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Earthquake kills 10,000
NEW DELHI, India — A major
earthquake shattered the dawn quiet
Thursday, collapsing mud and mortar
homes onto sleeping families in vil
lages across southern India. More than
| 10,000 died and many more cried for
help from the wreckage.
Authorities feared the death toll
would rise substantially in India’s
worst quake in a half century.
Many villages were leveled so
quickly as the earth shook violently
and opened crevices that people were
crushed inside their homes while sleep
ing, news agencies reported.
“The rising sun created darkness
for us this morning, swallowed up our
villages, and made our houses into
tombs,” a survivor told a reporter.
Some survived when frantic rescu
ers heard them shouting for help be
neath toppled walls and roofs or saw
a hand reaching out from the wreck
age, Press Trust of India reported.
Friends, neighbors and police
strained to lift stone, brick and wood
by hand to free victims.
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west India at 3:56 a.m. It was felt at
least 400 miles from the epicenter and
caused a wide swath of damage.
State-run Doordarshan TV raised
the toll to more than 10,000 and said
more than 12,000 people could still be
trapped. The United News of India
news agency later put the death toll at
12,000.
About 10,000 people were injured,
said Raghunathan.
Officials said they expected the
death toll to rise sharply. Telephone,
electricity and water lines were cut,
and no reports were available from
Latur, a city with a half-million peo
ple, 20 miles north of the epicenter.
The largest death toll — 3,050 —
was reported from Umarga, 270 miles
southeast of Bombay. Sixty percent
of the town’s buildings were de
stroyed, Raghunathan said.
About 80 percent of the village of
Killari, which has 10,000 people, was
flattened, said senior police officer
S.P. Wathore in Bombay, the capital
of Maharashtra. About 3,000 people
died in Killari, Raghunathan said.
Huge cracks opened in the ground,
swallowing homes, witnesses said.
Umarga is 18 miles south of the
epicenter, which is near Maharashtra’s
southeastern border with Madhya
Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh states.
Killari is SO miles north of the cpicen
ter.
Powerful quake devastates
southwestern India
A powerful earthquake toppled houses and
devastated villages in southern India before
dawn Thursday, burying hundreds of people f
under their collapsed homes. The quake, which /'
registered 6.4 on the Richter scale, occurred at rJ
3:56 a.m. about 250 miles southeast of Bombay, V
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In Karnataka state, south ot
Maharashtra, 13 people were killed in
several villages. Press Trust of India
reported.
Soldiers and policemen rushed to
the remote area of southwestern In
dia, bringing stretchers, tents, medi
cal supplies,earth movers,bulldozers
and mobile hospitals.
Relief workers had trouble reach
ing some villages that recently lost
their roads and bridges to heavy mon
soon rains.
In shattered villages, crowds of
people roamed through the debris,
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The quake also awakened people !
in Bombay, Bangalore and Madras,
up to 400 miles from the epicenter. No
deaths were reported in the three major
cities. Across southern India, people
fled their shaking homes in panic.
The International Federation of
Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
on Thursday sent $66,000 in emer
gency funds to help. The Geneva
based federation groups national Red
Cross and Muslim Red Crescent soci
eties worldwide.
The stricken region stands over a
geological formation called the
Deccan Plateau.
Olmos
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but he said history gave him a feeling
of oneness with others.
“When you look at me, you see an
African, an Asian, an indigenous per
son ... and in the 1500s, white men
came from Spain,” he said. “It’s all
mixed into this little brown guy you
see on stage.
“A lack of education puts a hole in
the soul. Not the soul that goes to
Heaven, but the soul that makes you
what you are.”
Olmos said religion was one place
where people had to be educated about
other colors. One problem was the
belief that Jesus was Caucasian, he
said.
“It was Jerusalem, 2000 years ago,”
he said. “Swedes were not happening
in Africa.
“Jesus was all colors,” he said.
“When you put .together white, and
yellow, and red and brown, what do
you get? Black.”
Olmos said the way to fight racism
was not to fight immediately out of
anger, but to walk away and fight
later.
“When someone exhibits racism,
it’s their problem,” he said. “They
may not give me the opportunity, they
may do a million things, but they got
a problem. Me.”
Olmos said his feeling ot oneness
made him concerned about gangs,
especially because children were kill
ing other children for no apparent
reason.
“Every kid who gets killed is relat
ed to me,” he said. “We are all relat
ed.”
Gangs are a result of a natural
human need to be together, he said,
and a lack of positive opportunities.
He said gang members needed a pos
itive stimulus.
“We must band together to pull in
the kids, not push them out,” he said.
“If you give them something they
could have a future in, nine out of 10
times, they’ll take the job and go
fecit.”
Olmos said individuals could help
solve the problems of racism and vi
olence by being good role models for
younger children.
“You have to be ready as a commu
nity,” he said. “Start to dig. Go to it,
and mentor one on one. Help those
kids grow.
Olmos, 46, said he had been a role
model for 44 years.
“And everyone here is a role mod
el. When you least expect it, someone
will be watching you.”
Olmos said his acting helped him
to be more understanding ofbehavior.
“I think everyone in here should
take an acting class,” he said. “You
study human nature, you get an under
standing.”
Bjorklund
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without some reference to the robber
ies, Colborn said.
“We don’t intend to offer the state
ments that didn’t deal with the homi
cide,” Colborn said.
Helvie said his motion was misun
derstood. He said he simply was ask
ing for the state to tell the defense
about statements concerning the rob
bery before they were presented in the
trial.
The judge said it would be impos
sible to foresee every robbery detail
that could surface at the trial. Prob
lems concerning that information will
be dealt with as they arise, Endacott
said.
Helvie asked that Bjorklund's wife,
Shannon, not be summoned for action
that could lead her to testify against
her husband.
The judge said Helvie could object
UMieMestimonywhcntne time came
and then ordered Shannon Bjorklund
to give her deposition to the court Oct.
6.
Helvie also asked that Bjorklund
and county deputies be allowed to
wear street clothes during the trial.
Bjorklund wore a blue jail uniform,
blue Converse high-top sneakers and
leg shackles during the pretrial hear
ings.
Bjorklund is presumed innocent,
Helvie said, and wearing shackles
does not foster the presumption of
innocence.
“He has behaved in this courtroom
in a consistently gentlemanly man
ner,” Helvie said of Bjorklund.
Colbom said he did not object to
Bjorklund wearing street clothes dur
ing the trial, but asked that he remain
in shackles for security reasons.
Bjorklund filed motions on his own
behalf calling for evidence to be giv
en to experts for examination.
Bjorklund is representing himself in
several robbery charges.
Bjorklund said he had made the
same request this summer. He asked
the judge why a Suzuki motorcycle,
Buick Skylark automobile and five
cans of spray paint had not yet been
released to experts.
Colbom said Bjorklund had failed
to comply with the law in naming a
specific expert who would examine
tne evidence.
I m not going tojust turn it over 10
some unknown, alleged, unchecked
out expert," Colbom said.
Endacott said the motorcycle had
been sold to someone in South Dakota
and the car was returned to the dealer
from which it allegedly was taken.
Endacott said the state was ordered
in August to comply with Bjorklund ’s
request to the extent of its control over
the items.
“The state no longer has posses
sion and control of those items,” he
said.
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Chinese man hijacks
airliner to Taiwan
TAIPEI, Taiwan — A Chinese
man armed with a knife hijacked a
domestic airlinerwith69peopleon
board to Taiwan Thursday, offi
cials said. The man was detained
along with his wife and son, and no
one was hurt.
The Sichuan Airlines plane with
58 passengers and 11 crew landed
safely at Taipei International Air
port at 3:30 p.m. said Ma Chen
fang, vice minister for communi
cations and transport.
The hijacker, a29-year-old truck
driver from northeast China, said
he would detonate bottles of dyna
mite strapped to his waist unless
the pilot flew the plane to Taiwan,
airport police chief Wang Rong
chung said.
The bottles were later found to
contain vegetable seeds, Wang said.
Ma told reporters Taiwan would
send the plane back to China and
hand the man over to the court for
investigation and criminal charg
es. He did not say what would
happen to the man’s 29-year-old
wife and 8-year-old son.
China’s official Xinhua News
Agency said the Russia-made TU
154 was hijacked at 2:43 p.m. on a
domestic flight from Jinan in north
east China’s Shandong province to
Canton, capital ofGuangdongpnov
ince in south China.
Xinhua cited the Civil Aviation
Administration of China as saying
the crew, passengers and aircraft
were safe.
Taiwan’s official Broadcasting
Corporation of China quoted an
unidentified official as saying Tai
wanese military jets intercepted the
airliner over the Taiwan Straits,
which divides China and Taiwan,
and guided it to a safe landing.
Ma told reporters that Taiwan
will send the plane back to China
and hand the hijackers over to the
court for investigation and crimi
nal charges.
It was the fourth Chinese com
mercial plane hijacked to Taiwan
since April.
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Motives sought in York drive-by shooting
t ukk — rouce are loosing ior a
notivc in a drive-by shooting that
iamaged the home of District Judge
Durtis Evans.
Evans and his wife, Mary, were in
mother part of the house and were not
injured in the Monday night shooting
bat broke out the living room win
jow
York Police Chief Donald KJug
said shots were fired about 8:30 p.m.
into the living room, open garage and
in outside fence.
“It could have been disastrous had
hey been in the living room,” KJug
said.
“It appeared that a vehicle drove
oy the house. Witnesses thought they
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verify three,” Klug said. “It appears to
be a rifle or a handgun-type weapon.”
He said it’s likely that Evans’ job
had something to do with the shoot
ing.
“The judge is in a position where
they have to make decisions that upset
people,” Klug said. Police are talking 1
to the judge to determine if anyone J
had an “ax to grind,” he said. M
Seward County Judge Alan Gless^
said Thursday such retaliation often I
passes through a judge’s mind.
“Those risks are associated with I
the job," Gless said. “You think about I
it all the time.”.
Sports wire
ACC coaches will try to prevent brawls
RALEIGH,N.C.—AtlanticCoast
Conference football coaches are warn
ing their players they won’t tolerate a
repeat of the fights that broke out in
three games involving conference
teams.
Duke coach Bany Wilson, whose
team was involved in a fight at Virgin
ia last Saturday, was the most em
phatic of the league’s coaches insist
ing they would suspend players in the
future for fighting or leaving the bench
area to join brawls.
Wilson said if an opposing player
was getting pushed on the Duke sidc
line he would “attack our players
anddefend him. No one is going to
getbeat up on the sidelines. But when
youget 100 kids over there it can get
dangerous."__
