World Series may have helped keep
death toll down, rescue workers say

By 500'" WITNEY
Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO —— The
strong aftershocks rattled a jittery
Nothem California yesterday, and
rescuers who found fewer cars than
feared under a collapsed freeway said
the World Series may have reduced
the rush-hour traffic.

“Maybe we got lucky because of
the game," Oakland Police Sgt.
Bob Crawford said. “Normally at 5
o'clock in the afternoon this area
would be bumper-to-bumper.
Maybe the World Series saved our
lives."

Power and commuters returned to
much of downtown San Francisco
as a tentative city tried to recover
and regroup following Tuesday’s
earthquake, which claimed an esti-
mated 270 lives and $2 billion in
damage.

At the 1 1/4-mile stretch of the
collapsed double-deck Interstate
880, the Nimitz Freeway in Oak-
land, workers cut holes in concrete
and used cranes to pull out pancake-
flat cars. Rescuers reported finding
the cars as far apart as 60 feet, rath-
er than bumpcr—to-bumper as had
been feared, Assistant Fire Chief Al
Sigwart said.

That could lower the death toll in

the highway rubble, which was es-
timated earlier at 250, Crawford
said.

Many people left work early to
watch the third game of the World
Series, scheduled to start at 5:30

 

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pm, and 60,000 people already
were across the bay in San Francis-
co at Candlestick Park when the
quake struck at 5:04 pm.

The World Series will resume
Tuesday at Candlestick Park in San
Francisco.

Oakland Mayor Lionel Wilson
said yesterday that only 85 people
were officially reported missing.

Yesterday morning three after-
shocks struck south of San Francis-
co. lhe first. measunng 5.0 on the
Richter scale of ground motion, hit
at 3:15 am. and was centered near
Watsonville, about eight miles
from the epicenter of Tuesday's 6.9
quake, according to the state Office
of Emergency Service. Two other
aftershocks measured 4.5.

“No one is sleeping around here,”
Watsonville resident John Murphy
said.

Seminar to discuss
mineral law issues

By REBECCA MULUNS
Contributing Writer

Law experts and major federal
mining officials will meet in Lex-
ington this weekend for a seminar
on mineral law issues.

The 14th Annual Mineral Law
Seminar sponsored by UK’s Miner-
al Law Center will be held today
and tomorrow at the Hyatt Regen-
cy.

The seminar will feature speakers
on current issues facing the mineral
industry. The list of speakers in-
cludes law professors, attorneys,
mining professionals and represen-
tatives from the National Coal As-
sociation in Washington, DC.

The featured speaker of the semi-
nar is Harry M. Snyder, who is the
director of the Office of Surface
Mining Reclamation and Enforce-
ment for the US Department of
the Interior. Snyder will give his
speech this afternoon.

Issues to be addressed include the
Bush administration’s Clean Air
Act proposal, the unmined minerals
tax and Kentucky's recently enacted
broad form deed amendment.

UK law professor Carolyn S.
Bratt will speak to the seminar to-
morrow on the “Broad Form Deed
Amendment-Constitutional Consid-
erations."

The broad form deed amendment
changes previous mining policy by
implying that mineral estate own-
ers can extract commercial coal
“only through methods used at the
time the deed was required. "

The amendment is intended to
protect the lands and homes of sur-
face estate owners by prohibiting
the use of modern mining methods.

However, some law experts as-
sert the amendment conflicts with
the 5th Amendment of the US.
Constitution. The federal amend-
ment applies to the broad form deed
issue in Kentucky through the due
process clause of the US. Consti-
tution.

Under the US Constitution,
Kentucky mineral owners are trying
to protect private property interests

they believe are injured by the state
amendment and other state laws
that protect natural resources.

“The broad form deed amendment
recently enacted in Kentucky con-
flicts with the US. Constitution,”
said Blair Bremburg, associate di-
rector of the UK Mineral Law Cen-
ter. “It raises a number of issues
under the federal Constitution for
which there are no clear-cut an-
swers."

Other issues on the agenda in-
clude President Bush’s latest propo-
sals on reducing the threat of acid
rain, urban air pollution and toxic
emissions by altering the Clean
Air Act.

Those proposals will be dis—
cussed by David C. Branand, an en-
vironmental affairs official for the
National Coal Association in
Washington, DC.

Nine Midwestern and Southeast-
ern states, including Kentucky, are
responsible for 51 percent of all
US. emissions.

All nine states would be affected
economically by the Bush propo-
sals, which will try to reduce all
US. nitrogen and sulfur dioxide
emissions 50 percent by 2001.

According to the UMW, “
(about) 30,000 high-sulfur coal
mining jobs would be lost" with-
out aid from the federal government
to share the cost of reducing emis—
sions.

“(The proposals) will affect the
development of high sulfur coal in
Kentucky, especially western Ken-
tucky," Bremburg said.

Other lecture topics include pro-
posed dormant minerals legislation,
and the unmined minerals tax.

The registration fee for the Min-
eral Law Seminar is $175 for
members of the Kentucky Bar As-
sociation Natural Resources Law
Section. Registration is $200 for
the general public.

“Substantial mineral law experi-
ence" is suggested for those who
plan to attend the seminar.

San Francisco quake

The center ot the earthquake was reported to be in Santa Cruz, 90 miles south
of San Francisco Santa Cruz ls located west of San Andreas Fault, which

ruptured during the 1906 San FranCIsco quake

Tuesday's quake, which hit at 8:04 pm. EDT, reportedly measured 6 9 on the

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Fifty—six people were treated at a
Watsonville community clinic,
mostly for bruises and frazzled
nerves, city spokeswoman Lorraine
Washington said. About 150 peo-
ple were evacuated from a National
Guard Armory shelter after a natural
gas leak.

Watsonville issued a plea for ad-
ditional doctors and nurses.

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Bay area feels quake

Nation quick to come to the help
of San Francisco—area residents

By LARRY RYCKMAN
Associated Press

Americans touched by scenes of
devastation, of people left homeless
by disaster, sent what they could to
earthquake victims in Northern Cal-
ifornia yesterday just one month af-
ter shipping aid to those in Hurri—
cane Hugo’s wake.

Even Charleston. SC, still reel-
ing from last month‘s pounding by
Hugo. sent a plane load of bottled
water.

Private groups and officials sent
search dogs and special equipment
to hunt for survivors, donated blood
and money and offered their exper-
tise. A Southern California man
donated a $15,000 sports car he
won in a radio contest.

Wyoming remembered the help it
received from Califomia firefighters
in the 1988 fires at Yellowstone
National Park. Gov. Mike Sulliyan
asked emergency officials to help
with structural inspections and
search and rescue.

“While we are few in number and
they are many, their needs are many
and we stand ready to help in any
way," Sullivan said.

The Wyoming Red Cross sent a
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Missouri Red Cross otticials said
about a dozen stall members and
volunteers were still on the East
coast helping Victims or Hugo. but
one person is preparing to head to
San Francisco,

“It’s been the double whammy,“
spokeswoman Colleen McQuillan
said. “We’re still trying to raw:
money to pay for Hugo and now
we need money for this."

The international headquarters of
the Church of the Nazerene, located
in Kansas City, told its churches to
pass the plate for earthquake yic-
tims at Wednesday night sen ices.

“We‘re getting calls from all
over, ‘What are we going to do to
help." We tell them to get money
said Steve Weber. coordinator tor
the church's charity sen l;L\

The Japanese Red (from Society
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Gaines
Center
to offer
new cias

By JOHN COONEV
Staff Writer

The Gaines (‘cntt-r ioi th.‘ H.
manities Wiii ollcr J :t‘cciul \‘t‘llll'
nar next semester iiKihil‘lL‘ on 1h.-
relationship between hifltuios .a: i
their space.

The program wfll ":z'v.’ ripper
Classmen an exceptional opportuni-
ty to concentrate on the study .md
research of a subiect tints «‘1 par.
ticular concern ii‘ a t K fatultx
member," said Raymond it RUIN.
director of UK‘s Honors Program.

“The program is an ciiort to look
at how space and place come to—
gether to determine our altitudes
and feelings,“ Betts said. “it will
also show how our culture and \Lli-
ues are imposed on space.

Ten students Wlii be admitted to
the course, “Space and Place: ‘lhe
Creation of Landscape." Students
accepted will receive a 8500 Hu—
manities Scholarship to be used
partially for out-of—class research
purposes.

“The scholarship WI“ enable the
student to move away from the 10-
cal environment and do either field
or archival research," Betts said.

The program also will feature .1
visit from Barry H. Lopez, a prize-
winning author and contributing ed—
itor of Harper's magazine. Lopez
will be at UK April ill-15 as the
distinguished visiting humanist.

Betts said the advisory committee
selected Lopez because members
“thought it would be an excellent
opportunity for the students to deal
with a person who has an extreme
ly lively mind, an engaging person
aiity and who writes extraordinarily
well.“

“One of the underlying themes oi
Lopez's works is ‘thrc am i""
Betts said. “It‘s not just a matter oi
geography, but where we arc in a
sense of belonging to that gco~
graphical configurauon."

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