RESCUING RELIEF IN ARMENIA: OTHER COUNTRIES HELPED OUT IN RESCUING
ABC News
SHOW: TIME TUNNEL 9:03 AM EST ABC
December 8, 2006 Friday
Anchors: Rob Simmelkjaer
Reporters: Jerry King (Moscow, Russia)
PETER JENNINGS (ABC NEWS)
(Off-camera) For the Soviet bureaucracy, the challenge is now is
rescue and relief. The region hit is mountainous making it just that
much tougher. Here’s our man in Moscow, Jerry King.
GRAPHICS: MOSCOW
JERRY KING (ABC NEWS)
(Voiceover) At a communist youth league office in Moscow, people
brought in shopping bags with whatever they could donate, canned
goods and clothing. The International Red Cross and the Muslim were
present. Organized blood donations across the country, and this one
at the Moscow University. This was in the Republic of Georgia.
Tonight’s television news broadcast appeals for more blood. Even
though, an official admitted they could not cope with the number
of donors they had. Special accounts have been set up in banks for
donations of money. For the first time, that included an account for
hard currency, from foreigners here. Workers in Minsk announced they
would send a whole trainload of construction workers and equipment.
JERRY KING (ABC NEWS)
(Off-camera) Officials say the prime task is the search for a survivors
who may still be beneath the rubble, that and to find them and bury the
dead. Another head ache, to find a way around the logistical problems.
JERRY KING (ABC NEWS)
(Voiceover) The Soviet military, which has been trying to stem ethnic
violence between Armenia and neighboring Azerbaijani, is sending in
additional units to care for the homeless, to help rebuild. Said the
Azerbaijani minister of health, ‘Pain and suffering bring our people
together." Jerry King, ABC News, Moscow.