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Show The Daily Herald MGI8- Sunday, February 7, 1993 Sudan, famine and war In - Volcano continues Philippine damage By PAULINE JELINEK Associated Press Writer KONGOR, LEGAZPI, Philippines (AP) Filipinos buried their dead Saturday from a volcano that continued to spew lava and force more evacuations. Mayon erupted Tuesday, killing at least 68 people and injuring 118. The mountain continued to quake on Saturday, and experts said a more violent eruption may be in store. Trucks cruised roads to pick up people fleeing the area. Many refugees were laden with belongings wrapped in bundles. Some said relatives were staying behind in threatened areas to protect their homes from possible looting. Nearly 30,000 refugees are crammed into 35 refugee centers in the region. Durmg a funeraj in the village of Bigaa for 30 of the volcano's victims, relatives wept uncontrollably. Some clung to the caskets. Parachutist dies Sudan - 'A v: Flying miles and miles over scrub and pasture land, the first thing you notice is that there are no cows. Then on a dirt airstrip, when the starving gather near an arriving t relief plane, there are also few men. And almost no babies. "Most of us here are women," said Martha Ajok, who has lost three of her nine children to starvation and disease. The currents of the White Nile River and Sudan's bloody politics have swept much of the life from this area 250 miles north of the Kenya border. They brought 10 years of war, months of flooding, two failed crops, famine and disease. But people here have suffered in 71 1 v (f'A, . i . - ' ft ' J-- ' ' u' - f J- , But massive flooding in early 1991 prevented planting and destroyed what would have been two secret. While international attention and aid have rescued some of the starving of neighboring Somalia and Ethiopia, Kongor and many others areas in southern Sudan have been to relief workoff-limi- ts ers. vhile filming stunt "There are areas which are tragic," said Rob Hadley, 30, a A stuntman LONDON (AP) plunged to his death after his parachute failed to open while accident for TV a cameras. Tim "Tip" Tipping. 34, was filming a sequence Friday for a series that reconstructs real-lif- e dramas when the accident happened, the British Broadcasting Corp. said. Tipping, a former Royal Marine commando, had appeared in Indiana Jones and James Bond films and was the chairman of the Guild. He died trying to parachutist Terry Wakenshaw's accione that Wakenshaw had dent survived. Wakenshaw had been dragged afong the fuselage of a plane last September after his parachute got caught in its wheels, causing injuries to his head, chest and an arm. Wakenshaw escaped by pulling an emergency cutaway handle, falling 500 feet and opening a reserve parachute. sky-divi- AP Photo British spokesman for the United Nations. "When we find them we can do something about it. If we can't get in, we don't know what we're going to find." Civil war has rent Sudan since Gabriel, 10, no bigger than an average boy of 5, Kongor, Sudan earlier this week. ing for more autonomy and a greater share of the nation's wealth from the Muslim government in the north. Hundreds of thousands of civil- - 1983, when rebels from the Christian and animist south began fight- - ' I 1 Stunt-omen- 's ' . 'J ' ct sits beside his mother, right, as they wait for food in more people arrived to meet each flight. "We used to eat the leaf of the thorn tree," said Ajok, one of more than 400 people who walked from nearby mud huts to meet a recent flight. "But now the leaves are eaten up and there are just ians have died from the fighting and famine and many more are displaced. Both the government and the rebels have used food as a weapon, keeping it for their own or out of the hands of rivals. Pope John Paul II plans to visit Khartoum, the capital, on Wednesday to show support for the Christians, who are especially persecuted, according to Sudanese clerics. Late last year, the United Nations won agreement from warring rebels and the Khartoum government to permit relief workers into more areas in the south. That brought a relief flight into Kongor in December for the first time in more than a year. Emaciated, weakened and Dinka, a tribe of herders whose livelihood, society and religion are grounded in their crops and cattle, dragged themselves to the airstrip five miles out of tow n. Food was airlifted in several times in January. As word spread, thorns." On her shoulders, Mary Achol carried her son Gabriel, a dazed child of 10 no bigger than an average boy of five. His ribs showed through thin flesh. His arms and legs were as big as the grip of a His gums were His sores. eyelids, barely bloody open, were covered with flies. Some people had swollen bellies. Many had sores on their heads, hands or feet, which relief workers said were scabies. Others complained of rashes, fever and malaria. They had no medicine. Hadley, the U.N. spokesman, said the recent agreement by rebels and the government to open up baseball rag-cloth- bat. subsequent harvests. When the rebels split into two factions later that year, many Dinka were killed in the factional fighting that followed. Their cattle were stolen or killed and their villages were ransacked or abandoned. "We have no seeds to plant again," Achol said. "The (rebels) took them and burned some and threw others in the water. And they took our cattle to make us suffer. ' ' Aid officials estimate that the local Dinka population has dwindled to 30.000 from two or three times that many before the war. "Our husbands have died because of the problems or they ran away," Ajok said. "The kids, as a result, have no food. They have just died, one after the oth er." Most vulnerable to disease have been childreii under five. The group of more than 400 w ho greeted the recent relief plane was made up of women, and dozens of children but only three or four babies or toddlers, and only a few dozen men. Kongor area once was an agri0 cultural center where about head of livestock grazed and were traded, aid workers said. teen-age- rs 140,-00- AP Photo malnourished child is helped to drink rain water at Kongor, Sudan, where famine and fighting have killed hundreds of thousands of people. A KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) -Pope John Paul II visited the heart of the AIDS epidemic in Africa on Saturday and told an audience of youths that chastity is the only proper way to stop the spread of the disease. Thousands of singing and cheering young people filled Navikubo stadium to hear the pope. 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