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To: luckyjack who wrote (3063)	5/23/1998 7:37:00 PM
From: MoneyMade	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34075

More on the INCA curse.... Bolivian quakes kill scores LA PAZ, Bolivia -- (AP) -- Earthquakes rolled through central Bolivia early Friday, destroying hundreds of adobe homes in remote mountain towns. At least 60 people were killed, many as they slept, the country's civil defense chief reported. Landslides came crashing down on roads leading to the towns, setting back relief efforts and forcing army paratroopers to drop from military helicopters to get to areas where help was needed. Repeated aftershocks sent panicked residents fleeing any buildings left standing. About 30,000 people, mostly Quechua Indian farmers, live in the area hit by the quakes, 350 miles east of La Paz, the capital. Besides the known dead, more than 100 were missing and dozens injured, civil defense chief Gen. Luis Montero reported. Among the dead were 10 sleeping children. A 5.9-magnitude quake struck at 12:36 a.m. near Aiquile, a village of 5,000 in central Carrasco province. The San Calixto Observatory in La Paz said a second quake hit the same region 13 minutes later, with a magnitude of 6.8. The epicenter was 55 miles below the surface. President Hugo Banzer Suarez flew to Aiquile to direct relief efforts. Montero said 80 percent of the houses in Aiquile were destroyed. The roof of the Aiquile hospital caved in, and a landslide blocked access to the town. Radio reports from nearby Totora indicated the town of several thousand people was almost wiped out. ''There's panic'' in Totora, where the inhabitants ''need beds, medical supplies and food,'' seminary student Juan Carlos Ferrufino told La Paz-based Fides radio from the ruined town. ''Frightened people seeking shelter raced to a nearby mountain, and right now no one is helping victims caught in the rubble,'' he said. In Aiquile, Totora and Pocoma, townspeople gathered in the main plazas after the jolts, fearing the aftershocks would bring down more buildings. In other areas, hundreds of people were stranded on rural highways, trapped by landslides. Helicopters flew in emergency supplies of food and medicine from Cochabamba, 80 miles to the north, and brought out the injured. Tractors began clearing the rubble from the streets of Aiquile so rescue workers could reach more of the injured. In all, 178 quakes and aftershocks rattled the provinces of Cochabamba, La Paz, Santa Cruz and Chuquisaca in a 12-hour period, the San Calixto Observatory reported. But only Cochabamba suffered damage and casualties. The U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colo., said the epicenter of the quake was 47 miles east of Cochabamba, the provincial capital. (MoneyMade cutting his vacation short for Emergency OPS!) MINE code 10