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...strike can't go on forever, and at least some owners will want to crack first. Small-market teams like Milwaukee, Pittsburgh and Montreal will need to drink from their primary pool of income, gate receipts, very soon. The irony is that Montreal was at the top of the NL East, yet they couldn't fill Olympic Stadium. The answer is simple; move the team south where people care. A serious profit-sharing initiative, such as those in place in both the NFL and NBA, will have to be implemented to save small market clubs...
...freshmen crack the lineup, I think we'll be in very good shape," Leonard says...
When most Americans think of Marion Barry, this is what they see: a grainy FBI videotape showing the mayor of Washington, D.C., in a hotel room smoking a pipeful of crack cocaine. That image, followed by his trial and conviction on a drug charge, turned Barry and the District of Columbia into international symbols for all that was wrong with America's drug-infested cities. It was the kind of scandal that destroys political careers forever...
Rwanda and Zaire -- previously on the outs about how to bring about the return of 1.2 million wary Hutu refugees in Zairian border camps -- agreed to work together to solve the crisis. Senior United Nations officials called the pledge a "big achievement," mainly because it means Zaire might crack down on leaders of Rwanda's ousted Hutu government who are now preventing some refugees in the camps from going home...
Germany and the U.S. have put former Soviet countries' lax control over weapons-grade plutonium on the international front burner. In Germany, where police have now seized four caches of smuggled plutonium, Chancellor Helmut Kohl demanded guarantees from Russia that it would step up efforts to crack down on thefts from nuclear plants. He had the full backing of the U.S. Other German officials said they want Europe's fledgling police agency, Europol, and German spies to fight the smugglers. Russia, despite solid German evidence to the contrary, denied that even one grain of its plutonium is missing. But TIME...