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Harvard students have donated approximately $300 to relief funds for Guatemala, and the School of Public Health last week sent a faculty member to observe administration of relief programs following last week's earthquake...
...School of Public Health is furnishing a different kind of aid to Guatemala. Dr. Katherine Coolidge, assistant professor of Tropical Public Health said yesterday the School is evaluating the role it will play in the disaster relief program...
...massive earthquake (7.5 on the Richter scale) that racked Guatemala lasted only 39 seconds, but to its victims that seemed an eternity of terror...
...Guatemala City (pop. 1.5 million), damage ranged from cracked walls and broken windows in middle-class residential areas to the total destruction of entire blocks in the adobe-hut districts of the poor. Hundreds of corpses, covered only by thin sheets or plastic, lined the streets the morning after the initial quake. Surgeons from the capital's General Hospital performed operations-often without adequate equipment-in a field tent set up outside the damaged hospital...
Many said that they had not eaten since the quake struck, and crowds fought to get near the few public taps that still trickled water. "They're eating rats and anything else they can get their hands on," said one Red Cross official who reached Guatemala's devastated interior by helicopter...