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Stunned, Captain Gilberto da Silva gave a rescuer his tie. "I won't need this," he said. "I am going to die." He was wrong-though he was seriously injured-and authorities at week's end were anxiously awaiting his report. Early speculation was that the fire had started in the rear toilet section of the aircraft, possibly from a short circuit. If the pilot could have kept the plane airborne for only 90 seconds more, said Orly officials, their fire equipment might have quickly doused the flames and saved many lives...
Though the fans loved every side-swiping, hard-fought (final score: America 4, Vasco da Gama 3) minute of it, autobol buffs like Driver-Stockbroker Ivan Silva suggest that the most spectacular crackups are yet to come. Silva foresees the day when huge throngs will watch as many as 22 drivers battling on a 300-yd. field in the latest high-powered machines. "They will be 300 horsepower cars," says Silva. "With big cars and a big field, we could get much higher speeds. It will be dangerous! The public will love...
LAST WEEK RON SILVA, the Bureau's program administrator, showed me a list of twenty-odd programs that were "on the slate," but when I spoke to Saravelas he could name only four programs currently in operation (excluding the Bureau's two $50,000 satellite projects and an educational census conducted in conjunction with the schools and a number of other city agencies). They were a Junior Advocate program (which trains youth to do counseling work), a psychology program, an alcoholism program in conjunction with the hospital, and the cosmetics program...
...internal to the Bureau. Like a large number of their co-workers, these two complained that Saravelas used to kill their proposals by saying that the Bureau's board of directors had vetoed them. Later, the staff learned that the board only had advisory powers. When Saravelas hired Ron Silva for the newly created post of program administrator, thereby reversing the decision of the hiring committee, dissension was widespread. Saravelas dissolved all total staff meetings, and six staff members, including Tyree, signed a letter calling for Saravelas's resignation...
...told me that he could produce "as many positive reactions as you can write negative," and that until I submitted an outline of my article in writing, "you can't talk to us anymore." The outline he mentioned, as explained to me earlier in the week by Ron Silva, the Bureau's program administrator, was to include the specific purpose of my article, the costs and benefits to the Bureau of the time that staff members would spend talking to me, and the specific questions I wanted to ask the staff...