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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...
...women making such exceptional political headway in California? San Diego's liberal Republican Mayor, Susan Golding, once ventured a theory. Women, she said, more naturally represent that state's particular, two-beat public pulse: socially progressive and fiscally conservative. Or, up with choice and down with taxes. If Kathleen Brown is elected California's Governor next fall in the most important U.S. race of election year 1994, she will not only enshrine that ideological combination, she will also raise women's political power to historic heights...
...editorial also said that The Princetonian had not anticipated a negative response to the cartoon, and "our lack of foresight indicates that there is much headway that this newspaper needs to make in understanding the different perspectives this community holds...
...words offered a hint of progress as Israel and Syria go back to the bargaining table in Washington this week, where more than two years of on- again, off-again negotiations have made little headway. And the language bought Assad a thaw in his relations with the U.S., which has been his No. 1 priority ever since the Soviet Union imploded and he could no longer count on Moscow to be his primary patron. To salvage his flattened economy, Assad needs aid and trade from the West. In a sense, said a U.S. official, "he's less interested in peace...
Diana used a luncheon speech at the Headway National Head Injuries Association in London to denounce the press corps and declare her freedom. "When I started my public life 12 years ago," she said, "I understood that the media might be interested in what I did . . . but I was not aware of how overwhelming that attention would become, nor the extent to which it would affect both my public duties and my personal life." Then came the bombshell. At the end of the year, once she had completed her scheduled events, she noted, "I will be reducing the extent...