Article: Minnesota Governor Urges Northwest Airlines, Pilots to Settle.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Aug. 25--With the clock ticking toward a possible strike Friday night, Minnesota Gov. Arne Carlson again personally called on both Northwest Airlines and its pilots' union to reach a negotiated settlement this week and avert a shutdown of the nation's fourth-largest airline.

Carlson also said that observers were wrong to conclude that his Aug. 3 letter to President Clinton was a plea for Clinton to block a pilot strike.

"I did not ask for a Presidential Emergency Board," Carlson said. "I wanted him to jawbone them, to use his office to get them back to the table."

Carlson has been doing some jawboning of his ...

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