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...middle of a debate on crime and healthcare on the house floor, Rep. Pat Williams, D-Mont., broke out: "Big league ballplayers, major league club owners: Play ball!" (BTW: Montana doesn't even have a team...
...appear ready to walk Friday, despite a daylong emergency bargaining session. "I believe we are closer to a strike than we were 24 hours ago," said owner representative Richard Ravitch. At issue: the owners want a salary cap, the players don't. No new sessions are on the agenda. BTW: There have been eight baseball strikes in the past 22 seasons, including a 50-day run in 1981. Each time, the owners caved...
...donated wheat flour. The catch, Secretary of State Warren Christopher said, is that Haiti's impoverished people won't get the bulk until the military welcomes back exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Even so, about $3 million will immediately go to feed children, the elderly and disabled. BTW: The last time the U.S. gave Haiti aid -- $20 million last year -- the de facto government in Port-au-Prince reportedly froze several banks accounts so much of the money couldn't be used...
...anybody? President Clinton -- and most of Congress -- want to know. A day after Clinton declassified information on the spy agency's half-completed complex, he told CIA Director James Woolsey and Pentagon officials to figure out why Congress wasn't told about the project's scope and mammoth budget. BTW: If built, the building would house the shadowy National Reconnaissance Office, which oversees spy satellites, and would be one-fifth as big as the Pentagon...
...peace -- the first time they've articulated such a claim. Don't bet on their getting what they asked for. They don't have many supporters left: Western leaders are miffed by the Bosnian Serbs' rejection of a peace plan that would have given them 49 percent of Bosnia. (BTW: Serbs comprise just a third of the population of Bosnia). And Yugoslavian Serbs, usually their natural allies, have also publicly excoriated them...