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* The leaders of the pilots union at AMR Corp.’s American Airlines said they will resign, a month after members rejected a contract extension that would have forgiven a $45.5-million judgment against the union. President Rich LaVoy, Vice President Brian Mayhew and Secretary-Treasurer Bob Morgan said they would resign once interim officers are appointed, the Allied Pilots Assn. said on its Web site. LaVoy and Mayhew have been at the center of a controversy that began in February 1999, when the APA led a pilots’ sickout to protest plans to mesh pilots from Reno Air Inc., bought by AMR, into American’s seniority system.

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