European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 6, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday april 6, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 3 blast fire rip san Francisco Industrial Park san Francisco a firefight ers began work saturday to Clear away water and hot rubble blocking the search for at least seven people missing after an Industrial Park exploded and burned Char ring a Square Block and causing at least $10 million damage. We re basically going to be pumping out the water today and searching for Bod ies said Deputy fire chief Charles Cresci. He said much of the water poured on the Blaze had collected in a basement area where debris was piled several feet deep. Fire investigator Bill Jovick said it would be at least a Day before enough water could be pumped out to allow firefighters to search for victims and Cresci said it could take four or five Days to pump out All the water. Seven people who worked at the Bay View Industrial Park were still missing sat urday Cresci said. It was not known if any non workers were missing he said. Considering the number of people who were there it seems very fortunate to Only have seven still missing said Cresci. He estimated that about 100 people were work ing Friday in the Complex s 120 artists Stu Dios carpentry Auto body upholstery and other shops. At least 20 people were reported injured. The cause of the huge fire that roared out of control for nearly four hours Friday in the Hunter s Point area in Southeast san Francisco was under investigation. It started at mid afternoon with a blast that lifted the roof off the converted Tann Ery Bent a corrugated steel garage door 100 Yards away broke windows across the Street and rattled Homes More than six blocks away. The Blaze sent dense smoke billowing 3,000 feet Over san Francisco Bay. Neighbourhood residents saw smoke rising from the site and flames sporadically leap ing into the air throughout the night said Sara Talley a worker at a Market about six blocks from the fire. The injured two in critical condition were taken to hospitals and paramedics treated an uncounted number of minor injuries at the scene. Sculptor Richard Alpert 38, said he was in a studio on the third floor of the building and was Lucky to get out the explosion was the loudest noise i Ever heard he said. The floor the roof and the Walls began to collapse. The roof split open. Large parts of it were not there anymore a photo split this an Francisco firefighters Spray water on the burning ruins of an Industrial Park that was levelled by an explosion Friday. israeli says . Tile on Waldheim May Clear the air United nations a the is Waldheim s activities As a German army edition for trial on charges that he took part the United nations for safekeeping incl Rae i ambassador Hopes Access to a secret officer in Yugoslavia As published by a Bel in an operation at mount Kozara in which ing 40,000 Case files on individuals. File on Kurt Waldheim will Clear the air once and for All concerning charges that the former , chief misrepresented his wartime actions in the German army. On Friday Israel was granted Access to the . War crimes commission s secret file with the understanding that the documents will be handled on the same basis of confidentiality As any other material being used in a criminal investigation said a . Spokesman. Access is granted Only to concerned governments. Francois Giuliani an aide to Javier Perez de Cuellar the current . Secretary Gen eral said the United nations has released Case files from commission archives Only three times on Adolf Eichmann at Israel s request and on Klaus Barbie and or. Josef Mengele at the request of the United states. Israeli ambassador Benjamin Netanyahu said at a news conference that Wald Heim an austrian who was . Secretary general from 1972-1981, was not fully candid about his the . Had refused to acknowledge or deny that its archives included a file on Waldheim. Copies of documents concerning Waldheim office Grade newspaper however had markings that indicated they had become part of the War crimes commission files. The documents purported to show that Yugoslavia was seeking Waldheim s extra Kurt Waldheim ditto i 68,000 persons died including 23,000 Chil Dren. Netanyahu said Israel will take appropriate action under International Law if the . File contains evidence substantiating charges of War crimes but did not elaborate further. He said he expected to obtain the file As Early As this week and that it May Clear the air once and for documents from other records released recently show that Waldheim served in the Balkans during world War ii As a staff officer in a German army group commanded by Gen. Alexander Loehr who was hanged in 1947 for War crimes in Yugoslavia. Waldheim who now is running for presi Dent in Austria has said he served As an interpreter. Netanyahu said he had received material on Waldheim s wartime activities in the Balkans found recently in the jewish Holo Caust files at Vad Washem in Jerusalem. He said it contained very serious material and that it May be duplicated by yugoslav records. When the War crimes commission was disbanded in 1948, its files were left with the include in. They have been restricted according to a statement by the . Legal office because for the most part the material in these records has not been submitted to the Judi Cial Waldheim said in an interview from Austria on Abc s today show Friday that he was not involved in criminal activity and statements about his wartime activities Are designed to Hurt his chances in the election. Waldheim s statements about his War re Cord have conflicted. In his Book the Challenge of peace published in 1977, he wrote that he suffered a leg wound on the russian front and was medically discharged in 1941. By the time i was repatriated in 1942, it had become impossible to leave the coun try he wrote. I was permitted to resume my studies toward a doctorate in Law which i obtained some two years the world jewish Congress has re leased documents taken from the . National archives showing that Wald Heim returned to service in March 1942 and until the end of the War was with Loehr in the Balkans As an intelligence officer
