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By Michael Mello
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PROVIDENCE, R.I. —
William Kelly sat in a driving
rain outside Grace Church on
Sunday, waiting to hear the bells
toll for his niece, the latest vic
tim of one of the country’s dead
liest nightclub fires.
“I keep asking the Lord,
‘why’?” said Kelly, 57. “She
was such a sweetheart.”
Across Rhode Island and
Massachusetts on Sunday,
church bells pealed 98 times,
once for each person killed in
the Feb. 20 inferno at The
Station nightclub and for the
two who later died of their
burns. Kelly’s niece, Kelly
Viera, died in a hospital
Saturday.
“We thought she was in for a
long, hard grind,” he said, fight
ing back tears. His 40-year-old
niece, who lived in Warwick,
was married and had two daugh
ters, he said.
Viera and her husband, Scott,
were among more than 300 peo
ple who had packed into The
Station in West Warwick that
night to hear the ’80s heavy
metal band Great White.
Fire investigators believe
sparks from the band’s
pyrotechnic display ignited the
nightclub’s soundproofing mate
rial, triggering a fire that swept
through the one-story wooden
building in minutes as panicked
concertgoers tried to flee.
Scott Viera escaped, but his
wife was severely burned. “He’s
beating himself up because he
managed to get out and she
didn't,” Kelly said.
On Sunday, 51 people
injured in the fire remained hos
pitalized in Rhode Island and
Massachusetts, including 33 in
critical condition.
A grand jury is investigating
the blaze. No charges have
been filed.
Officials in West Warwick,
where the club was located,
were expected to release docu
ments Monday related to the
club’s history that could
include building and fire
inspections. The club had
passed a fire inspection in
December but wasn't required
to have sprinklers.
Gov. Don Carcieri asked that
all Rhode Islanders pause
Sunday “to remember those
Death toll from
nightclub fire
rises to 98
50 mi
50 km
Boston^ ifo,
MASS
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N.Y.
SOURCES: Associated Press, ESRI Af
who have suffered physical;
and emotionally”
the blaze.
Massachusetts Gov.
Romney, asked residents
to observe a moment of silence,
said the lives lost will “
forever in our hearts.”
Air Force Academy rape scandal
leads to community questions
By Robert Weller
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — As a song
lamenting the fate of a wounded soldier plays on
the VFW Post jukebox behind him. Bob
Campbell talks with disgust in his voice of the
treatment some young cadets say
they’ve been getting from the Air
Force Academy.
“I think it is terrible that these
kinds of things can happen. It
should be an honor to be there,”
the Vietnam veteran says of reports
that female cadets were punished
by the academy after reporting
they had been raped or sexually
assaulted by upperclassmen.
“I believe it is going on now —
and has been in the past,” he says.
Across this spit-and-polish mil
itary town of 500,000, Campbell’s
sentiment echoes among the civil-
This is a terrible
black mark on the
academy. We want
the best and the
brightest to come
here. ”
ians as well as the military employees and retirees
who make up more than a fifth of the population.
“This is a terrible black mark on the academy,”
says retired Air Force Col. Dick Rauschkolb, who
directed the office of enrollment programs at the
academy. “We want the best and brightest to
come here.”
Since late January, at least 22 female cadets
have said they were ostracized or reprimanded for
minor infractions after they reported being raped
by upperclassmen. The Air Force is conducting
investigations and at least four senators have
called for an outside investigation, which Air
Force Chief of Staff Gen. John Jumper has said he
would welcome.
Academy Superintendent Lt. Gen.
Dallagher, speaking Friday on ABC’s “2(
said it was as serious as the 1991 Tailhook
dal, when women at a hotel were groped or
assaulted by drunken pilots at a Navy boosifr
group’s convention.
At Colorado Spring’s primary rape andcris
center, counselors have helped!!
alleged rape or 'assault victim
from the academy, said Cari
Davis, the center’s executive
director.
She said many of them ai
afraid to complain for fearthey’l
lose their chances to advance in
the military.
“If you want to be a fighter
pilot, you don’t have any other
options,” she said.
On the academy campus,
beyond the large letters'at the
entrance that spell out, “BringMe
Men,” young men and women
— Dick Rauschkolb
Retired Air Force Col.
uniform walk from the coed dorms to their class
es along the wooded hillsides of Pikes Peak.
The property is closed to the public becauseof
heightened security measures, but during an
appearance last week by Air Force Secretan
James Roche, military public relations officials
escorted reporters in to speak with some of
the cadets.
Two female cadets, both members of a volun
tary group set up to help victims of assaults, said
the students at the academy work together to over
come gender barriers. About 4,000 cadets a year
train at the academy, created in 1954. It openedits
doors to the first female cadets in 1976.
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