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Companies SmithKline Beecham will give cash rebates to American consumers who buy Tagamet, an ulcer treatment, in a sharp break with pharmaceutical industry policy of not marketing prescription drugs directly to the public. The move is the latest response to pressures for lower drug prices, which have intensified with the push for national health insurance. [ Page A1. ]
Mayor-elect Rudolph W. Giuliani said yesterday that police officers should be posted inside any New York City public school where the security was found to be inadequate, but Schools Chancellor Ramon C. Cortines stopped short of endorsing Mr. Giuliani's position. The subject arose as Mr. Giuliani, sharing a podium with Mr. Cortines, explained how he would carry out his campaign proposal to create drug-free and crime-free zones around the city's 1,069 public schools. He said police precinct commanders would determine how many officers to deploy to patrol the zones, covering a two-and-a-half-block radius around each school.
The Clinton Administration moved today to stanch the relentless criticism of its foreign policy performance by compelling the second-highest official in the State Department to resign. Deputy Secretary of State Clifton R. Wharton Jr., the highest-ranking black official in State Department history, submitted his resignation, effective immediately, in letters to President Clinton and Secretary of State Warren Christopher, senior White House and State Department officials said.
NEW discoveries in Turkey and northern Syria, two buried cities and intriguing clay tablets with cuneiform writing, are expanding the known horizons of early urban civilization and literacy well beyond the Sumerian city-states of southern Mesopotamia. Archeologists say the discoveries are among the most exciting in Mesopotamian studies in recent decades. They are confident that further excavations at the sites will provide answers to one of the most important questions in archeology: how and when did the phenomena of urban living and the first writing spread from their place of origin more than 5,000 years ago in the lower valley of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers far into adjacent regions?
Crime Bill Advances The Senate approved an amendment that would set mandatory life sentences for people convicted of three violent felonies when the third is committed on Federal property. Page B9. Police in New York's Schools Mayor-elect Rudolph W. Giuliani said police officers should be posted inside public schools if needed, but the Schools Chancellor stopped short of endorsing the plan. Page B1. Insight Into Healing New research has increased knowledge of how wounds heal themselves and offers hope that science might discover ways to improve on the process. Science Times, page C1. High-Tech Harmony Leonard Bernstein's family is donating his vast personal archive to the Library of Congress in a collaboration intended to make it accessible to anyone with a computer. Page C17.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 3, 1993, covering November 9, 1993.
Pearl Jam
Rush
Meat Loaf
Nirvana
Eazy-E
1993Pete Dunne, English wrestler[†]
Peter Thomas England is an English professional wrestler best known under the ring name Pete Dunne. As of April 2017, he is signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw brand, and is one-half of the New Catch Republic with Tyler Bate. He is a 1-time WWE United Kingdom Champion and 1-time NXT Tag Team Champion alongside Matt Riddle, with whom he also won the 2020 Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic.
1993Ross Andru, American illustrator (born 1925)[†]
Ross Andru was an American comics artist and editor whose career in comics spanned six decades. He is best known for his work on The Amazing Spider-Man, Wonder Woman, The Flash, and The Metal Men, and for having co-created the character called The Punisher.
1993Stari Most, the "old bridge" in the Bosnian city of Mostar, built in 1566, collapses after several days of bombing by Croat forces during the Croat–Bosniak War.[†]
Stari Most, also known as Mostar Bridge, is a rebuilt 16th-century Ottoman bridge in the city of Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It crosses the river Neretva and connects the two parts of the city, which is named after the bridge keepers (mostari) who guarded the Stari Most during the Ottoman era. During the Croat–Bosniak War, the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina used the bridge as a military supply line, leading the Croatian Defence Council (HVO) to shell and destroy it on 9 November 1993. Subsequently, the bridge was reconstructed, and it reopened on 23 July 2004. In 2017, the ICTY deemed that the shelling was legal and that the bridge was a legitimate military target.
In 1993, the world population was approximately 5,591,544,797 people[†]