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ATTACKS BRIEFS “We are absolutely committed to holding the Games,” Romney said Friday. Prince Albert, a member of Monaco’s bobsled team, said he was “pretty comfortable” with Salt Lake’s safety plans. L.A. airport opens terminal area to cars LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles International Airport reopened its Central Terminal Area to private cars Saturday for the first time since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. But drivers who streamed onto the horseshoe-shaped, double-decked road that circles the terminals were subject to random searches and were not allowed on the innermost lanes. Private cars were forbidden to pick up or drop off passengers at the curb, at the risk of being ticketed or towed. Instead, cars that wanted to stop had to use six multilevel parking structures. The airport has lost more than I $4.4 million in parking revenues since the terror attacks. The reopening of the parking structures was good news for about 100 laid-off parking employees. Airport spokeswoman Nancy Suey Castles said the traffic changes may actually have helped ease historic congestion at LAX. The ban on curb pickups has stopped motorists who used to repeatedly circle the terminal area, waiting for arriving passengers. Dogs studied for emotional trama ST. LOUIS —Veterinarians will monitor search-and rescue dogs that worked during the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to see if the animals experience changes in health or behavior. Dr. Cynthia Otto, a Universitv of P'ennsvlvania veterinarian, explained plans for the 3-year study at the National Canine Health Conference in St. Louis. Some dogs suffered injuries at the disaster scenes. But vets also are concerned about long-term effects on the dogs, both psychological and from dust and smoke inhalation. “These dogs didn't have masks,” Otto said Friday. The $100,000 study will focus on as many as 350 animals. Otto said she plans on using dozens of rescue dogs that did not respond to the terrorist attacks as a control group. Otto worked at the World Trade Center site from midnight Sept. 11 through the week, caring for the dogs’ medical needs, like flushing dust out of their eyes. The study will be funded by Ralston Purina Company and the AKC Canine Health Foundation. i Afghanistan Bombs crash into residential area CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 • discredited in Afghanistan be cause of the chaos and infight ing that marked its four years in power. Fighting between rival groups now part of the alliance destroyed large sections of Kabul and killed an estimated 50,000 people, most of them civil ians. Since the U.S.-led air campaign began Oct. 7, U.S. attacks against Taliban front line positions were mostly limited to strikes near the strategic northern city of Mazar e-Sharif. U.S. warplanes resumed at tacks Sunday in that area, strik l ing targets in the provinces of Balkh, which includes Mazar-e Sharif. and Samangan to the east of the city, according to the Afghan Islamic Press. Taliban spokesman Mullah Amir Khan Muttaqi claimed Taliban forces drove back an op position attack in the area despite the U.S. airstrikes. Afghan officials also reported more attacks Sunday near the western city of Herat and Kandahar in the south. In Kabul, U.S. jets struck at midmorning in the Khair Khana section of the city. One bomb crashed into a residential neigh borhood, destroying two houses. An Associated Press reporter saw the bodies of seven dead at the scene and later at a city hospital. All were said to be related. At a nearby hospital, Dr. Izetullah, who like many Afghans uses only one name, wept as he pulled back bloodstained sheets to show the bodies of the four children —- all boys, ages 8 to 13. Izetullah said 13 dead had been brought to the hospital. “This pilot was like he was blind,” neighbor Haziz Ullah said. “There are no military bases here — only innocent people.” The neighborhood holds no known Taliban military sites, al though a Taliban army garrison and other installations are sev eral miles away. Attending an economic sum mit in Shanghai, China, President Busn said the United States had been “as careful as we possibly could” to avoid killing civilians. A senior administration offi cial said Sunday that Bush signed an order after the Sept. 11 attacks directing the CIA to kill bin Laden and destroy his communi cations, security apparatus and infrastructure. In Islamabad, the Taliban’s deputy ambassador to Pakistan, Suhail Shaheen, said the order constituted a “terror ist act.” Faced with unrelenting at tacks, the Taliban’s Cabinet met at a secret location Sunday and ap pealed to fellow Islamic countries to donate humanitarian supplies and medicine to victims and sur vivors of the U.S.-led bombings. The Taliban also announced plans to disperse air defense and other weapons to villages, pre sumably to allow them to defend themselves against attack and to protect the materiel from U.S. jets hunting for depots and troop con centrations. Winter Olympics might be canceled SALT LAKE CITY - Olympic officials could consider canceling the Winter Olympics in the event of another major terrorist attack on the U.S., one IOC member said. “If, God forbid, there is another awful disaster... between now and then, it’s going to require a reconsideration,” Prince Albert of Monaco, a member of the International Olympic Committee, said Friday. 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