Word: strike
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...fantasies were not to be, not in Cleveland, Ohio, nor anywhere else in the green cathedrals of what Annie Savoy in Bull Durham called "the Church of Baseball." The 1994 major league season may have ended for good late Thursday night in Oakland, California, with the sadly appropriate third strike as A's pinch hitter Ernie Young whiffed on a fast ball from strikeout king Randy Johnson of the Seattle Mariners. With that final, futile swing, the national pastime went down for the count as the more than 750 members of the Major League Players Association began their long- dreaded...
...purloined in the Serbs' morning raid. But the target was one of dozens of large Serb guns that have been spotted around Sarajevo, in clear violation of the U.N.-imposed heavy-weapons exclusion zone that has kept the Bosnian capital virtually free of shelling since February. The symbolic NATO strike did the trick. Within two hours, Momcilo Krajisnik, speaker of the self-styled Bosnian Serb parliament, had phoned U.N. officials in Zagreb to say that the stolen weapons would be returned. By the next day they had been handed back...
NATO and the Clinton Administration hailed the air strike as a successful demonstration of allied resolve. But the Bosnian Serbs apparently remain determined to keep fighting -- and to refuse the peace plan that both Croatia and Bosnia have now endorsed. On Friday three Serb mortar rounds were fired at Sarajevo -- the first such attack on the city in months. "We are prepared to be hungry, naked and barefoot," declared Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic. "But we must fight for our freedom...
...NIGERIA: Strike for Democracy...
...success of a strike can be judged by the degree of economic paralysis it induces, the 230,000 Nigerian oil workers who began walking off their jobs on July 4 in an effort to topple the country's military government were successful beyond their dreams. The work stoppage, which escalated last week when it was joined by the 3.5 million members of the largest umbrella union, the Nigeria Labor Congress, played havoc with everyday life. Banks were shuttered, as were most small shops and businesses. Most painfully affected was Nigeria's biggest source of foreign exchange, the oil industry...