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AAD156 kinko's Express Ourself." 24 HOURS / 7 DAYS A WEEK WWW.KINKOS.COM Expires 12/31/99 Casa Ole * Grapevine * Casa Ole * Grapevine * Casa Ole ' Grapevine Dep. of Student Activities OLUNTEER SERVICES CENTER Volunteer Opportunities Fair 22-23 (Wednesday and Thursday) at the Bonfire Field near Aggie Habitat’s On-Campus house! GivEm, Aggies! Volunteer Qervices Center 8 MORE DAYS! ‘■^Partmerit of V^tudem Activities serve@tamu.edu for more Virtual Volunteer Services Center!! informal' 00 http://wsc.tam u .ed u/ Lori Salter lori-s@tamu.edu 845.1133 168 Kokins Sharis Smith sharis@stuact.tamu edit 862.1491 158 Koldus Casa 0]£ * p 'grapevine * Casa Old * Grapevine * Casa Ole * Grapevine Page 10•Tuesday, September 14. 1999 Nation Hurricane Floyd threatens Flor MIAMI (AP) — More than 1 million people were told to evacuate the Atlantic coast yester day and NASA all but abandoned Cape Canaveral as Hurricane Floyd — one of the most powerful storms ever to threaten the United States — charged toward Florida with poten tially catastrophic 155 mph winds. Floyd was much larger than Hurricane An drew, which smashed into South Florida in 1992, causing $25 billion in damage, killing 26 people and leaving 160,000 homeless. Forecasters said Floyd would brush past the Bahamas overnight and could hit land in the next couple of days between central Florida and South Carolina. They predicted it was capable of causing enormous damage. “It’s scary. It’s very scary,” Gov. Jeb Bush said. “Andrew hit Miami in tiie middle of the night and it was haunting. This is as strong and ... three times bigger.” Bush declared a state of emergency yester day, giving him the authority to activate the Na tional Guard and allowing the state to order evacuations and suspend tolls on the highways. The storm could be dangerous even if it does not come ashore. Floyd's hurricane-force winds — at least 74 mph — extended for 125 miles. Andrew’s hurricane-force winds extended about 25 or 30 miles. With a hurricane warning in effect yesterday from Florida City, south of Miami, to Brunswick, Ga., residents along 400 miles of coastline packed stores to stock up on canned food, bottled water, plywood and aluminum shutters. Navy ships left port to ride out the storm at sea, and aircraft were sent inland. “This is as strong [as Andrew] and... three times bigger." -JEB BUSH GOVERNOR OF FLORIDA Officials said 1 million people were urged to evacuate in Florida, including 272,000 in Mia- mi-Dade County alone. Georgia was under a hurricane watch trom Brunswick to Savannah, a 70-mile span, and forecasters said that likely would be extended into South Carolina last night. Coastal residents in the Brunswick and Savannah areas were urged to evacuate. % “This is probably the most serious threat we’ve had to the Georgia coast this century, said Gary McConnell, director of the Georgia Emergency Management Agency. At Kennedy Space Center, which is just 9 feet above sea level, almost all of the 12.500 work ers were leaving. A skeleton crew remained be hind, but they, too, will evacuate if the wind is as fierce as predicted. That wo. complete evacuation of thespac- Three of NASA's space shur hangar that was designed towir only up to 105 mph. A fourthWc designed to stand winds of upto , rt , multimillion-dollar rockets wei: launch pads and could not beni ' "We’re concerned, and we’rei&lg ton things up," said NASA spoke ;■ Hiller. "We’re putting sandbag: we re starting to secure the fligt: The storm has consistently v , than predicted, said Jerry Jarrell,; . National Hurricane Center, te? pected it to turn northward,posi g the danger to Florida. ButbyytsH noon, there was no sign thatihe: being influenced by weathersysefi casters hoped would steer it awa | “it's controlling itsowndestir “That's a bad sign.” At 5 p.m. EITT, Floyd was cent* , miles east-southeast of Miami; miles east of San Salvador in:: where panicked residents abar.: I front homes for hurricane shelter bled for emergency supplies. The hurricane was moving! mph with top winds near 155mg low Category 5 strength, the hip hurricanes. Judge refuses to grant new trial for Nichols DENVER (AP) — A federal judge refused to grant Terry Nichols a new trial in the Okla homa bombing yesterday, rejecting arguments that Nichols was un fairly denied the opportunity to fol low up leads developed by the FBI. “There are reasonable limits to the search for possible leads to evidence and the defense re quests exceeded those limits,” U.S. District Judge Richard Matsch said. He said the de fense “failed to show prejudice from the failure of the govern ment to produce these lead sheets before trial.” A spokesperson at defense attorney Michael Tigar’s law firm said the attorney was un available for comment. Tigar told Matsch at a July hearing that the government has refused to turn over about 43,000 documents to the de fense that he believed could contain enough information to justify a new trial for Nichols. Prosecutors countered that they turned over 12,000 perti nent FBI files and that the oth er information would not have changed the verdict. Nichols, 44, was convicted in 1997 of conspiracy and in voluntary manslaughter in the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Build ing that killed 168 people. He is serving a life sentence. Nichols faces a state trial in Oklahoma City on 160 state murder counts. He could get the death penalty. Company admits to aiding! PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Penn sylvania company agreed yesterday to plead guilty to illegally giving Chi na technology that could help im prove the accuracy of missiles. Orbit/FR, headquartered in Hor sham, about 15 miles north of Philadelphia, planned to plead guilty in U.S. District Court to violating the Arms Export Control Act, according to papers filed in court yesterday. Orbit will be fined $600,000 and could be banned from export ing products for up to 10 years, U.S. Attorney Michael R. Stiles said. Charges against at least one company official are likely to fol low, he said. Orbit/FR had agreed to a $1 mil lion deal with Chinese North Indus tries Corp., a major military systems manufacturer for the Chinese army. The software and equipment sold to China were designed to measure the effectiveness of an£ nose cones of missile: was capable of measir within 10 feet overafc miles, Joe Alkus, aGk supervisor, said. No money change: though the Chinese got ogy, it is not fully ope:: eminent officials wou.: whether any damagec security was caused. William A. Torzolin ny’s chief financial off to comment. The company is ow: by Orbit Aldnit Techr an Israeli company. Th was originally developt raeli armed forces, Stiles. Stiles sJid he tras i/oi. any connections between bit/FR sale and any other lej crets to China. ; My friends agonized over choosin a company to go with. 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