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Show !PAGE6 STATE LETTUCE HEADS ROLLED: A semi-truck carrying lettuce and strawberries tipped over on northbound Interstate 15, near exit four, early Friday morning, scattering produce far and wide. Utah Highway Patrol Trooper Ben Lang said the truck overturned into the median around 5:15 a.m. He said the driver, Zeev Bilenkis, 30, of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, reported that he took his eyes off the road and drifted to the left. When he jerked the truck to the right, it tipped over and landed in the median. The northbound left lane was closed off and on during the clean up and the southbound left lane was closed for the entire clean up, about eight hours, Lang said. An estimate of about $100,000 total damage was done to the tractor. trailer and produce. The tractor had the most damage, he said, because the cab is mostly made of fiberglass. =..;~===~ ..::..;.~ UTAH REPUBLICAN LEADERS · UNANIMOUSLY ENDORSE BUSH FOR PRESIDENCY: Utah's entire Republican i eadership - state and federal - lined up behind George W. Bush's GOP bid for the presidency Friday now that Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch has dropped from the race. One by one, the elected leaders pledged their support for the Texas governor in Gov. Mike Leavitt's boardroom. The crowd included senators Hatch and Robert Bennett and former Sen. Jake Garn . Also on hand were Utah congressmen Merrill Cook and Jim Hansen. Leavitt had endorsed both Hatch and Bush for the same job. Now Leavitt, Utah chairman of the Bush campaign, can concentrate on helping Bush raise money and votes in Utah. 'GOD'S ARMY' SHOOTING FOR NEW LOS FILM GENRE: For the past week, Richard Dutcher has visited a dozen different cinemas just to watch the movie trailers. Or. more specifically. his movie trailer. God's Army, which Dutcher wrote, directed and stars in. is the first feature film about contemporary life among Mormon missionaries. In the trailer now playing in about 60 Salt Lake and Utah County theaters, missionaries can be seen distributing LOS materials to hookers on the streets of Los Angeles, on their knees in prayer, pouring salt in each other's cereal , falling out of bed, knocking on doors and annointing the sick with oil. God's Army, with excellent production values and snappy dialogue, is a departure from traditional fare where Mormons are almost invisible or at the most, the object of scorn or spoof. Dutcher hopes God's Army will help launch a whole new genre of films. aimed primarily at members of the nearly 11million member Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The movie is slated to open March 10 on 13 screens in 12 Utah locations. It will be showing on two UNIVERSITY JOURNAL FOCUS: THE WEEK THAT WAS screens at Larry Miller's Jordan Commons. Within weeks, it will move to Ogden, Layton and Logan, then to St. George and Cedar City. · NATION CRASH MYSTERY: TWO LOUD NOISES: The hunt for clues to the crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 continues in the Pacific Ocean off southern California. Navy robots have found much of the plane's wreckage in an area the size of a football field, 700 feet deep, and they already have pulled up the jet's two "black boxes.· The latest questions surround two loud noises that are heard on the salvaged cockpit tape just before the crash. Investigators say it's still too early to determine what caused the loud noises. but one official says perhaps a screw or other mechanical part in the stabilizer may have broken. The noises may have been the sound of the large stabilizer being slammed around by airflow. SENATOR WANTS EX-CIA DIRECTOR TO TESTIFY: The Senate Intelligence Committee chairman said Friday that former CIA Director John Deutch ought to appear before his panel to explain about the classified material found on his home computer. When Deutch left his post in Oecember 1996, CIA investigators discovered he had put large quantities of classified material on a CIA-supplied but unsecured computer in his home. The same computer was used by Deutch and other members of his household to send and receive e-mail and to access Internet sites, according to congressional and intelligence-community officials familiar with the investigation. Deutch has not been prosecuted, but current CIA Director George Tenet stripped him of his security clearances last August - nearly three years after Deutch left the CIA job. CLINTON GIVES ATF ADDED POWER TO REIN IN GUN DEALERS: Stepping up pressure on the gun industry, President Bill Clinton on Friday gave federal agents new powers to crack President Clinton down on dealers and pawnbrokers who sell a disproportionate number of the weapons used in crimes. Under current law, ATF can only inspect a guri dealer, no matter how flagrant the problems are. "We're beginning the most aggressive effort ever undertaken to insure responsible behavior by gun dealers,· Clinton said. "Dealers whose guns most frequently wind up in criminals' hands will nbw be subject to intense scrutiny by ATF" -the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Clinton also released an ATF report documenting that a small number of gun dealers are responsible for putting a large number of guns in the hands of criminals. The study shows 1 percent of gun dealers accounts for 57 percent of guns that have been traced from use in a crime back to the point the gun was sold. MONDAY, FEBUARY 7, 2000 WORLD SPORTS HAIPER DEFIANT, 56 HURT IN AUSTRIA RIOTS: Austrian far-right leader Joerg Haider, known abroad mainly for remarks in the past that played down Nazi atrocities but for which he has later apologized, struck a defiant note on Saturday in the face of a barrage of foreign criticism and domestic riots after his Freedom Party formally joined conservatives in forming a new government. Haider shrugged off.steps taken by Austria's 14 European Union partners to isolate the country politically, noting that major EU policy required unani.mity in the bloc. Police told Reuters 43 police officers. 11 anti-rightist demonstrators and two bystanders were injured and 32 police vehicles damaged in the riots. which peaked with clashes in an elegant shopping district near the central city landmark of St. Stephen's cathedral. Severi arrests were made. GRIFFEY WANTS OUT OF SEATTLE AFTER RECEIVING DEATH THREAT: Ken Griffey Jr. says he received a death threat mailed from Seattle and that his career with the Mariners is all but finished. Speaking Thursday as he walked off the Poppy Hills course in the weatherabbreviated first round of the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, the Mariners All-Star center fielder said he received the letter at his home in Florida. "You might be able to control where you play. but you can't control what happens to your family. I can," said the letter, which was quoted in the Times. He said the letter arrived after Nov. 2. the day the Mariners announced his trade request. Since then, Griffey has said he wo4ld accept a trade only to Cincinnati. THE STRANGE MEETING WITH ELIAN: Something odd happened on Jan. 26 when Elian Gonzalez finally saw his two grandmothers in Miami. The reunion fell flat, and the grandmothers were bewildered by what they say was a disturbingly different 6-yearold boy than the one they knew in Cuba. Now the women are saying they believe Elian was drugged. The international Elian Gonzalez custody battle over Elian has led to bitter accusations by his relatives in Miami and his family in Cuba. But everyone agrees on one thing the center of attention during the visit was a small, fearful child. Everyone. however, has a different explanation for his behavior. After spending 90 minutes with the boy, Elian's grandmothers said they found a child they barely recognized. "He has always been a bit of a devil, always gett.ing into mischief. Full of fun. Playing tricks on his grandfather and his Uncle Tony,· paternal grandmother Mariela Quintana told NBC News. "He's now frightened and introverted, withdrawn and silent. He's not the grandson I knew.· RUSSIA, U.S. AT ODDS OVER OIL TANKER: In a conflict that worsened strains on U.S.-Russian relations, the U.S. Navy remained in control of a Russian ship on Thursday, which it believes to have been smuggling Iraqi oil in violation of United Nations sanctions. Moscow denied that the tanker, seized in the Persian Gulf, was carrying Iraqi oil and demanded the vessel's release. The Pentagon Thursday released overwhelming evidence that the Volga Nett 147 was smuggling oil. A U.S. Navy cruiser intercepted the Russian tanker outside the Persian Gulf, but during the capture, the Russians refused to obey orders to halt, so a heavily armed crew of Navy seals hit the deck from helicopters and took over the tanker at gunpoint. JAZ.Z HIT LOW NOTE- IT'S UGLY: The Jazz left their heart in Salt Lake City. Whether they will rediscover it any time soon, who knows? · 1n one of the most uninspired. effortless performances since their last six-game losing streak 17 years ago, the Jazz were humiliated by the Lakers on Friday nighi at the Staples Center. Final score: 11367. Coming off a draining, 102-99 loss to Milwaukee just 24 hours earlier at the Delta Center, Jazz Coach Jerry Sloan probably knew this game against Shaquille O'Neal and the Lakers would be difficult. But he couldn't have imagined this. LEISURE FRIENDS OF DAVE WILL BE SITTING IN ON 'LATE SHOW': Celebrity friends of David Letterman will be sitting in for the star as guest interviewers beginning Monday. the show's executive producer, Rob Burnett. told reporters on Friday. The show calls the celebrities "guest interviewers· rather than guest hosts, emphasizing that the celebrity "interviewer· will tape interviews with other Late Show regulars in which they will talk about their experiences on the show and with Dave. EASING THE CRUNCH IN COACH: American Airlines is holding a news conference Thursday with CEO Don Carty to announce changes that will ·revolutionize the travel experience· for domestic and coach passengers. Specifically, American plans to remove two rows of coach seats from each of its airplanes, systemwide. The result? Each coach passenger will gain 3 to 5 inches of space. 'STAR TREK'S' JAMES DOOHAN TO Bl: A DAD AGAIN AT 80: Actor James Doohan, best known as Scotty the engineer on the original Star Trek television series, will be a father again just weeks after his 80th birthday, his agent said on Friday. Wel)de Doohan, 43, is expected to give birth to the couple's third child , a girl, on April 1, according to the actor's agent, Steve Stevens. Doohan turns 80 March 3. · 1 guess he's still beaming it up," Stevens quipped. '. |