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...walkout, scheduled to end next Sunday, signals the latest problem for an industry struggling to pull out of a three-year nose dive (total losses: $10 billion). Just as some big carriers -- American, Delta Air Lines and Continental Airlines among them -- have begun to post modest earnings, the long-quiescent airline unions have started voicing their demands. Workers who feel underpaid and overworked are asking for their share of the emerging profits. Management's response: continued cost cutting. "No question about it," says Morgan Stanley airline analyst Kevin Murphy, "1994 will be the year of labor turmoil...
Seniors guard Kevin Fagan, quarterback Mike Giardi, nose tackle Joe Hiffa, linebacker Joe McClellan and cornerback Chris Andre along with junior center Toby Brundage all made honorable mention...
...Piper's wreckage lay Monday in woods one mile from the airport, its nose dug into the ground and its wing wrapped around a tree. Guzzetti said part of its rudder and the entire vertical tail fin, a three-foot-tall triangle of aluminum, were ripped off the craft. Authorities said there was no sign of fire...
...week's end the vote still looked too close to call. The Administration was picking up a few more votes, but not as many as might have been expected after Vice President Al Gore emerged as the consensus winner in his TV showdown with Perot. The latest predictions from nose counters: NAFTA might win by two or three votes. But if it appears to be falling short, it will lose by 60 to 70, because many pro-NAFTA Representatives will not dare to provoke union and Perotista fury in a losing cause...
...less well in the Hobbesian jungle where U.S. foreign policy faces considerable challenges. Which ruthless leaders are actually sorry about mistaking Christopher's courtly bearing for lack of resolve? Not Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, whose forces are bombarding Sarajevo; not Haitian strongman Raoul Cedras, whose thugs are thumbing their nose at the U.S.; not General Mohammed Farrah Aidid, the clan boss ravaging Mogadishu...