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of a mariachi band who died just
minutes after they checked into the
VbaHyatt where they were to perform at a
convention. Near the end of a mass for
the four, a procession of children
carried white and red roses and placed
them on the caskets. Adults then
carried a sombrero, violin case, guitar,
and trumpet and laid them at the foot of
the altar.
Eyewitness accounts continued to dif-
fer. Some said as many as 300 people
were on the second-level walkway.
Several were seen dancing and swaying
to the music from below.
"IT (THE walkway) wasn't
swaying," said fire department
AP Photo spokesman Harold Knabe, who helped
M innesota strike direct rescue efforts and talked with
survivors. "There were people who told
esota governor Al Quie crosses picket lines at the state capitol set up by striking state employees yesterday. us you could see it bouncing. The people
ands of Minnesota workers threw up picket lines around state office buildings, hospitals and parks in their first were swaying on it like they were dan-
wide strike in the history of this traditionally pro-labor state. It was the third recent nationwide state employee cing to the music.
ut, following those in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Previous state worker strikes in Minnesota have been "People who walked across it said
nal. you could feel it bouncing and moving
up and down."
More will face midlife crisis
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WASHINGTON (AP) - There are more than 44
million Americans facing the challenge of "midlife,"
a group expected to grow slowly in this decade and
then increase sharply, the Census Bureau reported
yesterday.
Defining midlife as ages 45 to 64, the bureau issued
a new study of these years which, it said, are defined
by the major events taking place - children leaving
home, peak years of economic well being, gran-
dparenthood, retirement, onset of chronic illness,
widowhood and the care of infirm parents.
"DURING THE 1980's the size of the middle-aged
group is projected to increase less rapidly than most
age groups because of the relatively small number of
peresons born during the Depression years," said the
report by Jerry Jennings of the bureau's population
division.
However, he noted that as the postwar baby boom
generation moves into these ages, the group will
begin growing sharply and is expected to reach 75
million by the year 2010. That would be about one-
fourth of the U.S. population.
Currently, Pennsylvania has the largest percen-
tage of people in this age group at 22.5 percent,
followed by New Jersey with 22.3 percent. The fewest
live in Alaska, making up 14.3 percent of the
population of that state.
NATIONWIDE, IN THIS age group, nearly 90 per-
cent lived in families, most with their spouses,
although the percentages were higher for whites than
blacks.
There was a sharp difference in fertility between
older and younger middle-aged people, according to
the report.
"The older group, 55-64, which encountered very
difficult economic and social upheavals in the 1930s
and early 1940s, had a much higher instance of
childless marriages - 16 percent - than did the 10-
year age group of women who immediately followed
(nine percent)," the report stated.
"PERSONS OF MIDDLE slightly older ages are
likely to be established in their careers, settled in a
neighborhood and living in a house that they own;
consequently they are less likely to move because
they have a considerable emotional and financial in-
vestment in their present location," the report said.
Only 23 percent of middle aged people moved bet-
ween 1975 and 1979, as compared to 65 percent for
persons 25 to 34 years old.
Baltimore explosion
may be race-related _
BALTIMORE (AP) - A vacant
rowhouse that had been rented to a
black family was heavily damaged in a
deliberately set explosion that in-
vestigators suspect was racially
motivated.
The explosion Sunday night occurred
when a lighted candle was placed near
an uncapped natural gas line in the
building's basement, officials said.
THE EXPLOSION blew out the north
wall of the corner rowhouse, flinging
bricks and rubble into the adjacent
alley, Fire Department Capt. Patrick
Flynn said. There were no injuries.
Police spokesman Dennis Hill said
explosion "definitely was arson" and
that the motive possibly was racial.
"A kid . .. made racial remarks to
the house's owner and said they didn't
want any blacks in the neighborhood,"
Police Capt. Douglas Coster said. o"r
EVELYN BYER, 53, the white owner
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