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...from the 29th floor in the east wing of the 2,783-room hotel, the nation's largest, picking up room service food trays from hallways. When he reached the eighth floor, he saw flames "flickering on the wall" in the elevator lobby. He tried to fight the blaze, then ran down the hall banging on doors to alert guests. But the fire raged out of control for more than an hour, killing eight people and sending 200 to hospitals...
...under psychiatric care in California from 1973 to 1975, then began to drift across the U.S. He worked for a time as a busboy at the MGM Grand Hotel but is not thought to have set the fire there that killed 84 people last Nov. 21. Since the MGM blaze, Las Vegas has had two other hotel fires-at the Royal Americana in December and the Dunes in January -that are believed to have been deliberately set. Two fires, one in December and one in January, were quickly extinguished in the El Cortez hotel, where Cline had worked briefly...
...talk about "those barbaric Iranians (North Vietnamese, Chinese, Nicaraguans)," they mean the excess, the cruelty that grows inside men and women tough enough to throw off oppression. Dogs of War admits that cruelty and confesses the crimes that accompany the fight for dignity. But it shows even as buildings blaze and babies scream, that war can be worthwhile as long as the cause is honest...
...unidentified man ran into the boathouse shouting, "Fire! Fire! Get out of the building," alerting the six women of the blaze, Natali A. Roe '81, a team member, said yesterday...
Sarah J. Spence '84, a member of the crew team, notified Cambridge fire officials of the blaze immediately...