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Show !MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1000 STATE PAGE 11 UNIVERSITY JOURNAL FOCUS: THE WEEK THAT WAS and did not attempt to pull rank. Anderson said he was late for a meeting and was cited for going 5 miles per hour over the speed limit, although he acknowledged going faster than that. TEACHERS TO STAGE A ONEDAY WALKOUT: For the first time in more than a decade. a GORE ELECTION CHALLENGE majority of Utah's public school teachers . HEARD IN FLORIDA COURT: The will walk off the job Tuesday, protesting high-stakes trial of Democrat Al Gore's what they say is an inadequate plan for legal challenge to Florida's presidential increasing public-education funding. election tally opened on Saturday, with They hope to use the one-day disruption his attorneys pushing for a quick recount to educate Utahns about the need to of about 14,000 disputed ballots that come up w ith permanent ways to could decide the next occupant of the increase funding of public education, White House. An army of lawyers The walkout will affect most of Utah's representing Gore, Republican George 476,000-plus students in grades K-12. W. Bush, state and local officials and But more than 3,000 teachers, including Florida voter~ gathered in a cramped those in Utah's second-largest school third-floor courtroom of the Leon County district, will break ranks with the 19,000Courthouse. where more than 1.1 million member union and remain in their ballots from two counties are under classrooms. There are about 22,000 guard in storage vaults. Facing a Dec. teachers statewide. 12 deadline for selection of the state's presidential electors, Gore has UTAH'S OFFICIAL-ENGLISH challenged Florida's certification of Bush MEASURE IS BLOCKED: A judge on as the winner and hopes a speedy Friday blocked enforcement of a voterrecount of the 14 ,000 disputed ballots approved measure making English the will provide him the votes to overtake sole language of Utah's state Bush's 537-vote lead and claim the government. The law was to take ·effect White House. Monday, but state District Judge Ronald Nehring said serious constitutional STOCKS ROUT SPURS WORRIES issues had been raised. A hearing was ABOUT ECONOMY: Ferocious selling set for Dec. 14. The measure, approved on Wall Street this week has fanned overwhelmingly on Nov. 7, contains fears the long-running U.S. expansion exceptions for law enforcement or public could be in for a rough ride in coming safety needs, judicial proceedings and to months. A calmer mood took hold Friday promote tourism, including the Olympics, after a brutal previous session that saw which will be held here.in 2002. The the Nasdaq Composite Index plummet 4 measure was challenged by Salt Lake percent. Nasdaq staged its worst City's mayor and the Utah Hispanic performance since October 1987 during Chamber of Commerce, among others. November. Other major U:S. indexes have fallen too, but not as dramatically LAWSUIT AIMS TO STOP as the technology-heavy Nasdaq. TRIBUNE SALE: AT&T announced Private economists reckon upward of Friday it has agreed to sell The Salt $2.5 trillion in wealth has been' ripped Lake Fribune and its holding company, from the U.S. economy since March 10, Keams-Tribune, to Denver-based when the Nasdaq hit its high for the MediaNews Group, Inc. for an year. undisclosed price. Within hours, managers of The Salt Lake Tribune sued FORD RECALLS 876,QOO SUV'S: AT&T in Utah's federal court to block the The Ford Motor Co. is recalling 876,413 sale, charging the deal was illegal under Explorers and Mercury Mountaineers to the terms of their contracts with AT&T. A replace faulty parts on the suspension hearing on The Salt Lake Tribune system. Thousands of the Explorers, the Publishing Co.'s request for a temporary world's best-selling sport/utility vehicle, restraining order is scheduled Tuesday already are under recall in connection before U.S. District Judge Tena with the Firestone tire problem . The Campbell. The sale, purportedly in the recall affects 1995 through 1997 range of $185 million, already has been Explorers and 1997 Mountaineers, which approved by the AT&T board and the have sway bar links that can break off, Deseret News Publishing Co. The especially in cold climates. The sway bar Deseret News would be a 50-50 partner connects the left and right front wheel with MediaNews in the Newspaper control arms and helps control the pitch Agency Corp., which controls the of the vehicle in turns. The recall covers printing, distribution and advertising of 846,591 Explorers and 29,822 the two newspapers under a joint Mountaineers. The agency opened a operating agreement. preliminary investigation into the problem Sept. 20 after an agency POLICE CITE S.L. MAYOR FOR employee who was having handling SPEEDING: Mayor Rocky Anderson problems with his vehicle discovered a who has asked city officers to crack broken link. The employee's dealer told down on speeders - was stopped and him that h·e had sold many replacement cited for speeding Tuesday morning in links to other drivers with similar downtown Salt Lake City. Salt Lake City problems. police Capt. Scott Atkinson said the mayor exceeded the posted speed limit MORE ELECTION CRAZINESS: An of 25 mph in a construction zone at 400 Atlanta Journal- Constitution database South and 600 East. Atkinson said he match proved that 5,412 dead did not know, however, how fast Georgians had voted since 1980, with Anderson was going when he was 15,000 more potentials this year. Tom stopped at 8:30 a.m. The mayor, Wesson, an Anglo running for constable Atkinson said, admitted he was speeding in Dallas, lost even though he had given NATION himself an edge by renaming himself "Tomas Eduardo Wesson." To comply with residency requirements, a sctiool board candidate in Miami tried to claim he lived in a 9-by-11-foot storage shed on his father's property, but a judge dropped him from the ballot. WORLD TWO PALESTINIANS KILLED IN MIDEAST VIOLENCE: Two Palestinians were killed in separate incidents in the West Bank and Gaza on Saturday, marring a relatively calm day in a region that has been battered by more than two months of violence. Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian man near the West Bank town of Ramallah. The Israeli Army said it killed the man when he brandished a gun at Ayosh Junction. But the Palestinian Red Crescent Society said the man was a 26-year-old electrician holding a drill while working at the window of a damaged building. Another Palestinian man was killed in Gaza. but details of his death are unclear. CHINESE MALL COLLAPSES, SCORES FEARED DEAD: More than 100 people were feared dead on · Saturday after a shopping mall in southeast China collapsed into a heap of rubble. Officials in Dongguan gave up hope on Saturday (TIOrning of finding anyone alive in the field of bricks where the mall had stood less than 24 hours· earlier. State television put the official toll at eight dead and 32 injured in the latest accident in a construction industry plagued by shoddy work. Workers illegally adding second and third stories to the one- story privately owned shopping center noticed cracks in the building minutes before ir collapsed.The mall was a popular shopping destination an hour's drive from Hong Kong. PAKISTAN JOINS INDIA IN KASHMIRI CEASE-FIRE: Pakistan announced on Saturday a cease-fire along the Line of Control separating Pakistani and Indian-controlled Kashmir, and proposed three-way talks between India , Pakistan and Kashmiri leaders in a search for peace in the disputed region. Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee called a cease-fire for the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, ordering the army to halt all offensive operations and.fire only in self-defense in Kashmir, Hindu-dominated India's only Muslim majority state. That cease~ fire began on Tuesday, but Kashmiri militants rejected it and the fighting continued . At least 15 people have been killed since the Indian cease-fire went into effect. SPORTS OKLAHOMA NO. 1 HEADING INTO ORANGE BOWL: Oklahoma is back in familiar territory - headed to the Orange Bowl with the No. 1 ranking in The Associated Press' final regularseason poll. With a 27-24 victory over Kansas State in the Big 12 Conference title game Saturday night, the Sooners · (12-0) take a perfect record into their Orange Bowl matchup against No. 3 Florida State (11-1) on Jan. 3. Big East Conference champion Miami (10-1) remained No. 2. Florida State (11-1 ), the Atlantic Coast Conference winner, was third. Washington (10-1 ), the Pac-10 Conference champions headed to the Rose Bowl to play Purdue, remained No. 4 in the AP poll , followed by No. 5 Oregon State (10-1), No. 6 Virginia Tech (10-1 ), No. 7 Florida, No. 8 Oregon (92), No. 9 Nebraska (9-2) and No. 10 Notre Dame (9-2). Kansas State {10-3), fell three spots to No. 11 , followed by No. 12 Texas, No. 13 TCU , No. 14 Purdue, No. 15 Georgia Tech, No. 16 Clemson, No. 17 Michigan, No. 18 Northwestern, No . 19 Ohio State and No. 20 Auburn. Tl:le Tigers {9-3) dropped two spots after their loss to the Gators. Tennessee was No. 21 , followed by No. 22 Louisville, No. 23 Colorado State, No. 24 Georgia and No. 25 Toledo. DENVER REPORT SAYS NEAGLE WILL BE A ROCKIE: It appears Denny Neagle is about to go from a pitcher's dream team to a nightmarish ballpark. The Rocky Mountain News reported Sunday that Neagle is set to accept a five-year, $51 million contract to become a member of the Colorado Rockies. Apparently. all that stands between Neagle signing with the team is him passing an orthopedic examination and the approval of certain language within the contract. Although Neagle's agent, Barry Meister, told the paper that · a deal has not been done,· several reports out of New York on Saturday indicated that the New York Mets have been told that Neagle would sign with the Rockies. LEISURE SMASHING PUMPKINS BID FAREWELL: The Smashing Pumpkins have come full circle, playing a farewell concert in Chicago at the intimate venue where they first performed as a band 13 years ago. With a maximum capacity of 1,100, tickets for the band's Saturday night finale at the Metro sold out in under 20 minutes on October 21 . Fans called from almost every continent for a shot at one of the hottest tickets of the year. Those who weren't able to purchase tickets first hand were reportedly paying as much as $1,000 to see one of the definitive rock bands of the iast decade one last time. ABC,NBCSHARENOVEMBER SWEEPS VICTORY: The battle of the networks is over. The dust has settled and it looks like.·.. a tie. November sweeps, the month when TV networks battle to attra~t the most viewers, ended in a draw for NBC and ABC. ABC won the highest number of total viewers for the month, but NBC attracted the most viewers in that all-important 18-49 age group. ABC averaged 14 million viewers each night from November 2 to November 29. NBC came ih second with 13.78 million. CBS trailed with 12.04 million viewers per night. ' I• |