de-Paix and, if his group could land, La Tortue island off the north coast. At the United Nations, interim President Boniface Alexandre appealed for world aid at the opening of the annual General Assembly session in New York. Tropical Storm Jeanne also killed 11 people in the Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, and two in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico. Jeanne, now a hurricane with 90 mph (150 kph) winds, meandered in the Atlantic about 485 miles (785 km) east of the Bahamas' Great Abaco Island on Tuesday. Forecasters at the U.S. National Hurricane Center said the storm posed no immediate threat to land.
