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Estimate Rises on Gold Taken From Nazis' Victims A Swiss study said the amount of gold stolen from the Nazis' victims was much higher than had been assumed, which is likely to strengthen claims for restitution. Page A6.
Significant shift in attitudes toward cloning of humans has occurred nine months since cloning of lamb by Scottish researchers; many scientists and ethicists who rejected concept outright have become more sanguine; some infertility centers are now considering cloning and fertility centers are conducting experiments with human eggs; Federal Government is supporting new research on cloning of monkeys, encouraging scientists to perfect techniques that could easily be transferred to humans; Prof Lori Andrews, expert on legal issues of reproduction at Chicago-Kent College of Law, and other officials comment; photo (M)
Album, Diana, Princess of Wales--Tribute, is released in Britain; album is expected to top the charts; Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, which houses one of finest collections of Russian art, may have to close on Jan 1 after Interior Ministry reduces museum's security force because guards have not been paid; opening-night performance of The Merry Widow at Paris Opera was free; opera spokesman says strike by electricians and some stagehands forced performance of opera to go on without spotlights or scenery changes, so there was no charge for those who chose to remain; at Salonika Film Festival in Greece, jury headed by Czech director Ivan Passer votes Road to Nhill by Australian director Sue Brooks the best film; Sri Lankan women pack theater in Colombo after it barred men from some showings of Kama Sutra, a film by Mira Nair about fourth-century Indian sex manual; David Joseph, manager of Savoy Theater, had to seek Government permission to discriminate against men for one show last week; photos (L)
Sen Alfonse M D'Amato, positioning himself for re-election campaign in 1998, accuses United Federation of Teachers of resisting changes to New York's public school system and blames teachers for lagging reading scores and high dropout rates in city schools; Sandra Feldman, UFT president, accuses D'Amato of distorting union's positions in attempt to obscure a voting record in which he has repeatedly opposed spending more money on schools and scholarships; photo (M)
Federal Government is taking its first major steps to save remains of the Monitor, one of history's most celebrated warships, now a mass of deteriorating wood and metal, half buried in sand, 230 feet down treacherous waters off Cape Hatteras, NC; experts say ship could fall apart at any time; diagrams (L)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 26, 1997, covering December 2, 1997.
Barbra Streisand
Shania Twain
Mystikal
LSG
Mase
1997De'Andre Hunter, American basketball player[†]
De'Andre James Hunter is an American professional basketball player for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Virginia Cavaliers and was named the NABC Defensive Player of the Year for 2019.
1997Shirley Crabtree, English wrestler (born 1930)[†]
Shirley Crabtree Jr., better known as Big Daddy, was an English professional wrestler. He worked for Joint Promotions and the original British Wrestling Federation. Initially appearing on television as a heel, he teamed with Giant Haystacks. After splitting with Haystacks, he became a fan favourite and the top star of Joint Promotions from the late 1970s to the early 1990s.
1997Michael Hedges, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1953)[†]
Michael Alden Hedges was an American acoustic guitarist and songwriter. He was known as a virtuoso who used unorthodox playing techniques, and much of his output was classified as new age music. Hedges died in an auto accident, and won a posthumous Grammy Award for his album Oracle.
In 1997, the world population was approximately 5,924,787,816 people[†]