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T1 FRIDAY fit "115" Party cloudy in morning. Scattered jF thundershowersin afternooa HOHlOW 40 50 60 70 80 MAYORAL BID Chamber's Owen says he'll run BASKETBALL Detroit Pistons slip by battered Lakers INDIAN ART Living traditions: new Missoula exhibit i mm prQg irgiDS wops 'p gr t'i "It'1 "lis. By TERRIL JONES Associated Press Red Cross pegs death toll at 3,600 BEIJING Premier Li Peng on Thursday congratulated soldiers who crushed a popular movement for democracy, and the government Soldiers fired weapons at about 1 1 p.m. in the direction of foreign journalists outside the Jianguo Hotel on Changan Avenue, Beijing's main boulevard, but it was not clear whether they were aiming at the reporters. Hundreds of trucks in convoys moved tons of supplies into Tiananmen overnight, and hundreds more continued the resupply operation Thursday.

For about an hour during one delivery, commuters on bicycles ventured across Changan Avenue for the first time since Sunday, then police closed it again. Chinese Red Cross officials estimate 3,600 people were killed and 60,000 injured in the weekend military assault on protesters, accord ing to a Chinese students' organization in West Germany, the Union of Chinese Students in the Federal Republic. The government says nearly 300 people, mostly soldiers, were killed, but Chinese and foreign diplomats say up to 3,000 died. Li's televised speech to soldiers in the Great Hall of the People, on Tiananmen Square, was his first public appearance since the crackdown. "You've done well, comrades," he told the cheering troopers, and admonished them to "continue working hard to protect the capital's safety and order." (See PENG, Page A-10) urged citizens to turn those who resisted the bloody military raid on Tiananmen Square.

Beijing was relatively quiet Thursday after days of random shooting, but gunfire broke out again after dark. Unrest was reported in other cities, and provincial leaders called for harsh action against demonstrators. Jt Peng Associated Press Heat beater PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH responds to a reporter's question during his first prime-time televised news conference Thursday. BuosDd comidleimsiis Chimiese acilBoms Lotto America Montana gambles on expanded lottery By BOB ANEZ Associated Press By DAVID ESPO Associated Press fice, Bush also urged Iran's new leaders to help free American hostages in Lebanon, and said he thinks Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev is taking the latest U.S. arms reduction proposals seriously.

Bush also readily agreed that newly elected Democratic House Speaker Thomas S. Foley had been dealt "a terrible ill service" by the publication of a Republican Party circular. Many of the questions dealt with China, and while Bush defended the limited nature of the sanctions he announced on Mon- (See BUSH, Page A-10) WASHINGTON President Bush said Thursday night the United States cannot return to "totally normal relations" with China unless that government ends violence against its own people and recognizes the validity of pro-democracy forces. "Armed people don't shoot down unarmed students," Bush said of a weekend sweep by Chinese troops that killed hundreds if not thousands of demonstrators in Beijing. At his first prime-time televised news conference since taking of ,4, Mm lit 'j As 4 'loS fs Parents scour 1-90 for missing daughter By DON BATY of the Missoulian Tom and Dolly Meehan looked weary Thursday afternoon as they talked about the search for their daughter, Patricia, 37, who has been missing since she walked HELENA The Montana Lottery Commission on Thursday decided to gamble on expanding the state lottery, approving Montana's participation in a lottery involving at least six other states and the District of Columbia.

If the plan stays on schedule, Montanans could be playing the new game in less than five mciths, said Lottery Director Chuck Brooke. Before that can happen, though, the state will have to hire a company to install the computer and 250 terminals on which people can play the new game. A formal request for bids on such a project will be issued Friday and Brooke expects a contract to be signed by late August. The multistate game eyed by the state is called Lotto America. It was started in September 1987 by Oregon, Iowa, Rhode Island, West Virginia, Kansas and District of Columbia.

Missouri has since joined and Wisconsin is expected to become the eighth member later this summer. Brooke explained that the goal of- Lotto America is to provide large jackpots for more sparsely populated states by pooling the number (See LOTTERY, Page A-10) Rioters attack Soviet offices MOSCOW (AP) Thousands of ethnic rioters attacked government offices and a police station in Uzbekistan in a bloody bid to seize firearms, raising the death toll in a five-day rampage to at least 71, official media said Thursday. "Corpses are being found in gutted "houses and the wounded are dying in hospitals," Uzbek Premier Gairat Kadyrov told the government newspaper Izvestia. At least 71 people were killed and the figure was likely to continue climbing, he said. The violence began June 3 with fighting between ethnic Uzbeks and the Meskhi Turk minority, forcibly resettled in the Fergana Valley of Uzbekistan by Stalin in 1944.

Officials have not been able to contain it despite evacuating more than 10,000 of the Meskhi minority and sending in 9,000 Interior Ministry soldiers. Communist Party officials asked the Congress of People's Deputies parliament Thursday to approve "more decisive measures to stabilize the situation" in Uzbekistan, deputy Alexei Yastrebov said in a telephone interview. He represents the Ural Mountains region of Russia. Yastrebov said he could not specify measures under consideration. He said a group of deputies, including some from Uzbekistan, were told to investigate the latest developments and report back to the Congress on Friday before a decision is taken.

West German sources said in Bonn on Thursday that Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev has cut the agenda for his four-day West German visit next week to stay in touch with the Kremlin over events in his troubled nation. away atter a head-on traffic accident April 20 near Circle in east ern Montana. The couple left their home in Pittsburgh, two weeks ago to inter Patricia Meehan May 4 in Luverne, May 5 in Murdo, S.D., May 11 in Billings, May 13 in Billings and May 19 in Bozeman. The Meehans surmise that their daughter, who called home from Montana the night before the accident complaining of mental problems, may have suffered amnesia in the accident and has been hitchhiking aimlessly along Interstate 90 since then.

The pattern of sightings and vague statements their daughter reportedly made to people who saw her suggest that she is heading west along 1-90, the Meehans said. In addition to interviewing people who may have seen Patricia, the Meehans are distributing posters that describe their daughter: 5 feet 3 inches tall, less than 117 pounds, green-gray eyes, strawberry blonde-red hair, freckles, fair complexion and a mild Eastern accent. The Meehans said she looks much younger than 37, Her brother, Terry, 21, who is traveling with his parents on the quest, said the people who reportedly have seen his sister since the accident describe her as quiet and soft-spoken, sits with her back erect and her hands between her knees, appears tired, and has unkempt hair. The poster asks anyone who sees Patricia Meehan to call 9-1-1 or collect at (406) 485-3405. the collect number is the McCone County Sheriff's Department, which is coordinating the search for the missing woman.

view people from Luverne, to man who have reported their daughter. "We thought it wouldn't be too hard, but this is really Dolly Meehan, 59, began in an interview Thursday at the Missoulian. Overcome with emotion, she was unable to finish the sentence. It's "a lot of traveling," added Tom Meehan, 62. But it's not entirely fruitless traveling.

They have a videotape of their daughter to show people who believe they may have seen her. So far, five of about 60 sightings have been verified. "Those definite sightings were great," Tom Meehan said with a weary grin. The verified sightings were MICHAEL GALLACHERMlstoulfan IN AN EFFORT to beat western Montana's recent heat wave, a youngster at the KOA campground west of Missoula finds relief in a swimming pool. Temperatures hit 88 in Missoula Thursday, matching the all-time high set In 1902.

"nm.i i Floaters continue voyage despite drowning By GREG LAKES of the Missoulian Advice columns B4 'Around Missoula B2 Classified C3-C10 Comics B4 Entertainer E1E14 Markets P4 Montana B1-B3 Obituaries B3 Opinion Sports D1-D3 TV tonight B4 Paradise showed 3 feet, according to Bit-terroot National Forest officials. Temperatures warmed into the 80s each of the following days, for the first time this season, and released long-delayed runoff. On Wednesday, as the group approached a series of devastating rapids just downstream from Moose Creek Ranger Station, the river had risen to 6 feet. At that level, experienced boaters consider the Selway one of the most hazardous rivers in the western United States. Baldwin has postponed detailed interviews with the group members until they noon Wednesday in an intense section of the river near Ladle Rapids.

Although others in the group pulled her from the water within 10 minutes, more than three hours of resuscitation efforts were in vain. Baldwin said the trip was organized by a group of Salt Lake physicians with lots of white-water experience, including several trips down the Selway. "They'd rafted for 20 years and never had so much as a torn fingernail," Baldwin quoted one member of the party. They launched Sunday, when the river gauge at finish their trip, and Thursday was still uncertain of the precise sequence of events that led to the tragedy. But, he said, the rafts approached the stretch that includes seven major rapids within about two miles, and somewhere in or near Ladle Rapids, one raft flipped and Karen Brandon was thrown from another.

The occupants of the capsized raft probably clung to their boat, and all managed to reach the bank. Brandon, wearing a wetsuit and a life jacket, apparently was (See FLOATERS, Page A-10) HAMILTON A group of floaters continued their trip down the receding Sel-way River on Thursday, a subdued flotilla that included the son of a woman who drowned on the river Wednesday. Idaho County Sheriff Randy Baldwin said the body of Karen Brandon, 41, had been airlifted to Grangeville, Idaho, pend-. ing funeral arrangements in her hometown of Salt Lake City. She was thrown from one of the group's three rafts shortly after.