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SWEET VALLEY, Pa. — Fire
flashed through the first floor of a
boarding home that housed mostly
elderly people early Tuesday, killing
seven residents who never got out of
their bedrooms, witnesses and offi
cials said.
He said the victims were found on
the first floor, all of them in their
bedrooms. Hudock said five of the
victims were in their beds and the
other two apparently died trying to
escape.
Live Aid
At least 13 people were injured,
including three firefighters and the
couple who owned the Thomas
Guest House. Two of the injured
were in critical condition.
The Ronald Thomas family,
which ran the home and lived on the
second floor, escaped by climbing
onto the roof of the two-story frame
building. A daughter, Leslie, 21,
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Geldof honored by congressional group
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Rep. Mickey
Leland presented an award Tuesday
to Bob Geldof, the rock musician
whose efforts for the starving in Af
rica culminated in last week’s mas
sive Live Aid concert and generated
over SI00 million in pledges for
famine aid.
At a news conference on Capitol
Hill, the 32-year-old, Irish-born C*el-
dof, a member of the punk-rock
Boomtown Rats, spoke of the logisti
cal and political problems plaguing
famine relief efforts in drought-
stricken Africa.
“He’s just unbelievable,” Leland,
D-Houston, said later.
“I have never met anybody so
knowledgeable about the issues in
volved who comes from his realm,”
said Leland, chairman of the con
gressional Select Committee on
Hunger.
“I’m really excited that he would
take the time to learn about the is
sues surrounding Africa, not only
the hunger, but the nuances of the
politics that come into play not only
in Ethiopia, but the other countries
that he’s studied evidently,” Leland
said.
delphia that featured 44 major rock
artists. -
Leland said Geldof wanted coop
eration between U.S. AID, the
Agency for International Devel
opment, and Band Aid, which began
as a collaboration of British rock mu
sicians to record “Do They Know It’s
Christmas” as a benefit for famine
relief last year.
Leland also met in his office Tues
day afternoon with actor Ed Asner
and ventriloquist Paul Winchell who
had testified earlier in the day be
fore a House subcommittee about
their effort to put together long-
range drought relief projects to feed
African nations after the immediate
threat of famine has ended.
Janet Cross, 38, who called in the
alarm shortly before 4 a.m., said she
woke up hearing shouts and saw the
fire from the front window of her
house across the street.
“It was small, no great fire at all. It
looked like something you could go
over and stamp out,” she said.
Luzerne County Coroner Dr.
George Hudock said Leslie Thomas
helped identify the victims.
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“Then I saw the windows on the
door blow out, and that’s when ev
erything started burning fiercely. It
was unbelievable, once those win
dows broke open, the flames mush
roomed up and the whole place was
burning.”
They were identified as: Lucy
DelRegno, 73; Agnes Scanlon, 72;
Nicholas Demko, 69; Stephen Hav-
erly, 90; Emmett Dempsey, 64;
Rhonda Raedler, 19, and Grace
Sorber, 75.
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(the fire) started,” Walsh said.
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Band Aid’s record was followed
by a similar U.S. effort, “We Are the
World.”
Geldof was one of the promoters
of the July 13 telethon “Live Aid,” a
benefit concert and telethon held si
multaneously in London and Phila-
framed certificates, one a joint reso
lution signed by President Reagan
declaring July 13 as “Live Aid Day,”
and the other an award from the
Congressional Arts Caucus.
“The award is from the Congres
sional Arts Caucus,” Leland said at
the ceremony, “but it is really from
the children of Africa.”
Sweet Valley Fire Chief Robert
Walsh said the home was not a nurs
ing home and the residents were
able to walk. “But it evidently caught
them unexpected,” he said.
A large alarm bell at the rear of
the house was ringing wildly when
firefighters arrived, Walsh said, but
the fire had spread quickly.
The house, licensed as a personal
care-boarding home, received its an
nual inspection by the state Depart
ment of Public Welfare in March.
Three minor violations of state regu
lations were found, none having to
do with fire safety. The violations
were corrected and a 12-month li
cense was issued on March 17, said
department spokesman Mike
Moyer.
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CHICAGO — Federal and lo
cal law enforcement agents ar
rested dozens of people Tuesday
,in a crackdown oh drug dealing
that the FBI said was one of the
largest raids of its kind in the na
tion.
Bob Long, FBI spokesman in
Chicago, said the raid seeking
132 people culminated a two-year
federal investigation and in
volved cocaine, marijuana and
heroin. He said most of those
charged were from the Chicago
area.
The Hammond (Ind.) Times
reported that raids were con
ducted in Chicago, Cicero and
Aurora, as well as in Indianapolis
and Hammond, Ind.; Miami; and
Lansing, Mich.
The arrest warrants stemmed
from indictments returned last
week by federal grand juries in
Chicago and Hammond,
newspaper said, quoting un
named federal authorities.
The investigation was con
ducted by the FBI, the federal
Drug Enforcement Administra
tion and U.S. Customs Service,
and targeted people identified as
major heroin and cocaine dealers
in Lake County.and the Chicago
metropolitan area, federal au
thorities told the newspaper.
Franz Hirzy, public informa
tion officer for the DEA Chicago
office, declined comment.
U.S. Attorneys Anton Valukas
of Chicago and R. Lawrence
Steele Jr. of Hammond sched
uled a news conference for later
Tuesday.
The newspaper quoted federal
authorities as saying those named
in indictments included members
of the Herrera family in Chicago
and the Zambrana family in Lake
County, Ind.
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LOS ANGELES — Rock Hudson,
a movie idol of the 1950s and 1960s
who went on to television stardom in
“McMillan and Wife” and “Dynasty,”
is gravely ill with inoperable liver
cancer in a Paris hospital, his publi
cist said Tuesday.
Hudson, 59, is being treated at the
American Hospital in Paris by spe
cialists of the Institute Pasteur, a fa
cility that specializes in AIDS re
search, publicist Dale Olson said.
But Olson described reports that
Hudson is suffering from acquired
immune deficiency syndrome as
speculative.
“He’s been in and out of a coma,”
Olson said. “He’s a very, very sick
man.”
Hospital spokesman Bruce Redor
told Tlie Associated Press in Paris
that Hudson’s condition was satisfac
tory and that the actor was under ob
servation.
“When he appeared on ‘Dynasty,’
he looked terrific, displayed great
energy and as always was the con
summate professional,” Spelling
said. “All of us who worked with him
on ‘Dynasty’ are praying for his re
covery.”
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Olson said Hudson “will see addi
tional specialists tomorrow to deter
mine if anything can be done to alle
viate his condition.”
“My official statement is that Rock
Hudson is in the American Hospital
in Paris, where his doctors have di
agnosed that he has cancer of the
liver and that it is not operable,” Ol
son said, adding that there were also
signs of cancer in Hudson’s blood.
Hudson, who underwent a qua
druple bypass heart operation in
1981 while making the “The Devlin
Connection” for NBC, bounced back
to resume his career, most recently
on “Dynasty.”
Aaron Spelling, executive pro
ducer of “Dynasty,” said the cast and
crew of the ABC-TV series were
“stunned by the terrible rumors
about Rock Hudson’s physical condi
tion.
Hudson appeared in six episodes
of ABC-TV’s top-rated “Dynasty”
until a scripted plane crash last
spring left uncertain the fate of his
character, wealthy horse breeder
Daniel Reece.
Olson noted that there had been
reports in the press that Hudson was
suffering from AIDS, which de
stroys the body’s immune system.
“They are speculative reports and
have been neither confirmed nor
denied by his doctors,” Olson said.
Group says doctors not taught enough about nutrition
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — U.S. medical
schools, while cramming future doc
tors full of technical know-how, are
teaching them too little about food
and nutrition despite growing evi
dence of the importance of diet in
disease prevention, a federal study
group said T uesday.
The president of the Association
of Anierican Medical Colleges
quickly disagreed, saying current
medical school attention to nutri
tion, which he called “the in thing”
in society, is about right, considering
all the other information students
must learn in four years.
The report, from the National Re
search Council’s Committee on Nu
trition in Medical Education, said
flatly, “The teaching of nutrition in
most U.S. medical schools is inade
quate.”
The committee based its recom
mendations on a survey of 45 of the
nation’s 127 medical schools. Those
schools average 21 hours of nutri
tion education in a four-year course
of study, with 60 percent offering
less than 20 hours of such instruc
tion and 20 percent providing less
than 10 hours, the report said.
“To cover these core concepts ad
equately, a minimum of 25 to 30
classroom hours should be allocated
to them during the preclinical
years,” it said.
Improvement could be achieved
without much disruption in medical
schools’ coursework, it contended.
Most schools offer nutrition
course electives, but relatively few
students take them and “required
courses serve as a focal point for a
discipline and significantly increase
the probability that the student body
has a uniform base of knowledge,”
the report said.
However, it said getting support
from faculty and administrators
could be a bigger problem, suggest
ing that upgrading most nutrition
programs “may require a major
philosophical adjustment.”
medical schools association, said
much nutrition education isn’t iden
tified as such — for example, infor
mation on vitamin C and amino ac
ids and protein in biochemistry
courses.
Asked to comment on the report,
which he had not yet received, Dr.
John A. D. Cooper, president of the
As to whether nutrition is covered
adequately, he said, “Nothing is cov
ered adequately” in four years of
study that must include “the explo
sion of knowledge, the explosion of
technology” that has occurred in re
cent years.
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