reporter's notebook
The lull before the storm
By Ron Hunt
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Tuesday afternoon, on the freeway
near Salem. a television cameraman was
photographing a state worker tending to
a freeway divider Why wasn't the
cameraman at the Capitol?
The special session of the Legislature,
less than a week away, has great im
plications for the future of the state —
and he’s filming a highway worker
The atmosphere at the Capitol — sur
rounded by a maze of one-way streets
(political town, you Know) — is calm
Denny Miles, the one who controls the
flow of information from the governor's
office, welcomes distractions He spends
40 minutes with two reporters —
something he won’t have time to do after
Monday — with the press clamoring for
his attention
He answers questions matter-of-factly
and in time with drumming fingers
Miles' speech is peppered with homey
phrases The impact on small businesses
of the governor s proposal to speed up
collection of employee withholding taxes
is "a small hiccup" compared to the
damage of a corporate excise tax
Two floors up in the Senate wing, the
Legislative Research office awaits the
activity of next week Catalogs, with
reports on "Pet Food Tax,” "Solid Waste
Fuels for Automobiles” and "Fires
Caused By Collisions With High Rear
End (High-jacker) Vehicles,' wait for the
curious
The rest of the town is just as slow
Chez Robert, a showy French restaurant
frequented by legislators, has maybe
eight customers
Monday morning, the freeway near
Salem will be clogged with cars driven by
journalists and legislators going to the
special session
Will the cameraman be on the freeway
or in the capitol?
Get a new
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especially since it comes with the
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The book explains how to use
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If you’re an advanced math
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Crash
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and escape across the ice
coating the river
Coast Guard and Park Police
helicopters were sent to the
scene to drop lines with lifesav
ing rings to survivors in the river
One survivor grasped a rescue
ring, but then fell back into the
freezing water, and was pulled
to shore by divers
Rescue boats were at the
scene, too. but the ice impeded
their work The airport was
closed, with incoming flights
diverted to Dulles International
Airport in Virginia
The crash occurred little
more than a mile from the White
House
The government had shut
down its offices in midafternoon
because of the snow that blan
keted the city
"One of our people who saw
the accident said he saw the
plane nick the south side of the
bridge, skip over it and go into
the Potomac River on the north
side of the bridge, said uavia
Hess of the FAA
The Boeing 737 is a short
range twin-engine jet
On New Year's Day, the FAA
said that the nation s major air
lines had logged 26 consecutive
months without a fatal accident
The last fatal crash involving a
major carrier occured on Oct
31, 1979 when a Western Airline
DC 10 crashed in Mexico City
There had not been a fatal
airliner crash at National Airport
since 1949, when an Eastern Air
Lines DC4 collided with a mili
tary plane Fifty-one people
were killed
The crash also was the first
fatal accident involving a com
mercial airliner since President
Reagan fired 11,500 air traffic
controllers for an illegal strike
last August
Clarification II
Due to a typesetting error, a
clarification in Wednesday’s
Emerald was inaccurate
The clarification reported that
Lane County Commissioner
Scott Lieualien agrees with
commissioner Jerry Rust that
businessess and the Eugene
Chamber of Commerce are to
blame for the county’s econ
omic ills Lieualien does not
agree with Rust's conclusion.
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