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Show Utan’s INDEPENDENT VOICE SINCE 1871 he Salt Lake oo Sunpay © 2008 Tux Sart Laue Tausuwe @ Juty 27,2003 S wwwstramcom Liberia awash in unconventional difficulties By ELLEN KNICKMEYER The Associated its 1993 nightmare in Somalia. But despite the dangers, ven- peacekeeping force sentto Liberia tures by the British in Africa and byothers elsewhere have shown how suchefforts can work. would face a volatile mix of combatants from drunken govern- bound Saturday for Liberia’s DAKAR,Senegal Any US. mentsoldiers paid bythe perks of looting and raping to angel-eyed child rebels toting AK-47s. The United States has notsent a peace mission to Africa since Three U.S. warships were coast, carrying troops ordered upby President Bush to support a pending West African peacekeeping mission. SeeLIBERIA, Al5 Tour de force A woman is overcome by emotion Saterdayiin Monrovia as peopleat a religious gathering pray for those who have lost loved ones during the warin Liberia. The country is full of dangers that deployed U.S. troops might face, suchas child soldiers, a disregard for the Geneva Convention and soldiers who break cease-fires. Tarnished treasure Lance Armstrongis doing it. Riding in heavyrain ona slick course studded with traffic circles and sometight National parks’ natural andculturallegacy undersiege curves, Armstrong playedit comparativelysafe on Saturday and virtually sewed up his fifth successive victory in the Tour de France.¢1 A closing spectacle The Moseow-Utah Youth Gamesofficially came to a Sreve Guirrus/ The Salt Lake Tribune A buck grazesin the warm light of the setting sunin the Fruita district of Capitol Reef National Park. The view at sunriseis no less spectacular at Mesa Arch, below, in the Island in the Sky area of Canyonlands National Park. State park officials often don’t have the funds to check animals’health or countculturalsites. close Saturday with a spectacle of dancing and singing that equaled the Untold wealth opening ceremonies of a week ago. Up next, Salt Lake City. ¢1 ARTS Festival of festivals Alackoffunding hamstrings parkofficials’ ability to knowwhat they have and how to protect it Next weekend, an expected 60,000 visitors will see the worksof200artists and Second of two parts craftspeople, partakeofdeli By Jupy Fanys anp Joun Keangy The Salt Lake Tribune cious delicacies up and down Park City’s Main Street and tap theirtoes to a choiceof herabble-rousing writer Edward Abbey once gazed down from the La Sal Mountains and reflected upon the rugged land scape now knownas Arches and Canyonlandsnational parks. “The world is open and I can see an exhilar ating vast ness bathed in morninglight, room enough foralifetime of exploration.” More than four decadeslater, the same an st besaid about theparks, their plants and animals, their prehistoric ruins and ancient dwellings, their arches and natur bridges and otherintrigues that put themintothe nation’s portfolio of natural treasures. more than two dozen musi calacts, Dt Astrology Books Di2 0S Lottery Movies Classifieds W2 Obituaries 8 010 a7 Crossword... 012 Puzzles pie Editorials MI Review a Landers DI Sports No onetruly grasps the wealth containedin Utah's national parks. a No onecould, given that the federal government hasneversized up the WEATHER Page B10 poites, Hy & nn many cultural and natural resources Americans have entrusted to the Na tional Park Service. Nowhere, it seems, is this more apparent than in Utah's five national parks. Relatively wild and undevel Showers, t-storms possible, maint in mountains around the state | | oped, the parks NN Truoer Nisuson/ The Salt Lake Tribune | Arches, Bryce Can yon, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef and Zion still hold many ofthe secrets they had whenthey first joined the nation’s system of historical and sce- nic reserves ‘Theparks have only begun t identify what needs to be accom: plishedto carry out their fundamen tal mission, wticulated in the 1919 National Park Organic Act In it, Congress said the Park Ser vice’s purpose is “to conserve the sceneryand the natural and historic objects and thewildlife therein and to Soe INVENTORY, Al2 Vouume 266 Numnen 104 Wilson: A teacher, a politician and now a consultant Hinckley Institute of Politics director: The former mayorofSalt Lake City is stepping downfromhis post, readyto settle into a businesslife By Renecca WaLsn The Salt Laake Tribune ‘Ted Wilson surrounds himself with polit ical flotsamin his office at the University of Utah's Hinckley Instituteof Politics. l are neatly pinned in a cluster on the cork board above his desk. Tiny school portraits of his seven grandchildren are tucked into the metal frame at eye level, And bumper stickers a dated brown one from Scott Matheson’s race for governor, Karen Shep- A battered “Kennedy for President" hat herd’s run for Congress, one of Randy Hori rests in a place of honor on his bookshelf Several incarnations of "Wild Utah" buttons ucht’s campaigns for Salt Lake County Com mission, even a “Wilson for Senate” glint , { COPy) shiny as new, around the edges, “| was 14 before | realized ‘Damn Republicans’ was two words,” says three-time Sait It's my dirty closet,” hesays. The one thing that's missingfrom the col lection is a poster, a sticker, a badge from Wilson'sthree campaigns as Salt Lake City's mayor Lake City Mayor “I don't have any more left he says with a shrug. Oh, well, No matter that he doesn't have a memento from his major political success. Wilson moved on a Jong time ago leaving See WILSON, AG Ted Wilson. Now 64, he says he has transcended political sniping. Sorwve CMtewiN/ The Salt Lathe Trine ‘ |