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' Vol94 Na' 3211 Monday NovembcrJ72003 ’ - ' ‘I v-V- iV ' Updato Bundle up for a blustery winter day : — Page A10 vpi' LoganlUtahlO 2003 1 BrWgarUnd'i Dally Nawapapar Tentative Medicare bill pleases Bush Voathor - 'i vt ' ( Homefronf 1 Father leaves Iraq to give his daughter away WASHINGTON (AP) — Political ' battle lines began to form Sunday on a tentative agreement to give older Americans a new prescription drug and overhaul the Medicare pro- Bush gave the legiski- President gram tion his enthusiastic backing! ‘‘I will be actively pushing the hill" in the coming days to ensure passage ' Bush said leading the Republican effort to overcome anticipated resistance from Democrats and objections from some Republicans Sen Edward M Kennedy led the charge for Democrats calling the bill a "partisan attack on Medicare" and predicting it would not puss the Sen- - details’ said Sen Olympia is in the Snowe who has objected to ate provisions emerging from the negotiations A day after Republican congression-benef- it At its core the legislation would al leaders announced the breakthrough on the legislation they gathered in the ‘give millions of seniors prescription drug coverage for the first time Cor a Capitol again Sunday to begin selling the agreement to the public and fellow - premium of roughly $35 a month At ’ lawmakers Republicans hope to 'pass -- ' the same time the bill would create a " the bill by week's end large new role for private insurers in lany details remained unknown Sunday as congressional staff worked on the cost of the bill — which cannot exceed $400 billion over 10 years — See MEDICARE on A 10 and its final composition "Thedevil LEHI Utah (AP) — Something borrowed something blue Some- thing old something flown back from Iraq Tessa Flitton received ain unexpected wedding present Saturday Just as the1 procession started her father David Flitton a Utah Nation- al Guard member bn duty in Iraq ' since January stepped in to escort her down the aisle “I think I'll take it from here” David Flitton told his brother and ' stand-in- BAGHDAD Iraq (AP) — Troops fliKKlcd a Baghdad neighborhood in a new US V military offensive against1' guerrillas Sunday as an audio- tape purportcdlymade by Sadr ' dam Hussein urged Iraqis to their fight against the occupation The US military moves in Baghdad and elsewhere in Iraq came as the Army tried i determine why two of its Black Hawk heljcdpters crashed in the northern city of Mosul killing 7 soldiers in ' v' : pul ! - gift: US cmbraccd: Baat David Flitton Neither - knew what ° : soldier hugs his daughter Tessa after surprising her at her wedding ceremony Lehi " 1 ' mom Renee Flittbncpaxed ' Wearing a dark greenclassA uni- form with a white shirt Wack bow V tie and a huge grin StaffSgt David Flitton walked his happily sobbing daughter to the front of the hall where she and Brandon McCJcllarl Wertf ' married: ! : was the last tiling I ever V thought would happcn I wanted him here so bad " she said And so did Renee Flitton who with help from her friends and ebr workers brought her husband home I and kept him stashed away for four y days "He needed to he here for his one and only daughter " she said David Flitton a member of the 142nd Military Intelligence Baltal-io- n almost didn't make it home transports out of Baghdad Military ' Where he is stationed were booked for months He was told he could go on a commercial flight out of Kuwait or Qatar But the Hittoas didn't have $1159 : MIt airfare David Flitton for the round-tri- p has been unemployed since the com- puier firm he works for was bought out iast before he was called up Hearing about the family's plight two of Renee Flitlon's Julie Summers and Shirley Pas : of a US Army Biack Hawk helicopter Sunday after a residential area In Mosul northern Iraq late Saturday A military spokesman crashed the two helicopters which crashed belonged to the 1 01 st Airborne Division which controls emlraq and that ihe reasons were not yet ciearAt least 17US Army soldiers where US Army sojdierif rembve the wreckage Into Pooplo Indox Following are some of the local names that appear in today's Herald Journal Las Burke (A3) Rosa Marfa Emstrom (A3) Diana Barnett (A3) Anna Ramaperger (A3) Minna Ramsperger (A3) Stan Caziar (A3) Kermft Had (A3) Stan Afcrecht (A7) Barbara White (A7) Cacaiia Foxiey (A7) Indos Classifieds Comica Moviaa C7 Obituaries C5 Opinion C4 Sport wwwhjnewscom M JM B1 ft’-'- insurgents were killed in a separate clash! Both actions arc part of an effort tO take the fight to (he enemy rather than rcspjmding toambushes and attacks! “Any of those groups that ! ” ' William MouIXmalU v spokesman of thc4th Infantry " ’ Division" Strong explosions ihundcrcd ' through central Baghdad after sundown Sunday apparently part of "Operation Iron v hjer" the new Vget tough'’- - ! ?r ' !'!' strategy! "A large number of US ' - iriKips backed by armored ’ vehicles and helicopters moved into the Sunni Muslim Ham-escala- te 'C -- - neighborhood of Azamiyah iire'a und scaling olT a in vehicles a show searching - 20-hlo- an apparent reference fn Iraqis suppitriing the coalition The speaker ori ihe tapc aired oa ’tclcyi-V- ! sionsaid the only way to erui the' chaosin Iraq was for Sad- idamand His now outlawed ! y - !l seat belt aspOW li By John Wright staff writer r poking back on the nearly two years he spent as a prisoner (behind enemy lines during World War II longtime Logan resident Blair Hale calls it “a great experience" That's not to say that Hale didn't suffer In fact he endured a living hell But in his recently published book “Sharing Memories of World War IL Hale writes that wilh“lhe most unfavorable events pushed far into the background” he realizes that his time as a prisoner of war taught him things like patience how to make due how to accept disappointments ' and tolerance of other people's views "I learned more than I can put into words" Hale writes "It helped me to become a better more understanding 1941-194- SeeWEDonAlO media from the South Lawn of the White h(puse on Sunday tape surfaces as military seeks cause of crash ' Lawrence The astonished her hand to her mouth to suppress a scream and started crying Father and daughter Pushing benefits: President- Bush makes remarks to the' New alleged Saddam i bride gasped —Cl : 5” : person" Now 85 Hale says he’s reached the d age where he doesn't like to be with interviews and photographs But his manuscript provides far more insight into his ordeal than any conversation ever could The book which Hale says he wrote largely for his family is not available for purchase but a copy of it is on file ait the Logan Library both-cre- : Hale who grew up in Afton Wyo graduated from the University of Wyoming at Laramie shortly before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on laws get new boost WASHINGTON f AP) — A private safety group estimates that more than 2000 people died from 1995 through 2002 because their state's lacked jaws that allow police to ticket motorists solely for failing to buekleup Twenty states and the Di Sr trict of Columbia have such primary seat belt laws In 29-- ' other states police can issues tickets for failure to wear a seat belt only after they stop a motorist for another violation New Hampshire has no seat belt law As a result of the National Safety Council study released today federal officials are renewing a recommendation first made in 1995 that all states pass primary belt law s "It is tragic that 30 states Herald Journal M photo have failed to act to imple- Blair Hale poses with hs prisoner of war identification records which ha obtained from ment this safety countermea-- : sure that costs nothing but the prison camp he was held in after it was liberated by Patton's army could save so many" said Dec 7 1941 gence agents in the tactics of escape Ellen Englenun head of the and evasion He trained as a Marine briefly but - National Transportation Safety later joined the Army and became a Shortly thereafter during his eighth Board bombardier on a B- -l 7 Flying Fortress bombing mission over :The study found that during crew that was sent to England Europe — which turned out to be one the eight-yeseat beU In England Hale became one of a of the fiercest air battles of the w ar — use increased period an average of by handful of Americans to be selected See LESSONS MAS for training by British MI-- 9 intelli- - ' See BELTS m All 1 Nazi-occupi- ed ar a - |