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earn? Series Continues 75 cents in some locations outside the metropolitan area mrni? m.wm America: who Stole tSie Dr mm kii .11 it II fiwei Storms kill two, flood homes r3 fl I Washington has opened wide the doors of America, the world's most lucrative consumer market, to foreign products, without adequately safeguarding American jobs. J. a -1 -u. The pair got trapped in -a basement in Abington. The severe weather kept Peco Energy and emergency crews busy.

By Jere Downs, Steve Rhea and Jeff (idles FOH THE INtjUIKER A couple died last night as flood-waters from a nearby creek inundated the basement of their Abington Township home as heavy thunderstorms struck the Philadelphia region, authorities said. The couple, tentatively identified as Frank and Marie Deal, were found in the basement of the home, in the 2900 block of Madison according to police and fire officials. It was unclear how the couple died. One report suggested Frank Deal may have suffered a heart attack during the flooding. Roslyn Fire Chief Jeff Glynn said the Deals' home was one of about 200 flooded by the Sandy Run Creek, a small stream overwhelmed by torrential rains that hit the Abington area.

Abington and neighboring Upper Dublin Township declared a state of emergency because of the storms, which dumped more than 5 inches of rain on that area, according to National Weather Service meteorol-ogist Art Kraus. Across the region, the storms washed out roads, flooded homes, cut electricity and shut down or slowed transit service. Other parts of eastern Montgomery County were also hit hard. Cheltenham Township was forced to cancel school today because of flooding at a bus garage. And the Red Cross expected to house at least 50 residents in two Montgomery County emergency shelters.

Floodwaters closed Route 309 and the Limekiln Pike, and a section of Fitzwatertown Road was washed out in Upper Dublin. The storms had a hit-or-miss qual- ity to them. By 8 p.m., Philadelphia International Airport had still recorded no measurable rain, according to the weather service. Meanwhile, more than 2 inches had fallen at Northeast Philadelphia Airport in about two hours. Only a third of an inch of rain was recorded for the day in Willow Grove, just north of Abington.

Hail and high winds possibly tornadoes accompanied some of the storms. Funnel clouds were blamed for damage in West Pike-land, Chester County, and near Lum-berton, Burlington County. Weather service officials said they would investigate the damage today. Police and firefighters rescued at least 1 1 people from cars caught in flash flooding. Others abandoned their cars on their own after venturing onto fkxKied sections of roadway.

See RAIN on A8 By Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele INQUIRER STAFF WRITERS Copyright 1996 The Philadelphia Inquirer SKA PRESIDENT of 0 United States how to create good jobs for American workers. He will say: exports. That's what Bill Clinton says, and what every president before him, Republican and Democrat, has said for 30 years and more.

"Every time we sell $1 billion of American products and services overseas, we create about 20,000 jobs" at home. That's Clinton in 1993. "Each additional billion dollars in exports creates nearly 20,000 new jobs here in the United States." That's George Bush, in 1991. "Every billion dollars by which we increase exports, one hundred thousand new jobs will be created." That's Lyndon B. Johnson, in 1964, when a billion dollars went a little further.

It has become an enduring article of faith in Washington: If U.S. manufacturers can sell more goods through unrestricted global trade, the American factory worker will have a bright and secure future. Just one problem: It doesn't work. For the last 30 years Washington has marched steadily in the direction of "free trade" and the American worker has just as steadily lost ground. Blue-collar wages have eroded; good-paying manufacturing jobs, once the mainstay of the middle class, have dwindled.

America is moving toward a two-class society of have-mores and have-lesses. The problem with Washington's frce-trade-equals-jobs formula is that it ignores the other half of the equation the negative impact of 1 The Philadelphia Inquirer MICHAEL BRYANT When Colgate-Palmolive Co. decided to close the New Jersey factory where they worked, Lynne and Ed Tevis moved 1,200 miles to take jobs with Colgate in Kansas City, Kan. Less than two years later, both were fired from the Kansas plant (at rear). Imports Cost U.S.

Jobs In the 1970s, imports into the U.S. began their relentless climb. As imports flooded in, manufacturing jobs began to decline, with 2.6 million lost since 1 979. America: Who Stole the Dream? Imports, a rising tide Manufacturing workers lose out $749 18.4 21 million Part Two 1 billion I i China. In all the presidents' statements extolling global trade, you'd be hard-pressed to find the number of American jobs lost because of imports.

And no wonder: Since 1979, 2.6 million manufacturing jobs have been eliminated. That's equal to the entire workforce of the state of Maryland. In the last two decades, Washington policymakers have thrown open the doors of the world's most lucrative consumer market to foreign products without adequate regard for the consequences either for American workers or for the long-term health of American industry. While the dropping of most U.S. tariffs on imports has meant big profits for big companies, it has been a disaster for American work-See IMPORTS on A10 $212 billion million 10 5 A 1979 1985 1990 1995 imports.

For if $1 billion in exports creates 20,000 jobs, then $1 billion in imports eliminates a like That's the minus of free trade. And under Washington's open-door policy, imports have far outpaced U.S. exports. America is creating jobs, all right in Malaysia, Taiwan, Honduras, Japan and 100 0 1995 1930 1979 1985 SOURCE: Department of Commerce and S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (nside Experts see rays of hope in treating the Vegetative' The survivors of Grozny have little to comfort them lAmid ruins and chaos, daily life is a struggle.

Arthur Flemming, an aide to every president from Franklin Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan, has died at 91. Obituary, B4. By Fayi1 Flam INtil'lUKR STAFF WRITER Patients in the so-called vegetative state are considered unconscious, though they open their eyes, move their arms and legs, and sometimes cry out. In recent months. Moss Rehabilitation Center, lie and his colleagues have devised a new method to detect signs of awareness behind the empty stares of their patients, most of them victims of accidents, assaults or stroke.

Whyte's testing protocol is one of several recently devel Sections Features Nationallnt'l A Comics E10 City Region Editorials. A12 Business Legal Notices A8 Classified Movies E6 Health Science Newsmakers. E2 Magazine E5 Obituaries B4 Sports Puzrles Ell Television E8 i however, studies have found that as many as half the 10,000 to 25,000 Americans diagnosed as vegetative are, in fact, sporadically seeing, hearing and thinking. Recognizing the first stirrings of consciousness can mean the dif Many patients with brain injuries may be helped if treated early, doctors say. Weather Humid today and tomorrow with storms likely.

Full report, B5. oped around the country. Such improvements in detecting consciousness are "exceedingly important," says brain-injury specialist Joseph Giacino of the Johnson Rehabilitation Institute at the John F. Kennedy But whom to ask? Where to go? The headquarters of the Ministry of Health has been dynamited to rubble. Who has any idea these days who might even be the minister of health? After a crushing defeat last month, Russian troops have retreated from the Chechen capital, their virtual military occupation overthrown.

In their place: a void. There is no government to speak of in Grozny these days, not much of anything. Pounded and pummeled with everything in the arsenal of the Russian military, save for nuclear weapons, Grozny is as utterly annihilated as any city ever in the 20th century. Comparisons to Dresden or Hiroshima are not inappropriate. You can drive for miles past city blocks stripped as bare of the See GROZNY on A9 By Barbara Di ick INljlJlHER STAFF WHITER GROZNY, Russia Elvira Leon-lyeva has a problem with her next-Jloor neighbor.

She's dead, and the torpse is stinking the whole entry-way at 5 Revolution Prospect. I Leontyeva discovered the body after the fighting died down in mid-August. Following her nose, she ventured into the blackened and iburnt apartment next door and lit a Jnatch. Sure enough, there ip the hall was the corpse of the elderly fiiano teacher, feet facing toward jhe bathroom. "We don't know how she died.

She 'could have had a heart attack from fear or been killed by shrapnel. 1 nly know she's dead and smells bad. 3f only I could get somebody to help, remove the body myself," sighed Leontyeva, 60, a nurse by profession. Philadelphia Online To get today's Inquirer electronically, browse: http:www.phillynews.com Medical Center in Edison, N.J. That is especially so, he said, in light of several new studies from England that have found that up to 60 percent of vegetative patients are misdiagnosed and do have som? PATIENTS on A9 ference between a return to the living and a living death, brain-injury specialists say.

If given the right treatment soon enough, even minimally conscious patients can recover some of their lost abilities, says John Whyte, a brain specialist at Philadelphia's 6Blh Year, No. 101 19. Philadelphia Newspapers Ini Call 215 or I 80O-W3-90B8 lor home duliverv. Helen Hunt wins an Emmy for best actress in a comedy series. She thanked five-lime winner Candice Bergen, who chose not to enter the competition this year.

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