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N.C. residents searching for life after Fran Fran leaves 22 dead and 6 missing while neighborhoods struggle to rebuild. By Ted Anthony Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. — Their neigh borhoods in tatters but their resolve largely intact, residents of hurricane battered areas turned Sunday to clean ing up a formidable mess. At least six people were still reported missing. , Four electric utilities reported a to- ; tal of 596,000 customers still without i power. Water, and especially ice, re- ( mained crucial commodities and lines formed at stores offering supplies — many for free. With many areas flooded with sew- - age-tainted water and thousands of i trees on the ground, life was hardly ' returning to normal. : But on a muggy, torrid day, people 1 ventured out with rakes and chain saws. Utility and municipal crews and pri vate tree-clearing contractors plied the < streets and back roads. i ‘We’re so sophisticated in this age ] —- -* ' "1 )f technology and science, but Mother Mature comes through and we’re back o 400 B.C.,” Linda Daigle said as she cleared foliage from her lawn Sunday. Hurricane Fran slammed into ;oastal North Carolina late Thursday ind turned north, cutting a swath of lestruction as far inland as Raleigh and Winston-Salem before flooding Vir ginia and West Virginia with heavy ain. The storm and its after effects killed it least 22 people—17 in North Caro ina — mostly by falling trees, flood og and traffic accidents. The Federal Emergency Management Agency had declared 34 North Carolina counties disaster areas as of Sunday afternoon. Emergency officials said a 60 member team on Topsail Island, in the hardest-hit coastal region, searched for five people reported missing. In Raleigh, rescuers searched for 17-year-old Jackson Edward Griffin, who disappeared Saturday while swim ming with a friend in swollen Crabtree Creek. On evacuated, sealed-off North Topsail Beach, state Emergency Man agement spokesman Tom Hegele de scribed by telephone a scene of devas tation: trailers stacked atop each other, i collapsed houses, cars buried in sand. A dazed Glenn Sasser wandered the Surf City beach Sunday searching for his home. “It’s just gone. I had an ocean-front house and now I can’t find it,” Sasser said. “I just bought the house in April. I was spared by Bertha, but it’s just gone. Nearby, Mary Rulp sobbed quietly as she approached her cottage and sat on what used to be the roof of her best friend’s house next door. “Oh, my God,” she said. “This is terrible.” " -1 Clinton says House action on drug war falls short WASHINGTON (AP) — Counterpunching Bob Dole’s claim that he’s soft on drugs, President Clinton says Congress will stymie the war on narcotics unless it quickly provides all the money “to get the job done.” In a letter to House Speaker Newt Gingrich, the president said House action to date Mis more than $640 million short of paying for his anti-drug priorities, and he urged action before Congress recesses. “In particular, the House once again is attempting to cut... my re quest for the Safe and Drug Free School program, the only federal program fully dedicated to helping schools combat alcohol and drug use, as well as violent behavior,” Clinton said in the letter dated Sat urday. The president recalled the ve toed legislation last year because it cut that program by 50 percent. ‘We should not slash funding for a program that gives parents the se curity that their children are receiv ing the same anti-drug message in school that they receive at home,” he said. Gingrich spokesman Tony Blankley strongly criticized the president for “making demands on a Saturday afternoon of the Repub lican Party” when many members of Congress, including Gingrich, were out of town. “It is impertinence,” Blankley said. He said that most of Clinton’s _ anti-crime and drug programs that aren’t fully funded are “designed to strengthen government rather than to fight die problems.” Overall, Clinton said that while the $15.3 billion he requested for the 1997 fiscal year represents the largest anti-drug budget ever, House action so far on 1997 appropriations bills would provide only $14.9 bil lion. GOP presidential nominee Dole contends Clinton is not serious about fighting illegal drug use. Re publicans have latched onto the is sue ever since the release of statis tics showing the use of marijuana, LSD and cocaine more than doubled among young people aged 12 to 17 since 1992. “They (Democrats) have abso lutely dropped the ball with regard to stopping drugs in this country,” Dole running mate Jack Kemp said Saturday in Atlanta. But White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta contends that despite the upswing of young people using drugs, overall drug use has declined since Clinton took office. In his letter to Gingrich, Clinton also complained the House has not acted on legislation he introduced last May to increase penalties for methamphetamine trafficking. The Senate has approved the measure. Kurdish faction takes over two rival towns IRBIL, Iraq (AP)—A Kurdish fac tion allied with President Saddam Hussein captured two towns from a ri val Kurdish group in fierce fighting Sunday. The groups gave conflicting accounts of whether Saddam's forces took part in the assaults. Iraq, meanwhile, said it fired anti aircraft weapons at U.S. and allied air craft patrolling no-fly zones over its territory Sunday. The Iraqi fire missed and the planes fled, the official Iraqi News Agency said. Iraq made the same claim on Fri day and Saturday, also claimingnohits. In northern Iraq, the Kurdistan Democratic Party pressed ahead with its week-old offensive, marching east ] and taking the towns of Degala and Kuyspjaq from the Patriotic Union of J Kurdistan. Both groups agreed that the towns, 1 20 and 30 miles east of Irbil, changed J hands amid heavy fighting. But the KDP said in a statement from London that it launched the as- 1 saults on its own, while PUK spokes- j man Latif Rashid said the faction was overwhelmed by the combined forces » of the Iraqi army and the KDP. The conflicting accounts could not i be reconciled and Iraq did not com- ] ment on the latest battle. No details of i the fighting were available, and there was no word on casualties. < Iraqi forces teamed up with the 1 KDP on Aug. 31 to capture Irbil, the ‘ de facto capital of the Kurdish safe 1 haven established in northern Iraq af - ter the 1991 Persian Gulf War. 1 AP The United States responded with nissile attacks on southern Iraq on ruesday and Wednesday, hammering dr defense sites in southern Iraq. Since then, the Iraqi forces appear o have refrained from playing a ma or role in the battles between the rival Cur dish groups. But Iraq placed its heavy weaponry mly a few miles behind the front-line positions of its KDP allies. Almost 100 Iraqi tanks could be seen in die region m Friday, and Defense Secretary Wil iam Perry, speaking on CBS’ “Face he Nation,” said Sunday that some raqi troops “are still nearby and still langerous.” In Washington, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. JohnShalikashvili told CBC’s “Meet the Press” that Saddam ‘is clearly exploiting the difference be ween those two Kurdish factions.” But, he said, “very, very few” Iraqi roops were still in the safe haven area. Nebraskan 4 Editor: DougKouma 472-1766 Managing Editor: Doug Peters Assoc. 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Postmaster: Send address changes to the Daily Nebraskan, Nebraska Union 34,1400 R St.. Lincoln. NE 68588 0448. Second-class postage paid at Lin coln, Neb. ALL MATERIAL COPYRIGHT 1996 DAILY NEBRASKAN Daily Nebraskan Events Calendar Any submissions for the Events Calendar, published every Monday, should be sent to Nebraska Union 34, Attn: Joshua GiUin, 1400 R Street, Lincoln, Neb, 68588-0448. Phone: 472-2588 Fax: 472-1761 Monday, Sept. 9 Trent Graphics Art, Print and Poster Sale Union Plaza, City Campus Free admission * Open from 9 ajn. to 5 p jn. until Friday Alternate location in the main lounge of the Nebraska Union Department of Art and Art History September Exhibitions “Faculty and Student Photographs” Sept 9*26, North Gallery ' “Dan Packard: Recent Sculpture ” Sept. 9-26, Sooth Gallery 102 Richards Hall, City Campus Free admission Open from 9 am. to 5 pm. Monday through Friday For information contact Joseph Rnfifo at 472-2631 — ■ UNL Commuters Presentation East Campus Union Free admission 3 to 5 pm. » I Alternate meetings: Sept. 10,6-8 pm. at the Culture Center, |. Sept. 11,3-5 pm. at the Nebraska Union _ Wednesday, Sept. 11 Women s Studies International Colloquium Series "Gender, Neutrality and Immigration Law” Anna Shavers, UNL law professor Nebraska Union, 3:30 pjn. Free admission Study Abroad Extravaganza Nebraska Union Ballroom, 7:30 pjn. Free admission For information contact International Affairs*at 472-5358 Thursday, Sept. 12 Mid-America Transportation Center Lecture Series "Roadside Safety in the Light Thick Age” Dr. Dean L. Sicking, Director, Midwest Roadside Safety Facility and UNL civil engineering professor CBA 104,3-4 pjn. Free admission This lecture will be broadcast from UNL via satellite ij| __ Thursday, Sept. 12, cont. Quentin Tarantino Night "Pulp Fiction" "Reservoir Dogs ” UPC-sponsored screening Nebraska Union Crib First show begins at 8 pm Free admission Friday, Sept. 13 Homecoming 1996 Royalty applications due Turn in at 115 Ne. Union by 12 pm - Sunday, Sept. IS Edgefest 96 Ak-sar-ben parade grounds, Omaha Tickets available from Hcketmaster Cost (with fee): $14.75