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September 30, 1998

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A New Form of Lobbying Puts Public Face on Private Interest

By Alison Mitchell

Second of two articles, The Influence Industry, examines how Leo E Linbeck Jr, who helped create Americans for Fair Taxation, is masterminding crusade to overturn nation's tax system; Linbeck wants to engineer populist uprising to replace income tax code with national sales tax; with $15 million from some initial investors and mass fund-raising, he has run media advertising campaign and employed army of consultants, pollsters, political strategists and even few lobbyists; Linbeck and his fellow investors are unusual in scale of their ambition, but their methods have become commonplace as lobbying has undergone revolution over past decade; photos of Linbeck and other members of his group (M)

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Details in Killings by Officer The wife of a police officer who killed his family and himself had called his precinct to complain that he was abusive, her sister said. Page B1. China Manifestoes A group of Chinese intellectuals has issued statements on freedom and social justice that challenge hallowed Communist tenets. Page A3.

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BUSINESS DIGEST

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Fed Lowers Interest Rates To Ease Effects of Turmoil The Federal Reserve cut interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point in an attempt to keep the financial turmoil afflicting much of the world from derailing growth at home.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 30, 1998, covering September 30, 1998.

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    Album cover for Mechanical Animals by Marilyn Manson

    Mechanical Animals

    Marilyn Manson

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    Album cover for The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill by Lauryn Hill

    The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill

    Lauryn Hill

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    Album cover for Hello Nasty by Beastie Boys

    Hello Nasty

    Beastie Boys

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    Album cover for Musical Chairs by Hootie & The Blowfish

    Musical Chairs

    Hootie & The Blowfish

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    Album cover for 'N Sync by *NSYNC

    'N Sync

    *NSYNC

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Notable Births

Landon Dickerson

1998Landon Dickerson, American football player[†]

Landon Dickerson is an American professional football guard for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football as a center for the Florida State Seminoles and the Alabama Crimson Tide, and was selected by the Eagles in the second round of the 2021 NFL draft.

Yui Imaizumi

1998Yui Imaizumi, Japanese actress, singer, model, and television personality[†]

Yui Imaizumi is a Japanese actress, singer, model, and television personality. She is a former member of the idol girl group Keyakizaka46.

Trevi Moran

1998Trevi Moran, American YouTuber and singer[†]

Trevi Michaela Moran is an American singer and YouTube personality. She rose to fame after participating in The X Factor in 2012 at the age of 13. As of April 2020, Moran's YouTube channel surpassed 1.4 million subscribers.

Notable Deaths

Marius Goring

1998Marius Goring, English actor (born 1912)[†]

Marius Re Goring was an English stage and screen actor. He is best remembered for the four films he made with Powell & Pressburger, particularly as Conductor 71 in A Matter of Life and Death and as Julian Craster in The Red Shoes. He is also known for playing the titular role in the long-running TV drama series, The Expert. He regularly performed French and German roles, and was frequently cast in the latter because of his name, coupled with his red-gold hair and blue eyes. However, in a 1965 interview, he explained that he was not of German descent, stating that "Goring is a completely English name."

Dan Quisenberry

1998Dan Quisenberry, American baseball player and poet (born 1953)[†]

Daniel Raymond Quisenberry, nicknamed "Quiz", was an American right-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played primarily for the Kansas City Royals. Notable for his submarine-style pitching delivery and his humorous quotes, he led the American League in saves a record five times. Quisenberry retired in 1990 with 244 saves, then the fifth-highest total in major league history.

1998Robert Lewis Taylor, American soldier and author (born 1912)[†]

Robert Lewis Taylor was an American writer and winner of the 1959 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Historical Context for September 30, 1998

In 1998, the world population was approximately 6,007,066,690 people[†]