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In 1999, the world population was approximately 6,089,006,339 people[†]
1999Geraldo Perdomo, Dominican baseball player[†]
Geraldo Rafael Perdomo is a Dominican professional baseball shortstop for the Arizona Diamondbacks of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2021. He was named to his first MLB All-Star Game in 2023 and helped the Diamondbacks win their first National League pennant since 2001.
1999Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity.[†]
Maurice Papon was a French civil servant and Nazi collaborator who was convicted of crimes against humanity committed during the occupation of France. Papon led the police in major prefectures from the 1930s to the 1960s, before he became a Gaullist politician. When he was secretary general for the police in Bordeaux during World War II, he participated in the deportation of more than 1,600 Jews. He is also known for his activities in the Algerian War (1954–1962), during which he tortured insurgent prisoners as prefect of the Constantinois department, and ordered, as prefect of the Paris police, the 1961 massacre of pro-National Liberation Front (FLN) demonstrators for violating a curfew that he had "advised".
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Morgan Stanley Finds Its Dream Address Taken Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, trumpeting its new on-line stock trading service, has discovered that somebody already has its desired Internet address, www.msdwonline.com.
Clyde Haberman column expresses disappointment that there will not be Subway Series between New York Yankees and New York Mets (M)
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co files suit in United States District Court in Manhattan, contending that 17-year-old Ivan Wong has registered a Web site, www.msdwonline.com, that Morgan Stanley thought belonged to it, and wanted to use as address for their new on-line stock trading service; suit contends that Wong's Web site infringes on firm's trademarks; Morgan Stanley is asking judge to stop Ivan from using domain name; depending on who is telling story, Wong is either a boy who created Web site to share his passion for mountain-bike racing, or an opportunistic 'cybersquatter' who registered dozens of Internet addresses in scheme to exact ransoms from big-name corporations; it turns out that company set up by Wong's father, Sau Wong, has registered dozens of domain names, many derived from names of investment banks; photo of Ivan Wong (L)
Vice Pres Al Gore says that as President he would ban any new offshore drilling for oil and gas along California and Florida coasts; Pres Clinton last year extended moratorium on drilling first imposed by Pres Bush; proposal by Gore, who is battling Bill Bradley for support of environmental groups, would go beyond that to apply to companies that have already bought billions of dollars of new leases but have not yet started drilling; such a ban could be implemented by executive order, but it would immediately set stage for major legal challenges to a Gore Administration; there are 36 existing leases off California, 146 off Florida (L)
Mayor Rudolph W Giuliani and his fund-raisers say they are either on target or ahead of schedule for $20 million they will need for his Senate campaign against Hillary Rodham Clinton; Giuliani's distaste for fund-raising is frustrating his staff and causing some Republicans statewide to complain that he has not been aggressive enough in his pursuit of money (M)
Ben Brantley reviews Broadway musical version of Saturday Night Live, directed and choreographed by Arlene Phillips; James Carpinello and Paige Price star; photos (M)
Autos on Friday article on General Motors preview of its nine new concept vehicles; photos (M)
Indonesian Parliament, day after voting down her bid for presidency, elects Megawati Sukarnoputri, popular leader of opposition to ousted Suharto Government, to post of Vice President; in gesture of reconciliation--and pragamatic politics--Megawati is nominated for post by newly elected President, Abdurrahman Wahid; her defeat on Oct 20 triggered angry protest by her bitterly frustrated supporters; photo of Sukarnoputri (L)
Floyd Norris article holds Federal Reserve, because it no onger pays attention to margins, has created impression that stock prices are irrelevant and that inflation is only reason to raise interest rates; says Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan risks losing popularity if he keeps raising rates without clear evidence of inflation; questions whether Greenspan will back down on raising rates for sake of his popularity; graph (M)
Scientists discover enzyme that plays into development of Alzheimer's disease, opening door to developing drugs that might block it and, if drugs prove safe, to preventing or slowing the disease; discovery of enzyme had eluded teams of scientists at universities and drug companies for more than decade, although they had given it a name, beta-secretase; so many false claims of victory were announced that investigators automatically doubted anyone who claimed to have found it; but experts say that new work by Dr Martin Citron and his colleagues at Amgen, biotechnology company in Thousand Oaks, Calif, is different--that it passes crucial tests of authenticity, convincing even some skeptics; report appears in Oct 22 issue of Science (M)
New law deregulating nation's financial industry is not expected unless agreement can be reached between Congress and Pres Clinton over legislation's effect on rules that encourage banks to make loans to poor; some Republicans want to ease burdens of banks, while Democrats want to see something in legislation for minorities, farmers and poor; what makes exercise unusual is that there is overwhelming support among both Democrats and Republicans for virtually all of substance of bill, which would repeal Depression-era laws that have made it expensive and difficult for banks to enter securities and insurance business; effort by Sen Phil Gramm to limit community lending laws does not appear to have support of majority of banking community; chronology of financial regulation, 1929-1999; photos (M)
New York Yankees work out at Yankee Stadium in preperation for opening of World Series in Atlanta on Oct 23; photo (M)