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Perry Link, Princeton University professor and critic of China's human rights record, is detained at Beijing airport, held overnight and barred from entering country (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)
Stocks decline after bond market is bruised by unexpectedly strong retail sales and higher consumer prices; Dow Jones industrial index closes at 5,647.28, down 57.70 points, its largest decline since July 15; benchmark 30-year Treasury bond falls 1 8/32, to price of 99 19/32, or $12.50 for each $1,000, which pushes its yield up to 6.78 percent, from 6.69 percent on Aug 12, largest one day gain in the yield since July 5; table (L)
Newark police are investigating whether Clifford Hill was connected to string of robberies committed by men posing as Newark police officers (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)
Dell Computer Corp, in latest indication of new strength in personal computer market, reports 58 percent increase in earnings for its second fiscal quarter, far exceeding Wall Street expectations; for quarter ended July 28, Dell had earnings of $103 million compared with $65 million in comparable period a year ago; sales grew 40 percent, to $1.69 billion, from $1.21 billion in second quarter of 1996 fiscal year; table (L)
Only one road remains open out of Grozny, capital of Russian breakaway province of Chechnya, where rebels are defeating Russian troops in second fight for city in two years; is last harrowing route to safety each day for thousands of anguished refugees, driven from homes by war and death, and best entry route for secessionist rebels who reign over most of city; path, which has become surreal Chechen version of Ho Chi Minh Trail, described; photos; map (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 14, 1996, covering August 14, 1996.
A Tribe Called Quest
Alanis Morissette
Alice in Chains
Nas
Celine Dion
1996Sergiu Celibidache, Romanian conductor and composer (born 1912)[†]
Sergiu Celibidache was a Romanian conductor, composer, musical theorist, and teacher. Educated in his native Romania, and later in Paris and Berlin, Celibidache's career in music spanned over five decades, including tenures as principal conductor of the Munich Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, the RAI National Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de Radio France, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and many other European orchestras such as the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra or the London Symphony Orchestra.
1996Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is shot and killed by a Turkish security officer while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus.[†]
Solomon Solomou was a Greek Cypriot who was shot and killed by a Turkish officer while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in Cyprus's United Nations Buffer Zone. The killing occurred in the aftermath of the funeral of Solomou's cousin Tassos Isaac, who had been murdered a few days earlier by Turkish nationalists belonging to the militant Grey Wolves organization.
In 1996, the world population was approximately 5,842,055,734 people[†]