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| 'Evil Rampant': Church Reacts to Terrorist Attacks |
| Speaking at a Mormon Tabernacle Choir concert
turned into an impromptu memorial earlier this evening, President
Gordon B. Hinckley of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
told those attending that evil is still rampant in the world, "Its
insidious and dastardly hand has struck again in a most reprehensible
manner." The comments were just some of the outpouring of feeling and
relief efforts by the Church and local leaders nationwide. |
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| Sea Trek Final Leg Saved After Financial Threat |
| The Dutch sailing ship
Europa was finally joined by the sailing ships Statsraad Lehmkuhl and
Christian Radich after two days of tense fund raising and
negotiations. The 59-day re-enactment, of 85,000 Mormon converts from
Europe to New York and on to Utah began August 6, in Esbjerg,
Denmark, was far from certain, when the ships' Norwegian owners
announced that unless Sea Trek came up with the $550,000 it owed for
the remainder of the voyage, the ships would have to return to Norway. |
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| Local News |
| Local LDS Impact Huge in WTC Attack |
| The attack on New York City's World Trade
Center this morning will have a huge effect on LDS Church members and
the Church in the region because of those injured or killed in the
attack. In what is now being called a terrorist attack, two planes
slammed into the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center at
about 8:45 am, leading to the eventual collapse of both towers.
Members in Washington DC may also feel the impact of today's attacks,
since they included a plane that crashed into the Pentagon and a car
bomb that struck the U.S. State Department. |
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| Mesa LDS Chapel Heavily Damaged in Arson Fire |
| An LDS chapel in Mesa, Arizona was heavily damaged early
this morning in an arson fire. Investigators with the federal Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms have been called in to investigate the fire,
which caused damage estimated at $200,000, according to local Fire
department officials. |
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| Residents Question Traffic at Planned Harrison NY Temple |
| Residents of Harrison, New York are questioning the
amount of traffic that proposed Temple in their neighborhood will bring, and
are asking the Town Board for an independent study of traffic patterns in
and around the site and at other Temples around the country. A lawyer
representing the residents, Jeff Grant, will ask the board for the study at
the board's meeting tonight. |
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| Sports |
| After 10 Years in Pros, Detmer Gets Big Break |
| Ty Detmer, the former Heisman Award-winning
quarterback got a new break in his 10-year-old NFL career Monday when
Lions coach Marty Mornhinweg made him starting quarterback. Detmer
was brought to the Lions just over a week ago to back up starter
Charlie Batch, but when Batch struggeled through the first game of
the season, a loss to the Green Bay Packers in which Batch was sacked
seven times, gave up two interceptions and completed only about half
his passes, Mornhinweg decided to go with Detmer. |
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| Politics |
| Huntsman Called Biggest Republican Appointee Donor |
| Jon M. Huntsman Jr. and the Huntsman family have
contributed more money to Republican causes than any other Bush
appointee, according to a study from the Brookings Institution.
Huntsman, the son of billionaire chemical company founder Jon M.
Huntsman, and a former vice president in the company, is a Bush
appointee to the position of deputy U.S. trade representative. |
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| Wendover City Councils Want Merger Referendum |
| Two city councils joined sides Thursday
night in an unprecedented agreement to ask Congress to amend a
proposed federal legislation that will give the citizens of Wendover,
Utah and West Wendover, Nevada a vote in deciding if they should be a
single community. Rep. Jim Hansen, R-Utah, introduced a bill earlier
this year to accomplish just that, but without a vote from local
residents. West Wendover's lobbyist, attorney Marcus Faust, will
draft the new amendment to Hansen's bill. |
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| People |
| Church Reports NYC Members Safe |
| The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
reported today that all of the 50 to 70 church members who worked in
the twin towers are safe, leading Elder Craig Zwick, President of the
North America Northeast Area to say the Church has been "incredibly
blessed." "At this point it appears there were no fatalities among
church members in and around New York City. We were concerned last
night that possibly we had three civilians who weren't accounted for
near the World Trade Center and three involved in firefighting and
police efforts. All six have been identified and are well," he said. |
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| LDS Man Missing in Pentagon Attack |
| Mormon News subscribers reported today that an LDS
man, Brady Howell, 26, is one of the 126 people reported missing by
the US Department of Defense because of the attack on the Pentagon
Tuesday. Howell, a member of the Crystal City Ward in Arlington,
Virginia worked for the US Navy as a civilian employee. |
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| Arts & Entertainment |
| Trade Center Attack Scuttles New York Sea Trek Gala |
| This past week's terrorist attack on New York
City has led the Sea Trek Foundation to significantly scale back the
events surrounding the arrival of its three tall ships from Europe.
Out of respect for the victims of the attack, the foundation has
cancelled both the "Rock the Dock" celebration planned for New York
and the Saints on the Seas Musical Tribute planned for a theater in
Madison Square Garden. In their place, an alternate program will
focus on patriotic themes. |
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| Business |
| LDS-Run Airline Plans to Double in Two Years |
| While the hip, high-profile nascent airline Jet
Blue, run by LDS Church member David Neeleman, is growing amid
cut-throat competition with giant airlines like Delta and United,
another LDS-ran airline is growing by cooperating with those same
carriers. SkyWest airlines, founded by LDS Church member Ralph Atkin
in 1972 and still run by his family, has just added service between
San Francisco and Fresno, and recently between Salt Lake City and
Santa Barbara, Kansas City, Memphis and El Paso. All this expansion
will help SkyWest's partners, Delta and United, fill out their
networks, while also helping SkyWest double in size in the next two
years. |
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