Hugo Threatens Marine Lab After Causing Chaos in St. Croix Officials at Beaufort Prepare for Evacuation
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THE CHRONICLE THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1989 DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 85, NO. 20 Hugo threatens marine lab after causing chaos in St. Croix Officials at Beaufort prepare for evacuation By CHRIS EBERLY will return to the Durham cam dividual plans," he said. Students at the Duke Univer pus in the event of an evacua Ramus added that vans sity Marine Laboratory near tion, said Dianne Gagnon, busi belonging to the marine lab are Beaufort, North Carolina will ness manager of the marine lab. available to students who do not find out today if they have to Although they will have to find a have their own transportation. evacuate the research facility in place to sleep on their own, the "They say go and we go," said the face of Hurricane Hugo, ac University is preparing meal Trinity senior Keith Berger. cording to an official at the ma cards for them, she said. Berger said students at the lab rine lab. The remaining ten students are not worried about the po As of 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, would either go home or to the tential danger of the hurricane. the storm had increased its speed home of a friend, Gagnon added. "It's kind of like a novel thing. No toward the Florida coast from the Since most of the students one down here is making it a big Bahamas. A hurricane warning have their own vehicles, the deal until it happens. We get so was issued from Florida to Cape evacuation plan is not highly many warnings anyway," he Hatteras in North Carolina. structured, said Mark Geesey, a said. Cape Hatteras is the outermost graduate student in botany. If Hugo does in fact threaten point of the Outer Banks, off the "People are making their own in See BEAUFORT on page 5 • coast of North Carolina. The marine lab is located near Morehead City, south of Cape Bush sends troops to St. Croix Hatteras. The facility is built on STEVEN HEIST & RICHARD SENZEL / THE CHRONICLE Pivers Island, between the Outer By DAN SEWELL Associated Press island, and Coast Guard cutters Banks and the actual coast of evacuated frightened tourists North Carolina. MIAMI — Hurricane Hugo and residents. Bush also autho Dr. Joseph Ramus, acting di quickened its pace toward the rized troops to help hurricane- Alaska governor explains rector of the marine lab, said he Eastern Seaboard on Wednesday damaged Puerto Rico. will use "risk management" and as residents gathered supplies Forecasters issued a hurricane information from the National and made evacuation plans, watch from St. Augustine, Fla., pros, cons of oil industry Hurricane Center to decide this while violence and looting broke to Cape Hatteras, N.C, urging morning if Hugo poses enough of out on the shattered islands'in coastal residents to begin taking a threat to require students and the storm's wake. precautions. Hugo picked up By PAUL TELLER go. Oil prices shot up 1,100 per professors to evacuate the island. President Bush ordered Army speed over open water and could Alaska has suffered through cent to $36 per barrel, and as a In the event of an evacuation, troops to St. Croix of the U.S. come ashore late Thursday or both booms and busts because of result, billions of dollars poured students will have at least 36 Virgin Islands after National early Friday. the oil industry, but only through into the fund. To directly benefit hours to leave before they are at Guardsmen and police reportedly "I think they're looking at this long-term planning will the state the entire state, half the money risk, he added. joined prison escapees and others one with a bit of respect," city reduce its dependence on oil, said in the Permanent Fund is dis Ramus said if there is an evac in wild looting. Armed Coast spokesman Pat Dowling said in the governor of Alaska Wednes tributed to the citizens of Alaska. uation, students would leave by Guard crewmen also went ashore Myrtle Beach, S.C, as radio and day in Old Chemistry Building. Another of the Governor's Friday and return Sunday mor to help restore order. TV advisories warned: During the mid-1970's, Gov plans for the future is his Educa ning. Attorney General Dick "Remember the people of Puerto ernor Steve Cowper said he and tion Amendment. Cowper, noting Of the 34 University students Thornburgh ordered 100 U.S. Rico." his colleagues in the Alaska See COWPER on page 4 • at the lab, 24 have indicated they marshals and FBI agents to the See HUGO on page 5 • legislature pondered, "how [Alas kans] were going to ensure that the oil would be around for the next generation." Cowper also 'The Circle' fails to connect with the present said that he wanted to be sure that if the oil industry did col By SUSAN SHARPE lapse that the Alaskan economy expect from the play, however, is The other characterization Nevertheless, viewing the play wouldn't fall as well. The first production of the the extreme frivolity and irre Maugham makes of women is as a product from the period in Broadway Preview series, Some sponsibility with which that they are weak and make which it was written, the audi To protect against such a sce ence will most likely enjoy nario, the Alaska Permanent rset Maugham's play, "The Cir Maugham so cruelly character brash decisions. In short, cle," is a comedy of English man izes women. It is not that his Maugham's world is one in which Maugham's self-acclaimed (and Fund was established. One-quar even somewhat progressive) ter of the royalties from the ners (or, in this case, manners in men are not equally vain and un- men learn to carry on despite the the midst of unmannerly scan dependable; but Maugham burden that women's shortcom cynical humor inscribed in the Prudhoe Bay oil operations go di ings bring to them. This narrow- manners of his characters. rectly into the fund, Cowper said. dal). scorns the women for these vices The play opened on September much more thoroughly than he minded depiction will probably The plot revolves around the One of the richest sources of oil bother the student audience. in the world, Prudhoe Bay is lo 12, and will run through October does the men. scandal created by Lady cated on Alaska's northern coast. 1 in Reynolds Theater. Catherine (Johns) leaving her This production, a revival of a husband, Clive Champion- Money also came into the fund Cheney (Granger) for Lord Por- after the 1979 Iranian oil embar 1921 production, stars Sir Rex Harrison (most remembered as See CIRCLE on page 7 ^ Professor Henry Higgins in "My Fair Lady"), Glynis Johns (an ac complished actress on stage as Inside well as in film, particularly as Mrs. Banks in "Mary Poppins"), Exxon: A group of students and Stewart Granger (film star said "no thanks" to job offers of "King Solomon's Mine" and from Exxon, and told the com "Prisoner of Zenda"). The play pany where they could stick was directed by Brian Murray, their money. See page 4. an experienced Broadway di rector. Students may be disappointed Weather by "The Circle" because it is so different from the usual fare of Hurricane? Hugo? Here? Duke productions. It is from a Well, not yet anyway. It completely different period — a should be pretty gloomy period to which these three ac though with clouds and proba tors belong and to which we stu SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE bly some showers. The high CHAD HOOD/THE CHRONICLE dents do not. Rex Harrison and Glynis Johns star in the "The Circle. will be around 80. Alaska Governor Steve Cowper The thing students might not PAGE 2 THE CHRONICLE THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1989 World & National Newsfile Associated Press Gorbachev purges conservatives from Politburo Superpowers talk: Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze, By MARK PORUBCANSKY It also gave him a stronger hand in For activists in some republics, the re opening an intensive round of high- Associated Press Moscow as the leadership writes a new moval of Shcherbitsky and Chebrikov level talks in Washington, carries MOSCOW — Mikhail Gorbachev pulled program and rules to govern the party in probably will ease the sting of Gor today to President Bush still-secret off a major shake-up of the Communist the 1990s. bachev's toughly worded rejection of proposals from Moscow that could ac Party Politburo on Wednesday, retiring a The Central Committee on Tuesday drives for sovereignty. celerate reductions in the superpowers' quarter of the ruling elite in one stroke moved up the date for the next congress to Tass, the official news agency, said Gor nuclear missile arsenals. and promoting his KGB chief and his top October 1990, handing Gorbachev an bachev thanked the three Politburo mem economic planner. early opportunity to reach deep into party bers warmly for their "many years of Sleep Can hurt: People who sleep Dropped from power was the 71-year- ranks to completely remold its top eche fruitful activity" in the party, indicating with contact lenses face about 10 times old Ukrainian party chief, Vladimir lon. Gorbachev is both the nation's presi they were retiring in good grace. the usual risk of dangerous eye ulcers, Shcherbitsky; former KGB chief Viktor dent and the general secretary of the So Shcherbitsky, regarded as a conserva according to just published research, Chebrikov, 66; and Viktor Nikonov, 60; viet Communist Party. tive force both in Moscow and his native but many eye doctors already discour leaving only one pre-Gorbachev appointee The shake-up came at a meeting of the Ukraine, was the last Politburo member age patients from routinely wearing on the 11-member Politburo.