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Show Pioneer Day Vol. 231, No. 115 Salt Lake City, Utah Wednesday Morning July 24, Pioneer Day 1985 Chinese Reagan, OK Nuclear Pact; - WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan, at his first diplomatic ceremony since cancer surgery, lent a guiding arm Tuesday to the frail Chinese President Li Xiannian and apd proved the signing of a nuclear cooperation agreement between the United States and China. The nuclear pact, which was signed later in the day, will clear the way for the sale of American reactors and other technology that China wants for its ambitious nuclear power electricity program. The accord is subject to congressional review but it is considered highly unlikely that Congress will block it. At the welcoming ceremony for President Li, Reagan, walking somewhat stiffly but appearing otherwise fit, held hands with his wife Nancy and acknowledged cheers from hundreds of spectators as he emerged for South the event on the Lawn. The Reagan, who walked unaided to a small podium for the ceremony, put his arm around the Li to gently guide him to his seat at the start of the ceremony. Reagan declared the two nations had built a foundation of good will that included a joint stand against aggression. In his remarks, Li told Reagan: Im very happy to see you are recovering so fast and Im deeply touched by your participation in this welcoming ceremony. Li spoke in Chinese and his remarks were translated into English. Secretary of State George P. Shultz, meanwhile, said the nuclear agreement has important positive long-stalle- Tribune Staff Photo by Von Porter Days of 47 Royally to Grace Parade the Days of 47 festivities and the crowning event, todays parade. For a list of activities and the parade entries, turn to B-- l. center, and her first and second attendants, Diana Bnrdett, left, and Sonya Powell, rule over' The qoeen, Bonnie Lnndquist, A State Department official, who spoke on condition he not be identified, said the maximum potential for U.S. sales would be between $10 billion and $12 billion, but that the actual amount probably would be considerably less. The official emphasized that the pact covers nothing with any military application whatsoever. The pact was first initialed during Reagans visit to China 15 months ago, but was shelved becar.sc of intelligence information that China may have assisted Pakistan in its efforts to develop a nuclear weapons capability. Both countries denied it. Raid Nets Over 1 20 South Africa Seizes Black Leaders as Arrests Reach 441 i 4 JOHANNESBURG, South Africa Police said Tuesday they had arrested 441 people in the state of emergency. Many detainees assoare members of ciations, the grass-root- s leadership in y rule. the fight against In Port Elizabeth, police arrested Molly Blackburn, the leading white activist in troubled eastern Cape Province. A prominent member of the political opposition, implications for promoting the she was arrested on charges of atpeaceful uses of nuclear energy as tending an illegal meeting, and was well as strengthening the world nondetained an hour before she was to meet former U.S. Cabinet members proliferation regime. Vice Premier Li Peng stressed that Cyrus Vance, Robert McNamara and the Chinese intend only peaceful uses Donald McHenry. of nuclear energy. I believe that the Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu, Sino-U.nuclear cooperation agreespeaking at the funeral of 15 people ment will be confined to peaceful killed in protest riots, castigated purposes to bring benefit to our blacks who kill black officials and policemen considered to be tools of the people, he said. (AP) black-townsh- ip white-minorit- id S. Tribune Wire Services CHICAGO V Authorities arrested more than 120 people Tuesday and confiscated 47 properties ranging from apartment buildings to restaurants in a major crackdown on drug trafficking in six states, Puerto Rico and Mexico, officials announced. More than 400 law enforcement ofg raids ficials launched in Illinois, Texas, Florida, California, Colorado, and Indiana, and arrested residents of those states and of Puerto Rico and Mexico, U.S. Attorney Anton R. Valukas announced. Valukas said a total of 134 people had been indicted after a two-yefederal investigation, and more than 120 were arrested in the raids. He said $197,000 in cash, along with large amounts of marijuana, cocaine and heroin were seized during the raids. He said he did not yet know the value of the drugs. Valukas said the indictments and inarrests resulted from a two-yevestigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration and the FBI of the activities of the Herrera family of Durango, Mexico. He said the Herreras imported drugs through El Paso, Texas, into the Chicago area. From there, the early-mornin- drugs were distributed to otheFpoints in the United States, Valukas said. The charges include conspiracy to violate laws,!use of interstate communication facilities to violate laws and interstate travel between Chicago, El Paso and Mexico for the purpose of acquiring illegal drugs. The investigation utilized a number of agencies and sophisticated law drug-trafficki- drug-trafficki- -- -- - Chuckle .Todays .'Its all right to build castles in the air, but just try to get a construction loan on one. enforcement techniques, and the evidence reflected in the indictment documents the existence of six networks in the Chicago area alone," Attorney General Edwin Meese III said in a statement in Washington. The 47 properties confiscated included apartment buildings, gas stations, restaurants, bars and residences, Valukas said. Suspects Herreras have been operating since the early 1960s, growing opium in the Sierra DEA officials believe the Madre Occidental Mountains around Durango, refining the raw material into heroin and shipping the product to the United States. The family has been considered by federal authorities to be of unparalleled sophistication in its operation of a multimillion-dolla- r drug network, Few Lees Show Up for Ceremony Marking Death of Yankee Foe ar ar Drug-Rin- g NEW YORK (AP) - But then theres an awful lot of Grant descendants that Ive never met either. Im disappointed that more of them didnt come, said Deitz, a curator at the Newark Museum. Among Lee descendants who had indicated they hoped to attend were Robert E. Lee IV, McLean, Va., and Mary Lynn Holmes, Greensboro, N.C. I just couldnt get away, Im in business, Lee said. It was no snub whatsoever. The centennial was not a high priority and a trip to New York would have been too expensive, The descen- dants of Gen. Robert E. Lee were conspicuous in their absence Tuesday at a ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of the death of his Yankee opponent, Ulysses S. Grant. Although the U.S. Park Service had billed the ceremony at Grants Tomb as a reunion of Grant and Lee descendants from both sides of the Mason-Dixo- n line, only Grants relatives showed up. It would have been fun to have met some of them, said Ulysses Grant Deitz of Maplewood, N.J., a of the nations first four-sta- r general and its 18th president. said Mrs. Holmes husband, George, a Grant descendant. We involving literally thousands of people, agents said. Agents say that at times the Herreras have had such control over heroin sales that they were able to set the price, quality and availability of the narcotic. The Herreras dominated the Midwestern heroin market throughout the 1970s, with trafficking operations at their peak in 1976 and 1977, according to federal officials. During congressional hearings, DEA analysts said they traced 147 accounts in Mexican banks to Herrera family members. Chicagos central location and large Mexican population reportedly made it an excellent distribution point for the drug operation as well as something of a sanctuary. of collateral descent, Holmes said. Its quite distant really. Deitz was one of six people who showed up claiming to be related to Grant. Alma Burgess, Pittsburgh, who is black, said her late husband, John W. Burgess, was a grandson of Grant. She said the relationship was recorded in a family bible, now in possession of her bother-in-laTheodore Burgess, who lives in Orlando, Fla. I didnt come here to embarrass the Grant family, Mrs. Burgess said. Theres nothing in it for me except that I am prideful of the relationship. are both re-sa- le i i f 6-St- ate Obviously we would not be signing with the of language preventing the nuclead material to a third country, said White House spokesman Larry Speakes. At a photo session in the White House Green Room, Reagan was asked how he was feeling and replied, Fine. He said no when asked if he had any complaints. The president grinned, and chatted with Li through an interpreter. Reagan offered brief answers to several reporters questions without difficulty, but his cheeks were not their normal ruddy red and he walked slowly See A-- Column 3 it if we were not satisfied Mexican drug producers first gained a foothold in the United States in the early 1970s, when the infamous French Connection was shut dovn after pumping Turkish heroin into the United States for nearly 20 years. Hundreds of law enforcement officers began sweeping the Chicago area early Tuesday with arrest warrants for 99 people chai ged with drug violations in eight indictments returned by a federal grand jury in Chicago. In addition, an estimated 150 officers in northwest Indiana sought 35 more people named in three other indictments, bringing to 134 the total number of people charged in Operation Durango, Valukas said. whites. Such killings make it difficult to speak up for your liberation, said the winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize. Nearly 500 blacks have died in 11 months of riots against apartheid, the legal structure of race discrimination through which South Africas 5 million whites control the voteless black majority of 24 million. Most have been shot by police, but increasingly blacks have attacked and slain other blacks they regard as collaborators with the government. Police reported more riots in townships Monday night and Tuesday. At least 10 blacks have been killed in clashes with police since the emergency took effect Sunday in 36 black cities and townships. Sixty have been arrested on criminal charges after street battles with riot patrols both in townships covered by the decree and elsewhere. Headquarters said Tuesday night that police shot two of the blacks dead when a crowd of about 150 stoned a patrol in the Cape Province. It was one of five incidents in the region and another clash occurred east of Johannesburg, a spokesman said. For the first time, the nightly police report did not name the township were the deaths occurred. The spokesman said it was part of an attempt under the emergency to tone down riot coverage without direct censorship. A mourning crowd of 20,000 to 25,000 chanted and sang freedom songs at the funeral of the 15 blacks, a but the emotional service in township near Johannesburg was peaceful. Armored police and army riot vehicles patrolled nearby. Tutu, the Anglican bishop of Johannesburg, said of the killing of other blacks: If you do that again, Im going to find it difficult to speak up for your liberation. If that happens again, Im going to collect my family and leave this country that I love. Millions of people worldwide support our struggle, but when they saw that on TV, many said, Uh, uh, if these people can do things like that, they are not ready for freeKwa-Them- dom. He reierred to a mobs brutal killing of a suspected woman informer at a funeral on Saturday, which was televised in South Africa and abroad. She was stoned and beaten and, still writhing, set on fire. It was on Saturday that President P.W. Botha declared the state of emergency, the first since violence swept South Africa in 1960 after 69 See A-Column 3 Tropical- Storm Dumps Torrents on Thirsty S. Florida . FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) Tropical Storm Bob, first of the season to hit land, blustered ashore Tuesday with 50 mph winds and torrents of badly needed rain, whipping up g tides and waves that Crashed over sea walls. Two resort islands Sanibel, off Fort Myers, and Marco, southeast of were isolated from the Naples mainland for several hours Tuesday morning when officials closed causeways because of flooding from rain and tides. The roads were reopened when the water subsided. Weve had some heavy flooding in Marco. Its just been the constant rain, said Marco Beach Resort employee Arlene Policandriotes. However, officials reported no injuries and only minor property damage at the coast. "We didnt advise or recommend any evacuation, said John Wilson of the Division of Public Safety in Fort beach-erodin- Myers. We got wet. We needed the rain. Our water table has been way down, way below the annual average. During the 24 hours ending at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Bob had dumped 11 inches of rain on Marco Island, about Photo of Damage, A-- 3 miles south of Fort Myers, 9.72 inches on northeastern Naples and 1.92 inches on Fort Myers, all in southwest Florida, said the National Weather Service. Floridas rainfall has been far below average this year, and the drought was blamed for widespread grass and swamp fires that broke out across the state in May. The storms brunt was in an area of heavy thunderstorms in squalls and gusty winds south and east of its cen 40 ter, said National Hurricane Center Director Neil Frank. Weather on the Gulf Coast began improving as the center of the storm approached, pushing the worst of the storm father eastward. As of 9 p.m., the storms broadening center hovered over Lake OkeechoFlorida. It was bee in south-centrat moving toward the about 10 mph and was expected to continue in this direction as it moved off the Florida coast and over the Atlantic overnight, the weather service said. Bobs trek over south Florida Lauderdale lashed the Miami-For- t p area with squalls, heavy thunderstorms and at least two tornadoes. The tornadoes, confirmed in northern Dade County, scattered tree limbs and broke some windows, but otherwise little damage was reported, said forecaster Frank Revitte. st non-sto- The weather service reported 4 inches of rain in most parts of Dade and Broward counties during the 24 hours ending at 5 p.m. Tuesday. 2-- Gale and thunderstorm warnings were posted along the storms predicted path in St. Lucie, Martin, Palm Beach and Okeechobee counties and in Dade, Broward and Monroe counties. Seas were predicted as high as 10 feet and tides were expected to rise about 2 feet above normal. While the storm was unlikely to make landfall in Florida again, it could intensify over the warm Atlantic Ocean and return to shore farther north, Hurricane Center forecaster Gil Clark said. Bobs highest sustained winds declined in the afternoon from 50 mph to 40 mph, well below the 74 mph threshold for hurricane status, and no strengthening of the storm was expected while it remains over land, forecasters reported from the Coral Gables storm center. Tides of 3 to 5 feet above normal were forecast and tides 3 5 feet above normal were reported at Charlotte Harbor. At Tarpon Bay Marina on Sanibel Island, manager Graeme Mellor said the docks and one waterfront gift shop were flooded. lot of boats almost sank. We up all night pumping boats, bailing boats, Mellor said. I didnt get a lot of thanks. Thats normal. A didnt lose any but Ive been About 7,000 customers lost power in southwest Florida and about 1,500 in the southeast, utility companies reported. As long as winds and lightning stay away, we dont anticipate a lot of problems, said Florida Power & Light Co. spokesman Carl Pounds in Miami. Todays Forecast Fair Salt Lake City and vicinity to partly cloudy skies. 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