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Plane crash kills dozens after pilot reports engine trouble
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands
- An Israeli El A1 cargo jet ex
ploded Sunday night shortly after
its pilot reported engine troubles
and tried to return to the airport,
an airline official said. Dozens of
people were reported killed.
Flaming debris showered over
a wide area of a suburb near
Schiphol airport, setting fire to a
large apartment complex, officials
said.
Fire crews battled burning
wreckage in densely populated
residential areas, and ambulances
carried away victims.
Dutch television said there
were dozens of fatalities.
"It wasn't an explosion, it was
two engines that the captain re
ported on while taking off and
that he's returning to land, and
when he said he was landing, it
crashed," said Yisrael Cherbin,
cargo manager for El A1 in Ams
terdam.
He said the Tel Aviv-bound
747 carried "a regular commercial
load."
There were three crew mem
bers and one passenger aboard, he
said.
Earlier, a Schiphol air traffic
control official said a bomb was
the suspected cause of the explo
sion because there were no prior
reports of trouble on board the
plane.
The official spoke on condition
of anonymity.
The skies were clear.
The plane was believed to have
gone down about 6:45 p.m. (1:45
EDT) above the community of
Weesp, TV and the ANP national
news agency reported.
El A1 routinely receives high
security protection at Schiphol
Airport to foil terrorist attacks,
and the Israeli freight carriers
have no identification on their
bodies.
The airline's much-vaunted se
curity checks can take hours.
The plane was believed to have
exploded about 6:45 p.m. (1:45
EDT) above the community of
Weesp, and pieces of the plane ap
peared to have scattered over a
wide area, TV and the ANP na
tional news agency reported.
It was not clear how many peo
ple were on board the jet. No fur
ther details were given.
Peaces of the wreckage set fire
to a large apartment complex in
the Bijlmermeer area, causing an
undetermind number of casual
ties.
Schiphol air traffic control said
a bomb was the suspected cause
of the explosion, because there
were no prior reports of trouble
on board the aircraft as it ap
proached the airport.
El A1 routinely receives high
security protection at Schiphol
Airport to foil terrorist attacks,
and the Israeli freight carriers
have no identification on their
bodies.
If the explosion was caused by
a bomb, it would be the the first
terrorist attack on an airliner in
the Netherlands.
Business administration
to relocate its facilities
By TANYA SASSER
Staff writer of THE BATTALION
Dr. William H. Mobley, president of Texas A&M
University, commended those who have contributed
to the growth of the College of
Business Administration at a
groundbreaking ceremony Sat
urday moming for the new fa
cility that will house the college
by Fall 1994.
The College of Business Ad
ministration and Graduate
School of Business, currently
located in the John R. Blocker
Building, will be located on the
west campus, near the Bio
chemistry/Biophysics Building
on Agronomy Road. The four-
story, 190,000 square foot build- Mobley
ing is expected to cost $23.5 mil
lion.
Mobley credited the success of the business
school to its outstanding faculty and outside sup
porters.
"It is a distinguished faculty," he said. "We have
been blessed with faculty who have come here and
have planted their roots."
Mobley said it is important to retain a quality fac
ulty to ensure to continuing growth and success of
the college of business and of the University.
"Even as we break ground for a new building, an
important symbol of progress, the building is not the
significant issue," he said. "It's what will go on in
side that building and the people that have helped
that building come to be that are going to make that
building function to provide quality education."
Dr. E. Dean Gage, senior vice president for acade
mic affairs and provost of Texas A&M, said the
growth of the business school should reflect that of
the University.
"We have truly witnessed a tremendous rate of
growth," he said. "Growth that parallels the growth
of the institution and the University as a whole. It
seems that as the college of business has grown in its
students, faculty and academic stature, so has the
University."
Gage said the quality academic programs along
with superior teaching combine to provide the nec
essary ingredients for success.
"This new facility will certainly serve as a com
mitment to this college," he said. "It will be the
home for business programs that will continue to
distinguish the college as well as the University.
Through these halls will pass many of our future
leaders and C.E.O.s ."
Nation's economy not
in recession. Bush says
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON - President
Bush said Sunday "technically I
was right" in insisting last fall that
the nation's economy was not in re
cession, but said he should have ac
knowledged that "there's a hell of a
lot of people hurting."
Speaking in an interview taped
at the White House for CNN's "Lar
ry King Live" talk show, the presi
dent said people still have a mistak
en impression about the economy's
strength.
"Yes, things have been tough,
but they haven't been that tough,"
he said. "There's been some encour
aging things. I can click them off for
you: interest rates down, inflation
down, businesses ready, poised for
recovery.
"So when I said there isn't a re
cession last fall, technically I was
right. But I should have done it rec
ognizing that there's a hell of a lot
of people hurting, and I feel it and I
knew it then and I know it now,"
the president added.
Bush acknowledged that voters'
discontent with the economy is
hurting him in the polls.
"Technically I was right, but
don't tell that to the guy that's un
employed, or don't tell it to the fam
ily that has a job and wonders if
they're going to have it tomorrow.
So I could have handled that bet
ter."
The hour-long interview was
taped in the East Sitting Room of
the first family's private quarters.
King said Bush had agreed to ap
pear on his show at CNN studios
sometime before Election Day for a
live interview that would include
calls from viewers.
Democratic presidential nominee
Bill Clinton and his running mate.
Sen. A1 Gore, are scheduled to ap
pear on King's show and take view
ers' calls Monday evening.
Earlier Sunday, in comments
aimed at Hispanic voters. Bush said
that in a second term he would in
crease U.S. pressure on Cuba to
abandon communism. He predicted
that Fidel Castro "will fall of his
own weight."
"He's still denying human rights
there, he is still putting the arm on
his people and crushing them
down, and he can't go on," Bush
said in an interview with a Spanish-
language television talk show to be
broadcast by Telemundo on Mon
day.
"Yes, things have been tough, but they
haven't been that tough. There's some
encouraging things. I can click them
off for you; interest rates down,
inflation down, businesses ready,
poised for recovery."
-President Bush
Representative in plane crash
Hury in critical condition following airshow collision
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOUSTON — Former State Rep. James Hury was
in critical condition Sunday after his single-engine
airplane and another craft collided on a runway dur
ing the Wings Over Houston Airshow.
Hury, 46, suffered severe head injuries and was
taken by LifeFlight helicopter to Hermann Hospital
after the accident Saturday, officials said.
The former lawmaker and another pilot, Austin
ophthalmologist Dr. Quinton Smith, were perform
ing a formation landing at Ellington Field about
11:15 a.m. Saturday when Smith's Stinson L-5 veered
into a 180-degree turn.
A collision was unavoidable between Smith's
plane and Hury's Cessna L-19, which had landed be
hind the Stinson, air show spokeswoman Lu Lewis
said.
Smith was treated and released from Ben Taub
Hospital after the accident.
Hury remained in critical condition Sunday, said
Todd Hoisington, operations administrator for Her
mann Hospital.
The air show resumed about 40 minutes after the
collision Saturday and continued Sunday.
The accident was the first at the eighth annual
show, said Sarah Oates, spokeswoman for the City of
Houston Department of Aviation.
Hury, a Galveston Democrat, stepped down from
the Legislature last week to return to private law
practice. His term would have expired in January.
Hury's first term in the state House of Represen
tatives began in 1983.
He has served as chairman of the tax-writing
Ways and Means Committee and was a member of
the Legislative Budget Board.
He served as Galveston County's district attorney
from 1977 to 1983, and worked as an assistant in the
office for five years before that.
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White House stops plan to assist migrant workers
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Farmworker advo
cates say the White House, under pres
sure from growers, killed a Labor Depart
ment plan to improve deplorable and
substandard housing and working condi
tions for thousands of migrant workers.
Then-Secretary Elizabeth Dole, a
prominent Republican, put the initiative
together two summers ago after visiting a
farmworker camp in Florida. There, she
wrote in the report, she was "shocked
and deeply moved" by what she saw.
According to the 150-page report. Dole
wanted to crack down on abuses of mi
grant workers with a series of "concen
trated, high visibility enforcement
strikes" against farm employers, starting
with the peach orchards around Aiken,
S.C., and the blueberry and vegetable
fields of southern New Jersey.
She also wanted stiffer civil money
penalties against employers who shirk
wage and housing responsibilities or ig
nore other laws, and sought to strengthen
enforcement by boosting the number of
farm labor specialists from 22 to 52.
Her plan called for a review of farm la
bor laws and regulations to better protect
workers from substandard housing, child
labor or wage violations, as well as the
creation of a Cabinet-level task force.
Dole resigned in October 1990, less
than three months after the White House
reportedly shelved her plan. Now the
president of the American Red Cross,
Dole was out of town and unavailable for
comment, a spokesman said.
A Labor Department official who
worked on the plan confirmed that it was
kept back for political reasons. The offi
cial asked not to be identified.
Bill Brooks, a former assistant secretary
of labor who helped draft the plan, said
he also believes it was politics that killed
it, after it got to the White House.
"That's my gut feeling. ... This was a
hot potato," said Brooks, who is with
General Motors in Pontiac, Mich.
"Law-abiding growers didn't have
anything to fear, and yet there are too
many people out there in the agriculture
community who cut too many corners
and there's a massive fear they're all go
ing to be nailed," said Michael Hancock,
executive director of the Farmworker Jus
tice Fund.
Libby Whitley of the American Farm
Bureau Federation said the nation's
largest farm group had some "very seri
ous concerns" about the plan and contact
ed the Labor Department.
"It was done in a very shoot-from-the-
hip fashion," she said. "They did not con
sult with us, employer groups. And they
came in with a very punitive attitude,
without an attempt to understand the real
sweep of issues in the industry. It was not
even-handed."
Labor Department spokesman Steve
Hofman said 25 of the 35 proposals have
been done of are being implemented,
while seven others are under review.
The remaining three will not be done
"in the short run," including the plan to
expand the number of enforcement offi
cers.
But there have been raids on growers
in the Carolinas and California, he said.
Whitley said there have been some "ma
jor enforcement sweeps" of growers in
the Mid-Atlantic, Georgia and Tennessee,
as well as some in California.
"We're moving ahead as effectively
and as rapidly as we're able to. Does that
mean the employer community is en
thralled? No. Does that mean the advoca
cy community is always enthralled? No.
But we're trying to move ahead as appro
priately as we can," Hofman said.
But Hancock and Joseph Kinney, exec
utive director of the National Safe Work
place Institute, said there's no evidence
the department has implemented the
plan.
"People in the field feel the situation is
worse," Kinney said Friday. Farmworker
advocates agree the need for vigorous en
forcement has become even more urgent
today than two years ago.
In Florida alone, a rash of transporta
tion violations have led to several deaths
and serious injuries.