European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 1, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes a a a Page 76 Hurt As explosion rips through . City Monroe.  apr fire fighters 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  store front windows along almost All of main Street. Sex people were treated for cuts front Quot flying Glass officials said. Had the explosion occurred during the Day Many people could have been injured or killed said Hobby 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 $ f million. A a aft 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 building a. 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 tie , contained by 1 . And extinguished by Dawn. Police and agents from the state Bureau of inv Esli gation and the Federal Bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms were waiting for the rubble to a bal 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 hurl 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 a said Butch Tucker who owns a jewelry shop across the Street from the explosion site. Of firemen Spray rubble in Monroe ., after an explosion heavily damaged half a Block in the downtown area. Says was not suicide try Boston apr in her soon to by 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 dict 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 a she was not attempting Sui Citie the Herald reported. The rubbing alcohol episode was an other in a string or disappointments for mrs. Dukakis that started Long before her husbands defeat in the 1988 presidential election. In the Book mrs. Dukakis recalls starting to Lake 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 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 9 to John Chaffetz in the Book mrs. Dukakis blames her dict Pill addiction and the failure of the marriage after four years to her Mother amp 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 a Elden 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 he stressful Campaign Trail. In March 1989, mrs. Dukakis admitted 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 1 Lerdahl  fliers feel no remorse 45 years later Salt Lake City apr when George Marquardt 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 Wendy or nev., is expected to draw More than 200 members of the bomber group. T hex will include retired Brig. Gen. Paul w. Lib bets Pilot of theft Nola guv and retired map Gen. Charles Chuck Sweeney who flew the b-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki three dust Salter the Hiroshima attack. Nearly 200.000 people died in the bombings and Japan Capitula cd toe Days later ending world War ii. A Momi the speakers will be Hideki Kate. An author and adviser to two japanese prune ministers. In an interview from Ukyo. Rase  the idea of speaking to his country s former enemies was discont citing. A it is very hard to come up with appropriate words a he said. A what i know is this Japan during the War also had a program to develop a nuclear bomb and had we succeeded pm sure we would have used it. Vve have no ground to  the ceremony will dedicate a 16-foot obelisk honouring the 509th, a fall who contributed to bring this dreadful War to an end and the dead of Hiroshima and Nagasaki a 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 w As 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 think. Maybe we stopped some world wars a lie said irom his Home in Milton.  509th, with tibets in command was formed in september 19-14 specifically to drop the Quot gadgets being developed at los Alamos. Na1. I he unit consisted of 15 modified b-29s, 220 officers and 1.500 enlisted men. Tibets chose Wendover a Tor training because id its isolation. 1 Quot we never m.-.  what we were dome or Why. We were dedicated to  said Marquardt. Tibets Sweeney and Marquardt repeatedly have said they feel neither remorse nor regret. A if i Ever approach that feeling 1 Start thinking about the rape of banking and the duplicity of them tying to our president while they were bombing Pearl Harbor a Sweeney said. A i think of All my c classmates who were  Marquardt Sweeney and other veterans of the 509ih returned to Hiroshima last november to film a British broadcasting corp. Documentary. I hey were introduced to a japanese doctor the son of a physician w hot i witnessed the devastation of the bombing. The doctor said his father later told him he had never seen such cruelly and could not comprehend the inhumanity of those who had inflicted it. It was t until the end us the meeting that the doctor was told who the americans were. Quot tears came into us  Marquardt 71. Said. Quot he said �?~1 wish my dad was Here to meet you  he was bewildered you could Sec it. His expressions changed. He did no to know what to say. 1 hat was the Only time in ail these years i be Tell  a few minutes later Marquardt called Back. Quot there was a word 1 used that i want to change a remorse. I Don t like it tunic it to  Quot