2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, September 17, 2004 -NATION/WORLD Hurricane kills 20, pummels Fla. NEWS IN BRIEF HEumNm RM RONTEWL S PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - Hurri- cane Ivan drilled the Gulf Coast yester- day with 130-mph winds that inflicted far less damage than feared everywhere except Florida's Panhandle, where residents were left with surge-ravaged beachfronts, flooded streets and homes ripped apart by deadly tornadoes. The storm was blamed for at least 20 U.S. deaths, most of them in Florida. "We were prepared for the hurri- cane, but the tornadoes were bam, bam, bam," said Glenda Nichols, manager of the Microtel Inn in Marianna, Fla. "There was nothing we could do about it. I put all my guests in their rooms and told them to get in the bathtubs." Ivan quickly deteriorated to a tropi- cal storm after coming ashore. But forecasters warned it was not done yet: It threatened up to 15 inches of rain and flooding across the South, already soggy after Hurricanes Charley and Frances over the past month. And more danger could be on the hori- zon: Hurricane Jeanne is tearing through the Caribbean on a path that could take it into Florida early next week. More than 2 million residents along a '300-mile stretch ofthe GulfCoast cleared -out as Ivan, a former 165-mph monster that killed 70 people in the Caribbean, .closed in on an unsteady path. Ivan came ashore near Gulf Shores Beach, Ala., around 3 a.m., but it was the Panhandle - squarely in the northeast quadrant of the storm, where the winds are most violent -that took the brunt. Ivan spun off at least a dozen tornadoes in Florida, while creating a storm surge of 10 to 16 feet, topped by large battering waves. A portion of a bridge on Interstate 10, the major east-west highway through the Panhandle, was washed away. Insurance experts put the storm's damage at anywhere from $3 billion to $10 billion. The death toll included 13 in Florida, two in Mississippi and one in Georgia. In Louisiana, four evacuees died after being taken from their storm-threat- ened homes to safer parts of the state. Many of the millions of Gulf Coast residents who spent a frightening night in shelters and boarded-up homes emerged to find Ivan was not the catas- trophe many feared. New Orleans, especially vulnerable to storms because much of it lies below sea level, got only some blustery winds, a mere two-tenths of an inch of rain and only some downed tree limbs. By yes- terday morning, French Quarter tour- ists came out of their hotels to sip cafe au lait under brilliant sunshine. "Leaves in the pool - that's it," said Shane Eschete, assistant general man- ager of the Inn on Bourbon Street. "I know I'm going to hear from the Monday morning quarterbacks," said New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, who had urged the metropolitan area's 1.2 million residents to flee three days ahead of the storm. But he added: "Look at the scenes from Mobile and Pensacola - that could have been us." CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico Mexico aids murder victims' families The government of a northern Mexico state has promised to give free homes to 47 mothers of women killed in a string of sexually motivated slayings, angering some activists who say the gifts gloss over the lack of results in the criminal investigations. Thirty families in Chihuahua state will receive the houses later this month, with the rest distributed after the new government takes office in October, said Victoria Caraveo, head of the Chihuahua Women's Institute. "The houses are part of a program that aims at helping the mothers rebuild their lives," Caraveo said. Mexican authorities say 340 women have been killed over the past decade in Ciudad Juarez, a city of 1.3 million people. About 90 of the victims were sexu- ally assaulted, strangled and dumped in the desert surrounding this sprawling industrial city across the Rio Grande River from El Paso, Texas. Many of those killed were young women who migrated with their families from poor rural towns in the Mexican countryside. They often worked in facto- ries or as maids to support their children or help their parents. The homes are being given to the families of 47 of the 90 sexual-assault vic- tims. Only those who came forward received the help. 0 BAGHDAD, Iraq Gunmen kidnap two Americans in Iraq e Eric Knudsen, a business owner, surveys the damage from Hurricane Ivan in downtown Pensacola, Fla., yesterday. Mobile, Ala., a port city of 200,000 that had been in the bull's-eye of the storm, got a break by an 11th-hour shift to the east. Still, its historic oak-tree- lined Government Street was blocked with tree limbs, metal signs, roofing material and other storm debris. The storm turned the night sky an eerie green with popping electrical transformers. "The rain was going sideways. You could hear metal bending. It was just bad. It was my first one and there won't be a second," said Deb Harwick, who rode out the storm in a motel near Gulf Shores Beach, Ala. Tornado warnings were issued across northeast Florida again yester- day, even as search-and-rescue teams were sent to check the rubble for any victims of the night-before twisters. A team of kidnappers grabbed two Americans and a Briton in a dawn raid on their home on a leafy Baghdad street yesterday - a bold abduction that under- lines the increasing danger for foreigners in the embattled capital as violence soars ahead of national elections planned for early next year. West of the capital, U.S. forces launched attacks yesterday in the Sunni insur- gent strongholds of Fallujah and Ramadi, killing up to 60 insurgents in strikes against allies of terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a military statement said. The military said the "foreign fighters" were killed near Fallujah, but hos- pital officials there said the city was calm and that they had not received any casualties. The military launched what it called a "precision strike" against a house in Fallujah and followed it with a second strike in a nearby town. The second strike destroyed three buildings allegedly used by Zarqawi's network. The U.S. Embassy identified the Americans as Jack Hensley and Eugene Arm- strong, but the identity of the British man was not disclosed. 0 Regent race divided on tuition, REGENTS Continued from page 1 a new admissions policy based on pub- lic debate and input from students and faculty. He also hopes to accomplish another ,goal if elected: change the core cur- riculum. He pointed to a recent "D" grade the American Council Trustees and Alumni gave the University's cur- riculum, and said a new committee to evaluate the curriculum was needed. le added that, as a regent, he would push for such a committee as well as other measures to make the regents ",dverall more accountable to students and the citizens of Michigan. Anderson, a University alum, is cur- rently vice chair of the Anderson Eco- nomic Group, and pointed out that he, as well as Meyers, have a strong finan- cial background that would enable them to work on a budget that has been squeezed by the state. crats, incumbent Taylor said he agrees somewhat with this notion but placed the blame for tuition increases on the Anderson said "threatened, they have to go public and take on politi- cal leaders, even if they are of their party." After numer- ous funding cuts in the past few years, this year the state worked out a deal with the Univeristy to give back about $20 million in exchange for the tuition rate being held at the estimat 2.8 percent. Although runnin when regents are "The admissions policy has been a debacle. ... Fewer minorities are even applying to the University." - Regent candidate Carl Meyers (R-Dearborn) state government. "We need to change the dia- logue in the state," Taylor said. "It almost now seems as though in Lan- sing, higher edu- cation is sort of the bad guy, it's a place where money is wasted, and where there's more than ample room to make substantial cuts." e He added that inflation rate of the University would not be able to handle another setback from the state for the Demo- in terms of funding without having to -- -- - -- - Saudi Arabia and the US: Crisis or Opportunity? 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Taylor, the only non-alum in the bunch, is currently executive vice president of DTE Energy and gradu- ated with a law degree from the Detroit College of Law. He said his experi- ence makes him a good candidate for re-election and that he, as well as the other regents, had done "a good job in a bad situation" in dealing with the budget cuts. Both Taylor and Maynard said in a new term they would support the building of a new residence hall to accommodate a growing student pop- ulation. They also said the hiring of Uni- versity President Mary Sue Coleman as the first female president and the Supreme Court decision upholding the Law School's race-conscious admis- sions policy stood out in their mind as the highlights during their terms. Maynard acknowledged that the new LSA application is a work in progress, and she said that although the number of minority applicants had decreased this year, she said there wasn't neces- sarily a link between the application and decreased minority enrollment. "I don't think we know the real rea- son (for the decrease), and part of it was that there were downturns at other uni- versities, too, that were not involved in affirmative action," she said. At Ohio State University, for example, appli- cations went down 15 percent, while applications from black students were down by 28 percent this year. Maynard is a University alum who completed a master's degree from the School of Social Work. She is cur- rently president of Michigan Prospect, a think tank that looks at state public policy issues. She added that her expe- rience qualified her for another term on the Board of Regents. "I've had the eight years of expe- rience and truly understand the $2.5 billion operation that is the Univer- sity of Michigan. I also think that I am compatible with the values and visions of the University and that includes a diverse student body," Maynard said. Theballot for this year's regents also lists a number of independents, including an LSA senior, Nat Dam- ren, who said he is running underthe Green Party to bring student represen- tation to the board. WASHINGTON Bush's budget calls for FAA finding cutbacks The Bush administration wants to trim the Federal Aviation Administration's budget for buying new air traffic control equipment at a time when more planes are in the air. The administration has proposed cutting next year's FAA budget for equipment and facilities by 12.6 percent, from $2.862 billion to $2.5 billion. Both the House and the Senate have gone along with that figure so far in the budget process. "We're investing the taxpayers' money wisely in systems that will have maxi- mum benefits in minimal time," FAA spokesman Greg Martin said. Some pro- grams have been deferred because there isn't a pressing need for them in the next decade, he said. Those programs are in the beginning stages of development. KABUL, Afghanistan Afgan president survives assassination attempt Assailants fired a rocket at an American helicopter taking President Hamid Karzai on a rare foray into Afghanistan's troubled provinces yesterday, but it missed and he escaped injury. Karzai has survived at least one previous attempt on his life. He made light of the latest attack, which renewed concern about the U.S.-backed leader's safety amid Taliban threats to derail the Oct. 9 presidential election. Officials arrested three suspects. The U.S. military said the rocket missed the chopper as it approached a landing zone near the city of Gardez, 60 miles south of Kabul. 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