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President Clinton summoned players and owners to the Oval Office tonight after a federal mediator failed to solve the 179-day-old baseball strike. "The President was exasperated," said White House spokesman Mike McCurry. The national pastime drew attention from both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. With spring training slated to start next week, Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole--speaking on the Senate floor this morning--urged both sides to accept mediator W.J. Usery's proposed solution. But neither Dole nor House Speaker Newt Gingrich want Congress directly involved...
...current council Vice President decided to ally himself with the day-old Movement to Reform the U.C. (MRUC) because he says he is committed to its three stated goals, at least one of which he and vocally opposed last year...
Owners and players unions returned to the negotiating tables for the first time since the strike was called, but they apparently didn't make any headway. The 13-day-old walk-out has cancelled 170 games. The major stumbling block: players want owners to give up their demands for a salary...
...Option of Adoption. In January 1993 the agency called to say that a nine-month-old baby named Traymont was available. Ten days later, the Wilhelmis took the child home. No heart-searing dramas followed: Traymont's birth parents did not try to reclaim custody; previously unidentified relatives did not surface to contest the adoption. Encouraged by the ease of the process, the Wilhelmis decided to adopt a second child. Last February, 12-day-old Sally joined their family...
...lesson after the NATO strike and agreed to return the weapons they took. The latest attack represents a tightening of the noose around the Bosnian Serbs, who have few friends left. According to TIME's Central Europe bureau chief James L. Graff, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic today enforced a day-old border blockade by turning away hundreds of trucks bound for Bosnia. Even the Russians, who were expected to complain, remained quiet. "The stars were right for this kind of strike," says Graff...