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...tour escort and accompany groups to Asia on a regular basis. I don't believe that people in Hong Kong wanted their island to be returned to China [ONE COUNTRY, MANY SYSTEMS, June 30]. Satisfaction with the handover was certainly not the feeling I heard expressed when I talked to Hong Kong residents shortly after the decision to return the island had been made. The Chinese know all too well what happens to dissidents. The closer it got to the deadline for the handover, the more people were afraid to express their true feelings to strangers and in front...
...United Parcel Service Teamsters walked off the job at on minute after midnight Monday morning after negotiators failed to agree on a new contract. The strike is expected to upset delivery service to thousands of businesses nationwide and will cost the company an estimated $50 million a day. Federal Express and the U.S. Postal Service have made contingency plans to take up the slack, but say they may have difficulty handling the additional load. Adding to the delivery giant's difficulties is a promise by 2,000 UPS pilots to join the strikers. And with President Clinton virtually ruling...
...multi-employer pension pool, rather than a less-secure plan covering only UPS employees. The Teamsters are also pressing management to increase pay, limit subcontracting and create more full-time jobs. If the talks break down again, millions of parcels across the country could be stranded. Federal Express and the U.S. Postal Service are preparing to take up the slack, but say it may be difficult to handle UPS' volume of 12 million parcels and documents...
NEWARK, N.J.: Newark International Airport was closed for several hours this morning after a Federal Express cargo jet crashed as it was coming in for a landing. Eyewitnesses said the plane slammed into the runway as it descended and then flipped onto its back, sending flames spewing from the fuselage as it skidded across the tarmac. Miraculously, the plane's two crew members and three passengers survived, scrambling out a side cockpit window as flames quickly enveloped the aircraft. All five people were taken to a nearby hospital, treated and then released, a company spokesman said...