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Show Sunday, February 5, 2006 DAILY control, passengers not locked + intheir rooms'moved to one Egypt side of the 35-year-old vessel. Continued from Al Anexplosion was heard, and 3s a e told the crew, ‘Let’s , high winds helped push the turn back,let’s call for help, ship over. The ship but they refused and said evquickly sank*with more than erything was under control, 1,400 passengers and crew and ae passenger Ahmed Abdel 220 cars aboard. 5 Newsreports on Saturday ‘ahab,30, an Egyptian who works in Saudi Arabia. said the ship's captain and some Passengers began panicking, _of the crew fled their drowning and crew members locked up vesselin oneof the first lifesome womenin their cabins, boatsto launch. Wahab andanother survivor _ Despite the fire, the ship had said, though manyothers being managed to get within about treated in Safaga hospitals Sat- 55 miles of the Egyptian port of urdaysaid that was not true. Hurghada, according to official As the blaze grew out of accounts. - HERALD At the port of Safaga — the “No one is telling us anya warship to the scene and a USS.offer to send a P3-Orion orignal destination — rel- "thing. Alll want to know if ship’s maritimz naval patrol aircraft. he’s dead or alive. We rely on friends of atives Egypt reversed itself, but inthe Hosni destroy God begged authorities for informa- God. May tion. When there was none, Mubarak!” el-Qott shoutedtoa end only the Orion — which can some banged on the iror. gates reporter Saturday, referring to search underwater from the air trying to storm the docks, the Egyptian president. “This — was sent. i lice with: government was supposed to Four Egyptian rescue a pushed the frantic crowd away throw this ship away and geta__reached the scene Fridayafternoon, about 10 hoursafter new one.” from the port gry relatives threw stones, The rescue effort got offtoa the ferry was believed to have some police could be seen hurl_slow start. Initial offers of help capsized. ing them back. wererejected, and two days afMany survivors complained Shaaban el-Qott,55, from ter the set sailfrom Dubah, that crew members discouraged Qena, Egypt, was looking for Saudi Arabia, just 376 survivors them from putting on life jackhis cousin. He had been waiting had beenfound. The ship's cap-_ ets and said they did nothing to _at the port since Friday morntain was reported missing. put lifeboats in service when it ing and spent the night on the ian officials initially became obvious the ship would street. rejected a British offer to divert sink. Kiing “It was like watching the Sayed Abmovie Titanic,” said painter dul Hakim, a 32-year-old who worked in Kuwait. “None _of the crew brought downlife boats or even told us how to use them. I swam for three hours. Then I spotted a rubber boat and I climbed in. I stayed therefor 18 hours.| felt I was a dead man.” Another survivor, Nabil Taghyan, 27, said he saw the captain and crew flee in lifeSs. “The captain took the first speed boat, even though he should golast,” Taghyan told The New York Times, according toits online edition Saturday. eri \-——" verizonwireless We neverstop workingfor yous Continued from Al Camera Phone Blowout! Southern towns — Orangeburg, S.C., Heiberger, Ala., and else- . where — and drovefor hours to be hereto pay their respects. * The slow, winding queue took them numerous symbols of Georgia's troubled racial history. Most started on Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. near a small statue dedicated to 33 blacklegislators who were elected during Reconstruction but expelled by whites in 1868. A couple of cornerslater, they passed a statue of Herman Talmadge, the former Georgia governorand U.S. senator who strongly opposed Supreme Court’s 1954 Brownv. Board of Educationruling. At the capitol steps, they passed the clenched-fist likeness of Thomas E. Watson,a mercurial politician who opposed lynchingin the late 19th century, but ran for president in 1908 as a white supremacist. Glover and Snow counted themselves small historical players: as middle-schoolersin 1966, they marched to the whites-only schoolin the town of Emerson, Ga., demandingtobe letin. They wererebuffed by the principal, and had rocks hurled at them by white children. Snow, said they were eventually allowed to attend white schools in 1968. In those days, fhe King family emboldened the sisters to act. Over the years,they said, Coretta Scott King remained a symbolofthe struggle,but also a symbolofhigh elegance. “This is the closest we've had to royalty,” Gloversaid. “Her elegance,herstyle, her smile. The way she walked.” By 4 p.m., the sisters entered the high-ceilinged heart of the Capitol. They moved quickly by King’s body, dressed in a pink suit, a spray of orchids androses ather feet. “Elegance exemplified,” Glover said as she walked back outin the cold. “Exquisite.” Somein the crowd had observations morepolitical than emotional. State Rep. Roger B. Bruce, a Democrat, chided Gov. Perdue for honoring Kihg while signing a law that requires voters to show a photo ID at the polls. The law, Bruce argued, will probably disenfranchise Georgia's poor, elderly and mi- Act fast. Once they're gone, they're gone. Get Two Camera Phones for only 19” de Buy thefirst phonefor $19.99 (regular retail price $69.99 less $50 mail-in rebate), get the second phone free. New 2-year agreement required per phone. Get Your Family(in ICH YOU SAH Up Ole FAYe Neca GIO (CQm RCL norities. “There's a lot of shenanigans going on and I don’t want people to lose sight of that,” Bruce said. Reginald Bohannon,a Republican from College Park, Ga., said it was the Bush administration that embodied the civil rights spirit with its em- mITaKE brat No RE ral auily i 900" tonthhy @CCess {a1 2. lincs. phasis on spreading democracy abroad. “I'm sure Dr. King was against terrorism,” he said. The temperature hovered -around 40 degrees in Atlanta Saturday, but the windchill made it feel morelike the low 30s. One groupof volunteers warmed the crowd with free coffee and donuts. 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