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The Daily News from Lebanon, Pennsylvania • 6

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The Daily Newsi
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Lebanon, Pennsylvania
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6 The Daily News, Lebanon, Tuesday, April 30, 1991 Outlook calls for clouds, showers Skies will be partly cloudy tonight with a 30-percent chance of an evening shower or thunderstorm. Wednesday will be partly cloudy with a 30-percent chance of a thunderstorm late in the day. Highs will be in the mid to upper 70s. During the 24-hour period ending at midnight Monday, the high was 55 and the low was 50. The temperature at midnight was 55 and there was a trace of precipitation.

A year ago, the high was 70 and the low was 52. The temperature at midnight was 52 and there was .54 inches of precipitation. Fair skies are expected Thursday and Friday. There is a chance of showers Saturday. Morning lows will be in the upper 40s to mid-50s Thursday, mostly in the 40s Friday and from around 40 to the mid-40s Saturday.

Daytime highs will be from around 60 to around 70 Thursday, in the upper 50s to mid-60s Friday, and from 60 to 70 Saturday. The six to 10-day outlook for Sunday, May 5, through Thursday, May 9, calls for temperatures to average near normal south and above normal in the north and for precipitation to be near normal. Normal highs are in the mid-60s to Killer hurricane into coast of DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) A slammed into Bangladesh's southeastern coast today with 145 mph winds and waves up to 20 feet, killing at least 100 people and destroying tens of thousands of homes, officials said. The storm roared in from the Bay of Bengal at about midnight and battered 14 districts for more than seven hours, uprooting trees and ripping apart telephone and power lines, said a Relief Ministry official. Normal communications were severed, and the only source of information on the disaster came across the radio link of the Red Crescent, the Muslim equivalent of the Red Cross.

Before the storm hit, about 3 million people were evacuated from an area where 7 million people live in 2,000 villages. About 80 percent of the mud and straw huts in the region were blown away, said the Relief Ministry official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "The deaths would have been on a much larger scale" if the residents had not been evacuated, the official said. around 70. Normal lows are from 40 to 45 in the north and in the mid to upper.

40s in is the south. Normal hunprecipitation from 50 to 60 dredths of an inch. Scattered storms in South Scattered thunderstorms stretched across the South today, following a weekend of severe storms that spawned tornadoes and caused major flooding in some areas. Clouds covered the Northern Rockies and Plains today. Skies were fair over the desert Southwest and Florida.

Heavy rain on Monday pounded Georgia, where a man was struck by lightning and killed while he did yard work over the weekend, authorities said. The same bolt split two trees from top to bottom. There was flooding in parts of Arkansas, where a woman was killed when waters swept her car off a highway, said authorities. Skies began to clear up in parts of Mississippi, but the threat of more flooding remained. Storms in the West continued to dump snow in higher elevations on Monday.

slams Bangladesh He said the hurricane whipped up waves that reached 20 feet and many offshore islands were under 12 feet of water. The hurricane subsided around dawn and dissipated. The Relief Ministry official said the worst affected areas were the offshore islands of Bhola, Hatiya, Sandwip, Kutubdia, Moheshkhali and the mainland districts of Patuakhali, Chittagong, Cox's Bazaar, Feni and Satkhira. The area describes an arc that is 125 miles from Dhaka. The previous worst cyclone to hit Bangladesh was in 1970.

It claimed nearly 500,000 lives when it roared into the coast with 138 mph winds. That record was surpassed at five minutes past midnight when a wind speed of 140 mph was recorded, the Weather Office in Dhaka said. The Relief Ministry official said satellite communication between Bangladesh and the rest of the world was disrupted when an antenna at the Bebunia satellite station was damaged. Bangladesh, a low-lying tropical country on the delta of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers, is frequently buffeted by cyclones, floods and drought. At least 100 die in (Continued from page 1) ty of 235,000.

He said about 75 percent of the buildings were damaged in the Black Georgia Caspian Sea Sea Tbilisi Azerbaijan TURKEY Armenia 100 miles 100 km. IRAN 4 Moscow SOVIET UNION DETAIL AREA TURKEY IRAN NATIONAL WEATHER The forecast for noon, Wednesday, May 1. -10s -Os Os 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110s Bands show high temperatures. FRONTS: COLD STATIONARY Accu-Weather, Inc. WARM Pressure (H) HIGH LOW SHOWERS RAIN T-STORMS FLURRIES SNOW ICE SUNNY PT.

CLOUDY CLOUDY REGIONAL Weather Wednesday, May 1 forecast for daytime conditions and high temperatures Montreal Caribou Toronto Albany Boston Buffalo New York Atlantic Ocean Washington Accu-Weather, Inc. Va Associated Press GraphicsNet Soviet sion news program showed rescuers pulling an injured woman from a severely damaged building in Dzhava. Another woman sat stunned outside a shattered house with her arm in a sling. Soviet Interior Ministry troops already in the region to quell ethnic unrest were ordered to the disaster area to aid in rescue efforts. Residents of Tbilisi said damage there appeared to be limited to cracked walls.

Rocks cascaded off mountainsides onto houses in the stricken area, and Sachkhere's railroad station was reported badly damaged. Monday's quake also was felt in neighboring Armenia, which was devastated by a 1988 earthquake that killed 25,000 people but there were no reports of damage or in- WE BUY OLD TOYS Call (717) 866-4421 866-7709 AP Monday night's "Vremya" televiThe LEBANON VALLEY MALL PRESENTS ITS ANNUAL PHOTO EXPO featuring A Few Of Countryhouse The Area's Finest Gray's Studios PHOTOGRAPHERS Mountain Studio Annville Jonestown J. William Reddinger Light Main Street Photography Studio Studio Myerstown Lebanon Palmyra Morningdale Jell's Studio The Photography Jonestown Uhler Studio Annville Lebanon TUESDAY thru SUNDAY Only At The LEBANON VALLEY MALL Extended Forecast Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Wednesday, May 1 forecast for daytime conditions and high temperatures CANADA N. Y. Erie State College OHIO Pittsburgh Philadelphia Harrisburg N.J.

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earthquake The American Red Cross in Washington said Monday that the League of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies' sent an assessment team to Georgia and hat the Armenian Red Cross also sent 27-member rescue team. benefit MDA three times. Each participant must raise a minimum of $50 for MDA. The ride will be open to the public on May 11, when the park officially opens. Goal is more than $3,600.

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Both Badeshvili and Kadzhaya put the death toll at 100. "So far, we have only preliminary information, but it's Khuia Khundadze, press spokesman for the Georgian legislature, told Komsomolskaya a Pravda newspaper. In a report from Dzhava, Soviet television showed several collapsed buildings and others with gaping holes. Rescuers standing atop a mound of rubble dug hurriedly with their hands to remove huge stones. independent Interfax news agency said that among the buildings destroyed in Dzhava, were a kindergarten, a high school, a hospital and a printing house, in addition to 30 homes.

Dzhava is about 60 miles northwest of the Georgian capital of Tbilisi and about the same distance east of Kutaisi. juries Tass seconds capital. Armenian Dec. 7, 6.9 on in Armenia. said the quake was felt for 30 in Yerevan, the Armenian It also was felt in Spitak, an town was flattened by the 1988, quake, which registered the Richter scale.

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