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he Spectrum! wwwthespectrum com inal round up last weekend of Dixie Six High 49 Low 32 Page B8 Sunday November 25 2001 MORNING SHOWERS High security Unprecedented security surrounds amilies gather for the NASAs first war time launch Page 413 rSIM SigaBt'T' ji it AifuLV jKkvsBEsaBaa lOr Page Bl jS Z2 Morning briefing Secret LDS papers returned to church A collection of documents willed to Utah State Univer sity by a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints historian has been returned to the church The church claimed ownership of the papers which contained information about secret temple rituals and early church leaders IM Out of wedlock births still high To what extent govern ment influences poor women's childbearing deci sions likely will be one of the most heated debates on Capitol Hill next year when Congress renews the welfare program All The complex sex trade industry The thousands of years old trade in human beings worldwide for sex is a com plex trade and with several changes in the global econo my and elsewhere it's becoming more pervasive than everA14 Israeli dies amid vows of revenge An Israeli was killed and another wounded in a mor tar attack in the Gaza Strip on Saturday hours after tens of thousands of Pales tifiTaris'cahed fortfengeance at the funeral of a prominent Islamic militant killed in an Israeli missile attackA16 "'U Changing the world one kid at a time Where can the children of criminal or abusive parents in Southern Utah go? What will happen to them? As problems of violence drug addiction and moral decay victimize more and more young people Utah's adults must come up with answers to these questions C1 Inside Today Answerline A4 Around Town A4 Business B8 Classifieds 02 Crossword D4 ocus C1 Local A4 Movies C5 Nation A11 Obituaries A5 Opinion A6 Sports B1 State A4 Stocks B7 Travel C6 Weather B8 West A5 World A14 Subscriber Service If you haven't received your newspaper by 7 am call Subscriber Service before 10 am and a copy will be sent Spectrum: 674 6212 Daily News: 586 6999 2001 The Spectrum 001 50' 6 6 82660 amilies of reservists adjust as soldiers are called to duty By ANGIE PARKINSON angiepthespectrumcom SANTA CLARA Santa Clara resident Tad Trueblood be home for Christmas this year He will not be there when three of his sons Alek Houston and David receive their Eagle Scout awards on the same day Dec 22 And he will likely miss graduation next spring Instead Tad Trueblood is working to defend his fami freedoms halfway a round the world Trueblood a reservist was called to serve one year of active duty approximately one week before Thanksgiving A maj or in the US Air orce Reserves Trueblood was called to Stuttgart Germany He is working as an intel ligence officer as he did 13 years ago during his time of active duty His wife Cindy True blood said the family is doing well although the goodbye was hard for her daughters Sarai and Riley Nine year old Riley had a difficult time at the airport was holding her back and she was trying to break away from me as Tad was walking Cindy True blood said was pretty traumatic for The sons range in age from 14 to 18 older They understand why she said In the wake of the Sept 1 1 attacks Cindy Trueblood said her husband wanted to volunteer for active duty He received orders as he was trying to volunteer Although he wanted to serve Tad Trueblood initial ly expressed doubt over the orders saying it was bad timing for his family An Air orce sergeant had a frank reply for him is a really bad time) for you and everyone else Welcome to the she told him Trueblood said friends and neighbors have been extremely helpful and sup portive throughout the expe rience Riley classmates at Bloomington Hills Elementary School are going to write letters regular ly to her father while he is serving Trueblood takes comfort knowing her husband is gathering information at an intelligence office in Ger many instead of fighting on the front lines Hurricane resident Moni ca Hall shares that comfort See RESERVES on A3 Jud BurkettThe Spectrum a LJ IlfHM all Cindy Trueblood stands near the front door of her home Saturday where her husband Tad Trueblood hung a framed copy of his orders recalling him to active duty A major in the US Air orce Reserves Tad Trueblood left his family to serve in Germany shortly before Thanksgiving and could be away from his Santa Clara home for more than a year Hundreds defect from Kunduz MCfcliat ft Jerome Pelay AR Northern alliance soldiers on hilltops watch a con iban fighters defected to the northern alliance Sat voy of defecting Taliban fighters cross the front line urday paving the way for the fall of Kunduz where near the village of Amirabad between Kunduz and several thousand foreign and Taliban fighters are Taloqan Afghanistan Saturday Hundreds of Tai said to remain Taliban soldiers mainly foreigners surrender to alliance forces swelling the ranks outside besieged city By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press BANGI Afghanistan A trickle of surrendering Tal iban fighters became a flood Saturday and those laying down arms were greeted like brothers by northern alliance fighters besieging Kunduz It was unclear whether a hard core of foreigners loyal to Osama bin Laden would opt to fight to the finish By nightfall Saturday alliance officials said more than 1100 Taliban and for eign fighters mostly Arabs Chechens and Pak istanis had surrendered under a deal negotiated with the Islamic senior commanders Some Taliban fighters crossed the front and promptly joined the alliance However thousands of other fighters were believed still in the city including members of bin al Qaida terrorist networkWhen the siege began Nov 12 alliance commanders estimated about 10000 Tal iban fighters and 3000 for eigners were defending the city the last Taliban stronghold in northern Afghanistan The surrenders did not always go smoothly In the alliance held north ern city of Mazar Sharif a prisoner awaiting a search detonated a hand grenade killing himself and two other Taliban soldiers and serious ly injuring an alliance offi cer according to ITN News and CNN' See KUNDUZ on A3 Terrorism section to be added to county emergency plan By AMIE ROSE amierosethespectrumcom ST GEORGE Even before Sept 1 1 Washington County was prepared for all kinds of disasters even ter rorist attacks at a time when terrorism something residents thought about every day The terrorist attacks on Sept 11 have made people think more about being pre pared for emergencies Shane Sullivan manager of The Preparedness Mart in St George said business spiked after the terrorist attacks although it has dropped a lit tle People have been buying 72 hour kits gas masks food storage and emergency radios Washington County offi cials though have been thinking about and planning for all kinds of emergencies and disasters since the 1980s when the county first implemented its Emergency Operations Plan which has been updated sev eral times since then County officials used parts of the plan to protect residents and property in 2001 1993 1992 and 1989 Dean Cox county Emer gency Services director said when he became the director 1 1 years ago he never thought terrorism would be a credible threat Washington County Emergency Services Emergency Response Plan The Washington County emergency response plan is available on the net at wvvw washcostate ut us CERT Training or information on Com munity Emergency Res ponse Team (CERT) train ing call Dean Cox at 680 3025 went to weapons of mass destruction training in he said remember thinking will never Now very' Last week Cox said he had a meeting with state and local officials about a new terrorism section to add to the emergency plan received it he said never thought need to plan for terror Cox said Sept 1 1 added meaning and depth to the training he's had over the years And like sales at The Pre paredness Mart also piqued interest in the coun Community Emergency Response Team a group of residents trained to help in disasters See EMERGENCY on A3 Storms kill 12 in southern states By TIMOTHY BROWN Associated Press Deadly thunderstorms swept across the lower Mis sissippi Valley flattening homes and poultry farms and ripping down power lines At least 12 deaths were blamed on the storms and dozens of people were injured The scream of warning sirens woke Roosevelt Green wood before dawn Saturday in Madison Miss and he crowded with his wife and four children into a tiny hall closet No one in his family was hurt but the tornado that ripped through the town killed one person and injured at least 21 people including a 32 year old pregnant woman who remained in critical con dition Saturday night In addition to the 1 2 storm related deaths University of Mississippi Medical Center spokeswoman Barbara Austin said the woman gave birth to a baby that died Saturday Jacob Langston AP ULUr Si '1 JmRS The Eastside Baptist Church in Altoona Ala is shown after it was destroyed by a tornado Saturday Three other people were killed early Saturday in north western Delta region including Hattie Robinson in the tiny town of Sledge At least a half dozen torna does ripped through Alabama on Saturday killing four peo ple and injuring about 1 1 oth ers one critically Two women were killed when a twister moved through the northwest Alabama town of Kennedy lifting their home off its foundation said Lamar County emergency manage ment chief Ralph Harrison He did not know the names A mother and her adult son were also reportedly killed when a tornado threw their mobile home into a nearby pond in northeast Alabama According to test results science scores show no improvement By REDREKA SCHOUTEN Gannett News Service WASHINGTON Most American students fail to advance beyond a rudimentary grasp of sci ence according to scores released Tuesday from an influential national test Results from the Nation al Assessment of Educa tional Progress often called the report card found that less than one in three students in grades four eight and 12 tested last year demonstrat ed proficiency in science and their scores have not budged since 1996 And in alarming news for educators and high tech CEOs clamoring for stu dents to boost science achievement the results show the average scores for high school seniors actual ly dropped during the same period Just 18 percent of 12th graders scored proficient or higher down from 21 per cent in 1996 And nearly half of seniors tested last year 47 percent lacked even basic science skills The news of stagnant science scores comes amid growing worries about the ability of US students to compete in a marketplace that demands greater profi ciency in science and math A blue ribbon commission earlier this year cited stu weak science perfor mance as a leading national security worry bottom line is that See SCIENCE on A3 Try a sample question This question from the National Assessment of Educational Progress 2000 science test required fourth grade students to tr demonstrate how well they understand the purpose erf the 1 esophagus ifty five percent of students answered correctly Question: Look at the picturebetw which shows some of the a i organs that can be found inside the human body What is the mam fob of the organ labeled msuy Carrying ar Carrying bloods Carrying food' Carrying messages from aL thebram 51 Source: Natcnal Centertor Educaoon Sratstcs Janet Loehrke Gannet! 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