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...sick, was a disgrace. The problem with putting it all into numbers is that they stop speaking clearly once they get too big: an estimated half a million refugees, a million people without power, 30,000 soldiers, up to $100 billion in damage. "This is our tsunami," said Biloxi, Miss., Mayor A.J. Holloway. The overstatement is forgivable, for at some point suffering becomes immeasurable, reduced to a hopeless search for a place to sleep, or a bottle of water or a body to bury...
...coming ashore meant that the Mississippi coast got smacked the hardest. In many towns, what the winds spared the floods claimed, as the gusts flung water into the streets in storm surges as high as 25 ft. "It was like the houses were playing bumper cars around here," said Biloxi fisherman Alan Layne. There were cemetery coffins tossed around the beach, and disemboweled slot machines, and boats perched up in trees like ridiculous overweight birds. In Gulfport, Miss., the sea-salty air smelled of corpses. At one Catholic church, only the foundation remained--and a sign that read MASS...
...reportedly offering the president a gloomy assessment of Iraq's prospects. But the electorate's attention may be elsewhere, and the administration appears to have persuaded many Americans that if these bombs weren't going off in Baghdad and Basra, they'd be going off in Boston and Biloxi...
DIED. FRED LARUE, 75, mysterious aide to President Richard Nixon and key figure in the cover-up of the 1972 Watergate break-in at Democratic National Committee headquarters; in Biloxi, Miss. The bagman, who lacked title, salary or mention in the White House directory, served 136 days in jail for paying more than $300,000 to Watergate conspirators and supervising the shredding of documents and financial records related to the scandal...
...DIED. FREDERICK LARUE, 75, former aide to U.S. President Richard Nixon, who was rumored to be "Deep Throat," the Washington Post's Watergate source (he denied this); in Biloxi in the U.S. state of Mississippi. LaRue, a successful political financier who served in Nixon's Administration without pay, was present at a 1972 meeting at Nixon's Florida vacation home where the Watergate break-in was planned. His role in the cover-up earned him 4 1/2 months in federal prison for obstruction of justice...