Busboy set hotel fire
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LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) - A
busboy arrested in the arson fire
at the Las Vegas Hilton has
confessed he started the fire
while engaged in a homosexual
act in an eighth floor elevator
lobby, a detective said at a news
conference Thursday.
Lt. John Conner, chief of the
Metropolitan Police De
partment's homicide divi
sion, said Philip Bruce Cline told
officers that during the
homosexual act with a man
identified only as "Joe,” a drape
was lighted accidentally by a
marijuana cigarette.
The ensuing fire in the
30-story hotel killed eight
people and injured 198 others.
“He indicated he had been on
the eighth floor and had been
with another homosexual and
was engaged in a homosexual
act when the draperies were set
on fire next to the elevator,”
Conner said. "He says it was
lighted by a marijuana
cigarette.”
Cline "says it’s accidental,”
Conner said, but he added: "We
are pursuing the arson inves
tigation. The Fire Department
says it’s arson.”
The lieutenant said he didn’t
know how the other three fires
at the Hilton might have started.
The 23-year-old Cline first told
detectives he had tried to put
out the fire, Conner said.
"He said he had been picking
up trays from room service from
the 29th floor down, but when
we checked later — after the fire
— the trays and glasses were
still in the hallways,” Conner
said.
"We are satisfied he is the
man who set the fires," Conner
added.
Cline's father, 50-year-old
retired Air Force Master Sgt.
Robert Cline of Sunnymead,
Calif., said he was "surprised”
about the allegations regarding
his son.
Cline said his son had never
finished the ninth grade, was
often in juvenile hall for truancy
and received psychiatric
treatment in 1972 and 1973.
Cline said his son left home
about five years ago and went to
work in Michigan. He apparently
arrived in Las Vegas early last
year, Conner said.
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From Associated Press Reports
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe - Prime Minister Robert
Mugabe on Thursday ordered his former foes, the white-of
ficered regular army and air force, to smash mutinous
ex-guerrilla forces loyal to Joshua Nkomo, a minister in
Mugabe’s government.
The rebellious former guerrillas, who were allied with
Mugabe’s forces in the 7-year-war that brought his coalition
to power are acting against the orders of their leaders
including Nkomo, the prime minister said.
I am determined to descend on them like a hammer,”
Mugabe told the Zimbabwe House of Assembly in Salisbury.
He spoke after six days of fighting between former guerrillas
loyal to him and the forces led in the war by Nkomo, a
sometimes uneasy partner in Mugabe’s 10-month-old
coalition.
WARSAW, Poland — Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland’s
new premier, appealed to workers Thursday for “90 peaceful
days,” warning that continued unrest could pitch Poland into
civil war. He also reshuffled the government’s top echelon
and announced a 10-point program to tackle the economic
emergency.
Jaruzelski named five new Cabinet ministers and two new
vice premiers in the sixth purge of government leaders since
last summer’s strikes that spawned independent unionism.
He outlined an economic plan to deal with complaints on food
and housing shortages, but called for worker discipline and
improved productivity.
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