Le 29 juin 1997 était un dimanche sous le signe astral du ♋. C'était le 179ème jour de l'année. Le président des États-Unis était William J. (Bill) Clinton.
Si vous êtes né ce jour-là, vous avez 28 ans. Ton dernier anniversaire était le dimanche 29 juin 2025, il y a 350 jours. Votre prochain anniversaire est le lundi 29 juin 2026, dans 14 jours. Vous avez vécu 10 577 jours, soit environ 253 865 heures, ou environ 15 231 953 minutes, ou environ 913 917 180 secondes.
Date: 29 June 1997
By Max Frankel
Max Frankel
Max Frankel column says the decline in the number of Americans who read, watch or listen to the news is due less to a lack of the kind of events and developments that alarm the public than it is to a failure on the part of journalists to discern the public's fears and explore them in stories that make life meaningful and manageable to the public; drawing (M)
Date: 30 June 1997
By Iver Peterson
Iver Peterson
Partnership of large newspaper companies, called New Century Network, announces service called Newsworks, which offers daily report on important news of each day compiled and assembled by Newsworks editors in Manhattan; Newsworks includes links to 150 individual newspaper sites on World Wide Web; newspaper companies that own New Century are Advance Publications Inc, Cox Enterprises Inc, Gannett Co, Hearst Corp, Knight-Ridder Inc, The New York Times, Times-Mirror Inc, Tribune Co and Washington Post Co; they publish 225 dailies; The New York Times and some other papers have withheld their sites from network (M)
Date: 30 June 1997
By Seth Faison
Seth Faison
Even though transfer of power in Hong Kong to China on July 1 is being carried in detail by Hong Kong's local newspapers, news coverage is still dominated by crime, tales of robbery, sexual harassment and bizarre moments of human tragedy (M)
Date: 29 June 1997
By Edward A. Gargan
Edward Gargan
Hong Kong, being returned to China after 156 years of British colonial rule, carries Britain's mark in many ways, most obviously in use of English; British legacy includes both infrastructure and rule of law, legal system, parliamentary democracy and free press; chronology of events; photos (M)
Date: 30 June 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Japanese stocks trade higher on June 30; at midday break, benchmark Nikkei index of 225 issues is up 94.61 points at 20,618.36 (S)
Date: 30 June 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Former chairman of Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank, Kuniji Miyazaki, commits suicide shortly after being questioned by prosecutors in connection with scandal involving bank and Nomura Securities Co, one of world's largest brokerage companies, and their alleged links to organized crime; Miyazaki was questioned, along with another former chairman of bank, Tadashi Okuda, about loans worth $250 million, much of them uncollectable, to known racketeer, Ryuichi Koike; four former directors of Dai-Ichi Kangyo have been indicted on charges of making illegal payoffs of more than $103 million to Koike (M)
Date: 29 June 1997
Letter from Alvin L Levine says Hideki Irabu is recipient of too much hype (S)
Date: 29 June 1997
INTERNATIONAL 3-15 Big Contractors Push For Expansion of NATO Military contractors are acting like globe-hopping diplomats to encourage the expansion of NATO, which will create a huge market for them. Admission to the Western fraternity will bring political prestige, but at a price: playing by rules that require Western weapons and equipment. The potential market for fighter jets alone is put at $10 billion. 1 Britain's Shadow on Hong Kong Hong Kong survived as a colony much longer than Britain's other outposts, perhaps because the lease determined when independence would come. As it does, people are assessing and disputing the British legacy, and how it relates to the lively success of the Chinese residents. 1
Date: 30 June 1997
INTERNATIONAL A3-6 Hong Kong Braces For Mainland's Embrace In all of China, from the Gobi Desert to Manchuria, from the Forbidden City to the cloud-wreathed peaks of Guilin, there is no place as wildly free as Hong Kong. At midnight tonight, its 6.3 million people, half of them refugees from Communist China, will be returned to Beijing's embrace. A1 Hundreds of thousands flooded the streets of Beijing in a display of patriotism over the return of Hong Kong. It was easily the largest spontaneous gathering around Tiananmen Square since 1989, when a million or more gathered during the peak of the democracy demonstrations that ended in a violent military crackdown on June 4. A6 What has really dominated the pages of most Hong Kong newspapers over the last week, like every other week, is crime. Even at this climactic turning point in the city's history, the bulk of news fare consists of tales of robbery, sexual harassment and bizarre moments of human tragedy. A6 The Tricky Job of Repairing Mir The commander of the Mir space station has had his brushes with disaster, but he still has worries about his latest assignment: repairing the stricken vessel, which was severely damaged last week when a supply vehicle crashed into it. By all accounts, the job is a tricky venture into uncharted territory. A1 President Losing in Albania The voting in Albania's parliamentary elections, which many feared would be marred by extensive violence, proceeded more smoothly than expected. But from scattered results, the party of President Sali Berisha appeared to be losing, and it remained unclear whether he would accept the results. The leader of the Socialist Party, Fatos Nano, claimed victory. A3 Japan Teen Linked to 2d Death Reports in Japan linked the 14-year-old suspect in the beheading of a youth to two previous attacks against children. One of those victims, who were both girls, died of stab wounds. The killings have heightened concerns that the moral fabric of youth is decaying. A3 Death and Drugs in St. Kitts A drug scandal that toppled a Caribbean government and led to a 27-year-old laborer's being tried three times on the same murder charge began three years ago with the disappearance of more than a ton and a half of cocaine from an isolated beach. A4 Exams Lost in France Thirty-three unlucky students in the eastern French city of Dijon will have to retake the crucial baccalaureat exams because their work was apparently lost by an examiner who was supposed to grade them. One father said his daughter was so shocked when she heard the news that she needed to see a doctor.(AFP) Campaign Fever in Mexico Carlos Castillo Peraza, a candidate of the National Action Party, spoke in Mexico City where hundreds of thousands of residents poured into the central plaza this weekend for demonstrations called by each of the three main parties, bringing the city's first mayoral campaign of modern times to a tumultuous climax before next Sunday's balloting. A3 NATIONAL A8-9, B7-9 Welfare System Gives Way To an Emphasis on Work Work is the theme of programs emerging to replace the nation's 62-year-old welfare system, which will formally die tomorrow. A decentralized system is rising to take its place. Some state programs can boast of impressive achievements while others are still being cobbled together. A1 Clinton Backs G.O.P. Tax Ideas President Clinton will announce a revised tax-cutting proposal that his aides describe as an effort to give middle-class taxpayers somewhat deeper reductions than those passed overwhelmingly by the Senate. He is expected to endorse tax proposals that would create education savings accounts similar to individual retirement accounts. A1 Facing Up to Care of Dying While ethicists and lawyers have been debating the right to die, doctors have been busy examining the need for better treatment for patients at the end of life. A1 Asking About Indiscretions It would seem difficult for any candidate with an indiscretion in his past to win Senate confirmation for the nation's top military office. For senior field commanders last week, the hottest topic was The Search. A8 Gore Warms Up for a Run Vice President Al Gore left no doubt of his political aspirations as he made recent appearances in Iowa. Despite his protestations about it being too early, Mr. Gore is running for President. And he is running hard. B9 A Blow to Spending Reform The prospects for any campaign spending legislation have suffered another blow. House Republican leaders have persuaded their freshmen to stop cooperating with Democrats on a bill to bar money raised outside Federal limits. B9 Splits in Perot's Party A dissident faction has decided to split with Ross Perot's political party after failing to resolve their differences with those loyal to the former Presidential candidate. It said Mr. Perot wielded too much power in his organization, the Reform Party. A8 NEW YORK/REGION B1-6 Fire Damages Restaurant In Grand Central Terminal The fabled Oyster Bar and Restaurant at Grand Central Terminal was all but destroyed in a roaring subterranean fire that turned the restaurant into an inferno, melting down kitchen equipment. It brought down hundreds of ceiling tiles and blackened the sprawling dining room. B1 Thousands Honor Shabazz Thousands of mourners, among them legislators, writers, ministers and entertainers, filled Riverside Church in Manhattan in a memorial for Dr. Betty Shabazz that showed the degree to which her life and death touched so many people. A1 Spill Limits Swimming A beach in the Bronx reopened but all 26 in Westchester and some in Connecticut remained closed as a precaution after a sewage spill. A sewage slick was breaking up, a sign of improvement, but without test results some officials postponed swimming. B4 Immigrants Going Unpaid Many immigrants face exploitation by unscrupulous employers who fail to pay them, and those who work with them say the problem is spreading and that there is little to discourage employers from preying upon immigrants. B4 The Metrocard Takes Off After more than two years of being largely shunned by New York City commuters, the Metrocard is finally replacing the token as the currency of choice for many mass transit riders. B1 Death in a Foster Home A 4-year-old girl in foster care in Brooklyn was found dead yesterday.Last night the police arrested her foster mother and foster grandmother, the police said. Four other children were removed from the women's home. B3 SPORTS C1-8 End of Mike Tyson's Era? Mike Tyson has been suspended, a district attorney may want to interview him, a doctor may want to do a blood test on him, and Evander Holyfield may want to sue him. A1 BUSINESS DAY D1-12 Cyberporn Seller's Portrait A father of six is running a lucrative live pornography site on the World Wide Web called Videofantasy where young women disrobe and pose for digital voyeurs who pay $5.95 a minute. Experts estimate as many as 10,000 Web sites offer cyberporn. D1 Suit Shows Penguin Scheme The Penguin Group concludes that a $163 million black hole in its balance sheet began with an elaborate $1.4 million scheme that subsidized a credit director's eclectic tastes, according to a civil complaint filed in United States District Court. D1 Cuba Venture Abandoned A Mexican conglomerate that has been the largest foreign investor in Cuba has relinquished its stake in the Cuban telephone company and withdrawn from the island. D2 Nationsbank Makes Acquisition The Nationsbank Corporation of Charlotte, N.C., will announce this morning that it is acquiring Montgomery Securities of San Francisco for about $1.2 billion in cash and stock, people familiar with the transaction said. D2 Business Digest D1 ARTS C9-14 OBITUARIES D13 William L. Turnbull Jr. An architect whose collaboration with the late Charles Moore early in his career led to unorthodox ways of constructing modern buildings was 62. D13 EDITORIAL A10-11 Editorials: Unrepentant Iraq; Mr. Clinton and the cities; Topics. Columns: Anthony Lewis, Bob Herbert. Bridge C14 Crossword C14 Weather B10
Date: 30 June 1997
By Sheryl Wudunn
Sheryl Wudunn
News reports link unidentified 14-year-old boy, arrested in slaying and beheading of 11-year old Jun Hase, to two previous attacks against children in Kobe, Japan (S)