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Lessons • Club Fitting/Bending • Club Repair • Merchandise Tues. ACADEMY Ladies’ Day $ 1 off large bucket PGA MEMBERS Thur. Student Night (4-close) $ 1 off large bucket Jim Baetge Jeff Haley Fri. Happy Hour (4-7 P m) Discounts on Balls and BEER 2301 E. Bypass “Across from Post Oak Mall" 409-694-0406 e-mail: lonestargolf@earthlink.net Page 12 ♦ Wednesday, October 20, 1999 w ORLD Hurricane Jose heads toward Caribbe PreDental Society Meeting October 20 7:00 p.m. Rudder 410 ‘N / /( rhs\\ x N x ^ . \ \ v ^ V \ \ V I t Dr. C.D. Johnson / a The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Dental Branch POINTE-A-PITRE, Guadeloupe (AP) — Hur ricane Jose yesterday veered onto a collision course with the line of islands strung along the Eastern Caribbean. Residents of the French island of Martinique, where the storm is projected to pass overnight, began stockpiling water and food as Red Cross officials went on alert in Puerto Rico, where Jose could strike tomorrow. “It’s getting stronger, and it looks like it’s go ing to go through a lot of islands,” meteorolo gist Krissy Williams at the U.S. National Hurri cane Center in Miami, said. Forecasters said it was too early to say whether Jose might threaten the U.S. East Coast. The 10th named storm of the season was about 115 miles east-southeast of the island of Dominica yesterday evening. Its winds had strengthened to 75 mph, and it was moving west-northwest at 13 mph. Hurricane-force winds extended 25 miles to the northeast of the center, with tropical storm force winds stretching another 115 miles. In Pointe-a-Pitre, capital of French Guade loupe, residents lined up at supermarkets before 8 a.m. yesterday. Some stores ran out of bottled water and rice by midmorning. The island has not been hit by a hurricane since Hugo 10 years ago. Schools broadcast messages asking parents to pick up their children. Homeowners boarded up windows and clambered onto roofs to remove satellite dishes. “My parents lost their roof in Hugo because they didn’t take the warning seriously,” a young man buying nails in a hardware store, said. “I’m going to prepare myself for all eventualities.” France posted hurricane alerts for Mar tinique, Guadeloupe, St. Martin and St. Barthelemy. Warnings also were in effect for Dominica, Montserrat, Antigua, Barbuda, Nevis, St. Kitts, St. Eustatius, Saba, St. Maarten and Anguilla, Puer to Rico, and the U.S. and British Virgin Islands. Barbados and St. Lucia were downgraded to tropical-storm warnings. Carnival Cruise Lines said it was diverting one ship to the Cayman Islands and Jamaica to escape the storm. American Airlines canceled flights to Antigua from its hub in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and warned of further cancellations today. Tourists in the U.S. Virgin Islands were head ing home, hotelier said. Officials in British Montserrat, struggling to rebuild from a volcanic eruption, warned heavy rains could create mudslides on the ash-covered flanks of the Soufriere Hills volcano. The Hurricane Center warned people in the Dominican Republic to watch Jose carefully. Williams said the storm should be there by Fri day, possibly headed for the storm-battered Bahamas. Atlantic Ocean Moving: WNW13mpi| Sustained winds:?!® Wind gusts: 90 mph As of 11 a.m. EDI CUBA PUERTO' RICO ) 8.11), E JAMAICA Caribbean Sea HAITI -+ bres Lesser Antik 83 75 70 65- 60 Source: AccuWeather IheTe: Witm [ion, v\ lure’ 5 tbocb ?ob Fei “We’re hoping a cold front tad Florida will push it back out totheoces pretty early to tell,” she said. Last year. Hurricane Georges: through a dozen northeast Caribbea then ripped through the morepopulad Antilles, killing more than 500peoples ing billions of dollars of damage. 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Indonesia’s legislature was prepared to elect a new head of state later in the day. “I announce my withdrawal from the presidential nomination, and 1 believe that many sons and daugh ters of Indonesia can do the job bet ter than I have done,” President B.J. Habibie told a news conference. As he spoke, leaders of Habibie’s Golkar Party met privately, and TVRI television reported they chose Akbar Tanjung, the party’s chairman, as its new presidential candidate, and Gen. Wiranto, head of the military and the defense minister, as his run ning mate. However, Marzuki Damsman, vice chair of the Golkar Party, told the As sociated Press that it had not chosen another presidential candidate, was still meeting and may decide not to. Habibie’s withdrawal can only strengthen the presidential aspira tions of his main rival, Megawati Sukarnoputri, as well as a third con tender, Abdurrahman Wahid, the revered but ailing and nearly blind i Dili EAST TIMOR Liquica wisx TIMOR 20 mile 20 km i’luiippiru- Sea Sumatra INDONESIA O Jakarta Java 1,000 miles Indian Ocean 1.000 km ■v' , Dar wfp AUSTRALIA APAA/m. J. Gastello leader of Indonesia’s largest Muslim organization. Early this morning, the legislature rejected in a close vote Habibie’s re cent “accountability” speech about the successes and failures of his ad ministration. Although that did not exclude him from the election, many people had expected that his party would have no choice but to seek a re placement candidate. ISTANBUL, TUrkey (AP) — A lone hijacker, armed with a knife, commandeered an EgyptAir plane with 54 people aboard yesterday shortly after takeoff from Istanbul’s Ataturk airport. The motive for the hijacking was not known, and there were conflicting reports about where the plane was heading. The EgyptAir plane had been headed for Cairo. NTV television said the man first demanded to be taken to Ham burg Germany, then ordered the plane diverted to London. The Anatolia news agency said the crew was trying to persuade him to go to Hamburg, but did not elaborate. Hafnburg’s airport authorities said they had not been informed the hijacked plane was planning to land there. Turkish Transport Minister Enis Oksuz said the plane was re fused permission to land in Sofia, Bulgaria, and might be returning to TUrkey. Security forces were iportei ed u' The Boeing 737*®^ sengers and six crw aboard, according toauii Cairo. resolution against terror! 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