Show N The Herald Journal Logan Utah Tuesday National report Woman EUREKA Calif (AP) — Police were warning residents about a woman who has been grabbing babies from strangers and breast-feedin- g them reportedly telling the latest shocked mother: “Every child needs lactate nourishment" So far no infants have been harmed but authorities are worried the situation could escalate “Our main concern is the public safety — what are this person's intentions?' Sgt Lcn Johnson said Monday “Do they need some mental assistance or do thev base something else in mind like permanently taking the child?'’ The most recent attack occurred Thursday at a waterfront library in this northern California city A woman wearing spandex clothes and wraparound sunglasses walked up to a mother pushing a stroller and struck up a conversation When the mother turned the woman pulled the infant out of the stroller and brought the child to her breast She then put the baby down and left when the mother protested A similar incident occurred about three weeks ago at a recreation center on the waterfront police said "It's strange It ranks up there” Johnson said Father convicted for 1 ! ! j JORDAN Mont (AP) — The Freemen may he operating in a remote enclave in eastern Montana but their ideas on common law financial trickery and racial hatred have spread to at least 18 states the WASHINGTON (AP) — A nun who says she was raped and tor- tured in Guatemala says she will eat only bread and water until the government releases information it has on her case and other human-- ! rights violations in the Central American nation L For 22 days Sister Dianna Ortiz an Ursuline nun from Grants NM has conducted a silent vigil in a park across the street from the White House in an effort to gain access to information the government 'has on her case While her cause appears to be gathering momentum — she has met with first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton — little movement is apparent toward release of government files Her actions caught the attention Monday of the State Department 'one agency to which Ortiz has filed a FOIA In a statement the department said it is still reviewing the case and 'hopes to make public its records “as soon as practicable” Sister Ortiz who speaks in a soft almost inaudible voice spoke 'haltingly about the day in 1989 she was abducted and tortured while in Guatemala to leach poor Indian children how to read " She said she recalls hearing a man with an American accent who control exercise over the men who brutalized her to s appeared F -- Identity” doctrine that says Jews are the offspring of Satan and nonwhite races are subhuman “They gel lessons in and racism A khcnl Umunn qwnui Ikanc V 755-644- fc iliry 4 I Mttimfccn foe i towwnoni 752-057- I v r - : — V ? li 'f0RADUlIS''''Ar L II I 7535064 OIILORENSHOls mr'AvAi hJMrvft't Jw"- V "r"" s'! 2IB3K8DX s f V&-J--- v 7 - - E" Ti - vy £ ' - "A V ’ 5' rr - DAY 24ONLY ONEWednesday April 10 am - 6 pm JCPenney Cache Valley Mall th ’’ :i ’ - ' - - v ’ "V-- - - f - “ ‘ v I f-- Af1 photo was business as usual on the Daniel Loomis ranch next to the Freemen compound background Monday as the standoff between the militant Freemen and federal agents west of Jordan Mont entered its 29th day Many of the Freemen art hoied up in the whits house It ranch who said “It was the Jcws who brought the blacks to this country to destroy h” The ADL report details how followers of the movement declare themselves exempt from America's laws regulations and taxes conduct seminars laced with racial and religious big otry and promote their own brand of justice “That's the unfortunate part about it Other states and other communities will have to live with some of the things that we have” said Nick Murnkm the county prosecutor in Jordan whose life was threatened by tV cases it never formally had advocated an end to all logging in national forests Dissident members — who recently formed a spinoff group John Muir Siemns — have been pressing for a formal change in the logging policy for years Muir was the naturalist who founded the Sierra Gub in 1892 “I’m thrilled John Muir is smiling wherever he is” said Chad Hanson of Eugene Ore of the dissident group “It is one of the most significant things that has happened internally in the environmental community for a long time Il helps to bridge the gap between grassroots activists and lead er AUTO DETAILING? 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V- i WASIIINGION (AP) — The Sierra C lub for the first lime favors ending all commercial logging in national forests after members of the century-ol- d environmental group voted by a margin to change its timber policy Casting mail-i- n ballots over the past three months members voted 39147 to 20287 to support banning logging on all federal publicly owned land in the United States a club spokesman said Monday The turnout reflected about 10 percent of club’s nation il memthe San Francisco-base-d 587499 of bership While the club opposes logging in many VaHey Metals Inc 145 No 1000 W Logan I 9 the Freemen There are believed to he 18 Freemen including at least two children inside the compound They continue to till fields plant gardens and post armed sentries on a distant hill to keep watch on police and media who are watching them Sierra Club now opposes all national forest logging 400 Per lb LmvcfialMc anti-Semiti- they’re being trained to deny the legitimacy of our democratically established government” said Abraham H Foxman ADL national director The report quotes a videotaped lecture by Dale Jacobi one of those holed up on the We Buy Aluminum Cans “SpirItuaC'Journey?! Cidic 'MS : preached racial hatred and cited a manifesto on the “Christian off-dut- ARE'JOUJOOKING FOR CO MPANI0N S'ONJf OURl - The report said the Freemen ! WASHINGTON (AP) — Believing the government isn't doing 'enough to find those responsible for burning Southern black churches : religious leaden nre offering $25000 to anyone who can provide criti-’ '’ ’ 'r' cal information in the case " The Christian Coalition alsow demanding Aft the Bureau of Tobacco and Firearms be taken off the investigation The group it would impossible for ATF agents who have been linked to '‘iyi ‘ y racist activities at gatherings to investigate the fires fairly TWo ATF agents connected to the questionable activity and who had - been investigating the church fires were given new assignments this 1 month Wav: DC 2 Christian Coalition posts reward for fire evidence f ’ i Anti-Defamati- false financial documents using home computers and laser printers according to an ADL report released Monday at the group’s annual meeting in Washington protest for answers bread-and-wat- er I j Over the course of a year hundreds of people went to the ranch to learn how to produce ALBANY Ore (AP) — Saying a boy's life is more precious than religious beliefs a jury convicted a man of criminally negligent homi- -' cidc for choosing prayer over medicine to treat his son's leukemia son Tony died in November 1994 three Loyd Hays’ weeks after he began showing symptoms of acute lymphocytic leukemia a treatable form of the disease Instead of doctors the Hayses followed the instructions of James 5:14 in the Bible to pray and anoint their son with oil “The freedom of religion is what our country was based on and they have their right to believe that” juror Juanita Sossie said after Monday’s verdict "But we believed that a human life is more pre-- ! cious than religious beliefs” Jurors deliberated 12 hours over two days before voting 10-- 2 to con- vict Hays on the least of the three counts against him He was acquit- ted of first- - and second-degre- e manslaughter Nun goes on ‘ - League says The armed extremists contend they are not subject to federal or state law and have set up their own government on a foreclosed farm and ranch where they have refused to surrender to the FBI for almost a month attempt faith-heali- ng 23 1996 — Page 5 Freemen active in 18 states stranger's babies breast-feed- s April YESWED0! Mi ers of national environmental groups” he said Robbie Cox the Sierra Club’s president and Carl Pope its executive director said in a joint atatement that the vote was “a sign that we are remaining a diverse vigorous and democratic organization “Putting a contentious issue to the membership has happened in our past — and the invariable result has been organizational unity around whatever outcome the members choose” they said Daniel Silverman a club spokesman in San Francisco said an immediate change in the dub'i daily workings VWE NOW 00 CUSTOM wm MUFFLER AND EXHAUST WORK! 'Si m - ifsev was unlikely |