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GLENDALE :  Teen Scientist Faults Concrete for Quake Loss
June 15, 1994 | JENNIFER OLDHAM
Eighth-grader Linda Khatchaturian was looking for a concrete way to honor her Armenian ancestors and to help the country devastated by an earthquake in 1988. Linda's Armenian grandparents escaped from the Soviet Union to Iran. Her parents moved from Iran to the United States just before she was born 14 years ago. Linda, who researched Armenia's history as a student at Chamlian Armenian School in Glendale, decided to try to discover why many concrete buildings crumbled to the ground in the Dec.
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L.A. Hospitals Treat Soviet Quake Cases :  14 Children Are Flown Here for Advanced Care
March 29, 1989 | MARITA HERNANDEZ, Times Staff Writer
The two teen-agers spend their days glued to a video game screen in their room at Centinela Hospital Medical Center. Having arrived in the United States for medical treatment only last week from Soviet Armenia, they have just become acquainted with the game. And like teen-agers everywhere, they find it irresistible.
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Strong Quake Hits Caucasus; Teen-Ager Dies
October 25, 1992 | From Times Wire Services
A powerful earthquake rocked Georgia, southern Russia and Armenia early Saturday, killing at least one person and destroying dozens of homes in the sparsely populated Caucasus Mountains. The 6.7 magnitude quake shook high-rises in the capital of Tbilisi, waking residents and prompting many to run outside in panic. "I woke up and thought thieves were breaking into the house; I couldn't tell what was happening," said a Tbilisi resident who lives in a fourth-floor apartment.
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Soviet Quake Halts Gorbachev Trip :  He Flies Home Today; Thousands Feared Dead in Armenia
December 8, 1988 | DOYLE McMANUS, Times Staff Writer
A massive earthquake struck the Soviet Union's southern republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia on Wednesday, prompting President Mikhail S. Gorbachev to cut short his visit to the United States and return home five days early. Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze told a news conference that Gorbachev will fly back to Moscow today, canceling the last day of a three-day stay in New York and scheduled visits to Cuba and Britain.
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Pope Asks Help for Victims of AIDS, Quake
December 26, 1988 | WILLIAM D. MONTALBANO, Times Staff Writer
In a bittersweet Christmas greeting, Pope John Paul II urged festive worshipers at St. Peter's Square on Sunday to show solidarity with the poor and afflicted, the victims of AIDS and of the Armenian earthquake. "How beautiful is Christmas! Yet, it is filled with human misery," the white-and-gilt-robed Pope intoned from the main balcony of the soaring cathedral that is the heart of their faith for the world's 850 million Roman Catholics.
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Fatality Rate Is 90% in Spitak :  Rubble and Corpses Left in City Erased by Quake
December 13, 1988 | CAROL J. WILLIAMS, Associated Press
Campfires fueled by broken furniture and window frames illuminate the grief-stricken, soot-stained faces of Armenians digging through the debris left by the earthquake that reduced this city to a pile of concrete and corpses. The odors of cremated bodies and those decomposing under the debris mingle in the dust-clouded air, an acrid reminder of the disaster estimated to have killed 90% of Spitak's population of 20,000 people.
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Recent Arrivals Desperate for Quake News :  L.A. Armenians Mobilize to Aid Victims
December 9, 1988 | ESTHER SCHRADER and DOUG SMITH, Times Staff Writers
Southern California's quarter-million Armenians, traumatized by another disaster in the tragedy-prone history of their people, searched desperately Thursday for scraps of information on Armenia's devastating earthquake and tried to marshal help for victims. Reports of tens of thousands of deaths stunned and instantly mobilized dozens of organizations representing the Armenians' diverse elements here and abroad.
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Man Seeking Aid for Quake Victims Called Con Artist
December 21, 1988 | United Press International
A man who appeared on television soliciting funds to help earthquake victims in Soviet Armenia is a convicted drug dealer described by authorities as a con artist, a published report said Tuesday. Stephen Hamparian, 37, appeared last Wednesday on a program broadcast by WBZ-TV, Channel 4 in Boston, to appeal for money to help the earthquake victims. But authorities Tuesday warned the public not to donate money to any organization Hamparian claimed to represent, saying the Winchester, Mass.
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Sustaining the Armenian Quake Relief Effort :  Southland's Armenian community suffers own aftershocks.
January 15, 1989 | TAMAR MANJIKIAN
Holy Martyrs Armenian School, bursting at the seams in its Encino campus, had just closed escrow on a $2-million school facility nearby when the Armenian earthquake hit last month. Now faced with monthly mortgage interest payments of $18,000, school officials are concerned about how they're going to come up with the money.
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Countywide :  Oak Tree Is Symbol of a Free Armenia
December 8, 1990 | TED JOHNSON
Just over two years ago, when sixth-grader Taleen Tertzakian visited her ancestral homeland, she stood in awe of a statue of Mother Armenia in the city of Leninakan. "It was beautiful," she said. "I was real happy." Just a month after her visit, the city was among those hardest hit by the Armenian earthquake, killing approximately 25,000 and devastating entire villages. But the statue of Mother Armenia survived.
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Armenian-Americans Drawn to Roots to Assist 'Brothers' in Soviet Republic :  Homeland: They bring money, skills and hopes to build a market economy out of Communist ruins.
September 30, 1990 | ELIZABETH SHOGREN, TIMES STAFF WRITER
A businessman from Chicago with Armenian roots has invested in a toy factory in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. An Armenian-American lawyer left his well-paid job in Los Angeles to work for an American organization in Yerevan. And a construction engineer, whose ancestors came from Armenia, has spent the last 1 1/2 years rebuilding a village destroyed in the devastating 1988 earthquake.
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Lesson for Iran: Some Drugs Sent to Armenia Were Useless
June 27, 1990 | From Associated Press
Some of the drugs sent to Soviet Armenia for victims of the 1988 earthquake were useless or even dangerous, experts say, and they warn of similar problems with emergency supplies now being sent to Iran. Supplies sent to Armenia included pharmaceuticals that came from stocks of expired drugs and others of a type no longer sold, according to an article in The Lancet, a respected British medical journal.
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WORLD IN BRIEF :  SOVIET UNION :  Thatcher Gets Big Armenia Welcome
June 11, 1990 | From Times Staff and Wire Reports
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was greeted by huge crowds when she arrived in the Armenian city of Leninakan to inspect reconstruction of earthquake damage and dedicate a school built with British aid. Almost all of the city's 108,000 residents seemed to be on the streets, and the congestion forced Thatcher, winding up a four-day Soviet trip, to cancel a walking tour. The December, 1988, quake killed about 25,000 people.
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Armenians Pray for Quake Victims
December 8, 1989
Armenians in Los Angeles County gathered in their churches Thursday to commemorate the devastating earthquake that struck their homeland a year ago, immediately killing 26,000. Thousands more died later from injuries or disease and more than 520,000 were left homeless, leaders of the local Armenian community said. "There is a need to recognize this tragedy that has befallen us," said Garen Yegparian, executive director of the Armenian National Committee's Western Region.
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' . . . A Lesson for Us in Los Angeles' :  'Death and Destruction Horrifying,' Hammer Reports
December 13, 1988 | MICHAEL PARKS, Times Staff Writer
American industrialist Armand Hammer, who brought a planeload of urgently needed medicines and equipment to Soviet Armenia, on Monday described the devastation as the worst disaster he had ever seen and probably the worst in the country's history. "The death and the destruction are horrifying," Hammer said on his return to Moscow from Yerevan, Armenia's capital. "I thought the Mexican earthquake was bad, but this is much, much worse. . . .
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A Mass for Armenia's Quake Dead :  Commemoration: A year after 25,000 lost their lives, a community prays for the dead and has hope for the future.
December 8, 1989 | BILL BILLITER, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Candles burned before paintings of Mary and the child Jesus. Sunlight streamed through the windows of the church, warmly anointing the wooden pews. In the pews, rows of children bowed their heads. Many folded their hands and put them against their faces as they prayed and meditated. The scene on Thursday morning was at the Forty Martyrs Armenian Apostolic Church in Santa Ana.
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For Armenians, a Numbing Normalcy :  Earthquake: A year later, 200,000 are still in temporary shelters, and life is grim.
December 7, 1989 | ESTHER SCHRADER, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
On the dirt roads of this once-bustling city in northern Armenia, ice coats piles of stones still lying where they crashed to the ground in a devastating earthquake, and a cold December rain beats against the walls of the metal shacks that thousands now call home. But in the Hovanissian household, a metal container without water or heat, there is celebration. A baby has just been born. He is named Aram, after Alah Hovanissian's last baby, who died in the ruins of the disaster.