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Show UNIVERSITY JOURNAL FOCUS: THE WEEK THAT WAS !PAGE 6 STATE ST RAY MISSILE HITS DESERT: An Air Force cruise missile flew out of control Thursday morning and slammed into the ground near the Goshute Indian Reservation in remote Tooele County. No one was injured in the 11 : 16 a.m. crash on isolated land administered by the Bureau of Land Management, said Hill Air Force Base Tech. Sgt. Timothy Trager. There was minimal damage to the land, he said . The 20-foot-long cruise missile had been dropped from a B-52 bomber that had originally taken off from Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana. The missile was being tracked by two F-15 chase planes and an Airborne Range Instrumented Aircraft (ARIA) that keeps the missile in the plane's radar scope, before it inexplicably crashed, said Staff Sgt. Sonja Whittington, spokeswoman for the 388th Fighter Wing at Hill Air Force Base. MAN BRINGS WEAPON TO COURT SENTENCING: A man in court on a weapons violation will likely face a stiffer penalty for bringing another weapon to his sentencing. Billy Joe McGahee, 37, of Ogden, was before 2nd District Court Judge Mike Glasmann Wednesday to be sentenced for a previous conviction of carrying a concealed weapon. McGahee brought a walking stick to court because he was suffering from a leg injury. It passed the security check at the Weber CoLJnty Courthouse. When Glasmann gave him 180 days, a court clerk said McGahee became upset. "Then he took the cane away from him and got to looking at it," the clerk said. The bailiff then discovered that the 'cane was really a concealed sword with an 18-inch steel blade. McGahee was arraigned Thursday on a charge of possession of a weapon in a correctional facility, a second degree felony. . UTAHN HELPS SUNDANCE CINDERELLA MAKE IT TO OSCAR'S BALL: A case of injustice in New York could turn into a Cinderella story at Sunday night's Oscar ceremony-with a Park City resident providing the ball gown. This week, New York Corrections officials granted a request to let Tyrene Manson, now on a work-release program after a 1996 conviction for dealing crack cocaine, attend the Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles-where the movie about her, On the Ropes, is nominated for B~st Documentary Feature. · The movie, which won a special jury prize at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, follows three young boxers training in Brooklyn's Bed-Stuy Boxing Center. NATION US AIRWAYS =----,.;r,,a STRIKE AND \.~UliiPD~ SHUTDOWN AVERTED: US Airways passengers i;__.;_-.,_...,.. averted travel hassles this weekend after the airline and the union representing its flight atte11dants reached a tentative contract deal early Saturday, heading off a strike and a threatened shutdown of the airline. Passengers were told they should not encounter any delays because of the talks, according to a statement issued by airline officials on Saturday. The contract proposal includes an 11 percent pay raise over 42 months. Five percent of the pay raise would come as a bonus when the contract is signed, according to Richard Delgadillo, president of Local 40 of the flight attendants' union. · The company said it would also provide flight attendants with holiday pay for three holidays. CONGRESS EYES GAS-PRICE RELIEF: Struggling ~o find a political answer to rising oil prices, Senate Republican leaders are pushing for a temporary rollback of federal gasoline taxes as their House counterparts draft longer-term tax breaks intended to boost domestic production. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, RMiss., introduced a pair of gas-tax bills this week. One would roll back until January the 4.3-cents-a-gallon increase imposed in 1993. The other would enact a temporary ·tax holiday· and suspend the 18.4-cents-per-gallon federal gas tax if pump prices top $2 a gallon this year. House Republicans, meanwhile, already have backed away from plans to reduce gas taxes as a quick way of easing the price crunch. GOP opponents said there were no guarantees the meager relief would be passed on to customers and eliminating the tax would take billions of dollars from critical road and bridge projects. SuperLotto jackpot. · The 24-year-old single mother plans to go back to work. WORLD DOOMSDAY CULT DEATHS NOW CALLED MASS MURDER: The strangled and dismembered bodies of 153 people, including 59 children, were found Friday buried in the dirt floor of an abandoned house-the second horrific discovery linked to a Ugandan doomsday cult. The house was 20 miles away from the cult's compound , where at least 330 members died in a fire March 17 in a makeshift church-deaths authorities first believed were part of a mass suicide. Now with the latest discovery at one of four sites being investigated by police, authorities are treating all the deaths as homicides. And they say some of the cult's leaders may have escaped. ALLEGED TERRORIST OSAMA BIN LADEN SUFFERING ILL HEALTH: Alleged terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden appeared weak and gaunt at a meeting of followers to discuss President Clinton's visit to Pakistan, an Afghan witness says, and a Western intelligence official reports bin . Laden is seriously ill with kidney and liver disease. Bin Laden has kidney failure and "his liver is going," the official said. He said bin Laden's followers are trying to find a kidney dialysis machine. Afghanistan's ruling Taliban militia , however, insist bin Laden is fine. Bin Laden, a Saudi exile accused by the United States of organizing the deadly 1998 attacks on the U.S. embassies in Keny~ and Tanzania, was HACKERS ARRESTED FOR seen in ill health March 17 with 100 CREDIT-I NFORM ATION followers in a remote mountain valley in. T HEFT:Two 18-year-old boys were arrested in Britain on charges of breaking Afghanistan's eastern Laghman province, said an Afghan who attended into e-commerce Internet sites in five the meeting . countries, stealing information on more than 26,000 credit card accounts and END-OF-SCHOOL CELEBRATION posting some of it on the Web, the FBI T ERMINATES IN CHAOS: A dance said Friday. hall crowded with celebrating students Many of the credit cards belonged to erupted into chaos Friday when someone U.S. citizens, said Michael Vatis, head of threw a tear-gas canister into the room, the FBl's National lnfrasjructure killing 13 youths and injuring 44. Protection Center. About 600 students were at an The pair was arrested in connection afternoon party at the Throb Nightclub in with intrusions into nine e-commerce suburban Durban when tear gas Web sites in the United States, Canada, suddenly filled the room, causing Thailand, Japan and the United Kingdom students to rush out in panic, said fire over the past several months, he added. department spokesman Jay Kanniappen. The two, whose names were withheld Authorities have not released details under British law, were arrested at their on how the 13 died. KwaZulu-Natal home Thursday by the Dyfed-Powys police spokesman Bala Naidoo said a Police Service, FBI spokeswoman brick wall collapsed during the chaos. Debbie Weierman said. The DyfedPolice suspect that one of the youths Powys Police said the men were was responsibte for releasing the tear arrested in Clynderwen in southwest gas, he said. Wales and released on police bail after being questioned. UNIVERSITY USES BACKSTREET The intrusions, conducted under the BOYS TO 'TORTURE' STUDENTS: screen name "Curador,• could result in The music of the Backstreet Boys and losses of more than three million dollars, other pop groups are being used by • the FBI estimated. University of Toronto campus police to "torture· students into ending a sit-in in CHILD'S LOAN LEADS TO LOTTO the president's office. JACKPO'r:You can bet that 9-year-old For six days, a group of students has Jessica Cervantes is going to get a lot of occupied the offices of vacationing birthday presents. university president Robert Prichard and Her mother, Renee Cervantes, other administrative staff, demanding a borrowed five dollars of birthday money campus-wide ban of the sale of clothing from her daughter to enter the lottery made in Third World sweatshops. Of the Wednesday night. 20 students who started the sit-in, eight It paid off with a $35 million dollar MONDAY, MARCH 27, 2000 were left Wednesday. University shops buy clothing from China and Mexico, but the protesters, who call themselves Students Against Sweatshops, have no definitive evidence that any of the logo clothing sold on campus is produced by sweatshop labor. They argue, however, that without a code of conduct. there is no proof of where the clothing is made. SPORTS FINALLY FOUR: Unlikely? Definitely. Undeserving? Hardly. At first blush , the Final Four belongs to a motley crew of overachievers, but upon reflection it may represent the true spirit of the event. North Carolina, lucky to even be in the field, beat Tulsa 59-55 to reach its record-tying 15th Final Four. Florida, alive only because of a first-round buzzer-beater, beat Oklahoma State 77-65. The other semi gives Wisconsin, in its first Final Four since 1941 , a fourth chance to beat Michigan State this season. The Final Four will be held at the RCA Dome in Indianapolis, Ind. The National Semifinals begin Saturday with Michigan State vs. Wisconsin, 5:42 p.m. ET and North Carolina vs. Florida, 30 minutes after first game. The National Championship will be held Monday, April 3 at 9:18 p.m. ET. LEISURE THE72NDANNUALACADAMY AWARDS RESULTS: . BEST PICTURE: American Beauty BEST ACTOR: Kevin Spacey, American Beauty BEST ACTRESS: Hilary Swank, Boys Don't Cry BEST DIRECTOR: Sam Mendes, American Beauty BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Michael Caine, The Cider House Rules . \ • BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Angelina Jolie, Girl, Interrupted BEST ORIGINAL SONG: "You'll Be in My Heart·, Phil Collins, Tarzan BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: John Corig1iano, The Red Violin American Beauty was the top Oscar winner with five awards for Best Picture, Director, Actor, Original Screenplay and Cinematography. -The Matrix was the second highest honored movie with four awards for Best Film Editing, Sound, Sound Effects Editing and Visual Effects. |