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Show A4 Thailand Hotel Fire Kills Scores THE ASSC PATTAYA, Thailand — A kitchen fire raced through a 17-storyluxury hotelin this beach resort Friday, its that had been chained shut to prevent guests from skipping out withoutpaying, Interior Minister Snoh Thienthong said. The hotel had nosprinklers killing at least 81 people as guests found themselves trapped behind locked emergency exits An American girl clutching her teddy bear was among those airlifted to safety Crowds on the sidewalk watched in horror as people screamed for help and waved towels from windows on theupper floors. One manjumpedto his death from the 11th floor. Police said 64 peoplewereinjured and morebodies maybeinsidethe 450-roomRoyal Jomtien Hotel a city 70 miles south of Bangkok onthe Thailand With heavy winds whipping her about, the girl, still clutching heer brown teddy bear, was lifted throughthethick smoketosafety and bundledinto a ft environmental impact statement (EIS) on the experimenF aceplane's 15 test flights in 1999 p.m. Monday, Old Post Headquarters, 6 p.m. Tuesda y, Salt Lake City Public Library, main library lecture hall, 209 East 500 South h, Salt Lake Ci E. Vine St p.m, Wednesday, Tooele Senior Center Tooele. X-3 approach ywn capacity to terminate its Copiesofthe 600-pageimpact statement and a 40-pageexecutive summary can be reviewed at @ Dugway Proving Ground Library, 5124 Kistler Ave., threat to any of those facilities. said MeCaleb., director of environ E. mental engineering and manage. ment at Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. If it is not going to safely land on a runway, wewill put it down harmto the public. If it has to, it lemsis remote. “It is projectedit would take 180,000 flights forit to harmoneindividual,’ McCaleb said National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials are coming to Utah next week for three public hearings on the pro- ject's $1 million draft environmental impact statement (EIS). which outlines possible accidents. The X-33 is a wedge-shaped that is 67 feet long treated atthecity’s zoo. Sickenedbylead in a San Franciscolake, Myrtle the swan is being Tooele Library, 47 E. Vine St., Tooele. Salt Lake City Libra: business / jence department, 205 500 South, Salt Lake City. Neighbors Miss Myrtle the Cranky Swan @ West Wendover Branch Library, West Wendover, Nev The EIS also is ava lable on the Internet at http://eemo.msfe.nasa.gov/eemo/x33 eis. More information is available at http://rlv.msfe.nasa.gov someplacedeliberately to pose no will go nose down,” she added. But the chance of such prob- Chris Hardy/The Associated Prows Dug: way systems in: dicate the vehicle will pose a lifting body” Building 5450, Dugway Proving Ground es Dugway’s Michael Army Air Field, “the vehicle will have its flight if the computer helicopterswere »n the way Onelanded onthe roof, Rescueworkerslet down a harness fashioned from a rope, which Mrs. SteinSami lunged at se veral times before grabbing @ X-33 Meetings in Utah NASA will hold three public meetings in Utah to discussits @ Continued from A-1 biological weapons As the pilotless States they werefrom. Mrs. Stein-Sami used acellular phoneto call a friend on the street, who told her helicopter. Mrs, Stein-Sami followed Many of the dead were found near emergency ex X-33 Impact In Utah Is Topic Of Meetings Among those trapped on the top floors was an American woman Rochelle Stein-Sami, and her daughter. It was not known where in the United Wildlife Refuge, Forest Service lands and the Goshutes’ Skull Val- ley Indian reservation McCaleb said quarter-second SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER commercial traffic its entire flight to Dugway. An ammunition storage areais one mile from the runway, and booms could reach 120 decibels McCalebsaid there are nearby offices and labs with small quanti- cleaner at 10 feet. Somewhat louder booms will hit federal land 20 to 25 miles away — an occasional cracked windowis possible ties of chemical and biological — 32 times louder than a vacuum —andnoise could reach 147 decibels at Dugway, she added. The said endangered pere- grine falcons, protected ferrugi- nous hawks, western burrowing owls and kit foxes might be star- tled by booms, but not harmed SAN FRANCISCO — One of the city's most beloved but exasperating characters is gone. A man-crazy, traffie-stopping busybody, she has dominated life around Mountain Lake Park for a decade. Nowno one knows if she will ever be back Myrtle the swan is sick The15-pound bird, accustomed to having a 4-acrepark at herdisposal, has been in solitary con- warfare agents. ‘We wouldn't want to hit any laboratory,” shesaid. “We will be taking into account the sensitive areas in our flight termination plans.” Residual fuel will be vented after landing. The reportsaid the X-33 will do finementsince June 2 in the hos- pital at the San Francisco Zoo. ‘The diagnosis: lead poisoning and a fungalinfection in her lungs. 1,000 times less harm to Earth’s widely viewedasa privately oper- ers to Dugway. butnolocal hires tle and a way to provide cheaper accessto space. If the X-33 works. Impact on the local economy will be “minimal. The report noted the X-33 ozonelayer than existing rockets won't measurably aggravate global warming: and will havenosignificant impacts on hazardous wastes, air pollution, water supplies, soils, vegetation or wildlife. build two to four VentureStars “If the vehicle undergoes a commitments from Dugway yet and 68 feet wide. It is a half-size prototype for the Ventur r, ated successor to the space shut- Lockheed Martin Corp. hopes to for $5 billion. Thiokol Corp. and Alliant Techsystems Inc. in Utah are building someparts. Launched vertically with liquid oxygen and hydrogen fuel, the X-33 will glide unpowered and land like a plane. During test flights, it will reach maximum speeds of Mach 15 — 11,000 mph —and altitudes upto47 miles. To reach Dugway, it will travel at 6,600 mph to 8,800 mph at alti tudes upto 31 miles NASAwill bring 50 to 75 work might explode or break up. mid-air breakup and explosion during powered modeon flight to Dugway. debris would continue to move forwardas it falls,” the EIS said. “If vehicle failure occurred close to its maximum speed, the leading edgeof the debris pattern could reach Dugway. Debris would potentially fall along a flight track for up to 100 miles long and 25 miles wide.” McCaleb said; “There will be emergency management plans Other landing sites are near Ridgecrest and Baker, Calif.; Great Falls, Mont.; and Moses Lake, Was! McCaleb said the X-33 will have fairly minimal impacts,” mainly sent to every county in the flight thunder.” The booms will be heard along the flight path starting 150 miles from of Dugway, in- Nine ix percent of theflight path crosses government land McCaleb said the X-33 will be in sonic boomslike “a doubleclapof cluding Fish Springs National path and wewill ensure thoseor- ganizations understand what needs to be done if we have a problem with the vehicle. Wealso will have teams ready to service the vehiclein any situation.” military airspace or well above McCalebsaid thereare no firm on allowingpublic access to watch “The worstis over,” said Freeland Dunker, headveterinarian at the zoo. “She's out of the danger zone. Still, neighbors and zoo officials agree Myrtle can’t return to the lake until the lead is removed. In her 10-by-20-foot pen, she honks in greeting and raises her neck until she’s 34% feettall. Two A bowl of grains and alfalfa flanks an Astroturf mat landing will be open. Thefinal EIS will be published in September Meanwhile, a “Myrtle update” tle is the talk of the neighborhood. garbage truck after sanitation workers foiled an attempt to kid- | nap her. During mating season, Myrtle crossed Lake twice a day and wan- “She's just our little nut case and everyone looked after her, said Judy Whilt, president of owned by Sonya Borondy, helping herself to bags of Goldfish crack- Friends of Mountain Lake Park, a ers. neighborhood group founded in 1979 with a mailing list of 250 Whilt, a resident for 18 years, said, as cars screeched to a halt, became alarmed when the nomadic swan became lethargic andlost her honk. So Whilt called the zoo, and associate curator John Aikin came out. Myrtle surrendered without a struggle. She rarely has been so docile. More typically, she would waddle around the park leading a string of children, Pied Piper fashion. Or hold court atopa playground hill. Or barge into neigh- borhood garages. Or jam up traffic whenever she crossed Lake During the crossings, Borondy * Myrtle would “do her little circle in the intersection” and rebuff Borondy by pecking her. “She hated me,” said Borondy, who had to call on Myrtle’s pals for help. It was a shortlist. And Chuck Lantz, a contractor who lives near . the market, always was at the top. Lantz, by all accounts, is the love of Myrtle’s life. Lantz deemed Myrtle's ail- mentsa “suicide attempt.”” “I didn't return heraffections,” he laughed. Dunker said the zoo has spent $800 so far on her treatment IHC SeniorCare has experienced a successful 1997 enrollment period and wishes to thank Medicare beneficiaries who have joined the plan. IHC SeniorCare will be concluding its 1997 enrollment period on August 1, 1997. Medicare beneficiaries residing in Weber, Morgan, Davis, or Salt Lake counties have until then to enroll in IHC SeniorCare for 1997 coverage. 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