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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.
It was difficult to confirm how
much of that had arrived, in part
because traffic was heavy and
telephone service had not been re
stored to all areas. About 525,000
people still had no electricity.
Thunderstorms hit for a third
straight day Monday and steady,
seasonal rain was forecast.
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