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University Daily Kansan / Monday, September 25, 1989
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Hugo leaves Charleston in despair
The Associated Press
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Electricity finally flowed through five downtown hospitals in hurri-cane-rawed Charleston, but thousands of people were fed by the food of clean water or cash for a fourth day today.
"I eat where I can get a meal," said Renildo Holmes, 26, who had no food at home and was eating barbecued chicken, sweet corn and butter beans from a mobile kitchen opened yesterday by the Alabama State Baptist Convention.
"My neighborhood looks like a trash barrel, everything is out — trees, light poles and cars everywhere."
Hundreds of Isles of Palms residents, meanwhile,
were to learn today whether Hurricane Hugo
spared any homes to return to. Boats were scheduled today to begin ferrying them to the island, which like other barrier islands, has been off limits since being evacuated last week.
Aerial surveys showed more than half the island homes to be unsafe. Propane gas leaked, and power lines, trees and debris cluttered roads.
But angry and worried residents threatened to defy the mayor's declaration of martial law and go to the island on their own until officials worked out a plan to evacuate them at least before people can go to stay, police said.
Ms. Bunch, whose own house was demolished.
"When you come to the island, you better wear boots. There are snakes all over the place." Mayor Carmen Bunch told 500 homeowners at a meeting yesterday in Mount Pleasant.
brushed back tears as she told residents: "We're going to build the island back. We've got to stop the anarchy that's been talked about. We're not going to let anyone take over the city by force."
Coastal South Carolina, hit hardest by Hugo as it swept onto the U.S. mainland with 135 mph wind late Thursday, suffered billions of dollars in damages, officials said. Preliminary damage estimates in the Charlotte, N.C., area reached more than 8368 million.
But it will be days before anyone has accurate assessments of the losses. Insurance agents were going house-to-house, gathering information and handing out initial checks.
The death toll from Hugo's six-day rampage stood at 51 — at least 27 people in the Caribbean and 24 in the Carolinas, Virginia and New York.
Colombian judges may strike for security
The Associated Press
BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia's 4,600 judges, facing persistent death threats from drug traffickers, said yesterday they would strike if the government doesn't give them better protection.
Also, the army said it had captured a suspected drug trafficker wanted by the United States for extradition. Carlos Gomez Zapata is not on the U.S. Justice Department's list of 12 most wanted drug traffickers.
The son of a crusading newspaper editor killed by drug traffickers said that Colombia's congress is cowardly and corrupt in the government's fight against drug traffickers.
Three bombs exploded late yesterday in Bogota, the capital city of 6 million, heavily damaging offices of three savings and loans companies but causing no injuries, national police said.
Late Saturday, bombs exploded in a theater, a city bus company's garage and at a neighborhood headquarters of the ruling Liberal party,
inluring two neocle, police said.
In the last month, 103 bombs have killed six people and wounded 120.
Colombia's judges, fearing for their lives, said in a statement issued through their labor union, the National Association of Judicial Workers, that they will go on strike if immediate action is not taken to address the dangers they face.
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Since 1891, about 50 judges and 170 judicial employees have been killed. Antonio Morales, president of the
Association of Judicial Employees, has said at least 1,600 of Colombia's 5,000 judges have been threatened with death in the last 12 months.
"We don't see any will on the part of the government to increase security for our lives," the president of Shurez Nino, said in the communiqué.
The judges repeated previous demands for bulletproof cars and vests, guards with metal detectors at their offices and other security measures.
SOUTH AFRICAN CLASH: South African police arrested more than 150 people, clashed with angry Blacks and cordoned off a cathedral with barbed wire Saturday in a massive operation to stop a march by anti-apartheid women's groups.
Two blocks from the church, where thousands of women had planned to assemble, white extremists went ahead with two government-approved rallies. Fights broke out between the khaki-clad extremists and Black onlookers. Police made several arrests and chased Blacks away with batons.
Downtown Pretoria resembled a militarized zone, with major streets closed to civilian traffic throughout normally busy morning shopping hours. Hundreds of policemen and scores of riot-controlling officers were present to prevent the women's march and monitor the right-wing rallies.
The white extremists sought and received permission to demonstrate, but the women's planned march to government headquarters was banned because organizers refused to seek a permit.
Authorities also said they feared that simultaneous protests by such diverse factions might spark violence.
POLISH STUDENT VICTORY:
Students sang victory chants Friday when the Supreme Court issued a ruling legalizing a pro-Solidarity student union and said the union has the right to strike.
Students, joined by professors and members of parliament, celebrated the decision in the hallways of the Warsaw courthouse.
When the ruling was read in the courtroom, crowded with more than 100 people, there were chants of "NZS, NZS" — the Polish initials for the Independent Students Association.
NZS had been banned after the imposition of marital law in December 1981. Martial law, subsequently lifted, was used to suspend and then outlaw Solidarity, the first free union movement in the Soviet bloc.
FEDERAL DEFICIT DOWN: The federal deficit through August is running 11.7 percent behind last year, the Treasury Department said Friday, despite the first funds spent by a new government agency created to deal with savings and loans' failures.
The August deficit of $22.2 billion was down 4 percent from the same month a year ago and followed a $18.2 billion drop in Julv.
For the first 11 months of the fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30, the deficit totals $145.9 billion, 11.7 percent lower than the same period for fiscal 1988.
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