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The Clinton Administration, working to assemble a new aid package to help President Boris N. Yeltsin, has proposed that the International Monetary Fund greatly increase its assistance to Russia. The Administration has also suggested that the I.M.F. ease some restrictions that blocked the delivery of much of the Western aid promised last year.
With the campaign to oust President Boris N. Yeltsin collapsing, a specially summoned Congress of People's Deputies moved today toward a compromise that would include new elections both for President and the legislature. After two weeks of brutal maneuvering and clashes, nerves and tempers were taut, and the Kremlin rang with some of the bitterest invective yet in the drawn-out power struggle.
Leaders of gay rights organizations warned White House officials at a meeting today that unless President Clinton better demonstrates his support for homosexuals in the military, a gay and lesbian march on Washington next month would turn into an embarrassing protest. The meeting came as organizations of homosexuals that provided enthusiastic support for Mr. Clinton in last year's campaign were threatening to withhold political and financial support from the Democratic Party.
As a debate over casino gambling intensifies in the Connecticut Legislature, casino operators have begun one of the most sophisticated and expensive efforts ever undertaken in this state to win friends and influence the people who count. Mirage Resorts, which has offered to build two casinos, in Bridgeport and Hartford, spent more than $92,000 last month alone on lobbying, public relations fees, expenses and entertainment, the largest one-month lobbying tab in recent history, if not ever, according to the State Ethics Commission. An Advertising Barrage That does not count the $382,000 the company committed for what it called an initial television advertising barrage (by Hal Riney, the high-priced and mellow-voiced creator of ads for Gallo Wines and of Ronald Reagan's "Morning in America" campaign) or the even subtler efforts and arguments that are harder to categorize.
After much criticism of the secrecy surrounding the work of his health policy team, President Clinton today abandoned his effort to conceal the names of more than 500 people who are developing his proposal to guarantee health insurance coverage for all Americans. With the names of many of those people having already circulated around Washington, the White House acknowledged that its effort to keep the identities secret had failed, and it reluctantly issued a listing of all 511 staff members of the health-care task force. [ The list appears on page 8. ]
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 24, 1993, covering March 27, 1993.
Eric Clapton
Sting
Whitney Houston
Kenny G
Spin Doctors
1993Brandon Nimmo, American baseball player[†]
Brandon Tate Nimmo is an American professional baseball outfielder for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB). He was drafted by the Mets in the first round of the 2011 MLB draft, and made his MLB debut with them in 2016.
1993Kamal Hassan Ali, Egyptian general and politician, Prime Minister of Egypt (born 1921)[†]
General Kamal Hassan Ali was an Egyptian politician and military hero.
1993Paul László, Hungarian-American architect and interior designer (born 1900)[†]
Paul László or Paul Laszlo was a Hungarian-born architect and interior designer whose work spanned eight decades and many countries. László built his reputation while designing interiors for houses, but in the 1960s, largely shifted his focus to the design of retail and commercial interiors.
1993Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China.[†]
Jiang Zemin was a Chinese politician who served as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1989 to 2002, as chairman of the Central Military Commission from 1989 to 2004, and as president of China from 1993 to 2003. Jiang was the fourth paramount leader of China from 1989 to 2002. He was the core leader of the third generation of Chinese leadership, one of four core leaders alongside Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, and Xi Jinping.
1993Italian former minister and Christian Democracy leader Giulio Andreotti is accused of mafia allegiance by the tribunal of Palermo.[†]
Christian Democracy was a Christian democratic political party in Italy. The DC was founded on 15 December 1943 in the Italian Social Republic as the nominal successor of the Italian People's Party, which had the same symbol, a crusader shield. As a Catholic-inspired, centrist, catch-all party comprising both centre-right and centre-left political factions, the DC played a dominant role in the politics of Italy for fifty years, and had been part of the government from soon after its inception until its final demise on 16 January 1994 amid the Tangentopoli scandals. Christian Democrats led the Italian government continuously from 1946 until 1981. The party was nicknamed the "White Whale" due to its huge organisation and official colour. During its time in government, the Italian Communist Party was the largest opposition party.
In 1993, the world population was approximately 5,591,544,797 people[†]