European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 24, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes wednesday. Nown Ber 24.1993 Piaggo the stars n i Holiday vacationers Hail strike s end. It. But nothing resembling the Specter of fort Worth teas a tens of thousands of Holiday travellers looked to friendlier skies tuesday after president Clinton helped end the crippling strike against american airlines in time for thanksgiving. The airline and the 21,000-member association of professional flight attendant agreed monday to sub Mit their More than year old contract quarrel to bind ing arbitration. The flight attendants immediately dropped picket signs they took up thursday and went Back it work ending a strike that american s chairman said was Cost ing the airline at least $10 million a Day. I think Given this agreement there is no doubt that we will be Able to get everybody where they re going in time for thanksgiving said american chairman Rob Ert l.  said it hoped to Fly up to 70 percent of its schedule tuesday and about 85 percent by today prob ably the busiest travel Day of the year.,but some passengers were still miffed. It s too bad it was t Over yesterday said Bill Ball who had to rebook his flight  to  walkout disrupted Holiday travel plans for Many of the 200,000 travellers american carries each Day Passen is were Able to travel on fewer than Hall of scheduled  strike s end was a Victory for the flight attendants who previously agreed to biding arbitration and sought the appointment of a special presidential panel to mediate the dispute Over pay work rules and other issues. .,.-"we shut Down the world s largest airline for five straight Days. And in the final analysis we did what management would not do said Union president Den ise Hedges. We sought and brought about an end to the  ,. American and United airlines compete As the top two largest airlines in the  representing United s ground Crews Andi pilots ordered a de Facto slowdown monday by urging members to follow All safety rules and other regulations to the letter. That threatened to create some thanks riving snarls t nothing of created by the american walkout. The american airlines agreement  4000 flight attendants that Crandall had threshed Fox when the planned 1 Way strike Wasi Fiji is week. We have agreed with the president  Allae St attendants Back he said m american began hiring and draining replacement flight attendants during the strike but the new hires in the stars and stripes 10 years Agio nov. 24,1983 the soviet Union broke off the latest round of talks in Geneva on medium Range missiles officials said a Day after the West German parliament approved nato plans to deploy the first new . Missiles. 20 years ago nov. 24,1973 Italy raised the Price of gasoline to $1.33 a gallon banned Holiday driving and Cut Back heating Oil supplies to Avert an expected Oil shortage from Arab restrictions on Petroleum products. 30 years ago nov. 24,1963 newly swim in president Lyndon b. Johnson declared nov. 25 a Day of National mourning for assassinated presi Dent John f. Kennedy. 40 years ago nov. 24,1953 internal Security subcommittee attorney Robert mor Ris said Senate investigators very definitely have collected information that could Lead to the conviction of some persons As soviet spies. 50 years ago nov. 24,1943 fires raged All Day across Berlin in the Wake of the War s heaviest raid on the German capital a 2,300-ton attack by the biggest Fleet of four engine bombers Ever assembled to strike that City. L world War ii j 50 years ago today nov. 24 a japanese submarine torpedoes the escort Carrier us come Bay of Makin atoll near Gerawa. Killing 600 americans. Five Allied destroyers attack five japanese destroyers carrying troops to Buka. Sinking three ships in the last nighttime sea Battle of the Solomons Campaign. German attacks push the soviets Back in the Korostek area source 219 Days of War. W. H. Smith. Tofu almanac Book of 4 Bison books corp. 1941 suit by former fired them for Santa Monica Calif. A five former Security guards filed a lawsuit against Michael Jackson claiming the superstar fired them because they knew too much about his alleged activities with  lawsuit filed monday added to Jackson s woes on the eve of a Superior court hearing scheduled for tuesday on allegations that he molested a 13-year old  s attorneys have asked the judge to delay the boy s lawsuit for six years when the statute of limitations sex  entertainer maintains the allegations Stem from a failed $20 million extortion attempt by the boy s father a dentist and aspiring screenwriter. Jackson attorney Bertram Fields also denied the guards allegations. Jackson has not been charged with an crime. Police Are investigating the 13 year old s allegations. Jackson cancelled his dangerous world tour this month saying he had developed an addiction to painkillers because of the pressure resulting from these false allegations coupled with the incredible Energy necessary for me to  or. Beauchamp Colclough of Londo said monday that the Singer s condition improved after detoxification for painkiller addiction but that up to two months More of treatment is necessary. Jackson spokesmen refuse to say where he is being treated. The former guards claim they were fired in february As part of a cover up for their knowledge of Jackson s allege activities with boys. The lawsuit said the guards knew i january that child molestation allegations involving Jackson and a number of boys Ages 10 through 14, were probable. It also said the plaintiffs were Amon those who had firsthand personal knowl Edge of Many of defendant Jackson nighttime visits with Young  it did not elaborate. Attendant won the company won flight attendant Jeanette Sugg said Dur-sti1 boisterous Celebration at Union Headquarters near fort Worth. It Hurt so bad to go on strike. This is our flesh and   attendants Are to work under a contract Amer ican imposed on nov. 1 until the conflict is settled. Tinc Luesan average 7.8 percent annual pay raise. But for american the agreement could have Omi Nous repercussions. Says Jackson too Okbae Jackson smiles from a wheelchair in a photo taken last March. He is now reportedly being treated for painkiller addiction at an unidentified location. Fields responded nobody was eve fired by or. Jackson for knowing too much about anything. If they were Laid off it was for an entirely different  the former guards Are Morris Wil Liams Leroy a. Thomas Donald starts Fred Hammond and Aaron  seeking unspecified damages. Williams who was Security supervisor at Jackson s neverland ranch claims hews reassigned in 1990 to the Encino compound where Jackson s parents  tie was fired three years later. Wil Liams supervised the other four. One guard alleges that he was ordered to retrieve and destroy a photograph of a naked pubescent boy from the bathroom of the Encino compound. He did not specify when that occurred. Clinton defies moves to Block Halperin Washington a president Clinton will Send the troubled Nomi nation of Morton Halperin Back to the Senate defying conservatives efforts Tob lock him from a senior Pentagon Job a White House official said monday. The president believes he should have the Job communications director Mark Cearan said. Gearan said there was nothing at Halperin s confirmation hearing to Sug Gest that another nominee should be proposed. Conservative Senate republicans had complained that Halperin was too Liber Al to be assistant Secretary of defense for democracy and peacekeeping. Halperin said allegations about his beliefs and activities were false. Amid the intense opposition from conservatives the Senate sent the Nomi nation Back to the White House last week. Halperin s career stretches from his work in the Nixon administration As a National Security aide he resigned in1969 to protest . Involvement in Vietnam to Washington director of the american civil liberties Union. P