A group of banks will buy the stock not taken by shareholders.

Compared with other groups of banks, the consortium group is small.

America West said it was also asking its bank group to provide certain waivers for a short period.

The transaction is still subject to approval by the group of banks.

A person close to the bank group said, however, that the banks were open to continuing talks with the Asian companies.

Deutsche provided $200 million out of the $2.6 billion loan, people close to the bank group said.

A group of banks that had lent the company $130 million refused to keep its four plants running.

Only a month ago a group of banks arranged an emergency $:52 million loan to the project.

They also received a $275 million line of credit from a group of large banks and one year later the company reported its first loss.

Each year a different group of banks elects two directors.