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Cultural renaissance is under way in Britain despite Conservative Party's unwillingness to subsidize arts; young artists, inspired by nation's resentful new underclass and by discontent among middle classes, are angry, rebellious and, in end, idealistic; photos (L)
Child-Welfare Failures Stir Concern at City Hall Nicholas Scoppetta, who pledged to improve New York City's child-welfare agency, found himself at news conferences about two cases of torment last week. Page 35. Bomb Threat at British Race The running of the Grand National in Britain was halted after warnings of an I.R.A. bomb. Page 4. Seeking Nixon's Papers The National Archives is negotiating a multimillion-dollar deal that could give it control of the former President's papers, as well as of the Nixon library in California. Page 22. More Voices in Little Havana While Cuban-Americans still make up the largest Hispanic group in the Miami area, other Latin Americans are flocking there as well. Page 20.
Daylight saving time resumed at 2 A.M. today. Clocks were set ahead one hour.
Prominent members of the monied classes and their conservative allies are denouncing excesses of capitalism at time when market economy reigns supreme; recent World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland, assemblage of free-market elite, was devoted to ways to ease worst consequences of market competitiveness; investor George Soros warns that education and other features of civilized society that do not promise quick return on investment are getting short shrift in nations preoccupied with competitiveness, article in Atlantic Monthly; drawing (M)
Rent-control arguments often call forth more passion than logic. Equally incorrect: Those who say rent increases would have little impact, and those who say increases would be felt in most neighborhoods. A citywide portrait of rent regulation. Articles and chart, pages 38-39.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 2, 1997, covering April 6, 1997.
Aerosmith
Soundtrack
Scarface
LeAnn Rimes
Spice Girls
1997Mingyu, South Korean singer and rapper[†]
Kim Min-gyu, known mononymously as Mingyu (민규), is a South Korean rapper and singer. Managed by Pledis Entertainment, he is a member of the South Korean boy band Seventeen and its hip hop team.
1997In Greene County, Tennessee, the Lillelid murders occur.[†]
The Lillelid murders were a series of killings that took place in Greene County, Tennessee, United States. Three members of the Lillelid family were killed on April 6, 1997. Vidar Lillelid, Delfina Lillelid, their daughter Tabitha, and son Peter were shot on a deserted rural road near Baileyton after a carjacking committed by a group of youths. Vidar and Delfina were found dead at the scene, while Tabitha died after being transported to the hospital. Peter survived, but, as a result of the shooting, was left with disabilities. Six young people from Kentucky, including two minors, were convicted of felony murder for the three deaths. Each received three life sentences, and an additional sentence of 25 years for the attempted murder of Peter.
In 1997, the world population was approximately 5,924,787,816 people[†]