VOL.100.NO.116
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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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 quarring with an ex-girlfriend returned with a bronx of gasoline and 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 trapped to death; many lost a hole through a wall to an adjoining hall 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
"People literally were stacked on top of each other," said Anthony De Vita, the Fire Department command chief. "It was a firetran."
Authorities early today began raiding and shutting down some of the 172 other illegal social clubs where these cases were 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.
It was the deadliest fire in the continental United States since the 1772 glaze at the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Ky., that
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.
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
Gonzalez cried with remorse under questioning, said Lt. Raymond O'Donnell, a police spokesman. "Basically, he's saying he did it." O'Donnell said.
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.
The impoverished Latino 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.
Killed were 61 men and 26 women, most of them Honduran
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and Dominican immigrants
"Most of the bodies were in dance clothes." Emergency Medicine specialist Christopher McCarthy said. "They were out have fun."
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.
Happy Land was ordered shut in November 1988 and again a year later because of inadequate exits, sprinkler systems, emergency lighting and signs. Dinkins said. It had no liquor or cabaret license.
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Bo Jackson knows a lot these days.
Neons pump energy into athletic apparel
this spring.
What's in and what's out in athletic apparel has not changed much from last year. One of the most popular fads continues to be neon or brightly colored shirts and shorts.
--when it comes to shoes, Logan said, anything made by Nike is what people will be wearing, especially cross-trainers costing between $65 and $100. Cross-trainer shoes are designed for the person who participates in a variety of sports.
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The biggest-selling neon product will be loose nylon shorts from Body Glove and I Dig, which cost about $30, said Butch Logan, manager at Jock's Nitch, 840 Massachusetts St. Even Air Jordan T-shirts will be styled in neon colors — not because Michael Jordan prefers them but because neon sells.
"Neon colors are big in California and on the shores in Colorado, and that influences what people want to wear here," Logan said.
Peg Wittmer, manager of Sports Unlimited, 1012 Massachusetts St., said, "Anything exciting and different is what people want. For a few years, earth tones were big. But now there seems to be a trend toward bright and lively colors. I think it is a reflection of society's mood as a whole."
Along with nylon shorts, Wittmer said that Lycra clothing would continue to sell well because people associated that style of clothing with fitness.
The fact that these clothing styles don't offer pocket space has lead to another fashion trend. Nylon waist pouches, also
known as fancy packs, can cost up to $30 and often are used to carry keys and money. These pouches are especially popular with walkers, joggers and cyclists, and they also come in neon colors.
But for college students, classic styles such as K-Swiss, Tretorns and Stan Smiths from Adidas will continue to be popular because of their lower prices, which range between $30 and $50.
One innovation in shoes is the Pump high-top basketball shoe by Reebok, which sells for $170. Reebok also plans on coming out with less expensive Pumps in tennis and cross-training versions. The Pump shoes has air sacks inside that can be pumped up to protect the foot and ankle while providing comfort for the wearer.
"Companies are starting to produce the fitted caps for a variety of different schools and in many colors," Logan said. "The caps, which are made of wool, will be popular even in the summer and cost from $15 to $20.
The fashionable college student also will be wearing a fitted baseball cap with either a college or pro insignia or it.
"This year, the wilder and brighter the colors, the better the products are selling. For next year, I predict people will start going for the psychelic look, though, because that is what is popular in California now."
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Hungary
Socialists expect to lose vote
The Associated Press
Premier Miklos Nemeth, a reform-minded Communist and a key engineer of the nation's conversion to democracy, declared moments before he voted that he was relinquishing control with a clear conscience.
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.
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.
on, four hours after the voting
gan and eight hours before polls
used. About 7.8 million people were
gible to vote.
Despite occasional rain showers, voter turnout appeared brisk at Budapest polling stations, with electorates taking a turnoff of early 50 percent in the city.
Few irregularities were reported p.m., when the voting officially dced. Several international servers monitored the election.
who voted at a state-run referendum serving as one of 11,000 lilting stations across the nation, clined to predict the fate of his立院ist Party. That party has and since reform-oriented Communists formed it after defecting in the Communist Party in October.
his comments reflected wide-dead acceptance, even among alists, that his party would not do it 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 gernment not hamstrom by the position could deal with the ion's lion's economy.
stead of crediting the Socialists volunteering to play by democratic rules, most voters remember excesses of more than four sides of one-party rule that have de-Communists unpopular throughout the Soviet bloc.
don't consider it an act of God if
n't make it into government,"
with told reporters. "I will hand
the reins head high and with a
conscience. I don't have bitterin-
mary in my heart but satisfaction."
poll of 5,000 people published by late MTI news agency less than our before polls closed indicated center-right Hungarian Demo- Forum would finish strongest, 1 seats.
magny's last elections were in when the Communists won a five majority, largely through 1 A year later, they consolidated r and forced all other parties out intence.
pre-election opinion polls indi-
cate the Socialists would finish no
more than fourth place, with a
num 10 percent of the overall
hought out the monthlong cam- for 394 parliamentary seats, hit candidates attempted to meet with the government to a multiparty system.
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