61.   If the owners go ahead and impose the cap, and players challenge it before the NLRB, the litigation could go on for months.

62.   BAP president Rafael Buenaventura said that if no cap is imposed, some of the new entrants could fold in the future due to an oversupply.

63.   The union plans a meeting Monday where they said a new proposal might be made or unfair labor practice suit filed if owners impose a cap.

64.   With the anti-trust exemption, owners have the right to unilaterally impose a cap.

65.   Owners have threatened for months to impose the cap unilaterally.

66.   Owners imposed the cap in December but withdrew it last week under threat of a federal suit from the National Labor Relations Board.

67.   The Helsinki agreement has agitated advocates of a national missile defense because it imposes caps on the capabilities on theater missile defenses.