Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, September 19, 1989
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9 dead as hurricane blasts Puerto Rico
The Associated Press
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Hurricane Hugo's 125 mph winds pounded Puerto Rico yesterday after ripping across other islands in the eastern Caribbean, leaving at least nine people dead and thousands homeless.
Hurricane Hugo slams Caribbean
The National Weather Service said that Hugo, the most powerful storm to hit the region this decade, slammed into the eastern tip of Puerto Rico and skirted the northern mountainous areas of Jamaica. Forecasters expected up to 15 miles of rain, and flooding and mudslides across the island.
"We're getting ravaged," said Fernando Garcia, San Juan ham radio operator. "Part of my aluminum neighbor's aluminum sking is gone."
There were reports of heavy damage, some looting and a loss of water and electricity services in Puerto Rico. A boat moved north out of the storm's path.
At noon EDT, Hugo's center was near latitude 18.6 degrees north and longitude 65.0 west, or about 29 miles north of San Juan, said the National Hurricane Center in Coral Gables, Fla.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune
Meteorologist Jesse Moore at the National Hurricane Center said it was too early to tell whether Hugo would strike the U.S. mainland. He said the storm was expected to be
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near the southeastern Bahamas tomorrow.
"After that," he said, "it's anybody's guess."
Police said a man was electrocuted in Puerto Rico when he touched a power line while removing an antenna from his roof in preparation for the storm.
Five people were reported killed, 80 injured and more than 10,000 homeless Sunday on the French island of Guadeloupe, relief officials said. Corrugated steel roofs were torn off, power lines were ripped free and crops were destroyed. Two people were killed in Antigua and one in Montsratt, according to Beacon
Radio in Anguilla. Ham radio operators reported at least five deaths in Montserrat, but there was no official confirmation.
Nearly all of Montserrat's 12,000 residents were homeless and without food or fresh water, said ham radio operator Stuart Haimes of Queens, N.Y.
STUDENTS TAKEN HOSTAGE:
An armed teenager staked into a McKee, Ky., high school classroom, fired a shot at the ceiling and took 11 classmates hostage yesterday, police and witnesses said. After a day-long standoff, he released them and surrendered.
World Briefs
Several shots were fired, but no one was injured in the confrontation, which began about 9:50 a.m., police said. There were conflicting reports that a shot was fired at a television news helicopter.
The youth, whose only request to police was to speak to his father, told his hostages that he did not want to hurt anyone. The final two hostages were freed shortly after 5 p.m., and the teen-ager gave up about 90 minutes later, authorites said.
McKee is a town of 250 people about 50 miles southeast of Lexington in the Appalachian foothills.
Police trooper Ed Robinson said the teen-ager was armed with a shotgun, a .357-caliber Magnum revolver and "some type of automatic pistol." The other weapons were identified as a 44-caliber Magnum and a 12-gauge gun.
MIDDLE EAST DISAGREEMENT:
Israel's defense minister told President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt yesterday that Israel would accept an Egyptian-sponsored dialogue with Palestinians, but the two
leaders disagreed on the composition of the Arab delegation.
Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Mubarak aired their disagreement publicly after meeting in Cairo for more than three hours.
At a news conference, Rabin said Israel advocated negotiations only with Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza Strip, occupied by Israel since 1967. At a separate news conference, Mubarak insisted that Palestinians from outside the territories be included as well.
AZT PRICE REDUCED: Burroughs Wellcome Co. of Raleigh, N.C., announced yesterday a 20 percent reduction in the price of AZT, the only drug approved in the United States for fighting AIDS.
PRESS LAMBASTS YELTSIN:
Soviet opposition legislator Boris Yeltsin displayed and drank until he dropped on his tour of the United States, said a scathing article reprinted yesterday in the Communist Party newspaper Pravda.
NATURAL WAY
The Communist Party maverick "leaves behind him a wake of catastrophic prophecies, insane expenses, interviews and above all, the perfume of Jack Daniels Black Label," the Italian newspaper La Republica reported in an article translated into Russian and printed in full by Pravda.
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