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An Bowling Green, Ohio Independent Thursdoy, Februory 11, 1971 Student Volume 55/Number 83 Voice me BG news Death toll rises in LA quake 80,000 evacuated from city after reservoir wall cracks LOS ANGELES (AP) - The toll of declared California a disaster area, miles north-west. A dozen or more fairly dead continues to rise and property arrived for a helicopter look at hard-hit strong ones kept the area jiggling damage mounted Into the hundreds of areas with Gov. Ronald Reagan and Wednesday but caused no new damage. millions yesterday as Southern Mayor Sam Yorty. Magnitudes of the stronger shocks were California continued to quiver from Attention centered on the VA hospital around I on the Richter scale, compared aftershocks of Tuesday's devastating at Sylmar in the west end of the Sar. with 6.6 for the first. earthquake. Fernando Valley Just 10 miles from the Authorities began the massive job of Workers searched the ruins of a quake's center. Some ISO workmen assessing damage, most of It within a 40 veterans hospital where the bodies of 17 probed the steel and concrete rubble of mile radius of the quake's center. patients and employees had been found. two collapsed three-story ward buildings. They said 13 persons still are missing. In LOS ANGELES COUNTY estimated all, authorities tallied 46 deaths, nine by WELL OVER 100 patients and em- damage to public facilities at $1M heart attack. More than 1,000 persons ployees were inside when the 6:01 a.m. million. It had no estimate of damage to were injured. temblor shook the 45-year-old structure private structures but said the toll would Fears of a rupture In the cracked dam apart. Scores were injured and ad- be high. The city made a preliminary of the city's largest reservoir eased as ditional scores trapped. For nearly 24 estimate of $186 million for homes and the water level fell, due to draining. The hours moans and cries came from vic- businesses plus additional "tens of 80,000 persons evacutated from the area tims trapped alive, Many injured were millions" for public facilities. The were not allowed to return but officials extricated and flown by helicopter to California Division of Highways said only a powerful new shock could other hospitals. reckoned $15 million damage to state cause trouble. Authorities said there was little roads, much of It attributed to collapsed chance of additional survivors. bridges and freeway overpasses. VICE PRESIDENT Spiro T. Agnew, Aftershocks by the hundreds Utilities suffered damages estimated A CHINOOK HELICOPTER take* of transport South Vietnamese troops into sent here for consultations and an in- emanated from the region of the quake's in the tens of millions. Monday from Khe Sanh, South Vietnam, Laos. About 140 such helicopters were used spection tour after President Nixon center in the San Gabriel Mountains 26 ovor a row of Huev helicopters waiting to in the operation. •Today* Unperturbed by escalation Black Culture Week Ml pjn. and 2-3 pjn. - Symposium: Dr. Nathan Hare, Dr. Y. Ben- Jochannan, Samuel F. Yette; Airmni. GIs favor Laos drive 8 pjn. - Lecture: Dr. Y. Ben-Jochannan, "Ancient Africa: Relevance", KHE SANH, Vietnam (AP) - The GI two Vletnams. few days." enemy. Dr. Nathan Hare - "The Black Student in White Universities". Grand The division, which is providing more The men had been confined to the Ballroom, Union; reception to follow. sat on an armored personnel carrier, watching South Vietnamese troops MOST AMERICANS questioned said than half of the 9,000 Americans in- Quang Tri Army base, a bleak complex they felt the move to invade Laos was volved, has a primary mission of wat- of buildings with few of the conveniences 11 pjn. - PM Session; Music, Inc., Amani. moving past, heading toward the Laotian border. sound militarily and that U.S. par- ching the demilitarized zone and takes found at larger Installations, and at The Purpose... "I Just hope we don't have to go in and ticipation was justified. most of its casualties by mine blasts outposts along the DMZ and the western ball them out," he said. Other Americans A few Americans in the 1st Brigade, rather than pitched battles with the piedmont. This week of BLACK CULTURE is regarded and designed ss a model there echoed his view. 5th Mechanized Division said they hoped of the diversity of the BLACK EXPERIENCE for the remaining weeks of They appeared unperturbed about the the South Vietnamese "make out okay," our lives. This model is to ASSIST BLACK PEOPLE and to INSPIRE latest widening of the Indochina war. but the main theme that ran through BLACK PEOPLE: to discover our past, to Improve the present and to Their role was to be mostly in support of their conversation was, "I'm glad It's Rogers: U.S. out plan our future. the South Vietnamese invasion force. them, not us." There are as many Black cultural fruits as there are weeks to come. In addition, there seemed among The same attitude had prevailed from Insist that Black culture live in view and in good health, or Insist that many GIs to be a quickening of morale, the moment that the American part of weeks cease to come. Peace to the Black people that are no longer here; perhaps because they were out and the operation began Jan. 30, with a Power to the Black People who are here and coming. SEIZE YOUR- moving around, rather than sitting massive move toward this formerly of combat by May abandoned combat base on a mountain mr- J.Scott around Quang Tri or in their fire bases along the demilitarized zone dividing the plateau in western Quang Tri Province. WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of relations under spokesman Robert J. THERE WAS APPREHENSION, for State William P. Rogers said yesterday McCeskey. Khe Sanh was known as "bad Charlie that after May 1 United States Forces in Rogers said an Egyptian proposal for country" and the vanguard U.S. Vietnam will be employed outside what a pullback of Israeli troops on the canal elements feared they would be greeted he called the combat area. and then reopening of the waterway was Council calls meeting by North Vietnamese mortars. "I don't want to say that they will be worthy of consideration. On the eve of this operation, a platoon totally out of the combat role," Rogers Israel rejected a unilateral troop leader took his men to a special Roman told a State Department news con- pullback in saying It was willing to talk Catholic Mass at the Quang Tri base ference, "But for all major combat about reopening the canal. chapel. assignments they will be out." to decide on elections There was a long waiting line for He spoke briefly and answered ROGERS DID NOT comment on the telephone calls to the United States on the questions at a meeting with reporters in a differences between the Israeli and By Dames Beck junction with the Student Body elections. elections to be held by March 12 (the last special military radio system. The men news press conference room at the State Egyptian positions but said the United Issae Editor Now, with the time element in trying day of classes) elections procedures were not allowed to tell their families Department. States was interested in any discussion to plan another election this quarter and must be set up and the process begun no about the operation, but one explained, He also announced the appointment of between the two parties which would lead Student Council was unable to decide the possibility of confusion with a large later than a week from this Friday," "I just wanted to tell my wife not to press officer Charles W. Bray to be the to reducing tensions and an ultimate Tuesday night when the election for the number of names on the ballot, some Achbach said. worry regardless of the news in the next No. 2 man in State Department public peaceful solution. student representative to the Board of members of Council want to hold the "We have to figure out which is more Trustees and the Student Body elections elections separately. important," Szoka said. "If the trustee will be held. A variety of motions were proposed election is more important it should be A meeting was scheduled for tonight covering all the possibilities for election held this quarter." Teach-in on war expands to settle the issue. combinations. A motion by Jim Szoka, In two early votes, It was the con- vice president of cultural affairs, APPLICATIONS FOR THE student sensus of Council that Student Body proposed the trustee election be held this on the Board and the Student Body elections should be held late winter quarter and the student body elections elections are available at the Student quarter to give the new student body next quarter. It will be voted on at the Activities Office, 405 Student Services into minor demonstration officers and representatives a better meeting tonight.