10—The Daily Collegian Monday, Feb. 13, 1984
loor collapses during Valentine's party, 65 injure.
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the party, and many of those in the upper
:- floor fell on top of people who had gathered
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Djemal's 18-year-old daughter Fatima said
she gave the party.
"I was pouring out some drinks doivn
stairs when suddenly there was panicking
and screaming everywhere," she said.
"I couldn't see anything for dust. ' I
couldn't open the door at the back and the
only thing to db was smash the window."
Passersby and neighbors rushed to help.
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many of them acting hysterically that they
got in the way of the trained rescuers and
the ambulancemen."
The floor of the apartment in Plashet
Grove, East Ham, in London's East End,
was creaking before it collapsed, according
to an unidentified girl quoted by Press
Assocation, the domestic news agency.
She said a soul-music record was playing
and "We told them to quiet down when we
heard the creaking. They stopped and
started again. Then everything went.
"I could feel people beneath me trying to
get out:"
A spokesman for the London Fire Brigade
said half of the apartment floor collapsed.
sports
Carnutherses earn Ist U.S. medal
By D. BYRON YAKE
AP Sports Editor
SARAJEVO, Yugoslavia The
brother and sister team of Kitty
and Peter Carruthers ended the
medals famine for the United
States at the Winter Olympics yes
terday, taking the silver in pairs
figure skating with a near flawless
performance.
The couple skated the 4 1 / 2 -minute
freestyle program masterfully and
were beaten out only by Soviets
Elena Valova and Oleg Vasiliev,
who received one 5.9, six 5.85, two
5.75. •
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The Carrutherses, both adopted
when they were 3 months old, re
ceived one score of 5.9 from the
Canadian judge, but a 5.5 from a
Japanese judge. They also got one
5.8 and six 5.75.
"I'm in shock. I've never been
happier in my whole life," Kitty
said. "I knew right before the start.
I looked at Pete. It was going to be
magic."
They were few detectable prob
lems in their presentation while the
gold medalists had one detectable
flaw, a slip by Valova on a double
axle.
' The Carrutherses edged another
Soviet couple, Larissa Selezneve
and Olege Makarov, for second
place. The two pairs had been tied
for second going into the freestyle
part of the competition, which
counted for 80 per cent of the final
score.
While the Carrutherses snapped
the U.S. medal jinx, the East Ger
mans added to their Games-leading
total with two golds, in 70-meter ski
jumping and women's luge. The
men's downhill race again was
postponed by bad weather and an
Italian policeman won his country's
first gold medal, in luge.
The British ice dance team of
Jayne Torvill and Christopher
Dean achieved more perfection and
Finnish cross-country skier Marja-
Liisa Hamalainen became the first
double gold medal winner of the
XIV Games.
Both the Soviets and the East
Germans have a total of 12 medals.
East Germany has five gold, while
the Soviet Union has three.
Now the Americans have a med
al, but still not gold.
No American has ever won a gold
medal in the pairs skating competi
tion and while the Carrutherses
didn't do quite that well, they ac
complished what they said they had
set out to do: skate a clean program
and not worry about judging or
winning.
Both were dressed in black, their
necklines ringed with rhinestones,
and they were a smooth-skating
pair. At the end of their program,
knowing they had done well, they
hugged in joy in the center of the
Zetra rink.
"I told him I loved him and I was
happy we wiirked this hard and we
achieved our goal," said Kitty.
"It's a dream come true."
Said Peter: "We fight like broth
er and sister and we care for each
other like brother and sister."
Until their performance, the U.S.
athletes here had nothing to be
joyous about. Their troubles includ
ed the hockey debacle on ice, which
is gone but not forgotten. Even too
much snow has been a problem. So
far, it had been a Winter Olympics
dominated by the East German and
Soviet teams and nothing for the
U.S. athletes.
Seven medals were handed out
yesterday, two to East Germany
and one each to Sweden, Norway,
Finland, Italy and the Soviet Union.
The Fins picked up a gold, two
silver and two bronze medals yes
terday and moved into third place
in the overall standings with six.
Norway had four medals, Sweden
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Monday, Feb. 13, 1984
two and five other countries had
one each
The lack of success by American
athletes was starting to show in
more places than the medals' table.
"I think the United States team
as a whole is looking for someone to
do well right now," said ,Frank
Masley, a luger from Newark, Del.,
who added that the previous day's
U.S. performance was so disap
pointing the team was calling it
"Black Saturday."
The Carrutherses came to the
rescue, just as Torvill and Dean did
for England, just as Hamalainen
did for Finland.
Torvill and Dean just seem to get
better as they close in on the gold
medal they are expected to win.
They got three perfect 6.0 s in the
compulsories Friday, and yester
day got four 6.0 s in the original set
pattern event, a two-minute dance
that counts for 20 percent of the
overall score. The compulsories
count for 30 percent and the free
style, which is the only part re
maining, counts for 50 percent.
The couple from Nottingham,
England she a former clerk, he a
former rookie cop on the Notting
ham force who are fondly known
as `T & D" in their native land, got
one perfect score for composition
and three for presentation.
Judges from Italy, Canada and
Hungary gave them perfect scores
in presentation. The judge from
Hungary also gave them one in
composition. The British judge
gave them 5.9 in each category, as
did all the other judges.
"I'm absolutely thrilled with
their scores," their coach, Betty
Callaway, said. "Everything seems
to be going in their favor. We're
really looking forward to Tuesday
night."
That's when the free dancing will
be held and medals awarded.
In second place was a Soviet
couple, Natalia Bestemianova and
Andrei Bukin, followed by Ameri
cans Judy Blumberg and Michael
Seibert in third.
The two other U.S. ice dancing
teams remained in the top 10 after
the second event. Carol Fox arid
Richard Dailey were sixth and Eli
sa Spitz and Scott Gregory were
10th.
Hamalainen grabbed her second
gold medal of the Games by win
ning the women's 5-kilometer
cross-country race in 17 minutes, 4
seconds. Last Thursday, she won
the 10-kilometer race, the firgt
medal of the Games, and has a shot
at a third gold in the 20-kilometer, a
new event this year.