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Show The Salt LakeTribune OT, | “< COpy M@ FORTHE RECORD, B-2 LOTTERY, B-8 - MOBITUARIES BS WEATHER, B-10 - Welch Scrutiny Prolonged Former SLOC president agrees with feds to extend deadlineforfiling charges BY GREG BURTON questionable payments to International Olym- pic Committee officials and their families fall © 2000, THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE The U.S. Department of Justice and a reputed target of the Salt Lake City Olympic outside the five-year impeachable window. The accord could prolong Justice’s investiga- tion for weeks or months. Without such an agreement, federal prose- bribery investigation have agreed to postpone a statutory deadline for filing federal charges cutors could haverisked losing the chance to in the case, The Salt Lake Tribune has learned. file charges that stem from illegal activities The deal, called a “tolling agreement” or “waiver extension,”gives prosecutors, as well as attorneysfor former Salt Lake Olympic bid committee President Tom Welch, additional time to prepare their arguments without the pressure of meetingthe five-year federal stat- ute of limitations, the standard for mostfederal crimes. William Taylor, Welch’s Washington, D.C., attorney, declined to comment. Welch’s agreementis likely for a limited extension oftime.It alleviates the immediate need to resolve the case before some of the SUNDAY before June 16, 1995, when the IOC awarded Salt Lake City the rightto hold the 2002 Winter Olympics. Or, the prosecutors could be forced to file blanket charges that, given more time, either would ultimately not be filed or be resolved short of indictment. It is not known whether former bid committee Vice President Dave Johnson, or any Olympic protests in Sydney — B4 ‘JUNE 25, 2000 Candidates Struggle To Find Identities GOPcontestants try to be ‘most conservative’ in efforts to be Republican choice for November the feet of Welch and Johnson. “Tolling agreements are not that uncommon,”said Laurence Urgenson, a Washington, D.C., attorney and former head of the fraud division at the Justice Department. “Typically, it begins when prosecutors say, ‘Look,I'm sorry we're going to have to indict you on this date because of the statute of limitations,’ ”he said. “The defense is in no hurry to be indicted, so they agree to waive the statute. Otherwise, the defense attorney doesn’t get anything outofit.” Buta defense team can use theextra time to other bid official, has entered into a similar convince prosecutors, their superiors or the tolling agreement. Max Wheeler, Johnson's Salt Lake City attorney, declined to comment. A Salt Lake Organizing Committee ethics panel placed blamefor the scandal largely at public that an indictmentisill-advised, misguided or unnecessary. In someinstances, the See WELCH,Page B-11 BY JUDY FAHYS THE SALTLAK! The campaign IBUNE jingles have clanked in our heads for weeks. Substance over Style. The Future: Bring it On. Just Straight Talk. Real Experience. Real Solutions. This promotional scattershot has verged lately on bombardment — in mailers, through television and on radio. It prods voters to ask asimple question: Whoarethe real Republicans? With the primary election set for Tuesday, the question is driving GOP hopefuls in 18 legislative districts. It is on the mindsof the men runningfor attorney general, governor and Utah’s 2nd Congressional District seat. Since Demo- FIDDLING DIXIE crats have primaries in only four county races, the question of Republican-ness seems to be the only question. Andeach contest seemstooffer its own answer. polls, they have stressed negatives to their own detriment. “Voters don’t like that sort of thing,” Burbank said. “They want People deciding between the men running for Congress, twoterm Congressman Merrill Cook and challenger Derek Smith, might be having trouble choosing be- sages. They don’t want to see personal animosity.” an Internet millionaire. They have bickered abouttheflat tax, differing only onthe politics of deduc- tions. Cook has chided Smith for allowing his business to accumulate tax liens. Smith has hammered Cook about tax and regulatory troubles with his own company. Smith has pummeled Cook for missing congressional votes, while Cook has. ridiculed Smith for not votingin local elections. And soon. While incumbents usually have manybuilt-in. advantages, Cook has been the underdogin this race, to see candidates with clear mesWeberState Universitypolitical scientist Marcy Everest seesit as a power struggle between the party ultra-conservatives and z mainstream, rational middle,” whose support is consideredcritical to keeping the congressional seat Republican. “T! i i sight into the Repub! shesaid, “and everyone knows The same moderate-conservative battle showed up in what mightbe called the “all-issues-allthe-time” primaryrace for gover- nor. Governor's Race: Holladay businessmanGlen Davis has made a drumbeatofthe idea that incum. bent Mike Leavitt has abandoned the party’sprinciples. In that vein. he made much of thefact that Leavitt did not sign the party's platform until recently. partly becauseof reports about er- Davis stressed ideals, such as ratic behaviorand defections from the GOPestablishment, including cutting $250 million from the state budget, giving parents morecon: Republican Rep. Chris Cannon’s trol over schools andfighting the endorsementof Smith. Cook's seat is considered one of the nation’s federal government harder over mostprecarious, and both primary Cedar City Mopping Up After Flood He suggested that in trying to like: “At least there are no Democrats here. Yet.” Cook as a millionaire Independent-turned-populist and Smith as Martie Seidel plays hotriff on thefiddle while vocalist Natalie Maines,left, struts her stuff during the Dixie Chicks concert Saturday night at the Delta Center. Guitarist Emily Robison rounds out the trio who are redefining country music.A large, multi-aged crowd was treated to some traditional country tunes along with their favorite Chicks’hits. For more on the concert, see the review, Page B-4. scientist at the Universityof Utah. differentiate themselves from one another and motivatevotersto the In the sole congressional seat with a primary, it goes something tween candidates who both lack GOPestablishmentcredentials. Both point to their records, Chris Zuppa/The Salt Lake Tribune “Maybe the problem here is these guys are too much alike,” said Matthew Burbank, a political candidates insist they offer the party its best hope for defeating Democrat Jim Matheson in Novemberand avoiding a Democratic takeover of Congress. public lands. “That's what people want in a Republican governor,” heis often heardsaying. It took Leavitt more than a See CANDIDATES.Page B-8 REMEMBERING THE BATTALION Residents overrun by unstoppable water despite plucky efforts to divert the flow BY THOMASBURR SPECIAL TOTHETRIBUNE CEDARCITY — Carol Bullock could smell the disaster that had hit her basement. On Saturdayafternoon, everything — from carpets to a surround-sound entertainment center — was caked with sewageafter a severe storm struck Cedar City on Friday afternoon backing up sewer systems and flooding several parts of the town. And Bullock wasn't alone. Scores of Cedar City residents were pulling from washed through thecity about 4 p.m. Friday. But the warning cametoo late and the water was too heavy and too strongfor the city infrastructure to handle. The county sheriff, city work crews, the volunteer fire department and neighbors spent Friday night sandbagging, digging trenchesand diverting streams past houses. But much of what is expected to be hun- dreds of thousands of dollars worth of damage was done before they filled the first sandbag. “It was frustrating,” says Bullock. “This really stinks, The rain just kept coming too hard and there their basements water-soaked furniture and stained photo albums,the result of a torrential rain that wasnowhere forit to go.” Bullock said she could not put a price on the damage caused to her basement flooded Cedar City with 2-foot-deep waterin the streets when a ground-level window burst, letting in kneedeep water. and overflowed a drainage system too small for the flow. The National Weather Service had issued a flash-flood warningfor the area after thunderstorms See DELUGE,Page B-4 WSUSelects Recipients of Gay-Rights Scholarships BY KIRSTEN STEWART ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Legal and moral objections to a controversial Weber State University scholarship earmarked for students who support gay, lesbian and bisexual rights won't prevent the school from awardiny ‘it to three students this fall. The first winners of the Matthew Shepard scholarship. were chosen in Mayfrom a poolofeight applicants, WSU senior Emily Turner will receive a year’s full tuition, and two other students, to a gay, who were not identified by the mum 3.25 grade point average. The university, will get partial tuition. Endowed in January with money raised by an independent committee of university and community membe the Shepard lesbian, bisexual or transgender student with a minicriteria later were broadened to include students actively sympathetic to gay, lesbian and bisexual ming student who was brutally issues, Twoof the winners have requested to remain anonymous, said university President Paul Thompson. The school is bound by slain in 1998. the Family Educational Rights and scholarship was created in memory of a gay University of WyoIt originally was intended to provide$2,000 in tuition assistance See 3 STUDENTS,Page B-6 Rick Kgnn/The Salt Lake Tribune Carl Teeples holds the American flag during Mormon Battalion Heritage Dayfestivities at the Mormon the 500 Mormonsoldiers who,at the jal on CapitolHill. Saturday's event behestof Brigham Young,organized in 1846 to assistthe U.S.Army in the Mexican War. The group saw no combat, but helped secure America’s Western frontier. See story on Page B-8. UTAH QUOTES “The Skull Valley Goshuules were given some the most Godforsaken and in the Onit States, and they are lookingfor a usefor it. — Attorney Scott H. York on the band’s effort to store nuclear waste onits land “You can't circumvent human nature. So whyfightit?” — Westminster College business professor Charles Ehin on building on coan effective workplace operation “A lot of people think if you don't havea gunor a reel, you have no reason togointothefield.” Tony Dietz, Utah forestry coordinator, on becoming a forestry tree fancier “Whether it’s Park City or Grosse Point, Mich., every community needs affordable] housing” Don Gomes, Habitat for Humanity starting to cut a bit into what I David Johnson, pizza delivery man, on rising Utah gas prices |
