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Floods and tornadoes
sweep Appalachia
From AP and UPI
Torrents of rain from a storm system
stalled in southern Appalachia swam-
ped entire towns with floodwaters up to
eight feet deep yesterday. Hundreds
were forced to flee, while others clim-
bed to rooftops or hillsides to await
rescue boats or helicopters.
At least four people were killed and
one was missing in two days of thunder-
storms and tornadoes in the region.
MORE THAN two dozen twisters
smashed homes Sunday and yesterday
from the mid-Mississippi Valley to the
Eastern Seaboard as the busiest tor-
nado season in more than a decade con-
tinued to take its toll.
Yesterday, one twister hita shopping
center in the western Tennessee town of
Paris, destroying several businesses
and injuring at least four people.
"It's real bad," said a spokesman at
the Tennessee Emergency
Management Agency in Nashville.
"We're sending ambulances, and we're
sending highway patrolmen."
UP TO 6inches of rain fell overnight,
causing extensive flooding in much of
Kentucky and Tennessee, and parts of
Arkansas, South Carolina, southern
West Virginia, and southwestern
Virginia.
The flooding claimed the lives of
three people in Tennessee and one in
South Carolinia. A woman was missing
in West Virginia following a boating ac-
cidenton a swollen river.
Authorities evacuated hundreds of
families, notably in Kentucky and Ten-
nessee. Schools closed with highways
blocked by high water.
"ABOUT 100 families have had to
leave their homes, but there's no dry
place to set up as a shelter and no way
to get out of town," said Fire Chief
Carter Bevins in Fleming-Neon, two
communities in eastern Kentucky near
the Virginia border that merged to
form one town of about 2,000 residents
in 1978. "If you want out, you're going to
have to walk, or swim."
The swollen Kentucky River surged
out of its banks during the night and
trapped residents of the Letcher County
town. The downtown area was under at
least 6 to 8 feet of water, Bevins said.
Evacuations were under way in 11
Kentucky counties and schools were
closed in 10 counties. Emergency
shelters were opened in eight counties.
Gov. Martha Layne Collins placed
three National Guard units on alert.
Up to six inches of rain had fallen in
Kentucky, with that much more expec-
ted in places, and rivers were climbing
as fast as 2 feet an hour.
Iacocca, Fraser co-chair
Levin re-election bid
IN BRIEF
Compiled from Associated Press and
United Press international reports
Earthquake hitsd P ss t New Guinea more than 10 years ago
E rhuk histay as the Archbishop of Krakow, knelt
ROME - A strong earthquake and kissed the tarmac - as he does
rumbled through central and in each country he visits - and
southern Italy yesterday night, received a 21-gun salute.
causing at least three deaths, 40 in- Panama vote tally delayed
juries, and damage to hundreds of
buildings, officials reported last PANAMA CITY, Panama -
night. Technical problems delayed the of-
ficial vote count yesterday in
The Interior Ministry said 15 Panama's presidential elections
people in a church at Cervaro were with the two top contenders both
injured by falling masonry, five claiming victory in the contest en-
people were hurt in Isernia and ding 16 years of military rule.
there was one casualty each in Atina Arnulfo Arias, who campaigned on
and Pissone. It reported none of the an anti-military platform told a
injuries was considered serious. news conference that he had a 20,000
Officials at the Civil Defense vote lead over Nicolas Ardito Barlet-
Department in Rome said the quake ta.
struck Naples at 7:50 p.m., 1:50 Backed by a coalition of four cen-
EDT. ter-right parties, Arias said that
Campaign spending with 47 percent of the vote tally
reported, he was leading 171,882 to
approaches ;100 million Barletta's total of 1~1,674.
WASHINGTON - House and Barletta also claimed victory in
Senate candidates already' have the election Sunday and told a news
raised $111 million and spent $96 conference he was leading Arias by
million six months before Election nearly 9,000 votes.
Day, according to an Associated
Press analysis of campaign finance AFL-CIO attacks Reagan
records. PINEY POINT, Md. - The AFL-
In the 33 Senate races, CIO charged yesterday that cor-
Republicans are outspending porate executive bonuses "have
Democrats by 44 percent in their bid reached scandalous levels" while
to retain their 55-45 majority, workers' pay has risen only
In the House, where all 435 seats modestly or not at all.
are at stake, Democrats have out- "The Reagan 'recovery' is
spent GOP rivals by 58 percent. spawning benefits for the rich,
Lebanese cabinet filled powerful and the privileged" the
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Prime executive council of the 13.8 million-
Minister Rashid Karami cleared member federation said in a
away the major obstacle in the path statement.
of Lebanon's national unity gover- Federation President Lane
nment yesterday by convincing a Kirkland renewed his assualton an
key Moslem opposition leader to join administration proposal that would
his new Cabinet, authorize employers to pay teen-
Fighting intensified in Beirut, agers $2.50 an hour - 85 cents below
however, after Nabih Berni accepted the current legal minimum - for
a Cabinet post with responsibility for summertime work.
south Lebanon and reconstruction. Former FAA head pleads
Also sniper fire and artillery
shelling erupted on both sides of the 5th Amendment 89 times
city. BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - Former
Pope continues trip Federal Aviation Administration
PORT MORESBY, Papua Newchief J. Lynn Helms, whose finances
PunT -ope JBYPaul II began may be under grand jury in-
Guinea - Pope John Pslnd IISegen vestigation, has turned for protec-
his visit to this land of Stone Age tion to Bankruptcy Court, where he
tribes, volcanoes and steaming took the Fifth Amendment 89 times
jungles and captured the admiration under creditors' questioning.
of the airport crowds. . Helms, who resigned from the
Using the common tongue of this FAA on'Jlm.,1,hor untfromy te
ntoof80languages, the pope Archn Jan. 31, voluntrily filed on
nation of March 12 for protection from his
spoke of his love for the country and personal creditors while he
fond memories of his first visit. roanizedisde hiyeh
John Paul, who first visited Papua reorganized his debt payments.
Member of the Associated Press
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LANSING (UPI) - U.S. Sen. Carl
Levin, announced for re-election yesterday,
naming Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacoc-
ca and former United Auto Workers
President Douglas Fraser to co-chair a
campaign stressing management-
labor-government cooperation.
Levin, a Democrat, blasted the
Reagan administration policies on aut>
imports, but conceded the lark
bonuses approved for the carmakers'
executives have made things more dif-
ficult for the industry's advocates in
Washington.
Levin, said he does not believe
Republicans cansucceed in their effort
to portray him as a big spender, and
said he has no intention of "running
away" from his opposition to the
Reagan administration tax cuts he
viewed as unfair to the poor.
He said he expects to raise $2.25,
million for the campaign, but be out-
spent by Republicans who have
targeted him as a potentially
vulnerable incumbent.
The Detroit Democrat said auto
workers should not have to suffer
because of bonuses paid to executives.
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