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Show ‘DeLakeTribune PERSPECTIVE a By SUNDAY,January 16, 2000 1 oes SF * On Thursday, roll and most of us don't care. Ought opening its 1 — i on if you Beet / dooming ae assisted re ready in the Statehouse cai as mtn veh find morally offen- Since it is perceived life isa misdemeanor in Utah, the enterworld embraces this gathering as the premier showing of some dyna- ‘¢True, a lot ofwhatisshown each ise celluloid: But great artco ethanates screens. Occasionally, make the big time — year’s “Blair Witch Project” and videotape” orihe . — ‘The 10-day ski and schmooze based primarily in Park City but with screenings in Salt Lake City, Ogden the eeutiveswho “suits” (ex- movie distribution deals), inment media and film critics from around the world. people attend this event, mostly out-of-staters. Importantto you and me is that one ofthose sets of eyes and ears belongs Means, The Lake Tribune's lead moviecritic, who is attending his ninth Sundance Fes- wldron incde a education/transportation/state build- Robert Redford or Bie Hummel and Dan Nailen dnd log: raphers Paul Fraughton, Ri mee Scores offilms that half . Hartmann and Steve Griffin. The co ings tug-of-war overfunding, gun contobacco suit windfall, elections, land grabs bythe regulated, mental founders ofthe predecessor U.S. Film ofUtah and a handful ofUniversity of the African nation of Sierra Leone,‘ ee sees covering the LETTER FROM THE EDITOR age is directed by News Editor Melinda maeepee sal ene wth. ran legislative reporters Dan Har- “Everybody puts a spin on Sundance,” says Means.“The publicists see it as a rieae Judy Fahys have been girding themselves for the o1 it. They will media venue. The studios look atit as a be assisted by jntern Serena Carlson and market. The press goes to see the celebri. ties. Fans want good movies. And the or- by another dozen Tribune reporters who will be dispatched,on a spot basis, for ganizers emphasize thattheyare still their subject expertise use Sundance is so big these days,it canbe all ofthe above —as well asa fun party.” So why ought the “Stuart Little” crowd care? eans, filmmakers who get their start at Sundance frequently end up big-budget fare in subse- and Fahysprovide an overview of what to expect in the coming weeks. And, on page A-8, Newsroom Assistant Julie De spares= nae to = olpe er that readers will find u: you plan to get involved. Andplease be so inclined, because citizen involvement will be sorely needed. cates to the artists. It's funny. Be- quentyears, films that draw in Utah. “You don't knowthese peopleyet, but you will.” *preview whatis coming in the next10 days on this morning's front page. Qa Keep your hands on your wallets and aesthe children from the streets. The itah Legislature convenes Monday. Exae an uglier-than-usual session. morning on the front page Harrie ae Some of Means’ nine Sundance passes * If you are into choosing sides, the op- tions are numerous: House Republicans goingsix paces with Gov. Mike Leavitt on guns and other matters, moderate Re Q sa 3 Nigeria, Russia, Sri Lanka and Turkey. : Manyof those killed, said CPJ execu, tive director Ann Cooper, were targeted by warring factions within the various countries. “We see a clear policy, particularfy in Sierra Leone, Colombia and East Timor,of armed factions seeking to ban: _jsh or exterminatejournalists in order to hide the truth. ‘Also troubling is the fact that the 1999 roll call is 29 percent longer than 1998 when 24 journalists were killed in 17 na. tions. Mystandard sermon:In spite of our moaning, we working in America rarely find curses in. ~_ ions. t isn't so Ce the Middle East, astern Europe and Southeastern Asia. Our risks tendto be of litigious and eco- nomicvariety — dangers that pale when compared to human life. Let us all under- About this time ofyear, I pay brief stand how high theprice of information vouring their young and lawmakers in According to the Committee to Protect - Ec general vs. our general welfare. If you are into substantive policy mak_ing, you might consider heavy prayer this Sunday. Contentious ingredients al- Journalists, 33 reporters and photographers/camera operators lost their lives in 10 countries in 1999. ‘The mostdangerous assignment was . Editor —_pybjicans breaking reactionary choke holds, Democrats shouting to be noticed in the GOP cacophony, Democrats de- tribute to my colleagues who havelost their lives in the previous 12 months for the sole reason that they are journalists. - THE AMERICAS rdiedinColombia, ia, BastTar, * 17 died in can be. Cy = Ss INTERRATIONAL WEER IN REVIEW ~ By Steve Newman EARTHWEEK: A DIARY OF THE PLANET Spanish Ibex Extinct The very last living Spanish ibex was found dead under a fallentree in Ordesa National Park in Spain on Jan. 6. Forest rangers near the French border found the 13-year-old female with her skull crushed.The anintal was one of a subspecies of Pyrenees tbuntain goats, Compiled by TOM HARVEY ~ Compiled by BRIAN MACINTYRE Capra pyrenaica, known in Spain as Chile: The possibility of the imminent return of former military dictator Augusto Pinochet from England may have an impact onthe presidential vote today. Joaquin Lavin, the conservative candidate finished neck-and-neck in the primary with socialist Ricardo Lagos, at least partly because Lavin could distance himself from the absent Pinochet, whois being held on a Spanish criminal warrant. Pinochet's possible return because ofill-health mayfavor Lagos. @ Venezuela: Former Comptroller Eduardo Roche Lander has issued a scathing report against President Hugo Chavez. Hesaid Chavez has worsened recession, trampled the rule of law anddonelittle to eliminate corruption. Foreign Minister Jose Vicente Rangel called the report “political.” @ Colombia: The nation’s top militia boss has confirmed forthefirsttime that the rightist paramilitary groups finance themselves by taxing the drug trade, the sameas their leftist rivals do.In a televi- sion interview, paramilitary chief Carlos Castano confirmed the long-standing accusations. He said the paramilitaries charge a 40 percent tax on peasants who produce coca, the raw material for cocaine. Cuba: The grandmotherof 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez says her daughter — killed in the boating accident that otthe child adrift off the Florida coast — have wanted the child returned to Cuba, “Shewill notrest in peace until the child is here with his father and his grandparents,” Raquel Rodriguez, mother of the “bucardo.”Its population once spread across a broad area from the Sierra de los Nievestothe French Pyrenees. The ibex wasdistinguished by a very thick coat that was adapted to the cold mountain weather, and horns much largerthan thoseofothermountain goats. Although the bucardo became a protected species in 1973, shrinking habitat and poachers eroded its numbers until only the lone surviving female remained, were grim. But nowa yearlater, Brazil is doing better than many anticipated, sidestepping the disaster but still with more necessary economic growth ahead. Experts say the economy must grow 5.5 percent a year to keep pace with the number of Brazilians entering the job market. @ Mexico: Consumer prices rose 12.3 percentlast year, the lowest yearly rise since the nation’s 1994 financial crisis and a sign of economic strength at the | start of this election year. The central bank’s inflation report was welcome news for President Ernesto Zedillo, has repeatedlystressed that the count underlying economics' th will help preventthe kind of cri it have ac: | companied the last four \presidential | transitions. | Tom Harvey isa former correspondent in LatinAmerica, He compiled this column from wireservice reports, northern Greenland. The trek honors the 50th anniversary of the Sirius Patrol, the navy unit that monitors the northern fringes of Greenland, the world’s largest island and a semiautonomous Danish territory. {Sierra Leoné: Britain on Thursdaypledged to help Sierra Leone stamp out egal diamondtrading, which has led to international calls for a boycott of gems from the war-battered West African nation. Ona visit to the capital of Freetown, British Foreign Minister Peter Hain said action must be taken to keep diamond profits from funding warfare. Sierra Leone’s rebel Revolutionary United Front has fought to control the diamordlucing areas in the country’s dense]; forested east. M@ France: The nation’s constitutiodal watchdog gaveits approval Thi toa shortened workweek, clearing the firjal hurdle for the law. Shortening the work- week from 39 hours to 35 has been a key project of the governing Socialists. They hope it will help reduce France’s 11 pércent jobless rate by forcing companies'to hire more people. @ Sudan:Rebels on Thursday renewed a three-month humanitarian cease-fire in war-torn areas of southern Sudan. The Southern fe's Liberation Army was use of the PACIFIC / FAR EAST / MIDDLE EAST viewprinted Thursday in the Communist arty daily Granma. economic ruin, the governmentallowed the national currency to float freely againstthe dollar. Scenarios for recovery left Tuesday for an expedition that will take hifn on a 2,170-mile dogsled trek through the extremecold and darkness of For the week ending French Reforestation January 14, 2000" ‘The three million trees that were destroyed by record storms across France last Earth movements were also felt in Desert Drought Ends month will be replaced in a Record Chinese Snowfall ‘Thefirst measurable rain in 10 southem Mexico, Northem California's massive reforestation program Atleast five people have been months fell on Dubai in the Wine Country, Japan, Taiwan, Indoneannounced by the government. The killed and four others injured United Arab Emirates, and sia’sIrian Jaya province, southern Iran, storms’ —hurricane-force winds @ in snowslides in northwest meteorologists predicted that southeast Turkey, southern Greece and destroyed the equivalent of 1,250,000 China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous = ] acres of woodland. Around Paris, half Region, The snowfall is the deepest-in more showers are likely-Much of the westem Austria.) the city’s trees were uprooted,including the lengthyhistory of the region. Offi- Middle East has been in the grip of a Bugged to Death drought and traditional Muslim prayers historic 20-year-old trees at the Palace cials reported that 170 homes have been The worst, Indonesian of Versailles. The plan will involve leveled and 2,000 head oflivestock have _ for rain have been held in manycities. grasshopper ifvasion since approximately 5,500previously unem- been killed by the heavy snow that has 1968 has devastated vast ‘Tropical Cyclones ployed workers to begin the arduous and fallen since the New Year. areas of cropland in the Tropical cyclone Iris formed province of dangerousfirst stage of the process— West Kalimantan, driving over the Pacific island nation farmers intofinancial clearing,cutting and shipping the damand, in some Killer Bees Attack School ©. of Vanuatu then lost force to cases, even suicide. A ruin aged trees, farmerin the disthe west of Fiji. Cyclone trictofJelai Huli reportedly More than 20 students in took his life Killing Cold Mexico were attacked by a Babioila moved harmlessly over the after the voracious insects leveled swarm of Africanized killer ‘open waters of the western Indian almost three acres of his crops in a sinAt least 100 people through‘out Mexico have died as a beesat their primary school Ocean. _ gle night. The swarms of crop-eating result ofbitter cold snap dur- in Acapulco, The victims wer insects have devoured massive amounts nn, Earthquakes ing the first two weeks of Jan- the city’s general hospital for treatment and rice, triggering fears offood ‘At least four people were ofgrain attack left five of the children uuary. The majority of fatalities have after in the region, Environmentalinjured and more than 400 shortages occurred in the northern deserts of the in serious condition, Officials at the ists blame the plague on the destruction homes were damaged by a of country, especiallyin the borderstate of Vicente Guerrero School, where the nearby rain forests"thatwere habitat magnitude 5.1 temblor that to many birds, which are the grasshopChihuahua where temperatures have attack took place, said that high levels plunged to as low as 14 degrees Fahren- of humidityin the aging structure had struck northeast China's Liaoning pers’ natural enemies. heit. Many of the deaths have been attracted the aggressive bees tocolonize province. The Los AngelesTimes Syndicate caused by hypothermia, but a significant there. Classes at the school were sus. * A magnitude 6.4 quake in Chile's Distributed by:Email earih@slipnet number of fatalities have also. been pended until the bees could be extermi- Antofagasta desert region knocked out 02000Earth Environment Service caused by faulty heaters. nate. power andcause minor damage. late Elisabeth Brotons, said in an inter- @ Brazil: It was Jan.15, 1999, when, facing @ Denmark: Crown Prince Frederik, 81, Ww @China: Song Yongyi, a librarian at Dickinson Collegein Carlisle, Pa., and a nations: Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga. permanent U.S. resident who planned to becomea citizen in September, has bro- Wlsrael: A group from India that claims to be a lost Jewish tribe has asked Israel to welcome it homeafter 2/900 years of ken China’s criminal law, the Foreign Ministry said last week. Song was arrested in August while collecting docu- ments aboutthe 1966-76 Cultural Revolution. He is accused of supplying intelligence to foreigners,but notrial information has been disclosed. More than 100 China scholars are petitioning for Song's release, saying he was only doing his job as a scholar. Wiran: About 402 nominees for next Compiled by JENNIFER SKORDAS month's crucial legislative elections have Prize-winner Aung San Suu Kyihas been released from prison, The government supervisory council, the Interior Ministry said Saturday. Most of the rejected candidates are supporters of reformist int, was freed pn humanitarian grounds after the death of his wife. He was imprisoned for rallying crowds without permis- been disqualified by a hard-line electoral President Mohammad Khatami. Moder- said Moe Thu,62, also known as Sein My- Majlis, or parliament. @ Myanmar: A noted economics writer whois a former senior member. of the pro-democracy party of Nobel Peace as alternating drought and floods,” the statementsaid. Wilvory Coast: A leading opposition party on Wednesday joined Ivory Coast's interimgovernment, ending the West Af- rican country’s first major political deadlock since a junta took power in a Christmas Eve coup. Four members \of a flood of non-Jewish immigrants would 1 Germany: Anopposition party's poster featuring AdolfHitler as a bad role model to underline a campaign for more teaghers provoked shock and outrage among its rivals Wednesday. Leftist parties he. cused the small Free eaves lof aroundthe world tosettle there,fears that threaten the Jewish character of the nation. @ Turkey: Police arrested 13 hospital workers Saturday onallegations they re- moved kidneys from tHe poor to sell to their first Cabinet meeting We along with 17 rn ministers opel fren the army wealthy people needingtransplants. The 13 were arrested after they agreed to pay an impoverished patient $3,700 for his. @ Tuvalu: The South Pacific nation made $74,000 a the Anatolia news agency up of nine coral atolls covering 10 square reported. kidneyto sell to undercoverpolice for a miles has applied to be the 189th member 3 i United Nations. Last year, the ni accepted new members, all/small South Pacific island bination of war and natural causes such exile. Members of the Shinglung community asked Parliament to grant citizenship to 100 people per year. But officials maybe reluctant. Israel, which since its inception has actively urged Jews from sion in June 1996, ates say the council is trying to ensure that reformists do not take controlof the eeehnaer induced by the com- fer Skordas worked as an editor ty’s campaign for North Rhine. Westphalia state elections May. Free Democrats have been losing v for oe and are now struggling f survival. Brian Mac hIntyre wasa reporter in his native Dublin. 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