Show X'- X 'ft : :- V 'i v 4yxy - ''1" I J ' - V - V-- ' ’ " i1 A8 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday December 21 2003 n World ' ''V I "— — ' - ' f :!" r A- t -:: ' V ' ' i XX X?‘ ' x j XX V-' j y v y--- ' ' ’ V - HENSIES Belgium (AP) — A German btis swerved off a v highway in Belgium crashed against a concrete divider and i X caught fire Saturday killing 1 1 petiple and injuring dozens bus crashed on the Brussels-to-Par- is The Paris-boun- d high- way near the French border police said " ’ X Most of the victims'werc College-dg- e students whdwere " by flames The initial trapped inside as the bus death toll of 12 was lowered late Saturday to 1 said Eric Thiebaut the mayor of the town of Hensies ' He said' dn American Was among those killed referring fur-- X ' ther questions about the American to the US Embassy in Brussels! A spokesman there could not immediately be reached ' The nationalities of other victims Was still being established Thiebaut said Manof the passengers were from the Balkans ' and former Soviet republics : It was initially thought that eight of the dead were Russians but a passenger list later revealed no Russians were killed embassy spokesman Oleg Tsatsurin said V ' Officialssaid the bus driver was among the dead arid his relief driver was among 37 people injured five of whom were ' ' ' ' ' j) 1 hospitalied' - X X-- k ' Santa lays HELSINKI in Finland X helpers — Santa’s not be off Finland (AP) workshop may the joyous place it was' in years past for the tens of thousands of tourists expected to vjsit northern Finland this winter Many of the cives who work at the SaritaPark atiraclion near the Arctic Cirele are spending the last few days before Christ-nttwiddling their thumbs Santa laid them off to cut rising ' ! v- Afghanistan (AP) The new U!s commander Afghanistan said Saturday ' he wilf use his forces to open up the’ lawlesssouth and east id development aid in a tacti- cal switch to beat a stubborn insurgency threatening next year’s elections in his first interview since taking over the 1 1 000-stroUS force here Noy27' Lt' Gen David W Barrio said his : troops will set up long-ter- v costs: " - ‘ so-call- -- country dominated by Pasb- -' tuns Afghanistan's largest bascSin provinces plaguedby ' j missingthisChrislmas' Business is booming in Lapland a vast area known as the last' wilderness in Europe where traditionally nomadic Samis -- or Lapps: — herd reindeer But SantaPark which has accumulated SSSOjbOO in debt in its five years of operafion has only seen X I ''! visits decline: - All SNOW TIRES In -- 1 Drink Cokes Hot Seths RIVERDALE- - North 1600 East Preston ID 36 ' ' ioj ' A V' Allfir $79” great pftforyonr best friend! 6m- : 753-2- 4 12 Providence : 110 S: Hwy 165 THE a AUTOMOTIVE 787-184- 4 X y ' vv i -- It Sln ' orJorreierofSuelUod etowAuUo&'-A V yV-y''- - ! 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Stock one-wh- We wrote letters to each the cities anJ towns in the County telling them the' amixint of money we needed frimi them ro do the joti'Then Council meet- we hand delivered the letters to tltem at rheir mgs ' They all gave to us willingly and the committee thanks them y iigiiin ifiir tneir generosity GORDON'S STEAK HOUSE - V Logan anti-wa- ' RESORT ic North Main - Thad Box' ciilunin in tVw: Hcrikl hiis ctxnplainied a few rimes that the County War Mcnuvial should never have been roped ' r off to jrvnHesrers Also sonic letters to the editor thank' him So everyone yeill know Elwin' Allred am the asked the police to dii so and wilt now tell you why Early in 1998 as 1 looked at' 1 the mimument IcifMseO that most (f the mimes were unreadablethen walked over ro the County Executive Lynn Lemmon's iiffice and' We decided replacement was the' asked him to come have a look-se' only way to' p As chairman I secured the services of six other vets and Lynn ti fiimre out the costand details it woiild require tii do the' 1 Meet FoUu ' “I feel really dejected because being an elf is part ofmy- identity” said Milja Vilmila who was told her job as an elf helping Santa no longer existed “Something will definitely be ' - m - A : Taliban attacks fo make those " ethnic group from which the distribute reconstruction aid ' ' their Taliban draw areas safe for aid workers bolstered by an extra $12bilsupport v ' lion recently released by the “We are looking at a signifr Nine joint civilian-militar- y icant alteration of our strategy US Congress A wave of vio-- 1 units charged with creating lence this year has belied US islands of stability in troubled ' hr the south and east’’ Barno claims to have brought securi- tojd The Associated Press at regions' are already in place his office in the fortified US two years' But most of the ty to Afghariist-a- n ' after assault d an American-leKabul Provincial Reconstruction Embassy compoiind'in Thc military teams will help drove the Taliban from power Teamsare located n relativeiy secure northern and central Advertisement ' : Afghanistan The US mill- Allred Elwin From Letter tary is now deploying teams- Open across a broad swath of the as " ! : US forces change Afghanistan tactics - 'KABUL in specify how many of the 34 million signa- lures that Chavez opponents claim to have collected were allegedly fraudulent ' The opposition which claims Chavez is moving the country ! leftist dictatorship submitted the petitions toward a Cuba-styl- e k) the elections council Friday thiee weeks after a nationwide ' signature drive They need at least 24 million valid signatures ' kY force an election V v 'X ulatkm growth has been relaxed in recent years New regulations have been introduced allowing many rural couples and some urban V couples to have larger families policy ' ve Remnant of China's -- naif AP photo V man walks part a roadside sculpture which policy in Beijing promotes China's one-chil- A One-Chi- ld " PARIS ( AP) British and American diplo- won European praise Saturday for win-- X y macy nirtg Libya’s pledge to renounce weapons of : mass destruction and Britain looked forward to Washington lifting sanctions against the North V African state it accuses of sponsoring temxism China locked in its own effort to halt neigh- bor North Kdiea’s nuclear weapons program and other nations shw Libya's surprise pledge as evidence that negotiations wori Egypt urgi ' Israel to follow suit Europe held out the possibility of restoring ' ''diplomatic relations with Libya while Francetempered its praise by urging Tripoli to deal with another legacy of its dark past: Ah airliner “ ' ’ bombing in 1989 General Kofi Annan UN Secretary through a spokesman hailed Libya's deejsion as “a pos-itistep toward the strengthening of global efforts tar prevent the spread and use of those He urged all nations to fully impleV ment disarmament treaties President Bush on Friday held out the promise' of improving relations with Libya if Gadhafi keeps his'word on weapons 1 ''' ‘ CARACAS Venezuela (APj — The Venezuelan government presented election authorities Saturday with alleged evidence of widespread fraud in petitions seeking a referendum to recall President Hugo Chavez The fraud includes petitions with duplicate signatures and tie signatures of foreigners said Infrastructure Minister DioSdado Cabello who presented the evidence to the National Elections : y ' : Fraud claimed in Venezuelan recall- "Council Cabello did - 1 ’ ' f iVV4: V : - ' : ' v:' “ ' 1 ' r Libya deal wins ill die in Belgium bus crash : ' ‘ ' brief Iii ! 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