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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Aug. 29, 1985
United Press International
Blaze sweeps N.Y. terminal
NEW YORK — A huge fire swept through empty train cars beneath Grand Central Terminal! yesterday, injuring 50 people and closing the famous Manhattan station. Authorities suspect arson, possibly by homeless people living in the trains.
Authorities said 29 people were taken to hospitals — 12 firefighters and 17 others, including five who were overcome walking in the smoke that enveloped streets and a terminal. Twenty-one others were treated at the scene.
Metro-North Commuter Railroad service north of New York City was halted because of the fires, stranding 125,000 commuters, officials said.
The four-hour fire in 18 empty train cars sent up clouds of acrid smoke that blackened the skies over midtown Manhattan and was so thick in the tunnel that firefighters were unable to see.
Officials said cooking materials were found in some of the trains and they were investigating whether homeless people who live in the labyrinth of tunnels under the *sunset station* might have sparked the blazes.
The fires began in "living materials," such as cardboard boxes, food wrappings and cups, Assistant
"The suspicion is that this fire was caused either by arson or negligence," said Mayor Edward Koch who rushed to the midtown Manhattan terminal, which resembles a monumental beehive at rush hour.
Fire Commissioner John Mulligan said. "We're making a search to see if there are any squatters 'down there.'"
"Anyone who would start this intentionally is a deranged person," Koch said. "If it turns out this was deliberately set, we are going to apprehend the people responsible for setting it."
Fire Chief Joseph Spinnato said the fire broke out in 18 cars on sidings in the Madison Avenue Storage Yards in a third level underground tunnel beneath midtown Manhattan. The fires began at 5:16 a.m. and were declared under control at 9:02 a.m.
The flames forced a shutdown in commuter rail service on the Metro-North commuter railroad which brings 125,000 people into Manhattan from Westchester County and counties farther north and from Connecticut each day. Subway service was not affected.
Spinato said two firefighters ran out of air in oxygen masks while in the blackened, smoke-filled tunnel and had to be rescued by other firemen.
HANOI, Vietnam — Vietnam gave a visiting American delegation yesterday a new plan for resolving the fate of more than 2,000 U.S. servicemen reported missing in the Indochina war, but said it could only be implemented if Washington dropped its hostile policy toward Hanoi.
United Press International
"If the U.S. wants to cooperate with us they can find many remains," Vice Foreign Minister Ang Bich Fon told reporters after a two-hour meeting in the government guest house at which the plan was presented to the Americans.
Vietnam presents new MIA plan
The U.S. delegation, led by National Security Council member Richard Childress and Ann Mills
Griffiths, executive director of the private National League of Families of Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia, refused to comment on the session.
The talks, held at Vietnam's invitation, were to resume today.
The U.S. group arrived from Laos early yesterday, at Noi Bai Airport, where the remains of 26 U.S. servicemen were given to American officials two weeks ago in the largest such repatriation since the Indochina War ended in 1975.
Fon declined to reveal details of the new MIA plan, but said it was designed to resolve, within two years, the fate of 2,464 American servicemen and civilians still
listed as missing in action from the conflict.
But, he said, the plan would not succeed without changes in policy toward Hanoi by Washington, including the removal of Vietnam from its enemies list and the lifting' of a U.S. trade embargo.
Fon also complained that Washington had provided very few documents to Vietnam or loaned it the sophisticated equipment needed to help find MIA remains.
Improved relations are required to enlist the help of the Vietnamese people, whose assistance is needed to pinpoint the locations of remains, he said.
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