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Abdelkader Mayouf, 24, a medical technician in the Algerian town of El Asnam, recalled his escape as he gazed upon the ruins of the modern, four-story hospital where he had worked. Mayouf had been luckier than the 300 patients who were trapped in their beds when the earthquake struck...
...many of the living. On Wednesday, five days after the quake, a ten-month-old baby girl was found hungry but unhurt. Unlike so many children wandering the streets, she was reunited with older sisters and brothers. By then, with water in short supply, sanitation hazards were increasing, and Algerian officials had begun worrying not only about epidemics but about civil disorder. One convoy was raided by villagers, angry that truckloads of food and medicine were constantly passing them by. Armed soldiers were forced to mount patrols to guard against mass looting of tottering buildings...
...lower than the 7.7 recorded in September 1978, when 25,000 people were killed in northeast Iran. In El Asnam, the city was again laid waste, along with many of the farmhouses and villages in a 25-mile radius. Eyewitnesses estimated that 80% of El Asnam was destroyed; the Algerian Red Crescent initially reported that perhaps as many as 25,000 had been killed and another 200,000 injured or left homeless, without food or drinkable water. Said a Swiss official of the International Red Cross: "God knows when we'll have a reliable estimate of casualties. It could...
Announcing the catastrophe to the nation on state-owned Algerian Television, a newscaster wept openly as he read the government's order mobilizing rescue squads and appealing to the public for donations of blood. Shortly afterward, French and Tunisian medical teams were dispatched to Algeria. Britain and West Germany provided emergency supplies, and Switzerland sent its famed air-rescue detachment. Because of heavy damage to railroads, highways and bridges, however, help was slow to arrive in El Asnam, except for a fleet of Algerian military helicopters, which began ferrying seriously injured victims to hospitals in other cities. Finally...
...prime suspect: Daoud Salahuddin, 29, believed to be a security guard at the Iranian interest section at the Algerian consulate in Washington. Although Salahuddin was born David Belfield in Roanoke Rapids, N.C., he had taken a Muslim name about five years ago and had been living at Islamic House, a home for Muslim students and a center for anti-Shah activists. He had been arrested briefly in New York City last Nov. 4-the date the U.S. hostages were seized in Tehran-for having draped an anti-Shah banner from the Statue of Liberty. Police arrested a postal employee, Tyrone...