The Nation - News from Aug. 4, 1989

Hurricane Dean, packing winds of 85 m.p.h., veered away from the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, prompting forecasters to lift all hurricane warnings for Puerto Rico and the other islands of the northeast Caribbean. Dean was moving at 12 m.p.h., and forecasters said a gradual turn to the northwest was likely during the next 24 hours, bringing the season’s second hurricane 150 miles north of Puerto Rico on its way up the Atlantic Ocean. Bob Sheets, director of the National Hurricane Center in Coral Gables, Fla., said the storm did not pose an immediate threat to the U.S. mainland.