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Show Page A 12 THE DAILY HERALD, Provo, Utah, Friday, October 1. im Red Cross running out of money in wake of Hurricane Georges ing $50 million in an emergency Rakic Knight campaign. Newspapers There are 193 shelters open in Puerto Rico, housing 10,049 WASHINGTON Hurricane Georges, which people, and over 144,000 the eastern islanders have registered for pummeled Caribbean, the Florida Keys disaster assistance, the Federal and the Gulf Coast last month, Emergency Management ' is financially draining the Agency said. In all. 187,402 families have American Red Cross, The disaster already has cost been affected by Georges, the the assistance organization Red Cross said. As of the end of in just the more than $100 million, topSeptember, Dominican the Republic where a $81.5 million record ping held by 1992's Hurricane Red Cross team is working about 300 people were reported Andrew, which severely cripdead and 2,000 were missing. pled Florida's south Miami-Dad"In Puerto Rico the damage County in 1992. is significant if you get pretty devastation has Georges' the Federal out of the city areas," said prompted Emergency Management Armond Mascelli, senior direcAdministration to seek billions tor of Red Cross disaster serin supplemental aid to help vices. "In the mountains they rebuild housing and damaged still have people pretty much infrastructure across the isolated, and they have carasouthern United States and in vans that bring food up to Puerto Rico. Congress is them." Many homes on the island expected to approve that request Friday, when it is still do not have electricity or scheduled to finish work on an running water, but as is the overall federal spending bill for case in many disasters, neighbors are helping each other. the coming fiscal year. "This was a big lesson in The Red Cross disaster fund currently stands at about $88 humanity and humanitarian-ism,said Dr. Adalberto million, not enough to cover its who has been offerof to costs Mendoza, anticipated helping provide temporary housing, ing free medical attention to clothing, supplies and food hurricane victims at his Ponce, vouchers for those still disPuerto Rico, clinic. Hurricane Georges is the placed in areas hardest hit by the storm. The Red Cross is worst disaster the island has seen in about four decades, hoping to replenish its dangerfinances Mendoza rais said. ously depleted by By JAMES A. DUFFY I e " - Watson and other groups reject that position and contend allowing the Makah hunt will open the door to renewed commercial whalanti-whalin- tY): The Associated Press fund-raisin- g - Watson. By PEGGY ANDERSEN ; f! NEAH aY, Wash, Makah Indian leaders are asking the Sea group Shepherd Conservation Society to take its two boats elsewhere, "It is time for your organization to stand down and leave us alone," the Makah Tribal Council said in a letter to the anti-whalin- g ing. The Makah were granted the right to hunt whales by the 1855 Treaty of Neah Bay. They stopped in the 1920s when fall and spring gray whale migrations slowed to a trickle because of commercial whaling. Insisting that he has nothing against the Makah people and respects their "traditions, language, customs and history" Watson contends that his organization "is empowered to uphold international conservation law by virtue of the World Nations United Charter for Nature that allows for individual ,., inter-- , ' vention." For all that "professed the Makah letter respect retorted, "your campaign against our people reminds us of the vicious attacks that we endured during the (salmon) fishing rights struggle of the f f group. Wednesday's letter, signed by council president Ben Johnson Jr., was a response to an publicity campaign that has intensified with the approach of the tribe's first whale hunt in more than 70 years. Sea Shepherd has had two boats the t Sea Sirenian and the anchored off this Shepherd remote community since late September. The whaling season began Oct. 1, but may not start until next month as officials wait to make sure the whales' migration has begun from Alaska to Baja California. The tribe is restricted from hunting anti-whalin- g ELAINE THOMPSON The Atsociucd Press QMring up: Makah whaler Donny Swan pulls on a wetsuit before assisting with boat repairs at the marina in Neah Bay Tuesday. 95-fo- 180-foo- In a letter Monday, Sea Shepherd leader Paul Watson restated his position and offered to help the tribe establish a tourist industry as "a more positive course in your cultural evoluwhale-watchin- and contend the hunt is illegroups gal, and Sea Shepherd has vowed to disrupt it. anti-whalin- g ter how many times you repeat this tired argument, it remains absolutely false," and the U.S. The Makah contend comgovernment was mission permission obtained last year when the panel approved a agreement to share a quota between the Makah and the Chukchi people of the Soviet Far East. "This is the official position of the U.S. government and has been upheld by the federal courts," the Makah told U.S.-Russia- n Sea Shepherd "will immediately withdraw from opposition as soon as the International Whaling Commission approval is given to the Makah Tribal Council tp conduct a whale hunt," he wrote, The tribe reponded: "No mat linger in this area. More than two dozen other s g tion." resident whales that animal-right- g gray-whal- e 1970s. "Your threats to interfere with our right in the name of conservation 'international law,' no matter how well meaning, are fanning these same .'i flames of racism." Study: filler whales feeding on sea otters along Aleutians The Associated Press - WASHINGTON Killer whales that normally hunt seals and sea lions are now feeding on sea otters and creating an ecological crisis along the entire Aleutian island chain of western Alaska. Researchers say that the 6udden loss of thousands of sea otters is allowing a boom in the population of sea urchins and these animals, in turn, are stripping the undersea kelp forest, laying bare vast areas that once were lush with the marine plant. The whole coastal ecosystem in western Alaska is now affected, says James Estes, a marine ecologist wit h the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of California, Santa Cruz. Estes is of a study appearing Friday in the journal Science. "The otters are down about 90 percent in the areas that we studied, while the sea urchins have increased by about tenfold," said Estes. Undersea beds of kelp, a sea plant that towers from the ocean floor and can grow in dense JfcyLiJj,,.JIJI Digital One Rater 50 states. One rate. Never a roaming or long distance charge. AT&T groves, has been reduced by 90 percent in some areas. This, said Estes, could have a serious effect on fish and other animals. 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