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Itcon- s of Interest- 1-2711. iLLANEOUS ALE Si - w . , ; - w K fee-:'’:,: * 'TOSSES Sung Ae Lee carries her 2-year-old son, Kyang Ju Lee, as her 5-year- Hofold photo by Pinto old son, Kyang Hwan Lee, struggles with an umbrella In the parking lot SLUSH of the Manchester Parkade Friday night. The Lees are from Glastonbury. Like thousands of area residents, they didn't let Friday’s ilTHER ALONG snowstorm keep them from a shopping trip. Storm stories on page 3. ■JSfr Reagan won’t abandon contras 'MAGAZINE PULLOUT SECTION $1.02 trillion in budget plan ... page 8 •"w2t!lS7'a lUH DISCOUNT, 4k mAFU lijf •lue* ■»iW« Hotel body^ count reaches 95 Classic storm as cops hunt for arson clues sweeps coast, SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — InvestUators searching for evi kills 9 people dence gthrson concentrated Friday on a blackened comer of the Dupont Plaza Hotel where the ballroom By The Associated Press was located. Police said search teams had found 95 bodies. Authorities in four states urged people to move A few miles away, doctors and inland Friday, as a classic northeaster blamed for nine forensic experts tried to identify the deaths swept up the East Coast with heavy snow, high charred remains of victims, most of wind and heach-grinding tides after causing millions of whom were so badly burned rela dollars damage in the Southeast. tives could not recognize them. “ I just tied up my boats and put the cat in the attic. Forty-one people remained There’s not much more you can do,” said Dick hospitalized. LaCross, who lives near the beach in Scituate, Mass., Police Superintendent Carlos where many seaside residents voluntarily evacuated Lopez Feliciano told reporters Friday morning. "I can’f hibernate... outside the darkened hotel Friday High tides broke through a sea wall at Marshfield. the water bed’s frozen.” night as searchers quit for the night Mass., sending water up to 9 feet deep into streets and that 95 bodies had been found. homes. Rescuers in boats helped evacuate iom e of the “ They consider that .95 is a residents: who scrambled onto the roofs of houses, cars Connecticut Weather cbmplete count, but tomorrow they and businesses to await help. are going to search again just in In New Hampshire and Maine, the National Weather case. At this moment, 95 is the final Service urged coastal residents to ’’complete all safety :p ir ;r - Central, Eastern Interior, Southwestern Interlon A total, I hope,” he said. precautions and evacuate to h i^ e r ground inland as chance of occasional light snow during the morning Officials at times have given soon as possible.” Saturday, then gradual clearing in the afternoon; high conflicting casualty estimates. Authorities said they had no immediate estimates of 25 to 30. Chance of snow 30 percent; wind northwest 10 Shortly before Lopez Feliciano how many people evacuated in those states. to 20 mph. Partly cloudy Saturday night; low 10 to 15. spoke. Gov. Rafael Hernandez Massachusetts and New Jersey. , Partly sunny Sunday; high 30 to 35. Colon said 93 had died. Earlier Two New Jersey residenU died when their c » Friday, officials reported the death Western Coast, Eastern Coast: A chance of light collided with a truck on a snow-covered r^rtilPTn HereM photo by Pinto snow early Saturday morning, then partial clearing; toll at 60, then 53, and then 82. Vermont, and one traffic fatality in MassachusntsrSad^ high 30 to 35. Chance of snow 30 percent; wind Investigators focused their atten blamed on the storm. T e ^ r^ -^ e ta n z a , left, and Antoinette northwest 10 to 15 mph. Partly cloudy Saturday night; tion on a ground-floor comer of the t,..4 Elsewhere, storms dumped up to a foot of snow on police reported several traffic accidents, low 15 to 20. Partly sunny Sunday; high in the middle building where the ballroom was parte of Pennsylvania, Ohio, M d the Rockies. In Rogers push a shopping cart through a some with minor injuries, during 1987’s 30s. located. Witnesses at the nearby western Pennsylvania, authoritiojepbned four cases Parkade parking lot Friday night as first snow storm. Northwest Hills: A chance of occasional light snovif swimming pool reported hearing in which men collapsed while shoeiteling snow and died. snow continued to fall. Manchester early Saturday morning, then partial clearing; high im explosions and said the ballroom The weather service called themortheaster “ the the lower 20s. Chance of snow 30 percent; wind and the casino directly above it most vicious storm” of its kind since a February 1978 northwest 10 to 15 mph. Partly cloudy Saturday night; virtually exploded in flames Wed AP photo blizzard paralyzed Boston with 27 inches of snow, low 5 to 15. Partly sunny Sunday; high 25 to 30. nesday afternoon. caused 29 deaths, destroyed 339 houses and inflicted Searchers have hunted for bodies Puerto Rico Gov. Rafael Hernandez Colon consoles Ana $300 million property damage. State getting up to 8 inches through the tangle of burnt furni Allen of Jacksonville, Fla., during a Friday memorial ’The storm was blamed for four traffic deaths ture, twisted cables and collapsed ’Thursday in North Carolina and two in Virginia, which service for victims of the Dupont Plaza Hotel fire. By the Manchester Herald vate contractors, George Ring- Lottery Winners ceilings for two days. Undersecre was also hit by coastal flooding, rain and up to 5 inches Joe Furey, a meteorologist at the and The Associated Press stone, a work supervisor, said. tary of Health Emilio Davila said Tobacco and Firearms. The bu of snow in some western areas. Weather Center at Western Connec explosions and there were at least In other parte of the state Friday bodies were found from the reau, the FBI and Puerto Rican Friday’s high tides were generally 3. feet or more ticut State University. two small fires at the hotel in the A “ massive East Coast storm” night, it was rough going. Connecticut daily Friday: Z4t. Play Four: 4SS4. mezzanine-level casino up to the police are investigating the fire. previous days. above normal, said meteorologist Bill Barlow of the ’The same storm was responsible' that caused coastal flooding from Bradley International Airport in Connecticut Lotto Friday: I, >, IS, M, SI, 3S. fourth floor. Vita refused to say what evidence National Weather Service. ’Tides of 2 to 3 feet above for coastal flooding and millions of South Carolina to Massachusetts Windsor Locks closed four Umes The corpse of a woman was police or bis agency’s 22-member “ ’The labor controversy in the dollars in damage in the Carolinas normal had been expected because of a syzygy, a rare spared Connecticut its worst fury discovered sitting in a window team has turned up, nor why the h ^ l was very, very tense,” Friday as crews tried to keep on Thursday. On Friday, it left alignment of the sun, moon and Earth that has Friday, but it was tailed by another frame through which her husband invesUgation was focused on the iernandez Colon said in a broad ninways clean and aircrafLfree_5f__^ more than a foot of snow on some occurred only three times since 1912, the weather storm and forecasters predicted a Ice. Index had jumped and suffered only a comer of the building. cast interview. “ All sorts of infor- service said. parte of Massachusetts and helped total accumulation of 5 to 8 inches of State Police Troop H in HaHai^ord broken ankle. Davila said the Hernandez Colon and other top maUon was going around that there Southern New Hampshire saw heavy snowfall, with push unusually high tides onto wet snow. responded to abmt 15 to 20 woman apparently hesitated. officials have said there are indica was going to be a problem at the 18 inches plied up in Salem, and waves closed coastal coastal streets and homes. Advice. snow-related auto accidents''dents' as of . 18 Local news. “ We’re here to find out where it tions the fire may have been set by hotel, that there were going to be roads in the Hampton and Portsmouth areas. In Manchester, police reported Furey said the snow eventually BusInoM _ 10:45 p.m., none involving injuries, . 10-11 Opinion_______ . 12-13 started and why it started,” said an arsonist. There was a bitter bombs, that there were going to be In southern Maine, where as mudh as 9 inches of nine minor accidents by 10 p.m. changed to rain in most parte of Churches .