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...storm tides as high as six feet. Heavy wind damage was reported on the island, but so far, no one has been injured, local authorities said. The island's 2,000 residents have been ordered to evacuate. The storm is currently located about 45 miles southeast of New Orleans and is expected to move across the Gulf then inland somewhere between Gulfport, Mississippi and Mobile, Alabama by Saturday. The Hurricane is expected to dump 10 to 20 inches of rain on the region and produce isolated tornadoes in some spots. After forming Wednesday morning in the north central Gulf, Danny...
BANGKOK: Cambodia's Prince Norodom Ranariddh agreed today to end his armed resistance to Hun Sen, the nation's new strongman who ousted Ranariddh in a bloody coup July 5. Under the deal, reached by members of Ranariddh's royalist party and foreign ministers representing the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, an economic bloc comprising several regional countries, military operations will cease and a caretaker government will be formed comprising the prince's party and Hun Sen's Cambodian People's Party until elections next year. The deal also gives King Norodom Sihanouk, Ranariddh's father, authority over the armed...
...rejects the bill now, even citing constitutional concerns, it will appear to Yeltsin's critics simply that he has taken a bribe. Faced with that quandary, Yeltsin gave Moscow a wide berth Friday and headed off instead to an elite holiday resort on the Volga, some 500 miles southeast of the capital...
...many fearing a return to the bloody days of the Khmer Rouge. And also a return to the isolation: "Let the Cambodian people solve the situation without interference from outside," said Hun Sen in a national television address. But the coup is already having a ripple effect. Association of Southeast Asian Nations members are reconsidering admitting Cambodia to the security organization at its July 23 annual meeting. Ousted First Prime Minister Norodom Ranariddh, who fled to France just ahead of the coup, is expected to arrive in the U.S. Wednesday to appeal for support from Washington and the U.N. Security...
...public highways for the mine's trucks. Along with several state legislators and environmental groups, Leone and his fellow miners opposed West Virginia's preliminary decision last March to double the visible-emissions limits for the Mount Storm plant, considered to be one of the 12 dirtiest in the Southeast. Those actions may keep lawyers for Mettiki and Virginia Power busy, but they are not likely to revive the Potomac mines...