2A - The Michigan Daily - Monday, September 18, 1995 rj ATj IONA St Thomas confronts hurricane's damage CHARLOTTE AMALIE, U.S. Vir- gin Islands (AP) - The yachts that used to be in the marina are on the highway. The red roofs of houses are strewn on the ground. The duty-free shops where tourists used to look for bargains are filled with looters. Hurricane Marilyn has moved on from St. Thomas, but the Caribbean island that it left behind was a changed place yesterday. Electricity, water and phones were out. Air traffic controllers, the win- dows of their tower blown out by 100- mph winds, used binoculars and radios to guide in reliefflights. Halfthe houses on the island were destroyed, and nearly all the others damaged. In Charlotte Amalie, capital of the U.S. Virgin Islands, hundreds of people looted stores at a waterfront shopping center. No police officers were in sight. "These are all odd shoes, man," said a young man at a Foot Locker store. "I can't find something that fits." The hurricane, the fourth to hit the Caribbean in as many weeks, tore through the Virgin Islands and east- ern Puerto Rico on Saturday, blowing apart homes, tossing parked airplanes into the air and killing at least nine people. Six of the dead were in St. Thomas, whose population is about 51,000, and two people were killed in St. Croix, the most populous of the Virgin Islands with 55,000 people. One person was killed in Puerto Rico. President Clinton declared the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico disaster areas, making them eligible for federal emergency aid. In St. Thomas, many buildings lost their facades, gaping open like dolls' houses. Marilyn blew out the windows of St. Thomas' hospital and flooded it, mak- ing it virtually unusable. Doctors were trying to care for 49 patients, including nine critically injured in the storm and four on life-support units with erratic electricity powered by a generator, said Dr. Manuel Guzman. Eight patients were evacuated yes- terday, all by helicopter because debris blocked the road to the airport. Sheets from tin roofs, uprooted trees and util- ity poles lined the highway. 70 r'3 N"~ATIO~NA L REPOR Panetta vows to fight welfare bill changes WASH INGTON - President Clinton, a recent convert to the Senate welfare reform bill, will fight House Republican attempts to fashion a compromise more to their liking, the White House said yesterday. Threatening a veto, White House chief of staff Leon Panetta said, "If this bill moves in any way toward the original House version, that's trouble for this bill." The remarks, made in an appearance on CBS's "Face the Nation," came a day after Clinton voiced support for Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole's welfare plan. If the measure is approved as expected, House and Senate leaders will meet to work out differences tomorrow. Dole's bill sends federal welfare, job training and child care programs to the states in block grants, curbs spending by $70 billion, and ends Aid to Families with Dependent Children and the federal guarantee of cash assistance. Making it more palatable to the administration were votes in the Senate to set aside $8 billion for child care for single mothers on welfare who would be required to work and to establish a $1 billion emergency grant fund for states. The House-passed version would put a family cap on benefits, ban them entirely for mothers younger than 18 with children born out of wedlock and cut spending by $122 billion. Yachts rest on a highway in St. Thomas yesterday In damage caused by Hurricane Marilyn, which killed six on the island. One stretch along the waterfront was blocked by two 30- to 40-foot yachts blown onto the road from the bay. The 82-foot U.S. Coast Guard cutter Point Ledge teetered on the edge of the pier, 30 feet from the roadway. Another two dozen yachts were beached on the far side of the bay. The six people killed on St. Tho- mas included three reportedly aboard boats battered by 12-foot-high waves and at least one man apparently crushed by debris, said David Sachs of the Federal Emergency Manage- ment Agency. Police in Puerto Rico yesterday found the body of Jack Strickland, a diving instructor from New York City, in a sunken sailboat. Two more people were killed by the storm in St. Croix, hospital officials said without elaborating. At least 50 more people were in- jured or missing in St. Thomas, al- though FEMA said an earlier report of up to 50 people trapped in a collapsed apartment complex in Charlotte Amalie was incorrect. Although the five-story buildings were in rubble, they appeared to have been under construction, and FEMA officials in Washington said yesterday that nobody had been trapped. Communications to St. Thomas were out, and FEMA set up two satellite telephones yesterday. AT&T was send- ing a team to replace a microwave dish that Marilyn toppled from a building in Charlotte Amalie, knocking out long- distance phone service. Virgin Islands Gov. Roy L. Schneider declared a 3 p.m.-to-6 a.m. curfew. "Friends, I'm asking you to be calm and continue to be in your homes," Schneider said in a statement, which was broadcast by a Puerto Rican radio station because all of the Virgin Is- lands' stations were knocked out. "I want all the young people that have been running around to go home and remain at home." FEMA said FBI agents would ac- company a shipment of satellite equip- ment yesterday from a military base in Martinsburg, W.Va., to St. Croix. The agents presumably would be there to prevent looting. When Hurricane Hugo hit in 1989, officials in St. Croix didn't ask for military help for days, and most busi- nesses had been looted by the time troops arrived. In Puerto Rico, Hurricane Marilyn destroyed 50 homes and damaged another 200 on Culebra Island, said Gov. Pedro Rossello. The storm swept away hillsides and the wooden homes that dotted them on the island of 3,000 people, 20 miles from the eastern coast of the main Puerto Rican island. Marilyn swept a light airplane onto the Happy Landings restaurant at the end of the Culebra airport runway. An- other plane rested upside down on a chain link fence behind it. At St. Thomas airport, a jumble of about 10 mangled aircraft was moved to one side of the runway to make room for the military airlift ferrying supplies from the United States, Panama and Puerto Rico. Marilyn, meanwhile, pursued a harm- less route through the open Atlantic. Meteorologist Mike Hopkins at the National Hurricane Center in Miami said Marilyn was expected to pass east of the U.S. mainland. GOP rivals echo Buchanan campaign WASHINGTON - Pat Buchanan thought he heard an echo when GOP presidential rival Bob Dole endorsed English as the nation's official language and attacked proposed standards for teaching history. "Right out of our speeches," said Buchanan. It was deja vu when Dole criticized "liberal academic elites" for taking umbrage at President Truman's use of the atom bomb. Likewise, when California Gov. Pete Wilson came down on affirmative ac- tion and immigration, and when Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana promoted a national sales tax. "Been there, done that" could be Buchanan's campaign theme. While the conservative commentator is consid- ered a long shot to capture the Republi- can presidential nomination, ideas he has long espoused are making their way into the campaign speeches of his GOP rivals. "In one sense, you're a little exasper- ated because it's copyright violation," Buchanan said in an interview. "But it is heartening because what it means is we're winning the battle for the heart and soul of the Republican Party." New Miss America wins on birthday ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - Some things you should know about Miss America Shawntel Smith: Her real first name is LaCricia, it took her four tries to get to the pageant and she's the first redhead to wear the crown in 51 years. One more thing: She won the title Saturday on her 24th birthday. Between now and her next one, she will earn about $250,000 in appearance fees and receive a $40,000 scholarship to go with $12,000 she already won compet- ing in Miss Oklahoma. No wonder she woke up yesterday wondering if it was just another dream like the one she had last week in which she was crowned Miss America 1996. "I had to go over and look at my crown to make sure," said Smith, whose middle name is Shawntel. ..,. . Tyhoon Oscar gives (the nation " rheavily,"saii Japan a lancing tral Meteoro b. .the highest low, 4g2Miyakejima Tokyo. TOKYO - One of the most power- ful typhoons to hit Japan since World Hong I War II dealt the east coast a glancing blow yesterday before veering back out last ele to sea. Two people were killed and British three were missing. Weather forecasters said Japan HONG K( "might have suffered heavily" if Ty- flictingvisio phoon Oscar had struck directly and on voted yester a working day. The storm's center never der British ru came closer than 60 miles from Tokyo. favor pro-d Oscar's winds reached 108 mph, vow defiance making it comparable to typhoons that showed. killed 1,269 people in 1958 and 5,098 Shortly aft in 1959 in the Tokyo area. renewed itst] One man was killed yesterday in a results when landslide in Shizuoka, 95 miles west of Anexitpo Tokyo. And in Chiba, just east of To- TVB televis kyo, a man died after strong winds 16 or 17 of t1 apparently knocked him into an irriga- the 60-seat le tion reservoir. democracyt Two people were washed away by were not exp high waves from a beach at Oiso, south the 20 seats c of Tokyo, and a fisherman was missing one-third ofI after falling into a river in Gifu, 170 Governm miles west of Tokyo, police reported. tioning thatt National policesaidat least 13 people poll was onl were injured and 46 houses were de- said itsugge stroyed or damaged. They said land- slide. It said slides were reported at 29 places and colony's lea high rains flooded 80 homes. tured 12 sea "If the typhoon had landed in Japan, ) might have suffered d Shingo Osano ofthe Cen- logical Agency. He said winds were recorded at Island, 95 miles south of. 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