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WASHINGTON (AP) — With 90,000 jobs and
ivel plans for more than 200,000 people a day
the balance, American Airlines and its pilots
ned to a federal mediator Monday in an effort
tave off a holiday-weekend strike.
If no agreement is reached by midnight Friday,
end of a federally mandated cooling-off peri-
1, the pilots have threatened a strike and the air-
has said it would shut down. That would hob-
one-fifth of the nation’s air-travel capacity,
iving ticketed passengers without a ride.
A federal mediator will shuttle proposals be
en representatives of the nation’s largest do-
stic airline and the Allied Pilots Association at
owntown hotel.
The Fort Worth, Texas-based airline, a divi-
n of AMR Corp., has promised’to try to ac-
modate passengers by helping them find
ts on other airlines if a strike is called. But
t may be a difficult promise to keep with
st seats on other carriers filled going into the
sidents Day weekend.
"We would ask that our passengers be somewhat
ible,” said American spokesperson John Hotard.
The National Mediation Board asked for the
same from the two sides in the talks.
“I think we’re going into this with an open
mind. It’s a very focused situation,” said media
tion board chair Kenneth Hipp. “We hope it will
be a short week.”
American and the union, which represents
only American pilots, are butting heads over
compensation and job security, although other
contract issues could be discussed.
The pilots, who have not had a basic wage in
crease since their contract became amendable
in 1993, are asking for raises more than double
what the company offered in a tentative contract,
voted down by the union last month.
The company had agreed to increase salaries by
3 percent this year and 2 percent in 1999. It also had
added stock options that were understood to rep
resent retroactive pay since the contract has al
ready been in talks for more than two years.
The union is seeking raises of about 11 per
cent over four years, plus increased stock op
tions. American pilots earn an average
$120,000 a year.
Although pay plays a large role, the second
and possibly more divisive issue is who should
fly the company’s small jets.
AMR had hoped to buy 67 jets to be flown by
its commuter division, American Eagle. Ameri
can pilots said no dice, wanting Eagle to remain
strictly the “propeller division.”
Airline president Donald J. Carty said the is
sue is American’s competitiveness; the union
says it believes American pilots can fly the small
jets at comparable costs.
As the rhetoric gears up, so has fear of a strike.
“At times like this there’s a lot of tension,”
said Carty.
Pilots, who have walking informational pick
et lines, report taunts and obscene gestures from
other employee groups. There also have been
several reports of threats.
Pilots are being instructed to be careful in their
comments and not to park in the employee lots.
“People are anxious, but that doesn’t mean
they should take it on themselves,” said airline
spokesperson Chris Chiames. “The pilots are not
the enemy.”
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AUSTIN (AP) — With a display
f 1,782 pairs of shoes reminding
bem of the lives lost to alcohol-
ilated traffic crashes in just one
-ear, state senators voted Monday
crack down on Texans under 21
ho drink.
“This bill... will save lives in the
ears to come,” said Sen. Royce
fest, D-Dallas.
His “zero-tolerance” bill is
mong measures backed by
others Against Drunk Driving,
hich brought the shoe display to
he Capitol.
West’s bill would suspend the
river’s licenses of those under 21
:aught in possession of alcohol or
Iriving with even a trace of alcohol
in their system.
It passed the Senate without ob
jection, although concern was
aised by Sen. Chris Harris, R-Ar-
lington, because the bill would not
equire young drivers to be given a
blood-alcohol or breath test to
prove they had been drinking.
West said the provision could be
reviewed as the bill is considered in
the House. He said if such a test
was not given, that fact would be
admissible in court.
As senators debated the mea
sure, workers and visitors in the
Capitol extension walked by rows
of shoes lining a hallway to sym
bolize the lives already lost to
drunken driving.
A toddler’s tiny sneakers, house
slippers shaped like fuzzy bear
paws, a 6-year-old boy’s scuffed-
toe black shoes, women’s high-
heeled sandals and men’s cowboy
boots — there was a pair for each
of the 1,782 people that MADD
says died in alcohol-related crash
es in Texas in 1995.
“All we ask is that ... while the
members of the House and Senate
debate the pros and cons of these
issues, is that they remember the
mothers, fathers, sons and daugh
ter who would have filled these
shoes if their lives had not been cut
short by a drunk driver,” said
MADD’s Bill Lewis.
Lawmakers also should re
member those whose lives were
changed by drunken drivers, back
ers of tougher legislation said.
Among them are 11-year-old
Mitchie Mitchell, who must use a
wheelchair because he was a vic
tim in a 1989 drunken driving ac
cident, and his mother, Joyce
Hunt of Austin.
“At the tender age of three, the
choice of drunk driver to take away
his ability to walk, his ability to lead
a life as that drunk driver leads his
today — no one should have that
right,” Hunt said.
That driver, she said, was her ex-
husband and Mitchie’s father.
Hunt said her ex-husband was
charged with a driving-while-in
toxicated offense and served two
years of a five-year sentence.
Mitchie, meanwhile, spent 333
days in the hospital and under
went 18 operations.
“Do you have to be there to
feel the pain? I hope not,” Hunt
said. “We can’t stop drinking and
driving, but we can do things to
deter it.”
Under current law, which bars
minors from buying or consuming
alcohol, those under 21 can lose
their driver’s license if they are
found to have a blood-alcohol lev
el of 0.07. The legal intoxication
level for adult drivers is 0.10.
Under West’s bill, any de
tectable amount of alcohol would
be illegal for drivers under 21.
Penalties would include license
suspension, community service
and, for repeat offenders, the pos
sibility of incarceration.
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int Orientation at 5:1: most students were unaware he was there,
ludder. 1 "They looked at me kind of funny,” Bowen
said. "They were thinking ‘Who is this old guy?”’
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nts and get back to his roots by attending classes.
“It’s not every day you see the president of
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ginning aerobic running class at 10:20 a.m.
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In Rudder Tower, Williams fulfilled the role of
University president by sitting in on the daily pres
idential executive staff meeting, attending an
NCAA Steering Committee meeting and holding
a discussion with A&M Men’s Head Basketball
Coach, Tony Barone.
“We talked about advertising for basketball
and what we need to do to get more people in the
stadium,” Williams said.
Williams said she was worried about trading
places because she did not know what Bowen’s
position entailed.
“I picture it being a job where you’re always talk
ing to somebody,” Williams said, “either going to
meetings all day or always being on the phone. You
must be very good at personal relations.”
Williams said one of the highlights of the
switch was using Bowen’s parking spot on the
first floor of the University Center parking garage.
Williams’ roommate took her to school and
parked her car in his spot.
Williams said she first purchased one ticket for
the fund-raiser. But she received a cash refund
from her apartment complex’s laundromat so she
bought an extra four dollars worth of tickets.
“It (the refund) was pretty random,” Williams
said. “I was just ‘well, go ahead and give it to them
(United Way).”’
Bowen supports the United Way event on a vol
untary basis. He plans to participate anytime it helps.
“It’s a very worthy cause,” he said. “I’d be hap
py to do it again.”
During United Way Awareness Week (March
24-28), a check including the proceeds from “Be
Bowen for a Buck,” will be presented by the stu
dents of A&M to the Brazos County United Way.
Jenna Martin, A&M United Way Pack presi
dent and a senior international studies and po
litical science major, said Williams is a great stu
dent and had a lot to talk about with Bowen.
“It was so successful,” Martin said. “We really
appreciate Dr. Bowen giving up his time.”
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