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Monday, October 9,1995
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Indonesia's recovery hampered by rainfall
The Associated Press
SUNGAIPENUH, Indonesia —
Trucks carted the white-shrouded
bodies of earthquake victims
through a torrential rain yesterday
to the edge of town where soldiers
labored to dig enough graves.
The work was slow the day after 100 people died in a pre-dawn quake on the island of Sumatra, as the downpour filled the graves with water and turned the ground into mire.
Another 700 people were seriously injured in the magnitude-seven quake, and 10,000 buildings collapsed or were seriously damaged. The epicenter was near a town of 40,000 in a south-central valley.
"Our community was so peaceful, and everything was perfect," sobbed Sunardi, a 49-year-old farmer in a nearby village. As many Indonesians, Sunardi uses only one name.
"I thought maybe this time it's going to be my turn," said Yus Joko, 40, a Sungaipenuh schoolteacher who lost his entire family of four.
Yus said he barely had escaped from his home on Saturday when it "crumbled like matchsticks, burying my whole family in it."
Local police and residents joined a battalion of 800 soldiers to extract bodies from the rubble and to bury them quickly to try to stem the outbreak of disease.
Meanwhile, officials said, another quake with a magnitude of 5.2 struck about midday yesterday on Java, the large island adjacent to Sumatra. Its center was about 120 miles southwest of Jakarta, the Indonesian capital. There were no immediate reports of serious damage or casualties.
Saturday's earthquake damaged roads leading to the stricken valley in the Jambi province and downed telephone and power lines, making rescue efforts all the more difficult.
"My boys are working day and night to get the bodies out, but we don't have enough tools and equipment to speed up the process," said Lt. Col. Ibrahim Idris, who is overseeing the search.
Residents spent a third night in tents or in the open, trying to keep bonfires going to warm them in the 50-degree nighttime chill.
The governor's office said 78 bodies had been recovered in Sungaipenuh and surrounding villages. Officials said the death toll would be at least 100.
Indonesian Air Force C-130 Hercules transports carried 41 doctors, paramedics and five ambulances from Jakarta.
The first international aid was expected from Japan, where the Association of Medical Doctors for Asia promised a medical team with
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antibiotics and other medicines.
A seven-magnitude quake is capable of causing widespread, heavy damage. A 6.8-magnitude earthquake in 1992 killed 2,000 people on Flores Island in eastern Indonesia.
Saturday's quake was the seventh to hit Sumatra since 1990 and the worst since a 6.5-magnitude quake in February 1994 killed 200 people and destroyed thousands of buildings in the Lampung district.
Although Sumatra has a population of 37 million, it is one of the more sparsely settled islands in Indonesia, a quake-prone archipelago nation of 17,000 islands and 190 million people.
Bible should influence public policy, pope says
BALTIMORE — From the cradle of U.S. Catholicism, Pope John Paul II urged the faithful yesterday to heed America's founding fathers and allow its citizens to express their religious convictions in political debates.
The Associated Press
On the final day of his fourth U.S. pilgrimage, the pope celebrated Mass from an altar in Oriole Park's centerfield, where a century earlier stood a saloon run by the father of baseball immortal Babe Ruth.
"This is No. 1," said Walter Gentile, an Orioles usher. What about Ripken's record-breaking game last
On a sunny autumn day, the scoreboard at Oriole Park displayed the message, "He is here," as the rock group Boyz 2 Men serenaded the pontiff touring the baseball stadium in his popemobile. The stadium had not rocked to such cheers since Cal Ripken broke Lou Gehrig's 56-year-old record of playing in 2,130 straight games.
"Every generation of Americans needs to know that freedom consists, not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought," John Paul said, warning of the dangers of a permissive society lacking a moral foundation.
month? "That's No. 2."
Three hundred gospel singers sang the spiritual "I Want to be Ready When Jesus Comes" as the popemobile rounded the infield.
Also on his schedule was a meeting with Vice President Al Gore before boarding his TWA plane for Rome.
The pope delivered his stadium message in America's oldest Catholic diocese. English Catholics fleeing persecution established the colony of Maryland.
The message was clearly aimed at pushing Roman Catholics to raise their voices in the public policy debate and promote what the Church holds as moral truth.
"Can the biblical wisdom which played such a formative part in the very founding of your country be excluded from that debate?" John Paul asked.
"Would not doing so mean that America's founding documents no longer have any defining content but are only the formal dressing of changing opinion? Would not doing so mean that tens of millions of Americans could no longer offer the contribution of their deepest convictions in the formation of policy?" he said.
on Saturday, John Paul appeared less vigorous than he had during Mass in Central Park. He seemed to slouch with fatigue in his green vestments while sitting at the altar.
In a week, the 75-year-old pontif will begin the 18th year of his papacy, the second longest this century, behind Pius XII.
After a busy schedule in New York
The pope's words were in line with earlier themes on his trip, imploring Catholics to remain strong against abortion, euthanasia, pornography and "a self-indulgent culture."
The crowd began arriving before dawn, growing to 50,000 for the Mass.
The pope arrived from Newark's airport, where security was so tight that Secret Service agents inspected under the hoods of all vehicles including New Jersey State Police cars.
Among those saying farewell to the pope at the airport was police officer Ward Foggin, whose 2-year-old daughter, Caitlin, was blessed by the pontiff.
"We've been waiting for the pope's visit for the last two years," said Foggin, holding his neurologically impaired daughter. "I feel so holy. We're on sacred ground right now on Newark Airport."
Gang crime plagues Ottawa
OTTAWA — A gang that calls itself the Mexican Mafia has changed the ambiance of this town of 10,600 from sleepy to fearful in a little more than a year.
The Associated Press
Despite its name, the Mexican Mafia isn't an ethnic gang. Authorities say the approximately 20 youths in the gang are mostly white. But they share one uniting characteristic: Most have had disciplinary problems since puberty.
Before the three recent killings, the last homicide in the eastern Kansas town was five or six years ago, Wright said.
Police blame the gang for an increase in violent crime and the juvenile crime rate.
The gang has kept Ottawans watchful since the killings.
"This is a mixture of kids who claim to have gang affiliation," Police Chief Jeffrey Herrman said. "They have not been this violent until recently."
"It's scary to be out in your neighborhood at night," said Tammu
"We've had three gang-related homicides in the last year," Franklin County Attorney Larry Wright said last week. "Sure I see a problem."
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"A lot of the kids are getting crazy," she said. "You feel like you can't leave your kids out in the yard for five minutes."
Only the 15 year old was charged and convicted. However, several of the youths who witnessed the Crowley murder have been charged in the Perez slaving.
Seven Ottawa youths and two others from Topeka have been charged in the killing. Two of the Ottawa boys are sons of schoolteachers. One is the son of a minister.
A year ago, Clyde Crowley, 57, argued with several gang members in a city park. As a circle of teens wielding golf clubs surrounded Crowley, a 15 year old buried a nine-iron in his skull.
Perez's death followed two other Ottawa slayings that authorities say have gang connections.
Although juvenile crime statistics were unavailable, Wright said that the number of juvenile crimes had doubled since 1992.
Herrmann agreed that juvenile crime was increasing in Ottawa, but he said that the town was not unique.
three miles south of Ottawa. He had been shot to death. The case surrounding his death is unsolved.
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Last spring, the body of 21-year-old Jim Heth, who was the brother of a gang member, was found about
Franklin County Sheriff Rex Bowling said, "Every community has this gang situation, but, in our particular case, we have had two or three that have gone bad."
"We have a juvenile problem everywhere in the country," he said.
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