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Ashraf Sreiheen shows a picture of his cousin, Umran
Sreiheen, last week in Ramtha, Jordan. Sreiheen was killed,
along with three other Jordanian students, in Mosul, Iraq,
when what is believed to be a U.S. missile struck near their
car, causing it to flip over and killing all on board. Family
and friends are angry over his death and blame U.S.
President George W. Bush.
Airline cites progress in labor agreement
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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