My job is just to bring out the facts and let everybody else form their own judgements and take whatever actions they deem appropriate. They also said, 'If this book points to new and verifiable information that advances understanding of this tragic era, IBM will examine it and ask that appropriate scholars and historians do the same. Dig further and you're reminded that Random House is owned by the Bertelsman, the German media conglomerate. A federal judge in California ruled today that one of the state's big utilities cannot retroactively bill consumers for its losses. Edison International and Pacific Gas and Electric are near bankruptcy, after they were forced to pay expensive wholesale prices for power at a time that state law capped retail rates.
Analysts say the ruling threatens to tip the companies into bankruptcy.
We'll report on another legal ruling from California governing the fate of the on line music service Napster in a few minutes. More storm clouds gathering on the horizon for air travelers this spring and summer. Delta's 10-thousand pilots have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike if mediation talks fail to resolve differences between the union and management by the end of the month. That means a strike could begin anytime after April first. And the government today issued a long-awaited review of the airlines' compliance with voluntary measures to improve customer service, begun in 1999.