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Public Service Electric Gas is offering public housing authorities in its area new Maytag refrigerators designed to pay for themselves through energy savings (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)
White House Spells Out Demands in Tobacco Deal The Clinton Administration has staked out key concessions that the cigarette industry must make to win White House backing for the proposed $368.5 billion tobacco settlement.
Sec of State Madeliene K Albright, who will make first official visit Middle East on September 9, will reportedly deliver tough talk to Yasir Arafat, Palestinian leader, on need to crack down on terrorism, and caution Prime Min Benjamin Netanyahu against using security as pretext to avoid talking about Israel's responsibility for breakdown in mutual confidence with Palestinians and larger Arab world; trip represents Albright's greatest public challenge so far as Secretary of State; negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians are in tatters, chance of comprehensive Middle East peace is fading, and coalition built by US after Persian Gulf war to contain both Iran and Iraq is fraying; decisions by Saudi Arabia and Syria not to attend American-sponsored Middle East economic summit in Qatar, which will include an Israeli delegation, raise fears that other smaller, wealthy and moderate Arab states may follow suit; photo (M)
Mack Williams is killed and three women injured in three-car accident on Benjamin Franklin Bridge (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)
COST OF HOUSING -- More renters in New York State are unable to afford their apartments than in any other state in the country, according to a national study. B4. THE SCENIC ROUTE -- What's the best way to see New York? Nine Sarah Lawrence students, most from the incoming class of 2001, got a five-mile jogging tour of Manhattan's architectural landmarks. B4.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 3, 1997, covering September 8, 1997.
Fleetwood Mac
Puff Daddy & The Family
Spice Girls
Soundtrack
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1997Jorrit Bosch, German politician[†]
Jorrit Lucca Bosch is a German politician and member of the Bundestag. A member of The Left, he has represented Lower Saxony since 2025.
1997Lars Nootbaar, American baseball player[†]
Lars Taylor-Tatsuji Nootbaar is an American professional baseball outfielder for the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball (MLB). On the international level, he represents the Japan national baseball team.
1997Derek Taylor, English journalist and author (born 1932)[†]
Derek Wyn Taylor was a British journalist, writer, publicist and record producer. He is best known for his role as press officer to the Beatles, with whom he worked in 1964 and then from 1968 to 1970, and was one of several associates to earn the moniker "the Fifth Beatle". Before returning to London to head the publicity for the Beatles' Apple Corps organisation in 1968, he worked as the publicist for California-based bands such as the Byrds, the Beach Boys and the Mamas and the Papas. Taylor was known for his forward-thinking and extravagant promotional campaigns, exemplified in taglines such as "The Beatles Are Coming" and "Brian Wilson Is a Genius". He was equally dedicated to the 1967 Summer of Love ethos and helped stage that year's Monterey Pop Festival.
In 1997, the world population was approximately 5,924,787,816 people[†]