In the eastern Turkish village of Lice, a single, slender minaret rose above the dust-clogged rubble. From the stony ridges above the village ran huge, pale, vertical scars gouged out by boulders dislodged during the earthquake that devastated Lice (pronounced lee-juh) earlier this month. Seismologists say the quake measured 6.8 on the Richter scale, just below the "severe" level in scientific terms (TIME cover, Sept. 1).
The 8,000 inhabitants of Lice measured their loss in the simpler terms of death, injury and destruction. More than 1,000 corpses were uncovered last week, and several hundred more may be found before...
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