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Arrest in 1998 Bombing A man brought to New York from Cape Town was charged with involvement in the American Embassy bombing in Tanzania. PAGE A4 Mexico Rains Kill 330 Soldiers and rescue workers struggled to retrieve the bodies of people killed in landslides as the death toll passed 330. Some 200,000 people have been left homeless. PAGE A4
Cultural Affairs Comr Schuyler G Chapin, in statement that was drafted in consultation with City Hall, speaks out against cutoff of city funds to Brooklyn Museum of Art and urges Mayor Rudolph W Giuliani to restore money; it is highest level of dissent to date within Giuliani administration over Mayor's battle with museum over its show, Sensation, with its painting of Virgin Mary decorated with elephant dung; Chapin photo (M)
S.& P. 500 Gains 18 Points On Bargain Hunting Spree The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index rose 18.38 points, or 1.39 percent, to 1,336.02, in reaction to a buying spree by bargain hunters. The market was also responding to the mixed jobless report for September. The unemployment rate remained at 4.2 percent last month, but the report signaled that wages are rising at a faster-than-expected clip.
Profile of Christine Lagarde, who was recently named top partner at Chicago-based law firm Baker & McKenzie; of nation's 20 largest law firms, Mayer, Brown & Platt, ranked seventh, is only other one with woman in top job; Lagarde comments; chart on largest law firms in US ranked by number of lawyers in 1998; photo of Lagarde (M)
Article on actor and comedien Danny Hoch notes that he has earned critical acclaim for his one-man shows Jails, Hospitals and Hip-Hop and Some People, which are peopled by range of New York characters culled from his childhood turf in Queens and Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where he now lives; photos (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 6, 1999, covering October 9, 1999.
Nine Inch Nails
Backstreet Boys
Santana
Christina Aguilera
Eve
1999Milt Jackson, American vibraphone player and composer (born 1923)[†]
Milton Jackson, nicknamed "Bags", was an American jazz vibraphonist. He is especially remembered for his cool swinging solos as a member of the Modern Jazz Quartet and his penchant for collaborating with hard bop and post-bop players.
1999Akhtar Hameed Khan, Pakistani economist and scholar (born 1914)[†]
Akhter Hameed Khan was a Pakistani-Bangladeshi development practitioner and social scientist. He promoted participatory rural development in West Pakistan, East Pakistan and other developing countries, and widely advocated community participation in development. His particular contribution was the establishment of a comprehensive project for rural development, the Comilla Model (1959). It earned him the Ramon Magsaysay Award from the Philippines and an honorary Doctorate of law from Michigan State University.
In 1999, the world population was approximately 6,089,006,339 people[†]