Delta pilots clinch four year contract avert strike
Delta Air Lines pilots reach a tentative four year deal after five days of talks with the National Mediation Board. The pact would raise pay 24 to 34 percent through 2005 for Delta crews and 63 percent for Delta Express pilots, with improvements in retirement job security and vacation. Union leaders plan votes by July as Delta faces industry pressures and a Comair strike.
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Felons and fugitives receive millions in improper benefits
U S officials fail to match beneficiaries with law enforcement records allowing prisoners, fugitives and probation violators to receive Medicare, Medicaid and SSI payments. Investigators cite $32 million in Medicare payments to incarcerated individuals and $75 million in Medicaid to LSU facilities from 1997 to 2000, plus $76 million in SSI to fugitives since 1996.
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Missionaries killed when plane shot down in Peru jungle
Relatives say the CIA monitored the single engine plane and received a landing clearance minutes before Peruvian jets fired on the craft over the Amazon near Iquitos. The crash killed Veronica Bowers and her infant Charity, amid disputed accounts of flight plans and intercept procedures.
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