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Hurricane Fifi toll mounts
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras
(UPI) — International relief
teams rushed to Central Ameri
ca today to aid victims of
tropical storm Fifi, a churning
package of wind and torrential
rain that destroyed lives, crops
and homes in five countries.
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A Red Cross spokesman said
reports from northern Hon
duras put the casualty toll in
the coastal village of La Ceiba
at 100 persons killed and
another 100 “missing and
probably dead.”
The U.S. Embassy in Teguci-
galpa, capital of Honduras, sent
out urgent messages to deter
mine the fate of some 80 Peace
Corps workers trapped along
the Caribbean coast.
The Honduran armed forces
reported lack of communication
with most areas hit by the
storm and said the casualty toll
could go higher. “At this time
we still don’t know just how
bad it was,” a spokesman said.
Fifi weakened early today,
however, slowing down to a
tropical storm during the pre
dawn hours. The National
Hurricane Center in Miami
reported Fifi over north central
Guatemala heading west into
southern Mexico.
Fifi hit Honduras with hurri
cane force Thursday, battering
the country with 130-mile-an
hour winds and crop-destroying
rains —the worst storm to hit
the country this century.
The hurricane then raced up
the coast and slammed into
Belize, the former British
Honduras. It dumped heavy
rains on Nicaragua, where one
girl was reported drowned, and
El Salvador before roaring into
Guatemala.
The Honduras Red Cross
spokesman said La Ceiba was
one of the hardest hit areas.
“Other places are completely
isolated and it is impossible to
estimate total human casualties
at this time,” the spokesman
said.
San Pedro Sula, the largest
city in the area with a
population of 150,000, was
reported flooded in most areas
and covered with a thick coat
of mud in regions where the
waters subsided.
“They are completely out of
drinking water, and also asking
for food, vaccines, portable
lamps and generators and
clothing,” a government
spokesman in Tegucigalpa said.
U.S. military forces flew
planes and helicopters from
bases in Panama carrying
damage surveying teams and
relief supplies. The mercy
flights were delayed 24 hours
because of a lack of fuel in
Honduras.
The International Red Cross
also rushed supplies to the
stricken zone.
One La Ceiba area resident
described the area hit by the
hurricane as the agricultural
and industrial center of Hon
duras.
“It is a center for the banana
plantations, rice plantations
and most of the industry,” she
said. “So the whole country
suffers when anything happens
there.”
The storm destroyed hopes
for a banner banana crop in
Belize.
“Scant minutes after the
destruction we are ten years
behind now, with all the-citrus,
corn, rice, beans and bananas
smashed to nothing,” 23-year
old Belize meteorologist Fred
Evans said.
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Collins says Ford
was ill advised
MARIETTA, Ga. (UPI) -
Quincy Collins, a former pris
oner of war who is running for
the U.S. House of Representa
tives, said Thursday President
Ford was “ill advised” in
granting draft resistors amnes
ty, which he urged the Presi
dent to retract.
Collins said it is a “national
disgrage that huge efforts have
been exerted to return thou
sands of unworthy and unneed
ed runaways, and not one sin
gle effort is visible to account
for our still missing in action
Americans. . . .”
At a new conference here, he
called on President Ford to act
on a diplomatic level to account
for America’ 1,300 MIAs.
Collins, the Republican nomi
nee who will face Larry Mc-
Donald for Georgia’s 7th Dis
trict seat, also said Ford’s par
don of former President Nixon
was “too hasty.”
He said although he would
like the Watergate episode to be
closed, “to grant President Nix
on a pardon before an indict
ment is even rendered .. . has
muddied the water.”
About the amnesty plan, he
said, “It is clear to me that
President Ford was ill advised
in his decision to grant amnes
ty to those former Americans
who failed to meet their legal
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