European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 12, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                He mate h flames Light up High level Rescue operation spouts of flames shoot out of windows in the Las vegas Hilton hotel tuesday night after the resort Palace became the second victim of suspected hotel arson at Las vegas in less than three at firemen crawl up a Long Rescue ladder in an Effort to reach trapped a photos vegas hotel fire takes 8 lives authorized unofficial publication for the armed forces 298 1se of Oil Sundog february if 21855 a Las up arson was the probable cause of a fire that erupted with explosive Force at the Las vegas Hil ton hotel tuesday killing eight peo ple and injuring 300 in a shocking replay of the disastrous Casino Blaze at the Mem investigators said trapped guests screamed from broken made makeshift escape ropes of torn bedsheets and scrambled to helicopters which landed on the smoke shrouded roof of the 30story Structure the nations larg est hotel with rooms and second larg est in the you  help but think of the Mem said Singer Andy who was preparing to take the stage in the Hilton showroom when the fire broke out about 8 investigators said the fire started in the East which was built at the same time and to the same fire standards As the Mem where 84 people were killed by fire neither facility had smoke Detector alarms or sprinkler fire chief Roy Parrish said the main fire unlike the Mem Blaze that started in continued on Back Page forecasters wont go out on a limb will the Dollar a by Bob Hoyer projects editor the dollars Heady recovery is stumping expert and Layman up percent since Midsummer against the German and 20 percent in a year against a composite of four currencies the the Swiss and French francs and the dutch Guilder the Dollar seems to be holding its own in a world of related Page since the first of the the Green Back has repeatedly resisted Strong efforts by Central Banks to slow its steady just last the which implements German government sold More than billion in an Effort to Brake the fall of the the dollars Advance has pushed rates to an Al time High against the italian lira and resulted in major gains against most hard but it has been the dollars sunup against the Mark that affects the largest number of overseas with the Dollar Mark rate standing at As of wednesday a hefty increase Over the rate of Early july what is in the cards for the two currencies Over the next six months Over the next year americans in relishing the re sults of the strengthened can hardly be blamed for asking such questions with a note of through the decade of the seventies continued on Back Page