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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
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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.
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Attorney Generaljohn Ash
announced a broad interna
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in June 1996. Hill returned
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the FBI in 1997.
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banks and credit cards, demanding payment. Instead
of paying her debts, she .consoles herself by more
shopping and while her debts are growing, so is her
appetite for things she cannot afford.
“Luggage! Why on earth have I never considered
luggage before? How can I have just blithely led my
life ignoring an entire retail sector?” Bloomwood
asks herself in a pricey department store.
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
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Boy dies after arm caught* a g an g
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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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