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Heavy rains in Honduras flood homes
The Associated Press
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Heavy
flooding kept more than 15,000 people from
leturning Wednesday to homes swamped by
three days of storms. At least 110 people have
:dand 263 are missing, authorities said.
Teams recovered bodies from swollen
rivers along the Atlantic coast.
The casualties are only preliminary be
cause our rescue brigades are still finding bod
ies in the rivers," said Ramon Santos, a gov
ernment official who provided the toll.
President Rafael Leonardo Callejas an
nounced preparations a day earlier to declare a
state of emergency in an 8,400-square-mile
area in the northern Atlantic provinces of Yoro
and Colon.
After flying Tuesday over the hardest-hit
areas, he said experts were estimating dam
ages would exceed $60 million.
The Red Cross appealed for international
assistance for thousands who remained shel
tered in schools and churches after their homes
were destroyed and mudslides cut the main
Atlantic coastal highway, cutting off whole
towns.
Santos said civil defense officials were wor
ried about 150 isolated hamlets and towns that
have gone four days without safe drinking wa
ter.
"We fear there could be a surge of epi
demics among the victims," he said.
Japanese snow monkeys
roaming South Texas area
The Associated Press
FREER — A strange beast appears to be mean
dering through the rural thicket of Duval County
these days strange, at least, to those so used to the
usual South Texas trappings such as cactus,
mesquite trees and rattlesnakes.
But not so strange to some in nearby La Salle,
McMullen and Atascosa counties, where, on occa
sion, a stray Japanese snow monkey will traverse
the brushy ranges in search of food or a possible
mate.
"At first 1 thought it was an owl," an official at
a 100,000-acre Duval County ranch once owned by
Clinton Manges said of her first encounter with a
snow monkey.
"He was just sitting there on a fence post...he
was cute," said the woman, who did not want her
name used.
When she tried to get closer to take a photo
graph of the mammal.
"Some people will see them and
think they are going crazy/'
- Larn/ Griffin, a Cotulla game warden
it fled, she recalled.
It’s been two
decodes since hun
dreds of the monkeys
were brought to Texas
from Arashiyama,
Japan, as part of an
ongoing research pro-
ject that began in 1954.
The monkeys also were brought to the United
States because their liabitat began shrinking as
Japan's population increased.
Now, about 400 monkeys are being raised on a
180-acre spread just east of Dilley and are studied
by college students working on post-graduate de
grees, said Frank O'Neill, who, with his wife, Lou
Griffin, operates the South Texas Primate Observa-
iory.
O'Neill and his wife are working on moving the
operation close to Millett, where about a dozen of
the monkeys, recently acquired from a zoo in
Columbus, Ohio, are being cared for.
A monkey escape is not unusual, he said, and it
is nothing at which to be alarmed.
Spotting one of the furry beasts still is rare, but
»ea game wardens said they've received numer
ous reports over the years ot snow monkey sight
ings.-
Some have been spotted as far as Charlotte,
about 30 miles from Dilley; or near Tilden, about
40 miles away. There have been three reported
sightings in recent weeks near Freer, about 60
miles from Dilley. T
"Some people will see them and think they are
going crazy," said Larry Griffin, a Cotulla game
warden with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Depart
ment.
"Some hunters will see 'em, but they're reluc
tant to say they have because they think they're
not supposed to be seeing them around here,"
Griffin added,
ITte monkeys, which typically grow to about 4
feet tall and can weigh between 40 and 60 pounds,
have managed to find ways outside their loosely
secured domain.
Though an electrical wire runs atop an aging
fence that encompasses their compound, several
monkeys successfully have climbed out of and
back in the confines of the ranch, O'Neill said.
Sometimes the
monkeys leave to
look for fresh food
supplies, while others
the young males who
reach sexual maturity
venture out to find fe-
males for themselves.
"It doesn't take
'em long to find out there aren't any more of them
out there, and they come back," Griffin said.
"Some will be gone for weeks or months and
then, all of a sudden, they'll show up," O'Neill
added.
Hank Haugen of Freer, another state game war
den, said the monkeys are relatively mild-man
nered.
"They'll never attack (humans)...but they could
be dangerous if you hemmed them up; they could
put a real hurtin' on you with those canine teeth,"
Haugen said.
Haugen said he has been on the lookout for one
of the monkeys. He suspects the two sightings in
Duval County are of the same monkey.
He predicted the wandering snow monkey
eventually will return to the Dilley ranch.
"I’m sure he'll be happy to get back to the re
search center to get away from the thorns and back
to a square meal of bananas," Haugen mused.
Kuwaitis shoot
Iraqi policemen
The Associated Press
KUWAIT — Kuwaiti workers
shot two Iraqi policemen who
tried to abduct them along the
demilitarized border zone be
tween the two countries, killing
one of the police, a U.N.
spokesman said Wednesday.
The shooting occurred Tues
day on the Kuwaiti side of the
three-mile-wide strip, said Ab-
dullatif Kabbaj, spokesman for
the U.N. Iraq-Kuwait Observer
Mission.
He said the two policemen
were taken to a hospital in the
Iraqi port of Basra, about 25
miles north, where one police
man died of chest injuries. The
other was wounded in the arm,
but the injury was not serious,
Kabbaj said.
Kabbaj said the incident be
gan when the Iraqis fired three
shots in the air and forced open
a vehicle carrying six Kuwaitis.
The Kuwaitis, who had been
working on a trench being built
as defense against Iraq, were be
ing escorted by a U.N. patrol.
Kabbaj said "an exchange of
fire" ensued, and the two Iraqis
were wounded. The Kuwaitis
and the U.N. patrol left the
scene "in order not to aggravate
the situation," he said.
The state-run Iraqi New
Agency, however, claimed that
a Tone Kuwaiti opened fire first
and then "escaped" in a U.N.
car.
"This cowardly aggression
took place in front or the U.N.
observers, who did nothing to
stop the aggressor from shoot
ing," the Iraqi agency said in a
dispatch monitored in Cyprus.
The agency said the Iraqi For
eign Ministry was lodging a
protest with the U.N. observer
mission. It identified the killed
policeman as Rebbeh Adnan
Abdul-Wahed.
WTiite House changes health care plan figures
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - A week af
ter energizing critics by saying 40
percent of insured Americans
would pay more under the presi
dent's health plan, the White
House said Thursday the real
number is only 30 percent.
White House budget director
Leon Panetta said the 40 percent
figure only took into account what
people would pay in insurance
premiums.
The 30 percent number in
cludes out-of-pocket costs that are
likely to decrease for many Amer
icans under President Clinton's
plan.
"If we fail to pass this plan, 100
percent of Americans will pay
higher premiums, because that's
where are health costs are going,"
Panetta said.
It was more damage control for
the White House after critics
seized on the 40 percent figure in
testimony last week by Health
Secretary Donna Shalala.
"There was confusion that was
unfortunate," said White House
spokeswoman Marla Romash.
"We wanted to be able to pro
vide the American people with as
accurate an analysis as we could.
To just talk about premium costs
is to miss half the picture," she
said.
There are some people carrying
policies with high deductibles,
such as a $3,000, who might pay
the full amount of the visit's cost
every time they see the doctor, Ro
mash said.
Their premiums might be high
er under Clinton's plan, but their
co-payments for each doctor visit
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