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Show th.al adults in prospective adoptive homes are related to prospective parents by blood, legal marriage or adoption . The policy docs not prevent singleparent adoptions. The revision, which also calls fo r criminal background and child abu e creenin gs of each adult present in the adoptive home, goes into effect immediately, said board chairman cott H. Clark, who propo ed the change. Clark, a alt Lake attorney and adoptive father of 18 children, · said his propo al wa grounded in law, social cicnce research and his own b lief that traditional two-parent families can p rovide the greatest degree of tability to children in the tate ' fo cer care sy tern. STATE IOC MEMBER URGES A PROBE OF SYDNEY'S BID TO GET GAMES : After focusing olely on alt Lake City for more than a month, the lnternacionaJ Olympic Committee's b ribery inve tigation finally i hifting to another uccessful bid city. AustraJ1an lOC member Kevan Gosper caUed Friday for an investigation into reports that two African roe members were offered $35 000 each just hours before the IOC voted 45.43 to end the 2000 ummer Games co ydney over Beijing. But Go per aid ydney's problems don 't mean that Salt Lake City i off the hook for reportedly spending nearly 800,000 to influence the vote for the 200Z Winter Games. The latest allegations of corruption within the IOC are serious enough to cost ydncy the Games, Go ·per acknowledged. NATION BIPARTISANSHIP CRUMBLES IN SENATE: Bipani an VICTIM OF TRIAD SHOOTING SPREE DIES: Anne ·1cater, 30, died Friday at LOS Hospital , one week and one day after being wounded in the head when a mentally ill woman went on a hooting rampage at the Triad Center in 'alt Lake City the afternoon of Jan . 14. he wa pronounced dead at 2:50 p.m., hospital spokesman Jes · Gomez said. '!cater is survived by her husband , Chris Sleater and their 6-month-old daughter, Erin . On Monday, prosecutors will charge De-Kieu Duy, the woman arrested for shooting Sleater, with aggravated murder, ·aid Dick -hepherd, the criminal division director of the di trice attorney's office. Aggravated murder is a capital offen c , and Duy could he sentenced to die if coQvicted of that crime. ADOPTIVE-PARENT POOL REDUCED IN UTAH: ame- ex couples, unmanied traight coupl and polygamists will be prohibited from adopting children in state custody. The Board of Child and Family ervice voted 7-2 Friday co require that caseworkers verify tue cooperation crumbled at the ·enace impeachment triaJ of President Bm linton Saturday in rnncorous wrangling over Republican p lans to interview Monica Lewinsky and to change the ru les for conducting the trial_ Democrats attacked both as violation of rules that aJI 100 ~TI;;::"'IIIJll!!mlll senators approved as the trial began . TI1e day was dominated by discussion of a Charles judge's ruling that _R_,..,,_,ff"---- would require Lewinsky to he interviewed by the Hou e trial managers or by prosecutor Kenneth ' tarr on behalf of the managers. Lewinsky was returning to Washington as the Hou. e v.rosecutors pressed to do the interview as oon a po sihlc, a Hou e official said. White House Counsel Charle Ruff, sarcasm in his voice, ridiculed a claim hy the pr ecutors that they were merely seeking a routine interview with a potential witne . ' •m..i TORNADOES KILL EIGHT ACROSS SOUTH: Tornadoes ripped through the South for the econd time th.is week, killing eight people. One of Little Rock's oldest MIDTOWN AUTO PARTS 65 W. Center Street • Quality Auto Parts a the Best Prices • Complete line of Domestic and Foreign Car and Truck Parts • Machine Shop Services 586-9481 ilt' AUTO PARTS areas was sliced In half by a twister that killed three people Thursday night. A tornado also hit the historic ili trict of Clarksville, Tenn ., early Friday. Power was knocked our to more than 100,000 homes in Arkansas and Tennessee. The Little Rock torm knocked over tree at the governor' · mansion , where Bill Clinton once lived. He visited Arkan as yesterday. "The fact that the governor's mansion where Hillary and l raised Chel ea fo r 12 years was actually in the path of the storm made it all the more real to me," Clinton said. "We are deeply committed to doing everything we can to help the people there recover." CLINTON FOCUSES ON TERRORIST THREAT: Targeting terrorists' high-rech threats, President Bill Clin ton is Bill Clinton propo ing nearly $ 1.5 hillion to help the nited tate guard against attacks via computer , viru cs or chemicals. Clinton , in a speech Friday at the ational Academy of Science , outlined a·10-point plan to counter emerging threats from cyherterrorism, biological and chemical weapon . ingling out weapons of mass destruction , Clinton pointed out how they "can be compact and inexpensive" and how a mall hand of terrorists can use them to inflict significant damage. As an example, h, cited the 1995 rde:i ·e of nerve gas in a Tokyo subway by members of the Aum ' hinryko cult. WORLD POPE WARNS AGAINST THE EVILS OF CAPITALISM: Pope John Paul II on Saturday turned h ' church' attention to the - - - - evil of exploitive capitalism, issuing a ,.,. . "'··""....... major statement '..i!f'{l,.I that also called upon the church to reach out to society' movers and shakers. In a document Pope John intended to change Paul II the direction of the Roman Catholic church in the autumn of his papacy and the final days of the millenruum, John Paul said pastors must preach the Christian message to the rich and the powe rful, not just the poor. The pope also pu h eel his church to battle "social sins which cry to heaven ," uch as drug trafficking and corruption. But more generally, the mis ive reflects the pope's concern about unfen e red capitalism, moving the church away from its earlier wonies about Marxism and liberation theology In the region. anticipated, the Houston Rockets finally got Scottie Pippen 's name on a five-yea r, $67. 2 millio n contract Friday. The a nnouncement Scottie e nded a lengthy Pippen negotiating session that started after the Rockets delayed and then called off a Tc:xa welcome for Pippen Thur day night. Owner Les AJexander cited problem with wording in the collective bargaining agreement. U.S. WAR PLANES HIT IRAQI SITE: A cat- MCGINNIS WITHDRAWS FROM BEARS COACHING SEARCH: " I have taken and-mou e game over Iraq ended with . . warplane homhing two Iraqi anti-aircraft missile sites. Four .S. F-18 warplanes attacked a urface-toair missile site in southern Iraq on aturday after Iraqi MiGs violated no-fly zones, a enior . . official said. The incident, the latest in a string of clashes, occurred when American planes on routine patrol detected two Iraqi warplanes "darting in and out" of the restri ted airspace over southern Iraq, a . ·. official said. KOSOVO GUERILLAS RELEASE FIVE SERBS: Ethnic AJbanian guerrillas Saturday released five Serb villagers after mediation from international ohservers in Ko ovo, said a spokesman for the ob erver mi ion . Col. Mike Ph!Uips, an American with the Kosovo observer mission, told TI1c As ociated Pres that the ho tag es, abducted Friday, were now with member of th e mi ion heing run by the Organization for ecurity and Cooperation in Europe. He gave no further detail.. The kidnapping had funher complicated efforcs hy international offi ials to pressure government force and the rebel Ko ovo Liberation Anny to stop violence in the separati t province in erhia, Yugo lavia ' dominant republic. SPORTS PIPPEN SIGNS CONTRAC!J. JOINS ROCKETS wORKOUT : AJthough it took longe r than myself out of the job, " Dave M Ginnis, d fen i've coordinator for th e Arizona Cardinals , told WMAQ-TV on Saturday. "It did not feel right in my gut." A Bears source, speaking on con dition of anonymity, con.firmed that McGinnis wa out of the runn ing for Bears' Head c;oach_ "He has withdrawn and is on his way o ut of town, the source said. McGi nnis' decision came one day after the Bears announced he was hired as coach, then later aid the details had not been worked out. McGinnis was furiou · that team president Michael McCaskey announced his hiring before there was an agreement. n LEISURE DUSTIN HOFFMAN WINS $1.5 MILLION COURT CASE: Dustin Hoffman on Friday won a $1.5 million courc battle again t Los Angeles magazine for publishing a computergenerated image of him wearing a dress . The Academy Award-winning actor had sued the magazine p ubli hed by Dustin Capital Cities/ AB Hoffman claiming that it created the picture and used his image without his p erm is ion in a 1997 article promoting 1997' tre ndiest fas hions. ome tr-Y the fam«n 13r-ickhou 13oar-d: 11omemade soup se..Oaked Toasted va..-mesan C e fr-esh fruit - Onl ·I,,, >JI I< Ii{ 111,11 (,111 · 227 South Main <-"""'Movoncl<J 865-1770 |