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INTERNATIONAL NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD Relief workers rush to help quake victims in southwestern China ■ QUAKE: A! k *sf ?38 peopkj were killed and nearly 14.000 injured m Saturday s magnitude-7 quake in Yunnan province III IIING (API — Medial and Mldbn ruthed into kwiIi. tJpanjt in *outhw«**c »rn China on Sunday to help turvivorc of a powerful earthquake that kllM at k*Ml 2 in |****»pl» and injured nearly H.noo The floor* of two local hoaptotU went 111 lad with injured people, the stale-run Xinhua news agency Mid Doctor* also worked outdoors and in lion potary tlin» lot *et up in ltoil* r«l«vlti(HI reports ihnwd mroln» attending lo blood tad victim* who lay on mattress*** on a floor, covered with thick miih* to protect thorn Crom temperatures that hovered near freesmg. On Monday, Ion* of thousands of injured and hornet**** people Mt huddled under quills or dug through the nibble of their devastate*! mtKl and rock horn*** One young roar:\m worker eat on the rub ble embracing a quake vic tim and weep "People from alt walk* of tile have been qui*k torn l to help, wd Own |i«of the Vunnan province government Team* of relief worker* reached all area* that were heavily damaged. she said. The television report said 23* people died. 3.700 were seriously injured, and more than 10,000 suffered mince injuries A male foreign tourist was Among ih* »v«roly injured hurt hi* name and nation ality wit not immediately known. Kin hue Mid Four other foreigner* suffered minor injuries. the new* agent y Mid M«wi of the fatalities occurred in near In Dayan town and in the rural area* of While Sand and Ck»ld Mountain. Chen Mid The pntumsqoe town of liliang, I.MD mite* southwest of Railing, i* cm* of Yun nan's mom popular tourist area*. But the traditional homos that dr* .orate the mountainous region am vulnerable to earthquakes bacauae Ihn are made of mud bricks, w.th heavy roofs of rounded gray tdes on wooden rafter* Saturday'* magnitude-7 quake damaged the ok) quarter of l.iiisny a maze of nar row. twisting nofablastone street* and fast* flowing canals crossed by arched atone todgn About 10 pnwii of the town'* okt one and two-dory wooden building* with pil lar* and balconies wore destroyed. the report said Mini of Upang* resident* were ivk tinted to temporary shelter* set up tn tent*, end the government we* providing quilt*, water and food. Chen said The quake collapsed nearly 180.000 buildings across the stricken arm. cut off communication and. in some areas, knocked out water, electricity and roads. Chen said. Ask A Nurse. Call 686-7000 Ask-A-Nurse provides free answers to your health auestums from Registered Nurses, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. 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Africa ■ Language The new tor mat leaves one channel primarily «n English while Afrikaners fight for space on the other two JOHANNESBURG, South Afrit* (API — Language it pow or. and turbulent* over tongue* fill* South Africa'* history A new skirmish Marled Sunday night, when the South Afrii an Broad < aatlng Corp made deep cut* In Afrikaans television program ming In favor of indigenous Ian ttlf Angered bjr thi* perceived assault on their culture front South Africa’s fir*! Mark led gov ernment, Afrikaner* are taking the SAHt to court, threatening to hold Mick their TV lave* and launch their own satellite televi sion station The luritle forms part of a rear guard action by oonaarvativea to defend their taal." or longue, in privileged Mutton* — the mili tary, civil service, school* — where they held away under apartheid The struggle i* atiseiv over d>e plate of South Africa’* so-called white tribe under Pneudent Nelson Mandela'* reign — whether to stubbornly sires* a unique identity, including demands for a separate mini* state, or to jump headlong into the ethnic; mis Afrikaners, who are white, account for about 3 1 million of South Africa's 43 million people, and Afrikaans is the first language of most of the 1.5 million South Africans of mised mc* descent An additional to million people speak the language or understand it The activists suing SABC »< c ount lor a smalt minority of Afrikaners, though many more harbor fears of their language diminishing "Afrikaans is today not threat ened. but it is under pressure/' said Frits Kok. managing direc tor of the Afrikaans language and Culture Organisation "But when you put any c ulture under pres sure it grows " The Afrikaans language evolved from Dutch, the language of the Afrikaners 17th century forehessr* Afrikaners view them selves as authentic Africans, rather than colonist*, due to their long history on the continent. And they felt as aggrieved a* any native people by the British c jumpiest of their republics at the turn of the century The Afrikaner-led National Party capita bred on anti British resentment and won power in IWMMi, reola* utg one form of injus tice with another — apartheid. the system of white-minority rule that denied nearly all rights to South Africa's bUuii majority Among them was language English and Afrikaans were the only official tongues, though more than half the population understood neither Native African languages had status only in the so-called "homelands," or reservations where blacks lived Millions did not obey, flocking to townships where their chil dren received education in Eng lish ami Afrikaans The apartheid regime's plans to make Afrikaans the only language of instruction triggered days ofrioting in Sowe to In 1978 that shook the gov ernment to its roots. We were taught Afrikaans as a subject, It was always the most unpopular." recalls Tsheplso Mashinini, now urbanization director of Johannesburg's met ropolitan council. "What's happening with the television is a triumph in the sense that our culture wasn't assimilated by Afrikaans." he said. The new formal leaves one channel primarily in English Afrikaans will fight for space on the other two Depending on who is counting, Afrikaans lan guage programming will account for Jus! 1 to * percent of airtime Freshman Interest Groups LOOKING FOR A WAY TO GET INVOLVED AND HELP OTHERS? 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