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national Battalion/Page 10 November 30, 1 of 8 homes destroyed in Hawaii hurricane Iwa United Press International HONOLULU — The Amer ican Red Cross said that about one of every eight single-family residences on Kauai were either demolished or made uninhabit able by Hurricane Iwa. The Red Cross estimates were based on a survey of 80 percent of Kauai’s 13,000 single family homes and provided the first firm estimates of damage caused by the storm. Reports on the devastation were still coming in from both Kauai and Oahu. Red Cross spokeswoman Jeanne Park said that survey re sults late Sunday showed that 1,343 single-family homes, 489 multiTfamily homes, and 75 businesses on Kauai were either destroyed or suffered major damage as a result of the storm. Park said another 2,669 houses and 314 duplexes and condominiums suffered minor damage, but could still be lived in. Red Cross damage estimates for the island of Oahu show 418 dwellings, including 45 multi family residences, and 30 businesses, were destroyed or rendered unihabitable. Park said the organization is currently preparing 15,000 to 18,000 meals per day on Kauai for some 5,000 people. Federal and state officials met Sunday to work out details of opening disaster assistance cen ters for storm victims on both islands needing government aid. Early on Sunday, Kauai’s elec tric company managed to bring electric power to the capital city of Lihue and the northern coast of the island with a stop-gap hookup with one of the island’s functioning power plants. The nuclear submarine USS Indianapolis, which came to the island's Nawiliwili Harbor Saturday in case its power was needed to start the plant, was expected to leave the island Monday. Three portable gener ators flown into Hawaii from California, and barged to Kauai Sunday, also were not needed to start the Lihue plant. On Oahu, Hawaiian Electric Co. managed to bring back pow er to the island’s north shore far earlier than expected, leaving only western shore area Nana- kuli without power. That area was expected to be without elec tricity for two to four weeks, Hawaiian Electric spokesman Kevin Doyle said. Doyle said that although pow er has been restored to almost all areas of Oahu and some on Kauai, many people remain without power because the lines leading to their homes are down. - E r Bee. 29 - Jan. 3 at the Fort Worth Hyatt Regency Hotel 5 i MAKE YOUR MARK ■ ^ NOV Make it hard | Discover more about God’s | exciting plan for your life at I Yes! Send me a brochure. Name Your college years can be more significant than an end less stream of late nights, term papers and fee receipts. As a Christian, you can make an indelible impact on your world. the 1982 Christmas Confer ence. You’ll learn how you can have an impact on the lives of others. That’s a mark that’s hard to erase. 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Their authoritative “Glob al Political Assessment” warned that persistent reces sion and high interest rates in industrialized countries and crushing debt in the develop ing world may force “long lasting changes” in some na tions. Released twice a year by “Reagan repeatedly prom ised that tax cuts, social spend ing cuts, business deregula tion, tight money and height ened military spending would rejuvenate the economy. “Instead, huge budget de ficits produced high interest rates and a deep recession.” He wrote that a surprising world trade decline, a $600 billion Third World d® financial trouble in virtual every Latin American natioi and widespread corporatefai lures damaged confidence it financial markets and “pes simism increased.” The report singled out “it markably high” interest rale, notably in tire United State and called growing reluctantt of Wester n commercial bants to lend to developing nalio® “the most troubling aspectJ the world outlook.” The report does noi absolve developing nations saying debt problems in ml lions such as Brazil andMevl ico “are in varying degreeih NCH Q caused by domestic polm| |e h() But it characterizes U.S.off®j ywher ‘ Ip aV by Fra cials as having been "slotv’'iop p \| is k ATM baski address the need for priming in capital-stamitaQ^^ countries. Lame-duck session exposes congressional controversies rssistants a: Dut the 1!) Bong dosi daring th uichorage OSt its first on and I Hi iints in ti Alaska Sh United Press International WASHINGTON — A lame- duck session of Congress called by President Reagan is facing a few post-Thanksgiving leftovers and a platter full of pre- Christmas controversies. Foremost among the legisla tion to be considered at the post election session, is a proposed nickel-a-gallon gasoline tax to pay for rebuilding the nation’s deteriorating roads and bridges. Passage seems certain as both Republican and Democratic leaders are pushing the measure with the backing of Reagan. It would create about 320,000 jobs. With the main issue in the Nov. 2 election the nation’s dou- wonoverth Reagan is preparing to submii® 1 lexas Congress a package designed® ihe And stimulate the economy. ■Rom th Initally, Congress was.tobjied at An quit for the year before the? ||Airport 1 2 election, but Reagan den #'• Alas ded that it return to finishwiB^O a.m. i on the appropriations # ble-digit unemployment. needed to fund the governmei I Senate Republican leaderbil ward Baker on Sunday, foreoi general bipartisan cooperai* during the lame-duck session,j Inlet viewed on CBS’s "Faif the Nation,” Baker said mostly publicans now agree federal« cial programs “cannot becijlS nificantly again,” and mij Democrats agree the b “must be gotten under control Baker said since there is if way that all the pendingmoffl bills can be passed during did short session, Congress willnail to pass another so-called “coni tinning resolution” to finainl government operations in iki interim. That action will not be a 111 py one for most membersj one take, since it is certain toincliil a continuance of the ceilinf|| top federal pay increases. Ifth! ceiling were dropped, men#! of Congress and other to poll rials would get a pay raise. I Phe first order of businessitl the House Monday is the swear ing in of Katie Hall, the blacll Indiana Democrat electedtolll the vacancy caused by the Labi Day death of Rep. Adam Beni jamin, D-Ind. The Senate will iinmediatel'l turn to the president’s vetoolj the Environmental Researctl Development and Demonstraj tion Act.