The Daily Sentinel from Grand Junction, Colorado • 1

Fruita, Palisade Football On Tap Tonight Shawn Colvin Comes To Avalon OUT ABOUT fflgegmgEEBasr, DAILY FORECAST FOR TOMORROW: PARTLY CLOUDY HIGH 88, LOW 60 WESTERN COLORADOS CHRONICLE OF RECORD SINCE 1893 sf? Grand junction, Colorado Thursday, September 4, 1997 Vol. 104, No. 289 354 newsstand -64 pages Swords, Sorcery And A Little Paint Abducted girl found in Mexico Law officers from both countries mite for rescue By DANA NUNN and SEAN JACKSON The Daily Sentinel copyngM 1997 UNITED STATES Grand Junction CHRISTOPHER TOMUNSONThe Daily Sentinel Custodian Shawn Nestinger touches up a mural at Orchard Mesa Middle School. The painting is in the school's quad" area. 5-yeat-old Pearson, was by the FBI in Guadalajara.

ROBERT GARCiATlie Daily Sentinel Grand Valley leaders push to renew funding for cleanup of DOEs Gunnison River site A 5-year-old girl abducted from Grand Junction by her biological father more than 2M years ago was found in Guadalajara, Mexico, and returned to her mother Wednesday night. ReJean Hardy, biological father of Emilie Hardy Pearson, is in custody in Mexico pending deportation to Mesa County, where he will be held on $1 million cash bond, officials said. The only charge so far is violation of custody order, said District Attorney Frank Daniels. Whether there is a possibility of a charge of child abuse or kidnapping will depend on specific circumstances. In this case, there might be federal charges.

Possible federal charges could include unlawful flight to avoid prosecution and parental kidnapping, Daniels said. Emilie was taken from the home of her mother and stepfather, Joanna and Charlie Pearson, on Jan. 29, 1995. Hardy, 36, was living in Phoenix at the time. He had picked up Emilie for a routine visit but Abducted Emilie recovered Wednesday By PAUL LLOYD-DAVIES The Daily Sentinel instead took a flight out of Grand Junction with the girl to Phoenix, where he stole his wifes car and vanished.

Joanne Pearson has worked diligently with missing-childrens organizations and others to find her daughter She was particularly involved with the Missing Childrens Society of Canada, which was involved in locating Hardy and Emilie in Guadalajara. It was a little more than three weeks ago that a golf course manager in Guadalajara got a flier featuring pictures of Hardy and Emilie from the society, said Grand ington, D.C., to push for more money for Grand Junction to prevent job losses at the Grand Junction Office. Money for the Grand Junction Offices major projects has been cut from $52 million to $38 million next year. Two major contractors work for the Grand Junction Office. Tim Campbell of WASTREN-Grand Junction said his company will try to defer projects to later years before it lays off employees.

The company halved its budget for the Grand Junction Office, anticipating the federal cuts. Dean Quamme of MACTEC-Environmental Restoration Services said he didnt anticipate the kinds of reductions that WASTREN faces. to find new uses for the site are pointless. Cleanup of the Grand Junction Office site must be funded as a high priority," the group said in a letter to John Arthur, assistant manager for environmentproject management at the departments Albuquerque, N.M., operations office, which oversees operations in Grand Juhction. The letter is the task forces official comment on an Energy Department plan to complete cleanup of most sites contaminated by radioactivity by 2006.

J.J. Johnston of the Mesa County Economic Development Council and Robert Bray of Bray Co. Realtors last month met with Energy Department officials from Albuquerque and Wash Grand Valley government, business and education leaders have signed a letter urging the U.S. Department of Energy to restore funding for cleanup of its Grand Junction Office. Cleanup of the site along the Gunnison River, upstream from the confluence with the Colorado River, was supposed to be completed by 2001, but almost all the cleanup money was cut from next years budget.

Until the site is rendereijifit for further governmental, educational or commercial ventures, the Grand Junction Community Task Forces efforts See GIRL, page 10A Reno moves toward independent investigation of Gore Buddhist nuns tell lawmakers about their meeting with VP WASHINGTON With the threat of an ington to meet at the White House with in March 1996. The nuns said their temple leaders Gore were escorted to the White House by the two fundraisers who organized the event. Just before the temple leaders went to the White House, one of the fund-raisers, Maria Hsia, got a call from Gore at a hotel room, the nuns said. Republicans elicited testimony in an attempt to undercut Gores assertion that he had no idea the event was going to be a fundraiser on a tax-exempt temple's property. independent counsel looming over A1 Gore, three Buddhist nuns told senators today that a fund-raiser at their temple was hatched after a meeting at the White House with the vice president and two Democratic fundraisers.

The nuns acknowledged they were reimbursed the day after they made $5,000 donations to the Democratic Party at the event officer, testified she destroyed a list of people who had donated a total of $45,000 to attend the luncheon with Gore after news reports about the eventfiret surfaced last fall. I was afraid the documenUjnight cause embarrassment to the temple, "she told senators The nuns said the fund-raiser was planned after temple leaders came to Wash last year, insisting they were unaware federal law prohibited such reimbursements. Dressed in brown robes, their heads shaved, the three nuns sat calmly at a Senate witness table as they were granted immunity from prosecution. They then testified, sometimes through their lawyer or an interpreter, about the April 29, 1996, event that has ensnara! Gore in controversy. Their appearance came a day after Attorney General Janet Reno announced she was reviewing whether to open a preliminary investigation that could lead to appointment of an independent prosecutor to investigate Gores fund-raising activities.

But Man-Ho, the temples 1 Assigning blame Some Brits feel Charles infidelity led to Dianas death By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS a campaign that seemed to be working. Two polls last month found increasing sympathy for i their relationship with 53 percent one survey saying they should marry if they want But Diana death has revived the antagonism toward both of them. Reflecting the public bitterness, a letter to the editor in The Independent contended that if Diana hadn't been betrayed in her marriage and mistreated by the royal family, she would have been with her husband and children in her own home like any other wife and mother." crowded the relationship "there were three of us this marriage made both Charles and Camilla deeply unpopular. Diana's public admission to adultery was more readily forgiven because the public saw her as the victim of a loveless marriage. Since their divorce a year ago, Charles has been promoting his own good work, especially on behalf of disadvantaged youngsters and by showing publicly that he loves his sons.

Prince William. 15, and Prince Harry. 12. He also has carefully tried to present his relationship with Parker Bowies in a positive light. the newspaper divined Charles inner thoughts but the report nonetheless reinforced a familiar image.

The divorce and that it left a bad taste in my mouth. said Adrian Rudd of London, standing in fine at St. James Palace late Wednesday night I think Charles has a lot to answer for but he cant be feeling too good right now. Charles reputation already was severely damaged by the public failure of the marriage. Hie prince's admission of adultery ami Dianas accusation two years ago that Parker Bowles had LONDON Princess Diana died in a foreign city with another man, fleeing paparazzi in a car driven by a drunken chauffeur.

And still, some people blame Prince Charles. If his marriage had not broken up because of his affair with Camilla Parker Bowles, these critics say. Diana might be alive. Charles Weeps Bitter Tears of Guilt" the Daily Mail said in a headline over a story about him walking the moors around Bal moral Castle at dawn the day after her death It wasn't clear how THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SHORTLY BEFORE THEIR SEPARATION, Charles and Diana were visibly uncomfortable with each other dunng a visit to South Korea in late 1992..