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A TWO-STORY house in Mount Pleasant has no Reaganites. A spacious, beautiful house on 16th Street welcomes only liberal "think tank" types. A small three-bedroom in Fairfax tolerates no liberals. To rent a room in a Washington group house it is not enough to be clean and free of felony convictions. Even sharing a living space resonates of politics.
Drug Picture Worsens Hospital treatment of heroin and cocaine cases is up sharply in New York City and dealers are dropping prices, state officials say. Page B1. United Airlines Snubs Boeing United Airlines, Boeing's biggest and most loyal customer, leased 50 planes from Airbus, the four-nation European consortium. Page D1. Hispanic District Challenge
The Federal Reserve Board has found that Saudi Arabia's largest bank and its former chief executive violated American banking laws in trying to acquire control of the Washington-based First American banks with help from the Bank of Credit and Commerce International. The board last week determined that Sheik Khalid bin Mahfouz and the National Commercial Bank of Saudi Arabia had failed to properly report the 28.7 percent of First American's holding company they acquired in 1986, according to papers the Fed released today.
Gov. Bill Clinton worked today to narrow his list of potential running mates, sending the head of his Vice-Presidential search team to Tennessee to meet with Senator Al Gore Jr., and interviewing Senator Bob Kerrey of Nebraska in a post-midnight meeting. Mr. Gore appeared to be getting the most intense attention from the Arkansas Governor as the search for a running mate neared its end.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 8, 1992, covering July 9, 1992.
Billy Ray Cyrus
Kris Kross
Mariah Carey
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Pearl Jam
1992Kelvin Coe, Australian ballet dancer (born 1946)[†]
Kelvin Coe OBE was an Australian ballet dancer and the first male artist to be promoted from the corps de ballet in the Australian Ballet principal dancer. He died of AIDS-related illness in 1992.
1992Eric Sevareid, American journalist (born 1912)[†]
Arnold Eric Sevareid was an American author and CBS news journalist from 1939 to 1977. He was one of a group of elite war correspondents who were hired by CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow and nicknamed "Murrow's Boys." Sevareid was the first to report the Fall of Paris in 1940, when the city was captured by German forces during World War II.
In 1992, the world population was approximately 5,505,989,816 people[†]