By The
Associated Press
Edited by Alan Phelps
NEWS DIGEST
Supplies pour into Kauai as relief effort gains steam
LIHUE, Hawaii — Military police cleared
roads of palm fronds, telephone poles and roof
shingles Monday, and residents whose homes
were smashed by nature’s whim wondered
when their lives might return to normal.
Hurricane Iniki had turned the tropical para
dise*of Kauai topsy-turvy, and an approaching
storm threatened to add to the disorder.
Neighboring islands in the Hawaiian chain
were ferrying in field kitchens and portable
showers, bulldozers and generators, engineers
and carpenters.
Lim ited phone service was restored for some
of Kauai’s 52,000 residents. About half the
island had running water. And electrical power
was expected to be restored to the largest town
of Lihue by next Monday.
“I’m really surprised at the speed at which
they are doing it,” said Hawaii civil defense
planner Glenn Soma. “They have so much
aloha spirit from the other islands, people send
ing in equipment, supplies, everything else. It’s
incredible.”
Iniki, the most powerful hurricane to hit
Hawaii this century, roared across the lightly
populated western end of Kauai on Friday,
leveling sugar plantations and churning up the
eastern and southern shore where most people
live, and where lux ury hotels and tourist bunga
lows abound.
Federal officials said 10,000 of the island’s
21,000 homes were badly damaged by sus
tained wind of 130 mph and 160 mph gusts.
Moslof the 70 hotels sustained serious damage.
More than 7,000 people were crowded into
shelters.
The hurricane was blamed for at least three
deaths, including one in a town east of Hono
lulu on Oahu Island, which lies across the 80
milc-wide Kauai Channel. About 100 people
were injured.
The Coast Guard searched between Kauai
and Niihau, a small neighboring island that
sustained only minor damage, for two people
reported aboard a sailboat that sank as Iniki hit.
A 50-year-old Kauai man who also was on the
boat was rescued Saturday after clinging to an
ice chest for 21 hours.
Authorities said later that the search was
suspended indefinitely.
Federal and state officials planned to begin
ground surveys of the damage, which Gov.
John Waihee estimated at $1 billion. Oahu
escaped the worst of the storm, with an esti
mated $2.5 million damage to 163 private
buildings.
Federal disaster officials directed a round
the-clock airlift of supplies. More than 800
members of the National Guard were brought in
to assist.
Moderate rain from a tropical depression
south of the islands was forecast to reach Kauai
by midday, along with 10-25 mph wind.
- The only danger was that “we may get a little
wet,” civil defense vice director Roy Price said.
Heavy showers caused minor flooding on Ha
waii Island’s eastern coast early Monday.
Germans cut interest rates,
greenback rebounds slightly
Bush, Clinton trade jibes
over trees, owls and j'obs
BONN, Germany — Germany
cut key interest rates for the first
lime in five years Monday, an ac
tion the United States and Euro
peanCommunity nations had urged
for months to help spur a world
economic recovery.
Stocks shot up in New York and
other financial markets. The cuts
by the Bundesbank, Germany’s
central bank, could case pressures
on the y.S. economy and improve
the prospects for French approval
of a treaty for European political
and monetary union in a referen
dum this Sunday.
Germany’s high rales have at
tracted investments and drawn
money away from other curren
cies, helping to drive the dollar to
an all-time low against the mark in
recent weeks.
The cut was part of a European
Community agreement Sunday to
devalue the weakening Italian lira
against the mark and other Euro
pcan currencies in exchange for a
reduction in German interest rates.
On Monday the Bundesbank low
ered its Lombard rate from 9.75
percent to 9.50 percent and cut the
discount rate from 8.75 percent to
8.25 percent.
There was an immediate reac
tion on Wall Street, where the Dow
Jones average of 30 industrials shot
up 35 points in the first half hour of
trading and by more than 65 points
to 3371.08 by edHy afternoon.
Prices also ral I icd in London but
lost ground when the cuts were
smaller than investors had hoped.
The Financial Times-Stock Ex
change index of 100 shares closed
up 51.2 points, at 2,422.1, after
jumping by about 100 points.
In Frankfurt, the dollar rocketed
to 1.4985 marks at the currency
exchange opening, but settled back
to 1.4780 at the close. The green
back closed at 1.4340 marks on
Friday.
COLVILLE, Wash. — President
Bush battled Democrat Bill Clinton
for votes in the Pacific Northwest on
Monday, declaring that environmen
tal laws should be changed to “make
people more important than owls.”
—— Bush vowed not
to sign an extension
of the Endangered
Species Act unless
it’s rewritten to give
more emphasis to
economic priorities
and timber harvest
Clinton maintained that he was the
candidate who could best promote
economic development while at the
same time preserving the environ
ment.
“I know that you can be pro-growth
and pro-environment,” the Democratic
nominee told a crowd in Portland,
Ore.
Bush told a cheering audience at a
lumber company near the Canadian
border that the balance between the
environment and jobs has been lost.
“It is time to make people more
important than owls,” he said. “It’s
time to put the mills back to work.”
Bush delivered his promise on a
trip through timber- and spotted-owl
country of Washington and Oregon,
accusing Clinton of favoring the envi
ronment rather than jobs. Thousands
of timber workers have lost their jobs
because of protection of the owl and
an industry slump.
Clinton maintains that the Repub
licans arc asking voters to make a
false choice between jobs and the
environment.
“Bush gave us neither. We think
you can have both,” said Bruce Reed,
one of Clinton’s domestic policy ad
visers. “The choice is between George
Bush and jobs.”
“It’s amazing to me that after 804
days of denying that a recession ex
ists, here, 50 days before the election,
my opponent has discovered a plan
for America’s renewal,’’Clinton said.
Clinton traveled to Eugene, Ore.,
where he was visiting with five fami
lies whose lives have been affected by
changes in the timber industry.
He has called for a summit on the
spotted owl — an idea that Bush
derided as “false hope.”
“No more studies, let’s change the
law,” Bush said. “My opponent will
not fight to change the law to restore
balance.”
The 19-year-old Endangered Spe
cies Act has protected more than 500
animals and plants, including the bald
eagle, grizzly bear, peregrine falcon
and whooping crane.
The Fish and Wildlife Service de
clared the northern spotted owl a
threatened species in June 1990, cit
ing excessive logging of old-growth
forests as a threat to its survival.
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Self-diagnosis
Doctors ask government to limit health-care costs
WASHINGTON — The nation’s second
largest physicians’ group urged the govern
ment Monday to cap their fees and establish a
health care system much like the one proposed
by Democratic presidential candidate Bill
Clinton.
The White House replied “not a chance”
when asked if the president could endorse the
proposal.
The American College of Physicians, repre
senting some 77,000 doctors of internal medi
cine, said the government should limit the
amount of money spent overall in this country
on health care, and said the states should nego
tiate fee limits with doctors and hospitals.
Dr. John Ball, executive vice president of
the organization, said it is not endorsing one
political candidate over another, but he did
admit the doctors were calling for something
quite similar to a proposal by the Democratic
presidential nominee.
“There arc a number of elements of our plan
that arc very close to the Clinton plan,” Ball
said.
In addition to calling for government regu
lation of their fees, the group urged the exten
sion of medical coverage to everybody in the
country, either through private or public insur
ance. It also called for consolidation of the
Medicare and Medicaid systems, which pro
vide health care for the elderly and poor, re
spectively.
Like the Clinton plan, the doctors were not
I
specific about how much public money would
be needed to finance it, at least initially. They
said they hoped the money would come from
what is being spent on health care already, so
the net effect on the economy would be neutral
in the beginning. The savings would come
later, when costs would rise less rapidly than
they are now, the doctors said.
The doctors’ proposal was endorsed by Rep.
Henry Waxman, D-Calif., and Sens. John D.
Rockefeller IV, D-W.Va., Robert Kerrey, D
Neb., and James Jeffords, R-Vt., as well as
representatives from Chrysler Corp. and the
American Association for Retired Persons.
The White House was unimpressed.
“It is very destructive of innovation and
change,” said Gail Wilensky, an adviser to
President Bush on health care issues, adding,
“It is absolutely contrary to what we arc doing.”
The cost-containment part of the plan was
dead on arrival on the White House doorstep,
she said.
Asked if the president could endorse such an
idea, she replied: “Not a chance.”
The Bush administration has opposed such
plans for their similarity to the Canadian health
care system. The Republicans have equaled the
Canadian system with socialized medicine,
which they say would lead to rationing of health
care services.
The plan is not a new idea, but it is new for
doctors to endorse something that would limit
their charges.
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