Firefighters Bulldoze Road to Protect Town, Glacier National Park Office

WEST GLACIER, Mont. -- Firefighters bulldozed an old road yesterday in an effort to protect the town and the Glacier National Park headquarters complex from a spreading wildfire.

West Glacier will be evacuated if the fire moves to within three miles of the town, fire information officer Andy Williams said.

The town has about 250 permanent residents and about 400 people in the summer. The fire had about a mile to go before reaching that trigger point, Williams said.

Three wildfires in the park had already chased away thousands of visitors, and had blackened more than 40,000 acres.

One fire, in the northwest portion of Glacier, destroyed six houses.

In Idaho, scores of firefighters attended a memorial service for Jeff Allen, 24, who was overrun by flames after he and a co-worker rappelled to the ground from a helicopter to fight a blaze in the Salmon-Challis National Forest.

On Friday, a pilot was killed when his helicopter crashed while fighting a wildfire in northeastern Washington state. Randall Harmon, 44, of Grants Pass, Ore., was the only occupant of the helicopter, which went down on the Colville Indian Reservation.

The National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho, said 42 large fires were burning in 12 Western states.

Antiwar Demonstrators Continue Protest of Three Imprisoned Nuns

MISSILE SITE M-11, Colo. -- Hundreds of demonstrators spread out across parts of Colorado and Nebraska to carry on the work of the nuns who were sentenced to prison for their antiwar protest at a missile silo.

Religious and political activists gathered near the Minuteman III site, known as M-11, about 140 miles northeast of Denver -- one of 49 silo sites in Colorado -- to pray, sing, dance, beat drums and hang an eviction notice. Officials said protesters also gathered at three missile sites in southwestern Nebraska.

Jackie Hudson, 68, Ardeth Platte, 66, and Carol Gilbert, 55, were convicted in April of obstructing the national defense and damaging government property.

• LOS ANGELES -- Tu Luong Hua, 24, was charged with murder in the slayings of his former brother-in-law and roommate, Yu Huynh, and of a former Greek Orthodox priest, Stanley Adamakis, 61, who was released from state prison in November 1997 after serving seven years of a nine-year sentence for sexual battery and child molestation, authorities said.

• SALT LAKE CITY -- An alleged polygamist was arrested and charged with marrying his first cousin, and Utah's attorney general said it is a signal that the state is going after offenders. Jeremy Kingston, 32, was arrested Thursday on a charge of incest stemming from his 1995 marriage to LuAnn Kingston, when she was 15.

-- From News Services