or pro- hunting,” he said. “We are neutral onhunting If Mr. Malonelikes hunting, great for him.” In thefull-page ad, a gently smil attorney who heads the group has credibility in this arena.” whether he has given much thoughttoit.” The Jazz forward's latest endorsement which he did gratis for the National Rifle Association of America’s “I'm The NRA”advertising campaign will likely be the most controversial of his 14 as a basket. ball player, but I don’t knowif he The NRA, which pours millions of dollars into its campaignto protect Americans’rights of gun own ership, disagrees. arl is certainly respected for everything he said WayneLLaPier omplished,” the organiza. tion's executive vice president, “He is role model. Weare proudto fea. ture him in this campaign “Oneof the points weare trying yearprofessional basketball career. Andheknows it to makeis that the shooting sports are mainstream as mainstream Jazz forward Karl Malone's testimonial for the “There are certain things 1 believe in and do,” Malone said, “That's my right. Some people NRA appears in this week's issue of Time. might notlike this. I know that, But as you can get and that the NRA represents a cross section of America, probably more than any other organization you'll find.” Details: A-11 ile It Malonehas credibility not criticizing him for lending his name to a cause, | just question 83 A-20 De Dt 0 BS The Mailman’s endorsement ‘I doubt anybody will take him too seriously,” said Gunn. “Karl Utahns Against Gun Violence.“I'm Movies Obituaries Puzzles Sports Star Gazer TVProprams I'manNRA typeof guy.” couldn't be more high-profile. started firing. “I just hope he knows what he’s talking about, but I doubt that he does,” said Steve Gunn,a Salt Lake INDEX Ann Landers Asimov/Bridge Births Business Classifieds Comics AB MailmanExtols Different Kind of Shooting in NRA Ads ‘Thatrelish for street crime andoffice wearby L.L, Bean amounts to a sea changeat the FBI “WhenJim andI started, if we saw an agents Hours after Israeli troops evicted dozens ofkick: ing, shouting Jewishsettlers from an brave because they don’t want to officer-involved deaths in Utah this year. HATCH. Page A-9 Israel Takes fault. They just have never been in combat.” As a result, Veterans Day speeches ramble and vaguely evoke “ “duty, “patriotism” and whohave for the same offenses But that's not evidence of discrim ination, says Sen. Orrin Hatch, R Utah. Hatch and Sen. Jeff Sessions, h Alabama, are co-authors of a bill “We're downin the weedslike never befor across the juvenile-justice fined at disproportionate rates. And Not anymore. Therules of engagement have changed. has helpedshrink the nation’s murder rate, says Jarboe, assistant special agent in chargeofthe FBI's Utah Division. “We're asking our agents to go for the baddestof the bad,” says Stephen Tidwell, Jarboe’scounterpartin Salt Lake City. TRIBUNE Federally funded research in 46 states has found that minority youths are being arrested and con When Jarboejoined,“going undercover meant taking yourcoat andtieoff.” Since1990, the FBI hasplaced more special agents with SWATteamsthan with white-collarfraud squads trend that country’s system lywoodand Cold War Red-huntingsteered the agencyaway fromstreet-level crime. ingor disappearing. Fatigues are common. Sneakersare accepted. LAKE studies nation are pointing to inequities in ture as chief from 1924 until his death in 1972. Hoover's fetish for powerpolitics, SALT by one, \ ing Maloneoffers this testimonial: “About theonlythingI'd rather do than play basketball is hunt ‘There's nothing like enjoying the great outdoors with myfriends and family. Plus the challenge posed by thesuperior senses of your game, | grew up hunting in Louisiana and | think it’s a tradition we should pass on,” Malone decided to become a spokesman for the NRA after receiving a call from the organiza. ue:epee actor Charlton He: He wanted to know what I thought about the NRA, and all See MALONE,Page A-6 |
