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IN METRO, Bl TRISTATE HIT WITH FIRST SMOG ALERT OF THE YEAR QNQINATI en COPYRIGHT, 2001, THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER FINAL NEWS MO 50 CENTS TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 2001 On STRIKE Day 79 Alhuiin, Luto Jr.iJ li'piftli'rJ'ortisaj Alli'ii, Richard 44 1 Allhou.se. Diane E. Holllngswoclh, 4i Anderson, Ji2 Battle, I'eola, tG Bell. Danielle, 15 months Biddy, 40 Boles, James 15., 50 Bolle, Mark 28 Booker, jnpbe.ll, 20 Broxterman, Paul 42 Bruce, (labreon, 3 Gist, f)2 Carrillo, Michael 44 Chafoy, Rona, 35 L. 42 Cooper, Antonio A.

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Alan, 40 Whittenberg, Jo Ann, 35 Williams, Frances 48 Williams, Scott, 24 Williams, William Stephen, 42 Wilson, Clarence, 49 Woodbridge, Ronota 31 Youngblood, John 52 Eyewitness McVeigh silent, stoic to the end The reckoning His sentence for bombing carried out Associated Press reporter RexW. Huppke was one mime "Vsr of 10 media I reoresentatives Options few for pilots, airline Talks could be the last chance By James Pilcher The Cincinnati Enquirer When officials from Com-air and its pilots union walk into negotiations today, it could be their last chance to settle the 79-day strike and save the airline. Experts say if these talks end without an agreement, the Erlanger-based regional carrier and its parent Delta Air Lines could face some harder decisions than the ones already made in the 12-week dispute. "It's time for a settlement or another way out," said Rick Hurd, a professor of labor relations at Cornell University who has consulted with labor unions during contract negotiations. "If it doesn't happen now, it's unlikely it ever will.

"This is a very crucial three-day period." The talks are set to begin this morning in Washington, D.C., at the office of the National Mediation Board, which oversees negotiations in the airline and railroad industries. They are the first since mediation board member Magdalena Jacobsen crafted a settlement proposal from positions laid out by both sides last month a proposal the pilots overwhelmingly rejected. Today's session was scheduled after a meeting Friday between top company and union officials and Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta. Both sides vowed to try to reach a resolution within 72 hours. Officials from neither Comair nor the airline's branch of the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) would comment Monday on the latest set of talks, citing a voluntary media blackout imposed before and during the talks.

The strike began on March 26, with Comair's 1,350 pilots citing poor working conditions, unsatisfactory retirement benefits and job protection, and low pay-Since then, Comair and Delta have lost more than $230 million (in a combination of continued operating costs and lost revenue from not flying passengers), while Comair has laid off 2,400 non-pilot employees. The airline has removed 37 planes from its fleet, and eliminated 400 pilot positions. And the pilots are losing $144,000 total a day in salaries, or nearly $11.4 million through today. The ALPA national union also has paid who witnessed fit Timothy McVeigh's By Rex W. Huppke The Associated Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind.

Near the end, Timothy McVeigh took two deep breaths and fought to keep his eyelids open, as if steeling himself against the chemicals that were quickly shutting his body down. That last show of defiance lasted less than a minute. At 8 a.m. EDT, we had lined up before two of the death chamber's 4-by-4-foot windows, waiting for the dreary green curtains to open and reveal the man many called a monster. Minutes later, he came into view, strapped to a gur-ney, a light gray sheet pulled up and neatly folded across his upper chest.

His head was closely shaved, his face carried a bit of stubble and his shoulders peeked out from the sheet, covered by a plain white T-shirt. Here was the Oklahoma qQjOnIine Keyword: McVeigh A multi-media look at Timothy McVeigh, his execution and the Oklahoma City bombing online at Cincinnati.Com. unrepentant, without offering one word of regret for the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. In fact, he did not say anything at all.

Relatives of his victims, both in the viewing room in the death chamber and in a closed-circuit television broadcast of the execution in Oklahoma City, searched his gaunt, hollow-eyed face in City bomber, the man whose rage against the government drove him to slaughter 149 adults and 19 children six years ago. Here was the enigma many struggled to understand, but never could. The moment lingered, as Mr. McVeigh watched Warden Harley Lappin and U.S. Marshal Frank Anderson move about the rectangular chamber, taking in his surroundings.

He turned his head to the left and looked into the room that held the witnesses he had selected attorneys Rob Nigh and Nathan Chambers, McVeigh calm in final hours By Rick Bragg The New York Times TERRE HAUTE, Ind. With the sting of a needle in his right leg, Timothy McVeigh was sedated, injected with poison and executed by the government he so despised, a quiet end for the man who sent 168 people to their deaths in screams, flames and crushing concrete. Mr. McVeigh, who was pronounced dead at 8:14 a.m. Monday in the execution chamber of the federal prison in Terre Haute, died The Associated PressELISE AMENDOLA Deb Ferrell Lynn pauses Monday at the Oklahoma City memorial chair for her cousin, Susan Ferrell, who died in the 1995 bombing.

See EXECUTION, Page A8 See WITNESS, Page A9 Inside: A8 Morning vigil at Cincinnati church recalls bombing. Media coverage focuses on victims of building explosion. pjlllWHWlliyUN, .11 IIJ il LP I (. ll'Um; 1" i lillllll P.I.I 111'. ll lJ 'Jl II' Ill -L-.

JLHl Bridge lovers: Say bye to blue been ongoing for the past eight years. "Structurally, the bridge is in good condition, due mostly to about $10 million in recondition and reconstruction work," Mr. Hans said. "We want to finish that work with a good paint job." But it won't be blue, the color applied to the bridge when it was last painted in 1980 to replace a dull green. Mr.

Hans said an inspection of some of bridge designer John Roebling's journals showed that the original color of the bridge the model for Mr. Roebling's Brooklyn Bridge -was Spanish brown. "From what we can determine of his description of the elements in the paint, it was a rather dark brown," Mr. Hans said. He said there was some opposition to dark brown, especially from the Covington-Cin-cinnati Suspension Bridge Committee, which thought the shade might be drab or mistaken for black paint.

After discussions in 1997-1998, the decision was made that the color should be a light tan or sandstone, much like the paint on the ironwork of the stairs leading to the bridge walkway. The paint job, which will be paid for with state highway funds, is expected to cost about $6 million. By Terry Flynn The Cincinnati Enquirer COVINGTON The Roeb-ling Suspension Bridge will receive a new coat of paint sometime in the next two years, but for all those folks who like its blue color, the word from Kentucky highway officials is get over it, because the new color will be tan. Rob Hans, bridge engineer for the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet's District Six highway department in Fort Mitchell, said Monday that the state hopes to repaint the famous bridge, which was completed in 1867, as the culmination of an eight-year rehabilitation project that has See COMAIR, Page A6 Strike issues A look at what's keeping the Comair pilots and management apart A7 Enquirer illustration An electronically altered photograph of the Roebling Suspension Bridge shows what it might look like in beige, instead of blue. METRO INDEX WEATHER Four sections, 161st year, No.

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