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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.
Calama, in a copper
gion 135 miles east of KM.
gasta, was hit by strong vrai
rain and snow.
The government's National The rare storms were reported
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main highway between Satfe
and the Argentine city of %
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frontier because of seve:
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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) — Presi
dent Bush said Monday he had received a
"very positive" letter from Soviet President
Mikhail S. Gorbachev narrowing some of
the last differences on a
major treaty to slash long-
range nuclear weapons.
"I'm a little more opti
mistic now," he said.
"I'd say it's a narrowing
of differences and we're in
agreement here where it's
96 percent concluded,"
Bush said. Yet, he said,
"I'm afraid we haven't
solved it all."
"I wouldn't say 'break
through' but I think it's '
president said, adding that
hold a summit with Gorbachev this summer
even before the final technical language of a
treaty is written.
While saying the two sides are not widely
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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.
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week to encourage its hesitant
transition from communism to
democracy.
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Thursday, Baker also is sched
uled to meet with Soviet Foreign
Minister Alexander Bessmert
nykh to try to overcome remain
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both sides' long-range nuclear
arsenals by 30 percent or more.
Baker said that over the next
few days he would study a re
sponse from Soviet President
Mikhail Gorbachev to some
ideas proposed by President
Bush earlier this month for re
solving the treaty disputes. He
declined to discuss Gorbachev's
response, which Bush, while
traveling in the United States,
described to reporters as "very
positive."
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.
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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
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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:
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Sandinistan rebels overtake
city hall, rightist radio station
The first ministerial meeting of
the 34-nation Conference on Se
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ranging discussion of methods
for ensuring European peace, in
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resolve civil strife within coun
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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.
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former President Carter and hun
dreds of volunteers were buildinj
low-income housing Monday, leav
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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^
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□ 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.