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With individual investors growing more and more confident about both the stock and bond markets, cash is pouring into many mutual fund groups at a record rate. Some mutual fund companies said yesterday that August would be the best month in their histories, in terms of taking in cash from customers.
One morning not long ago, Venezuela's representative to the United Nations, Diego Arria, entered his 46th Street office and stared out the second-floor window at the makings of an international incident. The mission's neighbor, the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, had erected scaffolding, capped with coils of barbed wire that not only sprawled across the property line, but also blocked Mr. Arria's view.
In a deal that moves the nation closer to a national network of cellular telephone service, two of the largest owners of cellular-telephone franchises announced yesterday that they planned to cooperate in some of the biggest cities in the country, including San Francisco, Dallas and Kansas City. Their plan covers some 9.5 million potential customers. McCaw Cellular Communications Inc., the nation's largest provider of cellular service, and the Pactel Corporation, a unit of the Pacific Telesis Group and the third-largest provider of cellular service, said they intended to form a 50-50 joint venture. McCaw would contribute some five million potential subscribers, and Pactel would add 4.5 million potential subscribers and pay McCaw $100 million in cash.
On this point, there is no dispute: Long Island Sound is badly polluted. Now the question is who is going to pay to clean it up. In its simplest terms, the issue pits the urban giant, New York City, against the suburbs and farms of Long Island and Connecticut.
The brains of homosexual men are structurally different from those of heterosexual men in a region thought to influence male sexual behavior, a scientist says he has found. The discovery, if confirmed, would be the first detection of a distinct pattern in the brain that could help explain sexual preference among men.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 28, 1991, covering August 30, 1991.
Metallica
Natalie Cole
Color Me Badd
Bonnie Raitt
Boyz II Men
1991Seriki Audu, Nigerian footballer (died 2014)[†]
Seriki "Sarki" Audu was a Nigerian footballer. He played for Gombe United and Lobi Stars in the Nigeria Premier League. He was killed in a car crash on 20 December 2014 at the age of 23.
1991Jacqueline Cako, American tennis player[†]
Jacqueline Cako is an American former tennis player of Hungarian descent.
1991Liam Cooper, Scottish footballer[†]
Liam David Ian Cooper is a professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Bulgarian First League club CSKA Sofia. Born in England, he plays for the Scotland national team.
1991Cyril Knowles, English footballer and manager (born 1944)[†]
Cyril Barry Knowles was a footballer who played left-back for Tottenham Hotspur and England. He was the son of the rugby league footballer Cyril Knowles, and the older brother of fellow professional footballer Peter Knowles.
1991Vladimír Padrůněk, Czech bass player (born 1952)[†]
Vladimír Padrůněk was a Czech jazz and rock bass guitarist. He is known for his work with the groups Jazz Q, Energit, Etc..., Abraxas, and others.
1991Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (born 1925)[†]
Jean Tinguely was a Swiss sculptor best known for his kinetic art sculptural machines that extended the Dada tradition into the later part of the 20th century. Tinguely's art satirized automation and the technological overproduction of material goods.
1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Azerbaijan declares independence from Soviet Union.[†]
The Soviet Union was formally dissolved as a sovereign state and subject of international law on 26 December 1991 by Declaration No. 142-N of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. It also brought an end to the Soviet Union's federal government and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev's effort to reform the Soviet political and economic system in an attempt to stop a period of political stalemate and economic backslide. The Soviet Union had experienced internal stagnation and ethnic separatism. Although highly centralized until its final years, the country was made up of 15 top-level republics that served as the homelands for different ethnicities. By late 1991, amid a catastrophic political crisis, with several republics already departing the Union and Gorbachev continuing the waning of centralized power, the leaders of three of its founding members, the Russian, Belorussian, and Ukrainian SSRs, declared that the Soviet Union no longer existed. Eight more republics joined their declaration shortly thereafter. Gorbachev resigned on 25 December 1991 and what was left of the Soviet parliament voted to dissolve the union the following day.
In 1991, the world population was approximately 5,418,735,891 people[†]