Hurricane Hugo Slams Puerto Rico
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Encouraged Vanquished ^ Mileage Morrison sees trend MHS, East football teams | i b . m H ow ’s your car? in primary results/3 lose their season openers/11 i# 'V U M — B Is it a gas guzzler?/6 HanrhpBtpr MeralJi Monday, Sept. 18,1989 Manchester, Conn. — A City of Village Charm Newsstand Price: 35 Cents ®aurlipstpr Hrralh Red Sox win UConn clinic focuses on fatigue FARMINGTON (AP) — Droopy-eyed and weak, Hurricane Hugo arc suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome. millions of people visit their doctors every year with The Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta defined behind Clemens a common complaint: They are tired. the syndrome as an illness just last year. The CDC A group of doctors at the University of Connec says those with the syndrome have a number of other ticut Health Center discovered that relatively little symptoms besides unending tiredness, including study has focused on chronic fatigue, despite recent headache, sore throat, fever, weakness, lymph node slams Puerto Rico — see page 46 interest in the chronic fatigue syndrome, the so-called pain, muscle and joint pains, memory loss and dif SPORTS “yuppie disease.” ficulty concentrating. SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — They decided to help bridge the research gap by Both the cause and the cure for the syndrome arc The region’s mightiest hurricane in Hurricane Hugo establishing a clinic for patients whose major com unknown, but many doctors believe the root is viral. a decade lashed Puerto Rico today plaint is chronic fatigue. Several studies have attempted to link chronic fatigue u s after battering the U.S. Virgin Is 0 BERMUDA After seeing more than 300 patients over the past to the Epstein-Barr virus, which is related to herpes. lands and other tourist havens, leav r three years, the doctors believe many of the chroni The mystery surrounding persistent fatigue ing at least nine people dead and cally fatigued are suffering from depression, not prompted a fateful discussion between Lane and his thou.sands homeless. \ \ SI chronic fatigue, and can be treated with anti-depres colleagues. Dr. Dale Matthews and Dr. Peter Manu in The National Weather Service Aihiniic Ocfiin Coniiitions as ol MortOay sants and therapy. MHS GIRLS WIN 1985. said Hurricane Hugo was packing 6am EOT “There is a great tragedy of saying that chronic “We compared notes and thought it might be one 130 mph winds and a 10-foot tidal i; 9N. 6$ I w fatigue is viral without a shred of evidence,” said Dr. patient in 10 whose main complaint was chronic surges when it hit the eastern tip of S i Thomas Lane, the clinic’s director. “Depression and fatigue, so we went to the literature and found it was \] \ \ Mat Win<3s laOmpft Puerto Rico this morning. I Moving WNWSmpfi Second shutout panic disorder are easily treatable.” the fourth most common complaint for seeing a doc- r .- - - Forecasters expected up to 15 inches ■V, Contrary to the beliefs of many of their patients, of rain and flooding and mudslides POERT of the season the doctors believe that few of those seen at the clinic Please see Fatigue, please 10 all over the island. ORiCO “We’re getting ravaged,” said By Jim Tierney ham radio operator Fernando Garcia ' 4 7 ' Manchester Herald in San Juan. “We’re getting all kinds ,*V*,'CA OOWiNCAN of winds, rain — very, very, very REPt'8l.iC hard.” In an early season showdown between two of the top Ciinbhciin Si\i scholastic girls’ soccer teams in Connecticut — “The wind is howling outside very, very fast ... Part of my Manchester High and Sheehan High of Wallingford — one side was dominant in every aspect of the match. aluminum siding is gone, my next door neighbor’s aluminum siding is 10^ “Sheehan’s a quality team. We just dismantled them,” gone, all the trees around are shed ninth-year Manchester coach Joe Erardi said after his In ding all their leaves and branches. 7.0'] dians’ 4-0 shutout win in a non-league encounter Friday afternoon at Memorial Field. And it looks worse, and it should be getting worse before it gets better,” A pair of goals by All-New England senior stopper- morning, with five people reported ing to Beacon Radio in Anguilla. Garcia said. back Meg Berte and one each from juniors Kathy Cum- killed, 80 injured and more than Police said a man was electrocuted Telephone communications with bcrbatch and Shelly Dieterle powered the Indian offen 10,000 homeless, relief officials in Puerto Rico when he touched a the United States were spotty. sive attack. A superb defensive effort was anchored by said. power line while removing a TV an On Sunday, Hugo plowed west- Berte, and junior fullbacks Jen Brindisi, Tracey Hart and Corrugated steel roofs were tom tenna from his roof in preparing for senior Jean Faber. northwest through the eastern Carib off, power lines ripped free and the storm. bean, slamming into the U.S. Virgin crops were destroyed. The airport’s The Indian midfield of sophomores Mary Moriarty At 9 a.m. EDT, Hugo’s center Islands with 100 mph winds and conU'ol tower was knocked out of and Ratty Hombostel, along with Dieterle maneuvered was near latitude 18.4 degrees north rains that reportedly caused heavy commission, permitting only visual and longitude 65.6 west on the east the ball skillfully throughout while the front line of Cum- flooding. landings by relief planes. ern tip of Puerto Rico, said the Na- bcrbatch, sophomore Jessica Marquez and impressive The French island of Guadeloupe Two people were killed in An freshman Slwon Fish was an ever-present danger. appeared hit hardest through this tigua and one in Montserrat, aecord- Plea.se see HUGO, page 10 Manchester is now 2-0 and will travel to Enllcld to take on Fermi High in CCC East action T\iesday at 3:30 p.m. Sheehan evens off at 1-1. ^ “They (Manchester) have the toughest bunch of girls I’ve ever seen,” Sheehan coach Brian Murphy said. Pentagon support thrown Sheehan was the Class M runnerup a year ago and was coming off an 8-0 whitewashing of Shelton in its .season opener. Sheehan lost only four players from last year. “They knocked us all over the field,” Murphy con behind anti-drug battle tinued. That coupled with the amount of ability they have is going to make them very tough to beat.” WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense recognizes that the international cement agency,” the official said. A mere 1:33 into the match, Cumberbatch took a pass Secretary Dick Cheney, seeking to drug trade is a national security The official said Cheney has con from Fish and rocketed a 15-yarder into the upper left strike a new posture of Pentagon problem and we have an interdiction vinced some military doubters of the comer of the net. At 15:39 of the first half, Dieterle cooperation in President Bush’s responsibility,” said the official. need for a new approach, primarily twisted and turned between defenders and unleashed a anti-drug battle, plans to boost his Cheney’s message will be because of the size of the crack rising 20-yarder • which tucked beautifully under the departmerit’s role in interdiction, directed not only at Congress — cocaine epidemic and because the crossbar above the outstretched arms of Sheehan goalie Patrick FlynrVManchesler Herald surveillance and communication, which has been pressing the Pen White House has demanded a new Joan Richardson for a 2-0 lead. aides say. tagon to do more — but also inward, emphasis on the issue. o “Those were quality shots,” Erardi said of the Indians’ SOGGY PUP — Lisa Steben of 869 Main St. gives her dog. Spike, a cool bath in the foun Cheney’s planned announcement at military leaders who have ex Cheney doesn’t intend for the today was intended to “set a tone” pressed reluctance about using their department to take a “go it alone” first two scores. “Kathy’s shot set the tone for the game.” tain at Center Park last week. Manchester junior goalie Amy Shumaker, who is fill for the agency instead of outlining a ever-dwindling resources to enter a stance, but plans to fulfill its direc ing in for injured sophomore Melissa Daversa, who is ex new wish list for the nation’s battle domestic war against civilian drug- tive to take a lead role in coordinat pected back next week, repelled some dangerous shots against illicit drugs, said a senior smugglers. ing the drug fight among the various by Sheehan. Though oulshot, 22-6, the visiting Titans Defense Department official. The senior official, who spoke on ageneies, the official said. kept Indian defenders on their toes with the presence of The Joint Chiefs of Staff are condition of anonymity, said their “DOD can’t solve society’s drug junior forward Lisa Pbrez. working out the details of the wary attitude is understandable problems on its own,” said the offi SNET package will raise program, which will include Shumaker stopped two solid scoring opportunities by given suggestions from Capitol Hill cial. Perez in each half. beefed-up border radar, additional that the military be used to seal U.S. Cheney plans to attack the “Joe’s backs never let my front players breathe,” Mur ships and planes for surveillance borders against drug-smugglers, or problem of competing interests in b: phy explained. “They don’t have any weak players. along the eastern and southern even shoot down unidentified the drug war by improving ways of wages, improve insurance coasts, and improved coordination Every girl can play and they all have confidence.