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Ann Landers 7B Business 8C Classified 8C Comics 6B Deaths 10A Editorials 12A ood ID Horoscope 7B Letters 13A Markets 6C People 2A Service Directory 2A Sports 1C Television 5B Weather 2A Today's word Metaphor A figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as if it were anoth er Look for this word in the story "Intellectuals hunt met aphor for the on page 11 A Religious group almost sold license to man accused of money laundering By Erie Norton Macon Telegraph and News When executives of Good News Television decided to sell their license to build a station they thought found a buyer who would do something with it Instead the religious group learned this week that the buyer is a man who authorities say has "been dancing with the Timothy Brumlik who reached an agreement to buy the Good News license in ebruary was arrested by undercover agents riday in Orlando la after a two month investigation Brumlik was charged with one count of violating the federal money laundering statute He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and $500000 in fines Brumlik was nabbed as he counted the first stack of $1 million the undercover agents paid him under the guise of setting up a money laundering operation said Mike Brick assistant special agent in charge of the lorida Department of Law Orlando office Brick said authorities believe Brumlik 43 has been involved in money laundering schemes mainly with Colombian drug smugglers for many years guy's been dancing with the Brick said now time for him to pay the attorney Jim Russ was in court at bond hearing Wednesday and unavailable for comment his secretary said No bond was set at the five hour hearing according to the Orlando Sentinel Brick speculated that Brumlik wanted to use televi sion stations to launder mney A station for example could charge a fictitious company $500000 for advertis ing and then have a reason to deposit that amount in a bank The money would seem like it had been made in a legitimate business deal Brick said Brumlik already owned seven stations and was negotiating to buy several more A Good News official said arrest puts the sale of the license in limbo "I don't know where we said executive director Donald Wood The ederal Communications Commission which regulates television stations already had approved the sale although the deal hadn't yet closed Wood said (See LICENSE page 4A) 4 44 25C 1 63rd A 264 1 Macon Telegraph Publishing Co 1989 MACON GEORGIA THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 21 1989 GEORGIA EDITION Coast Guard is evacuating frightened travelers from ravaged US resort island By Jean McNair The Aeeoclatod Preet CHRISTIANSTED US Virgin Is lands The Coast Guard on Wednesday began evacuating peo ple from the resort island of St Croix because of security fears following widespread looting after Hurricane Hugo In Washington President Bush authorized sending US troops in cluding military police units to the US Virgin Islands "to help restore the White House announced Wednesday Earlier Bush ordered federal troops to help Puerto Rico which was also battered by the hurricane The president declared the US Virgin Islands a disaster area mak ing the island chain south and east of Puerto Rico eligible for emergen cy relief On St Croix a popular US vacation site about 70 miles east of Puerto Rico frantic tourists pleaded for evacuation and witnesses said police and some National Guards men took part in the looting "The private citizens around here are beginning to walk around with pistols on their hips and going to be real trouble if somebody come in and quiet it Stu Ragland a doctor on St Croix told an amateur radio operator A Coast Guard office in Miami said personnel from the 270 foot cutter Bear went ashore Wednes day Petty Officer John Ware of Coast Guard headquarters in San Juan said the cutter came ashore and took 40 people Allen Burd also a petty officer in San Juan said anybody would be taken off who wants to get leave but he had no immediate informa tion on where the evacuees would be going A source in the Puerto Rican government said they were being taken to that island Coast Guard officers earlier de scribed the looting as and said the crew was evacuating (See EVACUATE page 4A) 0 SeP 1 928 80W dead MiMKl I i III 0 Sept 1944 390 dead 0 WPaWSWW 0 Hazel 1954 95 dead in US I Sy 0 Diane 1955 1 84 dead 0 David 1979 19 dead In US Source: NOAA API Dominguez Hugo speeds up might hit coast by late Thursday Savannah getting ready in case Hugo visits Page IB By Dan Sewell The Associated Press MIAMI Hurricane Hugo quick ened its pace toward the Eastern Seaboard on Wednesday as resi dents gathered supplies and made evacuation plans while violence and looting broke out on the shat tered islands in the wake orecasters issued a hurricane watch from St Augustine la to Cape Hatteras NC urging coastal residents to begin taking precau tions Hugo picked up speed over open water and could come ashore late Thursday or early riday "I think looking at this one with a bit of city spokesman Pat Dowling said in Myrtle Beach SC as radio and TV advisories warned: "Remember the people of Puerto Since Sunday Hugo has killed at least 25 people left thousands homeless and caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage as it slashed through the northeastern Caribbean with wind of 125 to 150 mph ederal relief shipments laden with supplies and rescue workers from lorida South Carolina West Virginia and Guantanamo Bay Cu ba went to Puerto Rico while British and rench forces helped Montserrat and Guadeloupe At 6 pm EDT center was 600 miles southeast of Savannah Ga Its coordinates were 270 north latitude and 730 west longitude and it was moving northwest at 17 mph up from 12 mph earlier in the day (See HUGO page 4A) Baugh wins 3rd term in Milledgeville By Carl Elmore Macon Telegraph and News MILLEDGEVILLE Mill edgeville Mayor James Baugh was re elected to a third four year term Wednesday as were all six members of the City Council Baugh called the vic tories a sign of unity in the community "We have any alienat ed groups because they feel a d5 IM James Baugh like they have been treated unfairly in my administra tion" said Baugh who first became mayor in 1980 Baugh gar nered 67 per cent of the vote to defeat two challengers in the race Voter turnout was heavier than ex pected with 55 percent of registered voters participating 2999 out of 5464 Baugh a 68 year old physi cian defeated challengers Col lins Lee a former city councilman and retired special education teacher and Leo Anderson a real estate inves tor Baugh received 2010 votes Lee received 942 and Anderson got 47 according to complete but unofficial returns provided by Probate Judge Calvin Simpson turned out a little better than I Baugh said when interviewed during a vic tory celebration at a Milledge (See WINS page 4A) Bomb may have downed jet 4 'Vr a fr A A 4 i JsJa ROBERTO GONZALEZMacon Telegraph and News Registration day Members of the Black Student Union at Macon College plan activities for the upcoming school year on the first day of classes for this quarter rom left are Eddie McCloud Shawn Murray Xavier Hands and Ronnie Anderson Among events they planned is a dinner for the homeless on Thanksgiving By Jeffrey Ulbrich The Associated Press PARIS A Moslem extremist group claimed responsibility Wednesday for the downing of a rench DC 10 jetliner in southern Niger that killed all 171 people on board US rench and UTA airline authorities said they believe the plane bound Tuesday from Chad to Paris was blown out of the sky by a bomb A US team of investigators was to leave later Wednesday for Niger Two callers who claimed to rep resent Islamic Jihad but did not give their own names made their claims of responsibility in separate telephone calls to the airline and to a Western news agency Islamic Jihad is among several radical fundamentalist groups in Lebanon believed to be part of Hezbollah or Party of God the umbrella groups thought to hold 16 Westerners hostage in Lebanon in cluding eight Americans Hezbollah was at the center of a hostage crisis earlier this summer when Israeli forces in southern Lebanon kidnapped a group mem ber Shiite Moslem religious leader Sheik Abdul Karim Obeid Three days after the July 28 abduction of Obeid the pro Iranian Organization of the Oppressed on Earth claimed it retaliated by hang ing US Marine Lt Col William Higgins abducted while on UN duty in Lebanon Doubt has been cast on claims Higgins was hanged or whether he died earlier Among the passengers on the rench jetliner were seven Ameri cans including Bonnie Pugh wife of the US ambassador to Chad Rob (See BOMB page 4A) Why some are asking Mercedes on the gas guzzler list? By Josef Hebert The Associated Press WASHINGTON Call it the mys tery of the missing Mercedes 15 of them in fact The luxury cars most of them gas guzzlers all failed to show in the Environmental Protec tion auto mileage survey this week Was it an innocent lapse or by design? Among the 981 cars whose ex pected gasoline efficiency was de tailed in the EPA list and then widely distributed by the news me dia were cars ranging from the 58 mpg Geo Metro to the 6 mpg Lamborghini Countach not to men tion a half dozen versions of the Rolls Royce But no Mercedes Benz Don Larson branch manager at the auto testing laboratory in Ann Arbor Mich said that every year some cars perhaps 80 or 90 do not make the list because manu facturers do not provide the testing data for certification early enough to make the deadline for sending the list to the printer Nevertheless he said would be unusual for a manufacturer to have his entire product line not ederal law requires automakers to submit the data and have it (See WHY page 4A).