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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.
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