National headliners

Jet, Dec 3, 2001

Credit Black Justice Department anti-trust chief Charles James for the settling of the Microsoft Corporation case. The lawyer warned company officials that he would "walk" if his settlement terms weren't met ... NYC Rep. Gregory Meeks, seeking to become a Democrat Party vice chair, made overtures to Hispanic officials to form a minority coalition ...

Philadelphia Mayor John Street opened an office in the school system's headquarters in his move to show opposition to the state's taking over his city's public schools. "We will fight the Commonwealth," warned the mayor ... Winning one of NASA's highest awards for contractors, Harold Stinger, president of SGT, Inc., an engineering service with a $10 million gross and 300 employees, disclosed that he was pastor of a Virginia church, devoting Mondays to his clerical role ... Vice President of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce--former White Louis Stokes House aide Reta J. Lewis.