WHILE HURRICANE ALLEN lived up to only a fraction of his advance billing, due to the path he chose between
Brownsville, Texas and Kingsville, he still left South Texas coastal communities with a lot to clean up. This palm tree
survived Allen's wind and tides but the boat "Oso Granda" didn't fare as well.
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Havana yesterday, and Cuban about 10 minutes after its 10:30 a.m.
thorities detained seven suspects takeoff. The hijackers dumped gasoline
lieved to be Cubans who had taken on the plane's floor, pulled out their
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e FBI said. to Cuba, special FBI agent William
The 61 other passengers and six crew Nettles said.
embers returned safely to Miami less "Five minutes after the flight was
an six hours after the incident began. airborne, two passengers came for-
AN EIGHTH MAN, who tried to slip a ward with a flight attendant, yelling
y metal gun past security guards, was 'Cuba ! Cuba ! Cuba!.' Nettles said.
Dems move toward unity
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His platform statement, shortly
before his guaranteed renomination, of-
fered a bow to Kennedy, the president
saying "I enthusiastically endorse" the
ideals of the challenger he defeated.
rTHE JOBS PLANK becanme the cen-
tral issue in the dispute over unity
behind the platform and the ticket and
on it, Carter avoided the very specifics
Kennedy anh his labor allies wanted.
The AFL-CIO statement said, "We
will continue to work for specific job
creation programs ... within the ad-
ministration's new economic
program."
But Rep. Shirley Chisholm described
the Carter platform statement as
"nebulous poop," and said she was "not
satisfied with generalities."
THE KENNEDY plank promised $12
billion to create 800,000 jobs for the
unemployed. Carter said he supported
the intent of that plank.
"I will soon announce an economic
program compatible with those aims
and which I believe the delegates to this
convention will enthusiastically sup-
port," he said.
In fact, it was an economic recovery
plan he had outlined before. Exactly a
week before he had told the National
Urban League that his plan would
create "millions and millions and
millions" of new jobs.
Carter said his plan would spur
economic recovery, curb unem-
ployment and slow inflation. "Our
economic recovery program will create
hundreds of thousands of jobs in the
next year and substantirlly more over
the long run," he said.
irliner
"They yelled in Spanish that they had
an explosive and if they didn't go to
Cuba, they would blow the plane up.
"THEY TOOK THE flight attendant
to the rear of the plane and they had the
gas in a, container. Some of it (the
gasoline) splashed on the interior of the
plane and some of it splashed on the
stewardess. They struck matches and
flashed their lighters," Nettles said.
One passenger also was splashed
with the gasoline, he said.
The plane landed safely in Havana
and departed after passengers had lun-
ch and shopped in Jose.Marti Airport
tourist shops, authorities said. The
plane arrived at Miami International
Airport at 4:02 p.m.
A man identified as J. Hernandez was
arrested in Key West after trying to slip
a toy gun through the airport's metal-
detection device, Nettles said.
"HE TRIGGERED THE device's
alarm, and he then pulled out a metal
cigarette lighter," Nettles said.
The man then walked back into the
main lobby with four other men, who
were on the passenger list as P.
Rodriguez, L. Rodriguez, L. Rivera,
and E. Flores, he said.
A flight controller at the Key West
tower said the plane had taken off for
Miami when the pilot contacted the U.S.
Naval base at nearby Boca Chica to
report the plane had been ordered to
Cuba.
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S. Texas
hurricane
repair bill
in millions
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) -
Hurricane Allen may not have lived up
to advance billing, but its-destructive
march across South Texas willirun up a
tab of several hundred million dollars
in losses and overtime costs to in-
dividuals, governments, and
businesses.
County officials in the Lower Rio
Grande Valley and the Coastal Bend
area of Corpus Christi are trying to
compile damage reports and start
federal assistance funds flowing to the
homeless and suffering as the flood
waters recede.
THE AMERICAN Insurance
Association said yesterday in Austin
that the insured damage in the seven
coastal counties worst hit will total
about $42.47 million.
"Our figures don't include flood
damage, risk to oil platforms, and
properties or commercial boats," said
Reginal Manager Frank Lewis.
Allen did only a fraction of the
damage that had been feared, mainly
because its path sent the strongest win-
ds through sparsely populated
rangelands between Brownsville and
Kingsville. Two Texans died, although
the Caribbean death toll was in the
hundreds.
"We are truly blessed," said Gov. Bill
Clements. He estimated damage at $600
million.
The last major storm to hit southern
Texas, Hurricane Celia, wreaked $450
million in property damage in 1970.
Hurricane Allen likely will top that
mark due to inflation and its wider
area.
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