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That there was any meeting at all in Casablanca was a minor victory for some of the Arab moderates, notably Jordan's Hussein. Since 1982, Syria, Libya and the other absentee states have blocked efforts to hold any kind of Arab summit in order to avoid a public show of Arab differences...
...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 way," he shudders. "I think most people will forgive me for breaking Cobb's record. From the beginning, didn't they say I played...
...Redlegs and helped Pete into an extra uniform. While still in high school, Rose became a familiar figure around the team, having a catch with Johnny Temple or Roy McMillan. Signed eventually at the age of 19 by Buddy Bloebaum, another uncle, Rose took just three years in the minors to turn into an annoying presence at Reds training camp in the spring of 1963, threatening to displace well-liked Second Baseman Don Blasingame. The manager, stoic Fred Hutchinson, issued few clarifications. As Rose remembers, "I had been playing enough to think I might have made the team...
...remember? Really, I wish these kids all could go through what I have, but I don't think it's fair to ask every one of them to get 4,000 hits." His principal ally is Coach George Scherger, 64, Detroit Manager Sparky Anderson's first teacher in the minor leagues. "George doesn't tell me what to do," Rose says...
...protective wife and doctor's daughter, Nancy Reagan believes strongly in the confidentiality of the patient-doctor relationship. But as her husband demonstrated last week, the straightforward answer can ensure that something minor does not turn into a nagging issue that attracts far more headlines than it deserves...