European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 13, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday december 13, 19b8 the stars and stripes Page 3 soviet quake toll estimate now 60,000 Yerevan. , a an official estimate Pul the death toll from lire armenian earthquake Al up to60.000 monday and Hopes waned thai any More survivors would be found. A second Relief plane crashed near the armenian capital killing seven people. Renewed political trouble broke out with armenian activists reporting clashes with troops Over the arrest of several  leaders. Soviet resident Mikhail Gorbachev after touring the disaster area accused provocateurs of using the consequences of last week s earthquake to create instability and insisted they must be  an armenian activist who avoided arrest Raphaeli Apoyan said monday that three Din Amiralian in arc staged sunday in the armenian capital of Yerevan related stir a pm Jet 5. He said All were protesting the arrest of leaders of a committee that has spearheaded a drive in Lanny a Gorno Karabash a predominantly armenian enclave in Azerbaijan. In one demonstration troops and demonstrators began fighting and several Mere wounded on both sides Lopoyan said. An editor at armentress. The armenian news Agency confirmed that there was violence at one Demon stration but said the incident did not appear serious. The editor acknowledged that soldiers fired several warning shots to break up the protest. He confirmed that police detained several leaders of the Magorno Karabash Commilles on saturday. A do in tanks were parked in Yerevan s Centra Square. Sunday night. Before Dawn monday a yugoslav military plan crashed while trying to land at Yerevan Airport with medical supplies the second crash of a Relief plane in As Many Days. On sunday a soviet military trans port plane crashed As it approached the Airport at Lacni Nakan. A City hard hit by wednesday s quake. A evenly i Fiji people died. All seven Crew members aboard the cargo plane die Din monday s crash. First Deputy aviation minister Roris Ila Tyukov said local reporters said the plane crashed at 4 a. M. Because the Pilot mistook a Well lit Highway fora runway. The yugoslav plane was part of an International Rief Effort. Council of ministers spokesman lev Voit nose sky told d news conference in Morrow that 38 Relief planes have arrived from abroad with the most sin from France. He and other officials said 923 specialists from abroad with 216 search dogs we reworking in the disaster area. Meanwhile a spokesman for the Geneva base league of red Cross and ked Crescent so a Ietras Sard in Yerevan there was Little Hope More survivors would be found in the rubble piled High in several armenian critics including Leni Nakan near the quake s epicentre and Spilak which was virtually wiped out. The spokesman George acid. Said Only people who were trapped but managed to find water and had an air Supply would survive. Held quoted reports that Only 150 people survived in Spilak. Where some 25.000 people lived before the quake. Other reports said Only 10 percent of the population remained. Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev welcomes a French Rescue my it Miciul in Spitak soviet Armenia an associated press reporter visiting Spilak found a nearly deserted wasteland she said Only a few Hundred residents remained. Hitter cold weather was forc Casl for Armenia Over night worsening conditions for the 500,000 people left homeless by the quake. The soviet meteorological Center said the temperature in Yerevan would drop to 14 to 23 degrees fahrenheit. The Center did not Huv weather information for the disaster area itself but temperatures there have generally been even lower. Hundreds of bonfires provided the Only heal for som people who have lived on the streets since the quake the earthquake Rescue Effort drawing workers and supplies from about 40.nations, has been hampered by shortages of equipment and Hypha Ard organization some officials us id. Some Aid proved useless such As a Crane that Sal Idle besides the ruins in la Niakan. Workers said it was too Small. Without electricity or water. Red Cross rescuers worked around the clock by the eerie Light of Camp fires. On sunday with the Aid of search dogs they pulled our of the rubble a Man in his 30s who Tad broken legs but did not appear seriously injured Gorbachev and International Rescue workers warned of the danger of epidemics breaking oui Bui a Relief official from the United nations Sverre Kilic. Said the danger was substantially reduced by  temperatures in most of the Region which would inhibit the growth of disease carrying organisms. Gorbachev wound up a two Day visit to the disaster area sunday and called the earthquake which measured 6.9 on he Richler scale a grave disaster Sim ply a  doctors without Borders an International Relief organisation said in Amsterdam Netherlands thai health minister Yevgeny i. Can of old workers the quake had claimed 50,000 to 60,000 lives. The pre Vious government estimate was 40,000 to 45,000. The soviet embassy in Washington said about500,000 were left homeless and 6,000 people were hospitalized it said 1,500 people Hud been rescued. Mayor Emil Kir Okonyan of Leni Nakan old a group of foreign correspondents that recently constructed apartment buildings were not Buill to withstand such severe temblor even though la Niakan is in an area of frequent earthquakes. Gorbachev promised residents of the disaster zone that the government would begin in investigation of Why new apart Merit buildings crumbled so easily while older buildings remained standing after the quake. Officials and rescuers pleaded for More cranes and heavy equipment to drag slabs of Concrete and twisted pillars off trapped people.  read by the stars and stripes the . Government was preparing monday to Send  on two More nights to the soviet Union to help victims of a massive earthquake officials said the new requests arc for More specialized ," Suid Den Nis King a spokesman for the . Of fice of foreign disaster assistance. The soviet Union is not requesting any physicians or other medical person Nel although some medical technicians May be sent to help with the Rescue Effort King said. Equipment aboard the flight was expected to include surgical supplies kidney dialysis machines incubators a Ray units and Fibre Piplic Gas Iro Scopes King said. The flights Are part of the biggest .Relief Effort to the soviet Union since world War ii tens of thousands of peo ple were killed and a countless number. Injured when an earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richler scale struck Northern Armenia in the. Soviet Union on wednesday. A us. Military a of Iarj Ufier packed with tons medical supplies cots and ten is flew to the soviet Union Sun f airman Grogg Bra supplies bring lauded aboard u Mississippi based c-141 at incl Lik a. Turkey. Day from in Ciurlik a Turkey on a humanitarian Mission  Earth quake victims the Mississippi air National guard c-141, assigned to the 172nd military Airlift group in Jackson. Miss., returned from the soviet Union late sunday night officials said. The aircraft initially had left missis Sippi on a Mission to several european air. Bases when its assignment was changed As a result of president Reagan Soffer of assistance to the soviet Union the flight Crew included 10 members of he Mississippi air National guard and one air Force officer assigned to in Ciurlik maj Paul Grewall preparations for the flight began Sal urday when a is flew to incur he carry ing 66,000 pounds of cots and tents sup plied by the . Army in Livorno holy Early sunday a Navy c-9 carrying an 8,100-Pound surgical resupply kit arrived at in Ciurlik and the material was loader on the. C-14  flight thus the second military mis Sion to the soviet Union to bring Aid for the earthquake victims officials said.  flight from Mcguire ,n.j., arrived in the soviet Union shortly before the Cui from in Ciurlik