2A - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, September 7, 2004 -NATION/WORLD Frances slams Florida panhandle NEWS IN BRIEF PANACEA, Fla. - Tropical Storm Frances plowed ashore on the Florida Panhandle yesterday, its second U.S. landfall after causing flooding and tear- ing up homes and boats across the center of the state. About 6 million people in Florida have lost power and at least nine have been killed. After crossing part of the Gulf of Mex- ico, Frances's center hit land at about 2 p.m. about 20 miles south of Tallahassee with top sustained wind near 65 mph, the National Hurricane Center said. The storm was moving north-northwest at about 8 mph and was not expected to regain hur- ricane strength, forecasters said. After passing through the Panhandle, Frances will move into Georgia and Alabama. Radar showed rain already spreading across Georgia into parts of South Carolina and North Carolina. As northern Florida residents dealt with Frances, residents in hard-hit areas began the arduous task of cleaning up. More than 13 inches of rain had fallen along Florida's central east coast, flooding some areas 4 feet deep, before IT-IU A "I 7XTiUQ UUlllld A CI-NlF IXTiI -rTTir itiv-Ni T f 71fi Frances finished crossing the state and entered the Gulf of Mexico late Sunday. State officials urged people to stay where they were because of the possi- bility of flooding in the Panhandle and the difficulty of finding service stations still in operation. "Our message is turn around, don't drown. If you do not have to travel, don't do so," state meteorologist Ben Nelson said yesterday, warning of possible storm surges of up to 10 feet. Lt. Gov. Toni Jennings said officials were work- ing to get fuel from reopened ports to emergency workers and gas stations. Not everyone heeded the warning, even as rain began falling heavily yes- terday in the Panhandle. Tamara Suarez decided to open the Cafe Con Leche in the historic fishing and oyster village of Apalachicola because "it's better to be here than at home, just waiting and wait- ing and waiting." In the Miami area, which was spared the worst of the storm, businesses started to pull down shutters and reopen. Cruise ships packed the Port of Miami after I EwAI ES FROM A Rot J ~EuN D EuYF. WOR H) L LIN. 1 A 41" r11\ .+ 11 % I~ L~tVV 1 1 l:.VY L%_.1 ~ $. "- : z._ , --114 AP PHOTO Two women scroll through digital photos as the surf crashes against a sea wall as the remnants of Hurricane Frances pass through Tampa, Fla. yesterday. being stalled out at sea during the storm. On Ocean Drive in Miami Beach, hotels and bars welcomed the few tourists and residents who ventured out. 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Election may stall new Intel le giation Congress pledges to retool intelligence collection within a month WASHINGTON - Congress is giving itself a month to come up with legislation restructuring the nation's intelligence apparatus, but Republican leaders acknowledge the goal may fall victim to turf disputes and lawmakers' focus on getting themselves re-elected Nov. 2. While a group of members in both parties have united behind legislation to enact the Sept. 11 commission's recom- mendations unaltered, House Speaker Dennis Hastert and key Senate commit- tee chairmen are warning against a rush to judgment. "Four or five groups of ideas (are) out there, and I think we need to take a very serious study on all those ideas," said Hastert (R-Il.) at the end of August. Sen. John Warner (R-Va.) who as Armed Services Committee chirman oversees more than 80 percent of an intelligence budget estimated at $40 bil- lion a year, called for "great caution" to avoid "turbulence or disruption in the intelligence system that now - I think - serves this nation reasonably well." Senate Intelligence Committee Chair- man Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) has a different perspective. Citing a series of intelligence failures, he unveiled a bill last month that would break up the CIA and rearrange the Pentagon's spy agencies under a sin- gle national intelligence director. To be heard from are senior mem- bers of the appropriations committees, including Senate bulls like Republican Chairman Ted Stevens of Alaska and Robert Byrd of West Virginia, the top Democrat on the panel. The Sept. 11 commission recom- mended that the purse strings for intel- ligence agencies be taken away from them and given to a new committee that would oversee both Pentagon and civilian spy programs, and divvy up the money for them. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R- Tenn.) originally asked the Senate Gov- ernmental Affairs Committee to get a bill completed by Sept. 30. The panel held several hearings in August and has another planned Wednesday. When squabbling arose, Frist and Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) quickly named a 20-member biparti- san working group made up of Warner, Roberts, Stevens, Byrd and other senior lawmakers who now have a share of intelligence oversight. "It's not going to be a knee-jerk reac- tion," Frist said. "This is too big. We'll do it in a very careful and thoughtful and aggressive way." With Congress scheduled to break again Oct. 8 until after the election, pressure will be on for leaders to call a lame-duck session that could run until Christmas to complete the intelligence overhaul and a corporate tax bill. Two weeks ago, President Bush addressed some of the Sept. 11 com- mission's recommendations. He signed executive orders strengthening the CIA director's control over intelligence agen- cies and creating a national counterter- rorism center. A White House official described Bush's actions as a step toward creating the position of a national intelligence director, a job separate from the director NEW YORK Clinton has successful heart surgery Bill Clinton underwent a successful quadruple heart bypass operation yesterday to relieve severely clogged arteries that had put the former president at high risk of suffering a heart attack. "He is recovering normally at this point," said Craig Smith, the surgeon who led the operation. "Right now everything looks straightforward." Smith said Clinton could leave the hospital in four or five days. Doctors said they expect him to make a full recovery, although the heart disease they repaired was "extensive." The four-hour surgery came three days after Clinton checked himself into the hospital complaining of chest pain and shortness of breath. Tests soon revealed that blockage in several of Clinton's arteries was "well over 90 per- cent," Smith said. "There was a substantial likelihood that he would have had a substantial heart attack" in the near future, said Allan Schwartz, chief of cardiology at New York Presbyterian Hospital on Columbia University's campus. Schwartz said Clinton was awake but sedated about four hours after the opera- tion ended. He still was using a breathing tube and had not spoken yet, he said. BAGHDAD, Iraq Car bomb kills seven marines, three Iraqis A suicide attacker sped up to a U.S. military convoy outside Fallujah and det- onated an explosives-packed vehicle yesterday, killing seven Marines and three Iraqi soldiers, U.S. military officials said. It was the deadliest day for American forces in four months. The force of the blast on a dusty stretch of wasteland nine miles north of Fal- lujah, a hotbed of Sunni insurgents, wrecked two Humvee vehicles and hurled the suicide car's engine far from the site, witnesses and military officials said. The bombing underscored the challenges U.S. commanders face in securing Fallu- jah and surrounding Anbar province, the heartland of a Sunni Muslim insurgency beat on driving coalition forces from the country. U.S. forces have not patrolled in Fallujah since ending a three-week siege of the city in April that had been aimed at rooting out militiaman. Insurgents have only strengthened their hold on Fallujah since then. Meanwhile, the Interior Ministry said medical tests confirmed that Iraqi author- ities had once again mistakenly reported the capture of ousted dictator Saddam Hussein's deputy, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, putting a stop to two days of conflicting statements about his purported arrest. BESLAN, Russia Russians mourn victims of school standoff Funeral processions filled the rainy streets of this southern Russian city yester: day, carrying coffins large and small, as townspeople buried scores of victims of . carefully planned school siege that prosecutors linked to a Chechen rebel leader. Desperate families searched for those still missing from the siege at School No. 1, while others buried 120 victims during the first of two days of national mourning across Russia, which has seen more than 400 people killed in violence linked tq terrorism in the past two weeks. Reports emerged that the attackers apparently planned the school seizure months ago, sneaking weapons into the building in advance. There also were signs that some of the militants did not know they were to take children hostage and may have been killed by their comrades when they objected. State television alsp sharply criticized government officials for understating the scope of the crisis, in which hundreds of hostages were held for 62 hours by heavily armed militants. , The school seizure came a day after a suicide bombing in Moscow killed 10 peo= ple and just over a week after two Russian passenger planes exploded and crashed, killing all 90 people aboard - attacks authorities suspect were linked to Russia's ongoing war in Chechnya. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Israelis attack Hamas training ground; 13 dead Israeli helicopters attacked a Hamas training field in Gaza early today, killing al least 13 Palestinians and wounding 25, officials from both sides said. It was Israelis deadliest strike in the area in four months. 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