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Article contends that putting other people's troubles on your own shoulders has suffered serious blow with vicious killing of Jonathan Levin by former student has awakened alarm in many teachers concerning their desire to break down barriers of race and class that often exists between students and their instructors (M)
France Delays Euro Plan France's Socialist Government delayed approval of an agreement that is crucial to the proposed single European currency, raising anxiety that it could be scrapped. Page D1. Killer's Better Side Recalled To save Timothy J. McVeigh's life, friends and comrades told jurors of the happy child and ''soldier's soldier'' he had been. Page D24.
Newark Police Officer Robert Leaks Jr, who fatally shot Danette Davis during drug arrest, is suspended without pay for neglecting to handcuff her completely (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)
BankAmerica Corp is selling its consumer finance unit, Security Pacific Financial Services, to Travelers Group for $1.6 billion; sale is announced same day that BankAmerica confirms that that it is paying $540 million to buy Robertson, Stephens & Co, a San Francisco investment bank; profit from sale of Security Pacific and pending sale of BankAmerica's Hawaiian banking operations to American Savings Bank, a unit of Hawaiian Electric Industries, will be used to help finance Robertson, Stephens purchase (L
Article discusses formula developed by group of mathematicians and researchers to determine well being of New York City; Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Dr Carole Siegel, leader of research team, comment; photo (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 4, 1997, covering June 10, 1997.
Spice Girls
Bob Carlisle
KRS-One
Soundtrack
The Notorious B.I.G.
1997Cheung Ka-long, Hong Kong foil fencer, 2020 Olympic champion[†]
Edgar Cheung Ka Long is a Hong Kong left-handed foil fencer, two-time Olympic champion and two-time individual Asian champion, having won the gold medal at the 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics.
1997Before fleeing his northern stronghold, Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief Son Sen and 11 of Sen's family members.[†]
The Khmer Rouge is the name that was popularly given to members of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK), and by extension to Democratic Kampuchea, which ruled Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. The name was coined in the 1960s by Norodom Sihanouk to describe his country's heterogeneous, communist-led dissidents, with whom he allied after the 1970 Cambodian coup d'état.
In 1997, the world population was approximately 5,924,787,816 people[†]