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' Egyptian Airliner Crash
-Leaves 217 Presumed Dead
1 Officials are still not sure
what caused the jet to
plunge into the Atlantic
• Ocean at 2 a.m. Sunday.
, Associated Press
r , NEW YORK - The Boeing 767 was
./late getting to Los Angeles. The reason
~ was routine - bad weather on the East
j,.Coast. Then a tire needed to be
changed, food and fuel loaded, castoff
and blankets cleared from the
..aisles.
Nothing out of the ordinary. Nothing
~suspicious. Just an annoying four-hour
„ wait for 33 passengers en route Saturday
~to New York, and then traveling non
stop to Cairo on Egypt Air Flight 990.
The first five-hour leg was uneventful.
( So, too, was its 12:57 a.m. landing
„ Sunday at Kennedy International
Airport. Then another 167 passengers
( got on, as did an 18-person crew.
_ There was nothing to indicate that in
.less than two hours, Flight 990 would no
. longer exist. All 217 people on board are
■ .believed dead. At least 60 were
American tourists, some of whom
planned to sail down the Nile or cross
T> ,into Israel.
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The search for what destroyed the
plane would be slow, meticulous and
heartbreaking. There were no immedi
ate clues, officials said.
The only passenger to get off in New
York was grief counselor and Egypt Air
consultant Ed McLaughlin. His services
were needed in less than an hour.
As an employee of the Family
Enterprise Institute, he is hired by air
line companies to do one of their worst
jobs - notify and console the families of
crash victims.
McLaughlin had already participated
in a post-crash news conference before
reporters learned he’d been on the
flight’s Los Angeles segment.
At Kennedy, 66 minutes passed
before the twin-engine aircraft taxied
from the gate, a normal interval for such
overseas flights. “There were no delays,
no disruptions. No events that were
untoward in any way,” said Port
Authority aviation director Robert
Kelly.
Standard Time moved clocks back an
hour and 2:03 a.m. became 1:03 a.m.
Sixteen minutes later, the jet wheels of
Flight 990 left the runway.
The plane headed over the Atlantic
on a common overseas route that passes
over Nantucket Island. From there, it
would turn north, flying along the U.S.
coastline toward Nova Scotia and
Newfoundland, then follow a Great
Circle route over the North Atlantic
toward Europe and its final destination
in Egypt
Air traffic controllers cleared the
plane to 33,000 feet, a typical altitude
for long-distance flights.
There was no distress call. The last
communication from Egypt Air’s pilot
came at 1:43 a.m. and was perfectly
normal, authorities said.
About 2 a.m., the jetliner slammed
into the Adantic Ocean 65 miles south
east of Nantucket.
The passengers hailed from New
York, Vermont, California, the Southwest
and in between. They sat with natives of
Egypt, Sudan, Syria and Chile. The
plane was scheduled to land in Cairo on
Sunday afternoon, local time.
Instead, they became the newest
entry on a recent list of aircrafts and
lives swallowed by the Adantic. They
followed Swissair Flight 111, the private
plane flown by John F. Kennedyjr., and
the crash of 1996’s TWA Flight 800.
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Join us in voting for Jim Protzman on November 2 nd
When Protztm suggests
the entire region could profit from resimtial and
commercial ~i n-fiU> ' development in tl RTP, he’s making
a win-win argument for both the parlfind the people
who work there.
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He says what he means and he does but he says.
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Jim Protzman can be trusted to wot tirelessly and
thoughtfully far all of us- not just >r today but also
for the future.
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News
Play Links VTO to Corporate World
Student activists staged a
mock trial to portray the
World Trade Organization as
a corporate bully.
By Matthew Smith
Staff Writer
Protesting what they see as a ccK>-
rate bully who has overturned envm
mental and labor rights laws, spiral
campus groups put on a skit to ercate
students.
Performed by members of Sdents
United for a Responsible dobal
Environment, Student Environmental
Action Coalition and other cornunity
and campus members Friday idle Pit,
it likened the World Trade Orpzation
to a Twilight-Zone-esque Jrporate
Frankenstein.
The actors portrayed thWTO, a
conservative trade law revfr board of
the United Nations, as a “sc/” monster
that harmed the environmr* and work
ers’ rights. They said th’ hoped to
encourage students to raft letters,
attend future meetings at possibly go
to a protest in Seattle in )e November.
The groups dramatizi WTO’s deci
sions by staging real V'o cases in a
His creative thirpng and do-it
attitude nake kn a prime
Candidax for Tm Council
Mel Rashlc
Jim Protzman Its the energy
and the couragto tell it like
it is.
Louise Stfie
court room with evil Judge Frankenstein,
a fictitious WTO official, presiding.
In one case, Flipper the dolphin,
played by Sophomore Mary Brotsch of
the Globe committee of the Campus Y,
argued that requiring Tuna companies
to label whether their product contained
dolphins had saved 190,000 of her fel
low dolphins annually.
But, the “Corporate Suit,” a business
interest bully played by junior SURGE
member Dennis Markatos, said that cut
into his profit margin.
“That’s not free
trade,” said Judge
Frankenstein,
played by junior
SURGE member
Harry Halpin. “For
cutting into this
client's profits I
sentence hundreds
of thousands of you
(dolphins) to death.
And I hereby
“For cutting into this client’s
profits I sentence hundreds
of thousands of you
(dolphins) to death. ”
Judge Frankenstein
Played by junior Harry Halpin
decree that (Tuna) labels don’t mean a
gosh dam thing anymore. In fact, any
one who wants to can put a ‘dolphin safe’
label on their cans, no matter how many
of these miserable creatures they kill.”
Markatos said it was important for
students to protest the WTO. “It’s anew
world order. These corporate leaders are
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Monday, November 1, 1999
trying to set an agenda for themselves
and die rest of us,” he said. “They are a
Frankenstein that is deregulating envi
ronmental and labor laws so as to
increase their profit margins.”
SEAC and SURGE member Seth
Landau said students should be con
cerned because the WTO is becoming
more than just an environmental threat.
“The WTO is a threat to our sover
eignty,” he said. “They overturned a
major portion of Americas’ Clean Air
Act, as well as a Massachusetts law refus-
ing to purchase
products from cor
porations that
work with Burma’s
dictatorship.”
The skit, per
formed twice,
drew a crowd of
more than 30 stu
dents each time.
Freshmen Brock
Towler from
Charlotte said the presentation sparked
his interest in the issue.
“The WTO ensures cooperate domi
nation in the world,” he said. “That’s
something I don’t want to see.”
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at udesk@unc.edu.
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