Flood-Ravaged City Cheers Federal Aid

Neighborhoods are still in ruin and downtown may never be the same, but community leaders in Grand Forks, N.D., celebrated anyway, knowing that flood relief is finally on its way. Community leaders and the state’s two senators celebrated passage of the disaster relief legislation, a version of which was hung up in Congress and vetoed by President Clinton before finally winning quick approval from both. The legislation provides $5.6 billion in emergency relief for victims of disasters in 35 states, particularly the flood-ravaged Dakotas and Minnesota.