Word: croix
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inspiring rummy tropical dreams, have become the American paradise. Even the license plates say so. Two months ago, when Hurricane Hugo mowed across the islands from Guadeloupe to Puerto Rico, it turned a landscape that was achingly lovely into one that was painfully bleak. In the case of St. Croix, where a large bomb could scarcely have done more damage, the looting and disorder that followed were as terrifying as the wicked winds. And now, as the high season approaches, those who love the islands and hope to return are left wondering: How much paradise was lost...
...fair number of businessmen, at least, are willing to bet that she's right. Ritz-Carlton is proceeding with plans for a $140 million hotel on St. Croix scheduled to open in late 1992. Great Pond Bay Resorts just won approval for a $250 million project with 350 hotel rooms and 600 condos. If the islands all do struggle back, it may be because in the end Hugo could not destroy what most people come to the Caribbean to find. It could not make the sea less bright or the sun less clear, or bestir the starfish or break...
When Hurricane Hugo ravaged America's paradise from Guadeloupe to Puerto Rico, the tourism industry shuddered to a halt. After two months of eager, endless work, most islands have recovered, but devastated St. Croix is still struggling to rebuild its ruins -- and its image...
...storm-shattered survivors of Hurricane Hugo, the simplest necessities were sorely missed: thousands were still without water or electricity. Residents from St. Croix, V.I., to Charlotte, N.C., found their businesses blown away, their houses flattened, their jobs gone. Losses were running as high as $3 billion just in South Carolina, where 70,000 people remained homeless and 224,000 were out of work. The state's top industry, tourism, may take years to recover. Timber, its third-ranking income source, took a $1 billion blow, as more than a third of South Carolina's forests fell to Hugo's winds...
From Guadeloupe to Montserrat to St. Croix and Puerto Rico, one of the fiercest storms of the decade leaves a path of destruction. Charleston bears the brunt of the hurricane in the U.S. before it turns inland and diminishes. -- A ruling on embryos in Tennessee may complicate the debate over abortion...