American pilots approve five year contract with raises and controls
After a near three year dispute including a strike and presidential intervention, American Airlines pilots vote 69 percent for a five year pact. The deal adds limits on flight distance jet size and fleet, guarantees furloughed pilots can fly regional jets, plus raises over 9 percent through 2001 and stock options while ending a second tier wage scale.
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American Pilots OK
Grapevine
Texas
American Airlines
The
Allied Pilots Association
American Eagle
Government to buy 23.5 million dollars of potato products
Agriculture Department plans to purchase about 51 million pounds of dehydrated potato products to ease a storage glut from last year’s crop. The move will supply child nutrition and other domestic programs, while prices for stored potatoes fall to about 30 cents per 100 pounds.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Megan's Law murder trial opens in New Jersey
Maureen Kanka testified that she spoke with Jesse Timmendequas, the accused across the street, on the day Megan was kidnapped. Prosecutors say he confessed to the July 1994 killing, while his defense urged jurors to judge evidence analytically and avoid emotion.
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Trenton
N.J
Maureen Kanka
Kanka
Jesse Timmendequas
Megan
Timmendequas
Men’-De-Kwas
Timmendeq
Flicker
Barbara Lependorf
Lependorf
HIV AIDS advances reduce mother to child transmission
In San Francisco and nationwide the rate of HIV transmission from mother to child has fallen, aided by AZT use. HIV positive mothers increasingly choose to have children, with O Connor planning to name her unborn daughter Marisa Tila Iglesias. Hospitals report no new pediatric AIDS cases from birth to age 12 in 1995 1996, underscoring a significant shift in the epidemic.
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AN Francisco
Lisa O’connor
U.S
O’connor
Pete Iglesias
Marisa Tila Iglesias
Oakland
San Francisco General
University of California-San Francisco Medical Centers
TWA denies Freeh assertion on Flight 800 crash
TWA rebukes FBI Director Freeh saying mechanical failure caused the crash and contests conclusions drawn from evidence not yet found. Debris totaling 15 000 to 25 000 pounds remains on the Atlantic seabed as investigators continue. FBI notes no comment due to not seeing the statement.
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Los Angeles Times
Trans World Airlines
FBI
Louis Freeh
Bureau
TWA
Atlantic Ocean
Long Island
Freeh
Nicotine Patches Pose Poison Risk to Children
A two year study of poison centers finds fourteen children sick after handling new or used nicotine patches or placing them in mouths. Authors led by Dr Alan Woolf of Harvard Medical School warn patches retain up to three fourths of nicotine after use, equating to four to seven cigarettes, amid rising OTC availability.
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Chicago
Pediatrics
Alan Woolf
Harvard Medical School
Children’s Hospital of
Boston
Bird-virus vaccine shows promise against HIV
A vaccine derived from a bird virus that infects canaries but is harmless to humans boosted killer T-cells in healthy volunteers at an NIH symposium. Dr. Kent Weinhold of Duke University called the result positive but cautioned that the rise in T cells may not yet prove protection against HIV.
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Mexico City
Clinton
Mexico
Ashington
Canaries
National Institutes of Health
Kent Weinhold
Duke University
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