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Article: Tropical Storm Lili Heads for Cuba
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- September 26, 2002
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) _ Tropical Storm Lili veered away from
Haiti late Wednesday as it made its way toward Guantanamo Bay in Cuba,
where U.S. military officials are holding nearly 600 suspected terrorists.
At 8 p.m. Lili was about 300 miles southeast of the Dominican Republic'
s capital, Santo Domingo, and was moving west-northwest at 7 mph approaching
western Haiti.
Although it made a slight shift away from the mainland, Lili began
to drench Haiti with lashing rains.
A tropical storm watch was in effect for southern Dominican Republic
and Haiti, which share the island of Hispaniola. A tropical storm
watch was expected for eastern Jamaica, to the ...