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Show f f f WORLD Friday, September IW, THE DAILY 111 RALD. Prmo. Llah - eaning towers' BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) Northern Ireland's key politicians are serious about salvaging their moribund peace accord despite "grounds for pessimism," American mediator George Mitchell said Thursday. Explained The former U.S. senator's remarks were his first in public since Sept. 6, when he began trying to reconcile local politicians' By ANNIE HUANG ft- Associated Press Writer polarized interpretations of the Good Friday accord of 1998. Mitchell, who led 22 months of negotiations that produced the agreement, declined to say how long he intended to pursue his latest initiative. He managed to joke about his daunting task. "Since everyone else in Northern Ireland thinks I'm going to fail, I think there ought standing, dangling at a angle. Quake experts say building jiesigns, the enforcement of construction codes and the quality of Jand that buildings rest upon all likely contributed to the way the Structures were damaged in the I earthquake that struck Taiwan on Tuesday. Taiwan's Disaster Center said Management Thursday night that 2,109 people had been killed, 7,800 injured and 1,844 remained unaccounted for, including those buried under rubble and landslides. Prosecutors also announced the arrest of a contractor responsible for three buildings that col- magnitude-7.- 6 lapsed, burying about 100 people. The buildings had been made with substandard steel , rods, and authorities found crumpled vegetable bil cans had been used in place of bricks. d - M 4 p. iiiiiiiraiti v U1 mm v From the international arena cirinstructional cuit to video and books Metulmirl)btsis and Tbe Encyclopedia oj Groove (CCPBelwin), Bobby Rock has established himself as one of the premier performers and educators in drumming today. o best-sellin- g 3e ' . Sept. 30th 7:00 pm '.' A"-''- " GIVONThe Associated Press ANAT Not over yet: Rescue workers sift through rubble, Thursday as rescue operations continue to bring out those trapped under the rubble of a Taipei building that collapsed during the earthquake that hit Taiwan early Tuesday morning. A total of 2,268 people had been rescued since the quake struck, many of them extracted from more than 6,000 totally destroyed housing units across the island, the disaster center said. Engineers and seismologists from around the world are flying to Taiwan to find out why some buildings failed while others survived. "It appears that in many cases in Taiwan, the ground floor of buildings was very weak structurally because there was a garage or . a shop there," said Robert Geller, a professor of geophysics at Tokyo University. A wide open ground floor without proper support leaves an entire building vulnerable to the potent, sideways motion generated by earthquakes, he said. Buildings in which floors collapse atop one another may not have had enough horizontal support in the columns, said John Mander of the University of Buffalo's Multidisciplinary for Center Earthquake Engineering Research. constructed on Buildings unstable land or filled-iswamps or rice paddies may be vulnerable to "liquefaction," where agitated ground water rises and mixes with the soil n beneath building foundations. The ground liquifies, partially sinking, tilting or twisting the structures above. 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