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Show Thursday. June !. 2006 IV D A I Aid Do urs into -- Tt "'- , ASSOC A3 quake zone; toll tops 6,200 i 1L Chris Brummitt 'f HERALD to survivors remained -R MediBANTUL, Indonesia cines, rice, water and tarps were delivered to Indonesians earthquake disaster zone Wednesday to help about 650.000 displaced" peonle. but many said the inter-na- t onal aid was taking too long to i,et there. r - A Saturday's quake on Java island killed 6:234 people ind injured more thari 30.000. the Social Afldirs Vlinictrv caiH The main hospital in hardest-hit Bantul district remained it. overwhelmed with patients cramming corridors or sleeping niric rf rcirffhn'.irH ,'( in tku An than to be done." Susilo Bambarig Yudhovono said. But he said roads had been , cleared, the mam airport's runJ wav repaired and reopened, and electricity restored in some areis. The temblor that struck soon atter dawn reduced more . 135.000 houses into piles of bricks, tiles and wood in less than a minute, displacing some 647.0(H) people, said Bambang Privohadi. a provincial official. Nearly a third of them now live under plastic sheets close to their former homes, in rice Starts Today, Shop Special Hours m Bantul district f On the back cover of our Super Sale catalog, we advertise our storewide deferred billing ; program as: $200 minimum storewide purchase with no payment until October 2007. The payment date should have read October 2006. We regret any inconvenience this f may have caused. i tields or on roadsides, while the rest are staving with relatives, he said. heir misery has been compounded hv days ol intermittent rain and blazing sun. with another downfall dousing the region ednesdav: (jetting lood and fresh water 1 ' MEIER & FRANK - OFF jAmc SALE $12 orig. $240- - ter stadium 9AM-10- P super-otMLtESUITS . PLEASE NOTE LI.TA AlANGHARA Asmk .!. survivor his his he lost who us in sits on the wife Saturday's eurthquuhc wipes face earthquake . ruins of his house in Bantul, Indonesia, on Wednesday. 'J parking lot, and doctors plained about a lack of supplies. The United Nations said the crisis appeared to be easing with the arrival of aid workers from more.than 20 count ties, and Indonesia's president said he had enough confidence in the relief efforts to return to the capital. Jakarta. "Certainly, a lot more needs 50 . high-energ- y Thousands of women and children lined roads clogged with relief vehicles and curious onlookers, asking motorists tor money so they could buy food. , Sme stood next to a banner that read: "Don't just look. Help." in Condition! improved at two hospitals in the area, where parking lots and hallways filled with hundreds of victims in the days after the quake were clear, with most patients now: being treated in beds. The main hospital in Bantul was still overwhelmed, however, with more than 400 patients for just over 100 beds. "We are short of splints, " gauze, even beds. saidDi": Hi- - . the hospital's emergency dayat xrdinator. adding that !M) percent of the victims had bone fractures. "The minute we get fresh splints, they are grtne."' Chinese dmtors treated pa-- ' tients at a field hospital, while U S: Marines set up their own emergency medical unit in a sof- a press-- , ing concern, with some S5 mil- lion needed over the next few months to pay for emergency rations of enriched nixxiles and biscuits, the UN, Wcrld Food Program said. Villagers complained they were not getting the, help they needed. "All we got today was a halt kilogram (one pound) of rice," said Ratimah.M. who has a family of four to feed. "It 's not enough." But Jan Egeland. the UN 's top humanitarian official, said the aid effort appeared to be going well overall, with major improvements in coordination among aid organizations and nations since the 2004 tsunami that killed l.ll.OOO people in Indonesia's Aceh province aloie ' QiW OFF rH jSTK 1 ' MISSES 'PETITES ' 1 ' ' f tnSaT 0$$$$' rV tf&h'' ffsnhV?i H?y rfV, K?fIlVU ' 1 . II I 1 1 V 1 1 1 r i4 ' ri ' t ' : . i V?V Ij'wiillii IfiPf hmmm- : ' I r . Mi-" Y I Y A 1 DISCOUNT & Bourke, Bed 4 I fwf'- - I Fashion Place 10AM-9P- Advertised i GIFT CARDS AT ALL STORES! NO FEES'. ALWAYS REDEEMABLE AND AT ANY AT MEIER & FRANK, MACY'S STORE NATIONWIDE. : ;J 7 -- ; A 4 Coach. i . Designer N0 CLEARANCE Mossanile & FINE JEWELRY PURCHASE JUNE 1 - SUNDAY, JUNE 4 : : '.. i ' ' Walches. Besl Values. Bridal Special Event Collections. Protection Plans. DISCOUNT , SALE OR II (r3) VALID THURSDAY, 1 ' I REGULAR vUJforaf 'f 1 SUNDAY, JUNE on Watches. Fine Jewelry. Select Ladies' Designers. Cosmetics. Fragrances. 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