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Court dismisses
antitrust charges
against airlines
DALLAS (AP) — American Air
lines said Monday that it is pleased
with a federal court ruling that dis
missed price-fixing charges against
American and United Airlines, end
ing part of a four-year legal battle.
U.S. District Judge Edward Rafee-
die in Los Angeles dismissed allega
tions by several airlines that Ameri
can and United had conspired to fix
fees charged for booking other air
lines’ reservations and issuing tickets
through their computerized reserva
tions system.
The plaintiffs, including Conti
nental Airlines, USAir, Northwest
and several other major carriers,
had sought more than $1.1 billion in
recovery of such fees paid to Ameri
can and United during 1981 to
1987.
“American considers this to be a
major victory,” Anne H. McNamara,
the airline’s senior vice president
and general counsel, said.
“A month ago the court threw out
much of the monopolization case
that the plaintiffs had brought
against American by eliminating a
number of their claims and legal the
ories,” she said.
“This latest ruling in effect en
tirely terminates the other half of
the case, involving the price-fixing
charges,” she said.
“And we feel totally vindicated by
the decision, because the judge rec
ognized the conspiracy charges for
what they are — absolute specu
lation,” she said.
In their antitrust complaint
against American and United, the
plaintiffs contended that two de
fendants participated in a conspiracy
spanning several years to raise the
other carriers’ cost of doing busi
ness.
Specifically, the plaintiffs had ac
cused American and United of ille
gally agreeing to fix the price of
“booking fees” charged by SABRE
and Apollo — the American and
United computerized reservations
systems, respectively, beginning in
November 1984.
At that time American announced
it would charge other airlines $1.75
per booking for the SABRE service.
United later established a price of
$1.85.
The plaintiffs also had alleged
that the two defendants had unlaw
fully forced other carriers to pay
what the industry terms “interline
ticketing fees,” which are paid when
one airline issues a ticket on its own
internal “ticket stock” for travel on
another airline, such as when a pas
senger’s itinerary involves two or
more carriers for a single trip.
The court found American and
United had met their “procedural
burden” of showing each had inde
pendently decided on the level of
booking fees after November 1984
and on establishment of a re
imbursement charge for interline
ticketing services.
In granting summary judgment
for the defendants, the judge held
that the plaintiffs had no evidence to
support any inference of conspiracy,
but were relying solely on specu
lation.
On Aug. 12, Rafeedie granted
American’s and United’s motions for
sumamry judgment on two of three
of the plaintiffs’ principal monopo
lization theories: that SABRE and
Apollo are “essential facilities” and
that the defendants engaged in “mo
nopoly leveraging.”
Hurricane Gilbert
slams into Jamaica
AUSTIN (AP) — Hurricane Gil
bert slammed into Kingston on
Monday with torrential rains and
115 mph winds that ripped roofs off
homes and buildings, uprooted trees
and downed power lines.
No serious injuries were immedi
ately reported in the city of 750,000
people, which was hit by the full
force of the hurricane around noon.
For half an hour, the hurricane
lashed the city, tearing branches
from trees, blowing down fences and
whipping paper through the air.
The National Weather Service re
ported heavy damage to Kingston’s
airport and aircraft parked on its
fields.
The first shock let up as the eye of
the storm moved across the city.
Skies brightened, the winds died
down and people waited for an hour
before the second blow of the hurri
cane arrived.
All Jamaica-bound flights were
canceled at Miami International Air
port.
Flights from the Cayman Islands,
reportedly next in the path of the
hurricane, arrived in Miami packed
with travelers cutting short their va
cations. “People were running
around in the main lobby of our ho
tel (on Grand Cayman Island) like
chickens with their heads cut off,”
one man said.
A National Weather Service re
port said the hurricane was moving
west at 17 mph with maximum sus
tained winds of 115 mph. It said Ja
maica would receive up to 10 inches
of rain that would cause flash floods
and mud slides.
“Right now it’s actually moving
over Jamaica,” Bob Sheets, director
of the National Hurricane Center in
Miami, said.
“It looks like the eye is going to
move lengthwise across that island,
and they’re going to bear the full
brunt of this powerful hurricane,”
he said.
Gilbert reached Jamaica after
skirting southern Puerto Rico, Haiti
and the Dominican Republic. Hurri
cane warnings were issued Monday
for the south coast of Cuba east of
Camaguey, the Cayman Islands, and
Haiti, while warnings were disconti
nued for the Dominican Republic.
High winds and heavy rain pre
ceding the storm drenched Kingston
overnight, toppling trees, causing lo
cal flooding and littering streets with
branches.
Most of Jamaica’s 2.3 million peo
ple stayed home, boarding up win
dows in preparation for the hurri
cane.
The popular north coast resort
area, on the other side of the moun
tains, was expected to receive heavy
rain but not as much damage from
the hurricane as the south coast,
where officials urged residents to
seek higher ground.
First working ‘chip’
remembered by state
DALLAS (AP) — Commemorat
ing the first working integrated cir
cuit’s demonstration by Texas In
struments, Gov. Bill Clements said
Monday that the company helped
the state become a world-class tech
nological force.
Clements, who helped TI ded
icate a state historical marker at the
company’s headquarters, saluted
Jack St. Clair Kilby and his inven
tion, the integrated circuit “chip,”
which the marker commemorates.
“Thirty years ago today, Texas In
struments set the ball in motion and
we haven’t been the same since,”
Clements said. “You pioneered tech
nological advances that have
changed our lives and altered the
way we perceive ourselves and the
world.
“Because of TI’s commitment and
Jack Kilby’s foresight, the chip is
now the heart and brains of all mod
ern electronic products,” Clements
said. “The integrated circuit has
grown into a $40 billion semiconduc
tor industry which drives a $500 bil
lion electronics market that stretches
around the globe.”
Host of the marker’s dedication
ceremony was Jerry Junkins, TI
chairman, president and chief exec
utive officer.
“Texas today is home to the na
tion s tliii U-iai gest pool oi scientists
and engineers,” Clements said. “We
have more than 25 technology trans
fer programs to translate research
into new product ideas. Sectors like
electronics, biotechnology and aero
space are growing at a rapid pace
and will certainly play a crucial role
in our economic growth.
“Indeed, Comptroller (Bob) Bul
lock predicts that high-tech indus
tries will produce 310,000 new jobs
between 1985 and the year 2005,” he
said. “With businesses like Texas In
struments and projects like the
Johnson Space Center and the tre
mendous ingenuity alike of people
like Dr. Paul Chu, there’s no doubt
that Texas will be a world-class tech
nological force.”
Formed on a single body of a
semiconductor such as silicon or ger
manium by photographic processes,
chips contain miniaturized, inter
connected electronic circuits and de
vices.
“Clearly, the availability of qual
ified people to meet market needs
will impact the strength of high-tech
industries in Texas,” Clements said.
Kilby, 64, demonstrated his inte
grated circuit to TI managers on
Sept. 12, 1958, at a laboratory in the
company’s Semiconductor Building,
where he had been an engineer for
only a few months.
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