Journalists launch.
appeal for Armenia

The devastation that swept Soviet week the drive’s co-ordinator, the
Armenia Dec. 7 has by now drifted out Soviet weekly Moscow News, wel-
of the headlines, but journalists allover | comed the Tribune to the ranks of the
the world have come up with a way to _ participants.

keep the international aid effort that “We are going to set up a
followed the earthquake alive for the committee —Journalists of the World
long term. for Armenia’s Future —to work

The project, initiated by the Italian together with the Soviet Ministry of
newspaper La Republica, calls for the Health and the Ministry of Construc-
world’s press to co-operate in raising _ tion on this project,” said MN editorial
the approximately $30 million required staff member Lydmilla Panushkina.
to build an advanced mother-and-child ‘‘We’ve set up an international bank
care centre in the Armenian earth- account — No. 70000007 at the USSR
quake zone. The clinic, which will spe- | Vnesheconombank — to receive dona-
cialize in pediatrics and family medi- tions.”
cine, is seen as an integral part of the Panushkina said that representatives
Soviet plan not only to rebuild shat- of Moscow News would shortly be tra-
tered Armenian cities, but todosoon _ velling to Armenia together with engi-
the basis of the most modern social _ neers from the Italian Italimpianti firm
planning and techniques. to determine, in conjunction with the

The idea is still in its formative Armenian authorities, the best site for
stages, but already dozens of newspap- _ the care centre.
ers and publications around the world Details of the campaign will appear
have joined in. They include some of _ in the Tribune as they develop. Dona-
the largest papers of the socialist and tions for the mother-and-child care
capitalist communities, as wellassome centre may be sent to the Tribune to be
representatives of the alternative and forwarded to the Soviet campaign
communist press in the West. Last fund.

SSR pear See a AS ene a I tar nai ne paseo
Photos, clockwise from top: the devastation in the city of Spitak,
Armenia in the wake of December's earthquake; a man searches

among the ruins of what was once his home; a woman manages to
retrieve a photograph album from the rubble in Spitak; a Soviet rescue

worker takes a break during relief efforts; people look for family mes-

sages at an emergency telegraph centre in Kirovokan, Armenia, Dec.
:

TRIBUNE PHOTOS — FRED WEIR