MONDAY,AUG.20,2001
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Caribbean tropical storm Chantal builds
The Associated Press
KINGSTON, Jamaica Chantal, the Caribbean's first tropical storm of the year, neared hurricane strength yesterday, churning her way past Jamaica and heading toward Mexico's Yucatan peninsula.
The fast-moving storm, which formed early Thursday, soaked small islands in the Caribbean and generated lightning bolts that killed two brothers collecting rainwater in Trinidad.
"The thunderstorms around the storm's center have intensified, and Chantal at this point is moving across the warmest waters in the Caribbean so she is bound to intensify even more," said Eric Blake, a meteorologist at the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami.
Chantal was expected to build to hurricane strength later yesterday, and by today come within 115 miles of Honduras. By late tomorrow, the storm was expected to near Mexico's Yucatan, Blake said.
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Mexico issued a hurricane watch from Chetumal to Cancun. Belize posted a hurricane watch from Belize City northward and a tropical storm watch for areas south of the city. The Cayman Islands were under a tropical storm warning.
At 11 a.m. EDT yesterday, the center of the season's third named storm was 270 miles southeast of Grand Cayman Island, moving west at 15 mph. The storm's winds were a sustained 70 mph and extended outward for 175 miles, mainly to the
northeast of the center.
Gusty winds swept through the Jamaican seaside capital of Kingston on Saturday, and rough seas prompted fishermen to drag their boats ashore. Some flights into Kingston's international airport were being canceled.
"It won't be the worst one, but there aren't good storms," said Jeff Wade, a 71-year-old fisherman, who dragged his canoeshaped boat out of the breaking whitecaps and onto a beach in the fishing village of Port Royal, just outside Kingston.
Moving at twice the speed of average storms, Chantal formed Thursday and raced westward across the Atlantic Ocean, passing over Barbados and then hovering over St. Vincent. The storm has alternately lost and regained
"It won't be the worst one,but there aren't good storms." Jeff Wade 71-year-old firsherman
strength in the past few days over the Caribbean Sea.
Tropical storms have sustained winds of at least 39 mph and become hurricanes at 74 mph.
The season's first two named storms, Allison and Barry, hit land along the northern Gulf Coast as very wet tropical storms. Barry did little damage and brought relief to droughtstricken areas in the Southeast United States.
Lebanon army cracks down on critics
The Associated Press
BEIRUT, Lebanon — The army arrested an editor for a prominent Arab newspaper, the second detention of a Christian journalist in three days, as Pope John Paul II yesterday criticized a crackdown on Lebanese Christian critics of Syria.
Military intelligence agents detained Habib Younis, a senior editor for the newspaper Al-Hayat, at his house in Jbeil, a town north of Beirut, on Saturday evening, the paper reported.
The London-based newspaper reported yesterday that Younis, who works for AlHayat's Beirut bureau, was told he was being detained "to be asked some questions."A senior military official, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed Younis' arrest.
"Following arrests in the ranks of the Lebanese opposition, it is now the turn of the press to be muzzled," Al-Hayat commented.
Since Aug.7, the army has detained about 250 Christians opposed to Syria, the main power broker in Lebanon. Many detainees have been released, but the crackdown has been widely criticized by government and opposition politicians as a case of the military exceeding its powers.
John Paul criticized the arrests, appealing to Lebanese leaders "that the values of democracy and national sovereignty not be sacrificed for the political interests of the moment."
"A pluralistic and free Lebanon constitutes for the entire Middle East region a richness: Let everyone help the Lebanese people preserve it and make it bear fruit," the pontiff told a group of faithful gathered at his summer retreat outside Rome.
The military accused the country of seeking to destabilize the country, charges dismissed by the Christian opposition.
The authorities gave no reason for the arrest of Younis, but the Reporters' Syndicate issued a statement saying it had been informed by Brig. Raymond Azzar, the chief of military intelligence, that Younis was arrested because he planned to go to Cyprus yesterday to meet an Israeli official.
Al-Hayat dismissed the alleged meeting in Cyprus as "unture," saying Younis was scheduled to work a 12-hour shift in the Beirut office yesterday.
The Reporters' Syndicate statement said it rejected the accusations against Younis and was demanding his release along with
"A pluralistic and free Lebanon constitutes for the entire Middle East region a richness: Let everyone help the Lebanese people preserve it and make it bear fruit." Pone John Paul I
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Antoine Bassil, the Christian journalist for the London-based television channel Middle East Broadcasting Corp., detained tomorrow.
The Lebanese army said Saturday that Bassil was involved in contacts with Israeli officials abroad.
Lebanon is technically at war with Israel and prohibits any dealings with it.
Ukrainian coal mine explosion kills 36, leaves 14 missing
Miner describes blast scene as 'piles of bodies'
The Associated Press
KIEV, Ukraine — An underground methane and coal dust explosion killed 36 miners, injured 44 and left more than a dozen missing in eastern Ukraine yesterday — the most serious accident this year in the country's hazardous coal mines.
"This is a tragedy. We understand once again that that we must re-equip our coal industry both technically and technologically to bring it to a proper level. It is one of the state's priorities." Deputy Prime Minister Volodymyr Semynozhenko was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying.
The morning blast came as more than 250 miners were working underground at the Zasiadko mine in the coal-rich Donetsk region, authorities said.
Semynozhenko lamented the deteriorated state of Ukraine's coal industry, considered among the world's most unsafe, and pledged to help the families of the dead and wounded.
Most of the miners were brought to the surface, where 22 were hospitalized, at least four of them in grave condition. Twenty-two others were injured only slightly.
Ukraine's Emergency Situations Ministry said at least 14 miners were missing, but noted that its figures were preliminary. Rescue teams were working in the mine, battling a continuing fire, officials said. One
miner who escaped the accident unharmed described seeing "piles of bodies" while making his way to the surface.
Police surrounded the mine compound and barred reporters from entering. Grim-faced workers and relatives sat outside the mine's main administrative building in Donetsk awaiting the news.
It was not immediately clear what caused the blast at the Zasiadko mine, which was also the site of a May 1999 methane explosion that killed 50 miners and injured about 40 others.
President Leonid Kuchma ordered that a government commission be formed to look into the causes of the accident, said his spokesman, Oleksandr Martynenko. Kuchma also planned to visit the mine Monday.
Ukraine, once the pride of the Soviet Union for its huge coal mining industry, has more than 200 working and mostly unprofitable mines that were devastated by the Soviet collapse in 1991.
After the government of independent Ukraine slashed subsidies to the coal industry, the death rate began to rise. Last year, 318 coal workers died on the job, including 81 killed in a single explosion, and at least 120 have died so far this year.
Most accidents are blamed on outdated equipment and widespread disregard for safety rules. This year's second-deadliest accident was a May explosion at the Kirov mine that killed 10 and injured dozens of workers, also blamed on gross violation of safety rules.
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