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,day, November 4,1 w ORLD VRDNER 'from Page 11 let the naggingir. his enthusiasm. I A&M coach i ^ri=Four exchange students die in crash y problem withW id" '-Bu^m^amilies mourn over the loss of their loved ones after EgyptAir tragedy ^ageJ^j^Thursda^Novembe^^J^OO^ ceived offerings of condolence. But he could not name any possible perpetrator. “They should not have put officers in a civil ian plane full of innocent people,” he said bitter ly. “Their presence was not God’s will.” “TTiey should not have put officers in a civilian plane full of innocent people” — Badawi Abu Shanab A victim’s father He said a trip arranged by state-owned EgyptAir that took families of the victims to the United States to be close to the search operation was nothing more than “propaganda.” “What was I supposed to do there? Was this a holiday or something? A package tour? They’re not going to find any corpse,” Abu Shanab said. Authorities have publicly said they have found only one body and do not expect to find other bodies intact. The investigation is considering all ry slot. We coulil d run any platB LUXOR, Egypt (AP) — Wila Abu Zeid smiles light be theinoj- shyly in the glossy montage photo her family r er we’ve got - ipasses out to friends and relatives who come to ; the toughest." mourn her. Bumgardner reco:B Seagulls soar behind her over dark blue chop- ions for 173 yard;® waters, a metaphor for the Atlantic Ocean, wn in 11 gam. Where she perished Sunday, ught 10 passes fo:B Abu Zeid was one of four Luxor teen-agers tlayed in all 13g killed in the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990 as they liege start was <•; returned from a two-week exchange program in te, and the res! Balumore. ■ backed up Itl Samir Abu Zeid had been eagerly waiting for his 19-year-old daughter to tell him all about her hgh School was Jst trip to the United States, iner as he was a!® “AH 1 want now is that they find her body and lection after recoiBM it to me so 1 can bury her,” he said, break- ns for 1,152 yard;Ig into sobs. wns during hissoll What Badawi Abu Shanab wants is to find out junior years, h what really happened to the plane when it iter for the track: pl un 8 ec l > n to the Atlantic a half-hour after taking ffensive coorc Pf fr° m N ew York’s Kennedy Airport, tborne said onrM U* s son Ahmed, who would have turned 15 offense has a:Way, was or the night. ntinuity in the pari Abu Shanab suspects foul play, especially af- aid achieving cor ter 11 was reported that 33 Egyptian military offi- ne, practice and c r s were amon g the 217 people on board. d s of the pass 1 “h was planned,” Abu Shanab said as he re- ardner] is an int® what we’re d;. ■ said. “I call him cause he is a i ? runs well, he ca; a great player. Vt|| HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Torrential downpours have devastated cen- here, he does a ; tra | Vietnam, causing floods that have killed hundreds of people, the head of a government delegation to the afflicted areas said yesterday, ive-year roomn® The death toll was expected to increase as reports trickled in from quarterback ai i eas where phone lines were down. Rain was still falling in inundat- said Burngdrcy are as. omes from his W Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Huy Ngo, head of haracteristic. He amission dispatched to the area by Prime Minister Phan Van Khai, said er takes pride in kin an interview with Vietnam Television that the death toll was in the , and he also ii“hundreds.” He did not give an exact figure. locking well when® Nguyen Van Me, governor of Thua Thien Hue province, said in a live directed toward ^telephone interview with VTV that 48 people had died in his province, dner said he including three rescuers from the Border Guard. ire an effective pass ; He said many people have been sitting on the roofs of their houses for ie field because oftl.two days waiting for food. Four helicopters dispatched by the govern- oft the held. He; m ent could not reach the province. ble to offer each ot: Ngo said rescue operations are very difficult because of continuing bad /e criticism during:weather. hout the fear of h: Heavy rains have dumped up to two feet of rain on the flood-prone re gion over the past week. The storms are expected to continue the rest of at scared to tell lithe week, the central weather forecasting station said, ik out on the field, Vast swaths of farmland and hundreds of thousands of homes were cared to tell me vt®' ” Bumgardner said, looser, more relav ?. We’re practical possibilities for the cause of the crash: human er ror, mechanical failure and sabotage. Tayseer Ahmed is also looking for answers. Her 13-year-old daughter, Jihad, and husband, Husam — the students’ chaperone — were among those killed. “We were fond of Americans,” Ahmed said. “They shouldn’t have let the passengers on the plane if there was a technical problem.” Ahmed and her husband were preparing to re ceive four American exchange students at their home in March. She spoke over the wails of her mother-in-law, who sat with a dozen other women on the floor of her tiny bedroom. “Oh God, give us patience,” the mourners repeated in a chorus after Hayat, Jihad’s grandmother. “Husam, my son, I miss you so much,” Hay at cried. With every remark, she drew more noisy sobs from the women. The parents of 16-year-old Sameh Fawzi left Luxor for Cairo, 300 miles to the north, to meet him at the airport Sunday. They still have not returned to Luxor, intent on staying in Cairo until his body is found and sent to them. Riots break out in India after cyclone hits, kills thousands Vietnam floods kill hundreds; government supplies food submerged in one of the country’s poorest regions. North-south trans port by road and rail was paralyzed. VTV said the air force sent four transport planes and seven helicopters to bring food supplies from Hanoi to the region. Sixteen tons of instant noodles have been supplied, but the aircraft only could land in Nghe An, 220 miles north of Hue and could not yet fly into the ancient capital, which has been virtually cut off. Submerged under 10 feet of water in some places, Hue shut its airport Tuesday. Danang followed suit yesterday. Telecommunications to Hue went down Tuesday afternoon, so it was impossible to get estimates of casualties or damage. The Vietnam Red Cross said it planned to issue a national appeal for help Thursday and that a request for international aid could follow. Some $30,000 already has been sent to buy food, medicine, clothing and oth er supplies in seven affected provinces. Thirteen people were killed by flooding in Quang Nam province as of late Tuesday afternoon, said Le Van Thu of the provincial flood and storm control committee, adding that the death toll could rise as more reports come in from outlying districts. Thu said 150,000 houses were submerged, along with thousands of acres of rice. “Water is everywhere and still rising,” he said. FARADWIP, India (AP) — An gry mobs looted aid trucks, robbed desperate survivors and fought over food in cyclone-rav aged eastern India on yesterday. Officials used bulldozers to col lect hundreds of bodies. In rice fields that have become lakes and along roads turned into rivers, bloated human corpses lie rotting for mile after mile along side the carcasses of drowned cows, goats and pigs. “So many thousands have died that there is no one left to cremate them,” Dhaneshwar Mohanty, who fled the flooded port city of Paradwip yesterday, said. Five days after eastern Orissa state was pounded by one of In dia’s worst cyclones, officials had no way to estimate an accurate death toll. A senior army officer involved in the rescue operation told the Associated Press on condition of anonymity that it could reach 10,000 to 20,000'. More than 15 million people live in the area hit by the cyclone. The storm was one of India’s worst, possibly more deadly than a cyclone in 1971 that killed 10,000 people. Officials have said the storm has set back the state’s economic development more than 20 years. Furious gangs tried to stop every passing car, bus or truck to grab whatever was available. Relief trucks were looted be fore they could reach desperate rural areas. Those stuck in the seemingly endless traffic jams were most vulnerable. Near the small village of Panikuli, Lai Dev rushed across a road strewn with broken egg car tons to reach an army truck, flail ing his arms to get attention. “They raped a woman in front of me,” Dev cried, his face bat tered, “and then they took every thing away from the bus.” Police said they have received dozens of similar reports. Survivors have fled Paradwip any way they can to reach the state capital, Bhubaneswar, 60 miles inland. But the capital had little food and no clean water. “They raped a woman in front of me, and then they took everything away from the bus” — Lai Dev Riot victim There were reports of food ri ots and shops and cafes were closed. Schools were full of homeless people, with the over flow sleeping in the streets around burning tires. The stench of rotting flesh near water wells and canals por tend a potential epidemic. Work ers will need days to repair high ways so that aid can reach the most devastated areas. R.P. Singh, director of the Powergrid Corp., estimated it would take a month to restore normal electric power in the state. Orissa normally consumes 1,600 megawatts a day, but was receiving only 100 megawatts since,the cyclone hit. “Many of the substations in the state are under water,” he said. 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