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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 27, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes wednesday. September 27,1989 wind rain slow Hugo cleanup efforts Charleston. . Not driving wind and rain hampered cleanup efforts from Georgia to North Carolina monday four Days after Hurricane Hugo smashed into the Region. While officials worried about restoring Power and drinking water throughout the area residents of the ravaged Barrier is lands along the coast coped with Hood ing martial Law and infestations by poisonous snakes. The Hurricane s six Day rampage fro the Virgin islands and puerto Rico to the appalachians left 51 dead. 24 of them in the Carolinas. In the three county area around Charleston where Hugo roared ashore thursday night with i3s Runph winds about 75,000 people were living in Shel ters because of damages to their houses schools were closed and a dusk to Dawn curfew remained in effect. With the new rain keeping residents and insurance adjusters from surveying the destruction accurate damage Esti mates were impossible to obtain. Some local officials put the figures in the billions and mayor Joseph p. Riley of Charleston said that with each passing hour and Squall the size and scope of the damage were increasing  at Charlotte. N.c., 200 Miles Inland More than half the City of 373,000 people remained without electricity and 3sonational guard troops helped police officers enforce a stale of emergency. A primary election scheduled for tuesday was postponed for two weeks and classes at City schools were cancelled until oct. 2. Monday s rain which lasted from Early morning into the Early afternoon with More predicted for tuesday complicated cleanup efforts through much of the Southeast caused minor flooding and slowed the restoration of Power. It dumped water into hundreds of Homes that had lost their roofs and added to the hardships caused by dwindling food supplies and dirty water. The weather also curtailed some of the first trips by residents of Isle of Palms and sullivans Island at the Mouth of Charleston Bay to Survey the damage to their Homes. Both islands were Cut off from the Mainland when the Hurricane destroyed two Bridges. Martial Law has been declared on the islands and unauthorized boat trips by residents were being turned away by National guard troops. Mother from Page 1 Challenge to the new Law. Forelich said monday evening he was not surprised by the order. She s a Media Star and coercion was bound not to work because of that he said. Morgan s release will not change her mind about refusing to reveal the girl s whereabouts her lawyer said in an interview outside the courthouse. She regards her child As being Ungro Tecich by the court system Sachs said. Kim Candy a lawyer for the National organization for women said Morgan s release was a Victory for All parents who care about the safety and Well being of their  As for Superior court judge Herbert Dixon who ordered Morgan to jail Candy said i think that his behaviour As a human being has been  Fortich s Law Ayr maintained in a 12-Page filing with the appeals court that the new Law was unconstitutional because it infringed on the Power of the Judi Cial Branch to enforce its  Justice department source said officials there had news briefs Honecker Back at work 6 weeks after surgery 1st German communist Ker resumed some offi fix weeks after he under the state run news Ith the new ambassadors . Ery some West Ger that Honecker s acc of his condition apparently n was indicated by East i not been seen in pub my Unis party sources of anonymity said Hon Tabili cd enough in recent Hume some work lures said Honecker was me his duties by oct. 7, n state will Mark its 40th resident Mikhail s. Gorba isl Berlin for the Cerco Berlin a party Leader Erich hoi Cial duties on monday went gallbladder Suri Agency adn said. Honecker 77, met of Zimbabwe and Tui after his mid Augi Man Media report cry was slow and to was. More serious la German officials lie since aug. 14. East German speaking on Conditi Cockcr s condition a Days to allow him to the East Berli expected to fully n when the East car anniversary. Soviet Chov is expected ii Nies. Sex officer i to arrested Axis sail1 Dies at 70 Pittsburg has a countering Coli War ii arrested a Whitmer who ii of cancer Friday Hospital. During world it  Gillars known As later convicted of David Whitmer who Tecc officer during world Sally has died at age 70. D in mount pleasant died it presbyterian University r 11, Whitmer was in Armand arrested Mildred Fisk Axis Sally an american Ason for her nazi Broad casts meant to undo line Allied morale. Gillars served 12 years in year at age 87. Whitmer was a _ Dent of Iron City s h and door co. His survivors include his Wanna Beery Whitmer a son a daughter Anolfo grandchildren. Ederal prison and died last Irmyr executive vice Percsi Wandav expressed a similar concern before the Bill was signed. Justice department spokesman David Runkl declined to say what recommendation Bush had been Given. Mittleman also charged in her papers that the Law violated several of Forelich s constitutional rights among them the right to due process of Law. Milleman said she would consider further Legal action. Morgan remains in contempt of court and this Law does t change that Mittleman said. Thai s not being vengeful it s just what the Law is  Forelich has maintained since Morgan went to jail that her continued incarceration is the Only Way she can be forced to produce their daughter. As Morgan s Case became a rallying Point for women s groups and organizations concerned with child abuse Congress took notice. Taking advantage of Congress right to review All City Laws and court action rep. Frank Wolf r-va.,wrote a Bill to place a 12-month Cap on civil contempt of court mailings in District of Columbia child custody cases. The Bill applied retroactively to Morgan s Case also requires prosecutors before a year passes to file Crimi Nal contempt charges against people serving sentences for civil contempt. This provision is aimed at Guaran teeing the defendant a jury trial before a judge differ ent from the one who initially imposed the civil sen tence. Morgan s lawyers argued that the intent of the con tempt jailing to induce compliance with the court order to produce the daughter had failed had no Prospect of succeeding and thus had become unconstitutionally punitive. Proposal from Paga 1 speech As impressive the president did not receive the enthusiastic response or Long round of applause that the soviet Leader garnered last december when he announced his deep one sided cuts in conventional forces. Secretary of state James a. Baker Iii and soviet foreign minister Eduard a. Shevardnadze exchanged Friendly Waves across the room before they listened to Bush who hailed Freedom s March in Poland the soviet Union and latin America. He also called on the world leaders to join forces to fight terrorism. Terrorism of any kind is repugnant to All values that a civilized world holds in common Bush said. And make no mistake terrorism is a Means that no end no matter How just that end can  Bush said he was pleased with the Progress made at the talks Between Baker and Shevardnadze in Wyom ing and the agreement for a superpower Summit in the United states next year. Each of these achievements is important in its own right but they Are More important still As signs of a new attitude that prevails Between the . And the .s.r." he said. Serious differences remain. But the willingness to Deal constructively and candidly with those differences is new that we and indeed the world must  trying to build momentum on a subject that his advisers say is a fixation with him Bush challenged the soviets to set a specific time Frame for Mutual deep cuts in chemical weapons without waiting for a convention to be signed. Many have said recently that the . Has been dragging its feel in the chemical weapons negotiations but this ought to put that to rest once and for All Baker said after Bush s speech. Soviet officials who got the chemical arms proposal during the Baker Shevardnadze talks in Wyoming said they had taken it under advisement. The soviet Union said in january that it would destroy the 50,000 tons of chemical weapons it admits having but did not set deadlines. Shevardnadze praised the speech As a constructive statement in the spirit of the  on the chemical weapons initiatives the soviet for eign minister said they will have to be studied later. We have a positive View of these  bomb from Page 1 the colombian government. Including the two bombs in Cartagena and one monday night in the capital of Bogota there have been 110 bombings killing eight persons and injuring 132 persons. The Hilton was evacuating the approximately 1,500 guests to other hotels in Cartagena Caracol said Quot ing its correspondent who filed a report by radio Tele phone with Bogota. Thousands of americans. Canadians and other for Eigners lock to Cartagena each year. A group of Canadian tourists at the Cartagena air port last week told the wife of an a reporter they were cutting their vacations Short and going Home be cause the Canadian embassy warned them of the War possibly spreading to Cartagena. Police told the a the third bomb was at a Billing office of the government electric company in Bogota but that no one was reported injured. It was the first time bombs hit Cartagena since drug traffickers declared War on the colombian government last month. A leading presidential candidate was quoted earlier monday As saying Colombia May have to legalize drugs in order to fight the powerful cartels waging War on the government. Also monday two politicians said the government should negotiate with drug lords. Representatives of the nation s 4,600 judges were to meet with the acting Justice minister Carlos Lemos Simmonds. The judges threatened sunday to go on strike unless Simmonds promised them better Protection from drug cartels who persistently threaten their lives. Since 1981, about 50 judges and 170 judicial employees have been killed mostly by drug traffickers. Justice department spokesman David Runkel said in Washington that . Officials sent 100 bulletproof vests and other Security items to Colombia last week to help protect judges. He said it was the responsibility of colombian officials to distribute the items. Four bombs exploded sunday night in Bogota but there were no injuries National police said. Sen. Ernesto Samper seeking the government Liber Al party s nomination for the presidential election in March said of the drug wan if the repressive action fails the Road left is legalization of  he is the first serious presidential candidate to Sug Gest legalizing drugs. The government began its crackdown on the drug cartels when leading presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan was assassinated aug. 18 at a Bogota political rally. President Virgilio Barco said he would extradite drug lords to the United states prompting the cartels to declare War on the government. There have been reports the traffickers Are willing to pay billions of dollars to get the government to end its crackdown but Barco has refused to negotiate  
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