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The United States will take a series of steps to help Haiti improve its economy, including making a $200 million contribution this year to an international aid effort and increasing the amount of food it is sending to needy Haitians, Administration officials said yesterday. Restrictions on flights to Haiti and on financial transactions will also be lifted, they said.
As many as 200,000 people have fled the city of Surat in western India after an outbreak of pneumonic plague that medical experts described as one of the most serious reported in the world in recent decades, officials here said today. Less than 48 hours after the first confirmed death from the disease, officials in the industrial city said that 24 people had died and 137 others were being treated in hospitals. But unofficial reports, including accounts from doctors working in Surat, said that at least 100 people had died, and that the toll was expected to rise as house-to-house searches turned up scores of new patients.
Only the United States Senate, with its arcane rules and members who are comfortable speaking at length to empty chairs, could find itself in such a mess. Republicans kept the Senate in session all night talking about a procedural motion on campaign finance legislation. The motion was finally agreed to this afternoon, 93 to 0, and the senators recessed for the weekend.
A sweeping effort to rewrite the nation's telecommunications laws, intended to permit open competition between telephone and cable television companies, collapsed today in the Senate amid feuding between rival industry groups. The bill was pronounced dead by its chief sponsor, Senator Ernest F. Hollings, Democrat of South Carolina. Blaming opposition from some regional Bell companies, which argued that the legislation was stacked against them, Senator Hollings said he would not have been able to push his bill through before this session of Congress ends next month.
Aldrich H. Ames, the spy inside the Central Intelligence Agency, exposed nearly every important operation and agent the C.I.A. had inside the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the mid-1980's, according to a draft of a C.I.A. report on the affair. The internal report admits for the first time that Mr. Ames was not boasting when he bragged at his sentencing in April that he had done far more damage to the C.I.A. than the agency admitted after his arrest in February.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 21, 1994, covering September 24, 1994.
Boyz II Men
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1994Barry Bishop, American mountaineer, photographer, and scholar (born 1932)[†]
Barry Chapman Bishop was an American mountaineer, scientist, photographer and scholar. With teammates Jim Whittaker, Lute Jerstad, Willi Unsoeld and Tom Hornbein, he was a member of the American Mount Everest Expedition led by Norman Dyhrenfurth, the first American team to summit Mount Everest on May 22, 1963. He reached the summit of Mount Everest by the South Col route on May 22, 1963 with fellow American Lute Jerstad, sharing the honor of becoming the second and third Americans to stand on Everest's summit. Prior to his Everest summit, Bishop participated in several other notable first ascents; the West Buttress route on Denali in 1951, and the South West ridge route on 6,170 meter Himalayan peak Ama Dablam in 1961. He worked for the National Geographic Society for most of his life, beginning as a picture editor in 1959 and serving as a photographer, writer, and scientist with the society until his retirement in 1994. He was killed in an automobile accident near Pocatello, Idaho later that year.
In 1994, the world population was approximately 5,675,551,255 people[†]