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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP)
— Flames quickly engulfed a
tiny, downtown nightclub
packed with hundreds of
dancers but lacking emergency
exits, triggering a panicky
stampede and killing 47 peo
ple, fire officials and victims
said Sunday.
Twelve people were injured
in the late Saturday night blaze
at La Guajira discotheque.
Faulty wiring, a kitchen fire
or even a carelessly discarded
cigarette were all possible
causes of the blaze, which
erupted near the club’s
entrance just before midnight
Saturday local time, said Fire
Chief Rodolfo Briceno. Nearly
all the dead succumbed to the
smoke.
As many as 400 people were
inside the discotheque, housed
in the basement of the Hotel
Venezuela in a densely packed
commercial district, when
someone yelled “Fire!,” vic
tims said.
The club was in two rooms
with a total of about 1000
square feet.
“The fire began at the
entrance. At first we thought it
was a joke, but it seems the fire
extinguishers didn’t work and
the blaze grew fast,” said Jenny
Cisneros, 29, who suffered
bums to her arms and legs.
Caracas nightclub fire kills 47
A fire broke out at an overcrowded basement nightclub just before
midnight on Saturday in Caracas. Venezuela.
Dance floor is about
30 x 23 feet
the flames spread nuj,
the small building, thee,,
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“Everything went up in
flames. There were so many
people, everyone was trampled
as they tried to get out. Nobody
could breathe,” Cisneros told
The Associated Press from her
hospital bed.
Her sister, who also suffered
leg burns, was next to her at the
western Caracas clinic. Jenny
Cisneros said tearfully that a
girlfriend of hers was among
the 17 women who died.
Firefighters using oxygen
tanks rescued people trapped
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CBS producer who
hired Rather dies
NEW YORK (AP) Ernest
Leiser, a CBS News producer
who hired the network’s current
anchor, Dan Rather, died
Tuesday of an apparent heart
attack. He was 81.
During his 29-year career.
Leiser reported mostly from
Europe, where he was jailed
briefly by communists while
covering the revolt in Hungary
in 1956.
In 1964, he was named direc
tor of the news division, where
he hired Rather, and later
became executive producer of
the “CBS Evening News With
Walter Cronkite.”
He left CBS to become an
executive producer at ABC
News in 1972, but returned in
1975 to head the CBS News
department covering political
conventions and elections. He
retired in 1985, but remained
active in journalism through
teaching.
Leiser was born in
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Between 300 and 400 people
were in the nightclub at the
time of the fire.
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inside the club and extin
guished the flames early
Sunday. They also evacuated
another 500 people from the
hotel and surrounding build
ings inundated by smoke.
At daybreak, grieving rela
tives and friends stood outside
the charred building in a poor
district of the Venezuelan capi
tal. The club’s blackened, nar
row entrance was roped off.
Detectives began the grim
task of identifying the dead.
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Peugeot of Peugeot
carmakers dies at 70
PARIS (AP) — Pierre
Peugeot, chairman of the super
visory board of French car
maker Peugeot SA, died
Sunday. He was 70.
Peugeot was a member of the
company’s board of directors
from 1972 to 1988, during
which time he helped shape the
group’s strategy and expand
sales, the company said in a
statement. He had been chair
man of the supervisory board
since 1988.
Supervisory board vice-
chairman Jean Boillot will stand
in for Peugeot until a new chair
man is named, the statement
said. The car maker, which first
started producing automobiles
in the late 19th century, is 28
percent owned by the Peugeot
family.
First American Indian
in space was amazed
CAPE CANAVERAL. Fla.
(AP) —— After completing three
spacewalks in five days, astronaut
John Herrington got a chance to
relax Sunday and reflect on what
it was like to hurtle around Earth
at 17,500 mph — outside his
spaceship.
He couldn’t help but think:
"That’s a loooong way down.”
Herrington said he was some
what intimidated by the fact that
at any moment, he might find
himself in uncontrollable motion
and break away from the interna
tional space station, which would
be “a bad thing.”
“So 1 was always constantly
on guard that I was maintaining
the best control I could and that I
had my proper tether protocol,”
he said. "But it was very awe
inspiring. It’s a beautiful sight to
look down and see the Earth from
this altitude.”
Herrington, the first American
Indian in space and a member of
the Chickasaw Nation, helped
NASA get a stalled space station
railcar moving again during his
final spacewalk of the mission
Saturday. In his two earlier out
ings, he helped install a $390 mil
lion station girder that was deliv
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His one-week visit to the
space station will end Monday
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