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France assesses flood damage
Death toll at 34 as workers dig for casualties
VAISON-LA-ROMINE, France — Families claimed bodies that were laid in rows of white coffins yesterday as firefighters dug through the mud looking for more victims of the flash floods that killed at least 34 people.
The Associated Press
Nearly 50 people were missing, and officials said there was little hope any of them survived the storm, which may turn out to be France's deadliest. An October 1958 storm in the neighboring Garden region killed36.
At least 23 people died in this ancient Roman town when the rai-
swollen Ouweze River rose 50 feet Tuesday. The other deaths were elsewhere in the Vaucluse region of southeast France, a popular vacation area, and in the neighboring regions of Ardeche and Drome.
In parts of Vaison-la-Romaine, about 25 miles north of Avignon, stores reopened, cafes were crowded, businesses once again made their way to school.
But elsewhere, people picked through foundations of houses swept away by the surging river, helicopters circled overhead looking for the missing, and workers dug cars out of the mud.
At the Moulin de Cesar campsite, shown on television broadcasts, there were campers and trailers tossed into treetops and overturned on top of campsite buildings.
"We found a body inside a car that was washed away," said Claudie Burke.
in mud that broke right through the windshield. There weren't any injuries. The victim could only have suffocated."
As the death toll mounted, ecologists and others threatened officials with lawsuits for allowing rapid construction of homes and camping sites in flood zones. Others said deforestation contributed to the flooding.
A videotape taken by a resident of Vaison-la-Romaine showed torrents of muddy water coursing through the town, smothering a bridge and pouring out of windows and doorways. It showed a house collapsing, and trees and cars being carried away.
A local recreation center was turned into a morgue, and people came for the bodies of family members. Twenties old firms were laid out yesterday morning.
City Hall was filled with donated clothing shoes, blankets, bread, both men and women.
Interior Minister Paul Quiles said the Vaucluse would be declared a disaster zone and announced a special Cabinet commission to oversee relief efforts. He declared a $1 million emergency loan fund.
This failed to appease those who said the flooding was unnecessary. The Union for Ecology Province-Alpes-Cote d'Azur offered to help residents bring law suits against mayors and the region's governor.
One aid worker had another reason for indignation.
"I'm disgusted by the attitude of some of the victims," said Sandrine Bouvet, 23, a volunteer. "This morning, there was a Dutch family who refused to take a train home, claiming their insurance company was supposed to send a car with a driver. They didn't lose anything but their car. It outrageous when you look around and see there are people who have nothing left."
Shelling keeps Bosnian capital without power
The Associated Press
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Shell screaming frustrated U.N. soldiers' attempts yesterday to restore electrical power that was knocked out three days earlier to 80 percent of the Bosnian capital.
In neighboring Croatia, the United Nations' chief civilian officer warned Croatian officials not to begin returning refugees to the easternmost of four U.N. protection zones, saying that Serb militias were still menacing civilians.
Cyrus Vance and Lord Owen, the envoys leading the ongoing Yugoslav peace conference in Geneva, said they would fly to Banja Luka today to investigate similar reports of intimidation around the Serb stronghold in northern Bosnia.
Serb fighters who want to remain tied to Serbia and Montenegro, the remaining republics in Yugoslavia, have captured two-thirds of Bosnia. At least 10,000 people have been killed since Bosnia's Muslim and Croats voted Feb. 29 for independence from Yugoslavia.
Shelling began Wednesday morning as a team of engineers left U.N. Protection Force headquarters in an armored car for the damaged electricity station north of the city at Ugorsko. They made no progress on repairs.
Sarajevo has suffered from irregular electricity and water supplies for much of its nearly six-month siege by Serb forces. Only about 20 percent of the city of 400,000 residents has had power because shells slammed into the Ugorsko power substation Monday night.
The warring parties — Muslims, Serbs and Croats — signed an agreement last weekend in Geneva not to disrupt basic utility supplies.
In neighboring Croatia, authorities have been pressuring the United Nations to begin returning Croats and other ethnic groups forced to flee four zones of the republic that were seized by Serbs last year.
The zones were placed under U.N. control as part of a peace agreement, but armed militias remain despite the deployment of 10,000 U.N. peace-keepers.
Prisoner issue stalls chance for Mandela-de Klerk summit
The Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Efforts to arrange a government-ANC summit dragged on yesterday, raising doubts that it could be held before ANC leader Nelson Mandela travels overseas next week.
Mandela said he hoped to meet President F.W. de Klerk this weekend to repair damaged relations but added that several obstacles remained.
A Mandela-de Klerk summit is seen as crucial to reviving Black-white talks on ending apartheid. But government and African National Congress negotiators have spent the past week haggling over preconditions for such a meeting.
"The summit is important because I want it to lay the basis for a resumption of talks, and the whole of South Africa is looking forward to it," Mandela said.
Mandela leaves next week on a two-week tour of Pakistan and
China.
De Kierk's constitutional minister, Roelf Meyer, and ANC secretary general Cyril Ramaphoha held another round of talks yesterday in a bid to resolve outstanding issues. Top officials of the government and ANC thenmet separately to consider any progress made.
The main stumbling block appears to be an ANC demand for the release of 400 activists convicted of politically motivated crimes.
The ANC, the nation's leading Black group, says the activists are political prisoners who must be freed. The government does not consider them political prisoners because they committed violent acts, including murder.
De Klerk and Mandela met frequently and expressed mutual respect before the ANC called off constitutional talks in June to protest escalating violence in Black townships. More than 3,000 Blacks have been killed in the past year, most in factional fighting.
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