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Tuesday, November 23, 1993
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Clinton aids in ending airline strike
--ple to end the strike and return to the bargaining table immediately," Clinton said at a White House news conference.
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The American Airlines strike is over, President Clinton announced yesterday.
With a nudge from Clinton, Union members and the airline agreed to accept binding arbitration to end their increasingly bitter dispute. Union members agreed to go back to work, and the airline agreed not to fire them.
The walkout, which began Thursday, was costing the airline more than $10 million a day, disrupting travel for 'thousands and threatening to bring chaos to airports during the upcoming Thanksgiving break.
"I have spoken with both parties involved. Both have agreed in principle to end the strike and return to the bargaining table immediately," Clinton said at a White House news conference.
The airline said it hoped to return to a full schedule by the end of the week.
"Passengers who hold American Airlines tickets, if they come to the airport tomorrow, can do so with some confidence," American chairman Robert L. Crandall said after Clinton's announcement. "I have no doubt that we'll get everybody where they're going in time for Thanksgiving."
The president's announcement came one day after Crandall said he was opposed to arbitration, believing it would cost the airline too much money. Crandall changed his mind
after a phone conversation with Clinton yesterday.
At Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, a big cheer went through a line of Association of Professional Flight Attendants picketers as they heard the news on the radio and raised their fists, chanting "Unity Now!"
Under the agreement, the flight attendants would return to work and not lose their jobs. The airline had threatened to fire the strikers. The union represents 21,000 of the airline's employees.
needed to do. We wanted respect from the company."
"I think it's going to take a while for passengers to trust American again, but it's a great feeling right now," flight attendant Loren Pastirik said. "We wanted to work. We did what we
"I think it's a pretty selfish thing to do at this time of year," said Elizabeth Moser, 23, whose flight from Los Angeles to celebrate her honeymoon in Hawaii was delayed Sunday.
The union walked out Thursday during a contract dispute over pay, medical benefits, staffing and work rules. The strike was to continue until Sunday, the end of the busy holiday travel period.
Before the strike, American had been expected to report a slim profit in the final three months of the year. Crandall said the strike has destroyed that possibility and would certainly cause a loss for the year.
"Summer of safety" to precede AmeriCorps
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Clinton's national service team has visions of a "summer of safety" in which young people combine resources to fight violent crime in America.
The summer program, in which about 3,500 people would participate, would serve as a prelude to the September 1994 launch of AmeriCorps, which in its first year will enable 20,000 students to get financial assistance for college in exchange for
public service work.
Catherine Milton, vice president and director of National and Community Service Programs, said a summer of service program focusing on violent crime would precede the official launch of AmeriCorps. "We'll be using kids as a resource to get at crime problems," she said.
Among possible projects:
—College students assisting shopkeepers in protecting against robberies.
—Teaching middle-school children how to handle disputes peacefully.
—Community escort services for the elderly.
The AmeriCorps program fulfills Clinton's campaign promise of creating a domestic version of the Peace Corps.
AmeriCorps participants would be required to work 17,000 hours. They would receive a stipend equal to the minimum wage, about $8,000, plus health care and child care benefits. They also would earn $4,725 a year toward college tuition or repayment of student loan payments.
U.S.-European Community talks heat up in global trade
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - President Clinton has less than a month to strike a global free-trade agreement while coping with demands from angry French farmers, upset Brazilian citrus growers and furious textile workers around the world.
The president and other administration members were optimistic that they could overcome all these obstacles and complete the Uruguay Round of trade talks by a Dec. 15 deadline. The negotiations, involving 110 nations, are meeting under the auspices of the Geneva-based General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the organization that governs world trade.
U. S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor sat down yesterday with his European counterpart, Sir Leon Brittan, in what were described as make-or-break talks.
The United States and the 12nation European Community hoped to resolve differences on a range of issues that separated them during the talks Monday and Tuesday. They included farm subsidies and tariffs on textiles and other manufactured goods and European barriers to American-
made films and television shows.
Economists said the stakes for the Uruguay Round were enormous—holding out the possibility of increasing global output by $270 billion over the next decade. But neither the United States nor the EC showed any willingness to compromise as this week's talks began.
The United States insisted that it would never yield to a French demand that it renegotiate provisions of a deal reached a year ago to reduce the use of farm subsidies.
The Europeans complained about U.S. refusal to make further concessions that would cut high American tariffs on Third World textile products.
The Clinton administration insisted that its come-from-behind victory on the North American Free Trade Agreement, creating a free-trade zone linking the United States, Mexico and Canada, would give it the momentum needed to wrap up the global talks.
But others are not so sure. They said that the deals the administration was forced to make to get NAFTA through Congress would make it harder to complete the Uruguay Round.
NORTHAMPTON, Mass.
Four killed when their plane hits falling sky diver
THE NEWS in brief
ROYAL OAK, Mich.
Seconds later, his ankle hit the plane's tail and it crashed. All four people aboard were killed. Peters, 51, of Westfield, survived Sunday's collision with a broken ankle and a terrible scare.
Sky diver Alfred Peters was hurtling toward Earth at about 100 mph when he saw a plane coming straight at him.
Killed were Elliot Klein, 49, of Rhinebeck, N.Y., the pilot of the single-engine Cherokee Piper Warrior II; his 18-year-old son, Jonas, a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; fellow MIT student Christina Park, 18, of Auburn, Wash.; and Jean Kimball, 45, of Pine Plains, N.Y.
The accident happened as the Piper was飞ing at about 120 mph 7,000 feet over Northampton Airport, from Poughkeepsie,
N. Y., to Boston.
Investigators said they don't know why the pilots were unaware of each other.
The sky-diving plane carrying a pilot and four other parachutists radioed controllers at nearby Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks, Conn., to warn others of the jump. It was unknown if Klein was following flight rules by keeping his radio tuned for such warnings as he entered the designated jump zone.
Kevorkian present at suicide
An apartment rented by Dr. Jack Kevorkian was used Monday for the suicide of a fellow physician, the first that Kevorkian has attended since he was jailed on a charge of illegally assisting another death.
It was the 20th suicide at which Kevorkian has been present since 1990. No charges were filed.
All Khalili, 61, a rehabilitative medicine specialist from Oak Brook, Ill., died after breathing carbon monoxide.
Khaliii was diagnosed in January 1990 as having multiple myeloma, a bone cancer. The disease had spread through his skeleton, and he was in constant pain despite a morphine
pump that regularly injected him with the powerful pain reliever, Kevorkian attorney Michael Schwartz said.
Khalili was an associate professor at Northwestern University's medical school in Chicago, where he taught part time, university representative Chuck Loebbaka said.
When he was jailed earlier this month, Kevorkian vowed to starve himself and refused solid food during his stay. He was freed after three days when he was bailed out by a lawyer who said he was tired of Kevorkian's headline-grabbing.
Compiled from The Associated Press.
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