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...player had less enthusiasm for striking, but to the discomfort of his employer, Rose supported the union: "I needed the Players' Association's permission to take a cut over the maximum 20% to return to Cincinnati." This shift dropped him from a high of nearly $2 million to below $500,000. He smiles. "Where would I be without the Players' Association?" Had the owners elected to bluff through a struck season with minor leaguers, he was agreeable to managing the Reds. But Rose, the player, would have been on strike. "I wasn't going to get the hit that...
...Phil Niekro, 46, the New York Yankees' elderly knuckle-ball pitcher, "experience after a while becomes another word for compensating, listening to your body, squeezing the maximum out of what's left. When I started, my age now would have boggled my mind. But these days I think anything's possible." Niekro lacks six victories for 300. The wise Chicago White Sox pitcher Tom Seaver, 40, got there last week. He has lost only the least of his gifts, velocity. Discussing Rose, he says, "Pitchers don't have to run, remember. Not that Pete was ever a very fast runner...
...least one terrorist, however, was apparently telling a different story. It was confirmed last week that two of the accused had been moved from the maximum-security facility at Spoleto to prisons near Genoa, where magistrates last week granted U.S. officials permission to question them. Perhaps as a result of their testimony, another terrorist suspect was arrested on the outskirts of Rome. According to unconfirmed Italian press reports, one hijacker told Genoa investigators that Abul Abbas had masterminded their operation. He also reportedly said that Abul Abbas had promised to spring the four terrorists from prison, threatening to stage kidnaping...
...matter how often legitimate users changed their sign-on codes, the hacker was able to gain unauthorized access to the hospital's records by summoning the intervening trapdoor and reading off the newly accumulated list of passwords. The culprit was later apprehended. He pleaded guilty and faced a maximum penalty of six months in jail and a $500 fine...
Clarke noted that John and Michael had struck a plea bargain with the Government by trading information on the extent of their espionage for less-than-maximum sentences. But, he asserted, there was no justification for leniency in sentencing Arthur. Prosecutor Tommy Miller hinted that the retired Navy lieutenant commander had been engaged in the family spy business longer and more deeply than he had admitted. (One revelation at Arthur's sentencing was that he had had an affair with his brother's wife Barbara.) Said Miller: "We have gotten a confession, but we have not gotten the whole truth...