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News Digest Monday, November 21,1994 Page 2 Hurricane Gordon finally loses steam MIAMI — Gordon zigzagged back to Florida on Sunday as a dwindling weather system, noth ing like the hurricane and tropical storm blamed for hundreds of deaths. “It's just a swirl and low clouds and patchy rain. No deep heavy thunderstorms,” said Max Mayfield, a meteorologist at the National Hurricane Center in sub urban Coral Gables. “It’s not the same system it was three days _ __ »♦ ago. At 4 p.m., the depression was centered at 28.1 degrees north lati tude and 79.2 degrees west longi tude, or 85 miles cast of Cape Canaveral. It was moving west over Florida at 11 mph and was expected to continue weakening. Its strongest winds were about 30 mph, down from the 80 mph it hit after reaching hurricane strength last week off the coast of North Carolina. Gordon formed Nov. 8 ofTNica ragua, zigzagged east through the Caribbean as a tropical storm, and snaked west alongside the Florida Keys and then northeast across the Florida Peninsula. Once in the At lantic, it strengthened and headed north to North Carolina, then re versed course. “Fvc never seen one last this long and make as many turns and loops as this system has,” Mayfield said. It was blamed for more than 500 deaths in Haiti and eight in Florida. On Saturday, 19 scuba divers had to be rescued off Palm Beach after their boat capsized in Gordon's high seas. A woman fish ing at Boynton inlet was washed ofT a pier by a high wave and car ried out to sea before being res cued. NetSra&kan Editor Jett Zeleny NigN News Editor* Heather Lamp* 472-1766 Doug Kouma FAX NUMBER 472-1761 The Daily Nebraskan(USPS 144060) is published by the UNL Publications Board, Ne braska Union 34. 1400 R St.. Lincoln. NE 68S88-0448. Monday through Friday during the academic year; weekly during summer sessions Readers are encouraged to submit story ideas and comments to the Dely Nebraskan by phoning 472-1763 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. The pubic also has access to the Publications Board. For information, contact Tim Hedegaard, 436-9258. Subscriotion orico is S50 for ons vesr Postmaster Send address changes to the Daily Nebraskan, Nebraska Union 34,1400 R St .Lincoln. NE 68588-0448. Second-class postage paid at Unooin, NE. ALL MATERIAL COPYRIQHT1I84DAILY NEBRASKAN Noises heard before crash CHICAGO — At least three pas sengers on an earlier leg of USAir Flight 427 complained of strange noises before the jet took off on its final, fatal flight, according to a law yer representing victims’ families. Philip H. Corboy, a lawyer suing USAir on behalf of some of the fami lies, said reports of complaints were filed Thursday in depositions in fed eral court. The three passengers said they had heard an odd noise during the Sept. 8 flight from Charlotte, N.C., to Chi cago, he said. The jet left Chicago for Pittsburgh later that day and crashed a few miles from the Pittsburgh airport, killing all 132 people aboard. Investigators have not determined what caused the crash. The type of noise the passengers said they heard was not detailed in the depositions, Corboy said, nor was it clear why they thought it was un usual. USAir’s chief maintenance fore man in Chicago, Gerald E. Fox, was told about a report of unusual noise but allowed the plane to take off with out investigating because the pilot told him the craft was fine, USAir spokesman Richard Weintraub said Sunday. Fox is a defendant in the lawsuit filed by Corboy on behalf of some victims’ families, along with USAir and Boeing Co. Weintraub said the jet had two rou tine pre-flight checks before taking off for Pittsburgh, but no special maintenance. State leaders tell House to back off WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — A host of Republican governors raised objections to the leading House GOP welfare reform plan Sunday, arguing that decisions about work requirements and ben efit cutoffs are best left to states. The state GOP leaders also pledged to wholeheartedly support a balanced budget amendment — but only if it includes language guaranteeing that states would not have to pick up the tab when the federal government cuts spending. Republican governors and gov crnors-elcct opened a three-day meeting declaring the message of this year’s elections was for the federal government to spend less and leave the states alone — on welfare and other issues. “Our message will be, to the Re publican congressional leaders and people of this country, give us the ball and then get out of the way,” said Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt, who is taking over as chairman of the Republican Governors Associa tion. “We can solve these prob lems.” The governors* warning on welfare, delivered politely but firmly, was a sign of the potential tensions between the party’s prag ovemors and congressional icans who want to push a busy agenda when they take con trol of Congress in January. Rep. Newt Gingrich of Gcoigia, “Our message will be, to the Republican congressional leaders and people of this country, give us the ball and then get out of the way. We can solve these problems. ” ■ MIKE LEAVITT Republican Governors Assoc, chairman-elect in line to become House speaker, is pushing for a vote on welfare reform in the first 100 days of the 104th Congress. The leading GOP plan would cut off benefits after two years and require recipients to work. It also would deny benefits -to welfare mothers who have ad ditional children while on public assistance. 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