Show r MM M I I The Herald Journal Logan Utah Friday April 6 2001 — Page 5 1 rules may moves defended SACRAMENTO (AP) — Gov Gray Davis for the first time Thursday endorsed rate increases for customers of two ' strapped utilities while urging conservation and defending his handling of the state’s energy crisis ' Davis addressing Californians in a televised speech also lashed out at federal regulators for refusing to cap soaring wholesale electricity prices that have pushed the state’s two largest utilities toward bankruptcy beveased said the state can resolve the without rate hikes told viewers he now thinks rate increases are neces sary His new stance comes after the state Public Utilities Commission last week approved rate increases of up to 46 percent for customers of Southern California Edison and Pacific Gas & Electric Co Davis said he will propose a tiered rate plan that will mean a 265 percent rate increase for the average Edison or PG&E customer Under the governor’s plan the heaviest power users would see an average 345 per- cent rate increase "The more you use the more you pay” he said "Conservation is our best short-terweapon against blackouts and price gouging” Davis said the state’s power power-problem- ' “In January with the feds still refusing to do their job California stepped in to purchase the power the utilities could no longer afford to buy” ' DaVis said “We didn't take over to save the utilities We took over to keep the power on and the economy strong” California has’ been hit by severe electricity shortages and rolling blackouts the past few months The problem is blamed on a variety of factors includ- s WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush says he’s considering easing environmental regulations to help alleviate flight delays at the nation’s largest airports “One thing we need to do is expand the number of runways all around America And as you know there’s a lot of envisome ronmental regulations-of them meaningful some of them not — that prohibit the expansion of runways" Bush — said The president meeting with newspaper editors also suggested Thursday that he’ll seek the middle nom- - of the road on ‘ ihations to the federal bench “I don't particularly want a big fight in' the Senate” he m said Soon after taking office - crunch and high wholesale costs are the result of a Bush weathered a Senate battle over the confirmation of con- servative former Sen' John “flawed deregulation scheme” signed into law in 1996 by Gov Pete Ashcroft as attorney general But he wasn’t promising more AP photo ing deregulation of California’s electric industry which does Wilson Condor fplpacp then-Republic- an not allow utilities to pass on to Davis urged Californians to customers sharply increased help cut power use 10 percent casts to fend off roiling blackouts Davis who repeatedly has this summer ' California condor chick takes her first free flight after being released from her pen Thursday in the Ventana Wilderness Sanctuary near Big Sur Calif nominees that controversial on US Interior Secretary Gale Norton witnessed from a ridgetop about dor chicks to the wild three-quarte- rs of a mile away the release Thursday He pledged to choose judges who share his philosophy of of five con- strictly interpreting the Consti- - tution as do Supreme Court justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas But the president added: “We II be gathering intelli'' 1995 bombing and says he has no with him possibly because they wanted gence as to whether or not a be or can confirmed chilto protect their relationship with person remorse for it He even calls the 'not I may decide to send dren killed “collateral damage” McVeigh McVeigh had a falling out somebody up that will create a McVeigh said Nichols helped make with Jones during his trial I don’t know I Michel wrote in the introduction that tough fight the bomb that blew up the Alfred P haven't gotten there yet But of Munah Building killing 168 people but McVeigh was “perfectly blunt and never course if I pick somebody I McVeigh insisted he carried out the shied away from expressing his want them to get confirmed so Herbeliefs" He said he and bombing alone we’ll be mindful of that” Jones said McVeigh hoped to help beck never caught McVeigh in a lie 0 Giyen the Senate's But Jones called McVeigh tan expert Nichols who faces a possible death sen- -' split between Republicans and tence if convicted of murder in Okla- - liar He recalled a tearful story McVeigh Democrats Pepperdine he homa Nichols was sentenced to life told him about an Iraqi teen-aglaw professor Douglas after his federal conviction for accidentally killed as a soldier during Kmiec called the president’s ' remarks “rational prudence manslaughter and conspiracy but he has the Gulf War “Two weeks later he told me it was all and rational politics" not been tried in state court on murder made “I am certain that there will charges up" Jones said Jones’ book theorizes that McVeigh be concern among the presiThe authors of “American Terrorist” based the book on 75 hours of prison was a patsy in an international plan to dent’s allies as to whether he ' interviews with McVeigh and interviews cany out the bombing Joiies isn’t even means that people of conservawith 150 other people But Jones said convinced McVeigh drove the truck that tive principle will be passed over” Kmiec said they never checked McVeigh’s claims carried the bomb I McVeigh book called dishonest OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Timothy McVeigh exaggerated his role in the Oklahoma City bombing in a new book in part to protect convicted bombing conspirator Terry Nichols McVeigh’s former lawyer said Stephen Jones said Thursday that “American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing” is “fundamentally dishonest" and contra- diets what McVeigh told him about Nichols’ involvement Jones said he will revise his own 1998 book “Others Unknown: The Oklahoma City Bombing Case and Conspir- acy” to address some of McVeigh’s claims and to show “why the case should not be closed" Far from the truth? Former McVeigh ' In “ American Terrorist" written by lawyer says Oklahoma City bdmber Buffalo News reporters Lou Michel and told lies tdd to protect Herbeck Dan McVeigh admits to the Terry Nichols or 50-5- University er In brief at a House Oversight and Hillary plans rio Investigations subcommittee hearing Thursday Lawmakers expressed particular concern about a Febru- ary computer security study at presidential —run Sen NEW YORK (AP) Hillary Rodham Clinton who has long been speculated as a ' possible presidential caindi-- ’ the Health Care Financing Administration which con- ’ date told The New York Post that she has ruled out running for the White House not just in 2004 but in 2008 and beyond The statement came when ' trols Medicare off the former first lady was Oregon coast— BROOKINGS Ore (AP) A volcano has been erupting pressed to clarify a comment she had made earlier referring to the presidency as ‘‘not something I’m going to be $ land-based Volcano erupts ' threat to ships or coastal com- -' munities scientists say ' The eruption 130 miles off the coast has generated more than 1000 minor earthquakes that continued late Thursday A few qiuikes have been pow- erful enough to be detected by instruments with the largest measuring 45 mag- nitude -Scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have been & Using undersea instruments to at the volcano track on the ocean floor off the on ah activity undersea ridge that runs southern Oregon coast since' 'off southern Oregon and Tuesday night but it poses no northern California doing” Clinton was asked by the Post: “So Sen Clinton are you ruling out a run for presi- dent not just in 2004 but in 2008 and beyond?’’ ' & “Yes” replied Clinton according to the Post account A top Clintbn aide who was nearby and listened to the entire exchange later fold the Post that he is utisure whether Clinton had ever made such an t ' & t' ' ironclad refusal : i Clinton is frequently asked whether she will run in 2004 and at least one recent poll in Iowa — where caucuseslaunch the presidential nomi- nating season — has showed her running second behind A1 Goreamong Democrats & &y Foreign hackers strike more often WASHINGTON (AP) — Ait least 155 federal computers THEY'RE NOT LACES systems -- r some with tive research or personal data about Americans — were taken over by hackers last year according to a government study ' $ 'v & THEY'RE REINS tern-porari- ly The lack of safeguards against domestic and foreign attackers who struck 32 feder- al agencies last year is “chil- ling” DeGette said Sirnf Diana Rep lo ' “I think it would come as quite a surprise for most Americans to learn the detent to which these federal civilian Not you la ' Mf V'lflilfAtHto mgif attacks by foreign and domes-- tic' sources bent on espionage or other malicious actions1’ said Rep Billy Tauzin R-- tlViV- La Uw & handcrafted ileitis Tha Ultracoal 8 haa a' apaclal lightweight atud Plata ato'pa and atarta Wa highly reoommend'laolng'theta ahoaa carefully Baoaua'a tha only flying oblaet on tha flald ahould ba tha'ball making a baaflna toward tha nat agencies are the target of -- JDtruoLl -- Vtiith- 'Situ S V 115 N Main Store Hours: Smithfield Utah Mon thru Sat Ph 10 AM to 6 562-ffOQ- ? 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