Wednesday, January 31, 2001
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 7
Nation/World
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Relief efforts battle 100-hour limit
The Associated Press
AHMEDABAD, India — Pakistan put aside its bitter rivalry with India yesterday and joined earthquake relief efforts, but heavy equipment and explosives brought in to clear debris signaled hope of finding survivors had all but vanished.
Experts say few people could survive more than 100 hours buried in rubble left by Friday's quake, and much of the attention shifted to getting tents, blankets and medical care to the living.
Officials have counted 7,148 bodies, but estimates of how high the death toll could rise varied widely. Defense Minister George Fernandes estimated 100,000 may have
died; Home Minister Haren Pandya said he believed the figure to be between 15,000 and 20,000.
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee said it was impossible and improper to guess.
Aid from around the world was pouring into western India: a 747 loaded with water purification equipment from the United States, a $500,000 mobile hospital from Denmark and an air force plane filled with tents and blankets from Pakistan. With nighttime temperatures about 41 degrees in the quake zone,blankets were a high priority.
"I have come on a humanitarian mission," said Ilyas Khan, director of Pakistan's emergency relief agency.
"People are suffering."
Friday's magnitude-7.9 quake flattened the towns of Bhuj and Anjar in India's western Gujarat state, which borders Pakistan, leaving damage estimated at up to $5.5 billion. Despite aftershocks with magnitudes ranging up to 4.5 in the Bhuj area, there were no reports of new damage or casualties.
Rescue workers kept up the dark task of digging into the debris of ruined buildings, but they called the search for survivors increasingly futile. With yesterday afternoon passed the critical 100-hour mark since the quake struck.
"We talk about a limit of 100 hours, when after that the chances of finding someone alive drop dramatically," said Jochen Jakowski, the leader of a German rescue team in Anjar. "It is close to a world record if we find someone after 100 hours."
Much of the rescue work was being carried out by some of the 20,000 troops India sent to respond to the disaster.
Ashcroft's approval likely
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Republicans pushed John Ashcroft's attorney general nomination toward the Senate floor yesterday and his leading Democratic critic backed off a threatened filibuster, signaling confirmation was all but certain.
While the Judiciary Committee met to vote on the nomination, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy indicated he would not object to fixing a time for a final vote in the Senate. Kennedy, D-Mass., said he was forgoing a filibuster in part at the request of Ashcroft's successor in the Senate, Jean Carrnah, D-Mo.
The Senate's top Democrat, Minority Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota, announced his opposition to Ashcroft in a harsh denunciation of the former senator's views on women's and workers'
rights, civil rights and separation of church and state.
Inside the committee room, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Uttah, chairman of the panel, appealed to Democrats to give Ashcroft the "benefit of the doubt."
"All of us, both Democrats and Republicans, know the difference between legitimate policy debates and unwarranted personal attacks," he said.
The committee appeared divided along party lines, although Democrats said it was possible Ashcroft would gain some votes from their side on the panel.
As for the final vote in the 100-member Senate, Democratic aides said they hoped to post more than 35 votes in opposition to the former Missouri senator, whose nomination sparked the fiercest battle of all President Bush's Cabinet appointments.
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