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Wednesday, September 20,1989
Hurricane wreaks havoc
Hugo leaves trail of devastation in Puerto Rico
National Guardsmen with automatic
rifles patrolled San Juan Tuesday to
prevent looting after Hurricane
Hugo devastated the island, leaving
27,000 people homeless and causing
food shortages.
Two people were killed Sunday,
but no other storm-related deaths
were reported in Puerto Rico since
Hugo’s 125 mph winds hit Monday,
said Maria Dolores Oronoz, spokes
man for Gov. Rafael Hernandez
Colon.
Civil Defense spokesman Ciza-
nette Rivera said Hugo killed 25
people in the eastern Caribbean, but
she had no island-by-island break
down. Previous reports said six peo
ple were killed on the British island
of Montserrat, five perished on the
French territory of Guadeloupe and
two were killed in Antigua.
In San Juan, Juan Manuel Mo
rales sent his wife and three children
from their apartment to a rescue
shelter before the storm hit.
“I stayed to see what I could save,
but the noise of the wind scared me,
and at the sight of my roof flying
away I ran to my neighbor’s house,”
Morales, 46, said. “From there, I
could see that everything was lost.”
Hugo, the most powerful storm to
hit the region in a decade, cut power
to more than half the island’s 3.3
million people, government and civil
defense officials said Tuesday.
Tree branches, shattered glass
and metal sheeting littered the
streets of the capital, blocking many
of them. Bulldozers worked to clear
them Tuesday.
Damage to Puerto Rico’s electric
ity network was estimated at $20 mil
lion, said Jose A. Del Valle, executive
director of the Puerto Rico Electrical
Power Co.
He said 35 of the island’s 78 mu-
Nursing home aide says
killings were ficititious
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) —A
former nursing home aide charged
with smothering five patients testi
fied Tuesday that the alleged mur
der plot was nothing more than a fic
titious game that got out of hand.
The defense rested after the testi
mony of Gwendolyn Graham, who is
charged with five counts of first-de
gree murder and one count of con
spiracy to murder for allegedly suf
focating severely incapacitated
patients at Alpine Manor Nursing
Home in Walker between January
and April 1987.
Defense and prosecution attor
neys later finished their closing ar
guments and the case went to the
jury Tuesday afternoon. If con
victed, Graham faces life in prison
without parole.
Graham, 26, denied killing any
patients or knowing of any murders
at the home.
She testified that her former les
bian lover, nurse’s aide Catherine
Wood, often concocted stories and
spread rumors, and that she usually
went along to humor her. The al
leged murder plot was one of those
“head games,” Graham said. “At
first it was a joke.”
But when Graham began seeing
another woman, she said Wood
threatened to “make someone be
lieve the story that we had been kill
ing patients.”
When police began investigating
the deaths after Graham left for her
hometown of Tyler with the other
woman, she said she realized that a
jealous Wood “was going to get even,
just like she said she was.”
Graham’s testimony disputed that
of several of her friends and former
lovers, who testified earlier that Gra
ham, on separate occasions, had ad
mitted suffocating patients at the
home.
Graham said she did not admit
killing patients, but related the story
as one Wood had made up. Graham
said she only once admitted suffocat
ing patients in an effort to scare an
other woman, she said.
“If you were alone with two peo
ple who said they killed patients at a
nursing home, wouldn’t you be
scared?” Graham asked Assistant
Kent County Prosecutor David
Schieber during cross-examination.
nicipalites had no electricity Tues
day and power was partially restored
to three municipalties, including San
Juan.
Del Valle said the company ex
pected to have service completely re
stored to San Juan by Wednesday
and to 80 percent of the island by
the weekend.
Gov. Colon’s wife, Lela Mayoral,
in a radio announcement, said the
government was organizing a relief
effort for devastated offshore is
lands. She appealed to Puerto Ricans
to bring food and supplies, espe
cially baby food and disposable dia
pers, to La Fortaleza, the governor’s
mansion, for distribution to the
needy.
Oronoz said the government
called out 2,500 National
Guardsmen to help police with res
cue and security. Guardsman with
automatic rifles were riding with po
lice in their cruisers. Much of the
looting occurred at the height of the
storm, which pounded the island for
several hours.
Police spokesman Tony Santiago
said 40 businesses had reported loot
ing. Police had arrested 30 people
on looting charge, he said.
A woman who called in to a talk-
show program on WOSO, San
Juan’s English-language radio sta
tion, said looters burst into her home
and started removing her posses
sions after some windows blew out.
French DC-10
carrying 154
disappears
PARIS (AP) — A DC-10
senger jet carrying 154 pe
from the Congo to Paris disa[>
peared shortly after taking off
from a stopover in Chad, tiit
French airline UT A said.
The flight originated in Bra;
zaville, Congo, and had made
stop in N’Djamena, Chad, theair-
line said. Contact was lost withdie
aircraft shortly after takeoff
Tuesday and there was no indica
tion of the plane’s fate more that
five hours later, UTA said.
UTA Flight 772 was carrying
140 passengers and 14 crew, the
airline said.
The last radio contact betweet
the plane and air traffic control
lers, about 20 minutes after leav.
ing the airport at N’Djamena,in
dicated everything was normal
the airline said.
The aircraft, purchased hi
UTA in 1973, has logged 60,OOi)
hours.
Northern Chad was long the
scene of battles between govern
ment forces and Libyan-backed
rebels, but has been calm forth
past two years. Chad and Libya
have restored diplomatic rela
tions and agreed to settle theii
territorial dispute at the bordei
by peaceful means.
Brooks disputes charges
of obstructing drug bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ninety
days and more than 5,000 violent
murders after Republicans intro
duced legislation cracking down on
drugs and crime. Democratic Rep.
Jack Brooks continues to hold the
president’s bill hostage, the GOP
charged Tuesday.
House Minority Leader Robert H.
Michel, R-Ill., introduced President
Bush’s crime package on June 21.
Yet Brooks, chairman of the House
Judiciary Committee, has yet to
schedule a hearing on the legis
lation, said Edward J. Rollins, co-
chairman of the National Republi
can Congressional Committee.
“Jack Brooks has been l
about getting tough on crime andi
legal drugs, yet he is letting Pres
dent Bush’s plan sit in the backofk
desk drawer collecting dust w
thousands of violent crimes arecoi
mitted each day,” Rollins said.
Brooks, a Beaumont Demom
countered that Rollins doesn’t kn#
what he is talking about in a one-sei
tence statement issued by his office.
“This statement (Rollins’ liewi'I
lease) is consistent with Ed R
well-established practice of spoutiif
off without knowing what he is
ing about and without any regan
for the truth,” Brooks said.
Gorbachev calls for early party congress
tmm
MOSCOW (AP) — President Mikhail S. Gor
bachev on Tuesday won an opportunity to re
vamp the Communist Party by scheduling a party
congress next year that could hasten the pace of
economic reforms and change the Kremlin lead
ership.
Gorbachev also made an emotional plea for
calm among ethnic groups in the increasingly
restive Caucasus and Baltic republics. “We can
not allow anarchy, much less bloodshed,” he said
on state television.
He also condemned secessionist movements in
the Baltics and Georgia, saying people demand
ing independence are “demagogues.”
“Currently, the work of party bodies and orga
nizations is in many ways fettered by old struc
tures and outdated rules and instructions,” Gor
bachev told the party’s 251-member Central
Committee, in obtaining its approval for moving
up the date of the party meeting to October
1990.
The congress, with 5,000 delegates, theoreti
cally is the party’s most powerful body. It can set
broad policy guidelines, and it is the only body
that can promote Communists to the Central
Committee, which makes major decisions in the
five years between congresses.
Historically, the congress also sets the five-year
plan for the economy. By party rules, the next
congress — the 28th in the party’s history —
must be held by early 1991. Moving up the date
will allow Gorbachev to make economic reforms
sooner and to increase the number of supporters
on the Central Committee.
The move came at a closed meeting of the
Central Committee dedicated to solving the na
tion’s ethnic disputes, which have led to more
than 200 deaths in the past 19 months and
threaten Soviet stability and unity.
In remarks later shown on state television,
Gorbachev said nationalist disputes must be re
solved peacefully. He rejected demands for
boundary changes between the country’s 15 re
publics. He said such changes cannot solve con
flicts when 60 million people, or almost onefl
of the Soviet population of 285 million, live oil
side their native territories.
Gorbachev also used the speech to denoiffi |
critics on both the right and left who assail hisif
form campaign, known as “perestroika” ortf |
structuring.
“They are telling us that we can’t snivel
country’s problems without moving to capil
ism,” he said. “Another theme, coming froml
right, is that everything we suggest, the polio
perestroika, is an action the West succeededr|
planting, in forcing on us. That’s rubbish!” I
The agenda congress approved Tuesday ii
eludes a report on the progress of Gorbacheti
economic, social and political reforms, a revr
of party rules and the election of new governii
bodies — presumably including the Cerffi
Committee itself and the 12-member Politburo
Gorbachev, 58, expressed concern that
party is lagging behind the political reformsk
has set in motion.
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