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MAKING IT WORK 3 Westbeth was to be a vibrant arts center; 25 years after it opened, many old-timers say it is just subsidized artists' housing. NEW YORKERS & CO. 4 The Christmas Spectacular is Radio City's annual pot of gold. Keeping it that way is an annual challenge.
As a summit meeting of southern African leaders was winding down last month, Frederick Chiluba, the elfin former union leader who is now the President of Zambia, lapsed into a pensive monologue. Maybe Africa was not really cut out for Western-style democracy, he told his fellow heads of state with a sigh. How could a president get anything done with opponents constantly carping at him? Maybe the one-party state was the way to go, after all.
THE deadline for businesses with 100 or more workers to submit a plan to reduce employee trip count by 25 percent came and went last week. While a majority of Westchester corporations complied with the Federal mandate, 121 businesses failed to meet the deadline. Joseph Petrocelli, Acting Commissioner of the County Department of Transportation, said that of the 330 work sites that had registered with the county as having to file an Employee Commute Option Plan (a 1990 amendment of the Federal Clean Air Act) 209 filed plans by 6 P.M. last Tuesday. The percentage of registered businesses that failed to file plans was 37 percent.
Lou Roe heard the pitches and listened to his dreams. His game was offering all these paths from Atlantic City, and all he had to do was choose one. These were big-time basketball places in prime-time leagues. Syracuse had a place at center stage in the Carrier Dome. Connecticut had become a national program. Florida State and Clemson were interested. He chose none of them. When Lou Roe finally made his decision and told his friends he was headed for this place called UMass, the responses held more skepticism than congratulations. There had to be some mistake. "UMass didn't sound like University of Massachusetts," Roe remembered. "Maybe a technical school or something. People didn't really know. They were like, 'What's wrong? What was on your mind when you made that decision? What made you choose UMass over Syracuse? Are you nuts? Who is UMass, anyway?' "
THE recently announced strategic alliance between Christie's, the auction house in Manhattan, and Zachy's, the wine retailer in Scarsdale, is expected to draw an increasing number of Westchester County collectors and consumers to the embryonic New York State wine auction arena. Their first auction is for April 8 at Christie's on Park Avenue. The goal, said Jeff Zaccharia of Zachy's is "providing education to consumers as well as wine for collectors."
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 16, 1994, covering November 20, 1994.
Nirvana
Boyz II Men
Soundtrack
Megadeth
The Offspring
1994Timothy Kitum, Kenyan middle-distance runner[†]
Timothy Kitum is a Kenyan middle distance runner. He also won Commonwealth Youth Games 800m with a Games Record 1.49.32
1994Jānis Krūmiņš, Latvian basketball player (born 1930)[†]
Jānis Krūmiņš was a Soviet-Latvian professional basketball player. Helped by his height, he was the first giant center that dominated under European baskets, for years. As a player of the senior Soviet Union national basketball team, Krūmiņš won 3 gold medals at the 1959, 1961, and 1963 EuroBaskets, as well as 3 silver medals at the 1956, 1960, and 1964 Summer Olympic Games.
1994The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol in Zambia, ending 19 years of civil war. (Localized fighting resumes the next year.)[†]
Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-central coast of Southern Africa. It is the second-largest Portuguese-speaking (Lusophone) country in both total area and population and is the seventh-largest country in Africa. It is bordered by Namibia to the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Zambia to the east, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. Angola has an exclave province, the province of Cabinda, that borders the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The capital and most populous city is Luanda.
In 1994, the world population was approximately 5,675,551,255 people[†]