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...that show, or the one in which Cal Ripken trots out to shortstop for the Orioles, game after game after game? At the 66th All-Star Game last week, Ripken, who was just 54 games shy of Lou Gehrig's record for consecutive games played (2,130), spent close to an hour signing autographs for the fans, working his way from dugout to dugout in the 100¡ heat while most of his peers were relaxing in the air-conditioned comfort of their clubhouses...
...confrontation with a policeman in Frazeysburg, a small Ohio town some 50 miles northeast of Columbus. Militia members who were following Hill in a separate car claim that he was executed by the policeman,TIME correspondent Ed Barnes reports. But local police say that Hill pulled a .45-cal. semiautomatic handgun and pointed it at the policeman, who then fired four shots, hitting Hill three times. According to sworn affidavits obtained by TIME, Ken Adams, leader of theNorthern Michigan Militia, and three militia witnesses say the officer, Sgt. Matt May, pulled Hill to the side of the road twice. Police...
...killed Wednesday morning in a confrontation with a policeman in Frazeysburg, a small Ohio town some 50 miles northeast of Columbus. Militia members claim that Michael Hill, the chaplain, was executed by the policeman,TIME correspondent Ed Barnes reports. But local police say that Hill pulled a .45-cal. semiautomatic handgun and pointed it at the policeman, who then fired four shots, hitting Hill three times. According to sworn affidavits obtained by TIME, Ken Adams, leader of theNorthern Michigan Militia,and three militia witnesses say the officer, Sgt. Matt May, pulled Hill to the side of the road twice. Police...
Mounted on a United Nations armored combat vehicle blocking the entrance to Sarajevo's Marshal Tito Barracks, a 12.7-cal. machine gun points in the direction of Bosnian Serb forces just 220 yds. away. The gun is menacing but can almost never be used, and it serves less as a weapon than as a symbol of the paradox faced by the peacekeepers in Bosnia: they are soldiers forbidden to function as soldiers. "You are not allowed to act like a fighting force and return fire," says Guillaume Grouzelle, a French chief corporal whose job it is to guard the barracks...
Stop talking about the strike. Start talking about the Streak (Cal Ripken's Streak, that is). Market the players; stop fighting them...