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UPS chairman James Kelly responded with the warning that a two-week strike could mean the layoff of 15,000 union workers and once again called for President Clinton to intervene.
USA Today leads with the rebuke to Iraq likely to come from the U.N., which is also the top national story at the Los Angeles Times . The New York Times leads with Kodak's decision to cut 10,000 jobs, the biggest layoff at any American company this year.
Council aides said yesterday that they did not have a head count for the cuts at the Law Department, but that the City Council plan is tilted towards the elimination of legal positions, which at 10 percent would require the layoff of more than 65 lawyers.
A February Newsweek cover story entitled "Corporate Killers" listed just about every large layoff by a major corporation over the last five years.
1. Tonya Harding is back on ice, this time as a pro, after a five-and-a-half year layoff for that whole clubbing Nancy Kerrigan thing.