Tuesday, August 31, 1999
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Hurricane Dennis grazes North Carolina coastline
NAGS HEAD, N.C. — People along the North Carolina coast breathed a sigh of relief Monday as Hurricane Dennis turned out to sea after sidewiping the shoreline with 112 mph gusts and up to 8 inches of rain that flooded streets and left 50,000 without power.
The Associated Press
The storm's center started peeling away from the coast after getting no closer than 60 miles.
"We are hoping it continues that offshore track," said Jim Jones, spokesman
Dennis was blamed for two traffic deaths early Monday. Property damage appeared to be light, with shingles blown off some homes.
for the state Division of Emergency Management. "If it stalls far enough away, that's fine, as long as it doesn't come back."
During the weekend Dennis moved on a plodding course parallel to the coasts of the Carolinas. Tens of thousands of residents and tourists were evacuated from the barrier islands separated from the mainland by roads that get swamped in storms. The worst of the storm hit early Monday, churning up 30-foot seas.
"It's pretty bad," inkeeper Bob Toubey said on Orcacoke Island, on North Carolina's Outer Banks. "We have no power. Our water's off. The island is pretty much a ghost town."
He said a friend's wind gauge "got stuck at 74 mph before it blew off the house."
At 3 p.m. Dennis was 75 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras, moving east-northeast at almost 20 mph with sustained winds of nearly 90 mph, down from 105 in the morning. A hurricane warning remained in effect for most of the North Carolina coast to the Virginia state line.
Shortly before noon, as Dennis approached the Outer Banks — which stick out from the Atlantic Seaboard like the sideview mirror on a car — it began edging away from the coast.
"That's a good sign. I'd rather have it going that
way than the other." Bill Frederick of the National Hurricane Center in Miami said.
He predicted Dennis will accelerate as it heats seaward for the next day, then stall a couple of hundred miles from shore.
Two people were killed in a head-on collision in the coastal community of Richlands as 60 mph gusts and 2 inches of rain blasted the area.
Southport, south of Wilmington, received 8 inches of rain. Sustained winds of 92 mph and gusts of 112 mph were reported at Frying Pan Shoals, south of Wilmington.
The storm knocked out power to more than 50,000 people.
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Survey finds teens more likely to talk with moms about drugs
WASHINGTON— Most teenagers find it easier to talk about drugs with their mothers than with their fathers, and those who don't get along with their fathers are at far greater risk of smoking, drinking and using drugs, a survey found.
The Associated Press
Teens in two-parent families who have fair or poor relationships with their fathers are 68 percent more likely to use drugs than those in average families, said a report issued yesterday by the private National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University.
By comparison, children raised by their mothers alone were only
"Too many fathers are jus AWOL in their kids' lives," Joseph Califano, the research center's chairman, told a news conference. "They're not there to help with homework and kids don't go to them with important problems."
30 percent more likely to use drugs than those living in the average two-parent home.
In the telephone survey of 2,000 youths ages 12 to 17 and 1,000 parents, researchers assessed teens' risk of drug use by asking, among other things, if they had friends who use drugs, and if they thought they would use drugs themselves in the future.
Parents should take the survey results as a back-to-school reminder to support their children and ask them questions, said Dr. H. Westley Clark, director of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment at the Department of Health and Human Services.
Mothers influence their children's important decisions three
"Too often, people think of the parenting role as the mother's job, and this reminds us that the family is the children, the mother and the father where possible," he said.
times as often as fathers and are more likely to have private talks about drugs, the study found. Fifty-eight percent of teens said they had very good or excellent relationships with their fathers, compared with 70 percent with their mothers.
Although Nabil Amr, an aide to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, said there was a crisis in the negotiations about the issue of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel, deputy spokesman James B. Foley took a calm view.
The Associated Press
Peace talks to continue in Mideast
WASHINGTON—Despite Palestinian assertions of a crisis atmosphere, the State Department Monday said it still expected an agreement with Israel on a timetable for pulling back on the West Bank before Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's departure for the region tomorrow.
Ellie Hajek/KANSAN
"There have been ups and downs in the peace process, especially in the last few days," he said. Folev said there was no reason
to amend Albright's statement Friday that she hoped to witness an agreement during her travels in the region.
Albright made the statement after meeting at her home with Saeb Erekat, the senior Palestinian negotiator, and with Arafat's deputy, Mahmoud Abbas, also widely known as Abu Mazen. She telephoned Arafat after the session. Foley said.
"She received what she considered to be a hopeful report on Friday," Foley said. "And again, we've seen further hopeful indications over the last days."
Albright her focus would be on long-range peace prospects.
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