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Sincerely, Your Locals," read a sign spray-painted on a sheet of plywood nailed to a window on North Carolina's Bogues Banks, south of Cape Hatteras on the Outer Banks. A 15-year-old swimmer was missing in heavy surf in Vir ginia. The only injury reported in North Carolina was a woman who broke her hip. At 2 a.m., Emily was centered about 100 miles east of Virginia Beach, Va. It was moving north- northeast near 13 mph. Hurricane warnings re mained in effect as far north as Cape Henlopen, Del., but fore casters said Emily was expected to stay so far offshore that hurri cane-force winds — 74 mph or more — wouldn't reach land. "It will probably weaken gradually as it moves over cool er water," said Lixion Avila of the National Hurricane Center in Coral Cables, Fla. As it swirled northward, Emily lashed Virginia with dri ving rain, caused minor flood ing as far north as New York's Long Island and prompted tens of thousands of people to evacu ate vulnerable coastal areas. The storm had strengthened during the day Tuesday, gather ing energy from the warm Gulf Stream. It reached Category 3 on the l-to-5 Saffir-Simpson scale of hurricane intensity. About 180,000 people were ordered evacuated along the North Car olina coast as the storm closed The hurricane dumped more than 6 inches of rain on Cape Hatteras and tore roofs off buildings along Ocracoke and Hatteras islands with gusts top ping 90 mph. Dare County emergency management offi cials were forced to abandon their operations center on Cape Hatteras because of flooding. Cars were left floating in a bank parking lot in Buxton, and fallen trees blocked roads. Three houses at Kitty Hawk that had been damaged by pre vious storms fell into the At lantic. "The house is shaking terri bly from the wind and waves. Water is pouring in everywhere, from cracks in the doors and windows and from the roof," Irene Nolan said from her home in the seaside village of Frisco. "Everything under the house ... is floating down the street with the current." [lore Coun going ba' The Assi ?0TEAU, ( jisprofessoi there ;jan capti 111 Cathey': ion charge Winer Eng ((capture i: lore Count; : lawmen b< Ir after th wed to tov 4of a state ] *)they, 52, f J meted on at Deputy Colleges Continued from Page 1 non-Western views of the world. Texas A&M's interim dean for the liberal arts college, Woodrow Jones Jr., said feedback on his school's action has been divided, but he believes the school did the right thing. "We implemented this in hopes that students would get something that would help them be better prepared for the global market place," he said. Opponents say the programs are attempts at "political correct ness" that infringe on educational freedom. But Jones said with projections that the state will be "majority mi nority" by the year 2003, institu tions won't be able to ignore the need for breaking down racial and ethnic barriers. "The whole state of Texas is changing rapidly so it's kind of hard to avoid it," Jones said. "How could anyone expect to ap propriately deal with the diversity that's out there?" State Rep. Ron Wilson, D- Houston, tried to pass a law this yea" requiring all state college stuaents to take a multi-cultural class. That was prompted by parties at Texas Tech and Texas A&M with themes and costumes derogatory to blacks. One had a "party in the projects." Another had a jungle theme. "People have dismissed the in cidents ... as kids will be kids. But we think it speaks to a deeper- rooted type of problem. I don't know if I want to say racism or to tal insensitivity toward people," said Wilson's administrative as sistant, Eric Glenn. According to a report from the Texas Higher Education Coordi nating Board, total enrollments at colleges, universities and techni cal schools around the state sur passed 900,000 last year. They should top 943,000 by 1995 and break 1 million by 2000. Of those enrollment increases, the officials expect the biggest jumps to continue to be in the en rollment of Hispanics and blacks. In addition to looking at multi cultural classes, universities are adopting programs to lure mi norities into fields such as engi neering, which have traditionally been dominated by white males. A UT program that includes peer-tutoring, workshops and special summer programs has brought minority enrollment to 19 percent and put its minority grad uation rate at an all-time high. rea Iowa flood relief hurt by more storms The Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa - Hun dreds of homeowners — many of them miles from swollen rivers - fought a sticky, smelly backup from overloaded sewers Monday as flooding misery revisited Iowa's capital. Several streets in the city re mained closed and commuters found a traffic snarl complicated fASHINGT lys seems :food you en calorie c< sand chc out after Ilk Center : Interest ( that Chii you than, ;ers and fri sigfor McDc ■or instance: Israel, Palestine may see peace within days The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Emotion-charged Mideast peace talks reopened Tuesday with confident Pales tinian and Israeli predictions that a historic agree ment to establish Palestinian self-rule would be con cluded within days. "That's a done deal," said a senior Israeli official. He told reporters the only remaining question was whether the accord would be signed by the heads of the Israeli and Palestinian delegations that opened an 11th round of talks here or other Israeli and PLO offi cials. "It's an agreement that stands on its own two feet," the official said. Moreover, Nabil Shaath, chief political adviser to PLO chairman Yasser Arafat, said "we hope to hear very soon — tomorrow or the day after" statements of "full mutual recognition" by Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Israeli sources confirmed Arafat and Rabin would move toward an accommodation but said the an nouncement may be several days off. But the official said Israel "will not settle for any thing that is less than 110 percent explicit" recogni tion of its nationhood and renunciation of terrorism by the Palestine Liberation Organization. The PLO has agreed, meanwhile, that 3,300 Jewish settlers would remain in Gaza with Israel responsible for their security. The timetable for mutual recognition was one of the subjects under discussion in Europe, where Is raeli and PLO negotiators on Tuesday continued the talks they had begun secretly earlier this year in O^jo.Negotiators here awaited the results. Norwegian officials, who have played a key role in forging the accord, said the new location was a se cret and three other meetings had been held in three in another European country, which they would not name. A senior Israeli negotiator said after a 90-minute meeting with the Palestinians that Israel, whose gov ernment had already approved the agreement Mon day, was now awaiting approval of the pact by the central committee of the PLO. "Now it's up to the PLO to respond in kind and to approve the agreement so that we may soon formal ize it and sign it here in Washington," said Eytan Ben-Tsur. Secretary of State Warren Christopher, praised the accord as "a conceptual breakthrough," said the United States was prepared to provide financial as sistance. ■ by the return of school buses to lichicken ha the streets, while officials again had to use boats to get to a water treatment plant ringed by flood- ' . ( waters. |PCr T Strong thunderstorms that de- veloped Sunday from the rem nants of Pacific Tropical Storm y -j Hilary dumped 3 to 5 inches of rain on the Des Moines area, with ■fASHINGTX the National Weather Service re- ^attheNati porting up to 10 inches in spots. Lyle with f Heavy weekend rains also pound- border th ed eight other states in the Mid- until after west, which has endured a sum- ttestcoulc mer of flooding. its from hi Central, Iowa was spared an-,, 5 i p doctor* other round of similarly heavy, sease f ron _ rain early. Monday, however, as , j the most severe storms moved to ^ 0 ' na j j ns . the northwest. As much as 7 inch- «fc es of rain fell in northeastern Ne- ftfug ^ es j ^ braska and northwestern Iowa. Mediate posit More torrential rains were falling -. system beca Monday evening in southeastern csof dollars'^ Iowa. In Des Moines, ground that has Ljggj j g ^ been saturated with rain was un- iinAlzheim able to absorb any more water, pdoses up and the moisture was making its :agh which f] way into the city's overloaded insaidre sewer system. Pressure on that JiinbmjH ce ' system, in turn, was forcing its ^thatin mil way into homes. [tissues in t The result was a smelly mess in an estimated 1,000 homes across the city. Muslims and Serbs reach cease-fire in Bosnia === It's The Associated Press GENEVA — Bosnia's Muslim-led govern ment and rebel Serbs agreed Tuesday on a new cease-fire hailed as a breakthrough in the latest push to negotiate an end to the ethnic war. Nikola Koljevic, an aide to Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, said an overall peace package to divide Bosnia into three eth nic republics could be signed as early as Wednesday. But the warring factions in Bosnia-Herze- govina — Serbs, Muslims and Croats — have violated all previous cease-fire agreements since fighting broke out nearly 17 months ago. Koljevic said Karadzic and Bosnian Presi dent Alija Izetbegovic had agreed to a cessa tion of hostilities as part of a five-point plan that also included prisoner exchanges and a telephone hot line between Serb and govern ment military headquarters. Mirza Hajric, spokesman for the govern ment, confirmed the latest agreement but played down its importance. He said he was unaware of progress on the borders of the eth nic republics. The two leaders also agreed to set up a joint commission to regulate electricity and water supplies in all cities and pledged to calm the media, which has been used to incite hatred between the three ethnic groups. Koljevic said Izetbegovic had made only minimal demands for changes in a map pro posed by international mediators despite his earlier statements that the proposals were un acceptable. Izetbegovic has slammed the peace plan as rewarding Serb and Croat aggression. But he fears that the outgunned government forces and suffering Muslim civilians may not sur vive another winter. Croatian President Franjo Tudjman said the Bosnian Croats had dropped their demands for changes in the borders on the proposed maps and were ready to sign the peace pack age. The Serbs have already said they will sign the deal proposed by mediators Lord Owen of the European Community and Thorvald Stoltenberg of the United Nations. It would divide Bosnia-Herzegovina into three ethnic republics with only a weak central government. Muslims would have 31 percent of territory, the Serbs 52 percent and Croats 17 percent. Before the war Muslims comprised 43 per cent of the population, the Serbs 31 percent and Croats 17 percent. Karadzic earlier warned that if the Muslims refused to sign the deal, Serbs and Croats would "divide Bosnia in two." Mediator Owen said he feared this was a real possibility. Izetbegovic previously said Muslims should be given about 40 percent of Bosnian territory under the deal. His government also demanded U.S. and NATO participation to en force any peace settlement. U.N. Secretary-General Boutros-Boutros Ghali is scheduled to meet NATO head Man fred Woerner on Wednesday to discuss how to implement the peace deal, including the num ber of troops needed. President Clinton said Monday he would make American troops available for peace keeping in Bosnia if a settlement was fair and enforceable. Implementation of a peace plan will be dif ficult. The Serbs in particular will have to roll back from land they have seized. 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