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Thursday, October 13,1983/The Battalion/Page 5 { Continental initiates lawsuit against pilots Howdy Ma!!! staff photo by Guy Hood Connie Meisgeier, a freshman business major from Houston, phones home free of charge, to say hi to her mother. MCI is giving free 3 minute long-distance calls to students in in order to advertise its services at A&M. The Marketing Society is sponsoring the calls. United Press International HOUSTON — Continental Airlines, in its battle against un ion pilots, filed a $50 million law suit Wednesday accusing the Air Line Pilots Association of threatening working pilots and refusing negotiations to end a three-week-old strike. However, ALPA’s Houston chapter — which directly repre sents Continental pilots— was not named in the lawsuit filed in U.S. bankruptcy Court in Houston. “What we’re trying to do is resolve the issues. We’ve been unsucessful (out of court) so we’ve turned it over to the legal arena and hopefully they (the courts) can resolve it for us,” said Continental spokesman Kirk Holmes. The lawsuit charged ALPA refused to bargain in good faith prior to the carrier’s petition for bankruptcy Sept. 24 and that the union has failed to present any proposals for settling the pilots’ and flight attendants’ strike which began Oct. 1. The lawsuit further claimed that ALPA violated the Railway Labor Act by threatening to im plement $10,000 fines against non-striking pilots. The airline said it considered ALPA’s ac tions to be “interference, influ ence or coercion” of non striking pilots. In addition, the lawsuit charged ALPA President Henry Duffy with price fixing for allegedly staling the union would only cooperate with air lines whose pricing it approved. The lawsuit seeks $50 million in punitive and exemplary dam ages, Holmes said. Union representatives could not be reached for comment. Meanwhile, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge R.J. Wheless took Con tinental and its creditors behind closed doors to discuss whether to continue an order requiring creditors to keep doing business with the scaled-down airline. Continental, once the na tion’s eighth largest airline, filed for Chapter 11 reorgnization Sept. 24 and is trying to keep flying as a smaller, lower cost carrier under bankruptcy court protection. Wheless heard several hours of arguments Wednesday be fore recessing the hearing until 9 a.m. Wednesday. Continental asked Wheless to continue an order requiring 266 creditors, including other air lines, to keep working with Con tinental even though its ability to pay bills is now in the hands of the court. A ADD AGGIES AGAINST DRUNK DRIVERS What is the #1 killer of men and women in their teens and twenties? DRUNK DRIVERS!! ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING Thursday, October 13 7:00 p.m. 308 Rudder Don't wait until you bury a friend. Get involved NOW!! et recorder stops beeps Salvage operation slows sai % SmsiK United Press International DALLAS — The search for ■ flight recorder on board the ha, ( few ne d South Korean jetliner r) ! J been slowed because beep- ng signals emitted by the device ■iped almost a week ago, the , uval officer directing the HI q learch said Wednesday. , Adm. Sylvester Foley, Jr., slr]; leading the United States’ Bnth-old salvage operation in he Sea of Japan, said ships will |ntinue combing the area for C le flight recorder despite the ^ ack of recent signals from the fox, harsh weather conditions 1 harassment by Soviet ships. e However, Foley admitted Btif the “ping” noises emitted ven !4y the black box have dis- Searching for the recorder is a difficult task because of the rough terrain and underwater mountain range where the de vice is believed to be. He said Navy ships have sear ched about three-quarters of the 14-square-mile area where ex- “We haven’t heard anything (from the black box) in the last four or Five days. “ pens believe the recorder sank. Until this week, searchers heard intermittent noises of ab out three-seconds in duration from the underwater depths. The flight recorder should emit beeps of about one-second in duration, Foley said, speculating the signal may have been from a fishing marker “or it could have been planted” by the Russians. “But we don’t believe the Soviets have found it,” he added. The search for the recorder will continue, Foley pledged, at least until harsh winter weather forces the ships to return to base, or “when we’re satisfied we’ve covered all the likely areas.” Foley also warned that the Soviets’ increasing military strength could pose an econo mic danger by threatening U.S. shipping lanes. Dallas is a vital industrial base for the U.S. and would feel a sharp impact if the Soviets inter fered with shipping lanes in the Gulf of Mexico or other areas, Foley said. “A crisis that occurs in the Middle East may impact on U.S. ships off the coast of Japan — and in the corporate boar drooms of Dallas,” Foley said. Bridal Boutique Saturday Oct. 15th 10:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Baby Beds Roll Awaybeds Excercise Equipment Electrical Equipment Lawn & Garden U-Rent-M Sat. Oct. 15 & Sun. 16th 7:30 - 6:00 eared for good, the Navy has y a “slim chance” of finding fe recorder. Foley, commander-in-chief depli the Pacific Fleet, spoke , nffiWednesday to the Downtown nefitiipallas Rotary Club about last proptlnonth’s downing of the civilian L ‘ craft by a Soviet fighter. The t. 1 attack killed all 269 pas- gers and crew members on lard KAL flight 007. “We haven’t heard anything from the black box) in the last bur or five days,” Foley said. A- & llhtrli Hitch? 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