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Tuesday, October 3. 1995
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Quake death toll rises to 68
The Associated Press
DINAR, Turkey — Cries for help rose from collapsed buildings yesterday as rescuers searched in a downpour for survivors of an earthquake that toppled nearly half the buildings in the Turkish city.
Authorities raised the death toll from Sunday's quake to 68, and dozens more were feared trapped. About 200 people were injured in the magnitude-six quake, said Mustafa Secen, the city's health director.
"God, please save my children! Please, God!" Necati Ozturk implored, his arms stretched skyward as an excavator dug in the ruins of his house.
Searchers then pulled out the bodies of his son and three-year-old grandson. His two daughters-in-law and five neighbors were still buried in the rubble of the collapsed three-story building.
Nearly 45 percent of Dinar's buildings were destroyed, and wide cracks criss-crossed most of the remaining structures in the city of 100,000 people 200 miles southwest of Ankara.
Heavy rain and power outages hampered rescue efforts, and 43 aftershocks rattled the town throughout the night.
Some residents criticized the lack of equipment and slow pace of the rescue effort. Only 30 people were rescued, Interior Minister Nahit Mentese said.
"There are two people in that building," Zubeye Sezen said, pointing to her neighbor's house. "They needed to lift the ceiling up, but they only had excavators. Those brought the whole building down. Now it is impossible to get to them."
Public Works minister Halil Culhaoglu said that about 4,000 buildings — about half the town — collapsed. The quake damaged 18 nearby villages, said Mentese, who estimated damage at $200 million.
There were some happy endings.
Hasan Yilmaz Coskun, 40, came out of a three-story building alive after 21 hours under the rubble along with two friends. They were among those 30 pulled out alive.
"We were sure we'd die. We had
no hope left. We were just waiting for God to come and take us. Then this morning we heard rescuers above and shouted for help," said an ashen-faced Coskun, who suffered some broken bones.
Tents and emergency food poured into the region yesterday as the city struggled to cope with the devastation despite damage to the police station, the hospital, government offices and power-supply buildings. President Suleyman Demirel toured the city at dawn.
"It's God's will. Be patient," Demirel said, trying to console a man whose wife was buried under the rubble of their house.
Most of Dinar's residents spent the night outdoors, some taking shelter from the rain in cars. More than 100 people climbed into a 15-car train. Officials said 7,000 tents had arrived in the city.
Huseyin Ozturk, 13, his head bandaged, said yesterday that he had survived the quake "because when I felt the tremor, I managed to run outside. But too many things started to fall on my head."
Knight-Ridder Tribune
The last major quake in 'turkey occurred in 1992 in the eastern city of Erzincan and had a magnitude of 6.8. It killed about 500 people.
Turkey's Aegean and Mediterranean coastal areas and the entire eastern region sit atop an earthquake-prone belt known as the Anatolian fault.
Rabin castigates American Jews
U.S. groups wrong to fight PLO pact prime minister says
The Associated Press
JERUSALEM — American Jews have no moral right to lobby in Washington against Israel's peace agreement with the PLO, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said yesterday in his latest criticism of the American Jewish community.
On Friday, in a meeting with Jewish leaders in New York City, Rabin complained that donations from American Jews were dwilling. He also denounced as loathsome a Jewish group's
In remarks carried by Israel radio, Rabin attacked U.S. Jewish groups for "the very audacity of going to the U.S. Congress with the aim of foiling policy of an elected government in Israel."
"This is unprecedented and sets off a warning signal in terms of our relations with U.S. Jewry in the future," he said.
demand that Congress withhold U.S. aid from the cash-strapped Palestinian autonomy government.
Palestinians are to win control over most Arab-populated areas of the West Bank under an agreement Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat signed Thursday at the White House. On the plane taking him home from the United States, Rabin said that right-wing American Jews had no business interfering in Israeli affairs.
Yesterday, he revived that theme.
"When issues of peace and war are involved, which are the two sides of the coin of our lives in Israel, whoever doesn't send his sons and daughters to the army will not be able, nor does he have the moral right, to act against a government elected by the Israeli people," Rabin said.
"You cannot ask American Jewry to give money and not give their opinions about the most basic things," said Rabbi Shlomu Riskin, a Jewish-settler leader who immigrated from the United States 13 years ago.
Pope likely to urge aid to poor
John Paul II to arrive tomorrow for five-day visit in eastern states
The Associated Press
VATICAN CITY — The most-traveled pope in history had just returned from Africa and was preparing for his fourth trip to the United States when he launched into one of his favorite themes.
"The eyes of the African children are watching you," he said.
Speaking to pilgrims at his vacation palace Castel Gandolfo, John Paul II attacked wealthy nations for favoring arms sales over humanitarian aid.
The visit, beginning tomorrow, includes a meeting with President Clinton, an address to the United Nations General Assembly and
Some variation of that theme — a central one of his 17-year papacy — is sure to be heard on John Paul's five-day visit to New Jersey, New York and Maryland.
Masses for members of his 60-million strong American flock.
The trip was to have been made a year ago, but John Paul canceled, touching off speculation about his
Pope John Paul II
health and speculation about possible successors. He was hobbled by a hip-replacement after he broke his right leg in a fall April 29, 1994, less than two years after doctors removed what the Vatican called a benign colon tumor.
After a four-month hiatus, he resumed travel in January with a tour of the Far East.
Before embarking on the U.S. trip, he warned that modern societies were ever-more secularized, and in certain nations indifferent to religious values. When he visited the United States in 1987, he told U.S. bishops in Los Angeles that
Catholics could not pick and choose what they liked in Church doctrine and still consider themselves good Catholics.
Polls taken on the eve of the visit show Americans don't share that view. A large majority is satisfied with his leadership of the 950 million-member Church, but only a minority feel they always should obey his teachings.
The former archbishop of Krakow was only 58 when elected pope by his fellow cardinals. His papacy is now the second longest this century, after Pope Pius XII, who occupied Peter's throne for 19 years.
John Paul is devoting the waning years of this century to preparing his Church for 2000. Overriding his own cardinals, he has called for the Church to evaluate fully its role in history.
As part of this, he apologized in a trip to the Czech Republic in May for wrongs committed by the Catholic Church against Protestants. And in a letter to women, he apologized for wrongs committed against them by the Church.
The Associated Press
NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario — A California stunt man trying to call attention to the homeless rode a Jet Ski over Niagara Falls and plunged 180 feet to his death after his parachute failed to open.
"His heart was in the right place," said Niagara Falls Park Police dispatcher Tom Detenbeck. "He just picked the wrong way to demonstrate his point."
Robert Overacker, 39, had been researching his stunt for seven years. He had a rocket strapped to his back that was supposed to propel him into the air before he opened his parachute.
It didn't work.
Just after noon Sunday, Overacker, of Camarillo, Calif., rode the Jet Ski to the edge of Horseshoe Falls, threw his arms in the air and fell into the swirling waters below as horrified tourists snapped pictures.
"He let go of the Jet Ski, and he went down, and the Jet Ski went out, and that was basically it," Maggie Calabrats told a Toronto TV station.
Falling that far is like hitting cement, Detenbeck said.
Overacker's watercraft bore the slogan "Save The Homeless." Hours before the stunt, he videotaped a message about what he planned to do.
"I think the homeless situation and the way things are happening in this country is something that has to be rectified," he said. "I'm going to go out there
and give it my best shot, and see if we can make a dif-
ference in the United States."
Police do not believe Overacker, who graduated from a California stunt school, was affiliated with any organization.
His brother, Michael Zureich of San Antonio, and a friend, Christopher Yeoman of Ventura, Calif., accompanied him to the falls to photograph and videotake the stump, police said.
Police questioned Zureich and Yeoman for about three hours. The two were in shock and were released without charges.
Detenbeck said friends had tried to stop Overacker from performing the stunt. Once, his friends took the spark plugs out of his Jet Ski, Detenbeck said.
As Overacker rode toward the falls, a police officer spotted him and begged him to come back, but he refused.
The Jet Ski disappeared near the spot where a fiberglass barrel ended up after two people went over the falls in June. They survived and faced up to $10,000 in fines.
Fourteen people have survived plunges over Niagara, while Overacker is the fifth person to die since 1901, the Niagara Falls Parks Commission said.
"I hate to see these stunters try things," said Lawrence McGinn, the assistant general manager for Maid of the Mist, which sent a boat out to recover Overacker's body. "I think the falls is going to win most of the time."
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