Word: davide
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...David wreaked its greatest havoc on the island of Hispaniola, which is shared jointly by Haiti and the Dominican Republic. In the town of Padre Las Casas, 75 miles west of Santo Domingo, some 400 people who had huddled for safety in a church and a school were killed when floodwaters from the Yaque River swept them away. At least 600 more were killed in the Dominican Republic, while an estimated 150,000 were left homeless, including 90,000 in Santo Domingo alone. President Antonio Guzmán understandably described the storm as "this terrible tragedy of David," and reckoned...
Though its course across Hispaniola weakened the storm, David was still packing winds of 90 m.p.h. and more when it passed over the eastern tip of Cuba and headed straight for Florida's southeast coast. Governor Robert Graham ordered the evacuation of low-lying areas, and as many as 300,000 people headed for higher ground, including 15,000 from the Keys alone. Public buses carried senior citizens from Miami Beach to stormproof shelters, while animals at Crandon Park Zoo in Key Biscayne were trucked to safety. There were sudden shortages of candles and flashlights and other household items...
After veering away from the Florida coast, David swung back again to hit land just north of Palm Beach and again in Georgia, sweeping through the historic cities of Savannah and Charleston, S.C., with top winds of 90 m.p.h. As it moved north, property and agricultural damage was generally light, but accompanying rains were torrential, flooding the streets of several Eastern cities, interrupting rail traffic and causing major power failures. The final death toll: at least...
...TIME sources found some parts of McMullen's story credible, other portions improbable. New York City police can see no reason why the I.R.A. would want to kidnap Flanagan, an unpolitical type; any ransom it might collect would hardly be worth the danger of provoking a police crackdown. David Blundy, a London Sunday Times writer who interviewed McMullen extensively before Blake did, says McMullen's accounts of two bombings in Ireland checked out in every detail, but that his stories of his U.S. adventures were a little dubious. U.S. authorities say that whatever may have been the case...
Again at a joint press conference following the final working session, Begin replied, somewhat defensively, that Israel was also seeking a comprehensive peace settlement. He insisted that "our negotiating teams faithfully kept to the commitments in the Camp David agreement...