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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.102,NO.37
(USPS 650-640)
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 trapped to death, including more than 100 schoolchildren in the Cairo area, said Maj. Gen. Rida Rida-Abel Aziz, an assistant interior minister. They were killed as they rushed 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.
miles declared a state of emergency in this city of 14 million people. The quake was centered about 20 miles southwest of Cairo, a few miles north of Jerusalem and the Sinai Peninsula. The Giza Plateau. But Information Minister Satwat el-Sherif said major monuments survived the 20-second tremor.
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 akule. 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 bulldozers 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 sonishing for help.
The dead in the southern suburb of Maadi, where many Americans and other Westerners live, included six Egyptian schoolchildren.
Maadi resident Fahima Talahy Aly
Suleiman 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 casuals 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 Mohammed Saleh said only two large statues among more than 100,000 pieces on display were damaged.
Whether Caro'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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yed farmer and political activist position on board
ey yesterday announced the new member to the Board of ing body of Kansas's six state uri-
he had little experience in the education but that he was familie issues facing the state's univer-
| self-employed farmer, rancher, |
| and real estate broker from |
| plate the nine-member board. |
| The former president of |
| innuity College. |
led with a shortage of funds and id the best way to stretch our care up some money to pay for ty salaries," he said.
achelor's degree in economics University in 1956.
active in Democratic politics on levels and has been a long-time paid
Regents at one of the more chal history of the board, said Stan executive director.
are complex with a lot of intensi
ne new Regent will have to deal
the right level of tuition the stu
vice chancellor of the Uni亚 the new Regent should have a w higher education to contribute wated program review.
lew is a statewide restructuring duplication among universities' s
or challenge for the new Regent aid is preparing themselves for a program review," Meyen said. It comes three days before the monthly meeting of the school year id a half months after McDowell
ien fired as president of Independ-
 college on March 10 by the colle-
stees. The board accused her of
und trying to boost state aid by
lenied the allegations, is suing six breach of contract and violation
s fifth Regents appointment. His o expire December 31, 1994.
ecreased
sidency decline
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