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New Mario game preview Plus memories of the popular plumber-SoundUfe El Izavva Goosen lead at Sahalee -Sports Cl BUNE FRIDAY AUGUST 23 2002 TACOMA WASHINGTON THE NEWSPAPER FOR THE SOUTH SOUND 35 9 Terror risk averted: Weapons-gmde material removed from aging research reactor in Belgrade with cooperation cf Yugoslavs BY JOBY WARRICK Yugoslavia on Thursday in a dramatic the Washington Post military-style operation described as the first of a series of pre-emptive strikes US and Russian officials whisked against the danger of nuclear terrorism away 100 pounds of wea pons-grade ura- The uranium enough to make up to ilium from an aging nuclear reactor in three nuclear bombs was spirited out of groups as one of the most significant actions to prevent nuclear proliferation since Sept 1 1 It also was described as evidence of a new level of cooperation with Russia the original source of the material decades ago In the past Moscow has resisted calls to accept responsibility for Soviet-era nuclear material now stored Please see Ursalii All Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences before daybreak with an escort of Yugoslav army helicopters and 1200 heavily armed troops With US officials looking on the uranium was loaded onto a plane and flown to Russia to be converted into a form that cannot be used in weapons The mission planned in secrecy over a year was organized to eliminate what many weapons experts regarded as one of the most dangerous nuclear repositories a large and unusually vulnerable stash of the kind of weapons-grade uranium that would be prized by the governments of Iraq Iran and North Korea and terrorist groups such as al-Qaida The extraction was hailed by the Bush administration and nonproliferation We need to understand if you let kindling build up you're going get yourself a big PlBKNTBUH president's initiative) expbits the fear of fires in order to gut environmental Amy Natural Resources Defense Council Bush: End forest polity Western State may need off-site housing Report: Many patients can be in settings away from hospital By Joseph Turner The News Tribune The state should keep shrinking the size of Western State Hospital but needs to arrange for more mental health housing off the Lakewood campus a state-hired consultant says Some 25 percent of the people who are admitted to the state psychiatric hospital belong in less intensive and less costly -community settings such as nursing homes and boarding homes according to a draft report by Boston-based Public Consulting Group The consultants whose final report will be released in September say the state can cut the number of patients at Western State Hospital from 981 to 631 if it builds new housing or improves the level of service at existing nursing and boarding homes The state already is closing several wards and is on target to reduce the population of patients at Western State to 642 by mid-2003 not trying to do away with the said Karl Brimner director of the Mental Health Division of the state Department of Social and Health Services Nonetheless the ward closures have been a source of contention between Please see HespRal back pe RtCK BOWMU I THE ASSOCIATED PRESS President Bush walks with firefighters David Good rough left and Jerald Hanson during a tour of areas damaged by the Squire Peak Fire in Oregon on Thursday Plan to remove more wood unveiled BY SANDRA SOBIERAJ The Associated Press RUCH Ore President Bush on a mountain peak blighted by wildfire crumbled the dead black bark of a Douglas fir in his palm and challenged environmentalist critics of his new forest initiatives: and stand where I The president proposed Thursday to end the government's policy in national forests and make it easier for timber companies to remove wood from 190 million acres of the most highly fire-prone forests need to understand if you let kindling build up and there's a lightning strike you're going get yourself a big Bush said Environmentalists objected to the president's forestry plan saying it would open forests to loggers run amok Arriving Thursday evening at a GOP fund-raising event in Portland Bush was greeted by several hundred screaming protesters many angry about his new forest initiative as well as other causes including possible military action against Iraq Riot police fired pepper spray at protesters and struck them with batons outside the hotel where Bush was attending the event for GOP Sen Gordon Smith after activists marched toward the venue from a nearby park The melee in which protesters hammered on the hoods of police cars erupted Please see Forests back paga Arsenic levels not health threat Experts: Pierce residents must take the proper precautions BY SEAN ROBINSON The News Tribune The letters from Asarco otter tree medical tests but Elaine Wagner 63 never takes them probably got arsenic in she said really afraid to go check afraid to know" On Thursday Wagner's hands were Stained with dirt She was building a deck the Highland Park neighborhood not far from a site where state inspectors recently tested soil and found concentrations of arsenic that reached 47S parts per million That number exceeds the 230-ppm cleanup threshold set by the Environmental Protection Agency for neighborhoods around Asarco's former copper smelter in Ruston and the state's lower threshold of 20 parts per million But experts say the numbers don't present an immediate threat to public health levels found in these samples should not be an immediate health threat if people take proper precautions but long-term exposure to the contaminants Please see Amtm backpage STSMMNIS WO I THE OflEOONMN Police back protesters away from the area where President Bush was attending a fundraiser in Portland later on Thursday Weyerhaeuser Dome? Starbucks Convention Center? For a price: Tacoma could make millions selling names By Paula Lavhne suuivan Trie News Tribune Hey corporate America for a few million dollars Tbcom a can be yours A final study on selling the naming rights to Tfccoma public venues shows that the city could make at least $3 million selling sponsorship to the new convention center and up to $33 million to rename the Tfecoma Dome If the city sells the rights to the con- vention center tower ballroom and meeting rooms it could expect to generate between $243 (XXI to $3 00 (XX) each year states a report by The Superlative Group Inc consultants from Cleveland For the dome and exhibit hall the annual revenue could range from $300000 to $650000 City Manager Ray Corpuz said he thought those estimates were a little low and that the city could ask for more the situation with a brand new facility the convention center seems ripe for he said the Dome it has its own sort of niche and it docs present an excellent value to a sponsor because it is Please see Dobm back paga Lottery B2 IN SOUNDLIFE Obituaries B4 Comics E6 Take Time ES Opinion B6 Crossword E5 Television ET Sports Cl GO! 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