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International A team of investigators from the Justice Department, the Federal Reserve Board and the Manhattan District Attorney's office will go to Abu Dhabi to begin the next stage of their inquiry into the Bank of Credit and Commerce International. [ Page D1. ]
Diallo Robinson, a senior at East New York High School of Transit Technology, is a regular customer of the school counseling room where condoms are free for the asking. He finds it convenient to pick them up during lunch hour, and says, "I feel more comfortable getting them from somebody I know." Mr. Robinson is among the thousands of students in 126 New York City High Schools who, two years after the city became the first in the nation to distribute condoms on demand as a tactic against AIDS, have made it part of their routine to request condoms at school. But the condom policy is about to change.
The Republican-controlled Legislature failed today to override Gov. Jim Florio's vetoes of bills that would have raised fuel taxes to pay for upgrading thousands of underground storage tanks and that required schools to stress sexual abstinence in family-life courses. For backers of both bills the last voting session of the 205th Legislature was a blend of elation and dejection. After the State Assembly voted to override the Governor on both bills, the Senate attempts foundered when Democrats refused to provide any votes. The Senate Republican majority has only 27 members, the minimum needed for an override, and two were absent from the session.
Citing riders' complaints about subway panhandlers, Transit Authority officials yesterday announced a new crackdown featuring a public-relations campaign that asks straphangers to help drive beggars out of the trains by refusing to give them money. "We think it's largely a supply-and-demand issue," the Transit Authority president, Alan F. Kiepper, said at a news conference. "If people stop giving in subways," he said, panhandlers will "go elsewhere and get treatment" or the other social services they need.
In a critique of President Clinton's health care plan, Gov. Mario M. Cuomo has told New York State employees that under the proposal they would generally have to pay more for less comprehensive benefits than they now have. In a letter being distributed this month to all state employees, Mr. Cuomo says the Clinton plan would dismantle an excellent insurance program that covers more than one million New Yorkers. Article, page A14.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 5, 1994, covering January 11, 1994.
Mariah Carey
Pearl Jam
Snoop Doggy Dogg
Michael Bolton
Frank Sinatra
1994Helmut Poppendick, German physician (born 1902)[†]
Helmut Poppendick was a Nazi physician in the SS during World War II. After the war he was a defendant in the 1947 Doctors' Trial and accused of war crimes relating to human experimentation; he was acquitted on these charges, but convicted for his SS membership and sentenced to 10 year imprisonment. He was released in 1951.
1994The Irish Government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Féin.[†]
Ireland, also known as the Republic of Ireland, is a country in north-western Europe consisting of 26 of the 32 counties of the island of Ireland, with a population of about 5.4 million. Its capital and largest city is Dublin, on the eastern side of the island, with a population of over 1.5 million. The sovereign state shares its only land border with Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom. It is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, with the Celtic Sea to the south, St George's Channel to the south-east and the Irish Sea to the east. It is a unitary, parliamentary republic. The legislature, the Oireachtas, consists of a lower house, Dáil Éireann; an upper house, Seanad Éireann; and an elected president who serves as the largely ceremonial head of state, but with some important powers and duties. The head of government is the Taoiseach, elected by the Dáil and appointed by the president, who appoints other government ministers.
In 1994, the world population was approximately 5,675,551,255 people[†]