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Show TheSSalt Lake’Tribune WORLD Wednesday, November 3, 1999 Epidemics Threaten Cyclone-Torn India S. African President Denounc AIDS peal Experts Disagree JOHANNESBURG. Hardest-hit areas remain inaccessible; death toll climbs day, raising fears that epidemics could addto a deathtoll already believedto be in the thousands perhapstensof thousands. Starving and homeless survi vors of the ferocious storm drank filthy floodwater and scrambled for helicopter-dropped food pack ets. At least 200,000 people were homeless. A senior armyofficer involved in the rescue operation estimated the death toll at between 10,000 ind 20,000. That would make the storm India’s worst, topping the ellite telephones. Bijay Mahapatra, a 106 al pote cian who toured th fed port of Paradwip, on h Dump in the street. trucks were called in to haul them away, but hesaid epidemics already hadbeenreported firming just 250 deaths a num- ber witness accounts indicated was far too low. Star News Television reported 100 bodies had been cremated on Monday and Tuesday in Parad. vip. United News of India where telephonelinesfailed. Four days after the cyclone swirled in from the Bay of Bengal with 155 mph winds and10-foot waves, vast areas of the disaster zone remained inaccessible. A broad swath of the coastal belt was a sheet of water broken only by treetops, shattered roofs and useless utility poles. The state capital, Bhubanewar, “looks like a giant stomped through the city with a king-size ind 5,000 trucks burning mower in his hand. There has surviving,” said local reporter Debashis Bhattacharyya, reached tires AIDS problems, where 3.6 million that people are and buses people In his speech, Mbeki spoke of a ‘large volume of scientific evi dence alleging that, among other things, the toxicity of this drugis such thatit is in fact a danger to health.” lit Mbeki said that it would be state minister. In Bhubaneswar, residents stood by and watched about 50 men break into a grocery store and calmly walk away with everything in sight. Relief flights were postponed by continued squalls, and move. Rikas Das/TheAssociated Press Villagers of Mokdampurcrossafloodedfield with their belongings. A cyclone devastated muchofIndia's eastern coast on Friday. funds on day-to-day expenses and failingto planor stockpile fordi sasters, although cyclones hit easternIndia regularly andlooting, India’s major newspapers criti cized the central and state govern ments for wasting emergency Diabetes Research India reported. In New Delhi, Prime Minister known AIDS drugs. Reputable sci entists have issued no such wart ings, and it was unclear what he was refi ing to. 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Wearebarely Mbeki said in Parliament last week that AZT is toxic and was being challenged by court case in the United States, Britain and South Africa a claim the manu facturer, Glaxo Wellcome PL( has hotly denied ‘The issue is critical in a nation with one of the world’s worst al wires loop dryonotherelec reported 300 deaths in the state's scond largest town, Cuttack, passing the AIDS virus to their babies duringbirth teams and engineers, which plannedto beginsetting upfield clinics today East ofthe capital, the indus: trial city of Cuttack in ruins. Knotted high-tension wires were strewninthe wet ple hung dripping he highway waiting for engineers to repair a 300-foot breach in eastern India’s main road. After dusk, the fires from Jagannath Patnaik, a Cabinet minister of Orissa state, as con- vent HIV-infected mothers from The army moved in medical agreed the cyclone could prove the country’s deadliest, but the government's official toll tr emainediin the hundreds. 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