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DAILY BRIEFING QUICK LOOK AT HEADLINES THE NEWS TRIBUNE wwwtribnetcom SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 30 2001 THE NEWS' TRIBUNE T'v a St -V' I 8I111 1 jDnr! t-' vV- 1 i a r- 1 'J- VX- FRONTPAGE i The state has become a huge and expensive insurance risk With multimillkxvdollar verdicts against the state stacking up in recent months Washington has become so risky to In- sure the only coverage it could obtain car- ries deductibles higher than the highest judgment ever awarded against iL State wine industry foresees prosperous vintage year The crush what the wine grape harvest is called -is on in Washington as the wine industry prepares for its fourth barv tier year in a row Some 97500 tons of wine grapes are expected to be harvested This year from 29(XX) acres of vineyards US has been trying for 3 years to catch or kill bin Laden The CM secretly began to send teams of American officers to northern Afghanistan about three years ago in an attempt to convince the leader of the anti-Taliban Afghan opposition to capture and perhaps kill Osama bin Laden 'TARGET AMERICA Aid workers race against time to get food to starving Afghans UN aid agencies resumed shipments of food into drought-ravaged Afghanistan on Saturday the first since Sept 11 The effort is needed to feed an estimated 320000 people expected to run out of food later this week A4 Earlier impressions of hijackers probably wrong A new picture is emerging of the men who hijacked the American jetliners 11 There were two distinct groups: the leaders and the muscle with the leaders at work in this country for about 18 months A6 Bush again condemns Taliban as peace groups march President Bush condemned Afghanistan's tilers for harboring Osama bin Laden as peace groups march in the capital the possible loss of innocent a Bfotcstin Demi JKomaVhc News Thuue Washington wines from the likes of Snoqualmie Vineyards Hogue Cellars and Columbia Crest grace a table setting outside Columbia Crest's Paterson winery Washington formers are banking on increasing wine production in light of declining prices for their other crops such as apples and potatoes Washington is the secondforgest wine-producing state behind California Stories on Al D1 of a private school tops the court's agenda but considering that Bush Gore was dropped on It last year it's too early to say what the justices may be asked to deckle before it's over A4 SOUTH SOUND Tacoma politics offers dose family ties -good or bad Tacoma's close ties In four of five City Council races candidates are spouses partners employees or children of elected officials present potential pluses and minuses for candidates Name recognition can be an obvious benefit or a handicap if constituents perceive candidates as coming from the same old crowd B1 Peninsula district school will get Disneyland-like playscape A Gig Harbor-area elementary will get a Disneylandlike playscape complete with slides a ship and lots of other kkfep-proved stuff The plan provides smiles for parents and 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major-league record In 1946 an international tribunal In Nuremberg Germany found 22 top Nazis guilty of war crimes' In 1649 the Berlin Airlift came to In IMS actor James Dean was killed in a twocar collision near Cholame Calif p- In 1962 Mack student jamee Meredith succeeded on Ns fourth try in registering for dasi University of Mississippi ln 1996 with Just hours to spam before the start of the fiscal year the Senate passed and President Hinton signed a $389 billion -spending MB '-v at the 4 5' News you can use online I 1 TIUBNETCOM I wwwtribnetcom 1 Setting it straight Accunx important tout cUTlw News Tribune We take care in our reporting and editing but fhm time to time error do occur We want to correct error in a timely fathion If you believe printed information ie in error please call 253-597- wine-producing state and it's big business here A survey indicates the industry contributes $24 billion and 11000 jobs to Washington's economy D1 SOUNDUFE WPA murals resurrected displayed in Kitsap museum Nearly 60 years after the late Ernest Norling painted two large murals for the US Navy his work has been revived Kitsap County Historical Society's Museum is displaying the murals created as a Works Progress Administration project in 19428U TRAVEL Serengeti safari offers new insight into African wildlife The view from a Range Rover In Tanzania seems straight out of a nature film A cheetah scanning the tall grass for prey A herd of elephants grazing on a thicket of acacia trees A Serengeti safari gives a traveler a wonderful perspective on Africanwildlifesu represent support for the administration and its conduct of the war Labor sometimes waves it fbr trade protections WTO protesters denounce it as a symbol of economic imperialism where the problem lies The flag is both symbol and message And Fm concerned when any political message gets mixed up with the news Can you imagine the reaction if a network or mainstream print journalist wore a peace-symbol pin or a button that said "Nuke In that light the lapel-pin bans seem reasonable But Fm also concerned that a miagniHad not blind journalists to reality After Sept 11 CNN instructed i to use the phrase "alleged rather than "terrorists" to describe those who carried out the attacks The Reuters news service bans the use of "terrorist" even in this case The News Tribune has no such ban Certainly the word can be misused But I cant think of a better word to apply to those who deliberately targeted and killed more than 6000 innocents to make a political point Zeeck may I 4249 or by e-mail at davidzeeckmaiL tribnetcom school on the play field B1 SPORTS Huskies rally to beat Cal Bears after trailing by 14 points Cody Pickett completed 18 of 33 passes for 291 yards and two touchdowns as No 13 Washington rallied to beat California 31-28 on Saturday It was the Huskies' 19th consecutive victory over Cal Cl Bonds just one home run shy from tying record Barry Bonds hit his 69th home run moving one behind Mark McGwire's season record as San Francisco beat San Diego 3-1 on Saturday The homer was the 563rd of career tying Reggie Jack-son for seventh on the career list Cl BUSINESS Wine is big business here providing 1 1000 jobs Washington is the secondforgest "The flag is a powerful symbol that must be used wisely" he said That's why in my opinion we need to be careful in using it when we're in public reporting the news" His brother James Dolan president and CEO of the parent comp Cablevision Systems Corp publi disagreed but didn't rescind the order "Though we may disagree with this said James Dolan "we stand firmly by the importance of our news division making its own The NBC affiliate in Columbia Mo which is run by the University of Missouri's journalism school instructed on-air journalists not to wear flag lapel pins In retaliation some state legislators threatened to review state fimding for the television station (unaware that advertising funds station operations not the state) Personally I favor keeping the flag out of news coverage The flag flying outside my house at a school or taped in a workplace is a symbol of respect and love for country that transcends party or policy But the flag is frequently misappropriated The Ku KIux Han carried it in parades Political candidates use it to support every narrow a imaginable In the Vietnam era Nixon and his supporters wore flag pins to careful how any symbol is used in news fives A18 NATION Supreme Court starts term Monday- year A case involving federal financial support We need to be It seems most of America is flying the flag these days The checkout cleric wean a flag lapel pin A newsroom co-worker tapes a printed flag to the frame of his office cubicle The car passing you has one whipping from the radio antenna My neighbors and I fly ours daily of late There is a debate in journalism however about whether appropriate to allow reporters to wear flag pins on camera and whether news programs should use the nation's symbol as a promotional symboL The Fox News Channel thinks great if reporters and anchors wear flag lapel pins on the air said Chairman Roger Ailes But Tom Shales The Washington Post's television critic accused that network of having so many computer-generated flags waving on its newscasts that it was engaging in an contest CNN and MSNBC also have used flags though less obviously as part of their news logos when covering the terrorist i wt A attacks and their aftermath ABC CBS and NBC do discourage staffers from wearing patriotic symbols on air because they want to be perceived as independent and unbiased 1 think all ofus at ABC News are patriotic and proud of our patriotism ABC News President David Westin told the Los Angeles Times "But at the same time our patriotic obligation is to be in a position to report truthfully and honestly and independently the facts surrounding this NBC agreed very important that our viewen perceive us as giving them unvarnished information'' NBC News executive vice president Bill Wheatley told the Philadelphia Inquirer "We wouldn't permit anything that raises questions about our objectivity" Still Tim Russert of the Press" did raise some questions when he wore a red white and blue ribbon while interviewing Vice President Dick Cheney at Camp David less than a week after the terrorist attacks Wheatley told the Inquirer that was an exception Russert merely wanted to acknowledge the deaths of so many some of whom he knew Others were even more absolute At Long all-news channel News 12 news director Patrick Dolan told on-air staff to drop the flag pins JP'' For portfolio weather Where the South Sound meets Wall Street personalized stock and mutual fund listings market summaries business news and more click on and get connected! 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