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2-B THE TAMPA TRIBUNE. Saturday. August 20. 1983 Firefighters file suit to halt promotions The Tampa firefighters union charges that Fire Chief Anthony S. Coniglio did not follow Civil Service rules when he promoted three men.

hand the luggage of every' passenger carrying a bottle. The best deterrent, according to tile State Department, would be quick return of successful hijackers by the Cuban government for public trial in the United State, where a hijacker faces a minimum 20-year sentence. Almost all of this summer's hijackers have been Cuban immigrants who came to the United States during the Mariel boatlift. according to FAA spokesman Fred Farrar. One way the FAA attempts to control hijacking is by monitoring airlines, which are required by law to provide some airport security, including passenger screening with metal detectors For security-related violations, the FAA can exact fines and take lesser compliance and enforcement actions warning letters, for example.

Over a 19-month period including all of last year and through July 31 of this year, the agency took 400 such actions against the 16 largest airlines. According to the FAA central computer office in Oklahoma City, the five airlines that were subject to the most security-related actions were: American, with 50 actions: Eastern. 46: Continental. 38: Republic. 38: and United.

35. Thursday's hijack was the fourth hijacking incident involving a Tampa flight. Tribune stajj writers Dan McLaughlin. Donna Hugh Martin. Sylvia Wright and Al Christopher contributed to this "I said a quiet prayer for myself and for the stewardesses.

I thought to myself. I hope we don't have a hero on this flight, added Saunders. Mosley. sealed about four seats in front of the hijacker, said a stewardess helped calm the man by saying the pilot intended to fly to Cuba as he had asked. Passengers described the hijacker as dark-skinned, about 5- foot-8.

slender with a thin mustache. Some passengers said he was Jamaican, while others said he spoke English with no apparent accent. "From our information, we have not been able to obtain positive identification or determine the nationality or citizenship of the individual." said FBI spokesman Chris Mazzella in Miami. Since May 1. skyjackers have commandeered nine other South Florida flights to Cuba and passengers have thwarted two attempted diversions to Havana.

The air piracy record was set in 1969 when there were 33 hijackings and 40 attempts. "We've been fortunate so far in that there has not been a serious accident involving a hijacking, but there is always concern when a conventional weapon like a gun or when gasoline is used that there could be an aviation catastrophe." said Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Dennis S. Feldman. There is no automatic device, like the walk-through metal detectors used to find concealed guns and knives at airport screening points, to detect flammable chemicals. Feldman said.

Jack Barker of the FAA said the agency will consider inspecting by- ding, is this for rear.1' or something like that. I took a step toward him. and when 1 did. he took the Joy bottle and shook (its contents) over his head and shoulders and the Matt. "And then he said he wasn't afraid to die.

to go to Looking for help from the flight crew. Mizell started forward. "There were two gentlemen who stood up and said. Let's take Mizell recalled. "And 1 said.

'Don't be a hero at 22.000 "I said. The guy's poured gasoline all around and he's got a lit They questioned my courage Behind Mizell. a stewardess came forward from a rear galley and "cooled (the hijacker) down." added Air Force Staff Sgt. Donald Mosley said. Passenger Henry Derricks said the hijacker drank from the bottle "He took at least two gulps.

He said. I'm ready to die. 1 don't care." said Derricks, whose wife was sitting directly across the aisle from the man. Derricks, a native of St. Croix and a U.S.

Army enlisted man stationed at Fort Bragg. N.C.. said the man spoke English and that he didn't detect an accent. "He seemed very American to me." Derricks said. The lone passenger in first-class.

Tampa lawyer Thomas Saunders, learned of the hijacking when a passenger came forward to inform the flight crew. "I thought to myself, we're being hijacked and this is the man." said Saunders. But actually, the man was trying to report to the crew. Hijack From Page IB The skyjacker poured what he claimed was flammable liquid from the bottle on himself and. at one point, drank from the bottle, said passengers, who said the liquid in the container smelled like gasoline or kerosene.

When the plane landed in Havana, the skyjacker motioned for the back door to be opened and reportedly threw his garment bag with money in it toward the inside of the plane as he got out. Cuban authorities then arrested him. passengers said. In Havana, passengers were allowed to leave the plane to shop. Cuban officials boarded the plane and announced it would have to be refueled before returning to the United States, passengers said.

Some passengers visited a duty-free shop during the lu-hour wait and bought toys. rum. cigars and woven baskets. The flight arrived at Tampa International Airport at 2:39 a.m. Passengers toting Cuban cigars and souvenirs straggled out of a debriefing area at Tampa International Airport at 3 a.m..

almost five hcurs after their Miami-to-Tampa flight was ordered south. "I was sitting right across the aisle, about one row ahead of him." said William Mizell. 38. a Tampa construction manager. "He said.

Tell the pilot to take (me) to "I just got up and stepped across to where he was. I said. "Are you kid The Tampa firefighters union has asked a circuit court judge to freeze all promotions within the Fire Department, claiming some men were promoted over others who had higher test scores. Local 754 of the International Association of Firefighters asked the judge to prevent further promotions until an arbitrator can interpret the complex Civil Service law and contract language that is part of the promotional system. The union filed suit this week in response to three promotions from firefighter to driver-engineer made July 14 by Fire Chief Anthony S.

Coniglio. who was appointed earlier this year. The union charged that Coniglio failed to follow Civil Service rules when he promoted three men. two whites and a black, who had scored lower on exams than others vying for the same position. The union charged that Kent F.

Seabrook won a promotion even though he finished 48th on the eligibility list. The two other men. Leroy Bell and John R. Hill, finished 38th and 32nd respectively. Neither the union's president nor its attorney could be reached for comment Friday.

Nor could the fire chief: A communications operator for the Fire Department said he was instructed to say the chief was not available for comment. The suit predicts a large number of vacancies around Sept. 30. the end of the fiscal year, because of retirements. The union said it was worried the chief would make promotions before an arbitrator could resolve the issue.

The lawsuit is the latest in an ongoing dispute between the union and the city over the promotional system. In June a federal judge threw out a suit filed by the union over the city's affirmative action plan, which has been in effect since 1977. That plan included a promotional system based on three eligibility lists: one for black men and women, one for white women, and the third for white men. The union began contract talks with the city last week and indicated it would like to make the promotion process part of negotiations. The city-rejected that position, however.

Posts Tampa man charged with wildlife violation several days by Harwig, who is in charge of the purchasing department, and Ed Copeland who is in charge of the public works department. In a recent report on the aluminum mess. Danilo Ramiriz of the county contracts management unit wrote: "This is a classic case of misunderstanding, improper communications and lack of adequate controls anyone preparing the requisition should have been knowledgeable enough to have recognized that the quantity was incorrect." Ramiriz' memorandum indicates a number of county employees, and even the supplier, said they questioned the accuracy of the quantity of the order but were assured it was accurate, but other county employees say they cannot recall verifying the order. A total of seven county employees, who participated in one way or another in the aluminum post purchase, will be interviewed in the next several days. Harwig said if any impropriety or violation of county civil service rules is determined, disciplinary action will be taken.

The disciplinary action can be suspensions of up to 30 days without pay or demotions. If the disciplinary action is appealed to the civii service board, that board will then hold a public hearing on the issue. From Page IB since the order was received and if a buyer needs aluminum posts in the C-shape. it is possible the county-could realize a profit. Even as the county begins the process of selling off the product of the error, an investigation is continuing on how it took place.

Pre-discipli-nary hearings are slated in the next Illegal items sold to undercover agents include eagle feather bonnets, bracelets and other jewelry made with bird parts. The suspects were charged under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, the Endangered Species Act. the Eagle Protection Act. the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 and the Marine Mammal Protection Act. Among the others arrested was James Roberts of 4404 W.

Burke Tampa. He was charged with one count of offering to sell an eagles' talon. Bond was set at $2,500. INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) Federal and state officials Friday arrested 22 people, including a Tampa man. on charges they illegally trafficked in jewelry and other items made from bald eagles, and other wildlife, authorities said.

The arrests in southern Indiana and at least two other states culminated a 16-month investigation that extended into eight states. U.S. Attorney Sarah Evans Barker said. A federal grand jury Wednesday returned sealed indictments and complaints against the suspects. ter off in another place than it is now.

I don't know." "I couldn't make a decision not having heard what they recommend and why (emphasized) they recommended it." she said. Martinez, through a spokesman, said he was sure Bean could support his change of mind, that he must have had good reasons. An FAA opinion in January about Metropolitan Life Insurance proposed 1 1-story office building triggered the developers' request to have the antennae moved. In its preliminary report, the FAA said the building could interfere with radio transmissions. Developer Jamie Jurado.

on behalf of Diaz and six other developers, approached the Authority. that any nearby development could black out certain radio transmissions. "We as the Aviation Authority, through the city and county zoning, have to control that and be reasonable and not put too many restrictions on it." Paulk said the FAA should ultimately pay for the project. He acknowledged the airlines would fund it temporarily through user fees they pay the authority. "I don't mind developers paying their share, but how do you determine which developers pay for it?" Few said if the relocation is going to benefit private developers, then the moving costs "certainly should be borne by them, not the public.

But then, there may be some reason why the tower would be bet transmitter. Immediately following that disclosure. Diaz asked Eggert if that was all he had to do and Eggert replied in the affirmative. A resolution passed 5-0 to fund the study. Pollock said Thursday he is "at this moment opposed to us paying for moving of the tower." but that he has "full confidence" in Bean's decision and wants to hear his reasons.

"I personally feel they'll (Bean and the authority staff) have to come up with something mighty good to support the authority paying $250,000 to move it," he said. "I feel this should be a contractors' expense. Let them do it. That doesn't mean light can't be shed on the matter, though." Paulk. on the other hand, said the tower "badly needs moving." Airport From Page IB $250,000.

Whether Diaz votes is a "personal decision." though. Bean said in an interview earlier this week. Florida law provides that public officials must disclose voting conflicts of interest, although the pertinent statute does not prohibit them from voting once a conflict is declared. In May. Diaz disclosed he had plans to erect a high-rise office structure near the airport just before the board voted on a 820,000 study of new locations for the radio County deputies have compared the first two slayings for possible links.

"The county and the city have conversed about the possibility of a single suspect but that still hasn't been conclusive yet," said sheriff's Sgt. Bruce Hoffman. "We looked to see if there were any similarities and apparently there wasn't," he said. There are no leads in Friday's killing, according to Tampa police Capt. Howard Martinez.

Six detectives have been assigned to the case full time, he said. Body From Page IB found the bullet-riddled body later identified as 41 -year-old Tampa freelance photographer Linda Toni Lansen. She was wearing a bloodstained tank top. lavender sweatshirt, faded blue jeans and was barefoot. No arrests have been made in any of the cases.

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