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Fires consume Yellowstone Park
■From Associated Press
Gusty winds spread fires to at least
350,000 acres in Yellowstone Na
tional Park, while 1,100 soldiers
were trained Sunday to reinforce
firefighters battling a 110,000-acre
fire advancing toward two Montana
communities.
The 60 mph winds that whipped
the fires into 100-foot walls of flame
and 30,000-foot columns of smoke
Saturday calmed down somewhat by
Sunday but were expected to reach
about 25 mph, park spokesman Joan
Anzelmo said.
“We have an intense fire situation
in Yellowstone,” Anzelmo said.
About 3,000 firefighters have been
fighting fires for several weeks in
Yellowstone.
Eighteen instructors from the
Boise Interagency Fire Center
trained troops at Fort Lewis, Wash.,
to relieve civilian firefighters and
free expert crews for more complex
work, fire officials said.
The soldiers were to board Army
transport planes Monday morning
for flights to Bozeman, Mont.,
where they will be assigned to the
Clover-Mist fire in Yellowstone, said
Chuck Tarver, a civilian installation
operations officer at the Army base
south of Tacoma.
The winds in Yellowstone forced
evacuation and closure of the park’s
south entrance as well as the Grant
Village area, which contains a hotel,
campground and housing for park
staff. Several stretches of road inside
the park, as well as the Norris, Peb
ble Creek and Madison camp
grounds, also remained closed Sun
day.
On Sunday, several hundred resi
dents of Silver Gate and Cooke City,
two communities in Montana near
Yellowstone, considered evacuating
because the 100,000-acre fire was
within six miles of their homes, said
Hays Kirby, owner of the Grizzly
Lodge in Silver Gate.
“Some residents are packing and
we have alerted elderly people,” he
said. Most of the residents, mostly
summer people, will stay and fight,
Kirby added.
In Montana, firefighters battled
blazes across the state that totalled
more than 115,000 acres, the worst
fires in the state since 1984 when
more than 250,000 acres were
charred.
In Southern California, firefight
ers brought under control a 1,237-
acre brush fire on the rocky north
slope of the San Jacinto Mountains
on Saturday, while d 300-acre fire in
the San Bernardino National Forest
was contained, officials said.
Hot, dry winds Sunday plagt
200 firefighters in northern'
Nez Perce National Forest, when
320-acre fire burned in inaccesa:
terrain 11 miles north of the Sal®
River.
In Montana, about 1,9'
fighters encircled about 80 pera
of the pesky 35,200-acre Wj
Springs fire in the Elkhorn Mon
tains about 10 miles southeastofll
lena, said Bob Krepps oftheDepi
ment of State Lanas.
Anti-abortion group
wears out welcome
ATLANTA (AP) — More than a
month of demonstrations by an anti
abortion group trying to close local
clinics have worn out the city’s wel
come mat, and Southern hospitality
is being withdrawn.
During and just after the Demo-
■ cratic National Convention, police
carried anti-abortion protesters to
waiting jail buses. Now, more than
700 arrests and a dozen demonstra
tions later, they drag them.
“We’re giving them the opportu
nity to walk the 10 feet to the bus,”
police Sgt. Melvin Denson said.
Sgt. Carl Pydrum Jr. said,“We are
no longer extending certain courte
sies.”
The jails are getting crowded, al
though corrections officials say they
can manage, even if some demon
strators have to bunk on cell floors.
And the cost of protecting the clinics
and of arresting and holding the
protesters has shot past $250,000.
Operation Rescue, a New York-
based anti-abortion group, kicked
off the protests July 19, the second
day of the convention, when scores
of activists who were not carrying
identification tried to block access to
a clinic where abortions and other
procedures are performed.
Those arrested refused to give
their names, identifying themselves
as Baby Jane Doe or Baby John Doe
to show solidarity with the fetuses.
Some remain jailed; others have
been identified or have won their re
lease by giving their names. Com
rades keep coming.
Authorities won’t release those
who refuse to give their names, say
ing they could not be sure the pro
testers would return for court dates.
Mayor Andrew Young rejected a
request last week by 44 congressmen,
including the entire Louisiana dele
gation, to release the prisoners. He
said the protesters could go when
they give their names, and noted
that Atlanta pays $10,000 a week in
police overtime because of the pro
tests. It costs about $50 a day to keep
1 a person in jail.
The city’s tactics in dealing with
the activists have changed as the pro
tests have dragged on.
The convention expedient of re
leasing arrested protesters on recog
nizance bonds is history; authorities
now require cash or a surety bond
ranging from $300 to $2,000.
About $00 demonstrators remain
in city and Fulton County jails, now
mixed in with the general jail pop
ulation instead of being kept apart.
Some demonstrators are being
charged with felony obstruction
counts instead of misdemeanor tres
passing. Vans taking protesters to
the clinics have started getting traffic
tickets.
Police destroy
houses left
after quake
DHARAN, Nepal (AP) — Police
bulldozed teetering houses Tuesday
to keep people from returning to
homes left unsafe by an earthquake
that killed at least 731 people in In
dia and Nepal.
Officials in both countries ex
pected the death toll to rise as relief
workers reached remote towns that
have been inaccessible since Sun
day’s devastating quake.
Some roads were flooded by
heavy rains that continued Tuesday,
while others had 3-foot-deep cracks
or were blocked by boulders the size
of houses in the Himalayan moun
tains and valleys.
At least 531 people were killed in
Nepal, said Tek Bahadur Thapa, ad
ditional secretary in the Home Af
fairs Ministry.
Prime Minister Marich Man Singh
Shrestha visited Dharan, one of the
hardest-hit towns, and surveyed
heaps of bricks that were once three-
story and five-story houses.
“This is the biggest calamity to
strike Nepal,” Shrestha said as he
toured the town.
India reported an official death
toll of 200.
World briefs
Manual helps British drive in Americi
LONDON (AP) — Help is at
hand for British motorists in the
United States to keep them from
getting stuck on the dual carria
geway with a bad silencer and not
a spanner in the boot.
“Driving in the U.S.A.,” a 32-
page pamphlet written by two
British journalists, aims to dispel
some of the mystery of motoring
the American way, and to protect
this year’s crop of self-driving
British vacationers from death,
speeding fines and big lawsuits.
The pamphlet is another of
those occasional reminders that
the potential for Anglo-American
misunderstanding is enormous,
especially on the highways. They
drive on opposite sides and have
little in common other than that
both use miles instead of kilome
ters.
The dictionary alone
I'A pages: a trunk is a boot;a
hood is a bonnet; a wrench is a
spanner; a muffler is a silencer,!
stickshift is a gearshift, a lenders
a bumper ; gas is petrol; a trailers
a caravan; a divided highwayisa
dual carriageway and a beltwayis
a ring road.
Some words don’t even have a
British equivalent. Thus gridlod
is translated laboriously as a "tra(
fic jam in all directions.”
The booklet is filled with stir
prises as to how much Britons
don’t know about American driv
ing, such as toll roads, the fan
that cars with automatic transmis
sions “creep forward” if the bralt
isn’t pressed, and that speedin;
can mean fines.
Nazi-Soviet pact results in protests
MOSCOW (AP) — At least
150,000 people jammed squares
and parks in three Baltic repub
lics Tuesday protesting the pact
with Nazi Germany that enabled
the Soviet Union to absorb their
lands, activists and official reports,
said.
Demonstrators in Estonia, Lat
via and Lithuania carried the na
tional flags of their previously in
dependent countries and banners
denouncing the secret agreement
of Aug. 23, 1939. The Soviets
moved into the three countries a
year later.
The largest protest reported
was in Vilnius, capital of Lithua
nia. Tass, the official Soviet news
agency, said 100,000 people gath
ered in Vignis Park.
Valdas Analauskas, correspon
dent in Lithuania for the unoffi
cial journal Express Chronicle.
said about 50,000 people _
ered . for a candlelight Roman
Catholic Mass and procession in
Kaunas, the republic’s second
largest city.
At least 8,000 Estonians at
tended an outdoor rally and filled
the Tallinn town hall fora[
discussion about dictator Josef
Stalin’s repression of the Baltics
Ents Tsavilitis, a former polii
cal prisoner and a member of an
unofficial environmental gro
said he was among 30,000-40,1
people who demonstrated
Riga, the Latvian capital.
In a report from Riga, lass
said “several thousand” peopleat
tended a meeting organized bf
informal political groups.
Stock prices post mixed movements
NEW YORK (AP) — Stock
prices drifted lazily this af
ternoon, with blue-chip issues
posting tiny gains while the
broader market was mixed.
Trading slowed from Mon
day’s sluggish pace.
The Dow Jones average of 30
industrials, which fell 25.78
points on Monday to its lowest
level since late May, was up 2.31
at 1,992.53 with two hours left in
the session.
But declining issues outpaced
gainers by a margin of 7 to 5 on
the New York Stock Exchange,
with 584 up, 739 down and 562
unchanged.
Big Board volume amountei
to 84.81 million shares at 2 pn
on Wall Street, compared witf
92.34 million shares at the same
point on Monday.
Before the market opened,ttf
Labor Department reported coi
sumer prices rose 0.4 percent
July and the Commerce Depatt
ment said orders for durablf
goods fell 7 percent in the satf
month.
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