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A-10- -THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR- FRIDAY. JANUARY 1, 1988 7 known dead as fire sweeps BOO-room hotel in Bangkok DoritMissThe NewYear's DayRuadeTb RerfedothirigSale. fire trucks and three helicopters were fighting the blaze that started at about 4 a.m. on the second floor of the hotel in a room where a New Year's Eve party had Just concluded. One witness said he saw someone fall from a helicopter trying to lift people from the hotel rooftop.

The body, however, had not been been recovered. Police said the majority of the hotel guests were from Singapore, I long Kong and Malaysia, with some Europeans listed on the register. However, authorities did not know how many people were inside the hotel. Eduard Moaodliejko of Po- gy SUTIN WANNABOZORN VNtlED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Bangkok. Thailand A 300-oem hotel caught fire in the pre-fiawn hours of New Year's Day.

JlBlng at least seven people and rapping many more. Including tofeign tourists, police said. Police said seven bodies have hern recovered from the nine-Jloor First Hotel in midtown pangkok. The fire raged out of jontrol at 7:30 a.m. "I fear there may be many Jepple still trapped Inside." said j-tj Gen.

Sawaeng Thlrasawat. deputy chief of the national police. fuld 300 firefighters. 24 4" GOODMAN Jewelers-84th Year mil, 7 if sfr. -i land, said he was visiting Bangkok with a party of 21 people, six of whom were missing and believed trapped Inside the hotel.

"I am afraid some of our friends tried to go down in the lift when the power went out." he said. Several people in his group escaped via outside fire escapes, he said. Siorence Chan, a tour operator from Pan-Right Express of Singapore, said several people from his group of 32 were miss-'ng. "We escaped from the ninth floor on the ladder of a fire truck." he said. Last New Year's Eve, an arson fire at the Dupont Plaza Hotel in Puerto Rico killed 97 people and injured 1 40.

The fire, set by three hotel employees, was the second-worst hotel fire In U.S. history, surpassed only by the Winecoff Hotel fire in Atlanta Dec. 7. 1946. in which 119 people died.

In the worst hotel fire in the world, a Christmas Day 1971 blaze in Seoul, South Korea, took 162 lives. In the worst fire In recorded history, 2,000 women died In a Santiago, Chile, church In 1863. Yale chess team wins championship ASSOCIATED PRESS Columbus, Ohio Yale University won the Pan American Intercollegiate Team Championship in chess with 7.5 points, a tournament director said. The University of Toronto was second, with 6.5 points, followed by Harvard University, with 6, Daniel Burg said of Wednesday's competition. Harvard and the University of Chicago were defending champions in the eight-round competition, which began last week.

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