A Fight For On-Air Supremacy
Date: 09 November 1997
By Jesse McKinley
Jesse McKinley
Article on latest escalation in New York's fierce news-helicopter wars at WCBS, WNBC and WABC; photos (L)
Reluare sâmbătă, 8 noiembrie 1997
8 noiembrie 1997 era un sâmbătă sub semnul stelut al lui ♏. Era ziua 311 din an. Președintele Statelor Unite a fost William J. (Bill) Clinton.
Dacă te-ai născut în această zi, ai 28 ani. Ultima ta zi de naștere a avut loc acum sâmbătă, 8 noiembrie 2025, 218 zile. Următoarea ta zi de naștere este pe duminică, 8 noiembrie 2026, peste 146 zile. Ați trăit 10.445 zile sau aproximativ 250.688 ore sau aproximativ 15.041.320 minute sau aproximativ 902.479.200 secunde.
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8th of November 1997 News
Știri așa cum au apărut pe prima pagină a New York Times la 8 noiembrie 1997
Set to Build Dam, China Diverts Yangtze While Crowing About It
Date: 09 November 1997
By Seth Faison
Seth Faison
Army of Chinese workers and engineers divert Yangtze River from its natural course on Nov 8, clearing way for construction to begin on world's biggest dam; China's leaders turn engineering feat into major political event; Pres Jiang Zemin presides over ceremony at vast construction site; he declares project, known as Three Gorges Dam, to be sign of China's emergence as world power; New China News Agency hails dam as most significant achievement in engineering since Great Wall was built 2,000 years ago; map; photo (M)
CENTRAL PARKING TO PURCHASE KINNEY SYSTEM
Date: 08 November 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Central Parking Corp agrees to buy Kinney System Holding Corp for about $187 million in cash and stock (S)
PHILIP SERVICES WEIGHS A BID FOR SAFTEY-KLEEN
Date: 08 November 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Philip Services Corp is considering making offer for Safety-Kleen Corp, waste recycler that is target of $1.8 billion hostile takeover bid by Laidlaw Environmental Services Inc (S)
LEGG MASON IN TALKS TO BUY BRANDYWINE ASSET
Date: 08 November 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Legg Mason Inc is in talks to buy Brandywine Asset Management Co for about $150 million (S)c
Maker of Rolls-Royces May Buy Back Shares
Date: 08 November 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Vickers PLC, which makes Challenger 2 tanks and Rolls-Royce cars, says it might buy back some shares in latest step to refocus the company; Vickers faces hostile bid from Mayflower Corp PLC (S)
I.M.F. Backs Hong Kong In Keeping Peg to Dollar
Date: 08 November 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
International Monetary Fund endorses Hong Kong's decision to maintain its link to US dollar, a stand that slashed stock market's value by more than 15 percent in a month (S)
Ex-Morgan Trainee Admits Stock Fraud
Date: 08 November 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Roy Handojo, former analyst trainee at J P Morgan & Co, pleads guilty to insider trading in stocks of four banks that were takeover targets (S)
NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 09 November 1997
INTERNATIONAL 3-8 House Continues Dealing On Clinton's Trade Power The wheeling and dealing on President Clinton's trade legislation began in earnest as the House of Representatives went into an unusual weekend session, trying to rewrite agriculture provisions to gain more votes. The measure would give the President the authority to negotiate trade pacts that Congress could vote up or down but could not amend. 1 Chinese Divert the Yangtze An army of workers and engineers in China diverted the Yangtze River from its natural course, clearing the way for construction to begin on the world's biggest dam. President Jiang Zemin attended the event, turning a feat of engineering into a major political celebration. 1 A Torturer's Tale As South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation commission continues its work, the brutality of the country's past is being itemized in the testimony of victims and apartheid functionaries, like Jeffrey Benzien, a paunchy police officer who acted as a professional torturer. 1 NATO's Anonymous Pitchman Javier Solana, NATO's most senior civilian official, commands little notice in the United States despite his emerging role as an important pitchman for why the world's biggest military alliance needs to get bigger. 3 Struggle for Spoils in Serbia Three top associates of President Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia and about a dozen of their lieutenants have been killed in recent months, apparently as part of a struggle within the ruling elite for control of state-run industries and vast black-market rings. 13 NATIONAL 16-36 United Way, Facing Fewer Donors, Gives Away Less Five years after its former national president was found to be converting charity money to his own use, United Way is in crisis, abandoned by 4.5 million people -- 20 percent of its donors. And most of its 17.7 million remaining donors give less through payroll deduction, United Way's bread and butter. 1 Church Dinner Turns Deadly Nearly 1,400 people crowded into the meeting hall at Our Lady of the Wayside Parish in Captico, Md., for the annual fall dinner of stuffed ham, turkey and fried oysters. But in the days that followed, many grew sick with nausea, cramps, dehydration and fever, classic symptoms of salmonella poisoning. Two elderly people died and more than 100 visited a hospital emergency room 16 Assault on the J.F.K. Mystique In his new book, ''The Dark Side of Camelot,'' the investigative reporter Seymour M. Hersh portrays John F. Kennedy as an often immoral cad who accepted the aid of mobsters, was obsessed with killing Fidel Castro, and steered the United States deeper into the Vietnam war so as not to appear weak in his campaign for a second term. But historians question the plausibility of key accounts and the reliability of the 35-year-old memories of Mr. Hersh's sources. 26 Overbilling on Ambulances Federal investigators, having documented many instances of overbilling and false claims by ambulance operators, say that Medicare wastes hundreds of millions of dollars a year by paying for unnecessary ambulance services provided to elderly patients. 33 NEW YORK/REGION 37-41 Welfare and Drug Abuse On Nov. 1, New York State ordered that all people receiving or applying for welfare be interviewed to determine whether they abuse drugs or alcohol. Those found to have a problem will immediately be denied all cash benefits. The new rule has experts re-examining the relationship between drug abuse and welfare. 37 A Legal Cavalry The four little-known lawyers who represented Abner Louima, the Haitian immigrant who, prosecutors say, was tortured by New York City police officers in a Brooklyn station house, now find themselves sharing the case with three big-name colleagues, including perhaps the most famous lawyer in America today, Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. 37 OBITUARIES 43 Cong. Vote 40 Weather 42
NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 08 November 1997
INTERNATIONAL A3-8 Clinton, Under Fire, Wins Delay in Trade Vote In an effort to win passage of a bill giving him expanded trade authority, President Clinton asked members of the House to put off the vote at least until Sunday. He tried to win more votes, but the gains were slim, and he appeared to be short of a victory. A1