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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Monday, Sept. 30, 1985
Quakes' toll up; search goes on
United Press International
MEXICO CITY — The official death toll in Mexico's two killer earthquakes climbed past 5,200 yesterday and President Miguel de la Madrid promised relatives of missing victims that searches will be pressed until "there are no signs of life."
As de la Madrid made the promise in a visit to the quake-devastated Juarez Hospital, U.S. Embassy officials announced that they thought 24 missing Americans died in hotels that collapsed in the quakes Sept. 19-20.
De la Madrid said earlier he soon would announce a reconstruction program expected to include a plan for moving factories and offices out of the heavily congested Mexico City area, where about 18 million people
live.
Julio A. Millan, a leader of the Industrial Chamber of Commerce, said earthquake damages had been estimated at $5 billion and told the Excelsor newspaper the losses would require foreign financing in addition to domestic savings to rebuild the city.
Millan also said he thought Mexico would have to work out new terms on its $98 billion foreign debt, the second highest in the developing world.
Many relatives and volunteer workers expressed anger and concern Friday when the army began using heavy equipment to remove large blocks of rubble from the ruins of the 12-story Juarez Hospital, where 1,200 patients and employees were trapped by the first earthquake.
When de la Madrid, dressed in casual clothes, appeared at the site;
thousands of relatives and volunteer rescue workers, called "topos" or moles, crowded around him, shouting and crying out.
"Give us effective help. We have been victims of deceit. We want the truth about our families," one person shouted to the president, who has been visiting various disaster spots each day since the quakes struck registering 8.1 and 7.5 on the Richter scale.
"I promise you we are not going to dynamite until we are sure there are no signs of life," de la Madrid told the crowd. "We cannot advance further just using our hands. We must use heavy equipment, but prudently."
One person then shouted, "We are asking for specialists in rescue, not specialists in demolition."
A German rescue team with dogs visited the site Saturday night. The dogs acted aggressively going over the ruins, a sign that "there might be life," one rescue worker said.
Although no survivors had been found since Friday, rescue teams racing against the clock were buoyed by the discovery that several puppies were still alive Saturday under the rubble of a clothing factory where 100 workers were trapped.
On Saturday, the U.S. Embassy raised the number of known American dead to 10. Yesterday, it said that the remaining 24 missing Americans were known to have been staying in the seven hotels that collapsed in the first giant quake.
"Frankly, we may never find their bodies," an embassy spokesman said.
Stars' telethon to help Mexican quake victims
United Press International
LOS ANGELES - Placido Domingo, Ricardo Maltonban and other Spanish-speaking celebrities joined a volunteer force of about 500 people in a coast-to-coast telethon for the victims of the Mexico City earthquakes.
The 12-hour telethon, "Mexico, We're With You," began broadcasting at 11 a.m. CDT on Los Angeles Spanish-language station KMEX-TV, with volunteers answering phones at the studios of KTLA-TV, an independent English-language station, said Ana Rosa Cervantes, who was supervising volunteers.
Viewers watching the program on sister stations across the country
pledged $473,000 in the first hour and a half for the thousands of victims of the quakes that rocked Mexico Sept. 19 and 20, killing more than 5,000 people and leaving thousands homeless, telethon spokesman Steve Moya said.
Among those who were donating their talents to the Los Angeles-based telethon were actors Ricardo Montalban and' Rene Enriquez, comedian Cantinifas and singers Julio Iglesias, Placido Domingo and Vicky Carr.
The event was coordinated by SIN, a Spanish-language network. Sally Segal, of New York's WXTV, a SIN affiliate, said the show was being broadcast by the network's 350 affiliates.
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A CONCISE REPLY TO CHRISTIANITY
Part Three
A Suggestion
Christian belief reduces to this: The Jews have cherished an incorrect notion of the Messiah. That is, while Jews expect someone who is only son of God in a figurative sense, Jesus told the Jews that the Messiah was literally the son of God. In this frame of mind, the Christian can point to every Biblical account of Jews being angry with Jesus and claim that this new truth was the cause of their upset.
But there are important facts to consider. The concept of the Messiah was gradually formed by the Jews and opinions differed. While several men had already been called Messiah, son of God, son of man, in scripture, the Jews came to expect a preeminent Messiah, a victorious leader through whom their nation would be a blessing to all the world.
Our suggestion is this: Suppose instead that Jesus meant to tell the Jews that while he also deserved to be called Messiah, he was not to fulfill their unrealistic and misunderstood expectations. Now several mysteries are clarified. Jesus could not have mean to claim status for he charged his disciples not to tell anyone that he was the true Messiah (Luke 9:21). Notice how he dissuaded a man who may have mistaken ideas (Matthew 8:20). While many Jews believed that the Messiah would inherit his kingly rights from David, Jesus pointed out the difficulty of this interpretation (Matthew 24:43). Note also that today's Jewish scholars have indicated that "the son of God" is given its Christian meaning not by Jesus, but by Paul. (See "son of God" in reference 3.)
Meanwhile, some Jewish aspects have been adopted. Paul incited Christians to find symbolic meaning in their scripture (1 Corinthians chapter 10). So we have impossible parallels like that of Matthew 2:15 which quotes a fragment of Hosea 11:1.2 and thus likens Jesus to an idolatrous nation! We have the unprecedented case of a prophet who supposedly would die then to return to fulfill all things expected of him. While Acts 3:20-23 promises the return of Jesus, Christians understand that the prophecy yet to be fulfilled before he can return is actually only a reference to Jesus... as though Jesus was the one predicted by Moses in Deuteronomy chapter 18. The scripture quoted here by the diciple Peter reports that God told Moses about the future prophet "like you from among their brothers" While Jesus was unlike Moses in being leader of a nation, Christians believe that he will be victorious on his second visit. However, they do not usually expect him to acquire a human father, a wife and children and then die of old age like Moses. Moreover, "from among their brothers" seems to indicate not an Israelite, but a relative of that nation.
There is another historical figure who fits the role as the prophet promised by Moses better than Jesus. He was not an Israeliite, but Jesus said that God's special favours would be taken from Israel and given to a nation which would become fruitful (Matthew 21:43). It was Jacob or Israel the Man himself, who prophesied that the kingdom would be the possession of the family of his son Judah until the coming of "the one whose it is" (Genesis 49:10). While Christians see this one as Jesus, look again at these words. When I give a man something and tell him to keep it until the owner comes, do I mean to say that the item belongs to one of his descendants? This would hardly be a natural understanding.
The many Quranic and Biblical references to the last prophet are a new subject, a satisfying discussion that inexorably leads to the Messenger who brought Islam to a nation and through them to all nations. (Quran 6:89,90)
End of this Series
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A Christian Mathematician
Who Converted to Islam
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