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Show HOPING FOR,SHOPPERS JAZZ LOSE TO NETS Retailers worry about upcoming season B-4 Utahmisses its chance in OT C-1 he Salt LakeGri http://www.sitrib.com une Utah’s Independent Voice Since 1871 Volume 263 Nu ©2001, The Sa 43 South Main Si THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2001 ake Tribune > OLYMPICS THROUGH THE YEARS POT PEEVE Busted Tourist Vows to Fight Drug Charges When Utah's Olympics unfold in February, so too will the latest Ry chapter of a story that began in 1924 in Chamonix, thelittle French townat the foot of Mount Blanc. Salt Telephone num ake City, Utah 94111 listed on A-2 Taliban 5 Rule Out In more than three quarters of a century, the historyof the Winter Gameshas played out in such snowy wonderlands as St Moritz, Innsbruck, Sapporo and Lake Placid. The plot has twisted around engaging personalities: figure skaters Sonja Henie, Dick Button and Peggy Fleming; skiers Jean-Claude Killy, BYJACOBSAI “ Surrender ToniSailer and Rosi Mittermaier; speedskater Eric Heiden In 1980, there was a miracle, just when the United States f TRIBUNE Californian Dennis Peron packed the necessities for his vacation to southern Utah: sleeping bag for campouts, his dog for company — anda stash of marijuanahesays he uses totreat his alcoholism. Peron, founderof San Francisco’s Cannabis Cultivation Club, was stunned whenCedar Citypolice objectedto the marijuana.last week andseizedit, and arrested himand his friends,and booked theminto jail. “They overreacted. They should have given me a ticket,” insists Peron, 55. “They should haveletit go.” Now Peron promisesto bring his campaign to legalize marijuanafor medicinaluse to Utah as hefights chargesof possession of marijuanawith intentto distribute and possession of drug paraphernalia. It is a natural step seemedin needofone. In 1936, there was nationalismof another sort, as Adolf Hitler presided over the’ Opening Ceremony. There has been the Harding and Kerrigan soap U.S. Marinesprepareto join in as militants vow to keepfighting opera, the triumph of Dan Jansen, thearger-than-life Hermannator and Tomba Beginning on E-1, The Tribune's Lex Hemphill takes us backto the problematic birth of the Winter Olympics, to Chamonix and each of the Winter Games that have preceded 2002. The package includes a full-page color BYJUAN O. TAMAYO, DREW. BROWN { and KEN MORITSUGL collection of 19 Winter Olympic posters,including the one KNIGHT RIDDER NEWS SERVICE for Salt Lake City, where the story continues in 78 days. SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan Storybegins on E-1, poster on E-8 The top spokesman for the Taliban vowed Wednesdaythat its soldiers would fight to the endto defend its southern Afghani. stan stronghold of Kandahar even as they weighed surrenderofthe northern city of Kunduz. Defending the area HOLIDAYSPIRIT around Kandahar is “an Islamic and religious compulsion,” said Syed Tayyab Agha, se y and spokesmanfor Talibsin’s supreme leader Mullah MohammedOmar, He ruled out negotiation or surrender. His comments were the most authoritativeyet that the Taliban intends to make stand in Kandaharde spite weeks of withering U.S. airstrikes, attacks by their Northern Alliancefoes and rebellions amongfel low Pashtuns,the dominant ethnic group in the south. Forall his bluster, however, Agha sounded a note of doubt t — Peron drafted the 1996 California pr‘oposition that legalized marijuana for medical use, and his club was created to growit for that purpose. “T’m going to make some noise,” Peron said this week ina telephoneinterview from San “Weare hoping that Almighty Allah will help us,’ hé said. Francisco. “It's about time someone Agha also said his group has had no contact with fought for dyingpatients.” Peron saysheis worried that seriouslyill tourists who attend Qaida since the U.S. bomb- Newlaw may help U.S. to.go ing campaign started on after foreign hackers Osama bin Laden or al WAR ON TERRORISM AB Oct. 7, “There is no rela Tatinan had access to anthrax tionship right now, there is | the 2002 Olympic Winter Games —andbring their medical marijuana— will be “brutalized” by no communication, so we '@boratory in Kabul Ag cannot say he is in Bushsums up campaign their Utah hosts in February. Teliben controlled But Deputy Salt Lake District Attorney Kent Morgansaysprescriptions for marijuana are not valid in Utah or anywhere, after a "hesaid. territo- : Meanatils, U.S. warplanes. bombed liban during lunch with troops A-10 U.S. officials hope $25Mbounty for bin Laden will work tunnels around. Kandahar and KunduzandPresident Bushsaid that the time was growing nearfor searchfor bin Laden. Maydecision bythe U.S. SupremeCourt held there is no exception to federal lawsthat forbid. people with cancer, AIDS and U.S. other ailments to use marijuana. authorities also A-11 ave: said they are close to sending in 1,500 Marines perhapsthis wee! to help in what could beanextendedeffort to root out bin Laden and his Eight Westernstates, including California, Nevada and Colorado, have medical marijuana al-Qaida forces. About 4,400 U.S. Marines await possi ical marijuanalaw. Meanwhile,he says, he will ble deploymentfromships in the Arabian Sea. Thus, even as the United Nations prepares to hold talks in Bonn, Germany, next week on forming a new governmentfor Afghanistan, the war may be far trom over. The Taliban remain in controlof both Kandahar and Kunduz, while bin Ladenand his allies remainat large. Defending southern Afghanistan will be easier for bringthe California physician the Taliban, Agha said, than was defendingthe north, lawson their books. “You're right; there’s no exemption in Utah,” Peron concedes, but adds heis looking for a Utah lawmakerto sponsor a med- whoprescribed marijuana to him to testify during his preliminary hearing. Hefaces up to 5 years in prison if convicted of drug possession. Peron and three friends were Anthrax Claims Another Victim heading for Zion National Park Whenthey checkedinto a Cedar City Motel 6 on Nov. 14. Police ar- rived at about9:45 a.m.afterreeiving a tip that marijuana smokecould be smelled in the hallway. = Police found nearly a pound of potin the hotel room andvehicle, Experts looking forclues in the death of94-year-old Connecticut woman Cedar City police Sgt. Dave Holm COMBINED NEWS SERVICES. said. Officers also seized more than $4,500 and charged his compan- OXFORD, Ryan Galbraith’! sackfulofpot-laced dessert. “They're weighing the brownies,” he laments. Renewed Thanks west. Peronis dueto return for his arraignment in December and old Connecticut system two monthsago. Ottilie Lundgren, who rarely ventured beyond her church, beauty parlor and the occasional lunch with friends, died Wednesday morningjust hours after her illness was confirmed as anthrax by federal healthofficials. Her death saddened and frightened residents of this quiet community about70 miles northeast of New YorkCity And it troubled investigators, who said there is no easy eXy ion for how Lundgren camein contact with enough says he mayjust check out Zion BY ASHLEY ESTES BROU National Parkalong the way. THE:SAL LAKETIRIBU! ike other INSIDE Utahns ’ Americans, are giving Today in Daybreak, D-1 thanks today for the sameold things —a job, family, life, time with friends andrela tives. But this year, we meanit. Asimov ....C-14° Landers .... D-5 Movies D4 Obituaries . Age Puzzles Review suicideterrorists, we are learn: ing to live with vulnerability in a high-tension world.It is true that for some, life went on as usual after Sept. 11. But for Holiday Food Stress: Evenif it feels good going down, too much comfort food is discomforting. 1 Television .. D-7 Weather: Breezy with showers, A-25 a Salt Lake Tribune Kayleen Simmonshadheridentity stolen just before Sept. 11. Thatincident, coupled with theterrorist attacks, has made hervalue the support system of family even more. After that nightinjail, the group posted bail and headed _ A$ fifth person to be killed by the rare disease since a bio terrorist attack was launched through the U.S. postal ions with possessing marijuana and paraphernalia. Peronsays he had, at most, 3 grams of raw marijuana anda Sports Conn. woman died Wednesday ofinhalation anthrax, the From ajittery economy to Five Utahns reflect on what the holiday meansto them in uncertain times and turns in their personal lives, have given this Thanks giving new focus. This is the story of five Utahns, and the lessons they Jearnedthat tumultuous week. still reeling from a phonecall shehad received theday before. Nordstromhadcalledtovei ify that she had opened a Visa account and charged $4,000 of merchandise at its Costa Mesa, Calif., store. Trouble was, she had not been anywhere near immons said, By the California. Someone had stolen Sim mons’, identity, using a Utah driverlicense with bh me, address, Social Security number andbirth date, “I was furi ‘stof all, you ous,” shesaid. “ timethefirst plane struck the World Trade Center, she was See FIVE UTAHNS,Page A-4 many, events in New York and the world, coupled with twists HOLIDAY TIME Sad memories at N.Y. fire station A-4 Slow Thanksgiving at S.L. airport B-1 Kayleen Simmons, 52, executive director and founder, People Helping People: “I ex i terrorism on three perie anthrax sporesto kill her. As in last month's death of Kathy Nguyen, a 61 year-old New York hospital stockroom worker, Lundgren had no known connection to contaminated mail orto the politicians and media organizations that havebeen targ ttacks. Connecticut Gov John Rowlandsaid that becauseof Lundgren’slimited uspicions lead directly to the mail, some sort ofcross-contamination.” The new case ended federal health officials’ hopes that after a three-week lull, the spate of anthrax infec tions had ended. Before the mail attacks began, an pdx had notkilled anyonein the UnitedStates since Tihe latest illness healthoffic ay once again force federal s their beliefs about who is at isk. Doctors say gren's age may hav le h more susceptible to inhalation anthrax than most people, meaning that she might have been infected by a aller numberof spores thanthe8,000 to 10,000 idered to be a lethal dose. “What we really needto find out is what the source See INVESTIGATORS,Page A-8 |
