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N The Battalion EWS Wednesday • August 6,199i Guam Continued from Page 1 A White House official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said authorities have concluded there was no fire and no distress call from the pilot prior to the crash, as was previously believed. The of ficial said earlier accounts contained in formation that proved unreliable. Some witnesses reported hearing an explosion before the jet went down, said Ginger Cruz, a spokesperson for Guam’s governor, CarlT.C. Gutierrez. saw it in the fog, then there were these bright red flashes. They filled up the sky.” Melissa Amett Resident Gutierrez, who was among the first on the scene and pulled crying survivors from the burning wreckage, said there were 32 confirmed survivors and he didn’t believe any more would be found. “It was eerie. As I got close to the scene I could hear the screams,” he said. “We only had a single flashlight. We had to fol low the sounds to find them.... You could not stand there and hear those screams go on and not do it.” Among the four or five survivors he pulled from the plane was an 11-year-old Japanese girl he found trying to tend to a critically injured flight attendant. The girl suffered only cuts and bruises. “I had to go to the hospital with her,” Gutierrez said. "She wouldn’t let my hand go.” The National Transportation Safety Board sent an 18-member team from Washington to investigate. The lead inves tigator will be Greg Feith, who headed the investigation of the Valujet crash last year in the Everglades that was blamed on a fire aboard the plane. Before leaving from Andrews Air Force Base, Md., NTSB Member George Black Jr. said the voice and flight-data recorders had been recovered from the wreckage. The crash site is in a dense jungle, in accessible by road. Rescuers using flash lights had to make their way through mud and razor-sharp sawgrass up to 8 feet high to reach the wreckage. Ttoo Navy CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters, with pilots wearing night-vision goggles, took at least 30 survivors to a hospital. The injured included several people with burns. With the jet still smoldering, Navy Seabees began moving in backhoes to crack open the fuselage and try to rescue anyone who might still be alive. The airport control tower lost contact with the plane around 1:50 a.m. Wednes day (11:50 a.m. EDTTuesday), said Jackie Marati, an airport spokesperson. Police confirmed about 40 minutes later that the plane had crashed. “I saw it in the fog, then there were these bright red flashes. They filled up the sky,” said Melissa Arnett, 15, who lives on Nimitz Hill. “I didn’t know what it was, an atomic bomb or what. We didn’t know what was going on.” The plane ordinarily lands at Guam and then returns to Seoul as Flight 802. A landing system known as the glide slope, which leads planes to the runway, had not been in service at the airport since last month, according to sources at the FAA, speaking on condition of anonymity. According to a notice the agency sent pi lots, the guidance system was to be down for maintenance until Sept. 12. When glide slope guidance is not avail able, pilots can use other methods, in cluding an electronic device that gives them their distance from the airport. Knowing that distance, they follow a stairstep pattern to the runway. The tiny island of Guam is the United States’ westernmost possession. Its popu lation is 150,000. Guam is 4,000 miles west of Honolulu and 2,200 southeast of Seoul. Roughly one-third of Guam’s 212 square miles is taken up by U.S. military bases. 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Texas Ave. Bryan We accept checks. p 0 p c d R N Munchers $ 1.79 Continued from Page 1 Carey suggested it “makes sense to start bargaining.” But Dickeps said the company’s last offer was final and should be submitted to the union membership for a vote. Labor Secretary Alexis Herman spoke to the Teamsters chief, who opposes presidential intervention, and UPS chairman James Kelly by telephone on Tuesday, urging both to return to the bargaining table. She said talks are important to UPS and its workers, as well as “countless other businesses, workers and families, who are directly and in directly affected by negotiations.” White House spokesperson Mike McCurry said President Clinton was encouraging both sides to return to the bargaining table but had no plans to intervene because the ma jor impact of the strike so far is eco nomic. The president could step in if the strike poses an imminent threat to national health and safety. Some hospital officials said a long strike could cause major problems. “Most of the items that come to us by UPS are specialty items and those would include operating room mate rial, cardiac catheters, cardiac elec trodes and things like that,” spokesperson Bobbi Barrow said at University Hospital in Denver. “We do keep (extra supplies to last) about a week or two, so we’re OK right now.” Some small businesses were al ready hurting. “I’m pulling my hair out,” said Mary Helen Hasby, who ships “cook ie bouquets” from her Cookies For You in Minot, N.D. Other carriers won’t guarantee the on-time delivery her cookies need. Among the first casualties of the strike were lobsters shipped from Boston by one of UPS’ competitors, which began falling behind last week as the strike loomed. Chicago-based Lobster Gram canceled all shipments for the week after 25 lobsters meant for a catalog photo shoot arrived dead on Satur day, and customers also com plained that their seafood dinners o o Package delivery As United Parcel Sevice nears a strike deadline Thursday, its competitors are gearing up for increased business. The estimated cost of sending a 35-pound package from midtown Manhattan to Beverly Hills, Calif., two-day priority mail. $60 » United Parcel Service A look at the companies United Parcel Service 12 million packages per day ■ 1996 revenue: $22.4 billion Mitchell Continued from Page 3 )lu| ill : f’.u ,.iH . 2.4 million packages per day • 1996 revenue: $10.3 billion U.S. Postal Service *603 million letters and packages per day • 1996 revenue: $56.4 billion Source: Annual reports AP were dead. “We’re in trouble if there’s a pro longed strike,” said George Zawacki, whose father owns the company that sends lobsters, crab legs and crab claws along with cooking utensils for home delivery. At least nine strike-related arrests were reported Tuesday morning, in cluding five in Somerville, Mass., after pickets tried to block UPS trucks. At least 16 people were arrested on dis orderly conduct and other charges Monday in Massachusetts, Rhode Is land, Illinois and Kentucky. A UPS employee was arrested on reckless endangerment charges Tuesday after allegedly striking two pickets with his car as he tried to en ter a UPS terminal in Buffalo. One picket was treated for a sprained an kle; the other was not hurt. A picket was arrested in Norwood, Mass., after a police officer and sev eral pickets were pushed up against a moving truck. Barn 's recent firearm faux pas should corneas litlle surprise to those who followed histumulta ti ion ai th<'UniversityofOklahoma.Svvitzerwas Ik iu\ a t o!iege coach, even battling for a national lit! i his eventual Poke predecessor Johnson tin nn tin* eye of the Miami Hurricanes. But ii was the behavior of his championship ( h rges that eventually led to Switzer’sdepa leaorts of rape and rampant drug useaswellas n unerous NCAA recruiting violations haunted the ()U program during the Sooners’ gloryyeari ofthe late 80s. I here were even reports of, appti SS| priately, guns being fired in the athletic dorm. And while it can he argued that Johnson also h it a troubled program before the NCAA low- en t he boom, Miami is, by a few powers of 10, inlit i i ntly more evil than Norman. Besides,it’s not the college game that 's really the issue here, It Suit/a a couldn’t control his players at OU, who in his right mind would hire him to coach ego-driven millionaires at the professional level A shrewd owm i tired of battling for power withi highly successful sideline sergeant, that'swho. I: hri' Unix Jones hiredSwitzeromi an extended eo. a I dng hiatus to be something that Johnson em'dn't, a pawn. It’s obvious that l any dares not : ea move without looking!} i he from ui!i. r i; , aid maybe that sdiemete worked for the Cowboys. Switzer is known for delegating play-callihgl Cfl his coordinators, content to stride about loofe like a child whose dessert has been taken away When he does get involved, Switzer often emte rasses himself wiih had calls, the most glaring cj coming on successive founh downs fromhisow 28 yard-line some years back. Pla\ calling aside, Switzer’s stumble is anotha hi, ( Le\ o for an organization struggling to puttk shine hack on its star. It’s interesting to note Switzer's n a Ail demeanor as he tried to explain the nearly unexplainable, saying he was tryingt^ck hide it from children visiting his home and just forgot to take it out of his attache. treal I lore's a tip Barry: try locking it up somewhere in that huge house of yours. What kind of a moron would let a firearmconte anywhere near a hag he was taking to the airport! And once there, I'm sure the huge signs with red letters warning of weapons checks did nothingto tweak his memory. 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