| Show flfl(Tflfl THURSDAY September Eakt Zribunt Fat A2 2 2004 - r ri 1 - 1 J t 1 -- i ' i vp t r) r 1 I 1' 1 4 - 4 r 1 - i 1 i I i -1 Lal Lai L Naga - - r - 11 &- i -''' -- f IS 'I i '' )?I'' - J- i- t -i I Compiled trom Tribune news services - i A JAPAN Erupting volcano ejects ash rock but cluiss no damage -- ' - 1 - t I '1: i 5- 1 1 ''''') - : '''' ' i I :: -r k 1 I 1 ' til ':4----- i t-- -- - - - '''' r- 1 fft' : - --- - vic- - ' i I I ''''-- '- t ' ‘ LI - t 'r :' ' t t 4 ' 4"'-- ‘ Ct t 0 NI 1 $44 Fox efe By RICARDO SANDOVAL tistics that he said prove the country's newfound democracy has led to economic gains Thousands of angry Mexicans protest ing everything from government salaries to farm supports greeted Fox' on Wednesday as he made his way into San Lazaro the headquarters of Mexico's Congress to deliver his fourth state of the union address For months marches through the Mexican capital have underscored the public's dissatisfaction with Fox's record on fighting crime creating jobs and bolstering wages But Fox said the democrat ivirocess has advanced under his watch and that has led to improved health and more jobs for Mexicans in a safer environ- Bell :Thatcher's lawyer says he's innocent and will cooperate with Investigators JAPAN Korean War GI accused of defecting: I will surrender US Army serter Charles Robert Jenkins said Wednesday he would surrender to US military authorities to face charges he de' serted his post along k‘ demilitarized the zone dividing north and south Korea in the 1960s Jenkins who left 4' North Korea two months ago for the first time since he al- Jenkins lewdly defected in Kown Via veletan 1910 said in a statement issued through his military counsel that he hoped "very shortly" to leave his Tokyo hospital man to go to a US Army base outside the Japanese capital lie didn't provide a time frame The 64 year-olNorth Carolina native faces allegations he deserted the Army a charge carrying a maximum penalty of life in prison lie also could be for other chargesTokyo prosecuted hopes to win him leniency an he can live In Japan with his Japanese wife de- above addrvaa On Wed- - of recession ' v nesday he pointed to b - ) ''''4 " tN I 'tk The elimination of 165000 federal jobs and a federal spending cut of more than $5 billion The estimated creation of 281000 new jobs in the first seven months of this year Expanded benefits for retirees students and farmers More federally subsidized housing Greater exploration by Petroleos Mexicanos the national oil company which this week said it is on the verge of finding new pools that may someday increase Mexican production to around 7 million barrels a day other" Fox said that many of his proposed reforms are now in Congress' hands and he promised to keep addressing overhauls energy and He focused attention on his fight against crime an effort that in 2004 has put more than 5000 alleged drug traffickers in jail broken up 51 gangs CALIFORNIA Alleged smugglers found with 50 Mexicans in yacht LOS ANGELES — Two men were arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle 50 Mexicans into the United States by crowding them into the small cabin of a rented luxury yacht The boat was intercepted by the US Coast Guard near an entrance to Los Angeles Harbor late Monday the Department of homeland Security said t Wednesday The immigrants who were packed into an area designed to sleep eight people were near the end of a daylong journey from the Mexican port city of Ensenada officials said They included a boy and woman in the last month of pregnancy The immigrants told investigators they had paid $3000 each for the trip officials said The men arrested were identified as Gregory Ray Labono 40 from Lomita and Vernon Eugene Siegel 21 of Big Pine Fla Both were in federal custody TEXAS Baby found near dead father to be placed in foster care AUSTIN — A girl was found alive after stemding up to five days alone near the body of her deed father Amertakt Nu Corrections Editor FAittirlid Writers GosIEastronntesti Holly Mullen Features Desk JustiteSerety Desk CIO liS7C47 Zi7 rind IT MO Cfeiti 7 r!el 2741610 Z7479) Newsroom Newspaper In Ed Photography Reader Advocate Roily & Wells Sports (no mom) MeteWorld Desks Utah OnLine of kidnappers and freed 458 kidnap victims A growing chorus also disagrees with Fox cver just how much better off Mexico is since he took the nation's helm "I was probably one of the most optimistic people around at Fox's midway point but today I'm very pessimistic" said Rafael Fernandez de Castro a political scientist and professor at Mexico's Autonomous Technical Institute noted that this was probAnalysts ably Fox's last substantive state of the union address Within four months the political season starts And a number of candidates are lining up for the presidential race led by Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador who for a year has consistently led ht nationwide popularity polls despite a series of corruption scandals in Mexico City incompetent to stand trial on charges that he planted pipe bombs and antigovernment notes in rural mailboxes in five states in May 2002 4 - 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son got a break ' The net impact of all this early presidential posturing Fernandez de Castro said is a hesitancy by opposition parties — which control Congress — to side with Fox as he tries to win reforms Fox devoted many passages in his address to Mexico's emerging democracy which got a boost from his victory in 2000 — a change that ended seven decades of single-partrule police said Asia McCoy was in critical condition Wednesday at Brackenridge Hospital spokeswoman Pam Crowther said The baby was found Sunday near the Willard McCoy body of TRIBUNE NEWSROOM NUMBERS A - - "Political change gave birth to democracy and our energies have been aimed at that most essential of things: freedom" Fox told a packed audit°- rium of federal deputies senators and Cabinet members "We Mexicans are proving that freedom and democracy mutually strengthen and enrich each CommunitiesMutation Wit - around after three years ment Arts A Entertain Desk Dosinest Desk Established April 15 1371 Published daily and Sunday by the Media Nrovi Group IC South rtotlicala Main St Sail Lahr City Utah M Postaw Paid at Sall lAke City Utah POST MASITA Send &likes changts to The Salt up Mexico's modest economic turn- - years of his leadership President Vicente Fox on Wednesday rattled off sta- WednesdaY oil-ric- h : He played LONNA - Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has posted bail for her son Mark who is accused of involvement in a coup plot in Equatorial Guinea an aide to Lady Thatcher said Lady Thatcher's spokesman declined to confirm or deny the report which also appeared in The Times newspaper and on Britain's Press Associat ion news agency lhowever the aide confirmed to The Associated Press that she had provided the bail money Sir Mark Thatcher was under house arrest at his residence in Cape Town South Africa pending the posting of a bond set at $3000M Equatorial Guinea wants to question on him and his alleged charges of plott ing to overthrow Teodoro ibiang the president of the tiny but African nation — Vicente Fox MEXICO CITY — Amid criticism that Mexico is no better off after four Thatcher reportedly posts hail for son in Africa orl77fsewv ' r 1S : Milan Morning Neu BRITAIN (ISSN 074615111) - He insists that Mexicans are better off under his watch day-to-da- iht qaltflAtttribratt 4011 - Former prime minister standing committee which runs the affairs approved chamber's the measure in June after a lengthy spat between smokers and advocates Of nicotine-frelegislating Spain is considered one of Europe's most tobacro-usinnations — the government says 34 percent of Spaniards over 15 are smokers thr - ' ' JOSE LUIS MMANA d Tnbunr - - - Federal police officers try to rebuild a barricade to hold off demonstrators at the National Congress on Wednesday in Mexico City e at ' - Felipe Ginza lez was a Marlboro man Opposition leader Mariano Rajoy relished a good thick stogie But the days of Spanish-stylpolitical horsetrading - - done in a tobacco-fuelehaze -- - ended Wednesday at Parliament as tough new regulations came into force Lawmakers are now barred from firing up in their offices or anywhere else except in the coffee shop and one hallway earmarked as a smokers' den The Congress of Deputies Ces ' t - 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