European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 17, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday. March 17. 1987 the stars and stripes Pago 7 my Wal Beth i condemned Bitchy hotel begins to crumble is explosives reduce the 62-year-old Structure to billowing Doit demolition took just eight seconds. Explosion demolishes Miami Beach landmark Miami Beach. Fla. Up a 62-year-old hotel that look eight seconds to demolish with explosives will take three weeks to Dean up. The Biscaya Hole once the Winter hangout or gangster Al Capone was demolished sunday. Two Hundred pounds of explosives turned the Structure into a Cloud or dust and rubble. Spectators watched from nearby rooftops and from the Mac Arthur causeway As a Popcorn like series of explosions felled the 10-Story Mediterranean style building. The North end of the building then the South end collapsed into the Middle generating 36 million pounds of rubble which officials said will take about three weeks to clean up the historic waterfront hotel has stood pm ply for years housing Only vagrants and vermin. Preservationists fought to save it most recently in january when a last minute court order halted Demoli Tion after a Bulldozer had already begun its attack on the ground floor. A Federal judge finally Ruid the Structure was beyond Salvage. Demolition workers spent the last week preparing the building for ils death. They Strung steel cables Between the columns so they would pull each other Down and toward the Center build a Mound of rubble to protect the sea Wall from the Impact of the explosion and carefully planted 200 pounds of explosive gel in 600 separate spots. Officials said the demolition method called implosion is safer and quicker than using a wrecking bait which could take As Long As four months. Air Force gives lift to stalled lawmen prisoner great Falls. Mont. A it look four attempted flights on Commer Cial airliners a hitched ride on a Mili tary plane and a drive in a rental car from California but Cascade county sheriff Barry Mich Caoili finally got his Man to Jait sunday. Mich Lolli and a Deputy sheriff flew to Hawaii on March 4 to extradite Terry Ray Hawes 24, wanted Here in connection with a jewelry theft from a residence. They had planned 10 bring Hawes Back on a commercial flight March s. But pilots of three airliners asked them to gel off before the planes left Honolulu International Airport when Hawes became abusive toward other passengers. The same thing happened tuesday and the two officers checked into a hotel while Federal officials irid Joar Range non commercial transportation. The three finally caught a flight sat urday from Hickam fab near Honolulu to Norton fab near san Bernardino. Calif., where they rented a car and drove All night arriving in great Falls sunday afternoon. District judge Thomas Mckittrick set Hawes bail at $100.000 pc dinghies initial court appearance. . Doctors welcomed in Vietnam san Francisco a plastic surgeon Bryant a. Toth has embarked on a personal Mission to Vietnam where he will reconstruct the faces of malformed babies and train others to do the same. This is the first Lime american Plas tic surgeons have been to Vietnam since i97s and the end of the War he said before his departure we plan to operate from Dawn to dusk. We just Don t know what Well find once we get  during the three week trip toil will be joined by or. Jon Constable a senior plastic surgeon at Massachusetts general Hospital. We arc going at our own expense Al the invitation of the vietnamese and with the Blessing of our slate depart  said told 36. We Hope to open some doors Between the two  the United Stales dues Noi have diplomatic relations with Vietnam and bitterness lingers Over the vietnamese Refu Sal 10 cooperate in accounting for More than 2,000 american servicemen still missing in Indochina. Of vows to keep mum on crash probe Spokane Wash. A routine drug tests have been ordered for mechanics who serviced a Jet Tanker that crashed killing seven people and destroying he $14 million plane that was part of a new Aerial show an air Force spokesman said sunday. A Board of eight officers brought in from other air Force commands to investigate Friday s crash at Fairchild fab formally convened sunday morning but base spokesman Bob Ballow said its find Ings would be kept secret. We Don t know what the cause is at this Point and when we do we re not going to Tell you said Ballow the cause will never be  urinalysis for maintenance people is Standard procedure said Ballow autopsies were scheduled sunday and monday on the six people aboard the plane he said. The seventh victim died in a car on the ground that was struck by the plane s debris. The Kc-135 crashed in a held shortly after Takeoff during practice fora routine that called for a simulated refuelling run with a 13-52 bomber both flying Ai a Low Altitude the Aerial team was designed As the strategic air come s answer to the air Force s thunderbird a and the Navy s Blue Angels. Its official debut was scheduled for May. Col. Thomas Harris. Fairchild com Mander has refused reporter s requests for comment since the crash. Some witnesses reported seeing smoke from an engine on the left Wing As the plane veered 10 the left on la coff. It clipped the surrounding Fence and broke apart in flames As it skidded across a nearby Field. Symphony players refuse to perform new Orleans a the new Orleans symphony cancelled us sunday rehearsal and three concerts after musicians in the financially strapped orches tra refused to perform because they arc owed six weeks pay. Crawford Best a member of a com Mittee of musicians negotiating with the symphony management said musicians unite not calling their action a strike be cause they would make up missed performances once they were paid. Executive director Robert Gross said that the week s three concerts had been cancelled. The next Slep is for it 10 iry 10 raise a Good Deal of  the symphony owes More than $400.000 to its 80 players and 21 staff members who have been Given partial paychecks during the Pasi four months it has raised about $ 125,000 and Hopes 10 reach $200,000 to qualify for a match ing Grant by april j. In april 1985, players stayed away three weeks when management it la be Hind five Patch Cocks. The symphony raised $308,000 in an emergency Appeal. Symphony official say the crisis is More serious now. I owes nearly $4 Mil lion to Banks and creditors. Much of the income from donations and lick i sales had to payoff thl Debis. The 1986-87 season started with a splash As officials pinned their Hopes for a successful season on the new conductor Maxim Shostakovich son of russian composer Dmitri. Now even he is not being paid. Gross said. Coincidentally. The guest conductor scheduled far this week is James i ill. Who was the guest conductor when i he musicians Walki a out in 108$. The average weekly salary of $543 for 38 weeks compares with a National aver age of $642 Over a 48-Wittk season