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New York Knickerbockers defeat Miami Heat in National Basketball League playoffs for third consecutive year; wins seventh game of second-round series, 83-82, to advance to Eastern Conference finals against Indiana Pacers; photos (M)
Rep Rick A Lazio embarks on two-day campaign trip to upstate New York in pursuit of Republican Senate nomination; stops in Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Binghamton; tells voters that he is viable statewide alternative to his richly funded and well-traveled opponent, Hillary Rodham Clinton; photo (M)
Descendants of original vault owners at New York Marble Cemetery in lower Manhattan meet to devise repair and preservation plan for what is oldest nonsectarian cemetery in Manhattan; full restoration might cost $1 million to $1.5 million; owners are already committed to about $300,000 in work on the walls, which is now under way; photo (M)
Plane Crash Kills 19 A twin-engine charter plane carrying 19 people from Atlantic City to Wilkes-Barre, Pa., apparently developed engine trouble and crashed, killing everyone aboard. PAGE A10 Barbara Cartland Dies The undisputed queen of romance fiction, whose more than 700 tales of demure heroines in search of Mr. Right were read by millions all over the world, was 98. PAGE B7
Mary Higgins Clark's latest contract with Simon & Shuster is believed to be record-breaker--five books for total advance of $64 million; company prepares to release electronic version of her newest best seller, Before I Say Good-Bye, and nine of her other books in electronic versions for use on laptops and desktop computers, electronic reading devices and personal digital assistants; it is not clear if mass market will find e-books approachable, but Clark is proven weapon; her 22 hardcover books have all been best sellers; book deal outlines; photos (L)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 17, 2000, covering May 22, 2000.
*NSYNC
504 Boyz
Sisqo
Joe
Toni Braxton
2000Julián Carranza, Argentine footballer[†]
Julián Simón Carranza is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward for Eredivisie club Feyenoord.
2000Davie Fulton, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (born 1916)[†]
Edmund Davie Fulton was a Canadian Rhodes Scholar, politician and judge. He was born in Kamloops, British Columbia, the son of politician/lawyer Frederick John Fulton and Winnifred M. Davie, daughter of A. E. B. Davie. He was the youngest of 4 children.
2000In Sri Lanka, over 150 Tamil rebels are killed over two days of fighting for control in Jaffna.[†]
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, also known historically as Ceylon, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian peninsula by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait. It shares a maritime border with the Maldives in the southwest and India in the northwest. Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is the legislative capital of Sri Lanka, while the largest city, Colombo, is the administrative and judicial capital which is the nation's political, financial and cultural centre. Kandy is the second-largest urban area and also the capital of the last native kingdom of Sri Lanka. The most spoken language Sinhala, is spoken by the majority of the population. Tamil is also spoken by approximately five million people, making it the second most-spoken language in Sri Lanka.
In 2000, the world population was approximately 6,171,702,993 people[†]