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Wednesday, March 4, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Fear of aftershocks forces New Zealanders into fields
United Press International
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Thousands of earthquake victims fearing aforethays yesterday crammed inside barns and halls and pitched tents in open beds in the Bay of Plenty, as efforts to clean up the devastated region in northeastern New Zealand began.
"The scene is much worse than what I had thought over the farmlands," said Civil Defense official John Lepper, "and the town of Edgecumbe is utterly, utterly devastated."
Seismologists said that more than 100 tremblers hit the region from Monday's quake, which measured 6.5 on the Richter scale. And with more than an estimated 3,000 residents were coming to return to their damaged homes.
The quake left one man dead and at least 25 people injured. Officials described it as New Zealand's worst earthquake since 1931, when 256 people died in Napier, southeast of the Bay of Plenty.
Civil Defense officials said the thousands of homeless remained in
oarns and halls opened after the earthquake, while others pitched tents in open fields for fear of staying in damaged buildings, which could collapse under more temblors.
Extra police officers, responding to reports of looting, were rushed into devastated business areas, and government officials commandeered all available helicopters to help assess the damage, ferry supplies and begin cleanup operations.
Government scientist Ian Smith agreed, "We cannot rule out another largequake, but we believe these aftershock tremors should diminish in intensity and frequency as time goes by."
"We are beginning to encourage people to return home but with the advice that they should take special precautions against further big quakes," Lepper said.
Lepper said he hoped that the state of emergency declared for the 200,000-resident region could be lifted today.
Civil defense authorities called for volunteers to help milk hundreds of dairy cows that were in pain after missing milkings because of power
tailures that rendered electric milking machines useless.
For many, there was only rubble where their homes once stood. The towns of Whakatane and Kawerau, besides Edgecumbe, took the worst pounding, with many dwellings uninhabitable.
Houses in the rich forestry and farming area collapsed, while others split in two. Roads were cut by landslides, bridges tumbled from the railway tracks and land and grain silos burst, spilling their contents.
Whakatea, with 16,000 residents, was cut off, its bridges collapsed, and its roads spit. The public hospital was closed as plaster from the ceiling rained down on patients, who were evacuated to a senior citizens home.
Nurse Gay Hayes said she was tending a patient when the quake struck.
"There was a horrible rumble from the ground and then awful shaking and swaying," she said. "If I had not been holding on to the patient and the bed, we would have both been thrown to the floor."
Deng compares Iran arms woes to Nixon-era Watergate scandal
United Press International
BEIJING, China — Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping yesterday compared President Reagan's Iran arms woes to former President Richard Nixon's Watergate scandal and acknowledged that he faced his own troubles as he tried to contain the spread of "capitalist" ideas in China.
Deng's comments came as he and Secretary of State George Shultz wrapped up two days of talks during which China reaffirmed its commitment to its policy of openness toward the West and internal reform.
Shultz told reporters that during an hour of talks with the Chinese leader, Deng expressed sympathy with Reagan over the Iran arms scandal. The Chinese leader compared Reagan's problems to the Watergate scandal that toppled Nixon and to former Japanese Prime Minister Tahui Tanaka's conviction for political bribery.
Shultz was taken aback when Deng made the comparison to Nixon, who is held in high regard in China for
'By engaging in politics and by running the government, one has to meet with some troubles and difficulties.'
Deng Xiaoping Chinese leader
Deng also acknowledged that he was facing his own political troubles.
establishing Sino-U.S. ties 15 years ago. Shultz and Deng met in the cavernous Great Hall of the People in the presence of reporters and televi-
"By engaging in politics and by running the government, one has to meet with some troubles and difficulties," Deng told Shultz.
"We also have such cases," Deng said in a reference to China's campaign against "capitalist trends," mounted by the government after widespread student pro-democracy demonstrations in December.
Summing up his impressions of the meetings, which included talks with Prime Minister Zhao Ziyang and Foreign Minister Wu Xueqian, Shultz said, "The policy of opening to the outside world on the one hand and the openness to the inside, namely reform, on the other has been working, and therefore it will be continued.
"I think they were at some pains to emphasize that point to me, and I heard it again and again, and I have no reason to question their sincerity in that. I can say for certain that it came from the people referred to at the highest levels."
But Shultz stressed "the answer is a clear no" to the question of whether Chinese open-door policies will amount to "Westernization."
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