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Major league ballplayers 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...
...lopsided Senate vote in Kelso's favor would have been the expected end of it. Instead, a bipartisan group of women forced a daylong debate. Those who tried to defend the admiral were reduced to praise for a solid 38-year career -- minus Tailhook and logic. Republican Senator Ted Stevens of Arkansas asked his female colleagues to "remember that ((Kelso is)) a father of two young women who are very sensitive of their father's role in this matter" -- whatever that meant. John Warner of Virginia worried about the hardship Kelso's wife would bear if he were...
...have trooped before junketing TV journalists in Los Angeles to stress their concerns about violence -- and assert that they aren't the only ones to blame. Next Monday a heavyweight lineup of TV producers, network executives and other industry bigwigs will meet to explore the violence issue at a daylong "summit conference" sponsored by the National Council for Families and Television...
...dropped an additional 5 in. of rain on central Iowa. A dangerous second crest could chase the big one down the Mississippi, and secondary rivers could burst their banks in areas so far spared. That happened last Thursday night in Fargo, North Dakota. The Red River, engorged by a daylong deluge, rose 4 ft. in six hours, rampaging into town and causing sewage to back up into homes and Dakota Hospital...
...daylong blockade of Clark's office undoubtedly disrupted the "normal duties and activities" of those at the Law School. But the ill-considered responses of Clark and other officials to the protest display an appalling lack of concern for the First Amendment guarantees of freedom of expression and freedom of the press...