2A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, March 21, 1996 NATION/WORLD I Powerful earthquake rocks remote northwest China BEIJING (AP) - Women, children and the sick squeezed into tents to es- cape the cold, but many of the thou- sands of homeless from an earthquake that killed 28 in the forbidding deserts of far northwestern China had no shel- ter yesterday night. Tuesday's magnitude-6.9 quake cut a vicious swath through settlements along the centuries-old trade route known as the Silk Road. In one village, residents worked through the night to patch a fractured dike. The temblor and 68 aftershocks - some reaching magnitude 5.1 - knocked out communication links to almost all the settlements, and the death count is predicted to rise as wreckage reports trickle in. About 15,000 buildings were toppled in the Xinjiang region quake, govern- ment seismologists said yesterday, and at least 78 people injured, nine seri- ously. About 10,000 were left home- less. Jiashi county, the hardest-hit area, is about 43 miles east of Kashgar, an an- cient bazaar town. The earthquake was centered close to Artux, 15 miles north of Kashgar. Many people were at home when the quake struck at 10 a.m. Seventeen of those killed were chil- dren under the age of eight, said Bake Aji, director of the Kashgar Seismol- ogy Bureau. "They were home watching televi- sion and couldn't get out fast enough," Bake said. Most houses in the region are one- story dwellings made of baked mud bricks and topped by wooden beams and mud that could cause heavy casual- ties if they collapsed. A rescue worker in Jiashi told The Associated Press by telephone, "There are no buildings left standing." "Nobody can stay in their own homes because some have completely col- lapsed and others are damaged too seri- ously to be safe," a local reporter said in a telephone interview broadcast on na- tional television. The reporter said simple tents were going up to house women, children and the sick and elderly, but there would be no shelter for others. Roads in the county had large cracks, but traffic could still get through, the report said. But fissures more than 1 1/2 feet wide opened up along a 2,000-foot section of a dike at a small reservoir. More than 6,300 head of livestock, mostly sheep, were reported killed. In Kashgar, local officials said at least several hundred homes were dam- aged by the tremor. But local residents said yesterday that there was little visible damage. Robert Kerr, an American student who declined to give his hometown, said he saw "a few minor cracks" in buildings in the city center. The quake-struck area is about 2,000 miles west of Beijing, near China's border with Kyrgyzstan and Kazakstan. It is a vibrant commercial crossroads along the old Silk Road that once con- nected East to West. Most of its inhab- itants are Muslim ethnic minorities, in- cluding Uygurs, Kyrgyz and Tajiks. Tuesday's quake followeda6.1-mag- nitude quake along the Mongolian bor- der last week and a7.0-magnitude earth- quake in southwestern Yunnan prov- ince on Feb. 3, which killed more than 300 people. GEO Continued from Page 1A "It would be very nice to get a con- tractsignedby April1. It'sineveryone's interests to get things signed." Dexter also stressed April I asGEO's target deadline for signing a contract. "We do not intend the possibility of mediation to preclude reaching an agree- ment before hand," Dexter said. "We're still working very hard to come up with proposals that both meet the bulk of our interests and meet the few interests the University has communicated to us." Sell said the University's priorities should be focused more on its people instead of on its physical image. "This University has the money," he said "It should spend it not on building buildings and planting grass, but on people." "We would like to see everyone get raises, but it's GSIs and staff assistants we worry about," Sell said. Dexter said if mediation does not result in a contract agreement, then GEO would consider fact-finding. "Basically, we have two classes of al- ternatives," Dexter said. "We sign a con- tract that is bad or continue to fight for these issues. (This) includes fact-finding, (which is when) a third party investigates more fully than a mediator." WHITE Continued from Page IA know when to say 'enough is enough.' We have to know when to leave the party," she said. A faction of those attending White's lecture have recently left SAPAC, but arrived at the event donning buttons with the word "Resist!" on them. "There was an employee, a woman who used to work for SAPAC and was fired ... and I am wearing this in sup- port of her," said Heba Nimr, an Ann Arbor resident. A group of peer educators left SAPAC last month in the aftermath of an employee's termination and in the midst of accusations of racism and breaches of confidentiality within SAPAC. Ann Arbor Tenants Union director Pattrice Maurer, who attended the event, said the buttons were worn by "those of us who believe that we should resist oppression even within an organiza- tion." Janelle White, the employee whose termination sparked the con- troversy, invited Evelyn White to speak during her employment at SAPAC. Janelle said Evelyn's book, "Chain, Chain, Change," helped her personally and inspired her to contact the author about the event. NATIONAL REPORT FEES Continued from Page 1A Menendez brothers guilty in second trial LOS ANGELES-Ajury in the retrial of Erik and Lyle Menendez found the brothers guilty of first degree murder, rejecting their claim that years of sexual and emotional abuse lead them to shoot their parents in 1989 after a confrontation in their Beverly Hills mansion. The Menendez brothers could face the death penalty for their crimes be- cause the Van Nuys Superior Court jury found them guilty yesterday of special circumstances of lying in wait and mul- tiple murder. Hearings in the penalty phase will begin Monday. The two face aminimum punishment oflife in prison without parole. Erik, 25, and Lyle, 28, sat stone- faced as a clerk read the verdicts to a courtroom packed with the defendants' family and friends,journalists and spec- tators. After the jurors announced their verdict, Erik Menendez stood up, sighed heavily and looked at his grandmother, seated in the spectator section, and mouthed the words, "I'll be all right," and then, "I love you." His brother made no eye contact with anyone as the Christopher clarifies U.S.NATO position PRAGUE, Czech Republic -Secretary of State Warren Christopher reassure East European nations yesterday that "NATO enlargement is on track and it wil happen." Christopher stressed that the Clinton administration is not veering from a policy t expand the military alliance, despite Russian opposition that has been intensified b new nationalist pressures in advance of its presidential election in June. Christopher, who has sharply criticized Russian legislators' non-binding last week that renounced the breakup of the Soviet Union, urged Russia yester a to take "its rightful place in the new Europe." "We must work to avoid the danger of three Europes: a prosperous stable west a center on its way to NATO and the (European Union), and an east consigned t isolation and crisis," Christopher said. "Integration (of East European countries will neither determine, nor be determined, by events in Russia. But we have a interest in integrating, not isolating, Russia." U.S. officials later said the speech had been "well received" by representative of the 12 former Eastern Bloc nations seeking membership in the alliance Diplomats from the two countries most likely to qualify to join NATO - Polan and the Czech Republic - privately indicated that the no-nonsense talk, m during Christopher's first visit to the region, finally "firmed up the U.S. positi two were lead away. Superior Court Judge Stanle Weisberg issued a gag order barrin discussion of the case by lawyers, ju rors, witnesses and family membe until sentencing is decided. Judge says presider can tape testimony LITTLE ROCK - A federal judg ruled yesterday that President Clinto will not have to travel to Little Rock t testify in the trial of his two forme Whitewater partners but instead ma give a videotaped deposition from th White House. U.S. District Judge George Howar Jr. said forcing Clinton to testify in son would be "unduly burdensome t the president. The order came in re sponse to a request by defendants Jam and Susan McDougal that the presiden be forced to testify in person at thei federal fraud and conspiracy trial. Thejudge also denied the president' request that attorneys present question in advance to avoid improper inquiry o endangering natioial security. pus spend probably 80 percent of their time chasing money down and only 20 percent of their time around program selection and program planning," Cianciola said. Wainess announced at Tuesday's MSA meeting that WOLV is officially "on board" the proposal. Lorber said the plan would benefit the station financially. However, Lorber said the station would still solicit funds' from other sources to maintain its bud- get of $36,000. Wainess' term as MSA president will end before the next meeting ofthe Board of Regents in April. He submitted a letter to the board and said he hopes his predecessor will offi- cially present the proposal to the re- gents. Know of1 . ,OUNNFD THE WORLD r. \ ,<' \ news? S iN j~ iN 4- iN4N ~ A S4.~ < 1444t tke wo0Ib o t~pkic Desiqgs piace 11$ yoke . Is5 Cali 76- DAILY. U.N.: Iraq may have hidden missiles to fire at Israel, Kuwait WASHINGTON - A United Na- tions commission suspects Iraq has hid- den between six and 16 ballistic missiles capable of being fired at Israel, Kuwait or Saudi Arabia with warheads contain- ing lethal nerve agents or germ weapons, U.N. and U.S. officials said yesterday. U.N. investigators believe the me- dium-range missiles probably are be- ing stored on Iraqi trucks and shuttled between military installations underthe command of a government organiza- tion determined to keep them out of sight, according to Swedish Ambassa- dor Rolf Ekeus, who chairs the U.N. Special Commission on Iraq. Ekeus saidthe commission's new con- cern about these missiles helps explain its recent confrontations with the Iraqi gov- ernment, including five attempts last week by Iraqi authorities to deny U.N. investi- gators' access to government buildings suspected of harboring launchers or other evidence related to the missiles. Those confrontations provoked tw censures of Iraq by the president of th U.N. Security Council, including a state ment yesterday criticizing the "untc ceptable" delays faced by commissio personnel in inspecting three facilitie near Baghdad that are controlled by Iraqi Republican Guard. Burmese satirists sentenced to prison RANGOON, Burma - Four dissi dents who staged asatire about Burma' military government are the latest tar gets of its crackdown on followers o democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi Suu Kyi's party, the National Le for Democracy, said yesterday that dissidents were sentenced to seven yea each in prison. 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