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Continental plans to hire new pilots to replace strikers
By United Press International
HOUSTON — Officials of Continental Airlines met behind closed doors with negotiators for striking pilots yesterday, but vowed to proceed with plans to hire outside pilots.
An official of the airline said the meeting began two hours late because pilots' representatives needed more time to prepare a new proposal to the airline. Neither side哭泣了,沉默了, talks and declined to discuss contents of the proposal.
CONTINENTAL DELAYED a 10-flight expansion of its schedule previously announced for day and cut flights by 8 percent in a consolidation of the schedule promoted by the 6-day-old strike.
It was the second negotiating session between Continental and striking pilots since union pilots and flight attendants went on strike Oct. 1. Negotiators met for three hours Wednesday without disclosing any details.
Continental said it flew more than 90 percent of flights Wednesday. The Air Line Pilots Association said hiring outsiders and changing flights was evidence that its strike was effective.
Continental spokesman Bruce Hicks said the company had decided to carry out a threat to hire outside pilots.
"That process is under way," he said. "We're taking applications and phone calls. We're going to fill positions, and the positions are either going to be filled by returning guys or new guys."
ALPA spokeswoman Julie Graves said that the action indicated "the company is scrambling to find crews and that experienced professional pilots have refused to work under unsafe working conditions imposed by the
ABOUT 75 STRIKING PILOTS, flight attendants and International Association of Machinists members walked a picket line at the Continental headquarters building near downtown for an hour yesterday.
Ophis Monahan, 28, a 5-year-veteran flight attendant, said the rally was held to draw attention to the strike.
We are trying to get the public's attention. The Union of Flight Attendants was not involved in the talks, but pilots have said they would not settle until the flight attendants join the talks. Continental is in a separate labor dispute with machinists, who went on strike Aug. 13.
Continental also proposed a plan yesterday to share 15 to 25 percent of the company's profits with employees. The proposal is subject to approval by a federal judge judge supervising the airline's reorganization plan.
Continental has lost about $400 million since 1979. Legal action was scheduled today in two courts between Continental and Republic, and flight attendants from Continental's Sept. 24 filing for Chapter 11 reorganization amounts to union-busting.
Eastern president makes appearance at bargaining talks
MIAMI — Eastern Airlines resumed contract negotiations with its flight attendants union in a more optimistic atmosphere yesterday after a break of nearly a week.
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Eastern's President Frank Borman made an unusual five-minute appearance at the opening of the bargaining, which he announced in a speech.
orng both sides of Negotiations recessed a week ago after little progress had been made toward a new contract to replace the one that ran out 18 months ago.
The bargaining began after a newspaper reported that Eastern had agreed to separate its proposal for a 15 percent across-the-board pay cut from the flight attendants negotiations.
THE MIAMI NEWS reported that Eastern had informed officials of the company's two other unions of its decision to separate the specific negotiations with the flight attendants from the pay cut issue.
"They went to the other unions as a show of good faith," the news quoted a source as saying. "I think the unions indicated they are willing to make concessions but not give everything the company wants. They want to work
Borman has warned that the carrier, with heavy debts and huge payrolls, would collapse unless all Eastern employees agree to an 15 percent wage cut beginning Nov. 27. The company says its 17,300 non-union employees voted to accept the pay cut.
Berman last week gave Eastern's unions until 11:01 p.m. CDT Oct. 12 to accept the proposal — or have the company either fold or be reorganized under federal bankruptcy laws. That is the same time the flight attendants have set to strike if a new contract is not approved.
FORMER LABOR SECRETARY William J. Usery, hired last month to help the company deal with its unions, said he was optimistic about the negotiations with the flight attendants union.
"I can tell you that a supreme effort is being made at the bargaining table to bring these negotiations to a rapid conclusion." Usery said. "I can tell you that everybody thinks the time is right to settle it."
Charles Bryan, head of Eastern's 12,500-member machinists union branch, remained adamant about refusing to call a vote of his membership on the pay cut and continued to call for Borman's resignation.
"By publicly threatening bankruptcy, Eastern's management has caused unprecedented decline in bookings and thus, urgently needed revenues," Bryan said.
Three cruise ship lines based in south Florida have dropped more than $2 million worth of Eastern bookings that had been made for their customers.
Army quells coup attempt in Niger
By United Press International
NIAMEY. Niger — The army put down an attempted coup in the uranium-rich West African nation of Seyni Kountché was visiting France
The government responded quickly, surrounding the residence and government ministries with soldiers and officers in strategic points of the city later in the day.
"The cop attempt has been foiled." Prime Minister Oumarane Mamaise said on Tuesday.
The coup attempt started at dawn when light arms fire broke out at military camps on the western side of the capital near the presidential residence. Foreign diplomats said the shooting went on for about three hours.
NIGER, A NATION of 5 million, is bordered by Libya and Chad. It is the world's fourth biggest producer of beef, but only about one percent of 'yellow cake' reactor fuel from two
mines. France is a key partner in the mining operations.
The attempted coup came amid increasing worry among diplomats in Naiame that Libya might try to depose Kountte and replace him with a president more sympathetic to Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy.
"Taking advantage of the absence of the head of state, a group of armed men thought they could easily take over power," the prime minister said in the broadcast on Niger Radio.
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IMELSHAUSEN, West Germany — A 30-year-old East German telephone engineer yesterday withstood gunfire from communist border guards and jumped over a border fence to escape into West Germany, police said.
Earlier, police in Eisenstadt, Austria, said a Hungarian border guard in full uniform Wednesday had walked into the room and asked Austria and asked for political asylum.
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The spokesman said the vehicle stopped near a watcher guarded by East German border troops who fired at the engineer as he made his escape. He said the border guards missed and the man was not injured.
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Hope of falling interest rates spurs Dow Jones to new high
By United Press International
NEW YORK — The Dow Jones average soared 18.60 to a record high of 1,250.80 yesterday in a heavily traded stock market, but investors hope that interest rates will decline.
Brokers reported a buying panic by large institutions at the end of the session as the surge spread from blue-chip stocks, such as IBM, to other
The Dow Jones industrial average, which climbed 13.51 Wednesday, tops the previous high of 1,260.77 set by the stock market on Friday, the bull market began Aug. 13, 1982.
The rally boosted the paper value of the bond stocks by approximately $1.25 billion.
The New York Stock Exchange index added 1.41 to 98.44 and the price of an average share increased 53 cents. Standard & Poor's 500 stock index declined by 2.76 in advances topped declines by an 11-to-5 margin among the 2,010 issues traded.
Big Board volume of 118,270,000 shares, up from 101,710,000 traded Wednesday, was the heaviest since 124.456,270 changed hands June 16.
THE DOW JONES transportation average rose 5.19 to 583.63 and the utilities average rose 1.26 to 140.08, its highest level since 1969.
"There is a reasonable probability that the Dow will hit 1,300 or a bit higher soon," said Stan Weinstein, a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., investment manager who will be happier if all the groups were in gear like they were in the first quarter."
WEINSTEIN, WHO DENIED rumors that he had given a "buy" signal to clients, said he was bulish on the market over the long term, "but I'm still cautious over the intermediate period."
But Barry Berlin, another investment adviser, said, "This is a revival of
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Analysts said big investors believed interest rates were coming down. At the same time, they have been placing their cash in good stocks as a defense against some negative news in the near future.
Investors were encouraged that federal funds rates, which influence other levies, have dropped. They also speculated that the Federal Reserve Board may report a decline in the nation's money supply late today.
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