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Designer mints What those tiny tirts say about your personal tastes -Food Twins lead Rainier Beach Prep basketball: 3 A capsules C4 1A capsules C5 THE NEWSPAPER FOR THE SOUTH SOUND WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 27 2002 TACOMA WASHINGTON SOUTH SOUND EDITION 35 INSIDE Vladimir Putin but doubted in Washington "We have a clear connection between Chediens and al-Qaida Thgy dearly foil under the potential targets of the global war on terrorism" said a defense official About 40 military personnel including Special Forces visited Georgia this month to assess security needs according to Lt Col Ed Loomis a spokesman for the US European Command in Stuttgart Germany The assessment team has filed its report which is now the basis of the deliberations he said Pkau tee BseqBa back page mountainous Pankisi Gorge region senior US officials said Tuesday The move to train and equip the Georgian military opens a new front in the Bush administration's war on terrorism and is faeled by a belief shared by the United States and Georgia that aLQaida members and other Islamic extremists from Chechnya have taken refuge in northern Georgia along the Chechen border The mission also represents an acknowledgement by the administration that Arab fighters connected to al-Qaida have joined Chechen forces to battle die Russian army an assertion long made by Russian Resident TERRORISM: Helicopters military advisers being sent to thwart al-Qaida members By Vernon Loeb and Pater Stevin The Washington Post WASHINGTON -The Pentagon has begun providing combat helicopters to the former Soviet republk of Georgia and will soon begin training several Georgian battalions to counter what defense officials believe is a growing terrorist threat in the FORT CAMPBELL Ky Members of an elite Army regiment lulled In a helicopter crash In the Philippines were remembered Tuesday as eight breve men who sought the toughest missions and followed their unit's motto: "Night Stalkers don't quit" Among those killed was Spc Thomas Allison 22 of Roy A5 in a name? Tug of war newbridge LEGISLATURE: Senate OKs financing bill at odds with House plan By Joseph Turner The News Tribune The dash of wills over the Narrows Bridge project continued Tuesday raising the prospect that construction of a aecnri bridge could be delayed for still another year The Senate on Tuesday approved a measure that would dear the way for public financing and create a cit-izen committee to advise the state on setting tolls But the Senate changes to House Bill 2723 also would make future toll-paying motorists responsible for paying at least $100 million more in costa than the version approved by the House earlier this month The vote was 28-21 Fbur senators from Pierce Sens Debbie Regala (D-Thcoma) Rosa Franklin (D-Tacoma) Jim Kastama (D-Puyallup) and Marilyn Rasmussen (D-Eatonville) voted in flavor of the changes Sens Bob Oke (R-Fort Orchard) Shirley Winaley (RrFIrcrest) and Betti Sheldon (D-Bremerton) voted againatit The dispute over the Narrows Bridge project has be-Piease set Nw Mfe be pegs Bruce Kauwha Now hvsuNE Spc Jeremiah Hochstedler foreground and his fellow soldiers In Charlie Com- training at Fort Lewis with light-armored vehicles borrowed from the Canadian army pany 5th Battalion 20th Infantry 3rd Brigade 2nd Infantry Division have been The US Army is due to unveil the vehicle's official name today Toyota Dome? City peddling naming rights Army hopes to stir imagination The UH-i helicopter Is known worldwide as the Huey because at first the and were -transposed Few know its real name: the Iroquois jor of the Arnqr Jack TDky unveils the name at the Association of the United States Army winter symposium in Fart Lauderdale Fla an annual convention of brass retirees defense contractors and others Actually the naming of things is no small matter in the Army And one of the few attempts at poetry in an organisation much more inclined to communicate via an impenetrable vocabulary of acronyms and abbreviations all right there in Department of the Army Pamphlet (or DAPam) 70-3 Appendix XH Popular should appeal to the imagination without sacrifice of dignity and ehould suggest an aggressive spirit ami confidence in the capabilities of the the regulation says "They should suggest mobility agility flexibility firepower and tttate tee Amy mms lack peps NAMING DAY! light-armored vehicles will receive official moniker today perhaps for speedy animal or Men heroes i By Michael Gilbert The News Tribune The first controversy over the new wheeled light-armored vehicle was whether to buy the thing in the first place Now that mostly died down Army leaders tonight will make an announcement that may kirk up more hubbub over their first new combat vehicle since 1981: What to call it be hoping for a hit when Sergeant Ma By Martha 1 The News Tribune Imagine someday calling the Tacoma Dome the Toyota Tacoma Dome Or how about calling Cheney Stadium Columbia Stadium after Columbia Bank? Or how about the Frank Russell Co Convention Center naming the future facility after one homegrown companies? Renaming city buildings might sound for-fetched but Tacoma city officials are serious about the potential money that could come from corporate naming rights The City Council late Tuesday unanimously agreed to pay a Cleveland marketing company (58000 to help add corporate names to municipal buildinp The Superlatives Group of Cleveland now will assess the monetary value for each name seek out corpo-Pkae ttt BeMtag him beck pen Proposed vaccine offers hope of containing HIV WEATHER MSOUNDUFE Partly sunny Comics I Higtiaround Crossword 7 Day Planner 2 Dear Abby 7 Movie times Taka Time 7 Television INDEX Business D1 Classified CU Crossword CL7 Food FBI Legal notices GUI Local news B1 Lottery B2 Obituaries B5 Opinion BS People A2 Sports Cl Venture C3 Emilio A Emini of Merck Research Laboratories was asked to report on human studies at the Ninth Annual Retrovirus Conference in Seattle -even though the studies are still at a veiyeariy stage The first trials in a relatively small number of people have shown that the proposed vaccine is apparently safe and that it elicits the same 1 of immune response in humans as seen in monkeys Emini said The initial trials were in people who are not infected with HIV are Emini told attendees tocche A searchers said Tuesday If the vaccine ultimately is proven to work -something that went be known fix1 several years it would be given to people after they are in- fected The aim would be to limit the ability of the virus to replicate itself keeping it at a manage- able level and slowing perhaps blocking the onset of AIDS Last month Merck which is developing the vaccine announced the results of studies showing that the vaccine can sharply reduce HIV replication in monkqya 1 Those results seemed so promising that Dr HUMAN TESTS: Early results positive but it will be years before researchers know for sure By Thomas MaKgh II Los Angeles Times The first human studies of a Highly anticipated proposed AIDS vaccine indicate that it produces a response in the immune system that may help keep HIV infections in check re 119th year Issue No 322 2002 The News Tribune 58 pages 7 sections 6 111 5 ttt laMiiAiotn sx ITT1 rainWwiS frtwtoni "TT 2X £3 hUdkimmakA dim frWurAidl 'Vi i maiifli' i t- --1.