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Threat of building’s collapse may stop search «fKI-WIt )VIA ( m i AF) through Hu* J• ■ s 1»■ «■.i litnli! J7YiT*?TnB ■ ih’ Stmdii\ i • triad to n'ifilunt weakened t oluinns that threatened to t otlapse around them Th« possibility grew tli.n the s»*art h for v it tuns mnv have to fa* halted t adore all tho bodies are found "What's very important now itloniiiU sure Hu* workers aren't imperiled as they •illempt to rciimv# th*' (.ov f rank Keating said lain Saturday I Hunk that building "HI tie a tomb for Hu* victims who wifi never lw* found." fur viol Hu! oven iis officials wrestled with the possibility of ending Hie search, ifu* r»»% c oars still hoped lo (mil survivors inside Hu* building One of them reminded m< of Mem, o fail. Hu* earthquake there." healing said riii'ri* was a survivor found after 1-t days Our H day* are up Wednesday The death loll rose lo l < 1 Sixtv-lwo people were missing, mi luding eight i hil dri'fi That included six names the state mod inil examiner's offic e added to the list ol missing over the weekend, after lieing < on tin ted b> a Total woman whose address was found in a fanny pai k ns oven-d from the si ene The Tulsa woman said the pai k In-longed to a group that iru (tided her sis ter, her sister's boy friend and her sister's four children, ages s through 5, said Rav HiaKeiuw a spokesman lor the medical examiner's offic e The woman said she realized the group had l»en in Oklahoma f tu to apply for federal assistant e. he said I -iter Sunday Hlakeney said the «> may have been lot a ted in another state. ■ give their names or hometowns lie said tin- matter w as under investigation hut that the Tulsa woman had setsmod sou «rw People at Sunday s «'n iu« tried to offer support f.rief counselor Tom Madden was u<ni by (b«* Bav Presbyterian ( hun h in Cieve land lo help What has happened here has not only touched the people of Oklahoma City, but i! tom lii’d the people of the world ,' Mad den told worshipjwrs at the First Baptist Church, where plywood covers the si nned glass windows km» ked out by the blast "The process of healing begins shortly after the tragedy, and tt continues for the rest of our lives," he said. . taut f ire Chief |on Hansen said two < oltitnns at the front of the building have taken on an hourglass shape at the hottotti and could collapse bringing down more concrete slate; on the arm being Slum bed Wurki'is hoil' Im.t 1: ; jei hn.-. .irtmnd the base of Ih** columns and filled them with grout Maj Pat t araway of the I S Army thorps of Kngineers said the grout func tion* like a cast, strengthening the column* Structural engineers accompany search teams advising which dirw tion* are safe to tunnel and where strengthening is needed. Caraway said. They use equip ment that < an defect an eighth of an inch of shifting in the building's load bearing columns and exterior w-nlls Structural engineers were seen exam ining various parts of the building. With as many as six visible on the roof .it one time Workers reported seeing bodies tat hind the two columns in an area known as "the pit." where remain* of a dav i are •enter and Social So< urity offices arc thought to lie But the fear of falling con crete stalled in i ess School of MUSIC UNIVERSITY OF OREGON <S Department of DANCf m MAY CONCERTS Clip and Save this Calendar! For more information on any School of Music event, call 346-5678 To confirm concert times and ticket prices, cal! the Music Hotline at 346-3764 for a taped message Mon, THE CORE ENSEMBLE 5/1 Vanguard Senes 8 p m , Baall Hall Ui 50 General Admssion. t3 50 students A senior citizens Tues. DONALD MARTINO, Composer-in-Residence 5/2 Guest Artist Uk turn 'My Reflections on the Creative Process' 4 p m Beall Hall FREE Admission Wed. OREGON SYMPHONIC BAND 5/3 UO Ensenble 8 p m , Beall Hall $4 General Admssion, 12 students A senior cifizens Thur. UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY 5/4 UO Ensemble 8 p.m., Baall Hall S4 General Admission, S? students A senior citizens Sun. A CONCERT OF SOLO FLUTE MUSIC 5/7 UO Flute Students 8 p.m., Beall Hall Genera! Admission, %2 students A sentor alzens May SPRING STUDENT DANCE CONCERT 11-13 Annual production by UO dance majors 8 p.m. Gariingar i5 General Admission, $3 students A sensor aiizeos Sun. UO HANDBELL CHOIR 5/14 UO Class Ensemble 1 p.m., Beall Hal! FREE Admission Sun. ELLEN CAMPBELL, Horn 5/14 BARBARA GONZALEZ-PALMER, Piano Fmiat)' Artist Senes 4 p m , Baatl Hail Muse by Rossini, Rochbeng, Dukas, and Reynolds iS General Acknssion, $3 students A senior a Sirens Mon. 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Centennial A-bomb s hometown rejects peace statue I OS AI AMOS S' M | API Standing an a grnssv median at tin* edge of town, Cinger Well h i .in look past the plateau and see the snow< apped ntotin tains that isolate tin* birthplace of the atomii hot till Welch said tin* median, whn h serves is a gateway to the At tint it ( it y, to miles northwest of Santa f e would have been a pertei t setting till i pe;» e stat - ■ Albuquerque eiementnrs v hool pupils instead, the idea generated controversy and hard feelings, and the County Council this year rejec ted it "A lot of people opposed to it may have felt that somehow this was Ijeiiig placed here as a pun ishment." said Welch, a conn i dor The statue, a hrotl/e globe, found a home anyway , at the Albuquerque Museum. It will tie dedicated in August the noth anniversary of the atomic bomb ing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima in japan An estimated $45,000 was donated for the globe, which is now being cast Caroline Gnssner. the Arroyo Del Oso Hemeinary School teacher whose students i nine up With the idea, hopes the globe i an also he used ns a traveling monument tor peac e '.St> do stu dents We want people to know •his IS st! I! an 111ncm dll idea," s lid Dana Kaplan, i t We re not trying to malign anybody or incriminate anybody To some the work in Los Alamos he!pud shorten World War II ant! keep peac e through the Cold War Hut the sc enic town of 12.(10(1 Im ked nw.i\ in the |etm*z Mountains still strip; gifts with its legat y as a key c on '■ dinli.i '.» t!:•■ Ate>::!!( \iUul it remains a foe a! point leer protests against nuclear weapons Counselor Morey Pongratz. a space sc ientist at i.os Alamos National Laboratory since 197a. believes the statue would stig matize the city and that the money could be better spent. "Money spent on a statue detracts from money spent on the* true injustices of the world," Pongratz said With It disagrees I hose i hildren were mak ing a very definite statement alcuul yvanting peat t . sile said And where better to do this than at tint place where the nuclear age* was born'" for the pupils, the project became a bigger lesson than Gassner < ould have imagined ! fits is teaching tin- kid-, how to c ompromise, it s teach ing them how to deal with peu pit- of all ages and ideologies." 1..issuer said Welt h said the statue served a useful purpose by stirring one of the more feverish arguments she s sc ten in her 17 vears in l.os Alamos I felt tins statue was an issue that allowed l.os Alamos to reach out. not m a defensive way. hut to demonstrate that c ertainly peat e has always been the primary mission of this com uiuiutyshe said Center’s director hopes to get past Mapplethorpe ( 1N( ,!\'NA !‘J (AIM It s time for the ( ainlemjKMary Arts ( enter to ; ()„si Mapplethorpe. act ording to <ts new director. Charles Obs niiirnts Good things grew from the 1990 censorship i ontroversy, including i heightened national profile and increased membership, but "What we need to do now is move beyond that." he said W" II give them new things to complain about I-ike what W ell, he won't exactly sas III told you. it wouldn't U»a surprise, and I w ant to surprise peo ple, said Desmarais, in his cluttered, yel-todiu decorated offii e It s the job of a I on temporary arts i enter to challenge our audience " Desmarais. due on the job Monday, was in Cincinnati last week to get acquainted w sth the gallery and the city I iui i enter gamed prominence when it and then director Dennis Barrie were > liarged with obsi unity for exhibiting homoerotic pho tographs b> Robert Mapplethorpe Both were at quitted The case ... ’ ■ '' i ! *' * t Barrie left in 1992 to huud the Rock and Roll Hall of l ame and Muse um in Cleveland Hi suet esxor. Elaine King, returned to a< adenua in November
