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Febii arsday • February 12, 1998 The Battalion ighanistan relief efforts delayed k ^ ‘ ZER,[Afghanistan (AP) — Pro- bl1 only by blankets, earthquake - on gif: 3 rs shivered in freezing weath- ca ' r their crumbled homes yes- as mi >re snow disrupted relief 1: in ik ntheast Al'ghanistan. pease help us, we have lost l! ' ; hing," a veiled woman shout- bumbling down the muddy lr romthe village of Kezer as aid t!; rsfrom Doctors Without Bor- rove past. A man standing at i r le wept. c e week after a magnitude-6.1 f>‘ : |uake and subsequent after- ^ s killed more than 4,000 peo- llving how, log, mud and civil war | ir:: ' lued o I rusl rale rescue efforts. s c 3 Ri&taq district, including the lideDtStrairsii ip, was buried under a stigat: snow. Aid workers feared sur- of e would die of exposure, ler ie snow has added an enor- “tary disadvantage,” said Alexander let jfthe International Commit- ?tary the Red Cross. “Most of the ?ros. e are still trapped in their here tain villages. We worry that imtTgc: ' [bbitt lareer Ic ser: I has they will die if we cannot get them down for help.” As of yesterday, relief teams had only reached 14 of the 27 villages devastated by the Feb. 4 earthquake and its aftershocks. Doctors With out Borders physician Sheila Hall said her agency estimates that more than 4,300 have perished. Officials in Ghanji, eight miles east of the town of Rustaq, said that they had pulled 700 bodies from the debris that marks where the village once stood. Officials earlier estimat ed 2,000 people died. But they stressed that many bodies have yet to be found. The snow forced the Red Cross and the United Nations to cancel re lief flights to the isolated mountain ous region for the second day in a row. Relief supplies piled up in neigh boring Tajikistan, Pakistan and In dia, awaiting some way to reach the more than 15,000 people left home less by the tremors. 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Survivors used shovels to search the rubble for lost relatives in the vil lage of Kezer, 10 miles east of Rustaq. “We buried 200 people in this vil lage and we sent another 100 to the hospital in Rustaq,” said Sher Mo hammed, stepping around the bod ies of sheep and goats that lay on the muddy ground. “We put 15 to 20 people in each grave, because there weren’t enough people left to dig.” The mountain looming over the village was split in two by the quake, sending thousands of tons of rocks and muddy earth crashing down onto sleeping villagers, he said. Children were coughing and feverish. “If they don’t get help soon, they will die,” said Mohammed. De Niro questioned in prostitution trial According to French police, actor's name turned up in confiscated address book PARIS (AP) — Sure he meets a lot of beautiful women. That does not mean Robert De Niro had any thing to do with a call girl ring, said his lawyer, who contended today that a French judge was using the actor to draw attention to his case. De Niro was questioned as a witness in the case Tuesday. His name turned up in an address book seized in the inquiry, accord ing to police sources who spoke on condition of anonymity. “It’s possible,” Georges Kiejman said when asked if investigators have an address book containing De Niro’s name. “If you know the number of women who are pretty and ravishing who have his phone number...” The lawyer said it was likely “some of these young gil ls who were ques tioned by police or by the judge said one day in a hotel ‘we met Robert De Niro and we met many people.’ “But the name of Robert De Niro is like a jewel for a judge,” said Kiejman. He filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Judge Frederic N'Guyen for “violation of secrecy in an in- “But the name of Robert De Niro is like a jewel for a judge.” Georges Kiejman Lawyer vestigation” and “obstruction of freedom of movement.” Kiejman called the questioning “a nonevent, but which had to be marked as an infraction on the in dividual freedom of a citizen....” De Niro was “not anxious. He’s a little angry, but he wants to forget. Though he’s not ready to forgive.” “Six or eight policemen went to the hotel” at about 9 a.m. Tuesday, Kiejman said. During the entire day “they never let him free. He could phone me, he was not un der formal arrest, but without freedom all day, until 9 p.m.... he was never summoned. “He kept repeating the same answers to the same questions,” Kiejman said. French law does not require the presence of an attorney unless a suspect is placed under formal investigation, one step short of being charged. 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