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Show NATO THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, THE DAILY HURALD i Students j. return witll'i caution, resolve "WW. i GLOBAL BRIEFING J Soldiers killed in attack COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) Suspected Tamil rebels killed six Sri lUinkan police commandos and nine soldiers in two ambushes Wednesday, police and military officials said. In the eastern Am para region, suspected rebels hiding in a forest peppered a police convoy with bullets, killing six commandos and wounding three, said a police official on condition of anonymity. The officers fired back, killing two rebels near the village of Karativu, 160 miles east of Colombo, the official said. The rebels are fighting for an independent homeland for minority Tami's who say they face discriminaSri Lanka. tion in Sinhalese-majoritMore than 58,000 people have died in y the 16-ye- u- - yvw ;trrr i 1 jw it jr f- - ' 1" i I"1 K i :ci i Jf,7 is., ff--i J ' ' C:- - m&u.i, ffi V.. Scores sickened by pizzas owT Wi-- AmSouth Bank spokesman Jim Drug planes destroyed BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) Colombian air force fighters intercepted and destroyed two suspected drug-traffickin- g planes near the Caribbean coast, officials said Wednesday. The planes were fired upon Monday and Tuesday after refusing to identify themselves, said the air force chief, Gen. Hector Fabio Velasco. He said the pilots escaped. Both planes entered Colombian air space from the Caribbean, presumably after delivering cocaine shipments, said Velasco. Both were flying at a maximum of 300 feet, a typical technique to avoid radar, he said. single-engin- e Pakistan can build bomb ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) Pakistan has enough expertise and the necessary material to make a neutron bomb, the state-runews agency reported Wednesday. The agency, the Associated Press of Pakistan, quoted scientist N.M. Butt as saying the country had the ability to "build a nuclear weapon of any type or size, including neutron bomb." The Pakistani scientist's remarks came the day after an Indian nuclear scientist claimed India can make a neutron bomb. n Jury acquits elderly woman An elderly ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) woman was acquitted Wednesday of attempting to kill her daughter who was left paralyzed from the shooting and later died when a court granted her permission to remove herself from life support. A jury deliberated for seven hours before acquitting Shirley Egan of attempted murder. Egan smiled and squeezed her attorney's hand. Police said Ms. Egan opened fire after hearing her daughter, Georgette Smith, and her daughter's boyfriend, Larry Videlock, talking about putting her in a nursing home. Videlock was not hit. WASHINGTON doors opened, the hallw filled, the cliques reunited, classes hesran. So it eoes ea year, when students across tl country head back to school But is it just like any othj year: A few months after Colorado and Georgia sch and with shootings weeks of summer shootia incidents seemingly spurra by racial or ethnic hatred A schools nationwide are ope ing their doors warily. Its a mixed mood, sa Bruce Hunter of the America ENRIC MARTI The Associated Press Survivor: A volunteer talks to a survivor trapped under the debris of his apartment building while neighbors try to rescue him in the town of Seymen, 75 miles south of Istanbul Wednesday. Disaster relief teams from around the world joined overwhelmed Turkish rescue crews. Ttflcts Bank goof makes man rich Underwood said the mistake apparently resulted from a printing error when another customer ordered new deposit slips. . jr ; : Fifty-fou- r HAVANA (AP) people were sickened in Cuba after eating pizzas made with contaminated flour, a newspaper reported Wednesday. The pizzas were sold at an illegal food stand at a beach in Bahia Honda, about 50 miles we3t of When HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) $1.6 million showed up in his checking account, Roger Dudley made the most of it. He invested thousands, bought gifts for his wife, and paid off his truck and credit cards. Now he may face federal charges. "It was nice while it lasted," said Dudley, 21. "Someday I'll say, 'I remember when I was a millionaire."' The Secret Service and federal prosecutors are reviewing the case. Officials at AmSouth Bank said no charges had been filed as of Wednesday, rrv'? AP Education Writer insurrection. Havana, the Communist Party newspaper Granma reported. The insecticide Thiodan was found in flour used to make the pizza dough, the report said. i m iiTTi HJii DasG-f-l mm Poor construction blamed for high quake toll By PAUL GEITNER Associated necessary measures are not taken." "No one learned a lesson from the bitter experiences of the past," said Ali Sinan, head of the architecture Seismically unsound Press Writer ISTANBUL, Turkey Aymur Turanoglu picked up a piece of rubble from a wall in the seven-storapartment building that used to be her family's home. She poked at it, and dust flew off. She dropped it, and it broke into y Tuesday's earthquake levelled many of the apartment blocks on the outskirts of Istanbul. These buildings had been hastily and poorly constructed by contractors looking to profit from the influx of rural Turks looking for work. Here's a look at what made these buildings vulnerable Column and beams Bottom floor lone oe rr Steel shafts VUllUJbJ, iff reinforced with upper rioors SAP-rtr: steel ties and set "pancake." in concrete. r, pieces. "It was all sand!" she cried angrily, before turning away in tears. Rural Turks by the millions have poured into Istanbul looking for work in recent years, enabling contractors to make a killing by throwing up slapdash, never-inspecte- half-burie- Stores with large windows often occupy ground floors. This 'soft story' can give way and trigger a m larger collapse. Buildings may be constructed on former swampland. Soft soil provides less of an anchor. m d d v Structural flaws apart- ment blocks to house them. When a powerful earthquake hit Tuesday, many of the cheaply made, housing blocks into the ground, pancaked crushing thousands as they slept. "Murderers!" the Hurriyet proclaimed newspaper Wednesday above a picture of a lifeless young woman in rubble. Although the region has suffered several quakes over the past decade, experts say little has been done to address the problems of shady contractors who don't bother with permits and skimp on materials or corrupt officials who don't enforce building codes. In the wake of the worst t Contractors mix cheap concrete for beams and columns on site. f- X-h- iSt H joint J Columns ri Concrete I blocks I To provide strength, ties should be placed more frequently at crucial joints Steel ties should overlap to prevent splitting at the seam. where columns meet beams. Source: U.S. Geological Survey APTonia Cowan, John Jurgensen temblor ever recorded in western Prime Turkey, Minister Bulent Ecevit proma on ised crackdown builders. unscrupulous "The price for irresponsible behavior is very high for our people," he told reporters. shall take measures against it." But others complained "We that the powerful construction lobby and a corruption-riddle- at Selcuk in central the city University of Konya. "I hope they learn from this one." Any change will come too late for the Turanoglu family, which lost a daughter and their world in the doomsday quake. "We woke up to shaking, then I saw the building collapse around me," said Mrs. Turanoglu, a mother of four as she wearily picked through the remains of their belongings. "It was a miracle they rescued us," adds her husband, Omer, his forehead covered with a bloody bandage and his right eye swollen almost shut. Across the street, rescue crews were still picking department d political system hinder reforms. "They said the same last year" after a quake in Adana killed 144 people, said Feray Salman of the Turkish Association of Engineers and Architects. "And two years ago and 10 years ago. But the through the crumbled concrete and twisted pipes of their collapsed apartment house. Neighbors watched from the balconies and rooftops of similar buildings that somehow were spared. At least 23 people died in that one building, including a baby whose body was recovered Wednesday. Several other residents were still missing. They were all among the waves of rural Turks who have swollen Istanbul's population from about 1 million in 1960 to an estimated 12 million today. Rescue workers search for quake survivors in race against time By BARBARA DEMICK Knight Ridder Newspapers Rescue IZMET, Turkey workers geared with only sledgehammers and flashlights raced against time and a critical shortage of heavy equipment as they tried Wednesday to dig out thousands of people entombed in the wreckage of their own homes. The confirmed death toll from Tuesday morning's record earthquake rose Wednesday to 3,900, with another 17,000 injured. However, Turkish health min- ister Osman Durmus said Wednesday he expected the toll to rise to at least 5,000 based on the damage he surveyed from a helicopter tour over the ravaged industrial cities along the Marmara Sea. The earthquake, which scientists Wednesday said registered a magnitude of 7.4, was the most powerful to hit in decades. It Turkey destroyed or damaged thousands of buildings across a 400-mil- e, congested industri- al belt along the main high way to the capital of Ankara. "It will be about two weeks before we can dig out all the bodies, and only then will we know how many people actually died," said Durmus, as he toured the tents of a field hospital hastily erected in the parking lot of Sakarya's badly damaged state hospital. Wednesday night, more than hours after the earthquake, a fire still raged out of control at a petroleum refinery outside of Izmit, sending a sinister plume of black smoke over the Marmara. Fearful the fire would spread to nearby 40 factories, authorities were trying to evacuate the area and roads leading out were utterly impassible, logjammed with cars and buses of families attempting to get away. Firefighting aircraft from the United States swooped low into the smoke to drop chemical foam on the blaze, which threatened to engulf the field of 30 tanks containing 700,000 tons of crude oil and blow up an adjacent fertilizer plant. German, French and other foreign firefighting aircraft were headed to the area. Schoi of Association Administrators. "There's real current of optimism rur ning smack into just a drea of potential violence." recove School officials ing from last spring's shooi ings in Littleton, Colo., an Conyers, Ga., and the pran threats that tol lowed speti a busy summer installitl metal detectors, practicin emergency drills, addin security cameras and two way radios, crafting dresi codes and bookbag bans an trying to hire counselors. Students vowed to brea the conspiracy of silence about dangerous classmates; par ents promised to parent; law. " makers promised to get tough no matter where they stood on gun control. On Tuesday, the White House launched fa series of television and rad! public service messages featuring students talking about their fears and President Clinton urging parents to tali to young children about safety. Now, as classes resume across the U.S. this month and next, and almost every family faces the issue ifi school newsletters, classroom discussions, assemblies anfl practice drills, many agrej; fear might just be the biggeit f threat. "We'll probably have more metal detectors and preventing bookbags," said Maya Hughley, 17, who starts her senior year at Jesup Scoit High School in Toledo, Ohi, next week. "Columbine had p major impact on schools, bujt you can't make too big a deal of everything. You just havl; to mentally be prepared." J Along with increase security, many recent schorjl openings included rallies anjl assemblies to ease community fears. Before classes begaji at Columbine High oh Monday, students, teachers and staff held a "Take Back the School" rally. A U.S. flag f that had been at since the April 20 shootings 1 was finally raised. In Charlotte, N.C., wheiy schools also opened Monday, parent Blanche Penn was reassured of her two children's safety at an earlier open house by the districj. That, she said, gave her hop for the new year. J "I think you know how th news media can get everybody hyped up," she said. "It!s good to know schools are taking every precaution thai I they can." Last year, Penn's son wafc afraid to go to his middle school after the Colorado shootings; on Monday he and his sister both went back to half-stal- " school happily. |
