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MANTA, Ecuador — A Miami-bound cargo plane clipped a church tower and set an entire neighborhood ablaze, creating a wall of flames so hot that rescuers could only listen to the injured screaming.
"It was a nightmare. The barrio looks as if it has been bombed," said resident Vicente Abad yesterday, "Everything is in ruins."
The Boeing 707 destroyed Abad's garage late Tuesday when it smashed into a crowded neighborhood in Manta. The plane's wheels were embedded in one of the walls.
At least 30 people were killed, including the plane's three crew members, an American and two Colombians. A priest at the church also was killed. About 80 people were injured, most with burns, and as many as 300 people were left homeless.
"It was terrible to have to listen to the screams of pain by the injured," Abad said. "The flames did not let anyone get close to help them. There were not enough firemen."
Authority feared that the death toll could rise because the homes in the crash area are made of flimsy material.
Doctors said some of the injured were in critical condition and might not survive. More than 30 homes and a school also were destroyed.
"There are small homes buried under pieces of the fuselage," said Maj. Jose Parrago of the Manta fire department. Parrago estimated that the death toll could reach 40 once the rubble was cleared away.
Dumas Farid, a doctor at Manta hospital, said there was little hope of finding anyone alive.
The Million Air jet had just taken off from Manta's airport and was bound for Miami with a cargo of frozen fish.
But it clipped the bell tower of La Dolorosa "the Grieving Virgin" — Roman Catholic Church in this city of 150,000 people, 160 miles southwest of Quito.
Patricio Ramos, a journalist in Manta, said the plane had been on fire when it had plunged to the ground.
"The plane could not pick up altitude and plunged to the ground wrapped in flames, like a ball of fire," said Jose Quintana, a street vendor.
"I saw it come in very low over my house. One of its wings was in flames," Ramos said.
Townspeople said many people
had panicked because they had thought that it was an earthquake
"It was a hell. The sky was red ... horrible," said Bernardo Caicedo, a laborer who lives eight blocks from the crash site. Caicedo said tanks of cooking gas had been blowing up one after the other.
Human remains, including hands and legs, lay scattered among smoldering homes, and rescue workers carried out blackened bodies.
Because Tuesday was a local holiday, many families had left town. That raised hopes that some of the crushed homes may have been empty.
The Boeing 707-320C Convertible entered service in June 1963, said Boeing spokesman Dick Schleh in Seattle. It was first delivered to American Airlines in 1967 and has had several owners since.
The plane had filled up with fuel in Manta for its flight to Miami, said Eduardo Larea, vice president of Miami-based Millon Air in Ecuador.
Radio reports said the plane had been carrying 14,000 gallons of fuel. The plane's fuel capacity is 23,855 gallons. Schleh said he couldn't say whether the plane had been overloaded because he did not know the plane's payload.
Ecuador's worst recent airplane crash involved a DC-8 cargo plane, which went down in Quito on Sept. 22, 1984, killing 75 people.
Military and rescue workers search the wreckage of a U.S. Boeing 707 cargo plane hours after it exploded in mid-air shortly after takeoff from the port city of Manta, Ecuador. At least thirty were killed and 80 injured yesterday.
The Associated Press
MIAMI - Four days after Hurricane Lili smashed into Cuba, the White House gave approval for a single cargo plane loaded with 70,000 pounds of food, clothing and medicine to fly directly to the island.
The emergency flight from Miami would be the first since Cuban MiGs shot down two planes piloted by Miami-based exiles in February, killing four. In response, President Clinton suspended direct charter flights to Cuba.
Administration officials said the waiving of the restriction does not signal a change in policy toward Fidel Castro's communist government.
"We thought the Catholic Church made a very persuasive case that they should be allowed to distribute that aid directly." White House spokesman Mike McCurry said yesterday, a day after the flight was approved.
Shipping companies have offered to fly a Boeing 707 to Cienfuegos, the province hit worst by Lili on Friday. Exiles in South Florida, who pleaded for the flight, donated most of the canned food, bottled
water, medicine and other supplies collected by charities.
Messages to the Cuban Foreign Ministry in Havana were not immediately returned yesterday, but relief officials expected approval for the flight to land.
The archdiocese is working with the Baltimore-based Catholic Relief Services and Caritas International in Cuba. Peter Coats, special assistant to the archdiocese of Miami, said the groups already had asked the White House to approve more flights from Miami to deliver an additional 180,000 pounds of aid.
According to a preliminary U.N. report, the hurricane destroyed 5,460 homes and damaged 78,855 others in Cuba. More than 1.6 million acres of sugar cane plantations were devastated, as were 53,000 acres of banana plantations and 90,000 acres of other crops.
The U.S. efforts to aid Cubans have led to bomb threats against charities and protests from some who fear the supplies will be pilfered by Castro and his leaders.
Anonymity may influence willingness to take HIV test
Policy differences in North Carolina are study's subject
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON—A North Carolina effort to end anonymous AIDS testing may be detrimental, suggests a study that found more people were tested in counties that offered anonymous tests.
North Carolina health officials disagreed with the findings, reported in today's American Journal of Public Health, saying people with HIV get better health care when the state knows who they are.
At issue is anonymous testing, under which patients are identified only by a number, as opposed to confidential testing, under which the state records names on a list that, by law, is kept private. State workers use the names to track down people the patient may have infected and to contact patients them-
Twenty-six states require reporting names of HIV-infected people. North Carolina's Health Department wants to end all anonymous testing, which now is offered in 18 counties. A lawsuit pending in state Supreme Court would block that move.
AIDS activists insist that anonymous testing must be offered for people who fear being identified. They cite a Florida health worker who was fired this month for allegedly using that state's HIV list to screen potential dates.
Testing increased statewide as AIDS awareness grew, reported Irva Hertz-Picciotto of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. But counties that retained anonymous testing saw a 64 percent jump in testing, while those that banned anonymous tests saw just a 44 percent increase, her study found.
Also, counties that ended anonymous tests saw a 12.4 percent drop in testing of homosexual men and a 3.1 percent drop in testing of intravenous drug
users, two high-risk groups, she reported.
Of the 71,434 people who visited an HIV testing center,238 decided against getting the test after the process was explained. Three times as many declined the test in counties that barred anonymous testing, Hertz-Picciotto reported.
The data suggest there's a detrimental effect to banning anonymous HIV tests, Hertz-Picciotto said. But she cautioned that she could not say whether the AIDS epidemic was worse in the 18 anonymous-test counties, which could have skewed her findings.
North Carolina epidemiology chief Michael Moser said the state's own figures showed that 87 percent of the increase in the anonymous-test counties came from people who agreed to have their names recorded.
"These data do not prove that under the circumstances of having no anonymous testing, you would necessarily have reduced testing," he said.
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