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Boeing cultivates flying confidence
The Associated Press
SEATTLE — Even as Boeing prepares to lay off as many as 30,000 people, the nation's leading airplane maker is aggressively working to revitalize the airline industry and get itself back on track after the terrorist attacks.
Boeing's plan includes redesigning airplanes to prevent hijackings and helping airlines get federal aid. But perhaps the most important tactic for revitalizing the company is more subtle: Boeing has to assure travelers that flying is safe.
"The best thing we can all do is go take an airplane trip," Alan Mulally, president and chief executive of Boeing's commercial airlines division, told reporters a week after four Boeing jets were hijacked and used in the deadly Sept. 11 attacks.
So far, however, few seem to be heeding his call.
In a speech to the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce a day later, Mulally noted that most major airlines were flying less than 80 percent of their total schedules — and most of those airplanes are only about 30 percent full.
The airline industry, already struggling before the attacks, is now in a crisis. Airlines have announced plans to lay off tens of thousands of workers, predicted billions of dollars in losses and prompted one of Boeing's biggest layoff announcements. President Bush on Saturday signed a $15 billion aid package for the industry.
In response, Boeing partnered with airlines and travel associations to launch a media campaign about the safety of air travel, spokeswoman Susan Bradley said.
Boeing Vice President Hank Queen told Congress last week that proposals on altering airplanes have ranged from installing bulletproof doors between the cockpit and cabin to better security equipment that communicates with air traffic control.
Boeing also has been helping the airlines' effort to get federal financial aid to survive the crisis. Spokesman Tim Neale characterized the efforts as informal.
The company has chosen to support the airlines' bid for aid rather than seek aid itself—in part because Boeing is not facing such dire financial problems, Neale said.
But he and Mulally warned there are no easy, quick solutions. For engineering reasons, the cockpit door cannot be completely sealed, he said, and pilots cannot be left to fend off hijackers alone.
Some analysts contend Boeing's plan for revitalization is even more subtle: it lies in the layoff announcement itself.
Richard Aboulafia, an aviation analyst with the Teal Group, questioned whether Boeing would have to lay off 30,000 workers—about 30 percent of its commercial division staff—as the company has predicted.
"It's to their advantage to announce a worst-case scenario," he said. "One, you send a positive signal to Wall Street that you're concerned about profitability. Two, you send a signal to workers and their unions that they're no longer in the driver's seat ... And three, you send a signal to government that you need help."
NEW YORK — The "House that Ruth Built" became a house of prayer yesterday, as thousands assembled at Yankee Stadium for a somber interfaith service for the victims of the terrorist attacks.
Prayer for victims at Yankee Stadium
The Associated Press
"Today we offer a prayer for America," said actor James Earl Jones, opening the ceremony.
"Our nation is united as never before. We are united not only in our grief, but also in our resolve to build a better world. At this service, we seek to summon what Abraham Lincoln called the 'better angels of our nature.'"
The American Red Cross handed out tissue packets to those arriving for the service. Several people held up signs with photographs of those missing in the Trade Center attack.
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani was
careful to call it a prayer service rather than a memorial service, insisting that hope was not lost for some of the 6.333 people missing in the wreckage of the World Trade Center.
No survivors have been pulled alive from the ruins since the day after the Sept. 11 disaster.
Hosts for the service were Jones and Oprah Winfrey. The program included prayers led by Cardinal Edward Egan and Imam Izak-El Pasha, and patriotic and inspirational songs led by Bette Midler, Placido Domingo and Lee Greenwood.
Political leaders, including former President Clinton and U.S. Sens.Hillary Rodham Clinton and Charles Schumer, also attended.
The crowd chanted "Rudy" when Giuliani walked to the podium set up near second base.
Representatives from a range
of religions were evident in the crowd. A group of about 20 men in orange, red, white, blue and pink turbans carried a sign saying that Sikhs condemn terrorism.
Abdur Rahim Muhammad, 55, said he came to the stadium from upstate Auburn yesterday as a show of "unity for all of the families that are suffering." He sat in the stands dressed in a Muslim robe.
He said that except for the "occasional dirty look," he had not been given a hard time about his religious beliefs since the terrorist attacks.
Mayoral candidates stepped up their public schedules yesterday to try to focus distracted voters' attention on tomorrow's rescheduled primary election. Balloting was put off by the attack Sept. 11, the original primary day.
The candidates are lavishing praise on Giuliani's handling of
"We are united not only in our grief, but also in our resolve to build a better world."
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the World Trade Center disaster. But they are also trying to convince voters they have the credentials to be his successor in this time of crisis in the city.
Term limits prevent Giuliani from serving a third term.
"No person is irreplaceable," said Public Advocate Mark Green, one of the Democratic candidates. "We are a nation of laws, not men. ... We are bigger than any public official."
Search dogs best tools to find attack survivors
The Associated Press
NEW YORK - With thousands still buried in the World Trade Center rubble, one of the most refined search tools available is the shining black nose of a dog named Jake.
"They know when its death. They get upset," said Mary Flood, whose black Labrador retriever is among more than 200 search dogs brought in by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the FBI, and the police and fire departments.
evaporated.
Flood and Jake came as part of Utah Task Force 1, one of eight FEMA Urban Search and Rescue teams. By yesterday, 12 days after the terrorist attack, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani had acknowledged the chances of finding any survivors had nearly
On one of their 12-hour shifts —7 p.m. to 7 a.m.- Jake scampered across the twisted steel, concrete chunks and office remains that are strewn over the 16-acre site in lower Manhattan. As water hoses doused the smoldering debris, the dogs stepped gingerly around still-hot steel and rubber.
When Jake picks up a human scent, "it's bark, bark, bark and he goes wild," Flood said. "When it's death, it's a tip of the nose."
"All the money and all the technology in the world can't replace these dogs," said Don Hull, a Los Angeles fire battalion chief with FEMA.
As the days slip by, more dogs' muzzles are tipped down.
The dogs FEMA certifies as Canine Search Specialists "have a sense of smell so keen that they pick up scents in the tightest spots, where no equipment can go," Hull said.
But their handlers must proceed with caution because "everywhere is unstable," said Michael Brown, a firefighter from Virginia's Task Force 2 who is directing FEMA search crews. On his left hand, he has scrubbed "Utah, Texas, Florida, Arizona" — the task forces he commands as they climb atop heaps of rubble as high as 75 feet.
Flood is part of a FEMA team of 62 rescue workers accompanied by four dogs. Switching off between day and night shifts, they stay at the Jacob Javits Convention Center, where the dogs
get daily shampoos and messages.
A sign there reads: "For man's best friend, who is fighting man's worst enemy. God bless you."
Flood adopted Jake about five years ago after he was found abandoned on a street, a puppy with a broken leg and a dislocated hip.
"He's better than me," said Flood, 48, who works as an executive for a Utah investment firm.
Each morning now, Flood and Jake fall asleep on the same cot. She listens to CDs of Mozart and Handel.
"I also took along a couple of 'Requiems'," she said — settings of the Mass for the dead.
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