UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, November 17, 1994
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Tropical storm ravages coast about 400 dead in Haiti, Florida
The Associated Press
BAREFOOT BAY, Fla. — Pink insulation hung from broken branches like strips of confetti. The crumpled remains of mobile homes littered the streets. Drenched furniture lay buried under crushed metal and wooden beams.
"I said, 'What is that noise?' and everything blew," Seline Harrod said yesterday. "I laid my face down on the floor and my husband laid on top of me."
a tornado had nearly destroyed her trailer. The Harrod's home was just one of many homes destroyed by Tropical Storm Gordon.
The storm generated other tornadoes and thunderstorms on a 200-mile path across Florida after devastating Haiti. Radio reports put the death toll in Haiti at up to 400.
In Florida, which has gotten 20 inches of rain since Sunday, six people died, scores were injured and dozens of homes destroyed. The storm zigzagged around Cuba and south of
the Florida Keys, then churned into the Gulf of Mexico and came ashore with wind near 50 mph on the state's west coast between Naples and Fort Myers.
The weakened storm spun out into the Atlantic late yesterday with winds down to 45 mph. All tropical storm warnings were discontinued for Florida as Gordon moved northeast at 15 mph, a path it was expected to continue through today.
Gov. Lawton Chiles declared a state of emergency for southern and central Florida, allowing the National Guard to be called in if needed.
In Barefoot Bay and Snug Harbor Lakes, an adjacent mobile home retirement community along the Atlantic Coast, the tornado destroyed 68 mobile homes, damaged more than 380, killed one man and injured 40, including two critically.
Rescuers used trained dogs in driving rain to pull apart pieces of mangled aluminum and insulation to make sure no one was trapped. No others were found.
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Ruth Flanagan, 64, was at home across the street, but her house was virtually untouched. "It was a great big boom, and then it was gone," she said.
James Fuller, 74, was killed and his wife, Jean, was critically injured when their mobile home was lifted up, carried across the driveway and crashed on top of him. A car parked in the driveway was barely scratched.
Controversial sections of Prop 187 on hold
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting the state from implementing most provisions of Proposition 187, the voter-approved measure that would deny public services to illegal immigrants.
The 10-day order applies to sections that would prohibit undocumented immigrants from receiving educational, social and non-emergency medical services. It does not apply to sections that pertain to the creation
and use of false immigration papers, already a felony under federal law.
U. S. District Judge Matthew Byrne Jr, said there was also the possibility that it infringes upon federal immigration law by requiring educators, police officers and others to do the job of U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service officers.
In arguments before the judge, American Civil Liberties Union attorney Mark Rosenbaum said the measure's worst impact would fall upon the sick and young children who have no control over their legal status.
He said that it already was keeping some immigrants away from hospitals and clinics, raising the possibility of immediate damage to their health.
"The court has a responsibility, if possible, to find an interpretation of the statute that saves it," said Deputy Attorney General John Ichinaga.
Questioned by Byrne, Ichinaga said
the investigation is complete.
sitioned by Byrne, Ichnnaga sage that a memo already had been drafted — but not distributed — authorizing police to ask for residency documents when dealing with people whom they suspect to be in the country illegally.
The Associated Press
three others should be dismissed, Air Force Col. Bill Colwell recommended in vesterdavs announcement.
His recommendation goes to Lt. Gen. Stephen Croker, commander of the 8th Air Force.
The Army Black Hawk helicopters were shot down in the no fly zone over northern Iraq on April 14 by two Air Force F-15 fighters.
OKLAHOMA CITY—A military judge has recommended an Air Force radar plane officer be court-martialed in the downing of two U.S. helicopters over Iraq, which killed 26 people.
Another crewman aboard the AWACS plane should receive only administrative punishment, and charges against
One Air Force crewman to face possible court-martial
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