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Show Page 4 Wednesday, November 26, 1980 The Newspaper -- nit9 Sitnllll CDnntt ITQkbip THE 0? I (M) iORDICA S NIX SALOMON ' NW1 AatLcsk, i a M i 8-7 Daily 628 Park Avenue, 649-9712 Resort Plaza, 649-8041 ember VKi VVlMit r " --.'"V ' DO A TAKEOUT our complete menu is available for takeout Breakfast, Mon.-Fri. 7:00 Lunch 11:30 to 2:30 Dinner 5:00 tqIO:00 Sunday Lunch 12:00 to 4:00 430 Main Street 649-6900 Price Reduced to $129,900 was $138,500 4 bedrooms, 2 plus bathrooms, 801 Park Meadows Drive, 2,200 square feet, 3 fireplaces. Huge master bedroom. Open House this Saturday 10-4 CJLPSON-MORHIS-McCOMB 649-8601 INTERNATIONAL Rome Italian officials report 1,012 people dead in the worst earthquake in that country since 1930. Italian seismologists said the series of tremors which struck southern Italy Sunday were too strong to register accurately on their scales, but the U.S. Geological Survey registered the tremor as 6.8 on the Richter scale. Damaged roads and downed telephone lines hampered rescue attempts into the region, which includes the towns of Potenza (the quake's epicenter), Salerno and Avellino, and Mount Vesuvius. The death toll was at first estimated at 200, but that figure rapidly rose as army copters and convoys discovered the damage. In Naples alone, a nine-story building housing 20 families collapsed, a car disappeared into a large crack in the road, a baby boy died in a collapsing apartment apart-ment building, and local police used tear gas to subdue panicky prisoners. In the village of Balvano, most of the 59 fatalities occurred when the roof of the local church caved in on residents observing evening Mass. "They screamed," one witness said, "oh did they scream, it was worse than hell." Towns such as Naples and Potenza suffered 80 destruction, and 20,000 were reported homeless in Salerno. Survivors set up tent cities and started fires to keep warm, while the dead were covered with blankets or stored in temporary tem-porary morgues. The last quake of such magnitude struck in the same region of Italy, killing 1,400 people in 1930. London England's infamous Yorkshire Ripper Rip-per claimed a 13th victim last Wednesday, said police. A 20-year-old college student, Jacqueline Hill, was found, showing what police called "horrific" injuries, in some bushes behind a supermarket in Leeds the general area where the Ripper has struck for the last five years. Assistant Chief Constable George Oldfield asked all women to exercise caution, and to consider any male-even a relative or spouse as.a potential poten-tial suspect. p i1 , :i; ' . OWfield received a teasing message last year. store Santa Claus. Police said an 18-year-old youth climbed to the roof of his girlfriend's apartment apart-ment while she was out, then tried to go down the chimney to surprise her. The bumbling St. Nick became trapped, and rescuers had to demolish the chimney. NATIONAL Las Vegas Fire officials searched the basement and overturned debris in the scorched 26-floor MGM Grand Hotel, but doubted the death toll would climb beyond the current figure of 84. The fire started with an exhaust fan in a first-floor delicatessen and smoldered for several hours before it exploded into the casino. Many hotel guests died from inhalation of smoke which funneled up the natural chimneys formed by the elevator shafts and fire stairs. The fire catalyzed a discussion of fire code standards for hotels across the country. The fire destroyed the alarm amplifier system in the hotel. The hotel's sprinkler system was installed on only three floors (basement, 1st, and 26th). And firemen's ladders were only able to reach to ninth floor. Helicopters rescued guests from the roof, and advised guests several floors above the fire not to jump. Nevertheless, an elderly couple jumped from the 17th floor holding hands. Another man fell from the 10th floor, holding onto a crude rope made of bedding. Guests broke hotel windows with furniture to let in fresh air. When the $120 million MGM Grand opened in December 1973, it was the largest hotel in the world. According to the "San Francisco Examiner," the state fire marshal asked for additional ad-ditional fire prevention for the hotel a month before it opened. The paper also said the Grand had a low code rating when it opened, but was upgraded after several improvements were made. The MGM Grand's chairman of the board, Fred Benninger, defended the hotel, saying the fire could have occurred in any other similar structure in the country. The death toll in Las Vegas was" the second worst for a hotel in U.S. historv. rxoppHpH nnlv 111 WW, w.nMaJ announced pians. tor tnetn byaaAItanta hotel firein 194 which killed 119; murder and sneered, "I reckon your boys are let- ' ' ting you down, George. You can't be much good, Hollywood-Mae West, who parlayed an can you?" Police believe the killer lives in the hourelass fieure and a talent for innuendo into a career as one of Hollywood's leading sex symbols, sym-bols, died Saturday at her apartment at the age of 87. Her PR representative Jerry Martin said she still was recovering from a mild stroke that left her speech impaired, when she had trouble breathing Saturday morning. A doctor was summoned but said nothing could be done. "At 10:30, she just closed her eyes," said Martin. "Thank God it was peaceful and there was no pain." West made most of her films in the '30s perhaps per-haps the best known being "My Little Chickadee" with W.C. Fields. Her infrequent appearances in later years included the disastrous "Myra Breckenridge," with Racquel Welch. Leeds area, 175 miles north of London, since all the killings were committed within a 50-mile radius. Tehran A U.N. peace emissary evidently failed to make any progress toward a settlement of Iran-Iraqui war this week. At the same time, the U.S. received discouraging responses from i Iran on their latest proposal in the hostage i negotiations. S Former Swedish prime minister Olof Palme ! met with Iranian president Bani-Sadr and Prime Minister Mohammed Ali Rajai on behalf of the j U.N. Rajai reportedly rejected the peace overtures, over-tures, telling Palme he was "wasting his time," and suggested that Iraqui president Assad Hussein should be put on trial. Iranian officials also rejected a U.S. "agreement in principle" to their ransom demands. While an Iranian reply made its way back to the U.S. through Algerian middlemen, a spokesman for Prime Minister Rajai said Iran was demanding a "yes" or "no" answer. Warsaw, Poland The uneasy peace between Polish workers and the government was fractured frac-tured last week by two separate events. Police raided the Warsaw offices of the Solidarity labor coalition, seizing a secret document on the government's treatment of dissidents. Also, a Polish printer was imprisoned for allegedly stealing state secrets an action that revived strike thr ea ts from workers . A Solidarity spokesman said about 12 secret police and unformed detectives raided the coalition office, looking for an Oct. 30 state paper that traces the relations with the dissidents and discusses methods to deal with "anti-Socialist elements." There were no arrests in the unprecedented un-precedented raid. Workers at a factory plant went out on strike over the 90-day detention of printer Jan Naroz-niak Naroz-niak on espionage charges. Railroad workers also threatened to strike. Jerusalem Prime Minister Menahem Begin defeated a vote of no-confidence by a narrow three-vote margin last Wednesday in the Knesset, leading to speculation he eventually bar with a machine gun, Crumpley fled the scene will be forced to call new elections before next with police in pursuit, abandoned the car in November. The motion, which condemned heavy traffic, and was captured while hiding un- Begin's Likud coalition government for an in- der a truck. flation rate of 150, was endorsed by two of Begin's former allies, former Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and former Defense Minister Exer Weizman. It was defeated 57-54. Weizman electrified the Parliament with a speech that accused Begin's inflation policies of damaging the cause of peace among poor Israelis. "Every morning you get up they are saying that . . . because of peace, we have a state of emergency and inflation." Hobart, Tasmania Attention, Macy's of Australia. Don't hire this fellow as a department Jefferson Island, Louisiana A lake here was abruptly drained into a giant mud crater when an oil rig drilling into the lake punched a hole into in-to a large salt mine. The inrush of water created a gigantic whirlpool that one witness called "Mount St. Helens (with) a great rush of white water." Several barges and boats were left high and dry in the mud of the lakebed. A witness, Leonce Viator, said he was fishing near the drill, and noticed the water rushing toward the hole in four-foot waves. He tied the boat to a tree, and he and nephew Timmy Dore stuggled to safety through the mud. The Diamond Crystal Salt Co. has filed suit, and the oil company has responded with a charge of negligence. New York A gay-hating ex-policeman killed . two people and wounded six during a wild shooting attack in a homosexual district in Greenwich Village. Police who arrested Ronald Crumpley said he told them, "I'll kill them all. They ruin everything. If they ever try it with me, they'll be sorry." In the attack a week ago Wednesday night, Crumpley drove in a Cadillac stolen from his minister father, down Washington Street, a popular gay hang-out, and opened fire with an assortment of weapons, including automatic and a Magnum handgun. After blasting a gay Houston Boy Scouts are prepared for anything-but for carnage? The Houston Chronicle reported that a group of Boy Scouts and Civil Air Patrol cadets were receiving instruction in-struction from a Ku Klux Klan advisor and a convicted felon, who taught them how to strangle and decapitate enemies and fire semi-automatic weapons at a military camp. Joe Bogert, the Klansman, explained, "We didn't have the boys choke each other. We just showed them how to do it. Dallas, Texas Kristen did it. |