European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 24, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday May 24, 1988 the stars and stripes Pago 7 . Phone outage affects 400,000 Charlotte. . A Telephone service was restored sunday after an outage dts pied serv ice for up to 400,000 people in Western North Caro Lina. The nine hour Telephone failure late saturday and Early sunday after led scattered parts of an ares stretching 120 Miles from Doone near the stale s Nonh Wisl Border with Tennessee to just West of Rockingham. Near the South Central Border with South Carolina. The outage frustrated callers and wreaked havoc with airline and retail computer systems dependent on Telephone data transmission. The outage also disabled 911 emergency Telephone service leading police in Charlotte to Post officers at fire departments and major intersections where they could be seen by people who might need help. The trouble started when a mysterious Power surge or shortfall disrupted the Power flow Mlo a Southern Bell switching station in Charlotte late sat urday morning said Tudd Baucom a phone company spokesman. A Battery powered system automatically look Over but no Oik at the station noticed an alarm until the batteries ran Down at about 3 30 ., knocking out Telephone service Baucom said. Crews then re placed More than 400 fuses restoring service about 2 15 . Sunday he Laid. We missed it Baucom said by Telephone Sun Day afternoon. Ideally if we bad caught the alarms when we should have it would have been fixed by the time the Battery Power ran out he said. No Southern Bell workers will be fired Over the incident but the company will have extra workers Monitor the station s alarm area full time from now on Baucom Laid. Official do not know the source of the Power surge or shortfall yet he added. Man police officers worked double shifts sat urday and there were no reports of crimes or other emergencies going unanswered during the outage said Chip Bailey spokesman for the Mecklenburg county police department in Charlotte. We Don t have any horror stories to come out of it so far Bailey said by Telephone sunday. In fuel Nul Loo Long after 911 came Back. We got a report of an armed robbery in Progress and we Reable to Slop it commercial phone customers were not so Lucky. We re requiring credit approval on All credit Pur chases and the re really going to have a problem closing tonight because we can t Transfer out data Carrol mane training manager at Ivey s department store in Castonia Laid saturday evening Martha Eddins a spokeswoman Tor Wachovia Bank bated in Winston Salem said the outage shut Down automated Teller machines in the Alic cled areas because the tellers use Long distance phone Linn to Access computers. The situation also caused confusion at Charlolle Douglas International Airport where arriving Pas sengers could not Call relatives friends hotels or taxi companies said . Terrell of the Airport s Security Force. Terrell said airline reservation clerks had to hand process tickets normally printed and filed by com Pulcer. Iacocca describes Reagan As being incapable of focusing on any Issue us i a dlr i Rilk  of to  or  it. I .-.r-. A i  i. Up Chrysler Cor. Por Alion chairman Lee Iacocca in a new Book Ucer pled in the current Issue of people Magazine criticizes president Reagan s manage Mem style saying pm he delegated if a Bunch of stooges and then went off and Rode  Reagan is a warm Ond wonder _ j Ful human being con but is totally inca Pable of focusing on any Issue Iacocca writes in his Book talking straight to be published hot month. The Chrysler chief who organized the Celebration of the statue of Liberty s 100th anniversary in 1986, said he has been a guest at the White House and met with Reagan several times. Anytime you talked to him about something he would Drift off into an anecdote Iacocca wrote. And once he gave the punch line the show was Over and you were out the door tic president s flawed management style was most visible in his Choice of staf members Iacocca wrote. Reagan delegated to a Bunch of stooges and then went off and Rode horses l3 t3 whole. He did not spec Ify which aides he was referring to Iacocca 63, said be Mel with Reagan a couple of times a year until Donald Regan became chief of staff in 1985. Then they locked the doors at the White House and pulled in the Welcome mat he wrote. Iacocca said he did not plan to go into politics despite having received More than 10,000 letters urging him to run for president. I have no desire to switch professions at this late stage of my life he said. Politics is a profession. To be Good at it you be got to live and breathe it. I m Good at what i do but it s taken me 40 years to get the hang of it i m also a great believer in skills not being Transfer Able. In a nutshell you be really got to want something 10 a Well 31 it Texas town recoils storm fool to 30 s Aragosa Texas Pilot and 10-year american employee in Good condition that was � major warning tight a he got american spokesman John Hotard said. Al this Point we do not know if there is something wrong with the warning Light or if something was wrong with he system Many times you gel a faulty warning Light but you do not in a split second Lake the Chance Hotard said. The Captain opted to abort the  american flight 70, in route to Frankfurt with 240 passengers and 14 Crew members was scheduled to depart Al 4  Saturday from Dallas fort Worth International Airport. But the warning Light indicated a leading Edge Slat disagree which refers to the control surfaces on the from Edge of the Wing thai cd tend out and Down on Takeoff Hotard said. The warning Light indicated that those Slan were in disagreement thai the Lei one was not doing what the right one was doing Hotard said. Of course that control surface is critical for lift on  the four injured passengers including Federal aviation administration inspector Bill Davenport were treated Al local hospitals and released Hotard said Ibe Crew members suffered Back injuries when the front Landing gear collapsed. The jetliner was removed from the mud and taken to a hangar at the Airport an sunday Hotard said it sustained structural damage to the nose and possible damage to the engines. Eight of the passengers left on another airline to a any la a saturday anal american then carried 220 passengers on a special flight thai left Al 10  Saturday Foo Laid said about dozen people chose not