University Daily Kansan / Thursday, September 21. 1989
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Hugo nears Florida
The Associated Press
MIAMI — Hurricane Hugo churned toward the Eastern Seaboard yesterday as nervous residents stocked up on supplies and made evacuation plans.
Violence and looting broke out on the islands shattered in the storm's wake.
President Bush has authorized sending U.S. troops, including military police units, to the Virgin Islands "to help restore order in the aftermath of Hurricane Hugo," the White House announced.
Forecasters warned that by early Saturday the hurricane could come ashore anywhere from northeastern Florida to Cape Hatteras, N.C., after she had skirted past the Bahamas and moved toward open waters.
Since Sunday, Hugo has killed at
least 25 people, left thousands homeless and caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damages as it slashed through the northeastern Caribbean with 125 to 150 mph winds.
Tourists pleaded with reporters landing on the island to take them off.
Chaos reigned on the U.S. Virgin Island of St. Croix as police and guardians Guardmen reportedly joined mass graves and mobs on a post-Hugo lapping spree.
The U.S. Coast Guard had six ships in the area and planned to send an armed landing party to help restore order.
President Bush yesterday declared the U.S. Virgin Islands a disaster area, and a White House spokesman said a similar declaration was expected for Puerto Rico, which suffered widespread damage.
The Coast Guard sent cutters to St. Thomas to pick up personnel
Knight Ridder-Tribune News
Soviet Politburo retires 3 members
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — Three members of the ruling Politburo were dropped yesterday in a dramatic consolidation of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's power.
The most important member to be dropped was Vladimir Shcherbitsky, 71, the Ukraine Communist Party chief and a holdover from the Brezhnev era. A Politburo member since 1971, Shcherbitsky was considered one of the most conservative forces in the Politburo.
Also retired was Viktor Nikonov, 60, who has been a Central Committee secretary and a Politburo member since 1987.
The third was Viktor Chebrikov, 66,
who had moved from head of the
KGB in September to a new party
position overseeing legal affairs
Chebrikov's successor as KGB chief, Vladimir Kryuchkov, was elevated to the Communist Party's ruling body, the Tass news agency reported at the end of a two-day meeting of the party's policy-making Central Committee.
The head of the state planning commission, Yuri Masujikov, also was promoted from candidate to full membership in the Polliture.
World Briefs
Two candidate members of the Politburo, Yuri Solovyev and Nikolai Solyzhin, also were retired, Tass said. They held a Bengalized Communist Party chief
The news agency said that Gorbachev warmly thanked the three Politburo members for their "many years of fruitful activity" in the party.
DEMOCRATS TAKE OATH: Democrats majority wnp
DECREMATS TAKE OATH: Democrats from Texas and California were sworn in by House Speaker Thomas S. Foley yesterday, filling seats left vacant by the resignations of House leaders Jim Wright and Joe Coelho. Pete Goren of Fort Worth, Texas, was
person and in writing to college officials
Pete Geren of Fort Worth, Texas, was elected to the seat vacated by Wright, who was speaker when he resigned in June.
Gary Cordit, who represents California's 15th District, replaces Rep. Tony Coeho, the
RACIST HAZING: Members of a University of Mississippi fraternity painted slurs on the naked bodies of two white pledges and dumped them on the campus of a mostly black college nearby.
Ishmell Edwards, dean of students at Rust College, 25 miles north in Holly Springs, said the fraternity chapter's officers apologized in
Witnesses said the two naked fraternity members, with "KKK" and "we hate niggers" painted on their chests, ran into the Rust College security office to escape pursuing Rust College students.
FOREIGN AID ENDORSEMENT: The Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday endorsed nearly $1.2 billion in aid for Poland
and Hungary, after all but one of the panel's Republicans walked out.
The aid is far more than President Bush has requested.
Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana was the only Republican left in the room as the committee voted 10-1.
WEAPONS TALK RESUME: Bracing for
still-secret proposals, the Bush administra-
Sunday, SEPT. 24th
Speculation on the content of the talks centered on a new approach to break the deadlock on a treaty to reduce by 30 percent to 50 percent U.S. and Soviet stockpiles of long-range bombers, missiles and submarines.
Sunday, SEPT. 24th
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