WORLD Wednesday, October 14. 1992 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN 7 Egyptian quake deaths exceed 400 Poor construction partially blamed for high casualties The Associated Press CAIRO, Egypt — Egypt's earthquake death toll climbed past 400 yesterday, and officials broadcast appeals for calm among Egyptians terrified of another temblor. Many prepared for a second night under the stars. Authorities blamed the high death toll partly on panic stamped pedes but mainly on the many weak, old or poor-constructed buildings in the Cairo area. A security official told Cairo Television the search for survivors was called off yesterday at all the collapsed buildings in the capital area except for one: a 14-story apartment complex in the affluent suburb Heliopolis. Dozens of people were believed to be buried in the rubble, and relief workers were using their bare hands to sift through dust and stones and drills to cut through steel construction rods. Many workers said they had little hope of finding anyone alive. Witnesses reported two people died yesterday as three quake-weakened structures collapsed in the poor Sayeda Zeibab neighborhood. Police Maj. Gen. Nadir Noman, director of civil defense, said 11 bodies were pulled from the debris by early afternoon. As many as 15 people were found alive in the debris shortly after the uake. strike the city of 14 million. Life was generally back to normal elsewhere — except for the rumors of a new disease. Hundreds of aftershocks didn't help. Almost all were too feeble to be felt but not to be imagined. "Now I know what hell is like," said Nadia Ezzeddin, a homemaker in Cairo's residential Zamalek岛。 In hopes of calming the public, the official Cairo Radio and Television broadcast a statement by Subhi Freiha, deputy director of the government's Helwan Observatory. "All the observatory's recordings indicate that the situation is stable," Freiha said. "There is no need to worry." Government officials said 409 bodies had been found and 3,369 people were injured in the quake. Mamdouh Gabur of the Egyptian Red Crescent told The Associated Press that his agency, the Islamic equivalent of the Red Cross, believes 1,000 people are dead, missing or homeless because of the quake. He said hospitalized reported 10,000 injured, although only about 400 remain hospitalized. Financial and emergency donations poured in from abroad. Saudi Arabia donated $50 million and Kuwait gave $20 million plus drugs and other emergency supplies. The European Community sent $195,000. Britain dispatched a specialist to assess emergency needs, and a French medical team arrived and went to work at the collapsed apartment block. Monday's main quake measured 5.9 on the Richter scale — a magnitude that did not make it a major temblor. By contrast, the 6.9 quake that struck northern California in October 1989 caused 10 times as much earth movement but killed only 67 people. Philippines ponders U.S.military, future MANILA, Philippines — President Fidel Ramos has hinted he supports some form of U.S. military presence after the last U.S. base closes this fall but not at the expense of a bruising political fight. The Associated Press His tactic has been to float the idea of a limited access agreement to test how much opposition to a U.S. presence remains after the 1991 Senate rejection of a new lease for Subic Bay naval base. Subic, the last U.S. installation on Philippine soil, closes Nov 24. Most of the sprawling base, once the Navy's largest in Asia, has already been turned over to the Philippines. On Monday, Ramos told The New York Times that it would be good for the Philippines to continue a mutual security arrangement and to find a way to make that mutually agreeable to both governments. Ramos suggested that the United States might seek an arrangement similar to one with Singapore so that U.S. aircraft and vessels with U.S. personnel can be serviced by a host gov- ANALYSIS errument on a commercial basis. That would presumably provide for a small number of U.S. military personnel attached to Subc to provide security, stabilization and other support functions. But Ramos was careful not to commit himself to such an arrangement. The tactic reflects the style of leadership that he has displayed since taking office June 30, succeeding Corazon Aquino. It is unclear whether any U.S. presence, however small, would violate the 1987 Constitution, which bans foreign forces after expiration of the 1947 agreement under which U.S. forces remained in this former colony. That agreement was nullified by the September 1991 Senate decision rejecting a new lease for Subic. Although surveys showed a majority of Filipinos supported the U.S. presence, an influential minority in media, academia, Congress and elsewhere opposes any foreign troops. The Associated Press Kazakhstan denies selling nuclear warheads to Iran ALMA-ATA, Kazakhstan — Kazakhstan and the commonwealth military headquarters in Moscow denied yesterday that Iran bought four nuclear warheads from this former Soviet republic. A leader of an Iranian opposition group said Monday that Tehran had paid for the warheads but that they had not yet been delivered from Kazakhstan. Mohammed Mohaddesin, director of international relations for the Muhmedeen, said the information came from the group's agents in Iran. Seitkay Matayev, press secretary to Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev, said there was no such deal. "This is not the first time such reports have appeared in foreign newspapers," he said. "The president pays no attention to such reports." In Moscow, Valery Myasnikov, a representative for the Commonwealth of Independent States' main military command, also dismissed the charge. "Our information is that nothing of the kind has ever happened," he said. ne said. Kazakhstan, the largest of the newly independent Muslim republics of Central Asia, shares the nuclear arsenal of the former Soviet Union with Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Under an accord signed by all four nations and the United States, the weapons must eventually be turned over to Russia. Matayev noted Kazakhstan signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in May. "We are obliged not to sell warheads or technology in accordance with this treaty," he said. Kazakhstan's prime minister, Sergei Tereschenko, pledged during a visit to Israel a month ago that his country would not sell any nuclear weapons. Pizza Hut Delivers on Campus Fresh, Hot and Free! 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