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SANTA CLARA, Cuba (AP) —
Gonzalo Hernandez stood knee-deep
in the water that was flooding his ru
ined crops and, like tens of thousands
' of other Cubans, took stock of the dam
age wrought by Hurricane Lili.
At first, Cubans were relieved that
lili did not strike Havana directly or
kill anyone when it smashed across the
island Friday. But by Sunday, the ex
tent of the damage was setting in.
Uprooted utility poles and flooded
sugar cane fields, collapsed houses and
damaged sugar mills bear witness to
the power of Lili, the first major hurri
cane to hurt Cuba since Kate struck in
1985.
Lili passed southeast of Bermuda
on Sunday and moved into the open
Atlantic, where it was expected to
weaken.
Official Cuban damage reports in
dicated the hurricane might have
caused serious harm to an economy
strained to near the breaking point by
the collapse of Cuba’s socialist trad
ing partners in 1989 and 1990.
Agriculture Minister Alfredo Jor
dan said Sunday that it would take
more than a year to return to produc
tion levels recorded at the end of Sep
tember.
“It will be a heroic task,” he said,
“far greater than that we undertook af
ter Kate.”
Hernandez’s wife agreed, lament
ing that their rice crop was completely
lost, its kernels whipped from the plants
by Lili's 90-mph winds and blown into
a lake of mud left by torrents of rain.
“So we have no seeds to plant next
year,” Margarita Cruz said.
Hernandez is a “machetero,” a cane
cutter who has his own {dot on a coop
erative outside Santa Clara, 155 miles
southeast of Havana.
Clara. The hurricane came as Cubans
were preparing for the sugar cane har
vest, crucial for government hopes of
increasing overall economic produc
tion by 5 percent.
Initial figures indicate that more
than 1 million tons of food crops were
destroyed. Castro said some of lhe
country’s best citrus orchards and plan
tain plantations were hard hit.
Uli blew away just-maturing cof
fee beans and seriously damaged the
tobacco harvest, which was just begin
ning. Ciyil Defense headquarters in
Havana reported 43,000 homes de
stroyed and 30,000 damaged.
State television showed people in
Villa Clara province returning by boat
Sunday to homes still inundated by
water, with furniture and other belong
ings whirled into piles of trash by the
hurricane.
The entire province was without
electricity, and utility officials warned
it could take at least a week to restore.
The local state radio station urged
workers to be in the fields at 6 a.m. to
try to save what they could of the plan
tain crop.
An hour’s drive from Santa Clara,
the town of Aguada, which means wa
tering hole, had lived up to its name.
Officials had opened the flood gates
of a dam, inundating scores of acres of
crops and turning three miles of high
way into a fast-running river.
Several cars woe stranded in the
highway and a truck was tilted into a
ditch, its cab covered by water. A half
dozen Cuban men, eager to earn some
money, stood in the water all day, of
fering their services to waterlogged
vehicles.
“That’s the Cuban way,” one of the
men joked. “Even out of disaster we
have to try to make some profit.”
The couple’s wooden shack was
flooded by two feet of water when Lili
tore away half the asbestos roof. A
mattress and cushions were set on a
cactus hedge surrounding the home,
drying in the post-hurricane sunshine.
“Ninety percent of everything we
planted this year is finished, finished,”
Hernandez said, jerking his grizzled
head toward sugar cane bent to the
ground, plantain trees denuded of their
branches, green oranges ripped from
trees and pools of water that drowned
root and bean crops.
“Life was hard before. After Lili it’s
going to be a lot harder,” he said. A lot
harder, too, for an agricultural sector
damaged by a 1993 storm and an al
ready ailing economy.
Lili has struck a “very hard” Mow,
President Fidel Castro said Saturday
when he toured the most devastated
areas in central Cuba, including Santa
Dole cal
political
By Curt Anderson
Associated Press
NASHUA, N.H. (AP) — Keeping his
focus on politics and funding, Bob Dole pro
posed on Sunday an overhaul of campaign
financing to keep big mongy and foreign in
terests out and “to preserve the American
people’s confidence in the system.”
“We simply cannot allow the political in
fluence of any American to be outweighed
by foreign money,” said Dole, seeking to
capitalize on recent revelations that people
with ties to an Indonesian conglomerate have
raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for
the Democratic Party.
“In an American election, the voice of a
single citizen must speak louder than the en
tire world,” he told an audience of a few hun
dred who braved a driving rainstorm to hear
his speech at Daniel Webster College.
Under current federal rules, foreigners
who are legal U.S. residents can donate
money to American candidates. In the past,
Dole has accepted such contributions. U.S.
subsidiaries of foreign companies also can
make contributions, if the money was earned
in the United States.
is long overdue and should be dealt with in a
bipartisan fashion. But it’s a little late and
disingenuous for Bob Dole to promote cam
paign finance reform,” Clinton campaign
spokesman Joe Lockhart said. “... It’s too bad
that Senates- Bob Dole’s record doesn’t match
candidate Dole’s rhetoric.”
Dole said only American citizens who are
eligible to vote should be allowed to donate
money. He also called for wider reforms,
noting that changes made after the Watergate
scandal have not done enough.
“If we’re going to preserve the American
people’s confidence in the system, we need
to return campaign finance to the front
burner,” Dole said.
Dole said a bipartisan commission should
tackle overall campaign finance reform that
Congress has never been able to do and failed
to do again this year.
“I’m in New Hampshire because I want
to win this state. I’ve placed second a couple
of times. I want to place first for a change,”
he said.
“I’m the most optimistic man in America,
and on Nov. 6 Bill Clinton is going to be the
most surprised man in America,” he said.
Clinton raises money for
Democrats; faces criticism
By Terence Hunt
Associated Press
TEANECK, NJ. (AP)—President Clinton
detoured in the homestretch of the White House
race Sunday to raise millions of dollars for
Democrats in the face of growing Republican
criticism about accepting foreign political con
tributions.
Clinton, confident of his own victory cm Nov.
5, urged supporters not to be overly complacent.
*Td like to celebrate, scream and shout but it’s
not Over yet. It’s a long way from over.”
He said he was troubled by the tone of the
campaign.
“One of the things that concerns me about
campaigns when they became too negative is
that a lot of people can then just get kind of
turned off and say, ‘Well, maybe this doesn’t
have anything to do with me.*”
I Mead in the polls, Clinton devoted the day
to political fundraisers in New Jersey and New
Yale to boost Democrats’ chances of recaptur
ing Congress.
Clinton was heckled at a fundraiser for Rep.
Robert Torricelli by a woman who shouted criti
cism of the U.S. blockade against Cuba and as
serted that economic sanctions against Iraq had
killed 1 million children.
“That’s one of the biggest lies I have ever
heard” Clinton said angrily. “Saddam Hussein
is oppressing his people; we’re not Secondly,
Fidel Castro had Americans murdered illegally
and that was wrong, too, and I’m proud that we
have a blockade against people who kill inno
cent Americans.”
He was apparently referring to the February
shoot down of planes piloted by Cuban-Ameri
cans over the Florida Straits.
Opening a five-day trip through industrial
states and the deep South, Clinton stopped first
at a rousing Sunday morning service at the New
Hope Baptist Church in Newark.
Welcomed with a standing ovation, Clinton
swayed to the beat of the singing and then stood
in the pulpit to deliver a mini version of his
stump speech.
“I know a lot of politicians show up when
it’s election time,” Rev. Vincent L. Thomas said
in a lively sermon emphasizing self-reliance and
trust in God, “Don’t fool yourself. People in the
African-American community are not waiting
for them to fix everything.... We’re not waiting
for some great oracles.”
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