1.   Collective bargaining talks broke off in the National Hockey League on Tuesday after the owners reintroduced their proposal for a luxury tax on high payrolls.

2.   Sensing momentum may finally be on their side, advocates of federal legislation that would ban job discrimination against gays and lesbians reintroduced their proposal Tuesday.

3.   She intends to reintroduce her proposal next year.

4.   Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen says he will reintroduce the proposal in January and will regard the vote as a vote of confidence in his government.

5.   The EU Commission nevertheless reintroduced the proposal, after concluding that anti-BSE standards are lax across the EU.