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i World & Nation s K-x-iis;;: [W Wednesday, June 19,1991 The Battalion Page Mudslide ravages Chilean village, kills at least 61 ANTOFAGASTA, Chile (AP) — A mudslide slammed into hill side slums of this northern de sert city early Tuesday, sweep ing away scores of wooden shacks and killing at least 61 peo ple, officials said. About 750 people were injured in the disaster, which was trig gered by five hours of rare, tor rential rains in this port in the Atacama desert region, consid ered one of the most arid areas of the world. Interior Minister Enrique Krauss, speaking in the capitol of Santiago before flying here, gave the death toll as 61 but said it would almost certainly climb steeply. Rescue crews searched though scores of wooden shacks swept away by the avalanche in the northern edge of the city of 200,000, about 900 miles north of Santiago. Police said at least 1,000 people were left homeless slum neighborhoods. in 10 s The mudslide cut off the Pana- merican Highway, which runs along the Pacific coast of this South American nation. The local government in Anto fagasta said the avalanche that slammed the slum in the north ern edge of the city was swollen by the water of four large water storage tanks that were swept away by the mass of mud. Water and power supplies were cut off in several neighbor hoods, and roads to the city were blocked. The mud spread to other parts of the city, including the down town area, where vehicles were seen stuck in the streets, partly covered by up to two feet of mud. Emergency Office reported that shelters for the homeless were being set up in schools and other government buildings. Authori ties suspended classes. in several other Atacama towns. The National Emergency Of fice dispatched a C-130 Hercules plane to Antofagasta carrying food, medicine, clothes and blankets. 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While saying the two sides are not widely sn sail' letter during a brief exchange with reporte frc ' ' George Bush ' the le was eager to apart, Bush said that "some of the differ ences that remain are fairly difficult." Nego tiators have been working for nearly a de cade on an accord to reduce the deadliest weapons in the superpowers' arsenals. Gorbachev's letter, delivered Saturday night, was the latest step in the mutual drive to wrap up a Strategic Arms Reduc tion Treaty. Secretary of State James A. Baker and Soviet Foreign Minister Alexan der Bessmertnykh are due to meet on the is sue in Berlin, probably Thursday, in a fol low-up to a similar session in Geneva less than two weeks ago. Bush revealed the receipt of Gorbachev's on Air Force One en route from Los Angelt to Colorado. While declining to discusstis Soviet leader's comments, he said Goi chev was responding to suggestions h. offered in a recent letter. While most of the major issues have bee resolved, a handful of technical issues fuv delayed completion of a pact. The remak ing problems include issues such as mor itoring at missile plants, exchanges of info: mation from missile tests and definitionsi new types of ballistic missiles. Bush said the two sides still need to mat progress on how much flight-test data c be electronically concealed from the side through encryption methods. Baker plans trip to Yugoslavia to discuss AIDS rate growing in Asia, Africa, U.N. agency reports lecisii alike. The /hich ntiest ley ( ?ay fo ethnic problems FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — The lie is lil BERLIN (AP) — Secretary of State James Baker said Monday he would go to Yugoslavia at this "sensitive and delicate" time to plead for the preservation of its national sov ereignty in the face of ethnic divisions. 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Baker's stops in Yugoslavia and Albania underline the ad ministration's strategy of draw ing Eastern Europe closer to the West in order to foster democ racy in the once-communist na tions, and prevent the conti nent's slide into the kind of bickering that ignited World War I. Administration officials say they are worried that the caul dron of ethnic unrest in Yugosla via could spill over into neigh boring countries just as they are testing the waters of democracy. AIDS epidemic is likely to peak in the United States and Western Europe midway through the de cade, but the rate of infection is rising at alarming rates in Africa and Asia, according to a U.N. re port released Monday. The opening of Eastern Eu rope to the outside world also has raised the potential for an AIDS epidemic there, a Soviet official said in a separate report at the annual AIDS conference. Dr. James Chin, chief of the AIDS forecasting unit at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, reported the encouraging news for North America and Western Europe. "Epidemiological data indicate that in industrialized countries, where extensive spread of HIV began in the late 1970s or early 1980s, the majority of HIV infec tions occurred during the first half of the 1980s," he said. "As a Chin said the expected ing of AIDS in the West in I mid-1990s could prompt a dw; in commitment to fignting disease in Africa and Asia. Infection with the HIV virus. spreading faster than first fort cast in Africa, and in Asia tit disease "has come up rapid and this is the major concern he said. sump Dankn |"subsi Subi result, peak incidence for AIDS cases and deaths is expected to occur around the mid-1990s." As of the end of March 1991, the federal Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta had recorded a cumulative total of 171,876 cases of AIDS in the United States, with 108,731 deaths. Chin said statistics on bar only a week ago showed 500,d AIDS cases in Asia, but da. from a new study put the nur ber at more than 1 million. Efforts to map an overall an: AIDS strategy in Eastern Eurof are complicated by the differei ways the virus is spreading: each country, said Alexandt Gromyko, a WHO official fro: the Soviet Union. )u ggy going to proi this su Sandinistan rebels overtake city hall, rightist radio station The first ministerial meeting of the 34-nation Conference on Se curity and Cooperation in Eu rope had on its agenda a wide- ranging discussion of methods for ensuring European peace, in the face of emerging nationalist and ethnic rivalries unleashed by the lifting of communist author ity. Live one on one, adults only. 1-900-884-7644,2.50/min., 10 min/minimum. A DATE TONIGHTI Hear talking personals from local singles waiting to meet you (names & phone numbers included). 1-900-346-3377 $1.95 1st minute. Part of the debate is expected to focus on whether mechanisms to resolve disputes among mem ber nations could also be used to resolve civil strife within coun tries such as Yugoslavia. MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Militants seized control of a radio station and the city hall Tuesday to protest a move to re voke laws that gave thousands of Sandinistas free property in the final months of their decade of rule. No one was seriously hurt in the takeovers at Radio Corpora tion, a rightist station, and at the capital's city hall. In both cases masked men identifying them selves as Sandinistas forced their way into the buildings and vowed to remain inside. The takeovers were the latest in a series of Sandinista chal lenges to the authority of Presi dent Violeta Barrios de Cha morro, who is struggling to get Nicaragua's economy func tioning again after more than a dozen years of war. While the Sandinistas pres sure de Chamorro to leave intact the revolutionary changes they made, former Contra rebels and rightists are demanding Sandi nista policies be overturned, pushing her government in con flicting directions. The giveaway laws the Sandi nistas were hying to protect were approved by the leftist gov ernment after it lost the February 1990 election but before center- right President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro took office two months later. The measures specified that anyone using confiscated prop erty became the immediate owner, and enabled city govern ments to give vacant property away to almost anyone who asked. Sandinista officials and follow ers got cars, office supplies, com puters and small farms or houses. Higher-ranking officials got luxurious homes seized from Nicaraguans who left the coun try after the 1979 revolution. scheduled a bill revoking the law for debate on Tuesday. With 39 Sandinista deputies absent in protest and three government legislators also absent, the 50 re maining deputies voted unani mously to send the bill to com mittee. It will likely be two to three weeks before it returns for a vote. Sandinista leaders had warned of chaos if the giveaway propo sal was questioned. The Sandi nistas remain the country's larg est party and control most labor unions, allowing them to force major concessions through dev astating strikes. Radio Corporacion is con trolled by conservatives who have accused Chamorro of al lowing herself to be blackmailed by Sandinista threats of violence. Masked men armed with sub machine guns kicked down the glass front door of the station and herded journalists out of the building at gunpoint, the jour nalists said in an interview later on the Radio Catolica. After the takeover, the station continued playing popular music. WORLD/NATION BRIEFS From wire reports Shots fired at site near Carter lam on the seen tl would but...( would article DUDl □ MIAMI - Gunshots ripped through a construction site where former President Carter and hun dreds of volunteers were buildinj low-income housing Monday, leav ing one man slightly wounded Carter was a block away from the shooting and was unhurt. Hov peopk who lc Chick* Dudle that I s to Due wentt Soviet republics to vote on treaty □ MOSCOW - President S. Gorbachev and leaders of seven republics agreed Monday on a draft of a new Union Treaty and sent it to the parliament and the republics legislatures for consideration, news agencies reported. Adoption of the document would mark an historic shift in the country’s unify ing document. Nine of the 15 re publics are expected to sign tire new treaty. Soviet officials have said failure to sign the new Union Treaty would not automatical^ leave the six republics out of the Soviet Union. The this is Insteai to mo\ vultun These happe Cast newst newsp CHICI towed Hussein orders release of prisoner □ LONDON - Iraq’s Presidenl Saddam Hussein has ordered the release of an imprisoned British en gineer, former Prime Minister Ed ward Heath said Monday. Douglas Brand, 51, was arrested in Sep tember when he tried to leave Irad after the Aug. 2 invasion of Kuwait Brand, who had been clearing mines, was convicted of spying and sentenced to life imprisonment last month.