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Show " !MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1000 STATE SNOW FELL ON CEDAR: Cedar City and its surrounding Iron County cities were blanketed Friday by a snowstorm that dropped at least 15 inches of snow, and turned Interstate 15 into a ice-skating rink and converted city streets into a mess. Although no serious injuries were sustained, numerous single-car accidents were reported both Thursday night and Friday morning along 1-15. VVhile the snow made a mess of many things, it is welcomed by ski resorts. Brian Head is the first resort in the U.S. to open 100 percent. UTAH POWER DONATES LAND IN CEDAR CITY: Even though the temperature was chilling, a few dozen people attended a ceremony that officially donated land owned by Utah Power over to the Southern Wildlife Foundation, to be used for the rehabilitation of birds. The ceremony included a dedication to the birds by a Piute tribesman, along with a the presentation of a deed of the lahd to Martin Tyner, presidet of the foundation and owner of Tyner Pets in Cedar City. The ceremony was concluded with the release of a rehibilitated red-tailed hawk. LEAVITT REFUNDS $ 2,000 OLYMPIC DONATION: Gov. Mike Leavitt has refunded a $2,000 political contribution from Olympic organizers that jeopardized "the nonprofit status of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee. Leavitt said Wednesday he didn't hesitate to return the donation as soon as it came to his attention. The organizing committee made the contribution at Leavitt's 1997 Spring Gala and it went into his all-purpose · special projects fund. Leavitt typically transfers money from that account to his formal campaign account to fund reelection efforts. His annual balls have become major political fund-raisers. VVhen The Associated Press showed Olympic organizers a copy of a 1997 Leavitt campaign report showing the Olympic donation, they wasted little time asking for the money back. Brian Katz, associate general counsel for the Salt Lake Organizing Committee, notified Leavitt last Thursday about the donation. Leavitt's campaign wrote a check the next day. NATION BUSH GOES TO COURT TO HALT HAND BALLOT RECOUNTS IN FLORIDA: The Bush campaign on Saturday filed for a federal injunction in PAGE 9 UNIVERSITY JOURNAL FOCUS: THE WEEK THAT WAS Miami, Florida, to stop Democraticsupported hand recounts of presidential votes in southern Flocida. A U.S. District Court judge in Florida has scheduled a hearing for 9:30 a.m. EST on Monday to consider GOP presidential candidate George W. Bush's lawsuit seeking to halt the recounts in four south Florida counties. Meantlme, a recount began in Palm Beach County Saturday and another was to start tater in the day in Volusia County. Administration and the National Security Agency, the newspaper said. SPORTS WORLD CANADIAN WINS AMERICAN EXPRESS AS WOODS FADES: Clinging to a two-stroke lead, Mike Weir climbed the crest of the 17th fairway just in time to watch another horror show· unfold at Valderrama.There was a grimfaced Tiger Woods, stomping away from the small pond that not only swallowed up another seemingly perfect shot, but also his chances of becoming the first player in 50 years to win 10 times on the PGA Tour. With a deft par save from behind the green, the 30-year-old Canadian coasted home for a threeunder 69 and won the American Express Championship on Sunday, turning back Woods and a host of others to earn the $1 million prize. BARAK GOES TO WASHINGTON: The focus of the Middle East crisis moved to Washington on Sunday, as Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak arrived for talks on how to end more than six weeks of Israeli-Palestinian fighting. In the Mideast, clashes on Sunday claimed the life of one Palestinian in Gaza, raising the death toll to 207 people since violence broke out Sept. 28. Barak was traveling to the U.S. capital at the behest of U.S. President Bill Clinton, who met with Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat at the White House on Thursday. ELECTORAL COLLEGE MAY NOT NEED FLORIDA ELECTORS TO CHOOSE PRESIDENT: On December 18, electors from all 50 states are scheduled to pick the president. MOURNING An 1887 law fixes this as the date for BEGINS FOR electors to cast their ballots. Because ESTIMATED Florida's votes are still being counted and 170 KILLED IN given the possibility of legal challenges CABLE CAR blocking ballot certification, it is remotely FIRE: As possible that Florida may not appoint its distraught share of 25 electors by Dec. 18, the relatives gathered miles away from the scholars said. That means only 513 scene of the cable-car fire that killed members of the 538-strong Electoral about 170 people, plumes of smoke were College would be available to pick either still spewing from the mouth of the tunnel Democrat Al Gore or Republican George · where the carriages had caught .fire. The W. Bush to ·be the next president. If all majority of those killed were believed to 538 members voted, the winner would children and youths. The victims were need 270 votes to be named the next riding the cable car up Kitzsteinhorn president. But if only 513 electors were mountain to enjoy late autumn sunshine present, the requisite majority would be and balmy weather at the popular glacial reduced to 257, said Michael Glennon, a peak and ski resort. Others were on their constitutional scholar at the University of way to a snowboarding competition to California-Davis who has written a book mark the opening of the ski season. But on the Electoral College. as the car was pulled through the long tunnel that burrows into the mountain, DETAILS SUPPORT U.S. ROLE IN fire broke out, trapping the carriage KILLING OF COLOMBIAN about 600 metres inside the tunnel. COCAINE LORD: U.S. experts played SUSPECTS IN KUWAIT PLANNED an extensive role in funding and guiding TO HIT U.S. ARMY CAMP, the Colombian authorities who hunted AUTHORITIES SAY: Authorities have down and Killed cocaine lord Pablo recovered explosives that three Kuwaitis Escobar, according to an investigation by and a North African had planned to use The Philadelphia Inquirer. The in attacks on a U.S. Army camp and on newspaper, which begins publishing the the homes and cars of Western military results of a two-year investigation in personnel, an Interior Ministry official Sunday's editions, also said the said Saturday. According to the official, a Colombian police unit Search Bloc that prime target was Camp Doha, 14 miles worked with the Americans in the north of Kuwait City. U.S. forces have manhunt had links with vigilantes who assassinated 300 of Escobar's associates had prepositioned weapons in the camp since the end of the 1991 Gulf War that and relatives in the Medellin drug cartel. liberated Kuwait from a seven-month American involvement in the Escobar Iraqi occupation. The group intended fo operation was far more extensive than use its cache of 293 pounds of high previously acknowledged, the Inquirer explosives to bomb buildings where said. It included millions of dollars and the Western officers lived and to attack their use of elite U.S. units such as the Army's cars on the road, the official said, Delta Force and the Navy Seals as well insisting on anonymity. as the CIA, FBI, Drug Enforcement Anew lets people ~~~ ©?~~C!J'u' ~ you've • arrived. LEISURE NBC OUT TO EARLY LEAD IN SWEEPS COMPETITION: NBC won the first week of the November sweeps ·with the help of fictional President Josiah Bartlet and comic turns from George W. Bush and Al Gore. Bush and Gore appeared on the Saturday Night Live Presidential Bash on Sunday night, which drew 16 million viewers. That was enough to beat the season premiere of The X-Files on Fox, but they couldn't outpoll Regis Philbin. The West Wing, which chronicles the Bartle, administration, finished among the week's 10 most popular shows. A h~e selection of the outfit really ~~~ BIG 12, SEC TEAMS INCH CLOSER TO TITLE GAMES: No. 1 Oklahoma took a giant step toward its first trip to the Big 12 championship by rallying past No. 23 Texas A&M on the road. No. 4 Nebraska did not fare quite as well in its road test, falling to No. 16 Kansas State 29-28 in snowy Manhattan. The Huskers' BCS hopes were likely shot, while the Wildcats are one win from a virtual home-game rematch against the Sooners at Arrowhead Stadium . Elsewhere, upsets put two Big Ten teams' Rose Bowl hopes on hold, as Iowa shocked No. 12 Northwestern and Michigan State routed No. 9 Purdue. The Pac-10 seems much more intent on getting to Pasadena, with Oregon, Oregon State and Washington all improving to 9- 1. And in the SEC, Florida and Auburn took important steps toward the conference title. The Gators clinched the East by beating South Carolina, while Auburn overcame Georgia in overtime but still needs some help to get to Atlanta. ,. hottest clothes at incredible prices so yqu'II always arrive ,n stylel I BEST BRANDS · BEST PRICES Tra~~!~~~ A!~!~. OPEN LATE in Downtown Cedar City· .... - |