-- .... -- - ..... .. - "1"---- - - - ------ -,....- - - ~- ...- OATS If ; , i camp breather, Chicago i~e Ditka says he likes the ~ 1 1back Brad Muster perfo~. .L _ ~ l: __u Pnce: 25 cents Iowa City's Morning Newspaper Thursday, July 28, 1988 :· Americans Firefighters injured· }· flunk • ' g~graphy in Westwinds blaze , WASHINGTON <AP) - The By Paula Roesler extinguished around 9:30p.m. 311 on the second floor. majority of Americans can't find The Daily Iowan The roof was burnt completely. Johnson said when firefighten let Great Britain, France, Japan or Hansen said the two units on the her in the building, ahe opened her the Persian Gulf on the map and Two Iowa City firefighters were second floor were •about 85 per­ auitcaae and her clothes were have no idea of what the U.S. hospitalized and a dozen residents cent damaged." ashes. population is, according to surveys evacuated following a blaze at The two groundfloor units were Allan Butler of Cedar Rapids said conducted by the Gallup Organiza­ Westwinds condominium complex damaged by smoke and water, he he spotted the fire when driving tion and the National Geographic Wednesday night. said. down Melrose Avenue around 8 Society. Firefighters Larry Khler and John "I can't tell now if the building is p.m. Moreover, Americans in the 18 to Wyss were treated at Mercy Hospi­ structurally sound," Hansen said. "I saw the flames shortly after it 24 age group ranked last when tal and released after the build­ "' have a feeling it is." started," Butler said. "I gueM I their survey results were compared ing's roof fell on them while they The apartments damaged included was the first to spot it. I called 911 were battling the fire, according to Nos. 307, 311, 315 and 319. from my truck." :t Tyaon ( to similar tests conducted in eight other nations, said the society, Iowa City Fire Department Lt. Westwinds Condominiums Associa­ Firefighters from Iowa City, West ( which sponsored the international James Giesking. tion Manager Doug Lee said all Branch and Coralville were • Iowa City Fire Department Batal­ four units are rented by tenants brought. in to battle the fire. j testing. Ame~icans of all age groups scored sixth. lion ChiefT.L. Hansen said the fire from the unit's owners. The fire at Westwinds waa another Ma rl no was caused by a gas grill left on by UIIawstudentKyleCroweandhis in a series which has plagued the ( "I have a terrible feeling that the American public is not taking residents on the top back porch. wife are tenants in one of the Iowa City area this summer. A fire f "The people forgot they lei\ it on,• groundfloor units. last week at Burge Residence Hall 1 education as seriously as they have ( in the past - and it's not just Hansen said. "The girl just admit­ "We just got. married. We've only forced the evacuation of the build· S UPer geography. You are seeing this ted it. The cause is so obvious." lived here two months,• Crowe ing, and 17 car firea have been , across the board," said society Hansen said the gas from the grill said. "It's kind of a hassle." reported in the area aince the probably spread to the closets of Jean King and Lisa Johnson, who beginning of July. President Gilbert Grosvenor at a •n each of the second-floor units in were staying with West.wind• resi· A fire also was reported at about news conference Wednesday. 11 p.m. at the Mar-kee Motel, 707 ~ Brital "What was most alarming was not the complex, which in turn spread dent Jane Betty, said when they other areas of the building. returned from shopping Wednes­ First Ave., Coralville. The cause only that young Americans did to Hansen estimated the damage at day around 9:20p.m., the building and extent of damages was tng it as another "Battle of~ worse than all other 18· to was in flames. Betty lives in unit unknown at press time. i Super Bowl in which the San 24-year-olds, but that they were more than $160,000. The fire was )olphins 38·16. the only ones in that age group, Never, Sunday's game in the among nine countries, who did Stadium is just a preseason( worse than the oldest group tested," Grosvenor said. Dorothy learns of safe sex American Bowl III, the thml 'We're not motivating our kids to :h serves as a preseason game take education seriously," he said The Daily rOwan/Todd-Mizener lling number of NFL. fans in noting recent National Science Foundation studies ranking U.S. Fair filly from the 'Wizard of AIDS' ~dia couldn't help but mak! students well below their foreign the 49ers ran up a record·tying counterparts in scientific fields. Janet Love of North Uberty leads her horse, Grand Fashion, back to By Sara Langenberg we wound up rewriting all the With her new companions, Dor· .ana whipped Dan Marino in a To combat this, the society has Its stall Wednesday afternoon after a grooming In preparation for The Daily Iowan music," said Barto in a telephone olhy travels through the Jo'orest of competition at the Johnson County 4-H and FFA Fair. Grand launched a multimillion-dollar and The Associated Press interview late Monday from the Sexually Transmitted Diseases. 1er at Wembley, and Dolphiru public awareness campaign on the Fashion Is Love's 4-H proJect. theater. Eventually, safe sex wins out over ikely be what excites the f8!1$. problem, he said. An AIDS-awareness play created But the play baa retained all of the unsafe sex when they do battle te because you've got the No. 11 The campaign includes the initia­ and directed by a former student in original characters with minor with the wicked witch and smother [arino playing on one side and tion of a National Geography Bee the UI Theatre Arts Department is deviations in their personalities her in a giant condom. te, Joe Montana. ,on the other for secondary students, a training being featured at a Chicago thea· and motivations. Then they're offto see the Wizard, program for the nation's 15,000 Bunnies judged by ter. In Barto's explanation of the but, as in the original, he doesn't not that simple," he told the geography and social studies teach­ Based on L. Frank Baum's "The reworked plot, Dorothy and Toto really have any answers. day. ers and the free distribution of an Wonderful Wizard of Oz," Michael leave Kansas to seek a cure for "The Wizard doesn't know the >f the word. It's more than on! atlas of U.S. history in 35,000 Barto's "Wizard of AIDS" has AIDS and to escape small-town cure - no one does - but he public, private and parochial set of pearly whites proven to be a valuable tool for prejudice against victims of the shows the Scarecrow that he can ' that 1985 game at Stanford, schools. ,P1ssemigating 'nformatio,n about dreaded disease. As they ent•r the uae his brain, th Tin Man that he . Sta nive~ty--Rabbit Research AIDS and safe sex practices. Land of AIDS (Aware Individuals · for signs that the upcoming Another component involves the By Cathy Jackson e can trust his heart and the Lion Department, the only rabbit "The Wizard of AIDS" began as a Deserving Survival), their development of computer software The Daily Iowan that he has courage af\er all," rv and, hopefully, we can come learning tools and a laser disc research department in the coun­ class project at the m and was tornado-borne house lands on the Barto said. ~ playoffs," said Marino, who version of the atlas. Marvin Kroening grabs a rabbit by try. initially performed last year in Wicked Witch of Needle Sharing. Dorothy returns to her home in lSOn. The international survey tested the scruff of its neck and looks into "Develop and breed an ugly rab­ Iowa City at the 620 Club, the In the new land, Dorothy encoun­ Kansas by saying the magic words, .ic about the possiblity of u 10,820 adults in Canada, France, its eyes. He's checking for signs of bit," Ciha said, "because they're Downtown Pedestrian Mall and on ters a heterosexual scarecrow who "There's no sex like safe sex!" See NFl, Page 9 Italy, Japan, Mexico, Sweden, the stress. He opens its mouth, hoping just too cute otherwise." the Pentacrest. The play's profes­ is naive about AIDS ("He really Barto said the troupe would like to United Kingdom, the United States to find a full set of pearly whites The children at the fair showed all sional debut is at the Raven Thea­ needs a brain," said Barto); an continue the show in local high and West Germany. Those and examines its toenails to make kinds of rabbits, from a Florida ter in Chicago, where it is per­ emotionless Tin Man ("He's con­ schools after the theater run is surveyed were asked to locate 13 sure they're not split. White to a New Zealand White - formed Monday through Wednes­ tracted 'Tinorrhea' and can't let over. from fat, spotted rabbits to skinny, day nights at 8 p.m. through Aug. himself love again"); and a fears ink' selected countries, Central The rabbit competition at the 1988 This effort to educate people about solid-colored rabbits. 9. It is the first production of the homosexual Cowardly Lion ("He'a America, the Pacific Ocean and the Johnson County Fair Wednesday AIDS and other sexually transmit­ One family even brought a AIDS Educational Theater.