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April 20, 1996 WORLD THE SPECTRUM Page A5 Brazilian police open fire on peasants 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 Carajas, 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. (policeman) said. 'It's time for the landless to die." 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 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.

"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. NATO troops seize dozens of Serb anti-aircraft missiles 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 By The Associated Press 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 OBITUARIES ES 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 Metcalf Mortuary Chapel, 288 West St.

George St. George, Utah. Laron Andrus Andrus-Hafen Company, owner of Metcali 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, Utah." "Their 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 "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 PURDIE -Memorial Service: Sat. April 20, 4 PM at Metcalf Mortuary Chapel.

NEDRA DATWYLER -Graveside Service: Mon. April 22, Noon at Logan City Cemetery. ST. GEORGE HURRICANE LOGANDALE 673-4221 AP photo President Bill Clinton (center) and St. Petersburg's al Cemetery in St.

Petersburg, Russia Friday, Mayor Anatoly Sobchak walk past goose-stepping where more than 500,000 thousand victims of the Russian honor guards at Piskaryevskoye Memori- World War Il siege of Leningrad are buried. Clinton salutes victims of 'freedom's enemies' By The Associated Press hoping the summit gives them He laughed aloud at a huge a political boost as they head 18th century peacock clock MOSCOW On a cold. gray into re-election battles. The that spread its golden wings morning of solemn remem- White House shrugged off criti- and danced in a circle as he brance. President Clinton paid cism from Washington from approached.

tribute Friday to the hundreds Republican rival Bob Dole Despite White House insisthousands Russians who about Clinton's record on for- tence that Clinton was not of of trydied in the Nazi siege of eign and domestic policy. ing to influence Russia's presiLeningrad and to the victims "It used to be a tradition that dential elections in June, there of the Oklahoma City bombing we would suspend domestic was a subtle political point to as well. politics when a president was his visit to Kazan Cathedral. In both instances. he said.

on foreign soil. but I think that modeled after St. Peter's in they "lost their lives to free- tradition went the Rome. dom's enemies." On the first by wayside some time ago." said press sec- Under the Communists, the anniversary of the Oklahoma retary Mike McCurry. 19th century cathedral was City explosion.

he called for a In St. America's turned the of national moment of silence and Petersburg. into Museum commander-in-chief turned Atheism and Religion. Now. it bowed his head in prayer.

into the U.S. tourist has been returned to the RussClinton spent the day in St. Petersburg, a city famed for its Taking in sights. ian the he Orthodox Church and will and architec- spent two hours at the once again become the main magnificent art ture. before traveling to renowned Hermitage Museum.

church of the city. Moscow to join President Boris wandering among a cultural "I think it's a real sign of the Yeltsin at an eight-nation sum- treasury of masterpieces. health of the Russian democramit on nuclear safety. "God. it's beautiful." he said cy that religion is respected The summit leaders, meeting of Da Vinci's "Madonna and and people are free to pursue it over dinner at the Kremlin.

Child." "I love this one. I want- and express their honest conexpressed serious concern ed to see this." he remarked of victions." Clinton said. about the violence between Rembrandt's painting of Abra- Clinton was the first AmeriIsrael and Hezbollah guerrillas. ham about to kill his son. can president to visit St.

They endorsed Clinton's call Amazing. he said at Petersburg since 1972 when for an immediate cease-fire. Cezanne's Along a Richard Nixon visited the city. Both Clinton and Yeltsin are Road." then called Leningrad. 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, 1996 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. DEATH NOTICE 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. 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 SPILSBURY BEARD MORTUARY Families Serving Your Family' Serving all of Southern Utah TED SPILSBURY MICHAEL BEARD 635-2454 (702) 346-6060 673-2454 State Street 320 Old Mill Raod 58 North 100 cast Utah Mesquite, NV St. George, Utah JoAnn Purdie ST. GEORGE JoAnn Mae Purdie, 66, returned to her Savior Thursday, April 18, 1996. She was born April 11, 1930 in lowa City, lowa to Jorgen Ellefson and Mazel Neinow.

She married Eldon Kenneth Purdie Jan. 22, 1971 in Las Vegas, Nevada. An LPN nurse, Mrs. Purdie worked in nursing home administration throughout her life. She was raised in Winnebego, Minnesota and lived in New York, N.Y., and Salt Lake City, Utah before settling in George in 1969.

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