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Show ., !MONDAY, APRIL 10, 2000 STATE COP SHOT IN BRAWL WITH SUSPECT: A rookie police officer narrowly escaped fatal injury on Salt Lake City's east bench Friday when a fleeing suspected burglar pulled a gun during a roadside brawt and shot the officer in the cheek, shattering his teeth. Travis Morgan-two weeks out of Utah's police academy-is recovering at University Hospital in stable condition. The bullet fragmented on impact with Morgan's teeth. Morgan, 28, was in field training with veteran patrol officer Lee Dobrowolski, when the pair were called to a 6:44 a.m. burglary in progress at 2020 E. Stratford Dr. KILLER SEEKS TO HASTEN DATE WITH FIRING SQUAD: Eager for a speedy rendezvous with a firing squad, condemned serial killer Roberto Arguelles continues to voice frustration about the slow pace of justice. Three reports on Arguelles' mental competency were supposed to be ready Friday for 3rd District Judge David Young's perusal, but one psychiatrist needed 'more time. Preliminary reports indicate Arguelles i~ competent, but another hearing was set for May 19, so the judge can review the psychologists' recommendations. The admitted killer of three teen-age girls and one woman pleaded guilty to four counts of capital murder in 1997 and has demanded to face his executioners without a hood . Utah is the only state in the nation in which a condemned killer can choose to be shot to death. POLICE PROBE CAUSE OF BABY'S FATAL INJURIES AT DAY-CARE CENTER: Seconds after she discovered a severely injured infant lying motionless and barely breathing on the floor of her South Weber day-care center, Geri Daines dialed 911 and begged for help. Daines discovered the injuries to the baby on March 29. The boy-whose name police have not released-died Tuesday night at Primary Children's Medical I Center. Daines told investigators the baby was sleeping, when up to three children-all 4 I and under-pulled the infant off the bed, said Davis County sheriffs Lt. Dan Horton. Initial interviews with Daines and the three small children corroborate the story, but police still are trying to determine exactly when the injuries occurred. KING HOLIDAY BECOMES LAW I N UTAH: Pledging to promote the ideals of Martin Luther King Jr., Gov. Mike Leavitt signed into law a bill naming the third . Monday of January after the slain civil rights leader. Utah has celebrated Human Rights Day since 1986, when the federal government decided to celebrate a King holiday. The bill signed Thursday did not pass without I some controversy. Rep. Duane Bourdeaux, Utah's only black legislator, introduced the bill this session, but it was defeated 5-4 in committee. It was resurrected after two absent legislators were summoned to overturn the vote and get the bill to the floor. q_qryi~_l?~ma~e~s .?rg~~d.th?!! !~~ S!c!t~- PAGE 15 UNIVERSITY JOURNAL FOCUS: THE WEEK THAT WAS had not recognized individuals by name in the past and that the Human Rights Day designator was more broad-reaching and fair. NATION MIAMI JURY AWARDS NEARLY $13 MILLION IN TOBACCO LAWSUIT: A jury of four men and two women awarded compensatory damages of nearly $13 million Friday to three Florida smokers in a suit that accused the tobacco industry of knowingly misleading its customers about a dangerous product. However, the jury, which deliberated for 17 hours over three days, also ruled that one of the plaintiffs should not collect his award because a four-year statute of limitations had expired on his claim. Still to come-and of bigger concern to the tobacco industry and its stockholders is the jury's punitive damage award, which most analysts predict could amount to many billions of dollars-a threat that has depressed the value of tobacco stocks in recent months. SENATE OKS $1.83 TRILLION BUDGET FOR NEXT YEAR: A divided Senate voted its approval Friday for a $1 .83 trillion budget for next year. moving lawmakers a step closer to a campaign season full of battles with President Clinton over spending and taxes. After four days of debate that included roll call .votes just Friday on 13 amendments, the Republican-written package was approved by a near party line 51-45. Since the House approved a similar budget two weeks ago, the GOP goal is for Congress to pass a compromise measure by next Friday, in time for lawmakers' spring recess. In Friday's most notable Democrat victory, senators voted 51-49 to chip $2.7 billion out of the Republicans' five-year, $150 bilHon tax cut to use for Pell college grants for low-income students. OKLAHOMA SCHOOL ENDS DANCING BAN: Through 14 presidents, there was absolutely no foxtrotting or twisting at Graham High School , and no disco or moonwalking. Generation after generation had mistakenly believed the deed for the land on which the school stands contained a ban on dancing. No one really knew for sure why dancing was ban,:ied, but no one seemed to question it. Until this year. A group of juniors petitioned for a prom, faculty'and local clergy approved, and Graham Superintendent Dusty Chancey even located the original deed-there was no ban after all. For the first time in its 85-year history, tiny Grahcim High dressed itself for a dance Friday, with more than 100 yards of gossamer, 100 spray-painted stars, and 20 strips of lights dangling over the basketball court. hotel room by the FBI and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, said Charles Mandigo, the FBl's special agent in charge in Seattle. An arrest warrant filed in federal court in Tacoma. Wash., alleges that Smith tried to take documents and disks from an officer's cabin aboard the ship to which he was assigned, the Kilauea, while at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. WORLD CUBAN AMERICANS RESIGNED TO LOSS IN ELIAN SAGA: With the four-month saga of Cuban castaway Elian Gonzalez apparently heading toward a reunion of Juan Gonzalez, father and child, Elian's father Miami Cuban exiles expressed anger and resignation on Saturday that their battle seemed lost. As U.S. authorities made plans to turn the 6-year-old over to his surviving parent as early as next week-ending a bitter family custody dispute that turned into a battle between Cuban President Fidel Castro and his anti-communist Miami foes-a handful of disheartened protesters maintained a waning vigil in Miami's Little Havana. BARAK TO MEET CLINTON FOR PEACE TALKS UPDATE: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and President Clinton will meet in Washington next week to discuss ways to speed up peace negotiations with the Palestinians, Barak's office said on Saturday. It said Barak would also raise with Clinton in their meeting on Tuesday, the upcoming Israeli troops withdrawal from south Lebanon which Barak has promised to implement by July. Israel has been trying to rally international support for the Lebanon pullout which it says will be the implementation of United Nations resolutions. BOSNIANS HOLD CRUCIAL VOTE: Bosnian voters choose 3,300 local officials Saturday in an election whose outcome may determine whether the United States and Europe remain willing to continue efforts to rebuild the ethnically divided nation. International Officials who administer the country under the 1995 Dayton Peace Accords have indicated that support for Bosnia may evaporate if Muslim, Serb and Croat-based parties that led the country into war in 1992 retain their hold on power. More than 2.5 million of Bosnia's 4.3 million people are registered to vote in the second elections for mayors and local councils to be held since the Dayton agreement ended 3112 years of ethnic war. Since then, however, Bosnians have generally supported Muslim. Serb and Croat parties opposed to a multiethnic society. PENTAGON WORKER CHARGED This time, international backers who AS SPY:A civilian worker for the have provided peacekeepers and $5.1 Defense Department was arrested Friday billion for Bosnian peace since Dayton nfght in San Diego and accused of hope that voters will choose candidates stealing documents and computer disks willing to implement the treaty's from a Navy ship in Bremerton, Wash. provisions, including the right of all Timothy Steven Smith, 37, was refugees to return to their prewar homes .~f"!'ested w\tho~t-incideQt in ~is. S~n Di~g~ . r~g~rdless of their ethnicity. SPORTS SOSA UPSTAGES GRIFFEY, CUBS POUND REDS: Sammy Sosa upstaged a struggling Ken Griffey Jr. with a long home run as the Chicago Cubs cruised to a 10-6 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Friday. Sosa followed Ricky Gutierrez's oneout first-inning single by launching Pete Harnisch's 2-0 pitch over the center-field fence. The monster blast snapped an Ofor-12 slump and was Sosa's second homer of the season. He added a sacrifice fly in the fourth inning to push the lead to 6-2. METS FANS CHARGED UP ABOUT ROCKER: Usually, batteries at the ballpark refer to the pitchers and catchers. At Shea Stadium , they refer to John Rocker's reception. The Atlanta reliever had better run John Rocker fast if he pitches for the Braves when they return to Shea Stadium in June Photocopied flyers were passed out at the ballpark Saturday advertising: •John Rocker Battery Day· for Atlanta's first game in New York this year against the Mets. One was in the Mets' clubhouse before Saturday's game against Los Angeles. "Friday, June 30th is John Rocker Day," the flyer said, referring to the second night of a four-game series between the Braves and Mets. "All fans attending the game will get New York Mets battery (sic) to be thrown to Mr. Rocker. Batteries are provided by the' No. 7 train riders, so buy your ticket early." LEISURE HALLE BERRY PLEADS INNOCENT TO ACCIDENT CHARGE: Actress Halle Berry on Friday pleaded not guilty through her lawyer to a charge of leaving the scene of an accident in which she and the driver of the other car were both injured. It is against the law in California to leave. the scene of an acci~ent involving injury before police arrive. The charge is a misdemeanor and Berry was not required to be in Beverly Hills Municipal Court for the arraignment. No trial date was set. BACHARACH FRACTURES SHOULDER: Burt Bacharach has postponed his concert tour until he recovers from a fractured left shoulder. The 71-year-old entertainer injured · himself Wednesday when he missed a step while rehe8rsing at the Indiana Roof Ballroom, his publicist said. He flew home to Los Angeles and canceled concerts scheduled for this weekend in Milwaukee. A pop star in the '60s, Bacharach has been enjoying renewed popularity after his music was featured in the soundtracks of My Best Friend's Wedding and Austin Powers, lntemational Man of M;:stery. . ... I' |