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Coastal inhabitants
ready for hurricane
CHARLESTON, S.C. - Hurri
cane Hugo advanced faster and with
renewed fury Thursday on Georgia
and South Carolina as a flood of
coastal residents grabbed what they
could carry and fled inland on
jammed highways.
By late afternoon, Hugo was up
graded to category 4 on the Saffir
Simpson scale of hurricane strength,
the second mightiest category, indi
cating it could cause extreme dam
age.
Hugo’s muscle reached winds of
135 mph, up from 105 mph the day
before. North and South Carolina can
expect tornadoes linked to Hugo for
the next two days, according to the
National Hurricane Center in Miami.
The coastal area could expect
hurricane-force winds for 10 to 12
hours once the eye comes ashore,
officials said.
The leading edge of Hugo was
most likely to hit between Savannah,
Ga., and Charleston any time after 8
p.m. EDT. A hurricane warning was
in effect between Femandina Beach,
Fla., and Oregon Inlet, N.C.
At 6 p.m., Hugo was 180 miles
south of Myrtle Beach, S.C., near
latitude 31.2 degrees north and longi
tude 78.2 degrees west and moving
northwest at 20 mph. It was expected
to turn gradually to the north, the
National Weather Service said.
The timing of the landfall was
critical because of the storm’s tidal
surge, a dome of water 10 to 15 feet
high that would feed a normal 5-foot
high tide that peaks after 2 a.m.
4 ‘On top of that will be waves, and
so (on)... barrier islands (in) many
places the buildings will be swept
clean off of those islands,” Bob
Sheets, director of the National Hur
ricane Center, said from Coral
Gables, Fla.
Evacuees queued up at gas sta
tions and stripped store shelves of
bottled water, bread and batteries.
Officials warned coastal dwellers not
to linger because gale force winds
and flash floods could block escape
routes. Five to 10 inches of rain is
expected to fall.
The Navy moved ships out of
coastal harbors to ride out the storm at
sea. Army bases in coastal states
moved helicopters inland or into
shelters. Officials at Pope Air Force
Base in Fayetteville, N.C., ordered
12 to 14 C-130 transport planes to
Arkansas to wait out the storm.
South Carolina Gov. Carroll
Campbell declared a state of emer
gency and dispatched 400 National
Guardsmen to assist a mandatory
evacuation of coastal barrier islands
and shorefront. About one-fifth of the
state’s 3.1 million residents live in
eight coastal counties.
By early afternoon, the windswept
streets of the resort island of Hilton
Head were deserted. Stores were for
tified with boards and most homes
were empty. State troopers guarded
the island’s entrance.
The Georgia Emergency Manage
ment Agency opened shelters and
advised about 142,000people-- more
than 95,000 of them in Chatham
County — to leave their homes. Gov.
Joe Frank Harris declared a state of
emergency in six counties.
Hugo has killed 26 people, left
50,000 homeless and caused hun
dreds of millions of dollars of damage
in the Caribbean. Its pass through a
string of resort islands began early
Sunday at Guadeloupe and culmi
nated Monday when parts of Puerto
Rico were leveled.
The storm pummeled the U.S.
Virgin Islands, triggering a looting
frenzy and lawlessness. The van
guard of 1,100 soldiers dispatched by
President George Bush entered the
Virgin Islands at St. Croix on Thurs
day.
Local police and the National
Guard plundered stores with ma
chete-wielding gangs and escaped
prisoners, creating “chaos and near
anarchy,” according to Adm. Wil
liam Crowe.
Judge awards
custody to woman
in embryo case
MARYVILLE, Tenn. -- A woman
fighting for control of seven frozen
embryos in an unprecedented divorce
case was awarded temporary custody
Thursday by a judge who ruled that
life begins at conception and the
woman should be allowed to carry
them to term.
Blount County Circuit Judge W.
Dale Young, ruling in favor of Mary
Sue Davis over her estranged hus
band, Junior Lewis Davis, declared
that their embryos were children, not
property.
‘‘I’m thrilled. It’s definitely what I
wanted,” Mrs. Davis told a news
conference in Titusville, Fla., where
she now lives.
Davis said he would appeal in the
state court system, and potentially
beyond. “They are going to force me
to become a father against my
wishes,” he said.
Mrs. Davis said she would not try
to get pregnant before January. “I’m
waiting to see about the appeal then
hopefully after that try to have a
child,” she said.
‘ ‘As far as we are aware, this is the
first judicial decision which has de
clared an embryo a human being,”
said Charles Clifford, Davis’ attor
ney, adding that he would ask the
court to prevent Mrs. Davis from
implanting the embryos until appeals
are settled.
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All students interested in
the actuarial profession
are cordially invited to attend
an informal reception hosted by
Capital Holding Corporation,
an insurance and financial services
organization
September 26,1989,7-9 p.m.
University of Nebraska,
Nebraska Union Building
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for room number assignment)
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U.S., Soviet Union
plan to hold summit
WASHINGTON - President
George Bush met with Soviet Foreign
Minister Eduard Shevardnadze on
Thursday, opening three days of
high-level talks likely to set a general
time frame for a superpower summit
and spur chemical and nuclear weap
ons cutbacks.
After nearly two hours of discus
sions, Shevardnadze said the two
sides had not set a date for a summit
between Bush and Soviet President
Mikhail S. Gorbachev but “we have
concluded that a summit is necessary.
There is no doubt about lhat.“
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