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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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VOL.102,NO.37
TUESDAY,OCTOBER 13,1992
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Earthquake kills more than 300 in northern Egypt
The Associated Press
CAIRO, Egypt — One of the strongest earthquakes to hit Egypt in modern times toppled buildings yesterday and caused deadly stumpedes of panicked residents. The government said 370 people were killed and more than 3,300 injured.
A mother, holding her dead son and shouting for help, was pulled from the rubble of a building more than seven hours after the afternoon earthquake that registered 5.9 on the Richter scale.
schools.
Many victims were trampled to death, including more than 100 schoolchildren in the Cairo area, said Maj. Gen. Rida Abdel-Aziz, an assistant interior minister. They were killed as they rushed from swaying
Rescuers struggled into the night to die survivors from debris.
Authorities declared a state of emergency in this city of 14 million people.
dency in this city of 14 million people. The quake was centered about 20 miles southwest of Cairo, a few miles from the pyramids and the Sphinx on the Giza Plateau. But Information Minister Safat e-Sherif said major monument survived the 20-second temblor.
The quake was preceded by a roar.
"At first I thought it was a bomb in the bank," said Samy Mohammed Ali, a lawyer. "Then I saw people running, and I realized it was an earthquake."
People thronged in Cairo's streets after the aqueil. Many seemed dazed. One woman stood on a sidewalk screaming. A knot of people sat in a
downtown square, tears streaking
down their cheeks.
Thousands crowded around the ruins of a 14-story apartment building in the northern suburb of Heliopolis late yesterday while four buildozers cleared debris under floodlights.
An ambulance worker said about 15 people were pulled out alive before nightfall, including mother Samia Bagah Khalil.
Her condition was unknown. She was removed, dazed, on a stretcher, after she was found holding her dead son and shouting for help.
The dead in the southern suburb of Maadi, where many Americans and other Westerners live, included six Egyptian schoolchildren.
Maadi resident Fahima Tala Aly
Suleman said she saw a 14-year-old
girl, wearing a school uniform, fall dead after a collapsing wall hit her. A wall collapse in a downtown Cairo shop killed a worker. Five boys died in a stampede from a collapsing school in Shubra, a poorer Cairo district.
Abdel-Aiz said most schoolchildren were casual of panic.
The security force's operations room in Cairo reported last night that 116 buildings were reported destroyed or badly damaged throughout Egypt.
Eight hours after the jolt, the Interior Ministry reported that the quake killed 370 and injured 3,369 in nine of Egypt's 26 provinces.
Hardest hit were Cario, with 127 dead and 2,139 injured, and Giza to
the south, with 128 dead and 700 hurt,
it said.
The quake spared Aswan High Dam, which holds back 314-mile-long Lake Nasser, the world's largest artificial lake. A breach would have sent water gushing straight down the Nile Valley to Cairo.
Egyptian Museum director Mohammed Saleh said only two large statues among more than 100,000 pieces on display were damaged.
Whether Cairo's wealth of Islamic and Coptic monuments was undermined by the earthquake was not immediately known.
The quake was felt as far away as Jerusalem, 250 miles northeast of Cairo.
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ployed farmer and ratic political activist ional position on board
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arner, a self-employed farmer, rancher,
operator and real estate broker from
ill complete the nine-member board.
sJoAun McDowell, former president of
ce Community College.
id that he had little experience in the higher education but that he was familie of the issues facing the state's univer-
a Finney yesterday announced the it of a new member to the Board of governing body of Kansas's six state unis been active in Democratic politics on d state levels and has been a long-time nev he said.
ad a bachelor's degree in economics
iState University in 1956.
Are faced with a shortage of funds and to find the best way to stretch our ad to scare up some money to pay for as faculty salaries," he said.
us the Regents at one of the more chal s in the history of the board, said Stan- gevents executive director.
s are more complex with a lot of intensi-
said. "The new Regent will have to deal
such as the right level of tuition the stu-
nav."
executive vice chancellor of the Unisys, said the new Regent should have an education for contributor is曼计划 program review.
In review is a statewide restructuring intimate duplication among universities' orams.
e major challenge for the new Regent the board is preparing themselves for a ale in program review." Meyen said.
moment comes three days before the and monthly meeting of the school year tree and a half months after McDowell
who denied the allegations, is suing six
jees for breach of contract and violation
rights.
had been fired as president of Independency College on March 10 by the col- of Trustees. The board accused her ofnent and trying to boost state aid by ollment figures.
Finney's fifth Regents appointment. His heded to expire December 31, 1904.
decreased
Residency decline
Residence hall occupancy has declined 26.3 percent since 1987 while the total number of undergraduates has declined only 0.8 percent.
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