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“It should spur additional de
velopment and renovations
from merchants,” Mosely said.
Mosely said a traffic control
plan has been made to minimize
the construction’s input on traffic.
“Construction on Church
Street is going to disrupt park
ing and traffic,” Mosely said.
“Especially because there are so
many construction workers
parking in the the Northgate
area — there is a tremendous
shortage of parking.”
Mosely said that when the
Northgate parking garage is
completed, the parking problem
will be less of an issue.
Solar
probably not friends either,”
Cheney said in a telephone in
terview with WHAM, an all
news radio station in Rochester,
N.Y. He said the two countries
share common interests, includ
ing maintaining peace in Asia.
“Occasionally our interests
come into conflict as they did
earlier this year when we had
the accident involving our sur
veillance aircraft, the EP3, and
that led to a confrontation but
we were able to get it worked
out,” he said. “So, the jury’s
out. But over time, if we keep
working at it, hopefully we can
build the kind of relationship
that’s founded on trust and
we’re not adversaries.”
The crated spy plane will be
flown from Kadena to Lockheed
Martin’s aircraft plant in Mari
etta, Ga., this week, officials
said. The Navy has said it hopes
to have the EP-3E put back to
gether and returned to service.
The United States original
ly wanted to repair the EP-3E
at the Lingshui military airfield
on Hainan Island, where it had
stood since the April emer
gency landing, but China re
fused to permit that. As an al
ternative, the United States
sent Lockheed Martin techni
cians to' the island to remove
the plane’s wings, all four en
gines, its landing gear, radome,
tail section and other parts.
The Lockheed Martin team
arrived on Hainan Island on
June 15 to begin the dismantling
project.
Gibson, the Pacific Com
mand spokesman, said he did
not immediately have full de
tails on the schedule for the fi
nal flight carrying the EP-3E’s
fuselage from Hainan Island.
He said Sunday’s flight carried
some plane parts to Kadena
aboard a chartered Antonov-
124 cargo plane. The flight was
not announced.
The Antonov-124 was re
turning to Hainan to pick up the
fuselage, Gibson said.
The propeller-driven EP-3E
landed on Hainan on April 1
after colliding in flight with a
Chinese fighter jet while on a
surveillance mission over the
South China Sea. China
blamed the crash on the U.S.
plane and detained its 24-
member crew on Hainan for 11
days. The Chinese pilot was
killed. '
Continued from Page 7
R. J. Lynn, a senior mechani
cal engineering technology ma
jor, said his favorite part of the
;project is that the students build
everything themselves.
“Some teams buy a lot of their
;stuff or have a lot of it built for
them,” Lynn said. “We, howev
er, build everything that goes on
our car.”
Lynn is the chief mechanical
engineer for the project, a role
’ that he said causes him to spend
up to 3 0 hours per week in the lab.
“We’ll have some weeks
where we’ll put 80 hours a week
into it,” he said.
Next week, Lynn expects that
the team will be dedicating an
I “obscene” amount of their time
^to prepare for the race.
Texas
Continued from Page 7
valuable here. People come
from all over,” Garcia said.
“It would just devastate that
area of the county,” Commis
sioner Leonard May told the
Corpus Christi Caller-Times after
the meeting.
“I’m 100 percent for our mil
itary,” May said. “But there are
places where there would be a
lot less impact than in Kenedy
County.”
The commissioners agreed to
send the letter of objection to
the Navy, White House and
area legislators.
The letter lists 12 objec
tions, including environmental
damage, the influence on fish
ing in the Laguna Madre and
hunting on ranchland, the
noise from fighter planes and
jets, the possibility of stray
bombs exploding and the dis
ruption of oil and gas opera
tions, from which the county
derives most of its tax base.
Also on Monday, 10 Texas
environmental and conservation
groups sent England a similar
letter.
“The stretch of coastline un
der consideration by the Navy is
one of the most environmental
ly significant areas in Texas and
one of the most biologically di
verse in the United States,” said
Melinda Taylor, an attorney for
Environmental Defense.
iday, July 3,
Utah banke
facing severa
drug charge
“The impacts of bombing
and training maneuvers on rare
species, as well as on the fishing
and recreational industries in
the area, would be irreversible
and devastating,” she said.
The groups, which included
the Sierra Club and the Na
tional Wildlife Federation, said
the area is important ground
for several endangered species,
including the Kemp’s ridley sea
turtle.
Jeff Judson, president of the
conservative think tank Texas
Public Policy Foundation in
Austin, told the Caller-Times
that the environmental impact
may not be as bad as some
groups indicate. He said scien
tific facts are important.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP)—
Each weekday morning, Dale
Gibbons put on a dark suit, got
into his white sport utility vehi
cle and drove from his millio n-
dollar suburban home to his job
as chief financial officer at Uta h’s
oldest bank..
But on Saturday nights, C iib-
bons donned leather pants,
hopped into his silver Jaguar and
cruised downtown Salt Lake
City’s hottest dance clubs. When
the bars shut down, he often in
vited the young crowd back to
his house for all-night raves that
investigators say were fueled by
illegal drugs — Ecstasy, GHB
and methamphetamine.
Gibbons, 41, is charged with
methamphetamine possession,
child endangerment andl dealing
in material harmful to a minor.
Last week he resigned from
Zions Bancorp., founded in the
19th century by Mormon leader
Brigham Young.
“Here he was, living in this
conservative neighborhood
and working a conservative job
at Utah’s most conservative
bank, and he was living this
kind of life on the side,” said
sheriffs Sgt. Darren Carr. “It’s
hard to imagine.”
In stepping down from his
bank job, Gibbons said in a
statement: “I cannot effective
ly execute my obligations and
duties to the company with
criminal charges pending. As
an innocent man, my focus
must be on the court proceed
ings ahead.”
The balancing act came
crashing down in late June
when Gibbons, who is di
vorced, called 911 in a panic
early one morning. A young
woman who had been raped
had tried to kill herself by over
dosing on drugs, he said.
Paramedics and police found
Gibbons’ 19-year-old girlfriend,
whose friends worried about her
increasingly erratic behavior,
naked and unconscious in Gib
bons’ bed. His 15-year-old
daughter — who neighbors say
was often Jtocked out of the
house during the day — was
found passed out in her pajamas.
Both were rushed to the hos
pital for treatment of drug and
alcohol overdoses.
In a search after Gibbons’ ar
rest, depufi es found nearly a gram
of metham phetamine in a night-
stand in d ic master bedroom.
“We are all stunned and sad
dened by these allegations,”
Zions chief executive Llarris
Simmons said in a statement.
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