BASEBALL STRIKE . . . MIDNIGHT DEADLINE, CARTER ON DECK

Players made a new proposal to end the baseball strike just hours before owners' midnight deadline to impose a controversial salary cap. Neither side released the details. Meanwhile, two days after Jimmy Carter returned from attempted freelance peacemaking in Bosnia, the former president offered to try to break this impasse as well. Carter reportedly approached the two sides before heading abroad, and says he'll only jump in if the present talks are "likely to be abandoned."