Friday, December 03, 2004, 12:00 A.M. Pacific "Typhoon hits Philippines; previous storm kills scores"By Seattle Times news services MARAGUNDON, Philippines — "A powerful typhoon sliced through the Philippines today, forcing more than 160,000 people to flee their homes to higher ground even as rescuers struggled to find the missing from an earlier storm that killed more than 420 people. There was an unconfirmed report that more than 1,000 were dead or unaccounted for from the typhoon that hit the Philippines earlier this week. Civil defense officials said at least 422 people were confirmed dead and another 177 missing. The military...