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Show GYRATING TO THE TOP JAZZ CLIP CLIPPERS Utah’s gyroplane among best inventions B-4 Utah overcomesdeficit, wins 106-101 D-1 he Salt LakeGri ‘ http://www.sltrib.com Utah’s Independent Voice Since 1871 Volume283 Numbey1 ©2001, The Salt Lake Tribune SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2001 2 Retailers Expect Holiday SalestoLag {| MISSION IMPOSSIBLE L.A. Hatched Covert Plan BY STEVEN OBERBECK v « BY MIKE GORRELL It was the “Mission Impossible” assignmentof Greg Harney’slife: Get an Olympic flameforthe 1984 Los Angeles Games. It was a job Harneychoseto ac- Main Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111 phone numbers listed on A-2 ; te the initial frenzy, Utah retailers are concerned theslug. 2 TRIBUNE Blythe Carlisle of WestValleyCity, gish economy, declining consumer confidence and widespread layoffs to will dampen the enthu: spend throughthe endof t a season manycount onfo herholiday shopping. “Whentheyopenedthe doors,it was like a big cattle stampede,” with baby McKennain tow, pushesherfull cart in the parkinglot at the Target store in Midvale on nificant portion of their sales, ey by the International A Heumannsaid. “It was ‘THE SALTLAKE TRIBUNE South season. Lithia Heumanngotin line with her mother-in-lawat 5 a.m. Friday —an hourbefore the doors opened at Wal-Mart in Midvale — to begin For Oly Flame 45 Similar scenes’ were repeated throughout Utah as discount re- Council ofShopping Center: 45 percent of retailers expe Friday morning. tailers such as Wal-Mart, Kmart, rget and ShopKo opened 2001 holiday season to be disappointing, while 35 percent think it before dawn for the traditional start. of the ie shopping See UTAH STORES,Page A-7 Carlisle started her shopping at Kmart at5 a.m. Supe: cept, and Los Angeles organizing honchoPeter Ueberroth neverhad Group Attacks Grazing BACK IN BUSINESS todisavow knowledgeofhis ac- tions. In the summerof 1984, Harney was managerof news-mediarela- tions for the Los Angeles organizing committee. His boss Ueberroth wasbattling in vain to keep Soviet bloc countries from boycotting Los Angeles and quarreling with the Greeksabouttheflame-lighting ceremony in Olympia andthe torch relay across America to Los Angeles. The Greeks despised Ueberroth’s fund-raising schemeofsellinglegsofthe torch relay for $3,000, even if proceeds wentto kids’ sports programs. Commercializing something so sacred offended the Greeks to the point organizers feared they would not turn over the Olympicflame. Ueberroth waswilling to nego- Environmentalists urge feds tiate a diplomatic solution with the Greeks. But not without a co- to end public-land ranching vert backup plan forsnatching the flame. Enter Harney. Heading to Paris on Olympicbusiness, Ueberroth sent him on a quiet sidetrip to International Olympic Committee headquarters in Lausanne, Swit- , BY BRENT ISRAELSEN THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Anenvironmental group known forits multi zerland. Those were tough timesfor the IOC, coming off the Munich mas- front war against public-land grazingin Idaho has dropped. a kind of “daisy cutter” bomb on Utah sacre,a big deficit in Montreal, boycotts. Juan Antonio Samaranchdid not wantthe flamelight- Project appealed this month to the Interior De ranchers. The Hailey, Idaho-based Western Watersheds halt to grazing on 1.5 million acres , Box Elder and Rich ing to spark an international incidenton top of all that. So several 10C staff memberswere quietly Affecting about lanterns to Harney. Whiskingthe flameto the im United States from there would not be easy. After drivingthe lanternsto Lyon, France,for a cargo flight to Boston, he encountered a small army of news-media photographers. Word had gotten out. A deal wasstruck. The photographers could take picturesof the flames, but only ifan IOCofficial kept thefilm until after Harney had completed his mission. Getting three lighted lanterns throughU.S. customsposed an- challenge to northern Utah's ranching indust Photos by Marco Di Lauro/TheAssociatedP) Humaira, right, and her 7-year-old daughter Ghinza wait for clients in Humaira’s beauty salon in Kabul on Thursday.A dayafter the Northern Alliance movedinto Kabul, Humaira putportraits of coiffured womenbackonthe walls and reopenedherbusiness, which had been closedby the Taliban. Afghan WomenReclaim Their Lives ness rs ins to take Ranchers view the action harmorendtheirlivelihoods. Alliance, Weste! ttempt to the casesto fed pM me out of business,” said Ken ttle rancher KABUL, Afghanistan — After Humaira’s beauty salon was shut hired len, a or the so-called “Wise Use” movement, whichseeks to bythe Taliban,she hid her cans of hairspray, her portraits of coiffured women and her cracked hair dryer. A dayafter the Islamic protect traditional militia fled, she reopened for business. The chairs are old and torn, and the Taliban had smashed her larger mirrors, but Humaira has expense ofta and the environment, said don Mar who founded Western Watersheds scraped off the paint they. Those interests have survived primarilyat the nine years splashedover her “beauty salon” sign. And she has putherposters back on the walls, one showing a Afghan doctors Farhanda,left, and Noori Jan lookat a patient's Xray at the Rabia Balkhihospital for womenin Kabulearlier this week. sassy young womanin heavily Humaira said, “We hadnolife, nothingfor us to do. We werenot curled pigtails. A beauty salon reborn, women on theair, and,starting today, no more sexual segregation in the hospitals — womenin the Afghan capital are heading back to work after the collapse of the Taliban social order. “We were like in prison,” mining, logging and grazing interests in the West. people.” Afghanistan always was a conservative place, and many women were wearing the burqa, the tentlike, all-enveloping robe, long before the Taliban seized powerin 1996, But the Taliban's extreme reading of Islamic law madethe burqa mandatory, Women were barred from holding jobs, and girls over8 couldnotgo to school. People wereexhortedto paint their ground-floor windowsblack so womencouldnot be seen by ago witha goal to end ing on public lands, an enterprise hecalls “ According to Mary structive use of public s been the main source ofdesertif world,” hesaid. * happenin the wes In northern Utah, ranchers torunroughshodonpubliclandsfor decades,said Carter, who lives in Mendon, Cache County. To address alleged grazing River Mountainsabove Loy abuses in the Bear arter formed Wil- passers-by. White stockings were low Creek Ecology10 years ago. But after failing to See AFGHAN,Page A-5 See RANCHERS,Page A-7 “Absence of Clues iinihe Latest Anthrax Death Frustrates Officials INSIDE Vegans and Jesus: Most Christian religions do not prohibit meat eating, but some Christians say they should. Today in Daybreak, C-1 ..D-16 Landers ..,..C-4 ..D-15 Movies . . . C-4 .D-10 D-14 D1 Comics ..... C-6 Television ...C-7 Weather: Mostly30s, 40s. a ake-up call that [ranchers and fed: ind agencies] can 'tgoon managing the land i "said John Carter, who liketh runsV Y ice. Western! Watershea has filed appeals andpe: titions with the Interior Board of Land Appeals (IBLA), asking that all ranching be endedon U.S. Bureauof Land Management (BLM) lands in the BY KATHY GANNON customsagent, “The Olympic ‘ Environmentalists vowit will not be the last andthat future challenges will not belimited to three counties, pending a comprehensive envi ronme ntal analysis by the BLM. ming up with the Southern Utah Wilder: Heading back to work won't be easy after years under Taliban other challenge. When asked what he hadto declare, Harneytold the flame.” “] thoughthe was going to laugh forever. So whenI said, ‘Just fooling, I have a bunch of shoes," he said,‘OK,go ahead,’ ” Harneywenton to New YorkCity, wherethe torch relay was to begin a few dayslater.Safeatlast, or so he thought. No soonerhad Harneytaken the lanternsinto a room thanits air conditioning system snuffed twooftheflames.“I covered the third with mybody.It almost burned myshirt,” Harney says. Thetwoextinguished flames were revived. Harneycalled Ueberroth to say mission accomplished. It was then helearnedhis chicanery hadbeen for nought: Ueberroth and the Greeks had made up. Los Angeles had legitimate flame. “Peteroffered to give mea bonusfor whatI did,” Harney says. He declined, but suggested an alternative reward, which he received two daysafter the Games — his owntorch. 0 sheep and 18,000 cattle, the action is thefirst majorlegal dispatched to Olympia, where they secretly performed theritual light: ing of the flame with the sun’s rays. They returned three lighiga ranchers, the I ll C8 sC. ‘ARPON S BYDI Control and Prevention meanwhile have turnedto the few places frequented by Lundgren, a widow CIAT who seldomleft homeexcept togo tothe library, the — Deepening the mystery sur- beautyparlor,thedoctor, church anda diner, where rounding the nation’s latest anthrax death, preliminary tests Friday found notrace of the germ in the 94-year-old victim's home,onher mailor at her post office, “Testing wasfocused on theso-called mailtrail,” Connecticut Gov. John Rowlandsaid. “I can't speak for the federal authorities, but it’s frustratingfor all of us,” Authorities were awaiting more definitive results, and testing ofOttilie Lundgren’s home wasnot complete, Investigators with the Centers for Disease she sometimes stopped after her Saturday morning OXFORD, Conn. : | hair appointments. ‘The Associated Press WAR ON TERRORISM Could anthrax have been misdiagnosed in the past? A-4 Non-AfghanTalibanfighters may delay Kunduz truce A-§ After Afghanistan, Iraq is top candidate for U.S. action A-5 has learnedthat investiga- tors were seeking a soil sample from the diner, Frita's Snack Bar,after residents mentioned vague recollections of an anthrax outbreak amonglivestock at a nearbyfarm morethan 50 years ago. An- thrax sporescanlive for decadesin soil, Dinerco-ownerGlennFritz saidthe building has been arestaurantsince 1954; beforethat, it was ali quor store. He said he was unfamiliar with any long-ago outbreakof anthrax,butsaid, “This whole f area usedto be farm: Rowland, who hascalled the death a case ofdomestic terrorism, said Connecticut's hospitals have been asked to reviewthe deathsof patients who had flulike anthr symptomssinceSept, 11 to see whether any aths might have gone unnoticed. See LATEST,Page A-4 |
