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November 14, 1991

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Headlines from November 14, 1991

The Baffling Trash Pickup Plan

By N. R. Kleinfield

J. J. Stitt was on vacation and sticking close to home, which was just as well. He could use all the time he could spare to try to decipher the new garbage schedule. "Oh, man, it's unreal," he said. "People are putting the cans out, and it's the wrong day. They're putting out regular garbage and they should be putting out twigs; twigs when they should be putting out garbage. It's all so screwed up."

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Rivals in Louisiana Intensifying Pace and Vitriol

By Roberto Suro

With three days to go in the Louisiana governor's race, State Representative David Duke accused former Gov. Edwin W. Edwards today of heightening racial tensions to mobilize the black vote, while Mr. Edwards stepped up attacks on Mr. Duke's competence and questioned the sincerity of his religious beliefs. Three and a half weeks after the rivals took the top two spots in the Oct. 19 primary, two polls released today showed solid support of core constituencies for each candidate, which analysts said should insure each of them at least 40 percent of the vote in Saturday's election.

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Three European Nations Propose U.N. Peace Force for Yugoslavia

By Paul Lewis

In an attempt to buttress European efforts to end the Yugoslav civil war, Britain, France and Belgium urged the United Nations Security Council today to dispatch a peacekeeping force to Yugoslavia if the warring Serbian and Croatian factions will agree to a lasting cease-fire. These three countries -- the three European Community members of the Security Council -- are now drafting a new resolution asking Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar to see whether the battling forces would agree to suspend the fighting and allow United Nations units to take up positions between their forces.

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INSIDE

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City Hall to Try Again The Dinkins administration agreed to revise its four-year financial plan and to let the state's Financial Control Board determine whether its changes justify additional aid. Page B1. Korean Arms Concern U.S. Secretary of State James A. Baker 3d told South Korea that North Korea's suspected nuclear development was a matter of urgent concern. Page A14. A Step in Pan Am 103 Case Prosecutors are expected to announce the indictments of Libyan suspects, none apparently in the U.S., in the Pan Am 103 bombing. Page A3. Pact in Doctors' Strike One day after they walked out, doctors at Woodhull hospital in Brooklyn reached an agreement that will give them 1.5 percent raises. Page B1. Midway Stops Flying Midway Airlines ceased operations several hours after Northwest Airlines said it was abandoning its effort to acquire the carrier. Page D1.

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Doctors Reach Tentative Pact In Brooklyn

By Lisa Belkin

A tentative agreement has been reached between striking doctors at Woodhull hospital and the corporation that pays their salaries, apparently after pressure was applied by the Mayor's office. The doctors, whose walkout on Tuesday halted all but the most urgent business at Brooklyn's second-busiest hospital, could return to work as early as this morning, their union said.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 13, 1991, covering November 14, 1991.

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Ropin' The Wind
Garth Brooks
Last week
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Peak
1
Weeks
8
2
Death Certificate
Ice Cube
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Peak
2
Weeks
1
3
Too Legit To Quit
M.C. Hammer
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Peak
3
Weeks
1
4
Use Your Illusion II
Guns N' Roses
Last week
2
Peak
1
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7
5
Metallica
Metallica
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4
Peak
1
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12

Notable Births

1991Miriam Brouwer, Canadian cyclist^[†]

Miriam Brouwer is a Canadian cyclist.

1991Taylor Hall, Canadian ice hockey player^[†]

Taylor Hall is a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger for the Carolina Hurricanes of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was the first overall pick in the 2010 NHL entry draft selected by the Edmonton Oilers. He previously played for the Oilers, New Jersey Devils, Arizona Coyotes, Buffalo Sabres, Boston Bruins, and Chicago Blackhawks.

1991Graham Patrick Martin, American actor^[†]

Graham Patrick Martin is an American actor. He is best known for his recurring role as Eldridge on Two and a Half Men (2010–12) and former teen hustler Rusty Beck on the series finale of The Closer and in its spinoff series, Major Crimes (2012–2018). Martin also portrayed Bill Engvall's older son in the sitcom The Bill Engvall Show (2007–09). He starred in the films Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door (2007) and Rising Stars (2010).

1991Thinzar Shunlei Yi, Burmese activist^[†]

Thinzar Shunlei Yi is a Burmese pro-democracy activist and television host. Following the 2021 Burmese coup d'état, she helped organize mass protests against the Tatmadaw. Born in Sagaing to a military family, she originally trained to become a high school teacher, graduating from the Yangon University of Education in 2013. Between 2012 and 2016, Thinzar Shunlei Yi was politically active in executive positions of several youth organizations, and later became a television host on Under 30 Dialogue, a youth-oriented television programme. In 2018, she was charged for unlawful protest against the Rohingya genocide, and was convicted in 2020. After organizing protests against the Tatmadaw in the wake of the 2021 coup d'état, she fled to the jungle and briefly joined an armed rebel group. She lives in exile in Thailand as of 2022, and runs the #Sisters2Sisters anti-wartime sexual violence campaign. She has received the Magnitsky Human Rights Award, and further honors from Women of the Future, the Obama Foundation, and the US Department of State.

Notable Deaths

1991Tony Richardson, English-American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1928)^[†]

Cecil Antonio Richardson was an English theatre and film director, producer and screenwriter, whose career spanned five decades. He was identified with the "angry young men" group of British directors and playwrights during the 1950s, and was later a key figure in the British New Wave filmmaking movement.

Historical Events

1991American and British authorities announce indictments against two Libyan intelligence officials in connection with the downing of the Pan Am Flight 103.^[†]

Intelligence assessment, is a specific phase of the intelligence cycle which oversees the development of behavior forecasts or recommended courses of action to the leadership of an organization, based on wide ranges of available overt and covert intelligence.

1991Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk returns to Phnom Penh after thirteen years in exile.^[†]

Norodom Sihanouk was a member of the Cambodian royal house who led the country as King, Chief of State and Prime Minister. In Cambodia, he is known as Samdech Euv. During his lifetime, Cambodia was under various regimes, from French colonial rule, a Japanese puppet state (1945), an independent kingdom (1953–1970), a military republic (1970–1975), the Khmer Rouge regime (1975–1979), a Vietnamese-backed communist regime (1979–1989), a transitional communist regime (1989–1993) to eventually another kingdom.

Historical Context for November 14, 1991

In 1991, the world population was approximately 5,418,735,891 people^[†]

Headlines from November 14, 1991

The Baffling Trash Pickup Plan

Rivals in Louisiana Intensifying Pace and Vitriol

Three European Nations Propose U.N. Peace Force for Yugoslavia

INSIDE

Doctors Reach Tentative Pact In Brooklyn

Ropin' The Wind

Death Certificate

Too Legit To Quit

Use Your Illusion II

Metallica

Notable Births

Notable Deaths

Historical Events

Historical Context for November 14, 1991