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Show r 10, WORLD Sunda ribune 1996 Cyclone Damage Mounts as Survivors Mourn Dead Bengal with 112-mph winds and torrential rair BY OMER FAROOQ Their dre le pling mud dwellings and submerging roads sses torn and their nen M gathered along p stare at the Some r fisher husbe missing in ned dead er the cyclone hit southeastern In. ast 1,000 people, the extent of the disaster was merging y People cremated their loved ones in funeral pyres along the coastline. Survivors gathered wood and palm leayes to rebuild their homes. Navy heli ppters y dropping rice drinking water and cloth: g lone swirled The cy stranded people in Wednesday from the Bay of in 2 feet of wate: The government peopled has estimated more than ails 1,000 p state official said Saturday that dA rly 1,000 fish 1 Coast Guard ships spotted the bodies of 50fisher Saturday off the coast near Kakinada, relief official Phanandra Reddy said nizedboats two to They hadset out in their r three days before the ate au horities sounded an alert on Tuesday aby ut the mpending disaster Reddysai Fishers — hunting mostly shark — remain at sea fish 4 few miles from Kakinada, a port town of 500,000 that was among the hardest hit. Kang Reddy lighted the funeral pyreof his younge it’s salvation. For us it’s the beg le to survive,” Reddy said awaiting re bodies. Some 617 bodies were for five to seven days in primitive boats that rarely shocked Saturday to talk, stay on shoreto sell the Naidu, appealed to other states, internation: cies and foreign countries for aid BY ANITA SNOW THE ASSOCIATED PRE neck GIFT Mexico People thrownout of work by eco. nomic crisis pause daily outside the grimy City Hall in this Mexico f F Angry With Ruling Party, Many Look Elsewhere City suburb to sean help-wanted postings Job-hunting has becomea fulltime oceupation for many in the h " Mexico Vote MayProvide Hint to PRI NAUCALPAN, | | | | ation’s capital. Trashing ruling Institutional Revolu tionary Party has become a hob by People feel like they have been burned by the PRI Antonio Hernandez | id Aguilar using the party's Spanish acro nym People have lost work andev erything cost so much.” said Hernandez, 47, who lost his police j officer's job two months ago They're looking for options Today the PRI faces its most | important elections this year: statewide and local races throughout the state of Mexico | | the nation’s largest, with 11.7 mil- | lion | re nls The vote is widely seen —even by the PRI, according to internal documents published recently in what’s year’s Cor | | | | | | | ee in store in next | elections for the national and Mexico City mayor > % j | _ \ being close! cause of the state's ation, its proximity to and its more than 120,000 industries and businesse that produce about 14 percent of Mexico's gross domestic product Nauealpan alone, a mixture of run-down industrial parks | | | | | WA & eh i" 6 ‘od . 2 e y\ ee £.\Et4 ae ~)\ge aM, Naa Se and > \ este middle-class, 1960s-era neighbor > \ahar hoods housing 900.000 residents mis produces 2percent of the nation’s GDI sis, s | Two years into an economic cri | voters angered b’ high unem nereasingly ployment have turned to the opposition, which has also benefited by « oral re forms providing them with more money and media exposure 1 don't know who I'll vote for this time aid | } | \LS., ? Martina Alarcon ve i } Pm Pr i ty Mascare { mother of two ) came to City Hall for government coupons for sub sidized torti the people But | do know are hurting and they want more help from the govern ment At stake are 122 mayoralties and the 75-seat s The egislature PRI but 14 of the state The m the center-right Part | ies ition parties National Action Your Girt WITH ANY°17.50 LANCOME PURCH enter-left Democratic Revolution Party hope to cap: taliz ler unhappiness and anticipate important gains rk Polls by the new forma show that s large cit i xiC e up for including alpan. Sur published Friday showed the was state | the | Tonique Ect slightl BIEN ir largest Also t voters in the north ern state of Coahuila will elect 38 mayor ture. FRENCH PERFECTION | ta | pple, black fect colour partners for lig i ir Colour ice | cosmetics IPSTICK Chiapas Peasants Say Police Gunned Down 3 | | Bag + ROUGE ABSOLL Venu: pitalize the city lash at Laja Tendid ano arranza t one other of Ce Ch} Mak Makeup k Cob er Mascara in black E with | \ may case, featur T Revitalizing Toner with Fruit and f 11 TOTAL Moisturizing Fluide, SPE INTENCILS state i iden’ fied by Saturday evening Outside the town of Rajamundhry, 30 mile and, survivors seavengedthrough the mud for food retrieving bananas from fallen tree Thetop state official, Chief Minister Chandy have radios. The women, most of whom were too ‘ wrapped in a white sheet y struck a match to 4 lump of camphor to e wood while a man nearby stacked timber 4 + inside mur ction B x ! =y f |
