Show A2— The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday February Q N&tion N©4 I 2004 1 states wary off sdDD NEW YORK (AP) — Carolina said Friday that they are exploring the system And documents obtained through a public-recorrequest in Florida indicate'Arizoha and ' Arkansas also may have interinforest in the quick-acce- ss mation repository which combines state records with 20 billion pieces of data held by a private company For now Matrix — short for Multistate Information Exchange — involves Florida Connecticut Pennsylvania Ohio New York and Michigan Utah governor Olene Walker said Thursday that she was halting the state’s participa- tion Which was launched Although privacy worries led several states to pull out of a federally funded crime and terrorism database project others are actively considering joining and thereby sharing information on their citizens ' The Associated Press has learned Mark Ziidra chief investigator for Florida state police which runs the Matrix project said organizers have given presentations to more than 10 Northeastern and Midwestern states in recent weeks arguing at each stop that the database is an invaluable law enforcement tool Officials in Iowa and North ds Anti-Terroris- m under her predecessor and appointing a panel to examine security and privacy issues Another state once involved Georgia said Friday it is now dropping out completely — after the AP confronted officials with documents indicating the state was continuing to participate despite a public proclamation to the contrary in October from Gov Sonny Perdue Law enforcement officials say Matrix is an way for investigators to get information about suspects that authorities previously had’ to obtain from disparate sources They insist it includes only public records and does tUOarQirB not make predictions about crime or terrorism But privacy advocates say Matrix gives law enforcement too much access to private details on millions of people resembling the Pentagon terrorism data-miniprogram that drew public rebuke and lost Congressional funding last year The likelihood of Matrix expansion remains hard to gauge Bill Shrewsbury a vice president at Seisint Inc the company that maintains the database said he expects five or six more states to join the program though he would not specify which ones’’ ultra-efficie- nt WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s long been known dud US authorities had oppor- tunities to stop at least some of die Sept 11 hijackers Now the extent of the government’s failures is coming to light At a two-dahearing last week the federal cammis- sum investigating the attacks revealed US authorities had numerous opportu y nities to stop the hijackers including many encounters The missteps included miscommunications about operatives dating back to the hijackers who were allowed to repeatedly enter the United States even with false or the wrong visa papery and face-to-fa-ce mid-199- 0s HEMPHILL Texas (AP) — Within hours erf the discovery of an astronaut’s remains in an East Texas road last year residents in this small town used two pine tree trunks to erect a cross at the site The cross still remains adorned With a sign'engraved with the words: “American Hero’’ But residents say the makeshift memorial isn’t enough of a tribute to the seven Columbia astronauts who died Feb 1 2003 when their space shuttle broke apart over Texas ‘This is where the mission ended for those astronauts” said Sabine County Judge Jack Leath “It impacted us We just are of the SAN DIEGO (AP) — Former Navy Cmdr Lloyd “Pete" Bucher who com- manded (he spy ship USS Pueblo when it was captured by North Korea in 1968 and helped his crew survive ' months of brutal captivity only to nearly face a court-martihack home has died He was 76 The lightly armed Pueblo was numitoring communist ship movements and intercept- ing messages in international w tpers near the North Korean coast when it was attacked by ' torpedo boats Jan 23 1968 One sailor was kijled and 82 were taken prisoner Bucher who was wounded when the Pueblo was shelled wais beaten and tortured into signing a confession' During their captivity crew member said they were beaten with pieces of lumber burned on radiators and had their teeth kicked out by North Korean soldiers After 1 1 months the crew : wavreleased two days before ' Christmas some of them crip-- : pled or nearly blind because of malnourishmenl Bucher's siirTender'ofhis ' small ship loaded with intelli- -' gencx' information was harshly criticized by a Navy Court of Inquiry The court recom-- : mended Bucher face a general : court-martifor allegedly defend the Plicblo to failing ' Navy Secretary John H: dawn the court- Chafee turned martial saying crew members "have suffered enough" al ’ - wooden cross bearing a plaque enscribed “American Hero marks the spot where human remains were found near Hemphill Texas after the space shuttje Columbia broke apart over southeast Texas Feb: 1 2003 An Air Force flyover Mowed by a moment of silence wil mark the one-yeanniversary of when the space shuttle Columbia broke apart over HemphM A : al ar SeeWllooAll murder trialset after 3 decades opinion that there should be a memorial to these people” Communities in East and West Texas where Columbia astronauts Rick Husband and William McCool grew up hope to erect permanent memorials In the meantime tributes are planned in at least three East Texas communities today a year to the day after : Rover ‘Opportunity- rolls onto Martian soil PASADENA Calif (AP) — NASA's Opportunity sue- cessfully rolled off its fander and onto the rusty soil of Mars early Saturday a week after robot arrived the ed : on the Red Planet! The risky roll-oapparently went without a hitch as indicated by a single image transmitted via satellite to Earth ' “Two for two one dozen wheels on soil” flight director ff black-and-whi- los Angeles Producer Mary-Ell- SIOUX FALLS SD (AP) — When machine-gun-totin- g American Indian Movement militants took Over Wounded Knee in 1973 the eyes of the world focused oii tlie tiny Pine Ridge reservation village and ' the tense 7 1 --day standoff with federal agents Three years later the body of AIM activist Anna Mae Pic-- ! iou- - Aqu&sh w as found on the reservation shot once in ' the headaiid left in a ' ' " 'ravine: Some specu- - the national tragedy Sabine County officials would like to eventually build a trail memorial and museum on 10 acres of donated land where Columbia’s nose cone was discovered They have talked with Boeing Corp about donating a nose cone replica fer tile site ’Hie land will remain in its natural nigged state so visitors can experience the briars and other obstacles searchers ’ overcame said Belinda Gay a Hemphill resident who searchetT for debris and organized volunteers for the massive hunt Residents would like to see monuments in Hemphill Nacogdoches and Lufkin linked together to form the “Space Shuttle Colum-bia Corridor" stretching across the swath where debris fell “We want the families to be able to come hoe and find peace not sadness” Gay said of the nauts’ survivors “We feel like “ their families became our family Feb 1 and their mission became our mission We sent them home:’’ - te : a screen inmis- sion controlMore pictures flooded in minutes later to ' ChrisLewidrisaid after Opportunity joined itstwin Spiiritonthe planet’tsurface appeanedon continued cheers and The picture taken by Opportunity’s rear hazard camera showed the rover’s now empty lander and a parallel set of tracks leading away from it traced in the pebbly martian ' dirt 128 million miles from ' Earth Scientists a! NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory erupted in cheers as the photograph applause: ' NASA said Opportunity probably took less than two minutes to roll the 10 feet off the flat platform of its lander and onto die dark soil of the crater in wfiich it landed seven days ago:'! 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