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llUllIOili The Pantagraph Wednesday, June 16, 1999 Quake shakes Mexico Ciiy A -v 1 AP Rosa Parks, left, was joined by Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, center, and President Clinton Tuesday at a ceremony in Washington, D.C., where she received a Congressional Gold Medal. Rosa Parks given medal by Congress MEXICO CITY (AP) A strong earthquake shook a large swath of central Mexico on Tuesday, killing at least one person, injuring hundreds, damaging historic buildings and sending tens of thousands of residents fleeing into the streets as buildings swayed. The first reports of significant damage of the quake, measured at a preliminary magnitude 6.7, were in the city of Puebla, about 60 miles east of Mexico City. One person died and many were wounded, said Dr. Alejandro Soto, director of the Puebla city Red Cross.

Local television broadcast scenes of rescue workers picking through chest-high concrete rubble in a colonial-era church. The 300-year-old city hall, a major hospital, a highway bridge and some houses also suffered major damage. "In the city as a whole, I estimate there are about 200 injured or hurt who are being attended to," Soto said. "Of those, about 10 are serious." The quake, which struck at 3:41 p.m. (4:41 p.m.

EDT), was centered near Huajuapan de Leon, about 125 miles southeast of Mexico City and 80 miles south of Puebla, the National Seismologi-cal Service said. In some areas the quake reportedly rumbled for 40 seconds. It was "felt very very strongly," said Hector Gonzalez, civil defense director of Huajuapan de Leon, a city of about 200,000 people. He said it knocked out electricity and telephone service, but he had no reports of injuries or major damage. There no early reports of injuries in the Mexican capital and only scattered reports of damage.

But tens of thousands of people fled into the streets as tall buildings seemed to roll like ships at sea and officials were inspecting hundreds of structures for possible damage. "I felt dizzy and I saw that all the lamps were swinging," said Mary Cervantes, a 52-year-old housewife. "I went running for the door." President Ernesto Zedillo canceled a planned trip to the Caribbean coast and said he would fly to Puebla state to assess the damage. In Cuernavaca, about 35 miles to the south of Mexico City, state civil defense director Arturo Sotelo said traffic lights were knocked out, causing some traffic accidents. He said electricity had been disrupted in at least 13 communities.

Three cars were knocked across the street in if I -m -f-y liir AP Rescue workers removed debris from a demolished apartment Tuesday in downtown Puebla after a powerful earthquake shook central Mexico. front of the Guerrero state capital of Chilpancin-go, about 115 miles south of Mexico City, said Gustavo Pina of the state civil defense agency. Streets in Mexico City were crowded with people fearful of returning to buildings. In Teposcolula, a few miles south of Huahua-pan, the city hall partially collapsed, two houses fell and the main church was damaged, according to Sergio Hampshire, civil defense director for Oaxaca state, but there were no reports of In another town near Huahuapan, Tamazalupam de Progreso, officials said four students at a teaching college were hurt by shattering glass. Mexico's largest recent earthquake, on Sept.

19, 1985, was recorded at magnitude 8.1 and killed at least 6,000 people. Robert Meli, director of the National Center for Disaster Prevention, told local TV Azteca that Tuesday's quake was "between five and 10 times smaller than the one in 1985." Pope comes down with fever, cancels events By Scripps Howard News Service WASHINGTON, D.C. So impressed was 9-year-old Bill Clinton by Rosa Parks' world-famous refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus to a white man in 1955 that the future president and his friends began to emulate her. "We began to sit on the back of the bus when we go on," Clinton told a large audience that packed the Capitol Rotunda to honor Mrs. Parks Tuesday.

Parks, 86, repeatedly honored as the "mother of the civil rights movement," was awarded a Congressional Gold Medal designed with her profile in one of the highest honors the president and Congress can bestow to a civilian. The medal has not yet been struck, but Parks was given an artist's painting of the medallion. "We must never, ever, when this ceremony is over, forget about the power of ordinary people to stand in the fire for the cause of human dignity and to touch the hearts of people that have almost turned to stone," the president said. Parks has repeatedly had to explain her spur-of-the-moment decision in 1955 that sparked a social revolution in America. "I didn't get on that bus to get arrested, I got on the bus to go home," Clinton quoted Parks as saying.

The black community in Montgomery rallied behind Parks, boycotting public transportation and selecting as its leader the young Rev. Martin Luther King, whose eloquent and fiery oratory helped move the struggle to end Southern segregation laws 'onto the world stage. Parks has also repeatedly explained that she was not the source of a famous quotation from the boycott: "My feets is tired, but my soul is rested." That quote, spoken by a nameless domestic worker, became part of the legend of Parks. "The only tired I was, was tired of giving in," Parks repeatedly said in the years that followed. House Democratic leader Richard Gephardt of Missouri reminded the audience that King himself often said that "You would have never heard of Martin Luther King had it not been for Rosa Parks." Gephardt turned to members of the Congressional Black Caucus and said that they are "the direct descendants of the activism and courage of Rosa Parks." He said it was both fitting and appropriate that she receive the same honor that Congress bestowed on retiring South African President Nelson Mandela.

Parks, frail and unable to walk without assistance, received a standing ovation lasting nearly five minutes when she was rolled into the rotunda in a wheelchair. "We thank you. I thank you," Parks said in a frail voice after the president presented her with the declaration ordering the striking of a gold medal in her likeness. The assembled dignitaries who presented the honor had an awkward moment during the ceremony. Singer Jesse Norman lead the audience in the "Star Spangled Banner" and then immediately launched into "Lift Every Voice and Sing" which millions of African Americans consider a black anthem.

The song was not listed in the program. days left in his two-week pilgrimage to Poland, and the Vatican said, all events would go on as planned. But the pope's spokesman said he would not announce until Wednesday morning whether the pope would make it to each one himself. He said the pope's illness had nothing to do with a fall on Saturday in which he cut his head and received three stitches. "It's the flu," said Navarro-Valls.

"Believe me I'm a medical The pontiff was to stay in Poland until Friday, then make a quick trip to Armenia to visit the ailing Orthodox Patriarch Garegin I before returning to Rome. Navarro-Valls said no decision had been made on whether to call off the Armenia trip, which was added to his itinerary only Monday. It was only the second time the much-traveled pope has canceled an appearance while on a trip abroad for health reasons. It happened in Peru in 1985 when John Paul developed a throat infection. "Mary, Queen of Poland." "I thank you for your presence here and for this concert," he said before blessing the crowd, wishing them a good night, and turning away.

One woman in the front had tears in her eyes after he was gone. "He's definitely very tired, definitely sick. There was no smile about him," said Sabina Pieczara, 35. "But I'm very happy because I've seen him." The pope still has two packed KRAKOW, Poland (AP) Pope John Paul II, in bed with the flu, canceled all his planned appearances Tuesday, stunning 1 million people standing in the rain waiting to see their beloved fellow Pole. The 79-year-old pontiff developed a slight fever below 100 degrees Monday afternoon and was receiving "anti-influenza therapy," Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Vails said.

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