The Knoxville News-Sentinel from Knoxville, Tennessee • 1

CT Denver Broncos trample penalty-plagued Buffalo BillsCI I UESDAYMORNING The Knoxville News-Sentinel BCMfM NOWAK) Final Edition SEPTEMBER 19 1989 35 Cent i i Strikers keep coal company shut 27800 homeless 1 Puerto Rico ripped by 125-mph winds By AnooMmI Prate SAN JUAN Puerto Rico -Hurricane 125-mph winds pounded Puerto Rico on Monday after ripping across other islands in the eastern Caribbean where it left at least 14 people dead and tens of thousands homeless The National Weather Service said Hugo the most powerful storm to hit the region this decade slammed into the eastern tip of Puerto Rico and Skirted the northern coast before roaring to the west-northwest toward the edge of the Dominican Republic and the Bahamas Late Monday Puerto Rico Gov Hernandez Colon said he will "ask President Bush to declare the island a disaster after a tour 'showed at least 27900 people were made homeless by thestorm Colon and Police Superintendent Ismael Betancourt said there were no reports of hurricane-related deaths but that poor communications across the bland prevented any definitive tallies on damages or casualties Hugo was poised to hit the northeastern coast of the Dominican Republic which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti Meanwhile Bob Sheets director of the National Hurricane Center in Coral Gables Fla said Monday night that still too early to tell whether Hugo win strike the US mainland "About two days from now three days from now be out in the Bahamas and about Wednesday well be making decisions aa to whether or not we need any (hurricane) watches or warnings for anywhere along the US he said However Sheets said that sophisticated forecasting models indicate the hurricane will travel in a northwesterly direction for several hours then "unfortunately our best (hurricane computer projection) models indicate that it ST PAUL Va Mike Odom president of the Pittston Coil Group on Monday characterized the takeover of his company! preparation plant by 99 mineri aa an unprece-act "Our primary concern the aafoty of all of our mineri" Odom said aa he stood a few yards from where soma 1600 striking United -Mine Workers of America have thrown up a mflea-long picket line in front of the preparation plant's main entrance "Obvioualy law and order have to be reetorod hare7 he said coal preparation plant was taken over Sunday Peace marks day No 1 says minister By FRED BROWN RBI WnSi ST PAUL Va Jim Sessions who marched 99 striking miners Sunday non-violent occupation of coal preparation from inside the complex that he leave until workers walk out "The longer this goes for standing Pittston Coal Co and looking out over supporters who have the latest confrontation the company and the United Workers of America Sessions 53 executive of the i I 4 3r I 1 I lJ 4 it 5' i I Tbs Rev with in a Virginia plant said Monday the protesting on the me to Sessions Mop the fifth floor hundreds of gathered for between Mine coordinator Knoxville-based Commission on Religion in Appalachia non-denominational organization of grass-roots religious activists who work on many social issues Sessions was asked by the union to Join the Other dergy members were invited but Tt could not be worked out Union leaders let the 99 protesters know where they were going until few hours prior to the occupation "These are a wonderful bunch of guys and they intend to stay for as long as they Sessions said The miners shut down the plant Monday Company officials said they aren't sura when operations will return to normal Carloads of Virginia State Police have gathered along with federal kw enforcement person-neL Buses to cart the miners to Jail have been stationed nearby Please tee MINISTER page A2 BwfBWSWiirfllMitfklr afternoon by 99 striking mineri and a Methodist minister from Knoxville Tbs Rev Jim Sessions of the Commission on Religion in Appalachia was invited by the union to accompany tbs 99 miners No one wss injured when the miners marched brigade fashion acrosa a bridge to the main plant entrance There ware no arrests Company officials decided not to return to regular shift work in the plant Monday and Odom said he was not sure when the plant would open Union officials were calling it a victory of aorta and were some-what surprised that the Virginia State Police had not been ordered to retake the plant aa it entered Its first fen day of being shutdown Odom add the stata police and company officials were able to remove about 13 employees from the occupied plant late Sunday night- Please see MINE pegs Al Above miners occupying a Pittston coal preparation plant take a break in tha control room Monday morning At right la CecH Roberta United Mina Workers vice president who addressed supporters Monday To Roberts right is a striking coal miner i STORM back page Lease for billboards Commission refuses to reverse its policy By ERIC VREELAND NNwwiniTCi ran wnver Ten of the 19 Knox County commisrionen exactly enough to carry a vote backed a con traversal renewal of a lease agreement for five billboards mi county-owned property Monday Pro-environment Knox Coun-tians had lobbied for the commission to ravens a long-standing policy of leasing small sliver of the John Tarieton Home property severed from the main campus by Interstate 40 to billboard companies They argued that Knox County should take the lead in statewide campaign against billboards which they view as "visual pollution" "Knox County must place a priority on its beauty4 Gene Burr vice president of Tennesseans for Scenic Beauty told the commissionen before the vote "Our community deserves the benefit of aggressive Another resident simply said "rd rather look at trees and flowers than But Commissioner Joe McMillan said "These signs have been In existence for 15 years or more I know what now makes theme public -He and other commissioners Prospective WKCH buyer linked to alleged partner of Gen Noriega Commissioner sees plaque as a plague for taxpayers The Knox County Commission voted Monday to spend up to $1000 for a second plaque with their names on it to commemorate a four-year $18 million renovation of the Knox County Courthouse Commissioners said the second-floor patio location of the existing marble slab 3-feet wide by 4-feet tan is not prominent enough It gives the renovation date and lists the commissioners and architects The new plaque will go on the exterior west walL Only one commissioner Bee DeSelm voted against the appropriation she noted that one plaque should suffice "A lot of that ii DeSelm said after the meeting She earlier had said the IUI00 could be spent on something else "If this passes well take your name off the Commission Chairman John Mills told her ing a launderer of international drug money Thera also "the that a firm which Brumlik once headed was connected with a fraud involving Pemex the Mexican national petroleum organization according to filing at the FCC by Media Central Inc the current controlling owner of Channel 41 Morton Kent of Chattanooga chairman of Media Central provided the FCC with a foreign newspaper dipping alleging that Brumlik in 1980 headed American International Trading Corp which was involved in selling bar- Fleaae are STATION page AX Tha corporation NewSouth Knoxville Inc seeking a license from tha FCC which must review and approve transfers of television operating 11- Petitions filed with the PCC allege that TeleOnce Corpi seeking license for two television stations in Puerto Rico when real are Angel Gonzalez who reportedly served prison time cm robbery charge and Julio Vera Guterriez a citizen of Peru Gonzalez allegedly a business partner with Noriega in a TV station in Panama Noriega indicted in Florida on drug i accused by US officials of 1 By RICHARD POWELSON WaahiDQton bumu WASHINGTON A prospective buyer for Knoxville television station WKCH has alleged links to Panama strongman Gen Manuel Noriega according to documents on file with the Federal Communications Commission Timothy Brumlik who was arrested Friday in Florida on -laundering charges ac-in documents of being an experienced "front for other including a businesa asao-ckta of Noriega an alleged drug trafficker Brumlik the head of a corporation seeking to buy WKCH-TV Channel 41 Please see SIGNS page At 1 I.