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Page 3 The Battalion Tuesday, September 1,1992 Murders baffle police THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOENIX (AP) - Five people said to be a Mexican immigrant family with two young children were found gunned down in their junk-strewn yard along with a third, unrelated child. Police on Sunday had no clues. Detectives don't believe drugs or gangs were involved in the slayings, and there was no weapon on the scene to indicate a murder-suicide, Sgt. Kevin Robin-, son, a police spokesman, said Sunday. "We're hoping to get lucky,” Robinson said. "Normally you see something like this and people say drugs or gangs. There's no in dication of anything like that." Officers summoned to the poor neighborhood Saturday afternoon found the bodies strewn about a dirt lot next to the home. There were a man and woman, two boys under age 18 and a girl of elemen tary school age, Robinson said, re fusing to be more specific. He said it wasn't clear when they were killed. Autopsies were scheduled Sunday. The home is in south Phoenix, generally consid ered a high-crime area, but Robin son said the specific neighbor hood isn't particularly notorious for gangs or drug sales. Neighbor Marta Vaquero iden tified the victims as a Mexican im migrant couple, their 9-year-old daughter and their 5-year-old son. She said she did not know who the fifth victim was. Robinson said he couldn't release n3mes un til relatives had been notified. War in Sarajevo kills 15 in market THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegov- ina (AP) — A howitzer shell crashed into a crowded market place Sunday, killing 15 people and wounding dozens in one of the bloodiest single attacks during the Serbs' siege of Sarajevo. Meanwhile, troops supporting Bosnia's Muslim-dominated gov ernment reportedly reached Gorazde, one day after Serbs an nounced they were lifting their five-month siege of that city southeast of Sarajevo. Gorazde, as the lone govern ment holdout against Serb insur gents in eastern Bosnia-Herzegov- ina, has been an emotional symbol of the war that began when the majority Muslims and Croats vot ed for independence from Yu goslavia on Feb. 29. As many as 100,000 people have been trapped there. U.N. of ficials said they were cautiously optimistic about developments in Gorazde, but they condemned the attack in Sarajevo. One suggested that Serb forces had fired on the market purpose- •y- Between 35 and 100 people were wounded when the how itzer shell exploded in the market. The toll was the worst since May 28, when mortar rounds killed at least 20 people in a bread line and wounded 100. That attack prompted the Euro pean Community to impose trade sanctions on Serbia, which it ac cused of supporting Serbs fighting to carve their own state from part of Bosnia. U.N. sanctions on Ser bia-dominated Yugoslavia fol lowed on May 30. The shell hit as Bosnian loyal ists continued an offensive aimed at breaking through Serbs forces encircling Sarajevo in the sur rounding hills. Rescue workers slung bodies into pickups parked on blood stained ground. Officials said many of the wounded were not likely to sur vive. Survivors screamed for family and friends as they wandered around market stalls strewn with limbs and other human remains. Somalia receives needed famine aid UNICEF, Red Cross assist in relief THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IHODDUR, Somalia (AP) - This remote town in the heart of the famine is the good news in Somalia. People are in desperate straits, but their own leaders are doing something about it. If the cupboard is nearly bare, no one loots it. When bandits rus tled camels recently, police in smart royal blue berets tracked them down. "For a year and eight months, not one outside person came to help us,” said Mohamed Nur Shodok, the governor and chief elder. "We helped ourselves." It has not been easy. "I am 80 years old, and I have never seen anything like this,” said the governor. '^Neither has my father, nor his father, nor our ancestors." By mid-August, when Tom Lecato of the U.N. World Food Program flew in, the elders of Hoddur had no more to give their own 49,000 people and an other 20,000 who came in from the bush. "We said we could land a C- 130 if they took down the sign at the end of the runway,” said Lecato, of Ft. Pierce, Fla. "In min utes, the 'Welcome to Hoddur' banner was knocked flat." Soon, the United Nations be gan airlifting in "W-Mix," a pow dery blend of rice, beans and oil, which local authorities distrib uted among feeding centers in Hoddur. For Hoddur leaders and out side aid workers, the key to famine relief is helping people stay where they are until times get better. "Mohamed Nur asked me if I ininded that he sent some food to outlying districts to keep people from coming into Hoddur," Leca to said. "I almost kissed him." The Mombasa-based U.S. air lift is to take over the World Food Program flights to Hoddur to build up supplies to the region. But Army Lt. Col. Robert Don nelly, 43, of Suffem, N.Y., the air lift's spokesman, said he did not know when the Americans would begin those flights. U.S. planes started flying into Somalia on Friday, carrying food to the town of Belet Huen for the International Committee of the Red Cross. Concern, the Irish voluntary agency, is setting up a feeding program in Hoddur. Its volunteers will join two So mali doctors working in the town for the U.N. Children's Fund, UNICEF. Along with emergency care. Concern will bring seed and tools so farmers can plant before the October rains, if there are rains. For three years, drought has parched the region. "This place is very impor tant," said Noel Molony of Con cern. "We can stop people from moving south to Baidoa, where there is nothing for them." Deaths in Hoddur are 16 to 20 a day, less than a tenth of Baidoa's toll. Hoddur missed much of the fighting which swept over Baidoa early this year, and traditional or der remained in place. But the town is still half in ru ins. The large hospital is a roofless shell, blasted full of holes. Tin roofs have been stolen from the many of the houses. "Health is very bad, and peo ple are vulnerable to every sort of disease, and there is little we can do,' said Hussein Abdi Mo hamed, who helps coordinate re lief for the governor. "I see very much tuberculosis among the children, very much, but I have no drugs," he said. "I only tell them to stay home so they do not infect others." UNICEF sent a load of medi cines and oral rehydration pack ets, but they were quickly ex hausted. At UNICEF's request, the re lief group Doctors Without Bor ders is sending a team to run a feeding center for children. Relief efforts stall for Florida hurricane victims THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) - Hundreds of Marines built the first tent city for hurricane victims Monday, a full week after An drew left thousands homeless, and the first two ships of a Navy convoy arrived with heavy-duty relief equipment. But while thousands of south Floridians remained without ade quate food or shelter, state and federal officials bickered over who was in charge of relief from the worst natural disaster in U.S. his tory. And throughout southern Dade County, people waited in line: for food stamps, for mail, for Red Cross vouchers, for checks from insurance companies and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Thousands of others fumed in traffic jams as Miami-area busi nesses reopened, some for the first time since the hurricane struck. "There's no way you can do it all at once," Gov. Lawton Chiles said while touring the tent city on a baseball field in hard-hit Home stead, 30 miles southwest of Mia mi. The governor raised the esti mate of hurricane-wrecked homes to 85,000; Estimates of the number of homeless people have ranged from 180,000 to 250,000. Chiles warned that if the feder al government did not pay 100 percent of reconstruction costs, "the state of Florida will be totally busted." White House spokesman Mar lin Fitzwater said Bush was "quite sympathetic" to Chiles' plea, but that no final decision had been made. There was confusion about who was in charge of the enor mous relief effort. An Army spokesman, Lt. Col. Bill Reynolds, said U.S. Transportation Secretary Andrew Card was in charge. But Chiles' chief of staff, Tom Herndon, insisted the state and federal agencies were leading their own programs. "There is no single boss of all bosses," he told reporters. Many people in the re lief pipeline have complained of a lack of coordination. "I'm shuffled here, there and there,” said Mike Phipps, 49, who pedaled a bicycle to West Home stead Elementary School to collect Red Cross vouchers for food and clothing. "I go to the Army and ask for a tent, they say go to City Hall. I go to City Hall, they said see the Army." The confusion has led to spoilage of donated food left out side and to clothing being dumped in the trash after sitting in mud puddles. Some have urged unified radio frequencies for all relief agencies and a high-profile disaster czar, such as retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf. The first tent city was erected on Homestead's Harris Field by 450 Marines who had worked all night. Fourteen cots fit into each of the 108 tents. The Defense Department said that by the end of the day, south Florida would have 11,510 federal troops, 4,600 portable toilets, 15,500 radios, 34 portable food kitchens, 638,600 ready-to-eat meals, 240,000 cans of insecticide and enough tents to hold 23,570 people. 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