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Tuesday, March 11, 1997
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Flooding continues to ravage towns
People return home to decay and death around Ohio River
EVANSVILLE, Ind. — People began returning to their muck-filled homes yesterday to see what disaster the flooding Ohio River had wrought.
The Associated Press
As the dangerous crest of the Ohio River moved toward well-protected Evansville and the farming communities of western Kentucky, some of the 192 people who evacuated this community last week returned for the first time.
weather system that brought deadly tornadoes to Arkansas and Mississippi. The twisters and high water in West Virginia, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee have killed 59 people since March 1.
They were only allowed to look, not moveback in.
The flooding began with a violent
The Federal Emergency Management Agency sent employees into the hardest-hit areas. Damage is expected to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
The crest of the Ohio River, at its highest level in 33 years, headed for Evansville, the biggest city affected by flooding since Louisville last week. City workers checked the city's 25-mile levee eight times a day for leaks and to measure the river's depth.
Paducah, Ky, the next largest city expecting the crest, is protected by a floodwall. The river is expected to reach its highest point there on Friday. Seventy homes have been evacuated.
Upstream, rescues continued searching for the bodies of two men whose canoe capsized near Owensboro. Kv.
Authorities in Owen County, Ky. finally freed the bodies of a couple from a car in which they drowned last weekend. Allen and Marilyn Wilson were swept off a highway by the raging Kentucky River.
Volunteers and emergency crews used sandbags to plug holes in the main levee at Old Shawneetown, Ill., where the Ohio had risen nearly two feet and is expected to crest at 53.8 feet Friday morning.
A few miles down the river, Smithland, Ky., was surrounded by waist-high water that is expected to rise until Friday.
Beer and soda cans, rotten food and dead fish added to the stench of dirty river water in Aurora, downriver from
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Cincinnati, where members of the Aurora Eagles Lodge had tears in their eyes as they began to clean up.
Authorities in Hanover Beach began 24-hour patrols amid reports of scattered looting by people using boats to reach evacuated homes.
Job seeker may go from welfare to White House
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Clinton said yesterday he wanted to hire someone off welfare as a White House employee — if there's a vacancy.
Speaking during a news conference with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Clinton said the
possibility of hiring a former welfare recipient at the White House depended on whether vacancies were available, and what those vacant positions were.
Bill Clinton
"I'd like to
we see us set an example, if we have a chance to do so." Clinton said.
During the weekend, Clinton ordered all federal agencies to spend the next 30 days determining how they can hire people who are laying welfare rolls under the new welfare law. He noted that the federal government — which hired 58,000 people last year — is the nation's largest employer.
Although the number of jobs in the federal government has shrunk by 285,000 positions in recent years, Clinton said there are still enough vacancies every year that we can make a substantial contribution to moving people from welfare to work.
WASHINGTON — In a slap at the FBI, President Bill Clinton said yesterday that he should have been alerted when the bureau told national security officials at the White House that the Chinese government might try to influence U.S. elections.
FBI failed to inform, Clinton says
Indeed, FBI agents had briefed at least one member of Congress about the alleged plot as long ago as 1991 during the Bush administration, a congresswoman said.
Declaring that he should have been informed, Clinton said, "It didn't happen. It should have happened. It was a mistake. The president should know."
The withholding of information from Clinton seemed even stranger in the wake of revelations that the FBI gave classified briefings — to members of Clinton's National Security Council staff last year and to a member of Congress five years earlier — warning that China was trying to influence members of Congress with campaign contributions.
The FBI declined to comment about the issue.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said that FBI agents approached her in late 1991 and early 1992 with a caution that China was going to attempt to get funds into U.S. campaigns.
Speaking at a Capitol Hill news conference, Pelosi said she heard nothing more about the issue until last June, when the FBI again came to her with similar warnings.
Six months before the 1996 election, the FBI briefed two officials at
the White House National Security Council that China might channel money to congressional races.
The Associated Press
In an unusual twist, the FBI instructed the officials to keep the information to themselves, secret even from their White House bosses and the president.
A senior law enforcement official said, "There is no factual reason why the FBI could not have briefed top White House officials about any foreign effort aimed at congressional campaigns. There's no allegation about White House misconduct."
The president ordered his top lawyer, Charles F.C. Ruff, and his national security adviser, Sandy Berger, to find out why the FBI insisted that the White House briefing be kept confidential.
Gangsta war may be for real
Two rappers died in similar shootings
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Industry leaders long tried to dismiss a simmering feud between West Coast rapper Tupac Shakur and his East Coast counterpart The Notorious B.I.G. as just an overblown publicity stunt.
Now both are dead, victims of almost identical drive-by shootings
No arrests have been made in the September shooting of Shakur, 25. The Notorious B.I.G.'s killing Sunday morning also showed little promise of a quick arrest.
six months apart, leaving fans and investigators wondering if the coastal rivalry is more than an act.
The Notorious B.I.G., whose real name was Christopher Wallace, had just left a party celebrating the Soul Train Awards when he was shot by someone in a passing car as he sat in a parked GMC Suburban. The 24-year-old was pronounced dead at a hospital.
Las Vegas police officials said that they had no indication that the two shootings were related.
Some have said the artists were victims of gang violence, while others say the deaths were the culmination of a growing East Coast-West Coast rivalry that typifies the violence of so-called gangsta rap.
"I think that it's time that the authorities got serious about recognizing that the East Coast-West Coast thing is dangerous, and it's legitimate," said Don Cornelius, creator and executive producer of television's Soul Train music show.
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Pre-Occupational Therapy Club Meeting
When: Tuesday, March 11, 1997
Time: 8:30 pm
Where: Regionalists Room Topic: Elections
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