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x TULUM, Mexico (AP) - Uproot-
a f 4 ~ing trees, toppling streetlights and lev-
eling a concrete stadium, Hurricane
Roxanne swept through a southern
Mexican provincial capital yesterday
during a daylong march across the
Yucatan.
- ~ * Roxanne's75-mphwindstorethrough
& Campeche, a state capital of 175,000
people. There were no immediate reports
of deaths or injuries in the city or any-
where else in the hurricane's path.
Three thousand residents sought shel-
ter from the storm, and television foot-
age showed people wading through
waist-high water.
The storm headed southwest last
night, sending shrimpers and oil work-
ers fleeing to shore before it hit the city
ofCampeche, on the western Gulf coast
of the peninsula, flinging tin roofs into
r .the air.
The U.S. National Weather Service
{l .said Roxanne would probably gain
strength as it heads west over the Gulf
. *of Mexico and menaces a broad swath
of coastline.
Ivador Argua looks for personal belongings in his collapsed bungalow In Tulum, near Cozumel, on Mexico's Yucatan AP PHOTO The oil-rich lowlands of Mexico's
enlfsula yesterday. After bashing the resort Island of Cozumel, a weakening Hurricane Roxanne plowed Into the lowlands. southern Gulf Coast are still recovering
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from floods caused last week by Hurri-
cane Opal, which killed at least I1
people in Mexico before veering north
to hit the Florida Panhandle.
The U.S. National Weather Service
posted a hurricane watch the Gulf on
Mexico's eastern coast as far north as
Tuxpan, about 350 miles south of the
Texas border.
Before the hurricane hit, Campeche
state Gov. Jorge Salomon said about
150 shelters were ready to receive
15,000 people, offshore shrimpers had
headed to port and rail and highway
traffic were disrupted by approaching
winds and rains.
"We are taking all the precautions
necessary," he said.
The Weather Service said that by 10
p.m. (11 p.m. Ann Arbor time),
Roxanne's center was about 70 miles
northeast of Ciudad del Carmen.
The hurricane has lost force since it
hit Tulum on the Yucatan's Caribbean
side late Tuesday with 110-mph winds.
Telephone links with the island resort
of Cozumel remained cut yesterday,
and plane and ferry services were still
suspended, leaving hundreds of tour-
ists as well as some 35,000 local resi-
dents isolated.
Gov. Mario Villanueva of Quintana
Roo state, however, said there were no
deaths reported. He reported minor dam-
age on Cozumel.
Authorities said a coastal storm surge
with flood tides up to six feet above
normal could still be expected, possibly
with battering waves, both along Gulf
coastlines of Campeche and neighbor-
ing Tabasco states. Flash floods and
mudslides were possible in eastern
Mexico and parts of Central America.
The state oil monopoly Petroleos
Mexicanos suspended most Gulf op-
erations and pulled some 3,500 work,
ers off rigs in the Campeche Sound,
which provides the bulk of Mexico's
crude oil.
Along the Caribbean coast, residents
spent the day sweeping shattered glass
from storefronts and restaurants and re-
pairing ripped tarpaper roofs with ham-
mers and nails. Rain fell sporadically.
In Tulum, fallen palms blocked the
road leading to its famed cliffside Mayan
ruins and the two bamboo sentry huts at
the entrance were abandoned.
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) -
greeing with one another more often
ian not, the Republican presidential
ndidates used their first televised fo-
rn yesterday to preach the virtues of
nwer taxes and less government and
ie dangers of giving President Clinton
second term.
If the goal of Bob Dole's rivals com-
ig into the forum was to knock the
OP front-runner off stride, none ap-
eared to succeed. Dole delivered a
risp account of why he believed he
as the best candidate in the field and
ffered a detailed defense of his conser-
ative credentials.
At every turn, Dole said Clinton was
gfending the status quo against a new
ppublican Congress trying to balance
1e budget, cut taxes and shift power
torn Washington to the states.
"We must elect someone who knows
ow to make that change," Dole said. "I
ill not permit the slow decline of
anerica - a country that I love."
The well-mannered forum got off to a
>ugh start when the studio abruptly lost
poweroand the early candidates in the
lineup had to forge ahead amid the dis-
traction of on-again, off-again lighting.
In advance, it appeared that Texas
Sen. Phil Gramm was ready to aggres-
sively go after Dole, using a pre-forum
rally to suggest that Dole was a politi-
cian all too ready to break his promises.
"How are we different from Bill
Clinton if we don't keep our prom-
ises?" Gramm asked at his rally.
But the Texas senator made no such
comparison during the televised forum,
and never mentioned Dole by name.
His toughest criticism of the Senate
majority leader came when Gramm
pledged not to "cut deals with Demo-
crats in Washington because you know
cutting deals with Democrats in Wash-
ington is not going to bring back the
American dream."
Several others also took issue with
Dole, at least indirectly.
"We do not need to replace their set
of professional politicians with our set
of professional politicians," said com-
mentator Pat Buchanan.
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ost of the nation's great moved to the South and smaller numbers
om the finish line, headed to the Midwest and Northeast.
ensus Bureau report The California out-migration reflects
American migration a downturn in the state'sjob market that
o a crawl, more people can be linked to massive defense cut'
Fthe Golden State than backs and government regulations that
made California unattractive to indus-
o show a decline in the try, said Michael Boskin, a member of
nericans moving any- a California government task force
ross the street to across studying the state's economy.
with 16.7 percent of State leaders have, to some extent,
r the age of 1 moving. seen the error of their ways, and
1960s, mobility hov- California's job market is improving,
ercent. Boskin said, citing a recent prediction
d other academics have in the quarterly "UCLA Economic Fore-
d to an aging popula- cast"that jobs in California will soon be
economic insecurity, created about twice as fast as jobs in
-income families and other states. Daniel J.B. Mitchell, a
birth rate. UCLA public policy and management
rest of the nation is professor who helped produce that re-
ornians are picking up port, agreed that the fall of the aero
'People are just pour- space industry in Southern California
rnia," said Kristin A. has affected out-migration significantly.
duced the report. Declining jobs and subsequent out-
numbers show that migration also have hurt California's
ftCaliforniaforother real estate industry, bursting the
99,400 people moved industry's "L.A. bubble economy,"
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AP PHOTO
Republican presidential hopefuls pose prior to a televised forum in New Hampshire
last night. From front row left are: former Tenn. Gov. Lamar Alexander, Sen. Bob
Dole (R-Kan.), publisher Steve Forbes, Rep. Bob Doman (R-Calf.) and
commentator Pat Buchanan. From rear row left are commentator Alan Keyes, Sen.
Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), Grosse Pointe businessman Morry Taylor, Sen. Richard
Lugar (R-Ind.) and Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Texas).
"I think it will take a candidate from
outside Washington, D.C., to beat Bill
Clinton," said former Tennessee Gov.
Lamar Alexander.
Given the format, which allowed for
no interaction among the candidates,
the rival camps said it made little sense
to level direct attacks.
"If you were talking about someone
else you were wasting your time," said
Tom Rath, a senior Alexander adviser.
"So they all competed for the Mr. Con-
geniality award."
Each treated their eight minutes of air
time as an extended campaign commer-
cial,an opportunity to press staple themes.
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"There is no time, no part of the
globe, free from evil. The crust of
the earth is soaked with the tears
of the suffering." Dr. Eleonore
Stump, "The Mirror of Evil," God
and the Philosophers
If there is an all-powerful, all-know-
ing, perfectly good God, how can
the world be full of evil?
Dr. Eleonore Stump, noted author
and professor of philosophy at St.
Louis University will discuss "The
Problem of Evil" at The Veritas
Forum.
A time of Q&A will follow.
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