Monday. September 18. 2000
The University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Section A · Page 5
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Gordon nears Florida coast
The Associated Press
CEDAR KEY, Fla. — Hurricane Gordon charged toward Florida's Gulf Coast yesterday, carrying high winds, drenching rain and a storm surge that threatened to reach 10 feet and sent some residents of low-lying areas to shelters.
However, many of the 800 people on this small island in the path of the storm stayed put, ignoring a request for voluntary evacuations.
"A lot of residents have been here for years. They've ridden these out before," said Cedar Key mayor Heath Davis. "Their words are like, 'We've always stayed; we're staying this time.'"
Forecasters expected Gordon to hit the coast last night about 100 miles north of Tampa, with sustained winds in excess of 75 mph and 10 or more inches of rain.
The 13,000 residents of Dixie County, just north of Cedar Key, were as ready as possible, said Arthur Bellot, emergency
management director.
All nonresidents were ordered out of Cedar Key by yesterday afternoon. Two hurricane watchers from Atlanta were chased away from a dock by Levy County Sheriff's deputies.
"We have been chasing hurricanes for about 15 years. We go all the way from Brownsville (Texas) to Boston," said John Tyler, a pizza delivery man who said he was disappointed by Gordon's force.
"It's real weak," he said. "It's too dry and cool to get much stronger."
Others along the coast weren't taking chances. By midafternoon, 227 people had taken refuge in 43 shelters in nine counties, dozens of flights were canceled at Tampa International Airport and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays baseball game against the Oakland Athletics was called off.
By yesterday afternoon the storm's center was about 90 miles south-southwest of Cedar Key, or 75 miles due west of Tampa, and was moving north-northeast of
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rain was pounding the coast, and winds had already reached 25 mph. In Sarasota, easily flooded streets were already under water yesterday, though officials reported no injuries and no substantial wind damage.
at about 14 mph.
Forecasters predicted storm surge flooding of 7 to 10 feet above normal tide levels near the eye's landfall and said that might have coincided with yesterday's high tide. Cedar Key stands about 3 feet above sea level.
The National Hurricane Center posted a hurricane warning extending from Anna Maria Island, just south of St. Petersburg, north to Ochlockonee River on the Florida Panhandle. Tropical storm warnings were in effect on the Atlantic Coast, from Tittusville, Fla., north to Little River Inlet, S.C.
U.S. warns Iraq against aggression
SINGAPORE — U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen warned Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein yesterday to avoid taking any aggressive action against his country's neighbors, saying the United States and Britain could defeat any threat.
Kuwait urged world leaders yesterday to take steps to restrain Iraq from threatening the emirate after Baghdad warned last week that it would take action to stop what it called Kuwaiti theft of its oil.
Iraq historically has accused Kuwait of
stealing its oil, one of the justifications it made for invading in 1990. A U.S.-led coalition army drove Iraq from Kuwait seven months later.
In the past two weeks, Iraq also has flown a jet fighter over Saudi airspace for the first time in more than a decade.
The Associated Press
Kuwaiti Cabinet ministers discussed Iraq's recent threats yesterday, Interior Minister Sheik Mohammed Al Khaled Al Sabah said, calling the Iraqi accusation baseless and an attempt to create regional instability.
"The Iraqi regime's continuous threats
do not scare us, whether they are serious or for political consumption," Defense Minister Sheik Salem Al Sabah was quoted as telling an Iraqi newspaper.
Undecided voters often are women
An Iraqi official said yesterday that Baghdad was not making threats and that it meant only that it would take technical measures to prevent Kuwaiti theft of its oil.
Friction between the United States and Iraq has been rising, mainly over renewed efforts to have U.N. inspectors search for hidden weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
WASHINGTON — A personal ad from this year's presidential candidates might look something like this: In search of politically independent female from small town; no college education necessary.
The Associated Press
She's a typical undecided voter, part of a shrinking pool of Americans yet to tilt toward either Al Gore or George W. Bush.
Only about 10 percent of Americans remain truly undecided, polls show, although that rises when those who are leaning but not committed are included. That has number crunchers for both campaigns slicing and dicing poll results to learn more about just who's left to get.
They're likely to find people like Tracey Jones, a 33-year-old cosmetics saleswoman. She's a registered Democrat but willing to give Bush a chance
"I'm going to vote." Jones said as she shuttled among customers in a D.C. store. "I just have a lot more homework to do."
Surveys show that undecided voters are disproportionately female and politically independent, with a high school education or less. Some polls show they're most likely to be young, though a recent survey found them older. Nearly two-thirds are from small towns or rural areas. Many are from working-class families. They have moderate views on the issues and generally favorable impressions of both Gore and Bush.
And the uncertainty in this year's race extends well beyond the undecided voters to an even larger group of voters who have picked a candidate but aren't solidly committed. One in four registered voters said there was a chance they might switch before Election Day, according to a recent survey by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press.
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