Show a ac '411Vally '411ZUtorI Iw ''°1411'0k woogootromago )1 4 (2S11 111111111111111°11" 401pNit Pioneer Day 4fa 1 r 2t :4 : s f ' '4 ' 7'tV 1 - ift- I'- ‘44 - L L' t - gos- ift U 04 ' t e - or-- - 11 COMBINED -- t 41 - — r 14 A - T7 -A ' 404 af 1 — - ' 4: P ' - 4' r t 142 k A i'' r -- ii 4 - 4 — t 1 - 0 1 P i - -: "‘ t I k7 t — 1"tL''' i- - - 4"" P'- e 4 — 4 - ' 4 - ' - 7 -- - - ' - ' IttAi 4 s- a Charles Rex ArbogastThe Associated ems James Friesen says goodbye to wife daughter before leaving Jersey for Africa Saturday who the refugees n water-purificatio- See A7 Column 4 Random Kindness: Sonzeone's Up To Know Good 01ek" 4 ' 47- ' ' '' é : I t "41011 As 4 r-" - - k s - s ' ': 1 — Gavin Whitsett Ind EVANSVILLE - PRESS - ''t t t - By Leslie Dreyfous THE ASSOCIATED ' ''' - - f - - 4' is sort of a secret operative in what he considers a guerrilla war Partisans execute their ambushes stealthily You may never know who paid the bridge toll for you Or who sowed nickels in the playground sandbox swept your elderly neighbor's sidewalk left a bundle of blankets outside the Salvation Army sent flowers to the convalescent home or put doughnuts by the coffeepot Gavin Whitsett is only one member of a sly band one of a growing group of people committed to contributing in some small way to making their communities better places to live They call their offensive loosely "Random Acts of Kindness" "It doesn't have to culminate in something lead to something support something" said Whitsett a communications professor who has written a whimsical purple handbook called Guerrilla Kindness It's not about much as the author himself will tell you He's not proposing a plan for international peace or an end to hunger He does not hope to redefine good citizenship or remedy what ails America ''I'm not out to evangelize" said Whit-sea kind of overgrown flower child in comfortable sandals and a beard "My Stand in Dixieland ' :"P 4 I NAACP's '''' 44101644 3 i ' ! '' il -- iP 1 Lose Confederate Flag: Or Lose Our Business - r i ' 4 'i ' THE ASSOCIATED See A-1- Column 3 4t- 4 f ' - i L 4 ' '0 ' It k 1 36 6 si 6 ttt 1 ' T z I 1 'Ilt i It' tit 661146 4t116604"1:' tfi - 1 2 N111k6 761Wir r Thousands of protesters 4 marched through the streets of this tourist town demanding that the flag be pulled down from the state Capitol in Columbia They were met by hundreds of Confederate-flag supporters "The Confederate flag represents the worst of racism the worst of exploitation" NAACP leader Benjamin Chavis told a crowd before the march "It's not just an insult to its an insult to all Take the red rag down "Just as sure as we changed South Africa were going to change South Carolina" Chavis said "We don't have to spend our money on people who are going to insult us" As the marchers strode past pizza parlors and video arcades flag supporters lined the route and defiantly displayed row upon row of the rebel banner Scores of local state and federal officers kept taunts from turning to violence Later in the day about 1000 flag supporters marched in a steady drizzle chanting "Never take it down" The group's leaders criticized the National Association for the 6 161' I --I- fi a 4 s" d 1 fi i - — 4 04 e k '' I - 1 ' 4 - - ill I ' ' LL '‘4 -- ' -- 4 African-America- I cr THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE ------ r''' I I') - i i 4 ''' S ti - v 1 -- I 14- i a ' - AL A 414t s4:44'" V 4-- 1 Navajos Rely on Remote Facility But Faith Without Finances Won't Keep It Open By Cherrill Crosby r) 1 ' if : ' - 8 1 WEATHER Scattered showers thunderstorms Page GOULDING TRADING POST — Ray Carney has overseen operations much larger than Monument Valley Hospital But none has required he also rim a fire ambulance and rescue service a housing bureau and a post office These days Carney mostly worries about the money it takes to support this hospital and medical and dental clinic "If we cant come up with an extra dollars we will have to close" Carney says "Well probably make that decision in the next two to three weeks" 20-be- j West Valley kids join 3500 youngsters in Days of 47 Youth Parade Local: B-- Pictures: B-- half-millio- SPORTS THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE increase Page F-- I SUN'DAY UtAhns race to And they're off horse track in Wyoming Page D4 for the Record Atts El JO Attftude D4 Jumble Goodman 3 tottery D4 Movies Births B4 hews of Weird Book Rebnem E1 Obituaries BeteriScfups Bili kali Clesstfied As Croseword Edntrials EYansTan G-- Pelona! Ads 0-- Reai Estate A20 93 Stec Gszet Trowel For a cool spring morning in May 1951 the west desert was unusually "hot" At exactly 6:45 am three bomb sections filled with radioactive pellets pole-mounte- D-- 1 BI E 2 G-- All E4 GI on-ca- d exploded north of Granite Mountain Mushroom clouds rose from the blasts witnessed by a Dugway Proving Ground crew and the area jack rabbits It was the only documented instance of mushroom clouds appearing in the sky over Utah But it was not the only episode of radiation testing here Far from it — as the government now acknowledges Last week the Army released a stack of documents on Utah radiation testing that had been classified for more than 40 years The reports show the Dugway ranges were a hive of activity be tween 1950 and 1953 conducting at least 13 tests of radiation warfare weapons designed to contaminate and kill America's enemies There were defensive tests as well on how to shield troops and decontnminate friendly soil In all there are 17 separate documents many with the word "destroy" scrawled on the covers that provide an unprecedented look into the heyday of the Atomic Energy Commission and the Cold War And most Utah officials believe the disclosures merely scratch the surface Democratic Rep Karen Shepherd described the material as a "first public glimpse" In addition to more radiation documents she wants all information released pe rtaining to chemical and biological testing -- at Dugway y It could be a long wait spokeswoman Idelynda Pe Dug-wa- I I I 'W 4 4 - Advancement - ty 0k ' - ' r - t I successful presidential - Deirdre EitelThe Saki Lake Tribune Horses graze on reservation land In scenic Monument Valley er back to the scene because only one road — the north-sout- h US 163 — has milepost e See A12 trie said the base's technical 1 er 1 Reparations for slavery? A-- 9 13iTto4ratimiravraome Dugway Proving Ground li- brary contains 800 linear feet of documents classified and unclassified involving the three missions That amounts to a stack roughly the size of an 80- story building -We have put in a request to higher headquarters to receive additional resources and manpower to help us search- Petrie said "We are trying our absolute best to be open" Any chemical and biological disclosures would 'nave bearing on modern times since the proving ground 80 miles southwest of Salt Lake City functions now as the Armys premier test center for defenses against chemical and biological warfare The radiation documents are more of a blast from the past Radiation testing was stopped workers years ago The who set up and monitored the tests are in their 60s and 70s now And most have been silent Dug-wa- Column cam-form- of David Duke a member of the Ku Klux Klan South Carolina is the last state to fly the battle flag above its Capitol The design — a blue X and white stars on a red background — is part of the state flags of Georgia and Mississippi t area and no cellular service the hospital relies on passersby who happen upon an accident Often the witnesses then must lead the ambulance driv of Colored People claiming the group was practicing reverse racism "They want to eliminate everything that makes our culture what it is" said William Carter who was state leader for the un- ' t - 11 I By Laurie Sullivan cost-of-livi- tendert n Last year 17000 people sought care here nearly all of them are members of the Navajo Nation Most came from this remote reservation corner where Utah meets Arizona — an area where on average there are fewer than two people per square mile ''This is one of the few places I know of where you are notified in person of an accident" says Carney who started his medical career driving ambulances in New York City and ll now takes shifts for ambulance and rescue services just as the other certified emergency medical technicians at the hospital do With few telephones in the Pellet Tests Made Utah's Desert 'Hot' BUSINESS Utahns feel d B-- 2 The Canadian Football League is heading south — with Utah in mind Page Cl Ann Utah Hospital: Low on Cash High on Hope I (21)teialtakeZ:riblint t Deirdre Eitel The Sall Lake Tribune Pediatrician Lois Le llo looks at George Leon Holliday 2 cranky with the flu being held by his sister Ophelia 1 S INSIDE PRESS BEACH SC — Civil-right- s leaders gave South Carolina a deadline Saturday — stop flying the Confederate flag atop the Statehouse by Labor Day or face a nationwide economic boycott MYRTLE tt 111 eath t escape victorious rebels of the minority fear will exact revenge for stdhieectribe of Tutsis by Hutus earlier this year The border has remained closed despite Friday by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees to urge the refugees to return The United Nations acted after rebels of the Rwandan Patriotic Front guaranteed the refugees safety from reprisals UN officials estimated 2000 refugees sought unsuccessfully to cross back into Rwanda on Saturday compared with several hundred Friday Zairian officials said they had kept the border closed because of danger from unexploded missiles Four refugees were killed Saturday when a child accidentally exploded a grenade In a development reflecting apparent success in the effort to calm frightened Hutus French military leaders reported that 45000 displaced Rwandans had left the French humanitarian protection zone in southwestern Rwanda But the United Nations again found itself unable to Stuttgart Germany There Navy Cmdr Ron Morse said the data about water sanitation transportation airfield medical and other issues will enable the US forces to "fine-tun- e our efforts" By today 300 airlift specialists were to be at a staging base in Uganda to unload incoming aircraft said Gen George Joilwan who is in charge of the operation Food drops over the most desperate areas also were scheduled to begin as early as today Joulwan hopes the first US unit will arrive in Goma today That unit is able to pump 100000 gallons a day A total of 18 purification units from US military installations around the world have been summoned to Zaire and soon will provide a capacity of 12 million gallons a day But there may be another problem: the prospect of lava from an erupting volcano near Goma "The lava flow can come very close to the airfield" Joulwan said "so we're watching that closely" Nearly 2 million Rwandans members of the country's majority Hutu tribe have crossed the border to here Saturday to help relieve the Rwandan refugee crisis amid signs the cholera epidemic sweeping through refugee camps is more deadly than had been predicted Because of the remote location and primitive conditions of the refugee camps the logistics of the US humanitarian effort will be the most complex in American military history and may require the presence of US troops in Zaire for several months Defense Secretary William Perry said in Brussels These developments followed President Clintons announcement Friday that the United States would make an "immediate and massive" increase in its relief effort in Rwanda involving an expenditure of $100 million more than the $1502 million already committed The administration announced that at least 4000 troops would be assigned to the effort In Goma Maj Guy Shields told reporters the 25- member US assessment team that arrived Saturday has provided information about crucial problems in f "ort- - I C1994 THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SALT LAKE CITY UTAH 81111 the refugee camp area to a US military task force in NEWS SERVICES GOMA Zaire — The first American troops arrived ' 7 - - iA - s - 44 ' A ! i 1 it 41 I - - : v '1- 1 --1- t - Pioneer Day GIs Face Tough Foes: Itisease ell t li r :11 wassossommaisogo00c JULY 24 1994 1 h — Y- - ' ' sf' - -e - - '404 i ig:1 4 1 sx - 1 Lose etth dolloymosos At' SUNDAY VOLUME 248 NUMBER 101 — 11:11 t?It 6 TODArS READERSHIP: 442000 7 - I 2We noover Qp 4- b- '''" -I -t r - Z Tooeie m L1 DIA)REMAL 0 It Target Areas 4 L Sall La City Proportional Size 4 Dugway - 4- a ' - GRANITE REAK " t13:t - : - PSAPPKI-R- mi:'3 1 ltil)-1-- - 1 MT Steve baker The Salt Lake Tribusp — possibly due to the secrecy oaths many signed back them The newly released documents say little about the people — how many were involved that specific precautions they had for protecting themselves and whether they were fully informed of the risks The reports do reveal what happened: The bulk of the tests involved detonations of bombs in 1 spherical munitions all filled with radioactive tantalum 182 or compressed tantalum dust pellets that were dropped from planes or were erploded on top of poles All of the tests occurred on -eight alphabetized Target Areas encircling Granite and Sapphire mountains 20 miles west of the current administrative and housing area of the main SO-fo- 12 See A-- 5 Column 1 |