Show : Ebt A2 July 27 2004 TUESDAY Cala Eribunt Lt M e TED LaT1 I J 4T-N)I- (DEr-"1-- ! 6-1- r 1 H 1m - Compiled from Tribune news services by Rick Rosetta di cc RUSSIA GRABBING THE HEADLINES -- Putin signs law to increase punishments for terrorists it moscow 4 100--s v!Y' 1 )90-1- 0 t741- : : ' !r'N1-- °t - ''' h --- Ai 4 'Iv ! s - 4(11-7e- !4Ye-- '' 'K: lit ! !' 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polls the first In which voters in the world's most populous Muslim nation chose their president directly Megawatt was second with 266 percent ahead of another military general Wiranto who garnered 222 percent With no candidate gaining the simple majority needed to win the presidency outright Megawatt and Yudhoyono the will face a run-of- f top two gy with y vote-getter- s ballot Sept 20 ITALY Spain bombing mastermind says blasts lesson to Europe' Rom — An Egyptian suspected of a mastermind of the Madrid train being bombings said in secretly recorded conversations that the March 1 1 attacks will teach a "htson to Eurepe" that it must distance itself from the United States an Italian news agency said Monday The suspect Babel Osman Ahmed also described the government of Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi who sent troops to Iraq as dictatorial and said he hoped Italy would have a "disaster" like the one that hit Spain according to the ANSA news agency The conversations were recorded June 5 two days before Osman Ahmed was arrested in Milan the news agency said lie was speaking to a Palestinian who was picked up with him Yahla Payumi and ta a third man ANSA identified as an Egyptian aria!! takatibunt hiablikited April 15 Ilf71 Ptibbithed daily Ind SubdaY by the MIA iaSevati Comp 42 SiJuth Lake City Utah Sill Periodicals Main St Num hid al Salt lakt City Utah POST MAScEll Send altdom changrs to The Salt lake Tribune m th &Ism address : se ifs t ere ts the prophets" Aman said "You can get to see the light of God in the moun- tains" mountaineering is a Before this week there had been 189 holy job The mountaineers and over 50 deaths — summits of descents of the about half they are the prophets You can mountain during That makes ratio of faget to see the light of God in talities to successful summits about 27 percent the mountains" 2000 sumEverest has had ISLAMABAD Pakistan — It's not quite as high as Mount Everest but it's been about three times as dangerous to conquer And on Monday an Italian marked the 50th anniversary of his gandfather's first successful climb of by summiting the mountain Italians Lino Lacedelli and Achille the Compagnoni first scaled mountain on world's second-highes- t July 31 1954 Compagnoni's grandson Michele reached the summit along with four other climbers Four other people from a Spanish team — Including Edume Pasaban the sixtli woman ever — also summited Monday according to Naiknam Karim of Adventure Tours Pakistan They were the first climbers to reach the top of K-- in three years Pakistan kicked off its three-weecelebration of the K-- Golden Jubilee earlier this month with an opening ceremony in Islamabad Lacedelli now 78 trekked back to K-- base camp for a ceremony and banquet but has since headed back to Italy K-- 2 K-2- nearly mits with about 180 deaths a fatality ratio of about 9 percent Nepal's Annapurna the world's deadliest mountain has had 130 successful summits and 53 deaths giving it a summit to fatality ratio of about 41 percent This year K-- already has been struck by tragedy In June three South Koreans climbers died in an avalanche and five Pakistani porters drowned while crossing a river In honor of the anniversary and to encourage more people to attempt K-— particularly foreigners — fees for Climbing the mountain have been cut in half to $6000 per team Climbing Abbas said is a positive way for Pakistan to improve relations with the rest of the world "It helps us to recognize a common bond" he said ASHRAF AMAN First Pakistani to climb 1(2 Over 1350 trekkers from 22 countries have come for the festivities Secof Tourism Jail Abbas said retary Nestled in the northern regions of Pakistan home to five of the world's 14 tallest peaks K-- is so remote it is not visible from any inhabited place It takes four or five days of hiking or a helicopter flight to get to base camp The mountain's seclusion is part of its allure according to Ashraf Aman who in 1977 became the first Pakistani to climb K-- "This mountaineering is a holy job The mountaineers they are 2 2 2 2 sp sa 1 B1 I ar ar te w ddi m sz Si fr g tt f longer together reports MSNcom Hilton hotel The heiressreality TV star and Carter had dated for seven month It was Hilton who ended the romantic relationship said her publicist Gina Hoffman "She's concentrating on her work" Hoffman said Carter 24 said he feels good de"This is the spite the break-utime of my life" he said "I'm back in the studio ready to go on tour with the guys" He added: "I want to be free to date other people and I got tired of all the rumors" of trouble in their relationship p NEWS OF THE WEIRD ' Least competent people: Tim Ekelman 33 was hospitalized in Hamilton Ontario in 1998 with a collapsed lung a sliced throat and voice-bodamage after he believing there was nothing to it attempted to swallow a friend's 40- inch-lonsword (A professional sword swallower interviewed by the Hamilton Spectator said he would never stick a sword down his throat without first dulling the edges) Said Ekehnan's girlfriend "I love him with all my heart but what a jerk" x g I I FLORIDA Man who killed escaped tiger says he's tired of being labeled — The Florida LOXAHATCHEE eswildlife officer who shot a to death for Monday tiger pleaded cape4 people to stop calling him an "animal d murderer" Jesse Curtis Lee 24 was Identified for the first time as the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officer who shot the big cat twice in the head on July 13 following a search The commission released its own review of the incident concluding that Lee used sound Judgment and complied with the agency's guidelines when he shot the Bengal-Siberiatiger called Bobo The report said officers had four separate encounters with the cat trying each time to return it safely to its owner Steve Sipek an actor who played Tarzan In decades ago MONTANA Boys accused of plotting IA) hurt girl have case tossed BILLINGS — A Judge dismissed charges against two boys accused of plotting to use a knife and gun brought to school to hurt a girl who teased and kicked one of them In rulings made public Monday Judge Joe Hegel also ordered the supboy's incrimipression of an I nating statements in the MC liegel said a psychiatrist's evaluation of the younger boys showed they are not able to stand trial The psychiatrist cited their age and lack of ability to consult with their attorneys or understand the court proceedings The judge also found that while police had informed the older child of his rights before interviewing him the boy's incriminating statements were not voluntary because among other things medication he was taking for hyperactivity was likely wearing off Hegel said he would refer the younger boys' cases to child welfare officials Michael Moses an attorney for one of said the judge's order the made "a huge amount of sense" to life: In 1998 Charles Cornell 31 won his lawsuit at the High Court in London and was awarded the equivalent of about 8100000 in damages Cornell's insurance businesses failed when sales plummeted following his automobile accident In the crash he received a head injury that his doctors said left him with a gentler more amiable personality that Cornell proved in court was unsuited for the insurance business — Compiled by Chuck Shepherd SOUTH CAROLINA Bus returning from reunion !crashes killing one 40 hurt Mfrs Wir141 JusticeSafety Desk 2578710 Newsroom 2571747 Newspaper In ket 257762 Carrnrikms MI lot MI 'trial Writers GovtEnvironment 2574r82 Z7 VW Photorraphy Z7 Reader Advocate Roily & Wells 25707E2 Sports (no scom) StateWorld Desks Utah Online Z71900 Z78170 Z7 NM Holly Mullen Features Dekk 157 8767 257 0610 2578711 - tour bus carrying a family home from a reunion collided Monday with a car and a tractor-traile- r killing two people More than 40 people received medical aid The bus crashed into the car on Interstate 20 and then the tractor-traile- r pushing the car beneath the truck police said Killed were the bus driver and the driver of the car said Sid Gaulden a spokesman for the state Department of Public Safety One person was hospitalized in critical condition Gaulden said it was unclear what caused the accident Traffic had slowed because of a series of earlier accidents in the interstate's eastbound lanes of the Interstate and the road was wet from afternoon thunderstorms The llowa Trails charter bus carried a Georgia family returning from a reunion In Myrtle Beach Gaulden said COLUMBIA Arts St En Wein Ora BublIwll Debk Comm un ItienFAueilion 257 (4 1 't N ' 'I' i4 áfr V &NJ hoortated Ptrai fik photo Conservationists scored a major victory Monday when federal wildlife officials agreed to grant protection status to the California salamander shown above CALIFORNIA Z7 TIM (87e) Z741416 A NOTED Salt lake south Davis countim All other areas rare salamander protected SAN FRANCISCO — Federal wildlife officials on Monday agreed to grant protection to the California tiger salamander and its habitat handing a major victory to conservationists but angering farmers and real estate developers The salamander will be listed as a threatened species under the federal Endangered Species Act — a ilesignation that makes it unlawful to harm the animal and restricts development in its habitat primarily in the Central Valley Central Coast and San Francisco Bay area "We're protecting one of California's most imperiled amphibians" said Kassie Siegel a staff attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity which sued to protect the species The California Natural Resources Croup which was among the agriculture and business interests opposed to the listing said the ruling was based on "outdated and biased" information 2172900 For ilameday missed delivery replacement on weekdays and Saturdays call before 10 am Sundays call before pm kw carrier and home delivery informatkin new subscriptims restyling subscriptions canmilatims and billing information call Monday 6 pm Saturday 4 ism to 10 through 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agency said The 200 North Koreans were among 400 defectors that South Korea is trying to bring in from a Southeast Asian country The second group was expected to arrive Wednesday Human rights groups have said that hundreds of North Koreans have fled from North Korea through China to Vietnam Thailand Cambodia and other Southeast Asian countries A( i A :1: A Ct ‘ Ar Al de eo Former "Sex and the City" s tar Kim Cat- trail will make her London stage debut next 1 year in "Whose Life Is It Anyway?" re-ports The AssoKim Cattrag ciated Press Pe London calling ter Hall will direct Cattail in an updated version of Brian Clark's 1978 drama about a sculptor paralyzed in a road accident who seeks the right to die Mary Tyler Moore won a Tony Award in 1980 for playing the role on Broadway The play was filmed the next year with Richard Dreyfuss in the lead Born in Liverpool and raised in Canada Cattrall played Samantha on the HBO sitrun com which ended a earlier this year Previews for "Whose Life Is It Anyway?" begin Jan 7 The play is scheduled to run at open Jan 25 for a the Duke of York theater : Irat 0 04 Largest group of N Koreans defect arrive at Seoul airport 4 i44:- s A I - 04 tt ' 14 -- t tx i I ' '' 4 Iv - rA (4 I e i 14 1A' r9 Itli '1( 14i 14 1r4&14411 1 r7tt tt l 0'V:OeIY -- - ' - k: 1 m 4 04-i'- li - Ia 4 444k 4 - tff ff s ''''''''':4- ' 444 lk 647' m-- - 11 re! kAI t 1?tr-tfrzit es'l SOUTH KOREA : ' '1 j)tre4r 4' - 17:'!Z:litgl " illget 1" ' — President Vladimir Putin signed legislation Monday that toughens punishments for terrorism increasing maximum prison mmtences from 20 years to life in certain cases The legislation enables courts to sentence convicts to life in prison for acts of terrorism that were committed by an organized group or that led to wrongful deaths or other grave consequences according to the Interfax news agency The amendments approved overwheimingly by parliament in recent weeks also allow life sentences for those convicted of terrorism involving nuclear facilities or nuclear or radioactive materials the agency reported — I 4 oop C |