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Monday, Dec. 2, 1985
Gunmen steal $7000 from church parish
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NEW YORK — Two masked gunmen stole $7,000 in donations and poor-box money from St. Patrick's Cathedral, locked four ushers and two janitors in the church vault before fleeing, police said yesterday.
The robbery at 8 p.m. Saturday took place in the parish house adjacent to the landmark cathedral on Fifth Avenue, police said. No one was injured.
The two bandits held four church ushers at gunpoint before locking them and two maintenance workers in a walk-in vault, said Capt. Charles Luisi of the Manhattan Detective Bureau.
"The suspects were quite familiar with the physical layout of the building," Luisi said, adding that the robbery may have been an inside job. "They apparently knew where they were going."
The bandits, who were wearing ski masks, confronted four ushers in the basement of the parish house as they finished putting money from the church's poor boxes in the safe and
forced them to reopen the vault, Luisi said.
"The suspects were familiar with the ushers' procedures," he said.
One robber carried a revolver, and the other wielded a semi-automatic pistol. They handcuffed the four ushers together and began taking money from the safe.
The thieves forced the six men into the safe and locked the door, he said.
Luisi said police have three witnesses, including at least one of the six men locked in the vault, who saw the bandits without their masks.
Two maintenance workers walked into the room as the bandits were gathering the money but were overcome by the gunmen, Luusu said.
He described one robber as being about 35 years old, 6-foot 3-inches tall, well built, with a mustache and glasses and wearing a tan raincoat.
The gumman's accomplice was described as 25 years old, 5-foot 10 inches tall, thin, and wearing dark corduroy pants, brown shoes and a dark raincoat.
Reagan most popular
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NEW YORK — President Reagan is more popular than the pope, and his wife, Nancy, is more admired than Mother Theresa, a poll released yesterday said.
The annual Good Housekeeping magazine poll list of the 10 most admired men and women in the nation is to appear in the magazine's January issue, but the publication released the findings yesterday.
The most popular man in America was Reagan, who handily beat Pope John Paul II for the top spot in a
write in survey of the magazine's readers.
The president has been at the top of the list of the 10 most admired men annually since the poll began five years ago. Evangelist Billy Graham was third on this year's list.
First lady Nancy Reagan was the most admired woman for the second year, again beating Nobel Peace Prize winner Mother Theresa of Calcutta.
Phyllis Schlafly took third-place honors on the list, which this year included two former first ladies and a princess.
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Paper investigates hi-rise collapse
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DALLAS — Two buildings in a Mexico City housing project, where more than 500 people died in earthquakes, crumbled because design and construction were inadequate and because the government refused to make repairs. The Dallas Morning News said yesterday in a copyright story.
After a two-month investigation, the News wrote that two of the project's three towers were leaning noticeably, and cracks from past earthquakes appeared to be widening in the months preceding earthquake Sept. 19 and 20 in Mexico City.
Officials blamed after Mexico quake
The two towers, the central and north towers of the Nuevo Leon housing project, collapsed in the first quake. The south tower was severely damaged.
About 10,000 people died in the two earthbanks.
Tenants complained to federal officials about the towers as recently as two months before the earthquakes and asked to be relocated because of the danger. But the government did not heed
"They had been warned long ago of the dangers involved," said Jose Gustavo Barrera, a civil engineer who helped form a tenants' association in the complex. "They were told by us, but they wouldn't listen.
The towers were straightened in 1982, but within months, they shifted, the News said. Before the September earthquakes, the central and north towers were touching again; each had sunk about 23 inches. The south tower had risen 10 inches.
"The matter of safety of Nuevo Leon turned into a difficult fight. The government would never accept responsibility to fix the problems. And I won't rest until the functionaries pay for their inepititude behind bars. This was nothing less than criminal negligence."
Vitalmo Bertero, a structural engineer at the University of California, Berkeley, said, "The
people involved with it had known about the problems for years, but no major work was commissioned before 1979, and the job they started was never finished."
The government did undertake a repair project after two 1979 earthquakes, one of which measured 7.0 on the Richter scale, damaged the buildings so badly that two of the towers touched.
Concrete piles used to anchor the towers ranged in length from 60 to 76 feet and were driven into soft clay. The News said that if the piles had been sunk more than twice as deep into harder ground, the buildings might have survived the earthquakes.
The Nuevo Leon towers are part of the 102-building Tlatelolco complex, the biggest public housing project in Mexico. The Nuevo Leon towers were the only ones in the complex to collapse.
Almost half of the residents of Nuevo Leon, 500 of 1,200, died in the September earthquakes. The first quake measured 8.1 on the Richter scale
One housing official, Marco Antonio Michel, blamed the buildings' weakness on alterations he said tenants had made. He said they tore down interior walls during remodeling projects. But several American engineers said such alterations would not have substantially weakened the building.
Plastic seal helps guard children's teeth
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BOSTON -- Mothers coat children's teeth with plastic sealants, and teachers hand out fluoride tablets as part of a campaign that has reduced tooth decay by about 25 percent in two towns during the past two years, a researcher said recently.
"The benefits far exceed both the cost and the time the children are taken away from their classrooms," said L. Leon Dogan, the researcher.
A Harvard researcher predicted last week that the program would virtually wipe out cavities.
During its second year, the program cost $8 for each pupil, far less than the price of a filling.
the warnings and did not make any repairs.
About half of all Americans drink fluoridated water, and the additive
The program began in January 1983 in Holbrook and Randolph, two towns south of Boston without fluoridated water. So far, more than 4,000 pupils in grades one through 11 have been included. The experiment will probably continue through 1988.
The project is financed by the National Institute of Dental Research and directed by Dogon, a researcher at Harvard School of Dental Medicine and the Forsyth Dental Center in Boston.
Researchers hired and trained mothers in the two towns to apply dental sealants in the schools. The
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