Rescue teams pull out of Turkey
Efforts change to focus on homeless; injured cleared from rubble
lb lAMBUL, iurkey (AT) - roreign year-old woman m uolcuk, 110 miles
rescue teams packed up their listening southeast of Istanbul,
equipment and caged their sniffer dogs “We ran with the material to the
on Monday, pulling out of Turkey as the site,” said John Clancy, senior
relief effort switched from finding Associated Press Television News pro
earthquake survivors to aiding those ducer. “We supplied them with a gener
already out of the rubble. ator, petrol, lighting and cabling equip
But some amazing discoveries con- ment so they could work inside.”
tinued to emerge - most notably, a The woman, Adalet Cetinol,
scared, hungry 4-year-old boy found emeiged alive Sunday,
alive Monday after six days under tons But recognizing the near-impossi
of debris. ble odds of finding more survivors, res
in a tiny space under a collapsed cue efforts changed focus Monday to
building, rescuers discovered the boy, concentrate on helping the estimated
whose relatives had already prepared a 200,000 homeless,
grave for him. “A miracle of God,” the Some foreign rescue workers
boy’s uncle said. claimed Turkish authorities were pres
Ismail Cimen, whose father and suring them to leave,
three sisters were killed in last Tuesday’s “(They) say the rescue operation is
7.4-magnitude earthquake, was found finished, and the buildings must be
alone in a dark nook under a collapsed cleared,” said one Swiss team member,
balcony in Cinarcik, 30 miles south of Rafael Estefan.
Istanbul. Doctors said because Ismail Government officials denied mak
had plenty of space and air and was not ing any such demand,
injured they expected him to recover Germam Japanese and Austrian res
fully. cue teams returned home Monday, and
Turkish and French crews also some British rescuers left Sunday, the
asked journalists to help rescue a 45- Anatolia news agency reported.
Hatch: Bush should
answer drug rumors
WAbtilNtj LUN (Ahj -
Republican presidential contender
George W. Bush is being urged by
some of his GOP rivals to get the
question of illegal drug use behind
him by responding to the issue
forthrightly.
At the same time, his competi
tors and supporters maintained that
past indiscretions, including.possi
ble drug involvement, should not
disqualify the Texas governor or
anyone else from the presidency.
And they emphasized there is no
evidence Bush ever used narcotics.
Several candidates suggested
that a more complete, direct
response was required.
“Just answer the dam question
and get rid of it,” Sen. Orrin Hatch,
R-Utah, said as the issue dominat
ed the Sunday television talk
shows.
Hatch said Bush opened the
way for inquiries by giving partial
answers.
While Bush, 53, has acknowl
edged he once drank heavily and
I
made mistakes in his youth, there
has been no evidence or even cred
ible allegation that he ever has used
cocaine or any other illegal drug.
When pressed on the matter last
week, he gave varying answers and
finally said he had not used illegal
drugs in the past 25 years. He
would not elaborate.
“He has a right to privacy,” Sen.
John McCain, R-Ariz., another
GOP presidential contender, said
on CNN’s “Late Edition.” He
declined to say whether Bush
should address the issue further.
Another Republican hopeful,
conservative activist Gary Bauer,
said Bush apd other candidates
should “have to answer questions
that go to law-breaking.”
Bauer said Republicans have a
duty to give clear answers on the
drug issue. “We went nuts when
Bill Clinton said he tried marijuana
and didn’t inhale. There were a lot
of people in my party ... that just
pounded on that for months and
months and months,” he said.
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No one is helping us! All I have is my
blanket, and that is wet”
resident of Turkey
The casualty toll crept up to 12,134
dead and 33,384 injured Monday, but
some experts predicted it would eventu
ally reach 40,000. U.N. spokesman
Sergio Piazzi said Turkey had requested
help in locating 45,000 body bags.
Quake damage was estimated at up
to $20 billion.
Drenched survivors battled in vain
Monday to keep their simple cardboard
and-blanket huts from collapsing into
soggy piles in a lashing rain. Disease
carrying dust was washed away, but it
was replaced by a foul-smelling quag
mire that could fester even worse epi
demics such as cholera.
“No one is helping us!” cried a 70
year-old woman as she walked barefoot
through the muddy streets of Adapazari,
60 miles southeast of Istanbul. “All I
have is my blanket, and that is wet”
Thousands of tents and hotel rooms
were available, but many survivors were
either unaware of the shelter or simply
too tired to reach it.
Some people took shelter where
they could in buildings cracked by the
quake. Many wore face masks as pro
tection against typhoid fever, dysentery
and the stench of rotting corpses.
The rain is a “mixed blessing,” said
Israeli relief worker Dr. Pinchas
Halperin. “If it turns warm again there
will be an increased risk of disease from
mosquitoes and flies.”
Cooler and wet weather would
cause respiratory problems, particularly
among children and the elderly, he said
Jet crash leaves
many questions
■ Two people killed as
China Airlines jet tried to
land in midst of typhoon.
HONG KONG (AP) - After a
China Airlines jet crashed and
flipped over while trying to land,
questions arose Monday about why a
plane was landing in the midst of a
typhoon that shut down ferries, most
buses and some roads. Two people
were killed in the crash.
The Taiwan carrier’s Flight CI642
from Bangkok dipped sharply before
its right wing struck the runway,
bouncing the plane onto its back as it
burst into flames. There was a loud
blast, and suddenly everyone was
dangling upside down inside the
burning jet.
Sixty people were hospitalized
Monday, eight in critical or serious
condition. Of the 313 people who
survived the crash, 102 walked away
uninjured and another 151 were
quickly discharged from hospitals.
Killed were a Taiwanese man and
a Portuguese woman. The woman
was with a 78-member tour group
from Portugal that had just spent five
days vacationing on a tropical island
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in Thailand. Four Americans were
also on board.
The accident raised questions
about why airplanes were trying to
land in the middle of a typhoon.
Saudi oilman Hassan Al-Husseini
flew into Hong Kong earlier from
Shanghai and was waiting inside the
airport for another flight to Dubai
when he saw the plane crash. Despite
severe turbulence on his flight to
Hong Kong, he said, officials showed
a “lack of concern” about the weather
until the crash.
“Shouldn’t they have canceled
our flight or turned us back?” Al
Husseini asked today. “It sCems like
it’s a little bit of a cowboy situation.
The pilot must decide whether to take
a risk on taking off or landing.”
Hong Kong aviation officials said
they were following accepted inter
national procedures when they left
Chek Lap Kok airport open Sunday
during Tropical Storm Sam, adding
that it was up to airlines to decide
whether to attempt a landing.
Billy Lam, the chief executive of
the territory’s Airport Authority, said
earlier Monday: “We will certainly
try to review the situation in light of
the experience gained.”
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Iraqi armea forces:
Warplanes killed two
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Americar
and British warplanes killed two people
Monday in an attack on a northern Iraq:
town, Iraq’s armed forces said.
The U.S. military said allied planes
shot at an Iraqi military radar statior
after being fired upon by Iraqi anti-air
craft guns.
A statement from the U.S. Europear
Command in Stuttgart, Germany, die
not mention casualties, saying only tha
“damage to Iraqi forces is currently
being assessed.”
The Iraqi armed forces said U.S
and British planes flew 18 sorties ovei
northern Iraq, bombing the town o)
Ba’sheqa. The town is located 280 miles
north of Baghdad and 30 miles east o:
the Saddam Dam area, which allied
planes bombed Aug. 16.
The U.S. military said the allied
planes were fired on Monday while
patrolling the “no-fly” zone in northern
i Iraq. The United States and Britain
patrol the skies over northern and south
ern Iraq to protect Kurdish and Shiite
i Muslim minorities from President
i Saddam Hussein’s forces.
Baghdad regards the patrols as a
violation of its sovereignty and since
December has regularly challenged the
allied planes by locking missile radar on
them. The United States and Britain
have responded by firing, saying they
target only radar and other military
sites.
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Ship sinks in Adriatic,
killing 17 Kosovars
PODGORICA, Yugoslavia
(AP) - The bodies of 17 Kosova,
Gypsy, or Roma, refugees were
found floating in the Adriatic Sea
after a ship smuggling people to
Italy sank, the Montenegrin news
paper Vijesti reported Monday.
The unnamed vessel sank
Friday about 30 miles off the
Yugoslav coast. A passing ship res
cued 69 refugees.
Montenegrin naval police and
divers started retrieving bodies late
Sunday, the newspaper said.
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American tourist saved
after 40 days in desert
PERTH, Australia (AP) - f
Searchers in a helicopter found an
American tourist alive early today j
after he traveled 250 miles, some
times barefoot, and survived 40
days in the desert by eating plants '
and drinking muddy water.
Robert Bogucki, 33, a volun
teer fireman from Fairbanks,
Alaska, was spotted in a dry creek
bed in the Great Sandy Desert and
was transferred to a hospital in
Broome, 1,000 miles north of
Perth, Western Australia’s state V
capital.
Australian authorities launch
ed a search after Bogucki’s bike
and camping equipment were
found at the edge of the Great
Sandy Desert on July 26.
■ Beijing
Bus accident kills 22,
after 400-foot fall
BEIJING (AP) - A bus
swerving to avoid an oncoming
van plunged off the edge of a
highway and fell 400 feet into a
ravine, killing 22 people in
northern China, a newspaper said
Monday.
The bus, with 52 people
aboard, was bound from the city of
Xi’an in Shaanxi province to
Yilong in Sichuan province when
the accident occurred Saturday
morning in Chang’an County in
Shaanxi, the Beijing Youth Daily
reported.
■ London
Britain begins export
of beef products again
LONDON (AP) - British beef
exporters shipped a small package
of steaks to Brussels on Monday in
a symbolic gesture aimed at re
establishing the $832 million
export market.
The 110-pound consignment
was the first British beef exported
since the European Union lifted its
29-month ban three weeks ago,
after ruling out a further threat of
mad cow disease.
Agriculture Minister Nick
Brown admitted British farmers
face a tough struggle to regain
market share. “It is going to be a
long struggle to recapture markets,
which were good markets when the
shutters came down in 1996,” he
said.
Britain is expected to export
5,500 tons of de-boned beef this
year, a fraction of the 271,100 tons
shipped in 1995, the last lull export
year.