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Hudson Foods Inc, after tainted-beef crisis last month that led to largest recall of meat in nation's history, agrees to be bought by Tyson Foods Inc in cash-and-stock deal valued at $681 million (M)
Former Croatian militiaman, Miro Bajramovic, acknowledges killing 72 civilians, torturing prisoners and running death camp during Croatia's war for independence; gives newspaper interview in which he implicates senior Croatian officials in at least 400 executions of ethnic Serb civilians by death squads six years ago; account triggers impassioned denials by senior Government officials, as well as immediate arrest of Bajramovic himself; Bajramovic, former police officer, says he speaks out of guilt and bitterness, and because state failed to reward him for his services; asserts that he and three comrades executed at least 400 ethnic Serbs on orders of former Interior Min Ivan Vekic; three are also arrested; confession is extraordinary because Bajramovic is not under indictment by UN war crimes tribunal, and probe of his paramilitary unit was dropped for lack of evidence; account detailed; photo of Bajramovic; map (M)
An arbitration panel has upheld Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani's wage offer to the powerful police union, all but ending an unusually vitriolic dispute that had been fought from precinct station houses to the Capitol in Albany. Article, page B1.
Marshals pull the plug yesterday on WZVU-FM (104.7), unlicensed 92-watt radio station in Howell Township (NJ) that favored oldies music; listeners to WRDR-FM (104.9) had complained to FCC that WZVU was interfering with big band music they want to hear (S) (New Jersey Daily Briefing)
Mortimer Zuckerman, owner of The Daily News, announces that Pete Hamill's tenure as editor in chief is over, making Hamill the third editor in less than five years to leave or be removed from paper's top newsroom position; Zuckerman says that exec editor, Debby Krenek, will take over Hamill's responsibilities for time being; Hamill held job for just eight months; Zuckerman memo says that Hamill decided to resign, but several sources at paper say he was essentially forced to leave; photo (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 3, 1997, covering September 5, 1997.
Fleetwood Mac
Puff Daddy & The Family
Spice Girls
Soundtrack
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1997Steven Kwan, American baseball player[â ]
Steven Robert Kwan is an American professional baseball left fielder for the Cleveland Guardians of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2022.
1997KyÅko SaitÅ, Japanese idol[â ]
KyÅko SaitÅ is a Japanese actress, singer, model, and television presenter, represented by Toho. She is a former regular model for the fashion magazine ar and former member of the Japanese idol group Hinatazaka46. Her fans are known as the Kyonkois .
1997Leon Edel, American author and critic (born 1907)[â ]
Joseph Leon Edel was an American/Canadian literary critic and biographer. He was the elder brother of North American philosopher Abraham Edel.
1997Eddie Little Sky, American actor (born 1926)[â ]
Eddie Little Sky, also known as Edward Little, was an American actor. A citizen of the Oglala Lakota tribe Eddie had parts in 36 feature films and over 60 television shows, mainly westerns in the role of a Native American. He was one of the first Native American actors to play Native American roles such as his performance in the 1970 film A Man Called Horse.
1997Georg Solti, Hungarian conductor and director (born 1912)[â ]
Sir Georg Solti was a Hungarian-British orchestral and operatic conductor, known for his appearances with opera companies in Munich, Frankfurt, and London, and as a long-serving music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Born in Budapest, he studied there with Béla Bartók, Leó Weiner, and ErnŠDohnányi. In the 1930s, he was a répétiteur at the Hungarian State Opera and worked at the Salzburg Festival for Arturo Toscanini. His career was interrupted by the rise of the Nazis' influence on Hungarian politics, and being Jewish, he fled the increasingly harsh Hungarian anti-Jewish laws in 1938. After conducting a season of Russian ballet in London at the Royal Opera House, he found refuge in Switzerland, where he remained during the Second World War. Prohibited from conducting there, he earned a living as a pianist.
1997Mother Teresa, Albanian-Indian nun, missionary, and saint, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1910)[â ]
Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu, better known as Mother Teresa or Saint Mother Teresa, was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity and is a Catholic saint. Born in Skopje, then part of the Ottoman Empire, she was raised in a devoutly Catholic family. At the age of 18, she moved to Ireland to join the Sisters of Loreto and later to India, where she lived most of her life and carried out her missionary work. On 4 September 2016, she was canonised by the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta. The anniversary of her death, 5 September, is now observed as her feast day.
In 1997, the world population was approximately 5,924,787,816 people[â ]