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Page 6 NEWS THE BATTALION Thursday, June 21,Ml Meg Ayers, a senior management and finance major, rips a slow-pitch softball at a College Station-area batting cage. Delta pilots ratify contract Air line now has highest-paid pilots in industry, nation ATLANTA (AP) — Pilots at Delta Air Lines ratified a five- year contract Wednesday mak ing them the highest-paid in the industry and removing the threat of a strike at the nation’s most popular airline. The contract was approved by 70 percent of Delta’s roughly 9,800 pilots, the Air Line Pilots Association said. A majority was required for passage. More than 97 percent of the pilots voted. Both sides had predicted that pilots would approve the con tract despite some concerns about new scheduling rules, re tirement benefits and a separate pay scale for pilots with Delta Express, the carrier’s lower-cost subsidiary based in Florida. “This agreement proves once again the collective bargaining process works for working fam ilies,” said Charles S. Giambus- so, chairman of die pilots’ union. The contract, retroactive to May 2000, provides raises of 24 percent to 39 percent and hikes of up to 63 percent at Delta Express. The contract gives pilots an 11 percent raise in the first year and 4.5 percent annual hikes through 2005. A typical pilot’s monthly pay will jump more than $1,500, based on the average pilot salary of about $158,500 last year. “This is an important mile stone for Delta Air Lines,” chairman and chief executive Leo E Mullin said. “We have emerged from the long and sometimes difficult months of negotiations with a mutually beneficial agreement.” In a memo to employees, Mullin said Delta is optimistic about its long-term prospects, even as it struggles with a slump in demand by business travelers. Delta flies 120 million passengers a year, first among U.S. carriers. Delta and the pilots reached the agreement April 22 after 19 months of negotiations, which included pilots declining to ac cept overtime — disrupting hundreds of holiday flights — and a federal court’s injunction against the pilots’ union. 'The contract approval allows the company to focus on con cluding an expensive three- month strike at its Comair re gional carrier unit. Comair pilots began voting on a tenta tive deal'Tuesday. Last week, Delta said it ex pects to lose $140 million to $160 million in the second quarter as the sagging economy and the Comair strike demolish profits. The Atlanta-based airline lost $133 million in the first quarter. Meanwhile, American Air lines and its flight attendants re turned to the bargaining table Wednesday in Washington. The flight attendants are counting down to a possible strike as ear ly as June 30. But President Bush is expected to intervene to derail any strike. Also meeting with federal mediators were United Airlines and its ramp workers, who haven’t been released by the Na tional Mediation Board to strike. United and its mechanics were to resume talks Thursday, the board said. FBI agent arrested for selling files Hill received $25,000fd June Volume 1 6 lews classified information ofS™ LAS VEGAS (AP) — An FBI bomber Timothy McVeighr jC be re security expert who had access to informant identities and wit ness lists has been charged with selling classified files to organ ized crime figures and others under investigation. James J. Mill, an Air Force veteran and security analyst in the FBI’s Las Vegas office, was paid $25,000 for files from 1999 until last w'eek, according to a complaint filed by the bureau in a New York federal court. Hill was arrested Friday in Las Vegas after allegedly faxing classified information drawn from computer files to a private investigator in New York. The FBI said the private investigator was also arrested, but did not re lease a name. The FBI said it is still assess ing the damage. Hill’s attorney, Barry Levin son, said another former agent used Hill to obtain the files and sell them. “My guy is the fall guy,” he said. Hill, 51, was charged w'ith ob struction of justice, conspiracy and the theft and sale of top-se cret FBI information. A federal judge Wednesday moved Hill’s detention hearing to U.S. Dis trict Court in New York, where the charges were filed. No date was set. Hill remains in federal cus tody without bail. He has been placed on administrative leave since his arrest. The accusations follow a se ries of embarrassments for the FBI, including the February ar rest of FBI agent Robert Hanssen, who is accused of spy ing for Moscow; the disclosure that that more than 4,000 FBI documents had been withheld from lawyers for Oklahoma City the botched investigation LffiA Bryan year of former nuclear scier: Bided for Wen Ho Lee. In Washington, the Se Judiciary' committee heldal ing on the agency Wednesd Attorney Generaljohn Ash announced a broad interna ■ispanic rr weal. ■Officer D Bided by Kei Burto Brned of tf • . BFikes' apf: view of the FBI, aiming tonB ty arbjtl form the bureau. :oi iplainta According to the comp! dec ision. Hill had security clearanBOavid Dc and access to national sec sdininistrati data, confidential infon: Rkes will be identities, witness lists »y Decemb electronic surveillance inrife- ■' Aim mation. An FBI official in V;— .. r . York said the case in« CertlflC, criminal files and not nac Offered securin’ secrets. Bstudent! The complaint accuses HBlveston ( of selling classified FBIreco £> become relating to organized cnirB^e cer Texas A&K The complaint Tierce Can accuses Hill ofsell-ft^ j° ot mg classified FBI :ial prograr records relating s • j • Trans-Texa organized crime, gfvN), a s white-collar /nvestildations s; qations and immi The P ro - 7 . |i>nse to a grant smuggling.^ educ ^Bnmissio . :o leqes an -collar investigations corT convened edi white immigrant smuggling. I fill worked in the LasV.Texas' office from 1991 to 1996," challengec he resigned and spent institutions months training as an identitifo elimina tion technician with the Li- 1719 h an d gas Metropolitan Police ;lhe public partment, the police departratB ° ( md FBI saitl. «ondary „ „ . .. -ion certifn Doug Spring, police per ;ake an ad nel director, said he hadno:- ol|rsewor formation about Hill’s resiPi 0ur s of st tion from the training progrL. ■ in June 1996. Hill returned ■or esa the FBI in 1997. orship Directory CatfioCic St. Mary’s Catholic Center 603 Church Avenue in Northgate (979)846-5717 www.aaaiecatholic.ora Pastoral Team Rev. Michael J. Sis, Pastor Rev. David A. 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Frequent shoppers will relate to Bloomwood’s thoughts and actions, and will find themselves laugh ing out loud as they read through her silly efforts to save money. Like so many college students, she de cides that she needs to stop eating out so often and start cooking at home, which, of course requires pur chasing an entire set of expensive kitchenware. The laughter continues when Bloomwood de cides to make more money and fails to create 150 picture frames from her home. Kinsella succeeds in creating a character whose personality is similar to many shopaholic’s. Her de scription of Bloomwood’s mind and thought processes parallel many readers, and readers will find themselves thinking, “I would have thought or said the same thing!” Bloomwood’s hilarious thoughts and dialogue can be described as a cross between the girls of “Sex and the City” and the characters in Clueless. Like most novels, the book ends on a happy note with Bloomwood realizing her problem and taking hold of her financial future. Readers are left smiling, waiting for Kinsella’s next novel. (Grade A+) - Lizette Resendez News in Brief ALLA5 )n Mond£ ■iuous pro ury for the )f George Boy dies after arm caught* a g an g in machine at mom's job h a g ed v KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) —An S-year-ol^ 0 ^^^ boy whose mother took him alongtfjL' her cleaning job at an industrial pla ar g e p 00 | died after his arm got caught in a m; ors 0 vei chine, authorities said. pend ah Garrett L. Sanders' arm caughtirfividually machine used to inspect food on Mofvno qual day when Kristine Tutlewski left hir Tach c briefly to take out some garbage. exas pr Garrett usually stayed with hisfathf ace a sep while Tutlewski, 28, was working atCir- ria 1 de tex Corp., but the man had beenarreJ 91 ^ '. 0 /^ 91 " ed earlier that day on charges of pulliT?.^ Tutlewski's hair, authorities said. ^ ^ Cintex, which makes inspecting equipment, was running the devic| 0 | ;)ert igj to test it when the boy was there, pi nvo | vec | N lice said. Tutlewski heard the boy scream, the found him unconscious, authorities sat "She said the machine was suckii him into it," a police report said. Sgt. jerry Sturino said no crimn charges were expected. Neither he nor state safety work! George Youksas knew of a law tl would bar a parent from taking ach into an industrial setting, unless thechii were working. 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