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Monday, November.22, 1993
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Board may interrupt strike
200,000 lose flights daily on American
FORT WORTH, Texas — The chairman of American Airlines turned down a call yesterday from flight attendants for a presidential mediation board and announced that up to two-thirds of this week's flights could be canceled.
The Associated Press
On the fourth day of the planned 11-day strike by the Association of Professional Flight Attendants, chair Robert L. Crandall acknowledged that American fell short in notifying passengers about canceled flights because it is impossible to know which flight attendants would report for work and what flights would be affected.
Unused, non-refundable ticket
holders will get a refund and a $100 voucher toward an American ticket
The 21,000 striking flight attendants have cost the airline at least $10 million a day, Crandall said.
The airline plans to concentrate on flights at Dallas, Miami, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Juan, Puerto Rico, said executive vice president Bob Baker.
Union president Denise Hedges said she wrote Crandall asking him to join her in requesting the emergency panel.
"With no settlement offer from you in sight and the heavy-traffic holiday period now upon us, we've decided to take the initiative and try to end the strike," she said.
Crandall rejected the offer, saying an emergency mediation board would put the airline's future in the hands of people with no long-term interest in the company.
The board had been overseeing contract negotiations between the airlines and the union about differences in pay, health benefits, staffing and scheduling. On Nov. 1, the airline offered a 7.8 percent pay raise for each of four years.
A Department of Transportation official was unsure if the strike would qualify for mediation board arbitration. The panel, an independent government agency, intervenes when there is a significant disruption to the economy.
Those of the average 200,000 passengers daily bumped by the strike have been competing for a dwindling number of seats on rival airlines. Other carriers were accepting American tickets, but empty seats are harder to find as Thanksgiving approaches.
If the board is created, the strikers would be ordered to work.
THE NEWS in brief
WASHINGTON
Senate passes gun bill imposing waiting limit on handgun purchases
After a day of tense, private negotiations, the Senate with a 63-36 vote Saturday night passed legislation to impose a five-day waiting period on handgun purchases.
The waiting period requirement would phase out as states develop a system allowing for instant background checks.
The bill is named for Jim Brady, former press secretary to President Reagan, who was shot in the head during the 1981 assassination attempt on the former president.
Brady has lobbied furiously for the handgun measure from his wheelchair for many years and had appealed to the Senate to remain in session until it passed the bill.
The bill's chief sponsor there, Rep. Charles Schumer, D.N.Y., said that he still was disturbed by some Senate provisions, including language that would allow dealers to cross state lines to sell guns.
But he was optimistic the differences could be worked out in a conference committee: "I think by the end of the conference we'll have a good Brady bill."
MEXICO CITY
Mexico's largest opposition party prepared to name its presidential candidate yesterday, and another opposition leader turned down a challenge to debate NAFTA as it goes before the Senate.
Senate could approve trade pact
Government approval of the free trade pact is assured. The governing Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, controls 61 of the 64 Senate seats. The vote, the only requirement to ratify the pact, is scheduled for today.
Federal congressman Diego Fernandez de Cevallos was the clear favorite to win the nomination of the National Action Party as its candidate for the August 1994 presidential election.
But Fernandez is given little chance to end the PRI's 64-year hold on power in the election. Within the coming weeks, President Carlos Salinas de Gortari will select the PRI candidate, who is practically assured victory.
Compiled from The Associated Press.
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