NATION/WORLD UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, January 17, 1995
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10 dead, hundreds trapped after earthquake rocks Tokyo
The Associated Press
TOKYO — A powerful predawn earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.2 slammed western Japan today, reportedly killing at least 10 people and leaving hundreds trapped in the rubble of collapsed buildings.
The earthquake was believed the most powerful to strike a densely populated urban area in Japan in at least two decades.
Dozens of people were reported injured, and the quake sparked fires throughout Kobe, one of Japan's largest ports, with 1.4 million people.
Kobe is about 280 miles west of the capital — where the quake was barely felt.
Japan's public television, NHK, reported 10 deaths, but the toll was expected to climb. Television showed footage of a collapsed section of a raised highway, where a number of people were believed to have been killed.
The quake, which struck at 5:46 a.m. (2:46 p.m. CST Monday), was centered 121/2 miles under Ajawi island in the Inland off Kobe, the Central Meteorological Agency said.
It was felt strongly in Osaka, Japan's second-largest city, about 22 miles east of Kobe.
The western city of Ashiya, a posh residential area near Osaka, was said to have been devastated. NHK said up to 200 people were believed buried in rubble there.
One major fire was raging near the city center in Kobe, and smoke billowed over large sections of the city.
Trains were derailed by the force of the quake. Power was knocked out in some areas and underground pipes burst, sending water gurgling onto streets,
People huddled in the streets, wrapped in bedding, some bleeding from cuts and scrapes. Television showed footage of a woman climbing from the window of an inn in which others were believed trapped.
Telephone service was disrupted by the quake. Calls to Kobe and Osaka yielded recordings saying they could not be connected.
The shaking lasted about 20 seconds, according to those at the scene. The Jolt was strong enough to twist doorframes, making it difficult to escape from buildings.
A quake of magnitude 7 can cause widespread, heavy damage. No warning was issued for tsunami, or tidal waves caused by earthquakes.
The country has been rattled by a series of strong quakes since Dec. 28, when a quake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.5 jolted northern Japan. In Tokyo, where normally about three dozen quakes a year can be felt by humans, 10 shocks were felt in the first weeks of the new year alone.
Anti-abortion activist sees where president and justices in danger
The Associated Press
PASADENA, Calif. — An anti-abortion activist said in a TV interview that Supreme Court justices and President Clinton were in danger of assassination because they support women's right to abortion.
In an interview late last year with the satirical newsmagazine "TV Nation," Roy McMillan was asked: "Do you think it would be justifiable homicide to execute the president?"
"I think he's probably in harm's way by acknowledging and endorsing the killing," McMillan, head of the Jackson, Miss-based Christian Action Group. "It would probably be
to me more justifiable to assassinate the Supreme Court judges."
The transcript, made by a producer for the show, was released by Fox Broadcasting Co., the show's new network.
McMillan told The Associated Press today that his comments were taken out of context and that he was answering hypothetical, leading questions from reporter Louis Theroux.
He said in no way did he advocate killing a Supreme Court justice or the president.
"My simple statement was I could see the potential of abortion abolitionists assassinating people who
make laws that (make abortion legal)."
McMillan was among 30 anti-abortion activists who signed a petition declaring deadly force justified in defense of the unborn. The petition was circulated by Paul Hill, later convicted in two slayings outside a Pensacola, Fla., clinic.
The Secret Service was interested in reviewing the transcript, representative Eric Harnischfeger said today. It is against the law to threaten the president.
NBC, which carried the show then,
pulled the segment from the Dec. 28
edition but the BBC aired it on Dec.
24, and New York City's Village
Voice wrote about it early in January, said the show's creator, Michael Moore.
"They did not censor it for content. In fact, they felt very strongly about the piece," Moore told the Television Critics Association on Saturday.
Moore speculated that if the show had aired on Dec. 28, it may have prevented the shootings two days later at two Massachusetts abortion clinics that left two receptionists dead and five people wounded.
"The next day, one of the leaders of the movement, I'm sure, would have been arrested by the FBI for what he said in our piece," Moore said.
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