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Show INDEPENDENT UTAH’S VOICE Since 1871 Che Salt Lake Gribune © 2003 Tue Sax Monpay sxx Taso @ Jury28, 2003 US. raid Just misses top Iraqis “Thisis their officefor 10 hours a day. We've gotta get that gas tank out ofthe crush zone.” JASON SCHECHTERLE Police officer who was severely burned when his wn Victoria was rammed by 2 tax ae Saddampossibly among those a step ahead of Americanforces thet By Darcy Doran Te srwociated Press Tiki) American forces focused their hunt for aroundhis Ti hometown and re ported a ne r-miss Sunday in a id to captu w chief of security and perhaps the ousted dietator himself. Also, a U.S. soldier waskilled southof Ba; ndad, the latest death Saddam's new secuand possibly the ex himself was staying of the farms, Russell said. dreds of soldiers, backed Bradley f vehicles, yunded the Ss as Apache helicopters hovered above. No shots were about 25 men e! attack fired as fromthe 25 peacefully. They were detained briefly later Sunday The noose and released is tightening around these guys. said Col tips from inforfarms in the Tikrit region fficer Christopher Witteis not happy. It’s his first traffic stop ofthe night, and hejust gota flat tire on a busy stretch of the busiest interstatein Utah. Thepolicecar ofchoice has-a deadly record when parkedonthe shoulder As heloosens the lug nuts, his eyes dart back andforthfrom the wheel to the freeway, wherea mix of cars, trucks and semi. ticket, when the driver of a Mazda minivan trailers, whose drivers are awarethat drifted into the emergencylane, and crushed the Ford Crown Victorialike a soda can, Had Witte seen it coming, he turned to flick a bug off his girlfriend, Witte can't chase after them, whiz past at speeds well above the 65-mphlimit. Only a few bothertoshift lanes outof courtesy Exactlyfive years ago, Witte was parked onI-15 near Centerville, writing a wouldhavetensedupandpossibly snapped his neck. Instead, the 6-foot, 7-inch trooper Thursday's capture group Judge Paul G. Cassell reduced the sentence of a convicted felon who sold a handgunto raise rent money Andhedoesn’t care who knows it ‘Thefederaljurist and former law professor has handed down an 16 page decision explaining why he whoarrived onthescenetold him. Sincethen, 11 law enforcementofficers whenthefuel tanks ontheir Crown Victovias exploded, bringing thetotal since 1983 to15, Several others havesurvived but were seriously injured. That might not seemlike many considering there are about400,000 CrownVictoriaPolice Inter Law before going on the benchlast year, also wantsto educate lawyers reduction, called a downwarddepar. turein legal lingo, was appropriate judges have no authority in any case to reduce sentences. If defense attor because the defendant's previous of. fenses were all nonviolent and he was disposing of a weapon, rather neys believe those claims, he wrote, they might notask for stiorter terms See CASSELL, AG those who died Utah's Korean War Memorial was dedicated Sunday in Salt LakeCit “s Memory Grove, a half-centuryafterhostilities on The Salt Lake Tribune Who gets what WASHINGTON Salt Lake City vagabond Fred Mauney has spent the past few days pedaling a Parents can bring about a fam ilyfight, depending on how rusty bicycle around the Capitol they handle their will, Savvy, ¢1 grounds, waving a 4 by 6-foot flag ua % 6 ui a WEATHERPage ce Pascat, Ronon The Gamesete! Poem Armstrong wins fifth Tour LANCE ARMSTRONG signals hic fifth straight Tour de Prance cycling vietory Sunday in Paris. SEE STORY IN SPORTS, DI ’ Chance of t-storms, ‘all with highs in mid 80s t mid-9s north, 90s to near 104 south Vouumn w6e Numnnn 108 MOSCOW Outside, it was hot, humid and noisy, but in the air-conditioned interior of the upscale Carpaccio restaurant in downtown Moscow, it was cool and quiet. The food was exquis Courier, used mostly dark colors Saturday as he painted the pic ture of the contemporary Rus sian news media. that By Curisrornka Surrn the Asian peninsula. Utah, 81 CA Televison Tribune “Wearelosing professionals who Paul G. Cassell have high Agafonov said. ists don't standards,” fully “Young journal realize the importanceof what we do. They don't care about the quality as much as we used to. And the challenges are mostserious The 44-year-old career editor knows thing or two about the challenges Russia's periodicals have faced in the past decade. Agafonov's first job affer graduating from Moscow Uni versity in 1961 first as a wrtt er, then as the Tokyo correspon dent and deputy editor of the most respected Russian newspa per, Izvestia ended inthe mid. 1990s as a consortiumof two of the leading industrial and finan. cial groups, those of Viktor Pot anin and Vagif Alekperov, le veraged their own financial and ative resources into semicriminal takeover Izvestia. See RUSSIA'S, AlO a of Biking Utahn pursues a quirky D.C.protest INSIDE AB Sports 2003, The Salt regarded newspaper, Russian He wrote the opinion, Cassell said, to dispel “hyperbolic claims” Editorials By Michae Nakoryakoy ite, and the service was fast and efficient All that didn't help Sergei Agafonov to cheer up. The dep uty editor of a brand-new, good looking and already well than obtaining one, Cassell said. His opinion goes beyond a mere session of a firearm, about half of Carolyn Max SADDAM, A5 Shackled: Alicensing schemeandalackofprofits keep thembeholden to government and moneymen See POLICE CAR, At what is normally called for under federal sentencing guidelines. The CS Moves OT Obituaries CS Purties See around the country have burned to death gave Paul Bradley VanLeer an 18- Astrology Classifieds Comics in Tikrit of a of men believed to include Russianjournalists are short onliberty was gone,andthefuel tank, puneturedby theVic’s rear axle, had spilled20gallons of gasoline onto theshoulder. Onespark and he would have burned to acrisp. At least that’s what thefirefighter explanation of the particulars of VanLeer’s case. Cassell, who taught at the University of Utah School of month termfor being afelon in pos. heir doar, ‘ds. Soldiers learned from Judgeasserts his right to stray from guidelines By PamMeta MANSON The Salt Lake Tribune where. Any g to knock on as many as 10 Saddam body ment like a lotto ball, landir face up, with his feet in thedriver's sez The back seat bouncedaround the passenger compart Sentencing: Paul Cassell says claimsthat federal judges have no authorityto reduce punishmentsare hyperbole hide, and it’s becoming for them to move be ‘Wemissed him by 24 hours. said Lt. Col. Steve Russell, who led the operation. The raid was prompted by Sitting Target The Salt LakTribune places ti tifficult left the area the day before. Utah Highway Patrol trooper Christopher Witte has twice had his patrol car hit while on the side of the road, but he refuses to be “paranoid.” By Lapa BaNtIN in a pre-dawn at tack but learned their specific target thesecurity chief had jos BY FRANCISCO KAOLSETH The Salt Lae Friduone that is purposefully hung upside down, tryingto draw the attention of Uncle Sam or any passers-by paraded around the SundanceFilm Festival in Park City one year with a sandwich board that read “I've got the stories, talk to me!" and he filed an unsuccessful lawsuit in federal court against CBS as an “agent/representative of God, claiming the TV series “Touched byan Angel” violated his constitu: tional rights. Now Mauney is protesting the to his latest U.S, Postal Service's denial of his cane A rapid-talking character whose background is as colorful as it is hard to pin down, Mauney ta no stranger to impromptu soap boxing. During his offandon ten claim to a $100,000 reward he says he is due for aiding in the identifi ure In Salt Lake City, he rode a bike from Utah to the nation’s capital to can people and standing up for for that matter Iii | demonstrate against various na tional policies, he was an outspo 4046 3A sures at City Council meetings, he ken critic of airport security mea cation of a man later convicted of murdering a Sandy postal worker ”n Interstate 15 in 1997 I'm standing upfor the Ameri postal workers,” the handyman and paralegal says dur break In his pedalingcircuit meant to tle into the U.S. Postal See DEMIED, Av nn Seer/ The Salt Lae Tibi Fred Mauney walks his bike in Washington, where the Utah vagabondIs chasing his latest qu reward money, ' a |