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News
Let the chips fall
BRADLEY ATCHISON/T m Batiai ion
Jason McGarvie, a senior construction science major and wood shop supervisor,
works on a lathe in the woodshop at University Plus, which offers craft classes for
students and the community.
Railway killt
surrenders ^
Resendez-Ramirez turnsstl
peacefully at Mexico-U.S. h
EL PASO (AP) — Rafael Resendez-RamJ
Mexican drifter suspected of killing eight [
he made his way around the country hoppin:|
trains, turned himself in yesterday in a dealt!
by his sister, surrendering on a bridge betw
ico and the United States.
Ending a six-week manhunt, the 39-yea^
sendez-Ramirez walked with a brother,
bridge to El Paso, where Texas Ranger Drew|
arrested him.
“Carter told me that he extended his I
shook hands, and he handcuffed him. Hewjl
pleasant, not aggressive,” Bruce Casteel,com-J
of the Texas Rangers said.
The tattooed ex-convict — who is charse:
three murders and linked to five other slay
them in Texas, Kentucky and Illinois —'
FBI’s 10 Most Wanted List and had beenin|i
for an undetermined amount of time, invesq
said. Mexican police apparently hadnoro!f| ;
surrender.
“I think that it’s a big relief to everybodyint*
Carter said. “The law enforcement officerslil
working the case, the victims’ families, as welp T e >
suspect the fugitive himself and his family.” s tliden
The surrender agreement included assuriBfens<
family visits, a psychological evaluationandAuca'
es that Resendez-Ramirez would be safeintBERPv
teel said. The agreement does not shield r "
Ramirez from the death penalty, Casteel said ]
Asked why Resendez-Ramirez would suirerH The
face the death penalty, Casteel said: ‘Tvebeer ij( ;atic
business a very long time, and I’m strugglinsl, g v
swer that myself right now.” dr tion
Victims’ families also expressed relief thailMce pr
in custody. a .
“We’re hoping that everybody can staru ftd vi
again, because there have been a lot ofpeop* U ght
were not sleeping well,” the Rev. RalphLudUjpoho
Ludwig took over as interim pastor at Weinii S rsity
ed Church after the Rev. Norman Simicandbp The
Karen, were killed in May. «jiy’s c
The surrender ended an all-out hunt forltef
Ramirez, whose alleged crimes spread lea:;: i—
those living near railroad tracks in thenatioii
section. All the victims were killed neartraci |
Arkansas man
honored as hero
of Flight 1420
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A Hot Springs
truck driver was honored as an Arkansas hero
today for helping to rescue nearly two dozen
fellow passengers after the crash of an Ameri
can Airlines jet at Little Rock.
“Thank you for being a person who put oth
ers above yourself,” Gov. Mike Huckabee said
in presenting the Governor’s Life-Saving Award
to Wayne McDaniel at a state Capitol ceremo
ny. “There are folks who are alive today ... that
wouldn’t have been had you not been there.”
McDaniel, 54, was among 145 passengers
and crew aboard Flight 1420 June 1 when it
rolled off the runway after landing at Little
Rock National Airport, broke apart and burst
into flames.
He was credited with helping to rescue 20
people from the wreckage.
“Someone said ‘Help.’ What more motiva
tion do you need?” said McDaniel, who re
called thinking more about the strength of the
wind, the size of the hail and the intensity of
the fire than his own safety in the crash’s af
termath.
He said he appreciated the award but said
others should also be honored.
“I wasn’t the only one doing this. There
were four, five, six others who were also help
ing. They haven’t been honored here, and we
need to remember them,” McDaniel said. “We
are the ones who turned this disaster into a
near miracle. I just wish we could have saved
the other nine people.”
Eight passengers and the pilot died in the
crash. Two others died later of injuries.
Federal investigators have not determined the
cause of the crash, which occurred at the end of
a Dallas/Fort Worth-to-Little Rock flight.
Florida maintenance compai
charged in 1996 Valujet cr
MIAMI (AP) — An airline maintenance
company was charged by the state with mur
der and manslaughter yesterday for improper
ly packaging oxygen canisters blamed for the
1996 ValuJet crash that killed 110 people in the
Everglades.
The company, SabreTech Inc., and three of
its employees were later indicted by a federal
grand jury on charges of conspiracy, making
false statements, and, in the case of the com
pany, failing to train the personnel who han
dled the hazardous material.
It was believed to be the first time in U.S.
aviation history that criminal charges were
filed against maintenance workers after an ac
cidental airplane crash, Mike
Boyd, president of the Ever
green, Colo.-based Mike Boyd
Group, which researches avia
tion issues, said.
Murder or manslaughter
charges against corporations
are also extremely rare.
The state murder and
manslaughter counts against
SabreTech do not require proof
of premeditation or intent.
“This crash was complete
ly preventable,” Katherine
Fernandez Rundle, state at- ____
torney for Miami-Dade Coun
ty, said. “It was not an accident like many
other crashes are. It was a crime.”
If convicted on the federal charges.
“We are not going to stand idly by i:
made a criminal scapegoat for thisnaf
Kenneth Quinn, an attorney for SabreTed
“This was a horrific accident, not a air
Crash investigators found thatSatoi
workers improperly packaged thecri
generators without their required;:
caps, and falsely labeled themasemp:
uJet workers loaded them into the;
hold for transportation.
The generators, about the sizeofallit
bottle, are used in compartments above
sengers’ heads. They contain chemical
when mixed in emergencies, produceabf
minutes’ worth of oxygen.
The chemical re
“/t was not an
accident like many
other crashes are.
It was a crime/'
Katherine Fernandez Rundle
State attorney for
Miami-Dade County
that takes place out
oxygen generator i;
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that can reach 5ft
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was not authoriz;
haul such hazardou:
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generators did act
causing the cargo fii
tore through the fl(
the passenger cabin
ly after takeoff out
SabreTech faces a possible $6 million in fines
and restitution. The workers could be sen
tenced up to 55 years in prison and fined $2.7
million on the conspiracy charges.
SabreTech said prosecutors ignored findings
by the National Transportation Safety Board in
vestigation, which spread the blame among
SabreTech, ValuJet and the Federal Aviation
Administration for lax oversight.
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mi-to-Atlanta flight on May 11, 1996.Tii:
9 plunged into the Everglades, vifi
obliterating the aircraft and killing all
sengers and five crew members.
A cockpit voice tape made In theftL-
final minutes recorded sounds of sh;[
from the passenger cabin, including
saying, “We’re on fire. We’re on fire
pilot told the airport control tower,
need to go back to Miami,” and a
tendant said: “We need oxygen. We can'
oxygen back there.”
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LULAC, Jackson’s Rainbow/PUSH Coalition join forci
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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) —
The Rev. Jesse Jackson and the
League of United Latin American
Citizens (LULAC) agreed Tuesday to
join forces in supporting fair immi
gration policies, improved health
care, public school funding and pos
itive portrayals of blacks and His-
panics in movies and television.
Jackson and LULAC President
Rick Dovalina signed a 10-point
agreement that promised coopera
tion between LULAC and Jackson’s
Rainbow/PUSH Coalition.
Jackson was the keynote speak
er at a luncheon at LULAC’s 70th an
nual convention.
Despite tension between blacks
and Hispanics in some parts of the
country, both groups will work to
gether to accomplish their goals as
they have with desegregation and
other civil rights issues, Jackson said.
“The record
shows if you look
at our relationship
through a door,
not through a key
hole ... our inter
ests on the human
rights agenda are
fundamentally
converged,” he
said.
Dovalina also
encouraged cross-racial cooperation.
“We should be united on issues,
not divided by race,” he said. “We
should tear down walls. We should
n’t build walls.”
The agreement’s 10 points target
voting rights, the 2000 census,
health care, corporate initiatives, fair
trade, public education, immigra
tion, media and motion pictures and
affirmative action.
One of the points calls for the
Rainbow/PUSH Coalition and LU
LAC to make sure blacks and His
panics are members of corporate
boards of directors.
“They are aiming at the Hispan
ic and black markets, but there is no
person of color on their boards,”
Jackson said. “We will begin to chal
lenge corporate America, company
by company, to let your boards and
investment portfolios look like your
markets.”
Both groups will advocate a re
view of the North American Free
TLade Agreement, workers’ rights
and environmental protection as
part of free trade, Jackson said.
They also seek positive portray
als of blacks and Hispanics in
movies, television shows and g
news and will advocate affirnl
action programs. Supporting-
tient’s bill of rights and ade(j
health care also are on the ^
agenda.
Jackson invoked black am)
panic icons as examples of p 01 ]
contributions both ethnic
have made.
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what Sammy Sosa shows us
what Hank Aaron and what
Jordan showed us — whene'
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