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Sounding like his old self, Speaker Newt Gingrich proposed cutting taxes every year and instead of reducing capital gains and inheritance taxes, making them distant memories. Before college Republicans, he eagerly made what he called the ''moral case for cutting taxes.'' Article, page 8.
Financier George Soros has spent more than a billion dollars promoting a free press and political pluralism around the world; now, Soros and his philanthropic empire are coming under attack from authorities in Belarus and elsewhere; photo (M)
Proposal on Hospital Jobs New York City's largest hospital union has proposed using $100 million in pension funds to encourage early retirements, to save jobs for younger workers. Page 23. MCI's Stock Plunges Shares of MCI Communications fell 17 percent, raising concerns about MCI's $24 billion acquisition by British Telecommunications. Page 33.
Annual survey released by National League of Cities indicates that more than two-thirds of 338 US cities reported that they will be better able to meet their financial needs in the current fiscal year than in the previous one; it is fifth consecutive year in which percentage has increased; chart; photos (M)
Meeting between lawyers for John Huang, central figure in Democratic fund-rasing controversy, and lawyers for Senate investigating committee ends with Republican and Democratic lawyers clashing over whether Huang should be given a grant of immunity to testify (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 9, 1997, covering July 12, 1997.
Spice Girls
Hanson
Tim McGraw
Motley Crue
Soundtrack
1997Jean-Kévin Duverne, French footballer[†]
Jean-Kévin Duverne is a professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Belgian Pro League club Kortrijk on loan from Nantes. Born in France, he plays for the Haiti national team.
1997Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani-English activist, Nobel Prize laureate[†]
Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani female education activist, film and television producer, and the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize laureate at the age of 17. She is the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in history, the second Pakistani and the only Pashtun to receive a Nobel Prize. Yousafzai is a human rights advocate for the education of women and children in her native homeland, Swat, where the Pakistani Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Her advocacy has grown into an international movement, and according to former Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, she has become Pakistan's "most prominent citizen."
1997François Furet, French historian and author (born 1927)[†]
François Furet was a French historian and president of the Saint-Simon Foundation, best known for his books on the French Revolution. From 1985 to 1997, Furet was a professor of French history at the University of Chicago.
In 1997, the world population was approximately 5,924,787,816 people[†]