U.S. CONFERS CHINA RIGHTS

   The U.S. Department of Transportation officially granted Federal
Express, United Airlines and Northwest Airlines additional rights to serve China with no changes to the initial allocations proposed after the
agreement with Beijing in April.
   FedEx has been granted permission to operate four weekly round-trip
flights immediately and two more in April 2000; Northwest receives four
weekly round-trip flights now and two more next year; and United wins five weekly flights beginning next April.
   FedEx will double its existing service in the U.S.-China market
immediately. Northwest will be able to expand passenger services to Beijing and Shanghai from Detroit, offer new passenger service from Honolulu and start cargo service from Anchorage to China. United will offer a new nonstop service to Shanghai from San Francisco beginning next year.