VOL.100,NO.116
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MONDAY, MARCH 26, 1990
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 gun of gasoline and a set 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 were trapped 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
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drinks or held hands. Only three people managed to reach safety by way of the two tiny exit doors on a land two-story Happy Land social club
"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 173 other illegal social clubs that were there, said they were operating in the city.
It it was the deadliest fire in the continental United States since the 1977 blaze at the Beverly Hills Supprion in South Georgia, 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.
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.
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
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.
Gonzalez cried with remorse under questioning, said Lt. Ray under questioning. Donnell, the police spokesman, said he did it." O'Donnell he saying he did it." O'Donnell
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
and Dominican immigrants.
"Most of the bodies were in dance clothes," Emergency Medical Services specialist Christopher McCarthy said. "They were out to have fun."
Alva Romero, a Honduran immigrant, lost six relatives, including a daughter, both brothers and a sister. Jerome Fioro 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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Hats can top off total look
By Julie Browman Special to the Kansan
They can be tall, short or wide. One might have a warm and fun personality, another might be cool and professional. They can be striking and chic or old and haggard. Some even have come from around the world to Lawrence.
"A person who wears a hat feels good about themselves. A hat gives them their own style," said Linda Lester, owner of the Etc. Shop, 732 Massachusetts St.
People who wear hats are not afraid to flaunt their individuality. Even when customers are buying hats, salesclerks can tell with whom they are dealing.
These are not descriptions of students, but some of the hats that they wear.
"When a person wears a hat, they carry themselves differently," she said. "They are sure of themselves."
Lester, who has owned the store for nine years, has seen all types of hats and what they can do for a person.
Lester carries 35 styles of hats in stock, and some of them come all the way from Panama. She said women's hats had increased in popularity partly because of advertising on television and in magazines.
Another reason for their popularity might be their price. They are an affordable accessory to any wardrobe. Although it is a bit more expensive that cost about $24, some were less than $10.
Five years ago Lester's best-selling hat was similar to the fedora Harrison Ford wore as the movie character Indiana Jones. Lester said that her most popular
hat was the bolero, the type of hat Zorro made famous.
Laura Moriarty, Bozeman, Mont., sophomore, said her black floppy hat brought a unique reaction from people.
"Everybody looks at you and says something about your hat," she said. "People are looking because it is something different."
Part of the appeal of wearing hats is that it gives people a chance to play and act, said Jill Legler, an employee at The Casbah, 803 Massachusetts St.
Despite occasional rain showers, voter turnout appeared brisk at Budapest polling stations, with electorates nearly 50 percent in some wards by
"Some mornings you might just want to get up and dress like a country girl, or you might just want to wear fishnet stockings and a mini-skirt and complete that outfit." she said.
Another thing hats have going for them is that they can be worn by either sex. Hats at The Caschab range from floppy straw hats to bright Guatemalan tans, which are knitted caps similar to a beret. Both of these can be worn by either sex.
However, each sex has its favorite. Legger said that more men bought the wool fedora hat and that women preferred straw hats, which are big sellers in the'straw
Whether it is a ragged baseball cap or a fashionable bolero, hats are for people who want to make a statement, said Midge Grinstead, manager of The Natural Way, 820 Massachusetts St.
"Wearing a hat says, 'Look at me,' '' she said.
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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.
Hungary
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.
As in East Germany, where Eastern Europe's first free ballot in decades took place March 18, the Communists were expected to fare better than others. They competed with 11 other national parties for parliament seats
four hours after the voting and eight hours before polls. About 7.8 million people were e to vote.
irregularities were reported m., when the voting officially l. Several internationalers monitored the election. eh, who voted at a state-run garten serving as one of 11,000 stations across the nation, sd to predict the chances of his that party has governance since reformed. he formed it after defecting he Communist Party in Octo-
comments reflected wide-acceptance, even among the would not do spite its role in撑 democratic reform.
i only thing I hope for is that a government is created," he said, adding that only a ment not hamstrung by the ton could deal with the sailing economy.
I can't consider it an act of God if make it into government." I told reporters. "I will hold a reins head high and with a ausience. I don't have bitterly my heart but satisfaction."
and of crediting the Socialists unteering to play by demon rules, most voters remember cesses of more than four of one-party rule that have Communists unpopular out the Soviet bloc.
about the monthlong camer 394 parliamentary seats, candidates attempted to the electorate of their com- to a multiparty system.
ary's last elections were in hen the Communists won a majority, largely through year later, they consolidated and forced all other parties out once.
re-election opinion polls indie Socialists would finish no than fourth place, with a 10 percent of the overall
of 5,000 people published by a MTI news agency less than before polls closed indicated terri-right Hungarian Democourum would finish strongest, seats.
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