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Tuesday, August 31, 1993
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Many evacuate as hurricane nears
Many Emily threatens North Carolina
The Associated Press
NAGS HEAD, N.C. — More than 150,000 people on North Carolina's barrier islands and coast were ordered to evacuate yesterday as Hurricane Emily meandered on a path toward the central East Coast. A hurricane warning was issued for much of the North Carolina coast.
Surf reached 3 to 4 feet yesterday, although surfers enjoyed waves up to 9 feet Sunday, and forecasters warned waves would begin to build all along the East Coast. Gale-force winds also could reach North Carolina today.
"Nobody's going to be arrested for
not leaving, but they're probably going to be asked for their next of kin," said Dare County spokesman Ray Sturza. "Use common sense — and then go."
Few people were left on Ocracabe Island, accessible only by ferries that ran through the night. The sky was blue with light clouds, and water along the coast was relatively calm, although people knew that might not last.
"You get the feeling nothing's going to happen," said Jean Fletcher, who was waiting for a ferry to get to the mainland. "But a good run is better than a poor stand anytime."
A Dare County state of emergency covered an estimated 150,000 residents and tourists on the mainland and the county's share of the Outer Banks, the chain of fragile islands off
North Carolina's coast, county officials said. A similar order was issued for about 10,000 people on Currituck County's stretch of the islands just north of Dare, and for 2,500 on Ocracoke Island. To the south, some 12,000 people were urged to voluntarily leave the Bogue Banks islands.
If the storm alms at Virginia, about 200,000 people in flood-prone areas of Hampton Roads could be evacuated, said Mike LaCivita, a representative for the Department of Emergency Services. The Navy said it was moving at least 18 ships from their piers at the Norfolk Naval Base as a precaution.
"I think the odds favor it getting a little stronger because of coming over warmer water, traversing the Gulf Stream," meteorologist Joe Pelissier said during an emergency management meeting in Raleigh yesterday.
"The upshot is that, yes, it will probably get a little stronger, but, no, it won't become a Hugo or an Andrew."
Hurricane Andrew tore through South Florida and Louisiana last year with sustained winds of 145 mph. Officials are using their experience in those two hurricanes to prepare for the arrival of Emily.
Before briefing Clinton, Federal Emergency Management Agency Director James Lee Witt said his department had learned from its mistakes in the aftermath of Andrew. "I think there's a tremendous change from years past," he said.
President Clinton met yesterday with federal disaster-relief planners and pledged a quick government response if help is needed.
Brazilian police accused of massacre
The Associated Press
RIO DE JANEIRO Brazil — Dozens of hooded men stormed a Rio shantytown yesterday, setting fires and shooting to death at least 20 people. Residents blamed police for the killings.
"It was a massacre," said Col. Abilio Faria, a representative for the Rio de Janeiro state police.
He said that as many as 24 people may have been killed.
Faria said it was too early to tell who was responsible for the shootings, which were the latest in a series of mass killings throughout the country.
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Many residents said the killings were in retaliation for the murder of four policemen in the same area four days ago. Those deaths were blamed on drug traffickers in the slum.
Witnesses said dozens of men invaded the Vigario Geral slam around midnight. They set fire to vendors' stands and burst into homes, shooting ranof Aidid's lieutenants. He conceded that they had been wrong and that the mission missed its target.
"We were sleeping in bed and heard a noise of somebody trying the door," said Angela dos Santos Ferreira. 41, whose husband was killed.
"My husband went to see, and I heard the shots. I've been hearing them ever since," she said. "I found him on the floor, his body covered with blood."
Residents blocked the slum's body-strewn main street with tires and tree branches to protest the killings.
Police cars that tried to pass the barriers were pelled with stones and forced to retreat.
Col. Celso Pinto of Rio's Ninth state police battalion visited the shantytown and was received with chants of "killers" and "justice."
"Everybody knows it was the police," said 16-year-old Rosangela dos Lemos, who lives in the slum. "We who live in a poor part of the city depend on the bandits for our welfare. The police here are our enemies."
"When there's a massacre, everyone blames the police," said Francisco Duraes, a Rio city councilman and state police colonel. "It's an urban war out there."
President Itamar Franco gave the case high priority by ordering Justice Minister Mauricio Correa to follow the investigation.
Franco gave Correa similar orders following the July 23 killings of eight street children who were killed as they slept in the shadow of a Rio church. Four policemen were arrested as suspects.
Eight more children were killed late last week in the northeastern cities of Recife, Olinda and Salvador. Police blamed the killings on extermination squads, which human rights groups say are made up of off-duty policemen hired by local shopkeepers.
Also last week, the government's National Indian Foundation said that at least 73 Yanomami Indians were killed by gold miners who invaded the tribe's reservation in the northwestern Amazon.
U.S. 'textbook' raid nabs the wrong people
The Associated Press
For Larry DeBoice and eight other U.N. employees, it was a night in hell.
MOGADISHU, Somalia — For the U.N. military command in Somalia, yesterday's pre-dawn raid on a two-story villa in southern Mogadishu was a text book example of how a proper raid should be run.
For Larry DeRoice and eight other U.N. employ
In Washington, a Defense Department official who spoke on condition of anonymity, said military intelligence officers had expected to capture some
Fifty helicopter-borne elite U.S. soldiers raided the house and an adjoining office early yesterday, apparently believing that the buildings were serving as a command and control center for fugitive warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid.
They weren't. They were the residence and office of DeBoice and three other foreign employees of the U.N. Development Program, one of many U.N. agencies operating in Somalia.
DeBoice and his colleagues were awakened around 3 a.m. by the roar of more than a dozen helicopters overhead.
"Then we got some concussion grenades and shots in the house," DeBoice said. "At that point we knew something was going on right here."
DeBoice, 45, a Canadian, said he and his colleagues had their hands bound behind their backs with plastic cuffs and were told to keep their heads down and not look at anybody.
"I don't think there was any doubt in anybody's mind that if we said anything, looked at anybody, I would have known."
help were all U.N. employees, he said.
More than half an hour later, DeBoice was finally allowed to talk, and he explained that he, his foreign colleagues and five Somali guards and household
Despite that, he said: "We were literally thrown on top of each other into a helicopter and off we went. We asked where we were going, and we were told to shut up."
DeBoice said they were flown to a U.S. army hospital, then driven to the detention center at U.N. headquarters.
They were questioned separately for about 30 minutes, he said. Finally, the handcuffs were removed from their wrists.
Half an hour later, about four hours after their ordeal began, "a colonel came by and said, 'I'm sorry,'" DeBoice said.
Maj. David Stockwell, the chief U.N. military representative, later called the raid a success and an example of the soldiers' lightning speed and overpowering force.
Israel considers Palestine self-rule
The Associated Press
JERUSALEM — Israel's Cabinet met to vote on a rule plan for Palestinians in the occupied territories yesterday after Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said "the time has come" to take a chance for peace.
Proponents saw an approval as the first significant sign of progress since the Middle East peace talks began 22 months ago.
The plan would clear the way for self-rule to start in the Gaza Strip and West Bank bank of Jericho, perhaps by year's end. Months of detailed negotiations would be needed, however, to work out details of self-rule in those areas and elsewhere.
Palestinian and Israeli negotiators were to sit down today for the start of a new round of peace talks expected to finalize the self-rule plan.
"There is no doubt that we have a big breakthrough here," said Yakoub Tzur, the immigration minister. "This is the start of a new
"Every change has its risks, but the time has come to take a chance for peace." Rabin said in a speech before the Cabinet vote. "We stand on the verge of a great opportunity.
"There is movement along the whole Arab front in readiness for peace. There are obstacles. There are difficulties, but I'm convinced the horizons for peace are open."
In Washington, President Clinton said he was "very much encouraged" by the apparent breakthrough in the peace talks, but said it was too early to say whether it would lead to renewed dialogue between the United States and the Palestine Liberation Organization.
As the 18-member Cabinet met, more than 2,000 Jewish settlers and other opponents of the plan hurled eggs, then stones, and called Rabina a "traitor." Some scuffed with leftist demonstrators who held signs saying "give peace a chance."
Police used water cannons and horse-mounted officers to force the protesters back. Two police officers were injured, along with a photographer.
Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the right-wing Lakud opposition, accused Rabin's government of "going behind the back of the nation and setting up a bridgehead of a Palestinian state," which he
argued would threaten Israel's security.
He called for opponents of the plan to go "in the streets, with all the legitimate means, in order to block these dangers."
In Jericho, 20 right-wing demonstrators, including two members of parliament, moved into an old synagogue on the northern outskirts of the town and staged a sitin, Israel radio and television reported.
The army declared the town, scheduled to be the seat of the self-rule government, a closed military base. A group of the squatters to leave voluntarily.
On the Palestinian side, there were also bitter divisions over the plan.
"I am very enthusiastic that the process continues. I hope to be able to work with the Laborites (Rabin's party) in Israel toward peace," Bassam Abu Sharif, a top aide to PLO leader Yasser Arafat, told French television.
Arafat started a trip to Arab capitals to urge leaders to back the Gaza-Jericho accord and called it a "historical turning point."
Rabin portrayed it as an agreement that would exclude Jerusalem from discussions, prevent settlements from being uprooted and keep security in the hands of the Israelis.
In the Gaza Strip, Islamic fundamentalist groups issued leaflets and wrote wall slogans denouncing the self-rule plan. Hamas demanded a complete strike Tuesday, saying over loudspeakers circulating in Gaza that it would "cut the throat" of anyone who dared even use a car.
There was a clear difference of interpretation between Israeli and Palestinians on the self-rule plan.
In Israel's view, the plan to implement autonomy in Gaza and Jericho was a test of the Palestinians ability to govern themselves without posing a threat to Israel.
Palestinians, however, emphasized that autonomy was only a temporary stage en route to statehood or at least confederation with neighboring Jordan. They said international observers would be present and said Israel troops would withdraw — not merely deploy as Israeli officials said.
Rabin indirectly confirmed reports that the plan had been worked out in a series of secret meetings in Oslo, Norway.
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