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New York Knicks home opener also marks first time since Anthony Mason's trade to Charlotte that he will scowl in another uniform at Madison Square Garden; his mother and longtime associates in his native New York discuss controversies that swirl around Mason (S)
Bjorn Dittmer-Roche, student at all-male Collegiate School, New York City, comments on wearing women's clothing at school in addition to garb required by school's dress code; drawing (M)7
News analysis of concern that pending baseball labor agreement will collapse without endorsement of Bud Selig; acting commissioner is refusing to tell club owners what he thinks of agreement, apparently so that he will not be blamed for problems later on (S)
THE CHOICE - A look at how Bob Dole and Bill Clinton compare on more than a dozen issues. Page 38. PEROT KEEPS UP ATTACK - The focus of Ross Perot's speeches has shifted from trade policy and the Federal debt to warnings that a second Clinton Administration would be plagued by scandal. Yesterday he said Mr. Clinton lacked the morality to be President. Page 37. RACES IN THE REGION - The candidates and the issues in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, district by district, and a guide to ballot proposals. Pages 46 and 47.
Long Island baymen say brown tide of last year wiped out this season's scallop crop; photo (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 30, 1996, covering November 3, 1996.
Counting Crows
Celine Dion
Korn
Kenny G
Alanis Morissette
1996Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Central African general and politician, 2nd President of the Central African Republic (born 1921)[†]
Jean-Bédel Bokassa was a Central African politician and military officer who served as the second president of the Central African Republic (CAR), after seizing power in the Saint-Sylvestre coup d'état on 1 January 1966. He later established the Central African Empire (CAE) with himself as emperor, reigning as Bokassa I until his overthrow in a 1979 coup.
1996Abdullah Çatlı, the leader of the Turkish ultranationalist organization Grey Wolves, dies in the Susurluk car crash, leading to the resignation of Interior Minister Mehmet Ağar (a leader of the True Path Party).[†]
Abdullah Çatlı was a Turkish secret government agent, as well as a contract killer for the National Intelligence Organization (MİT). He led the Grey Wolves, the youth branch of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), during the 1970s. His death in the Susurluk car crash, while travelling in a car with state officials, revealed the depth of the state's complicity in organized crime in what became known as the Susurluk scandal. He was a hitman for the state, and was involved in the killings of suspected members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA).
In 1996, the world population was approximately 5,842,055,734 people[†]