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...most distressing news for fans is that club owners and the Players Association are once again preparing to do battle over their collective- bargaining agreement. Although the pact is scheduled to expire at the end of next year, financially strapped owners want to reopen the contract after this season. The clubs are demanding relief from escalating player salaries, but the players seek to maintain the contract that has created scores of millionaire athletes over the past decade. As a result, the uneasy truce worked out after the 1990 owners' lockout is in danger of being discarded. "The golden days...
...negotiators despaired of settling the funding questions in advance and agreed to reopen the issue in Rio. Some observers think the Group of 77 may have made a tactical blunder by pushing so hard for financial and technical aid. Sir Crispin Tickell, Britain's former ambassador to the U.N., has called it a "diplomatic mistake of the highest magnitude." Others criticize the Earth Summit organizers, who by putting so many environmental problems on the negotiating table may have inadvertently ensured that none of them get solved...
...Wright v. West. That case could permit the justices to rule, in effect, that federal appeals judges should work mostly from the assumption that the courtroom rulings of state-level trial judges are correct. The result would be to limit sharply the kind of questions the federal courts can reopen on appeal...
...promised $600 million in federal assistance for rebuilding. More might be needed. Property damage is already estimated at $785 million, and the figure is bound to go higher, quite likely topping $1 billion. An estimated 10,000 businesses have been shut down, many never to reopen. Peter Ueberroth, the former baseball commissioner and 1984 U.S. Olympics organizer, who has been designated chief of Rebuild L.A. by Mayor Tom Bradley, puts the number of lost jobs at 25,000 minimum -- maybe three times that many...
...weeks ago has been repeatedly violated, the E.C. tried again. Its chief negotiator, Britain's Lord Carrington, flew to Sarajevo and worked out another truce among Bosnia's Muslims, Croats and Serbs and the federal army. Leaders of the warring groups promised to observe the cease-fire and reopen negotiations, but such pledges in the past have gone unfulfilled...