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Wednesday, January 10, 2001
Miss., Ga. Mull Removal
Of Confederate Emblem
The Associated Press
JACKSON, Miss. - Mississippi’s
House voted 120-1 Tuesday for a
statewide election to decide whether the
Confederate battle emblem should
remain on the state flag. Senate approval
is expected later in the week.
A gubernatorial commission in
Mississippi recommended replacing the
battle emblem with a circle of stars. Both
options would be on the planned April
17 ballot.
Georgia lawmakers are also consid
ering bills in both the House and Senate
that would remove the Confederate bat
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de emblem from their state flag.
“If (Miss, legislators) let it go to a
vote, that’s fine,” said Lamar Roberts of
Vicksburg, a former division comman
der of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
“1 believe the present flag w ill win.... It
might offend some people. What about
the majority it doesn’t?”
The Confederate battle emblem -
crossed blue bars with white stars on a
field of red - has been on the Mississippi
flag since 1894. It has appeared on the
Georgia flag since 1956.
Southern heritage groups say it was a
tribute to Confederate soldiers, but
many blacks consider it a reminder of
slavery and racial discrimination.
The Mississippi Supreme Court last
May ruled that the flag and the state coat
of arms had no standing in state law.
Mississippi NAACP president
Eugene Bryant said the civil rights orga
nization believes with the backing of the
state’s political and business communi
ties there will be anew flag. “No one
really wants to handle it. They pass it on
to the next hand, the next hand and on
to the people of Mississippi. I still
believe our state Legislature and our
governor need to take a stand - don’t
dodge, don’t duck, don’t put their heads
in the sand.”
Clinton Plan Aims to Quell Energy Crisis
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The Clinton
administration searched for ways to bro
ker an agreement Tuesday to ease
California’s energy crunch and avert the
growing threat of bankruptcy for the
state’s two major cash-starved utilities.
High-level administration officials
and all the major players in the
California power crisis met behind
closed doors to try to fashion a frame
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Airline Buyouts Spur Criticism
The Associated Press
CHICAGO - The megadeals that
would give United and American
Airlines control of half the U.S. market
are running into opposition from con
sumer advocates and politicians, who
warn that passengers will face fewer
choices, worse service and higher fares.
American’s plan to buy struggling
Trans World Airlines is likely to be
unveiled Wednesday. American is also
looking to purchase part of US Airways
Group Inc., potentially clearing the way
for that company’s purchase by United
parent UAL Corp.
But criticism has been fierce.
United is the nation’s largest airline,
slighdy ahead of American, and their
proposals would eliminate No. 6 US
Airways and No. 8 TWA. The fourth
and fifth-largest airlines - Northwest and
the state’s electricity supply system.
None of the participants talked to
reporters as they entered the Treasury
Department where the session was
being held.
Federal options appeared to be few,
and one key Republican senator already
has warned against a bailout for the
state, whose five-year experiment with
electricity deregulation was described
this week by Democratic Gov. Gray
Davis as a “dangerous and colossal fail
ure.”
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Paul Hudson, executive director of
the nonprofit Aviation Consumer Action
Project, said the deals would end an era
of competition in the airline industry.
“Prices will rise, the level of service is
likely to go down and consumer choices
will immediately drop,” he said.
Hudson said other airlines would be
forced to merge to survive, likely result
ing in four huge U.S. airlines.
Congress will have its say on the deals
before new antitrust officials in the Bush
administration make the final decision.
“It is hard to imagine how this can be
good for competition or for consumers,”
said Sens. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, and
Herb Kohl, D-Wis., who serve on a Senate
subcommittee on business competition.
Both said their concerns will be
addressed in hearings.
Consumers Union, publisher of
The potential economic fallout from
California’s power problems became
more apparent Tuesday when Intel
Corp., the world’s largest manufacturer
of computer chips, announced it would
no longer expand its plants or build new
ones in the state until the electricity
problems - including sporadic threats of
rolling blackouts and soaring prices -
are resolved.
“Unless this energy issue is addressed
... it won’t be just an issue of whether
employers expand their operations
here. It will be an issue of whether they
continue to build their products here,"
warned Carl Guardino, president of the
Silicon Valley Manufacturing
Association, representing 190 California
technology companies.
Campus Calendar
Today
6 p.m. - The Wesley Foundation
will be having dinner, followed by a
program of “Reconnecting” and catch
ing up with friends.
Thursday
5 p.m. - The Unitarian-
Universalist Fellowship for students
will meet in Union 208 for discussion
and worship.
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Consumer Reports, said the American-
TWA deal “would further concentrate a
market that is already noncompetitive"
and urged the Justice Department to
reject it.
Consumers Union already wants the
United-US Airways deal blocked.
The airlines say consolidation would be
good for the public, making travel easier
by strengthening existing flight networks
and weeding out unprofitable operations.
Under agreements that first surfaced
Sunday and confirmed by industry
sources, American plans to buy TWA
and pay United nearly $1.4 billion for a
variety of assets: 86 jets, joint ownership
of US Airways’ Boston-New York-
Washington shuttle, dozens of gates and
landing and takeoff slots at East Coast
airports and 49 percent of DC Air,
which would be formed once United
buys US Airways for $4.3 billion.
In the meeting Tuesday, the admin
istration hopes to play “an honest bro
ker role” among the parties trying to
resolve the state’s growing energy prob
lems, said Gene Sperling, President
Clinton’s chief economic adviser.
> The private meeting brought togeth
er state officials, including Davis, regu
lators and legislative leaders; the state’s
three largest electric utilities; nine of the
major power producers and brokers,
some of whom have been accused of
price gouging, and the chairman of the
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, which has refused to
impose wholesale price controls sought
by Davis.
“We have very little direct authority
over any of the parties,” Sperling said.
8 p.m. - The Carolina Production
Guild meeting will be held in Swain
Hall Studio 2. The meeting is open to
anyone interested in film production.
No experience is necessary. For more
information, contact cpgfilms@hot
mail.com.
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Wednesday, January 10,2001
Volume 108, Issue 135
PO. Box 3257. Chapel Hill, NC 27515
Matt Dees, Editor, 962-4086
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