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New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's day serving jury duty described; all exemptions for jury duty were abolished January 1 and Giuliani, having turned down six month postponement, reports to jury part of New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan as summoned; Giuliani is not selected to sit on case (M)
Pres Clinton campaigns in New Hampshire and Cleveland on Nov 4, delivering what he says is last speech of his last campaign; he calls on supporters to 'seize the day' to keep country moving in right direction; photo (M)
Analysis: deal that created Concert, world's first trans-Atlantic telephone carrier, was not first choice of British Telecommunications PLC; its first choice as merger partner was Cable and Wireless PLC, whose major asset is Hong Kong Telecom; that would have enabled BT to fill out its geographic footprint in Asia, with its 2.3 billion people and explosive economic growth; talks with Cable and Wireless collapsed, largely over disagreements on price; BT's merger with MCI Communications Corp will solidify BT's foothold only in North America, something analysts say had already been secured by its 20 percent equity stake in MCI (M)
United Auto Workers Local 595 president Charlie Marshall says about 2,150 workers at General Motors assembly plant in Linden, forced to shut down by strike at Indianapolis parts plant, will remain out of work until November 7 (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)
Clinton Administration officials acknowledge that James T Riady, Indonesian billionaire with financial stake in US policy toward Asia, discussed trade policy with Pres Clinton and perhaps senior aides in some of more than dozen visits he made to White House; White House press sec Michael D McCurry says preliminary internal review shows that Riady has been guest at Executive Mansion at least 15 to 20 times over last four years; McCurry and other Administration officials are unable to describe with any level of precision how often Riady was there, with whom he met, what policies he was advocating and what briefings he received during his visits (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 30, 1996, covering November 5, 1996.
Counting Crows
Celine Dion
Korn
Kenny G
Alanis Morissette
1996Eddie Harris, American saxophonist (born 1934)[†]
Eddie Harris was an American jazz musician, best known for playing tenor saxophone and for introducing the electrically amplified saxophone. He was also fluent on the electric piano and organ. His best-known compositions are "Freedom Jazz Dance", popularized by Miles Davis in 1966, and "Listen Here".
1996Pakistani President Farooq Leghari dismisses the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and dissolves the National Assembly.[†]
The president of Pakistan is the head of state of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The president is the nominal head of the executive and the supreme commander of the Pakistan Armed Forces. The presidency is a ceremonial position in Pakistan. The president is bound to act on advice of the prime minister and cabinet. Asif Ali Zardari is the current president since 10 March 2024.
1996Bill Clinton is reelected President of the United States.[†]
William Jefferson Clinton is an American politician and lawyer who was the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the attorney general of Arkansas from 1977 to 1979 and as the governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981, and again from 1983 to 1992. Clinton, whose policies reflected a centrist "Third Way" political philosophy, became known as a New Democrat.
In 1996, the world population was approximately 5,842,055,734 people[†]