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Bob Dole, accompanied by former Presidents Gerald Ford and George Bush, begins last march of his campaign with triple punch that reprises year of Republican assaults on Pres Clinton's ethics and character, speeches in Ohio and Michigan; in new proposal, Dole also calls for abolishing political action committees; photos (L)
Pres Clinton, seeking to quell controversy over Democratic Party's fund-raising practices, proposes to ban political contributions by noncitizens and reiterates his support for range of other changes in campaign finance law that he had endorsed in past but never pressed hard for, speech, Santa Barbara; Calif; photo (M)
General Motors Corp and UAW announce agreement on new three-year labor contract, averting national strike against world's largest auto maker and likely bringing an end to greatest labor unrest in American automobile industry since 1970; negotiators do not settle three-day strike by two local unions, but resolution of those walkouts seems likely very soon; deal, subject to ratification vote by 215,000 GM workers, bears strong resemblance to contracts that Ford Motor Co and Chrysler Corp have already signed with UAW; contracts are intended to make Detroit auto makers stop long shrinkage of their work forces while still letting them reduce their labor costs and compete more effectively with nonunion factories that Japanese and European auto makers have built in South (M)
Chronicle of downfall of Richie Adams, former basketball star who played for University of Nevada-Las Vegas, who has been charged, at age of 33, in murder of 14-year-old Norma Rodriguez; Adams's decline from pro prospect to suspect in gruesome murder was slow and incremental and, to his coaches and teammates, heart-breaking; photos (L)
British Telecommunications could announce as early as tomorrow that it has agreed to buy MCI, nation's second-largest long distance company, in deal worth more than $22 bilion; it would be most dramatic foray ever by foreign company into American telecommunications business; if acquisition is approved by boards of both companies, it would be first time a foreign company has taken control of major American telephone company; it would be largest foreign takeover of any United States corporation; charts (L)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 30, 1996, covering November 2, 1996.
Counting Crows
Celine Dion
Korn
Kenny G
Alanis Morissette
1996Eva Cassidy, American singer (born 1963)[†]
Eva Marie Cassidy was an American singer and musician known for her interpretations of jazz, folk, and blues music, sung with a powerful, emotive soprano voice. In 1992, she released her first album, The Other Side, a set of duets with go-go musician Chuck Brown, followed by the 1996 live solo album titled Live at Blues Alley. Although she had been honored by the Washington Area Music Association, she was virtually unknown outside her native Washington, D.C., at the time of her death from melanoma at the age of 33 in 1996.
1996John G. Crommelin, American admiral and politician (born 1902)[†]
Rear Admiral John Geraerdt Crommelin Jr. was a prominent American naval officer and later a frequent political candidate who championed white supremacy.
In 1996, the world population was approximately 5,842,055,734 people[†]