European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 31, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday july 31, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 76 Hurt As explosion rips through . City Block Monroe apr firefighters on sunday hosed Down the soldering rubble left by an apparent Gas leak explosion that gutted half a Block of this City s downtown area. The late saturday blast heard up to eight Miles away demolished at least eight buildings and shattered store front windows along almost All of main Street. Six people were treated for cuts from flying Glass officials said. Had the explosion occurred during the Day Many people could have been injured or killed said Bobby Kilgore chief of Public safety for this town of about 13,000 people 25 Miles Southeast of Charlotte. He estimated damage at $500,000 to $ i million. A it was really an awful experience a said Nancy Sarno a nursing supervisor at Union memorial Hospital who was just coming to work. A the flames were Over 50 feet Over the officials believe there May have been a leak in a Gas line that runs through the Back of a clothing store where the explosion at 10 30 p.m., apparently occurred said mayor Lynn Keziah. More than 100 firefighters battled the blazes contained by 1 . And extinguished by Dawn. Police and agents from the state Bureau of investigation and the Federal Bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms were waiting for the rubble to Cool before beginning the search for clues. Union memorial released five of the people treated for cuts Sarno said a sixth person was held overnight at the Hospital and was in satisfactory condition sunday she said. A fall the damage we got we re still fortunate that no one was badly Hurt or killed a Kilgore said. Some buildings were levelled by the Force of the blast Kilgore said while others were gutted by fire and will have to be torn Down. A i done to think there a a window left in town on main Street Quot said Butch Tucker who owns a jewelry shop across the Street from the explosion site. Firemen Spray rubble in Monroe ., after an explosion heavily damaged half a Block in the downtown area. A Kitty Dukakis says Boston apr in her soon to be released Book Kitty Dukakis says that the night she drank rubbing alcohol she did not realize what she was drinking was poisonous according to reports published sunday. Mrs. Dukakis the wife of former democratic presidential nominee and Massachusetts gov. Michael Dukakis chronicles her bouts with alcohol and diet Pill addiction in her autobiography a now you know to be released in August by Simon amp schuster. She also tells of the Shock she Felt when she Learned her Mother was bom out of Wedlock. The Boston sunday Herald reported it had gathered details about the closely guarded Book from relatives and friends of the Dukakis family. The Boston sunday Globe also reported about some of the items in the Book. -.mrs. Dukakis 53, says in the Book that on the night of nov. 7, 1989, when she drank the rubbing alcohol a an incident splashed across headlines she was not attempting suicide the Herald reported. The rubbing alcohol episode was another in a string of disappointments for mrs. Dukakis that started Long before her husbands defeat in the 1988 presidential election. In the Book mrs. Dukakis recalls starting to take diet pills a year after she Learned that her Mother Jane Goldberg Dickson had been adopted and was illegitimate. Mrs. Dickson who died in 1977, was the daughter of Margaret Buxbaum who had her daughter out of Wedlock and offered it to Henry and Mabel was not suicide try Goldberg a wealthy new York family. Buxbaum gave the child up for adoption on the condition that she become the Nanny for the girl the Herald said citing unidentified sources. Mrs. Dukakis was reportedly told the truth about her Mother when she was 18, and mrs. Dickson would not discuss the matter with her. The Shock stayed with mrs. Dukakis for years. The future first lady of Massachusetts also suffered disappointment in her first marriage at 19 to John Chaffetz. In the Book mrs. Dukakis blames her diet Pill addiction and the failure of the marriage after four years to her mothers hiding the truth from her. Kitty and Michael Dukakis were married in 1963. Over the next two decades mrs. Dukakis remained addicted to diet pills in 1980 she went to Hazeldon foundation in Minnesota for treatment. In the 1980s however her addiction turned to alcohol and it caused problems behind the scenes during her husbands failed 1988 presidential Campaign. The Herald reported that mrs. Dukakis twice passed out from drinking on the stressful Campaign Trail. In March 1989, mrs. Dukakis and Nii Ted publicly that she was an alcoholic after treatment at Edgehill Newport in Rhode Island. After drinking rubbing alcohol later that year she again sought treatment. She returned to Massachusetts in february to finish the Book which was written with Jane Leovell. Mrs. Dukakis is currently being treated for manic depression and sees a psychiatrist once a week the Herald said. A bomb fliers feel no remorse Salt Lake City apr when George mar Quardt looks Back 45 years he rivets on a millisecond the vibration of a steeply banking b-29 and the fireball always the fireball rising from Hiroshima. A it was such a terrific blast. It was like the Sun had come out of the ground and just exploded a recalls Marquardt Pilot of a Chase plane that accompanied the bomber Enola Gay on aug. 6, 1945. More than half a lifetime later Marquardt and other members of the 509th composite group will gather on the desert West of Salt Lake City to celebrate the peace they believe the atomic bomb brought. The aug 25 dedication of a peace memorial in the town of Wendover nev., is expected to draw More than 200 members of the bomber group. They will include retired Brig. Gen. Paul w. Tib Beis Pilot of the Enola Gay and retired maj. Gen. Charles Quot Chuck Sweeney who flew the b-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki three Days after the Hiroshima attack. Nearly 200,000 people died in the bombings and Japan capitulated five Days later ending world War ii. Among the speakers will be Hideki Kase an author and adviser to two japanese prime ministers. In an interview trom Tokyo. Kase said the idea of speaking to his to univ s former enemies was disconcerting. Quot it is very hard to come up with appropriate words a he said. Quot what i know is this Japan during the War also had a program to develop a nuclear bomb and had we succeeded in a sure we would have used it. We have no ground to complain. A the ceremony will dedicate a 16-foot obelisk honouring the 509th, a fall who contributed to bring this dreadful War to an end Quot and the dead of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Quot for their sacrifice to Mankind a struggle for a More peaceful Kase said he will Tell members of the 509th the lesson of those cities was Worth the Price. A the fact that there was no third world War proves partly their Point a he said. A it was this Power that has prevented it. Peace through Sweeney now 70, agrees. A was a military Man 1 we stopped some world wars a he said from his Home in Milton mass. I he 509th, with Tibbets in command was formed m september 1944 specifically to drop the a a gadgets being developed at los Alamos . The unit consisted of 15 modified b-29s. 220 officers and 1,500 enlisted men. I i bets chose Wendover a Lor training because of its isolation. Law never questioned what we were doing or why.45 years later. We were dedicated to Tibbets a said Marquardt. Tibbets Sweeney and Marquardt repeatedly have said they feel neither remorse nor regret. A if i Ever approach that feeling i Start thinking about the rape of banking and the duplicity of them lying to our president while they were bombing Ivearl Harbor Quot Sweeney said. Quot i think of All my classmates who were Marquardt. Sweeney and other veterans of the 509th returned to Hiroshima last november to film a British broadcasting corp. Documentary. They were introduced to a japanese doctor the son of a physician who witnessed the devastation of the bombing. The doctor said his father later told him he had never seen such cruelty and could not comprehend the inhumanity of those who had inflicted it. It was t until the end of the meeting that the doctor was Lold who the americans were. A Siears came into his eyes Quot Marquardt 71, said. He said a i wish my dad was Here to meet you he was bewildered you could see it. His expressions changed. He did t know what to say. That was the Only time in All these years in be Felt a Lew minutes later Marquardt called Back. A a i Here was a word i used that i want to change a remorse i done to like it. Change it to a a
