European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 18, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 b the stars and stripes saturday May 18, 1991n.y.mall fire kills 2 Huntington . Up firemen Friday fought Small outbreaks of flames in the smoking rubble of a  Island shopping mall where a raging Blaze killed two people and injured 36 shoppers and workers. Police said the fire was being listed As a a suspicious because of How rapidly it spread and because of three other fires in the same store in the past few months. A the Blaze broke out.about8 26 . Thursday  of shoppers and employees from the burning wait Whitman mall on Long Island about 30 Miles East of new York City. The spectacular fire which could be seen for Miles started inside Mccrory s variety store in the Middle of the two Block Long mall containing dozens of shops and stores at least on of the victims was an employee of Mccrory  was identified As Wayne Mortak 20, of West Babylon fits body was found in the basement of the store. The. Other victim was found on the main floor of Mccrory a. Police said she was believed to be a 27-year-old employee of the store but her body was so severely burned a dental record would be needed for identification. A a a a a Quot a a of the 36 persons injured Only two remained hospitalized Friday _ a it was horrible a said Clusta Castiglia 16, of Huntington station who worked at a clothing store across the promenade from Mccrory a \ a your main concern was to get the men women and children in our store out. The manager got them out along with me and other employees through the Hack door Quot . �?o1 was in the Back of the store straightening out some merchandise. All at once it seemed like the lights went out. I looked up As there was Black smoke in the corridor outside the store. A the smoke was so heavy that it seemed like the lights had gone out  . A people were screaming and Yelling frantically there was total confusion.�?�. As Castiglia talked with reporters firemen dug through the twisted mass of steel and rubble dousing twisted debris is All that remains of the store destroyed by the Long Island shopping mall fire. Small fires that erupted from  tune. Authorities said they were fairly sure there v arc no other victims buried in the rubble. Suffolk county police homicide detective sgt. Kevin Cronin said the police arson squad a has deemed this lire suspicious because of the fact of the Large fire  Quot. A a a me also disclosed that there had Heen three Small fires in the store in november february and March which were also labelled suspicious. However he said that when the investigation is completed it May turn out tha the Blaze was accidental. Cronin said the store had a sprinkler system in the basement but none on the main floor apparently because zoning Laws when the mall was built in 1961 did not require them. Kennedy retains voters loyalty by c Kristopher b. Daly the Washington Post ,. Boston a despite a steady drumbeat of had news on Newsstands and airwaves in his Home state sen. Edward m. Kennedy d-mass., appears to be holding the loyalty of his constituents. According to  polls and political analysts based Here the Man who has represented Massachusetts in the Senate since 1962 is such an icon that no amount of reporting about revelations from Palm Beach can do much to shake his staid Iii with voters a my is a feeding frenzy an insatiable desire for any Sliver of meat off the Kennedy Plale a Michael Goldman a political consultant to democrats said thursday describing current Media coverage. A in a sense the Kennedy s Are our political Royal  Goldman contended that most Massachusetts voters made up their minds pro or Coil about Kennedy Long ago and will not j1c swayed by reporting about the easter weekend in Palm Beach. 1 he senators Nephew. William Kennedy Smith was charged last week with felony sexual Battery and Misdemeanour Battery after a woman told police that she had been raped at the Kennedy estate there March 30. Police documents have called attention to contradictory statements by Kennedy since Smith . Brad Bannon a pollster who regularly takes the pulse of Massachusetts voters agreed. As Long As Kennedy is seen As an effective member of the Senate Bannon said voters will stand by him. A my sense of. How Massachusetts residents perceive Ted Kennedy is that they value him because they think lies an effective senator representing them we a Quot Bannon said. A a there a Little Shock value in the a i ill Beach Story because they have heard it Al before. Most observers agreed that Kennedy laced his ultimate Challenge in winning re election in 1970, one year after a Young woman Mary Joko Pechoc died in a ear that Kennedy drove off a Bridge at Chappaquiddick on the resort Island of Martha a Vineyard. Atlanta apr fuelled try an epidemic among Blacks the nations syphilis rate Lias reached its highest Point in More than four decades according to Federal officials Quot a Hie United states reported 30,223 new cases of the sexually transmitted disease in i960, for a rate of 20 cases per 100,000 people a the highest since 949�?Ts 29 cases per 100,000, i lie rates Are up 82 percent from 1985�?Ts rate of 11. Syphilis rates have declined or remained constant among Whites but have soared among Blacks. Between 1985 and 1990, be rate for Black men Rose from 69 per 100,000 to 156. The rate for Black women Rose from 36 to 116. At the same time Hie rate for White men fell from 6 to 3, and the Rale for White women stayed at 2, said or. Dauyn Nakashina a sexually transmitted diseases specialist who the Atlanta based centers for disease control. Burden sharing on defense urged by group. Washington apr a group of House democrats citing the willingness of . Allies to defray the Cost of the persian Gulf War said thursday that those nations should shoulder More of the Cost of their own defense. A a we re tired of being the 911 number for1 the. World tree of charge a rep. Patricia Schroeder d-colo., told a Capitol Hill news conference. The handful of democrats used the session to promote four amendments that the House will take up on tuesday when it considers the $291 billion military budget for the fiscal year begin Ning oct. I. A a non binding Resolution calling on the Bush administration to reduce the number of . Troops in Europe from 300,000 to fewer than 100,000 by 1995. A a Cap of 30,000 on the number of . Loops assigned to South Korea a reduction from 43 000. A an $8 billion reduction in defense spending with the Money coming from cuts in forces and equipment in Europe Japan or South Korea and the closure of 50 overseas bases a instructions to the president to negotiate an agreement with each nation in which the United states has troops on defense Cost sharing it would establish an account to track Cost sharing contributions for each country. Rep Byron Dorgali d-n.d., sponsor of the measure calling for an account said the government is falling behind the nation on Burden Shar my. A a. A 1 his Issue is one of those issues where Washington is out of step with the rest of America a he said. Rep. Barney Frank a mass sponsor of the amendment to Cut $8 billion said the time has come for the United states to fight an economic Battle with Japan and Germany