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Show TET SOSTOESSee Es eee pi ~ SUPER BOWL RN rg ng DOT-COM WOES ‘Jazz STRIFE > Mies nena out C-1 Gribune Tr Celebs amongthose burned D-1 http://www.sltrib.com Martin Luther King Jr. Day Utah’s Independent Voice Since 1871 CauTeSaaeTne CONFEDERATE FLAG Georgia Latest To Struggle With Race, Tradition . MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 2001 eeemiaeee Earthquake Toll Climbs Past 400 Aftershocks slow search for survivors; hundreds of peoplestill are missing BY MARCOS ALEMAN ‘THE ASSOCIATEDPRESS SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Strong aftershocks Sunday Tescuers flecing the Las Colinas neighborhood near the capital. Drawn by tapping on concrete slabs, workers dug for hours until they reached Sergio teee en Jed rescuers to scale back digging in the Las Colinas that was buried by dirt thatcame crashing down from a mountainside on Saturday morning. “Westill don't know anything,” ao de Carman, searching mother. “And now the ground is shaking again under us.” See AFTERSHOCKS,Page A-4 1 More than 1,000 feared buriedin slide A-4 Legislators To Prune Deadwood Their first task will be to address Code bulging with outmoded laws BY DAN HARRIE ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Thefirst act of Utah’s 2001 Legislature will be the opposite of lawmaking. Legislators wantto kick off the 45-day session, which begins today, by repealing a raft of laws already onthe books. No, they are not proposing to erase the ban on polygamy or junk Utah Code.It now runs to five volumes, with 6,010 laws. Statutory deadwood abounds, giving lawmakers ample opportu- Act of 1941, for example. Enacted a few months before the Japanese ‘Al Hartmann/The Salt Lake Tribune ‘A Soldier Hollow crowd takes in sprint races at Nordic World Cup events Sunday. Norwegian Bente Skari withstood a strong challenge from Canadian Beckie Scott in the women’s race. Italy’s Christian Zorzi paced the men. See story, Page C-1. Next Attorney General Could Affect Olympic Case totaling more than $1 million. Be Weak eel Sabnedn are not the daly ones who might welcome a fresh look at the BY LINDA FANTIN THE SALTLAKE TRIBUNE. With George W. Bush moving to the White House, th of case. Several Utahns, mostly Republicans, could be called to testify about their involvementin Salt Lake’s dubious bid. They include Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt and Sen. Orrin Hatch, both of whom are close to the also could draw attention to the case does not involve Me But if the court grants any pending defense motions to identify co-conspirators or to dismiss even one count of the governinsite coerboat ciuais sau ke Bush and his new attorney general to step in. John Russell, spokesman for the Justice Department'sfraud division, said, as arule, a “Howhigh up it goes is anybody’s guess,” he added. “We don’t even have an attorney general yet.” v Z The current nominee is outgoing Sen. See OLYMPIC CASE, Page A-10 Racial Profiling Under Study Across ci But Conclusions Prove Elusive JUSTIN PRITCHARD ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS easernseecee re oman bet detailed records of traffic stops to tell 1 Utah legislator to again push profiling bil saboteurs, enemies or enemy forces.” The militia never was called up. It is one of the laws targeted for obliteration by the Government Operations Interim Committee. Legislative leaders have endorsed the suggestions and have sched- uled an opening-day news confer- @ Opposition to AG pick grows Crunching Olympic budget numbers attack on Pearl Harbor,the statute authorized a Utah militia to defend the state against “insurrectionists, ence to announce their plans to re- peal outdated laws and “cut “Weare going to repeal 380 sec- tions of the Code, about 55 pages of laws,” said House Speaker Marty Stephens, R-Farr West. “We decided we'd start this off with the message thatit’s just as importantto take old and unworking laws offthe books as it is to pass newlaws.” Stephens says a package of repeal bills will hit the floor today, by agreement of Republicans and Democrats. Much ofthe rest of the Legislature’s opening daywill be spent on See LEGISLATURE, Page A-10 REMEMBERINGKING AS population but 20 percentof the traffic stops — is that profiling? What about 30 percent? And what about searches — ing once and for all. truth, however, like race itself in the United States, is simple black and white. Sn ee ee Sittin ‘says. next question that has to be answered boyee aia 4 Mark Humphrey‘The Associnted Press Visitors to the National Civil Rights Museum, the former Lorraine Motel Lienwsasst a TeRg hon Martin assassinated in 1968. The King holiday Is today, he ws ht |
