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Monday, October 24, 2011 – Daily News 7A WORLD BRIEFING 7.2 earthquake kills 89 people in eastern Turkey ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Cries of panic and horror filled the air as a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Turkey, killing at least 89 people as buildings pancaked and crumpled into rubble. Tens of thousands fled into the streets running, screaming or trying to reach relatives on cell phones as apartment and office buildings cracked or collapsed. As the full extent of the damage became clear, survivors dug in with shovels or even their bare hands, desperately trying to rescue the trapped and the injured. ''My wife and child are inside! My 4-month-old baby is inside!'' CNN-Turk television showed one young man sob- bing outside a collapsed building in Van, the provincial cap- ital. The hardest hit area was Ercis, an eastern city of 75,000 close to the Iranian border, which lies on one of Turkey's most earthquake-prone zones. The bustling city of Van, about 55 miles (90 kilometers) to the south, also sustained substantial damage. Highways in the area caved in and Van's airport was damaged, forcing flights to be diverted. State-run TRT television reported that 60 people were killed and 150 injured in Ercis, 25 others died in Van and four people, including a child, died in the nearby province of Bitlis. It said at least nine people were pulled out of debris alive. Libya's new leaders declare country liberated TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Libya's interim rulers declared the country liberated on Sunday after an eight-month civil war, launching the oil-rich nation on what is meant to be a two-year transition to democracy. But they laid out plans with an Islamist tone that could rattle their Western backers. The joyful ceremony formally marking the end of Moammar Gadhafi's 42-year tyranny was also clouded by mounting pressure from the leaders of the NATO campaign that helped secure victory to investigate whether Gadhafi, dragged wounded but alive out of a drainage ditch last week, was then executed by his captors. The circumstances of Gad- hafi's death remain unclear. In any case, critics said the grue- some spectacle of his blood-streaked body laid out as a tro- phy for a third day of public viewing in a commercial freez- er tests the new leadership's commitment to the rule of law. Britain's defense secretary, Philip Hammond, said the Libyan revolutionaries' image had been ''a little bit stained'' by Gadhafi's violent death. Both he and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said a full investigation is nec- essary. Gadhafi's capture and the fall of his hometown of Sirte, the last loyalist stronghold, set the stage for the long- awaited declaration of liberation, delivered by the head of the National Transitional Council, Mustafa Abdul-Jalil. Clinton says Iran shouldn't misread exit from Iraq WASHINGTON (AP) — Iran should not misread the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq as affecting the U.S. commitment to the fledgling democracy, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday. President Barack Obama's announcement Friday that all American troops would return from Iraq by the end of the year will close a chapter on U.S.-Iraq relations that began in 2003 with the U.S.-led invasion to overthrow Saddam Hussein. Wash- ington has long worried that meddling by Iran, a Shiite Mus- lim theocracy, could inflame tensions between Iraq's Shiite- led government and its minority Sunnis, setting off a chain reaction of violence and disputes across the Mideast. Clinton said in a series of news show interviews that the U.S. would continue its training mission with Iraq and that it would resemble operations in Colombia and elsewhere. While the U.S. will not have combat troops in Iraq, she said the American presence would remain strong because of its bases in the region. ''Iran would be badly miscalculating if they did not look at the entire region and all of our presence in many countries in the region, both in bases, in training, with NATO allies, like Turkey,'' she told CNN's ''State of the Union.'' Religion claims its place in Occupy Wall Street BOSTON (AP) — Downtown Dewey Square is crammed with tents and tarps of Occupy Boston protesters, but organizers made sure from the start of this weeks-old encampment that there was room for the holy. No shoes are allowed in the ''Sacred Space'' tent here, but you can bring just about any faith or spiritual tradition. A day's schedule finds people balancing their chakras, a ''compassion meditation'' and a discussion of a biblical pas- sage in Luke. Inside, a Buddha statue sits near a picture of Jesus, while a hand-lettered sign in the corner points toward Mecca. The tent is one way protesters here and in other cities have taken pains to include a spiritual component in their occupations. Still, Occupy Wall Street is not a religious movement, and signs of spiritually aren't evident at all protest sites. Clergy emphasize they are participants in the aggressive- ly leaderless movement, not people trying to co-opt it. Plus, in a movement that purports to represent the ''99 percent'' in society, the prominent religious groups are overwhelmingly liberal. Lady Liberty's 125th: Torch cams to give masses views NEW YORK (AP) — Give me your tired, your poor — your Internet-connected masses yearning to see. Lady Lib- erty is getting high-tech gifts for her 125th birthday: web- cams on her torch that will let viewers gaze out at New York Harbor and read the tablet in her hands or see visitors on the grounds of the island below in real time. The five torch cams are to be switched on Friday during a ceremony to commemorate the dedication of the Statue of Liberty on Oct. 28, 1886. The ceremony caps a week of events centered around the historic date, including the debut of a major museum exhibition about poet Emma Lazarus, who helped bring the monument renown as the ''Mother of Exiles.'' The statue's webcams will offer views from the torch that have been unavailable to the public since 1916, said Stephen A. Briganti, the president of the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation Inc. ''The statue is the most famous symbol in the world,'' he said. ''Most of the people in the world have seen it, but they have not seen it like this. It will be a visit that so many peo- ple, including New Yorkers, have never taken before.'' Through the webcams, Internet users around the world will have four views, including a high-quality, 180-degree stitched panorama of the harbor with stunning views of Ellis and Governors islands. They will be able to watch as ships go by Liberty Island and observe as the Freedom Tower at the World Trade Center goes up floor-by-floor in lower Manhattan. They can get a fish-eye look at the torch itself as it glows in the night. Pope names 3 new saints VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI named three new saints for the Catholic Church during Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square that was disrupted by a man who climbed out onto the upper colonnade and burned a bible. Vatican gendarmes, a bishop and the pope's own body- guard talked the man back from the edge of the colonnade after he shouted, ''Pope, where is Christ?'' in English and threw the burned bible to the crowd below. Benedict and the thousands in the square appeared unfazed by the incident and carried on with the Mass. The disruption came toward the end of the two-hour ser- vice Sunday to canonize three 19th-century founders of reli- gious orders: Italian bishop and missionary Monsignor Guido Maria Conforti, Spanish nun Sister Bonifacia Rodriguez de Castro and an Italian priest who worked with the poor, the Rev. Luigi Guanella. On hand in the crowd was William Glisson Jr., from the Philadelphia area in the U.S., whose cure from a 2002 head injury was declared the miracle needed to canonize Guanel- la. 'Miracle' man survived Joplin tornado, but now faces $2.5M in medical bills, claim denied JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) — By all accounts, Mark Lindquist is a hero, an underpaid social worker who nearly gave his life trying to save three developmentally disabled adults from the Joplin tornado. Both houses of the Missouri legislature hon- ored Lindquist, the Senate resolution calling him ''a true hero and inspiration to others.'' But heroism doesn't pay the bills. The tornado's 200 mph winds tossed Lindquist nearly a block, broke every rib, oblit- erated his shoulder, knocked out most of his teeth and put him in a coma for about two months. Lindquist, 51, ran up medical expenses that exceed $2.5 million, and the bills keep coming. He requires 11 daily pre- scriptions and will need more surgery. But he has no medical insurance. Lindquist couldn't afford it on a job paying barely above minimum wage. He assumed workers' compensation would cover his bills, but his claim was denied ''based on the fact that there was no greater risk than the general public at the time you were involved in the Joplin tornado,'' according to a letter to Lindquist from Accident Fund Insurance Company of America, his company's workers' comp provider. That reasoning has angered Lindquist's family, employ- er, even lawmakers. Daily News photos by Julie Zeeb (Left) Antelope SERRF students jump rope Thursday at the SERRF Lights On After School celebration. SERRF students at all the Tehama County sites were given a free jump rope as a part of the celebration. (Right) Lassen View SERRF students draw pictures and look at cards with facts about A-Z fruits and vegetables Thursday at the SERRF Lights On After School celebration. WALK Continued from page 1A Park. Almost immediately the association was involved in displaying members' works for the public. That first year it participated in a show in Redding. By the second year, it mounted its own major exhibit at the Women's Club house with 100 paintings on dis- play and 200 in atten- dance. The association has a Computer Problems? Frustrated? Need Help? PC & APPLE SPECIALIST FREE Optimize Service with Virus/Spyware Removal Service ($79 value. 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