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Page 12 • Monday, November 8, 1999 VVORLD Mobil Aggieland Alternator Auto & Mobil Service SUNDAY SPECIAL: OIL CHANGE FILTER & LUBE includes: Windshield • Tire Pressure Check • Washer Filled • Charging System Check • Brake Check • Transmission Check Sunday Price only $ 17.95 reg. $22.50 M/le Provide Auto Repairs, Maintenance, and State Inspections 815 University Dr. (Next to McDonald's) College Station, TX 77845 260-7272 Mobil Hours: Shop Hours: Mon.- Sat. 7:00 - 9:00 Mon.- Sat. 8:00 - 6:00 Sun. 8:00-9:00 Sun. 10:00- 4:00 Elections for Vice President of Finance & Vice President of Distinguished Partners BSC TONIGHT BSC B usiness c General Meeting Welmer 113, 7:30 p.m. bsc All Majors are welcome to attend. escBeminder: Faculty Luncheon- Wednesday, November 10 th 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Aid arrives in India’s cyclone zone Government’s lack of preparedness still leaves most in the dark BHUBANESWAR, India (AP) — Trucks and trains packed with food moved more rapidly into cyclone- ravaged eastern India yesterday, and the army general heading a massive relief operation proclaimed, “The worst is over. ” Nine days after the cyclone ripped through hundreds of coastal towns and villages of Orissa state. Special Relief Commissioner D.N. Padhi raised the death toll to 1,715. But uncounted thousands more were buried, cremated or left uncol lected in a muddy wasteland. Deaths at this point are due to a combination of food shortages and gastroenteritis caused by dirty water, Julian Francis of the International Red Cross, who blamed the central government for not giving enough funding, said. The Red Cross raised in one week a tenth of the $581 million the state said it needed, he said. “The work of restoration, from building village roads to national high ways, telephone and electricity lines, provision of drinking water, requires a huge amount,” Giridhar Gamang, the state’s chief minister, said. Gamang, who is a member of the opposition Congress party, has dis puted with the central government — dominated by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s coalition — over the amount of aid, whether it would be in the form of loans or grants, and how the spending would be monitored. “The worst is over. By evening... we wouid have reached ail the areas.” — Gen. A.S. Klair heads the military operation But he denied that the govern ment’s lack of preparedness had con tributed to the large number of deaths, which he refused to estimate. He did say, however, that there are things that can be done next time if disaster strikes the cyclone-prone region, one of the poorest in India. Regional headquarters could have better communications equip ment and homes along the coast could be more cyclone resistant. Meanwhile, engineers repaired a 300-foot breach in the main highway from Calcutta yesterday, clearing the way for thousands of trucks bearing emergency supplies and allowing a measure of normal commerce to resume. “We are much better off now,” Gen. A.S. Klair, who headed the 5,000-man military operation which took over when the civilian admin istration collapsed, said. “The worst is over. By evening, except for a few pockets, we would have reached all the areas. I’d like to believe that more than 95 percent of the area has been covered be tween the army, navy and air force,” Klair said. But crowds still pressed around relief vehicles delivering food to the desperately hungry, and aid agen cies said they need military or police help to deliver relief. With human and animal carcass es rotting in the fields, fears were widespread of epidemics from con taminated water supplies. The army set up five field hospi tals to handle cases of waterborne diseases, and soldiers brought bleaching powder to far-flung vil lages to clean wells. News in Brief Two moderate earthquakes hit western Turkey Sunday ADAPAZARI, Turkey (AP) — Two moderate earth quakes rocked this town in western Turkey yester day, causing panic among tens of thousands of peo ple living in tents since the deadly earthquake this summer that destroyed their houses. Seven people were hospitalized for shock, the Anatolia news agency said. One of them, a 55-year-old woman, later died of a heart attack at the hospital. The tremors — with preliminary magnitudes of 5.0 and 4.3 — struck in one of the areas hit most severely by the Aug. 17 quake, which had a magni tude of 7.4 and left more than 17,000 people dead. There were no reports of damage. But authorities warned citizens not to enter houses damaged in the previous quake. Istanbul’s Kandilli observatory said the tremors were aftershocks of the August quake. Many aftershocks have struck the area since then. Vietnam-flooding death toll reaches 456, rescue intensify HUE, Vietnam (AP) — The water came unbelievably fast, a killer in the middle of the night. With nowhere to go, the family of eight tied themselves together — per haps so when they died, all of their bodies would be found. The discovery of their corpses added to the many tales of sorrow that emerged yesterday as several million peo ple began to collect their shattered lives in the wake of Vietnam’s worst flooding in at least a century. After more than a week of rainstorms, the fear of more rain ended in most areas, and forecasters said condi tions appeared to be improving. Still, waters remained high as the remains of the trop ical depression moved north and rainfall worked its way downstream, isolating the ancient city of Hue. The death toll has climbed to 456, with 94 missing. All available military personnel are involved in the coun try's biggest relief operation, with thousands of tons of emergency food en route to the region. The flooding has devastated seven provinces in cen tral Vietnam that are home to 7 million people, causing an estimated $50 million in damage. Labastidaw^^- likely to wu primary uve mine the candidate mostlii win the presidency and 11 , , .Bnal level a it MEXICO CITY (AP) -1 cisco Labastida, Mexico’s:^ -| • interior secretary, appear £> :: " yl 1 't ed to victory yesterday intklff * erning party’s first presi s near , primary, a vote that wj|;l 5usine ' s d [.ops at the threatened to divide the par P 51 has ruled tor 70 years, wees stretch tc Early results showed ufF.’ 11 t . ie 8'°^: da, widely seen as the die’ e ’ lt , ls becomi President Ernesto Zedillo,If l * ial Ameri in 261 of the 300 electoi5D ) "' n 8 la| ' s h( tricts, with more than 10pfHP n B L1,;i 8 e stai of the vote in. 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