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Show Nation Honors King and His Dream By The Associated Press Protests mingled with parades Monday on the first federal holiday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr., a day in which ironic touches measured how close the country has come to s leadachieving the slain er's dream. Tens of thousands of people gathered and marched to honor King in Washington, DC., Atlanta, Chicago, civil-right- Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San FranNew Orleans and Honolulu, among others. Church bells pealed in Minnesota, Illinois and Rhode Island, and radio stations around the nation's tiniest state joined in broadcasting portions of King's "I Have a Dream" speech. Dozens of stars performed in three cities in a nationally televised birthday party for King. Five hundred blacks gathered on cisco, the Capitol steps at Montgomery, Ala., where Gov. George Wallace had vowed "segregation now, segregation I'tahns Remember, B-- 1 , C-- 1 forever" in 1963, to hear a proclamation honoring King Wallace, recently released from a hospital, did not attend the ceremony, where press sec retary Bill Joe Camp read his proclamation In Birmingham, Ala., where King led marchers against fire hoses and statue of police dogs in 1963, a King was unveiled in a city park. By federal law, the third Monday of January is a day in honor of King, who was born Jan. 15, 1929, and assassinated April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tenn. The day is a legal holiday in 27 states, including three which also honor Confederate generals Two other states have a holiday on Jan. 15 Mondays protests focused on states and communities that stood aloof from the holiday. In Memphis, 300 people gathered in the potholed parking lot of the Lorraine Motel where King was murdered. The motel is now owned by a civic group. "Hate is what killed him, but love is what makes him alive today," said state Rep. Rosco Dixon After King's son, Dexter, laid a wreath at his fathers tomb in Atlanta, the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference challenged the nation to move for-Se- Column A-- e 3 Yemens President Is Back, Reports Say S. By Nabila Megalli Associated Press Writer President Ali Nasser Mohammed of South Yemen was reported back in his small, embattled Arab nation Monday with the bloody struggle against a rival Marxist faction raging into its second week. British Foreign Office sources in London were quoted as saying that fighting had died down in Aden, the capital, but war among rival Marxists and tribal factions appeared to be spreading in the hinterlands of the nation on the tip of the Arabian Peninsula. Evacuees reaching Djibouti from Aden described it as city of death, with bodies and burned-ou- t military vehicles lining the streets. They said Aden, a city of 55,000 people, was closed down except for food stores shut, no the fighting water supply or electricity, hospitals caught in the crossfire and the stench of death everywhere. Hard-lin- e rebel leader Ismail, a former president of the Arab worlds only Marxist country, was reported still alive and leading attempts to oust Mohammed. The president was said to have returned Sunday night from a brief visit to Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia, which, like South Yemen, is a key Soviet ally in the Red Sea region. He was said to have begun telephoning Arab leaders from an undisclosed location in South Yemen. In Cairo, Egypt's official Middle East News Agency said Mohammed spoke with President Chadli Benjedid of Algeria, President Hafez Assad of Syria and Col. Moammar Khadafy of Libya. All four nations are members of the Arab Steadfastness and Confrontation Front that rejects peace negotiations with Israel. A broadcast by Addis Ababa radio, the official voice of Ethiopia, quoted Mohammed as saying after a meet- Abdul-Fat-ta- Zachary Beavdry of Salt Lake City pauses to scan the names of Americans killed in a war that ended Seven-year-ol- d years before he was born. The photographic replica of the Vietnam Memorial is on display in Utahs Capitol Rotunda. Bill to Help Displaced Homemakers Utah Display Rekindles Passes House After Struggle Vietnam Pain 4-Y- ear homemakers' vocational education program. Any money in excess of $300,000 would revert to the states general fund. Rep, White said most of Utahs estimated 24,000 displaced homemakers fail to qualify for conventional jobtraining programs in the state. While federal and state efforts are providing up to $8,000 to retrain the idle Kennecott worker, for example, she said $300 would cover the program cost for each homemaker. By Dan Bates And Paul Roily Tribune Staff Writers Making progress in a four-yestruggle, a bill to help "displaced" homemakers find outside work broke through the Utah House of Representatives Monday. The measure sponsored and first introduced in 1983 by Rep. Beverly withstood pointed White, proarguments on the gram's need and its financing by tripling the marriage license fee. House Bill 110 was finally adopted 7 and passed by representatives on to the Utah Senate. Senators spent most of their floor time Monday debating a measure that would require hospitals to solicit vital organs for possible transplant. Action on the bill was delayed by the sponsor when it appeared his support was eroding. Rep. White defended the displaced homemaker bill as a vehicle for job training and counseling for divorcees or their male counterand widows who are ineligible for welparts fare benefits and must seek liveli- ar 46-2- LEGISLATURE L hoods I in the outside employment market to provide for their children. Some may not have been gainfully employed for more than 10 years or only have held part-tim- e jobs while primarily tending to their domestic duties, she said. You can tell from this description that these are women who have fallen through the cracks, said Rep. White, stressing that 24 states operate similar programs. HB110 would tack a $20 surcharge to Utah's $10 marriage license fee, generating up to $300,000 a year for a Her bill also requires that homemakers reimburse the cost once they find jobs. Rep. White said a $12,000-a-yejob adds $450 to the state in taxes as well. There were unsuccessful attempts to amend the marriage license surcharge to $5 and $10, the latter failing by only two votes. Lets not kid ourselves. This is a backdoor tax increase, said Rep. alluding Lloyd Selleneit, to the excess-revenu- e provision. JorRep. Kevin Cromar, dan, said the surcharge "was on the See A-- Column 1 It doesnt hit home until you see all their names rows and rows of them, stretching out a couple hundred feet. American soldiers, killed or missing on foreign soil in the countrys longest war. A photo replica of the Vietnam Memorial in Washington went on display at the state Capitol Rotunda Monday morning. Like the real memorial, it drew crowds of curious onlookers. The bereaved also came, carrying slips of paper to guide them to the name of a son, a brother, husband, neighbor, friend. The memorial holds 58,000 names, arranged in chronological order from 1959, when the first Americans died in Vietnam, to 1975. The replica, consisting of photographic enlargements of each of the panels of the original, is owned and is being circulated by the Vietnam Veteran Project of San Francisco. The Utah display has been assisted by the Veterans Administration, veteran service groups and the Utah National Guard. h Inside The Tribune Fighting began Jan 13 between Marxist factions in South Yemen, a poor nation of 2 million people,' apparently after a coup attempt by those who opposed Mohammeds reported desire to liberalize the economy and improve relations with Arab countries. The government said last week that four coup plotters, including Ismail, had been executed, but a rebel radio broadcast Monday said all four were alive. The rebel radio, which has been saying South Yemen was now under a collective leadership, said it was Mohammed who started the trouble by trying to "liquidate the four men, See A-- Column 2 Evacuees Relate Horrors of City of Death By Khawla Mattar Associated Press Writer An Iraqi woman resDJIBOUTI cued from the South Yemen civil war said Monday that Aden was filled with "blackened, swelling corpses a city of death." Two Britons said they huddled in a cellar for days, with rats scurrying over them. Other evacuees reported seeing "sky-hig- h tongues of flame gutting a seaside oil installation in Aden, capital of the nation on the tip of the Arabian Peninsula where rival Marxist factions went to war Jan. 13. More than 2,600 foreign civilians have been ferried out of South Yemen, a Soviet ally, in Soviet ships and aboard the British royal yacht Britannia, most of them to this tiny enclave 150 miles across the Gulf of ... Aden. Tribune Telephone Numbers on A-- 3 Business Classified Comics Crossword Editorials Entertainment Foreign Intermountain Legislature Lifestyle National Obituaries Public Forum Sports Star Gazer Television Washington ing of his party Politburo that he had pardoned all those who were incited by a few adventurists and narrow and appealed to them to follow him. Page 8 C-- 3 0 A-- 7 out. Rear mander 2 A-- The Foreign Office in Britain, the colonial power in South Yemen until it became independent in 1967, said the Britannia took 659 people out in two rescue missions and was standing off Aden Monday night for a third try. Diplomats in Djibouti said Soviet ships had taken at least 2,000 people 6 9 Adm. John Gamier, comof the Britannia, told the British domestic news agency Press teleAssociation by phone that he was in "delicate negotiations with authorities, trying to arrange the rescue of about 700 more people, including 40 Britons. The yacht was pressed into service while en route to New Zealand for use during the visit there in February by Queen Elizabeth II. Britain's Defense Ministry said the destroyer Newcastle, the frigate Jupiter and the auxiliary supply ship Column 1 See ship-to-sho- 3 A-C-- 2 ll A B-- 9 0 A-- 3 Todays Forecast PartSalt Lake City and vicinity in cooler. and skies Highs ly cloudy the 30s, lows in 20s. Details, B-- A-- $6.6 Billion Projects Completion Due by 93 We Think We Can ; We Think We Can Britain , France to Tunnel Under Channel New York Times Service The British and LILLE, France French governments agreed Monday to dig a tunnel under the English Channel, realizing a centuries-ol- d dream of linking their two countries. At a meeting in this city in northern France, President Francois Mitterrand and Prime Minister Margafor ret Thatcher gave the construction of a double railway tunnel running 30 miles under the channel between Dover and Calais. In addition, they said they wanted a separate motor tunnel built by the end of the century. Work on the tunnel, which Is expected to cost almost $7 billion, will start next year, with plans calling for the Channel Tunnel, or Chunnel as it is often called, to go Into service in 1993. Cars, buses and ti licks are to make the journey between Britain and France aboard trains that will travel some 130 feet beneath the channel bed. France also plans to run its highspeed express trains through the.tun-nel- , cutting the travel time between central Paris and central London to 3 hours and 15 minutes. This could provide serious competition to airlines on one of the world's busiest air routes. The rail tunnel plan chosen Monday over three rival projects was put forward by a consortium of British and French banks, construction companies and engineering firms called the Channel Tunnel Group In Britain on the other side and France-Manch- e of the channel. But at the insistence of Thatcher, road tunwho favors a nel, the Channel Tunnel Group must start work on a separate motorway under the channel by 1990 or lose the drive-throug- h Chuckle Todays Now with dialing so touch-ton- e widespread, you can get a wrong number anywhere in the world. monopoly the two governments are giving it until the year 2020. The loss of this monopoly would enable other interests to dig a rival road tunnel if they believed it to be technically and economically feasible. The idea of a tunnel under the English Channel, long a symbol of British insularity, has been around at least since the 18th century, being first forwarded by a French engineer. All earlier attempts to dig one were vetoed by Britain, either because of fears of a military Invasion from the Continent or because it could not afford it. The Channel Tunnel Group says it is confident it can raise the $6.9 billion or so needed, with pledges of bank loans of $5.5 billion and a promise of $1.5 billion in equity finance. Both Mitterrand and Thatcher stressed the historic nature of Monday's agreement as well as the jobs and wealth the tunnel is expected to See Column 5 A-- Construction of tunnels, 131 feet seabed linking Channel English le i Britain, France, is realization of old dream proposed by a French engineer. |
