European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 19, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday january 19, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 3freak surge of Gas causes 10 fires Chicago apr explosions caused by a natural Gas surge ignited 10 fires that destroyed or damaged 18 buildings Friday authorities said. One person was killed and five others were injured one critically. A buildings Are burning All around us a witness Sam Laroussa said shortly after the explosions. He said he saw five buildings explode or burst into flames near his office. Just before the blasts the Gas surge Shook furnaces and sent stoves Pilot lights soaring As High As 3 feet witnesses said. A malfunctioning pressure regulator caused the surge a Gas company spokesman said. Explosions were reported at various Sites in a 16-Block mixed residential and business area shortly before 4 p.m., said fire department paramedic George Medina. Ten fires damaged or destroyed 18 buildings before being brought under control within 2vz hours said fire department spokesman Mike Cosgrove. A body was recovered Friday night from the rubble of a demolished building said fire department spokesman Earl Larsen. Three firefighters were among the injured. Larsen said two people previously believed missing turned up late Friday and firefighters called off their search. Gas was to remain shut off overnight to about 640 customers in a Square mile area a mile Northwest of the downtown business District. The City was organizing shuttles to take residents to shelters. The surge happened when a Low pressure Gas regulator malfunctioned said Peter Munoz spokesman for Peoples Gas co., which serves 842,500 customers in Chicago a More than 90 percent of area Homes. Natural Gas travels across the country at High pressure and is lowered to medium pressure by regulators As it enters a City. Low pressure regulators further reduce the level to one household appliances can use Munoz said. A a it a Winter so people have furnaces Heaters running. Suddenly a burst of a As will come through the appliance causing a flare up a he said. A because its a very Sharp burst that would create the  a two Story building was reduced to smoking rubble by one explosion. About two blocks away another explosion blew parts of the roof off a two Story House and dropped fragments across the Street and Halfway Down an Alley. The blast in the House blew out windows in businesses across the Street. Flames shot out attic windows fanned by a stiff Breeze. Smoke covered the neighbourhood and gawk cars on nearby Kennedy expressway brought Rush hour traffic to a halt. Witnesses reported Gas furnaces and Heaters shaking and making Odd noises before the  erupts during opening of Urban movie new York apr violence erupted at Heaters in new York and Michigan showing the Urban film drama juice which debuted amid tightened Security nationwide. Two teen agers were injured authorities said. In Lansing mich., gunfire broke out Between two groups of teens in a theater lobby As the movie was letting out Friday night sheriffs sgt. Mike Clark said. A 17-year-old boy was hospitalized after being shot twice in the leg. It Wasny to immediately known if he was a bystander or was involved in the fight. The gun Battle began when someone fired shots at the lobby ceiling said Bob Robison a supervisor for the county a emergency dispatch. The fight spilled outside and several shots were fired Back into the theater shattering two windows and striking the ticket Booth. At least nine shots were fired from at least two handguns and a third gun was found at the scene Robison said. In new York a 16-year-old boy was stabbed in a theater on Manhattan slower East Side during a quarrel with another 16-year-old, said police spokeswoman sgt. Tina Mohrmann. The injured boy was treated at a local Hospital and released said Mohrmann. The other boy was arrested and charged with second degree assault she said. At a Long Island n.y., theater there was a panic when people leaving screening rooms saw police Security guards disarm a 21-year-old Man who entered the lobby with a handgun. No injuries were reported. The Man who was released from the Nassau county jail on Friday was charged with criminal Possession of a weapon. Juice like Boyz in the Hood and new Jack City is a portrayal of inner City life. It tells of four Harlem youths including one who gets involved in a robbery that ends in murder. The movie was directed and co written by Black filmmaker Ernest Dickerson who has worked As Spike Leeds cinematographer in the past. It opened on 1,000 screens nationwide Friday and theater owners were hoping to forestall the kind of violence that plagued Boyz Ana new Jack City last year. Paramount pictures which is distributing the film said it would pay for extra Security at any theater requesting  won t shut site of historic sit ins Greensboro . Apr the historic downtown Woolworth store where sit ins nearly 32 years ago helped ignite the civil rights movement will stay open despite the closure of hundreds of other Woolworth branches. A City councilman grateful that Woolworth made an exception to its National policy said head encourage a a reverse Boycott by civic groups. A in other words to increase the patronage there a councilman Earl Jones said. On feb. 1, 1960, four Black freshmen from North Carolina a amp to state University were denied service at the stores lunch counter. They refused to leave touching off protests in nine states. Five months later Wool Worth agreed to allow Blacks at the lunch counter. In John Keaney a Mickey mouse at the front Mickey sits on a toilet near a cart filled with missile  artist criticized for picture of Mickey mouse at the front London apr surrounded by broken Palm Trees and the litter of War a grinning Mickey mouse sits on a kuwaiti Beach in a painting by Britain a official War artist. The director of the Imperial War museum which sent John Keane to the persian Gulf is pleased with Mickey mouse at the front and Keaney a other paintings from the War. But the father of a Soldier killed in the War thinks they re a depraved a and armed forces minister Archie Hamilton is not impressed. A a great Opportunity to create Good Art has been missed a Hamilton said. A these pictures of Mickey mouse trivialize an important  Keane a who spent a month in the War zone taking pictures sketching and talking with soldiers and journalists a said he did not mean to upset anyone. A the paintings Are done As my response to what i witnessed when i was there. I am merely putting Down an expression of my own feelings to what i witnessed a Keane said. A i found it a profoundly disturbing  Keane 37, has produced Art from visits to conflict zones in Nicaragua and Northern Ireland. He suggested that critics withhold judgment until they see the 35 originals that Are going on display in March at the museum which gave Nim a $21,600 commission. British newspapers have reproduced some of the pictures including Mickey mouse at the front a 6 foot Square Canvas that also includes a grocery cart filled with missile launchers one wheel resting on a torn kuwaiti Flag. Keane had seen a plastic Mickey mouse during a walk through newly liberated Kuwait City. The mouse from an amusement ride was in a room at the Kuwait City Marina and was surrounded by excrement. The iraqis used the room As a latrine. A this is just one painting among 50 or so i produced. If unfortunately people get upset by it i can Only say there is no reason for them to be upset a Keane said. A Imperial War museum director Alan Borg said that Mickey mouse at the front has been purchased for its permanent collection. He said the museum hoped to Purchase another possibly we Are making a new world order which has a Border of Dollar Bills. Art critic Brian Sewell said the pictures should be a record of the War not Keaney a opinion of it. A i cannot believe that the anti american propaganda with the Mickey mouse and All that serves any purpose at All a Sewell said. Mel Gillespie whose son Richard was killed by . Fire was deeply upset. A who would put a cartoon character a childlike Symbol of fun in the Middle of a painting of War a Gillespie was quoted by the daily mail As saying. A it is depraved an insult to Brave Young people like my son who died and were injured in that