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2The Daily Tar HeelTuesday, September 19 , 1989 - IIIIMIIMMIIII 111 ,- - World and Nation At least 9 From Associated Press reports SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico Hurri cane Hugo's 125 mph winds pounded Puerto Rico on Monday after they ripped across other islands in the eastern Car ibbean, leaving at least nine people dead and thousands homeless. The National Weather Service said Hugo, the most powerful storm to hit the region this decade, slammed into the eastern tip of Puerto Rico and skirted the northern coast before roaring to the northwest toward the Bahamas. The hurricane winds overturned cars and stripped roofs from houses and office buildings, hurling chunks of concrete into the streets of San Juan, where one-third of the U.S. commonwealth's 3.3 million people live. Fifty airplanes were reported de stroyed at the airport in Isla Verde. There was widespread damage in Teenager takes high school class hostage From Associated Press reports McKEE, Ky. An armed teenager stalked into a high school classroom, fired a shot into the ceiling and took 1 1 classmates hostage Monday, police and witnesses said. He later released all but three hos tages and police said his only request was to speak to his father. Although several shots were fired, including one at a television news heli copter, no injuries were reported in the incident, which began at about 9:50 a.m. The youth "said he wasn't going to hurt nobody," according to Craig Ever sole, a classmate who was the last to be released. "He said he wasn't going to shoot nobody." Police Trooper Ed Robinson de scribed the hostage-taker as a 17-year-old who was armed with a shotgun, a JORDAN'S RESTAURANT 157 E. Franklin St. Open for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner I BREAKFAST BAR i I $1.00 off Reg. 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"Part of my aluminum siding is gone, my next door neighbor's alumi num siding is gone." The storm blew out the windows in The Associated Press office on a penin sula between the Caribbean and San Juan harbor, destroying its computers and office equipment. One staffer said he saw his furniture blown out the windows of his apart .357 Magnum revolver and "some type of automatic pistol." Robinson also said the teenager apparently had held one hostage over night the son of the school's princi pal Betty Bond. He said the two boys arrived at school in the younger Bond's red pickup, and it appeared that the armed youth had been holding the principal's son since the night before. It was not clear why the youth took over the classroom at Jackson County High School. Authorities described him as a newcomer to the school who was living with his grandparents, but some students said they had known him for years. Robinson said his only request was to speak with his father in Florida. 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Hugo was moving at 15 mph to the west-northwest. Hurricane-force winds extended up to 75 miles from its center. Meteorologist Jesse Moore at the National Hurricane Center said it was too early to tell whether Hugo would strike the U.S. mainland. He said the storm was expected to be off the south eastern Bahamas by Wednesday. Police said a man was electrocuted in Puerto Rico when he touched a power line while removing a TV antenna from his roof in preparation for the storm. Five people were reported killed, 80 injured and more than 1 0,000 homeless to speak to him. Eversole, a 15-year-old junior, said he was in the classroom when the armed youth came through the door after re portedly firing a shot in the school parking lot. "He never said nothing," Eversole said. "He shot the ceiling and told the teacher to leave and let two rows of students leave." Eversole was released at about 1:30 p.m. after soda was delivered to the room apparently as part of a deal with police. Robinson said the youth released one hostage in exchange for a police radio, then others in exchange for ciga Crash-transcript shows pilots From Associated Press reports WASHINGTON Pilots trying to land the United DC-10 that crashed in Iowa, killing 112 people, disagreed in the last 15 seconds on whether to cut power to their two remaining engines, a transcript released Monday shows. Shortly before that, after nearly 45 minutes of tense effort to get the crippled plane to an airport, Capt. Alfred Hay nes set the stage for the final moments, saying, "Won't this be a fun landing?" The crew did manage to steer the plane to the Sioux City, Iowa, airport, but after landing, it wheeled and burst into flames across the runway and adja cent corn field. A majority of the 296 people aboard survived, including the pilots. Just before the plane hit the runway, both Haynes and First Officer William Records called for the throttles to be cut, but a trainer pilot who was using the engines to steer the plane said if he cut them off, "we'll lose it." National Transportation Safety Soviet official denies Italian newspaper report From Associated Press reports MOSCOW Opposition legislator Boris Yeltsin shopped and drank until he dropped on his tour of the United States, said a scathing article reprinted Monday in the Communist Party news paper Pravda. The Communist Party maverick "leaves behind him a wake of cata strophic prophecies, insane expenses, interviews, and above all the perfume of Jack Daniels Black Label," the Ital ian newspaper La Repubblica said in an article translated into Russian and Cable only be installed in television rooms in each residence hall, Jackson said. Boulton said rent increases were a possibility to build a reserve fund to pay for the installation. "It may be too expensive immediately, but we will get it done in the long run." Getting cable installed in residence halls was a part of Jackson's platform in her campaign for the RHA presi dency in February. Steps toward get ting cable installed were taken during the summer, she said. Alex Burnett, executive producer for Campus Profile, Student Television's news program, said getting cable in stalled in the dormitories would allow students to view the programs that their student fees pay for. "Students pay for STV through their student fees, and the majority of students never get to see it, since it only reaches off-campus stu HOD MFW reg. $29.95 NOW $19.95 -a f I . j : k . jr i-i - I c lux cdie yjusi uears. Mcwng Parts . 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"I'd say the island is pretty well devastated." rettes, pizza and soda. Robinson said the boy appeared rela tively calm. "He is not ranting, raving, this type (of) thing," the trooper said. However, Robinson said the boy fired one shot at a news helicopter from WCPO-TV in Cincinnati shortly be fore 1 p.m. "Everything went wild when that chopper went over," he said. Nearly 500 other students in Jackson County High School were evacuated after the incident began. McKee, a town of about 250 people, is about 50 miles south-southeast of Lexington in the Appalachian foothills. Board investigators, who compiled the transcript of the July 19 flight, said trainer pilot Dennis Fitch told them he continued to manipulate the engine throttles and believed he added power just before the airliner hit the ground at the airport. The incident began when an explo sive failure in the plane's tail engine disabled hydraulic systems controlling flight. The pilots struggled for 45 min utes to land the aircraft which had been on a flight from Denver to Chicago. The cockpit tape, on a loop that rec ords over itself after about a half hour, covers only the final 33 minutes and 34 seconds. It does not include the sound of the engine failure itself or pilot con versation over the following 10 min utes. Four crewmen in the cockpit of the disabled DC-10 have all said they were flying under a condition so unlikely that there was no training for it. Haynes has said selective power on the throttles was the only effective printed in full by Pravda. Pravda did not comment on the ar ticle, but gave its readers a taste of the page 4 piece in a front-page box quot ing the article as saying Yeltsin found the United States "a holiday, a stage, a bar 5,000 kilometers long." Yeltsin, who arrived back in Moscow late Monday evening, denied the re port. . "It's garbage," Yeltsin told The Associated Press, flushing with anger. "It's a simple lie, slander, and re venge for the fact that Americans re- from page 1 dents at this time." If students in the residence halls could view STV's programming, the amount of feedback from students would in crease, which would allow STV to gear programming toward the students, Burnett said. If more students could view Campus Profile, interest would spread and pos sibly result in expanding Campus Pro file to a daily show, he said. "As it is now, Campus Profile is a weekly show and the news isn't timely." Mike Karmonocky, publicity direc tor for STV, said, "Students need to see TV done by their peers, so that they can feel involved in it." STV could possibly expand from University access to having its own channel, which would allow it to sell advertising, Karmonocky said. ! THE CLEAN MACHINE ! i i i i Dealings 104 W. MAIN STREET, CARRBORO 967-5104 (Across from Wendy's on G busline) -J I I mm 1 I I I E Study estimates prevalence of AIDS virus in U.S. jails From Associated Press reports HOUSTON Blood tests of prison and jail inmates across the country show that about one in 24 is infected with the AIDS virus, fewer than expected, researchers said Mon day. The study is the first to try to esti mate the prevalence of AIDS in pris oners, said its principal author, Ford Brewer of the Johns Hopkins Univer sity School of Hygiene and Public Health in Baltimore. The 11,198 inmates in the study came from 10 prisons and jails. "They were selected to give us a pretty good overall picture" of the extent of AIDS infection in inmates, Brewer said at a meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, where he presented his results. Of the inmates tested, 476, or 4.25 percent, were infected with AIDS, Brewer reported. Smaller local stud ies by others had found infection rates of up to 3.2 percent among prisoners, with the exception of one New York City study that found 17.4 percent of inmates were infected, Brewer said. Brewer found the highest rates of infection, up to 8 percent, in the mid Atlantic states, reflecting the high prevalence of AIDS infections in that population, he said. As few as 2.7 percent of the in mates were infected in one jail on the West Coast. Bush urges reforestation SIOUX FALLS, S.D. President Bush, urging a "new greening of means the crew had of controlling the altitude and direction of the aircraft. The safety board last month released transcripts of the plane's communica tion with the ground, but had not previ ously included sounds picked up by the cockpit microphone. "Ease the power back, ease the power back," said Haynes a few seconds be fore impact. He was issuing instruc tions to Fitch, a United trainer pilot who had been called in from the pas senger section to help in the emer gency. "Maybe you can pull 'em all the way off," suggested First Officer Records. Haynes then called for left turns and said, "Close the throttles." Records echoed the order, "Close 'em off." Then Haynes called for a right turn and again said, "Close the throttles." Again, Records said, "Pull 'em (all) off." The transcript indicates that the word "all" is in doubt. B ut Fitch, who has said he was stand ing between the two pilots operating ceived us with admiration," he said before slipping into a black Volga car to be whisked into Moscow. The article is potentially very dam aging to the silver-haired, 58-year-old populist who has become a hero to many Soviets by criticizing special privileges for party and government officials and urging that President Mikhail Gorbachev speed up his re forms. It raises the question of the character of a leading politician more clearly than has been done in decades. It also cast Yeltsin as enjoying the good life just as much as the Moscow officials he criticizes, while Soviets line up for sugar, meat and dozens of other every day items. But previous attacks on Yeltsin have been regarded by his supporters as an effort by powerful Kremlin figures to discredit him, and Yeltsin has turned GSU for the graduate assistants. "They are an incalculable resource. It is intolerable that you suggest that they borrow money to stay in school." Brien Lewis, student body president, said the undergraduate students were For the In Monday's story, "Publisher of Time to speak in classes," Louis "Chip" Weil, publisher of the U.S. version of News in Brief America," proposed a national tree planting campaign Monday as a low cost part of his national clean-air strategy. He suggested planting trees along the nation s interstate highway sys tem as a good place to start. Refer ring to trees as "the oldest, cheapest and most-efficient air purifier on Earth," Bush declared: "We need to reforest this bountiful Earth." Bush made the comments prior to a tree-planting ceremony commemo rating the 1 00th anniversary of South Dakota's statehood. He was also to participate in similar centennial tree plantings later Monday in Helena, Mont., and in Spokane, Wash., on Tuesday. He was also to address lawmakers gathered from five states at Montana's capital. "You in South Dakota know what it takes to plant a tree. It doesn't take a federal program. It doesn't take a new bureaucracy. And it sure doesn't take some fancy new study. What it takes is a shovel," Bush said. "Nature has powerful rejuvena-" tive forces but we need to help them, along," he added. I The Bush administration was expected to make reforestation a major element of its environmental"' policy, matching an international movement to preserve the world's.'; rain forests. l disagreed both throttles, said, "Nah. I can't pull 'em off or we'll lose it. That's what's turnin' ya." Two responses of "OK" are given but the speakers are not identified. Then Records says, "Left, Al," speaking .to the captain, followed by "left throttle" and the word "left" repeated 10 times. The transcript shows one of the crew men then saying repeatedly either "we're turnin'" or "we're tryin'." . Finally, there's a single word one second before impact: "God." The board provided no analysis of the taped conversation, which will be used in the continuing investigation of the crash. A report accompanying the transcript did note that the crew first became aware of a piob'em after hearing a "loud report," "bai'g" or "explosion" followed by vibration or shuddering of the airliner. It said there was constant discussion among crew members as to the best course of action during the flight. that deep-rooted suspicion of central authority to his advantage. Yeltsin returned one day before a crucial Communist Party Central Committee meeting on ethnic unrest. Central Committee meetings also are empowered to consider personnel ques tions, and Yeltsin could be asked dur ing the closed meeting to explain Ihs behavior, or censured. Earlier this year, party officials in vestigated Yeltsin for allegedly speak ing out in favor of a multiparty system. La Repubblica, a left-leaning Rome daily with one of Italy's largest circula tions, ran the article by Vittorio Zuc coni on page 4 of its Sept. 14 edition. The story said Yeltsin drank a bottfe-and-a-half of Jack Daniels whiskey by himself one night in Baltimore, where he was a guest of Johns Hopkins Univer isty. f from page:1 also behind GSU, although they do not recognize the contributions of graduate students. "The undergraduates don't know the benefits they are getting from the gradu ates. These people bust a hump io contribute to this university." r Record Time magazine, was incorrectly identi fied. The Daily Tar Heel regrets the error. . ? fiioucTTAin ci(e"I HEADQUARTERS ij Back-To-Schod j MrxirtainBkeSpecia!! :;i I REG. S299 Guaranteed Lowest ij Prices In The Trainglei not valid with other specials with coupon - expires 93089 j -J
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