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But government officials say res cue efforts will continue until they can be certain of that. A series of small earthquakes rumbled through the area of the Ne- vado del Ruiz, the volcano whose eruption melted the snowcap and caused the Nov. 13 mudslide. Scientists monitoring the volcano said they would have to study seis mograph charts and watch for a continuing pattern of shocks to tell if another eruption is imminent. In Manizales, 25 miles west of the three-mile high volcano, two dozen scientists were monitoring the mountain’s shudders. ' Tuesday's shakes may have been an indication of lava movement in side the volcano, Fred Fischer of the U.S. Geological Survey told The As sociated Press. The eruption may have resulted in the lava being pushed along a fault line running under the Nevado del Ruiz, Fischer said, but added there are no definite signs that an other eruption is imminent. The lava, Fischer said, expands more rapidly when it meets water soaking into the mountain from the snow and ice cap, and the results could l>e dangerous. Bands of knife-wielding robbers roamed among the hundreds ol ca davers on the 15-loot-deep tmulllal and among the ruins of houses that were once the town of Armero, according to broadcast re|x>rts. "I he eruption had melted part of the volvano's ice cap, sending a tor rent rushing down the mountain side. It caused a dam to hurst ami sent a 150-foot-high wall of mud surging along the river's course until it spread out across the vallev Hoot, burying towns, villages and farms. Kate Hurricane slaps Cuba with 95 mph winds, heading for Gulf Associated Press KEY WEST, Fla. — Late-season Hurricane Kate pounded Cuba with 95 mph winds Tuesday and spawned squalls that knocked down power lines in this island city where residents huddled in shuttered homes and busy bars. National Hurricane Center fore casters said Kate’s path was taking its center south of Key West and into the Gulf of Mexico, but said the lower Keys would experience hurri cane conditions. The Cuban news media reported that Kate’s force was felt from the northern tip, 90 miles from Key West, to Cienfuegos on the south coast and that President Fidel Castro ordered all civil defense personnel on alert for “possible widespread damage.” Nine-foot waves crashed into the waterfront of Havana, a city of 2 mil lion people, said Cuban journalist Jorge Gonzalez Villa in a telephone interview. Power, gas and telephone services were disrupted, he said. “It looks like . . . we’re going to have a very credible hurricane," said Neil Frank, director of the hurricane center in Coral Gables. At 4 p.m. EST, the hurricane was centered near latitude 23.4 north, longitude 82.5 west, on the north west coast of Cuba 85 miles south west of Key West. It was moving slightly north of due west at 15 to 20 mph, the center said. Frank noted that U.S. military weather reconaissance planes weren’t allowed to enter Cuban air space to observe the storm, but said a plane should be able to enter the storm by late afternoon Tuesday. Hurricane warnings were in effect only for the lower and middle sec tions of the 100-mile Keys chain, but a state of emergency declared Mon day by Gov. Boo Graham remained in force in Florida’s six southern most counties. Gale warnings were still posted for all of South Florida. Gusts of 50 mph hit Miami and Fort Lauder dale, with tides reported at 2 to 4 feet higher than normal along the Keys. Sch(K»ls in Dade and Broward counties and many public and pri vate offices were closed Tuesday. Some 500 people were in three shelters in Key West on Tuesday, where most of the 28,000 residents remained home. Tourists and camp ers were urged to move out Monday. U.S. 1, the lone overland link to the Florida mainland, was clogged late Monday but by Tuesday was vir tually deserted. Fire Department spokesman Larry Collins said firefignters were kept busy guarding against blazes from 50 downed power lines in the area. He said there had been no ftrej and only limited power outages. About 200 people were in a Red Cross shelter set up Monday at the Federal Building, said volunteer Pat Pattison. Special envoy returns to Beirut seeking freedom for hostages Associated Press BEIRUT, Lebanon — Terry Waite, the archbishop of Can terbury’s special envoy, said Tues day the time is ripe “for a major move forward” in negotiations with kidnappers to free their American captives. Waite returned here Tuesday from London, where he met with U.S. government officials and said he is now “hopeful” that progress can be made. He met with the kid nappers last week. “I have very important things to say to tnem,” he said Tuesday. “I’m not prepared to say publicly what I need to say to them in private. I be lieve that last time was a good step forward. I think now it’s possible to take another step forward.” Waite, who is a veteran hostage negotiator, said: “I hope those who have responsibility (for the hostages) will see what an opportune time this is now for a major move forward — not just for limited causes, but for greater causes.” He did not elab orate. He would not say whether he was carrying a message to the kidnap pers, believed to be Shiite Moslem fundamentalists of the organization Islamic Jihad, or Islamic Holy War. Asked whether his London talks covered the kidnappers’ demand for the release of 17 of their comrades convicted in Kuwait for bombing the U.S. and French embassies in 1983, he said: “What was said to me will be a matter for private discussion.” While Waite was in London, U.S. Ambassador Reginald Bartholomew flew from Beirut to Geneva to con fer with Secretary of State George P. Shultz, who was there for the sum mit between President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev. The hostages who wrote to the Archbishop of Ganterbury Robert Runcie are Terry Anderson, chief Middle East correspondent of The Associated Press; the Rev. Lawrence Jenco, a Roman Gatholic priest; Da vid Jacobsen, director of the Ameri can University Hospital in Beirut, and Thomas Sutherland, the univer- 1 sity’s dean of agriculture. T he kidanppers has made no mention for months of another American, librarian Peter Kilburn, who has been missing since Dec. 3. Senate keeps dairy price-support levels Associated Press r WASHINGTON — The Senate on Tuesday killed a Reagan adminis tration-backed proposal to cut dairy price-support levels beginning next year in an effort to relieve an in creasingly expensive problem of sur pluses. By a 50-47 vote, lawmakers pre served language in the current bill that puts off any adjustment in the support level until 1987. The vote was to kill an amendment by Sen. Paula Hawkins, R-Fla., that called for a 50-cent reduction in the sup port level on Jan. 1, 1986. The action on the 1985 farm bill came as Majority Leader Robert Dole, R-Kan., tried to sidestep even more controversy on other crops by assembling a “multiple-choice” bill that postpones the toughest deci sions on subsidy spending. The dairy issue pitted milk pro ducers interested in preserving cur rent price supports against the ad ministration and consumer groups, which argued that supports are too high and only encourage overpro duction. The Agriculture Department re ported that milk production in Octo ber was 12 billion pounds, a record for the month and 10 percent above 1984’s level, and proponents of the price support cuts voiced concerns about advances in biotechnology that promise ever-larger output per cow. American dairy farmers are invet erate overproducers, and their sur plus output depresses prices. Milk prices are supported when the gov ernment buys up surplus butter, cheese, and non-fat dry milk. The Agriculture Department will buy the equivalent of 13 billion pounds of milk this year, and it esti mates that figure will climb to 17 bil lion pounds next year if price sup ports stay at their current level. Hawkins said dairy price supports have cost the government $9 billion over the past five years, compared with $5 billion over the previous 31 years.