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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 26, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday november 26, 1990 the stars and stripes Page 558 horses die As 2 mass. Barns Burn Newbury mass. Up a fire swept through a horse farm Early saturday destroying two barns and killing 58 race and show horses trapped m their stalls officials said. The Blaze broke out just before 4 . At the Sabbath Day Farai on Orchard Street in the Byfield Section of Newbury said fire it. Michael Bulgaris. An alarm system notified the fire department but by the time firefighters arrived both barns at the Complex were engulfed in flames Bulgaris said. A both barns were attached to the Arena with a courtyard in the Middle so you had a a us affect. Both barns were destroyed a Bulgaris said. _ he said the flames started m one Bam and fuelled by the flammable material stored inside quickly jumped to the second. A the barn is fairly open. There was Hay shavings and Grain a every one of them flammable a he said. Firefighters were Able to Rescue just three horses. Most of the 58 horses which died succumbed to smoke inhalation he said. A caretaker lived in a House about 300 feet from the bams. That House was untouched by the flames and nobody was injured Bulgaris said. Firefighters from six communities responded to the alarm with the fire being brought under control by 6 ., he said. Both bams were demolished but the Arena was left standing Bulgaris said. He said it was impossible to estimate the damage because the value of the horses killed was not immediately known. A some of those race horses were pretty valuable a he said. The cause of the Blaze was unknown and the destruction was so great that fire officials could not be sure where the flames were first ignited. A fireman hoses Down what remains of two barns at Sabbath Day far student editors say jobs Oil not Worth War Ithaca . Up the editors of eight Ivy league College newspapers saturday criticized president Bush a escalation of the . Military presence in saudi Arabia saying a jobs and Low Oil prices at Home Are not Worth a War.�?�. A letter from the editors to Bush and congressional leaders endorsed an editorial in the nov. 15 Issue of the Cornell daily Sun which said Bush is a chafing to Send our troops into combat and has a distorted the purpose of our military presence in the Middle  a jobs and Low Oil prices at Home Are not Worth a War. Our original stated intentions of upholding International Law and protecting Sovereign Borders were far More worthy. We cannot support a War that ignores constitutional process and International opinion. We cannot wage a War merely to Shore up our Economy a the editorial said. The editorials author daily Sun editor in chief David Folkenflik said the piece reflects the mood of Many students on his Campus. A i think there a a lot of cynicism about the justification of the Swift buildup. There a just a belief that the . Is not doing it on principle but on economic in Terest a Folkenflik said. A if that a the real problem we could invade Japan. They re a far greater threat to . Jobs. If we re going to go to War it Damn Well better be for the right reasons a he said. The 21-year-old history major from Laguna Beach calif., said the editorial a is no to a Blanket rejection of the use of Force which its possible might have appeared on our pages 20 years  he said the Content was debated by the papers editorial staff. . Military activity in the Gulf might receive More support from students if it had the formal approval of Congress he said. The letter to Bush was signed by the editors of school papers from Harvard Yale Princeton Columbia Brown Dartmouth University of Pennsylvania and Cornell. Folkenflik said the other seven editors decided to lend their support to his editorial but he did not know which if any of the newspapers would publish it. A i was surprised and pleased by the strength of the consensus a he said. Folkenflik said the daily Sun prints 5,500 copies daily and is financially Independent of the school and student groups. Polish americans cast ballots Chicago apr thousands of poles in Chicago helped shape their homelands future saturday by casting Absentee ballots in the first presidential election since communism a collapse in Poland. A we Are All very Happy about the turnout so far. It is difficult to say How Many will come a said Andrzej Jaroszynski a polish Consul in Chicago. He estimated that about 15,000 of an estimated 40,000 Chicago area poles eligible to vote in the polish elections will cast ballots. Chicago has the largest bloc of poles of any City outside Warsaw Between 800,000 and 1.2 million. Poland allows naturalized . Citizens to hold polish passports and vote. Newly arrived immigrants and visitors to the United states also can vote. About 400,000 poles in the United states were eligible to cast ballots saturday a Day before the general election in Poland officials said. The contest pits labor Leader and Solidarity party founder Lech Walesa against prime minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki and four lesser known candidates. Poland has about 27 million eligible people voters. A High . Turnout would encourage the same in Poland said Chicago Alderman roman c. Pucinski a Walesa Backer who represents the heavily polish 41st Ward on the City a Northwest Side. A i just think its great a Slawek Kosycarz a 28-year-old manager of an office Supply company in suburban Niles said after casting his ballot. A my vote was for Walesa. He a the one who brought the whole thing down.�?�. Danuta Stelmaszyk 37, a visitor from Dzier Koniow Poland and a Friend Edward Figarski 37, a steel press operator in Chicago took photographs of each other after voting. A Runoff will be necessary if no candidate gets 50 percent of the vote a virtual certainty said Elisabeth Slosarski a member of the specially appointed election commission which is handling the election in the Chicago consular District. The commission is overseeing balloting at six Sites in the 26 states it covers a the three Chicago Sites and Milwaukee Detroit and los Angeles. All voters must go to a designated site. In Michigan about 1,050 poles voted said Jamusz Wrobel of the american polish Congress in Ham track a Section of Detroit. Stanlay Madeja who was running the voting in Manhattan said that by 1 p.m., More than 1,000 polish citizens had voted in new York City. Polling places were also open in Boston Buffalo . And Passaic  of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Nov. 26, 1950 a one of the worst Winter storms on record battered the Eastern United states crippling transportation and communications in the new York Pittsburgh and Cleveland areas and scores of smaller cities.30 years ago today. Nov. 26, 1960 a Secretary of defense Thomas s. Gates ordered All department of defense Nona pro grated fund agencies to Stop buying foreign goods on it dec. 1 As part of president Eisenhower a program to limit the number of dollars being spent overseas.20 years ago today. Nov. 26, 1970 a president Nixon promised that the United states would do All it could a at the diplomatic table and in other ways to gain the release of american prisoners of War in North vietnam.7 0 years ago today. Nov. 26,1980 a Rescue workers continued searching for victims As the death toll from the Southern italian earthquake Rose to More than 3,000  
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