Negotiators for striking machinists and the Boeing Company have reached a tentative agreement to end a 67-day strike, the union said late today.

Some striking machinists heckled passengers standing in line for tickets.

Eastern's pilots and flight attendants walked out in sympathy with the striking machinists but called off their strikes last November.

This morning, he rose early and brought doughnuts to striking machinists in Amana.

All but 200 of the 3,600 union pilots walked off the job in sympathy with striking machinists in March 1989.

Most of Eastern's pilots had honored striking machinists' picket lines.

The daily barrage of criticism from the striking machinists' union does not help.

Many striking machinists and flight attendants who have stayed off the job have become deeply concerned about their economic survival.

"I used to be a fisherman - that was my hobby," said Don Hubble, a striking machinist.

Criticism from the striking machinists' union hasn't helped.