The Nation - News from Aug. 4, 1989

Hurricane Dean, carrying winds of 85 m.p.h. but moving at a 5 m.p.h. pace, skirted the Leeward Islands and passed within 175 miles of San Juan, Puerto Rico, as it began to move northwest through the Atlantic. Gil Clark, a meteorologist with the National Hurricane Center in Coral Gables, Fla., said a high pressure system to the north of the hurricane had weakened, opening the way for the second hurricane of the 1989 Atlantic season to take a more northward trek and probably miss Florida. Hurricane warnings were discontinued for Puerto Rico and other islands in the northeast Caribbean.