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Kobe survivors' frustration grows
Bad weather slows relief, rescue efforts as death toll rises
The Associated Press
KOBE, Japan — Bone-chilling rain yesterday grounded relief flights, delayed search operations and bred fears of disease among survivors of Japan's deadliest quake in more than 70 years. The death toll neared 5,000.
Resentment and frustration appeared to grow among thousands of survivors. Many showed signs of deep psychological scars, while others struggled to get by without basic services.
"We just need a bathroom," Mun Wah Soh, a Korean, said as she puttered about the tent she and her husband share with about 20 others. "There's no water. We can't wash anything."
Five days after the 7.2-magnitude quake, police put the death toll at 4,936, with 171 people still missing. Nearly 28,000 have been injured.
Doug Copp of the San Franciscobased American Rescue Team said there was a good possibility that more survivors could be found.
A strong aftershock shook Kobe overnight. There were no reports of damage or injury. The aftershock measured 4 on the Japanese 7-point scale. Tuesday's quake measured 7 on that scale, which cannot be converted to the standard international scale.
The search for 30 people missing in nearby Nishinomiya had to be called off for fear of mud slides caused by the rain.
Underscoring the danger still facing this once-vibrant port city, three people were trapped yesterday when a quake-damaged building collapsed, blocking the entrance to their home. Rescuers saved them.
The rain also made conditions even more miserable for nearly 300,000 people left homeless by the
quake. Almost 52,000 buildings many of them homes,were damaged or destroyed.
Virtually all of Kobe's 1.4 million residents lack natural gas for heat, and the Osaka Gas Co. said restoring service could take six weeks. More than half the city's households still lack running water.
The bad weather heightened fears of disease, especially influenza.
Signs of emotional stress are also emerging, causing a breakdown in the social order for which Japanese society is renowned.
For the first time, merchants are complaining about theft, and on Sunday many organized a neighborhood watch to guard against night pilferage.
At the Kansai Rosai Hospital in nearby Amagasaki, many patients are experiencing breathing difficulties at night. Doctors call the symptom common among people suffering delayed stress syndrome.
"The people think we'll have another big quake," taxi driver Yoshikazu Morimoto said. "Most are very afraid another big one will come. Many people are leaving, and many of them have lost their jobs," he said, because businesses were destroyed.
Frustration about the government's relief operation boiled into open hostility yesterday during a live, nationally televised hookup of government officials and survivors.
"You should have told us or showed us what we could do in such a bad situation," barked one man, abandoning the honorific style of speech that Japanese ordinarily use to address leaders.
A teacher noted that volunteers walked to Kobe to help survivors. "Why can't officials do the same?" she asked. A high school student told Chief Cabinet Secretary Kozo Igarashi: "I want you guys to do something, not as politicians but as human beings — as soon as possible."
Such public comments are rare in a culture that emphasizes respect for
leaders.
"We want people to believe us," Igarashi pleaded. "We are doing our best as human beings."
Criticism also came from the political opposition. Former Prime Minister Tsutomu Hata, deputy leader of the New Frontier Party, said in a speech in northern Japan that people died because the government had no plan to protect public safety and property when a natural calamity like an earthquake occurs.
Japan is prone to earthquakes. A 4.6-magnitude quake shook central Japan, about 250 miles northeast of Kobe, yesterday. There were no reports of damage or casualties.
Helmeted workers fanned out across Kobe on Sunday to distribute about 200,000 plastic sheets to cover damaged roofs or build the makeshift shelters that have gone up in sports fields, parks and vacant lots.
A team of 74 U.S. Marines from the 3rd Marine Division on Okinawa set up about 20 tents at several locations throughout the city. Each tent can accommodate about 25 people.
"It felt real good to get off the island and do our part to help out," said Gunnery Sgt. Stephen Ruvio, 39, of the Brooklyn section of New York. "We could probably do more if they'd allow us to."
Experts find parallels between Lindbergh, Simpson trials
The Associated Press
Not The Juice. The Lindbergh kidnapping of 60 years past.
FLEMINGTON, N.J. — A popular icon. A murder trial. No eyewitnesses. A media frenzy to feed the public's insatiable appetite for every painful, bloody scrap of detail.
In January 1935, the nation focused on Flemington's 18th-century courthouse as Bruno Richard Hauptmann was tried in the kidnapping and murder of Charles A. Lindbergh's infant son — that decade's Trial of the Century.
Today, testimony in O.J. Simpson's murder trial is to begin.
From the circus atmosphere to the circumstantial evidence, experts marking the Lindbergh trial's 60th anniversary couldn't help noting the parallels when they gathered Saturday in the courtroom where Hauptmann was convicted.
Twenty-month-old Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr. disappeared from his crib in the family's East Amwell house on
March 1, 1932. Two months later, his body was found in a shallow grave a few miles away.
The state contended that the baby died when a crude ladder used in the kidnapping broke under the combined weight of Hauptmann and the child.
Some of the $50,000 in ransom was found in the German carpenter's house. Handwriting experts testified that he wrote the ransom notes, and the prosecution said he made the ladder from boards matching planks missing from his attic.
As with Simpson, that's largely circumstantial evidence. Over the years, such evidence has kept speculation alive about who-really-dunit, from Lindbergh himself to members of his wife's family to the butter.
And then there's the media coverage.
Four hundred photographers, reporters and newsreel producers — more than the number who covered World WarI—turned tiny Flemington into the most watched spot in the
world.
The coverage led to an American Bar Association vote in 1937 to ban cameras from courtrooms.
A service station charged a whopping $2 a day for parking, churches served meals to the hundreds who flocked to gawk, and two boys who sold the Hauptmannville News for 2 cents were flooded with requests for copies from around the country.
"Everyone talked about it, knew about it, had come to some decision about it," Tom Bigler, professor of communications at Wilkes College in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., said when Hauptmann's wife, Anna, died last year. "Everybody knew the details: where the child was taken, how the ladder was fashioned, what kind of lumber was used."
Today, hundreds of media types from around the world lurk at "Camp O.J." outside the courthouse where he's on trial. Gallons of ink and weeks of air time have been devoted to the case.
Simpson's lawyers lost their bid to bar the families of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from court, fearing they might influence the jury.
Six decades ago, Lindbergh's presence may have done just that, said Robert R. Bryan, the lawyer who pursued the case for Mrs. Hauptmann and has carried on her battle to clear her husband's name.
"We can't underestimate the significance of Charles Lindbergh in the courtroom. He was almost in touch distance of the jury. His presence in this room was more than we can imagine." Bran said.
Furthermore, he claimed, prosecutors withheld evidence and experts perjured themselves. Still, he won't savy who he thinks was responsible.
"I have 300 or 400 theories," Bryan said. "I won't speculate because speculating is what I killed Bruno Richard Hauptmann."
That's one big difference: Hauptmann went to the electric chair. Prosecutors are not seeking the death penalty in Simpson's case.
There's more.
Meanwhile, shock from other quake rattles Colombia
Associated Press
BOGOTA, Colombia — A powerful aftershock from a deadly earthquake rocked Colombia on Sunday, and religious services were held in the open in towns where churches were damaged.
A quake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.7 shook much of Colombia, including Bogota, at 5:41 a.m. Sunday, the government's Geology and Mining Institute said.
It was centered 75 miles northeast of Bogota, in the same area as Thursday's 6.5 magnitude quake, which killed eight people.
Six people were hurt in Sunday's
quake. No deaths have been reported
from any of the aftershocks from
Thursday's temblor.
In about 20 towns in Boyaca state,
Sunday services were held in parks
and other sites because churches were damaged or considered unstable, the state government reported.
The quakes have destroyed or damaged at least 100 buildings, Cardona said.
Tents were being sent to house some of the estimated 2,000 people who abandoned their homes because of the quakes, said Omar Dario Cardona, director of the government's disaster aid office.
Cristina Dematei, seismology director for the Geology and Mining Institute, warned people living near the epicenter to abandon damaged buildings and to avoid landslide areas, saying more aftershocks were inevitable.
All six injuries from Sunday's quake occurred in the town of Berbere, 70 miles northeast of Bogota, Cardona said. Details were unavailable.
Quayle paves way for '96 presidential bid
The Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS — In a thematic outline for his coming White House run, Dan Quayle delivered a stinging rebuke of President Clinton's military and foreign policies Saturday and said the country needed an honest debate about cultural values and entitlement reform.
"Istand before you tonight scanned, rested and ready," Quayle said in an evening speech in Indianapolis, making light of his two recent hospital stays, the first for blood clots and the second, just two weeks ago, to have his appendix removed. "Tonight, I am back in the arena with you, and that is where I intend to stay."
Prior to the speech, Quayle's office issued a statement saying he would file candidacy papers by Feb. 21 and make a public announcement of his candidacy by mid-April.
In his remarks, to an enthusiastic crowd of more than 30,000 people at an Amway convention, Quayle vowed to plunge back into the values debate that brought him controversy during his service in the Bush administration.
He cast himself as a member of the onetime "silent majority" of hardworking, God-fearing churchgoers who were now becoming an "unsilent majority" because of their shock at the decay of the American family and a social-welfare system that demanded no personal responsibility.
"We will continue to fight for our families, fight for freedom, fight for what we believe in," Quayle said to rousing applause. He said his doctors had given him the greener, light to "go where I want, do what I want and say what I want."
Quayle also took aim at Clinton's performance as commander in chief, suggesting the administration had a poll-driven administration foreign policy that has confused the American public and troubled other world leaders.
"When it comes to foreign policy, you have to have a vision; you have to have a strategy," Quayle said. "You cannot conduct foreign policy by press conference. This is not a budget battle or a health care debate. This is the security of the United States of America."
He said history would prove wrong Clinton's use of U.S. troops to restore democracy, and defense cuts had left the military too lean.
"If we had to engage in another Operation Desert Storm, clearly today we would not have the readiness or the capacity that we had when George Bush made that decision," Quayle said.
Quayle said he agreed with the leadership of the new GOP Congress that a balanced budget could be achieved without touching Social Security. But, he said, entitlement spending was on a path to bankrupt the nation and that any honest campaign for the presidency would include a debate about reforming Social Security and other entitlements.
Two Republicans have already fled declarations of candidacy and plan formal announcements by early March: Texas Sen. Phil Gramm and former Tennessee Gov. Lamar Alexander. Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole recently formed an exploratory committee, and several of his aides were courting support at this weekend's Republican National Committee meeting.
Other GOP possibilities include Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, a moderate who supports abortion rights, and commentator Patrick Buchanan, a staunch conservative who bruised Quayle's old boss — George Bush — with an aggressive 1992 primary challenge. A few Republican governors also are weighing the race.
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