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Clyde Haberman on TriBeCa community groups' protests over garish red neon sign of Travelers Group umbrella logo near top of Travelers' headquarters; says controversy raises questions about what responsibility a corporation has to its neighbors (M)
Independent experts who reviewed Iraq's progress in eliminating biological weapons at Baghdad's request have rejected President Saddam Hussein's contention that he no longer has a germ warfare program. Their report called Iraqi disclosures ''incomplete and inadequate,'' and said Baghdad had failed to convince them that biological weapons have been eliminated.
Atlantic League, upstart independent professional association outside Major League Baseball's traditional farm system, has persuaded five of six cities on its roster to build 5,000-to 6,000-seat ball parks almost entirely at public expense; total of $110 million in public financing has been committed for teams that, with only weeks to go before opening day, still exist for most part on paper; baseball experts say that in market where there is so much major and minor league baseball already, Atlantic League's ambitions are testing limit of baseball both as recreational drawing card and spur for economic revitalization; franchises are in Bridgeport, Conn, Atlantic City, Newark and Somerset, NJ, Lehigh Valley, Pa, and Nashua, NH; league chmn Frank Boulton comments; map; photos (M)
Prime Min Ryutaro Hashimoto, under pressure from foreign leaders, proposes Japan's largest package yet of tax cuts and new spending in effort to reverse economic decline that could have ripple effects on other economies around world; yen slides sharply on April 9 and Japanese central bank has to intervene in currency market to stabilize its value; stock market is down about 1.2 percent; Hashimoto's economic package is worth about $75 billion in new fiscal stimulants, or about 2 percent of total annual economic output, roughly what US has urged; markets' negative response may have been set off by his vagueness about how, when and where money will be spent; graph; photo (M)
Air Jamaica, owned by Gordon Stewart, has grabbed market share away from rival American Airlines; Air Jamaica says it now carries nearly half air passengers who arrive on the island, more than double total of three years ago when Stewart took control of carrier--and increased revenues to $225 million last year, from $128 million in 1994; airline has lost $145 million in last two years, but Stewart predicts carrier will soon turn corner into profitability; Air Jamaica has begun alliance with Delta Air Lines, drawing passengers from that carrier's vast network; American Airlines now regards Stewart with heightened respect; charts; photo (L)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 8, 1998, covering April 10, 1998.
Soundtrack
Celine Dion
Cappadonna
Madonna
Savage Garden
1998Anna Pogorilaya, Russian figure skater[†]
Anna Alexeyevna Pogorilaya is a former Russian figure skater. She is the 2016 World bronze medalist, a three-time European medalist, and the 2016 Russian national bronze medalist. She won gold at three Grand Prix events – the 2013 Cup of China, 2016 Rostelecom Cup, and 2016 NHK Trophy. Earlier in her career, she won bronze at the 2013 World Junior Championships and at the 2012–13 Junior Grand Prix Final.
1998Seraphim of Athens, Greek archbishop (born 1913)[†]
Seraphim born Vissarion Tikas was Archbishop of Athens and All Greece from 1974 to 1998.
1998The Good Friday Agreement is signed in Northern Ireland.[†]
The Good Friday Agreement (GFA) or Belfast Agreement is a pair of agreements signed on 10 April 1998 that ended most of the violence of the Troubles, an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland since the late 1960s. It was a major development in the Northern Ireland peace process of the 1990s. It is made up of the Multi-Party Agreement between most of Northern Ireland's political parties, and the British–Irish Agreement between the British and Irish governments. Northern Ireland's present devolved system of government is based on the agreement.
In 1998, the world population was approximately 6,007,066,690 people[†]