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...Gulfport, Miss. Jim Vandenberg, manager of the Catfish Shak restaurant, pours the last quart of pickle relish into the industrial-size tub of tartar sauce for the catfish later that morning in Biloxi. The Bush campaign originally wanted a crayfish boil, but wiser heads counseled that crayfish are a Louisiana dish; catfish are regarded as Mississippian...
...Five, when the storm finally skulked westward and hammered into Mississippi, it was scarcely a subject for humor. Its pounding, 125-m.p.h. winds and satellite tornadoes devastated business districts and residential neighborhoods alike in Biloxi, Gulfport and Pascagoula. Approximately 1,400 commercial structures were damaged, along with at least 3,790 dwellings, leaving hundreds of people homeless and causing insured private-property losses of more than $350 million in Mississippi alone. During its wild meanderings, Hurricane Elena left behind an additional $13.8 million of insured private-property damages in Louisiana, $100.3 million in Alabama and $46.8 million in Florida...
...Republicans have many intangibles going their way. Times are good. The people like Reagan the man. Last week, as the sun set slowly in a cloudless sky, some 40,000 turned out in Gulfport, Miss., to watch Reagan preach the politics of happiness...
Pates was charged with capital murder, which carries the death sentence. He was being held without bond and watched around the clock at the Gulfport, Miss., jail. Said Biloxi Policeman Nathan LeBlanc, who dragged at least 14 prisoners from the lethal fumes: "You arrest somebody and put him in jail. You expect him to be all right the next day. Then something like this happens. It makes you feel...
...only survivor of the fall from the bridge was the driver of the pickup truck, Wesley Mclntyre, 56, of Gulfport. His truck first hit the Summit Venture and then bounced into the water. Recalled Mclntyre of his miraculous escape: "The bridge was swaying. I could see the ship, and the end of the bridge was breaking off. I couldn't stop. I just slid, and then I hit the ship and dropped into the water. The next thing I remember I was in the water, and I managed to get the door open. I started swimming to the surface...