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NOW is the time to sign up — come in right away for details! World and Nation Orders given to shoot looters Soldiers now patrolling Armero Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia — Soldiers patrolled the town of Armero with orders to shoot looters who roamed the sea of mud, stepping on the in jured in their haste to rob the dead, officials said Monday. Victor Ricardo, president of the government emergency committee, told Caracol radio he had reports of looting in the devastated area. He said Col. Rafael Horacio Ruiz was appointed mayor of Armero and its outlying districts and told to restore order. Mayor Isaac Rodriguez of Lerida, four miles from Armero, said on Caracol that the army “has been given orders to shoot looters.” Radio reporters said they had seen loot from Armero for sale in Mariquita, Honda and other nearby towns that survived the destruction in the valley 105 miles west of Bo gota. Five more survivors were found, including a 7-year-old boy, accord ing to rescue workers interviewed by the Colombian radio chain RCN. Colombia’s health minister said i of typhoid reported in tne Andes valley farm ing town destroyed by last week’s volcanic eruption. He said the area would be fumigated to kill flies that carry typhoid but the spraying jld would not interfere with rescue op erations. Officials say about 25,000 people were killed when the Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupted last Wednes day, melting part of its snowcap and sending a lo-foot-high wall of mud down the Langunilla River and over Armero. Juan Otalora, a firemen working with a rescue team told RCN radio Monday: “We located a little bov buried in the mud who was barely al ive." He said he reached the boy by swimming through stinking mud that nearly covered his head. Weak voices crying for help could be heard Monday in outlying areas of Armero, where the ground is higher than the devastated center of town, he said. The three-mile-high volcano was spewing out steam and ash 3,000 to 5,000 feet above its cone. U.S., Vietnamese soldiers begin joint search for MIAs Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam — Village chil dren lined the road Monday and watched a gum-chewing U.S. soldier drive a tractor to the excavation site at Yen Thuong village on the out skirts of Hanoi, where remains of U.S. airmen may be buried. In an unprecedented joint search, American and Vietnamese military men are to begin digging today for remains of the airmen, whom the Vietnamese say bombed their cities 13 years ago. Workers tore down a brick kitchen building so Sgt. Michael Dixon and his VVa-ton tractor could enter the village.. Hundreds of children gathered as Dixon, wearing a baseball cap and Hawaiian print shirt, jockeyed the tractor to the village from Hanoi’s Noi Bai International Airport. Dixon, from Oak Hill, W. Va., is attached to the 84th Engineering Battalion at Schofield, Honolulu. Air Force Capt. Virginia Pribyla, spokeswoman for the ITS. team, said U.S. experts would use metal detec tors to aetermine where and how far .. we are encouraged by the increased willingness of the Vietnamese to co operate” in the search. — Virginia Pribyla, spokeswoman for the U.S. excavation team. to dig. After the tractor clears the upper layer of earth, workers with hand shovels will probe for what the Vietnamese say may be the wreckage of a B-52 ana the remains of four crew members, she said. ingness of the Vietnamese to cooper ate” in the search for remains, Pribyla said. Hanoi has pledged to account within two years for the 1,797 Amer icans still listed as missing in action in Vietnam. U.S. officials have no indepen dent confirmation of the crash, but long-time inhabitants of Yen Thu ong said the B-52 was downed by missiles while on a bombing raid on the night of Dec. 20, 1972. Vietnam ese officials said that two crew mem bers parachuted out, were captured and later returned to the United States, and that four other crewmen probably died in the crash. Many Vietnamese were killed or injured in the 1972 “Christmas bombings” ordered by President Nixon on the Hanoi-Haiphong area. Nguyen Thi Teo, 60, still living in Yen Tnuong, said her husband and son were killed and her house de stroyed when the bomber crashed. But she said she is not angry with the returning Americans who will be digging up her vegetable garden, which Vietnamese officials say was the center of the crash. The 13-member U.S. military team includes explosives experts and specialists in locating and recovering human remains. Helping them win be 10 Vietnamese soldiers and civil ians experienced in excavation work. The operation is expected to take 10 da' to 12 days. “The significance of this first joint excavation is obvious and we are en couraged by the increased will- Borrowing becoming a way of life Associated Press NEW YORK — Nearly 13 percent of medical school seniors in the 1984-1985 class owed at least $50,000, a situation likely to force many of them into lucrative subspe cialties at the expense of primary To medical students, debt has be come as stark a reality as the skeleton that adorns their classrooms. No less than 87 percent of 1985’s seniors owed money, according to the Asso ciation of American Medical Col leges. In the past six years the average of senior medical student debt has al most doubled to $29,943. The per cent owing at least $30,000 has more than tripled. And the percentage at least $60,000 in debt has risen at least eight times. Startling when viewed by them selves, these figures from the AAMC tend to lose their shock effect when viewed as part of the larger pattern of American debt. Borrowing has become the American way. The evi dence is all about. Bank failures and huge loan wri teoffs, a crisis in farm credit, rising home mortgage delinquencies and the highest installment debt burdens ever remind Americans that loans aren’t without consequences. In spite of the high numbers, economists repeatedly assert their belief that the economy can support the rising debt levels, pointing to such factors as strong employment, rising incomes and low inflation. It is important to maintain per spective, say Richard Rahn and Gra- ciela Testa-Ortiz, U.S. Chamber of Commerce economists. There is no “compelling evidence,” they say, that the commercial banking system is in jeopardy. Nor, say many economists, is the consumer over his head in debt. In fact, it is said over and over again, consumers were wise to grab up easy-term home mortgages. African areas finding relief from drought Associated Press Jy fa NEW YORK — Newly ana- zed satellite photographs of amine-torn regions of Africa show substantial increases in veg etation during the last year — a sign that the drought may be eas ing, a researcher says. ^Things are better in many places," said James Tucker of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. “It probably means that tne natural conditions underlying the drought are somewhat better in many areas. The The satellite images show sub stantial increases in vegetation in many scattered areas in the Sahel — the semi-arid area lying along the southern border of the Sa hara desert, Tucker said in an in terview. The images were made in August and September of 1984, and again in August and September of this year. The vegetation consists largely of grass, which is not edible out which will support livestock, Tucker said. “These areas are al most exclusively pastoral," he said. “Things are oased on ani mals being the converter of en ergy for human uses, either through milk or meat, because people can’t eat grass.” Increased vegetation growth does not necessarily mean more rain has fallen, Tucker said. But it does suggest that the rain oc curred at times that are best for nurturing plant growth. “If all tne rain comes at one time, that’s not good,” said Tucker, because the rain will run off before plant seedlings can use it. “The total amount of rainfall is only one part of the story. There may have been less rain, but it was more useful.” Trial begins over safety of widely used IUD Associated Press BALTIMORE — The first major legal battle over the nation’s most widely used intrauterine contracep- de ’ ‘ five device began Monday, with an attorney telling jurors that G.D. Searle & Co. rushed the Copper 7 to market on the basis of a “fatally flawed” study. The 17 plaintiffs, women from all parts of the country, blame the de vice for pelvic inflammations, steril ity and other gynecological prob lems. They are seeking unspecified damages. In an emotional opening to the federal court trial, eight of the women were introduced from their front row seats as their attorney ex plained the medical problems he said they suffered from using the IUD. Several wept after they sat down. The suit claims Searle was neg ligent, failed to adequately warn .women of the lUD’s dangers, kno wingly withheld information about its risk, and breached an expressed warranty about its safety. In opening arguments, Searle’s at torney, Paul F. Strain, countered that the Copper 7 has “the over whelming endorsement of the American medical community” and is prescribed a million times a year. In the first stage of the trial, dur ing which none of the 17 women will be called to testify, the plaintiffs will have to prove that the Copper 7 does cause the kind of problems alleged. If they can prove that, they will then have to show it was responsible for each woman’s specific problem. Searle, a unit of Monsanto Co. that is based at Skokie, Ill., has won six of nine IUD lawsuits that have gone to trial since the Copper 7 was placed on the market in 1974, a com pany spokesman said. It lost two cases, and a third resulted in a hung jury. Attorneys for both sides said this case will be the first major legal test because of the number of women in volved and because attorneys have pooled resources to take on tne com- pany. The womens’ attorney, Roger Pardieck, said in opening arguments that results of a test of the IUD on 16,000 women around the world, beginning in 1970, were “fatally flawed” because the company did not follow up on 31 percent of the cases. 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