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In 1995, the world population was approximately 5,758,878,982 people[†]
1995Pancho Gonzales, American tennis player (born 1928)[†]
Ricardo Alonso "Pancho" González, known sometimes as Richard Gonzales, was an American tennis player. He won 15 major singles titles, including two U.S. National Championships in 1948 and 1949, and 13 Professional majors. He also won three Tournament of Champions professional events in 1957, 1958, and 1959. Gonzales was ranked as the amateur world No. 1 in 1948 by Ned Potter and in 1949 by Potter and John Olliff.
1995Eddie Mazur, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1929)[†]
Edward Joseph "Spider" Mazur was a Canadian ice hockey forward. He played in the National Hockey League with the Montreal Canadiens and Chicago Black Hawks between 1951 and 1956. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1948 to 1966, was spent in the minor leagues.
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New Link in Bombing Case Federal investigators have made links between weapons stolen in a robbery in rural Arkansas last November and the two suspects in the the bombing the Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Page 6. Desperately Seeking Jobs With money for job programs drying up, the search for summer work has a depressing air of futility for many teen-agers throughout the New York City region. Page 23.
Gathered outside a college classroom, Sayaka Fujimoto and six of her friends tore open their packages from the United States, and to the astonishment of their male friends who were watching, pulled out $1,133 worth of Victoria's Secret lingerie. "We're going to have a sleep-over and wear everything -- like a fashion show," said Miss Fujimoto, a 20-year-old college student who often orders clothes through the mail along with her friends.
On a summer night as sweet and soft as any he had ever known, Pierre Mathurin and another young man pulled to the curb in a quiet section of Queens, snorted a couple of lines of cocaine and set out down the sidewalk. They had spotted a man and a woman strolling alone, and now they were going after them, Mr. Mathurin's fingers tightening on a chrome-plated .25-caliber pistol. It was just a week shy of Mr. Mathurin's 20th birthday, and his career as a drug dealer and robber was gathering momentum nicely. But that evening did not go as expected. The woman screamed, and Mr. Mathurin, fleeing with a wallet and a gold chain, was chased down by neighbors with baseball bats, turned over to the police and eventually sent to a prison drug treatment program that transformed his life.
At a meeting quietly convened at a mountain house in the Grand Tetons of Wyoming, representatives of some of the largest employers and purchasers of health insurance agreed last week to pursue a fundamental shift in emphasis in the nation's managed health-care systems: They want the primary focus to be placed on measuring the quality of care now that costs have begun to be controlled. The broad-based agreement was reached at Jackson Hole last week by 30 officials of Federal, state and local public employees organizations, consumer groups and officials of such major employers as American Express, the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, the Ameritech Corporation and Pepsico, which together represent an estimated 80 million consumers of health insurance.
In the next few weeks, Congress will consider legislation to alter rules on food safety drastically. The changes, scattered throughout several bills, have been proposed by the Republicans to limit the Federal Government's authority to regulate not only food safety but also health and the environment. Taken together, the bills would reduce the burden on businesses to prove that food is safe and would increase the burden on Government agencies to prove that proposed rules would reduce risks to the public and would be worth the cost. The bills would also expand the food industry's chances to appeal the rules in court.
Viktor S. Chernomyrdin, Russia's Prime Minister, is widely seen as a potential successor to President Boris N. Yeltsin. Since becoming Prime Minister in December 1992, Mr. Chernomyrdin, the former Soviet Minister for Natural Gas, has grown remarkably in office. He has developed a sophisticated new understanding of macroeconomics and of political survival, nurtured a close relationship with Vice President Al Gore and disclosed a new humanity to Russians when he negotiated an end to the hostage crisis in Budyonnovsk.
Not so long ago, American workers would suffer the sting of a recession by losing jobs or having their hours or wages reduced. They responded by taking part-time work, signing with temp agencies and just making do -- at least until the economy revived. Then they would pour back to work, their wages rising as employers competed for their services. Not anymore. Recent reports suggest that the economy is starting to sputter after perking along for the four years since the last recession. But whatever the economy's prospects, the latest stretch of growth shows that for all but professionals, executives, new college graduates, and the most skilled blue-collar workers, many problems that workers faced only in bad times have become fixtures in all times: Some wages are still falling, people must be ready to work 12-hour shifts and 6-day weeks, and no job is for keeps.
The new Director of Central Intelligence, John M. Deutch, says he wants to change the thinking and the behavior of American spies overseas, to insure that American espionage is consistent with "American interests and American values." The directorate of covert operations "knows that it's necessary to change its attitudes, its practices and its habits," Mr. Deutch said in an interview at the Central Intelligence Agency's headquarters in Langley, Va.
International 2-5 RUSSIAN CORRUPTION RISES Prime Minister Viktor S. Chernomyrdin, the former head of the natural-gas monopoly, Gazprom, is a rising political star in Russia. He is also seen as an example of a close relationship that makes the Government blind to corruption. 1 BUYING AMERICAN, BY MAIL A growing number of Japanese consumers are fighting sky-high prices with an American option: mail order. The market for U.S. goods bought through catalogues has nearly doubled in the last year. 1 TORIES FEAR LABOR COMEBACK As they debate whether to dump John Major and select a new Prime Minister, Britain's governing Conservatives are scared by Labor's growing electoral strength. 2 C.I.A. CHIEF'S NEW GOALS The new Director of Central Intelligence, John M. Deutch, says he wants to insure that espionage is consistent with "American interests and American values." 2 VOW TO REVIVE ARAB-ISRAELI TALKS Israeli and Palestinian leaders tried to pick up the pieces of their failed peace negotiations, promising to resume talks soon but warning that they are still far apart on how to widen Palestinian self-rule. 3 MEXICANS DEBATE SOCIAL PROGRAM Critics of the Mexican social spending program known as Solidarity say it has done little to ease poverty but much to win support for the political party known as PRI. 5 Egypt's leader has become the focus of mass discontent.3 A Serbian mortar shell hit U.N. headquarters in Bosnia. 4 Berlin Journal: The city's future seems to lie in the east. 4 National 6-7, 28 EFFORT TO ALTER FOOD RULES Congress is set to consider legislation to drastically alter rules on food safety. The changes have been proposed by Republicans to limit the Government's authority to regulate not only food safety but also health and the environment. 1 JOB MARKET WORSE IN LONG TERM Reports suggest that the economy is starting to sputter. And many of the problems that workers faced only in bad times have become fixtures: Some wages are falling, people must work 12-hour shifts and 6-day weeks, and no job is for keeps. 1 NEW FOCUS IN HEALTH CARE DEBATE Representatives of some of the largest employers and buyers of health insurance have agreed to pursue a shift in emphasis for managed health care: They want the focus to be placed on measuring the quality of care, not controlling costs. 1 RAID IN VERMONT DRAWS CRITICISM After Federal agents burst into the home of a lawyer in Vermont, traumatized his children and confiscated his computers, on suspicion that he was involved in drugs, the town stood behind him. 6 NEW LINK IN BOMBING CASE Investigators have made links between weapons stolen in a robbery in Arkansas last year and suspects in the Oklahoma City bombing. 6 TOWN CAUGHT AMID FLOODS When rain-swollen creeks flooded central Virginia last week, Graves Mill, a small farming town tucked among the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, found itself caught in the middle. 6 GINGRICH'S NEW BOOK The new book by Speaker Newt Gingrich, "To Renew America," is an effort to distill for the general public his dread of the "welfare state" and his hopes for the computerized future. 28 DEMOCRATS PLAN TO STALL The House Democratic leader said that Democrats will continue trying to stall motions in the House to draw attention to Republican budget initiatives. 28 Metro Digest 23 PRISONS SHUN DRUG TREATMENT For inmates, drug rehabilitation programs can offer a potent weapon for decreasing addiction, crime and the spiraling costs of incarceration. Yet only about one in six inmates receives any treatment, and much of it amounts to little more than "just say no" admonishments. 1 Arts/Entertainment 9-18 Frescoes revive debate. 9 Music: Gal Costa. 9 Naughty by Nature et al. 9 Barber's "Knoxville: Summer of 1915." 14 Marcus Roberts.10 The battle of the jazz bands. 15 Atlantic Records artists. 18 Dance: American Dance Festival. 9 Books: "My Old Man and the Sea." 17 Television: "Mandela's Fight for Freedom." 45 Sports 29-36 Baseball: Yanks beaten. 29 Smiley stymies Mets. 33 Murray breaks two ribs. 34 Basketball: Nelson deal set. 29 Columns: Rhoden on Knicks. 29 Smith on Baseball. 33 Cycling: Rain reigns in Tour. 30 Golf: Weiskopf triumphs. 31 Hockey: Progress on Devils. 35 Racing: Cigar keeps winning. 31 Krone unhurt, 2 horses die. 31 Rowing: U.S. wins at Henley. 31 Special Olympics: True sport. 31 Tennis: The British hope. 29 Business Digest 37 Obituaries 46 Gale Gordon, actor. George Seldes, author, journalist and critic of the press. Wolfman Jack, rock-and-roll disk jockey. George A. Elbert, author of of cookbooks and books about plants. Editorials/Op-Ed 20-21 Editorials A season of vacant seats. A disappointing labor deal. Steven Weisman: Christo's spell. Letters Anthony Lewis: Paradise enow? William Safire: Where is globocop? Bob Herbert: Let them eat poison. Michael Field: How to stop militant Islam. Bridge 17 Chronicle 44 Crossword 16
As they debate whether to dump John Major as their leader and select a new Prime Minister, Britain's governing Conservatives are staring not only into their own political souls, but into the face of the opposition Labor Party. And if they are unnerved by their internal divisions, the Tories are downright scared by Labor's growing electoral strength. Labor is benefiting in part from simply not being the Tories, who after 16 years in power are running at record lows in public opinion polls.
"The average American thinks we've got guys in jail like the ones Jimmy Cagney and Humphrey Bogart played in the 1930's. In reality, the prisons are wall to wall with alcohol and drug abusers and the mentally ill. They're not hardened criminals; they're people who can change. But they can't change without help." -- JOSEPH A. CALIFANO JR. [ 26:1. ]
In the sweltering heat of Cairo, Egypt's President, Hosni Mubarak, is going through his hottest political summer since he stepped in to fill the void when Anwar el-Sadat was assassinated 14 years ago. When President Mubarak took office in October 1981, he was seen as a healer for Egypt who was dedicated to eliminating layers of repressive measures taken by his predecessor.