Show Pi -- j Vot 90 No 110 Wednesday April 21 1999 Inside i i r nwwtiiy siwwi Logan Utah 01999 Bridgerland’s Daily Newspaper New yiitimipm 50 Cents School tragedy aftermath nf ddtf Death toll is 15 officers continue search for traps W LITTLETON Colo (AP) — They called themselves the “Trenchcoat Mafia” a dozen outcast students who hated blacks Hispanics i Jews and ath- letes and dressed up in long black Logan's Masons live in Harmony and have one or two secrets Page 11 ? Update dusters like villains of the Old West They played World War 11 games bragged about their guns and razzed fellow students about kowtowing to the elite students at Columbine High School But few students took them seriously until Tuesday when police said two members of the rebellious group took out guns and started firing Classmates and Denver media identified the dead gunmen as Eric Harris and Dylan Klcbold Police refused to confirm the identities but were seen at Harris' home carrying out items including a computer The “Ircnchcoats” were seen as smart and computer-savv- y fellow students said Harris lived in a tidy two-stor- y — home on a quiet suburban deserted today except for a steady stream of reporters driving through the neighborhood Sean Kelly a junior shared a computer lab with Harris “They just didn't seem to be all there cul-de-s- See SCHOOL on Page 10 ‘We like to think we’re By Arrin Brunson staff writer Cache Valley school officials arc cautioning residents not to think that a violent rampage like the one in Littleton Colo couldn't happen here Logan High School Principal Rulon Olsen said most people cope with their underlying fears by convincing themselves that kids here are different “We like to think we're over and above that” Olsen said “but I think it can happen anywhere" Mountain Crest High School guidance counselor Kris Hart agreed say- ing schools operating under the premise that they are immune to such violence are only kidding themselves Cache Valley students have been suspended for carrying guns to school and using brass knuckles in racially motivated fights Hart said "We have too much (violence) here” See FEARS on Page 10 Foundation president donates $1 million On Campus Race plays subtle role in war relief but’ over and above that RWeibel By Michael By Mort Rosenbium staff writer Associated Press correspondent KUKES Albania — No one likes to say it for fear of seeming insensitive but the feeling is clear among many outsiders here who have come to help: The horror is even greater because the victims are European It is not racial prejudice but rather a strong sense of identity Any one of those suffering Kosovar Albanian kids could be a daughter in Berlin or Barcelona or Berkeley Terrified families crammed into trains or herded onto the road in the name of ethnic purity stir frightening old ghosts of Nazi times Yet this is Europe in the last months of an enlightened millennium more than SO years after horrified civilizations looked at mass ethnic murder and swore “Never again” Mike McDonough of the aid group Irish Concern has seen it all He lived through the worst of crises from Angola to West Africa with Rwanda and Somalia in between “This is my 17th country and I’ve never been affected like this" he said “I’m from west Ireland and these people look like me It’s different man It’s different" Humanitarian workers are surprised by the level of interest back home “When I talked to my friends and family about places like Goma (in Congo) or Somalia they expressed polite interest and then got the usual glaze in their eyes” said Connell Foley a consultant for Concern “But with this” he continued “they can't hear enough" Mary Njoroge a Kenyan working with United Nations relief efforts calls it understandable that Europeans and Americans react strongly to a situation to which they can identify In fact she added “I’m surprised that Europeans are not doing more for these people” Although emergency food rations are arriving for the 600000 refugees in Albania Macedonia and Montenegro many are still desperately short of shelter and other baric necessities The agency rivalries bureaucracy and coordination problems that often plague large-sca- le relief operations have not been absent from this crisis But people far away for whom this catastrophe strikes close to home are paying close attention Barbara Smolian an artist in Los Angeles messaged a friend in Kukes that the familiarity of the victims overwhelmed her “I am not proud of caring more this time" she wrote “In fact it makes me ashamed of not caring enough" As president of the Sunshine Terrace Founda- tion path for donations” Some might say the Logan man takes that role very seriously because Buehler recently opened his S John WilkinHerald Journal Utah State University students play soccer outside the Mountain View and Valley View dorms Tuesday afternoon Dorm housing plan faces obstacles By Lance Pitcher staff writer Utah State University gets serious about a suggestion to require freshmen to live in dorms it could be met with opposition USU Vice President of Student Services Pat Terrell this morning reiterated the school has no plans to require freshman to live on campus but she said the issue was raised at a recent USU Board of Trustees meeting during a discussion about a drop in occupancy at USU’s dormitories Terrell said several issues showers bring silly weather statements in newspapers Page 10 Index By Hannah Wotfson Associated Press writer Is the Kingston trial about polygamy or isn’t it? Those prosecuting John Daniel Kingston — who is accused of beating his daughter after she fled an arranged marriage to his brother — say the case is about child abuse pure and simple But Kingston is a prominent member of one of Utah's best-know- n polygamous clans and people on both sides of the fence say it's impossible to keep his lifestyle out of it Jury selection in the trial which was moved from Box Elder County to Cache County for reasons associated with pretrial See DORM on Page 10 NATO "I can tell you that the prosecutor doesn't see it as a polygamy case but the public does see it as a polygamy case” said Carmen Thompson executive director of Tapestry of Polygamy a group of former polygamous wives Owen Allred leader of the 5000-membpolygamous group called the Corporation of the Presiding Elder of the Apostolic United Brethren agreed Military action Up to 300 Yugoslav sokSers had moved Tuesday into tha demHitartzad zone between Croatia and Montenegro V VJ-- Belgrade's rail connection with Hungary and tha rest of Europe has been effectively cut but airstrtker 0 BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA ' Two dozen US Apache anti-tan- k heNcoptets left their bass In Italy on Wednesday for Albania o vWjwo sVo occ Q Kral)na Albanian and Yugoslav forces exchanged flred for seven hours Tuesday along tha torder south of Yugoslavia MONTENEGRO KOSOVO SEFJ MjJTT- - said publicity began this morning in 1st District Court in Logan attacks w'" J vovoommV V ? NwlSad O “They think all of us are guilty of child marriages That's so far from the truth" he Officials say 25000 live in polygamy In Utah — Page 5 Kosovo roundup fcr wwwhjnewscom would need to be addressed first but it is never out of the question “I like to leave my options open” Terrell said One issue in particular Terrell said would be accommodating all freshmen “We do not have enough housing” she said Last fall 2606 freshmen registered at USU Overall USU has 4135 students listed as “freshmen" based on the number of credit hours completed Trial about child abuse or polygamy? HUNBANY April Space issues aside USU could face other problems as well Barbara Bolland said requiring freshmen to live on campus might not sit well with kids leaving high school Bolland is a guidance counselor at Brighton High School in Sandy She said students see college as a chance to spread their wings “Most of our kids want to live on their own” Bolland said “We see a lot of kids go out of state” She said they leave Utah not just to attend a school they’d like but to help housing a new trend officials say — Page 3 On-camp- us L Aprt 21 Weather Vernon Buchlcr believes it’s his “responsibility to set the Djakovica Refugees UN relief workers are trying to reach and care for 3000 to 7000 rskigaas stuck at tie border at Mtana S0UKKAPHMMfCh er The girl now living in foster care contends Kingston 43 drove her to a family-owne- d farm in Box Elder County near the Idaho border last May and whipped her for disobeying David Ortell Kingston who had made her his 15th wife Though polygamy is banned by the state constitution and denounced by the predominant Mormon church the attorney general's office estimates there are 25000 practitioners in Utah alone Yet no large-sca- le bigamy cases have checkbook and donated nearly $1 million to the Logan nursing and rehabilitation facility The board of directors will recognize his generous $935799 gift Friday by renaming the organization's Terrace Grove Assisted Living Center 345 N 200 West in honor of Buehler and his late wife MaRee Clawson Buehler “I’m fortunate to be in a position financially to do this” said Buehler a Harvard University graduate retired Army officer and retired Utah State University economics and business professor Buehler who will turn 80 in June has been president of the board for almost two years He has been involved with Sunshine Terrace since the “I have a great love for Sunshine Terrace” he said The gift will be used to complete renovations at the nursing center and adult day center at 225 N 200 West as well as to reduce the debt incurred for the construction of Terrace Grove Sunshine Terrace Chief Executive Officer Sara Sinclair said it's mid-198- wonderful that Buehler recognizes how difficult it is to use money that is received with strings attached His donation was made with no restrictions “We're nonprofit in the classic sense” she said “He knows we do a lot of free care He also knows it's very hard to make a go of it" Sinclair said she was in ington DC Wash- when she heard about the donation — “I almost fainted” Buehler’s gift will have a See GIFT on Page 10 See TRIAL on Page 10 Missiles rock Serb party HQ BELGRADE Yugoslavia (AP) — NATO missiles slammed into a high-ris- e building termed a “nerve center” of Slobodan Milosevic's ruling machine today in a bold attack on the offices of Yugoslavia’s hard-lin- e governing party and destroyed a key railway bridge just outside Belgrade The United States meanwhile rushed more troops and equipment into Albania as border clashes raised fears of an expanding Balkan war International monitors said two Kosovo Liberation Army fighters were killed and 18 wounded in a second straight day of heavy fighting with Serb forces in western Kosovo near the Albanian border town of Bajram Cuni heliThe first of about 24 Apache anti-tan- k copters intended to improve NATO's ability to strike Yugoslav ground forces in Kosovo began arriving in Albania today While logistical problems and bad weather had delayed their deployment NATO plans to have the Apaches in action by next week Amid concerns the conflict may spread the president of Montenegro Yugoslavia’s smaller republic was reported today to have rejected demands by the Yugoslav army that he put his republic's police force under Belgrade’s control Meanwhile a column of several thousand Kosovo Albanian refugees was pouring across Kosovo's border today into Montenegro which already has seen its population of 600000 swell by more than 10 percent since the airstrikes began NATO reported artillery fire near the rn See NATO on Page 10 fct I I 0s 1 1 |