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Wednesday, February 25, 2004
THE BATTALIA
Earthquake strikes northeai
Morocco killing hundreds
By Ali Naji
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
AL HOCEIMA, Morocco —
A powerful earthquake devastat
ed an isolated, picturesque
region of northern Morocco on
Tuesday, killing more than 300
people as they slept, injuring at
least 600 and laying ruin to vil
lages that suffered for decades
under government neglect.
Rescuers with pick axes and
sniffer dogs were searching for
survivors trapped under the rub
ble of their fragile mud-and-
stone homes, which crumbled
easily in the 6.5-magnitude tem
blor. Victims were most likely
women, children and the elderly
because men in the region tend
to emigrate to the Netherlands
and Germany in search of work,
said Mohammed Ziane, a for
mer human rights minister.
The quake, which rattled
apartment buildings as far
away as southern Spain,
destroyed rural communities
near the coastal city of A1
PORTUGAL
Atlantic Ocean
Magnitude
6.5 quake
killed at
least 300
Western
Sahara
MAURI7
SOURCES: ESRI; USGS;
Associated Press
Hoceima, a hideaway tucked
between the Rif Mountains
and the Mediterranean Sea that
draws European tourists with
its sandy beaches.
Selaam Bennaissa, a farmer
who lives in Ait Daoud, 12
miles from A1 Hoceima, said
he was home when the quake
struck at 2:27 a.m., and barely
escaped before his house came
crashing down.
“Fortunately it didn't fall on
me,” he said. He estimated
about 90 percent of the
in his village collapsed.
Authorities were scramblim
reach about a half-dozen
villages, including Ait 1
Tamassint and Imzourn, wl*
36,000 people live.
Josephine Shields of
International Committee of
Red Cross, citing civil defem
officials in A1 Hoceima, saidi|
heard reports that Ait Kamara
village of 6,000 — was destroy)
Rescuers reported difficult
getting to the stricken area
mountain foothills and sent
by narrow, poor roads. As tin
arrived, they found corpstt
some families already
buried their dead.
French LC1 television si
men with pick axes chipping fe
way through debris left by fir
tened buildings — while
used their bare hands — to dys
reach trapped victims.
More than 200 relief wort®
from the Moroccan
Crescent were at the scent
along with helicopters
with emergency supplies.
Rebels threaten Haiti’s capit<
as Aristide appeals for help
By Mark Stevenson
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haiti’s president
urgently appealed for the world’s help Tuesday to
avert a bloodbath and a new exodus of boat people
as rebels threatened the capital. Despite last-ditch
diplomacy, an opposition coalition rejected a U.S.-
backed peace plan.
Supporters of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide
armed with old rifles and pistols built junkpile barri
cades blocking the road into Port-au-Prince, setting
some of the barriers ablaze with burning tires.
The opposition rejected a peace plan that
would have kept Aristide as president, but with
diminished powers and compelled to share gov
ernment with his rivals.
“We sent our position (paper) and a signed let
ter saying no to the proposal,” opposition leader
Paul Denis told The Associated Press. He said the
letters from the Democratic Platform were deliv
ered to David Lee of Canada, the Organization of
American States representative in Haiti.
“There will be no more delays. Our answer
remains the same. Aristide must resign,” said
Maurice Lafortune, president of the Haitian Chamber
of Commerce that is a member of the Democratic
Platform, following a coalition meeting.
Secretary of State Colin Powell on Monday
had asked the opposition leaders to delay their for
mal response for 24 hours — until 5 p.m. Tuesday
— and opposition leaders said he had sought to
assure them that the international community
would call for Aristide to step down if he did not
honor any agreement.
Aristide appeals for help
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide appealed for
the world to come to Haiti’s aid on Tuesday.
V. In the meantime, the rebels say they'll
CUBA re f«ct a proposed peace plan.
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this. Haiti's fourth largest
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were going to set up a
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2003 between police and government opponents who rtemafaal
want to bring attention to people desperate to escape community
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Rebels seize
control of
Gonaives
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soldiers
return and
seize the
strategic town
of Hlncho.
Feb.21
International
delegation
visits but
leaves
without any
agreement.
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Rebels seize SOUS.
Cap-Haitien. Matinesamn
in Poit-au-
Prince to
protect
the U S.
Embassy
SOURCES Associated Press; ESRI
S. Hoflmann, J. Setwtsili
The neighboring Dominican Republic sent 1,21
extra troops to patrol its border with Haiti, saidif-
tary spokesman Col. Juan Julio Tejeda Maderahi
declined to provide the total number of troops attk
225-mile border and said he didn’t expect a
influx of refugees, “but we are ready.”
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