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Show RISKY ROCK RETURNS HIGH SCHOOL SHOWDOWN 321-14 BA e n u b i r C e k a L t he Sal Upcoming concerts with an edge D-1 Hunter tops Granger in Region Utah’s Independent Voice Since 1871 Volume 264 Number ©2002, The Salt Lake Tribune Romney Gets Physical in Trying to Win Votes in Massachusetts Race PRACTICALITIES Anarchists ' 1 BOSTON Harv: swimsuit in a newtelevisionad in SSOCIAT PED PRESS Manyof the protesters swamping Washingtonforthe worldfi nance meetings havelittle use for the material world, but they have a mountainofpractical matterstolookafter before which he andhis wife speak tenderly about theircourtship. The telegenic former Winter Olympics chiefalso invited report: ers and photographers this week to watch him run along the Charles River with his dog andoneofhis a spokeswoman. Romney, turningon the sex sner Oneofthe People magazine's “most beautiful people” this Romneyappears bare: BYELIZABETH WOLFE TH Republican guber- an apparent effort to woo female voters,is “One of my favorite cartoon or governor?” said Sue characters is Popeye,” he natorial candidate Mitt Romney, in Care, Too WASHINGTON “What is he running for, prom shiahii eitaie C il LC Nase = BY JOHN McELHENNY 4 SOCIA' =a . Nee Democratic Party uec who was known to Romney's Democratic opponent, take boobsied rides and ski the mo- state Treasurer Shannon O'Brien, guls while overseeing the O! pics, is downplaying the new strat: egy. And his campaign denies anovert attempt to attract the male voters’ support which is scoffed at his focus onthe physical, which also included a round ofgolf with former President Bush over the weekend. “Rather than having the pretty pictures, rather than having thejog across the Charles it should be expected to be a keyfactor in the Nov. election. “I run every other morning, three miles. Thi is nothing new, said Romney,his hairtousledafter the run with his Weimaraner, about what women really care not a nice picture of him about, See ROMNEY, Page A-4 FLEEING ISIDORE finding vegetarianeats. Hou is a headachefor the anarchists “We're all pretty maxed out on housing,” said AndrewWillis, an American University student and representative of the anarTothe protesters, the week- demonstrators with enough cashoftheir ownare reluctant to spendit. Protesters squatting in an abandoned buildingor using a park bench for a bed might be FBI, CIAsayfedsdid all they could ableto affordbetter, but will give upa pillowfor theirideals. “Somepeople might be from BYJOHN J. LUMPKIN well-off backgrounds but choose tolivealife forpolitical SSOCIATED PRESS reasons that. . doesn’t rely on public consumption andall WASHINGTON one in the United States other than the 19 hijackers knew of the Sept. 11 plot ahead oftime, Di. with Anti-Capitalist Convergence. That anarchist group rector Robert Muellertold the congressional inquiry into the hoped to shut down much of attacks. The public release of his comments Thursday came as Washington today by snarling traffic with a marchand mass bicycleride. top CIA and FBI counterterror- But before all that happened, ism officials defended their agencies to lawmakers. there were a thousandpracti: calities to attendto. One was finding a placefor young childrento go to while their parents were onthestreets. Many were steeredto the Anti Authoritarian Babysitters Club,describedas “anarchists watching kids.”” Activist Websites list campgrounds, youth hostels and of- overnight home for 16. Organizations also distrib- Chuck Cook/The Associated Press Police officer Rob Callahan helps Ruby Kurz to an evacuationtruck at a subdivision in taurants, though not everyone will payfor a meal out. “Theycome down here on a shoestring budget and they ex pectus to feed them and we Slidell, La., on Thursday. Kurz’s homehadnearly five feet of waterinside from Trop- will,”said Lou, 28, who would notgive his last name. Working for Food Not Bombs, a group that started in Cambridge, Mass., he was dishing out a medleyof vegetables and potatoes to anyoneasking during a rally across fromthe World Bankon Thursdayafternoon. Activists teeter between practicality and correctness. They need to be properly outfit- ted for a long dayonthestreets but also want to avoid using brands, compan ind products that allegedly exploit workers or are otherwiseout ofstep a4 year-old organizerwith Mobili zation for Global Justice, carries a Palm Pilot andacell phoneandjokes that he packs deodorantfor mediainter views. A baby monkeyal Hogle Zoo may have big future for his species. In Utah, C-1 Ogden's new mallcouldget off the ground within months. In Business, C-9 C5 oom ANB Movie D-2 Obiuaies A-16 Puzzles £-25 Review D5 E2 Spots Bt C-4 Television C-5 ical Storm Isidore. Thursday, the storm headedinland. See story on Page A-20. Cash crunch squeezes providers US. linking Saddam gy with al-Qaida A-4 the House and Senate intelli gence committees questioned aspeci esponseabout them,” Mueller saidin testimonygiven in secretin June. Whilethat might seemtoindicate that Zacarias Moussaoui was unaware of the attacks, for such addicts while waitinglists of pro: Utah's publicly funded su tance-abusetreatment system can handleabout 20,000 patients at a time. But about 95,000 Utahns currently need drug or alcohol treatment id Patrick Fleming, director of the formerstate DivisionofSub stance Abuse that merged this month withthestate Division of Mental Health in BY BRANDON GRIGGS THESALT LAKETRIBUNE a cost-cutting move. Utahnsaddicted to drugs oralcohol arefinding it hardertoget help in the wakeof recent funding cuts that haveforced substance-abusetreatment centers toclose or scale back their services. The problem is especially acute for low-income addicts who cannot afford to pay for residential treatment. Many centers are eliminating beds or themselves, 1 vaccination plan A-4 On Capi tol Mill, members of Cofer Black and Dale whooversawcounterterroris efforts of the CIA and FBI, re spectively, before and during the Sept. 11 attacks. Black, who helped capture Carlos the Jackal and survived an al-Qaidaplot to kill him in Sudanin 1995,said CIAofficers See LAWMAKERS,Page A-4 Foundation closed its 32-bed men’s addiction and treatment center in July after Salt Lake County slashed its funding. Catholic Community Servi needed|i litch foundation moneythis summerto y's men’s home. Andbud. nd Associationthis week to scrap a proposed 17-bed substance-abusetreatment save its struggling St. Me get cuts led the Helping He center in West ValleyCity. “This loss of beds will have a bigger impact than “There's a treatment gap,” " Flemingsaid. “ “Wejust don’t have the capacity totreat everyone w! ho needs it. wecan knowatthis point, Andit’s getting wor concerned,” This financial crunch, TheSalvation Army announced last week it will closeits 108-bed substance-abusetreatmentcenterin Salt Lake City next month. The Utah Alcoholism Welch, Johnson Hoping Ordeal ji It presi dent ofthe Utah Alcoholism Foundation. led by the sputtering See FUNDING,Page A-4 DEADLY HOLDUP To Finally End in Appeals Court BY L THESAI DA FANTIN KE TRIBUNE For 15 years, they marked time infour. year increments, lobbying, living large and working for Salt LakeCityto get the 2002 Winter Games. But Tom Welch and Dave Johnsonnever expectedtheir battle with the Justice Department to become its ownOlympiad. Yet here they are, headedback tocourt, hoping to persuade a Denver appeals panel felony charges of fraud, conspiracy and travelin aid of racketeering is sound. Ll attacks. FBI spokesmanBill Carterrefusedto clarify the direc re IRAQ, TERROR is attacks. “To this day we have found no one in the United States ex: spective clients growlonger, treatmentproviderssay as need for services increases whethera Utah judge'sdecisionto dismiss ae 34045 01234 charged with conspiracyin the Cuts Threaten Addiction-Treatment Centers to finally free them from their legal stranglehold. Today federal prosecutors and defense attorneys will get 15 minutes eachto argue 90s south, B-8 with the caveat that noneof his comments were meant to in clude Moussaoui. The French-Moroccan man wasarrested in Minnesotaafew weeksbefore Sept. 11 andis now Nationwide smallpox the UnitedStatesthat triggered ute a list of area vegetarianres- Mueller prefaced his statement After Sept. 11, authorities rounded up hundreds ofpeople nationwide onsuspicionof links to al-Qaida, terrorism or the cept the actual hijackers who knewofthe plot and we have found nothingthey did while in fers for free roomandboard. A row house forfiveturns into an rmid-70s to low The FBI has found no evidencethat any- those other material things we're bombarded with, RamiEl Amine,an organizer E27 E26 A16 C-8 trying to use sex appealto win overfemalevoters. Let No One In on Plot chistfaction. end meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bankreek of money ill-gotten money, they For that reason alone, even some Advice sociatedPress Massachusetts gubematorial candidate Mitt Romney's TV campaign ad showshim withouta shirt on a lake vacation, triggering speculations about him Hijackers high. Locating “anti-authorita child care is one priority. cor 'mpleasedto say, ‘am what I amandthat'sall that lam.’ ” they can raise their banners with their campaigns. David LevyofVirginia, * SEPTEMBER 27, 2002 It is impossibleto predict how the panel will rule or how longit will take, But for WelchandJohnson, thereis nosuch thing as soon enough. “I knewit wouldn't be a short struggle. But never in my wild imagination did I think it would drag on for four years or cost what it has cost,” Welchsaid. “You can't make commitments. You can't borrow money. Nor can anyone reasonably look at hiring you. So you sit in this never-neverland.” It was November 1998 whenit cameto light that the Salt Lake Organizing Com. mittee (SLOC) we ing ofInternational Olymp: for the children ommittee (LOC) members to attend U.S. colleges, one of many commitments madeto sweetenSalt LakeCity’s chancesofgetting the Games. The discovery led to the expulsion of 10 JOC members and, along withallegations that Welch and Johnson doctored the books to conceal them, formed the back. bone of a 15-count indictment against SLOC's former president, president and vice “When we first heard the feds were See EX-BID LEADERS,Page A-4 Nati Harnik, The Associated Pross An FBIagent, left, and a police officer talk through the shot-out glass doorof a U.S. Bankbranch in Norfolk, Neb., after a robbery Thursday, The robbers opened fire inside the bank,killing five. A few hourslater, three suspects were arrested and charged with murder See story on Page A-6. |