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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 2003
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. Sprint Corp. reached tentative deals with workers in five states who had threatened to walk off the job yesterday if contract issues were not settled before an early afternoon deadline.
The strike would have affected about 2,700 local telephone employees in Florida, Indiana, Oregon, Tennessee and North Carolina who are represented by the union.
John Howard, assistant to the vice president for the Communications Workers of America telecommunications division, said the Overland Park, Kan.-based company reached agreements yesterday with workers in all five states. Employees still must approve the deals.
The last strike in Sprint's local telephone division was in 1989, when 124 employees in northern New Jersey walked off the job for 165 days.
Howard said issues that were in dispute until Tuesday morning varied for each local union. They included contract
duration, contract labor and health care benefits.
One of the sticking points in several of the contracts had been a proposal that in certain cases would have allowed the company lay off employees without regard to seniority. Howard said. Sprint withdrew that proposal.
"We considered those job security/employee respect issues." Howard said.
The deadline for two other contracts still under negotiation in Missouri and Kansas is Jan. 31. The layoff proposal is still on the bargaining table in those states, but Howard said he expected the company to withdraw it.
Sprint spokeswoman Laura Lisec had said that if employees were to strike, Sprint would have used managers and contract workers from around the country to step into their jobs — the majority of which are service technician employees — to "maintain customer service."
The union represents approximately 4,500 Sprint employees throughout the country.
WASHINGTON —The Rev. Al Sharpton joined the race for the Democrats' 2004 presidential nomination yesterday, saying the party needed to expand its base of support.
"I think that the campaign that we are beginning to officially embark upon will change American politics,"the civil rights leader said at a news conference after filing campaign papers at the Federal Election Commission.
The Associated Press
Sharpton to seek Democratic nod
only candidate who was "anti-war, anti-death penalty, anti-tax cut across the board." Sharpton said he would reach out to disaffected voters, including Latinos, blacks, gays and lesbians, and young people.
Sharpton, 48, said he was the
Sharpton, who has unsuccessfully run for New York mayor and the U.S. Senate, has been outspoken on many local and national issues, most notably on police brutality in the highly publicized cases of Amadou Diallo and Abner Louima.
He also served 90 days in a federal jail for protesting the U.S. military bombing on the tiny Puerto Rican island of Vieues.
Sharpton joins a crowded field of Democratic contenders, including Sens. John Kerry of Massachusetts, John Edwards of North Carolina and Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, Rep. Dick Gephardt of Missouri and former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean.
Sharpton said he would use his comparative lack of campaign funds as a point in criticizing his rivals.
"We've got to stop the corporate
mentality of politics and go back to the people," Sharpton said. "I think we've reduced America too much now to who has the dollars rather than who has the message."
Asked about Sharpton's candidacy, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said, "We have a wonderful system in America. There's 280 million people in America that can run."
Bloomberg, a Republican, described Sharpton as "charming and not reticent to say what he believes. He has a right to run and God bless him."
Two Americans killed in terror attack
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KUWAIT CITY A gunman ambushed two Americans driving near a U.S.military base yesterday in Kuwait, killing one and wounding another in what U.S. officials branded a terror attack.
The shooting was the first assault on U.S. civilians in Kuwait and the third on Americans since October in the oil-rich emirate, where pro-American sentiment is usually strong and where thousands of U.S. troops are assembling for a possible war on Iraq.
The victims — civilian contractors working for the U.S. military
— were traveling in a four-wheel drive Toyota when they came under a hail of bullets.
The U.S. Embassy identified the man killed as Michael Rene Pouliot, 46, of San Diego, an employee of a software development company, Tapestry Solutions.
Tapestry identified the injured man as another employee, David Caraway, a senior software engineer. He was in stable condition in a Kuwait hospital after surgery to remove bullets, including two from his chest. He also had arm and thigh wounds, a hospital official said.
ity for the attack. U.S. and Kuwaiti officials said they believed a single gunman fired a Kalashnikov assault rifle at the vehicle. The attacker then fled.
"We condemn this terrorist incident, which has tragically cost the life of an innocent American citizen," said U.S. Ambassador Richard Jones.
No group claimed responsibil
The gunman apparently hid behind trees and bushes beside a stoplight at an intersection on Highway 85 three miles from Camp Doha — a U.S. military installation housing some 17,000 American troops stationed in Kuwait, where 8,000 U.S. civilians
also live.
In Washington, the White House said Americans were working with Kuwaiti investigators to determine who was behind the attack, which underscored the hostility some feel toward Americans even in Muslim nations considered sympathetic to the United States.
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