Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, January 14, 1994                   TAG: 9401140354
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: A-5   EDITION: METRO 
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IN BUSINESS

CLEVELAND - USAir will not have to pay punitive damages for a 1992 plane crash that killed 27 people at New York's La Guardia Airport, a federal jury decided Thursday.

Punitive damages would have been assessed if jurors had determined that USAir had recklessly operated the Cleveland-bound airplane, which took off during a snowstorm and plunged into freezing Flushing Bay.

USAir spokesman Dave Shipley said the company was satisfied with the jury's decision and was prepared to pay "reasonable compensatory damages."

- Associated Press

UAW may widen Shreveport strike

DETROIT - The United Auto Workers plans to cripple production at General Motors Corp. assembly plants across the country if the automaker doesn't settle the 3-day-old strike at its Louisiana truck plant by next week.

Determined to avoid a long walkout in Shreveport that could hurt morale throughout the union, the UAW is threatening a second strike at a Flint, Mich., stamping plant that makes parts for many GM models.

"We told them we won't take a 30-day strike," an official familiar with the UAW's strategy said Thursday. "We're going somewhere else and take the whole corporation down."

In Shreveport, 2,300 UAW workers went on strike Tuesday to press for more jobs and more control over how fast they must work.

- Knight-Ridder/Tribune

Freightliner again truck sales champ

Freightliner Corp. topped the heavy-truck industry for the second year in a row as 1993 sales by the Portland, Ore., manufacturer soared 37 percent over year-earlier marks.

Paccar ranked second, based on combined sales of its two subsidiaries, Kenworth Truck Co. of Kirkland, Wash., up 32.1 percent, and Peterbilt Motors Co. of Newark, Calif., up 42.3 percent.

Other heavy sellers were Navistar International Transportation Corp. of Chicago, up 28.9 percent; Volvo GM Heavy Truck Corp. of Greensboro, N.C., up 32.3 percent; Mack Trucks Inc. of Allentown, Pa., up 10.6 percent, and Ford Motor Co., where sales fell 19.6 percent, but deliveries increased 18.9 percent.

- Journal of Commerce