University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, June 27, 1990
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Students organize relief
Area Iranians, Muslims generate aid for quake victims
By Deron Graul
By Deron Graul
Kansan staff writer
While aid began pouring into Iran on Sunday to help victims of Thursday's earthquake, Iranian and Muslim KU students began efforts to generate local aid after first ascertaining that their relatives in Iran
Behan Ghamzezadeh, Teheran graduate student, said jammed phone lines forced him to call for two days before he could reach his relatives in the country. He said he spoken to them and that they were in good health.
He said his sister told him that rescue efforts within Iran were well organized and that Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani was in the area coordinating the efforts.
Iranian officials have pointed out that the eight-year war with Iraq taught them many of the lessons of evacuating casualties and getting relief supplies to rmote areas.
Hassan Zand, Esfaham graduate student, said Monday he had contacted some Lawrence churches to enlist their aid but that the local effort was limited.
"Right now we're just looking for short-term help for people in desperate need of it," he said.
The Muslim Student Organization was collecting donations at a table in front of the Kansas Union yesterday. Hossain Ghaffari, an Iranian graduate student working at the table, said the organization would be sending out information to all organizations will be sent to Iran-Quake Relief Assistance, a relief fund organized by the United Nations, he said.
About 130 plane loads of rescue materials from dozens of countries had arrived in Tehran since
One cargo jet from the United States landed Monday carrying 84,000 pounds of medicine, food and other supplies from AmeriCares, a private relief organization. It was the first private U.S. relief effort to Iran
since relations between Teheran and Washington became strained 11 years ago.
Last Thursday's earthquake, which measured between 7.3 and 7.7 on the Richter scale, killed at least 50,000 people and left 50,000 homeless.
The earthquake leveled 342 cities, towns and villages. Thousands are believed to be buried under the rubble
Rescue efforts have been slowed by about 360 aftershocks, some of them as strong as 5.5 on the Richter scale. Some aftershocks triggered landslides that blocked roads and caused injuries, the cliffs, the roads hit by the surfskirts.
Some Iranian KU students said that the United States has been too slow in providing disaster relief
Hossain Ghaffari, Iranian graduate student, said that U.S. media had not paid enough attention to the earthquake and that the first local television news coverage did not come until Monday.
"The aid from the United States has been slower in coming than expected," he said.
People wishing to give money to the relief efforts can donate at the Muslim Student Association's table in front of the Union or send their donations to: Iran-Qunake Relief Assistance, Account No. 5000, Bank MellI Iran, New York Branch, 628 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. 10023.
A bank spokesman said 40 to 50 donations ranging from 620 to $1,800 had been coming in each day. The amount of donations has not been reported.
The Red Crescent is a division of the International Red Cross.
satman Rushdie, who is living under an Iranian death threat for alleged blasphemy against Islam in his novel. "The Satanic Verses," reportedly is donating $8,650 to a relief fund.
The Associated Press contributed information to this story.
Bush offers victims supplies
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is willing to send a second plane load of relief supplies to earthquake victims in Iran and is waiting to hear what is needed, U.S. officials said yesterday.
Meanwhile, a private group of Iranian expatriates plans to fly to Teheran on Saturday. Among them are doctors, nurses and engi-
The plane picked up the equipment at Leghron, Italy, one of five major relief deposits maintained by the United States around the world.
The first load of U.S. supplies was airlifted from Pisa, Italy, to Iran on Sunday. The plane, chartered for $60,000 by the Red Cross under a U.S. grant, carried $25,000 worth of blankets, tents, water jugs and search-and-rescue equipment.
The U.S. relief operation is being conducted under rules specified by Iran. While accepting help, it insists the aid be channeled through the Red Cross or other private relief organizations.
While authorities said they would not accept aid from Israel or South Africa, Kamal Kharrazi, the Iranian ambassador to the United States, said he and many nian people do not have any problem with, the American people."
In fact, he said, the U.S. help might create a better atmosphere for relations between the United States and Iran.
But the Iranian Foreign Ministry has said the nation welcomed international help because of the magnitude of the earthquake, the toll of the plague, with 200,000 injured and a half-million homeless.
U. S. officials who spoke on the
condition of anonymity said the doctors, nurses, engineers and other professionals would leave Washington on Saturday.
The officials said a second plane load of U.S. supplies would be dispatched once Iran makes clear through Switzerland and other intermediaries what kind of assistance it requires.
At the State Department, spokesman Margaret D. Tuwiler said that the United States "is interested in helping in a very tragic situation. . . Politics don't enter into it."
The United States broke relations with Iran in 1980 after the seizure of the U.S. Embassy and the taking of American hostages in November 1979. Six Americans are now being held hostage in Lebanon by militants believed to be influenced by Iran.
Millions stolen from armored car in second recent company robbery
The Associated Press
ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Robbers with a shotgun ambushed an armored car whose crew had stopped to buy sandwiches and stole more money. The driver was one of the largest heists in U.S. history, authorities said.
The Armored Motor Service of America Inc. truck was headed to the Federal Reserve Bank branch in Buffalo when the robbery occurred, a spokesman in the Monroe County Sheriff's Department said. The truck's driver and guard were bound and sagged but were not injured.
"We don't have an exact amount." Sheriff Aden P. Meloni said. "It is in the neighborhood of $10.8 million." Authorities have no suspects.
Meloni said officials had not determined yet where the money came from.
In 1985, nearly $8 million was stolen from a Wells Fargo depot in Manhhattan. In 1983, robbers took gold, which was estimated at $11 million, from a smelting firm and jewelry wholesaler in North Miami, Fla.
The AMSA truck left the company's offices in the Rochester suburb of Chili about 7 a.m. yesterday with a male driver and a female guard aboard, sherrif's department spokesman Tom Ryan said. The employees' names have not been released.
FBI spokesman Bill Carter said armored car robberies are usually larger than bank robberies.
The employees were ordered to drive to a wooded area in the town of Henlewita, about half a mile from the school, where they were tied up, blindfolded and gagged.
While the woman was in the store, a man stuck a shotgun in the slot of the armored car and took control of the vehicle, Meloni said. When the man returned to the car, he was placed under the gunman's control.
They stopped at a store nearby and the guard left the truck to buy coffee and sandwiches, Ryan said.
The robbers transferred the money bags, which weighed at least 1,600 pounds, from the armored car to another vehicle and drove off, Ryan said.
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