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By The Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH ? After fleeing
South Carolina with Hurricane Hugo gusting at his
heels, the last thing Darrel Dixon expected was to be
caught in the middle of one of the nation's worst
earthquake disasters.
But as the Utah businessman walked through San
Francisco's Chinatown shortly after 5 p.m. Tuesday,
the sidewalk began to rock under his feet
"It was really scary," he recalled Sunday. "A lot of
people were running outside. I looked up at the buildings
around me wondering if they would come down,
and I ran into the middle of the street."
Dixon, who travels around the country selling
wastewater treatment equipment, said the coincidence
of confronting two of the biggest natural disasters in
N.C. works to s
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RALEIGH, N.C. ? North Car- dered the state's
olina can develop a hazardous landfill closed to ;
waste incinerator by 1991, but it's not allow similar
not clear if a fast-track route will its borders,
convince South Carolina and three On Tuesday, Sc
other states to let North Carolina three other South(
into a regional waste compact, ready have hazan
N.C. Gov. Jim Martin said this ment facilities si
past Thursday. agreement, but lei
"Some technology is available olina. Alabama
that we didn't know about until a plained the state
few weeks ago that is based on facilities and cou
mobile incinerators," Martin said speedy developme
at a news conference. ator it offered as
"They essentially use'off-the- ional treatment fat
shelf units, which could be in- All states had
stalled in five or six months. That certify they coul<
would cut the construction time by hazardous waste
a year." and waste they wi
Martin said permits for the in- next 20 years,
cinerator are "pretty standardized"
and would save another year be- Martin had lob
cause they would not have to be eight-state agrcer
tailored to custom-made units. have allowed Nc
"We would try to get the site make that certific
selected sooner to give us a little the regional a
extra breathing room," Martin said, through, the state
When asked how he would outlining its proje
speea up uic sue selection process, production, its wa
Martin responded, "By telling the program and its ]
people working on it... to move four-state pact,
a little quicker."
The Hazardous Waste Treatment If the federal
Commission in 1987 narrowed its Protection Agenc
list of possible sites to Rowan and prove the slate's r<
Davidson counties, but withdrew Carolina could los
after local opposition. Last year, Supcrfund monc;
after narrowing the field to Lee clean up two old
County, the General Assembly or- dumps,
dered the site search ended and the Martin, who re
commission to seek a volunteer from a trade missi
county. said he had no <.
The Legislature lifted its ban on whether the EPA
hazardous waste landfills this year the state's report a
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Hugo and quo
U.S. history was "a little spooky." His wife, Melva
agrees.
"Once in a lifetime, mavbe." she said. "But noi
twice, especially in a three-week period."
Dixon is a group product manager for Salt Lake
City-based EIMCO, an equipment manufacturer once
known as Eastern Iron Metal Company. He was ir
San Francisco to pitch his company's products at the
Water Pollution Control Federation Conference.
Just a few weeks before, on Sept. 21, Dixon was
conducting seminars for engineers and consultants or
Kiawah Island, just south of Charleston, when authorities
ordered the resort community evacuated.
"The next morning, the winds were starting to
blow. We went ahead and got off the island," Dixon
remembered. "The airport closed, so we drove a rental
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jlans to join the By ELISABETH TANGUY
Staff Writer
In recent months, rape has beco
Environmental issue across the country.
:y does not ap- Last week in Washington, Pres
sport, then North and Congress were debating whei
ic $26 million in money should be provided for a
y earmarked to cases of incest and rape. Since nc
hazardous waste was reached, Bush is likely to veto t
Currently, the government only p;
turned Thursday pregnant woman's life is in danger,
on to the Orient, Rape was also discussed at US
iarly indications during Safety Week, held Oct. 9-13.
would approve As a result, the creation of a Rape
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rmation group b
However, the USC Rape Awareness G
which was founded earlier in the year, wil
me a major gin operating on campus this fall, prov
data and information to all USC students.
;ident Bush English senior Katherine Gilbert is pro
ther federal president of the group,
bortions in Quoting national statistics ? which
) agreement apply to the USC campus ? she said one
he measure, man out of four will be raped in her life. T
lys when a fore, there is an urgent need to make p<
(both men and women) aware of the pro
>C recently and to educate them on ways to prevent :
from occurring.
; Awareness "The Rape Awareness Group wants t<
[ant. spond to this need," Gilbert said.
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, car down to Atlanta and flew out of there. Hugo hii
that night
t "I got back into Salt Lake City in time to watch the
news accounts of it hitting Charleston," he said, ad>
ding he felt both relieved, and a bit guilty, about hav;
ing made it out in time.
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behind," he said.
There was no escape from witnessing disaster lasi
Tuesday, however.
After the shaking stopped, Dixon hurried back tc
his downtown hotel. With electricity out, he climbec
the stairs, in gathering darkness, to his sevenlh-flooi
room. It was while he was in the shower that an aftershock
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large quantities from them,
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grant to the dated," said Chishom, who is a
of Criminal Justice former police officer, parole ofrch
project that will ficcr and probation officer, as well
causes and extent of as the South Carolina U.S.
ise in South Car- Marshall,
jpulation. Benedict College and South
>tice Professor An- Carolina State College will also be
will SDearhead the involved as subcontractors hut
ch will be used to USC will be the repositor, Mathias
^commendations to said.
Chishom said the program will
al for the project be the first of its kind to try this
interaction between particular approach. He predicts an
a's Black Caucus increase in drug use among black
who has extensive females, more single-parent famiIrug
abuse research, lies, more babies born addicted to
thias of USC's Col- drugs and widespread AIDS and
1 Justice said. hepatitis infections, unless lawplanning
to use makers can come up with ways to
tiing methods that alter the present course.
"street corner re- 'Things are not getting better,"
fill "go where the he said. "They're getting worse,
s the road," he said. Racism is evident, educational opes
by doing this, he portunities are waning, the dropout
way up the drug rate is higher than ever and there
line the drug culture are more poor black people than
ever."
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oky,' man says
I "It kind of knocked me around a bit. The main
thing I could think of was I wanted to hurry up and
' get out of there because if the hotel came down, I
wanted to have some clothes on," Dixon said.
The next morning, on a trip that took nearly five
hours to cross the Golden Gate Bridge alone, Dixon
i and associates drove a rented car to Sacramento to
catch flights home.
Friends have joked with him that he should stay
home from now on. But Dixon and his wife plan to go
i to Hawaii for their 22nd wedding anniversary next
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"People have warned me that if I do, a volcano will
probably erupt while I'm there," Dixon said.
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she said. The Rape Awareness Group was
chair created for educational purposes.
To inform students, group members are going
also to talk to campus residents and make presenta>
wo- tions in the different residence halls, Gilbert
here- said.
^ople One commonly held myth about rape is that a
blem woman will only get raped by a stranger. "In
rapes fact," Gilbert said, "75 percent of all victims
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