Lewis-Akinwande: a Fight for Heavyweight Redemption
Date: 12 July 1997
By TOM FRIEND
Lennox Lewis is set to defend World Boxing Council heavyweight title against Henry Akinwande, Lake Tahoe, Nev (M)
Le 11 juillet 1997 était un vendredi sous le signe astral du ♋. C'était le 191ème 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 vendredi 11 juillet 2025, il y a 337 jours. Votre prochain anniversaire est le samedi 11 juillet 2026, dans 27 jours. Vous avez vécu 10 564 jours, soit environ 253 543 heures, ou environ 15 212 601 minutes, ou environ 912 756 060 secondes.
Date: 12 July 1997
By TOM FRIEND
Lennox Lewis is set to defend World Boxing Council heavyweight title against Henry Akinwande, Lake Tahoe, Nev (M)
Date: 12 July 1997
By LIZETTE ALVAREZ
Senate approves military authorization bill including nonbinding resolution to get ground troops out of Bosnia by June 30, as Pres Clinton has promised, but does not cut off aid for the peacekeeping mission; $269 billion military budget is passed by 94-to-4 vote (S)
Date: 12 July 1997
By KEVIN SACK
Annual survey released by National League of Cities indicates that more than two-thirds of 338 US cities reported that they will be better able to meet their financial needs in the current fiscal year than in the previous one; it is fifth consecutive year in which percentage has increased; chart; photos (M)
Date: 12 July 1997
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
National Health and Human Service Employees Union, New York City's largest union of hospital workers, proposes innovative deal that would use at least $100 million from its pension plan to offer early retirement incentives for older workers as means of guaranteeing job security for younger ones; makes proposal to 30 nonprofit hospitals because it fears city's financially squeezed hospitals will make large-scale layoffs when its current contract expires on June 30, 1998 (M)
Date: 12 July 1997
By ADAM CLYMER
House Speaker Newt Gingrich proposes cutting taxes every year and abolishing, not just reducing, capital gains and inheritance taxes (M)
Date: 12 July 1997
By LOUIS UCHITELLE
House Minority Leader Richard A Gephardt says it is all right if Federal budget is only in 'rough balance' because the nation's top priorities should be investment and growth; Gephardt says he would endorse budget deficit of up to one percent of gross domestic product; photo (M)
Date: 12 July 1997
France drops plans to sell its 58 percent stake in Thomson-CSF, military electronics company, and will instead make it core of large new military group (M)
Date: 12 July 1997
By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr
Announcement by Rwanda that its military planned and directed Congolese insurrection from its start in October 1996 is seen undermining the political position of rebel leader and new Congo Pres Laurent Kabila; map (M)
Date: 12 July 1997
By SETH MYDANS
Foreign embassies in Cambodia, already beginning to cut their aid programs as punishment for coup carried out by Hun Sen, receive surprising letter from Parliament asking for humanitarian assistance; meanwhile, Prince Norodom Ranariddh, ousted as First Prime Minister, asks United States and United Nations for sanctions against Cambodia; Norodom photo (M)
Date: 12 July 1997
By ROBERT HURTADO
Treasury prices rise, pushing yield on 30-year bond to its lowest level in more than seven months, after Government reports that prices at producer level fell for a record sixth consecutive month (M)