01 - - Tk hAW-c-- r%-:I.. I--& r% A rtf- 4-- ine Michigan Uaily -- Inursday, i-ebruary 9, 1995 Killer quake hits Colombia; buildings toppled PEREIRA, Colombia (AP) - A powerful earthquake rocked western Colombia yesterday, flattening apart- ment buildings and homes and killing at least 28 people. About 200 people were injured. Hardest hit was the city of Pereira, where at least 20 people were killed and 135 injured by collapsing build- ings and walls, according to city offi- cials. The death toll was expected to rise, said a police captain at the site of what was once a five-story apartment building. Rescuers worked into the night, trying to find three women thought to be alive in the pancaked structure. "There are still many corpses left under there,"said the policeman, who identified himself only as Capt. Machecas. The quake, which struck at 1:41 p.m., had a preliminary magnitude of 6.5 and was centered about 175 miles west of the capital of Bogota, or about 75 miles west of Pereira, the Geo- physical Institute of the Andes re- ported. The Seismologic Institute of the West in California measured the quake at magnitude 6.2. The quake was felt strongly in Bogota, causing people to flee build- ings and interrupting telephone ser- vice, but no damage was reported in the city. In Pereira, rescuers, working un- der the glare of spotlights and streetlights, used forklifts and back- hoes to remove debris. In areas where survivors might be, they moved the debris by hand. Civilians dug shoulder-to-shoul- der with soldiers, police and firefighters through the rubble of ce- ment and bricks. At one site, a boy was pulled from the debris. A firefighter, his yellow slicker smudged with dirt, gently cradled the boy in his arms and car- ried him away. Rescue efforts would continue through the night, said Col. Gonzalo de Jesus Jimenez Diaz, the municipal police commander. About 150 people crowded out- side Pereira's main hospital, anx- ious for word on missing or injured relatives or waiting to identify the dead. Frightened residents wandered the streets of the city of 700,000 people, about 100 miles west of Bogota. Hos- pitals were jammed with injured. Mayor Juan Manuel Buitrago de- creed an overnight curfew in the most- affected parts of Pereira. Eight deaths were reported in other towns in western Colombia, includ- ing two people who died of heart attacks during the quake in Neiva and Trujillo. About 200 people were injured in all, said Gen. Luis Enrique Montenegro, deputy director of the National Police. ___ __ __ __ __ ___ __ __ __ __ __F__ --'-r 1st Black astronaut flies Navajo flag CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -Before Bernard Harris Jr. was allowed to take a Navajo flag aboard Discovery, tribal medicine men had to bless it with corn pollen and make sure the space shuttle's path fit with their beliefs: It had to orbit clockwise. When the Navajo derided that from their viewpoint, Discovery's orbit met the requirement, all signals were go for Harris to carry the first Navajo item in space. NASA allows astronauts to carry up a few small belongings. "I'm flying this flag for them because being there I could see their plight as the original Americans," said Harris Harris, a 38-year-old Black physician who lived on a Navajo reservation from ages 7 to 15. His mother taught at U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs schools. 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The administration proposal would authorize Clinton to appoint a three- member board of neutral arbitrators, and require the players and owners to accept whatever deal they produce. Without such a law, the President has no power to impose a settlement. ~ A'RouND t HEI W Russian republics fear war will spread GAZI-YURT, Russia --Wary of Russian troops in their midst and mindful of the Caucasus region's tur- bulent history, residents of areas bor- dering Chechnya are bracing for the spread of the war. Ominous signs exist that the nearly two-month conflict may explode out- side Chechnya - in neighboring Dagestan and particularly Ingushetia, which Russia increasingly accuses of harboring Chechen rebels. Russian forces have bombarded the Ingush border village of Arshty, calling it a stronghold of Chechen fighters. Ingush officials said yester- day that the villages of Datykh and Alkul also have been pounded. Ingush residents accuse the army of spreading terror by firing frequently on civilians' homes that line the main road leading west into Chechnya. Perched halfway up a ridge over- looking the road, the small village of Gazi-Yurt is regularly blasted by tanks, armored personnel carriers and helicopters coming into Chechnya. "I think Russian troops want war in Ingushetia," said Musa Malayev, standing outside his damaged home. But Congressional Republican lead- ers said they see no need for such fed- eral intervention at this point. . "We're trying to get government out of things, not into things," Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kan.) said. CIA nominee aims to i overhaul spy culture WASHINGTON - President Clinton chose a retired military of- ficer with no direct experience in the intelligence trade to head the troubled CIA so that his chief loyalty and ac- countability would be to the president and not to entrenched interests in the intelligence community, officials said 0 yesterday. Retired Air Force Gen. Michael P.C. Carns was seen as an ideal can- didate for the job because of his repu- tation as a creative thinker and tough manager during his 35-year Air Force career and because he is not a product of the far-flung, $28-billion-a-year government intelligence apparatus. VORL0 The brick walls are pocked with holes, and the dining room is- a shambles: broken windows, curtains shredded by gunfire, chunks of plas- ter ripped from the ceilings and walls. NATO seeks joint N. Africa, Mideast plan PARIS - NATO decided yester- day to open talks with five North African and Middle Eastern states to develop ajoint strategy to combat any security threat posed by Islamic fun- damentalist extremists. The decision to launch a dialogue* with Egypt, Israel, Morocco, Tunisia and Mauritania was made by NATO ambassadors after a strategy review concluded that the alliance needs to pay greater attention to the dangers of instability on its southern flank. 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