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THE DAILY DISPATCH, Moline, Illinois Wednesday, July 5, 1989 A3 Worldnational America celebrates Fourth in different ways 0a 9 Mi T4 1 it'll 1 1 II a 1 I ft 1 1 0 HJH'w gill III IUP I ft 'MwS nJilliiJ' 1 1 4 United Press International Amid fireworks and other Fourth of July celebrations, Americans took advantage of their right to protest by venting their anger at Supreme Court decisions on flag-burning and abortion and by honoring Chinese students who died for democracy last month. More than 200 abortion-rights advocates rallied Tuesday in Annapolis, a day after a Supreme Court ruling allowing states to restrict abortions. A handful of anti-abortion activists also attended. There were similar rallies around the country to condemn or praise the decision. The flag issue, sparked by the Supreme Court's ruling that flag-burning can be a legitimate form of dissent, showed no signs of going away.

The main street of Nokesville, was draped with 50 to 55 flags, as it is every July 4th, but this year they were upside down in an internationally recognized signal of distress. The Veterans of Foreign Wars post said it was "distressed" by the Supreme Court decision that flag-burning can be a legitimate political dissent. Post commander Fred Fees said, "This is our way of registering our own dissent, but respectfully and properly, not by desecrating the flag we hold so dear." Vice President Dan Quayle, in Newport News, to help launch the Navy's newest attack submarine, took issue with the court decision. "Around the world, (Old) Glory is recognized and revered as the symbol of freedom. Too many Americans have laid down their lives in defense of freedom for us to treat this symbol lightly." But actor E.G.

Marshall, host of the annual Fourth of July celebration in the nation's capital, accused politicians of exploiting the issue. "I was astonished to find distinguished journalists and politicians and lawyers were taking umbrage Politicians are making a lot of brouhaha about it and it will just end there." In Little Rock, black restaurateur Robert "Say" Mcintosh and his supporters burned and waved a flag At the Capitol before police doused the flames. Mcintosh said he was angry at President Bush for seeking a constitutional amendment against flag desecration instead of concentrating money and effort on fighting the drug trade. A half dozen students in Barrington, R.I., held an all-night vigil at Town Hall to honor the Chinese students in last month's pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing. The teenagers flashed peace signs to passing motorists and solicited contributions for the students.

In Boston, a "Goddess of Liberty" statue was erected on the site of the 1770 Boston Massacre by the Ancient and Honorable Artillery founded in 1638 as a colonial militia. The statue is a replica of the one crushed by Chinese tanks in Tiananmen Square. Chinese democracy movement leader Shen Tong, who escaped from China June 11, watched the unveiling and said democracy is not dead at home. "I do not believe that the Tiananmen Square massacre was the end of the democracy movement in China. It was the beginning." College radio broadcasters around the country held a moment of silence at 3:20 p.m.

EDT, which corresponds to 4:20 a.m., when the first Chinese student was shot. The commemoration was initiated by Gary Toyn, station manager of KWCR-FM at Weber State College in Ogden, Utah. Cub Scouts from Nome, Alaska, helped U.S.-Soviet relations along by flying across the Bering Strait border to celebrate the holiday in a Soviet town with hot dogs, baseball and fireworks. Millions of Americans watched traditional Fourth of July fireworks displays Tuesday, such as the one shown at left over the Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., while others took advantage of their right to protest, such as the man at right who burned an American flag during a demonstration in San Francisco against Monday's Supreme Court ruling on abortion. (UPI) Solidarity takes place in Polish Senate as Parliament convenes in Students welcome Gorbachev Common Europe theme dominates France visit -v 7 lit, 1 PARIS (UPD Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev met with French intellectuals Wednesday at the medieval Sorbonne university and pressed his theme of a "common European home" in talks with conservative Mayor Jacques Chirac.

ik AaaaMtfl Gorbachev spoke to about 2,000 students and intellectuals in a the Senate. Solidarity swept the Sejm posts and 99 of the Senate's 100 seats. The Senate elected as its speaker Andrzej Stelmachowski, a Catholic intellectual who helped mediate the first meetings last year between the government and Walesa. "Great expectations are addressed to the Senate," Stelmachowski said. "I hope we will live up to them.

"I would like us to contribute to the construction of a Poland that would be fully independent, yet friendly toward all her neighbors, well supplied yet respecting the principle of social justice, ruled in an energetic way yet securing civic freedoms." The 10th session of the Sejm, long derided as a Communist Party rubber stamp, was convened with a plea for unity in the face of daunting economic problems. "Our fate is in our hands again," senior speaker Zbigniew Rudnicki said of Poland's 36.6 million citizens. "There should be one uniting factor, which is the good of Poles." One by one, the deputies took a new oath, vowing to be "faithful to the motherland, the state and the legal order of People's Poland." Language requiring fidelity to "the socialist state" was deleted. WARSAW, Poland (UPD The once-banned Solidarity trade union promptly established its domination in the Senate and its minority presence in the lower Sejm as Parliament convened with a genuine opposition for the first time since before World War II. The Sejm and Senate are to assemble jointly Thursday to elect the president.

A senior government source said Polish leader Wojciech Jaruzelski is standing by his decision not to run, despite the wishes of the Communist Party. Interior Secretary Czeslaw Kiszc-zak will be the party's candidate, the source said. Kiszczak told the official news agency PAP he would accept the will of the Communist Party. "I will consider it as an honor," he said. Citing the "social reality" that he is known more for his imposition of martial law than his current reform push, General Jaruzelski dropped out of the running Friday but was asked by the party Central Committee to reconsider.

In a day full of precedents, Solidarity trade union leader Lech Walesa sat in the Parliament chamber side by side with Jaruzelski who had him interned eight years packed amphitheater at the Sorbonne, where he com pared the impact of the 1789 French Revolution withJp 1 changes occurring WOJCIECH JARUZELSKI LECH WALESA ago as 260 Solidarity senators and deputies swore allegiance to Poland's institutions. "These are among the biggest moments of my life: August 1980 (the birth of Solidarity) and my entry into Parliament," Walesa told United Press International during a break between the Sejm and Senate sessions. The Senate session was the first real democratic exercise of power in Poland since the communist takeover in World War II and the first time it had met in 50 years. A communist-imposed post-war constitution did away with the chamber. Under an April 5 agreement, Solidarity-backed candidates were allowed to compete for 161 of 460 seats in the Sejm and for all seats in California brush fire destroys 13 homes in his country.

mikhail Gorbachev Thousands of people lined up behind metal barricades along the Boulevard Saint Michel, cheering and applauding as Gorbachev passed by in a black limousine on his way to the Sorbonne. Earlier Wednesday, Gorbachev met privately with Chirac, France's former prime minister. Chirac said the talks focused on Gorbachev's concept of "a Europe that extends from the Atlantic to the Ural Mountains." Gorbachev stressed the importance of disarmament negotiations in his vision of a common Europe at a state dinner hosted by President Francois Mitterrand Tuesday night at the Elysee presidential palace. Gorbachev said the Soviet people have something in common with the French, who are poised to celebrate the bicentennial of the French Revolution. "We feel fully able to participate in your festivities.

In our country one can already see the development of profound changes in the direction of restructuring. Pere-stroika is also a revolution," he said, using the Russian word for the restructuring of the economy and politics in the Soviet Union. Soviet fighter jet crashes in Belgium BRUSSELS, Belgium (UPI) The lone crew member in a Soviet fighter-bomber reportedly ejected over Poland before it flew on for at least another 500 miles over Western Europe and crashed into a house in Belgium, killing one person. The unmanned MiG-23 warplane was tailed by two U.S. fighters from West Germany until it apparently ran out of fuel and crashed Tuesday near the city of Courtrai, 50 miles west of Brussels near the French border, Belgian and NATO officials said.

Belgium is headquarters of the NATO military alliance. The official Soviet news agency Tass said the Soviet pilot bailed out of the aircraft because of unspecified "aviation equipment" failure during a training flight over Poland. Tass said the pilot survived and added, "The Soviet Union is contacting governments of the countries whose airspace was crossed by the plane." The plane was first detected by Western radar as it approached West Germany and two U.S. F-15 fighter jets scrambled from their base in Soesterberg, Netherlands, to intercept it. Baker: Japan scandal won't hurt ties TOKYO (UPI) Secretary of State James Baker Tuesday reaffirmed Washington's "very strong" relationship with Japan despite worries that a sex scandal allegedly involving Prime Minister Sousuke Uno could topple the government Baker arrived in Tokyo Tuesday to pledge $1 billion in U.S.

aid to the Philippines at a World Bank-sponsored multinational aid conference and to pay courtesy calls on Uno and Foreign Minister Hiroshi Mitsuzuka. A senior State Department official traveling with Baker said the United States "does not anticipate major changes" in the Japanese government in the event Uno is forced from office. "As the secretary said on the plane coming in, We don't interfere in their politics and vice the official said. "What impresses me is the stability of politics in this country. We think the base of support for our relationship is very strong," the official said.

Cuban minister seeks death sentences MEXICO CITY (UPI) Cuba's justice minister is asking a special military court to hand down death sentences to seven of the 14 former officials being court-martialed on drug trafficking and other charges, the official Cuban news agency reported. Prensa Latina, monitored in Mexico City, said in an urgent dispatch that Gen. Juan Escalona, the justice minister and prosecuting attorney, asked the three-member special military court Tuesday night to sentence Gen. Arnaldo Ochoa, awarded the coveted "Hero of the Republic" medal for leading Cuban troops in Angola, to death for his involvement in drug trafficking. Escalona also recommended death sentences for Col.

Antonio de la Guardia, Capt. Jorge Martinez and former Interior Ministry officials Amado Padron, Antonio Sanchez Lima, Alexis Lago and Edu-ardo Diaz, Prensa Latina reported. United Press International Firefighters today were mopping up a destructive fire that raced through the dry canyons in an expensive suburban neighborhood near Los Angeles, destroying 13 houses and badly damaging eight others. Other major brush and forest fires were burning over nearly 10,000 in the drought-parched West. Firefighters gained the upper hand Tuesday on the brush fire that ravaged the Turnbull Canyon area near Whittier east of Los Angeles.

The fire caused at least $4.3 million in damage and chased hundreds of people from their secluded hillside homes many worth up to $800,000. Fire officials declared the blaze controlled Tuesday night. The fire was man-caused, officials said, and arson investigators were trying to determine if it had been deliberately set. Wood-shake roofs were blamed for much of the destruction. Swirling winds that had pushed the flames first in one direction and then in another finally died down, allowing firefighters to get the upper hand.

Only about 100 of the 1,000 A resident of Turnbull Canyon Road near La Puente, walks through the remains of her home Tuesday. Her home was one of 10 destroyed in a swirling, fast-moving brushfire. (UPI) The fire, which blackened 1,500 acres, destroyed 13 houses, charred 50 percent of two others and 25 pep cent of another six, Lenihan said. A garage, 10 outbuildings, a boat, A trailer, four cars and a motorhome also were lost. I firefighters called out to battle the blaze were still in the area by Tuesday night.

Evacuees were allowed to return to their decimated neighborhood Tuesday to salvage what they could, Fire Inspector John Lenihan said. Chinese soldiers confiscate tourists' cameras, film Shamir meets on peace plan JERUSALEM (UPD Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, trying to avoid a battle over his peace plan within his own Likud Party, met Monday with the No. 2 leader of the rightist party but failed to resolve their differences. The Likud Central Committee is to meet today to decide whether Shamir's party will support his proposals to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The Cabinet and parliament approved the Shamir initiative in May but several Likud leaders have sought a tougher Israeli peace plan.

Housing Minister David Levy, the Likud's No. 2 man, met with Shamir for an hour but did not narrow the differences, Army Radio reported. Levy met later with Trade and Industry Minister Ariel Sharon, who also seeks a tougher Israeli line. Many Likud members of Knesset, Israel's parliament, proposed that the Central Committee meeting be postponed indefinitely. Others threatened to boycott the gathering unless leaders agree on an agenda.

Some Israeli politicians predict a forced resignation of Knesset members if Shamir's plan is rejected by his own party. Chinese arrest Taiwanese reporter BEIJING (UPI) Chinese security officials have confirmed that a Taiwan newspaper reporter is under arrest for allegedly harboring and aiding a fugitive student leader at the top of the government's wanted list, Taiwan journalists said. The incident presented a delicate political problem for Taipei, which has no formal relations with Beijing, and was seen as a new warning to citizens of Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao that they are treated on the mainland as Chinese. Huang Teh-pei, 33, a reporter for the Independent Evening Post In Taipei, was surrounded by security agents Monday and bundled Into a car outside a hotel after he reportedly met with Wang Dan, 20, one of the top leaders of the student protest movement Wang, a history major at Beying University, went underground after the army suppressed the democracy movement June 3. Chinese and foreign observers believe he has also been arrested, but officials have made no comment.

had arrived Wednesday from North Korea, where they attended a world youth festival, and was taken through Tiananmen Square. The square, which was the ske of pro-democracy protests, was cleared by tanks and troops June 3 and is still heavily patrolled and closed to pedestrians. Most of central Beijing has been under martial law since May 20, and photography is sharply restricted. After passengers took photographs in the square, Chinese soldiers chased the buses down central Changan Avenue to the Friendship Store about 3 miles to the east and boarded with assault rifles, demanding the tourists surrender their cameras. BEIJING (UPD Chinese soldiers armed with assault rifles pursued and boarded Japanese tourist buses Wednesday and confiscated film and videotapes taken by the tourists in central Tiananmen Square, witnesses and Japanese Embassy officials said.

The tourists surrendered their cameras and the films and videotapes were taken away. The cameras were returned and no one was injured or detained, embassy officials said. The incident was the first reported since the army moved into Beying June 3 to violently suppress the democracy movement and it appeared likely to damage China's efforts to increase tourism, which has fallen off sharply since the unrest last month. The incident occurred as official newspapers reported nearly 50 new arrests in the nationwide crackdown on democracy movement activists and Chinese sources said two more intellectuals had been nabbed in the dragnet. State-run television, radio and newspapers kept up a barrage of criticism of "bourgeois liberalization," a code phrase for Western political concepts like democracy, targeting literature and the arts as having strayed too far from communist ideology.

Japanese Embassy officials and witnesses said a group of about 100 Japanese tourists in three buses.