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Gov. George E. Pataki is warning that a protracted battle in Washington over the Federal budget will throw New York State's new budget into turmoil and force him to make deep new cuts in spending on top of the ones already proposed. Other governors say they share his concern.
After sharply cutting New York City services for two years, Mayor Giuliani is now proposing to slow the reductions. In his next budget, he said, he will safeguard spending for child welfare, the elderly, health and parks, among other services. News analysis, page B4.
Mayor William Pascrell Jr. is expected to join the Democratic candidates hoping to unseat United States Representative William J. Martini, a Republican, in the fall. Mr. Pascrell, 59, who is also a State Assemblyman, has not formally announced, but Joseph Doria, the Assembly minority leader, said yesterday that he would support a Pascrell candidacy.
Details of the Whitman administration's proposal for state aid to municipalities that were released yesterday show a $71 million decline, reflecting lower utility-tax revenues. Over the weekend, the administration announced that the new budget assumed that the $1.5 billion in state assistance to municipalities would remain flat. The tax-revenue decline was caused when some customers switched from regulated utilities to independent power producers, and administration officials said they were studying whether to apply the utility tax to independents.
As top specialists from the International Monetary Fund complete a painstaking review of Russia's eligibility for critical foreign loans, President Boris N. Yeltsin has embarked on a pre-election promising spree that economists say casts new doubt on his commitment to economic discipline. Experts whose assessment may determine Russia's access to $9 billion in new Western lending are worried that Mr. Yeltsin's budget-busting promises -- if he keeps them -- could undermine the country's market reforms by igniting inflation, according to economists familiar with the deliberations.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 31, 1996, covering January 31, 1996.
Soundtrack
Mariah Carey
Alanis Morissette
Bush
Oasis
1996Joel Courtney, American actor[†]
Joel Courtney is an American actor known for his role in the 2011 film Super 8 and for his starring role as Lee Flynn in Netflix's The Kissing Booth film series.
1996Nikita Dragun, American Youtuber[†]
Nikita Nguyen, known professionally as Nikita Dragun, is an American internet personality, YouTuber, make-up artist, and model.
1996An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in Colombo, killing at least 86 people and injuring 1,400.[†]
The Central Bank of Sri Lanka, known until 1985 as the Central Bank of Ceylon, is the central bank of Sri Lanka. It was established in 1950 under the Monetary Law Act No.58 of 1949 (MLA) and in terms of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka Act No. 16 of 2023, the CBSL is a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal. The Central Bank has administrative and financial autonomy. The CBSL has two main boards in operation, namely, the Governing Board (GB) and the Monetary Policy Board (MPB).
In 1996, the world population was approximately 5,842,055,734 people[†]