European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 07, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes monday october 7, 1985page 2 the stars and Stripe october 7, 1985 All Hope abandoned for trapped boy but Mexico City api a of a Perls scare Liine fur a car nil to missing since i to Sci i i earthquake ill devastated Mexico City aul saturday there is in possibility of life under the Rumic believed to be covering the child the team used listening devices to to id pick up sounds after heavy equipment had removed sonic of the debris Julian a bed an Engineer working with the search team spent More than two hours in the ruins saturday afternoon Loki reporters certainly there is no possibility of Abed said workers would continue searching at the site ill machinery and by hand bul the Effort to reach tie boy through tunnelling into the debris would be suspended. Lie said the listening equipment the team had used was capable of detecting even a tiny earlier in the afternoon a Crane and an Earth mover that had been brought to the site to remove some of the chunks of con Crete were pulled Back and their engines turned off to allow the search team to listen for any sounds. Immediately after abcs s report Crews began shovelling Al the piles of Concrete and plaster working under lights in the chill night air. One Earth mover Small enough to a never through the narrow Channel Between the Street and search site removed the de Bris tossed Back by the workers. Or. Emiliano Murillo n Cousin of the boy Luis Ramon Navarrete Maldonado. Said everyone is in agreement that the final Rescue Effort be undertaken with Ulmo t Speed. Rescuers seemed pessimistic that the boy could have survived so Long with Little if any. Water or food. Every minute counts against us said police chief Ramon Mola Sanchez. Shorty before Dawn. Jorge Rangel a mexican Engineer said searchers had reached the site where it had been believed inc boy was trapped with his Grandfather Maldonado 57, bul no one was found. They then Lur cd i hair attention to other locations. Range said no water was found in inc ruins of inc old multifamily dwelling in inc downtown District. Earlier another Rescue worker had said there was an old Cistern in inc building and water might have trickled a photo Ymir brn hers Cesar and Culillo of Toluca. Mexico were Monr Rescue or Kors trying to reach trapped 9-year-old boy. Dow n to the have said they heard lapping sounds in response to questions asked of the child leading them to believe the boy was insisted inc lapping sounds came from the boy although his Grandfather also was believed trapped. On Friday one worker reported inc boy had responded verbally to a question asked by searchers but Mota Sanchez discounted the report saying in arc had been no voice . Inc polic chief said noises were heard from under the rubble at 6 30 . workers appeared increasingly reluctant to describe the sounds they heard and Mota Sancho said later they could have come from falling stones or dirt. An Early morning landslide damaged the tunnels workers had dug with picks shovels and their hands to try to reach Lite child Mola Sanchez Crane then was brought to inc site to tear Back the Concrete slabs and other rub ble blocking inc Rescue Sanches said authorities did not want to risk the lives of the Rescue workers in the boy s family has maintained a Vigil at the site where dozens of journalists have been since late wednesday when it became known inc family believed the child was still last known trapped survivors of the earthquake which May have killed As Many As 8,000 people according to unofficial Esti mates were rescued about a week ago. In London a British Rescue team that returned from Mexico saturday said at least 50,000 people Are still homeless and up to 5 million people Are without water supplies. Members of the six Man team said they could not eat for three Days after their am Val in Mexico City nearly two weeks ago because of the stench of Dalh in the streets. Meanwhile reports in local newspapers saturday said the Treasury ministry told International Bankers recently that even before the earthquake. Mexico needed an additional $500 million this year and $4 billion in 1986. The additional need was spelled out by the ministry in a message sent to Banks asking for postponement of a $950 million principal payment on its foreign debt of $96.4 billion. Duarte offers to Exchange 22 guerrillas for captives news update san Salvador. Al Salvador up president Jose Napoleon Duarl told rebels saturday he would release 22 guerrillas in return for his kidnapped daughter her classmate and 23 captured mayors. Duarte made the offer Over shortwave radio. The government used the code name Pupil or and the guerrillas lib Clad throughout the talks. Incs Guadalupe Duarte Duran 35, and her classmate Ana Cecilia Villoda 23, were kidnapped sept. 10 by leftist guerrillas be longing to the Pedro Pablo Castillo front. The 23 mayors were abducted in several incidents since March 1985. As part of a guerrilla offensive against government control in rebel areas. The rebels had demanded the release of 34 guerrillas in Exchange for the release of their hostages. The government however said it could not account for eight of them. The negotiations Over the release of the 22 went As follows we have arranged to release them the 22and i am ready to set them free in Exchange for incs Guadalupe Duarte Duran. Ana Cecilia Villeda and the May the president said. A government spokesman then read the list of 22, headed by Nidia Diaz a com Mander of the revolutionary people s army second in command of the armed Branch of inc communist party and Cesar Vallec a former priest now in Mariona maximum Security prison. The guerrillas hear you loud and Clear said the abductors. "1 want to Tell you that in regard to those people whose whereabouts we do not know we have exhausted All Means of investigation the president said. We need you to Send in the shortest time possible photographs and the affiliation of the people to be Able to Complete the investigation he added. I need proof of the stale of health of Ines Guadalupe and Ana Cecilia Villeda the president said. We will Send the proof the rebels said As they closed off communication. The government has already granted am Nesty to Julio Romero Talavera whose name is on the list read by the president. Duarte confirmed that two people on the list had been freed last tuesday and he said they were flown to Panama accompanied by archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas Bishop of san Salvador. In addition he said one person on the list had been killed in combat on april 19. Gloria damage assessed new York a damage Esti mates climbed to More than $210 Mil lion in Stales struck by Hurricane Gloria As a Quarter of a million Homes and businesses in new York remained with out Power for a sixth Day. New York state officials were preparing to ship 500,000 pounds of dry ice to 150,000 to 165,000 customers estimated to be without Power on Long Island gov. Mario Cuomo said. Lie estimated that damage on Long Island where Gloria first hit land would exceed si00 million. Tiedge probe ends Cologne Germany up the Cologne prosecutor s office says it is convinced that a counterspy who defected to East Germany did not kill his wife two years ago. A spokesman said it was ending an investigation of the death of Etc tic dec 44, the wife of Hans Joachim Tiedge. 48, the senior agent who crossed Over to East Germany on aug. 19. Probe of coup try Khartoum Sudan a a senior army official has been quoted As saying that Sudan will reconsider its re lations with Ethiopia if investigations prove it was involved in last month s foiled coup attempt in Khartoum. Army chief of staff Gen. Towfik Aba til was quoted As saying Sudan will re consider ils foreign relations according to the outcome of investigations and the role of foreign Powers in the Khalil did not specify Ethiopia but earlier sudanese officials said the alleged Leader of the coup was found hid ing in inc residence of a Diplomat from a communist african live Aid Relief funds London a the live Aid a peal is giving $3 million from last july s trans Atlantic Rock concert to a United nations immunisation program de signed to protect half a million famine affected african children from disease. The program run by the . Chil Dren s fund un1cefwill be aimed Al measles tetanus whooping cough diphtheria and polio. The Money covers vaccines syringes and other equipment staff salaries and transport. The live Aid concert july 13, Cen tired in London and Philadelphia raised an estimated $66 million for fam Ine Relief. Already $10 million has been spent on transport for food in Ethiopia and Sudan
