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Show SE eg ae = = DoilyXHerald UTAH VALLEY EDITION $1.50 YOUR TOWN * YOUR NEIGHBORS * YOUR NEWSPAPER SPORTS LIFE & STYLE BERRY’S BACK TIMPANOGOS STORYTIME BYU's quarterback makes the decision to return for another season Writings SPECIAL REPORT GANGSofZion reveal Roberts’s sarcasm, In Mormon Country, young Polynesianssearchfor identity — and for escape from a seemingly unstoppable cycle ofviolence leanings Story by TIM SULLIVAN eres by JT THOMAS OUNTRY NEWS n Oct. 14, 2003, a warm,Indian sum- _David Espo THE ASSOCIATED PRESS mernight settled over Utah’s Wasatch Mountains. At Suede, WASHINGTON — The John Robertsof nearly a quarter-century ago was loyal foot soldierin a nightclubjust outside of the resort town of Park the Reagan Revolution, a deeply City, a crowdgathered to see reggae musician Lucky Dube. Patrons spilled out onto the club's outdoor conservative lawyer with ares views on the Constitution and penchant for stating them fs patios. Inside, they hovered shoulderto-shoulderin the close confines of vocative His self-confidence was striking. A few months after turning 30, Roberts wrote that senior Justice theclub, a glassy, angular second-floor space thatjutted out from a strip mall to- Department officials, in rejecting his earlier advice on a subject, had decided the Constitution “did not mean whatit said.” As a young lawyer,the man President Bush has picked for the Supreme Court scoured documents ward the sagebrush- studded meadowsof Summit County. The show was a reunionof sorts for young Pacific Islanders, many of whom had made that crossed his desk for their legal the trip up from the Salt Lake Valley. ne and for stray com- Famously large, and often tattooed, the young men and womenhadroots ‘a, Samoa, Hawaii and other oe once wrote an entire memo in French. Pacific Island groups. They crowded in with brothers, sisters and cousins, In one paperfor his boss, he in that he routinely worked until 10:30 at night. Hejoked when a $25ticket was dismissed that iner’s“ wasted at Tri Heoffered political as well as legal advice toShe president he served, A pr sculpture of Reagan wouldbe the “epitome of conceit and majesty, hardly the im- Miles Kinikini, who now sells trucks and SUVsatLarry H.Miller Truckland, was one of Salt Lake’s early Polynesian gangsters. The youngestof eightsiblings, his Mormonparents had moved to Salt Lake City from Tonga before he was born. Hesayshefirst joined a gang whenhe was in third grade. amping up for Dube’s outspoken lyrics and mellowbackbeats. The good-natured revelry was short-lived. Just after the band began to play, pushing and shovingbrokeout in Isi Tausinga, Salt Lake City’sfirst Tongan police the audience. Someonein the front threw beer onto Dube. Suddenly, a groupof menattacked 30-year-old Kautoke Tangitau, also knownas “Toke.” owe wewant to portray,” he wrote in I Roberts's writing — incisive,often witty and erudite — sometimes had sarcastic streak. “It is true that only Supreme officer, was assignedto They assaulted him on the dance floor and then dragged him out to tackle Polynesian gangs. the balcony, where they stomped on his body and kicked him in the face. The problem was much Court justices and schoolchildren See ROBERTS, A10 closer to home than he supposed. “We would drive Pope urges leaders of Islam to fight right tothe address,” he the club. But it was too late for Toke Tangitau: Under the bassybeats of the band, noneof the police — and few of the revelers — heard the shot from the .22-caliber handgun that punched intohis heart from point- smokes, I knowthese kids. blank range. Asfighting erupted overhis body, he bled to death in the mountainair. It didn’t take sheriff's deputies outside Club Manhattan, where a young gangster was shot earlier this year.In thefirst six months of 2005, Salt Lake area gangswereresponsible for 132 assaults, 20 robberies, 16 drive-by. shootings and two homicides. Igotochurch with them.’ flict: As the crowdpoured outof the club, they foundgraffiti scrawled in Department's Metro Gang Unitkeepa close eye on the crowd DavidMcHugh whatpolice described asa riot; dozens of club-goers traded blows. Sheriff's deputiescalled to the scene ordered Lucky Dube to stop playing and the patrons to evacuate Watching for trouble: Members of the Salt Lake City Police said, “and thought, ‘Holy terrorism Thefighting swiftly escalated into longto find the signs of gang con- markeron Suede’s walls, and heard Somewere my relatives.” See GANGS, A4 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS COLOGNE, Ger — Pope Benedict XVI decriedthe“ eral fanaticism”of terrorism Saturday and urged Muslims tojoin Christians in trying to combat its spread. In blunt faceteae theres Muslim officials in g Joshua Freed THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. hat Muslim leaders had a “great reopensin properly conan their younger genera- MINNEAPOLIS — Northwest Airlines oYen ‘I certaia thet Techo your own thoughts when I bring up as one of our concerns the spread of terrorism,” Benedict told the Muslim leadership, mainly Turks,in his most extensive remarks on terrorism during his four-month papacy. “Terrorist activity is continually recurring in various parts of See POPE, A& INSIDE Northwestflies on without mechanics brought replacement workers on the job Saturday after mechanics went on strike to protest big pay cuts and layoffs that would havecut their numbers almost in half. The nation’s fourth-largest carrier pledged to keep its planes in the air, sayfre Lee hen wceeiig fe ee for more than a year and a half. It said it had lined up about 1,900 replacement workers, vendor employees and manag- “So far it seemslike it's going smoothly.” Todd Olson flying with family to Disney World ers to begin filling shifts Saturday. Whilestriking mechanics haveridiculed the ideathat Northwest can fly without them, there were no signs of disruption in the day’s earliest flights at the carrier’s U.S. hubs in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Detroit and Memphis, Tenn But some passengers weren't taking WEATHER B8 | OPINIONS AS | OURTOWNS BI Late c10 ct storms ahances. Todd Olson showed up withhis family BUSINESS | UFE@styLe “extra, extra early” for a 9 a.m. flight to Disney World. SPORTS D1 84, B5 || || OBITUARIES ow | HISTORY 6283 | “So far it seems likeit’s going smoothly,” Olsonsaid. “We're more worried about ourflight home next week.” MOVIES cs | att St oe aah Vorinae gs ISSUE21 A Northwest spokesman wasn't immediately available to comment on op- erations. 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