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Show ROMNEY WINS NOD | UTE GYMNASTS ADVANCE But Mass. GOP denies his Lt. Gov. choice A& | BYU, USU, SUU women eliminated in NCAAs C-1 Che Salt LakeCri www.sitrib.com http: une Utah’s Independent Voice Since 1871 Volume 252 Number ©2002, The Salt Lake Tribune SUNDAY,APRIL 7, 2002 2 Mountain Design Earns MostState Flag Salutes reader. “Shame on you!” said another. Following September's ienenties Americans learned anewthata flag — just a bit of cloth and aeSeRee TOP PICKS Eatchel a ured what many of our readers agreed was| ah's most distinctive feature: its mountains. “The idiot who thought See the other eae of a contest for a new Utah banners inside been prepared for passion. flag should be run out of the state!” said a third. (Interestingly, this man wrote in from Taos, N.M.) The fervor was even more evidentin the flood ofwrite-in votes for the existingflag. aninteresting challenge. Somesawit as an educational opportunity for school students to learn With all due respect to Utah’s long-waving banner, we are presenting, for our readers’ consideration, the seeds of change. color — can trigger powerful emotions. So, when The Salt Lake Tribune held a contest inviting its readers to design a new Utah state banner and vote on a winner, we should have Somereaders saw the contest as a lot of fun, about Utah's historyand culture Some sawit as akin to sedition. “Are you out of your minds!” “] asked people what is unique about Utah to them,” said Eatchel, a Kaysville native. “What kept coming up mainly was the mountains, es. pecially in connection with the Olympics.” Eatchel said he wanted a neat, clean look to his flag, yet he retained the rich blue field from the currentflag as a link tothe past. “The blue just felt right as ‘Utah.’ The more ] thought about it, the moreI wantedtostickwith that blue.” Eatchel's design. V. Callanan, Salt Lake wrote one Top Design: Southern Utah uncluttered, very tasteful, ive of Utah and beautifully In his winning flag design, University student Dustin This flag designed by Dustin Eatchel was the No. 1 pick by experts and the public. executed.” “Simple and ¢! supporter, Brad Has nt,” commented another a of Salt Lake City. See FLAG CONTEST,Page A-6 Israeli Assault Slowed SPRING REFLECTIONS Bushpusheswithdrawal; Sharon vowsto act faster BY =ne BOUDREAUX R LYN COLE ABLUS, West Bank Bank metits fierc on the edge of Jenin foug! atthe Licopters teas and bulldozers. At least 26 Palestinians and one Israeli soldier were killed Saturday, most of theminthe two Pales tinian strongholds, ‘Leah Hogsten/TheSalt Lake a Jerremy Lester of Tacoma, Wash., bows his headin prayer while listening to the 172nd annual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Saturday inside Temple Square. Thousands attended the convocation, which continues today. as fighting inte! fied despite Pr dent Bush's demand Hinckley Talks Tough on Abuse Israeli PrimeMinister Ariel Sharon, in a phone conversation with Bush late Saturday, promised in. BY PEGGYFLETCHER STACK and HILARY GROUTAGE SMITH THESA SALTLAKE TRIBUNE The abuse of women,children and theeld. erly is.a “tragic and disgusting phenomenon” and those who engagein it should repent, LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckleysternly admonished Mormon menSaturday. “Any man in this church who abuses his wife, who demeans her, who insults her, who exercises unrighteous dominion over her is unworthy to hold the priesthood,” Hinckley said during the 172nd annual General Confer: ence's evening session for the members of the LDSall-male priesthood. “In the marriage companionship there is neither inferiority nor superiority. The woman does not walk ahead of the man, neither does the man walk ahead of the woman. Theywalk side byside as a son and daughter of God on an eternal Daylight-saving time begins today ‘Make sure your | i | Cocks are forward ‘one hourtrom ‘Saturtay. journey.” In remarks opening * the two-day conference gathering morning, Olympic Games had Parkin, center, and Anne C. Pingree were progress report on an education loan program started last year. named leaders of the LDS Relief Society. But Hinckley's most pointed north, up tomid-70s south. C-14 UTAH Hearings start Monday on a con. tentious issue: the storage of nu. clear waste in Tooele County, B-1 Astrology F-20 Lottery Be Books D-5 Movies .DA0 Cr'word D4F-19 Obituaries Bb Classifieds F8 Earthweek Add eg AA-1 F4 Puzzles D4 Rea) Batute . Fl Review B2 Sports ca “ilmm i lief 2 will obligethemto alties. nowledge that U.S. pressure e operationbefor’ U. Ss step up ihe ope!ration, which had@ been Sesiened to last weeks, so as to wipe out as many militants as possible in the coming days. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians remained Society. sped in their homes Saturday, someenduring See story, A-9. fire without water, electricity or ambu cameduring the men's meeting, where he strongly condemned the sexual abuse of chil- leaders knewof the potential for abuse but did dren byadults, usually men. Alluding to recent allegations of abuse by Roman Catholic nothing to stop it or warn his family. More than 40 other plaintiffs have sued the LDS tried to ¢ “We'r priests, the 9]-yea Church in similar cases. Child abuse “cannot be countenanced or tolerated,” Hinckley told men in the packed Conference Center in downtown Salt Lake killed or wounded, but nobodyis able Rick Egan/The SaltLukeTribune monstrousevil” within the LD Church. y jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints paid $3 million to Jeremiah Scott. The 22-year-old California man was City and watching via satellites at LDS stake sexually abused as a child by a church mem: ber in Portland, Ore., and alleged that LDS See HINCKLEY, Page A-B In Jenin, an unarmed 22-year-old Palestinian man bled to death within 15 feet of 2 hospital while Israeli soldiers shot at nurses who ave him, a doctor there reported. getting information about m Jamal — a peoere of the Pak centers in North America. East German AAthletes Struggle With Legacy of Forced Doping BY JANET RAE BROOKS— Partly cloudy skies; highs 50-65 tempt to avoid Israeli officials Bonnie D. been a boon to the LDS Church and he gave a © 2002,THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE WEATHER Hughe: lett apes, % said the Salt Lake City elerate” the offensive, his office an nounced. Sharon told Bushthat his army was being slowed by opposition from “a great deal of weapons, explosives and armed terroris and by its own at Kathleen H. Saturday Hinckley rs fear they may be Aa stead to * LDS men admonished to shun ‘monstrous evil’ MILITARY ONSLAUGHT Hama BERLIN Brigitte Michel began taking thelittle blue pills when she was 16. For the next eight years, she swallowed them regularly as she developed into one of East Germany's top shot put and discus hopes. Then one day, while visiting her elderly grandfather, Michel noticed that thepills he was tuking to combat frailty were the same pills she took. Her coaches, who handed out the pills without packaging, had told her they were vitamins ‘to help her recover from training. But when Michelread the informa: tion that came with her grandfather's pills, she realized the awful truth: All those years, she had actually been taking muscle-building anabolic steroids. “At this moment,”said Michel, who wanted children and feared steroids wouldleaveher unable to conceive, “I ? said, ‘No moresport.’ Now, more than two decades later those little pills still haunt Michel's life. In the past twoyears, she has had ___—soOboth INNOCENT INNO ATHLETES «ships: re placed and a back operation. Her rightleg isnumb. East Germans urged to She is in constant take ‘vitamins’ A-13 Pain, cannot run and walks with a ———— Timp. She can no longer work as a physical-education teacher Hundreds of athletes like Michel who once toiled to bring Olympic glory to the communist German Democratic Republic are now suffering from the aftereffects of steroid ‘use. Three years ago, a group called the Doping Victims’ Support Group was Photo court mit Brigitte Michel, center, who needed both hips replaced after being given anabolic steroids while in the East German communist-run elite sports program, calls her son, Sebastian, and daughter, Franziska, her “gold medals.” Thesuccess of the state-run drug program that produced eye-popping formed to press the German govern ment to aid those incapacitated by taking steroids administered without informed consent in the most enor Olympic medal counts for East Ger many inthe 1970s and 1980s depended mous doping scheme in ports history mors, on keeping athletes unaware of the deadly side effects e heart cancer, liver tu attacks, gynecological problems steroid use associated with long-term In a police state with a contralled news media, that wasn't difficult. At competitions, East Germans were Sec STEROID USE, Pape A-12 |