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Hope dwindles for Bogota volcano survivors
BOGOTA. Colombia (AP) — Rescuers
still searched the remains of Armero on
Wednesday but burial squads also mov
ed in. gouging long trenches in the
volcanic mud with back hoes and dump
ing truckloads of bodies into them.
Soldiers acting on orders from health
officials slogged through the muck with
small cans of gasoline, dousing decaying
bodies and setting them afire, shooting
animals that had been feeding off the
corpses. The men wore masks against
the stench.
Residents who had fled began return
ing to Marquita, nine miles to the north,
and other towns that escaped major
damage from the mud avalanche that
flowed into the Andes valley Nov. 13
after the eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz
volcano.
A 15-foot-deep lake of mud buried
Armero and parts of other towns below
the volcano. At least 25.000 people were
killed.
The mayor’s office in Mariquita.
where the small hospital became an
emergency clinic, said about 15,000 peo
ple had returned. Scientists monitoring
the volcano cautioned against
complacency.
"The dangtir is not over,” said
Haraound Ta/zieff. French minister of
natural disasters. "The activity of the
volcano will continue for a long time and
the greatest danger is the melting and
breaking up of the glaciers."
The burial and burning of bodies was
ordered to combat typhoid fever ami
other diseases.
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Smokeout challenges
even southern smokers
RALK1GH, N.C, (AP) — The Groat American Smokeout
marches into the heart of tobacco Country today, and Its anti
smoking message is spreading even in the land when* the
golden leaf is the undisputed, muitibiilion-dollar king.
“We have nearly 80 of our HK) county units participating
this year, so there are many activities going on,** said Wendy
Scott, spokeswoman for the American Cancer Society's North
Carolina office, “in 1981. we had 32 units participating.'*
However. “We take a very low key approach to asking
people to quit." said Wanda Jeffers, an organizer for the
group in South Carolina's Pee Dee region, where much of that
state's $184 million tobacco crop is produced “I don't think
we make everybody mad "
The cancer society says smoking contribute# to heart and
lung disease, including cancers.
But the Smokeout brings an unwelcome message for
many Southerners, particularly among those whose
livelihood depends on tobacco, the crop brought In more
than $3 billion to tobacco growers in eight states in 1984
That money also bolsters department stores, equipment and
car dealers and government tax coffers
“I would hope (the city of) Wilson wouldn't be par
ticipating in a Smokeout because if it hadn't been for tobacco,
there wouldn't be a Wilson," said Marvin (.oghill, president
of Standard Commercial Tobacco Co., which has its head
quarters in North Carolina's seventh-larges! tobacco
producing county.
No ACS Smokeout activities are planned in Wilson, but
from smoking essay contests in Nashville. Tonn.. to "kick the
habit" games in Kentucky and Northern Telecom's frozen
turkey giveaway for its North Carolina employees who quit
mid turkey, the cancer society's annual nudnight-to
midnight Smokeout is drawing more people from tobacco
country than ever before.
Across the United States last year, a record 20 4 million
smokers participated. Of those, 5,4 million stopped for the
day and 3.1 million were still off cigarettes five days later, ac
cording to the Callup Poll. The six,lety was unable to provide
a regional breakdown on participation
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