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WASHINGTON, D.C.: A strike of American Airlines pilots appears more and more likely as company and pilots' union representatives resume negotiations seeking a new contract before a deadline of midnight EST Friday. The union, the Allied Pilots Association, has established a strike "war room" in Miami, while the airline has alerted its 90,000 employees that a layoff may be coming. "There's a lot of distrust on both sides," says TIME Austin bureau chief Sam Gwynne. "The central truth at this point is that the two sides can't even agree on the major issue. The management says this...
...America at its most foolish. Five years ago, Parisians smoking cigarettes at Les Deux Magots sniggered into their cafe au laits as Disneyland Paris opened. No way would the land that invented Existentialism, perfected ennui and made dourness hip go for the hyperactive cheeriness of Mickey Mouse. Ce n'est pas possible. For a while, it seemed like they were right. For its first few years of operation, Disneyland Paris was a laughing stock, losing money, attracting small crowds and providing ample ammunition for America bashers all across Europe. But the folks at Disney were patient. The company cut ticket...
...land on July 4, 1997. Several hours after Pathfinder parachutes down, the petals on the spacecraft will unfold; a six-wheeled, 23-pound rover will come out to roam the Martian surface, examining rocks and beaming back data. The launch has been tentatively rescheduled for Wednesday at 1:58 EST...
...some measures, though, he already has one. Blessed with an uncanny resemblance to Brian ("Kato") Kaelin, Smith has won a recurring role as the Simpson houseguest on the O.J. Civil Trial, a nightly one-hour news program on the E! channel (airing weekdays at 8 p.m. EST), which not only provides analysis of the testimony in the Simpson wrongful-death lawsuit but actually has actors recreate verbatim chunks of the day's proceedings as well...
...PAULO, Brazil: A Brazilian domestic jetliner crashed shortly after takeoff today, killing at least 95, Brazil's Globo TV network reported. The plane, a Fokker-100 belonging to TAM regional airlines, took off at 5:45 EST this morning and, according to Globo, dipped right sharply, struck an apartment building and eight houses and burst into flames. As live TV coverage showed a row of bodies covered with black plastic on the sidewalk and firemen sprayed smoking bits of the airplane with hoses, the search for casualties amid the rubble on the ground continued. The crash occurred about one mile...