Clinton wants baseball back
WASHINGTON (AP) - Though it
already seems doomed, President
Clinton proposed legislation to Con
gress on Wednesday that would cre
ate a three-member panel of indepen
dent arbitrators to settle the baseball
strike.
Clinton, speaking in the Roosevelt
Room, where talks were held the night
before, said he had no regrets about
• trying to end the strike.
“I’ll send the legislation up. They’ll
hear from the American people, and
they’ll make their own decision,” he
said. “If we had a baseball commis
sioner, maybe none of us would have
been in here.”
Bud Selig, the acting commis
sioner, said the owners didn’t want
Clinton interfering.
“Binding arbitration is not the so
lution to this dispute, and we reject
the idea,” Selig said.
Players and owners spent four
hours at the White House with Clinton
and his staff on Tuesday. No talks are
scheduled, and it appears they won’t
meet again until next Wednesday
when they testify before a Senate sub
committee. The hearing will take
place just one day before spring train
ing starts with replacement players.
“This doesn’t change the task we
have before us,” said union head Don
Fehr. “I guess we’ll have to try and
regroup and consider what has to be
done. We’re prepared to continue to
do that, as we have been all the way
through this dispute.”
House Speaker Newt Gingrich and
Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole said
they had no intention of moving
quickly to force an end to the six
month strike.
“I’m not sure that Congress has
the wisdom, or should have the abil
ity to intervene in a single industry
that’s not a matter of national safety,”
Gingrich said.
The Republican leaders, who have
the power to bottle up any bill, met
with mediator W.J. Usery for about
40 minutes in Dole’s ornate Senate
office. Usery met separately with Fehr.
Other Republicans criticized
Clinton for attempting to personally
mediate the dispute.
“I think it’s a dumb idea. We have
much more important fish to fry,”
said Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Texas.
“For a president who claims to cham
pion the middle class, he certainly
spends a lot of time trying to settle
disputes between millionaires.”
Even some Democrats disagreed
with the president.
“I think we have a lot more impor
tant things to do than baseball,” said
Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del. “I’d like to
organize a group that if baseball comes
back, we’d boycott baseball. And I’m
a baseball fan.”
Clinton’s bill, sponsored by Sen.
Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., and
Rep. Pat Williams, D-Mont., would
give the president authority to ap
point a three-person national base
ball dispute resolution panel.
“If we want a 1995 baseball sea
son, this may be the last resort,” La
bor Secretary Robert Reich said dur
ing a news conference.
Joy
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Taylor said she was surprised that
she had her highest score on the bal
ance beam this year.
“My most consistent event right
now is beam, which is kind of funny
because that was always my weak
est,” Taylor said. “As far as potential,
it is the vault.”
That showed last weekend when
Volleyball
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Avery is a 6-foot-1-inch—which
Pettit said was closer to a 6-foot-2
inch—middle blocker and was named
I second-team Mizuno High School
All-American.
Pettit said Avery reminded him of
former Nebraska two-time All - Ameri
can Virginia Stahr.
“She is probably as quick a middle
blocker as we have ever recruited,”
Pettit said. “We were fortunate be
cause she has always wanted to come
- here.”
The three recruits from the Mid
west all had participated in Nebraska
volleyball camps, and Pettit said that
helped the recruiting process.
Nebraska’s fourth signee, Nepo, is
one Pettit said he was extremely cau
tious about.
Nepo, a 5-foot-9-inch setter/hitter
from Honolulu, chose Nebraska over
Georgia Tech, Purdue, Hawaii and
Clemson.
The 1994 Hawaii volleyball player
of the year was selected as a third
team Mizuno volleyball selection.
Pettit said Nepo reminded him of
another Nebraska All-American.
“I think of her a little bit like Cathy
Noth,” Pettit said. “Fiona’s explosive
and could play either setter or outside
hitter at a high collegiate level.”
Noth is a current assistant coach
for Nebraska and was an All-Ameri
can in 1983 and 1984.
Taylor scored a personal season-high
9.725 in the vault against Oklahoma.
One event Taylor has struggled in
is the floor exercise.
This year her high in the event is
only a 9.525.
Taylor said she needed to work
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“I’m pretty hard on myself,” Tay
lor said. “I expect a lot from myself.
When I don’t do as well as I expect to
do, I’m probably my biggest critic.”
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host to the NCAA Midwest Regionals
April 8, the home arena advantage
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