Salt Lake Tribune | 1995-09-05 | Page 11

f Ute Tribe Tabulates suitscurttitoa °°" But financial success associated with gam- 5 Benefits, Costs Of Its New Casino THE ASSOCIATED PRESS plONACTO, Colo,—Business is booming at Southern ’s Sky Ute Lod id * Casino, marking its eedae ‘bat . success has comeata pricefor officials wor“ried about traffic and crime and residents who have won and lost small fortunes at the gam- » ing tabies. salmon. The spill occurred as adult salmon crease in alcohol-related driving offenses has Ignacio officials concerned. Others worry that their friends and neighbors are spending too much time at the gaming tables. were migrating into the area to spawn. Spawning Grounds Damaged j i By Another Cyanide Spill ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SUNBEAM,Idaho — The Columbia Basin Salmon Enforcement Team is monitoring the Sinee October 1994, more than $7 million aftermath of another cyanide spill in critical has been infused into the economy of southwest Colorado through local purchases. In addition, the casino has become one of salmon habitat of central Idaho’s Yankee Fork of the Salmon RiverBasin. “It is very likely that there were concentra- the biggest employers in the region. Innova. tions include a program that permits workers io obtain their general equivalency diploma and a tribal-management training program to groom tribal members for top management positions. Nearly 400 tribal members, other American Indians and non-Indianresidents living in the Ruby Ridge Agents May Be Forced To Testify ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Sen. Arlen Specter says he might use subpoenas, and perhaps offer legal immunity, to compelfederal agentsto testify at Senate hearings on the deadly Ruby Ridge standoff. , Three people wereslain during the August 1992 standoff outside | the Idaho homeof separatist Randy Weaver — Weaver's wife and 14-year-old son and a federallaw- enforcementagent. Allegationsof a cover-up at the FBI after the standoff hang over hearings that open this week before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee chaired by Specter, R-Pa., ® whois running for the Republican = presidential nomination. Asked Sunday on CBS’ “Face ® the Nation” if he would force fed4 eral agents to testify, Specter ™ said: “I hope they'll come volun* tarily, but if they don’t, they © don’t. They'll be subpoenaed.” ’ Weaver is expected to be the first witness. Specter said he also expected “FBI Director Louis Freeh and Atty. Gen. Janet Renototestify. A federalinvestigation is under way into the actions of five top FBIofficials suspended by Freeh this summer. Twoof the five admit destroying FBI documents during an internal review of the Ruby Ridge incident, and another admits to knowing about the destruction. Specter said he hoped the hearings would not impede the criminal investigation, but he would not rule out granting immunity to witnesses in retuin for their testimony. “T don’t want to cross that bridge, really speculate aboutit, until we get there,” he said. “I am going to be sensitive to pending prosecutions. But it is plain that the law of the land is that a congressional oversight hearing takes precedence over a pending criminal law case. Butif we can accommodateall the interests, that’s what we should do, and T will de that.” tions in the creek that causedtoxicity,” said Chris Mebane, monitoring supervisor for the Idaho Division of Environmental Quality. ‘We want to revisit their operation to make surethis doesn’t happen again.” The spill was discovered Aug. 21 after a slurry pipeline burst at Hecla Mining Co.’s open pit gold mine north of Sunbeam. Cya- Vie nide-ladened minetailings were dumped into Pinon Creek, a tributary of the Yankee Fork and its habitat for the endangered chinook ing hasits costs. Traffic problems and an in- Thelatestspill follows a significant cyanide leak this spring in which 23,000 gallonsof cyanide solution leaked through the holes of a waste pond liner at an ore niili just down- 4 stream from Pinon Creek and only 500 feet from the Yankee Fork. Batt’s Nuclear-Waste Offer Facing Examination by Feds ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Federal policy-makers will put Gov. Phil Batt’s deal for resumed radioactive dumping undertheir microscope today in what the governor hopes will lead to the eventual removal of all nuclear waste from Idaho. 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