CONGRESS PLAYS BALL

Legislation that would strip pro baseball of its 72-year-old antitrust exemption was approved by a House subcommittee today. It won't save the 1994 World Series, but Congress' involvement could change the face of the game, making a Big League franchise a riskier proposition for owners. During last week's congressional hearings, players vowed to return to the field if the owners' monopoly privileges were ended. A similar bill is making its way through the Senate.

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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
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