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Show AGGIES BEAT GAUCHOS DELTA TAKESA HIT USU 72, UC Santa Barbara 64 C-1 Airline posts record losses C-7 Ghe Salt Lake Gribiune ://www.sitrib.com Utah’s Independent Voice Since 1871 ‘Volume 263 Number 110 ©2002, The Salt Lake Tribune MEDALIST HEUGA Torch Lights Memoriesfor Disabled Hero BY LEX HEMPHILL THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE DENVER — Jimmie Heuga has heroically bornethe indignities of multiple sclerosis for the past decades. Today hewill bear something more ennobling — the Olympic torch. Heuga andlifelong friend Billy Kidd,thefirst two American male skiers ever to medal in the Winter Games,joined dozens of Olympians on Wednesdaynightto greet the Olympic flame onits four-day swing through Colorado. Today, they get their own chance to partic- ipate in the torch revelry. While Heuga will carry the torch in his wheelchair in Vail, Kidd will take part in his own ceremonyin his hometown ofSteamboat Springs, the Olympianproducing town thatwas left offthe torch route. He will ski a torch down Mount Wernerin honorof the late Buddy Werner, an Olympic 143 South Main Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 64111 Telephone numbers listed on A-2 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY1, 2002 Feds Warn of More Attacks COMBINEDNEWSSERVICES WASHINGTON — Two of the top officials charged with protection ofthe United States warned Thursday that the nation faced grave threats from terrorists and other hidden enemies. FBI Director Robert Mueller said he believes that Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida terrorist group, which the Bush administration blames for the Sept. 11 attacks, maystill have undercover operatives in the United States. “There may well be those in the U.S. who, having been trained byalQaida, can come together with others for a particular terrorist attack,” he said. “We're doing everything we can to identify” them. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Thursday the United States must prepare now for potential surprise attacks “vastly more deadly” than theSept. 11 terrorist hijackings. In a speech laying out the Bush [ | WAR ON TERRORISM Fedsto give Utah $11M tofight biothreat A-6 Security officers say they are ready AS UHP's Oly badges wind up on'Internet A-6 | | Super Bowl a Dry Run for fag Enforcement BY MICHAEL VIGH with help from federal, state and administration’s justification for pro- possible,” he said in a speech at the National Defense University. Washington Gov. Gary Locke said Thursday that a photographofthe Seattle Space Needle, a city landmark | | | | | local law enforcement agencies. THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE posing a $48 billion increase in the 2003 defense budget, Rumsfeld said the nation is vulnerable to new forms of terrorism ranging from cyberattacks to attacks on U.S. military bases abroadto ballistic missile attacks on American cities. “Our job is to close off as many of those avenues ofpotential attack as is | The Super Bowl — usually the nation’s grandest annualsporting event — is merely an appetizerthis year for the 2002 Winter Olympics. And that includes security, whichis at an unprecedented level at the NFL's biggest game Sunday, but pales in comparison to Utah’s Winter Games, which begin five dayslater. Both the Super Bowlin New Or- - leans and the Winter Games have been designated National Special Security Events. That status means Secret Service agents hope the football game will provide a dry run for what they term the biggest security event in the history of the United States. In fact, scores of agents will go directly from the Super Bow! to Utah. “There have only been a few National Special Security Events sincethe law wasenacted [after the bombing at the 1996 Atlanta Games,]” said Mare Connolly, spokesmanfor the Secret Service. “Every time we haveone,there are going to be lessonslearn the U.S. Secret Service plans and coordinatessecurity at each event, See SECURITY,Page A-6 See RUMSFELD,Page A-6 New Fuel In Abortion OLYMPIC HOSPITALITY teammate of Kidd and Heuga in Argument 1964. For Heuga, the opportunity to carry the 2002 Olympictorchis “a real privilege,” but on a practical levelit is something more.It is a furlough from vinemotiy suhoed he tes home of USOC A-2 beenstay Where to see the for Administration says embryosare ‘children’ RELAY NEW: NEWS Oly flamevisits BY VICKI KEMPER the past oe torch in Utah D-1 years. His M.S. had gotten to the point where he needs more care, andso he has had to live apart from his wife and three sons in Vail. LOS ANGELES TIMES WASHINGTON — The Bush administration said Thursday it will define human embryos as children so that states can offer expanded prenatal health care services to “For me,it’s a chance out of jail,” said Heuga of his torch run. “You can call it what you want, but it’s an institution. In some ways,I poor women, but women’s advocates sharply criticized the move as a poorly disguised effort to weaken abortion rights. ‘should be lucky thatthere’s a facility like this that’s available. On the other side,it’s horrible.I’m ina facility where I'm the youngest by about 28 years. And ifyou see any@neofanyinterest, they’re nottoYally lucid.” In their younger days, as 20year-old newcomers, Heuga and Kidd madehistory in the 1964 Olympic slalom in Innsbruck, Austria. Kidd wonthe silvermedal ne since the sport was introduced to the Olympics in 1936. “To win a medal with my teammate, Jimmie Heuga, this was really sj ” said Kidd. “It said that the U.S. team did not just have somebody who had a lucky day,but that we were a team now and we ‘were really sirong. Ttisa cutie‘that three medalists from the 1964 Winter Olympics Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson announced a proposed regulatory changeto the federal-state program that provides health insurance coverage for children from lowincome families. The new federal regulation defining “child” as “children from conception to age 19,” he said, will allow states to coverlow-income pregnant women under the State Children’s Health ‘Steve Griffin/The Salt Lake Tribune Surrounded by members of the news media from Belarus, ilyn Kusakabe, a SLOC volunteer from West Jordan, helps them figure out which bus will take them totheirhotel fr¢ m the Salt Lake City International Airport on Wednesday. S.L. Airport Braces for Busy Time With first Oly guests tricklingin, officials hope everything will workas planned BY MARK EDDINGTON THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Salt Lake City International Air- men aboutthe disease.“Pepi has ‘been to our program. Egon, I offered it to him. I don’t think he’s quite ready.” Realapea Coker and highways and byways with ‘those guys.” letes and spectutors arriving for the 2002 Winter Games. “We've spent several years working with SLOC and theairlines, parDelta, to prepare for this,” said airport spokeswoman Barbara Gann,“Our plan is not something we pulled outofa hat. It's been a long time coming and is a solid plan.” It is a plan desiadea to cover security, efficiency, courtesy and even entertainmentin the three-week bubble that surrounds the Games, Still, a glance at the expected arrivals shows the airport and Salt Lake Organizing Committee officials will havetheir hands full before the Games to cover the Games| to trickle in Monday. ; There are 4,800 athletes and sports officials and 3,400 International Olympic Committed members,federation representatives and special Teachers’ Role in Medication Of Students Blasted by Legislator BY GREG BURTON ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE 2002 LEGISLATURE House outlaws commercial terrorism A-8 task. Sa cerecnee by immpulsivi 7sryeon sats tie int parents, advied ivi that a child iath oe behavioral the onlyalterna- tivetoa ig expulsion. “The greatest concern ofa parent is See TEACHERS’) Page A-7 y POOR COPY 7 OLYMPIC PARKING Not cheap, but not too nasty either Insurance Program, or CHIP. Abortion rights advocates emphasized the importance of providing quality prenatal care for all women, but accused the administration of playing politics with the issue. “Tt seems much more designed to achieve a political goal than a goal,” Kim Gandy,president of the National Organization for Women, said of the proposed regulation. Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif. an authorofthe original CHIP leg- 04 islation, said a definition of child that begins at conception “seeks to guests to fuss over. Add to that about 1,200 athletes’friends andrelatives. Thursday, the first 6,500 of 26,000 guests of Olympic sponsors will arrive. Subsequent waves are slated for Feb. 12, 16 and 20. National Hockey League players competing in the Games will begin landing Feb. 12, And pander to the extreme views of anti-abortion constituents who believe that termination of a pregnancy for any reason is murder.” Thompson's announcement, made in a news release, focused immediate attention on a central, highly charged stickingpointofthe abortion debate. For 30 years, abortion rights See S.L. AIRPORT,Page A-11 See DEFINITION, Page A-4 PEACEFUL PROTEST |
