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eak tremors plague Turkeys survivors
ISTANBUL, Tlirkey (AP) — Homeless earth-
ervousallthefouake survivors battled to keep their card-
:an’t lookout aw d and blanket tents from collapsing in a
■npour yesterday and a new tremor 200
/e percent of feMs away sent residents of Ankara running
Jycounseling,a)t| the streets in panic,
said Dr. CarMTile the death toll from last week’s quake
;tat Washings Jared to nearly 18,000 people, there were no
lofMedicineiriiBrts of casualties or damages from Yester-
the study’sac ay’s much weaker temblor,
iywasuntoucMhe 4.7-magnitude quake was centered
ut different |» ear Haymana, 40 miles south of Ankara, the
fferently/’she: apital. A 4.2-magnitude aftershock followed,
iss is understar®rime Minister Bulent Ecevit, whose gov-
ious eventssucBnent has been under fire for its slow re-
I not necessan jjjjjnse to the crisis, acknowledged yesterday
nental illness |at there were delays in the rescue efforts,
with more st® u t he said past governments bear some re-
■ more pronei jjo ns ibility for allowing the shoddy construc-
as were those ■ that contributed to the high death toll,
ember serious®,^ he insisted some of the delays were un-
Kdable due to severe damage to telephones
rs most at r!.® roa( j s f rom t h e 7.4-magnitude quake that
ret used totiiiaH c j < b e f ore dawn on Aug. 17.
nd had feelin|’;®j^j sta i ces h ave been made,” Ecevit said in
isofinterest . n j n t erv j e w with CNN, adding the govern-
aent is already working on stricter measures
mp those | 80 ] ve the problem.
■'I 101 l! : ' f Despite the criticisms, Ecevit said he has no
y those . o of resigning.
tne resear ™ : ®of course the people have the right to be
Svous, have the right to complain, but this
| natural disaster,” he said.
|‘We will certainly derive lessons from the
perience of this last disaster. We will eer
ily benefit from the experiences and knowl-
Igeof foreign experts.”
i'he relief efforts have overwhelmed
[key, which has appealed for aid, including
Jen, directoro
vliich was ere;
rnt to provide
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^™;;|ord cars used at Auschwitz
disinfectants, tetanus vaccines, tents, flash
lights, blankets, garbage trucks and heavy ma
chinery for clearing rubble.
It has also asked the United Nations to help
get 45,000 body bags.
Turkey’s National Security Council esti
mated that 200,000 people have been left
homeless and -are staying in tents and
makeshift shelters.
The death toll rose to 17,997 yesterday as
more bodies were uncovered from the wreck
age. Some officials estimate the final death toll
could reach 40,000.
Although the region has suffered numerous
quakes over the past decade, experts said lit
tle has been done to address the problems of
shady contractors who do not bother with per
mits and skimp on materials or local officials
who do not enforce building codes.
Thousands of cheaply-made concrete-and-
cinderblock apartment blocks collapsed dur
ing the quake, crushing thousands as they
slept.
Tens of thousands of homeless are now
camped out on streets, in parks and on vacant
lots. Many are growing angrier with the new
misery of heavy rains and are waiting to see if
and when the government will help them.
Memduh Oguz, governor of hard-hit Izmit
province, urged those whose houses were not
seriously damaged to return home to ease the
demand for emergency shelter.
A Dutch group said it would send 30,000
prefabricated shelters designed to withstand
quakes and winter cold, and the United States
plans to send 3,500 all-weather tents.
Emergency housing, however, may not
reach all the needy until late November —
when heavy rains traditionally lash north
western Turkey.
A few foreign rescue crews, including
Americans, continued to search for miracles
yesterday, saying some people have been
found alive more than a week after other
quakes.
But in general, the search for survivors was
winding down and efforts were shifting to
helping refugees — including taking measures
to prevent disease.
Dr. Michel Thieren of the World Health Or
ganization said the largest threat to survivors
comes from poor sanitation, contaminated wa
ter and the interruption of routine medical
care, not the presence of the large numbers of
unburied corpses.
‘‘The relationship between dead bodies and
illness on the part of living persons is incor
rect — the risk of disease is actually low,” he
said in a telephone interview from Geneva.
Dr. Stephen Ostroff of the U.S. Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention agreed that
contaminated water and poor sanitation are
the greater risks but said removing dead bod
ies would also help ease health concerns.
‘‘For a variety of sanitary and hygiene rea
sons, it’s not good to have a lot of decompos
ing corpses sitting around,” he said.
Doctors have warned that diseases such as
typhoid fever, cholera and dysentery could
spread in the tent camps and shacks where
survivors now live.
Ostroff said there is also a risk of diarrheal
diseases sweeping through water in disaster
areas.
He added that in crowded, squalid condi
tions, normally routine diseases like measles
or tuberculosis — a particular problem in
Turkey — can turn into a large outbreak.
schools that a
VARSAW, Poland (AP) —
Uischwitz historians have proven
. Kt Ford vehicles were used at
ationgroups™ Nazi death camp but have
... ®id no evidence that the corn-
will appe If®, use d inmates as slave labor
er for schooli
he Institute ti
,M, a museum official said Yes-
■ay.
vouchers to tJ| ord Molor Co - is ,? mo "? about
ruin thepiw* com P ames mentlonec * 111 Nazi
or four 1 strp cumen y ,he Auschwitz muse-
nnrnvps cn Um recently received from Russia,
nprovesstu™ ^ara Jarosz, head of the
Vuschwitz museum archives, said
f ord is cited once in a report from
i Ineeting of the camp’s trans-
jpjrtation section in August 1942.
i/Iost of the documents still
le to be reviewed, Jarosz said,
ll according to those seen so far,
it is not true that Ford used slave
labor or inmates’ labor,” she said
in a telephone interview.
Ford’s U.S. headquarters has
acknowledged that slave labor
was used at its Cologne plant dur
ing World War II, but says it lost
control of its German operations
during the war.
Apart from Ford’s German sub
sidiary, German industrial giants
such as Krupp, Siemens, IG Far-
ben and M.A.N. also are named in
the newly available documents.
The documents include con
struction plans, orders for raw
materials or services, invoices and
reports from work on the death
camp that the Nazis set up in
1940. They also include lists of
workers, including camp inmates,
used by some companies.
U.S. denies attacking Iraq
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The
U.S. military denied Yesterday at
tacking civilian sites in Iraq, say
ing the Iraqi anti-aircraft artillery
which fired at U.S. planes also
killed two Iraqi civilians.
Iraq’s armed forces on Monday
claimed that American and
British planes killed two people in
an attack on the town of Ba’she-
qua, 280 miles north of Baghdad.
Lt. Col. Mike Waters, a
spokesman for Incirlik air base in
southern Thrkey, said the civilians
had most probably died from
falling Iraqi anti-aircraft rounds,
and not bombs fired by allied
planes patrolling a no-fly over
northern Iraq.
‘‘Saddam Hussein is killing his
own people by firing at us,” Wa
ters said. ‘‘If the artillery doesn’t
explode when it’s fired up, it will
come down and explode on the
ground.”
He said U.S. planes Monday
struck radar sites 35 miles west of
Ba’shequa and could not have
killed any civilians at the town it
self.
British and U.S. planes at In
cirlik patrol the skies over north
ern Iraq to protect the Kurdish mi
nority from Iraqi forces. Another
no-fly zone over southern Iraq
protects a Shiite minority there.
Baghdad regards the patrols as
a violation of its sovereignty and
since late December has regular
ly challenged the allied planes.
The United States and Britain
have responded by firing on radar
and other military sites.
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