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World and Nation
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3-day blackout ends in Seattle
SEATTLE (AP) — Electricity
flowed downtown again Sunday af
ter a three-day blackout that hi ed el
evators in high-rises, thawed frozen
food and shut down air conditioners
during one of the hottest weeks in
Seattle history.
Power was finally restored to
much of the 50-block area Saturday
night, but Seattle City Light asked
customers to conserve power and
not turn on air conditioners until
two more fire-damaged cables could
be repaired.
Three days without eectricity had
taken their toll.
“Too many problem, too many
problems,” Dae W. Kim said as he
slowly began turning on the dozen
coolers in his grocery and deli. “I’ve
got a headache.”
About half the biacked-out area’s
customers began receiving power via
four repaired feeder cables at 6:47
p.m. Saturday. More customers were
hooked up overnight.
A fifth cable was expected to be
fixed by Sunday evening, with the fi
nal cable repaired Monday, said
Hugh McIntosh, spokesman for the
city-owned utility.
Until then, many buildings will
have only partial power, since they
receive electricity from a combina
tion of the cables, he said.
At the twin towers of the 875-
room Westin Hotel, for example,
full service was restored to the south
tower early Sunday, while the north
tower remained on a generator,
rented for $6,200 a week, marketing
director Dell Schooly said.
The six cables were destroyed
Wednesday by an unexplained un
derground fire.
City Light Superintendent Ran
dall Hardy said the fire apparently
started in the City Light cables, in
which power should have been cut
off by automatic current limiters
that act when a cable gets hot.
Electricity also continued to flow
through a nearby Metro transit ca
ble, powering electric trolleys, and
that may have made the fire worse,
he said.
When the power restoration be
gan, patrols roamed the area
make sure no fires were triggered
equipment left switched on when:
outage began.
“It went very smoothly. I have
reports of problems other thanii
sprinkler in the Battery Streeti
nel,” which apparently began wj
ting clown the tunnel when it i
tripped by the power surge, Md
tosh said.
“We called the fire departir
and told them it was their problem
Air conditioning was lostasi
peratures soared to a Septembers
cord of 98 degrees Eriday andtcl
record for the date of 92 on Sat.
day. Sunday dawned with a cooliJ
and a forecast high of only 80 to8i]
Soviet cargo plane
burns No. 2 engine
in show, none hurt
FARNBOROUGH, England (AP)
— A massive Soviet cargo plane
aborted takeoff Sunday when flames
shot from an engine 100 yards from
spectators as Europe’s top aviation
event opened under the shadow of
last week’s West German air show di
saster.
Soon after a Soviet MiG-29 fighter
thrilled the crowd at the Farnbo-
rough Air Show with precision ma
neuvers!, a blue-and-white Antonov-
124, the world’s heaviest aircraft, be
gan its takeoff.
About 10,000 spectators stood by
as a 20-foot sheet of flame shot out
of the No. 2 engine.
spoke on condition of anonymity,
did not immediately give the cause
of the mishap.
The Antonov, 227 feet long with a
wingspan of 240 feet and a cargo bay
21 feet wide, was to have given daily
demonstrations during the week-
long Farnborough show, Europe’s
main aviation showcase.
Organizers stressed that Farnbo-
rough’s safety regulations were
stringent.
A pilot cut the other engines and
halted the nearly 450-ton aircraft of
the Soviet Aeroflot state airline. No
one was injured.
An official of the Soviet dele
gation at Farnborough said the An
tonov-124 will fly again before the
end of the week. The official, who
Their comments came after the.
Aug. 28 disaster at the U.S. Air
Force base at Ramstein, West Ger
many. Three Italian jets collided
during an aerobatics display at a
Ramstein air show, and one of the
crashing aircrafts hurtled in flames
into the spectators, killing 51 and in
juring more than 300.
On Sunday, two MiGs, the first
advanced Soviet combat aircraft to
take part in a Western display, took
star billing.
Young families face
depressed economy
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
benefits of an improved U.S. econ
omy have bypassed young American
families, who face an era of vanish
ing dreams, according to a new
study by the Children’s Defense
Fund.
“America’s young families are af
flicted by an economic depression in
the middle of our society’s more
general prosperity,” fund president
Marian Wright Edelman said in a
statement.
“The question is not whether the
economic glass for America’s fami
lies is half empty or half full but
rather, older families have a glass
that is mostly full; the glass younger
families hold is mostly empty,” Edel
man said.
In terms of constant dollars, the
income of families with children,
headed by an adult under age 30,
fell by about one-fourth between
1973 and 1986, the study said.
As a result the poverty rate for
such families narly doubled, rising
from 12 percent in 1973 to 22 per
cent in 1986, the study said.
New Census Bureau figures for
1987 were released last week and,
while not identical to the Children’s
Defense Fund figures, they do tend
to support that group’s contentions.
The Census Bureau found that
the 1987 poverty rate for children —
ages 18 and under — was 20.0 per
cent, up from 14.2 percent in 1973.
And younger families tended to
have higher poverty rates than older
ones, the Census figures showed.
Poverty rates for children,
whether black, white or Hispanic,
rose between 1973 and 1987, the fig
ures showed.
“Our children and our young
families are this nation’s growing
edge because we neglect them at our
peril,” Edelman said.
“These are the children on whom
we must rely to be the workers, lead
ers, parents, taxpayers, soldiers and
hope of the 21st century. We are get
ting them off to the worst possible
start.”
In the short term, the group
called for passage of an increase in
the minimum wage and the Act for
Better Child Care to improve serv
ices for working parents.
World briefs
$54 million won in Florida jackpot
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) —
There’s a new multimillionaire
somewhere out there, as only one
Lotto ticket held the six numbers
needed to win America’s richest-
ever lottery jackpot of $54 mil
lion, officials said Sunday.
The winning $1 ticket for Sat
urday night’s drawing was pur
chased in Longwood, in central
Florida, Lottery Secretary Re
becca Paul said. She declined to
name the store until the winner
steps forward.
The new millionaire — or mil
lionaires, if several persons
shared the ticket — has 180 days
to claim the prize, which will be
doled out over 20 years. The ear
liest the prize can l)e claimed is
Tuesday, after the I-abor Dai
holiday.
The previous national record
jackpot, $51.4 million, was split
by two California lottery players
in June.
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Officials had estimated Satur
day’s jackpot at $52 million, but
the last-minute frenzy of sales
that sometimes topped 850 a sec
ond raised the total.
Saturday sales totaled 14.6 mil
lion tickets, and total weekly pur
chases were 44.78 million by the
1 1 p.m. drawing.
Former officer surrenders hostage
ST. LOUIS (AP) — An ex-j>o-
liceman convicted in a pension
fund scandal surrendered Sun
day, 25 hours after taking the
man who exposed the scam hos
tage on the 15th floor of an office
building, police said.
Anthony D. Daniele, armed
with an unidentified weapon, re
leased John Frank, vice president
of the city police board, early
Sunday and gave up 10 hours
later. A day before the standoff,
Daniele was sentenced to eight
years in prison.
Daniele, 39, who was once a
member of the Police Depart
ment’s hostage-response team,
was with his attorney when be
surrendered, authorities said. Ht
was taken to police headquarters
A hostage-response team and
dozens of officers who had sur
rounded the building had nego
tiated w ith Daniele, police spokes
man Linda Hancock, said.
Daniele’s attorney, Donald
Wolf, told radio station KM0X
that Daniele gave up after an
agreement was reached not to file
any further charges against him
Hancock said she could not com
ment on that statement.
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BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP)
— About 70,000 Serbs and Mon
tenegrins staged their largest
rally so far to demand arms and
protest alleged harassment by
ethnic Albanians in Kosovo prov
ince.
Saturday’s rally was in Smede-
revo, an industrial town about 25
miles downstream the Danube
from Belgrade. About 20,000
Serbs have migrated to Smedc-
revo from Kosovo since World
War II.
Tensions recently have in
creased in Kosovo over allega
tions by non-Albanian citizens
that they are being persecuted
and forced to leave Yugoslavia's
least developed region by the Al
banians, who make up 90 percent
of the population.
Soviets to stage military manuevers
MOSCOW (AP) — Top Soviet
military commanders will stage
maneuvers in the Ukraine, Mold
avia and the Black Sea this month
to improve teamwork among the
branches of the military, Tass
said Sunday.
The official Soviet news agency
said Defense Minister Dmitri T.
Yazov will direct the maneuvers
and that only a few troops will be
used in the command post exer
cise, codenamed “Autumn-88.”
It will take place during the
second half of the month, Tass
said.
“The exercise will be held for
the purpose of polishing opera
tional teamwork and cooperation
of headquarters,” Tass said, with
out elaborating.
During a visit to the Soviet
Union last month, U.S. Defense
Secretary Frank Carlucci at
tended war games by Soviet
ground forces at a base near Mos
cow.
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