Watch: Alcoa Plans Praised   Standing outside Alcoa's Massena
East plant at mid-day Saturday, Lieutenant Governor Robert Duffy
declared "We are very, very pleased with this."  If anything, it
was an understatement.  Saturday's ceremony capped a whirlwind
18 hours that began late Friday afternoon, when news of Alcoa's
decision to modernize its Massena East plant began to leak out.
(Read the main story about the announcement here.)  The
company's decision preserves at least 900 jobs - in fact, the
number used in Massena Saturday was even higher, a little over a
thousand.  "This means people can move forward with their lives,
young people can reinvest in the community, keep people here and
just move it forward," said Joseph Gray, town supervisor.  To
understand how important Alcoa's decision is, you need to know
what used to be in Massena. At one time, there were three major
industrial plants - Alcoa, Reynolds Metals and General Motors.
General Motors closed completely, and the Reynolds plant became
Alcoa's Ma