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Show TheSaltLakeTribune PAGE2 Compiled from Tribune news services by Rick Rosetta SATURDAY,March 10, 2001 WHOSE NAUVOO? A century-and-a-half after Mormons were driven from their city, residents of Nauvoo,Ill., are bracing fortheir retum when a new LDStemple is completed next year. The church offered some- LEBANON ‘one to help with the planning,but church leaders Eleven people allegedly executed were neighbors of Congoassassin THIRD WORLD TECH got more than they bargained for. Sunday A-1 Pasteurization equipment meantfor developing countries could save small Utah dairies. Sunday Business BEIRUT — Eleven Lebanese allegedly killed in Congo’s capital were arrested because they were neighbors ofthe suspect in the assassination ofCon- —J golese President LaurentKabila, a Lebanese lawyer said Friday. Talal Fayad, whosaid he was hired by the victims’relatives, denied that the 11 were involved in Kabila’s Jan.16 killing. THE HEADLINES “Theinformation we haveis that they were ar- rested because theylived in a building that Kabila’s assassin inhabited,” Fayadtold reporters in Beirut. Kabila, whotoppled longtime Congodictator Mobutu Sese Sekoin 1997, was shot andkilled by one Morethana year after security guards at Hawaii’s Keahole-Kona of his bodyguards. No motive has beenestablished; the bodyguard was killed soonafter the assassina- International Airport searched Whitney Houston's handbag and tion. It is not clear how the Lebanese cameto be linked found marijuanain twoplastic bag- gies and three partially smoked joints, the pot possession charges against her have been dismissed, to Kabila’s killing, butthe alleged assassin report- edly had list of the namesof the 11 Lebanese in his reports Rolling Stone. Houston had pocket. Fayadsaid it was natural that the bodyguard would have their names because they were neigh- to meet several court-ordered bors. Hesaid he believed all 11 were killed shortly af- contestin Novemberto the charges. According to Deputy Prosecutor Mel Fujino, the singer was required to pay $4,025in contributions, court fees and donationsto an anti-drug group, as well as undergo a substance abuse assessmenttestin meeting with a court-determined-deadline before the KonaDistrict Court would considerdismissal. requirementsafter pleading no ter their arrests. Efrem Lukatsky/The Associated Press SPAIN Three arrested after Basqueofficer killed by suspected separatist bomb HERNANI — Police arrested three menin con- Opposition activists attack a police officer, left, near the presidential administration building during a protest in Ukraine’s capital, Kiev, on Friday. Demonstrators hurling bottles and a Molotov cocktail clashed withriot police usingtear gas in the bloodyprotest against Ukraine's President Leonid Kuchma. UKRAINE Tribute to beloved poet, Shevchenko, becomesbloody anti-Kuchmaprotest nection with the overnight killing of a policeman in acar bomb Friday,the latest attack blamed on the Basqueseparatist group ETA. The three were arrested in the small Basque town of Hernani,several hours after 25-year-old Inaki Totorika Vega waskilled, said a spokesman for the Basque regional police force, the Ertzaintza. ‘Three men were arrested, two of them are the ones wethink carried out the bombattack,” the spokesman said. Friday’s bomb wasnotclaimed by any group but KIEV — tribute Friday to Ukraine’s mostfamed poet, Taras Shevchenko,turned into the bloodiest protest in a three-month campaign againstPresident Leonid Kuchma, with several in- jured as demonstrators hurled bottles and a Molotov cocktail and bore the hallmarks of ETA,whichis believed to have killed more than 800 people; mostly security force police used tear gas. Snaking acrossthe capital, the protests grew throughoutthe day, swelling to as many as 18,000 peo- members,in shootings and bombings since 1968. ple,police said — a huge gather- There was no immediate word from ETA. The group usually takes weeksto claim responsibility, and often does so in communiques sentto a pro- Dozens were arrested and thou- independence Basque newspaper. ing for this usually quietcity. included six police, several proTheviolence took protestleaders by surprise,after a series of peaceful rallies demanding Kuchma’s ouster. The campaign was failure to solve Ukraine's economicills. CommunistParty executed two high-ranking mem- bers, including a formerdeputy, in 2000 and brought its largest-ever corruption case to trial. party rule. “Weface destruction of our party anddestruction airplanesand helicoptersused in aerial eradication U.S. officials are calling the suspension temporary. But the halt is frustrating Colombian police and angering someU.S. lawmakers concerned about growingheroin production here. Theworld’s leading cocaine producer, Colombia now exports more heroin than Asian producers, HUNGARY Riverreaches highest level ever as thousand workto strengthen dikes BUDAPEST — Therain-swollen Tisza River ed its highest level Friday in more than 100 as thousandsoftroops and residents worked aroundthe clockreinforcingdikesto protect villages, a Hungarian official said. Those moveshavehelped keepthe spotlight on corruption. Li, the second-highest Communist Party official after President Jiang Zemin, said greater oversight was needed to prevent graft and shore up missionswere reassigned to the U.S.-financed push againstcoca crops. Thailand and Pakistan, and supplies 70 percent of an expanding U.S. heroin market, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. DEA Administrator Donnie Marshallsaid suc- GERMANY New Greensleaderattacks U.S. over missile defense,Iraq airstrikes STUTTGART Anoutspoken human rights ac- tivist was elected the new co-leader of Germany's Members of the Greens, the junior partner in Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's governing coali- Management. CHINA Toplegislator cautions corruption Althoughwater levels are breaking records, the floods are causing less damagethan major flooding could topple Communist government two topparty posts at a national convention. “The American bombings in Iraq are no way to overcome the dictator Saddam Hussein quite the contrary,” Roth said, laying out her credoto delegates gathered in this wealthy southern city “And it’s just as right to persuade the Americans and a total of 17,940 people have been evacuated. The flooding has primarily been caused by melt ing snow on thehillsides ofthe Carpathian Moun: tains in Ukraine, and aggravated by heavyrains. People’s Congress,will broaden efforts to wipe out the outlawed Falun Gongspiritual sect and continue blocking Taiwan's attempts to break out ofdiplo- althoughhe believes so far that neither escaping nu clear materials from the Hanfordplant near Rich: (ISSN @i46-seu) established Apri 18, 1871, Published daily and Sun SekLakeChe, ekvirtrtfPoon Ped a Sal Lake yO. POSTMASTER Str changes toTh Salt Lake Tribune atthe above address 4 to haunt you — in the form of hepatitis C. More and more Americans, from street-people to corporate CEOs,are receiving that unwelcome news, curity but more confrontation,” shesaid. Schroeder is expected to raise missile defense and the Middle East when hetravels to Washington on March29 for talks with President Bush. Germany has urged the UnitedStates to consult widely over its missile plans, which have angered Russia and China. the 1960s and '70s comes hometo roost. The Ameri- needles. “There’s a whole big group of people whoexperi- mented with drugs during the Vietnam Waror college” whoare now learning they havehepatitis C, says Martin Greene, medical director of gastroenterology at Swedish Medical Center. “Everybody knows somebody whohas hepatitis C,” says Greene. Despite vast attention given to AIDS, the rate of hepatitis-C infection amongintravenousdrug usersis four times greater than thatof HIV infection, writes Harvard University’s Sanjiv Chopra, quoting government figuresin his informative new work, Dr. Sanjiv Chopra's Liver Book. Hepatitis C is the leading reasonforliver transplants in the U.S., even though only a small percentage of hepatitis C patients ever need one. NOTED Pleaded Guilty: To conspiracy charges in New York City on Thursday, Abdel Ghani Meskini, 33, an Algerian who helped smuggle explosivesinto the United States from Canada in 1999 andstirred fears of a terrorist attack during millennium celebrations. Today's Birthdays: Actor Chuck Norris is 61 Prince Edward of England is 37. Grow Up! The Ontario Court of Appeal, in the courseofits January ruling that drug charges against a teen-ager at a Marilyn Manson concert wouldhaveto be thrown.out because ofpolice entrapment, described a scene that some concert-goers foundgross andscary in its own way: older men (undercoverpolice officers) dressed in Gothgarb trying to trick kidsinto selling them marijuanaby saying things like, “Hey, man, it's goingto be a wicked con: cert” and“ “Hamilton [Ontario] sucks.” land nor estrogen-rich pesticides commonto the area appear to be the cause. TheSalt LakeTribune venousdrugs, with shared needles. Just once ortwice. Now,decadeslater, that long-agoblip has retumed NON SEQUITUR NEWS OF THE WEIRD Something's Fishy: News of the Weird hasre ported on studies revealing that certain types of wa: ter pollution are causing somesimpler formsof ma rinelife to change sexes, but in a report in a Decem ber 2000 Science News, University of New Brunswick (Canada) researcher Kelly Munkittrick disclosed that mostof thelarge female chinook salmonaround Washington state appearto have been born males, whowas elected with 92 percent support to one of the that[national missile defense] doesn't mean more seBEIJING China’s top legislator warned Friday that corruption could topple Communist Party rule, but offered few concrete steps to stem rampant graft. Li Pengalso said China's legislature, the National It wasa blip in your life, a brief phase in your youngerdays when youtried some things that you quickly abandoned. Maybe one of them wasusing intra- ee ORL ORES AIT in 1998 because work has been ongoing on dikes sincethattime. Sincetherecent floodingstarted early this week, some 65 squaremiles of land have been swamped Hepatitis C: Pasts Returning to Haunt can Liver Foundation says an estimated 12,000 Americansdie of hepatitis C each year. Most frequent meansof transmission: shared drug the People. tion, cheered and applauded the speech by Claudia Roth, former manager of an anarchist rock band, TheTisza roseto25feet, less than half an inch a as the impact of widespread drug experimentation in while casual cocaine use has dropped 70 percent in the last decade, according to the White House Office of National Drug ControlPolicy. higher thanthe previous record, set March 15, 1888, both at the village of Zahony, said Attila Bekesi spokesman for the Ministryof Transport and Water evenif you go wild, | like class. Everybody in show business never should forgetthatthereis a line, and that you should have class.” in a huge auditorium inside Beijing’s Great Hall of and airstrikes onIraq. heroin market. U.S. heroin use has doubled in thelastfive years, Aguilera should get down on her knees and kiss her feet for paving the way, Charo, 50, replied: “Listen, of our nationif wefail to fight corruption and promote clean government,” Litold delegates gathered Greens party Friday and immediately assailed the United States for its national missile defense plans cessful heroinfighting efforts in Asia and years of battling cocaine in Colombia had unwittingly pushed Colombian traffickers into a booming U.S. Quintessential ‘70s personality Charo, who appeared on “The Love Boat” more than any otherstar, is backin the news, reports People magazine. Tagged to her brief appearance in an off-Broadway '60s sendup called “Pete ‘n’ Keely,” the Spanish-born,classically trained guitarist best knownfor shrieking “cuchi-cuchi!” on Johnny Carson's showtells Time Out New York magazine that she doesn't “give a s---” about the current Latin invasion. Asked whether she thinks Christina by hard-line nationalists. maticisolation. His address to the legislature’s annual session outlined achievements in the past year. The ruling stop this country’s flourishing heroin trade. Strikes against poppyplantations high in the Andeshavebeen on hold since December because Gravestones emerge from floodwaters east of day’s unrestwas largely started “No one expected that people lombian cocaine has had an unexpected consequence:It has forced the scaling backofefforts to Budapest, Hungary, on Friday.A state of emergency Friday’'s protest was the bloodi- est in Kiev since 1995, whenpolice outside St. Sofia Cathedral beat thodox Patriarch Volodymyr at an unauthorized site. Therecentprotesters have united Ukrainians from across the political spectrum,but Fri- has been fueled by angerat his BOGOTA — Washington's $1.3 billion war on Co- has beenin place in the region since Tuesday. vent bloodsh« demonstrators trying to bury Or- sparked in Decemberby accusations that Kuchma wasinvolved in the killing of a journalist, but COLOMBIA sociated Press calm. “We did everything to pre- testers and a photographer. Heroin production is on therise as war on drugsfocuses on cocaine Noemi Bruzak/ The ‘would be beaten,”said frazzled campaign paign organizer Yuri Lutsenko, whocalled repeatedly for sands of police were deployed throughoutthe city. The injured Compiled by Chuck Shepherd SUBSCRIPTION RATES a ee Carrier Delivery (4-week period) Daily/Sunday( Vyo. ) $1400 Daily un Daily Only (Utah,ida, Wo, Nev.) 860 Daily & Sunday Ba sayeres cee, Daily & Sunday (Outside of Region)... or £25.80 Member Audit parves otvain “Rates may vary outside the Salt lake metropolitan area.” ADVERTISING NUMBERS Classified Advertising... (01) 297-2000 Display Advertising \ LS CIRCULATION NUMBERS aae eetNee ene an oa home deter mae iafrmatin scriptions, Monday restartingtarvagh sabscrp illingew information,subell Pt Glen wereSaemeten owen, fenday (un fo pa (001) 27 ans ” aoenon ae aan . oneOa ee Bator Weiler... 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