Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Wednesday October World & Nation In brief 2003 — A9 i Bush still beating all Elton John auctions off contents of London home’ Dems in money race LONDON (AP) — Gold silk curtains silver salt and pepper furniture and shaken leopard-ski- n portraits went under the hammer Tuesday as Elton John cleared out his Lon- - ' don home to make way for a more modem aesthetic:'-Thy auction at celebrity version of a garage sale — a v: Sotheby’s — earned the singer more than $167 million The auction included hundreds of pieces of furniture paintings and tableware from John’s home in Holland Park west London The items for which Sotheby’s created a special 1 80- page catalog were sold to make room for a more contemporary 17th-centu- 1 '' ' ry e one-da- WASHINGTON (AP)— 7 The latest round of fund rais-ing has led to a reversal of fortunes in the Democratic presidential race with onetime underdog Howard Dean collection of artwork now the front-runnin the Various understated pieces pf Biedermeier furniture were and chase former money included There were also several delicate paintleader John Edwards in the V that work a sold Northcote most James the by ings expensive back of the pack for $92184 The overall record holder is John said much of the collection held special memories President Bush who has colbecause it dated from the early 1990s when he was recovering lected around $50 million over V from drug and alcohol addiction the past three months the most But the said it was time to let it go to make way for one quarter The Bush camfor his new photography and contemporary art pieces — “my has taken in about $X2 paign new passion” million to $84 million so far clear-oThe sale isn’t the first time he’s had a mass of one of this year compared to around his homes In 1988 he auctioned furniture jewelry and art$25 million for Dean works from his Windsor estate Dean was close to his goal There was little sign of any celebrity interest but one of $15 million for the fundpaid $52104 for an enamel miniature of Thomas raising period ending at mid- - ' Howard third Duke of Norfolk which had been expected to sell night Tuesday thanks largely for $8350 to $10020 to an online push that brought The most expensive item to sell was a painting by Maxwell in several million in the quar- Armfleld of Madison Square Park at $1 1 1890 The cheapest ter’s final days The former item a metal candelabra went for $160 Vermont governor set a Democratic record lopping the $103 million Clinton took in over three months in 1995 Dean has said he hopes to LOS ANtjELES (AP) — With a round-tri- p commute that norraise at least $86 each from 1 mally lasts four hours Lina Martinez tries to make the best of million donors producing $86 : her grueling jaunt to work L million or more to spend in the The legal secretary studies jv Commutes business courses listens to jazz 7 primaries if he skips public and Christian and motivational financing and the $45 million Los Angeles commuters lead the limit that coincs with' ' ' the and for looks spending tapes blight nation in the amount of extra Biish has as it side of spending so many hours travel time to and from work ' think we’re “I not only lhe :1 in gridlock “You just do the 7 because of traffic Y best financially positioned to positive thing” said Martinez from two to five years Five' beat George Bash I think : end of the year’’ said Justice who spends three hours each ' day in a bus and another hour in for defendants Saar we’re the best elcctorally posi--"' were f'V Ministry spokeswoman acquitted insufficient evidence tioned to beat George BushV a car even though het home is A Los Angeles Vanderplatsen : federal prosecutors Charged 1 None of the defendants was''- -' Dean told The Associated "only 37 miles from work '“In gg $' planning to blow up 9 base sanFfemdacb ' life you have to have some allowed to address the court Press in an interview Friday'1 ' ucncvcuwmNuudnuucar vyuicgrouphaumrmcua “spi- uiikj three-ho’s i to the Vder Islamic radicals for session V of wel?” involvement referring to his network' of ’velt V £Vcapons ' ' Trabelsi was stone-face- d ’? plotting attacks and recruiting 7 If there :’s one thing Lbs Ange-- " Miami : V: as 6? in a European terror ring campaign volunteers: ! am DmmmwI a Am nl AaIJa AMii llA V AaUmw in Cnn inti fn a! ikik rnntiinnnn bbiama maaI V les commuters haveanew Study says it's time to think And to scream And to grip the wheel and stare disbelievingly ' into the maze of gridlock ther liberty and freedom of become a suicide bomber was nati He raised an unprecedenl- gg prison They included a TThe average Los Angeles dri- who aided the Sept Claire de7V arresledin Brussels on Sept t 7 ed $100 million for the 2000 individuals” Judge ' ver wasted 90 hours in traffic in 7 '! 9 2001 assassination of 1 3 200 1 Police later discov- - ‘ : and is aiming for Gryse said “These acts must ?rimaries " 2001 according to the annual 1 Ahmed Shah Massood the 7 be sanctioned most severely” ered the raw materials for a or more for next 7 report released Tuesday by the Nizar Trabelsi a rAfghan military commander 7 7 huge bomb in the back of a year’s primary season ':7 7 7 Texas Transportation Institute at " ' who led opposition to the TalBrussels restaurant old Tunisian who played soc-cThis quarter Dean was fin Texas A&M University Nation-iban militia that ruled his for several German teams The judge said phone and :v ishing with more than double 7’ was sentenced to the maxi- ally the average driver spent 5 1 credit card records introduced the total of his nearest rivals' " country at the time hours in traffic 7— four hours 7 ' in the mum 10 years He admitted was The verdict latest as evidence showed Trabelsi’s Kerry was expected to report moire than five years ago ' links with terrorist ceils in ' to drive a car bqmb a slew bf cases resulting from raising roughly $5 million V planning r' After Los Angeles the San into the canteen at Kleine Bixh other parts of Europe ' with Gephardt in the same ai a sweep of suspected Islamic FranciscoJakland area was ! i' militants around “While bin Laden was - - 7 ballpark Lieberman was aim- gel a Belgian air base where : r Europe after nextat 68 hours followed by -- rV V the attacks on New Yorkand v 7 '7 ' US nuclear weapons are preparing for attacks on the ing for $4 million ' Denver (64) Miami (63) and United StatesTrabeLsiwith 7 believedto be stored Newcomer Wesley Chirk Washington European nations j Chicago and Phocnizwhich tied for fifth (61) have been giving more powers Trabelsi testified that He : others were preparing and ' was expectedlb repiiict roughly The price tag was $695 billion in wasted time and gas- : ' to police prosecutors and for explosives in V intended kill American solmillion raised after only a $25 looking according to the study which looked at 15 urban areas ' diers not to detonate nuclear few weeks in the race judges to root out suspects Europe’’ she concluded warheads About 100 Ameriand have beefed lip security s Brakes Alternators Cooling System Oil Service ' Transmissions measures at airports and sea-- r can military personnel are stationed the base at ports' But Another Tunisian-bor- n sentencing v — the Tuesday's ’s conclusion of defendant Tarek Maaroufi 7 MESA Ariz ( AP) — A man was convicted of murder Tues37 was convicted of involvebiggest terrorism trial day in the slaying of a turbaned bearded Sikh who prosecutors ever — comes while the gov- - ' ment in the assassination of said was gunned down four days after the Sept 11 attacks ' Massood the ernment is still considering because he was rqistaken for an Arab ' The jury Which began deliberations late Monday rejected 7 new legislation with tougher military commander He was sentenced to six years in t penalties Such legislation has Frank Silva Roque's insanity claim ' State Safety Inspection o been in the works for months prison Roque 44 could get die death penalty “To get the definition of ter Sixteen others were convict He was also found guilty of attempted murder drive-b- y 3131 N Main rorism into the law books ed of lesser crimes and 787-004- 0 shooting and endangerment for two more racially motivated Logan this will be finalized by the received sentences ranging attacks er 18th-centu- ry " ut big-spend- er Study finds traffic congestion bad and getting worse notably in LA then-Preside- nt Longest ‘ ' ur y ’ ‘7-- - f: f 33-yea- ' cr ! - : ' ' Map convicted in shooting death of Sikh man mistaken for an Arab Tune-Up- Bel-gium- -- anti-Talib- an Timing Belle Huffington dropsout of recall race SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A week before the election independent candidate Arianna Huffington dropped out of the California recall race Tuesday saying she aimed to prevent Arnold Schwarzenegger from becoming governor Huffington’s exit announced on CNN’s “Lany King Live” removes a similar voice to LL Gov Cruz Bustamante’s from the race and leaves Bustamante as the Democrats’ best hope of thwarting Schwarzenegger should Gov Gray Davis lose the recall vote “I’m pulling out and I’m going to concentrate all my time and energy in die next week working to defeat the recall because I realize dial’s the only way to defeat” the Repub- - lican 1 Huffington said But Huffington declined to ' specifically endorse Bustamante marly urging ha sup- -' porters to “vote strategically” in an effort to stop a GOP takeover WMerpompc Electrical Prabtone State Inepedione Fuel Injection TI M E FO R C H A IM G E Let our elected officials know that if they raise taxes when the city's income growth is double our per capita income growth we will thank them for their service and then vote for Peter Brunson Because you worked hard between 1982 and 2002 per person income went up 2002 During the same years the total collected-taincome for Logan 2002 x City went up 0o 240 1982 vote Peter Brunson SEAT 3 |