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Show UTES 66, LOBOS65 BUDGETSTILL IN RED Utah beats New Mexico at home B-1 New Utah numbers show moredeficit C-1 e Salt LakeCri http://www.sltrib.com une Utah’s Independent Voice Since 1871 Volume263 Number 128 ©2002, TheSalt Lake Tribune 43 South Main TUESDAY, FEBRUARY19, 2002 : Bush Set To Widen The War thadel CIRCLE OF VIOLENCE DOGGONE LAW Alta Residents Vie for Last Pooch Permit BY CONNIE COYNE LT LAKETRIBUNE THE ity, Utah BAT ‘Telephone welshTSlisted on AL Alta has been a boom town, a bust town, a ghost town and nowa ski town.It has seen the best of times and the worstof times. Butthereis still one timeof U.S. hard-line stand gets lukewarm support in Japan yearthat gives the mayor head- aches — whenresidents vie for oneof the most precious things in town: a doglicense. BY RON HUTCHESON and MICHAEL ZIELENZIGER It’s the dog daysof the year in Alta — there is one vacant dog per- KNIGHTRIDDER NEWS SERVICE mit in town andlots of wannabe have a poochin thethin air of the TOKYO President Bush sought to rally sian support for his expanding war against terrorism today, telling Japanese lawmakers that hamlet nearthetop of Little Cot- “civilization and terrorism cannot coexist.” dog owners who want a license to tonwood Canyon. Bush delivered a speech to the Diet, the dapanese parliament, a day after he gave another blunt “We used to have dogs running loose up here,” said MayorBill Levitt. “If you were hiking or skiing, you had to watch where you stepped, you knowwhat I warningto North Korea,Iraq and Iran —the three countries at the topof his list for a broader war against terrorism. mean.” Hemeans,of course, dog doo- will defend our interests, andI will de- ae problem for the dog owners and those who wantto be. Japanese act in a meeting Monday with Koizumi, whose government backed the U.S. attack on Afghani. stan but is leery of participating in a wider conflict. ‘| also explained to him thatall options are on the table andthat I will keepall options on theta: ble. Other than that, there's nothingelse to talk Brian Bennsion,directorofthe bureau,said hisoffice issues the permits in conjunction with the Salt Lake City Public Works Department, which controls the wa: ter in Little Cottonwood aspart of thecity’s crucial supply. about,” Bush said at the news conference with the Japaneseleader, after their fourth meeting in 10 months, Bush acknow! ledged that his hard-line stance rattled someU.S. allies, but he predicted that the antia ‘ism coalition would hold together after Afghani Levitt said the issue of the un ber ofgdogsal the-city year about this See BUSH,Page AS Pier PaoloCito/TheAssociatedPress Israeli youths tape a note reading “Death to Arabs”to a post before the funeral of Keren Shatsky, 14, in the West Bank settlement of Kamei Shomron on Monday. Shatsky and another teen-ager were killed when a Palestinian suicide bomber detonated explosivesat a shopping center Saturday. Sharon’s Support May Be Waning Regulations on man’s best friend are so tough they are even mentioned in theonline rental offerings for someof the luxurious ski chalets nearthe famousski runs. Oneadvertisementtoutsfé machines,cable TV with VCRs,re- BYTIM JOHNSON “Alta KNIGHT RIDDER NEV BIBI’I CON BI'S COMEBACK? ERVICE Former premier wants to destroy Arafat's government A-5 SALEM — In sign that political winds may be military and The retired officers who makeup the Councilfor The groupof1,200 former officers also urged circulated a statement saying Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to immediately dis. mantle 50 settlements in the West Bank and Gaza control over the West Bank and strategic and moralliability for the Strip. The demands reflect changing political moods in Israel as both the political left and right clamorfor er, a Palestinian set off a car bomb near the West Bank Jewish settlement of Ma’ale Adumin, killing “Wedon't feel we havethe moralright to remain in the territories,” said Shlomo Lahat, a former strictly prohibited by himself and one police officer, and wounding a See INFLUENTIAL,PageA-5 second. strict law,” Levitt said. “If you get caught up here, you get sent right home. If we catch you a secondtime, youget a citation.” The onlyexception tothe strict licensing? Avalanchedogs. “People caught in an avalanche don't complain about the extra dogs,” Levitt said. ‘Reader Alert:Us§,financial markets, as well as banks and many other businesses, were closed Mon day in observance of Presidents Day. Asa result, there is no Busi ness sectionin today’sBpaper. INSIDE C-16 Landers C5 Astrology . C-15 Movies .... C-8 Births ....., C-8 Obituaries C-8 Classifieds C-10 Puzzles ....C-14 Comics ......C-4 Sports ..... Ba Forthe Record A-4 Television . C-5 Weather: Chance of snow. Ba BY JUDY FAHY ‘THESALT LAKETRIBUNE Aneffort by the state to come up with economic developmentideas that mightentice the Skull Valley Goshute Indians to drop a proposal fora nuclear waste storage site on their Utah reser- vation hasfizzled too little, toolate, forits critics, and with no guaranteeof needed funds. Theresult of a blue-ribbon study to said they had identified 27 warned they expected to find n’teven begin to guess” what the aid Kris Sperry, the state’s chief medical examiner Ray Brent Marsh, operator of Tri-State Crema. charges authorities filed 11 new theft-by-dec eption against him, bringing the total to in Walker County jail Monday. hearing had not been scheduled because A bond Marsh does not have an attorney, chief magistrat Jerry e See CREMATORY, PageA-5 provide jobs on Utah's economically enterprise, no doubt the richest project ever proposed for a Utah reservation. Thereport, prepared for state law makers, is being attacked on several fronts, largely for failing to deliver a prescription for reservation blight and forits treatmentofthe tribes. Skull Valley Chairman Leon Bear, like other tribal leaders, complained that the task force worked on its own, without input from those who have dealt with the issues for generations Utah Indians themselves, “| have nothing against the state depressed reservations, the report also was aimed at enticing the GoshuteIndians awayfrom the moneythat would come from turning 125 acres of their Tooele County reservation into a pad helping.”hesaid, “But I do oppose the for storing spent nuclear-plantfuel. But when the task force published its report in December, onething be- who pushed last winter to recast an came clear: No one came up with any. ll 1234 | ' s teams Goshutes: Task Force Findings DoLittle to Help Utah Tribes look at the ways the state might help Asimov ., Fore Marsh, 28, hadbeen arrested Saturday and was Jeased from jail Sunday on$25,000 bond. He was located on a watershed, lice enforcethe skeletons sealed in vaults and bodies that had that theterritories can be- come the countryof stine with the eastern part of Jerusalem asits capital. law,”it says. Grim-face investigator on NOBLE, Ga. d s Monday unearthe dozens more corpses scattere d d around a northwest Georgia crematory, finding tory in this rural town 20 miles south of Chatta: nooga, Tenn., was arrested for a second time and openedfire on a convoy ofsettlers in the Gaza Strip, killing two Israelis and injuring three others. Barli “People love to come up and bring their dogs up and hike, but it's against the law — andourpo: by BILL-POOVEY 7 SSOCIA ED PRESS Strip are predominantly | occupied during the ant a withdrawal of Israeli removal of Jewish housing develop. troops and th ments,or settlements, so pets are Finds More Corpses been — into‘a shed. Thecount roseto 139. eral Israeli withdrawal from Palestinian territories. Sharonto take somesort of action to halt escalating bloodshed, which continued Monday. Shortly after nightfall, a Palestinian gunman frigerator with ice machine, dishwasher, espresso maker and a gro¥ hopping service at $400 per night in season for four people; $45 a dayfor each extra person. Crematory Operator Charged as Probe Politicalleadersleft and night question ex-general’s iron-hand pay Even nonresidents wanta license. A town employee who answered the phone Monday said, “I don't live up here and I want one so 1 can bring mydog uphere.” Prime 5 cafe owner feels aftershock C-1 Minister Junichiro Koizumi =eeae, Bushsaid he underscored his determination to To keep the water pure, Alta’s municipal ordinance allows 10. percentofthe town’s population — or 37 people — to have dogs. They also must have a permit from the Salt Lake County Bureau of Water Quality and Hazardous Waste. comes up every = WAR ON TERRORISM joint mews enter U.S. helping build Afghan army A-B ence Monday with film documents 9-11 heroism A-B into the Salt Lake Valley. The danger of contaminated meltis the time whenresidents show up to claim anyvacantlicenses. “You have people wholook for a special reason they can get something everyoneelse can't get,” the mayor said. Theyget no mercy. Thirty-six people already have dogs, so there is one vacant spot. More spots could onlybe created byan official increase in the town’s population. Emotions can runstrong, but special treatment isn’t granted: Thelicense will go to the one luckyresident through a drawing of names of those who haveapplied. make no mistake about it. We oS ‘They should dooin the place where mountain snowmelt gathers and then flows thing to make the tiny Skull Valley band give upits $3.1 billion waste 1 state coming in andtrying to bully us into doing something they want us to do." Rep. Jim Gowans was oneof those economic development proposal origi nally advanced by Gov. Mike Leavitt: to give the Goshutes $2 million for See GOSHUTES, Pape A-8 ‘Tribune file photo Leon Bear, chairman of the Skull Valley Goshute band, says he opposes the state “comingin and trying to bully us into doing something they want usto do." |