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2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, January 27, 1999NATIONXORLE
Colombian earthquake death toll tops 1,000

ARMENIA, Colombia (AP)-The death toll from
the worst earthquake to hit Colombia in more than a
century surpassed 1,000 yesterday as survivors anx-
iously awaited relief supplies and prayed for signs of
life under the rubble.
Those hopes were dashed again and again.
Monday's 6-magnitude earthquake devastated cities
and villages across western Colombia, a vast Andean
terrain where much of the world's coffee is grown. The
temblor shook buildings as far away as the capital,
Bogota, 140 miles from the epicenter.
Two small aftershocks hit Armenia yesterday after-
noon, causing little damage but sending panicked res-
idents running into the rubble-littered streets. There
have been about 15 aftershocks.
With hundreds of people believed still buried
beneath the rubble, mayhem reigned yesterday in the
streets of Armenia, a city of 300,000.
Rescue teams had recovered about 650 bodies in the
country yesterday, and estimated that at least 2,700
were injured - but warned this was only a partial
accounting.
Capt. Ciro Antonio Guiza, Armenia's deputy fire
chief, said rescue workers were so strapped that many
bodies remained on the streets uncollected. "There are
more than 1,000 dead, perhaps more than 2,000 in

Armenia alone," he said. othe
Two-thirds of the city's buildings were rendered play
uninhabitable. People wandered about desperately A
looking for relatives. There was no electricity or run- food
ning water in most of the city, and food was in dan- and1
gerously short supply. An estimated 180,000 people C
were left homeless in Armenia alone. bloo
Coffins have become a coveted commodity. recei
"I've been looking for five coffins for relatives been
since 8 o'clock this morning and I couldn't find any, $1.1
so we're going to have to bury them in plastic," said W
Diego Ruiz, who lost his grandmother, a sister and hun(
three nieces. "
Rescue workers scrambled to evacuate the thou- aid i
sands of injured and to locate survivors. At the city's enou
small airport, ambulances arrived every 15 minutes omb
with more victims, who were airlifted to hospitals in Arm
Bogota, Medellin and Cali. Te
"There is a danger of epidemics, because we have State
more than 200 bodies and we have no refrigerated Japa
trucks," said Carlos Gilberto Giraldo, a top vivo
Colombian Red Cross official. man
Two members of Colombia's professional soccer gene
club Atletico Quindio - Diego Montenegro and C
Ruben Biurret, both from Argentina - were found al te]
dead. Witnesses said the two were holding onto each the u
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O that public opinion polls favor a
end to the trial and that Cli
acquittal on charges of perjur
obstruction of justice is vii
assured.
"The time to end the trial is no
the correct number of witnes
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r in the ruins of a downtown hotel. Another four
ers are feared dead.
uthorities say they need help, tons of it: tents,
, forklifts, backhoes, antibiotics, generators -
body bags.
olombians, eager to help, formed long lines at
d banks. The government set up a bank account to
ive donations, and by noon more than $125,000 had
deposited. The European Commission promised
million, Colombian officials said yesterday.
That was needed, though, was far more - maybe
dreds of millions of dollars.
We're going to need a great deal of international
because the government by itself does not have
gh resources," said Piedad Correal Rubiano, the
udsperson of Quindio state, whose capital is
enia.
ams of earthquake specialists from the United
es, including 64 from Florida's Dade County, and
n traveled to Colombia to aid the search for sur-
rs. Mexico said yesterday it would send a 105-
army search team with sniffer dogs and power
rators.
olumbia's first lady Nohra Pastrana went on nation-
levision to promise Colombians that relief was on
vay.
to prove its case.
He likened the prosecutors to a
blackjack player betting against long
odds.
a swift "Here, they're simply gambling.
inton's ... I think it has no place in the
y and impeachment trial here when the
rtually fate of the president is at stake,"
Kendall said.
w, and The day's events set the stage for a
ses is pair of showdown votes today, first on a
(D- proposal by Sen. Robert Byrd (D-
ew off W.Va.) to dismiss all charges and bring
the trial to an end, then on the call for
ie well depositions.
torney Byrd's proposal is widely expected to
ad yet fail, by a party-line vote or more.
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although the shift in the balance of power
will not change the Democratic agenda,
the term will be a challenge for her party.
y "Without a majority, we are depen-
dent on Republicans," she said. "It will
be up to everyone to work together."
An issue of importance to
Democrats is a possible increase in the
minimum wage, Brater said.
"We need to be making sure people
have the opportunity to work in the
state of Michigan," she said.
Another factor distinguishing this
term from others is the presence of 41
new Republicans seated on the House
floor. Perricone said he is optimistic
about the role new members will play
this term.
"You're going to see some new ideas
introduced," he said.
Jansen said he is pleased with how
quickly new representatives have been
integrated into the process, but senior
members should take care in how they
teach the freshmen.
"You can't say, 'this is the way we
used to do it'," Jansen said. "You really
have to be creative."
Jansen said mentoring is a key way
to bring new members up to speed.
Another issue of concern for some
representatives - although they take
no part in the proceedings - is the
impeachment trial of President Clinton.
Jansen said he can sense the frustration
of those in his district.
"Nine out of 10 people are just dis-
gusted with what's going on in
Washington," he said. "The whole per-
jury thing makes people really upset."
Perricone said the trial does not con-
tribute positively to the state and feder-
al governments.
"All that it does is bring down the
perception of those who have chosen
public service," he said. "It's not good

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Court reinstates
Hubble indictment
WASHINGTON - Webster
Hubbell's legal troubles deepened yes-
terday when a federal appeals court
reinstated tax-evasion charges brought
by Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr
against the former Justice Department
official and longtime friend of
President Clinton.
But, the court said Hubbell's consti-
tutional protection against self-incrimi-
nation may have been violated when
Starr forced him to turn over tax-relat-
ed records, and the judges asked a
lower court to look further into that
question.
In a pair of 2-1 rulings, the panel of
appellate judges reversed a decision
last summer by U.S. District Judge
James Robertson, who threw out the
April 1998 tax-fraud indictment of
Hubbell, his wife Suzanna, his accoun-
tant and his tax lawyer.
Meeting reporters outside his subur-
ban Maryland home yesterday, Hubbell
said he was disappointed, but he added,

"We hope this matter will come to an
end real soon."
Hubbell, who has accused Starr of
prosecuting him in hopes of getting tes-
timony against the president, said he had
no intention of implicating anyone else
Medicare panel
considers proposal
WASHINGTON - The highly
charged politics of the government's
influential Medicare reform commission
were laid bare yesterday when commis-
sioners grappled with a proposal to limit
the federal role in financing the health-
care system for the elderly and the djo
abled.
While agreeing with the need to cap
government's contribution to the $214
billion-a-year program, the 17-member
commission found itself at odds on two
contentious questions: the scope of the
benefits that the elderly would be enti-
tled to under a new system and wheiher
coverage of prescription drugs would be
offered by all health plans - including
the traditional Medicare program.

AROUND THE NATION
Clinton, Pope avoid sensitive issues
ST. LOUIS - President Clinton welcomed a frail Pope John
Paul II with a steadying hand yesterday and said he hoped he
would find, in his seventh pilgrimage on U.S. soil, "an America
working harder to be what you have asked us to be."
Clinton, a Southern Baptist, addressed the Catholic spiritual
leader as Holy Father and tried out a blessing of his own - in
the pope's native Polish: "May you live a hundred years and
more!"
The pope, 78, gave a playful smile and a weary chuckle.
"One hundred years? Slowly, slow."
He delivered a plea for Americans to "open wide your hearts" Clinton
to the world's less fortunate.
At the welcoming ceremony staged in a suffocatingly overheated airport hangar,
president and pontiff alike avoided simmering disputes - over U.S. airstrikes
against Iraq, the embargo of Cuba, abortion and capital punishment --- that thrcat-
ened to make this, their fourth meeting, a prickly one.
Thousands chanted "John Paul Two, we love you," as the pope, with Clirnto
guiding hand on his elbow, walked down a red-carpeted receiving line of Cabinet
officials, White House staff and church officials.

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