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Police Chief George Pugh announced a new work schedule yesterday to deploy more police during high-crime hours in this violence-plagued city. He said the change will make it possible to deploy an extra 30 to 35 officers between 2 P.M. and 6 A.M., when most crimes are committed. The department has about 350 officers.
Dr. Hakim Elahi does not know Dr. Henry W. Foster Jr., the President's nominee for Surgeon General, but as he watches the attacks on Dr. Foster by anti-abortion groups, he says questions about abortion would also haunt him if he were ever in that position. "In my dreams it's there," Dr. Elahi, an obstetrician-gynecologist who heads La Guardia Hospital in Flushing, Queens, said reflecting on one of the highest honors for a doctor in this country. "But I don't want to have to defend myself for abortions I've done in the past. I think it's irrelevant. I don't want to have to apologize for what I have done, legally and conscientiously."
An empty subway train, on the way to its first station on a midafternoon run yesterday, slammed into a Manhattan-bound B train that had stopped at a red signal on a curve in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Six people on the B train and the motorman on the empty train, an M, were treated for minor injuries after the crash, which wrapped the metal skin of the M over and around the skin of the B, like one snake trying to swallow another. The accident left one car of the M tottering on a trestle over Fort Hamilton Avenue, and disrupted the end-of-the-day routine for commuters heading to Brooklyn from lower Manhattan.
After years of debate, the Federal Aviation Administration said today that it was authorizing airlines to collect and analyze data on mistakes and equipment malfunctions and to keep the information in data bases that could not be used to punish them or their pilots. This immunity would protect them even if the information showed that they had broken rules. Until now, the Air Line Pilots Association has blocked the collection of data from airplanes' "black box" systems for fear that it would give evidence that would cost pilots their jobs. In the process, safety advocates say, the airlines have been denied information that could give early warning of problems that could cause crashes.
Gov. George E. Pataki's choice to head the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, George J. Marlin, was officially confirmed yesterday at an unusually contentious meeting of the agency's board, ending a monthlong dispute over his qualifications and conservative views. Mr. Marlin's approval as executive director by a 10-to-2 vote of the authority's commissioners was somewhat of a formality after Gov. Christine Todd Whitman of New Jersey came out earlier this week in his support. But the discord at the meeting nonetheless indicated that Mr. Marlin, a longtime executive in the municipal finance industry, is likely to be closely monitored by some commissioners.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 8, 1995, covering February 10, 1995.
Van Halen
Garth Brooks
Green Day
Eagles
Boyz II Men
1995Sterling Brown, American basketball player[†]
Sterling Damarco Brown is an American professional basketball player for Partizan Belgrade of the Basketball League of Serbia (KLS), the ABA League and the EuroLeague. He played college basketball for Southern Methodist University (SMU) from 2013 to 2017. As a senior, he earned second-team all-conference honors in the American Athletic Conference (AAC). Brown was drafted 46th overall in the 2017 NBA draft by the Philadelphia 76ers.
1995Bobby Portis, American basketball player[†]
Bobby Portis Jr. is an American professional basketball player for the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Arkansas Razorbacks, earning consensus second-team All-American honors as a sophomore in 2015. Portis was selected in the first round of the 2015 NBA draft by the Chicago Bulls with the 22nd overall pick. He won an NBA championship with Milwaukee in 2021.
1995Carolane Soucisse, Canadian ice dancer[†]
Carolane Soucisse is an ice dancer who represents Ireland and formerly Canada. With her skating partner, Shane Firus, she is a two-time Irish national champion (2023–24) and represented Ireland at the European and World Championships. Skating with Firus for Canada, she is the 2018 Four Continents silver medallist. They have finished third at the 2020 Canadian Championships and represented Canada on the Grand Prix circuit and at the World Championships.
1995Lexi Thompson, American golfer[†]
Alexis Noel Thompson is an American professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour. At age 12 in 2007, she was the youngest golfer ever to qualify to play in the U.S. Women's Open, since broken by Lucy Li who was 11 in 2014. She turned professional in June 2010 at age 15. On September 18, 2011, Thompson set a then new record as the youngest-ever winner of an LPGA tournament, at age 16 years, seven months, and eight days, when she won the Navistar LPGA Classic. Three months later she became the second-youngest winner of a Ladies European Tour event, capturing the Dubai Ladies Masters by four strokes on December 17, 2011. She won her first and only major championship at the 2014 Kraft Nabisco Championship at the age of 19 years, 1 month and 27 days, making her the second youngest LPGA golfer to win a major.
1995Naby Keïta, Guinean footballer[†]
Naby Laye Keïta is a Guinean professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for NB I club Ferencváros, on loan from Bundesliga club Werder Bremen, and captains the Guinea national team.
1995Paul Monette, American author, poet, and activist (born 1945)[†]
Paul Landry Monette was an American author, poet, and activist best known for his books about gay relationships. In 1992, he won the National Book Award for Nonfiction.
In 1995, the world population was approximately 5,758,878,982 people[†]