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A police officer who shot and wounded a squeegee man while off duty last year in the Bronx was cleared of all criminal charges yesterday by the judge who presided at his nonjury trial.
Manhattan District Attorney Robert M Morgenthau indicts A S Goldmen & Co, small New Jersey brokerage firm, and 26 employees on charges that firm orchestrated securities fraud that cost thousands of investors $100 million in losses; among those named in 240-count indictment are Goldmen's president and owner, Anthony Marchiano, and his twin brother, Salvatore, Goldmen's head trader; chief financial officer Stuart E Winkler is also named; prosecutors say Winkler, who worked as field examiner at National Association of Securities Dealers from 1979 through 1986, devised firm's fraudulent schemes; Morgenthau brings civil action seeking $100 million in repayment for what he calls criminal process of corrupt activities; State Supreme Court Justice Helen E Freedman signs temporary restraining order prohibiting defendants from disposing of any assets without court approval; photo (M)
Fred Brock reviews several books about cars, including three about Volkswagen Beetles; photos; also reviews buying and repair guides, and Taurus Watch, Mary Walton's account of Ford's redesign of 1996 model (M)
Dave Anderson Sports of The Times column on upcoming interleague series between New York Yankees and Mets notes that all three games are sold out; photo (M)
House minority leader, Richard A Gephardt, decides to withdraw his appointment of American Muslim leader, Salam Al-Marayati, to National Commission on Terrorism after protests from Jewish organizations; Al-Marayati, executive director of Muslim Public Affairs Council in Los Angeles, was named by Gephardt in June to Congressionial commission, 10-member group charged with reviewing national policy on preventing and punishing terrorism; soon after his appointment, Al-Marayati was accused by Jewish organizations condoning terrorism against Israel; but other political and religious leaders, many of them Jewish, have begun speaking in his defense, praising him as responsible moderate; photo (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 7, 1999, covering July 9, 1999.
Limp Bizkit
Backstreet Boys
Ricky Martin
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1999Claire Corlett, American voice actress[†]
Claire Margaret Corlett Brown is a Canadian actress, known most notably for providing the voice of Sweetie Belle in the animated television series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. She is the daughter of voice actor Ian James Corlett.
1999Robert de Cotret, Canadian politician, 56th Secretary of State for Canada (born 1944)[†]
Jean Robert René de Cotret was a Canadian economist and politician.
1999Days of student protests begin after Iranian police and hardliners attack a student dormitory at the University of Tehran.[†]
The Iranian student protests of July 1999 were, before the 2009 Iranian election protests, the most widespread and violent public protests to occur in Iran since the early years of the Iranian Revolution.
In 1999, the world population was approximately 6,089,006,339 people[†]