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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1981
Page 9
enry Cisneros is likely choice for next SA mayor
United Press International
I SAN ANTONIO — Urban affairs professor and City Coun-
Bman Henry Cisneros admits targeting his life for the past six
fears to become mayor of San Antonio.
I But realizing his ambition in Saturday ’s city election will be
■ore than a personal achievement — Cisneros will become
Je first Mexican-American mayor of a major U.S. city.
Cisneros, 33-year-old protege of former cabinet secretary
Jlliot Richardson, has consistently held the lead in an eight-
lan mayoral contest and now appears the favorite to win
fturday.
San Antonio has had a stereotype as a small, sleepy town
tar the U.S.-Mexico border that held the Alamo for tourists
jid well-kept golf courses for retired military officers. But the
ist 20 years of soaring economic growth and booming popu
lation have shattered the sleepy image. More than 250 years
after the establishment of the city, San Antonio has become
the nation’s ninth largest in population with an expanding
economic base in electronics, medical research and energy.
Cisneros’ closest competitor for the city’s chief executive
post, businessman and city council member John Steen, says
his pre-election polls show he has been rapidly gaining ground
on the Harvard-educated Cisneros, but still lags behind.
“I’ve told them this is not an ethnic election,” Steen said.
“At least the candidates and the people aren’t aware of it, if it
is.”
More than half the city’s 800,000 people are Hispanic, but
neither candidate has made ethnic backgrounds a campaign
issue. Mexican-American political power in San Antonio
peaked in 1977 with a city council majority of Hispanics.
Cisneros’ personal charm and eloquence apparently have
allowed much of the polarization between Hispanics and
Anglos to be forgotten during the mayoral campaign. Slogans
for both major candidates include “unity” as a theme.
“Sure, I like Cisneros. A lot of the Anglos do,” said an
elderly white man who was interviewed in a downtown shop
ping area.
A record number of people are expected to vote. Absentee
balloting already has doubled the record set in 1977.
Steen’s campaign is being run by an advertising agency —
Baily, Deardourff & Associates — which has been associated
with winning campaigns across the nation. Another stumbling
block for Cisneros is Dr. Jose San Martin, son of a prominent
Mexican-American citizen, who is capable of taking a large
portion of Cisneros’ Hispanic vote.
Both major San Antonio newspapers have endorsed Cisner
os, the San Antonio Light doing so with a front-page, banner
headline endorsement on Wednesday.
“Councilman Cisneros exemplifies the young, bright,
aggressive energy which will help bring the greatness des
tined for this city,” stated the newspaper’s endorsement.
“He is a man of the times with a program for the times.”
“I am not content to sit back and let others do what I
believe the mayor should be doing,” Cisneros said. “My
administration will not be passive, but rather aggressive,
creative — all to keep in step with the growing challenge of
the 80s.”
rson experts probe latest Vegas fire
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United Press International
iLAS VEGAS, Nev. —Arson ex
its sealed the gutted remains of
:ury suite Room 584 at Caesars
ace Thursday, pending com-
tion of an investigation into the
iirth Vegas hotel-casino blaze in
e months.
Flames erupted Wednesday in
i fifth-floor room of the hotel’s
-story central tower, injuring 16
ople and forcing hundreds to
le smoke-filled halls. Down-
lirs, however, gamblers con-
* ied to play blackjack, roll dice
play slot machines in the
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itil late Wednesday through the
tied five-room suite where the
started, but officials refused to
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Although the room had been
rented, nobody was believed to be
in Room 584 when the fire broke
out, a hotel spokesman said.
Caesars Palace is located
diagonally from the MGM Hotel
where 84 people died in a fire last
November. Another blaze,
started by an arsonist, killed eight
people at the Las Vegas Hilton
Feb. 10. The Silverbird Hotel was
evacuated March 2 in an arson-
caused fire, but there were no
deaths and no injuries.
The central tower of Caesars
Palace, where Wednesday’s fire
started, is an older section of the
multimillion-dollar resort and is
not equipped with sprinklers.
Plans are under way, however,
to install sprinklers throughout
the 1,734-room resort, according
to a report recently submitted to
the Clark County Commission.
There are sprinklers in the hotel’s
casino areas, convention halls,
shopping arcade and new tower.
Ironically, many of the guests
evacuated because of the fire were
attending the National Burglary
and Fire Alarms convention in
the hotel.
Both the 14-story Central Tow
er, which opened Caesars Palace
in 1966, and the adjoining new
Fantasy Tower were evacuated.
Firemen, maids and hotel
security guards ran through
smoky corridors and pounded on
doors, alerting guests — especial
ly those on the fifth and sixth floors
where the smoke was heaviest —
to get out. Smoke alarms shrieked
in some of the rooms.
“I woke up to the sound of
sirens,” said Jerry Davis of De
nver, who was honeymooning at
the resort. “A maid came, knock
ed on the door and was so shaky
and scared all she could do was
point to the fire stairway outside
our door.”
Some frightened guests
smashed windows in a frantic
effort to get fresh air, sending
shattered glass down onto other
escaping guests.
Despite the frightened guests
and hotel employees fleeing
through the casino, gaming never
halted. “Everyone kept playing,”
said a blackjack dealer. “I thought
it was a joke.”
Fire Department Capt. Ralph
Dinsman said the flames, con
fined to the single suite, were
extinguished within 30 minutes
by 55 firemen. He said firemen
had trouble locating the fire at
first because smoke was so heavy.
The most seriously injured per
son was Fire Capt. Donald War
ren, who suffered second-degree
bums on the upper part of his
body. He was in satisfactory con
dition at Southern Nevada Memo
rial Hospital’s burn center.
Fifteen other people — five
firefighters and 10 guests — were
treated at the scene for smoke in
halation. Ten were hospitalized.
Man added to victim total
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United Press International
ATLANTA — The bodies of a
ninp^Juung black man with “the mind
fa child’ and the latest known
ictim of Atlanta’s child killers
lay have entered the Chatta-
t understn ooc ^ ee ^* ver at ^e same site,
ain such hi utllorities sa y-
1 I j Eddie Lamar “Bubba” Dun-
uatemala I “A 2 L was pulled from the river
felize justl " esclay night - about two miles
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were prol
indhadalji pp earances 0 f the children. He is
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.’ . i C , nd two missing victims.
US rai |L ^ ou ^ as County Sheriff Earl
•Tookingfot ^ investigating Duncan’s
better unJn
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death, said both Duncan’s and
Hill’s bodies could have entered
the river at the same site, possibly
from one of two upstream bridges.
Eddie Duncan Sr. said he saw
his son about two weeks ago at a
restaurant near the Techwood
housing project, where Eddie and
Hill both lived.
“I told him to be careful and he
said he knew to be careful because
his friend was missing, ” the father
said. “His friend’s name was
Timothy Hill.”
the spot where Timothy Hill,
I, was found one day earlier,
uncan became the 24th case
to the special police task
meprobing the slayings and dis-
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