Word: isabell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Isabel Huggan...
...town of Coamo, at least three automobiles plunged from a fallen bridge, killing eight. Nineteen bodies were pulled from the swollen Paso Seco River near the town of Santa Isabel, where another bridge gave way at the height of the deluge. Ironically, shortly after the weather front left Puerto Rico and gained sufficient new force to be classified as a tropical storm, Isabel was the name routinely assigned to it by the World Meteorological Organization. Isabel came close to gaining hurricane status as it approached the Florida coastline, but then rapidly dwindled in force...
...request of Puerto Rican Governor Rafael Hernandez Colon, a Ponce native, President Reagan declared Ponce, Coamo, Santa Isabel and the Atlantic Coast town of Toa Baja disaster zones, making the U.S. commonwealth island eligible for federal relief funds. Hernandez Colon also joined some 3,000 mourners at Ponce's sports coliseum in a memorial service for 23 of the dead. The Governor has vowed to continue the search for victims "as long as humanly possible," while plans are under discussion to turn the Mameyes ravine into a memorial park. For many residents of the devastated barrio, the site is likely...
...Connolly, 43, an account executive for Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. in Birmingham, Mich., was staying on the tenth floor of the Maria Isabel Sheraton. "The building swayed five or six feet each way. We were holding on to the walls as it went. It would go all the way one way and you'd think it was going over and you'd be dead. Then the next time it would sway all the way the other way and you'd think this time it would crash. Finally it righted itself, and we all ran out on the street." There Connolly...
...weekly Observer said that the BBC maintained an MI5 liaison office, now under the guidance of Brigadier Ronnie Stonham, an ex-army intelligence specialist, and that MI5 spied on some BBC staff members, collected information about employee political views, and too often got things wrong. Reporter Isabel Hilton allegedly was refused a job in 1976 because investigators had confused an apolitical group to which she belonged with a leftist organization...