Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 15, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Minor fire unleashes Cloud of deadly smoke unidentified relatives show their grief after highly poisonous smoke killed 43 Spain a a fire at a disco yesterday sent poisonous smoke pouring into a lounge where people sat listening to and at least 43 people were overcome by the fumes and Spanish officials the fumes were so Strong some victims had no Chance to attempt an escape and died in their police wife died the victims included five Mem Bers of a band that was playing in the lounge and the parents and wife of one of the dead authorities said All the victims were local the fire began at about local time in the flying discotheque in a rundown Section of Zaragoza when an electrical overload Trig gered a it was put out in by toxic smoke had funnelled through air conditioning ducts to the where the dance bar and lounge Are said a local government represent Carlos Perez investigators found traces of by Drocy anic acid in the said Ignacio another government spokesman in Perez Anadon said the official causes of the fire and the deaths will not be determined until autopsies Are Spanish National radio said by Drocy anic used to produce acrylic May have been used in material for the discotheques Interior but Perez Anadon said records indicated the clubs owners had not used materials containing the chem which is prohibited by City fire owner Faustino Martinez disappeared after the fire but was arrested later yesterday and is being held at a police officials of the Aragon autonomous Region Deputy mayor Luis Garcia Nieto said firefighters arrived eight minutes after they received news of the but he said Rescue workers could do Little to help those serious injuries several people died in their it was very added Anto Nio Gonzalez mayor of a provincial capital 320 Kilometres Northeast of one woman remained in Hospital with serious doctors at Miguel Servet Hospital a fire fighter and another customer were treated and damage in the lounge was caused Only by smoke and said downstairs you can hardly Tell there were he it want a major the prob Lem was the toxic estimates of the number of people in the disco at the time of the fire ranged from 100 to Well below the maximum the Legal capacity was not but local officials gave it As both 200 and curtain of smoke Bruna said some customers were felled by a curtain of toxic smoke when they tried to escape up an emergency those who used the other which led to the main escaped in he one waitress who escaped up the main stairway told the Spanish news Agency efe i smelled something and in seconds nobody could get while i was going up towards the main a group of probably blinded by the were trying to get up the emergency but in sure they get because the fire was said the who was not Iden the discotheques fran Cisco told Spanish television he saw the basement ceiling glow red when he tried to switch on Power to the bands instruments after an overload triggered three Days of mourning were declared for the who authorities said were mostly 30 to 50 years highly placed spy pravda reports by Michael Parks los Angeles times Moscow he might have been the fellow next to you on the subway or in the line for the As Ordinary a russian As you might find in the soviet Capi but Donald was a spy for the United states and had been so for nearly 30 in a tale of both superpower in Trigue and human the communist party newspaper pravda yesterday recounted the the motives and the Cap Ture and trial of a senior soviet Diplomat now sentenced to death on charges of in his Long run As a Donald the pseudonym Given him by his contacts had done the soviet Union enor Mous according to he disclosed much Polit one can track political and ideological Chance against a background of painful ambition ical and economic military including plans for chemical and bacteriological top soviet diplomatic preparations for civil de Fence and criteria for the use of nuclear it As portrayed by Don Ald was perhaps More highly placed and better informed than any other agent that the United states one of the most signify the paper says has had for years in the soviet govern having Access to Many state Donald sold everything of interest to the intelligence pravda summarizing his career As an Ameri can agent Over three but in a virtually unprecedented Effort to understand Why a russian would betray his probed More deeply into Donalds Refus ing to accept him As someone who had simply sold out his country for Money or even for How can we explain All this pravda asked at the Start of its lengthy devoted As much to analysis of the Case As to condemnation of the what Are the sources of his betrayal to explain it All in terms of his being not fully appreciated at his workplace would be Al though there Are such Opin the situation is not primitive at the roots Are somewhere very and maybe our tree is such because it is supported by such Donald from Prav Das description of to be a highly trained dip Lomat or foreign affairs special or possibly a military attache even More from the the soviet intelligence and Security pravda did not disclose his real report when he was arrested or convicted or say whether he had already been recruited in 1961 he had been recruited by agents of the Fri in 1961 while serving in the soviet unions mis Sion to the United nations in new according to then he was handed Over to the for whom he spied in India and Burma most in Moscow in neither the Fri nor the Cia would pravda appears to be caution Ary for the most part in publish ing the but there is the unusual perhaps unprecedented suggestion that there May be something wrong in the soviet system that produces such men As Donald and allows them to function for years without Detec apparently As dedicated officials and but the paper also praised Kab Alexander a controversial investigator who was criticized recently by a legislative commission for Clearing a regional communist party offi Cial of corruption charges that might have implicated Yegor a member of the party ruling described by pravda As a very self assured Man who did not believe in his possible fail Donald believed that every move he made had been too Well thought examined and then for him to be i Felt it in my spine that the Kab was stepping on my he told the but an analysis of my activity erased All my in the Kab investigators caught up with pravda re through mistakes he apparently out of sheer fatigue after nearly 30 years As a in encoding some of his re ports for transmission to the american embassy in covered tracks soviet counterintelligence offi cers had closed in on Donald several times before and even interrogated but All along he had skilfully ruined the mosaic of evidence against As outlined by Don ads career in espionage was one of remarkable exploits in the heart of the soviet capital he sent radio transmissions to the american embassy from passing trolley buses and left information in 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