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NEW YORK CITY CHALLENGE PREPARED ON PLAN FOR SERVICES A City Council committee passed a measure that would allow the Council to conduct hearings on the Mayor's efforts to turn over city services to private companies. The move sets the stage for a battle over the Mayor's attempts to reshape how some city services are delivered. B2.
American workers are obtaining less in pay and benefit increases from employers these days, but they seem ever more optimistic, two surveys indicated today. Moderating inflation in medical and other benefit costs helped hold the rise in overall worker compensation to seven-tenths of 1 percent in the first three months of the year, the smallest quarterly advance since 1986, the Labor Department reported today in its employment cost index.
In a scene worthy of "King Lear," the usually sunny California sky unleashed thunder, lightning, rain and hail today as Richard M. Nixon's body returned to his birthplace in a plain wooden coffin covered by a flag. The former President's two sad-eyed daughters, Tricia and Julie, accompanied by their families and the Rev. Billy Graham, followed the coffin through the raging elements and delivered him to the Nixon library, where he will be "planted," as he dryly put it to a friend a couple of years ago, under an oak tree outside the little wooden bungalow where he was born.
The Bosnian Serb army has complied with a NATO ultimatum for the withdrawal of its heavy weapons beyond 20 kilometers from Gorazde, apparently insuring that there will be no NATO bombardment of Serbian positions there, a United Nations spokesman said today. "All the sites in the 20-kilometer exclusion zone where Bosnian Serb army weapons were previously located have been reported by United Nations military observers as being cleared," said Comdr. Eric Chaperon, a United Nations spokesman.
A state judge reinstated rape charges today against five men who admitted having sex with a woman who had passed out after drinking too much in an upstate restaurant. The decision in the highly publicized case nullifies the guilty pleas all five men had entered last June in a town court in St. Lawrence County, pleas that focused attention on the criminal justice system's treatment of sexual assault. The men, indicted in county court on felony rape charges, had been permitted to plead guilty to sexual misconduct, a misdemeanor. Each paid a fine of $840.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 27, 1994, covering April 27, 1994.
Pink Floyd
Ace of Base
Soundtrack
Tim McGraw
Counting Crows
1994Corey Seager, American baseball player[†]
Corey Drew Seager is an American professional baseball shortstop for the Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Los Angeles Dodgers. He is often regarded as one of the best shortstops of his generation.
1994South African general election: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote. The Interim Constitution comes into force.[†]
General elections were held in South Africa between 26 and 29 April 1994. The elections were the first in which citizens of all races were allowed to take part, and were therefore also the first held with universal suffrage. The election was conducted under the direction of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), and marked the culmination of the four-year process that ended apartheid.
In 1994, the world population was approximately 5,675,551,255 people[†]