Powerful Hurricane Hits Storm-Weary Cuba

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CAMAGUEY, Cuba (AP) - Powerful Hurricane Paloma slammed into southern Cuba on Saturday as authorities scrambled to move hundreds of thousands of people to safer ground and protect crops on an island still reeling from two other devastating storms.

Paloma made landfall near Santa Cruz del Sur as an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm, but quickly weakened into a still- ferocious Category 3 with winds of 120 mph and torrential rains, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said.

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Powerful Hurricane Hits Storm-Weary Cuba

In the central-eastern province of Camaguey alone, more than 220,000 people were moved from low-lying, vulnerable areas to higher ground. Another 170,000 people were evacuated in the eastern province of Las Tuna...

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