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About New York column discusses how Matthew Scudder, quintessential New York hero of Lawrence Block's detective novels, is dealing with news that New York City's crime rate is decreasing (M)
Joel Brinkley, son of veteran newsman David Brinkley, interviews his father; photo (L)
About 300 female inmates at Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Conn, present check for $3,769 to family of Casey Kingman, 14, for trip to Disney World; Kingman is recovering from cancer; women donated monies that they received from their meager pay doing prison jobs; photo (M)
Two Israeli helicopters ferrying soldiers to south Lebanon collided in midair yesterday over the northern Galilee, killing all 73 men on board. It was the the worst military air disaster in Israeli history and the accident stunned the nation.
Dover Township Police Department's pursuit of what it had considered drug-smuggling case pays off when it receives check for $358,000 that had been seized from defendant Jose Alvarez; money, which is more than department's entire annual budget for equipment and supplies, must be used to buy new equipment (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 5, 1997, covering February 5, 1997.
No Doubt
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Celine Dion
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1997Patrick Roberts, English footballer[†]
Patrick John Joseph Roberts is an English professional footballer who plays as a winger for Premier League club Sunderland.
1997Pamela Harriman, English-American diplomat, 58th United States Ambassador to France (born 1920)[†]
Pamela Beryl Harriman, also known as Pamela Churchill Harriman, was an English political activist for the Democratic Party, diplomat, and socialite. She married three times: her first husband was Randolph Churchill, the son of prime minister Winston Churchill; her third husband was W. Averell Harriman, an American diplomat who also served as Governor of New York. Her only child, Winston Churchill, was named after his famous grandfather. She served as US ambassador to France from 1993 until her death in 1997.
1997René Huyghe, French historian and author (born 1906)[†]
René Huyghe was a French writer on the history, psychology and philosophy of art. He was also a curator at the Louvre's department of paintings, a professor at the Collège de France director of the Musée Jacquemart-André, and, beginning in 1960 a member of the Académie Française. He was the father of the writer François-Bernard Huyghe.
1997The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.[†]
Banking in Switzerland dates to the early 18th century through Switzerland's merchant trade and over the centuries has grown into a complex and regulated international industry. Banking is seen as very emblematic of Switzerland and the country has been one of the largest, if not largest, offshore financial centers and tax havens in the world since the mid-20th century, with a long history of banking secrecy, security and client confidentiality reaching back to the early 1700s. Starting as a way to protect wealthy European banking interests, Swiss banking secrecy was codified in 1934 with the passage of a landmark federal law, the Federal Act on Banks and Savings Banks. These laws were used to protect assets of persons being persecuted by Nazi authorities but have also been used by people and institutions seeking to illegally evade taxes, hide assets, or to commit other financial crime.
In 1997, the world population was approximately 5,924,787,816 people[†]