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.
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‘We’re so sophisticated in this age ]
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)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,
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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.”
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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.
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Women s Studies International Colloquium Series
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