VOL.100.NO.116
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSAPPEAR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANASA
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MONDAY, MARCH 26, 1990
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Fire in NY social club kills 87
The Associated Press
NEW YORK - A man bounced from a Bronx social club for quarreling with an ex-girlfriend returned with a fire of gasoline and set a fire that killed 87 people at the nightspot, which had been ordered closed, police said.
Most of the dead suffocated in thick smoke in the pre-dawn blaze Sunday, authorities said. Some people were trampled to death; others hole through a wall to an adjoining hole in a desperate attempt to live
Emergency workers described bodies felled by smoke so quickly that they still had their legs wrapped around a bar stool, gripped
Gonzalez cried with remorse under questioning, said Lt. Ray Layton. Domenic's police spokesman said he was speaking, he saying he did it." O'Donnell said.
The impoverished Latina neighborhood near the Bronx Zoo was thick with mourners, who were asked to identify relatives from snapshots of the bodies posted on the wall of a high school.
the club after a quarrel in which he tried to woo back the woman, police said. After warning, "I'll be back," he returned and sprinkled gasoline on the floor, said Lt James Malvey.
Killed were 61 men and 26 women, most of them Honduran
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"People literally were stacked on top of each other," said Anthony De Vita, the Fire Department command chief. "It was a firerap."
and Dominican immigrants
"Most of the bodies were in dance clothes," Emergency Medical Services specialist Christopher McCarthy said. "They were out to have fun."
Authorities early today began raiding and shutting down some of the 173 other illegal social clubs in the city. The authorities said were operating in the city.
drinks or held hands. Only three people managed to reach safety by way of the two tiny exit doors on the front of the two-story Happy Land social club.
The fire occurred 79 years to the day after a blaze at the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. in New York City that claimed 145 lives, many of them immigrant garment workers. That blaze led to reforms around the nation in workplace safety.
Alva Romero, a Honduran immigrant, lost six relatives, including a daughter, both brothers and a sister. Jerome Ford lost five relatives. The local Honduran soccer club lost several players.
Julio Gonzalez, a Cuban immigrant and former boyfriend of a Happy Land's ticket seller, was charged with arson and murder, Police Commissioner Lee Brown said. He was to be arraigned later today.
Happy Land was ordered shut in November 1988 and again a year later because of inadequate exits, sprinkler systems, emergency lighting and signs. Dinks said. It had no liquor or cabaret license.
It was the deadliest fire in the continental United States since the 1772 glaze at the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Ky, that
killed 164 people. A New Year's' Eve 1986 fire at a hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, killed 96.
Gonzalez, 36, was bounced from
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Acknowledgments
Projects editor: Christine Winner
Contributing editors: Kris Bergquist, Richard Brack,
Kate Hannigan, Stephen Kline, Lisa Moss,
Candy Niemann, Dan Niemi, Gary Patton,
Christopher Ralston, Derek Schmidt, Stacy Smith,
Kjerstin Gabrielson, Daniel Startling, E. Joseph Zurga
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Contributing photographers:Phil Ellsworth, Julie James, Kelly Lamson, Eric Montgomery, Keith Thorpe, Steve Traynor
Special thanks to the following models: Lori Calcara, Trina Chase, Anna Gordon, Troy Herrick, Jada Kelso Michael Lehman, Peggy McCall, Mark Rowlands Suzanne St. Pellicer, Paula Taylor, Chip Walker Jennifer Warner, Courtney Watkins, Kurt Wolfe
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University Daily Kansan / Friday. March 23, 1990
The Associated Press
Hungary
Socialists expect to lose vote
BUDAPEST, Hungary — Millions of Hungarians cast ballots yesterday in the first free national elections in 43 years, and many expressed hope for the future and fear of the Communist past.
Premier Miklos Nemeth, a reform-minded Communist and a key engineer of the nation's conversion to democracy, declared he had been where he voted that he was relinquishing control with a clear conscience.
As in East Germany, where Eastern Europe's first free ballot in decades took place March 18, the Communists were expected to fare poorly in the elections. They competed with 11 other national parties for parliament seats.
Despite occasional rain showers, voter turnout appeared brisk at Budapest polling stations, with election officials reporting a turnout of nearly 50 percent in some wards by
on, four hours after the voting
gang and eight hours before polls
sed. About 7.8 million people were
gible to vote.
s few irregularities were reported p.m., when the voting officially ded. Several international servers monitored the election.
Nermeth, who voted at a state-run kindergarten serving as one of 11,000 living stations across the nation, lined to predict the chances of his idealist Party. That party has govemed since reform-oriented Communists formed it after defecting in the Communist Party in October.
is comments reflected wide-earn acceptance, even among alists, that his party would not do i despite its role in steering Huny to democratic reform.
"The only thing I hope for is that a long government is created," meth said, adding that only a gvernment not hamstruck by the position could deal with the ion's alling economy.
won't consider it an act of God ifn't make it into government." with told reporters. "I will hand the reins head high and with a conscience. I don't have bitter in my heart but satisfaction."
pre-election opinion pollsIndi-
sialists would finish no
> than fourth place, with a
> num 10 percent of the overall
oll of 5,000 people published by mate MTI news agency less than our before polls closed indicated enter-right Hungarian Demo- Forum would finish strongest, 4 seats.
coughout the monthlong cam- for 394 parliamentary seats, the attempt to force the electorate to dis- ment to a multiparty system.
job
stead of crediting the Socialists volunteering to play by democ rules, most voters remember excesses of more than four aides of one-party rule that have de Communists unpopular uphough the Soviet bloc.
mary's last elections were in when the Communists won a large majority, largely through I. A year later, they consolidated and forced all other parties out existence.
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