Brown in hurricane fund call.CHANCELLOR Gordon Gordon, river in W Tasmania, Australia, 125 mi (200 km) long. Flowing from mountains to the W coast, its main tributaries are the Franklin and Denison from the N, and Serpentine and Olga to the S. Brown called yesterday for a new international fund to be set up in the wake of the Hurricane Mitch Hurricane Mitch was one of the deadliest and most powerful hurricanes on record in the Atlantic basin, with maximum sustained winds of 180 mph (290 km/h). The storm was the thirteenth tropical storm, ninth hurricane, and third major hurricane of the 1998 Atlantic disaster. Part of its role could be a freeze on debt repayments by devastated dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. countries such as Honduras Honduras (hŏnd  r`əs, –dyr`–; Span., ōnd and Nicaragua, he said.
The first British Red Cross mercy flight to Honduras, carrying vital medical supplies and other equipment, set off yesterday from Manston, Kent. The hurricane death toll now stands at 9,000 - 6,500 in Honduras alone. Aid workers say 13,000 people are still missing and 40,000 are cut off. Teacher Isabel Arriola, 36, rescued by a British helicopter after six days adrift on a makeshift raft, was recovering in a Honduran hospital yesterday. Her husband and three children all drowned. |
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