OCR Text |
Show ,,. UNIVERSITY JOURNAL FOCUS: THE WEEK THAT WAS STATE He was arrested and is being held in the county jail on an outstanding warrant for two third-degree felony charges of distribution of a controlled substance. BI LL COSBY . V I SITS SALT LAKE CI TY TO FET E J ELL-0 V ICTORY: After almost two years in second place behind Iowa. Utah once again ASHCROFT Fl NALLY SWORN I N AS ATTORNEY GENERAL: The eats more Jell-0 per Bill Cosby capita than any other Senate vote on former Missouri Sen. state in the nation . Bill Cosby, the Jelt-0 John Ashcroft became official Thursday hawker for 26 years, came to Salt Lake on afternoon when Sen. Joseph Biden, DWednesday to congradulate the state for Delaware, returned to Washington from redeeming the title . Cosby pointed to attending a funeral to cast a late 'no' vote Utah's slew of children as the obvious after a roll call that lasted about an hour. reason for its Jell-0 dominance. "I'm He started his first working day as proud. not because you are number one attorney general of the United States on in consuming gelatin but because you are Friday. the number one family state," he said. Ashcroft issued a written statement just "You take your children with you when minutes before arriving at tt,e high court you go places. You cook for them. Feed for his swearing-in. He thanked Bush and them . Put them to sleep. Wake them up. · his former colleagues in the Senate, and And talk to them." sought to assure the public that he would run a tight ship . CEDAR CITY WOMAN FOUND DEAD: The Iron County Sheriffs Office is CLINTONS WILL investigating the probable murder of a 36PAY FOR GIFTS RECE.I VED year-old woman whose body was found with multiple gunshot wounds partially DURING buried under snow in a remote desert PRESIDENCY: area 13 miles northwest of Cedar City . Former president Bill The body of Cynthia Boggs was found Clinton and his wife, Wednesday afternoon by a D1vision of u:s. Sen. Hillary Wi ldlife Resources worker who saw part Clinton. announced of it sticking above some snow that had Friday they will pay . more than $85,000 for The Clmtons been "kicked" oyer it. Her death is believed to be connected gifts given to the first family during the with a fire.that destroyed a mobile home president's last year in office "to eliminate Tuesday night in Cedar City, where she even the slightest question" of lived with her 35-year-old husband , John impropriety. W. Boggs. •As have other Presidents and their NATION families before us, we received gifts over the course of our eight years in the White House and followed all of the gift rules.· An aide to Sen . Clinton said the decision to reimburse the gift-givers was part of a concerted effort to deflect a raft of bad publicity following_ the Clintons' departure from the White House January 20. WORLD MEXICO CRACKS DOWN ON CUSTOMS: Citing widespread corruption, inefficiency and apathy on the border, Mexico's new customs administration said Thursday it is firing nearly all of the agency's upper management in a top-to-bottom overhaul. The action comes on the heels of President Vicente Fox's nationwide crusade against corruption. drug smuggling and organized crime- an effort that has blown up in the face of previous administrations that tried it. Customs director Jose Guzman. who took over the agency in December. fired 43 of the 47 supervisors around the country after finding extensive "deterioration· in offices in the border cities of Matamoros. Reynosa, Ciudad Juarez.and Tijuana , as well as in the port cities of Manzanilla and Veracruz . customs officials said Thursday. EAST TIMOR FINALLY GOVERNMENT REFORM: After resisting Indonesia's military occupation for 24 years. East Tlmor's scrappy guerrilla force was transformed Thursday into the core of a new national army. The former rebels lowered_their guerrilla PAGE 9 flag and replaced it with the blue-andwhite banner of the United Nations, which will oversee their transition . U.N. administrator Sergio Viera de Mello appointed Taur Matan Ruak as commander in chief of the new East Tlmor Defense Force . In August. 1999, a U.N.-sponsored referendum ended Indonesian rule ..The independence vote sparked massive violence by militias backed by the Indonesian army, ending only with the arrival of international peacekeepers. Almost 8,000 U.N. troops are keeping peace in the region . SPORTS YANKEES OFFER JETER A HANDSOME REWARD: Derek Jeter and the New York Yankees hope to agree by next week to a contract nine or 10 years long worth an average of $18 million to $19 million per season . They have narrowed their 'differences in recent days, and one baseball official with knowledge of the talks said , speaking on the condition he not be identified, an agreement was likely within a few days. At that price, the ·contract would total $162 million lo $190 million , which would · be the second-highest in sports history. BRUINS TOPPLE STANFORD: For the second straight season, UCLA went to Stanford and beat the No. 1 Cardinalthis lime, on Saturday, defeating the nation's last unbeaten team . The Bruins rode a career-high 22-point perfromance by Billy Knight to the win 79-73 . UCLA is now ~ 3-6 while the Cardinal fall to 20-1. "I thought financial security was something I'd work on after graduation. That's all changed now." NOW HIRING FOR SUMMER 2001 For more information, call 800-933-2039, exL 216 or visit our website at www.eclnet.com Join us for an Information Meeting. ~very 1st and 3rd Wednesday 6:00 PM Hunter Building Sage Valley Room # 101 "Working/or Eclipse this last summer was the greatest opportunity I have ever had During the 11 weeks that I worked f or eclipse I earned more money and learned more about dealing with people than with all my previous j obs combined. The training I receivedfrom Eclipse wi{/ help me lo be successful fo r the rest of my life." - Spencer Woolston $30,274 Edi11se Marketing Real People, Real Experience, Real Moneyl . 1• |