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The University Daily Kansan
Thursday, September 16, 1999
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Floyd brushes Florida coast, is heading for the Carolinas
The Associated Press
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — A weakened but still terrifying Hurricane Floyd churned its way up the Atlantic coast yesterday, heading on a collision course with the Carolinas after delivering only a glancing blow to Florida.
Its winds howling at 115 mph, Floyd moved north toward the mostly evacuated area between Myrtle Beach and Wilmington, N.C., its tremendous size and power chasing tens of thousands of coastal residents inland in the biggest evacuation in U.S. history.
At 5 p.m. EDT, Floyd was 215 miles south-southwest of Wilmington. The storm center was moving north at 17 mph and was expected to roll ashore around daybreak today.
Altogether, authorities have urged more than 2.6 million people along the southern Atlantic coast to clear out.
In northern and central Florida, Floyd snapped power lines, smashed piers into driftwood and
Richard Bachman / KANSAI
But Floyd made a northward turn yesterday that spared the state the catastrophic damage many had feared. NASA's Kennedy Space Center and its four shuttles were largely unscathed.
"I know that Florida and Georgia at this point feel like they've dodged a real bullet," said North Carolina's public safety secretary, Richard Moore. "This thing is not going to miss us."
The Carolinas, however, lay directly in the storm's path.
Myrtle Beach, a usually bustling resort, was a virtual ghost town as people fled or stayed indoors, and highways were jammed around Wilmington. In both Carolinas, many hurricane-hardened people who rode out earlier storms left this time.
Terry Hurley, checking into a Wilmington shelter with his wife and two children, said his family stayed home for Hurricanes Fran and Bertha in 1996, but not for Flov.
banned price gouging on essential items, threatening fines up to $100 or 30 days in jail. "All of us — no matter what our means — deserve the same access to lifesaving food and supplies," he said.
"They talk like this one is going to be pretty mean," he said. "It's got everybody shook up."
Myrtle Beach authorities imposed a 3 p.m. curfew and turned off the water supply. The hospital sent its patients inland but kept a doctor and three nurses on emergency duty.
In Beaufort County, at South Carolina's southern tip, an estimated 90 percent of its nearly 120,000 residents heeded the call to evacuate.
"It's like a tomb out here now," said Bud Boyne, a county emergency representative.
North Carolina authorities issued evacuation orders for the barrier islands outside Wilmington and for the Outer Banks, the fragile line of islands that were battered by a lingering Hurricane Dennis last week.
President Clinton, hurrying back from New Zealand to deal with the hurricane, preemptively declared federal disaster areas in South Carolina and North Carolina. He had issued similar declarations Tuesday for Florida and Georgia to allow a rapid start to any recovery efforts.
Commission debates proposed Internet tax
"I think we've done everything we know to do," Clinton said.
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — They may be awash in surpluses now, but state and local officials say they will eventually need to collect sales taxes on billions of dollars in Internet transactions to avoid serious erosion in services such as schools and fire protection.
"Local government and state government cannot operate on an empty tank," Randy Johnson, Republican chairman of the Hennepin, Minn., County Board, told the federal Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce.
If Internet sales reach $100 billion by 2003, an estimated $4 billion in sales tax would go uncollected because no system exists to do so, said Harley Duncan, director of the Federation of Tax Administrators.
"This is of profound importance to the states," Duncan told the commission, created by Congress to recommend by April a national tax policy for the electronic marketplace.
Opponents, however, say a new tax would slow Internet commerce. They say the economic boom has
Abolishing the Quill standards, say supporters, would protect state revenues and ensure that traditional brick and mortar merchants and Internet companies face the same tax-compliance costs.
Sales taxes are the single largest source of revenue for most states and local governments, amounting to $147 billion in 1997. But under a 1992 U.S. Supreme Court decision known as Quill, a state cannot collect taxes from companies operating outside its boundaries unless the company has some physical presence in that state, such as a store or warehouse.
left the 50 states with a combined $36 billion surplus in 1988.
Although that case involved mailorder sales, it has been interpreted to apply also to Internet transactions. Whether that decision should stand is perhaps the question facing the commission and ultimately Congress.
"It's not a problem now and I don't believe it's going to be a problem in the future," said Dean Andal, a commission member and Republican chairman of the California Board of Equalization. "If you look at state tax revenues now, it's boom time."
DES MOINES, Iowa — Questioned by an anti-gay rights publication, Texas Gov. George W. Bush said Tuesday that he opposes gay marriages and that a court eremed in striking a ban on gays in the Boy Scouts.
Candidate opposes gays in marriage,Boy Scouts
Publishers of the newsletter said Bush's comments were a good start, but said they had more questions about the Republican presidential front-runner's position on gay rights.
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"Governor Bush believes marriage is between a man and a woman and therefore does not believe in gay marriages," the statement said. "He also opposed adoption by gay cou
ples because he believes children ought to be adopted in families with a man and woman who are married."
Bush told the newsletter that he believes the New Jersey Supreme Court was wrong when it struck down the Boy Scouts' ban on gays in the
Bill Horn is a leading anti-gay rights activist who publishes a newsletter called Straight from the Heart. He's been questioning presidential campaigns about their views on gay issues. Pushed to detail the Texas governor's positions, the Bush campaign sent Horn a brief statement Tuesday.
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" H e thinks the Boy Scouts is a private organization and they should be able to set their own standards," Bush's statement said.
Bush: Opposed to union of gays in marriage
Horn said the questions had been posed to all the Republican presidential candidates, and only former cabinet officer Elizabeth Dole and Arizona Sen. John McCain had failed to respond.
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