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NORTH HMTfON Page A 10 The Buffalo NewsThursday November 21 1996 irefighters rescue a person from an upper floor of a building in which 39 persons were killed Wednesday in Hong Kong S31 Or Associated Press AA plans to hire 118 inspectors to check cargoes By TOM WELLS Associated Press MIAMI In the wake of the ValuJet crash the ederal Aviation Administration is hiring scores of new inspectors to check for hazardous cargo aboard passenger airliners a top official said today The AA also plans to pursue criminal charges against anyone who improperly sends' hazardous materials aboard commercial air craft said Bruce Butterworth the head of the security operations going to see some of the biggest criminal cases ever Butterworth told members of the National Transportation Safety Board at hearings into the crash The AA has been criticized by its own in spectors and relatives of the victims of light 592 for lax oversight of potentially deadly car go Improperly stored oxygen generating canis ters in a cargo hold are being blamed for a deadly fire that disabled the plane shortly after takeoff May 11 It plunged into the Everglades killing all 110 people aboard ValuJet has blamed its outside maintenance company for not putting safety caps on the canisters An airline executive acknowledged in earlier testimony that the carrier was responsi ble for the work of its contractors Butterworth say who would be tar geted in any criminal cases but previous testi mony from the AA indicated those facing charges could range from the shipper of the materials to the people who loaded it on a plane if they had knowledge it was illegal The ValuJet crash also is the subject of a criminal probe by federal authorities Butterworth and other AA officials who have testified before the safety board conceded that hazardous materials inspections have de clined sharply in the past three years because staffers have had to deal with terrorism and other threats In an effort to improve its inspections the AA will hire 118 new employees for its haz ardous materials program including 110 inspec tors Butterworth said It currently has 300 in spectors When asked by safety board how the AA plans to crack down on unde clared hazardous materials aboard airliners Butterworth noted the difficulty in detecting the cargo I it tick leak break open catch fire never know he said do it by data' you do it by instinct you do it by 39 people killed 80 hurt in Hong Kong high rise fire By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW Associated Press HONG KONG People trapped behind sealed windows tore off their burning clothes and others signaled for help through ti nv ventilation shafts as an inferno hot enough to melt steel framing roared through a downtown high rise killing 39 people At least 80 others were injured in Wednesday fire the British worst in 39 years Officials said most of the dead were found on the 13th to 15th floors of the building located in a popular tourist district One fire fighter was killed after falling into an elevator shaft tried to smash the win dows to call for help but the glass was too Tse Yuk ling a 28 year old paging company operator said from her hospital bed of us began to feel faint and lay down on the floor I kept telling myself I must stay The blaze burned for 21 hours before firefighters brought it under control today At the height of the fire flames leapt from windows on the top three or four floors and the whole building was engulfed in heavy smoke Steel window frames on the top floors were bent by the intense heat Some of those inside waved pieces of cloth through tiny venti lation shafts trying to alert rescu ers Two government helicopters cir cled around the densely packed buildings plucking people to safe ty The fire started in the elevator shaft and spread upward Authori ties refused to speculate on the cause Gannett: Spokesman says deal means at WGRZ Continued from Page Al have acquired a station is not the same thing as the CC ap proving a he said may not actually take title to the station until they re ceive CC He added that the CC may temporarily waive its rulesagainst cross ownership a proper giving Gan nett time to sell the Gazette af ter acquiring Channel 2 would not take such a waiver as a given he said waivers are not immedi ately The Cincinnati station would be first in a top 30 market The Cincinnati market is ranked 29th in the country in terms of TV households while Grand Rapids is 38th Buffalo 39th and Oklahoma City 43rd Gannett Broadcasting based in Arlington Va consists of 16 TV stations reaching one sixth of American viewers It operates major network affiliates in Washington Atlan ta Cleveland Minneapolis Phoenix Denver and St Louis Argyle acquired WGRZ TV last December for $91 million from bankrupt Tak Communi cations which bought the sta tion in 1988 for $100 million Argyle started running the sta tion under a management agreement in June 1995 Argyle strengthened the news department and replen ished a staff depleted by waves of cuts under Tak got a great general manager there in Eric an Argyle spokesman said from San Antonio proud of what they did in a year The station is in much better shape than when we took it over invested a lot in that market If you go into that sta tion now you see a marked dif ference in how many people work The Argyle spokesman said he expected that Gannett would provide stability for WGRZ TV think Gannett will own that station for a long long he said In addition to its television stations Gannett Broadcasting has cable operations in five states an entertainment pro gramming unit and an alarm security services business Its parent corporation publishes 92 daily newspapers including USA Today Meet Erica Jong Author of Megan Two Houses X1 I Sa i riday November 22 1 3 pm Milpine Plaza Niagara alls 297 7691 5 7 pm McKinley Mall Hamburg 826 4353 9 daughters saw what I did raising them and going to Empire at the same time and believe they can accomplish anything just like Rosanne Greenwood '85 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