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Article discusses rejuvenation of Newtown Creek, five-mile inlet dividing industrial wastelands of Brooklyn and Queens; photo; map
Sec of State Madeleine K Albright has volunteered to be lightning rod for criticism from abortion rights groups if Pres Clinton compromises with Congress on deal to free nearly $1 billion US owes United Nations; urges White House to cut deal that administration officials fear could strike some Clinton supporters as retreat from president's pledge to defend abortion rights; administration has refused demand from House conservatives, as condition of repaying Washington's debt to UN, to cut off US financing to international organizations that promote abortion rights (M)
Antitrust experts say findings of Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson in Microsoft antitrust trial may have been so sweeping as to leave company room to chip away at them on appeal; say Jackson's document is striking in its eloquence in concluding that software maker is monopolist whose anti-competitive tactics have harmed consumers and stifled innovation; Microsoft says Jackson's findings, as damaging as they appear, leave company some legal openings; chairman William H Gates photo (M)
Hillary Rodham Clinton, in return visit to Palestinian territpory, is acclaimed anew as champion of Palestinian nationhood; listens withvisibke discomfort as her hosts at health care function excoriated Israel for its alleged toxic contamination of Palestinian air and water; Suha Arafat, wife of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, contends that Israeli military had routinely used carcinogenic crowd control gases in Gaza and West Bank, creating severe public health problem; photo (M)
Article on Democratic Presidential candidate Bill Bradley notes that after he retired from New York Knicks, he stopped following basketball; shift was so abrupt that it shocked even his closest friends; Bradley recently rediscovered his love of game; as presidential candidate, it is first way many people connect with him; Bradley will hold fund-raiser at Madison Square Gardon on Nov 14, where he will appear with several of his former teammates and players he used to compete against; photo (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 10, 1999, covering November 12, 1999.
Santana
Master P
Lou Bega
Backstreet Boys
Britney Spears
1999Choi Yoo-jung, South Korean singer, dancer, rapper, and actress[†]
Choi Yoo-jung, known mononymously as Yoojung, is a South Korean singer and actress signed under Fantagio. She debuted as member of I.O.I in May 2016 after achieving third place in the 2016 survival program Produce 101. In January 2017, I.O.I officially disbanded after eleven months of promotion. Following disbandment, she returned to her respective agency and eventually debuted with Weki Meki in August 2017. Choi debuted as a solo artist with the single album Sunflower in September 2022.
1999The 7.2 Mw Düzce earthquake shakes northwestern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). At least 845 people are killed and almost 5,000 are injured.[†]
The 1999 Düzce earthquake occurred on 12 November at 18:57:22 local time with a moment magnitude of 7.2 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), causing damage and at least 845 fatalities in Düzce, Turkey. The epicenter was approximately 100 km (62 mi) to the east of the extremely destructive 1999 İzmit earthquake that happened nearly three months earlier. Both strike-slip earthquakes were caused by movement on the North Anatolian Fault.
In 1999, the world population was approximately 6,089,006,339 people[†]