Show ’n — ' fashions Full-figu- re making a statement — B1 USU officials discuss recruitment retention — A3 tVoi:53NoTWlJVlondai:March002 togan7 Utahl© 2002$ Brldgcrland's'DallMewspapec 50 Voathcr rsunny highs about 30 SURMAD Afghanistan (AP) — US bombers pounded al Qaida and Tkliban positions in the eastern mountains' of Afghanistan on Sunday g coalition ground after a attack the day before failed to dislodge the renegades No major ground action was reported Sunday However US Chinook helicopters ferried iin sup-- Afghan troops warned the opera-tur- n to dislodge the regrouping Talfences from their iban and hide-ouin the mountain caves here in Paktia province was far from over “You can’t do everything in one operation” said Raza Khan an Afghan fighter recovering from Saturday’s battle at the hospital in the provincial capital Gardez “This is Afghanistan This is a guerrilla war” Leaflets dropped by US aircraft on the arid plains of the province urged residents to cooperate: “Hand -- — PagaA12 ts 1500-stron- well-arm- Updato ed still in the hills a local said signaling preparations for a new round of ground fighting New economy crawling out over Taliban and or you will be destroyed Come forward with information about Taliban and read the leaflets written in Afghanistan’s two most common da Rands Switzerland feared UN membership would sweep it into the battles between East and ' West More recently oppo- nents have feared having to ' submit to the political dictates of the Security Council The Swiss have practiced forms of neutrality on and off since the 13th century but the principle was laid down for- -' ' mally in the 1815 Treaty of Paris that ended the Napoleonic Wars In that pact European powers guaranteed the “per- petual neutrality” of Switzer-- al Local : AtHallmarkxomtheVrientine riuh was such that some visitors ' " faced delays or couldn’t even get on "1 T i' ? ( eeSLUMPooAp 'y-- Indox v tgV i - BA OMuarteBjAd B2 OpWonMJM lComlcau Movies WMtaHllB8 Sports- ' ' ft1 i n JA8 IK t- - Si wwwhjnewseornllAM 'Til!'dill ii eh innmiii f 'a £ V:- - l ref- least half the country’s cantons or states — received a much narrower 12-- 1 1 result The referendum had the highest tumout in a decade with 58 percent of qualified voters participating Switzerland’s three or four annual 40-5- tion Treating both sides in a ' war evenhandedly has remained a guiding principle since although recent historical reviews have said Switzerland went too far in helping die Germans in World War II' The popular Vote gave the bid for UN membership a comfortable 5 percent approval but the crucial second hurdle approval by at 0 often draw only percent of voters Small mountain cantons — most of them ing — voted heavily against ’ the United Nations But the French-speakin- cantons g of-th- ' west add key German- speaking cantons of central Switzerland prevailed with their yes vote ' It was a sharp reversal of a 55-4- See SWISS on A12 teen helps i Couple says 1 flag is from yacht : By Loon D’Sduza pmfwrftor s v Good Neighbors ome people make a ' ' handsome living delivering all of and is music rock thunderous orations exhorting punk and challenging peoplelp my friends are in some sort of punk rock band So I came up change die worn Others like Sty View High School senior ' with this plan one night bounced it off my friends and TristinTkylor just do it they thought that it would be a In January fee vivacious' w good idea” really rock and commitlover punk v V friends feet In ityior’s ted volunteer at thp Cache Vial--' lev Hispanic Center conceived liked die idea so much they1 of a plan to put her addiction 7 decided not to rfiarge anything for the performance 7 to good use With help from ' I“There were about four pr some of her liigh school five bands from Sty View di friends and a few local high i School bahda7ty!or organized Were willingtp do 1C Tiylor : said a benrfhlpooceitsriiich raised But dnee schools working $216 fo die Hispanic Center : r rTThe Hispanic Center isi v together would taMymwe always in need of piooey y more money than just one becawit’s pretty mudhancm- - 'Ttylqr thought so she decided j— 'fit organization I was try- - ' to call on Mountain Greet snd to think of ideas or ways to Loui High Schools to see if would jump on the 7 7 3 the center raise money” 'they ' ' A f : : 1 j 'v' a 9-1- ar : j dancer POW-VyO- W Corey Reeder of Logan dances during the men’s fancy competition during the "Echoing Traditional on Saturday on the USU cam- ways Pow-Wo- w is sponsored by the Native event annual The pus American Student Council in erendum on Switzerland's entry to join the United Nations at a polling station in Carouge a suburb of Geneva Switzerland The Swiss themselves made El LucanVHeraltf Journal Swiss citizen casts his ballot Sunday it part of their 1848 constitu- - ed ge An unidentified iand : : ' : s higher-than-avera- See BOMB on A12 GENEVA (AP) — Swiss voters approved joining the United Nations on Sunday finding the prospect of a greater role in today’s interlinked wprld more compelling than fears that it would threat' en the nation’s centuries-ol- d tradition of neutrality The country which has been formally neutral for almost 200 years will become the UnitedNations’ 190th member Only the Vatican remains outside the world body ' During the Cold War ed tech-orient- B-5- 2s Voters want to join UN ng Mass-Feder- escaping ' Sunday’s operations were mostly limited to airstrikes as and other warplanes repeatedly pounded mountains targets in the Shah-e-K- ot 20 miles east of Surmad and the 0 On Valentine’s Day Hallmaikcom saw a fourfold jump in traffic from the year before as Americans used the Internet to send words of love and gifts to relatives and friends It’s a sign of life in a is apparently that high-tec- h economy starting to turn up from a deep downturn While the strength of the technology rebound is unclear it represents a boost to an industry that has been an engine of growth in good times and a major laggard during die recent slump More broadly the health of the New Economy - which embraces computers software and telecommunications as well as dotcoms bodes well for the efficiency of the overall US economy High-tec- h helped speed the pace of productivity gains since 1995 and has an experts say the United-Stateexcellent prospect of continuing that progress in the decade ahead In turn this should lead to more pros- perity less inflation and perhaps even growjng government revenues “The US productivity revival remains largely intact” figures Dale Jorgenson an economist at Harvard University inCambridge Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan shares the view that technology-related productivity gains have plenty of room to run Citing upticks in orders for computers and semiconductors he added that “Recent evidence suggests that a recovery in at least some forms of high-tec-h investment could already be under way” The turnaround remains nascent Technology stocks for example are still trading far below their peaks and have been struggling in recent weeks The Nasdaq index did jump 4 pqcent Friday- -: hinting at some renewed optimism on Wall Street Hut it will take more than that to get Silicon Valley cheering Last year was not a good me for the New Economy - and many stocks went bust back in die spring of 2000 Industry hype disappeared as dotcom closures multiplied Some 762 “substantial” Internet firms among more than 7000 shut down in the two-yeperiod between Jut 2000 and Dec 2001 according to ' Webmergerscom About 135000 Internet workers were laid oiff Still 56 million Americans work in industries tcchimkyy-producin- g with wages And during this gloomy period the Internet has continued to grow As of September 143 million Americans 54 percent of the population were using the Web up 26 percent from a v" year earlier long-await- an Swiss give up their neutrality The Christian Science Monitor heart-throbbi- US-Afgh- languages Pashtu and Dari One American soldier and three ’ Afghan fighters were killed Saturday on the first day of the ground operation the Pentagon said Six Ameri- cans were injured and airlifted out ai doctor at Gardez hospital said The assault which began with bombing raids late Friday was of deep slump By David R believed to be the largest joint military operation of the terrorism war Pro-U-S Afghan troops approached the hideouts from three directions to isolate the renegades and prevent them from View the big thing right now w At-- : - it a : See TEKN gn A12 7vr-- C’: — - NEW YORK (AP) — Acou-pl- e say they are the owners of an American flag that three firefighters hoisted amid the ruiAs of the World Trade Center in a ph tograph that became one of the most famous images of Sept 11 Spiros Kopelakis and his wife!’ Shirley Dreifiis have asked the ! : firefighters to Sign an affidavit stating that they removed the flag from their charter yacht ywhich was docked near the trade center vWe don’t want to be S: ' v compensated for the flag we just want to be recognized” ' : Kopelakis Said Sunday The firefighters have said they j removed the flag from a yacht ! docked at the North Cove pier on the Hudsoq River and erected it at the trade center complex a V few blocks away to boost the morale of thb Sepi il rescue : ‘ - t j ' Lab Bravo fromtha Cache ftxnmiinity HspanicCantef stands iflth Bky View High School senior TrteUn Tsyior or&arized a bandit concert with local punk rack bands that raised $216 for the center: workers A lawyer for the firefighters ' 7 Bill Klly said he has already arranged for his clients tb try to identify tiie yacht r 'II' ' ! 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