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Show World Friday, July 20, 1990 The Daily Herald, Provo, Utah Cteta :dsfih;toll hits. 650; Ai U.S. search plane crashes' .; 190 people were believed buried in ruins of seven hotels and while searching for people stranded in a factory in Baguio that caught after a devastating earthquake that fire after the quake, de Jesus said. killed more than 650 people. One Rescuers fear most are dead. The Marine OV-- 1 light observaserviceman died in the accident and one was hurt. tion plane crashed while searching The observation aircraft went the mountains for motorists and down in the heart of the quake others stranded along highways zone, near the mountain resort of closed by landslides during the Baguio on Luzon island, 110 miles quake. One crewman was killed and the north of the capital Manila, the U.S. Embassy said. other was airlifted to a U.S. miliOfficials said at least 224 people tary hospital, the U.S. Embassy-said- . Their names were not reincluding two Americans were killed in Baguio during Monday's leased pending notification of rek earthquake, which measured 7.7 on tives. the Richter scale. Officials said the aircraft was Subic Bay naval Jose de Jesus, chairman of the from the U.S.-ru- n presidential task force supervising base 50 miles west of Manila. rescue efforts in Baguio, said MaBritish experts prepared to lire rines and Philippine troops had ultrasonic equipment to check for begun operations to rescue more signs of life in the rubble of the than 100 people believed stranded Hyatt Hotel in Baguio. on highways near Baguio. Nearly 50 people were believed Heavy casualties were also con- still trapped in the ruins, and officentrated in Cabanatuan, 60 miles cials said hundreds more may have north of Manila, where more than died in remote areas of the stricken 60 students and teachers were region that are only now reporting killed at the Philippine Christian damage and deaths. College. Philippine television, whose crews One girl who was injured at the flew aboard some of the search television to- planes, showed several buses and college told ABS-CBday that her class was in the cars wreckaged by landslides. Some middle of a lesson on earthquakes residents had apparently used gravwhen the quake struck and the el and limestone to write 'SOS" classroom collapsed. The latest official figures say 659 people died and more than 1,300 were injured in the earthquake. BAGUIO, A Philippines (AP) About ; along the highway. Defense Secretary Fidel Ramos said more than 900 others also were feared stranded in a mountain pass along the border of Nueva Vizcaya and Nueva Ecija provinces. Social Welfare Secretary Mita Pardo de Tavera said the government was only now receiving reports from Nueva Vizcaya province and that at least 55 people had been killed. :' The air force said it would fly emergency food supplies to the VS. Marine plane crashed today TO area. people were rescued from the wreckage of 27 buildings, including eight hotels severely damaged or destroyed during the temblor. Work crews managed to reopen one highway to Baguio early today, only to have it closed again due to fresh landslides. Officials said it may take four or five more days to restore land routes to the city. Before the road was closed again, 12 firetrucks carrying emergency water supplies reached the city, where food and fuel are also in short supply. N AP Laserphoto A woman and her daughter sit in a quake-damage- d church in Dagupan, Philippines Tfcnrsday. ; Aside from Baguio, widespread areas of central and northern Luzon were devastated by the quake, the strongest to strike the Philippines in 14 years. De Jesus said more than 1,800 0 Italians angry over court ruling in bombing country without truth." Some commentators blamed investigative incompetence, political interference and the dark deeds of to failed have pin a secret service mat may have investigators down the blame in several attacks compromised the truth forever. The Bologna bombing was only in the past 20 years. An appeals court on Wednesday the latest in a series of major cases overturned the convictions of four dating back more than 20 years people sentenced to life in prison that have gone unsolved. two years ago for the 1980 bombing They include the bombing at a that killed 85 people at Bologna's Milan bank in 1969 that left 16 dead and ushered in more than a decade train station. " of terrorism from the left and right, The verdict meant investigators are back to square one in trying to bomb blasts in the city of Brescia solve one of Europe's worst terror- and on trains in the 1970s and the ist acts a full decade after it mysterious crash of an Italian jetoccurred. liner in 1980 that killed all 81 ' - "How shameful for the state," aboard. In the Milan bombing there were said II Messaggero, a moderate Rome newspaper, in a front-pag- e arrests and at least three trials, but editorial. The leading Milan daily in the end the suspects were acquitCorriere della Sera caUed Italy "a ted. A trial of Brescia suspects A court decision ROME (AP) this week throwing out convictions in a terrorist bombing has added to public frustration that judges and two-thir- it - ' A State Department official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the department received the appeal and may respond in some way today. - Foreign Minister J. Rudolph Johnson, Washington Ambassador and Eugenia Wordsworth-Stevenso- n eight other Liberians wrote President Bush Thursday that they expect the "resignation and departure from Liberia" of President Samuel Doe "and the establishment of an interim government." The letter proposed that "a limited U.S. force be provided, on the invitation of thai interim government, to play an initial peacekeeping role" in the vicinity of Monrovia, the capital now under siege by rebel forces. The appeal did not explain how the resignation and departure of An explosion (AP) caused extensive damage at the London Stock Exchange today following a telephone warning about an Irish Republican Army bomb, police said. No injuries were reported. Police said the building, in the heart of London's financial district, was evacuated before the blast at LONDON instability can pose a threat to oil supply. Baghdad in recent days had denounced Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates for exceeding production quotas set by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or OPEC. Iraq says falling oil prices brought on by the oil glut have robbed it of $14 billion in revenues the past year, and Saddam this week accused quota violators of stabbing Iraq in the back "with a poisoned dagger." In seeking to defuse the crisis, Kuwait on Thursday solicited Arab League help in settling its the world's 8:49 ajn. The bomb, which tore a gaping hole in the building, was in a men's restroom, said George Churchill-Colemacommander of Scotland unit. Yard's n, anti-terror- ist Hugh Moore, commander of the London police, said warnings were telephoned to his department, the exchange and to the Reuters news agency. border dispute with Iraq. The small sultanate longstanding enlisted the help of influential Saudi Arabia in easing tensions, and its diplomats fanned out across the Middle East A major factor in the Kuwaiti and Saudi responses has been fears that the quarrel could disrupt an OPEC conference, set to begin next Thursday in Geneva, on production and pricing policy. Both Kuwait and the UJV.E. have promised to cut oil production in line with the quotas decreed by the said police Churchill-Colema- n were trying to determine who was responsible and added, "The IRA is a possibility we cannot discount" He said the restroom is near the exchange building's public visitors' gallery, which had not opened at the time of the explosion. He said it terrorists. Seemingly strengthening this theory was the indictment and conviction in the first trial of Licio Gelli, former grandmaster of the Masecret Propaganda Due ) sonic lodge that had been accused g of seeking to install a dictatorship with the help of secret (P-2- service officials. Gelli had been given 10 years in prison on charges of misleading investigators, but he was also acquitted by the appeals court was not known when the device was planted. "People would have been killed if they had been in the building at the time," Moore said. A uniformed guard normally searches bags and parcels carried by visitors before they enter the gallery, which accommodates up to 100 people. The National Westminster bank, near the exchange, was cordoned off and searched following another bomb warning, police said. The Royal Bank of Scotland building across from the exchange was also evacuated. Press Association, Britain's domestic news agency, reported that one caller who telephoned a warning said: "This is the IRA. The bomb is due to go off in half an hour at the Stock Exchange." The caller then gave a code word recognized by police and said, "Clear the building," the news agency reported. The Irish Republican Army is fighting to end British rule of Northern Ireland. mm wm HOME BUILDERS & PRODUCTS SHOW JMUJDLV AT 7-2 1 UNIVERSITY HOMES L L DISPLAY ON JOfllLV MA U T127-2- .0 THROUGHOUT THE VALLEY DON'T r.1155 THE HOME PRODUCTS SHOW ALL VEEK AT UNIVERSITY A1ALL! Doe would be carried out. While the agreeing not to seek president has refused to leave the country and is sitting out the approach of rebel forces in his heavily fortified residence in Monrovia. The State Department said the letter was being studied by its task force monitoring the crisis in the African nation founded by freed American slaves 150 years ago. The letter and its signatures were regarded as authentic, the U.S. official said. VS. warships with Marine units embarked were moved close Liberia several weeks ago. neo-Fasci- st right-win- "Before the Bologna verdict, Italians were diffident if not distrustful toward the system of justice," said Franco Ferrarotti, a University of Rome sociologist in a, telephone interview. Be sure to visit University Mall first to purchase your PARADE OF HOMES tickets from the Utah Liberian group asks U.S. for peacekeeping force WASHINGTON The forAP) eign minister of Liberia and other prominent Liberians say their, president will soon resign and leave the country and asked for a temporary U.S. peacekeeping force in the war torn nation. "The verdict has delivered a powerful blow to the relationship between citizens and institutions in Italy," he said. Prosecutors in the Bologna case described the attack as a plot to undermine Italy's democracy and the four convicted of planting the bomb as right-win- g Bomb explosion damages London Stock Exchange Kuwait cancels its alert in oil dispute with Iraq MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) Kuwait has canceled a state of alert it declared in an oil dispute with Iraq, and it appeared the crisis was over, a Kuwaiti source said. "It was all a summer cloud that has been blown away," the source said Thursday, speaking on condition of anonymity. The alert followed Iraqi charges that Kuwait had stolen Iraqi oil worth $2.4 billion, and Iraqi threats of retaliation. Kuwait had appealed to other Arab states for support in the dispute with its much more powerful neighbor. Despite the apparent easing of tensions, officials in Baghdad reported that thousands of Kuwaitis visiting Iraq were heading home. Iraqi dailies continued to accuse Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates of "usurping Iraq's rights." Iraqi President Saddam Hussein on Thursday tightened his grip on power, winning support from his rubber-stam- p parliament for a presidency for life. The developments underscored simmering tensions in the Persian Gulf. The region of the includes about world's proven oil reserves, so ended in acquittal. There were arrests in at least one of the train bombings in the 1970s, but a trial never determined the perpetrators. There have been no arrests in the plane crash. And experts have still failed to make a firm determination whether a bomb on the cause exploded aboard or whether it was downed by a missile fired by an unidentified plane. Adding to the anguish of the victims' relatives, the judge investigating the crash has just quit the case over a dispute with a Socialist politician regarding his handling of to Ambassador Wordsworth-Stevenso- n and former Liberian U.N. Ambassador Winston A. Tubman, listed as a press spokesman, did not answer their telephones Thursday night. 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