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...gradually drove attendance down. It fell from 5 million a year in 1967 to less than 2 million a decade later. By 1978 Rockefeller Center, the Music Hall's owner, planned to close it for good. That prompted a nationwide outcry that led New York City to designate the interior a landmark that had to be preserved. After a $2.5 million renovation that restored the original appearance of everything from the 24-karat gold-leaf ceiling to the murals in the bathrooms, the Music Hall reopened...
...astonishment (and entertainment) of much of official Washington, the little-known Secretary of the Interior last week fired Iacocca as chairman of the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Centennial Commission. The 43-member group, which includes such assorted luminaries as former U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick and Bob Hope, was created in 1982 to give the Interior Department advice on how to restore Miss Liberty along with nearby Ellis Island, where as many as 16 million immigrants entered America between 1892 and 1924 (among them: Iacocca's parents). What former Interior Secretary James Watt had done for the Beach Boys...
...first quipped, "I've got to stop getting fired like this." The Chrysler boss then insisted flatly that there had been no conflict between his two Statue of Liberty jobs. He said that he had first taken the commission post in 1982 at the urging of then Secretary of Interior William Clark precisely "to clear up public confusion and establish accountability" between the two groups...
Iacocca then raised a pertinent question about his firing: "Is there more here than meets the eye?" He suggested one possibility: his long-running feud with the National Park Service, which is under Hodel's Interior Department, over how to restore the 27-acre Ellis Island. "I will oppose any effort to commercialize this restoration project," he declared. "And that includes any plans to build a luxury hotel and conference center on the island." He charged that the Park Service wanted to finance this center "through the sale of tax shelters for the rich." While Hodel soft-pedaled the conference...
...flight to Yugoslavia last week. Only after staring hard at an illuminated sign in the plane that read FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELT in Serbo-Croatian did Artukovic, 86, speak. Said he: "Now I know where I'm going." Indeed, his destination was a long-delayed date with justice. As Interior Minister in the puppet Nazi state of Croatia during World War II, Artukovic was known as the Butcher of the Balkans and held responsible for the murder of as many as 700,000 Serbs, Jews, Gypsies and others...