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Saturday, April 20, 1996 World Tin Sru nu Page A5 Brazilian police open fire on peasants Maraba, but they only made it as far as Eldorado do Carajas. Survivors said state authorities had promised to send buses and food for the families. When the aid failed to come, the peasants blocked the road. Late Wednesday, two state police battalions arrived. What happened next is in dispute.

According to police, the officers tried to negotiate with the protesters but were pelted with rocks and shot at. "We came to talk and open the road and they started shooting," a police officer who identified himself only as Lt. Furtado said by telephone from Maraba. "We just returned their fire." Survivors claim the officers didn't say a word. 'They didn't even try to negotiate," said Galvino.

"They came off the trucks shooting tear gas and firing into the air, then lowered their sights." The peasants, armed with sticks, stones, machetes and some handguns, were quickly cut down or scattered in panic. Human rights activists contend that some of the victims were killed execution-style. By The Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO. Brazil Even given the bloody history of the eastern Amazon rain forest, the violence was shocking. State police with rifles and machine guns opened fire on hundreds of peasants demanding land, killing at least 22 of them.

Dozens more were wounded in the attack in Eldorado do Cara-jas, a remote village in the state of Para. 1.250 miles northwest of Rio. One policeman was killed and six were wounded in the confrontation. "One (policeman) said, 'It's time for the landless to Orlando Galvino said by telephone from Maraba. about 80 miles from the scene of the attack.

Galvino is a member of the Landless Peasants Movement, which organized a national day of demonstrations April 10 to protest Brazil's widely unequal distribution of land 20 percent of Brazilians own 88 percent of the land, while the poorest 40 percent hold just 1 percent. Some 2,000 peasants gathered in southern Para for a march to NATO troops seize By The Associated Press SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina NATO-led troops confiscated several dozen banned anti-aircraft missiles from Serbs on Friday, but insisted that a major pullback of troops and weapons was progressing well. The shoulder-fired SAM-7 missiles were discovered near the town of Doboj in north-central 1 AP photo al Cemetery in St. Petersburg, Russia Friday, where more than 500..000 thousand victims of the World War II siege of Leningrad are buried. President Bill Clinton (center) and St.

Petersburg's Mayor Anatoly Sobchak walk past goose-stepping Russian honor guards at Piskaryevskoye Memori- victims of 'freedom's enemies' dozens of Serb anti "The survivors tell the same story: people dragged off into the brush and later turning up dead." said Wanderlei Martins Ladislau of the Para Society for the Defense of Human Rights. "Around here," he added, "this happens a lot." In the past decade, at least 961 peasants and their supporters have been killed in land disputes, according to the Pastoral Land Commission, which is linked to the Roman Catholic Church. Eighty-three of those deaths were in Para. President Fernando Henrique Cardoso called the violence "intolerable" and sent Justice Minister Nelson Jobim to Para to investigate. "Nothing justifies having police shoot people who are expressing their opinions." Cardoso said.

Para Gov. Almir Gabriel fired the state police colonel, who was blamed for giving the order to fire. He said the state would pay for the victims' funerals and provide pensions for their families. Agriculture Minister Jose Eduardo Andrade Vieira has resigned, but said it was decided before the confrontation. aircraft missiles what is apparently a rare case of non-compliance with the military provisions of the peace agreement.

For the most part, the three sides have adhered to the requirements. Haselock said the 56 missiles were seized at a site 7 miles east of Doboj, which is in the military sector patrolled mainly by the U.S. Army and Scandinavian countries. Andrus Abstract and Title Company in Provo, Utah and owner of Aarvark Pest Control Business in Phoenix, Arizona. He was currently a High Priest in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

Survivors include two daughters: Mrs. William (Natalie) Gill of Phoenix, Arizona and Mrs. Dennis (RoseMary) Blackhurst of Mesa, Arizona; six grandchildren; and nine great grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a son: Laron K. Andrus.

Visitation will be held Saturday, April 20, 1 996 from 3 until 5 p.m. at the Bunker's Garden Chapel, 33 North Centennial Way, Mesa, Arizona. Graveside services will be held Monday, April 22, 1996. 11 a.m. at the St.

George City Cemetery. BSiiHBSISSE'rri St. George Nedra Datwyler Nedra Datwyler, 74, of Los Angeles, died Thursday. She was born Nov. 10, 1921 in Logan, Utah.

Graveside services are Monday at noon at the Logan cemetery. AMERICAN CANCER hoping the summit gives them a political boost as they head into re-election battles. The White House shrugged off criticism from Washington from Republican rival Bob Dole about Clinton's record on foreign and domestic policy. "lt used to be a tradition that we would suspend domestic politics when a president was on foreign soil, but I think that tradition went by the wayside some time ago." said press secretary Mike McCurry. In St.

Petersburg, America's commander i chief rned into the U.S. tourist -in-chief. Taking in the sights, he spent two hours at the renowned Hermitage Museum, wandering among a cultural treasury of masterpieces. "God. it's beautiful." he said of Da Vinci's "Madonna and Child." "I love this one, I wanted to see this," he remarked of Rembrandt's painting of Abraham about to kill his son.

"Amazing," he said at Cezanne's Along 'a Road." He laughed aloud at a huge 18th century peacock clock that spread its golden wings and danced in a circle as he approached. Despite White House insistence that Clinton was not trying to influence Russia's presidential elections in June, there was a subtle political point to his visit to Kazan Cathedral, modeled after St. Peter's in Rome. Under the Communists, the 19th century cathedral was turned into the Museum of Atheism and Religion. Now.

it lias been returned to the Russian Orthodox Church and will once again become the main church of the city. "I think it's a real sign of the health of the Russian democracy that religion is respected and people are free to pursue it and express their honest convictions." Clinton said. Clinton was the first American president to visit St. Petersburg. since 1972 when Richard Nixon visited the city, then called Leningrad.

OBITUARIES Clinton salutes By The Associated Press MOSCOW On a cold, gray morning of solemn remembrance. President Clinton paid tribute Friday to the hundreds of thousands of Russians who died in the Nazi siege of Leningrad and to the victims of the Oklahoma City bombing as well. In both instances, he said, they "lost their lives to freedom's enemies." On the first anniversary of the Oklahoma City explosion, he called for a national moment of silence and bowed his head in prayer. Clinton spent the day in St. Petersburg, a city famed for its magnificent art and architecture, before traveling to Moscow to join President Boris Yeltsin at an eight-nation summit on nuclear safety.

The summit leaders, meeting over dinner at the Kremlin, expressed serious concern about the violence between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas. They endorsed Clinton's call for an immediate cease-lire. Both Clinton and Yeltsin are French lead world in anti-depressant use PARIS The French are in a funk. And their growing dependence on prescription pick-me-ups is giving the nation a new reason to wring its hands. France, a new study has found, consumes three to four times as many tranquilizers, antidepressants and sedatives as the U.

S. or any other European country. In the United States doctors scribbled 43 million prescriptions for antidepressants last year. By The Associated Press 1 'SPILSBURY MORTUARY' 'ffifr 4 1- Cur Families Serving Your Family" Serving all of Southern Utah it -u Wiite Sired -i- Uaav. I rh (702) 346-6060 32(1 Old Mill Kaod Mesquite, NV 673-2454 "i8 North 100m St.

George, Utah Bosnia on Thursday, said NATO spokesman Maj. Simon Haselock. Under the Dayton peace agreement, the weapons were to have been gathered at a supervised collection point a month ago. The accord directs that anti-aircraft missiles found outside the collection points should be demolished. 'They will not be returned, and will be destroyed." Haselock said.

Friday's seizure represented tion for Retarded People and was also an active charter member of the Our Saviors Evangelical Lutheran Church in St. George. She also enjoyed cooking. Her granddaughter, Lisa, remembers her close friendship, laughter, smile and giving heart. She will always be remembered with warm memories.

Survivors include her husband: Eldon of St. George; two children: Thomas Fjermestad of St. George, Utah; Dawn Sidwell of Houston, Texas; nine grandchildren: Lisa (Pratt) Dimond, Draper, Utah; Dustin Sidwell, Salt Lake City, Utah; Jason Fjermestad; Eric Fjermestad; Angela Fjermestad; Sonny Fjermestad; Trisha Fjermestad; and Amanda Fjermestad; all of St. George, Utah, and Michelle Fjermestad of Minnesota; and three great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her father; mother; and twin sister: Jean Paxton.

Memorial services will be held Saturday, April 20, 1996 at 4 p.m. at the Met-calf Mortuary Chapel, 288 West St. George St. George, Utah. Laron Andrus MESA, Arizona Laron Steen Andrus, 91 died April 18.

1996 in Mesa, Arizona. He was born in Washington, Utah. He married Rose Ashby on May 13, 1934 in St. George, marriage was later solemnized in the Los Angeles LDS Temple. She preceded him in death in 1989.

Laron was a former president of the St. George Rotary Club, school teacher and principal in Washington County, Utah. He also worked as the Washington County clerk. He was partners in the Andrus-Hafen Company, owner of ORTUARY- "Quality Service With Dignity" FLOYD LANGFORD -Funeral: Sat. April 20, 11 AM at Washington Stake Center.

-Visitation: Fri. 7-8 PM at Metcalf Mortuary Sat. AM at Chapel prior. GLEN O. HARDWICK -Funeral: Sat.

April 20, 11 AM at Enterprise Stake Center. -Visitations: Fri. 7-8 PM at Metcalf Mortuary Sat. 10-11 AM at Chapel prior. WILLIAM HANKS -Memorial Service: Sat.

April 20, 2 PM at Metcalf Mortuary Chapel. JOANN MAE PLRDIE -Memorial Service: Sat. April 20, 4 PM at Metcalf Mortuary Chapel. NEDRA DATWYLER -Graveside Service: Mon. April 22, Noon at Logan City Cemetery.

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