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Tornadoes rip across Arkansas Wj
killing 6, causing heavy damage
SCOTT, Ark. (AP) — National
Guardsmen helped keep order
Wednesday after as many as 10 tor
nadoes blew through Arkansas, kill
ing six people, destroying scores of
homes and businesses, and tempo
rarily knocking out power to 16,000
customers.
“We saw it coming, but there was
nothing we could do,” said Police
Chief Darnell Scott of nearby Lo
noke, where two people were killed
and about 30 houses were reported
heavily damaged.
“I can’t even tell what street I’m
on because the trees are uprooted,”
Scott said. “I think we were very
lucky it wasn’t more tragic than it
was.”
Gov. Bill Clinton declared Gar
land, Hot Spring, Johnson, Logan,
Lonoke, Pulaski and Van Buren
counties disaster areas and set aside
$350,000 in relief to be administered
by the state Office of Emergency
Services.
No dollar estimates were immedi
ately available, but the storms de
stroyed 43 homes and 42 mobile
homes and damaged 128 homes, 27
mobile homes and eight businesses,
said Gary Talley, the office’s public
information officer.
About three dozen National
Guardsmen were called out for seve
ral hours in the morning at the re
quest of Lt. Gov. Wintson Bryant to
look for survivors and keep non-res
idents away from the homes in Scott.
Three of the people killed, a cou
ple and their infant son, died when
their mobile home in Scott was bat
tered by the last of the tornadoes to
hit the state, authorities said. They
were identified as Randall Dycus, 24,
Kristi Dycus, 22, and their son, Way-
Ion, about 1.
Dycus’ father had bought him the
mobile home a year ago, said the
dead man’s uncle, Buryi Dycus.
“He was a fine young man,” Dycus
said, his voice breaking, as he sifted
through objects flung from the mo
bile home, including a shattered
frame containing a picture of his
nephew.
Robert W. McCain and Juanita A.
McCain of Lonoke, both 62, died
when high winds overturned their
van on Interstate 40 near Lonoke,
and Louis Breckel, 68, was killed in
Van Buren County when the storm
destroyed his home, authorities said.
Breckel lived across the street
from the new Southside High School
gymnasium, which was destroyed,
Sheriff Kenny Lee said.
“Luckily, most of those people
where the homes were completely
destroyed were all out at a high
school basketball game” in another
county, Lee said.
William Brown, a 25-year resident
of Scott, a town of under 1,000, ap
peared resigned as he viewed the
twisted remains of his home, which
was lifted off its slab and redeposited
at a slight angle, looking strangely
intact.
“We’ll rebuild,” Brown said, as he
waited for his insurance agent to ar
rive. “Sure, we’ll rebuild. This is
home.”
Next to the house sat his pickup
truck, its windows blown out and a
stick almost an inch in diameter im
bedded in the dashboard.
The trees in the area, coated with
the swirling fiberglass insulation
sucked into the storm’s path, looked
as if they were blooming with pink
cotton, and broken glass, uprooted
trees and loose boards were strewn
everywhere. Two boats, hoisted by
high winds from a nearby bayou, sat
20 yards from the shoreline.
The roof on L.W. and Billie
Weise’s home in Scott was partially
removed, but the couple still was
able to spend the night there.
“It was real sudden,” Mrs. Weise
said. “By the time I hit the floor and
pulled the blanket over, it was
done.”
The Weises mingled Wednesday
morning with other residents of
Scott at Gotham’s Country Store,
where the storm was the main topic
of conversation and the hot commo-
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cards of people offering repair a: The c
rebuilding services.
No one spent the night in theojent incr
shelter hastily set up in Scott, a >n P re
Patti Jones, public affairs direct keeffe
for the Red Cross in Little Rock. Richai
“Most of the people thathadbet P reserl
displaced found accommodatio: smpen
with friends or neighbors,” Jo« e ra > se
said. “It appears we’ll just be servir crease
meals there.” ‘‘I be!
At the height of the storm, 16,(K >° ut
customers of Arkansas Power i mg or
Light Co. were without power! ice co
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ittle as 10 minutes, AP&L spoke B ut a
man Jerol Garrison said
Wednesday morning, only al
1,000 customers, mostly in Scott
Lonoke, still had no power, he said
Officials: Deficit
biggest U.S. threat
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Na
tional Economic Commission
opened its post-election attempt to
break a seven-year deadlock on the
budget deficit with repeated warn
ings Wednesday that the deficit rep
resents the nation’s greatest eco
nomic threat.
Federal Reserve Chairman Alan
Greenspan, one of the leadoff wit
nesses before the bipartisan panel,
said “The deficit already has begun
to eat away at the foundations of our
economic strength, and the need to
deal with it is becoming ever more
urgent.”
Greenspan joined other witnesses
in saying that Congress and Presi
dent-elect George Bush must reach
agreement quickly on ways to slash
the deficit or run the risk that for
eigners will stop financing America’s
borrowing needs.
“We must put our fiscal house in
order so that we can address the
other problems which are important
to us as a nation,” Alice Rivlin, for
mer head of the Congressional Bud
get Office said. “Getting the budget
deficit behind us is a test of our abil
ity to govern.”
The comments offered a sharp
contrast to much of the debate dur
ing the presidential campaign when
both candidates sidestepped ques
tions concerning the deficit because
they did not want to offer detailed
solutions.
However, some of the witnesses
said Bush, now that he is president
elect, very well could be forced by
events in financial markets to se
riously bargain with Congress or risk
triggering a free-fall in the value of
the U.S. dollar.
“The rest of the world may well
give up on the dollar if it foresees
four more years of towering twin
(budget and trade) deficits,” said C.
Fred Bergsten, head of the Institute
for International Economics.
taxes and the larger Democratic
marjorities in Congress would trans
late into further gridlock on solving
the deficit problem.
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The dollar has come under heavy
selling pressure and that has put
downward pressure on U.S. stocks.
The Dow Jones industrial average
was down almost 15 points by mid
afternoon Wednesday, resuming a
sharp decline that began after
Bush’s election last week.
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deals major blow
to science world
GREEN BANK, W.Va. (AP) —
One of the world’s biggest radio-
telescopes collapsed in what an
astronomer lamented as a major
blow to science.
The 26-year-old instrument,
an antenna dish the size of a foot
ball field in diameter, gave way
late Tuesday while a staffer was
using it, said George Seielstad, as
sistant director for Green Bank
operations at the National Radio
Astronomy Observatory.
“Absolutely nobody was hurt,
but the telescope itself is beyond
repair and there was damage to
the control room where the tele
scope is operated from,” Seielstad
said.“It looks so much like some
one lifted a big bowl into the air
and let it drop.”
satellite dish, was capable of inter
cepting naturally emitted radio
signals from celestial bodies up to
10 billion light years away. The
signals help scientists understand
the origins of the universe.
It was a major surveyor of the
universe, capable of covering the
entire northern sky, and was situ
ated in a national radio quiet
zone, kept free of manmade ra
dio interference by act of Con
gress, Seielstad said.
The telescope was completed
in 1962 at a cost of $850,000 and
took 18 months to build, he said.
The cause of the collapse was
under investigation. “We know it
was not weather-related because
last night was a beautiful eve
ning,” Seielstad said.
The 300-foot telescope, a metal
latticework bowl resembling a TV
“It’s a major blow,” Seielstad
said. “We’ll have to determine the
exact cause and will do that as
quickly as we can, and then we
will formulate plans to build
something even better.,”
Renirie said the telescope,
funded by the foundation and
operated by a consortium of nine
universities, including Harvard,
Yale and Johns Hopkins, was one
of tfie largest in the world.
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A fall in the dollar sends U.S.
stocks tumbling because investors
fear that interest rates will have to
rise in this country to continue to at
tract the needed foreign invest
ments. Rising U.S. interest rates re
duce business prospects and raise
threats of a recession.
Responding to the market con
cerns, Bush has pledged to make the
budget deficit a top priority. How
ever, he has not indicated any will
ingness to abandon his “flexible
freeze” proposal by which overall
spending increases, excluding Social
Security and interest on the debt,
would be held to the rise in inflation
each year.
While Bush’s economic advisers
have insisted that the country could
grow its way out of deficit problem
without sharp spending cuts or tax
increases, Greenspan rejected such a
notion. He indicated that tough
choices would have to be made on
spending cuts to get the deficit un
der control.
But Greenspan supported the
Bush contention that the deficit
should be reduced on the spending
side rather than by boosting taxes.
Immigrant receives
seventh MIT degree
BOSTON (AP) — Tue Nguyen
did more than nibble from the tree
of knowledge, he made a feast of it.
Just nine years after arriving in
this country with thousands of other
Vietnamese boat people, Nguyen,
26, has earned his seventh degree
from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, a doctorate in nuclear
engineering.
The school says it thinks that is a
record for MIT.
Nguyen told the MIT public rela
tions office that he earned multiple
degrees to get the most out of his
time at MIT and out of my tuition.
imagine, deep down he hasalottf o
willpower.
Nguyen entered MIT in 1981.
taking up to 12 courses a seme®
instead of the normal MIT studeit
load of four, he earned his first®
dergraduate degree in three yea»
and finished up four more baclit
lor’s degrees in one more year. Bt
then began his graduate work
Investors have been unusually jit
tery in the past week over concerns
that Bush’s tough stance against new
However, if spending cuts alone
are not sufficient to narrow the defi
cit, Greenspan said tax hikes should
be considered because the need to
cut the deficit was so critical.
The 12-member economic com
mission was created by Congress a
year ago to come up with a blueprint
for reducing the federal budget def
icit.
He also said he isn’t a partygoer.
The super scholar was in Burling
ton, Vt., this week preparing to start
a job at IBM designing technology
for the manufacture of semiconduc
tor devices.
He did not return telephone calls
from the Associated Press. But one
of his fans back in Cambridge was
happy to crow about him.
“You’re not likely to find another
person like this very often,” said nu
clear engineering professor Sidney
Yip, Nguyen’s doctoral adviser.
“He’s a very quiet guy, very laid
back,” Yip said. “But, as you can
He was so busy attending da®
that he had difficulty doing
homework assignments, Yip said
He holds bachelor’s degrees t ustnoi
physics, in computer science andeit jpvioi
gineering, in electrical engineerinf
in mathematics, and in nuclear enf
neering. He got his master’s in s
clear engineering in 1986 and fif
ished work on his doctorate i
nuclear engineering this fall.
But that was only what he lean®
at MIT. He also studied English
Texas and Chinese at Harvard,!
latter being the language of his ft®
cee’s family. Nguyen and t»
younger brothers left Vietnam
1978. His father, a retired govern
ment employee, and mother remat
in Vietnam with two other sons
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