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October 26, 2005
Hurricane Wilma Slams Florida
5.9 million people left
with no electricity
stretch into weeks.
“It will be days or weeks before we are back
to normal,” Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez
said.
Before smashing into Florida, Wilma killed at
least six people in Mexico, one person in Jamaica
and 12 people in Haiti.
The storm devastated resort towns along
M exico’s Caribbean coast, severely flooding the
tourist hotspot Cancún, where looters ransacked
entire blocks of stores. Thousands of tourists
rem ained stranded along the resort-studded
Yucatan coast Tuesday,
(AP) - Floridians lined up for water, gas, ice
and generators Tuesday outside the few stores
that were open after Hurricane Wilma cut a
costly, deadly swath across the peninsula.
The storm slammed across the state in about
seven hours Monday, causing billions in insured
damage and leaving 5.9 million people, o ra little
less than 3 million homes and businesses, with­
out electricity. More than 5,000 residents re­
mained in shelters Tuesday as the hurricane’s
remnants headed toward the North Atlantic.
Wilma was blamed for at least five deaths in
Florida. Earlier, authorities reported six deaths
in the state bu, on Tuesday they revised the to
five deaths.
Officials of Florida’s three most populous
areas - Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach
counties - prepared to distribute ice, water and
other essentials to residents Tuesday, while
utilities warned that restoration of services could
Francisco Reyes hands Jose
Salmeron (right) personal
items from his destroyed
mobile home in Clewiston,
Fla., one day after Hurricane
Wilma came through South
Florida. (AP photo)
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Tuesday sidestepped questions
about w hether V ice President
Dick Cheney passed on to his top
aide the identity o f a CIA officer
central to a federal grand jury
probe.
Notes in the hands of a federal
prosecutor suggest that Cheney’s
chief o f staff, I. Lewis “Scooter”
Libby, first heard of the CIA officer
from Cheney himself. The New York
Times reported in Tuesday’s edi-
The Times said notes o f a previ­
ously undisclosed June 12, 2003,
conversation between Libby and
C heney appear to differ from
Libby’s grand jury testimony that
he first heard of Valerie Plame from
journalists.
“This is a question relating to an
ongoing investigation and w e’re
not having any further comment on
the investigation while it’s ongo­
ing,” White House press secretary
Scott McClellan said.
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The stories of three men who helped
shape the last half-century of Jewish
history in Oregon.
A pair o f boots representing one o f many United States military
personnel killed in the Iraq war. The boots are part o f the
traveling exhibit “Eyes Wide Open," sponsored by the American
Friends Service Committee, a Quaker group that opposes the
Iraq war. (AP Photo)
(A P) - The U.S. m ilitary death
toll reached 2,000 with the death
o f an Army sergeant who was-
w ounded by a roadside bom b
north o f B aghdad and died in
T exas last w eekend.
A P en tag o n an n o u n c e m e n t
Tuesday said Staff Sgt. George T.
A lexander Jr., 34, o f K illeen,
T e x a s, d ied in San A n to n io ,
Texas. The death raised the A s­
sociated Press tally o f m ilitary
fatalities in the Iraq w ar to 2,000.
A lexander was w ounded Oct.
17 in Sam arra, a town 60 miles
north o f the Iraqi capital. He was
assigned to the IstB atallion, 15th
Infantry Regim ent, 3rd Brigade,
3rd Infantry D ivision at Fort
B enning.G a.
TV Air Date Set for Asia Bell Story
The M aury Povich Show will
feature the Asia Bell story on M on­
day, Nov. 7 on Portland’s KWBP
channel 32 in a segment called
“Families in Crisis.” The talk show
airs weekdays at 9 a.m. and 11
a.m.
Bell, a 23-year-old north Port­
land resident, was murdered on
Nov. 20, 2002 in a shooting. Her
h u sb a n d , T y ro n e Ja m e s, w as
blinded from gunshot wounds and
Robert M ilhouse, a friend, was also
wounded. Police still haven't found
any suspects.
The Bell-Jam es fam ily hopes their
television appearance will shed more
light on their personal story, as well
as other senseless acts of violence in
the nation that have yet to be solved.
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Rev. A. Leon Lowry Dies at 92
Civil rights leader taught King
Thursday, October 27 at 9pm
Channel 10
opb.org
(AP) - The Rev. A. Leon
Lowry, a prominent local civil
rights leader who once taught
Martin Luther King Jr. and led
the desegregation of public fa­
cilities in Tampa, Fla. has died at
92.
Lowry died Saturday of con­
gestive heart failure. He had
been admitted to St. Joseph's
Hospital last week, said his wife,
Shirley.
Lowry’s association with the
civil rights movement dated to
the 1940s when he taught theol­
ogy at Morehouse College and
King was one of his students.
In the 1960s, he led peaceful
p ro te sts at T am p a lunch
counters and helped found
Tam pa’s first biracial bank.
He became president of the
Florida NAACP and in 1976
was the first African-American
elected to the Hillsborough
County School Board, where he
served for 16 years. The Florida
Bar awarded him a medal of
honor for easing racial tensions
and promoting social justice.
Until he was hospitalized,
Lowry had continued counsel­
ing jail inmates, commuting by
scooter because hip problems
prevented driving.
“That was just his whole life,”
his wife said. “He always wanted
to help people.”