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Show 2A The Salt Lake Tribune November Saturday, 14 3, Spotlight Gandhis Son Pleads for Halt to Carnage Continued From Page One soeiated Press newsman Sidharth Bhatia Whm the train stopped at Tughlakabad n the outskirts of New Delhi, a hundiel young men broke int the locked train They searched the cars for Sikhs, easily distinguishable by their beards and turbans The mob dragged a Sikh passenger from his train compartment, beat him to death and set his body afire A thousand Sikh passengers from cdl over India camped out in the waiting rooms and the platforms at the New Delhi central station, afraid to continue their journeys and preferring the safety of numbers It was impossible to determine whether all the violence was carried Hindus or out by revenge-mindewhether looters and hooligans were involved in some cases Elaborate Precautions The army and police took elaborate precautions to protect the foreign dignitaries arriving for Mrs Gandhi s funeral and cremation Saturday on the banks of the Jamuna River Foreign delegations representing at least 38 countries were expected They include U S Secretary of State George P Shultz, who arrived late Friday, Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Princess Anne, andSoviet Prime Minister Nikolai Tikhonov French Prime Minister Laurent Fabius and Pakistan's President Zia also said they would come G ndhis office said Rajiv Gandhi received Tikhonov late Friday and pledged to continue his mother's policies of strengthening friendly ties with the Soviet Union and other countries Hindu Custom In keeping with ancient Hindu custom. Mrs Gandhi's body will be lr.id on a flower-strewplatform of sandalwood and brick and set alight by her son Her father, India s first q d n prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, and her younger son Sanjay, killed n a 1930 plane crash, were cremated at the same riverside site Independence leader Mohandas K Mahatma j Gandhi who was not related to the prime minister, was cremated there as well Mourning March Mrs Gandhi s body lay in state Friday night in her childhood home, which has been converted into a museum in honor of Nehru Police said 800 000 mourners filed past the building Friday, following 600,000 who ( came Thursday The mourning march was expected to continue into the night Mrs Gandhi's body, draped in the orange, white and green Indian flag and covered with flowers and garlands, was tilted on an artillery caisson in a courtyard, vyth her bruised face exposed More than a million people were funeral expected to line the six-mil- e procession route across the heart of the apttal Saturday The foreign dignitaries, guarded by hundreds of soldiers and police will drive directly to the cremation site Confirmed Leader At the climax of the ceremony, Hindu priests chanting prayers will pour clarified butter and incense over the body before it is set afire by her son Rajiv Gandhi was unanimously confirmed as leader of the governing Congress Party by an emergency General meeting of the Parliamentary body The vote retroactively approved President Zail Singhs action Wednesday in swearing him in as Indias sixth prime minister since the end of British colonial rule in 1947 His appointment Wednesday by a caucus of party leaders had been criticized as unconstitutional by some politicians A violent campaign by Sikh extremists has taken 375 lives in the past three years, mostly in the state of Punjab In June, Mrs Gandhi ordered an army attack on their holiest shrine, the Golden Temple in Amritsar, which the extremists used as a fortress Hundreds were killed in the battle and the militants swore revenge Sikh-majon- Hopefuls Entreat Crowds GRAFFITI In Final Campaign VewaS Thrusts Across Nation n Continued From Page One vice president campaign for two Republican candidates A handful of hecklers chanted - LOS ANGELES (UPI) The elderly preacher father of slain soul singer Marvin Gaye was placed on five Peter Teeley, Bush's press secretary, said later that the vice presid dents remark was directed at hecklers standing m front of him. Teeley said there were about a dozen, although it appeared to others it might have been half that number Later still, Bush, asked whom he was referring to with his remark about "idiots, said, "Just a handful of demonstrators who were hectoring me Nothing serious years probation Friday for shooting his Grammy Award-winninson during a heated argument in the family home in April. IH carry it with me 'til the day I die, a tearful Marvin Gay Sr told the judge after sentencing "I'm paying the price. Judge Gordon Ringer said imposing a prison sentence on the Gay would be tantamount to "a death sentence because of his advanced age and poor health Gay appeared frail and worn from his ordeal and medical problems that included surgery for the removal of a brain tumor in May Its killing me, I loved my son, he said Gay pleaded no contest at his September arraignment to voluntary manslaughter A probation officer said Gay expresses remorse for his actions The elder Gay shot his son twice in the chest the fatal bullet piercing the singer's heart during the argument April 1 in which the entertainer inflicted massive bruises on his father The dispute was reportedly over a letter from an insurance company Gaye added the "e" to his last name when he began his entertainment g sharp-tongue- Bush, in Wilmington to bolster the congressional candidacy of Elise du Pont, wife of the Republican governor, said citizens have nothing to fear from Mondale on the tax front be- cause fortunately for the republic when Walter Mondale speaks, " body listens . . . no- Mondale said in his acceptance speech at the Democratic convention in July that a tax increase next year is inevitable to deal with the deficit, which was $175 billion in fiscal 1984 He accused Reagan of harboring a secret plan to raise taxes Meanwhile Friday, Treasury Secretary Donald T Regan dismissed as "idle speculation" newspaper reports that the administration may seek to tax all unemployment and workmen's compensation benefits and to phase out the state and local income tax deduction McNughi Syndicate Sri Lanka Reports Terrorist Attacks De MjlP WeVEP four more days" at Bush as he began his speech on a stage in a hotel ballroom Several minutes into his address, amid no audible heckling. 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Actor David Warner, comedian Spike Milligan and actress Ann Todd were among the entertainers who attended the London memorial service this week for Mason, who died in Switzerland on July 27 at the age down-to-eart- of 75. Gielgud directed Mason on stage in 1934 and they appeared together in the film Julius Caesar and Mason's last film, "The Shooting Party, which hasn't been released yet actor always so punctiliGielgud called the Cambridge-educate- d ous, beautifully mannered, quiet Gielgud finished by quoting the remark from "Julius Caesar" that Mark Antony made of Brutus "This was a man ir ir ir in magic was sparked when, as a growing up in Winnipeg, Canada, he saw a magician levitate a girl on a local TV show Henning bought a magic kit and his mother encouraged him to perform for his two sisters, hoping it would coax Henning out of his shyness The future magician was so shy, he recalled, that when company came I used to hide in the clothes hamper " Now, about the only time Henning hides is when he makes himself disappear during his magic act Doug Hennicg s interest The Rev. Jessie Jackson, the song "Ghostbusters, and the movie "Beat Street are among nominees for the 17th annual NAACP Image Awards honoring black singers, actors and celebrities The honors are presented by the Beverly branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Prince, the rock star, is up for his leading role in the film Purple Rain and as best male vocalist The awards ceremony will be held Dec 4 at the Music Center's Dorothy Chandler Pavilion with comedian Bob Hope and singer Lena Horne as honorary Tribune Wires Text and AP Photos Arctic Storm Brings More Freezing Rain Well Prevail, Bishop Tutu And Snow to Washington and Oregon Cautions U.S. By The Associated Press The Pacif'c Northwest's first major storm of the season spread freezing rain and wet snow across Oregon and Washington for a second day Friday and toppled redwoods in North- ern California Officials blamed three deaths on the weather In Portland. Ore., police say a man and a woman were killed when a driver lost control of his car as it hydroplaned on the the Ross Island Bridge on Friday morning and slammed into oncoming traffic A woman died near Addy in northeastern Washington on Thursday when her car went out of control as she rounded a curve on a snowy road and struck a milk tanker-tructhe State Patrol said In Seattle, five Lummi Indians were thrown into the chilly waters of Shilshole Bay Friday morning when Baby Fae Enters Critical Transplant Period HavLOMA LINDA. Calif (UPI) ing survived an entire week with a baboon's heart and three weeks of life, a tiny infant known only as Baby Fae celebrated Friday with a wriggle. a smile and a yawn AuCOLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) thorities reported new terrorist attacks as schools, shops and offices in Jaffna, capital of Sri Lanka's troubled north, remained closed Friday in mourning for Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi The terrorists seek a separate state for Sri Lanka's Tamil minority. A military spokesman said two terrorists were killed after attempts to booby trap army vehicles in Jaffna, and that a third person was killed when troops fired on a group lobbing bombs at a train in Jaffna Sir John Gielgud on further compatability studies, the researchers chose the donor The second baboon was "also very close." doctors said, and remains available in case rejection signs appear and a suitable human donor can- not be found Born in Barstow Doctors told a news conference the baby was born in a Barstow hospital and transferred to Loma Linda a few days later w hen her problem became apparent After beng diagnosed at the medical center, doctors said, the baby was taken home to die," by her parents The parents later returned the baby to the hospital because they changed their minds and wanted the baby to spend her last days in the care of professional physicians At that point Dr Leonard Bailey informed them of various options, including the highly experimental baboon heart transplant The infant, who was born with a fatally defective heart had a restful night and was wriggling in her specially warmed bed, smiling and ' giving great big yawns, said hospital spokeswoman Migdalia Kelley their fishing boat was overturned by a gust of wind, the Coast Guard said All five were rescued without serious injury. Wind gusts of 95 mph were recorded at North Bend on the Oregon coast and 63 mph in Klamath Falls on the east side of the Cascades. Gusts of up to 55 mph were recorded in Washington state, and there was a report of a wind gust at Cody, Wyo , with sustained winds of 55 mph elsewhere in Wyoming Water had scattered street flooding, and the fire chief in the community of Brookings said water ran up to a foot deep on some streets because storm drains could not keep up with the downpour U S Highway 101, the main north-sout- h coastal route, was closed for more than 10 hours overnight due to high winds, Oregon State Trooper Robert Gale said Foot-Dee- p Portland, Ore , The Washington Department of Transporation required chains on many routes across the Cascades Interstate 90. the main east-weroute across the state, was closed for a time by blowing snow anti compact snow and ice on the road In eastern Washington, about 10 inches of snow fell overnight in Colville. while Kettle Falls reported 8 5 inches since Thursday evening to give the town a total of 12 inches. Commenting on reports that up to 18 inches of snow had fallen in Evans, north of Colville, National Weather Service forecaster Milt Maas said "That wouldn't surprise me at all " Freezing rain fell in the Moses Lake area, and a state patrol dispatcher in Wenatchee reported at least six minor traffic accidents Closed By Snow Chinook Pass and the North Cascades Highway, which usually close for the winter later in the season, were temporarily closed by heavy snow Thursday The Washington Department of transportation tempo- rarily closed Cayuse Pass Friday morning Several passes had measured up to 20 inches of snow, the Weather Service said Wind gusts felled trees and caused power outages in the Oregon coastal communities of Gold Beach, Newport, Toledo, Astoria and Coos Bay, and inland at Grande Ronde, Rose-burMedford, Grants Pass and Hood River, officials reported The heaviest rainfall in the 24 hours ending at 8 a m Friday was 5 30 inches recorded at Laurel Mountain in the coast range Ice began forming Thursday afternoon in the Columbia Gorge east of Portland, followed by freezing rain that slickened roads and caused a rash of minor traffic accidents, troopers said Those roads remained open Friday but troopers were advising motorists to drive with caution In Northern California, the storm toppled redwood trees, damaged aircraft and kicked up high waves along the coast Pollsters Must Stay 1.000 Feet Away HONOLULU (AP) office - NEWPORT, R I (UPI) Bishop Desmond Tutu, 1984 Nobel Peace Prize winner, said Friday U.S support of South Africa's government is "shortsighted because his countrys black majority will one day prevail and remember its friends. "We are very idealistic about the USA, and it is very disiUusionmg that your country seems to have a talent for backing the wrong horse," said Tutu, an Anglican bishop of South Africa and a leading opponent of apartheid Apartheid is the official policy of racial discrimination and segregation against South Africa's majority black population Tutu, winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, visited Newport as part of a celebration of the 200th anniversary of the consecration of historic Trinity Episcopal Church The Reagan administration's "record is a very distressing one," he said Many people may have forgotten but I haven't that the presi dent of South Korea was" the first head of state to visit the administration "He is head of one of the most oppressive nations," Tutu said at a news conference before taking part in a Trinity Church service The bishop, who likes to describe himself as just a simple-mindeminister," said the administration contributes to vicious racist policies" of the South African white minority by adopting a policy of "con. The Hawaii has ruled attorney general's that news organizations can't question general election voters within 1.000 feet of polling places The ruling makes it virtually impossible for news media to conduct exit polls, state elections spokesman Charles Freedman said Thursday The ruling by Deputy Attorney General Russell Suzuki said the area within a 1,000-foradius of polling places was needed to protect the secrecy of balloting and to prevent interference with voting Exit polling has been used by major news organizations to project winning candidates Honolulu managing editor William Cox, who opposed the ruling, cited another reason for polling voters "The doesn't do exit polls. Cox said "However, given the recent history of voter-fraucases, the press has a respcnsbility to help determine how well government protects the election process To do that, reporters have to have reasonable, access to the polling " places and to voters Star-Bulleti- n Star-Bulleti- n d . d structive engagement" with the government There was a time when the United States certainly played a positive role, when it seemed to be concerned ab.iut human rights," Tutu said "This has rot been the case in the last four " years He said he does not specifically ask for a boycott of South African mter-es'- s during his current tour of the United States because "I would be guilty of an indictable offense in South Africa What I would speak about is pressure," Tutu said He said he would like to see the United States tell South Africa that it is an embarrnsvment" because it is an ally which supports apartheid. Invade Express Train Reporter Watches Mob Beat, Burn Sikh Continued From Page One their feet and turned to look, there was a sound of s( uffling and a series of sickening thuds For a minute or so, everything was hidden from my view Then the crowd in the aisle parted Two teen age rls. traveling with their mother, screamed hysterically The other passengers did not react They just looked on silently One of the marauding youths was pulling a Sikh man by his long hair Three other attackers followed, hitting the Sikh with their rods He held onto the seats, refusing to move His shirt became spattered with blood A girl screamed and one of the mot) looked at her soothingly and said. Don t worry, sister We will not do anything to you We are after them They are killing our womenfolk We will not spare them " Finally one of the youths broke the Sikh's hold on a seat They hauled the beaten, deeply wounded man outside The crowd collected around him and continued their relentless onslaught We could only watch from the windows No one got down or to the plat- Inside the train, none of us spoke Then a few passengers got up, went to the toilet and banged on the door It slowly opened, and a terrified, Sikh came out with his teenage son They had been hiding, and were overlooked by the mob "Please cut off your hair and tur-bane- d beard," an elderly passenger told the form Sikhs Father and son hesitated, but only for a second, then grabbed a pair of scissors someone held out They few moments later an acrid smell floated into the car through the broken window The crowds parted, and we saw flames leap up from the body of the Sikh, a man who just 15 minutes before had been riding peacefully with us from Bombay from the toilet 15 minutes later, newly shorn, the son wearing the cap of a fellow passenger The train remained at Tughlakabad for three hours, the last two without lights and air conditioning We were given no explanation A t 30 p m it departed, carrying many passengers who had been stranded on an earlier train at the same station They spoke of similar incidents Apparently at least seven and possibly as many as 30 Sikhs had been killed At 1 , A fellow passenger later said police were standing by. doing nothing, on the Tughlakabad platform while the killers rampaged The Rajdhani Express arrived in New Delhi at 2 p m A curious crowd gathered around a body lying in the entrance to a ear i did not know whether it was the Sikh who had been in my car The body was charred and unrecognizable $ |