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Mexico undergoes recovery from earthquake, economy
At least 56 dead as rescuers S.
delve into earthquake rubble
MANZANILLO, Mexico (AP) -
Wearing surgical masks and wielding
pickaxes, rescue workers dug through
the wrecked masonry of a collapsed
hotel yesterday, searching for survi-
vors of an earthquake that devastated a
long stretch of Mexico's west coast.
Some tourists were believed to be
among the trapped, but further infor-
mation about them was unavailable.
At least 56 people were killed and
more than 90 injured in Monday's 7.6-
magnitude tremor, which toppled
homes, cracked bridges, split highways
and cut power and phone services.
Hundreds of buildings were wrecked
or damaged along a
250-mile stretch of
coast-an estimated Pin
800 homes in the
state of Jalisco and
as many as 400 in the Everyb
neighboring state of th r
Colima.
In towns and vil- another
lages, residents
cleaned streets, re- earthqu
moved fallen tree
branches and righted -
toppled telephone News
poles. They also bur-
ied the deadandtried
to reassemble their lives.
"We are awaiting more precise infor-
ination, but obviously it is a tremen-
dous tragedy," Gen. Enrique Cervantes
Aguirre, the defense secretary, said
yesterday.
Cervantes said 44 dead were counted
shortly before noon in Colima alone.
Jalisco Gov. Alberto Cardenas Jimenez
said at least 10 died in his state.
The two states contain some of
Mexico's most popular beach resorts.
Minutes after Cervantes spoke, res-
cue workers in hard hats pulled the
bodies of a woman and a child from the
wreckage of the eight-story Costa Real
Hotel, raising the total to 56 dead.
As trained dogs sniffed for signs of
life, workers used picks and shovels to
copmb through chunks of broken ma-
sonry. The lack of success and the pain-
fully slow pace of the work made the
strenuous job even more discouraging.
Masks protected rescuers from dust and
the odor of dead bodies.
"I haven't rested since yesterday,"
federal judicial police Officer Pedro
Sandoval said, taking a quick break.
Other exhausted officers and rescue
workers sprawled nearby, some grab-
bing quick naps. On the otherside ofthe
hotel pool, a makeshift morgue had
been set up.
A crane gingerly lifted a slab of wall
and laid it to one side of the mound of
debris. Broken beds, smashed furni-
ture, mattresses, clothes, even a flat-
tened automobile suddenly cascaded
till afraid.
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- Pedro Escamilla
spaper distributor
from the broken
building along
with mounds of
dirt and plaster.
Other hotels
and buildings
along Man-
zanillo's main
thoroughfare
were also dam-
aged, as was the
Plaza Santiago
shopping center.
Cracked walls,
- smashed win-
dows and wreck-
ed furniture appeared throughout the
town.
On the beach nearby, five-foot waves
crashed with a deafening roar. The sea
has been rough since the quake hit at
9:37 a.m. Monday.
Thirty miles to the south, Cihuatlan
was the nearest sizable town to the
quake epicenter. While many build-
ings there were untouched, others lay
in ruins, their walls reduced to rubble.
Shattered roof tiles were piled in the
streets, and several gas stations had
collapsed.
"I was working outside when the
quake hit," said resident Blanca Estella
Mejia. "My home is destroyed. The
kids were outside, thank God. I can't go
back into the house. We spent last night
on the street. I don't know what we're
going to do."
It was the second majortremor in less
than a month centered offshore where
Colima and Jalisco meet - and the
strongest since a 1932 quake that mea-
sured 8.0 on the Richter scale, no longer
used. A 7.3-magnitude quake on Sept.
14 killed five people in the area.
Both ofthe past month's quakes were
measured by their moment magnitude,
a scale similar to the Richter.
Seismologists at the National Au-
tonomous University of Mexico said
they expect a bigger quake in coming
weeks from another earth fracture, many
miles south, offshore from the states of
Guerrero atid Oaxaca. An 8.1-magni-
tude earthquake that devastated Mexico
City on Sept. 19, 1985, originated there
and killed an estimated 10,000 people
in the capital.
"I'm still afraid. Everybody fears
there will be anotherearthquake, a stron-
ger one," said Pedro Escamilla, a news-
paper distributor in Manzanillo.
He added: "We are waiting."
A car lies crushed under the fallen awning of a state-owned Petroleros Mexicanos gas station yesterday in Ciuhatian, Mexico, just north of the resort city of Manzanill.
Clinton promotes Mexico policies
WASHINGTON - After lending a hand to
Mexico earlier this year during that country's
debt crisis, President Clinton yesterday lent a
hand to himself, saying his administration's
Mexico policies have boosted the economies of
both countries.
Clinton used Mexican President Ernesto
Zedillo's visit to the White House to argue that
events have vindicated his decision to push for
passage of the NAFTA free-trade agreement
passed in late 1993, as well as the $20 billion
bailout of Mexico during its crisis last winter.
Both decisions drew fierce opposition from Capi-
tol Hill:
"Never has our partnership had so much po-
tential, never has it yielded such clear results,"
Clinton said at a joint news conference with
Zedillo, following a summit that ended with
minor agreements on trade, immigration and
drug control.
Exports to Mexico have dropped as that coun-
try adopted austerity measures to reassure inter-
national markets that the nation is creditworthy,
Clinton acknowledged, but he said the drop was
much less severe than it might have been.
"Despite Mexico's economic downturn,
American exports to Mexico still exceed their
levels before NAFTA," Clinton said. "The last
time the Mexican economy was in crisis in 1982,
there was a steep increase in tariffs and Mexican
exports were cut in half," Clinton said. "It did not
AP PHOTO happen this time because of NAFTA."
Zedillo, too, argued that a robust Mexican
economy was in U.S. interests. "The vigorous
economic growth and the creation of more and
better jobs will be the best response to the
migration of Mexicans to the United States," he
said.
On immigration, Clinton and Zedillo announced
a pi lot project in the San Diego area that will allow
habitual illegal border crossers to be voluntarily
transported to their hometowns in Mexico, rather
than just being dropped off on the other side of the
border.
And to combat drugs, Clinton said the United
States will be giving Mexico 12 helicopters and
radar equipment to monitor drug trafficking.
On trade, U.S. officials said they reached an
"agreement in principle" to remove barriers on
importing Mexican tires. Less success was had,
officials said, on removing trade barriers on wine,
and in allowing United Parcel Service to drive
full-size delivery trucks in Mexico.
After meeting with Clinton, Zedillo went to
Capitol Hill, where many Republicans in particu-
lar remain critical of last winter's debt bailout.
Sen. Alfonse D'Amato_(R-N.Y.), chairman of
the Banking Committee and an outspoken critic of
the bailout, called on Mexico to repay in full the
$12.5 billion it has drawn so far of the $20 billion
credit line. Mexico recently announced it will
soon repay $700 million.
"If the administration is ready to declare the
Mexican bailout a success, then we should have
immediate repayment ofthe entire $12.5 billion of
U.S. taxpayer dollars," D'Amato said.
President Clinton welcomes Mexican President Emesto
Zedillo to state ceremonies at the White House yesterd
Jay.
Black men t
WASHINGTON (AP) - The state
of America's black men is measured
with sweeping statistics - too few in
the classrooms and board rooms, too
many on the streets, behind prison walls
and in early graves.
For individuals, there is a more per-
sonal accounting: the cabs that buzz
past researcher Richard Majors when
he tries to flag them down on a busy
Washington corner; the way some
whites steel their jaws and avert their
eyes when bookstore clerk Albert Pol-
lard steps into an elevator; the frequency
with which police stop college senior
Shawn Barney for what he sees as no
reason.
No matter how they succeed, many
black men feel feared and mistrusted.
They say black women don't share the
problem, because they aren't perceived
as threatening.
The men's frustration and anger is
shared across economic lines. And it's
part of the pull of the Million Man
March, a giant rally for black men
planned in Washington next Monday.
"I've done everything society asked
me to do - worked hard, gone to the
good schools, I dress well - and I
cannot get a taxi during the day," said
Majors, who has a doctorate in psychol-
ogy and won a Harvard Medical School
fellowship.
"What does that say about the black
man who has no power, who has no
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the world a vastly different picture of
the black male."
The midday event - described by
organizers as more a convergence than
amarch-will underscore the majority
of black men who stay in school, work
hard and care for their families.
It also is described as a call for black
men to come together to end the inner-
city spiral of crime, drugs and unem-
ployment, the conditions that feed me-
dia images of black men.
Organizers have been criticized for
excluding women from the event, one
of several reasons the national NAACP
refused to endorse the rally. But many
black women support its goals, agree-
ing black manhood is in crisis.
At predominantly black Howard
University, Jania Richardson often finds
herself in a class of five men and 25
women.
Sure, black women cope with racism
and sexism, she said. But black men
have a tougher time, because "society
feels threatened by them if they do
more likely to be murdered than black
women, according to Census Bureau
figures.
Thousands more black men are serv-
ing time in prison than studying in col-
lege. In contrast, white men are nine
times more likely to be in class than
behind bars, according to researchers at
The Sentencing Project, a nonprofit
more successtui in many ways. "they
live longer lives and are more likely to
be employed, Census Bureau statistics
show.
Black women outnumber black men
in college three to two, and in graduate
school by almost two to one.
"At an early age, many African-
Americans recognize the system is un-
fair, biased against them, and some do
reject it for that reason," said Barney,
Howard University's student president.
He said police have followed him and
searched his car in both Washington
and New Orleans, his home town.
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