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Show A8 Ni: Dogs to Sniff Out Foot and Mouth During Games Mormon Church To Remove Names Of 200 Jews Baptized After Death | Worries over highly contagious disease _ force officials to screen foreign visitors ee - SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Foreign visitors to the 2002 Winter Olympics will be screened by food-sniffing dogs. Agriculture officials are > oicicsen td enna eeftntee Ae a emma fearful of visitors bringing foot- and-mouth disease with them. ~The dogs will be used to detect any decd On 0 = splipnnaaligsipinibaan AORN : A a A USDA’s malto-animal contact, through the air, in infected meat prod- food | ucts and on surfaces such as Tuesday, nearly 150 wildlife officers discussed efforts to keep the disease out Though most athletes and visitors to Salt Lake City in February won’t be coming straight from a farm, some might want to bring favorite of Utah. The foods hosted. by workshop was the . Utah of Agriculture. Cows, pigs, sheep and other | cloven-hoofed. animals are sus- ceptible to the contadisease, so named for the painful, oozing blisters often found on infected animals’ hooves, mouths and teats. Though the _ with them, said meat were infected with footand-mouth, Utah’s livestock could be imperiled. To ensure prohibited oped: ale ucts don’t make their way into cs, Utah during the Olympi the USDA plans to increase the number of personnel at — the International Airport’s inter- ‘put, reduced weight milk out- loss and miscar- ‘riages. Alfonso “Lake . terminal, City which economic and to bring in a canine unit. Preventive. measures also are in place in post offices and deplity at private courier services such as UPS and Federal Express. does not affect food safety or humans, but it can have impact. national Salk already is being monitored, ~The disease Be of veterinary _ The church also issued a directive to discontinue bap- tisms for departed when the deceased’s immedi-_ AARON BREITBART Simon. Jews except when they are ancestors of living Mormons or Center, said. death. he Said... new initiative, but said the church needs to He said that under a deal negotiated over the past several weeks a “list of a couple hun- “alert all of its members to the offense to Jewish sensitivity caused by posthumous baptisms of prominent Jews and Holocaust dred names” to be deleted was faxed to — church officials on Monday. There is no firm deadline for removal of the names. Breitbart said the new pact also provides for Wiesenthal Center staff to work with the | church on ways to prevent Jewish name submissions. nAppLopRigie victims.” | Breitbart said such sensitivities aare deeply rooted in Jewish consciousness by centuries of anti-Semitism. ‘During the Crusades, Jewish people were given the choice of baptism or death. While Baptisms for the dead are among the many chose death, many of them did not get sacred rites performed in temples of The © a choice. They were baptized against their Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. will,” Breitbart said. “Though that occurred Mormons are taught the proxy baptisms proin the Middle Ages, it still sticks in our craw. vide those in the afterlife a chance to Join the: _ “Since the dead cannot speak on their-own faith. _ behalf, we must speak for them,” he said. (LUBE PA 2 Pg RO Se Aes 07 \ administrator Torres, Wiesenthal wich could make its way into disease rarely is fatal, it causes - cannot speak on their own behalf, we must speak for them.” ate family gives written con_ Senior researcher for the Los sent. - Bills said ee Snaly: ; He was quoted in a.copy-, _ _ Angeles-based Simon -. Wiesenthal Center, right story in The Salt Lake gists are seeking ways to filTribune. ter out Jewish dead from “They would not have a to es bap| Mormon pagiewal records in the future. tized Mormonsin life, and there is no reason | Rabbi Frederick Wenger of Salt Lake they would want to be baptized by Proxy in City’s Congregation Kol Ami applauded the Lane lameness, were senior researcher for the Los Angeles-based -swill for a family pig. If the - people born Jews, they lived as Jews and many of them died because they were Jews,” Aaron Breitbart, Beattie, state Olympic officer. A half-eaten salami sand- highly foot-an d-mouth gious “These farm equipment. _ Food and the U.S. ep eee vane the. Service, said foot-and-mouth could be considered the most contagious viral disease in the - world. | It can be transmitted esani- Department of Agriculture and LU for SALT LAKE “CITY (AP)—The Mormon Church members are encouraged to church, prodded to honor a 1995 agreement research their genealogy and baptize their to halt proxy baptisms of deceased Jews, has © ancestors. Some Mormons also seek baptism ~agreed to remove the names of more than for prominent historical and religious figures. 200 Jewish people from church records. Church spokesman Dale Bills said that The list includes Sigmund Freud, the since the 1995 agreement with various father of psychoanalysis; David Ben-Gurion, Jewish groups, church genealogists have first prime minister of Israel; and more than a stripped hundreds of thousands of Jewish dozen relatives of Anne Frank, the Nazi death names from baptismal records, but. the work camp victim whose diary is difficult because of. the made her the most widely large number of records “Since the dovgl ~ known Holocaust victim. — involved. Animal Plant Health Inspection ranchers, dairy farmers, veterinarians, customs officials, postal employees and state Ae I ‘ undeclared, illegal ‘services imports. LL WLI MAY 9, 2001 WASATCH COUNTY COURIER PREV 1685 E. 1950 N a ye nO ea \ HL a Lt i ULL af AO elf oo SU Be NEW LISTING: 1261 Valley Ridge Dr. — $96,000 : Lake Creek Eseates, Fabulous lot 000 PRICE : REDUCED ~ D, 900 PRICE REDUCED — 9,900 PRICE REDUCED > 00 PRICE REDUCED : aes $241,500 > : : |