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James Reston, former columnist, Washington correspondent and executive editor of The New York Times, died tonight at his home here. He was 86. The cause was cancer, said his son Thomas.
The lawyer for a Camden County man committed to a state mental hospital after being found not guilty of a sex offense by reason of insanity urged an appeals court yesterday to overturn a law that forbids such people from living in supervised community group homes. James Katz, a volunteer lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, said that his client, described only as "J.W.," was no longer under court supervision for the 1981 case and that his doctor had said he belonged in a group home. But State Superior Court Judge E. Stevenson Fluharty ruled that state law prevented the man from ever being assigned to a group home. J.W. has been living in Ancora Psychiatric Hospital in Winslow Township, the A.P. reported.
While the 20,000 G.I.'s in Bosnia are not expected to see heavy combat, the Army is ready to deal with "peacekeeping stress." Page A6.
Beginning this week, the Metro Digest appears inside this section, no longer on page B1. Today, the digest is on page B3.
The House approved a bill today that would make it far more difficult for stockholders who believe that they were defrauded to bring lawsuits against corporate officials, accountants and stockbrokers. By a vote of 320 to 102, it sent to President Clinton a House-Senate compromise measure that would drastically alter a system of regulating the securities industry that for 60 years has sought to discourage fraud by a combination of private and Government actions.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 6, 1995, covering December 7, 1995.
The Beatles
Garth Brooks
Mariah Carey
Mannheim Steamroller
Soundtrack
1995Kathleen Harrison, English actress (born 1892)[†]
Kathleen Harrison was a prolific English character actress best remembered for her role as Mrs. Huggett in a trio of British post-war comedies about a working-class family's misadventures, The Huggetts. She later played the charwoman Mrs. Dilber opposite Alastair Sim in the 1951 film Scrooge and a Cockney charwoman who inherits a fortune in the television series Mrs Thursday (1966–67).
1995The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34.[†]
Galileo was an American robotic space probe that studied the planet Jupiter and its moons, as well as the asteroids Gaspra and Ida. Named after the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, it consisted of an orbiter and an entry probe. It was delivered into Earth orbit on October 18, 1989, by Space Shuttle Atlantis, during STS-34. Galileo arrived at Jupiter on December 7, 1995, after gravitational assist flybys of Venus and Earth, and became the first spacecraft to orbit an outer planet.
1995Khabarovsk United Air Group Flight 3949 crashes into the Bo-Dzhausa Mountain, killing 98.[†]
Khabarovsk United Air Group Flight 3949 was a Russian domestic passenger flight from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk to Khabarovsk, that crashed on 7 December 1995 local time, killing all ninety-eight people aboard. The crash occurred after the aircraft had entered into a steep downward spiral during automated flight at an altitude of 10,600 metres (34,800 ft).
1995An Air Saint Martin (now Air Caraïbes) Beechcraft 1900 crashes near the Haitian commune of Belle Anse, killing 20.[†]
Air Caraïbes is a French airline based in the French West Indies, with its headquarters in Les Abymes in Guadeloupe. The airline's main base of operations is at Pointe-à-Pitre International Airport in Guadeloupe, with a focus city at Martinique Aimé Césaire International Airport, near Fort-de-France in Martinique. It operates scheduled and charter services in the West Indies, as well as transatlantic flights based at Paris Orly Airport in Metropolitan France.
In 1995, the world population was approximately 5,758,878,982 people[†]