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U.S. Lobbies Yugoslavs After opposing President Slobodan Milosevic on the battlefield and in the negotiating room, the Clinton administration is making its case to the voters of Yugoslavia. PAGE A6
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission determines that Allstate Insurance violated federal law and committed age discrimination when it forced more than 6,000 agents to sign away their rights to sue Allstate; insurance firm characterizes waiver as 'common and prudent business practice' (M)
Pres Clinton orders release of 30 million barrels of oil from Strategic Petroleum Reserve over next month; announcement, day after Vice Pres Gore injects issue into his presidential campaign, helps drive down crude oil prices, suggesting action could in short run check or reverse surge in home heating and gasoline prices in weeks before Election Day; analysts see no guarantees that consumers will benefit, and warn decision does not address underlying issue of bringing energy supplies into line with demand; administration points to low inventories on East Coast as winter nears; Clinton made decision after talking with Gore, who suggestedreleasing smaller amount to start; opponent George W Bush says stockpile is for serious supply disruptions, as during war, and recalls that Gore himself opposed using reserve last winter; government is not selling oil outright, but will arrange with refiners to replace oil they are taking at later date; Sec Bill Richardson explains; photo (M)
Al Gore and George W. Bush may both be lampooned by the likes of Leno and Letterman, but the satire isn't impartial. And now a political joke can reverberate all the way to the voting booth. A report by Marshall Sella in The Times Magazine. Plus: Men's Fashions of The Times.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 20, 2000, covering September 23, 2000.
Nelly
Eminem
Britney Spears
Creed
*NSYNC
2000Aurelio Rodríguez, Mexican baseball player and manager (born 1947)[†]
Aurelio Rodríguez Ituarte, Jr., sometimes known by the nickname "Chi Chi", was a Mexican professional baseball player, who spent the bulk of his Major League career with the Detroit Tigers. Known for his powerful throwing arm, he was one of the great defensive third basemen of his generation. His career range factor of 3.215 per nine innings at third base ranks second in major league history, and his 4,150 assists at the position ranked fifth in major league history at the time of his retirement.
2000Carl Rowan, American journalist and author (born 1925)[†]
Carl Thomas Rowan was a prominent American journalist, author and government official who published columns syndicated across the U.S. and was at one point the highest ranking African American in the United States government.
2000Raoul Berger, American attorney and law professor (born 1901)[†]
Raoul Berger was an American legal scholar at the University of California at Berkeley and Harvard Law School. While at Harvard, he was the Charles Warren Senior Fellow in American Legal History. He is known for his role in the development of originalism.
In 2000, the world population was approximately 6,171,702,993 people[†]