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Golfer David Ogrin and his wife, Sharon, comment on her decision to be surrogate mother for her sister, Dee Gomez, through in-vitro fertilization; baby girl was born last May; Ogrins have four children of their own, and are godparents to niece; family photo (S)
Long-married couple suffering. Radiant Christie; silly last half-hour.
New York Knicks coach Jeff Van Gundy says more respect ought to be shown to injured Patrick Ewing; takes exception to comment that team may be more interesting now that they no longer have offense essentially built around throwing ball to Ewing (S)
Clinton Administration, in an about-face, joins other major industrial nations in supplying South Korea with $10 billion in emergency aid and in asking major commercial banks to extend the deadlines by which Korean banks must repay their debts; photo (M)
Mexican Attorney General Jorge Madrazo Cuellar, who is leading investigation into the killings of 45 unarmed Indians in Chiapas village of Chenalho, says Federal agents are questioning security officials in the area; Zapatista rebels in Chiapas issue communique blaming Pres Ernesto Zedillo and his top political adviser, Interior Min Emilio Chuayffet, for the violence (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 24, 1997, covering December 25, 1997.
Garth Brooks
Celine Dion
Barbra Streisand
LeAnn Rimes
Chumbawamba
1997Anatoli Boukreev, Kazakh mountaineer and explorer (born 1958)[†]
Anatoli Nikolaevich Boukreev was a Kazakh mountaineer who made ascents of 10 of the 14 eight-thousander peaks—those above 8,000 m (26,247 ft)—without supplemental oxygen. From 1989 through 1997, he made 18 successful ascents of peaks above 8,000 m.
1997Denver Pyle, American actor (born 1920)[†]
Denver Dell Pyle was an American film and television actor and director. He was well known for a number of television roles from the 1960s through the 1980s, including his portrayal of Briscoe Darling in several episodes of The Andy Griffith Show, as Jesse Duke in The Dukes of Hazzard from 1979 to 1985, as Mad Jack in the NBC television series The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams, and as the main character's father, Buck Webb, in CBS's The Doris Day Show. In many of his roles, he portrayed either authority figures, or gruff, demanding father figures, often as comic relief. Perhaps his most memorable film role was that of Texas Ranger Frank Hamer in the movie Bonnie and Clyde (1967), as the lawman who relentlessly chased down and finally killed the notorious duo in an ambush.
In 1997, the world population was approximately 5,924,787,816 people[†]