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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.
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 moved from swaying
Rescuers struggled into the night to dig survivors from debris.
Authorities declared a state of emergency in this city of 14 million people.
geny in this city of PAMNANopolis.
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.
"At first I thought it was a bomb in the bark," said Sami Mohammed Ali, a lawyer. "Then I saw people running, and I realized it was an earthquake."
People thronged in Cairo's streets after the ackle. 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 buildozzers cleared debris under floodlights.
An ambulance worker said about 15 people were pulled out alive before nightfall, including mother Samia Ragab 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 Favotian 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-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 26 provinces.
Hardest hit were Cairo, 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 Mohamed 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.
Preparing for Hillary Clinton's visit
Finney names new member
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yed farmer and c political activist position on board
a self-employed farmer, rancher, or real estate broker from
n McDowell, former president of amunty College.
ey yesterday announced the new member to the Board of ning body of Kansas' six state uni-
he had little experience in the education but that he was family issues facing the state's univer-
achelor's degree in economics University in 1956.
active in Democratic politics on levels and has been a long-time said.
sed with a shortage of funds and aid the best way to stretch our care up some money to pay for his salaries." he said.
Regents at one of the more chale history of the board, said Stan- executive director.
ore complex with a lot of intensive new Regent will have to deal the right level of tuition the stu-
vice chancellor of the Uni-
aid the new Regent should have a higher education to contribute
ulated program review.
lew is a statewide restructuring duplication among universities
or challenge for the new Regent ard is preparing themselves for a program review." Moven said.
venied the allegations, is suing six breach of contract and violation
it comes three days before the onthly meeting of the schoolyear a half months after McDowell
's fifth Regents appointment. His o expire December 31, 1994.
en fired as president of Independent College on March 10 by the colletees. The board accused her of and trying to boost state aid by it flames.
ecreased
since hall occupancy has declined percent since 1987 while the total number of undergraduates has declined 45 percent.
sidency decline