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iianrljratfr Mrrali Saturday, Dec. 10, 1988 Manchester, Conn. — A City of Village Charm 30 Cents WORLD AID ON WAY TO m QUAKE SITE I 't 20 killed of every thousand concealed under debris. Such is Rescuers the terrifying arithmetic," Chazov told the newspaper Izvestia. are running He said the disaster was worse than the 1986 Chernobyl accident, in which an explosion and fire at a out of time nuclear power plant spewed radiation that eventually circled the globe. Thirty-two people have Bv Andrew Kotell died. The Associated Press The southern Soviet region also has been tom by ethnic violence between Armenians and MOSCOW — Rescuers pulled survivors out of earthquake- Azerbaijanis. shattered buildings in Armenia, In London, Leonid Zamyatin, and the first Western planeloads the Soviet ambassador to Britain, of doctors, search dogs and said the earthquake killed 80,000 medical supplies arrived Friday people. The official Soviet news agency in an extraordinary world relief effort. Tass gave no specific figures on casualties, but it listed the A Soviet diplomat said 80,000 following damage report in the people were killed in the disaster Wednesday in northwestern Ar region that is home to 700,000 of menia. But the Kremlin said only Armenia's population of 3.3 million: that "thousands were killed, tens ■ The hardest-hit towns were of thousands injured and hundreds of thousands of people Leninakan, Krovakan, Stepana- are without shelter." van and Spitak. Spitak and its President Mikhail S. Gorba surrounding villages were "dem chev, who cut short a visit to the olished practically altogether." ■ In Leninakan. where 250,000 United States, returned to Mos people lived, 80 percent of the cow on Friday to direct the disaster relief. He planned to homes, services and industry were destroyed. travel to Armenia, but officials did not say when. ■ All of Leninakan’s 1,100 pri Rescuers were running out of vately owned houses were dam aged or destroyed, and the time to save the lives of those earthquake idled a textile mill, a buried beneath crumbled build ings, said Health Minister Y ev magnetic product works, a bicy geny I. Chazov. cle factory and other, unspecified Firefighters said they pulled industries. about 80 people out of the ■ Hundreds of multi-story apartment buildings collapsed in crumbled buildings in Leninakan — Armenia's second-largest city the cities of Kirovakan and Stepanavan. — and Tass said 200 people were Pitriek Flynn/M«nehw tkf H«nld pulled out of debris at a factory on ■ Roads and railways were Thursday night. damaged, and electncity and FOOTLOOSE — Alex Solomonson, 7, of 15 Anderson St., watches as "In these conditions, delaying Jami Woods, 7. climbs into the tree house in her yard at 15 Hemlock St. by each hour means an additional See QUAKE, page 3 this week. The tree house was built as a Christmas present for Jami. Quake Weather U.S. prepares to send plane From page 1 telecommunications were “put REGIONALWEATHER to help in earthquake relief out of operation everywhere.” Aocu-Wealher* forecast for Saturday France dispatched planes to in Leghorn, Italy. Other AID Armenia’s capital, Yerevan, with Daytime Conditions and High Tetnperatures WASHINGTON (AP) — The cal and other equipment for stockpiles are in Panama and doctors, search dogs and medical U.S. government is chartering an rebuilding hospitals, outpatient Singapore. H i} supplies; Switzerland sent res airplane to send medical supplies clinics, kindergartens, nurseries, The relief supplies are kept on cuers and more dogs; Britain and canine search teams to help tents, blankets, clothing,” he 2 2 2 3 UH pallets and are ready to be rolled pledged $9.3 million in aid and the earthquake relief effort in said. into cargo aircraft. sent specially trained Soviet Armenia, American and “ Cargo-carrying planes, in Phyllis Oakley, a State Depart Russian officials announced cluding military transport air firefighters. ment spokeswoman, said AID The American Red Cross col Friday. craft, may fly directly to Yere was prepared to send out special lected money, antibiotics and “ The U.S. authorities have van," the capital of Soviet ists In search and rescue opera- supplies, and the Soviet Embassy prepared a plane which will be Armenia, he said. ' tion, damage and structural in Washington said it has been ready to fly to the Soviet Union," “Flight authorizations shall be safety assessment experts and announced Yevgeny Kutovoi, given upon receiving relevant overwhelmed with telephone specialists in providing emer minister-counselor at the Soviet data on the aircraft, flight route, I calls and by people who are T" fiT tK lH gency shelter and potable water. “ walking up to the doors of the Union. crew and accompanying person “Shelters, plastic sheeting, The U.S. government offered to nel,” he said. embassy with checks and money perhaps a field hospital, basic help Thursday but received no Kutovoi said Soviet doctors had orders.” medicines such as antibiotics, response until late Friday after r u s h ^ to the stricken area, and A plane of supplies from that’s the first reaction,” said K ** noon when Kutovoi met at the that foreign medical specialists 5-4 Bulgaria landed in Armenia, and John Wilkinson, an A ID spokes State Department with Julia V. were not needed immediately. the Polish government promised man. “Following that we see Taft, the head of the U.S. Agency He said that Soviet officials tents, sleeping bags, bandages what's ne^ed.” for International Aid Office of were preparing to send to Arme-. and medicine. Wilkinson said that past expe M Bitches ter and vtfdnlty: Saturday, partly sunny Foreign Disaster Assistance. nia 300 cranes with lifting capaci The influx of worldwide aid was rience, includlBg AID’S assist and colder. High In the low 20s. Wind northwest “ W e don't even have a plane ties of 16 to 40 tons, plus 1,000 unprecedented for the Soviet ance after the devastating earth around 10 mph. Saturday night, bitterly cold with yet," said Cindy Stuart, a spokes trucks and 150 buses, prefabri Union. After the Chernobyl disas quake in Mexico CSty in 1985, mostly clear skies. Low around lero. Sunday, sunny woman for the A ID office. “ The cated houses, tents and blankets. ter, U.S. doctors were the only showed that trained dogs can help but continued very cold. High only 15 to 20. teams and goods are being The Soviet government has foreign aid personnel allowed in. find survivors. West coastal, east coastal: Saturday, partly assembled ri^ t now.” The pla established two special bank Muscovites donated money at A ID does not have such teams sunny and colder. High In the upper 20s. Wind ces and tinnes of departure and accounts for gifts and special their workplaces, and 12,000 itself but uses those established northwest around 10 mph. Saturday night, bitterly landing had not been determined teams of French and British dogs volunteers worked on disaster by county and city governments, cold with mostly clear skies. Low around 10 above. yet, she said. were already in Yerevan, helping relief in Yerevan. indudiug the Dade County, Fia., AP photo Sunday, sunny but continued very cold. High only 20 Kutovoi called a news confer search the rubble for survivors, “ The main thing is blood. We fire and rescue unit and a similar ence Friday evening and read a he said. 290,000 near the epicenter of the Armenian quake. need transfusion blood,” said to 25. unit in Los Angeles. QUAKE DEVASTATION — A family in shock Northwest bills: Saturday, partly sunny and long list of goods, largely medical “ W e are receiving those dona Igor Denisov, deputy health He said dog search teams from The family lost several relatives in the Wednesday colder. High 15 to 20. Wind northwest around 10 mph. supplies, that are urgently tions with gratitude,” he said. huddles together at the foot of a destroyed building minister. both units have been asked to Saturday night, bitterly cold with mostly clear needed in Armenia. “ W e did not request it. We in earthquake-battered Leninakan, a city of about disaster. He said 100 medical teams from stand by. skies. Low 5 below zero to 2ero. Sunday, sunny but /“We are ready to receive / received offers of aid.” i Armenia and 70 others from “ We’re contacting people, continued very cold. High only 10 to 15. medicines and nnedical equip Earlier, U.S. AID officials said' around the country were working alerting the storage points,” ment (syringes, medication, etc.) they were prepared to send relief in the disaster area. supplies from special stockpiles Wilkinson said. Worldwide help: from firefighters blood transfusion systems, medi Soviet TV showed rescuers combing crumbled buildings, Lottery carefully removing blocks of concrete in a search for survi Connecticut efforts mobilized to search dogs and heat cameras vors. A correspondent said the workers could hear voices from Connecticut daily Friday: 414. Play Four: 7776. minority.... Most of us don’t have By The Associated Press with dogs. below. Connecticut ‘‘Lotto** Friday: 4# 11? S8, 6? L direct relatives, but we feel By Deborah G. Seward and food concentrates. A special firefighting unit from To contribute The Associated Press The League of the Red Cross and Red “Somewhere here is my Armenian-Americans in Con they’re our brothers and sisters.” Crescent Societies in Geneva said at London led by Home Office Fire brother,” said a man standing in necticut mobilized Friday to m ’’AmerlCares- In central Ckmnecticut, the MOSCOW — A massive worldwide least 12 planeloads of emergency Inspector Norman Roundell arrived in the debris. “ He worked as a collect food, clothing and money Armenla” — AmeriCares. Rev. Michael Buttero, pastor of Index supplies from International Red Cross Moscow late Friday.