Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 8, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba Pilots steer airline to Knees Eastern hints at bankruptcy move photo from the news services destruction of East Ern a company torn Asun Der by civil marched Forward yesterday As the Carrier Laid off an other employees and lost the opening skirmish in what a lawyer called the final Legal Battle before surrender in bankruptcy District judge Edward Davis denied Eastern request that he order All pilots Back to essentially ruling that the pilots could continue honouring picket lines posted saturday by the striking International association of Machin in arguing his Eastern attorney David Ross warned that plans were mustered for a trip to bankruptcy shattered by internecine Eastern Shiv eled in Only four Days from the nations seventh largest airline into the operator of Little More than the Northeast seek bankruptcy if this court does not bring the pilots Back to work the simple fact is Eastern will have no other course but to seek the Protection of the bankruptcy courts of the United Ross without our this company cannot sur company officials said after the ruling in Miami that they would file an Appeal in Atlanta that the company was considering the Sale of jetliners and other and that a bankruptcy petition remained East erns last but a very real last pilots Union spokesman Stokes called the ruling a Victory of principle a Victory of weve obviously made our basically what this Means is that nothings Stokes adding pilots will continue to Honor machinists picket Ross said the company could have to file for Federal bankruptcy Protection and cant operate More than 48 to 72 hours More without the Eastern already has nearly shut saying it was forced to Lay off a total of workers this week because of the pilots adherence to the strike in a 17monthold contract that included 219 nonunion East Ern employees in the airline wants million us in concessions the machinists want million in Eastern has said it lost More than billion this decade and million a Day before the clearly that has gotten Joe Eastern executive Vic president and chief operating said at a briefing yesterday announcing the Layoff of More the pilots Union asked its members at All airlines to follow Rule books stringently Start ing and there were fears of havoc As delays piggybacked around the but while the Union said 60 per cent of its members followed the delays were canadians stranded in the United states because of the strike were reported spending hundreds of additional dollars and enduring Long delays in returning president Bush said in Washington pilots should not make the innocent travelling Public a and he stood by his opposition to govern ment intervention to Stop the walk out by the machinists which represents mechanics and ram service Bush said if the machinists try to shut Down rail service later this week he will ask Congress to ban such secondary he said the Winnipeg free March 1989 17 senator recounts Tower drinking Eastern ticket agents console each other at news of strike should be settled through bar but no talks Are Eastern has just employees still Down from before the Leonard we simply dont have any Busi Ness on the books Leonard our competitors have simply been sucking up the our since March Washington a a demo cratic senator said yesterday he had seen defence Secretary designate John Tower under the influence of alcohol in the Senate while Tower was a the statement came hours after president Bush insisted that not one senator had firsthand evidence that Tower had a drinking Senate democratic Leader George Mitchell of predicted the nomination would be rejected when it came to a vote in the democratic controlled and republicans complained about the tactics of a key democratic oppo nent to the senator Sam Nunn of in a riveting Exchange on the fourth Day of heated debate Over towers personal qualifications to head the senator Dennis Deconcini said he saw Tower under the influence of Alco hol while on the Senate Tower was in the Senate As a Texas Republican from 1961 to but inebriated to the Point that he could not operate interrupted senator Arlen Specter i have not seen him inebriated to the extent he could not perform his Deconcini in a session earlier yester Day with White House repeated his insistence that no Sena tors had firsthand information that Tower had a drinking i Haven had one single senator not one who served with him i have seen my first band evidence is this Man is ineligible because of his consumption of Bush Mitchell said that despite the Deci Sion monday of Southern Democrat Howell Heflin of Alabama to support the nomination will go Down in i believe that when the vote occurs the nomination will be rejected and it is obvious if the republicans had the votes would now be demanding the vote take i frankly see no Benefit to anyone in unnecessarily and needlessly prolonging this he Uphill Battle an associated press Survey shows 47 democrats and senator Larry leaning against or solidly opposed to confirming and 40 republicans and he flin either leaning for or supporting democrats hold a 5545 Edge in the republicans face what they con cede is an Uphill Battle to win Senate confirmation for who has been dogged by allegations of excessive womanizing and questions about his ties to defence Bush repeated his support for Tower the nominees vow to swear off alcohol if confirmed by the Senate As a fail Safe Guaran soviet nuclear powered ship denied entry at four ports a o m Moscow Reuter a soviet nuclear powered Container ship has been refused entry at four far Eastern ports because of Public a soviet newspaper re ported Sovie Skaya Rossiya blamed the soviet merchant Navy ministry for failing to give sufficient explanations about the huge it said tens of thousands of Resi dents of the soviet far East had written letters to a local radio Sta Tion protesting against the ships presence in the the situation is indeed drama this huge an offended has 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