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6A - The Daily Iowan - Iowa City, Iowa - Friday. January 21 , 1994 Nation & World : ·u@rm"i,:;"mt/tn,,_ Assoc:ialed Press Juan Ruiz, 13, uses broken asphalt to help elevate his bicycle ramp over a crack outside Northridge Junior High School in the Northridge area of Los Angeles Thursday. ':.Building inspections abound after quake Fred Bayles Associated Press LOS ANGELES - Scores of • . building inspectors fanned out over • jittery city Thursday and found hundreds of homes ond offices • made unsafe by this week's earth- • quake and powerful aftershocks. · "We're finding the damage is not : just concentrated in areas near the · epicenter. It's spread to parts of the I· ¢entral city,· said Nick Delli • . Quadri, senior structural engineer : : at the Los Angeles Department of · .. ~uilding and Safety. I· • Delli Quadri said his department i .is receiving up to 300 cans an hour : . from homeowners and apartment · dwellers worried about returning f home . Building inspectors from i· San Francisco and San Diego were I brought in to meet surging : requests for home inspections. :. 'Our concern right now are the , occupants of buildings who don't : want to go home until they are inspected: he said. "We want to get them in their homes before it • :rains." · A aeries of rainetorms was pre- • dicted to hit thia weekend, raising • · officials' fears about the thousands !. of residents camping in parks and ahopping mall parking lots. U.S. Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros said damage to residential , . buildings appeared to be more :- -.evere than first thought. I . • "1 think this is a bigger housing i~ . problem then we envisioned," he : - laid in an ABC television interview i· · Thursday. "When you fly over it, r you really can't see the problem. But then you get down on the road : or in front of the house and you see that it's fallen off its foundation, and it is completely unsafe and is going to have to be demolished .... "1 drove through this community of San Fernando last afternoon and every third house has major struc- tural problems and it's really seri- ous.- The safety problem was high- lighted Thursday when 150 patients were transferred from St. John's Hospital , a Santa Monica landmark favored by such Holly- wood stars as Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Jackson and Jack Nichol- son. The patients were sent to other hospitals Thursday on orders from state inspectors examining the building for structural flaws. Another 150 patients were previ- ously discharged or transferred after Monday's quake. Hospital spokesman Gary Miere- anu said the complex's north tower "took the brunt of the damage." "To us it looked pretty bad - cracks on the wall and broken glass," he said. Delli Quadri said 4,000 buildings had been inspected by the end of Wednesday and 250 buildings had failed inspection. He estimated it would take weeks just to check the tens of thousands of structures in the city of Los Angeles alone. First priority goes to public buildings like hospi- tals and fire stations . Inspectors also must respond quickly to citi- zen requests for checks of their homes . The demand for safety checks was complicated by waves of after- shocks that often require reinsp8C- tiona of weakened buildings. NOW, Coffee at HandiMart is everything it's whipped up · ~o be! Espresso and Cappuccino now available at HandlMart on Dubuque Street. Try some soon. Magnlflquel HaildIM8i1 . Food Stores 204 N. Dubuque Street, Iowa City 'G()- ,~LOW' AI'IJROA( 'H ADOPTED EconOlllic refOrlllerS disl11issed in Russia Alan Cooperman Associated Press MOSCOW - Turning away from drastic economic reforms that have made life harder for many RU88ians , the prime minis- ter announced a Cabinet shake- up Thursday that demoted or dumped most of the country's bold young reformers. "The period of market roman- ticism has ended," said Viktor Chernomyrdin, who advocates a "go-slow· approach to reforms, but insists that efforts to move toward a free market economy will continue. One of President Boris Yeltsin's key reformers, 35-year- old Boris Fyodorov, rejected an offer to keep his post as finance minister. "This is a turn back," he told reporters. "r do not want to be part of the change in eco- nomic policy." Yeltsin signed a decree appointing the new, conserva- tive-dominated Cabinet, but did not comment on it. Ministers in none'conomic posts, including Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev Work your anns and legs without • paymg an ann .. and a leg. The manuFActurer of the leading dual ·action air bike now makes its own model - rh e Giant Dual Fit'M. The and Defense Minister Pavel Grachev, were not affected by the shake-up. 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