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State Commission of Investigation calls for overhaul of Executive Commission on Ethical Standards, which was established to enforce ethical standards for members of the state administration (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)
About 2,000 mourners attend funeral for Tahid Ramsey, Jersey City high school football player who died on Sept 24 (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)
Clinton Administration offers compromise to the computer industry by holding out the possibility of removing all export restrictions on data-scrambling technology for companies that accept new approach to allow law enforcement officials to unscramble codes; new approach, accepted by Central Intelligence Agency, calls for law enforcement officials to unscramble computer communications--provided they have warrant--without having to obtain mathematical key to code; agents instead could use warrant to obtain cooperation of outside parties to help unscramble portions of code accompanying a message; two-step process is intended to address main criticisms against data-scrambling systems; is being recommended by an alliance led by International Business Machines Corp (M)
New Jersey Environmental Federation says 13 members of state's Congressional delegation voted mostly along party lines last year on 14 measures of concern to environmentalists (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)
American Littoral Society report concludes that Hudson-Raritan Estuary has lost 80 percent of its wetlands habitat to development, and loss poses threat to wildlife that depends on it (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 2, 1996, covering October 2, 1996.
Celine Dion
New Edition
R.E.M.
Alanis Morissette
Blackstreet
1996Tom Trbojevic, Australian rugby league player[â ]
Thomas Peter Trbojevic, also nicknamed "Tommy Turbo", is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a fullback for the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles in the National Rugby League (NRL) and as a centre for Australia at international level.
1996Robert Bourassa, Canadian lawyer and politician, Premier of Quebec (born 1933)[â ]
Robert Bourassa was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 22nd premier of Quebec from 1970 to 1976 and from 1985 to 1994. A member of the Liberal Party of Quebec, he served a total of just under 15 years as premier. Bourassa's tenure was marked by major events affecting Quebec, including the October Crisis and the Meech Lake and Charlottetown Accords.
1996Andrey Lukanov, Bulgarian politician, 40th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (born 1938)[â ]
Andrey Karlov Lukanov was a Bulgarian politician. Between February and November 1990, Lukanov was the final Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Bulgaria.
1996AeroperĂș Flight 603 crashes into the ocean near Peru, killing all 70 people on board.[â ]
AeroperĂș Flight 603 (PL603/PLI603) was a scheduled passenger flight from Miami International Airport in Miami, Florida, to Arturo Merino BenĂtez International Airport in Santiago, Chile, with stopovers in Quito, Ecuador, and Lima, Peru. On October 2, 1996, the Boeing 757-23A aircraft flying the final leg of the flight crashed into the Pacific Ocean. There were no survivors among 70 people on board.
1996The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.[â ]
The Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552, is the United States federal freedom of information law that requires the full or partial disclosure of previously unreleased or uncirculated information and documents controlled by the U.S. government upon request. The act defines agency records subject to disclosure, outlines mandatory disclosure procedures, and includes nine exemptions that define categories of information not subject to disclosure. The act was intended to make U.S. government agencies' functions more transparent so that the American public could more easily identify problems in government functioning and put pressure on Congress, agency officials, and the president to address them. The FOIA has been changed repeatedly by both the legislative and executive branches.
In 1996, the world population was approximately 5,842,055,734 people[â ]