Word: hugo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hundreds of students danced to a salsa beat Friday night and in the process donated thousands of dollars to the Puerto Rican victims of Hurricane Hugo...
...Hugo, the most powerful storm to strike the Caribbean this decade, left as many as 50,000 people homeless in Puerto Rico, and some observers have estimated property damage in the hundreds of millions of dollars...
...post-Hugo damage to St. Croix might have been less if protecting the island's image had not been deemed more important than protecting the island itself. Tourism is St. Croix's largest industry, and officials evidently feared that a revival of racial tensions could cause almost as much harm as Hugo. Memories still linger of 1972, when eight people (seven of them white) were murdered on a golf course by gun-toting black leftists. Virgin Islands Governor Alexander Farrelly, who stayed on St. Thomas, 37 miles away, insisted that reports of lawlessness were distorted and exaggerated. Witnesses, he said...
NATION: Like a cruise ship from hell, Hugo hits the ports of call in the Caribbean, then turns its fury on the Carolinas...
Hold on to Your Hat: Anticipated to wreak havoc with the game, Hurricane Hugo was only a minor factor. It brought no rain at all, though swirling winds caused problems for both teams...