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...WEST VIRGINIA "We Are Not Just Animals...
Although inmates of West Virginia's state penitentiary in Moundsville had chafed for years under crowded and restrictive conditions, they were particularly galled at the cancellation of a traditional holiday reception for their relatives. On New Year's Day, the resentment boiled over. Some 200 of the 700 inmates seized control of most of the facility's main floor, taking 16 guards and kitchen employees hostage. "We want to be treated like we are somebody, not just trash and animals," one inmate shouted out to police. "We don't want this anymore than...
...aboard the Air-India jet liner lost off Ireland, to wind shear--a violent shift in air currents--in the case of the downed Delta craft. Such differences have led some experts to call the mishaps a statistical aberration. Concludes John Enders, president of the Flight Safety Foundation, a Virginia research and consulting group: "It's a kind of fluke, a confluence of a lot of things. There isn't any single thing one can point to and say, 'Ah yes, here's a new trend...
...years while flying 135 million aircraft hours--a rate that works out to one accident for the industry for every 978,000 hours in the air. Most planes are well maintained and skillfully operated. Yet there is room for improvement. Says C.O. Miller, president of System Safety, a Virginia consulting firm that has frequently been critical of airline practices: "Overall, I would say that the general quality of aviation in our country is very good, and in some ways excellent. But safety weaknesses in civil aviation do exist. They reflect the fallibility of individual men and women." To be sure...
Senator Ted Kennedy's withdrawal from the 1988 presidential campaign [NATION, Dec. 30] is a healing gift to the Democratic Party. We can now have a winning ticket with New York Governor Mario Cuomo as presidential candidate and Virginia's former Governor Charles Robb as vice-presidential nominee. Nancy Means Columbia...