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Show END OF RECESSION? JAZZ 90, BULLS 78 Economy is up 0.2%, Fed won't cut rate B-4 Malone reaches 34,000 career points D-1 he Salt Lake Gri http://www. sitrib.com une Utah’s Independent Voice Since 1871 Volume: ©2002, ‘Number 109 ‘ Salt Lake Tribune A TEARFUL CAUSE White House Faces a Suit Cry Again Out To Make Onion Congressional investigators Utah’s Veggie will take legal action to get BY GREG BURTON THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE The aeisaeinthe information on energy talks BY NAFTALI BENDAVID legislative Abid ‘aPeeteUtah's state vegetable got offto a crying start in the Senate this week when Sen. Bill Wright, R-Elberta, introduced ameasure in support of the Spanish sweet onion. Wright, a dairy farmer, didn’t seem to know whatvariety of 143 South Main Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111 Telephone numbers listed on A-2 THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 2002 CHICAGO TRIBUNE WASHINGTON — Congress’ investigative office announced its intention to sue Vice President Dick Cheney on Wednesday, guaranteeing a judicial resolution toa majorconstitutional fight over lawmakers’ attempts to get information from Cheney’s energy task force. ‘The action by the General Accounting Office will pit Congress’rightto scrutinize the executive branch againstthe rightofpresidential advisers to meetprivately. It is the first time the GAO has sued a public official, and it is the latest skirmish in a long battle betweenpresidents and lawmakers over information sharing. Comptroller General David Walker, who heads the GAO,argued that Congress is seeking the information on the task force as part of its legitimate job of writing energy legislation. “Were the vice president’s arguments in this case to prevail, any administration seeking to insulateits activities from oversight and public scrutiny could do so simply by assigning those activities to the vice president or a body under the White House's direct control,” Walker wrote. The Enron Corp. bankruptcy has heightened interest in the operation of Cheney's task force, because Enron representatives were among those who metwith task force members. Butin letter to lawmakers Wednesday informing them of the suit, Walker emphasized that the issues transcend headlinesofthe day. “Failure to provide the information weare seeking serves to undercut the importantprinciples oftransparency and accountability in government,” he wrote. “These principles . . . represent basic principles of ‘good government’ thattranscend administrations, partisan politics and the issues of the moment.” The White House is arguing thatif a president’s advisers fear their deliberations could becomepublic, they will not give honest, blunt advice, and that will interfere with the president's role of shapingpolicy. See WHITE HOUSE,Page A-11 Spanish sweet — perhaps the Spanish Gringo hybrid orthe Colorado No. 6 — oreven if the Spanish sweetis yellow or white. Chill Out? FIRE POWER Notthatit matters, says Rep. Jackie Biskupski, a Democrat who represents the Sugar House neighborhood ofSalt Lake City, where fields ofsugar beets one turned Utah Does, thesoil purple and greet And More stewed for years on Capitol Hill. Oly spectators beware: Thecold couldlinger “Spanish?”she sot,“Spanish isnotUtah, Beets Utah’s rebetahieau quandary has © A few years back, Biskupski carried a House bill that would have declared the sugar beet Utah's vegetable aboveall others. Her bid cameat the behestof students from Realms of Inquiry School. BY MIKE GORRELL THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE For manyreasons,not the least that Biskupski spent her forma- Going to any outdoor Olympic events in the next month? Better check Wednesday’sfrigid temperatures to decide how to dressfor the occasion. Temperatures plunged Tuesday night across much of Utah, with Salt Lake City experiencing its coldest reading since Feb.4, 1996 — tive years in Wisconsin’s cow-andcheese country, lawmakers not so sweetly bur- ied her beet bill. More recently, students from Lone Peak 2002 SESSION Legislative news A-14 5 belowzero. In MiddleSink,a particularly cold bowl in the moun- Elementary Schoolin Sandy have been lobbying for the onion, which once grew in bulk around Payson, acity in ee's senate district. “Paysonstill has an onion day,” Wrightsays. “But they haven’t been grown there for a Jong time. Not the way they were.” In some ways, the Spanish sweet —- larger, rounder and milderthan other varieties — is an intuitive choice for Utah, known far and wide forits somewhatlarger families. Sweetness, too,is in bounteous supply. During a pre-Olympiclegislative session, when image means more than ever before, the vegeta- ble debate nevertheless could get dicey. And that’s too bad, really. Mom would surely scowlat a plate — ora state — lacking in respect for vegetables. Alerted to the insurgént onion forces, Biskupski saysit might be time to summonthe peops from RealmsofInqui “We might mae tofight back,” she says. Just last year, Utah proclaimed Jell-O the state's official snackafter comedian Bill Cosby, perhaps thefirst lobbyist to openly address the House from thefloor, rallied support. Then there are all the otherofficial state odds and ends:elk (animal), sea gull (bird), dutch oven (rock), Indian rice (grass), honey- bee (insect), Bonneville cutthroat trout (fish), copper (mineral), blue spruce (tree) and “Utah We Love Thee” (song). Utah has a state museum (Ogden UnionStation),a state dance (square), state star (Dubhe) and a state centennial Scottish tartan (stitched to a repeating-half-set of white-2, blue-6, red-6, blue-4, red-6, green-18, red-6, and white-4), tad reluctantto getto the core of the ible issue, Wright says he int duced the onion bill as a favor to the students, who want to learn about Utah's political process. ~ Lesson 1: Get out the knives andprepare to weep. INSIDE Separate Tracks: Childhood friends Picabo Street and Muffy Davis took different paths to arrive at Salt Lake City’s Games. Road to the Games, C-1 ge Landers C5 2 Movies ..... C5 Ais Obituaries . A-12 Puzzles .... D-11 D-8 Sports .. Dl Comat pans‘6 Television ....C-7 Weather: Patchy fog, clouds. C-8 ai ll tains above pan, “are: Va ae WEATHER MAP the state cli. 9e¢the forecast C-8 matologist re- corded a minus62. But the temperatures that should rattle the bones of Olympic Sherri Barber/The Associated Press ticket holders come from mountain Rasmus Erda! holds the Olympictorch high as he runs through a crowd of peoplein Fort Collins, Colo., during the Salt Lake 2002 Olympic torch relay Wednesday. Thetorchis onits way to Salt Lake City for the Games. venues. The Day Denver Said No to the Torch dolph (-37). See CHILL, Page A-5 Wednesday Temperateres At OlympicLecatiens Winter Olympics. Denver became theonlycity ever to turn an Olympic Games back to the International Olympic © 2002, THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE DENVER — Onthe same day that Mayor Wellington Webb greeted the 2002 Olympic torch at the City and County Building here, former Colorado Gov. John Love was remembered at a memorial service at the University negative at Alta 20) Logan (-26) and Ran- Flamearrives in Colorado, 30 years after the city turned down the Olympics BY LEX HEMPHILL Lows reached numbersateach one.Highs at most sites struggled to get out of single digits duringthe day. Outside of the Olympic venues, low-temperature records were set Committee. It has been 30 years, a generation, since that landmark rejection. In the interim, Denver even made another bid for the Winter Olympics — in 1989, when it lost the 1998/ 2002 U.S. Olympic C i ity to Salt Lake City. So the residue of 72 was nothanging: over at Coloradans who greeted the Olymic torch as it headed south Location of Denver. This meshing of events Wednesday brought Denver's Olympic relationship into focus; The Winter Fan Wyoming,through Fort Collins and TORCH WATCHING Olympic flamefinally arrived in a Schools prepare for historic moment B-1 Boulder, and finally to the Capitol here. rado’s capital, more than a quart “If you take the people who voted to century after Love had envisioned it es turn the Olympics down in 1972 vs. those ing here. But it was Utah’s flame, not whowill vote this November, I'll bet that Colorado’s. Andit only stayed overnight, nota fortnight. fewer than onein 10 voted in 1972,” said Denver attorney Gov. Love, whodied last week at the age of85, had been John Frew, who was president of Colorado Ski Country onthe job only five months back in June of1963, when he until last year. “So I don’t think that many people look made a speech in Steamboat Springs suggesting that the backand say, ‘Gee, it could have beenus.’ I think most Winter Olympics should come to Colorado. So began an people look ahead andsay, ‘Wow, maybe next time.’” engrossing chapterin state history that ended in Novemberof 1972 with a ballot defeatfor public funding ofthe 1976 See ANNIVERSARY,Page A-5 High Low IntemationalAiport 16 -5 Olympic Village Olympic Medals Plaza 18 26 1 11 Snowbasin (base) 6 -6 Park City (base) Deer Valley (base) 10 7.| -8 =2 pes Pak ay Soldier Hollow (stadium) 6 Peaks los Arena (Provo)| 16 <4 —14 5 ‘Ogden Ice Sheet 7 lie Source: Salt Lake Organizing Committee ‘The Salt Lake Tribune Villain or Role Model, Female Bomber Sends Shock Waves Through Mideast BY TIM JOHNSTON KNIGHT RIDDER NEWS SERVICE RAMALLAH, West Bank — A sweet: natured divorcee, Wafa Idris spent weekends as first aid volunteer tending to injured victims of Middle Eastern violence. She also had a secretlife. TtturnsoutthatIdris, 27, was carrying a bomb that brought carnage and destruction to Jerusalem's Jaffa Road on Sunday, A huge blast killed Idris andan elderlyIsraeli, and injured as manyas 150 people. Family members at a wake Wednesday voiced only pride. “T hope every daughter will do what my daughter did,” said Wasfia Idris, the 60year-old mother of the bomber. ‘The tale of thefirst Palestinian female bomber shocked and dismayed the Palestine Red Crescent Society, where Idris was a volunteer, and spread a chill across Israel, anation that now must widenthe profile of potential suicide bombers to include WAR ON TERRORISM Kidnappers threaten to kill U.S. reporter A-4 Karzai says he understands Americans’pain A-4 Iran, iraqcriticize State of the Union speech A-4 Wasfia Idris, 60, moums her daughter Wafa Idris, who, women, according to It also resonated across the Palestinian territories, and around the Arab world. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein announced thathis governmentwould erect a memorial to Idris in a Baghdad square or anne a thoroughfare, A decree printed in Iraqi newspapers Wednesday said Saddam expected the bombing would make “Western society wonder ‘What kind of injustice has been done to Arabs in general and Palestinians in particular that makes women carry out Palestinian Officials, killed herself and an Israeli man ina a suicide operation?’ ” See FEMALE,Page A-6 A } |
