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Suffering and losses may be eased this time because the Federal Emergency Management Agency is moving with uncharacteristic speed and vigor. From its creation 14 years ago right through Hurricane Andrew in Florida last summer, FEMA built a reputation for bumble-footed sluggishness. Democratic Senator Ernest Hollings once called its...
Bill Clinton has also been trying to move fast. Last Wednesday he cut short a Hawaiian vacation to fly to Des Moines, where someone along his motorcade route held up a sign reading ALOHA, BILL. WELCOME TO THE OTHER BIG ISLAND. The President announced that he will ask Congress to...
LIKE THE OVERFLOWING WATERS OF THE MISSISSIPPI, TIME's flood-coverage team spread out across the land last week. It was obvious to Midwest bureau chief Jon Hull that a major disaster required a major effort, and he divvied up a wide range of assignments. Correspondent Elizabeth Taylor headed off...
Meanwhile in Detroit, business correspondent William McWhirter was covering the financial aspect of the flood -- and he was also thinking back to his younger days in Kansas City, Missouri, hit hard by the great 1951 floods. Correspondent Taylor was collecting some new memories of the flood of 1993. "There was...
Back in Chicago, senior correspondent Madeleine Nash, reporter Julie Grace and photo researcher Mary Thompson were monitoring developments and keeping the members of TIME's team in contact with one another. Perhaps the most dramatic contribution of all came from photographer Liss, a pilot. Ignoring the misgivings of police at...