Show Preston eyes $4 million ' water Upgrade '— A3 ': i Mustangs’ Zimmerman commits to play for Southern Utah — A8 m tahmgr2QQ33sa 7tlMiU Voathor Leavitt builds on envirpnmerit policy Governor tells USU audience that ideological extremes must be avoided continue to be a player in the world By Joe Rowley staff writer Speaking to a full auditorium iat Utah State University Tuesday night Gov Michael 0 Leavitt attempted to tie environmental issues to eco- nomics and strengthen the middle ground between ideological Canadians planning to invade eh? extremes He said the United States must malre some real progress in environ- mental policy if the nation expects to ' marketplace “This nation has both an economic and an environmental interest over the course of the next 25 years or 50 years to double the amount of envi- ronmental progress we’ve made at half the cost” he said In the coming decades three issues will define America’s ability not only to clean up the environ- ment but to compete in the global market he said Those three areas was intercepted by said “When added to homeland securi- ty when added to social security one has to question whether or not 15 20 30 years from now the composite of all that will allow us to have an economic equation that keeps us competitive in the global market” Leavitt said Environmental issues become especially burdensome with the way See LEAVITT on A12 Tax cuts Medicare C:r:± By Tom Regan The Christian Science Monitor This are social security homeland securi- ty and environmental costs The weight each generation is compelled to cany in providing for the elderly will continue to get heav- ier he said It is getting to the point that Leavitt wondered how much longer people will put up with it Add to that the new phenomenon of terrorism and the new cost of keep- ing citizens safe and the economy may not be able to bear the burden of improving the environment he and security plans laid out in speech a Monitor reporter overnight To: The Canadian high command Subject: Our takeover of the US From: Agent “Deep Freeze" Greetings eh I'm happy to inform you that our secret plans to take over the United States are going better than we could ever have anticipated First we've quietly persuaded President Bush to send as many troops as he can out of the country by the middle of February in order to deal with something or other about this guy Hussein in Iraq Perfect! Second we've engineered the weather so that the entire US is freezing — even Florida! Ideal conditions for Canadian special ops teams to operate Third we have planted key agents in essential TV and radio news operations Our most senior operative Peter Jennings is still in position at ABC Meanwhile John Roberts is poised to take over at CBS And we’ve been extremely successful in getting Ashleigh Banfield moved into a higher and higher profile at NBCMSNBC Dick Gordon has not yet been detected by Ashcroft's forces and has been quietly inserting more and more Canadian content into the topics under discussion at NPR’s the Connection We didn't get anyone planted at Fox but it's not really a news operation anyway so damage will be limited Fourth and perhaps best of all we’ve been able to insinuate our agents into perhaps the most important and strategic event in the ' ' i AP photo Vice President Dick Cheney left and House Speaker Dennis Hastert applaud as President Bush of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday in Washington pauses during his State State of the Union nt tax on corporate dividends Abolish marriage tax penalty paid by Week A many couples two-inco- closer look at words in 1 Medicare: $400 billion over 10 years to change Medicare offering older Americans a choice of programs that include prescription drug benefits Environment: A billion for cars France and Germany strong opponents of the war option also issued calls for Iraq to cooperate but A6 Opinion A4 B2 Sports A8 wwwhjnewscom million $600 million increase for drug treatment $6 billion for Project Bioshield to develop vaccines and treatments against anthrax botulism Ebola and plague Russia Egypt take tougher Indon Obituaries 1 disadvantanged adolescents Iraq: Secretary of State Colin Powell will address the UN Security Council next Wednesday on evidence linking ' Iraq to terrorists and on Baghdad's refusal to disarm security: D-S- D Sen Edward Kennedy Two See RUSSIA on A12 in By Jason Bergreen staff writer UN weapons inspectors Baghdad remained defiant The comments — particularly from Russia Iraq’s most powerful ally — were signs of growing international impatience with Saddam Hussein a day alter chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix delivered his toughest assessment yet of Baghdad's level of compliance ' In London British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw teens killed canyon car wreck line on Iraq AP photo Russian President Vladbnir Putin speaking during a visit to a university in Kiev Ukraine on Tuesday said Moscow might toughen its stance on Iraq if Baghdad hampers UN weapons inspectors — — if Two teenagers were killed Monday night in Logan Canyon when the driver of a Volkswagen Cabriolet lost control of his car and collided with oncoming traffic Juan Carlos Avendano 19 and Juan Carlos Lagunas 17 both of Logan were pronounced dead at the scene Utah Highway Patrol Trooper Miguel Chino said Avendano was driving south toward Logan several miles south of Tony Grove near Ricks Spring about 6 pm when he lost control of his car and slid into the northbound lane striking a Ford Ranger driven by Oscar Chavez Olivas 49 of Garden City “The truck was halfway in that car” Chino said “It was a bad impact” Olives sustained a fractured leg and was transported to Login Regional Hospital Olivas was listed in fair conditim Tuesday a hospital spokeswoman said See WRECK on A12 1 t V ss See BUSH on A7 KIEV Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin warned on Tuesday that Moscow which has been pushing for a diplomatic solution to the Iraq crisis “may change its position’’ if Baghdad hampers B6 B4 with Homeland SOURCE: White Houte Word History: The Errol Flynn-lik- e figure of the buccaneer pillaging the Spanish Main may seem less dashing if we realize that the term buccaneer corresponds to the word barbecuer The first recorded use of the French word boucanier referred to a person on the islands of Hispaniola and Tortuga who hunted wild oxen and boars and smoked the meat in a barbecue frame known in French as a boucan — The American Heritage 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geared toward his 2004 drive For the first'time since the Sept 1 1 attacks transformed him into a wartime president Bush faced the nation amid serious questions about his leadership Most Ameri- cans don't approve of his hapdling of the economy polls indicate and only a bare majority support his policies on Iraq — an area where the president enjoyed support of more than 80 percent a year ago The first half of Bush’s hour-lon- g address was devoted to domestic policy a reflection of his desire not to let Iraq overshadow domestic issues dear to Americans The heart of his package is a $674 billion plan to revive the economy mostly with tax cuts and a $400 billion proposal to overhaul Medicare sprinkled with initiatives to combat AIDS produce energy-efficiecars and give religious groups access to federal community service money After an address interrupted 77 times by applause Democrats challenged Bush’s efforts both at home and abroad “Tonight the president used all the right rhetoric but he still has all the wrong policies” said Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle I : |