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lit '''ana (gazette Wednesdoy, Moy 1, 1991 Pope 5 Search winding down winding mountain roads toward Kutaisi, Georgia's second-largest city. Many people in the affected area were staying outside their homes even the ones that were habitable for fear of further aftershocks. for earthquake survivors HENRY'S ing Armenia in 1988, which killed 25.000 people. Some survivors were pulled from shattered houses days after the Armenian quake, but there was little chance of that in Georgia, he said. "There were no hills there" in Armenia, Cherbakov said, noting that the mountains of rock that flattened homes in the Georgian towns minimized chances for survival.

A steady stream of ambulances and police cars ferried the injured out of the earthquake zone along the MAIN STREET VIDEO HOMER CITY NEW RELEASES 1 .99 WON THURS Reg. Movies 99 NINTENDO GENESIS GAMES Chips -Pop -Candy Newspapers Magazines Balloons for all occasions Gift Certificates PA INSTANT LOTTERY MN0- 479-9918 SACHKHERE. SSR. AP) Authorities have all but abandoned hope of finding more survivors from an earthquake in Soviet Georgia that killed at least 80 people, half of them inhabitants of a town buried by a landslide. Officials said they expected the death toll to rise today as more complete reports are gathered from remote villages cut off by the quake.

"We know there are still people in the ruins, but there's no way they're alive," said Besik Kukateladze, an official in this village where one-third of the homes were flattened and many seriously damaged. The Monday quake, which registered 7.1 on the Richter scale, injured 500 people and left about 80,000 homeless in a 50-square-mile area in the north-central part of this south- Penn State Making Each Moment As Precious As Emeralds EMERALD ELEGANCE FLORAL 6 GIFT SHOP ern republic. The earthquake's epicenter was near Mount Samertskhie, about 90 miles northwest of the Georgian capital of Tbilisi. The village of Khakhieti was destroyed, buried beneath tons of rock from the side of a mountain, its 40 or so inhabitants buried alive. "It was awful," said Georgian Prime Minister Tengiz Sigua, who viewed the village from a helicopter on Tuesday.

"Simply put, it was a nightmare." Sigua said he expected the death toll to rise when authorities hear from villages whose communications links were cut by the quake. Sachkhere had its share of death and destruction. The independent Iberian news agency said 25 people were killed in and around Sachkhere. Power in the town was out. A two-story railroad station was wrecked, with a collapsed roof.

Wind kicked up dust that swirled through a traffic circle in the middle of town that was serving as a makeshift rescue center. About 60 families were living in tents on an old soccer field. "I think a lot about why ft happened, but I have not come up with any answers," said Nana Shugak-idze, who was standing at a camp-fire amid the tents. She said she was working in a medical clinic when the quake struck and was briefly trapped in the rubble, managing to free herself. Shugakidze said she ran to the school her two sons attended and found them safe, already standing outside.

A group of 43 rescuers from Moscow arrived Tuesday night in Sachkhere, but city official Alexander Cherbakov said, "They aren't needed." Only one person was pulled alive from a wrecked building the day before. He said the Georgian quake was different from the one in neighbor GRAND OPENING BARTH CA IN A huge hole opens up in the middle of paddy fields Tuesday following a series of large-scale cave-ins of an unused underground quarry of Oya tuff stone in Utwnomiya, north of Tokyo, Japan. No injuries were reported, but residents were evacuated from the area. (AP Laierphoto) For BUSINESS INSURANCE call: Jim SulllmaUer MAY 4th 5th Grand Opening Hours: 10 A.M.-5 P.M. Full Service Floral Shop FRESH DRIED SILK The 1989 annual compensation survey of Business Week Magazine showed that U.S.

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