Not only did he court and win Patco's endorsement during his 1980 campaign, he directed his negotiators to go beyond his legal authority to offer controllers a pay raise before their strike - the first time a president had ever offered so much to a federal employees' union.

The remaining 25 percent is being offered to the national pilots' union, AS The Mexican Government is close to selling the national airline Aerovias de Mexico, familiarly known as Aeromexico, for $340 million, the state-owned Banobras bank announced.

The remaining 25 percent is being offered to the national pilots' union, ASPA, which has yet to close its financing.

Superintendents and administrators receive a benefit package commensurate with that offered to the district's teachers' union.

The deadline was dead, but the possibility of a hockey season was still alive last night when the National Hockey League offered yet another "final" collective bargaining proposal to its locked-out players' union.

While in Lautoka he met leaders of the Kisan Sangh and offered his services to the sugar cane farmers' union.