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Show A6 The Salt Lake Tribune UTAH/NATION Wednesday, May8, 2002 UNSCHEDULED STOP TV spots against Yuccato target public, senators going to have to go through Salt LakeCity,” Bortolin said. Meanwhile, supporters of the Yucca Mountain project told Nevada reporters they plan to run a counter ad. A spokeswoman for the Washington, D.C.-based Alli- ance for Sound Nuclear Pol- BYGL EN W. ARCHOL icy said the anti-Yucca ad will probably be misleading and alarmist. y Utah's senators into opposing the Yueca Mountain nuclear waste dump, Nevadaofficials will begin running ananti-nuclear MattDetrich ‘TheAssociated Press An abandoned Waverly Elementary Schoolbussits in floodwaters Tuesday in Morgan County, Ind., 15 miles southwestof Indianapolis. Heavy rains created high waterthat pushed rivers overtheir banks. Fourteen students and the bus driver were rescued by boats that took them to safety — andto anotherbusthat got them to school. No one wasinjured. PETAFighting Ruling On Utah Demonstration | BY KATHERINE VOGT THE CIATED PRESS DENVER Animalactivists who were threatened with arrest for handing out pro-vegetarian leaflets near a Utah school were protected by the First Amendment, their attorney said Tuesday in federal appeals court. People for the Ethical Junior High School in Salt LakeCity. Between five and 12 PETA members distributed leaflets andcarried signs on several occasions in January 1999 at Eisenhower, which flew a McDonald’s corporate sponsorship flag. PETAclaimsthe fast-food company mistreats animals and promotes an unhealthy Treatment of Animals, or PETA, is appealing a ruling bya federal judge that ani- diet. mal rights activists cannot picket ona sidewalk next toa judgment to the school dis- school becauseit interferes with school activities. The case is being considered by the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. U.S. District Judge Dee Benson granted summary trict last summer,saying that people whose presence oracts interfere with the peaceful conduct of school activitie: may be asked to leave, re- significant First Amendment guarantees offree speech, the right to assembly andtheright to peti- students. “Kids care about animal their speech. But PETA attorney Brian Barnard said Tuesday that a Utah statute cited by the school police officer who threatened the activists with arrest is unconstitutional. Thestatute, passed in 1973, allows school administrators to prohibit behavior that disrupts schoolactivities. Barnard saidit violates the information tion government. He also said the statute was misapplied because the Members of PETAfiled a protesters hadn’t done anything the day they were cruelty. This that students want to have,” Sandlersaid. lawsuit in federal court in 1999 arguing the school dis trict had no right to stop them from demonstrating against eating beef near Eisenhower fire that burned at least 650 acres in the Santa Fe National Forest and forced hundreds of people from their homes. “Tt’s very steep, heavily for- ested terrain. It’s very difficult,” fire information officer Charlie Jankiewicz said. The Dalton Fire was burning in Dalton Canyon, an offshoot of Pecos Canyon, the main route into the Pecos Wilderness andits popular campgrounds, hiking trails “Smoke gardless of the content of to THE ASSOCIATEDPRESS PECOS,N.M. —Firefighters toiled Tuesday to protect Santa Fe’s precious watershedfrom a and fishing streams. About a half-dozen PETA activists arrived at the court before the hearing, distributing pro-vegetarian leaflets andcarry ing posters with the words: “Does your food have afac Jessica Sandler, afederal liaison for PETA, said the demonstration was aimed at raising awareness about animalrights and about the lawsuit, whichshe said has meaning Pecos Area Fire Poses Threat | To Watershed threatened with arrest, Jan. 20, 1999, that could have caused a disruption to the is floating Utah’s congressional delegation, with the exception of Democratic Rep. Jim Mathe- Heather Barney said the sen- son, favors the Yucca Moun- ator has supported the Yucca TV advertisement Thursday in Salt Lake City. “It’s an awarenesspiece for the people of Utah and call to actionto their senators,” said tain project. The House is expected to overwhelmingly approve the project today. But opponents Dana pingthe projectin the Senate, where they hope Utah Sens. see their best chance in stop- Pretner, public rela- tions director for Brown and Partners. The Las Mountain project because that is “where all the money [has been spent] and science has been done to determineit is the bestsite.” “Buthe will lookatit with Orrin Hatch and Bob Bennett Vegas agencywashired by a coalition of dump opponents that include the state of Nevada, fresh eyes based on his ope sition to Skull Valley,” Bar- will be swayed by public opinion. Private Fuel Storage LLC, neysaid. its gaming industry and envi- a ronmentalists of all stripes. The 30-second spot, which will run for about two weeks, will warn Utahnsthat Nevada power companies, signed a lease with Utah’s Skull Valley zations will follow up the a@ is not the onlystate at risk waste facility on reservation land to store up to 4,000 concrete casks of spent nuclearpowerplant fuel. If Utah leaders hope Yucca ness and community leaders aboutthe negative impacts of the Yucca Mountain project on their interests,” Erickson said. Skull Valley dump will be only temporary, they are being shortsighted because 90 percent of the nuclear waste will pass through Utah, say nuke dump opponents. “Utah's delegation iis really of Utah’s delegation, Bortolin from the relocation of 77,000 tons of nuclear waste from131 temporary storage sites. Activists say the deadly waste will funnelinto Utah in casks aboard trucks and trains, which they call “Chernobyls on wheels,” after the Ukrai- nian city that wasthesite of the world’s worst nuclear accident. Theads will emphasize the vulnerability of the ship- ments to accidents and terrorist attacks, Pretnersaid. Greg Bortolin, spokesman for Nevada Gov. Kenny Guinn, said his state wants Utahto know “this is not just a Nevada problem.” “If you are goingto get the waste to Nevada, you are consortium of nuclear Band of Goshute Indians in 1997 to build a $3.1 billion Mountainwill ensure that the Steve Erickson, director of Citizens Education Project, says Utah anti-nuke organicampaign by bringing high- profile Nevadansto Salt Lake City. “They will educate busi: Despite the majoritystance says Nevada appreciates thé support of Matheson, who has spokenin opposition to Yucca’ Mountain, evoking the memory of the nuclear weapons shooting itself in the foot,” testing in Nevada that may says Kevin Kamps, a spokes- have damaged the a of man for the Washington D.C.-based Nuclear Information and Resource Center.“In tryingto try to dodge the bullet by sticking it to Nevada, the delegation is sticking tah, too.” Hatch spokeswoman thousands downwinders. “T thinktherestofthe Utah, delegation could Jearn much from him,”Bortolin said. “We don’t want to see what happened | in the 50s happen again.” over highway63 and over the Pecos River,” Jankiewicz said. “We're concerned about spot fires fromthat.” Thefire was moving nerth- Activist Testifies in Earth First! Lawsuit Against Officials east Tuesday, andelite fire- ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS: fighters called hotshot crews OAKLAND,Calif. — Earth First! activist Darryl Cherney strummed a guitar and sang were working on the northwest sideofthe blazeto keepit from moving into the Santa Fe Wa- tershed, Jankiewicz said. The fire, about 15 miles northeast of Pecos, erupted about Mondayand quickly engulfed hundreds ofacres. The human-caused fire was torching primarily ponderosa pine trees and some mixed co- nifertrees. About 300 firefighters were assignedto the fire and their allegingfalse arrest, illegal search, slanderous statements and conspiracy. Baridied of cancerin 1997, but herestate is pursuing the lawsuit. “Spike a Tree for Jesus” as hefinished testifying Tuesday in a lawsuit claiming heandfellow activist Judi Bari were framed by police Since the trial began in early April, the Cherney-Bari team hastried to show thatinvestigators were “out to get”the activists, ig- Cherneyand Bari were injured in May 1990 noring evidence indicating they weren’t responsiblefor the bombing. andFBIagents. when a bomb wentoff in their car. The two were arrested within hours, but no charges ever were brought. Cherney and Bari subsequently filed a federal civil lawsuit against nine current and former Oakland policemen and FBI agents Atthetimeofthe arrests, for instance,officials said the bomb wasin the back ofthe car whereit would have been visible to Bari and Cherney. But an analysis later showed the bomb had been shoved underthefrontseat. numbers were increasing as the day wore on, Jankiewicz said. 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