Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, September 23, 1993 TAG: 9309230006
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Gretzky has agreed to a three-year, $25.5 million contract with the Los Angeles Kings, the richest deal in the National Hockey League, the team announced Tuesday. Gretzky, 32, is the NHL's all-time leading scorer.
He will make $8.5 million a year, nearly triple his current $3 million-a-year salary.
The contract supersedes the 10-year deal he signed when he joined the Kings in 1988.
The NHL's current highest-paid player is the Pittsburgh Penguins' Mario Lemieux, who makes an average $6 million per year in a seven-year contract.
Richard Nixon will be holding forth on matters international yet again when his 10th book comes out next spring.
Among other topics in "Beyond Peace," the former president will address what he calls the "pathetic inadequacy" of the United Nations in dealing with the war in Bosnia.
Nixon will also "suggest a new agenda for America in the post-Cold War era and at the same time refute the defeatism of the new isolationists of right and left," said Random House president Harold Evans, who edited the book.
The book will look at the promotion of democracy and free markets in the former Soviet Union, redefining NATO's mission and reforming the United Nations.
Nixon's last book, "Seize the Moment: America's Challenge in a One-Superpower World," was published by Simon and Schuster last year.
Clint Black is joining Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster and James Garner in a movie version of the TV series "Maverick."
The country singer, who made his acting debut last season on an episode of the TV series "Wings," will play a Mississippi riverboat gambler in the movie, being shot in Portland, Ore., Black's agent said in a statement Tuesday.
Black, 31, has the No. 14 single, "No Time to Kill," on the Billboard country singles chart.
by CNB