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PAGE a THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR- MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1986" Briefly 1,000 flag-waving children welcome queen on China trip Nation ers and flags and sang a song of welcome. She waved through the closed window of the limousine but did not stop. She will be officially welcomed today in a ceremony In Tiananmen Square, including a 21 -gun salute, dancing children and a People's Liberation Army honor guard. Later, she will meet President Li Xiannian before visiting the Forbidden City, once the home of China's last emperor, overthrown in 1911. and the circular Temple of Heaven.

Prince Philip, her husband, arrived in Peking separately after a visit to Japan. Her tour of China will take Elizabeth to Shanghai, the ancient capital of Xian. Kunming in the south and Canton before she leaves for Hong Kong on Saturday aboard the royal yacht Britannia. She probably will meet senior leader Deng Xiaoping before leaving. Deng extended the Invitation to the queen in 1984.

ASSOCIATED PRESS Peking About 1.000 children waving flowers and miniature British and Chinese flags welcomed gueen Elizabeth II to a spruced-up Peking on Sunday, the start of a six-day trip that is the first to China by a reigning British monarch. The 60-year-old queen, wearing a mustard yellow dress spotted in black, a white hat with matching trim and black gloves, smiled and waved as she stepped off a chartered British Airways Tristar jet at Peking's airport. She was greeted by Foreign Minister Wu Xueqian and other Chinese and British officials, and two children handed her flowers. She shook hands and chatted for several minutes, then drove in a black Mercedes limousine to a specially remodeled traditional Chinese villa at the Diaoyutal state guesthouse In western Peking, where she is staying. Elizabeth was greeted at the main gate to Diaoyutal by 1 .000 young Chinese who waved flow FROM STAR WIRE SERVICES DEFECTOR ONCE LED COMMUNIST WING Arnold Lock-shin, the cancer researcher who defected to the Soviet Union and who denied being a communist, once was a leader of the Southern California district of the U.S.

Communist Party, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday. Lockshin and his wife were described as being extremely dogmatic on party issues. One former member said Lockshin was such a hardliner on party issues and discipline that he once ordered members to attend a speech by black activist Angela Davis. In keeping with the Communist Party's emphasis on loyalty and discipline, those who did not attend were expelled from the organization, the Times said. 'GATOR NIPS BOY AT DISNEY WORLD Eight-year-old Paul Santamaria of Bristol.

N.H., was reported in satisfactory condition Sunday after treatment for superficial wounds left by a 7-foot-4-inch alligator at a Walt Disney World campground. The boy's mother. Roberta Santamaria, said, "It was frightening, but we're very fortunate It wasn't worse." She said Paul was attacked when the alligator waddled out of the water as the boy watched ducks on a small pond where several canals end. The alligator was shot later by game commission agents, the Orlando Sentinel reported Sunday. Disney spokesman Bob Mervine said he thought it was the first such attack at the theme park in Orlando.

Fla. ROBERTSON'S CHARITABLE ACTS QUESTIONED An Iowa supporter of Vice President George Bush has accused rr I i -1- 4 ASSOCIATED PRESS Queen Elizabeth ll of Britian (left) smiles as she receives the salute of a Chinese youth after arriving in China. MARK YOUR CALENDAR OCTOBER 15 IS BONUS DA television evangeiisi rai nuucnsun ui using his ministry's charitable donations to boost his political fortunes in the Hawkeye state. George Wittgraf, the Bush backer, cited the gift from Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network of $213,000 to struggling farmers in Iowa. "This is obviously political giving under the guise of charity." said Wittgraf.

"I don't want to quarrel with any effort to support Iowa farmers in trouble. But this is inappropriate because it's being done to create a more favorable political climate for Robertson in our state." CRN sDokesman G. Benton Miller Robertson said the contributions were not politically motivated. He said they should be examined in the context of CBN's charitable giving over the past two decades. Washington 'FAVOR' TO EMBASSY TROUBLE FOR DANILOFF Reporter Nicholas Daniloff was used by the Central Intelligence Agency during his tour in Moscow, ac cording to a Washington Post reporter formerly assigned to the Soviet capital.

Ducko Doder. the Post's Moscow correspondent untill985, recalled in a commentary article that Daniloff, of U.S. News World Report, had turned over to the CIA a note addressed to the agency and enclosed in a letter to Daniloff from a man who claimed to be a dissident priest. But. Doder wrote.

"What Daniloff did not expect was that the CIA would be so sloppy, that his role in the affair would be mentioned in two communications a CIA operative subsequently had with the bogus priest. Daniloff a letter and a phone call." State Department analysts concluded that the man "Father Roman" was a "bogus priest and in effect, a KGB plant," the commentary said, and Daniloff was so advised. When Daniloff was arrested Aug. 30 he was confronted by his KGB interrogator with a letter from a CIA officer to the bogus priest introducing himself as "a friend of Nikolai," referring to Daniloff, Doder wrote. World mi cr (B ffi ft SALE I HOSTAGE HOLDERS, PRISONERS RELATED The kidnappers of three Americari hostages are cousins of one of the 17 prisoners held by Kuwait and whose release the kidnappers have demanded, according to Newsweek magazine.

The magazine reports in next Monday's edition information from unidentified intelligence sources that the kidnappers might settle for three of the Lebanese Shiite Moslems, including the cousin, a bomb maker named Mustafa Yousef. The three-have been sentenced to death. The report also recounted incidents of the handling of the prisoners and day-to-day relations between the hostages and their captors. Newsweek used information from intelligence and diplomatic sources, the families of hostages and "soundings in Beirut" as the basis for its story. i ISRAEL SLOWS DOWN FOR YOM KIPPUR Israel all but shut down Sunday for the solemn Yom Kippur fast and the military reported all quiet on the anniversary of an Arab attack that ignited the 1973 Middle East war.

Shops and businesses closed, air and auto traffic came to a halt and radio and television stations went off the air for the 25-hour "cleansing" period, the holiest day in Judaism. Israeli police and troops stood on routine holiday alert, with some keeping a close watch over the population of 1.3 million Arabs in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Yom Kippur officially began with an air raid siren blast at 4:35 p.m. Sunday. It ends at 5:45 p.m.

today with the traditional final blowing of the shofar, the ram's horn used in ancient times. FAMINE RELIEF FLIGHT MADE A plane carrying food for famine victims in southern Sudan flew to Zaire on Sunday, where the food will be loaded aboard trucks and driven through territory held by Sudanese rebels. The rebels, who control about 90 percent of south-em Sudan, have said they would ambush overland relief COnAHercules C-130 plane carrying slightly more than 15VS, tons of food took off from Khartoum Airport and headed for Isiro in northeastern Zaire, an airport official said. STORES 8 AM TO MIDNIGHT THERE'S 0 1 HAPPENING FOR YOU.

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