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ORLD
Floods in Mexico cause mudslides; 123 d«
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VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico (AP) — Furious
rains sent swollen rivers raging through the streets
of the Gulf coast city of Villahermosa and caused
flooding and mudslides that killed 123 people in
eastern Mexico’s coastal mountain ranges. Rain
continued in some areas today.
In low-lying areas, people isolated by rising
rivers clung to trees or rooftops awaiting help.
More than 800 people were rescued by helicopter
in Veracruz state, officials said.
More than 157,000 others were driven from
their homes by the rains that flooded 10 states in
eastern and southern Mexico.
The Carrizal and Grijalva rivers continued to
rise Wednesday in the Tabasco state capital of Vil
lahermosa, pushing into city streets, flooding
houses with five feet of water and forcing resi
dents to flee in boats with their belongings.
“Not even the army’s efforts have been
enough. Unfortunately it is now impossible to
control the flow of water,” said Georgina TYu-
jillo, mayor of Villahermosa, where 500,000
people live.
More than 50,000 people were evacuated in
Tabasco, where four people were killed.
A tropical depression in the Gulf of Mexico that
lashed the coast and nearby mountains with rain
Monday and Tuesday mostly dissipated on
Wednesday. But forecasters predicted its rem
nants would continue to bring rain — as would
another weather system blowing in from the east.
Seventy people were reported dead in Puebla
state, southeast of Mexico City, state Gov.
Pacific
Ocean
250 miles
Melquiades Morales said in a radio
address today. Most had been killed
in mudslides in remote communi
ties and aid workers were struggling
to reach the stricken areas.
“We know that it is very proba
ble the figure will grow,” as officials
reach isolated areas, he said. About
19,000 evacuated their houses in
the state, he said.
In Teziutlan alone, officials
recorded more than 80 mudslides
— one of which swept away 20
houses — said Julieta Perez, secre
tary-general for the municipality of
180,000.
Veracruz state police reported
five additional deaths there today, 1 —“
bringing the storm’s toll to 40 in the
state. State officials said 48,000 people had been
evacuated.
There were four confirmed deaths in the cen
tral state of Hidalgo, the city of TUlancingo. 60
miles northeast of Mexico City. The city was rav
aged by floodwaters, and about 50,000 people
were evacuated.
Some regions had received 2 1/2 feet of rain
fall in two days — a total greater than the average
annual rainfall for the Mexico City area, National
Water Commission Director Guillermo Guerrero
said today.
“We had never seen anything like this,” truck
driver Armando Rosas said Wednesday after wait-
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of southern and central Mexico,
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The army said it had installed l 1
for storm refugees throughout the
addition to hundreds more establisl
cal or state officials.
Newspapers and television stations
City urged people to bring food, doi
kets and medicine for the victims to
centers in the capital.
Hindu nationalist party
wins Indian elections
NEW DELHI, India (AP) — A
22-party alliance led by the Hindu
nationalists won India’s parlia
mentary elections, unofficial re
sults showed yesterday, giving the
nation its first chance at a stable
government in several years.
With winners declared for 536
seats. Prime Minister Atal Bihari
Vajpayee’s alliance had won 286
while the main Congress party and
its allies trailed at 129.
Congress, led by Italian-born So
nia Gandhi, suffered its worst
showing ever, with a projected 113
of the 543 elected seats in the low
er house of parliament.
Results were expected to be
counted yesterday and officially an
nounced today for all but five con
stituencies, where voting was
rescheduled because of flooding.
India’s stock exchange, looking
for stability after four governments
in four years, reacted with confi
dence to television projections
showing Vajpayee’s alliance would
win at least 294 seats, a comfort
able majority.
Bombay’s Sensitive Index rose
5.64 percent and Moody’s Investor
Service upgraded India’s rating
from stable to positive, saying the
new government is likely to pursue
aggressive economic restructuring.
One of the new government’s
Germany offers
in WWII compensate
India's election
Unofficial results show a 22-
party alliance led by the Hindu
nationalists won India's
parliamentary elections.
Seats in Parliament
Preliminary results' of voting as
of Thursday, Oct. 7
130
'Five districts will vote on Oct. 28
AP/Wm. J. Gastello
first tasks will be to restart efforts
to forge a lasting peace with neigh
boring Pakistan.
Efforts at improving ties be
tween the South Asian rivals were
wrecked when Indian troops bat
tled Pakistani-backed intruders in
Kashmir in fierce fighting lasting
from May to July.
The victory gives the new gov
ernment a good chance of serving
a full five-year term, something no
party in India other than Congress
has been able to do.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
German government and indus
tries offered $3.3 billion yester
day to compensate for World
War II atrocities. Lawyers for
victims labeled the offer “an
enormous disappointment.”
“I told the German delegation
they have done more harm to the
German govern-
merit and German
people than they can
ever imagine,” Mel
Weiss, an attorney
for survivors in
class-action suits in
U.S. courts, said.
Otto Lambsdorff,
chief German envoy
to two days of com
pensation talks host-
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this afternoon.
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offer in front of the State
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Wolfgang Gibowski, spokesman
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talks, said he felt the offer shows
German industry “standing up to its
moral responsibility.”
German officials said the offer
would include payment of about
$5,500 to each slave laborer.
It was unclear what would be
paid to other victims, including
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