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Profile of Home Depot's co-founder Arthur M Blank; says in the year since co-founder Bernard Marcus handed over chief executive's reins and edged into background as chairman, Blank has quietly begun to make his mark; Blank comments on his strategy to steer toward new markets and expansion by acquisition; graph; photos (L)
Society of Friends of the Louvre posts reward of 100,000 francs--about $16,000--for return of Camille Corot painting stolen from museum; Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire is playing at Gate Theater in Dublin, with Frances McDormand as Blanche DuBois; photo; Axel Strauss, 24, wins first prize in Walter W Naumburg International Violin Competition; Angela Lansbury will be host of 92d St Y's annual benefit gala; this year's event is The Longest Running Show on Broadway: A Musical Tribute to Maurice Levine; photo (M)
Third of eight columns by Daniel Boulud, chef and owner of Restaurant Boulud, describes makes lobster with sweet-corn polenta; recipe (M)
Senate votes 92 to 8 to restore food stamps to legal immigrants and refugees, which were taken away in 1996 welfare reform law; House is expected to pass measure; lawmakers respond to pressure from Pres Clinton, Republican governors and immigrant groups; provision, which would cost $816 million over five years, would restore aid to some 250,000 people already living in United States on Aug 1996, when Clinton signed reform bill; would let them get aid for seven years, up from five (M)
Article on Washington Capitals Coach Ron Wilson in view of his team's 2-1 lead over Ottawa Senators in second round of Stanley Cup playoffs; photo (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 13, 1998, covering May 13, 1998.
Dave Matthews Band
Soundtrack
Soundtrack
George Strait
Big Punisher
1998Adrià Pedrosa, Spanish footballer[†]
Adrià Giner Pedrosa is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a left-back for La Liga club Sevilla.
1998Luca Zidane, French footballer[†]
Luca Zinedine Zidane Fernández is a French professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Segunda División club Granada CF. He is the son of former footballer Zinedine Zidane.
1998Race riots break out in Jakarta, Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesians of Chinese descent are looted and women raped.[†]
Jakarta, officially the Special Capital Region of Jakarta and formerly known as Batavia until 1949, is the capital and largest city of Indonesia and an autonomous region at the provincial level. Lying on the northwest coast of Java, the world's most populous island, Jakarta is the largest metropole in Southeast Asia and serves as the diplomatic capital of ASEAN. The Special Region has a status equivalent to that of a province and is bordered by two other provinces: West Java to the south and east; and Banten to the west. Its coastline faces the Java Sea to the north, and it shares a maritime border with Lampung to the west. Jakarta's metropolitan area is ASEAN's second largest economy after Singapore. In 2023, the city's GDP PPP was estimated at US$724.010 billion.
1998India carries out two nuclear weapon tests at Pokhran, following the three conducted on May 11. The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India.[†]
Pokhran-II was a series of five nuclear weapon tests conducted by India in May 1998. The bombs were detonated at the Indian Army's Pokhran Test Range in Rajasthan. It was the second instance of nuclear testing conducted by India, after the first test, Smiling Buddha, in May 1974.
In 1998, the world population was approximately 6,007,066,690 people[†]