Le 23 novembre 1996 était un samedi sous le signe astral du ♐. C'était le 327ème jour de l'année. Le président des États-Unis était William J. (Bill) Clinton.
Si vous êtes né ce jour-là, vous avez 29 ans. Ton dernier anniversaire était le dimanche 23 novembre 2025, il y a 215 jours. Votre prochain anniversaire est le lundi 23 novembre 2026, dans 149 jours. Vous avez vécu 10 807 jours, soit environ 259 371 heures, ou environ 15 562 284 minutes, ou environ 933 737 040 secondes.
Date: 24 November 1996
By Janet Allon
Janet Allon
Interview with Elinor R Tatum, associate publisher and chief operating officer of The Amsterdam News, Harlem-based black newspaper, who is also in line to succeed her father, Wilbert A Tatum, as editor in chief and publisher; she addresses charges that newspaper has fanned flames of racial division and anti-Semitism under her father's leadership; photo (M)
Date: 23 November 1996
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp sells its 4 percent stake in John Fairfax Holdings Ltd; Conrad Black and Kerry Packer battle for control of Fairfax (S)
Date: 24 November 1996
New Business Information Wall at New York Public Library presents information on 21 television screens and 3 electronic display signs; Indiana-based Bruegger's Bagels opens its first New York outlet; Cineplex Odeon is turning a three-screen theater in Chelsea into a two-screen one, reversing the usual practice (M)
Date: 23 November 1996
By Warren Hoge
Warren Hoge
June 26 murder of Veronica Guerin, reporter for Ireland's Sunday Independent, forces Government to pass a series of laws giving law enforcement agencies the ability to deal with the newly sophisticated enemy she was writing about: organized crime; Irish police, who have heretofore been more restricted than officers in other Western countries, feel certain they know the identities of the men responsible for killing Guerin, but need to build an impregnable case before exercising their new, one-time right to detain them for questioning; Paul Ward has been charged with conspiracy to commit murder for allegedly having harbored the killers after the crime; photos of Guerin, her family and John Gilligan, who believes he is prime suspect (L)
Date: 23 November 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
DSP Communications Inc stock jumps after firm drops plan to buy Proxim Inc (S)
Date: 23 November 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Teco Energy Inc to buy Lykes Energy Inc for $300 million in stock from Lykes Brothers Inc (S)
Date: 23 November 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Pacific Gas & Electric Co to sell its stake in Intergen to joint venture partner Bechtel Enterprises Inc, Bechtel Corp unit, for gain of at least $70 million (S)
Date: 23 November 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
J C Penney Inc reaches tentative accord with Federal Trade Commission to sell some stores to resolve antitrust concerns from its planned $3.3 billion acquisition of Eckerd Corp (S)ï
Date: 24 November 1996
Burling Lowrey letter discusses Walter Goodman's Nov 3 article on Jim Lehrer and program Newshour on PBS (S)
Date: 23 November 1996
International 3-7 AFRICA'S NEW PROXY WARS The currents conflict in Africa have exposed a vast web of proxy wars sponsored by African states that are threatening to redraw borders nearly unchanged for a 100 years, diplomats and analysts say. 1 AFRICA MISSION STALLS The international military effort for Africa became mired in uncertainty as governments and aid agencies disagreed over the number of refugees left in Zaire and the scope of any mission to help them. 7 MASSACRE IN BURUNDI United Nation officials said that nearly 300 Hutu refugees returning to Burundi from Zaire late last month were massacred as they sought refuge in a church. 7 FIGHTING IRELAND'S MAFIA Since a journalist was gunned down while investigating Ireland's underworld, the Government has passed a series of laws to help law enforcement agencies deal with their newly sophisticated enemy. 1 A PRESIDENT SNORKELS President Clinton plunged into the sparkling blue-green waters of the Great Barrier Reef off Australia, snorkeling past legions of iridescent fish and secret service agents. 3 SUCCESS AT SUBIC BAY President Clinton and 17 other leaders will gather Monday in the Philippines at Subic Bay, the former United States naval station that has become a tax-free port and a symbol of economic success. 3 FRANCE CONVICTS SCIENTOLOGIST The former head of the Church of Scientology in Lyons was convicted of involuntary homicide in the death of a member who committed suicide after going heavily into debt to pay for sect sessions. 5 RUSSIA BROKERS DEAL IN BELARUS Alarmed about growing turmoil in neighboring Belarus, Russia has tried to forge a compromise between the nation's autocratic President and his main opponents. 6 Nuevo Laredo Journal: The scandal of a free press. 4 National 8-10, 48 NEW AIR BAG RULES COMING The Department of Transportation said that it would require auto makers to begin installing new, more advanced air bags within two years as part of a package of steps to reduce the dangers posed to children and small adults. 1 SIMPSON TESTIFIES Testifying in open court for the first time about the double slaying that made him the most famous murder defendant of the decade, O. J. Simpson repeatedly denied that he had beaten his former wife. 1 QUESTIONS ON GERRYMANDERING The re-election of five black members of Congress, in districts recently redrawn to eliminate black voting majorities, has sharpened the debate about whether it is still necessary to gerrymander legislative districts along racial lines. 1 COUPLE GUILTY OF ASSAULT A white South Carolina husband and wife were cleared of lynching a 10-year-old black boy but convicted of assaulting the boy, who had come to their home to play with their 9-year-old son. 8 VENEZUELAN GENERAL INDICTED A Federal grand jury in Miami has indicted a Venezuelan general who led a Central Intelligence Agency counter-narcotics program that put a ton of cocaine on the streets of the United States in 1990, Government officials said. 8 DEMOCRATS TO REFUND MONEY The Democratic Party announced that it would return a $450,000 donation from an Indonesian couple who were solicited by John Huang, the former top party finance official at the center of inquiries under way in Congress and three Federal agencies. 9 UNABOM TRIAL DATE SET A Federal district judge set a trial date of next Nov. 12 for Theodore Kaczynski, the man suspected of mailing or planting 16 bombs that killed 3 people in a cross-country campaign of terror that lasted 17 years. 9 VALUJET CONTRACTOR CRITICIZED The F.A.A. did not closely scrutinize a contractor that may be largely at fault in the Valujet crash because the airline did not identify problems with the contractor, an agency official told investigators. 10 Metro Report 21-25 CREW TOLD TO IMPROVE SCHOOLS The New York State Education Commissioner ordered the New York City Schools Chancellor, Rudy Crew, to take direct control of 42 failing city schools and improve them. If they do not get better, the Commissioner said, the state could force them to close. 1 Business Digest 31 Arts/Entertainment 13-17, 20 ''Chicago'' star's path. 13 Steinbeck in Louisville. 13 Music: ''Elegy for Young Lovers.'' 15 Dance:Murray Louis and Nikolais. 20 Television: ''Rebound.'' 17 Sports 26-30 Basketball: Knick coach clarifies players' roles. 29 Trade talk swirls around Nets' Bradley. 27 Column: Rhoden on New York City college basketball coaches 27 Football: Notre Dame close to naming Holtz's successor. 27 Obituaries 11 Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist who shared a Nobel Prize Editorials/Op-Ed 18-19 Editorials A triumph for city schools. Time for a broader Asian agenda. Modernizing a bank law. Letters Frank Rich: TV's new Jew. Russell Baker: How we got here. Kathryn S. Wylde: Will New York give business a break? Robert Spector: P.C., but not ''most talented.'' John O. Norquist: From welfare to work, without a car. Bridge 17 Crossword 16