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STRIKE TWO: The 1995 baseball season may be jeopardized by thecontinuing standoff between owners and players. The owners plan on announcing next Monday at their meeting in Chicago that they are going to impose a salary cap on players, The Washington Post reported. "Last year's system is a historical artifact and we cannot operate under it any more," Atlanta Braves president Stan Kasten said Monday night. "Clubs have to do something by (December) 7th because from that point forward we're into next season with last year's economic system." With the players not planning to offer an alternative...
...Gaza City: "Today we proved to all the Palestinians that what Hamas says about us is true: that we are an instrument in the hands of the Israelis." Eyewitnesses at the Palestine Mosque told of a police major who, upon seeing his colleagues open fire, tore off his cap and jacket and cried to the crowd, "I am not one of them...
Baseball owners put a new, 102-page offer on the table during four hours of negotiations with players yesterday: an updated version of their old salary cap proposal (which led to the strike) and an alternative plan to "tax" any team whose payroll rises above the league average. The two sides began a new meeting today, but players' representatives were already grumbling. "The numbers that they have plugged into this system will not fly," union attorney Gene Orza said. "The question is whether this tax system can survive." The players are expected to make a counteroffer next week.Post your opinion...
...papers released last night, Superior Court Judge Lance Ito approved the prosecution request to take hair samples from Simpson's black Akita (name: Chachi) and Nicole Simpson's white-and-tan dog. O.J's lawyers didn't object. Dark hair, allegedly from a dog, were found on a knit cap discovered at the murder scene, court papers show. And on O.J.'s estate tan dog hairs were discovered on the bloody glove behind the mansion. BTW: Both dogs are now living at Simpson's estate.Post your opinion on theCrimebulletin board...
...essential part of the picture -- the touch she must have counted on to arouse the primal sympathies of her neighbors and to cut short any doubts -- was his race. The suspect had to be a black man. Better still, a black man in a knit cap, a bit of hip-hop wardrobe that can be as menacing in some minds as a buccaneer's eye patch. Wasn't that everyone's most familiar image of the murderous criminal...