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2The Daily Tar HeelFriday, December 9, 1988 World and Nation airthcgyake destroys Ameoiam) cities n: From Associated Press reports MOSCOW Soviet authorities rushed military surgeons and tons of medical supplies Thursday into Armenia, rocked by an earthquake that officials said virtually destroyed several cities and killed tens of thousands of people. Armenian journalists said a Polit buro commission led by Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov received prelimi nary estimates that up to 50,000 people died in the Wednesday earth quake, which measured 6.9 on the Richter scale. Soviet officials reported thousands of people were killed but provided no death toll. President Mikhail Gorbachev cut short his trip to the United States and flew home to lead a worldwide emergency rescue effort in the south ern republic, which has a population of 3.3 million. "Urgent measures are being taken to help all those affected by this terrible tragedy, and I have to be there in this effort," said Gorbachev, who planned to fly to Yerevan after arriving in Moscow. He canceled planned trips to Cuba and Britain.' President Reagan offered emer gency humanitarian aid, Cuban President Fidel Castro pledged to send construction workers and Bri 6 killed as From Associated Press reports REMSCHE1D, West Germany A U.S. Air Force warplane struck an apartment building and exploded in flames Thursday, killing six people, injuring dozens of others and destroy ing homes for more than a block. "This looks like a war," said Johannes Rau, governor of North Rhine-Westphalia state, after touring the scene in central West Germany. The U.S. Air Force suspended all tactical training flights in Europe until early next week, a U.S. Air Force commander said. The A-10 Thunderbolt II jet, designed to support ground forces and fight tanks, was carrying 1,000 rounds of 30mm training ammuni tion when it crashed, said U.S. Air Force spokesman Lt. Col. Ed Neunherz. Witnesses said the plane flew low over a school and hit the top floor . Wouldn't YbU Really Rather Live at. J M illCree Student oriented Walking distance to UNC Two bedrooms, two baths All appliances Pool, tennis on site From $78,000 Mill Creek 700 Airport Road Model Open Mon-Fri 11:OOto Sat-Sun 2:00 to 4:00 transfers Show. $5 gaming chip, B PRBKEUCAJIHO roxviriftTJUOftiTi See our brochure for contract terms and effective dates Subject to chanae and availability. Affiliated with Princess tain dispatched London firefighters to join the rescue effort. Soviet TV showed a clock on a building in the city of Leninakan, on the Turkish border near the epicenter of the earthquake, stopped at 11:41 the instant the disaster struck. The earthquake destroyed two thirds of Leninakan, Armenia's second-largest city with a population of 250,000 people, a TV correspond ent said. Spitak, a town of 16,000 about 45 miles away, "was practically erased from the face of the Earth," the correspondent said. Tass said half the buildings in Kirovakan, a city of 150,000, had crumbled. A special meeting of representa tives of all 15 Soviet republics was called in Yerevan, the Armenian capital, on Friday to discuss disaster relief. Soviet authorities dispatched doc- tors, engineers and food and medical supplies to the area, and a "helicopter bridge" was set up to ferry the injured northward to hospitals in neighbor ing Soviet Georgia, the Tass news agency reported. Tass said 2,300 people were hos pitalized in Yerevan with injuries from the quake and that 200 had been olaoe hits of an apartment building about 1:30 p.m. At least six multifamily homes then caught fire and burned. Opposition political parties called for a ban on low-level flights and sharp cuts in air exercises. Peter Kurt Wuerzbach, the second-ranked offi cial in the Defense Ministry, said West German authorities were calling on their allies to halt low-level training missions until Christmas. Maj. Gen. Marcus A. Anderson, commander of the U.S. Third Air Force, told reporters at the scene that all tactical training flights would be suspended until next Tuesday. "In light of this mishap, the U.S. Air Force in Europe has suspended all tactical flying from now through next Tuesday in memory of those who were killed or injured in the mishap today," Anderson said. I want to say how much the U.S. Air Force regrets this very unfortu m j i tits? 12:30 Chapel Hill Realty 942-4149 Includes -stoD air i accommodations and much more K us I F r 1 fni VALUE BONUS COUPONS Includes admission to Casino discounts and more... C r L 208 W. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill 967-1438 i t i o n j Motels International, Inc hospitalized across the border in Georgia. It did not say how many of the injured were treated elsewhere. For a second night Thursday, millions of Soviet TV viewers saw soldiers searching for survivors and bodies in huge piles of concrete rubble, either by hand or with cranes. The disaster coverage by the state run media was unprecedented in its speed and scope. Ryzhkov, head of an earthquake commission, told Soviet television the main task before authorities is to search the rubble for the injured and dead. He then turned directly toward the camera and made an unusual appeal to factory and . business officials nationwide not to wait to be asked, but to start immediately sending heavy cranes, helicopters and other equipment to the stricken area. Friday and Saturday were declared days of mourning in Armenia. Soviet TV and the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda reported from Leninakan that preliminary estimates were that tens of thousands of people were killed. Foreign Minister spokesman Vadim Perfiliev said authorities were having difficulty calculating a death toll because communications with the bui nate mishap," he added. The Third Air Force is based at the Royal Air Force base Mildenhall, England. West German Defense Minister Rupert Scholz cut short a visit to Washington because of the accident. A West German military spokes man, Gen. Botho Engelin, said six bodies, including that of the pilot, had been pulled from the smoldering wreckage. , The Air Force identified the dead Center ably support the BCC, but there is a question of how high on the priority list the proposal will be. There are many items to be considered, and the trustees are not yet sure where the BCC issue will come in, he said. "WeVe just touched on the details of what the program entails," Tanner said. . 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Developed and managed by Charter Properties, Inc. 601 Jones Ferry Road at Hwy. 54 Bypass, Carrboro 919-967-0955 Open 7 days a week region were severed. He said the Foreign Ministry was reviewing requests by foreign repor ters to visit the disaster area, but that none had been approved. Komsomolskaya Pravda said sold iers were working under spotlights in the wreckage of a Leninakan school. It said two sergeants pulled the bodies of more than 50 children from the ruins and that only a few children had been found alive in the collapsed building. The newspaper Izvestia reported the population of Armenia has risen markedly in recent weeks as settlers fled violent ethnic strife between Armenians, who are mostly Chris tian, and predominantly Moslem Azerbaijanis. About 180000 refugees reportedly have fled across the border between the two republics in the last three weeks. The last earthquake in the Soviet Union with a death toll in the thousands was an Oct. 5, 1948, temblor in Ashkhabad, the capital of Turkmenia. The Soviet press acting under Gorbachev's policy of glasnost, or greater openness recently gave the death toll for the Ashkhabad quake as 1 10,000. Germany pilot as Capt. Michael Foster, 34, but did not give his home town. A statement sent by telex to the news media said he was survived by his wife and two sons. The pilot's parachute hung from a tree about 30 yards away, a witness said. Rescuers said they feared the death toll could rise, although they empha sized they were uncertain how many people were killed. visited black cultural centers at other universities, so few members of the BOT have a working knowledge of the proposal, he said. In particular, the trustees need more details about the costs of the proposed BCC site before they can make a decision, he said. BOT Chairman Bob Eubanks .yisited the extensive Black Cultural where n T1 U.S. Supreme Court justice hospitalized with pneumonia From Associated Press reports WASHINGTON Supreme Court Justice William Brennan was hospitalized Thursday, suffer ing from pneumonia. Brennan, 82, was taken to the Bethesda Naval Medical Center in suburban Maryland in the early afternoon after visiting a doctor at the U.S. Capitol, court spokes woman Toni House said. A statement read by House in response to a reporter's inquiry added, "His illness is not expected to affect his work except for the Monday, Dec. 12, session." The court is scheduled to begin a four-week- recess after issuing orders and possibly announcing decisions Monday. House declined to answer other questions concerning the justice's health or his hospitalization. Brennan participated in the court's oral arguments Wednesday and reportedly has enjoyed good health recently. Brennan, appointed to the nation's highest court by President Dwight Eisenhower in 1956, is its oldest and most senior'member. For three decades the court's leading liberal light, Brennan is now one of three liberal, octogen arian justices. Thurgood Marshall and Harry Blackmun are 80. By comparison, the average age of the court's conservative justices is about 60. Agency plane shot down RABAT, Morocco Two DC 7s of the relief' agency U.S. AID came under missile attack Thurs day near the Morocco-Mauritania border, and one was shot down, according to the spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Rabat. Center at Purdue University this year, and trustee William Darity is a dean at the University of Massachusetts, which also has a large Black Cultural Center Normally the BOT doesnt call a vote on a presentation like this one, Tanner said, but they may vote to put it on an agenda for future study. For proposals as large as the BCC, a BOT committee is generally formed to research all aspects of the project, he said. The formation of a committee is It brings out the best in all of us' Map UmMi all tesEi's - 1 I" ? 13:30 cnwiziJ en x 6137.Rtr.kI!nSt. C;li:::i,t.J Tenn! "We have including and $29.95 STFVt s s News in Brief The attack occurred near a border area where nationalist rebels have waged a guerrilla war against the Moroccan government to establish an independent West ern Sahara. The area where the plane went down is 650 miles southwest of Rabat, the Moroccan capital. Court upholds rape conviction RALEIGH A sexually abused child's statements made outside the courtroom can be admitted as evidence in some cases even if the victim does not testify, the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled Thursday. ' But in approving such hearsay testimony in a child sexual abuse case for the first time, the state's highest court said it was not establishing a principle that would apply in every instance. In a 7-0 decision, the court upheld the first-degree rape con viction of Danny Mark Deanes of Hertford County. He was sent enced to life in prison July 15, 1987. The victim had described the incident to a social worker and a doctor and had used anatomically correct dolls to demonstrate it. A physical examination revealed that the girl had gonorrhea. Dow Jones average falls NEW YORK The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials, . which had risen 61.35 points in the week's first three trading days, dropped back 1 1.92 to 2,141.71. from page 1 "not by any means to waylay it (the BCC)," Tanner said. "It just means they're serious about it." , Students who support the BCC proposal have been asked to attend, the BOT meeting Friday at 1 1 a.m? to show the trustees that students are in favor of a permanent site, said BCC supporter Kim McLean. It definitely needs the support of the BOT in order to go through at all," McLean said. For the Record In the Dec. 8 story, "Lyin and , cheatin' take to the stage," Patrick -Emerson was misidentified as, Richard Emerson. Patrick Emerson1' is portraying Jerry in the play:" "Betrayal." The DTH regrets the error. . - - Y::::::' - v. . ...... over 1 6 wide bodies." to 219.95 FRIEDMAN'S models jj 4 Junior 1 y fPUOAiOP V ' J ; i '. 1 1 11 Carr Mall933-0069 i
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