Show M I 4 a t VJ ‘V' Vol 23G No 145 Salt Lake City Utah — Tuesday Morning — September 6 1988 o 75 of Bangladesh Main Swamped by By Alamgir Mohiuddin United Press International DHAKA Bangladesh — Rains worsened the misery Monday of millions of people driven from their homes by the worst flood disaster in the history of Bangladesh and officials said the most urgent task was distribution of safe drinking water Officials said water spread to covs er more than of the e nation with more than half of the population of 110 million affected by the disaster and revised from 25 million to 28 5 million the number of people without homes and seeking shelter as best they could or in state-rucamps Surface transportation between Dhaka and the rest of Bangladesh remained virtually suspended as new areas in the southern parts of the capital were flooded and panic buying to secure dw indling food supplies was reported in several areas three-fourth- 55590-square-mil- n Unofficial estimates and news reports of the death toll rose to more than 1200 The government estimated fatalities at 444 but conceded the figure was probably too low Life for flood victims was made more miserable by daylong rains and there were more forecasted But there were no reports of new rains in the mam river catchment areas in the Himalayan foothills in neighboring northeastern India where monsoon downpours triggered the floods two weeks ago For mile after mile water lav like a moving carpet on the flat delta land rushing swiftly south toward the Bay of Bengal over nearly invisible fields roads embankments through villages and towns across railway lines and river banks People apparently fearing the theft of their meager possessions were seen standing outside their water or sitting homes in chest-deein row boats or on banana tree rafts on which they also cook and sleep Others clustered on the remains of embankments bridges train tracks and raised roads beside their livestock and ramshackle shelters of plastic corrugated iron or bamboo while more traveled from sanctuary to sanctuary on boats and rafts Silent telephone wires powerless electricity lines the towers and domes of empty mosques and swaths of broad leafed trees poked above the surging waters Officials reported a slight fall in water levels north of Dhaka due to reductions in two of the three mam rivers — the Brahmaputra and Ganges — but said the Meghna and its tributaries continued to rise after taking in ram water from upstream in India threatening to worsen areas south of Dhaka p Residents Evacuate as Fire Erupts in Lambs Canyon Fire Teams Evacuate 300 From 2 Towns By Mike Gorrell International Tribune Staff Writer Firefighters fearing a resurgence of gusty winds renewed a "back-burn- " tactic Monday in an effort to prevent a spreading National Park wildfire from rampaging through two evacuated Montana hamlets Storm Creek fire The 61300-acrwas reported 5 miles from Silver Gate and Cooke City from which some 300 people have been evacuated The towns are near the Wyoming e border Fire teams began the “back-burn- " — m which they bum and bulldoze an area free 'of trees to use up fuel — on Sunday and returned Monday to the job near the Wyoming border Rangers said they hoped firefighters would complete barren w all betw een by dark a the flames and the two tourist towns near the northeast tip of the park Firefighters have been aided the past couple of days by low winds However forecasts said a change in the weather pattern could bring winds up to 40 mph Tuesday and Wednesday hampering the crews' efforts "We are in an unprecedented extreme fire situation " Bob Gibson superintendent for the Gallatin National Forest told a Bozeman Mont news conference "We have pending very severe fire weather conditions coming Tuesday or Wednesday which means we are anticipating significant winds and that means 20 to 30 mph with 40 mph gusts and that means the fires that are burning are going to be that much more difficult to handle Officials said they were also deploying teams to Island Park Idaho because it is near the Yellowstone fire There have been 52 fires in Yellowstone since the start of summer A spokeswoman said eight were still burning out of control There are 9 600 firefighters on the job in the park The spokeswoman also said visitors to the park during the Labor Day holiday weekend were ‘way down " She said none of the campgrounds was filled to capacity Officials said it was not known whether the smoky conditions caused the drop in visitors In Southern California wildfires fanned by hot winds and 100 degree heat raged through more than See A-- Column 4 2 Rfut0f Photo Bangladesh’s worst flood has killed at least 441 and left 285 million homeless Red Butte Canyon Also Ablaze Park Winds May Butcher Crews’ Work By United Press — UP1 Army soldiers keep discipline as flood survivors line up to collect relief supplies — Tnbune Stofl Photo by Rwk Egan Killy on Canyon residents board a bus for home Howev er the — houses were out of power homecoming was short-lived Politicians llot Under Collar Many Work Up a Sic eat With Labor Day Fun By The Associated Press Labor Day s last holiday blast after a summer marred by drought and fire sent thousands of Americans to parades food festivals rides on a vintage train and political rallies where the presidential campaign ignited with sharp salvos from both sides In Southern California a third day of sizzling heat over 100 degrees drove an estimated 1 million people to beaches But in much of the eastern part of the nation weather was more like autumn The city owned Wave Pool in Nashville drew onlv about 30 people Monday w ith temperatures in the high 60s The normal Labor Dav crowd is 1 000 a spokesman said Thousands swarmed to the third annual Railroad Davs celebration at Topeka Kan an observance of the role the Santa Fe and Union Pacific played m the city s history Tickets were sold out weeks in advance for rides on a 1940s vintage train to the little town of Scranton 20 miles southwest of Topeka commemorating the first leg of the AT&SF as it was built toward Santa Fe last century At Long Beach N Y a human chain of about 1 000 people stretched across two Long Island beaches Monday singing America the Beautiful and calling for an end to ocean dumping blamed for medical waste and other debris that has washed ashore this summer ruining swimming for hundreds of thousands of beachgoers Michigan Gov James Blanchard led about 45 000 people who marched the five miles along the Mackinac Bridge which connects BlanMichigan s two peninsulas chard finished the walk in an hour and four minutes a minute faster than his 1987 time Two rainbows filled the western sky when the walkers started the trek at dawn and the governor suggested that meant a winning streak for the struggling Detroit Tigers Michigan also was a magnet for presidential polities as the candidates skipped to rallies and parades across the country Democrat Michael Dukakis addressed a rally that followed DeLabor Day parade troit s three-hou- r and Republican Dan Quayle planned to ride in the Polish Day parade at Hamtramck a Polish Detroit enclave George Bush stumped in vote rich See 2 Column 5 Lambs Canyon was being evacuated Tuesday night after a cabin caught fire igniting another cabin and surrounding trees the Salt Lake County Fire Department said The cabins about 7 miles up the canyon were fully involved in flames when the blaze was reported about 9pm Salt Lake county and city fire crews were dispatched to the scene said dispatcher Karen Mickelson Cabin owner Fred Seidel told The Tribune he was watching television with his wife when he noticed a glow outside his window He walked out- - Other Fires Dw intile: B- -l side and saw that part of the house and some trees were on fire Above Emigration Canyon meanwhile about 20 residents of Killy on Canyon and the bottom of Pinecrest Canyon were allowed to return home e Monday night after a 5 wildfire moved north and jumped a ridge into Red Butte Canyon Few residents stayed however after learning their homes had no elecSalt Lake tricity or telephones County authorized the return after 500-acr- 1st of New US Rocket Series Totes Secret Load Into Orbit New York Times Service Titan 2 the first of a new generation of American rockets intended to diminish the military s reliance on the troubled space shuttle successfully carried a secret payload into orbit Monday The rocket is one of a planned fleet of at least 68 Air Force boosters Its maiden flight marks a new phase m the military s broadening space program and an extraordinary reversal in the nation s plan Three years ago the aim at the highest levels of government was to have the National Aeronautics and Space Administration the space agency monopolize the nation s launching business with its fleet of manned shuttles But a string of launching failures m 1985 and 1986 including the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger ended that policy and set off greatly expanded plans for the production of new unmanned military rockets Air Force officials said Monday Titan 2 a refurthat the bished intercontinental ballistic missile lifted off from Vanden-ber- g Air Force Base in California at 2 25 a m It was a spectacular launch said Capt Norma L Payne direc A n tor of public affairs for missile operations at Vandenberg Civilian experts say they believe the rocket was carrying a cluster of Navy spy satellites known as White Cloud The satellites act as an orbiting radio receiver to track Soviet ships by monitoring radar and radio transmissions Air Force Secretarv Edward C Aldridge Jr hailed the launching as an important step in moving the nation beyond its launching troubles This is the y ear of space launch recovery ' he said noting that the Titan 2 was the first of three new boosters the Air Force w ill launch in the coming year The new fleet also includes Delta 2s Atlas 2s and Titan 4s a powerful type of booster that will dwarf everything in the nations rocket inventory The successful start for the new generation of rockets could hard ly be more timely and its signifi eance is underscored by a recent setback After roaring into space on Fridav aTitan34D one of the last of an old rocket fleet failed to cam its secret pavload into the correct orbit according to sources to quoted bv The Assouated Press firefight leaders decided the blaze no longer threatened the homes Still residents took advantage of the Monday evening visit to remove ‘polling fond from poweiless refng-erator- s fed animals left behind w hen the cany on w as hurriedly abandoned Friday night and gather a change of clothes For several days Killvon residents will be escorted to their homes at 6 p m and led back out the following morning at 9 a in Fire officials said they did not want residential traffic interfering with the movement of firefighting vehicles ‘ The prognosis is good We re e Column 1 A-- 2 Tass Reports No Leak in Fire N-Pla- nt MOSCOW (AP) — A nuclear powin Lithuania on Monday but automatic safety sys er plant caught fire terns extinguished the flames before radiation could be released the official Tass news agency reported Tass said no one w as injured by the blaze which began at 12 50 a m in a control cable of the second reactor of the Ignulina power plant in Lithuania a Soviet republic on the Baltic Sea The chief dispatcher of the Soviet Atomic Power Ministry Erik Pozdy-shetold Tass the reactor s safety systems automatically kicked in and that the fire had already been put out by the time firefighters arrived He sa d no radiation escaped the plant and there were no injuries among the public or plant employees The reactor one of two at the plant was shut down after the acci df nt Tass said The new s agency s prompt r port mg of he fire reflerted the new offi rial policy under Srviet leader Mik hail S Gorbathevs drive for more openness especially about impor tant events such as accidents Considering the heightened pub lie interest in nuclear reactor opera tions which is quite understandable after the Chernobvl accident we de cided to inform the public about what has happened at the Ignalina station at once Pozdvshev said v Indictment Against Brezhnev Cites Huge Bribes Puts Judge to Sleep Son-in-La- w Tola" Forcra-- t ‘salt Lake Ci’ and uni tv — Fair with imprnv Tg v isil I H hx 80-°Lows 50s f Os Itai's F 2 By Andrew Katell Associated Press riter OW — Officials plied Leo nid I Brezhnev s son in law with cases of wine rare fruit and huge bribes prosecutors alleged Monday in a corruption indictment so long tha its read ng caused a judge to nod off The trial of Yuri Churbanov and eight rn defendants began Monday before a three judge military tnhu nal and is gmng Soviet citizens an unaccustomed glrrpce of intrigue and h'gh livirg in the Kremhn Five vourg soldiers from the Inte rmr Ministry where Churtanov once worked guarded the nine drfen the se dants Tass said the evps nior guard who appeared to be about 20 open wide each t me f cure rf another trbe is min t in“d r ‘ ider worn Interest v piph te ar ask'd w!v-- N w i z ii’r i’ t il side the Supreme Court said We came because we wan’ed to know where our kopeks were going ( hurbanov married Galina Brezhnev in 1971 when her father was running the Kremhn which be did for 18 years She has been ill and did not attend Monday s session but plans to come later to give moral support to her husband who could be sertenced to death said Churbanov s lawyer An drei Makarov She probablv w ill tes tfv Official mod a reported extensive on he trial which is expected to 1a-- t C nt two month- Tax- - 'he official rews agency ar V - on Monday s rn d snco! tp-- t men One was published in the v tr Today's Chuckle To ard cm- - h d is b nian AI-- o t uh goyernment s eyening newspaper I: and read on the evening televi sion news program Vremva which has an audience of millions Some foreign reporters also are being allowed to attend In the indictment were details of changes that Churbanov 51 accept ed bribes totaling 656 883 rubles f 1 04 million while serving as first deputy interior minister That is equivalent to more than 270 years pav f )T the average factory worker So long was the indictment appar-ertltaxed on interrogation of the accused that the prosecutor and one judge fell asleep at one point It said defendants were amnpg those who bribed f huibanov and the g’fts to him included a valuable car pci two rt ma tea sets regular supplies of wine cegnac pomegranates and other bard to find fruit grajes fl iwn to him via the Vwiet airline Aeroflot from t zrfkistan Those items an 1 money came from v n vpr 2 ( damn 1 J Auri Churbanov went on trial Monday m Moscow He is accused of abuse of office and taking wine and large bribes |