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Tuesday, September 5. 1995
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Rock'n'roll hall of fame opens
Bash in Cleveland features more than two dozen acts
The Associated Press
CLEVELAND — Strangers faced each other and danced.
Revelers exchanged warm beers and highfives, marveling at what was happening onstage at Cleveland Stadium and in the city.
The music didn't die until the wee hours Sunday as more than two dozen acts celebrated the opening of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum.
"I feel like I was part of history," said Sherry Bedlac, who wore earrings fashioned out of 45 rpm records.
"Aretha Franklin, Johnny Cash — it was all great stuff. I moved here from New York and now all my friends back there are now envious of me."
Highlights included Bruce Springsteen and Chuck Berry playing together, Jerry Lee Lewis and Doylan. Springsteen also teamed up with the E Street Band.
Creedence Clearwater Revival founder John Fogerty did "Fortunate Son" and "Born on the Bayou," while John Mellencamp helped Cash sing "Ring of Fire," and Lou Reed and Soul Asylum harmonized on "Sweet Jane."
Slash, whose role as lead guitarist in the hard rock band Guns N Roses often obscures his gift for blues, paired with Boz Scaggs on "Red House," a slow grind dedicated to Jimi Hendrix.
Other performers at the nearly seven-hour show included Sheryl Crow, the Kinks, Bruce
Hornsby, George Clinton and the P-Funk All Stars, Heart, Robbie Robertson, James Brown and Jackson Browne.
The crowd of 57,000 finally filed from the stadium at about 2:30 a.m. to the fans' own choruses of "Rock n' Roll!"
While some grumbled about the finale — Berry and Springsteen, backed by house band Booker T and the MGs on "Rock N' Roll Music" — there were no complaints about the weekend that put Cleveland on the man.
The concert capped two busy days of festivities, including Friday's ribbon cutting and Saturday's opening to the public. Yesterday's ceremony to honor the construction workers behind it all closed the celebration.
"This town is going to blow up," said Joseph Primes, 35. "Maybe we can keep this momentum going."
Ship reports possible French weapons test
The Associated Press
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — The French army denied it ended its 3-year-old nuclear moratorium yesterday, hours after a New Zealand ship cruising the South Pacific recorded sounds it said could have been nuclear blasts.
The Tui, which is accompanying a protest flotilla off Mururoa Atoll, where France plans the tests, detected seven sounds about 3:46 a.m. yesterday New Zealand time (11:46 a.m. Sunday EDT), said Lt. Steve Gibson, spokesman for the Tui.
"We haven't confirmed that this is a nuclear explosion," he said. "But considering that the trace has been blank for the last three days, it would appear likely that something
has happened."
The Australian Seismological Center said it detected no sign of nuclear testing.
France issued its denial in Papeete, Tahiti, the capital of French territories in the South Pacific. France has announced previous tests immediately upon their completion.
The Tui's instruments, 45 feet underwater, are designed to pick up the sound of nuclear blasts but can also detect other sounds, including seismic activity and non-nuclear underwater explosions.
President Jacques Chirac has said France would hold seven or eight tests between this month and next May on Mururoa and Fangataufa atolls, 750 miles southeast of Papee.
Chirac says France needs the underground tests to update its nuclear arsenal and develop technology to simulate future computer tests. He has said France would sign a global test ban treaty after the tests, a promise that has done little to quiet the international outcry.
About 10 boats are cruising with the Tui off Mururoa to protest the testing. They were joined Saturday by a third Greenpeace vessel, a sailboat from California, after French commandos seized the environmental group's other two ships.
A group of American peace activists aboard the schooner Manutea might try to reach the blast site to disrupt the tests, Greenpeace spokeswoman Penelope Komites said from Paris.
French commandos arrested two Greenpeace divers at Mururoa on Friday and seized the Rainbow Warrior II and the MV Greenpeace, arresting 23 people. Greenpeace said 15 remained held Sunday.
Australia and the Netherlands — where the ships were registered and Greenpeace is based — demanded France explain why it seized the MV Greenpeace. Unlike the Rainbow Warrior II, the MV Greenpeace did not enter French territorial waters before it was captured.
The French have said they seized the boat because a helicopter it was carrying flew over the test site and photographed military installations.
About 3,000 flower-bedded protesters and 100 foreign lawmakers marched through Papeete on Saturday to chants of "Chiric, Acassin."
Cuban protest fails when vessel sinks
The Associated Press
KFY WEST, Fla. — Cuban exiles called the failure of their latest seagoing anti-Castro demonstration a minor setback while Cuba watchers questioned the effectiveness of the protest in which a boat sank and a man died.
"The sinking indicated the organizers have not focused on organization or the safety of their
own members."
said Jim Whisenand, publisher of Cuba Report,
a newsletter focusing on economic and social issues on the communist island. "I think it will affect future participation."
The 25-boat flotilla set off from Key West on Saturday to protest off the coast of Havana. The group turned back after the Sun-
today than ever before."
The next flotilla will be in New York City's East River when Cuban president Fidel Castro visits the United Nations Oct. 22, Sanchez said.
down Two sank 10 miles out of Key West.
"I feel sad," flotilla leader Ramon Saul Sanchez said Sunday. "It's a tragedy. However, I feel more committed to this non-violent movement
"They should consider other alter-
The 47 people aboard were rescued by some of the other boats and Coast Guard ships and helicopters. A 58-year-old man had a heart attack and died soon after he was rescued.
The Coast Guard is investigating the accident.
The first flotilla ended with three people injured after two Cuban gunboats sideswiped the lead boat, which had crossed into Cuba's territorial waters.
navies that may be more effective — in the human and material costs — at reaching the same ends," said Juan Clark, a sociologist at Miami-Dade Community College. "The ultimate question is, What good did it do in Cuba?" Some passengers complained that the
on water in 6-foot waves well before the crew radioed the Coast Guard for help.
Some passengers complained that the Sundown Two had been taken
The boat's captain said Saturday that the boat was in fine shape before leaving the marina.
"We needed more organization when leaving," said Miguel A. Sanguely of Miami, who along with two brothers pulled six Sundown Two passengers onto his boat. "There were so many people. There not enough boats."
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