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Strike Looks Likely

LOS ANGELES -- Major league baseball owners, meeting in Cincinnati, set the stage for a strike in the second half of the season by the players' union when they unanimously agreed to a collective bargaining proposal calling for a salary cap. The owners also moved Wednesday to prevent defections of the type that have eroded their solidarity in seven previous labor confrontations. Any labor agreement must now be approved by three-quarters of the 28 owners rather than a simple majority. Only eight owners are needed to block a deal, and there seems to be at least that many small market teams determined to change the system by hanging tough in a prolonged work stoppage. Don Fehr, the union's executive director, said the action was "ominous" and "extraordinarily negative."

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