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Petersburg, Florida Monday, September 18, 1989 74 pages 25 cents a limes iii ii I Bahamas i Atlantic Ocean I 1 i -f 1 G-flyg kils i i 0 Puerto i "6 Leaser Amines; nam kico si Guadbloiipe i i c-ri towaird Pyetrto MS 1Rd(D(D) Jamaica Dominican i. 'Republic 1 i I Caribbean Sea Compiled from Timet wir i- it i i i- -T Hurricane Hugo mi i I AriTO a i I i -f AMERICA 140 miles Venezuela olombla Hugo is still far away Forecasters say it is too early to tell whether Hugo will threaten the U.S. mainland. But if Hugo strikes Puerto Rico and heads toward Florida, the hurricane would still have to travel 1,200 miles to reach Tampa Bay. At 9 mph its current speed that trip would take more than five days.

41 Times art Poor and pregnant Many women want, but can't get, tubal ligations Report: State's birth control program flawed. 3A By CAROL GENTRY Timet Stiff Wrttf Thousands of poor women across Florida want a simple "tube tying" operation that will keep them from having babies. But many can't get it. A Clearwater woman who has 12 children and is pregnant with her 13th has been trying to get her tubes tied for years, clinic records show. Even though the state has to pay for her maternal health care and for frequent social work visits to the family to check out child abuse complaints it has failed to heed her request.

In rural Hillsborough County, a woman on welfare wanted a sterilization last year, after she had her sixth child. But a paperwork problem stood in the way, and now she is about to give birth again. A Ruskin woman said clinic nurses told her there's no money to pay for the sterilization she has been seeking for six years. So she must stay on the birth con SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico Hurricane Hugo cut a path of destruction across the Caribbean Sunday, killing nine people and leaving thousands homeless before turning its 140-mph fury toward the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. The hurricane, the strongest to hit the region in a decade, did most of its damage on the French resort island of Guadeloupe.

Hugo left nine people dead, 80 injured and 4,000 homeless, authorities there said. The storm ripped off roofs, blew down an airport control tower and left 70 percent of the roads impassable. Hurricane-force winds of nearly 100 mph ripped away roofs and knocked out power on St. Thomas and St. Croix, about 70 miles east of Puerto Rico.

Hugo was expected to hit Puerto Rico, an island of 3.3-million people, by daybreak today, forecasters said. Hurricane forecasters spoke bluntly and with alarm. "The people of Puerto Rico must be prepared," said Bob Case of the National Hurricane Center in Miami. "That island has been spared something this huge for more than 30 years but, historically, even tropical storms have caused flooding there and mudslides that led to deaths. This could really be a catastrophe." r.

At midnight, Hugo was centered near longitude 17.4 north and latitude 64.6 west, about 130 miles east-south-! east of San Juan, and was moving to the west-northwest at' 9 mph. Its top sustained winds were 140 mph. Hugo is the fourth hurricane and the eighth named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season. Hugo is a Class 4 hurricane, the second most powerful designation. Weather experts said Hugo was the most powerful storm to hit the region since Hurricane David in 1979.

That storm killed an estimated 1,200 people in the Caribbean and Florida. Information from AP, Reuters and the Los Angeles Times was used in this report. 111 AP This satellite photo shows Hugo at 6 p.m. Sunday. 49ers get a scare from Bucs Emmys offer a night of upsets trol pill, she said, even though it gives her severe headaches.

The Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services (HRS), which offers each of these women prenatal care through county health departments, says it is not to blame for their dilemma. Too few doctors and hospitals are List of winners. 5A By JANIS D. FROELICH Time TlYlton Critic Dr. Jim Wilson of Bayfront Medical Center Demand is double the availability.

and Remembrance. James Woods, who was tapped as best actor in ABC's My Name Is Bill skunked Lonesome Dove leads Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones. Lonesome Dove was even denied outstanding miniseries, won instead by War and Remembrance, "which took longer than World War II," said executive producer Dan Curtis. In a rare tie, CBS's Day One, Presents and Roe vs. Wade both won for outstanding dramacomedy special.

More upsets: Best actor in a drama was Carroll O'Connor of NBC's In the Heat of the Night, Please see EMMYS 5A Very boring Emmys that was the call as nostalgia upstaged the current state of the tube at the 41st annual Emmy Awards, which aired Sunday night on the Fox network, locally on WFTS-Ch. 28. But if the disjointed salute to 50 years of television was too much of nothing-fresh, the Emmys did supply plenty of major upsets. Holly Hunter exclaimed "holy smokes" when she won for lead actress in a miniseries or special in NBC's Roe vs. Wade.

Hunter beat out female leads in both CBS's Lonesome Dove and ABC's War willing to do the sterilization operation, called a tubal ligation, for the amount of money the government pays which is anywhere from one-half to two-thirds the usual $1,600 bill for the procedure. And the eligibility rules for the program are so rigid that it is difficult for many of the neediest women to qualify. The state doesn't keep lists of women who have been turned away, but "I would say there are probably around 25,000 in our client load right now who would want a tubal," said Donna Barber, one of the top HRS experts on family planning. Martinez slammed at abortion rights rally By DIANE RADO Time Staff Writer "Family planning hasn't been the most popular program in Washington. Donna Barber, family planning expert It A I I a (mf 1 1 PEMBROKE PINES About 2,500 feminists and their supporters made it clear Sunday they don't like the man in the governor's mansion.

Gov. Bob Martinez, a Roman Catholic who opposes abortion, was the subject of signs, speeches and even new T-shirt designs during a rally for abortion rights held by the Florida National Organization for Women (NOW). "Bob, Bob, we'll get your job," the crowd chanted at one point. Feminists carried signs that said, "Way to blow the job Bob," "Martinez wants to degrade women," and "Ayatollah Bob belongs in Tehran not Tallahassee." Beth Alfano, a member of a Hillsborough County NOW chapter, was selling "Bob Busters" T-shirts similar to the well-known Ghostbusters shirts. Her $12-shirts showed Martinez's head circled and crossed out by a red line.

But for all the chanting and cheering, the rally did not meet the expectations of NOW members who had hoped to draw a substantially larger crowd. On Saturday, Florida NOW president Jane Blimling said that she expected 5,000 to 15,000 demonstrators at the C. B. Smith Park in Pembroke Pines, southwest of Fort Lauderdale. Broward Sheriffs deputies' estimates varied from 1,500 to 3,000 people throughout the 212-hour rally.

Many of the demonstrators were from South Florida, but several buses of Tampa Bay-area NOW members left early in the morning to make it to the noon rally. Blimling blamed the blistering i i State officials say the system for providing tubals has been badly flawed for years. But it has become worse recently, they say, because of rising numbers of women without health insurance, increased demand for the procedure and cuts in federal money. "Family planning hasn't been the most popular program in Washington," Barber said. Those who work in the system say it doesn't make sense to reduce money for tubals, because pregnancies lead to higher infant mortality rates and bigger taxpayer bills for health care and welfare.

"If you cost out a tubal over the life span (of a patient), it's really one of the least expensive methods of birth control," Barber said. "It's also the most reliable." Yet, in interviews with doctors, nurses, social workers and patients, the St. Petersburg Times learned: Poor women in some areas, including mid-Pinellas County, have no chance of a tubal ligation at childbirth because deliveries are performed by nurse midwives, who are not trained in surgery. Tubals at childbirth are convenient for the patient, cheaper for taxpayers and more likely to be covered by government insurance. Many poor women who deliver in teaching hospitals leave without having the tubal performed because their elective surgery is "bumped" by more pressing cases, such as trauma or Caesarean sections.

While this happens to an estimated one in four such women in the Tampa Bay area, state officials say the statewide average is probably twice that. The chances of leaving the hospital with Please see POOR 2A Tim photo VICTOR JUNCO Tampa Bay linebacker Eugene Marve rejoices over a fumble recovery late in Sunday's game; San Francisco still went on to win 20-16. Complete coverage, Section C. INSIDE INDEX Comics 8D Parimutuels 10C Ann Landers 3D Editorials 8A Sports 1-1 PC Business 1-28E Letters 9A Television 7D Classified 10-20C Obituaries 7B Weather 2B Timet photo JONATHAN WIGG.S Lisa Mooney of Plantation joined the Pinellas delegation at Sunday's Broward County rally of abortion rights activists. After Deng A successor for China's leader? 2A Please see RALLY 5A.