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Florida' Largest Evening Newspaper Partly Cloudy Temperatares 70s-opper 80s Rain Probability 40 percent Winds Southwest 15-20 mph Seas 4-6 feet Weather On Page 2A Vol. 68, No. 2H Mill Homo Final Tuesday, September 4, 1979 5 Sections, 60 Page9 15 Otils 5 197 Qui nwinmnn Cannf Take J(MiIT Aim At Historic Charle ston iW By Matt Bokr The Associated Presi COCOA BEACH Hurricane David, the killer of almost a thousand persons, churned along the Atlantic Coast today with dead aim on Charleston, S.C., after pummeling the coast of north-central Florida. Residents of coastal areas of Georgia and South Carolina were evacuated as weather officials predicted the storm, still packing 90 mph winds, would hit land again later today. "There's no question about it," said Dick Shenot of the National Weather Service at Charleston.

"Charleston is going to get hit." He predicted that by late afternoon hurricane-force winds would sweep parts of the historic city of 60,000 residents, home of Fort Sumter where the Civil War began, with tides 6 to 8 feet above normal. At noon, the hurricane was located near latitude 31.0 north and longitude 80.9 west, or about 75 miles south southeast of Savannah, It was moving toward the north at 12 to 15 mph, a slight increase in speed from earlier reports. Hurricane warnings were in effect from Jacksonville to Cape Fear, N.C. Hurricane warnings were discontinued south of Jacksonville at noon. 'A APPhoM the huge waves, they're holding Tybee Island, to make sure uation of about 250,000 people along Florida's Atlantic coast.

In Brevard County alone, 75,000 were evacuated. But most were headed back home today. Dick young, spokesman for the Kennedy Space Center, said a huge Atlas Centaur launch rocket was the only heavy piece of hardware left Minimal As Hurricane David moves up the East Coast, most people left for dry land. But not these boys. Almost completely covered by that most other damage seemed rela- tively minor.

Wind tore roofs off, trees smacked buildings and there was flooding in Indian River County mediately available but it was evi- dent that five counties bore most of David's fury Palm Beach, Brevard, Martin, St. Lucie and Indian River. Parts of Volusia County also suuerea damage. In St. Lucie, assistant county engi- neer Butch West said trailer? on Hutchison Island were damaged but but civil defense spokesman Lee wzie saw it wouw taKe a wnue to total up damages- Meanwhile.Gov.

Bob Graham said that the hurricane had forced evac- 4 Die Iri Broward; Property Damage Is By Dave Casey SUfT Writer Hurricane David failed to hit Broward County with the violent force anticipated, but the final toll of the storm was enough Tn terms of lives lost and property damaged to serve as nature's grim warning of what could have been. Property damage was generally confined to a few small boats sunk and trees and signs knocked down, but at least four persons died in storm-related incidents. The known dead were: Charles Kennedy, 26, who apparently drowned while surfing at Pompano Beach Sunday afternoon as the storm was approaching. Puccio, 65, who died Saturday of an apparent as he strained to lower awnings on his home at 16th St. in Pembroke Pines in preparation for David's Irene J.

Katz, 71, who was struck by a van and killed across Northeast Fourth Avenue to seek storm Fort Lauderdale High School Sunday night from her 3000 NE Fifth Terrace. unidentified man lulled when high winds apparently British sports car off Interstate 95 near Sunrise about 6 a.m. yesterday. The driver, described as a in his middle or late 20s, was crushed beneath his Healy convertible when it rolled over on the Also, in an incident during the height of the storm, Randolph Wilder, 24, was found shot twice in the head outside a rooming house at 833 NW Sixth Ave. Emergency Medical Services paramedics, who had been ordered off the streets because of high winds, refused to answer a call so police took Wilder in a police cruiser to Broward General Medical Center, where he died about noon yesterday.

An autopsy was scheduled today to determine further details about his death. Pompano Beach police, who said they were notified by the missing man's distraught wife, found Kennedy's car in the city lot at Atlantic Boulevard and Briny Avenue. Kennedy's surfboard was missing from atop the car. Kennedy's body was pulled from the surf yesterday at Lauderdale-by-the-Sea and identified by his wife late last Please Turn To Page 5A, Column 1 Charleston residents cut short Labor Day celebrations, canceled school today and started battening down for the storm. "There's not a loaf of bread left in the store," said Billy Powell, a co-manager of a James Island grocery.

A Charleston department store reported brisk sales of flashlights, radio batteries, cooking fuel, camp stoves, lamp oil and hurricane lamps. Low areas of the plush resort of Hilton Head Island near the Georgia border were ordered evacuated and the two-lane bridge leading to the mainland was bumper-to-bumper with cars. Rain and gale force winds gusting to 45 mph were already buffeting the Georgia coast off Brunswick. The causeway linking coastal Sea Island and St, Simons Island was already closed by water. The storm slipped offshore early this morning after howling through Cocoa Beach and the nation's space complex at Kennedy Space Center.

Jacksonville was spared damaging winds but 12-foot waves battered the northeast Florida coast. Part of a 300-foot fishing pier washed away at St. Augustine. Florida officials began assessing the damage in David's wake. Dollar estimates weren't lm- Fidel -Castro delivers an I fx 1.7 i Joseph heart attack 8840 NW strike.

Mrs. as she walked shelter at home at An swept his Boulevard white man 1965 Austin median strip. on to the seawall railing at it's really a hurrkfane. exposed, and that no major damage was reported. just south the hurricane devas- tated twQ COndom in i ums and dozens of trailers when it roared through the near-deserted island town of Mel- bourne Beach, Please Turn To Page 4A, Column I More On David ill1' i 1 it; -i, y.

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Paul G. Donohue 2C Ann Landers 2C Don 7c News I'honen: Circulation, 761-4610 Clfinslflvd. 761-4111 Other Departments, 76lJutiO Sadat Sails Into Haifa For Summit With Begin, Raises Palestinian Issue United Preii International HAIFA, Israel Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, his yacht under heavy protective cover, sailed Into Haifa today for a summit with Prime Minister Menachem Begin and said the "umbrella of peace" should be spread to Include the Palestinian people. Ten Israeli missile boats and three Egyptian warships protected Sadat's white presidential yacht Al Horreya as it sailed into Haifa on the Egyptian leader's third visit to Israel. The summit, the fourth between the two leaders, marked the first time Egyptian warships had anchored in Israeli waters.

Sadat promised to press for answers to two of the toughest Middle East issues Palestinian self-rule and the future of Jerusalem. He was welcomed by Begin, President Yitzhak Navon and their wives. Sadat was accompanied by his wife, Jihan, in her first visit to Israel and their daughter. "We are determined to spread the umbrella of peace to in U.S., China Walk Out On Castro During Bitter Attack United PreM International HAVANA Cuba's unpredictable President Fidel Castro has angered Washington, Peking and Cairo with a surprisingly harsh speech yesterday at the opening of a summit of 95 non-aligned nations. Castro's finger-waving attacks on the United States, Egypt and China during his 85-minute speech triggered a walkout by U.S.

and Peking diplomats and a heated three-hour discussion on the Egypt-Israel peace treaty. Wayne Smith, head of the U.S. Interest section in Havana and an invited guest at the opening of the five-day summit, told reporters he walked out because the Castro speech was "vituperative." Castro accused Washington of everything from trying to assassinate him to fueling the Middle East crisis. But the part of the speech that most surprised the 1,400 delegates and 1,100 journalists at the conference was where he admitted his close to Moscow and defended them. "We owe a debt of gratitude to socialist solidarity," Castro said, reminding the audience of Soviet aid to Cuba since Washington imposed a "savage" economic blockade againat the island In 1963.

"Cuba is a socialist country but we do not impose our system either outside or Inside," he said, stressing that the Caribbean island is not "a tool of Soviet policy." "No one has ever told us what to do." 1 Castro called the Camp David accords between Egypt and Israel "a flagrant treason to the Arab cause and the Palestinian people" and the movement to "at least janction" Cairo. AP I'kota clude the Palestinian people," Sadat said in arrival remarks at the port. "This is a moral commitment to which we will remain faithful at all times." Sadat gave a big kiss and hug to Defense Minister Ezer Welzman who stood on the receiving line with other Israeli ministers and officials. Begin said no agenda has been drawn up for the talks and Israeli sources said he planned to raise two other outstanding problems International peace-keeping In Sinai and Egyptian oil supplies to Israel. Israel seeks to ensure Jerusalem will remain its undivided capital and docs not want the delicate autonomy bilks to lead to the creation of a Palestinian state In the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Egypt would like a dual Arab-Jewish administration for Jerusalem, which would remain united, and would like full autonomy for the 1.1 million Palestinians living under Israeli rule, leading to sclf-dutcrmlna-tlon and a ymible separate Palestinian state, 1 1 tirade he openi a summit for ni-aligned nations..