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BLACK bag in hand, Dr. Francis Scifo stepped out of his white Buick and headed toward the front door of a home in North Bridgeport. "Hello, Frankie," said Genevieve Marciano, greeting him with a hug. "Come on in." Inside, her husband, Benedict Marciano, lay in bed, smiling broadly. Dr. Scifo took his hand.
Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and Police Commissioner William J. Bratton said yesterday that the black gunman-arsonist who killed seven people and himself in a fiery attack on a Jewish-owned clothing store in Harlem on Friday had apparently been motivated by racism.
THE PLAYWRIGHTS ATHOL FUGARD AND Jon Robin Baitz know South Africa in different ways. Mr. Fugard, 63, has traced his country's agonies over apartheid in such dramas as " 'Master Harold' . . . and the Boys" and "My Children! My Africa!" His newest work, "Valley Song," is set in the post-apartheid present. It opens on Tuesday at the Manhattan Theater Club, with Mr. Fugard directing and playing two roles: the autobiographical Author, who is white, and Abraam Yonkers, who is black and the grandfather of Veronica, played by Lisa Gay Hamilton.
It was three years ago that Freddy's settled into a former meat market on 125th Street in Harlem, and began selling discounted men's and boys' clothing. Its immediate neighbor was the Record Shack, a dusty store that had been in place for 17 years selling used 45's and old gospel albums. Almost the first conversation between the clothing store owner and the proprietor of the record shop placed the men in opposing camps. The owner of the clothing store, who held the lease for the record shop, wanted it to pay more rent or leave.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 6, 1995, covering December 10, 1995.
The Beatles
Garth Brooks
Mariah Carey
Mannheim Steamroller
Soundtrack
1995Tacko Fall, Senegalese basketball player[†]
El Hadji Tacko Sereigne Diop Fall is a Senegalese professional basketball player for the New Zealand Breakers of the Australian National Basketball League (NBL). He has previously played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Boston Celtics and Cleveland Cavaliers.
1995Darren Robinson, American rapper (born 1967)[†]
Darren Robinson, also known as Big Buff, Buff Love, Buffy, The Human Beat Box, The Ox That Rocks, and DJ Doctor Nice, was a rapper, beatboxer, and actor who was a member of the 1980s hip hop group The Fat Boys. He, along with Doug E. Fresh and others, were pioneers of beatboxing, a form of vocal percussion used in many rap groups throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
1995The Israeli army withdraws from Nablus pursuant to the terms of Oslo Accord.[†]
The Israeli Ground Forces are the ground forces of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The commander is the General Officer Commanding with the rank of major general, the Mazi, subordinate to the Chief of General Staff.
In 1995, the world population was approximately 5,758,878,982 people[†]