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Campaign Counsel Sought Louis J. Freeh, the F.B.I. Director, still believes an independent prosecutor should be appointed to take over the campaign finance inquiry, several senators said. Page A10.
Miami Heat's center Alonzo Mourning and New York Knicks' forward Larry Johnson are each suspended for two games because of fistfight at end of fourth game of playoffs in Madison Square Garden; both will have to sit out fifth game of tied series; Knicks will also be missing Chris Mills, suspended for one game for leaving bench area during fight; all three are also fined; melee evokes memories of fighting during last year's playoffs; Knicks coach Jeff Van Gundy says his players did not start either fight; photo (M) seas
Dr Malcolm Scoon is sentenced in New York City to two to six years in prison for manslaughter in shaking death of his infant daughter Mariah; his photo; Justice Richard L Buchter describes killing of one's own child as crime that 'sickens the heart'; prosecution had sought longer sentence to send message about shaken baby syndrome; Lois Scoon defends husband in court, insisting anesthesiologist shook baby to revive her; infant was declared brain-dead in emergency room in Feb 1996 but parents refused to permit Long Island Jewish Hospital to disconnect respirator; she was moved to St Vincent's Hospital where she died next month (S)
Horrors of war crimes by Nazi-backed Ustashe regime in Croatia are revived with arrest in Argentina of Dinko Sakic, one of most important accused war criminals still alive; Sime Klaic, who was imprisoned in Jasenovac concentration camp run by Sakic, recalls torture and murder of three captured American aviators; Sakic, living in Argentina, discussed his past in broadcast interview last month; Croatia bows to heavy international pressure and requests extradition; trial would compel Croatia to examine its wartime history, but could also serve revisionists like Pres Franjo Tudjman who prefer to minimize Ustashe atrocities; Jewish survivor describes Sakic overseeing execution of several hundred Jewish women and children; other accounts also quoted; brutality of Ustashe regime, which killed 31,000 of Croatia's 39,000 Jews and about 200,000 Serbs, is rarely mentioned in schoolbooks; Sakic's wife's brother headed Ustache secret police, and she is also accused by survivors of committing murders; photos; map (M)
Gary Stevens, who won Kentucky Derby last year riding Silver Charm, discusses outlook this year (S)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 29, 1998, covering May 2, 1998.
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Celine Dion
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Savage Garden
Backstreet Boys
1998hide, Japanese singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1964)[†]
Hideto Matsumoto , known professionally as hide, was a Japanese musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the rock band X Japan from 1987 to 1997 and rose to prominence in Asia as a solo artist from 1993 to 1998, until his death. He also formed the United States–based rock supergroup Zilch in 1996.
1998Justin Fashanu, English footballer (born 1961)[†]
Justinus Soni "Justin" Fashanu was an English footballer who played for a variety of clubs between 1978 and 1997. He was known by his early clubs to be gay, and came out publicly later in his career, becoming the first professional footballer to be openly gay. He was also one of the first footballers to command a £1 million transfer fee, with his transfer from Norwich City to Nottingham Forest in 1981, and had varying levels of success as a player afterwards, until he retired in 1997.
1998The European Central Bank is founded in Brussels in order to define and execute the European Union's monetary policy.[†]
The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central component of the Eurosystem and the European System of Central Banks (ESCB) as well as one of seven institutions of the European Union. It is one of the world's most important central banks with a balance sheet total of around 7 trillion.
In 1998, the world population was approximately 6,007,066,690 people[†]