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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
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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
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I think it's very difficult
to take this seriously.
Clinton
Democratic presidential
candidate
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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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