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===-_ NEWS DIGEST Andrew sweeps Florida, targets Gulf Coast MIAMI — Hurricane Andrew struck southern Florida on Monday with the fury of 160-mph winds and a 12-foot tidal surge that flattened homes, uprooted trees, and flung boats and planes onto leafy streets. The death loll reached 12 before the storm blew into the Gulf of Mexico on a path toward New Orleans. The storm left 1.2 million people without electricity. It was expected to reach land again sometime Tuesday night or Wednesday morning. “There was complete devastation. It’s like building blocks, and some body comes along and steps on it all,” DadcCounty Manager Joaquin Avino said of the worst-hit suburbs south west of downtown Miami. There was some looting in south ern Dade County. The entire county was put under a 7 p.m.-to-7 a.m. curfew. President Bush authorized federal disaster as sistance and made plans for a quick trip to Florida to inspect the damage. Andrew smashed ashore about 25 miles south of downtown Miami be fore dawn, with sustained winds of 140 mph and gusts of 168 mph or more. The blasts of tropical air were strong enough to strip the paint off houses. The worst damage was in southern Dade County between the M iam i sub urb of Kendall and the Florida Keys. The storm ripped off roofs and left streets blocked by uprooted trees, util ity poles, siding and live electrical wires. In Homestead, a farming and re tirement community about 25 miles southwest of Miami, police in riot gear rode in the backs of pickup trucks, patrolling the devastated streets. “We have some confirmed deaths — eight so far,” said Fred Taylor, head of the Metro-Dade police de partment. He said details would be released later. Four people were re ported killed in the Bahamas before the storm hit Florida. Gov. Lawton Chiles reported two people killed in the city of Miami — one by a falling tree and another by a heart attack. Dade firc-rcscuc officials reported 350 injury calls but said they did not ..—-1 know how serious they were. The storm was still packing 140 mph winds as it headed into the Gulf of Mexico, leading forecasters to post warnings for much of the southern U.S. coast from Alabama to Texas. Meteorologist Bob Rau said he ex pected the winds to maintain the same intensity. New Orleans lay close to thccentcr of Andrew’s path. People there stocked up on batteries, flashlights and other emergency supplies. At 2 p.m. EDT, Andrew’s center was near 25.7 north latitude and 83.1 west longitude, or about 85 miles west-southwest of Naples on Florida’s Gulf Coast. The hurricane was mov ing west at 18 mph. The Category 4 hurricane was the worst to hit Miami since 1926, said forecaster Max Mayfield at the Na tional Hurricane Center, where the radar dishes lipped over the edge of the rooftop. Gusts hit 168 mph before breaking the measuring device. The worst-hit areas of South Florida were scaled off, with even residents1 ordered to stay out. Those wishing to leave could do so only under police escort. Chiles rushed 1,500 National Guard troops to ring Miami’s Coco nut Grove, Homestead and other ar eas after reports of sporadic looting. The American Red Cross and state emergency officials sent trucks, filled with emergency supplies and drink ing water, south to Miami. All Dade AP and Broward county residents were asked to boil water for fear of con tamination. The power outages affected ap proximately one-third of the custom ers of Florida Power & Light, the slate’s largest utility. Utility officials warned that the outages could last for weeks in some more remote areas. Democrats’ wives respond to bashing WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton and TippcrGore fired back Monday at Republican assaults on Mrs. Clinton and painted the GOP as a party that wants to bash “other people’s families’’ rather than solve family problems. “They had their chance to talk about the future. . . and instead they chose to make up stories and launch ver bal grenades,” Mrs. Clinton said in her first de tailed reply to last week’s attacks on her at the Republican National Convention. She and Mrs. Gore gave a double-barreled response on Mon day morning’s talk shows, appear ing on NBC’s “Today” and “CBS This Morning” in interviews taped during the Clinton-Gorc campaign’s weekend bus tour of the Rust Belt. Also Monday, the two women were featured i n a Cable News Network spot. It was their first national expo sure since last week’s GOP con vention in Houston, where Presi dent Bush’s supporters focused on values and aimed much of their fire at Mrs. Clinton, a Yale-educated lawyer. Conservative Patrick Buchanan cast Mrs. Clinton as a radical femi nist who likens marriage to sla very; Marilyn Quayle got in a more subtle dig, saying liberals are dis appointed “because most women do not wish to be liberated from their essential natures as women.” Mrs. Clinton told CBS that Mrs. Quayle’s remark was “a bit of an insult to today’s modem women, most of whom are working mothers and struggling very hard to balance their family’s needs with the family’s economic needs.” Told that an aide to Mrs. Quayle boasted that the vice president’s wife was always home for dinner by 7 p.m., Mrs.Clinton said: “Well, I’m very, very proud for her. And I wish that every family in America could have that kind of opportu nity.” At the same lime, Mrs. Clinton said she didn’t want to get into a “rhetorical battle” with Mrs. Quayle. “There’s no reason for tis to be dividing women against women or I men against women. This country needs people who want to reach beyond these boundaries and quit pointing fingers at one another,” she said. Mrs. Clinton is a former board member of the Children’s Defense Fund who for years has worked in Arkansas on programs to help pre schoolers and reduce infant mor tality. She and Democratic nomi nee Bill Clinton, the Arkansas gov ernor, have a 12-ycar-old daughter, Chelsea. Bush proposes job-training plan ANSONIA, Conn. — Plagued by high unemployment and a weak elec tion-year economy, President Bush proposed a $2 billion-a-year package of new and retooled job-training pro grams Monday and said they could be paid for without raising taxes. “We can get ev erybody engaged in high-tech jobs with this retraining ap proach,” Bush promised. He said the $ 10 billion cost over five years would be paid for by culling spending for other, unspecified federal pro grams. “He just got through telling us at the convention we were going to have huge tax cuts paid for by huge spend ing cuts in amounts to be unspecified, and now he’s come out with a huge spending program,” Democratic presi dential candidate Bill Clinton said at a news conference in Little Rock, Ark. “I think it’s very difficult to lake this seriously.” Bush unveiled his plan at a voca tional training school in Union, N.J., before flying to Connecticut for a fund-raising luncheon in Middlcbury and a speech to businessmen in Ansonia. The lunch raised about $100,000 for the state Republican Party, according to campaign spokes woman Toric Clarke. At Warsaw Park in Ansonia, Bush railed against Clinton’ seconom ic pro posals, which he said included the largest lax increase in history. In a reference to the criticism he drew for breaking his po-new-taxes pledge in 1990, Bush shouted, “Once you make one mistake you don’t make it again!” Bush cut short his campaign stop in Connecticut in order to fly to Florida to inspect damage from Hurricane Andrew. Politicking up to the mo ment he left here, Bush shouted out to the crowd as he boarded his helicop ter: “Help get a new Congress; help me clean the House!” Shouts of “No more Bush” com peted with criesof “Four more years.” The centerpiece of Bush’s plan calls $3,000 vouchers for adults to use -44 I think it's very difficult to take this seriously. Clinton Democratic presidential candidate -ft - for retrain ing at trade schools or com munity colleges. These would go to people who had lost their jobs, been notified their jobs were being termi nated, or who worked in declining industries and wanted to sharpen their skills. Young men in work clothes at the Lincoln Technical Institute booed when Bush singled out Clinton’s idea to finance job training through the new tax on employers. “He sees job training as a tax raiser and he wants to lax workers to pay for their own training and tax small busi ness around the country 1.5 percent,” Bush said, speaking to about 700 stu dents and faculty members. Bush said, “There is no point in training people for jobs if your plan is going to be in the process of destroy ing jobs.” Bush’s job-training plan would combine new and formerly proposed programs with several existing ones under an umbrella grouping to be known asthe New Century Workforce. I “We know the global economy is J changing, and we must change with M it,” Bush said atlhc vocational school, m Bush’s expanded plan is part of the ■ administration response to criticism 1 that its recent North American Free a Trade Agreement with Canada and 1 Mexico would cost American jobs. The S2 billion package would com bine two existing dislocated workers’ programs, the Economic Dislocation and Worker Adjustment Assistance and Trade Adjustment Assistance. Of the proposed S2 billion, S740 million is already included in existing pro grams. Over five years, the cost of the program would be $10 billion. Beyond the $2 billion, Bush pro posed expanding programs aimed at giving young people the skills they need to enter the job market. The president said he would pump up the existing Youth Training Corps program by building 25 new conser vation centers where youths work in recreation and community facilities and help rebuild parks. Bush said the facilities would serve 43,000 train ees. And he said hiring preference for the staff would be given to former members of the armed services. U.N. contingent barred from Serbian camp SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — A U.N. team investigating alleged atrocities of the Bosnian war was refused entry into a prison camp, and the mission’s leader on Monday ac cused the Serbs running it of covering up conditions inside. Former Polish Premier Tadcusz Ma/owiccki arrived in Sarajevo one day after his team failed to gain access to the Manjaca camp at Banja Luka, about 100 miles to the northwest. Fighting in Sarajevo intensified as night approached. Doctors at hospi tals, coping with frequent electrical and water outages, reported six dead and 18 wounded in a new round of mortar and rocket attacks on the capi tal. The airport was reopened Mon day. U.N. peacekeepers had closed it to aid flights over the weekend after shells hit the runway. In Brussels, Belgium, NATO mili tary authorities drew up new plans that sources said called for deploying 6,000 soldiers to protect humanitar ian aid shipments to Bosnia. Ambassadors of the 16 North At lantic Treaty Organization nations will meet Tuesday to consider the plans, revised after an earlier draft for a larger mission of 100,000 soldiers was rejected. A peace conference sponsored by the European Community and the United Nations was set to open Wednesday in London. Attending were leaders of the warring Serbs, Croalsand Muslims in Bosnia,as well as senior officials of Serbia and Croatia. Bosnia’s majority Croats and Mus lims voted for independence from Serb-dominated Yugoslavia on Feb. 29. Ethnic Serbs in Bosnia took up arms against that plan and now con trol two-thirds of Bosnia Herzegovina. At least 8,000 people have been killed in the conflict. About 1.3 mil lion have become homeless, many in “ethnic cleansing” campaigns to drive1 unwanted ethnic groups from certain regions. Serb fighters reportedly hold about 7,500 people in camps; Croats and Serbs fewer than 2,000. Mazowiccki was appointed earlier this month to probe allegations of atrocities in some of the dozens of camps set up by warring ethnic groups. Prisoners at Manjaca have com plained to visitors about inadequate food. There have been no reports of atrocities at the camp. Mazowiccki told The Associated Press that Manjaca officials told him the U.N. team “had not attended to all the formalities” and could not enter. Mazowiecki said team members were harassed, but he did not elaborate. • “The people who tried to harass us did themselves a disservice because they showed us their true face,” Mazowiccki said Monday. “What ever they were trying to cover up, they revealed to us.” The multinational team has visited prisons in Sarajevo, and Mazowiccki said it has not been denied access by the Bosnian government. He spoke after meeting with Bosnian President Alija Izetbcgovic about human rights. Mazowiccki scheduled similar talks in Belgrade later this week with Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, con sidered a chief fomentcr of violence in Bosnia. Over the weekend, Bosnian gov ernment troops launched an offensive to break the Serbian siege of Sarajevo. A high-ranking Ukrainian officer with the U.N. contingent in the city, said at least 70 Bosnian government troops died in the offensive. On Monday,Zaim Hakovic,deputy commander of Bosnia’s loyalist forces, said, “Gains are... inch by inch, and the fighting is extremely tough.” In London, organizers of the peace conference gained some hope with Izetbcgovic’s decision to attend. He has boycotted other conferences, re fusing to meet with representatives of Bosnia’s Serbs. 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