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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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.
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
schools.
Rescuers struggled into the night to die survivors from debris.
Authorities declared a state of emergency in this city of 14 million people.
the 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 Safawat el-Sherif said major monuments survived the 20-second temblor.
The quake was preceded by a roar.
The quake was preceded by a roar,
"At first I thought it was a bomb in
the bank," said I. We were running,
"I said I knew people running,
and I realized it was an earthquake."
People thronged in Cairo's streets after the aqake. 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 builderoz cleared debris under floodlights.
An ambulance worker about 15 people were pulled out alive before nightfall, including mother Samia Bagah Khali.
Her condition was unknown. She was removed, dazed, on a stretcher, after she was found holding her dead son and shouling for help.
The dead in the southern suburb of Maadi, where many Americans and other Westernes 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. Boys died in a stampede from a collapsing school in Shubra, a poorer Cairo district.
Abdel-Aziz 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 28 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 310-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 were 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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Finney names new member
gents
yed farmer and c political activist position on board
October 12. 1992 *K- you* *FALL FASHION' 92*
ney yesterday announced the a new member to the Board of body in Kansas' six state uni-
a self-employed farmer, rancher, or and real estate broker from complete the nine-member board. un McDowell, former president of immunity College.
it he had little experience in the $r$ education but that he was familie issues facing the state's univer-
bachelor's degree in economics eUniversity in 1956.
iced with a shortage of funds and the best way to stretch our scare up some money to pay for philaterals," he said.
my said, "We are active in Democratic politics on level and has been a long-time ce said.
e Regents at one of the more chalie the history of the board, said Stants executive director.
more complex with a lot of intensi
the New Regent will have to deal
as the right level of tuition the stu
eutive vice chancellor of the Uni- said the new Regent should have as for higher education to contribute inulated program review.
view is a statewide restructuring e duplication among universities' ms.
jor challenge for the new Regent board is preparing themselves for a program review. "Meven said.
int comes three days before the monthly meeting of the school year and a half months after McDowell
eem fired as president of Independency College on March 10 by the clostrues. The board accused her of and trying to boost state aid by
denied the allegations, is suing six or breach of contract and violation
ry's fifth Regents appointment. His to expire December 31, 1994.
lecreased
esidency decline
idence hall occupancy has declined 3 percent since 1987 while the total lber of undergraduates has declined 0.8 percent.
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