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— Griffin Daily News Friday, February 6,1976
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Toll tops 3,000
GUATEMALA CITY,
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relief teams today rushed food
and medical supplies to
Guatemala, where the earth
quake death toll climbed to
3,000 and doctors operated in
makeshift tents to save the
gravely injured still streaming
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graves containing many of the
victims of Wednesday’s pre
dawn ‘quake so the nation could
turn to the more urgent task of
saving the thousands of injured.
Red Cross Director Jose
Alvarado said additional re
ports from hard-hit outlying
areas put the death toll at 3,000
and “still rising.”
He said whole towns had been
reduced to rubble and survivors
were still being rushed to the
capital by helicopter and
ambulance.
The government refused to
speculate on the possible death
toll and said it could only
confirm 1,373 persons had been
buried by midday Thur
sday.
A spokesman for the Ameri
can embassy said officials
believed all Americans in the
country were safe.
At Guatemala City’s General
Hospital Dr. Cesar Solis, chief
of surgery, said beds were
moved to outside patios for fear
the hospital roof might cave in.
A makeshift tent became the
hospital’s emergency room.
The United States, Peru,
Venezuela, Nicaragua, El Sal
vador and Honduras all rushed
relief supplies to the stricken
country.
The U.S. aid included a team
of 25 physicians and equipment
to set up a 100-bed hospital,
along with plasma and badly
needed drugs.
The government appealed to
food stores to reopen to supply
the thousands of homeless still
camping out in streets and
parks.
It warned that those stores
hoarding food or jacking up
prices would be “drastically
sanctioned.”
Government employes were
asked to return to work today.
A few businesses, gasoline
stations and shops were open
and there was traffic in the
streets.
In the capital, water was
restored to about 25 per cent of
the city. Most electricity also
was restored, although some
times with emergency genera
tors.
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Somalia reports
border incident
By United Press International
Somalia’s national news
agency charged today that
French troops have provoked
new border incidents in their
dispute over the shooting of
guerillas in neighboring French
territory.
The Somali government
asked for an immediate U.N.
investigation of the alleged
clashes.
The Somali news agency
SONNA quoted Somali Foreign
Secretary Omar Arteh Ghalib
as saying that “a new attack of
French forces perpetrated
Thursday morning caused seri
ous damages.” Ghalib gave no
further details.
Somali Ambassador to
France Mohamed Samantar
said that according to an
official Somali toll, French
troops have killed 23 Somalian
citizens and wounded several
dozen others in incidents
arising from the hijacking of a
school bus Monday by a group
of Djibouti nationalist gunmen.
In Paris, French authorities
said they have alerted the 2,200-
man Foreign Legion shock
troops in Corsica to stand by
for a possible emergency airlift
to Djibouti, capital of the
French East African territory
of Afars and Issas.
Two French attack subma
rines and a logistical support
ship left Toulon and Lorient
naval bases for the Indian
Ocean today to boost the
French naval task force there,
and to participate in maneu
vers, the French government
said.
French authorities rejected
the latest Somali accusations
and said France will use all
means necessary to preserve
the African territory’s sove
reignty.
Ambassador Samantar told
reporters in Paris his country
is convinced French and
American naval forces were
concentrating off the coast of
Africa for an attack on
War hero
testifies on
spending
WASHINGTON (UPI) - A
U.S. Air Force war hero told of
entertainment in “the grand old
style” and influence peddling
among West German military
leaders in letters and memos
published by a Senate subcom
mittee.
The documents help explain I
why Lockheed Aircraft Corp,
spent hundreds of millions of
dollars on agents’ fees — some I
$22 million of which allegedly I
went for bribes and kickbacks I
— to stimulate sales of its I
warplanes around the world.
The Senate subcommittee on I
multinational corporations I
released the material in ad- I
vance of a hearing today at I
which Lockheed officials will be I
asked about their dealings with I
foreign politicians.
The German correspondence I
is from Norman S. Orwat, a 1
Lockheed vice president in 1973, I
who climbed the officer ranks I
from a World War II flying I
lieutenant to major general I
before retiring in 1966.
Orwat worked with one of I
Lockheed’s most influential I
agents, Christian Steinrucke, of I
West Germany.
Somalia.
Samantar also charged that,
according to his government,
French troops were massing at
the frontier.
“Somali is convinced a
massive attack is being pre
pared against it,” he said, after
talking by telephone with
Somali government officials.
Samantar did not elaborate
on his mention of U.S. forces in
the area.
In Washington, the Pentagon
said its standard policy was not
to comment on naval maneu
vers, and in Paris, a French
Defense Ministry also declined
comment, saying “this type of
statement has been made
before.”
Tensions increased between
Somali and the tiny French
territory after French troops
stormed a school bus near the
border Wednesday to rescue 30
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children held hostage by
nationalist guerrillas.
Eight persons died in the
shootout, including the four
gunmen who hijacked the bus,
two guerrilla sympathizers, an
8-year-old school girl, and a
Somali soldier, French officials
said.
French officials have charged
that Somali troops opened fire
on French troops during the
border shootout. Samantar re
ported that 23 Somalians were
killed by French troops in the
clash.
Samantar said the Somali
frontier post of Loyala was
“completely razed to the
ground” by French forces and
a six-man border patrol, and
numerous Somali policemen
and civilians were killed.
French troops, which were
joined by an 800-man special
force sent from Paris after the
flare-up, remained on a war
level alert with their tanks
facing down Soviet-made Soma- >
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A 7-year-old school boy was
taken from the bus into
northern Somalia by guerrillas, 1
who said today from Mogadis
hu, the capital of Somalia, that
they would hold him until
French authorities release two ‘
guerrillas charged with killing
a policeman.
Samantar said Thursday the *
boy was taken into Somalia for
treatment of injuries received
during the shootout, and that
Somalia would do “everything *
we can to ensure his safety”
and his return.
During the original hijacking, t
the gunmen had demanded
independence for the territory
— formerly named French
Somaliland — and the release *
of all political prisoners.