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Show STATE RADIOACTIVE WASTE READY TO PASS THROUGH UTAH: A truck loaded w ith 42 drums of radioactive waste from the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL) w ill move through northern Utah tomo rrow- the first of 4,900 imilar shipments headed for a dispo al site in New Mexico during the next two decades. "We expect it to pass through the state without incident," aid Bill in clair, direc to r of the Utah Division of Radiation Control. But as a precaution he said more than 900 tah lawe nforcement officers, firefighters and paramedics have received training in how to deal with a traffic accident involving radioactive material . And the tah Highway Patro l has obtained specialized equipment to monitor for radiation leaks in case of an accident. LEAVITT PRODS PANEL TOWARD GUN LIMITS: Gov. Mike Leavitt on Friday inM.ructed the stare Mental Health Board to ~pend the next month develop ing propoi,als to keep guns away from mcmallr ill people who could pose a dang<.-r LO - ~-.- chem Ive· or others. The brief ession- conducted in a newsMike conference Lea vitt atmosp hereseemed to be one more indication that tah politicaJ leaders are edging toward gun contro l legislation in re ponse to killing prees in o lorado and ' alt Lake City. Minority Democrats have demanded a pecial session of the Legislature to pass bill aimed at curbing gun violence. THREE ANIMALS POTENTIAL MASCOTS FOR 2002: Ed Hula, editor of the Olympic newsletter Around the Rings, reports that potential mascots for the 2002 Winter Olympics in alt Lake City are three animals found in Utah that reflect the Olympic motto. A rabbit symboUzes Citius, Latin for faster. (Fertility, it turns out, is not an Olympic ideal.) A coyote baying at the moon stands for Altius, or higher. A bear represents Forttus, or stronger. ATIO · E-MAIL WARNS OF MORE VIOLEMCE IN COLORADO: A widely distributed note blaming «children who have ridiculed me" for the nation 's deadliest sch ool aua k acruaUy was received by e-mail- and its author has not been verified, police said Saturday. Polke received the anonymo us message Thursday or Friday, Jefferson County she riffs spokesman Steve Davis told reporters. They had no way of immediately confirming it w as from either of the two hooting suspects, Eric Harris or Dylan KJebold, he said. "Your children who have ridiculed me, who have cho en not to accept me, who have treated me like I am not worth their time are dead. They are (expletive) dead ," the note said. u1 may have taken their live and my own- but it was yo ur doing. Teac hers, parents, let this massacre be o n your shoulder un til the day you die." The note also warns of fu rther violence yet to come. "You may think the horror ends with the bullet in my head , hut you wouldn 't be so lucky, " it read . "All that .I can leave you with to decipher what more cxtensi e death is to come is '12 kizto.' You have until April 26th. Good-hye." Davis aid inve rigator have "·ome ideas" about the meaning of the phrase "12 kizto," and are taking the warning seriou ly. "W c ' re very concerned ," he said. "We have to be." Police say they suspect that Harri. and Klcbo ld had help in the school mas ac re plot. The funer-,.ll of one victim , Rachel cott, was held on Saturday. he was a junior who asp ired to be an actress. Mo urners turped her coffm into a vi ible expression of th eir grief, writing no tes on the white surface with a black marker as they flied by. Classmates had already made her red Acura Legend, Rachel still sitting in the S tt school parking lot, co a focal point for their grief. The car has been covered with stuffed animals, flowers and handwritten notes. FIVE TEXAS YOUTHS CHARGED WITH: Five students at a Texas junior high school have been charged with plotting to murder teachers and feUow students, authorities said Saturday. The suspects, aJJ aged 14, were arrested Friday. The Hays County Sheriffs Office said it began an investiga.t ion Friday after school district officials told them of a planned assault on the Danforth Junior High School in Wimberley, Texas,about40 miles northeast of San Antonio. "The inve ligation determined that the gro up had started earlier this year to plan the assault on the school," a Sheriffs Department pokeswoman aid . "Further evidence bowed that they had targeted fellow tudents and teachers they were going to kill," he added. The .five youths-are being held in cu tody and have been charged witb conspiracy to commit murder, conspiracy to commit arson and conspiracy to manufacture explo ives. Authorities did not release the names of the suspects and did not ay what kind of evidence they had found against them. WORLD CAR EXPLOSION IN LONDON DAMAGES rJ'Jbft'E"s~EOPLE: An explo io n in a car damaged buildings and caused injuries in east London , police said aturday . The bias, happened in Brick Lane, the center of one of London ' biggest Bangladeshi communities and the scene of a popular Saturday market. BBC TV reported that the explo ion was caused by a nail bomb . One week ago, a nail bomb explo ion injured 39 people in a racially mixed neighborhood, Brixton , in south London . Police said that a neo-Nazi group claimed responsibility for the device. A poke man for the Royal London Ho ·pital at Whitechapel, within walking distance of the Saturday blast, said: "W e have been put o n standby. So far we have just had three casualties who appear to have minor injuries." NATO DRAWI NG UP PLANS TO CUT OFF YUGOSLAV OIL IMPORTS: ATO military planner have been o rdered to prepare for inspections of ships bound for Yugoslavia in an effort to cut off the oil fueling that country's armed forces . As NATO's assault on Yugo lavia begins its second month, its staff has been told to draw up rules for a "visit-andsearch regimeHaimed at ships bound for Yugoslav ports. The inspections are part of an effort to cripple Yugo lavia's military capability by choking off its oil supply. Saturday, NATO spokesman Jamie hea said the procedures for how ships will be searched, and which ships will be boarded, will be developed over the next few days by NATO Supreme Commander Gen. We ley Clark and then approved by the alliance's political leadership. Despite bad weather, NATO launched a ertes of strikes late Friday and early Saturday that included an attack on an oil refinery in Novi Sad, a fuel storage facility in central Serbia, three airfields and radio and television transmission towers. $260 MILLION WANTED FOR STARVING NORTH KOREANS: The world Food Program has called for $260 million to feed 8 million North Koreans over the next year, the largest number it has sought to help ince it started fighting famine in the communi t nation four yea.rs ago. The appeal will target 1.1 miUion children between age 12 and 17 and a quarter of North Korea 's elderly for the first time- group WFP executive director Catherine Be rtini said were e p ecially vulnerable . It wiU also include infants and younger children, o rphans, hospital patients , pregnant women and nursing mothers , and more than 1.6 million people in WFP work projects who arc pajd with food. SPORTS ELWAY EXPECTED T O ANN OUNCE RETIREMENT TODAY: Th e drama is over. Ever since Den ve r quarterback John Elway hoisted the Lombardi Trophy over hi head at uper Bo wl XXXIIJ, Lhe questio n has been : Will he c o me back fo r a three- peat? The answer is no. Sports IIJustrated 's Pe te r King is reporting that Elway likely will announce his re tire ment at a noo n press confe rence to day. King says Elway's decision to re tire is based o n two fac tors. One is the memo ry of playing in pain. Elway was in inte nse pain last year throughout the sea on and only enjoyed himself at the Super Bowl in Miami. The econd factor is that Elway values going out like Mkhael Jordan-at the top of his game and as a champion . King also says that Elway, 38, is John seriously Elway considering a spot in the Monday Night Football booth next season, alongside Al Michaels and Boomer Esiason . Elway considered making an announcement this past week , but delayed it, sources told Denver newspapers, first because Broncos owner Pat Bowlen was out of town , and then because of the school shootings in suburban Denver on Tuesday. JAZZ RETAIN BEST RECORD IN LEAGUE: Karl Malone scored 25 points, including 13-of-I 3 from the foul line, as the Utah Jazz retained the BA's best record with a 96-85 win over PQ!tland on Friday night. Karl In a battle of the Malone league 's top two teams, the Trail Blaze rs erased a do uble-digit Jazz lead early in the fourth quarter hy employing a trap defense. Utah made six turnovers in five minutes, and Kelvin Cato's dunk c ut Utah 's advantage to 81 -74 with 7: 20 left. But Malone scored four points in an 8-2 tah run that put the game o ut of reach . Yesterday, the J azz crushed the eatcle Supersonics 98-8 1, led by Malone's 21 points, and remain atop the league. ST. LOUIS CARDINALS' TATIS M AKESMLB HISTORY: Fernando Tali bec1me the fust major league baseball player to hit two grand lam~ in one inning Friday, a his C mlinals ro uted the Los Angele!> Dodgers 12-5. His two homers w ith !ht' base loaded in the thinl inning also gave him eight Rm h,r Lhe inn ing, which c:di1 ., d the old record of six in one trame . LEISURE FEW HOLLYWOOD FILMS MAKE THE CUT FOR CANNES: Only two Hollywood tudio films have made it into the competitive lineup fo r this year's Cannc Film Festival. For the first time since 1993, a U.S. entry w on't be screene d as the festival' opener or closer. Boch offerings thi time, are European productions. Festival chief Gilles Jacob unveiled the official selection in Paris Thursday. Jacob and his staff viewed a record 1, 138 titles and Jacob said they had trouble finding high quaJity films . Whe n the Cannes Film Festival begin May 12, a big-budget Russian historical epic will be the opener. "The Barber of Siberia" is directed by NikJta Mikhalkov, shot in EngUsh and stars J ulia Ormond and Richard Harris. The two American films i11 competi~on are Di ey's "The Cradic Will Rock" starring Tim Robbins; and "Limbo," directed by John Sayles and featuring Mary Elizabeth Julia Mastrantonio. Ormond I' |