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club kills at least 25
LIMA, Peru (AP) — At least 25
people died and TOO were
injured Saturday in a blaze start
ed by bartenders who were
doing tricks with fire at an
upscale night club in Lima that
was not licensed to operate.
Customers fueled the fire by try
ing to put out the flames with
their drinks.
A lion and tiger — part of a
show that included live animals
in cages — were also killed.
The fire, coming just months
after a far deadlier blaze that
consumed a large part of the city.
prompted calls for a crackdown
on businesses that disregard
safety regulations, a common
practice in Peru. As well as not
having a permit, the disco violat
ed several fire safety regulations.
The fire broke out about 3 a.m.
in the Utopia, a multilevel night
club in a shopping mall in the
upscale district of Surco, in south
eastern Lima. Witnesses said the
club was packed at the time.
Six killed in crash
LONGVIEW, Texas (AP) - Six
people were killed Sunday
evening in an Interstate 20 acci
dent involving a tractor-trailer rig
and two other vehicles, a
Department of Public Safety dis
patcher said.
The accident occurred about 6
p.m. on a stretch of 1-20 near
Longview in Gregg County, said
John Pittmon, a DPS dispatcher
in Tyler.
Pittmon said the six killed all
were in the same vehicle.
No other information was
immediately available. Pittmon
said officers were still at the
scene gathenng details.
Traffic in both directions was
being routed around the scene of
the accident, Pittmon said.
At least 32 people have been
killed this year in accidents along
1-20, a major east-west artery
across Texas.
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More time may be needed to
settle on plan for WTC site
NEW YORK (AP) — Stung
by criticism that the initial six
proposals for redeveloping the
World Trade Center are too
commercial, the officials
charged with rebuilding the site
say they may extend the time
line for selecting a final plan.
“The goal is to get it right”
Matthew Higgins, a spokesman
for the Lower Manhattan
Development Corp., said
Sunday. “Now that we’ve
received public input we have to
evaluate how to refine the plans
to better reflect what people hope
to see in Lower Manhattan.”
Many of the 4,000 people
who attended a town hall meet
ing Saturday expressed dissatis
faction with the six plans
released last week.
“They’re getting too restric
tive too soon,” said Priya
Matthew, of Harrison, N.J.
“We’re going to end up with
something very mediocre.”
Such comments echoed the
views of critics in the architec
ture and design community.
“It is rather like taking the
downtown skyline of some aver
age American burg and plopping
it in one of the most prominent
and symbolically important sites
of our times,” The Washington
Post’s architecture critic
Benjamin Forgey.
Each plan for the 16-acre site
includes a memorial to the vic
tims of the Sept. 11 attack plus
1 1 million square feet of office
space and 600,000 square feet
each of retail and hotel space to
replace the lost space.
Officials from the develop
ment corporation and the Port
Authority of New York and New
Jersey, which owns the land, had
earlier insisted that such inten
sive commercial development
was dictated by the terms of the
Port Authority’s lease with
developer Larry Silverstein and
his partner, mall operator
Westfield America.
But Port Authority Executive
Director Joseph Seymour said
Saturday that the agency would
re-examine its agreement.
“Larry Silverstein has a
leasehold interest on the site that
requires him to build what was
there,” Seymour said. “We all
know that’s impractical for
many reasons. It means there
has to be a negotiation, but now
is not the time to do that.”
Robert Yaro, the president of
the Regional Plan Association,
said, “I think we got a resound
ing sense that the Port Authority
program has to go. ... I under
stand that they’ve got a lease,
but we’ve got to work with them
to renegotiate that lease.”
The development corpora
tion and the Port Authority had
set a deadline of September for
narrowing the six plans to three
and a final deadline of
December for choosing a single
land-use plan. Those dates may
now be pushed back.
“We have to see if that next
phase of the timeline is realistic,”
said Louis Tomson, the president
and executive director of the
development corporation. “We
have to make this work, and if it
takes a month or two in a differ
ent direction, then it takes a
month more, or two or three.”
Investigators probe link between
pipe bomb blast, disappearance
DALLAS (AP) — Investigators are trying to
determine if there is a link between a pipe bomb
blast that injured the son of a Washington, D.C.,
businessman and the disappear;’nee of the victims
stepbrother, a newspaper reported Sunday.
The missing stepbrother, Prescott W. “Scott”
Sigmund, 34, had been having financial problems
and argued with his father over a large credit card
bill, The Dallas Morning News reported.
Authorities have not declared Sigmund a sus
pect in the July 12 blast that critically injured
Wright Sigmund, 21, and have theorized the
bomb was meant for the victim’s father, insurance
broker Donald Sigmund.
The bomb detonated in the underground
parking garage at Sigmund’s company. Wolf &
Cohen Financial Services. Wright Sigmund
remained in critical condition Sunday at a
Washington, D.C., hospital.
Also Sunday, police reported that Scott
Sigmund’s black BMW was found at the Vienna,
Va., Metro Station. Federal Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms agents were planning to examine it.
Family members in Dallas said he disappeared
one day before he was to have taken a police
polygraph. But they contend the stepbrothers had
a good relationship.
Federal agents and local police removed a
computer and boxes of documents from Scott
Sigmund’s Maryland home Wednesday, looking
for letters or e-mails that might yield clues to his
whereabouts.
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