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Airline cites progress in labor agreement By David Koenig THE ASSOCIATED PRESS enmrfr Aggieland Printing sells Graduation Announcements Order today and receive them in approximately 1 week! We sell • Graduation Announcements • Graduation Remembrance Displays • Thank You Notes • Personalized Graduate Notepads Order & pay online: www.aggielandprinting.com 1902 Texas Ave. South • College Station (Texas Avenue and Park Place, in front of the new HEB) 693-8621 M-F 8:30-5:30 DALLAS — American Airlines reached tentative agreements with several small labor groups Saturday, and the leader of one of the largest labor groups warned workers that they will face deeper wage and benefit cuts if the carrier files for bankruptcy. American says it must cut its labor costs by $ 1.8 billion per year to avoid bankruptcy, but a key union leader said bankruptcy lenders would demand an additional $500 million in labor concessions. “It was also made clear that without such (bankruptcy) loans the company could not operate,” said James C. Little, director of the airline division of the Transport Workers Union, which represents about one-third of American’s employees. A person familiar with American’s situa tion said the company is seeking $1.5 billion in financing from several large New York banks to be used in case of bankruptcy. An airline spokesman declined to comment. Meanwhile, company and union officials said they were prepared to negotiate around the clock on labor concessions. Groups representing about 2,250 employees reached tentative agreement on cuts Saturday, but talks were continuing with the three most powerful employee groups — pilots, flight attendants and mechanics. u We are pleased with these additional tentative agreements and the TWU’s intent and seriousness. — Bruce Hicks American Airlines spokesman The Transport Workers Union said tenta tive agreements were reached early Saturday morning between the airline and its 1,811 stock clerks and 92 maintenance specialists. By late in the day, deals were concluded on behalf of the 217 dispatchers, 17 meteorologists and 121 flight-simulator instructors, the union and company said. The same union said Thursday that it had reached a tentative agreement on behalf of about 16,300 baggage handlers. “We are pleased with these additional tentative agreements and the TWU’s intent and seriousness,” said an airline spokesman, Bruce Hicks. But American is still without agreements with its 12,000 pilots, 21,000 flight atten dants and more than 16,000 mechanics. It is also negotiating with a handful of other small groups of workers. The company has not acted on a proposal made Friday by the flight attendants that union negotiators said met American’s demands. Hicks declined to discuss the on; negotiations other than to say that “progress is being made.” American has 99,000 work ers, and its sister commuter carrier, American Eagle, has about 11,000. Parent company AMR Corp., based in Fort Worth, has lost nearly $5.3 billion ii the past two years, and the war in Iraq is put ting additional pressure on the airline leading to sharp declines in international travel, which accounts for more than one- fourth of American’s business. As the i T hose faniili ephedrine I heard the n gerated claims aboui supposed risks. Alte i, bolstered by questionable Food ai Administration studi feional athlete dea report anything posit tie herb. Ephedrine' loss and energy-txxv its the FDA ev< Website, www.fda.g ly ignored. The FDA accepting public con plement before maki support new restrict containing products,' Web site. As The Washingtt iese restrictions are ward a nationwide m-loving Ame As March comes to: others face their last tie FDA their desires id access to herbs an nts that may bene The ephedrine de itignited by the until Baltimore Orioles pi’ to month. Bechler’s it even more u kgal supplement, epl Ihis killer by t at simply isn't lad been taking ephe Washington Times re i, “other factors iistrumental in Bech was overweight, h lit, had... high blot »as diagnosed two y NEWS IN BRIEF Reliant's talks with bankers continue HOUSTON (AP) - Reliant Resources Inc., which had $2.9 billion in debts due Friday, con tinued negotiations with its bankers Saturday. The continuing talks indicate that the Houston energy mer chant didn't make the payment on time, but also that the banks didn't take action against it. Fitch Ratings, which had rated Houston's main electrici ty provider as vulnerable to default, cut its rating further Friday to reflect high default risk as the company faced a Friday deadline to repay about half of almost $6 billion in debt without enough cash on hand. Another $3 billion comes due later this year and next year. Reliant spokeswoman Sandy Fruhman said Saturday that talks were continuing and that Reliant had nothing to announce. Texas families await news of POWs as bodies found rmfl rrTTAm JL JL m JL HJaL JL PURCHASS THIS PITCHER FOR^ OHLY $26.22 AHD QUALIFY TO REDEEM THIS * COUPOH FOR A VERY SPECIAL t n fiTTTnm rmrirm iO : T-SHIRT OFFER y •EXPIRES MARCH 15, 2003* $3.00 TEE W/ PITCHER PURCHASE *MUST HAVE COUPON TO REDEEM EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Families of some Fort Bliss- based soldiers waited anxious ly for news as military officials have confirmed the discovery of bodies in shallow graves near Nasiriyah. At least two soldiers from the Army’s 507th Maintenance Company were killed, and the Defense Department said eight more were missing and five taken as prisoners of war during an ambush by Iraqi soldiers in the area last Sunday. Air Force Maj. Gen. Gene Renuart said Saturday that American forensic investigators were going to the grave sites, but could not say how many bodies had been found. “We will also approach it from an aspect to ensure there were no war crimes committed in their deaths,” Renuart said. Randy and Janie Kiehl of Comfort, Texas, said they kept up hope for good news about their son, Spc. James Kiehl. James Kiehl, 22, is one of the eight missing soldiers. “And we want all the parents and loved ones of the soldiers to keep the same hope. Until foren sics gets done with their jobs, l want everyone to take a deep breath and wait,” Randy Kiehl said in an article in Sunday's editions of the El Paso Times, Randy Kiehl said the biggest boost to his family came Friday when they learned they will be sent a copy of a videotape of their son being baptized in Doha in recent weeks. “That means so much to us," he said. “We now know James has accepted baptism in Christ, and had the good feeling of accepting the Lord in his heart.” But it may take some time for military officials to determine the identities of the bodies, and the conditions of their deaths. “Remember the circum stances, remember where they are,” Fort Bliss spokeswoman Jean Offutt said. Offutt said she is concerned with news reports that may mis lead the public about the condi tion of the 507th troops. “There’s a lot of reports and there are a lot of rumors. Some may or may not be true,” she said. JL JL Safetij Awareness & Self PRESENTED BY: BRAZOS COUNTY RAPE CRISIS CENTER Date: Thursday, April 3, 2003 • Time: 6 00 p.m -9.00 p.m Location: St. Joseph Parish Hall, 600 East 26th St., Bryan Facility donated by St^ Joseph Catholic Chutch- Plenty ol Seating Available^ FOR INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 731-1000 MONDAY THRU FRIDAY • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Conole G ay Awareness which begins student and fc dent pay rolled mock responsible educatioi discussion. Disregard blth, psychological implications of uneqi promoting homosexu on impressionable sti Texas A&M departm pone further than eve activities and harass! i their way. Those adm cution of Christian fa This year, the relai ’tolerance” and “acce exual community ha demands for “promot homosexual lifestyle. Advisory Committee lane Conoley, dean o College of Education Human Development statement calling for i hration and promotioi foims of human diver ding sexual orier and domestic partners Conoley then invited In response, a groi sors in the Departn Health and Kinesioloj 1 a letter to the F objecting to the stater on their religioi lions and their obligat fare of their students, as people without ristian love neither as to celebrate and pn do so would be to cor lions and deny our fai a federally protected c ges” are not recogn Conoley responder the Christian belief of hating to sin” as an “e best and a cover for pi particular ridiculed Di the Department of 1 heing inexperienced a beliefs in his pn IheChristian faculty’s homosexuality to raci: hy claiming that the C prets” the Bible. Inten Hie chance to spread Y ssider audience. Cono of two finalists in the Provost. Conoley mus Dr. Patrick Slattery
