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Show Aid The Salt Lake Tribune WORLD THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CARACAS, Venezuela — Firefighters dug for bodies farther up the gully, and the house next door was smothered in mud, but 68year-old Juan Crespo sat calmly at his dining room table, refusing to heed relief workers’ calls to evacuate. A residentof the Caracas slum hardest hit by Venezuela’s worst natural disaster this century, Crespo is staying put in the house on a ravine’s edge where he has lived for 40 years. Only the weather might change his mind. “If it starts raining again,we're leaving,” Crespo said. concern. and boulders crashing down a mountain that separates Caracas from the Caribbean Sea, wiping out whoie neighborhoods and killing thousands. The full magnitude of Venezu- ela’s calamity may never be known. National guardsmenfired into the alr Mondayto disperse looters forensic specialists and search ern coastal strip that took the bruntof nature’s beating. hardest-hit provinces. Teams composed of soldiers, dogs were being dispatched to the sie MAsepNee searchfor the in La Guaira, a port on the nerth- “Let them kill me,” said 50year-old Javier Martinez, one of a Official estimates place the deathtoll anywhere between5,000 and 30,000, but authorities say they can’t yet be precise. Most of o Caen:eta — Gen. Vassily Kotosky. “The rest are under the rabble.” ied deep under ried outto sea. 1 ‘thus far, a dozen corpses found floating in Private believe the damage to roads,ports, electrici- the opencan lead to the spread of epidemics, Kotosky added. Health pitals and homes could reach $2 billion — or2 percentof the South American country’s gross domestic product. the bodies are thought to be bur- or car- Coaxing victims into shelters States to provide 10,000 plastic body bags,officials said. More than 68.000 people have tial downpours sent mud, water in Vargas state, one of the two throng of hungry survivors caught taking food from shipping crates broken open by raging waeh8. “We don’t need clothes, and we don’t need toys. What we need was just one of the challenges fac- Tuesday —- six daysafter torren- 22, 1989 dehydration. Security is another major @ Utah students survive flood B-3 Venezueia has asked the United ing Venezuelan relief efforts Ds been airlifted or bused from the “We'll comb every part to see About 1,500 bodies have been the acean, he said. Corpses left in officials warned that children could suffer from diarrhea and 8 mil& for the children.” ty, telephone lines, schools, hos- Residents of La Guaira, one of the towns on the Caribbean Sea hit hardest last week's , pass cars Tuesday buried in mud in front of a funeral home. Five days fer avalanches of water, mud and boulders wiped out entire neighborhoods along Venezuela's northem coast, rescue and evacuation operations continue. Novelty Leather Jackets Shown: six colors. Misses’ sizes. Lambskin Blazers } Button-front in six colors. From Preston & York, Misses’sizes. Side-tab, zipfront from Preston & York. In Misses’ sizes. Lambskin Jackets Shown: Lambskin scuba jacket with side zippers. Misses’ sizes, from Preston & York. Coats & Jackets Shown: Button-front lambskin stroller in black. From } [aby ) / f : |