European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 12, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                World Aid 1 pours out to soviets by 1 be  Post. Washington an outpouring of International assistance that May be unmatched since the period just after world War ii began moving to the Sovi. It Union his weekend to help in the 3 aftermath of the massive earthquake hat " ravaged soviet Armenia wednesday. Three cargo planes carrying . Medical i supplies and Rescue teams including dogs trained to or Attoul survivors in the rubble left Washington and 1 Isa Airport in Italy saturday fur Yerevan the armenian capital. Other plan loads and offers of assist is Ance came from around the world a 42 a member medical team from India 200 ? Rescue workers and doctors from France a donation of blood from cuban presi Deal Fidel c Defro Jilin a rare personal message and contribution of si00,000 from 1 pc John Paul ii.1 the generous response from abroad and the soviet willingness a accept it. Arc evidence of an about face in the Kremlin s dealings with the outside world in the View of Many observers. As recently Ashe time of the Cherno Byl nuclear Power Plant disaster in april 1986, the soviet Union refused offers of outside assistance except for inc help of some american physicians who were experts in radiation illnesses. This time the soviets requested Aid and in responding several countries and Relief agencies Drew on their experience with the 1985 earthquake in Mexico cily. In which at least -4.200 people were killed but thousands More were rescued Many of them injured but some recovered unhurt from piles of rubble. . Relief planes left saturday from Andrews fab md., and Dulles International Airport outside Washington an Pisa Italy according Loaid officials in addition to the eight dog teams inc plane from Dulles earned Relief supplies and a six doctor medical trauma unit the plane from Andrews Cmil Iid Jhc Ifo signal Rescue workers including fire fighters from Fairfax county a. And bade county Fla the . Air Force Galaxy cargo plane from Pisa carried 350 tents and Sod cols stale department disaster re Lief stocks that were loaded on the plane by members of the army s Elli area sup port group at Camp Darby Italy. Among the first donations to arrive was one from the italian town of Lioni. Where More than 300 people died in a 1980 earthquake. There is pain in our hearts Moscow not flags All around the City Hung at half staff saturday Many lied to their poles with Black bands. All Over the soviet Union All Public entertainment was cancelled and regularly scheduled television programs were replaced with performances of somber music or news reports about the devastating armenian earthquake. Bui Lena Avakyan barely noticed any of these official signs of a Day of National mourning for the victims of the quake. My sister Diana lives in Kiro Vakan with her two Little boys she said As she stood in line  Are Flor office in downtown Moscow frantically trying to gel a tic Kelto Armenia., i have heard nothing from them. Nothing she said. I have to go there. I have to find them. 1 Don t need a Flag to remind me of my grief ,. The country is in mourning an an Chorman on the evening news program a Cmya said. There is grief in Pur coun try he said there is pain in our hearts. Monday. December 12. 1988 the stars and stripes. Page 3 a off Shiv pm survivors in Lenl Nakan weep aver the body of u relative unearthed from the rubble icel by wednesday s Earth found in the rubble quake. The official death All from the 6.9 quake stood sunday at it Leos 45,0011, but Rescue workers from around the Norwil were Mill looking for survivors or bodies in the ruins of armenian cities. Crush syndrome claiming new victims Yerevan .s.r. Ai Alia i o Gosyan was with her Niece on the fourth floor of a five floor apartment building in the armenian City of St Canavan when she heard a noise and the building began to shake. I could t open the door she re called saturday from a bed in the Hall of a Yerevan Hospital. The next thing Ibe knew i put up my hand and somebody took  instead of being near the tap of her apartment building she was near the top of a pile of rubble. Unlike Many others in similar build Ings at 11 41 . Wednesday she sur Vived an earthquake that devastated Nanho Colern Armenia. But she does t know what has happened to her Niece. Nearby 9-Ycar-old Violetta Salik Syan Lay motionless in her bed her bruised face turned toward a weeping relative. Violetta was Home with her Mother father Grandfather and sister in Mcnina Kan when the quake struck. Her Mother and grandmother died and the rest of the family is spread among three hospitals. Both Violetta and Pogosyan arc a Tictin the Yerevan surgical Institute in the capital of the armenian Republic. Five Hundred of the most seriously injured have been sent Here for care by a team of doctors that has not left the hos Pital since the Day the quake struck the entire staff since the seventh has not left the institution not a cleaning lady not a doctor a left said the hos Pital s director Alexander Mikhail an. Gradually relatives arc finding the in Jirred and surrounding them with Atten Tion guided by typewritten lists of patients posted on the Brick Walls outside the Hospital. So far Only is Pali Ems have died there lie said. Hut doctors arc waging a Battle with what they Call crush syndrome and say they need More artificial kidney machines and blood filtering devices to save the seriously ill. Chief surgeon Ruben Ovanisyan said 14 of the 18 deaths have been from the crush syndrome irreversible damage to the body caused by inc pressure of huge slabs of Concrete and debris. Of Ibe Hospital s 500 a aliens 48 Are on its three kidney machines seriously overtaking the machines. We need kid Neys or. Emma Koslina told reporters tears Welling in her eyes. Mikhail an said 79 new a aliens were brought to the Hospital saturday mostly transferred from other hospitals while it transferred 35 patients 10 a Yerevan cancer Hospital and 31 to Moscow on saturday we Haven t seen this kind of situation in our Halls said Mikhail an As the bruised bodies and Blank faces of patients were seen crammed into every available space hour by hour Green military helicopters buzzed almost constantly Over Yere Van bringing More of the dead and injured to the capital. Quake from Page 1 45,000 people died in fast wednesday s earthquake in Armenia and parts of Azerbaijan and Georgia earlier unofficial soviet estimates had put the number of dead at from 50,0001080,000. Plan loads of Western doctors search dogs and medical supplies arrived sat urday As people from 40 countries joined. The Rescue Colon. Soviet authorities opened previously closed areas in an unprecedented acc Planck of foreign disaster Aid. One City in the Region Spilak with a population of 16,000, was described by so Viet authorities As a total loss. They said a new City would be built on the same spot. College students who helped in the Rescue efforts there returned to Yerevan the capital of Armenia with lairs of vast . Five Homes remain in Spisiak that is All. The rest Are Den Rayed. You can t describe it. You have to Sec it arse Minasyan. A student at an agricultural Institute said in an interview with he associated press. In Yerevan helicopters whirred con stantly overhead transporting dead and wounded from the disaster area 47 Miles to inc Northwest. In the City of la Niakan 80 percent of the Homes services and Industry were destroyed official reports said. Hundreds of Multi Story apartment buildings collapsed in inc cities of Kiro Vakan and Stepa Navan the Agency said