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Palestinian representatives decided to end a boycott of the Mideast peace talks, and Israel and the Arab countries said they would resume negotiations in Washington next week.
NEW YORK CITY 2 OFFICERS CLEARED IN SHOOTING OF 3D A grand jury cleared two transit police officers in the shooting of an undercover officer in a dimly lighted subway station in Brooklyn last November, the Brooklyn District Attorney announced. The incident raised the sensitive issues of race and police training. B3. A DESPERATE PRISONER, SUDDEN SHOTS The police said it was a sense of hopelessness that prompted Danny Cook to grab an officer's gun in the bathroom and open fire, critically wounding two police officers, and then turn the gun on himself. B3.
The Clinton Administration announced today that it had reached a partial agreement with the European Community in a Government contracts dispute, but that it would proceed with trade sanctions anyway because a full settlement had not been achieved. Mickey Kantor, the United States trade representative, said that the United States had agreed to drop "Buy American" rules for the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Energy Department's five electric power administrations.
Court Hears Bias Crime Case Hearing oral arguments, the Justices appeared on the verge of backing longer sentences for criminals who choose their victims based on race, religion or personal traits. Page B11. U.S. Rejects Sheik's Jailing Officials said that there was no "concrete evidence" linking Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman to terrorism, and that he was not being held pending deportation because of the cost. Page B1. A Better Chance for Yeltsin A ruling by Russia's Constitutional Court made it more likely that President Boris N. Yeltsin would win a vote of confidence on Sunday. Page A3. Prison Standoff Near End The 11-day siege in Lucasville neared an end as inmates freed guards who had been held hostage. Page A16. Choice in Los Angeles A tough-talking businessman and a liberal councilman will vie in a mayoral runoff in Los Angeles. Page A23. Buying Hotels for Homeless To get the homeless out of commercial hotels, Westchester is buying one of the county's largest. Page B1.
Repudiating two major Bush Administration environmental policies, President Clinton said today that the United States would sign an international treaty protecting rare and endangered species and follow a specific timetable to reduce the threat of global warming. In his first major speech on environmental policy, President Clinton declared: "We cannot walk away from challenges like those presented by the biodiversity treaty. We must step up to them."
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 21, 1993, covering April 22, 1993.
Whitney Houston
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Spin Doctors
Eric Clapton
Snow
1993Eighteen-year-old Stephen Lawrence is murdered in a racially motivated attack while waiting for a bus in Well Hall, Eltham.[†]
Stephen Adrian Lawrence was an 18-year-old black British citizen from Plumstead, southeast London, who was murdered in a racially motivated attack while waiting for a bus on Well Hall Road, Eltham, on the evening of 22 April 1993. The case became a cause célèbre: its fallout included changes of attitudes on racism and the police, and to the law and police practice. It also led to the partial revocation of the rule against double jeopardy. Two of the perpetrators were convicted of murder on 3 January 2012.
In 1993, the world population was approximately 5,591,544,797 people[†]