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Louisianians pick through debris
NbW ORLEANS — As Louisian
ians made their way back to hurri
cane-razed coastal neighborhoods
Thursday, officials expressed relief
that destruction wasn’t worse and ap
pealed for medical help at still
crowded shelters.
“We’ve been spared a major, ma
jor disaster,” Gov. Edwin Edwards
said during a helicopter tour.
Storm Andrew was blamed for one
final affront: A pipeline at an offshore
natural gas rig apparently damaged by
the hurricane caught fire. No pollu
tion was reported tfnd the fire was
expected to bum itself out, authorities
said.
Officials throughout southern Loui
siana began compiling damage esti
mates, but said no numbers would be
available at least until Friday. Esti
mates Irkely will be measured in mil
lions of dollars, rather than the bil
lions of more densely populated
Monda.
“AH my things! All my things, my
furniture,” Linda Henson wept in
Bayou Vista, west of Morgan City.
A steady stream of cars returned to
the coastal towns where Andrew’s eye
and 160-mph wind gusts came ashore
Wednesday.
The cleanup began with chain saws
and portable generators ringing out. A
tow truck righted a toppled trailer, and
National Guard troops with Humvees
and M-16 rifles took up posts. Store
owners put up plastic sheets over shat
tered windows and swept up broken
glass with shovels.
Local radio stations were out, and
newspapers in Franklin and Morgan
City haven’t been able to publish since
Monday.
Knee-deep water receded quickly,
leaving only scattered pools lying
about.. Stores and restaurants tried to
open but most still lacked electricity.
A tew resourceful Cajuns cooked on
barbecue grills and portable gas stoves,
and sipped instant coffee. The Salva
tion Army had 26 canteen trucks out
delivering food and water.
“If we can keep their stomachs full,
they’ll be a little more contented,”
said A1 Ritson, a Salvation Army offi
cial in Morgan City.
The hurricane killed a total of 20
people in the two states and the Baha
mas.
Its remnants crossed Mississippi
on Thursday with winds of about 35
mph. Jackson recorded 4 inches of
rain, the National Weather Service
said, and about 29,000 Mississippi
homes and businesses lost power. In
Livingston, Ala., near the Mississippi
line, Mayor Tom Tartt said wind dam
aged the roofs of several buildings.
The storm was on a track to cross
Alabama and move into Georgia by
Friday, forecasters said. * *
UNL state museum official
staved in gunman’s hotel
A University of Nebraska-Lin
coln employee was staying Wednes
day in the same South Dakota hotel
as a gunman who took 19 people
hostage.
Hugh Genoways, UNL state
museum director, was at the
Rushmore Plaza Holiday Inn in
Rapid City, S.D., for a conference
on managing and preserving fossils
in the Great Plains.
Two other museum employees
were in Rapid City but stayed at
another hotel.
Gcnoways said he went to the
front of the hotel and saw that a
front door had been smashed.
“Then a policeman carrying a
shotgun came out and started yell
ing ‘get out of here. Get out of
here,”’ he said.
The guests were taken to an
adjoining convention center. They
waited out the five-hour standoff
that ended when the gunman re
leased his hostages and shot him
self. Police said the gunman was
being treated at a hospital.
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Patrolled Iraqi skies quiet
WASHINGTON — U S. war
planes swooped into southern Iraq
Thursday to enforce a coalition ban on
all flights by Iraqi aircraft.
Saddam Hussein’s government
denounced the no-flight zone and
threatened retaliation “in due time.”
The Pentagon said no Iraqi planes had
challenged the prohibition of flights
below the 32nd parallel.
Pentagon spokesman Bob Hall,
speaking at a news conference almost
two hours after the 10:15 a.m. EDT
ban went into effect, said, “As of this
moment, or as of about five minutes
ago, there had been no activity to
prevent the monitoring regime that
we’ve undertaken.”
He said F-18s based on the aircraft
carrier Independence and F-15 fight
ers were patrolling the skies of south
ern Iraq, and that the military was
adding to its AW AC and RC-135 re
connaissance plane force in the Per
sian Gulf theater. British and French
planes are moving into the region to
participate. Hall said.
President Bush announced the ban
on Wednesday, saying one purpose
was to prevent any attacks on coali
tion surveillance plants monitoring
Iraqi military activities in the marsh
lands of southern Iraq. Bush accused
Saddam of attacking the Shiite people
of southern Iraq, a violation of U.N.
Resolution 688 that requires Iraq to
cease all suppression of its citizens.
Shiite Muslims were crushed when
they rose up against Saddam follow
ing the Gulf War defeat, but have kept
up guerrilla operations based in the
vast marshes of the south. The Iraqi
military has recently stepped up its
attacks on the region.
More than 20 American aircraft
based on the Independence patrolled
southern Iraq, some flying escorts for
British Tornadoes helping monitor the
special zone.
Pilots returning from the flights
said none Fired any of their air-to
ground missiles and they were not
locked onto by Iraqi radar, although
they flew over roads, rivers, airports
and known surface-to-air missile sites.
Pentagon sources, speaking on con
dition of anonymity, said they fully
expected Saddam’s forces to lest U.S.
and allied resolve with possible “cat
and mouse” ploys, perhaps by flying
aircraft just over or quite near the
border of the no-fly zone.
Hall said that so far the Iraqis were
avoiding confrontation. He said that
Iraq had moyed all its fixed-wing air
craft and mbsTorall of its helicopters
above the 32rtd parallel.
He said that of 40 flights on Thurs
day, all were above the line, and that
on Wednesday,only twoof95 flights,
both by helicopters, crossed the line.
“I don’t think anybody expeots
anything to happen” immediately,
White House spokesman Marlin
Fitzwater said Thursday. “The evi- .
dcnce at this point is Saddam is not
looking for a confrontation. It appears
that he’s keeping his aircraft above
the 32nd parallel.”
An official statement on Baghdad
radio said Iraq would resist and would
not let “the enemy choose the liming
and the method appropriate to them to
achieve their evil purposes.”
One concern is that Saddam might
bar further U.N. weapon inspections
and end U.N. relief operations in Iraq.
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Somalia food flights ready
MOMBASA, Kenya — After two
weeks of preparation and negotiation,
the United States is ready to begin
emergency food flights Friday to So
malia, where chaos and danger reign
in a land ravaged by drought and civil
war.
Marine Brig. Gen. Frank Libutti, in
charge of the U.S. military operation,
said Thursday that the first of six C
130 Hercules transport planes would
take off before dawn for Belet Huen,
670 miles northeast of this Kenyan
port.
Since Libutti’s team began flying a
week ago, its eight C-130s and four C
141 Starlifters have delivered about
925 tons of food to Somali refugees
and drought-stricken Kenyans in north
ern Kenya. 1
But the focus of the aid operation
ordered by President Bush is the de
livery of food to Somalia, where 1.5
million people out of a population of
6.5 million are said to be in immediate
danger of starvation.
The direct flights were delayed by
negotiations to arrange security both
for the American military personnel
and for the food itself. Widespread
combat between competing clan war
lords has left Somalia in anarchy, and
roving bandits have stolen humanitar
ian aid sent into the country.
„ “Our mission, simply stated, is to
deliver food to the needy,” Libutti
said. “I’m absolutely confident we’ve
done our homework. My decision is
we’re going to go. We can take food to
Somalia and feel good about it.”
The food being flown in by U.S.
planes is to be distributed by the Inter
national Red Cross. One of its de
mands, sticking large Red Cross de
cals on the U.S. aircraft, was satisfied
Thursday.
Both Libutti and Andrew Natsios,
Bush’s special coordinator for the
Somalia effort, called the Swiss-based
organization the “real heroes” of So
malian relief.
"They specialize in conflict situa
tions,” Natsios said. “There is no
conflict situation in the world more
chaotic and more dangerous than So
malia."
The aid plan for Somalia, which
forms the Horn of Africa, is designed
to increase pressure on the warlords to
stop fighting, Natsios said. For now,
most of the emergency food will go to
the country’s two southern zones,
where the warlords are least in con
trol, Natsios said.
“We will tell the clan leaders that
their people will get more if they stop
fighting,” he said.
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