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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Even before city
officials Tuesday could open building records
of the Hyatt Regency Hotel where 111 party
guests died beneath steel and concrete rubble,
three lawsuits were filed charging safety
hazards.
More than two dozen victims of the disaster
were buried Monday and three dozen more
! were scheduled for burial Tuesday.
Mark D. Williams, 34, who remained hos
pitalized, filed suit Monday in Jackson County
Circuit Court seeking $100 million in punitive
damages and $1 million in actual damages. His
suit charges there were “serious defects in the
sky walks,’ and as a result the premises were
dangerous to the public. ”
A petition in the case, in which the Hyatt
Corp. and Crown Center Redevelopment
Corp. are defendants, also cites the defen
dants’ “complete indifference to and conscious
disregard for the safety of the public. ”
The three children of victim Richard G. De-
Krufiy, 56, filed a $2 million wrongful death
suit in Jackson County Circuit Court Monday.
In that suit, the petition alleges the defendants
“failed to use reasonable care to make the pre
mises safe.”
Two children of Susan Moberg, 46, another
one of the victims, filed a petition in federal
District Court Monday alleging the defen
dants — the Hyatt Hotels Corp. and the
Crown Center Redevelopment Corp. — failed
to use “reasonable care in the review and
approval” of the design, construction, inspec
tion and maintenance of the $50-million, 40-
story luxury hotel.
An architectural expert and the subcontrac
tor who designed the skywalks denied reports
they were experimental structures, saying
such bridges had been features of other build
ings for years.
In another development, the Kansas City
Times Tuesday published a copyright story on
a draft copy of a 22-month, blue-ribbon study
the newspaper said warns of peculiar hazards
in the type of “longspan” construction used at
the hotel. The study, “Towards Safer Long-
Span Buildings, ” is scheduled to be published
this week by the American Institute of
Architects.
The 150-foot-long walkways — which Hyatt
Corp. officials have claimed were “designed to
hold people shoulder-to-shoulder, as many as
you can jam on there” — had been one of the
most eye-catching features of the hotel’s futur
istic, five-story atrium.
But in 15 deadly seconds Friday, the upper
most bridge folded and fell from its ceiling
moorings, raining people and massive chunks
of concrete onto a second-floor walkway. It too
crumbled and crashed onto a dance floor
crowded with jitterbuggers dancing to the Big-
Band sound. Mayor Richard Berkley pledged
to reporters that night all city records pertain
ing to the hotel’s building and maintenance
would be immediately released to the public.
However, it took the city attorney, who said
they first had to be catalogued, four days to
comply.
“I’m not entirely sure what you will find in
there of interest, ” Berkley said of the records.
“I’m not a technical expert. ”
Kansas City’s mayor has proposed formation
of a private citizen task force to “launch an
impartial investigation” into the collapse of the
two aerial walkways.
“We re working on that. There will be a
citizen’s committee,” he said.
The question of what caused the worst disas
ter in the city’s history was briefly addressed
Monday by the St. Louis subcontractor who
designed the steel-and-concrete skywalks.
Jack D. Gillum, head of Gillum-Colaco Con
sulting Structural Engineers, said the type of
skywalks his firm designed at the Hyatt are not
unusual.
“They have done a preliminary investigation
and have made sure of what we did, ” Gillum
said. “Hung structures have been designed for
years. We’ve done others and never had a
problem.”
The Kansas City Chapter of the American
Institute of Architects, in a separate news con
ference, reached a similar conclusion. Presi
dent E. Crichton Singleton also said any spe
culation before the inquiries — five at last
count — were completed would be “counter
productive.”
Throughout the city, church bells rang and
flags remained at half staff as the first of the
Hyatt Regency disaster victims were buried.
More than two dozen funerals were conducted
Monday and another three dozen were sche
duled for Tuesday.
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United Press International
WASHINGTON —The Senate
Tuesday voted 52-46 against a
move to save the $122-a-month
minimum Social Security benefit
that President Reagan wants to
drop.
As the amendment to Reagan’s
tax cut bill was being defeated on a
party-line vote, elderly protesters
gathered for a demonstration on
Capitol Hill, and the House pre
pared to vote on a non-binding
resolution opposing the adminis
tration cut.
The Senate measure, which
would have had the force of law,
was sponsored by Sen. Donald
Riegle, D-Mich., and a raft of
other Democrats up for re-
election next year.
That prompted Senate Finance
Committee chairman Bob Dole,
R-Kan., to charge “political ter
rorism from the left, from those
who are looking at the politics of
the system instead of the sound
ness of the system.” Riegle, refer
ring to the “poor old souls” who
would be affected, and Sen. Rus
sell Long, D-La., calling them
“dear little people, argued there
should be room enough to include
the 3 million elderly recipients in
the proposed $686 billion tax cut
over five years.
Minimum benefits are paid to
those whose contributions to the
system are not large enough to be
eligible for regular Social
Security.
The administration has said
only about 300,000 people would
be seriously affected, and they
could be eligible fbr up to $10,000
a year in benefits under other gov
ernment programs.
Reagan told congressional lead
ers Monday he is planning a na
tionally broadcast address in an
effort to snuff out a Democratic
uprising and call for a bipartisan
remedy for the financially trou
bled Social Security system.
House Speaker Thomas O’Neill
said Tuesday Democrats will con
tinue to hammer away at the So
cial Security issue to show Reagan
he can’t “talk out of both sides of
his mouth and get away with it.”
He said Reagan once promised
he would never cut Social Security
benefits, and now Democrats
would be “putting their (Republi
cans’) feet to the fire.”
In a letter to House and Senate
leaders, Reagan accused Demo
crats of “political maneuvering” in
opposing a move to terminate the
minimum Social Security benefit.
“These efforts appear designed
to exploit an issue rather than find
a solution to the urgent Social
Security problem, ” Reagan said in
the letter, which was released
Monday and drew immediate re
sponse from O’Neill.
Both the House and Senate, in
separate versions of a huge
budget-cutting bill, approved ter
mination of the minimum benefit.
United Press International
NEW YORK — Miss Vene
zuela, an engineering student who
likes Ronald Reagan and the Cin
cinnati Reds, was named the
“most beautiful girl in the world”
Monday night in the 1981 Miss
Universe Pageant.
Irene SaezConde, 19, defeated
75 other contestants to win the
title at the Minskoff Theater in
New York City. The pageant was
televised live to an estimated 600
million viewers around the world.
The 5-foot-10 winner with red
dish-brown hair was a favoite of
the audience which attended the
30th annual pageant. With the
help of an interpreter, Conde told
host Bob Barker her favorite
American football team was the
Dolphins and her favorite baseball
team was the Reds. Under further
questioning from Barker, howev
er, she said she thought New York
Yankees owner George Stein-
brenner was “a pitcher. ”
In a biographical sketch, Conde
said she believed President
Reagan was the greatest person in
the world “because he represents
universal, democratic ideas.”
The daughter of a retired mer
chant, Conde is an engineering
student in Caracas, who says she
chose her field of study because
she hopes “to see buildings grow
like children.”
The new Miss Universe joined
some of her fellow contestants at a
Manhattan disco after the
pageant, and said her first thought
when being crowned was “thank
God.”
Conde will receive cash and
prizes worth $100,000, including a
fur coat, a sports car, a diamond
and gold pendant and a new pair of
shoes for every week of the year.
The first runner-up was Domi
nique Dufour of Toronto, Canada.
Second runner-up was Evalena
Lundgren, 19, a model from
Pitea, Sweden. The third runner-
up was Adriana De Olveira, 18, a
model from Porto Alegro, Brazil,
and fourth runner-up was Domi
nique Dan Eeckhoudt, 20, hostess
from Brussels, Belgium.
Miss U.S.A., Kim Seelbrede
20, of Germantown, Ohio, was
among the 12 semi-finalists but
did not make the finals.
Beauty queens from 76 coun
tries vied for the Miss Universe!
title. A 77th candidate, Mis;!
Mauritius, returned to her home
land Sunday because she wa;
“homesick,” a pageant spokesmai
said. Two other initial contestant;
also were not in the running.
Debra Ann Fountain of New
York was ousted from the Mise
U.S.A. finals for filling out hex
swimsuit top with foam rubber fal
sies. Another contestant, Dori;
Loh, originally named Miss Hong
Kong, had given her age as 22 bui
was dismissed by her local com
mittee after they discovered she
actually was 25.
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WASHINGTON — President
Reagan has agreed to admit an
additional 2,400 refugees from
Eastern Europe into the United
States during the rest of the fiscal
year, the State Department said
Saturday.
“The State Department, in re
sponse to urgent appeals from the
government of Austria, asked the
attorney general in June to seek
congressional concurrence in in
creasing the refugee admissions
numbers for East Europeans by
2,400 for Fiscal Year 1981, from
4,500 to 6,900,” a State Depart
ment spokesman said.
The House Judiciary Commit
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While many of the additional
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ish, the 6,900 limit applies to all
Eastern European refugees, he
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way for refugees leaving Eastern
bloc countries.
“As opposed to regular immig
ration country quotas, there are
no country quotas for refugees
from Eastern Europe this year,”
the spokesman said.
The new quota applies only for
the remainder of the 1981 fiscal
year, which ends Sept. 30, he
said. The 1982 refugee admission
ceiling will be set by Reagan in
September after consulting with
Congress.
Through June, the United
States has admitted 3,317 Eastern
European refugees from Austria
and other European processing
centers, the State Department
said.
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