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Tuesday, August 2J,i
THE BATTALION
Fire takes Russian TV towe
Firefighters have difficulty in calming flam
MOSCOW (AP) — Fire en
gulfed the Ostankino television
tower, the world’s second-tallest
freestanding structure, trapping four
people in an elevator and knocking
out most TV channels in the Russ
ian capital Sunday.
Firefighters have had trouble
fighting the fire, which started
about 1,520 feet above ground, due
to the difficulty of hauling equip
ment, including chemical fire ex
tinguishers, up so many flights of
stairs. The tower’s spire is narrow
at that point and the cramped quar
ters hampered movement.
Dozens of tired, smoke-stained
firefighters in heavy aibber coats sat
on the grass around the tower in
northern Moscow late Sunday. Scores
of fire engines and ambulances were
parked at the bottom of the tower,
which was lighted by at least three
searchlights, as officials tried to fig
ure out a way to fight the blaze.
Yellow flames licked from the
glassed-in platform as darkness fell
on the city. Thousands of people
thronged to the base of the tower,
gathering in a carnival atmosphere,
drinking beer, laughing and a few
dancing to transistor radios before
they were pushed back by police.
Rescuers battled to locate the
stuck elevator where three firefight-
Garden Ring
ers and a female elevator optic
were trapped about 860 feet alt
ground, said Nikolai Sarychevi
department spokesman at the sea
The 1,771 -foot futuristic
shaped like a giant needle, isapi
lar tourist attraction. It hasanots
vation deck and restaurant aboii;;,:
thirds of the way up. The firesitt
well above that level, andol
said all visitors were evacuate!
Sarychev said no one so fail
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lowed out of much of the tower, A
looms over a large park, andapli
of smoke towered over the city.
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LONDON (AP) — Recent exca
vations at a medieval friary in
Northern England add weight to the
theory that syphilis did not come to
Europe from the New World.
Skeletons excavated at Hull, dat
ed to between 1300 and 1450, had
clear signs of syphilis, said Anthea
Boylston, a paleopathologist and
leader of an archaeological team
from University of Bradford in north
England that conducted the dig. Sev
eral other skeletons also showed
signs of the disease, she said.
“The disease,
which takes some
20 years before it
begins to leave its
mark on the bone,
was quite ad
vanced at the time
of death.”
— David Evans
excavation director
Scientists long have argued about
whether syphilis was brought to the
Americas by European explorers,
transmitted the other way around, or
arose independently in each region.
Skeletons studied earlier in Europe
have suggested that the disease was
present before Christopher Colum
bus returned from his first voyage.
Europeans seemed to become
aware of the disease after 1500, but
some researchers believe that
syphilis may have been confused
with leprosy in earlier times.
Syphilis starts out as sores, de
velops into a rash, fever and fatigue,
and years after initial infection, may
develop into severe complications
of the heart and brain.
“This discovery changes our
views about the history of syphilis,’’
Boylston said. “There had been a
couple of skeletons around the
country with signs of syphilis that
could have predated Columbus, but
the interesting thing about this bur
ial site is there are cases 6f the dis
ease in many individuals, not just
one or two,” she said.
“That makes us think that
syphilis was present in medieval
England.”
David Evans, who directed ex
cavations at the Augustinian friary,
dated the skeletons somewhat later
— between 1450 and 1475 — based
on stratification.
Four skeletons showed signs of the
disease, Evans said in an article in the
June edition of British Archaeology.
“The disease, which takes some
20 years before it begins to leave its
mark on the bone, was quite ad
vanced at the time of death,” Evans
wrote. “These victims had contract
ed syphilis long before the return of
Columbus and his ships from the
New World — traditionally regard
ed as the time when ‘the Great Pox’
was introduced into Europe.”
Donald J. Ortner, curator of phys
ical anthropology at the Smithsonian
Institution in Washington, D.C., said
Monday that the discoveries at Hull
help to clarify some issues regarding
the biological origin of the disease.
“I think a very plausible case can
be made for it being syphilis,” said
Ortner, who said it also was possi
ble it may have been yaws or bejel,
related diseases that are not spread
by sexual contact.
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lion pilgrims camped
overnight outside Rome to
and celebrate Mass with Joltf
Paul — one of Europe’s bigffii
youth assemblies ever.
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vivid impression on all,”
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faithful gathered in the courts
of his summer retreat atCa®
Gandolfo outside Rome.
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pie, ready to smile and say tel
respectful of the city and oft®
lure,” the pope said. For the pi
grims, he said, the event'®
“only the first step in the pat
that must be followed.’
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the vacation-time populate
of Rome.
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