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Potential effects on public and politicians of Kenneth Starr's seamy report on Pres Clinton and Monica Lewinsky discussed (M)
Interview with Joe DiMaggio, beloved baseball legend who will be 84 this November; photos; DiMaggio, meticulous and shy in private life, discusses this year's New York Yankees; he has raised millions of dollars for Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital in Florida, where he lives, and is devoted to his own four great-grandchildren (M)
Rep Henry J Hyde, chairman of House Judiciary Committee, which will undertake impeachment inquiry against Pres Clinton, is widely respected by his peers, even those he has frustrated, infuriated and trumped with his ferocious conservatism; he says he hopes inquiry will bring out the best in Congress and eventually win more respect for it; photo (M)
Closing of Mortimer's restaurant after death of haughty owner Glenn Bernbaum leaves coterie of Manhattan regulars bereft of haven where their social status was assured; photo; Kenneth Jay Lane complains that Upper East Side is closing (S)
Roman Catholic Church in Cuba shows new vitality in wake of Pope John Paul II's visit, but Pres Fidel Castro has not shown much new flexibility since then in response to church requests for greater freedom; communications between the church and government have improved; ongoing organizational efforts by Catholics underscore the challenge that the church potentially poses to Communist Party; neither Saneria worshipers nor Cuba's Protestant sects have developed any natinal structures to speak of; photos (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 9, 1998, covering September 13, 1998.
Lauryn Hill
Beastie Boys
Soundtrack
Barenaked Ladies
Rob Zombie
1998Necdet Calp, Turkish civil servant and politician (born 1922)[†]
Necdet Calp was a Turkish civil servant and politician.
1998Harry Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1926)[†]
Harry "Apple Cheeks" Lumley was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender in the National Hockey League (NHL). He played for the Detroit Red Wings, New York Rangers, Chicago Black Hawks, Toronto Maple Leafs, and Boston Bruins between 1943 and 1960. He won the Vezina Trophy for being the goaltender to allow the fewest goals against in 1954 and won the Stanley Cup with the Red Wings in 1950. In 1980, Lumley was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame.
1998Frank Renouf, New Zealand businessman (born 1918)[†]
Sir Francis Henry Renouf was a New Zealand stockbroker and financier.
1998George Wallace, American sergeant, lawyer, and politician, 45th Governor of Alabama (born 1919)[†]
George Corley Wallace Jr. was an American politician who was the 45th and longest-serving governor of Alabama, and the longest-serving governor from the Democratic Party. Wallace is remembered for his staunch segregationist and populist views although in the late 1970s he moderated his views on race, renouncing his support for segregation. During Wallace's tenure as governor of Alabama, he promoted "industrial development, low taxes, and trade schools." Wallace unsuccessfully sought the United States presidency as a Democrat three times, and once with the American Independent Party, in which he carried five states in the 1968 election. Wallace opposed desegregation and supported the policies of "Jim Crow" during the Civil Rights Movement, declaring in his 1963 inaugural address that he stood for "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever."
In 1998, the world population was approximately 6,007,066,690 people[†]