University Daily Kansan / Friday, March 2, 1990
Nation/World
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Cairo fire kills 16, injures 70
The Associated Press
CAIRO, Egypt — Fire broke out in a luxury hotel's tent restaurant early yesterday and wind-whipped flames leaped to the main building, killing 16 people and injuring 70. At least one U.S. citizen was among the dead.
The blaze broke out at 1 a.m. at the Helipolis Sheraton and burned for nine hours. By early afternoon, after the last flames had been put out and the smoke extinguished, guests were returning to retrieve belongings.
The hotel, about 10 years old, is the only one of Egypt's six Sheratons without an alarm system or sprinklers. Tourism Minister Fuad Sultan said they were not mandatory in Egypt.
Fred Pirkey of Atlanta said he was asleep in a sixth-floor room when his wife got up and noticed some orange
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flames outside the window. From there, they made it through the smoke to the third floor, where a man was tying bedbeds together to attach to a windowsill.
U. S. Embassy spokesman Marcelie Wabba said one U.S. citizen was killed, but she would not release information about the victim. Three U.S citizens were seriously injured, said police Brig. Abdel-Rehim el-Kenawy.
Sandinista soldiers leave army behind
The Associated Press
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Young soldiers have begun to desert from the Sandinista armed forces as the deadline nears for President Daniel Ortega to step down from office, draftees and draftees' relatives said yesterday.
Ortega was defeated in Sunday's election by Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, who has promised to abolish the draft after she is inaugurated on April 25. Some deserters apparently are planning to hide out until that happens.
Chamorro's office announced yesterday that the president-elect would send a special mission to the United States to seek economic aid for Nicaragua.
Francisco Mayorga, 41, who has done postgraduate work at Yale, will lead the mission. Mayorga often has been mentioned as possible minister of economy after Chamorro begins her six-year term.
MATELITE RELEASED: A $500 million spy satellite glided from the space shuttle yesterday, and Atlantis' astronauts streaked toward a Sunday landing, sources said.
The sources said the 37,300-pound satellite was ejected from the shuttle's cargo bay early yesterday. Atlantis will land at 12:34 p.m. Sunday at Edwards Air Force Base in California, said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The shuttle was launched in darkness early Wednesday, and progress of the mission has been cloaked under a Pentagon-imposed news blackout.
BUSH LIFTS SANCTIONS: President Bush yesterday lifted the last sanctions against Panama, which were imposed for its failure to cooperate in drug-fighting efforts.
Most of the economic sanctions against Panama were removed in December after the U.S. invasion and the topping of Gen. Manuel Quiroz, who awaits trial in Florida on federal drug trafficking charges.
Nation/World briefs
E. GERMANY INDUSTRY: East Germany took the first step yesterday toward privatizing state industries but set conditions to prevent a widespread sale of major assets and a buoyout by West Germans.
Also yesterday, the Foreign Ministry called on West Germany to start talks to coordinate a common German position on unification for the "two-plus-four" conference later this year.
BEIRUT. ASSAULTS KILL 14.
Gen. Michel Aoun's tanks pierced
the defenses of the rival Christian
militia in savage fighting yesterday
in east Beirut. The showdown
entered its second month.
Police said at least 14 people were killed and 50 wounded in seven assaults by Aoun's American-made, M-48 tanks against the urban lines of Samir Geagea's Lebanese Forces militia.
CBS REINSTATES ROONEY:
There may be more than a few minutes with Andy Rooney on "60 Minutes!" this Sunday. After CBS yesterday lifted his suspension, he said he would do a commentary on
the matter during Sunday's broadcast.
"I'm very pleased," he added after CBS News president David Burke, who on Feb. 8 suspended him for three months without pay, reinstated him.
BARRY PROSECUTION: Prosecutors are pressing their investigation of Washington Mayor Marion Barry by issuing a new series of subpoenas for city records as Barry prepares for a June trial on charges of cocaine possession and perjury.
Barry pleaded not guilty Wednesday to five misdemeanor cocaine charges and three felony perjury counts at a federal court arraignment. U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson scheduled a June 4 trial.
"We will not plea bargain, and the mayor is not considering resigning," said R. Kenneth Mundy, Barry's attorney, after the nine-hour meeting. "The mayor is confident he will be vindicated at trial."
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