Show A2 —The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday October 5 2003 BEST AVAILABLE COPV i 1 Nation t lagsDuness r Leak disclosure deadline looms as oosoDaO aft MBuSfi© back to FebruarV 2002 and beyond to come forward Tbesdrry seeking potential contacts between administration offibialsand with any documents that might help the subject bf the the investigation into the leak of an ists memo from white House counsel undercover CIA officer’s identity Alberto R Gonzales: syndicated Employees was required to sign a memo certifying either that they V? columpist Robert Novak 'Newsday’s have produced relevant documents Washington bureau chief Timothy M Phelps and Knut Royce a News-da- y or have no such documents The staff writer order covers materials such as electronic records telephone logs cone- Investigators are trying to deters mine who leaked to the three spondence computer records notes foe identity of Valerie Plame and calendar entries Late into Friday night the White a CIA operations officer who has served ovas She is married to former House press office sifted through Ambassador Joseph Wilson who thousands of phone messages dating Jjn by 5 joumal-whowp- re ( WASHINGTON (AP) — The V White House projected a business- -' air Saturday though a Tuesto turn over documents deadline day in a leak investigation hung over nearly 2000 staff members Interviews with nearly a dozen v White House officials found no sense of urgenry among the few workers in the office on a weekend All White House staffers face an : as-us- jour-nalis-ts I publicly accused the Bush administration of manipulating intelligence to exaggerate the threat from Iraq : The news leak that exposed her identity also exposed the name of the CIA front company she used as a cover The company's identity appears in Federal Election Commission records because the CIA operative using her married name Valerie E Wilson contributed $1 000 to A1 Gore's presidential primary campaign in 1999 Her husband contributed to both the Bush and Gore presidential campaigns The company that appears in FEC : Cartoonist best-selli- ng ng children's books including “Shrek” has died He was 95 Steig died of natural causes Friday night at his home in Boston said his-agen- t' Holly McGhee Steig : combined a ' child’s innocent eye with - V1 AP ptMO G V Thousands gather for the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride a twoweek campaign that has carried "nearly 900 immigrants representing 50 countries to more than 100 US cities and towns create a wonderful world of £ animal characters for his books and Edwardian-er- a ' V dandies in his drawings ' “I carry' on a lot of the func- -' tions of an adult but 1 have to ' force myself” he said in a v it- 4 : — ' "T ’ ' i AU V 'Av ' V ng 1984 interview with People “For some reason I’ve never felt grown up” V ' His 1990bookid)OTta''V:v green monster “Shrek!” was made into the hit film that in 2002 became the first winter of an Oscar in the new catego- ' ry of best animated feature: Ina 1997 Boston Globe infcr-'- :t view he said he gave the film- makers ideas for the script Steig sold his first cartoon to New Yorker editor Harold Ross in 1930 and was hired as a staff cartoonist Over the following seven decades he produced more than 1600 drawings and 1 17 covers for the magazine ' I' Vi ’ NEW YORK (AP) X ' Thousands of immigrants ' and labor activists staged a rally Saturday for better v ' mented workers better : working conditions and the reunification of families V The rally was the final stop of the Immigration Workers Freedom Ride that ' carried nearly 900 immi- - -- ’ f foe million iff undQamtem-vTli- e ed workers Irithe United States “are all sons and ' daughters of one Father in heaven” “We cannot go on simply ignoring or tolerating the ' plight of these brothers and sisters of ours” Egan said The demonstrators seek the legalization of undocu- - ' campaign of the foundation Fanton said the grants first given out in 1981 have been awarded to people in a growing variety of fields in recent years as the foundation looks for “talent in unusual places”! Among the latest MacArthur fellows is Pedro ' A Sanchez 62 a leader in international agroforestry who once led a team that dramatically improved the productivity of land in Brazil and did the same on the land of African farmers ' j “The message it (foe award) sends is it recognizes that this work is very important and w crucial for eliminating hunger for foe planet” said Sanchez who now heads the tropical agriculture program at Columbia University’s Earth Insti- tute “And that it’s possible toi -- ' See GRANTS on All ersOne proposal involves U&ctiies and crowdof about 10000 that CHICAGO (AP)— A soil scientist trying to end hunger in Africa a nursing professor searching for better ways to treat elderly cancer patients and a writer who explains issues such as adoption and death in her children’s books were among 24 winners Sunday of this year’s $500000 MacArthur Foundation “genius grants” As it has in previous years the Chicago-base- d John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation offered the awards to people in an array of fields from a botanist to a black- -' smith Recipients may use the money as they wish ' “The central theme is creativity and what the diversi-t- y of this class of fellows reaffirms is that creativity can be found in many places in our society” said Jonathan F Fanton president bringing in workers for temporary farm work and would give undocumented form workers in the United States a chance to become permanent residents The other bill allow children of ille- - treatment of the nation’s immigrants topping off a bus odyssey " around the country grants representing SO countries and their supporters on Cardinal Edward Egan toldfoe largely HispanisS Iff buses fo' nwre jfian lOO ng would bring legal status to manyundocumented work- - 'jn immigrants to become wiis')egaiTnfoif dy inspired by'the freedom ridt'enttttd the US before the : 16 and have beenhere ers of the 1960s who board j age-o- f ' for five years It also would ed buses to protest allow diem access to higher segregation The immigration riders education arrived in Washington DC on Wednesday and spent two days meeting with members of Congress: Two bills before Congress On the Net: Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride httpwwwi ' wfrorg :v' 'x vV--H jl u ' OW AND FOREVER: LIVING THE AGGIE TRAD 111 O Joseph C Needham Logan City Council Seat 3 ' : N' T J1 I am a local merchant of S Ej Needham Jewelers and Stork Landing Goldsmith graduate of the Revere Academy of Jewelry Arts of San Francisco Certified Bench Jeweler of Jewelers of America e and a resident of Logan co-own- e m jl &? tK C y BuEscribepnsolicitedj er life-tim- rthjhe XMlsslon Spam Assassin see the following as special concerns for progress in the Logan area i' : ' ' TRAFFIC: gij tTii ! tTilll I am concerned with Main Street traffic as well as the present disconnected nature of the Boulevard area While the higher speed of Main Street traffic is almost a necessity npt enough attention has been given to the alternate routes of First and Second East Streets and First and Second West Streets That is not to say these streets should be a highway but they should be utilized more efficiently Citizens will continue to use these side roads as long as Main Street is so congested I am also aware of the recent loss of the beautiful passage along the1 Boulevard Some accommodations and compromises need be made to develop efficient travel as well as to enhance the visual experience I DOWNTOWN RENOVATION: Many things are coming together for downtown I currently serve on M (!) (3 © 42 the Logan Downtown Alliance’s Design Committee I am committed to helping merchants make downtown a specialty shopping area The large stores that have come to Logan over the last few years are a welcome increase to the community’s growing shopping appeal but shopping in Logan could be improved if there were stores that catered to fashion and distinctive merchandise Moreover while I support the idea of a Conference Center for our town I would not want to erect a facility that would crowd historic downtown c TAXES: I am not happy with the recent tax increase There are so many things that need to be looked at to keep expenses down to be a more efficient city A combination of reduction in management cost greater worker' productivity and not over spending will lower taxes for citizens I am NOT in favor of higher taxes unless it is extremely requisite after all other alternatives have been considered wwwxmissionTcom 4 ' ‘genius grants’ BOSTON (AP)— William Steig an illustrator for The New Yprker who was known as the ‘'King of Cartoons” for award-winni- Brewster-Jennin- gs 24 scholars get of ‘Shrek’ fame dies his & Asso-date- s CIA front for had been a Plame according to The Washington Post That account was confirmed Saturday only on condition of anonymity by an official who i recently left the government The arduous work of poring through phone logs turned up a few messages from the three journalists “We’re just double-checkiour records because the Department of Justice requested it and because the president made clear he wants to cooperate fully” said White House spokesman Scott McClellan records 4 V $ |