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Show Salt Al2 Lat bune March NATION Reputed Klansman Guilty in Death 2003 Bush’s Forest Policy Benefitting Timber Interests SSOCIATED PRESS 1966killing was designedto lure Martin Luther King to assassination elf I with r dict nly to find himself staring assault rifle turne wi aft ast ! ys af fir te ned much JACKSON, M Klansman wa i Friday in the 1966 ing of a black sharecropper, crime } ay was staged to lure Martin Luther Kin 1ern Mississippi t aid they w Federal prosecutor death penalty, meanin, life in prison at sentenc Jesse White, the 65-year Chester White, said after the erdict: ing hungry for so, so long ar inder your belt. You're not so hur The defense said it would appea “It any more The 67-year-old victim was lured deep into the with a on y James | le east no told authorities years ago he was there ven White was murdered. According to Jones’ confession, Avants and Claude Fuller drove White to a bridge in the forest and shot White Fuller said he had orders from higher up [in the Ku Klux Klan]. That he wanted to pull them off that march in Jackson. They thought maybe they Avants was acquitted of murder duringa trial in 1967, but the federal « harge of aiding abetting murder was filed after authoriti ized recently White was killed on federal le Homochitto National Forest of the story about WASHINGTON In just six months, President Bush eceeded in r ecting nation's forest policy to wardtheliking of the timber industry Endangered species are tion recommended that Con: acre Tongass NationalForest in Alaska, the nation’s larg: est. Ninety-two percent of Tongass already is off-limits to timber production. Earlier in February, Con: gress precluded environmentalists from going to court to challenge that recommenda: duced and in some cases eliminated, all part of the thinning two years later would reduce time spent on endangeredspecies reviews. On Friday, the administra: public appeals are being re. Jr.,” Memphis, Tenn., on several years of drought gress create no more wilder- might get him [White] and old Martin Luther King visit Jackson that year for a march, didn’t come to southern Mississippi. He was assassinated in Bush andhis aides seized and another requires getting less priority v environmental reviews Healthy Fore: initiative Bush outlined in August for Jones said Prosecutor Jack Lacy noted the possible con nection to the jury. “The plan was to kill Ben Chester White and make sure he was dead and perhaps get old Martin Luther King down to Natchez to see wh: The civil rights leader, who was scheduled to reviews, onelimits public various agencies to coordinate their endangered species,stud ies. fifth, still in the works, ness areas in the 17 million and huge wildfires in the West to maketheir case for the c ges. Last year, more than 7 million acres burned and the government spent ~ more than$1.5 billion fight ing wildfires triple the amount originally budgeted. dim Lyons, a Yale Univer- sity forestry professor and former Agriculture Depart- ment undersecretary, said Bush appears intent on re turning to the policy of the nv overgrown wood lands prone to wildfires. WhenCongress balked, he went around it with new reg ulations that could be imple. tion. It also tucked into a mented without changing law spendingbill languageallow All but one of five regula tory changes Bushsot nearing the finish shorten or skip environmen. ing logging companies to keep trees they harvestin exchange for reducing undergrowth, whichhelpsstartfires mid-1980s, when the Forest Service and the BLMhadfree rein to harvest timber, “They're using trees to generate revenue to do this forest health and treatment work they want to do, and they're eliminating any sub- stantive environmental re: viewfromthe process.” WINTER MERCHANDISE STOREWIDE! Ale nA A Ns ' Ayf od HURRYIN, QUANTITIES ARE LIMITED! SELECTION VARIES BY STORE. MEN’S, WOMEN’S, JUNIORS’ & KID’S APPAREL, SHOES, ACCESSORIES, INTIMATE APPAREL & HOME | Excludes; Men’s Tailored Clothing, 5-day only homesale Selection varies by store. Limited to stock on hand. } Basic, non-seasonal merchandise is not included. Sorry, we cannot accept phone or mail orders on clearance merchandise. } ' t } Shop Monday-Saturday 10-9 and Sunday 12-6 at ail Dillard's locations. In Salt Lake City at Fashion Place and South Towne Center. in Ogden, at Newgate Mall. in Provo, at Provo Towne Centre. in Logan, at Cache Valley Mail. We ‘ r welcome your Dillard's Credit Card, The American Express® Card, Diners Club inter \ nal, Mastercard? Visa® | } and The Discover Card. ’ p f : < |
