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Journal PubliMtig Co. AiTy 50 1 nts Thursday Morning, February 21, 2002 CCO'SALT LAKE 2 0 0 2 Governor says he would sign budget Gold Claim N.JV 6Ii Pi: Gould Fly I .11 1.11 HI LMU, II. y' COURTESY OF KOATTV By David Milks Journal Capitol Bureau Gov. Gary Johnson on Wednesday gave his most blunt assessment yet on whether he'll sign the Legislature's budget When pigs fly. The governor illustrated his point by twirling a toy pig with flapping wings over his head as he spoke to more than 200 people attending an Association of Commerce and Industry lunch in Albuquerque.

"I dont think that I can sign the budget," said Johnson, who is in his final year in office. "If pigs could fly, maybe I could sign this budget." Some legislators say the Republican governor is pushing the state to the brink of a constitutional crisis, and a possible government shutdown, by refusing to compromise with Democrats on a spending plan for the coming fiscal year. The speech Wednesday was his first since legislators eluded their 30-day session Feb. 14, with the governor saying the second budget lawmakers sent him was "actually. TWIRUNQ PORKER: Gov.

Gary Johnson twirls a toy pig with flapping wings over his head to make a point about the Legislature's budget on Wednesday. worse than the first," which he vetoed. Johnson used the pink plastic pig as a prop throughout the speech. "Still not flying," he said at one point, looking down at the battery-powered pig, which flies on a tether. See GOVERNOR on PAGE A2 WWr JIM THOMPSONJOURNAL NEW MEXICO-CORN: Tristan Gale celebrates after capturing a fold medal In women' skeleton Wednesday to become the first New Mexico-bom Winter Olympic medalist.

INSIDE Ruidoso Native Glides to First In Revived Sled Competition Child-Safety Funds Swiped, Police Say I delighted energy with "USA" spelled on her cheek in sparkles, said at a post-race news conference. "I'm just so glad to be here today. It was fabulous." In the skeleton finals, third-generation Olympian Jim Shea of Lake Placid, N.Y., took an emotional victory. After sliding down the ice to a gold medal, Shea held a card from the funeral of his grandfather, Jack, in front of the nearest television camera. -Jack Shea, a two-time Olympic speedskating champion, died in a car accident last month.

Gale, 21, lived in Ruidoso until she was 8. She then moved to Salt Lake City when her mother, a United States Forest Service employee, was transferred. In media interviews, Gale has said she still considers Ruidoso home. She has never been at home, though, on snowy ice. After Tuesday's training See N.M.'S on PAGE A2 Bv Rick Wright Journal Staff Writer ARK CITY, Utah Snow news was supposed to be bad news for Ruidoso native Tristan Gale.

After all, she said, the white stuff can slow you down when you -weigh only US pounds. Bad forecast, Tristan. But great sledding. Gale made the best possible news on a snowy Wednesday, capturing a gold medal in women's skeleton and becoming the first New Mexico-born Winter Olympic medalist. Her two headfirst trips on a sled down the ice at Utah Olympic Park took a combined 1 minute, 45.11 seconds 10 hundredths of a second faster than friend and teammate Lea Ann Parsley of Granville, Ohio.

Great Britain's Alex Coomber took the bronze. was awesome," Gale, a bundle of Ex-State Employee Says $89,000 Taken Copyright 2002 Albuquerque Journal By Jeremy p'awloski Journal Northern Bureau SANTA FE A former financial specialist at the New Mexico Department of Health has admitted taking $89,300 in checks meant in part to pay for child safety seats for low-income mothers, according to State Police. State Police Agent Michael Quinones said former Department of Health employee Rebecca Benavidez of Santa Fe and two friends neither of whom worked at the Health Department were allegedly involved in the scheme. The checks were drafted by the Highway and Transportation Department as part of a Traffic Safety Bureau program to promote safety belt use, officials said. They were made payable to the Health Department.

State Police said the women spent about $34,000 of the money on items including a Chevy pickup and a Ford Ranger. None of the women have been arrested or charged. State Police said they couldn't release any documents because the papers had been turned over to the District Attorney's Office. See STATE on PAGE A2 Reversal of fortune Apolo Anton 6hno secures speedskating gold medal after Korean Is disqualified Bl Inside Cliff's Reaches for the Sky With 80-Foot-Tall Coaster TEN DAYS IN SEPTEMBER Tough Decisions at Camp David WEATHER D12 Mostly sunny. High 60; low 29.

By Rosalie Rayburn Jourjtal Staff Writer C3 LEQALS BRIDGE BUSINESS OUtlOOK LOTTERY A3 is Albuquerque's skyline CLASSIFIED 04-10 METROPOLITAN Dl COMICS Oil MOVIES 8 CROSSWORD 03 CS NEW MEXICO DEAR ABBY C4 C3 al-Qaida network and worldwide terrorism. He brought a detailed master plan for covert war in Afghanistan arid a top-' secret "Worldwide Attack EDITORIALS A1H1 SPORTS Bl OOI CI STOCKS OUTLOOK 1J Ci TV HOROSCOPE both the city's skyline and local tourism. Chavez and Cliff's owners, Linda and Gary Hays, announced the project Wednesday at City HalL Construction has already started at the park, at San Mateo and Osuna. The roller coaster will wind around and through existing rides. Some of the rides at Cliff's will be relocated to make room for the new attraction, said Linda Hays.

The as-yet-unnamed roller coaster will have a track and 75-foot drop from the ride's highest to lowest See CLIFF'S on PAGE A8 Bush huddles with Cabinet, FBI and CIA chiefs to plan the fight against terrorism FIFTH IN A SERIES By Bob Woodward -and Dan Bai.z The Washington Post WASHINGTON On Sept. 15, CIA Director George Tenet arrived at Camp David with a briefcase stuffed with top-secret documents and plans, in many respects the culmination of more than four years of work on Osama bin Laden, the risky departure for U.S. policy and would give the CIA the broadest and most lethal authority in its history. President Bush had assembled his advisers in Laurel Lodge at the presidential retreat in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland for a day of intensive discussions about how to respond to the attacks of Sept. 11.

They had been conferring regularly but mostly in short meetings. This session would give them a chance to talk at length without interruption and to revisit some of the questions See PRESIDENT on PAGE A8 TENET: CIA director had done his homework about to change. The state's first major roller coaster will soar 80 feet roughly eight stories above Cliff's Amusement Park this summer. Scheduled to open June 21, the $2 million coaster will be visible from Interstate 25. "My gut tells me that a fair amount of parents will be pulled off the freeway by their kids," said Mayor Martin Chavez.

He said the roller coaster will make a major contribution to Albuquerque Journal on the Web: www.abojoumal.com i Matrix" outlining a clandestine anti-terror campaign in 80 countries around the world. What he was ready to propose represented a striking and i i i i it IkI 100010' 3 4256' i j-W yj)A Uii UliCiiliilj! The Spirit of Style 4.