B—The Daily Collegian Friday, Nov. 22, 1985
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Kate slams ashore as thousands evacuate
Fourth major hurricane this year hits northern Gulf Coast
By BILL KACZOR
Associated Press Writer
•PANAMA CITY, Fla. - Hurricane Kate
charged ashore in the Florida Panhandle with 100
mph winds yesterday, the first November hurri
cane to make landfall in half a century, as more
than 100,000 people fled for the fourth time in as
many months.
The hurricane spawned tornadoes that ripped
the roofs off buildings and tore down power lines in
the towns of Port St. Joe and Mexico Beach. Roads
were blocked by floodwaters or toppled trees, and
emergency officials warned residents to stay put
in evacuation shelters for the night.
Kate’s eye, which was 20 miles in diameter, hit
land at 5 p.m., said Dr. Neil Frank, director of the
National Hurricane Center in Coral Gables.
“I can tell you, it’s bad right now,” operator
Merle Weeks said at the St. Joseph Telephone &
Telegraph Co. in Port St. Joe. “I can’t see outside,
but I can hear it.”
Sheet metal roofing lay in the Port St. Joe’s
streets and several trees were broken in half.
“It’s pretty rough. The wind’s real, real strong,”
added Tim Griffin, assistant general manager,
who spoke from the two-story building about two
blocks froni the Gulf of Mexico. “Our roof is about
to come off. It’s shaking our suspended ceiling.
It’s . . . flapping it.”
Kate had already caused at least 10 deaths and
“grave” destruction to crops and property in
Cuba, and there was potential for heavy damage to
Mexico Beach and other coastal communities east
of here, Frank said.
Tornadoes also touched down in Panama City
and in neighboring Calhoun County, tearing down
power lines and trees. High winds ripped part of
the roof off a school being used as a shelter in
nearby Callaway, but no injuries were reported.
Winds of 85 mph were clocked in Apalachicola,
30 miles from Mexico Beach, as Kate’s eye passed,
said forecaster Richard Charnick. The storm’s
center then moved to the northeast and slowly
weakened as it headed toward Georgia.
The hurricane had stalled off the coast earlier in
the day while its center reorganized as if it were
“sensing the coastline,” said forecaster Bob Case.
Then, Kate gained momentum just before slam
ming into the Florida Panhandle, increasing its
speed to 10 to 15 mph.
Authorities had closed roads, bridges and
schools ahead of Kate, which continued its journey
north through the Gulf of Mexico.
More than 100,000 evacuated low-lying areas in
10 Florida counties since Wednesday, many at the
order of Gov. Bob Graham. Civil defense officials
in the region estimated 75 to 90 percent of the
people under mandatory evacuation instructions,
plus thousands more voluntarily, had fled inland.
Some people refused to leave, but many tiny
coastal towns between Apalachicola and Pensaco-
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Gulf Shores, Alabama convenience store manager John Hamrick boarded up his store yesterday as
Hurricane Kate headed for the Florida panhandle. Hamrick’s boards tell the story of the unlucky Gulf Coast
this hurricane season. Hurricane Elena and Tropical Storm Juan have already, pounded the area this year.
la were ghostly quiet and motels inland reported
they were full.
Forecasters said Kate brought 5 to 10 inches of
rain and tides 8 to 12 feet above normal.
The Gulf County sheriff’s department ordered
liquor and beer sales halted, trying to prevent
“hurricane parties” by people who refused to
One death was reported during the evacuation
Wednesday, when an 81-year-old woman suffered
a heart attack.
Kate was the first Atlantic hurricane to reach
land in November since the “Yankee Storm” hit
Florida on Nov. 4,1935.
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Some people were tired of evacuating or felt
defiant after enduring Hurricane Elena, which
devastated the local economy during Labor Day
weekend, authorities said.
Coastal residents evacuated twice when Elena
approached before hitting Mississippi, and again
last month as Hurricane Juan lingered off the
Louisiana coast before veering in over Alabama.
“They’re punchy from getting up and leaving,”
said Pal Rivers, acting director of Civil Defense.
“But you’ve got to understand about 90 percent of
Franklin County depends on this bay for a living
and the bay was wiped out with Elena.”
Summit provides little
'measurable' progress
By MICHAEL PUTZEL
AP White House Correspondent
BRUSSELS President Rea
gan and Soviet leader. Mikhail
Gorbachev went into and emerged
from their Geneva summit with
out achieving any measurable pro
gress toward ending, or even
slowing, the nuclear arms race.
But while they remain at logger
heads over U.S. determination to
search for a futuristic system to
defend against nuclear attack,
both men demonstrated that they
found talking useful. People who
understand each other are pre
sumed to be less likely to make
some dreadful miscalculation.
That alone offers some encour
agement to an anxious world.
But even before the day was out,
the cold rhetoric of the dispute was
pouring forth again.
news analysis
The two leaders ended the ses
sion friendly and smiling, but nei
ther had budged from their
positions on “Star Wars,” as the
president’s program is most com
monly called.
“There was no give on that at
all” from Reagan’s side, said Sec
retary of State George P. Shultz.
And as for the Soviets’ outspoken
opposition to the program, he told
reporters, “I would say their posi
tion did not change.”
That was a comfort to the hard
line conservatives among Rea
gan’s entourage. They were
unenthusiastic about his going to
the summit in the first place and
fearful despite Reagan’s repeated
insistence he would not bargain
away his dream of a strategic
shield.
“The president did well,” said
defense undersecretary Fred Ikle,
one of those sent to Geneva to
represent the wary in the adminis
tration best personified by his
boss, Defense Secretary Caspar
W. Weinberger.
In Washington, Defense Secre
tary Caspar Weinberger author
of a leaked letter urging the presi
dent not to give ground on arms
control issues. issued a
statement saying it was signifi
cant that Star Wars “will continue
unabated.”
And White House adviser Pat
rick J. Buchanan, the conserva
tive ideologue who represents the
president’s longtime supporters
from the political right, flashed a
thumbs-up sign as the summit
ended.
The longstanding U.S. and Sovi
et differences were concealed by
the news blackout at the summit,
but Gorbachev went on the offen
sive immediately afterward, say
ing, “All restraint will be blown to
the winds” in nuclear rivalry until
the United States pulls back from
Star Wars.
And Reagan, when told Gorba
chev had predicted the president
eventually would change his mind
about Star Wars, fired back, “By
that time he will have changed his
mind.”
Some officials were optimistic
that human rights issues, which
they said Reagan raised privately
with Gorbachev, would yield some
long-range benefits, although nei
ther man said so publicly.
Nor were there any strong sig
nals that efforts to resolve infla
matory regional disputes,
particularly in Afghanistan and
Central America were given more
than lip service.
But one official said the Soviets
appear willing and perhaps even
want some peaceful resolution of
the war in Afghanistan, where
100,000 Soviet troops are fighting
to prop up a Communist regime.
If, as Shultz said, their airing of
differences provided something on
which to build, it would be a mis
take to judge the summit solely on
the basis of tangible, publicly
stated agreements.
Michael Putzel has covered the
White House for The Associated
Press since 1979 and covered the
Geneva summit.
state news briefs :
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Rizzo may run for mayor again
PHILADELPHIA (AP) Voted up twice and down twice,
former Mayor Frank Rizzo is considering another try at regaining
the job he held from 1972-80, according to newspaper reports.
The “Supercop,” as the former police chief has been known, lost
in the 1983 Democratic primary to current Mayor W. Wilson Goode,
but sources have told the city’s daily newspapers that Rizzo may
try again.
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“I’ve got one more campaign left in me,” one local official quoted
Rizzo as saying last summer, according to the afternoon Daily
News. “And it isn’t for governor.”
The 65-year-old Rizzo was elected in 1971 and 1975 to a stormy
two-term stewardship in which he failed to convince voters to
approve a change in the city charter to let him seek a third
consecutive term.
Asked by The Associated Press about reports he was considering
another run for mayor, Rizzo said only, “I’ll talk to you later.”
Flood cleanup continues
'MAXWELL, Pa. (AP) The floods which poured down the
Monongahela River earlier this month put a blue-collar river out of
work, and workmen using cutting torches and explosives are
laboring to clear bent, buckled barges from the channel.
Engineers say it will be Dec. 10 before they can remove the last of
the 19 steel hulks which jammed against the Maxwell Locks on
Nov. 5, halting shipping on a river dotted with coal-fired power
plants, coke plants and steel mills.
Time is money. Businesses are losing $500,000 each day the river
is closed, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Five coal
mines have been shut and 1,500 miners laid off because no coal can
be shipped through Maxwell.
The Coast Guard said 119 barges, 20 pleasure boats and three
towboats broke free or were damaged in the record floods of Nov. 5,
which inundated towns all along the Monongahela. Forty-seven of
the barges sank, and eight ran aground.
The runaway steel barges, each weighing 200 tons empty,
jammed 61 miles south of Pittsburgh, slamming into concrete piers
and each other. “A good way to describe it is pickup sticks,” said
William Braceland, executive officer for the U.S. Coast Guard.
nation news briefs
Senate approves nuclear pact
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) The Senate quietly voted approval
yesterday of a long-delayed nuclear cooperation agreement be
tween the United States and China.
The action means U.S. firms will now be able to enter the market
to provide China with materials and technology for the ambitious
civilian nuclear power program of the world’s most populous
nation.
The agreement was first initialed last year during President
Reagan’s trip to China but had been shelved because of fears that
technology supplied to China be used to help other nations build
atomic weapons.
Several restrictions were added to the bill last week by the
Foreign Relations Committee, including a requirement that the
president report to Congress that he has “additional information”
from China that it is not helping other nations acquire atomic
weapons.
Another restriction provides that the United States can deny
Peking permission to reprocess U.S.-supplied nuclear fuel.
A similar resolution is pending in the House, but for the
agreement to have been blocked, both chambers would have had to
pass a disapproval resolution by Dec. 11.
Millions try to kick the habit
(AP) Smokers in California watched the dancing Cancerettes,
in New York’s Harlem they attended a “cold turkey” rally, and
even the villainous J.R. Ewing of “Dallas” helped a smoker try to
kick the habit yesterday during the ninth annual Great American
Smokeout.
The goal of the American Cancer Society, which sponsored the
nationwide anti-smoking day, was to get one in five of the nation’s
55 million smokers to quit for at least 24 hours.
Last year, a record 20.4 million smokers tried to quit and 5.4
million succeeded for the day, according to estimates drawn from a
Gallup poll. About 3 million were still off cigarettes five days later.
One smoker got special help yesterday. Gretchen Orthen, a nurse
at St. John’s Hospital and Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif.,
was “adopted” for the day by actor Larry Hagman, who plays J.R.
Ewing on Dallas. Hagman escorted Orthen around the “Dallas” set
and to a rally and other activities in an effort to keep her mind off
cigarettes.
Another “adoptee” was University of Texas football coach Fred
Akers, who was “adopted” by his next opponent in a Southwest
Conference football game Baylor coach Grant Teaff.
Teaff sent Akers a supply of lollipops, a Baylor green-and-gold
“growl towel” to chew on, and a shirt that says, “Kiss Me I Don’t
Smoke.”
world news briefs
Soviet image of Reagan a contrast
MOSCOW (AP) Soviet citizens are getting their first good look
at Ronald Reagan, and it’s quite a contrast. The glowering, missile
clutching, demon of newspaper cartoons now smiles warmly at
their leader.
Pictures of President Reagan at the summit appear in the state
owned press. He made his first speech on Soviet television yester
day, live from Geneva, where he had spent two days meeting with
Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
The Soviet press and television muted their often strident anti-
American rhetoric during the first meeting of U.S. and Soviet
leaders in six years.
Television paid close attention, providing live coverage of
yesterday’s closing ceremony and Gorbachev’s news conference. A
commentator read the text of the joint statement on an early
evening program.
“I’ll be watching at 9 o’clock,” a man in his early 30s said on a
busy Moscow street. “I’ve been so worked up about this the past
three days,” he said, touching his heart. “I don’t even get this
worked up about soccer.”
Residents angry over evacuation
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) Townspeople near the Nevado Del
Ruiz volcano were angry yesterday when they learned that a forced
night march from their homes to the mountains was only a practice
evacuation. But they won’t go back, fearing a repeat of the eruption
and avalanche that killed at least 25,000 last week.
Juan Castillo, a spokesman for President Balisario Betancur,
said that, as of Wednesday, an estimated 27,000 people had died in
the Nov. 13 disaster, and 8,000-9,000 of them were under 16. But
Health Minister Rafael Zubiria said earlier this week the figure
was 25,000 and has not updated it since.
Mayor Joel Hartman of Mariquita, apparently the only town
involved in the evacuation drill Wednesday night, said the order to
leave the town and march into the hills came only hours after 15,000
people had just returned to the town after fleeing in fear of another
eruption and mud avalanche.
Victor G. Ricardo, director of the National Emergency Commit
tee set up to deal with the disaster, said he had ordered the practice
evacuation “to keep the population alert.”
Seismologists and volcanologists have been warning that the
three-mile high volcano could erupt again, melting more of the tons
of ice and snow on its peak, and triggering more mudslides like the
one that buried Armero under a lake of mud 15 feet deep on the
night of Nov. 13.
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