1998 Apr 1-2, Pres. Clinton visited Senegal. He traveled through
the capital, Dakar, and spoke on the future of African-US relations on
Goree Island.
(SFC, 3/21/98, p.A13)(WSJ, 4/2/98, p.A1)
1998 Apr 2, California agreed to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit
brought by 3 female prison workers for $4.3 million.
(SFC, 4/3/98, p.A26)
1998 Apr 2, In Kansas City it was reported that the SubTropolis
underground business complex had some 4.3 million sq. feet of mine space
converted to warehouse, office and factory use with 50 enterprises employing
1300 people. The underground industrial park began in 1945 as a limestone
mine.
(WSJ, 4/2/98, p.A1)
1998 Apr 2, In Burma ethnic Karen rebels launched attacks against
Burmese troops and killed 30 people.
(SFC, 4/4/98, p.A16)
1998 Apr 2, In Colombia Thomas Fiore (43), one of the hostages
captured Mar 27, escaped captivity by the FARC rebel group.
(SFC, 4/3/98, p.B5)
1998 Apr 2, A French court found Maurice Papon (87), a career
civil servant, guilty of deporting Jews from Bordeaux in 1942-1943, when
he was secretary-general of the Gironde Prefecture. He was sentenced to
10 years in prison.
(SFC, 4/2/98, p.C2)(SFC, 4/3/98, p.B2)
1998 Apr 2, Iran and Iraq began a war prisoner exchange involving
nearly 6000 men, mostly Iraqis.
(WSJ, 4/3/98, p.A1)
1998 Apr 2, In Northern Ireland police intercepted a 980-pound
bomb at Dublin’s ferry port.
(SFC, 4/3/98, p.B8)
1998 Apr 2, In Israel three Arab homes were demolished in the
Bedouin village of Suweij. Clashes with Israeli police occurred over the
next few days as the Arabs attempted to rebuild their homes.
(SFC, 4/6/98, p.A12)
1998 Apr 2, In Latvia the only Jewish synagogue in Riga was bombed.
(SFC, 4/798, p.A14)
1998 Apr 2, Shaking their fists in rage, thousands of mourners
marched in a funeral procession in the West Bank for a top Hamas bombmaker,
Mohiyedine Sharif, hailed by Palestinians as a martyr and condemned by
Israel as a terrorist.
(AP, 4/2/99)
1998 Apr 2, In Romania Radu Vasile, an economist and leader of
the national Peasant Party, was named by Pres. Emil Constantinescu as the
new prime minister.
(SFC, 4/3/98, p.B5)
1998 Apr 2, Sudanese soldiers shot an beat to death 74 student
conscripts who tried to flee the Ailafoon military camp. At least 55 others
drowned when their boat capsized on the blue Nile while they tried to escape.
(SFC, 4/13/98, p.A12)
1998 Apr 3, Pres. Clinton warned that Japanese officials "have
to make a break" with their past policies. Moody’s Investor’s Services
changed its outlook on Japan’s government debt to "negative" from "stable."
(SFC, 4/4/98, p.A1)
1998 Apr 3, Douglas Fred Groat, a disgruntled spy fired by the
CIA, was charged with espionage and extortion. Groat later pleaded guilty
to extortion, and was sentenced to five years in prison.
(AP, 4/3/03)
1998 Apr 3, The Dow Jones industrial average climbed above 9,000
for the first time, but finished with a 3.23 point drop at 8,983.41.
(AP, 4/3/03)
1998 cApr 3, A 2-day meeting called by the Norwegian Initiative
on Small Arms Transfers was attended by 18 African nations, over a dozen
European countries and Japan, Canada and Argentina. They endorsed measures
to control the spread of light weapons.
(SFC, 4/6/98, p.A13)
1998 Apr 4, During a visit to Haiti, Secretary of State Madeleine
Albright urged leaders to stop political infighting that had paralyzed
the Caribbean nation for nearly a year.
1998 Apr 4, A new US toll-free exchange number, 877, was launched.
(SFC, 3/31/98, p.D1)
1998 Apr 4, Larry Singleton, rapist and murderer, was sentenced
in Florida to death for the 1997 murder of Roxanne Hayes (31).
(SFC, 1/1/02, p.A13)
1998 Apr 4, In Georgia two small planes collided over Marietta
and at least 5 people were killed.
(SFEC, 4/5/98, p.A10)
1998 Apr 4, In Ethiopia a locust plague was reported covering
an area of 3,700 acres in the regions of Jijiga and Dire Dawa. Aerial spraying
was begun.
(SFC, 4/4/98, p.A7)
1998 Apr 4,In Iran Gholamhossein Karbaschi, the mayor of Tehran,
was arrested by the judiciary on charges of corruption. He was convicted
and began a 2 year sentence in May 1999.
(SFC, 4/798, p.A12)(WSJ, 5/7/99, p.A1)
1998 Apr 4, North Korea proposed that officials at the deputy
minister level meet in Beijing for talks. South Korea accepted the following
day to reopen talks on economic aid and other issues.
(SFC, 4/6/98, p.A12)
1998 Apr 4, In the Ukraine a gas explosion at the Skochinsky
coal mine outside Donetsk killed 30 men and had another 31 trapped 4000
feet below ground.
(SFEC, 4/5/98, p.A20)(AP, 4/4/99)
1998 Apr 4-20, Richard Butler, chief arms inspector in Iraq,
refused to certify the Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction have been destroyed.
(SFC, 9/24/02, p.A11)
1998 Apr 5, In Leeds, England, environment chiefs from the world's
top eight industrialized nations announced plans to curb the smuggling
of hazardous waste, endangered species and substances that damage the ozone
layer.
(AP, 4/5/99)
1998 Apr 5, In Indonesia an outbreak of dengue fever killed 125
people since the beginning of the year in South Sumatra.
(SFEC, 4/5/98, p.T13)
1998 Apr 5, Iran and Iraq exchanged 1,589 prisoners of war, bringing
the number to over 4,000. Up to 30,000 prisoners were thought to be held
by both sides.
(SFC, 4/6/98, p.A16)
1998 Apr 5, In Japan the $3.8 billion, 12,906 foot Akashi Kaikyo
Bridge linking the islands of Shikoku and Honshu was opened. It was built
to withstand an 8.5 earthquake and took ten years to build.
(SFEC, 4/6/98, p.A13)
1998 Apr 5 South Korea accepted to reopen talks with North Korea
on economic aid and other issues. North Korea proposed yesterday that officials
at the deputy minister level meet in Beijing for talks.
(SFEC, 4/6/98, p.A12)
1998 Apr 6, The British TV program for toddlers, "Teletubbies,"
opened in the US.
(SFC, 4/6/98, p.E1)
1998 Apr 6, Pres. Clinton announced a ban on imports of 58 types
of military-style assault weapons.
(SFC, 4/6/98, p.A1)
1998 Apr 6, Energy Secretary Federico Pena announced his resignation.
(AP, 4/6/99)
1998 Apr 6, The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 9,000
for the first time.
(CNBC, 4/6/98)(AP, 4/6/99)
1998 Apr 6, Citicorp and Travelers Group announced a merger in
an $82 billion deal that would create the world’s largest financial services
company.
(SFC, 4/798, p.A1)
1998 Apr 6, National Semiconductor announced a new single chip
computer system. It would hit the mass-market in June 1999.
(WSJ, 4/6/98, p.A1)
1998 Apr 6, It was announced that the drug tamoxifen cut the
risk of breast cancer by half, but that it had potentially serious side
effects.
(WSJ, 4/6/98, p.A1)
1998 Apr 6, Tammy Wynette (55), country singer, died at her Nashville,
Tenn., home. Her songs included the 1968 hit "Stand by Your Man." In 2000
Jackie Daly authored the biography "Tammy Wynette."
(SFC, 4/798, p.A7)(AP, 4/6/99)(WSJ, 6/2/00, p.W10)
1998 Apr 6, In Algeria armed groups killed at least 35 civilians
in 2 separate attacks. 27 were killed near Oran and 89 near M’Sila.
(SFC, 4/798, p.A16)
1998 Apr 6, Pakistan reported a successful test of medium-range
missile from its Kahuta nuclear research lab. It was capable of carrying
nuclear warheads with a range of 900 miles.
(SFC, 4/798, p.A16)(SFEC, 5/17/98, p.A15)
1998 Apr 6, From Uganda it was reported that rebels in western
Uganda, who were short of food, had abducted a number of villagers and
resorted to cannibalism.
(SFC, 4/6/98, p.A12)
1998 Apr 7, President Clinton held a town meeting in Kansas City,
Mo., on the future of Social Security.
(AP, 4/7/99)
1998 Apr 7, Mary Bono, the widow of entertainer-turned-politician
Sonny Bono, won a special election to serve out the remainder of her husband's
congressional term.
(AP, 4/7/99)
1998 Apr 7, Indonesia and the IMF agreed on a new plan for the
economy. Pres. Suharto and the fund made concessions, that included continuing
subsidies on food and fuel and closing more insolvent banks.
(SFC, 4/8/98, p.A12)
1998 Apr 8, The nation's major cigarette makers withdrew support
for a historic tobacco settlement, saying Congress had twisted their offer
to help cut teen smoking into a harsh attack on their industry and sharp
tax increases for American smokers.
(AP, 4/8/99)
1998 Apr 8, It was reported that Europe’s Infrared Space Observatory
discovered water around stars and planets. Water vapor in the atmosphere
of Titan was reported.
(SFC, 4/8/98, p.A8)
1998 Apr 8, It was reported that a 20-year int’l. survey of plant
diversity found that 1 out of every 8 known plant species was threatened
with extinction.
(SFC, 4/8/98, p.A3)
1998 Apr 8, A line of storms struck the southeast and killed
at least 41 people. 32 were left dead in Alabama, 8 in Georgia and 1 in
Mississippi. Thirty-six people were killed by tornadoes that struck Alabama,
Mississippi and Georgia.
(SFC, 4/9/98, p.A3)(SFC, 4/10/98, p.A1)(WSJ, 4/10/98, p.A1) (AP,
4/8/99)
1998 Apr 8, In Bosnia NATO forces arrested Miroslav Kvocka and
Mladen Radic, both whom were charged for war crimes at the Omarska camp
near Prijedor where scores of Muslim and Croat prisoners were killed in
1992.
(SFC, 4/9/98, p.A12)
1998 Apr 8, Cuba restored relations with the Dominican Republic.
(WSJ, 4/9/98, p.A1)
1998 Apr 8, In Latvia the Democratic Party Samnieks, the largest
of the 6-party coalition, walked out of Parliament accusing the nationalist
prime minister of souring relations with Russia.
(SFC, 4/9/98, p.A9)
1998 Apr 8, It was reported that 22 Romanian ships carrying 500
sailors were stranded worldwide due to economic problems of the state shipping
firm, Navrom.
(SFC, 4/8/98, p.A12)
1998 Apr 9, At Andersonville, Ga., the National Prisoner of War
Museum opened at the site of the Civil War prison.
(SFC, 4/10/98, p.A7)(AP, 4/9/99)
1998 Apr 9, In Colombia a Catholic priest and a lay worker died
from a toxic cocktail of wine mixed with cyanide. At least 10 Easter baskets
with poisoned wine were delivered to priests in the provinces of Meta and
Cundinamarca.
(SFC, 4/13/98, p.A14)
1998 Apr 9, UN Sec. Kofi Annan suspended the investigation in
Congo of alleged massacres after a team member was seized by local authorities.
(SFC, 4/10/98, p.A18)
1998 Apr 9, In Northern Ireland this day was set as a deadline
for peace talks. The talks continued past the deadline.
(SFC, 3/26/98, p.B3)(WSJ, 4/10/98, p.A1)
1998 Apr 9, Japan abandoned austerity policies and Prime Minister
Hashimoto announced a $30 billion temporary cut in taxes to encourage consumer
spending. Pressure to change was exerted by the US, int’l. investors and
elite Japanese business leaders.
(SFC, 4/10/98, p.A14)
1998 Apr 9, Some 1 million workers across Russia protested against
the government and called for the resignation of Pres. Yeltsin. Unpaid
wages and pensions were an admitted major problem of the government.
(SFC, 4/10/98, p.A14)
1998 Apr 9, In Rwanda attackers thought to be Hutu rebels killed
28 people and wounded 36 in a refugee camp. Soldiers intervened and killed
20 rebels. The UN Security Council voted this same day to investigate illegal
arms sales to Rwanda.
(SFC, 4/10/98, p.A17)
1998 Apr 9, In Saudi Arabia it was reported that 2.3 million
Muslims made the pilgrimage, hajj, to Mecca this year. some 180 pilgrims
died at the "stoning of the devil" ritual during a stampede that occurred
on the last day of the annual pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca, Saudi
Arabia.
(SFC, 4/9/98, p.A10)(SFC, 4/10/98, p.A14)(AP, 4/9/99)(SFC, 2/12/03,
p.A9)
1998 Apr 10, The anti-impotence drug Viagra appeared on the market
and became one of the best-selling new medications of all time.
(MC, 4/10/02)
1998 Apr 10, In Iran an earthquake in the northeast killed 12
people and left 1,500 homeless in the Khorasan province.
(SFEC, 4/12/98, p.A16)
1998 Apr 10, The Good Friday Agreement was announced 17 hours
after the deadline as negotiators reached a landmark settlement to end
30 years of bitter rivalries and bloody attacks. Gerry Adams signed for
the IRA. It was to face referendums in the Irish Republic and Northern
Ireland on May 22. If approved there would be June elections to create
a local governing assembly for Northern Ireland.
(SFC, 4/11/98, p.A1)(AP, 4/10/99)(SSFC, 9/14/03, p.A1)
1998 Apr 10, The Russian Parliament rejected Pres. Yeltsin’s
nominee, Sergei Kiriyenko, for prime minister 186 to 143. Yeltsin renominated
Kiriyenko and another vote must take place within a week. In a speech to
the Duma Kiriyenko said that economic growth had stopped.
(SFC, 4/11/98, p.A6)
1998 Apr 11, In Benoni, South Africa, Nicholas Steyn (42),
a white farmer, shot Francina Diamina (11) and her 6-month old cousin,
Angelina, for trespassing. The baby was hit in the head and killed and
Francina was wounded in the back. Steyn was convicted of culpable homicide
in 1999. Steyn was given a suspended sentence in 1999 and freed.
(SFC, 4/18/98, p.A8)(SFC, 3/6/99, p.A14)(WSJ, 3/24/99, p.A1)
1998 Apr 11, The executive committee of the Ulster Union Party
voted 55-23 to support the Northern Ireland peace accord and its leader,
David Trimble, who had outmaneuvered rebels in his ranks.
(AP, 4/11/99)
1998 Apr 12, Mark O’Meara won the Masters golf tournament in Augusta,
Ga. with a 9-under-par score of 279.
(WSJ, 4/13/98, p.A1)(AP, 4/12/99)
1998 Apr 12, In Colombia at least 22 soldiers and leftist rebels
were killed in fighting in Restrepo.
(SFC, 4/14/98, p.C12)
1998 Apr 12, Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams appealed to IRA supporters
to accept Northern Ireland's compromise peace accord.
(AP, 4/12/99)
1998 Apr 12, In Italy Maria Angela Rubino (32) was found shot
in a train bathroom. The murder was similar to 6 others along the Italian
Riviera since March 9.
(SFC, 4/20/98, p.A10)
1998 Apr 12, In Mexico authorities expelled 12 foreigners from
Chiapas state saying they had engaged in activity in support of the Zapatista
rebels. Two int’l. news photographers were beaten and police attempted
to confiscate their film as they boarded a plane for Mexico City. The expelled
group reported that they had witnessed a military operation to shut down
a town council in Taniperlas, that was raided the previous day by 750 police
and troops.
(SFC, 4/13/98, p.A10)(SFC, 4/14/98, p.C12)
1998 Apr 13, Bank of America announced a $62.5 billion merger
plan with NationsBank Corp. of Charlotte, N.C. The country's first coast-to-coast
bank would be called BankAmerica Corp. with headquarters in Charlotte.
(SFC, 4/13/98, p.A1)(SFC, 4/14/98, p.A1)(AP, 4/13/99)
1998 Apr 13, Banc One and First Chicago NBD said they would unite
in a $28.9 billion deal.
(AP, 4/13/03)
1998 Apr 13, A 500-pound steel joint fell from the upper level
of New York's Yankee Stadium, crashing onto seats below. No fans were inside
the park at the time.
(AP, 4/13/99)
1998 Apr 13, An Amtrak train collided with Conrail freight cars
near Pittsburgh and injured 20 people.
(WSJ, 4/14/98, p.A1)
1998 Apr 13, In Algeria it was reported that Muslim clerics ruled
to allow women raped by Islamic militants to have abortions.
(WSJ, 4/13/98, p.A1)
1998 Apr 13, In Nassau, Bahamas, some 300 angry protestors faced
180 lesbian passengers on the cruise ship SS Seabreeze chartered by Olivia
Cruises and Resorts.
(SFEC, 4/19/98, p.A26)
1998 Apr 13, In Tanzania it was reported that at least 90 miners
were feared dead after heavy rains the previous week caused 14 pits to
collapse near Arusha. They were mining for tanzanite, a gem used in jewelry.
(WSJ, 4/13/98, p.A1)
1998 Apr 13, Turkish army forces captured Semdin Sakik, a field
commanded of the PKK, Kurdistan Workers Party, in a secret raid in northern
Iraq.
(SFC, 4/14/98, p.C12)
1998 Apr 14, The Grand Forks Herald of North Dakota won a Pulitzer
Prize for its coverage of a flood and fire despite a damaged printing plant.
The fiction prize went to Philip Roth, his first, for "American Pastoral."
(WSJ, 4/15/98, p.A1)(AP, 4/14/99)
1998 Apr 14, President Clinton moderated a town meeting on race
with an all-star panel of sports figures.
(AP, 4/14/99)
1998 Apr 14, The Clinton administration agreed to create a Persian-language
radio service to transmit anti-government propaganda into Iran. $1 million
was also pledged to Voice of America for non-propaganda Persian-language
programming.
(SFC, 4/15/98, p.A12)
1998 Apr 14, FMC Corp. was hit with a $125 million verdict for
misleading the US Army about the safety of its Bradley Fighting Vehicle.
A 1986 lawsuit by former employee Henry Boisvert complained that the vehicles
did not pass all the tests the company claimed it did.
(SFC, 4/15/98, p.A18)
1998 Apr 14, A new blood test for cancer used enzyme-coated iron
particles to attract cancer cells for detection.
(WSJ, 4/14/98, p.A1)
1998 Apr 14, Despite international pleas for leniency, the state
of Virginia executed Angel Francisco Breard, a Paraguayan convicted of
murder.
(AP, 4/14/99)
1998 Apr 14, Talks between North and South Korea broke off after
4 days when Seoul tried to expand them into reuniting families separated
by their war.
(WSJ, 4/15/98, p.A1)
1998 Apr 15, Pres. Clinton traveled to Chile for a Latin American
trade summit.
(WSJ, 4/14/98, p.A1)
1998 Apr 15, The federal government accused A. Bruce Rozet and
his business partners of illegally siphoning off $7.5 million from 73 subsidized
housing projects across the nation. HUD had already sued Rozet for milking
17 projects in California and Nevada.
(SFC, 4/16/98, p.A3)
1998 Apr 15, In SF a superior Court judge ordered the immediate
closure of the Cannabis Cultivator’s Club, the nation’s largest dispenser
of medicinal pot.
(SFC, 4/16/98, p.A1)
1998 Apr 15, Brazil lowered its prime rate from 28% to 23.3%.
(WSJ, 4/17/98, p.A10)
1998 Apr 15, It was reported that Pol Pot (73) died of a heart
attack in Anlong Veng, northern Cambodia. His body was cremated. It was
later reported that he killed himself with malaria pills and tranquilizers
after learning that an aide planned to hand him over to the US. In 1999
it was reported that Ta Mok had Pol Pot executed. In 2001 the place of
his death was designated as a historic site and plans were made to make
it a tourist attraction.
(SFC, 4/16/98, p.A1)(SFC, 4/18/98, p.A8)(WSJ, 1/21/98, p.A1)(WSJ,
5/27/99, p.A1)(SFC, 12/21/01, p.H5)
1998 Apr 15, In Indonesia anti-government rallies were held on
at least 25 campuses around the country calling for the resignation of
Suharto and his Cabinet.
(SFC, 4/16/98, p.A14)
1998 Apr 15, In Somalia ten aid workers were kidnapped in Mogadishu.
(WSJ, 4/16/98, p.A1)
1998 Apr 16, Paula Jones announced she would ask an appeals court
to reinstate her sexual harassment lawsuit against President Clinton after
it was thrown out by a federal judge.
(AP, 4/16/99)
1998 Apr 16, Tornadoes claimed 10-11 lives in Arkansas, Tennessee
and Kentucky.
(SFC, 4/17/98, p.A1)(AP, 4/16/99)
1998 Apr 16, A Russian army convoy was ambushed near the Chechnya
border. A general, 2 colonels and 3 soldiers were killed and Chechen militants
were blamed.
(WSJ, 4/17/98, p.A1)
1998 Apr 17, The space shuttle Columbia blasted off with 7 astronauts
and a menagerie of creatures to test the effects of space travel on the
nervous system.
(SFC, 4/18/98, p.A3)
1998 Apr 17, In Colombia Maria Arango (60), human rights activist,
was killed by multiple gunshots.
(SFC, 4/20/98, p.A8)
1998 Apr 17, In Germany Gerhard Schroeder was endorsed by the
Social Democrats to run against Helmut Kohl in the Sep 27 elections.
(SFC, 4/18/98, p.A10)
1998 Apr 17, In Russia the parliament rejected Yeltsin’s nomination
of Sergei Kiriyenko for a 2nd time 271-115. Yeltsin immediately renominated
Kiriyenko.
(SFC, 4/18/98, p.A9)
1998 Apr 17, A Thai military team collected evidence from the
body of Pol Pot, former chief of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge guerrillas, to
confirm that one of the century's worst tyrants was truly dead.
(AP, 4/17/99)
1998 Apr 18-19, A 34-nation trade summit was held over the weekend
in Santiago, Chile. Some $45 billion from the Iner-America Development
Bank, The World Bank and the US Agency for Int’l. Development was to be
made available for an array of development projects.
(WSJ, 4/17/98, p.A1)(SFEC, 4/19/98, p.A24)
1998 Apr 18, It was reported that Richard Mellon Scaife, 4th
generation heir to the Mellon banking fortune, had donated million of dollars
over more than 30 years to conservative groups and research centers. He
had also supported groups critical of Pres. Clinton.
(SFC, 4/18/98, p.A7)
1998 Apr 18, Former North Carolina governor and U.S. Sen. Terry
Sanford died in Durham at age 80.
(AP, 4/18/99)
1998 Apr 18, In Cambodia the Khmer Rouge killed 22 ethnic Vietnamese
at Chanok Tru, a fishing village on Tonle Sap Lake. The remains of Pol
Pot were cremated, three days after the Khmer Rouge leader blamed for the
killings of up to 2 million Cambodians died at age 73.
(SFC, 4/21/98, p.A15)(AP, 4/18/99)
1998 Apr 18, In Canada it was reported that marijuana revenues
from British Columbia were estimated to be $400 million to over $3 billion.
(SFC, 4/18/98, p.A8)
1998 Apr 18, Eduardo Umana Mendoza (50), Colombia’s top human
rights lawyer, was killed with 6 bullets to the head.
(SFC, 4/20/98, p.A8)(SFC, 4/21/98, p.A18)
1998 Apr 18, In Northern Ireland the Ulster Unionists, despite
fierce internal dissent, voted to support the peace agreement by a 72%
margin.
(SFEC, 4/19/98, p.A1)(AP, 4/18/99)
1998 Apr 19, Renzo Piano, Italian architect, won this year’s Pritzker
Architectural Prize. His work included the 1978 Georges Pompidou Center
in Paris, The Beyeler Foundation Museum in Basel, The Cy Twombly Gallery
at the Menil Collection museum in Houston, and the Kansai Air Terminal
in Osaka Bay.
(SFC, 4/20/98, p.A12)
1998 Apr 19, Wang Dan, the noted dissident and student leader
of Tiananmen Square, arrived in the US after being freed by China and was
taken to Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit for medical evaluation.
(SFC, 4/20/98, p.A8)(AP, 4/19/99)
1998 Apr 19, In Madison, Wi., Salim Amara doused a fellow passenger
on a city bus with gasoline and ignited a fire burning himself and others
severely.
(SFC, 4/21/98, p.A9)
1998 Apr 19, A small plane crashed on the west side of Detroit.
It was reported to have contained cash and marijuana that neighbors quickly
picked up. The pilot was believed to be Douglas C. Dufresne (66) of Florida.
(SFC, 4/21/98, p.A4)
1998 Apr 19, In Austria Thomas Klestil was re-elected president
with 63% of the vote.
(SFC, 4/20/98, p.A10)
1998 Apr 19, In Bhutan a fire destroyed the Taktsang Monastery,
that dated back in some form to the 9th century.
(SFC, 4/22/98, p.A9)
1998 Apr 19, In Chile leaders of the 34 Western Hemisphere democracies
at the second Summit of the Americas agreed on a free-trade zone to be
created by 2005. The first summit met in Miami in 1994.
(SFC, 4/20/98, p.A1)
1998 Apr 19, An Israeli settler was shot and killed and three
others, including a Palestinian man, were wounded. Dov Dribben (28) of
Maon was killed when settlers tried to force a group of Bedouin shepherds
off a contested piece of land.
(SFC, 4/20/98, p.A9)
1998 Apr 19, In Japan Pres. Yeltsin held a summit with Prime
Minister Ryutaro Hasimoto at the Kawana resort. Yeltsin promised to had
over KGB documents of interrogations of captured Japanese generals from
WW II.
(SFEC, 4/19/98, p.A14)
1998 Apr 19, In Mexico Octavio Paz (84), poet and essayist, died
of cancer. His work included "The Labyrinth of Solitude" and the poem "Sun
Stone."
(SFC, 4/20/98, p.A17)(SFC, 4/21/98, p.A12)
1998 Apr 19, In Nigeria police shot dead at least 3 Shiite Muslims,
supporters of Ibrahim El-Zak Zaky, and wounded many more in Kaduna in clashes
over 2 days.
(SFC, 4/21/98, p.A13)
1998 Apr 19-20, In Arizona grasshoppers by the millions descended
on communities along the lower Colorado River.
(SFC, 4/21/98, p.A3)
1998 Apr 20, In an unusual use of a racketeering law designed
to fight the mob, a federal jury in Chicago ruled that anti-abortion protest
organizers had used threats and violence to shut down clinics. However,
the US Supreme Court ruled in February 2003 that federal racketeering and
extortion laws were wrongly used to try to stop blockades, harassment and
violent protests outside clinics.
(AP, 4/20/03)
1998 Apr 20, The Goldman Environmental Awards were presented
in SF. The prizes were increased to $100,000 from $75,000. Berita KuwarU’wa
(44) of Colombia won for leading the U’wa tribe’s struggle against Occidental
Petroleum; Kory Johnson (19) of Phoenix won for organizing Children for
a Safe Environment; Sven "Bobby" Peek (31) of South Africa won for fighting
for the rights of poor people in industrialized South Durban; Anna Giordano
(32) of Italy for her campaign against illegal hunting of birds in Sicily
and southern Italy; Atherton Martin (52) for his work against a copper
mine in Dominica; and Hirofumi Yamashita (64) for fighting against the
conversion of tidal flats to farmland on Ishaya Bay on Kyushu.
(SFC, 4/20/98, p.A8)
1998 Apr 20, Moses Tanui of Kenya won the 102nd Boston Marathon
in 2 hrs, 7 min . and 43 sec. Fatuma Roba of Ethiopia won among the women
in 2:23:21.
(WSJ, 4/21/98, p.A1)
1998 Apr 20, A report was published that suggested that the drug
raloxifene, sold by Eli Lilly as Evista, can prevent breast cancer in addition
to tamoxifen. Both synthetic drugs block the action of estrogen.
(SFC, 4/21/98, p.A7)
1998 Apr 20, A poll of 400 scientists indicated that 7 of 10
believed that a "mass extinction" is under way, and that one-fifth of all
living species could disappear within 30 years.
(SFC, 4/21/98, p.A7)
1998 Apr 20, In Colombia a Boeing 727 leased to Air France crashed
after takeoff from Bogota and all 53 people aboard were killed.
(SFC, 4/21/98, p.A12)(AP, 4/20/99)
1998 Apr 20, In Nigeria the last of 5 government-sanctioned parties
agreed to back Sani Abacha in the presidential elections. the government
gave each party $250,000 for its convention.
(SFC, 4/21/98, p.A13)
1998 Apr 20, Turkmenistan Pres. Saparmurat Niyazov visited the
US and planned to discuss oil and gas pipeline routes.
(WSJ, 4/20/98, p.B7D)
1998 Apr 21, It was reported that Microsoft planned its first
retail store, an 8,500-sq. foot site, in the Yerba Buena Gardens complex
of SF with plans to open in spring, 1999.
(SFC, 4/21/98, p.A1)
1998 Apr 21, It was reported that the US and Britain had begun
a secretive removal of nuclear materials near Tbilisi. Britain volunteered
to accept the material and had already taken 270 pounds. The unused highly
enriched uranium was to be processed by a Scottish plant.
(SFC, 4/21/98, p.A18)(SFC, 4/23/98, p.A16)
1998 Apr 21, Astronomers announced in Washington they had discovered
possible signs of a new family of planets orbiting a star 220 light-years
away, the clearest evidence yet of worlds forming beyond our solar system.
The dust structures were thought to be new solar systems forming around
3 sun-like stars.
(SFC, 4/22/98, p.A1)(AP, 4/21/99)
1998 Apr 21, French and New Caledonian rival factions agreed
to hold a referendum in Dec. on whether the territory should move to independence.
The territory holds about 30% of the world’s nickel reserves.
(SFC, 4/22/98, p.A9)
1998 Apr 21, Khmer Rouge rebels drove a large government force
back in 2 days of fighting along the Thai-Cambodian border.
(SFC, 4/22/98, p.A9)
1998 Apr 21, Skydivers from Malaysia parachuted the national
car, the Proton Wira sedan, onto the North Pole this week.
(SFC, 4/23/98, p.A13)
1998 Apr 22, The new Disney Animal Kingdom theme park in Orlando
opened.
(SFEC, 2/22/98, Par p.4)
1998 Apr 22, National TV Turnoff Week began.
(SFEC, 4/12/98, Par p.18)
1998 Apr 22, A young woman, Amy Grossberg, charged along with
her high school sweetheart with murdering their newborn at a Delaware motel
pleaded guilty to manslaughter. Amy Grossberg was later sentenced to 2
1/2 years in prison; Brian Peterson received a lesser sentence of two years
because he'd cooperated with authorities.
(AP, 4/22/03)
1998 Apr 22, In Ireland legislation was passed for a May 22 referendum
on the Northern Ireland peace agreement. Northern Ireland voters would
also vote on the referendum. A constitutional amendment would result in
which Ireland would renounce its claim on the territory of Northern Ireland.
(SFC, 4/23/98, p.A12)
1998 Apr 22, The UN Commission on Human Rights called on Iran
to halt torture, amputations and stonings.
(SFC, 4/23/98, p.A13)
1998 Apr 22, In Greece Constantine Karamanlis (Caramanlis), statesman,
died at age 91.
(SFC, 4/23/98, p.B4)
1998 Apr 22, In Iraq Ayatollah Murtadha Ali Mohammed Ibrahim
Borujerdi (71) was shot and killed at the Imam Ali mosque in Najaf. The
shrine marks the grave of Ali, the son-in-law of Mohammed and a central
figure in Shiite Islam.
(SFC, 4/23/98, p.A16)
1998 Apr 22, In Ireland legislation was passed for a referendum
on the Northern Ireland peace agreement.
(SFC, 4/23/98, p.A12)
1998 Apr 22, Re Pakistan it was reported that hundreds of schools
in the Punjab have no students, but still collect money for nonexistent
teachers. Shabaz Sharig, the chief minister of Punjab for less than a year,
called in the army to investigate. The literacy rate in Pakistan was 35%
compared to 65% in India.
(SFC, 4/22/98, p.A8)
1998 Apr 22, Rwandan officials announced a public execution of
33 defendants connected with the 1994 genocide to be conducted by firing
squad.
(SFC, 4/23/98, p.A13)(SFC, 4/24/98, p.A12)
1998 Apr 22, Yugoslavian (Serbian) troops claimed to have killed
23 ethnic Albanian infiltrators in the border region in Kosovo.
(SFC, 4/24/98, p.A16)
1998 Apr 23, Two New Jersey troopers fired 11 shots into a van
carrying African American and Latino men from the Bronx. They admitted
to racial profiling and pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges in 2002.
(SFC, 1/15/02, p.A3)
1998 Apr 23, James Earl Ray died at a Nashville hospital at age
70. He was the ex-convict who confessed to assassinating the Rev. Martin
Luther King Jr. in 1968 and then insisted he was framed.
(AP, 4/23/99)
1998 Apr 23, The president of Montenegro, Milo Djukanovic, called
for full autonomy for the Kosovo region.
(SFC, 4/24/98, p.A16)
1998 Apr 24, The American Health for Women magazine reported that
Seattle was the healthiest city for women and that SF rated # 2 and Boston
# 3.
(SFC, 4/25/98, p.A5)
1998 Apr 24, In Pennsylvania a 14-year-old boy was arrested after
he shot a teacher to death and injured 2 others during a dance for 8th
graders in Edinboro. Andrew Wurst (14) later pleaded guilty to third-degree
murder and was sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison.
(SFC, 4/25/98, p.A3)(AP, 4/24/03)
1998 Apr 24, In Bosnia some 1500 Bosnian Croats rioted in retaliation
for a Serbian attack on Croatian Roman Catholic Cardinal Vinko Puljic.
(SFC, 4/25/98, p.A9)
1998 Apr 24, In Colombia the FARC released kidnapped American
Louise Augustine. Two other bird-watchers were released soon after.
(SFC, 4/25/98, p.A9)(WSJ, 4/27/98, p.A1)
1998 Apr 24, The Human Rights Office of the Guatemalan Catholic
Church issued a report that said 200,000 people died or disappeared during
the 36 year civil war that ended in 1996.
(SFC, 4/25/98, p.A8)
1998 Apr 24, In Peru Pres. Fujimori announced that police captured
3 top guerrilla leaders of the Shining Path.
(SFC, 4/25/98, p.A9)
1998 Apr 24, After a month of confrontation, Russian lawmakers
caved in to President Boris Yeltsin, approving acting prime minister Sergei
Kiriyenko, 35, as premier despite doubts about his relative youth and inexperience.
Kiriyenko was fired just four months later.
(SFC, 4/25/98, p.A1)(AP, 4/24/99)
1998 Apr 24, Rwanda executed 22 people by firing squad.
(SFC, 4/25/98, p.A1)
1998 Apr 24, In Somalia the aid workers kidnapped on Apr 15 were
released.
(SFC, 4/25/98, p.A9)
1998 Apr 24, From Vietnam it was reported that 14 attacks had
recently occurred on children aged 3-14 riding on the backs of motor scooters,
caused by a slasher riding a Vina Suzuki scooter.
(SFC, 4/24/98, p.A12)
1998 Apr 24, Re Western Sahara: It was reported that the referendum
on independence would be postponed until 1999 due to difficulties in counting
eligible voters.
(SFC, 4/24/98, p.A12)
1998 Apr 25, Whitewater prosecutors questioned first lady Hillary
Rodham Clinton on videotape about her work as a private lawyer for the
failed savings and loan at the center of the investigation.
(AP, 4/25/99)
1998 Apr 25, In Arkansas two little girls, Sidney Pippin (4-months
old) and Vicky Fraley, died of heat exhaustion after they were left in
a car for 8 hours in Little Rock. Police charged Ricky Leon Crisp (23),
the father of Vicky (16-months old), and Justin Griffith (27) with first-degree
murder.
(SFC, 4/28/98, p.A3)
1998 Apr 25, In Texas three teenagers were found shot to death
in Brownsville.
(SFC, 4/27/98, p.A5)
1998 Apr 25, In Millbrae, Ca., motorcycle Patrolman David Chetcuti
(43) was shot and killed by Marvin Patrick Sullivan (43) during a routine
traffic stop. Sullivan, a paranoid schizophrenic, was found to be carrying
a cache of pipe bombs and rifles. Sullivan was later found to be incompetent
to stand trial.
(SFEC, 4/26/98, p.A1)(SFC, 7/23/02, p.A1)
1998 Apr 25, In July a Pakistani defector claimed that the military
leadership of Pakistan decided to launch a pre-emptive nuclear attack on
New Delhi within 48 hours of this day. Dr. Iftikhar Khan Chaudry also claimed
that Pakistan had already armed and deployed nuclear warheads at 2 sites
along the Indian border. Chaudry (29) was described as a low-level engineer
with no access to military planning data. Pakistani news media later said
Chaudry was a low-level accountant at a bathroom fixtures company until
Nov 1997, when he resigned. He was later identified as a fraud with no
more than a high school education.
(SFC, 7/2/98, p.A15)(WSJ, 7/2/98, p.A1)(SFC, 7/3/98, p.D2)(SFC,
7/7/98, p.A9)
1998 Apr 25, In Spain a wall of acidic toxic liquid, 5 million
cubic meters, broke free from a Aznalcollar mine waste lagoon near Seville
and threatened the 300-sq. ml. Donana National Park. The tainted water
was diverted to the Guadalquivir River and then to the Gulf of Cadiz. 13,300
acres of cropland were expected to be left barren for 25 years due to the
spill.
(WSJ, 4/27/98, p.A1)(WSJ, 4/28/98, p.A13)(SFC, 4/29/98, p.A10)
1998 Apr 26, Jean Chretien, Prime Minister of Canada, visited
Cuba and with Fidel Castro inaugurated a new $40 million terminal at the
Havana airport.
(SFC, 4/20/98, p.A10)(SFC, 4/27/98, p.A12)
1998 Apr 26, In Germany the Christian Democrats lost ground to
the Social Democrats in elections in Saxony-Anhalt. A neo-Nazi party took
13% of the vote. The German People’s Party (DVU) was largely bankrolled
by Gerhard Frey, a Bavarian millionaire publisher.
(WSJ, 4/27/98, p.A1)(SFC, 7/23/98, p.A10)
1998 Apr 26, In Guatemala City Bishop Jose Gerardi (75) was killed.
He oversaw the recent report: "Guatemala: Never Again." Marks on the bishop’s
body were made by a dog. In July a priest and a cook, Rev. Mario Leonel
Orantes Najera and Margarita Lopez, were arrested in connection. In Oct.
US forensic experts said that at least 2 attackers were responsible for
the bishop’s killing and described it as a political crime. In Oct Rev.
Mario Lionel Orantes was charged with the killing. Orantes was released
in Feb 1999. In 1999 Prosecutor Calvin Galindo resigned and fled the country
in fear of his safety. Two judges had already quit the case. Three army
suspects were arrested in Jan 2000. In 2000 Rev. Mario Orantes was again
charged with the murder. In 2001 Col. Disrael Lima Estrada (60), Capt.
Byron Lima Oliva (31) and Sgt. Jose Obdulio Villanueva (36) and Rev. Orantes
were found guilty of the murder of Bishop Gerardi. The officers were sentenced
to 30 years in prison and Orantes was sentenced to 20 years. Villanueva
was killed during a prison riot Feb 12, 2003.
(SFC, 4/28/98, p.A1,8)(SFC, 8/19/98, p.C16)(SFC, 10/7/98, p.A10)(SFC,
10/22/98, p.C5)(SFC, 10/8/99, p.D3)(WSJ, 1/24/00, p.A1)(SFC, 3/11/00, p.A9)(SFC,
6/9/01, p.A8)(SFC, 2/12/03, p.A9)
1998 Apr 26, In Russia former security chief Alexander Lebed
led Governor Valery Zubov in voting for governor in the Siberian region
of Krasnoyarsk.
(SFC, 4/27/98, p.A14)
1998 Apr 27, A Pentagon panel said remains of the Vietnam veteran
in the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery should be exhumed
to determine whether they belonged to Air Force First Lt. Michael J. Blassie,
as his family believed. (The remains were later positively identified as
those of Blassie.)
(AP, 4/27/99)
1998 Apr 27, In Arlington, Washington, a fire at a 90-year-old
building, used as a home for the elderly, killed 7 residents.
(SFC, 4/29/98, p.A3)
1998 Apr 27, Carlos Castaneda (72), author, died. His 1968 thesis:
"The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge," published by the
Univ. of Calif. Press (1968), became an int’l. best seller. In 1997 his
ex-wife Margaret Runyan Castaneda authored "A Magical Journey With Carlos
Castaneda." In 2000 Richard DeMille authored "Castaneda's Journey: The
Power and the Allegory." In 2003 Amy Wallace, Castaneda's lover in the
1970s, authored "The Sorcerer's Apprentice: My Life With Carlos Castaneda."
(SFC, 6/19/98, p.A2)(SSFC, 8/24/03, p.E2)
1998 Apr 27, The UN extended security sanctions against Iraq
but agreed to reviews every 60 days. It was earlier reported that Iraq
recently had executed 1,500 political prisoners.
(SFC, 4/28/98, p.A6)
1998 Apr 27, Afghanistan peace talks between the Taliban and
its opponents were scheduled to begin in Pakistan.
(SFC, 4/18/98, p.A10)
1998 Apr 27, In Cuba Canada’s Prime Minister Chretien urged Fidel
Castro to release four leading dissidents. It was reported that about 350
political prisoners were currently held.
(SFC, 4/28/98, p.A6)
1998 Apr 27, In Denmark some 550,000 workers walked of their
jobs after unions turned down a compromise contract. The unions called
for a 6th week of paid vacation.
(SFC, 4/30/98, p.A10)
1998 Apr 27, In India the hunger strike that began Mar 10 ended
as police forced the Tibetan strikers to be fed intravenously as Gen’l
Fu Quanyou of China began talks with Indian officials. One Tibetan exile
set himself on fire and was not expected to survive.
(SFC, 4/28/98, p.A6)
1998 Apr 27, In Japan a court ruled that the government must
compensate 3 South Korean women forced into sexual slavery during WW II,
and awarded the women $2,300 each.
(SFC, 4/28/98, p.A8)
1998 Apr 27, In Kosovo the Yugoslav army clashed with ethnic
Albanians and 3 insurgents were killed. Albanian reports said up to a dozen
were slain and that none of them were militants.
(SFC, 4/28/98, p.A8)
1998 Apr 27, From Venezuela it was reported that Hugo Chavez,
leader of the Fifth Republic Movement (MVR), was campaigning for the office
of president. He led a 1992 failed coup and was jailed for 2 years.
(WSJ, 4/27/98, p.A16)
1998 Apr 28, A new group, the Historical Society, was announced
as a back-to-basics professional organization. The society, based at Boston
Univ., held its 1st convention in 1999. The American Historical Association
had 15,000 members. The Organization of American Historians had 9,000 members.
(SFC, 4/29/98, p.A6)(WSJ, 6/4/99, p.W15)
1998 Apr 28, Public Radio Inc. of SF received a NEA grant for
$185,000 to create "Lost and Found Sound: An American Record." The project
will produce a series of radio programs for NPR to chronicle, reflect and
celebrate the 20th century.
(SFC, 4/29/98, p.E1)
1998 Apr 28, In a breakthrough for the government's tobacco investigation,
cigarette maker Liggett & Myers agreed to tell prosecutors whether
the industry had hidden evidence of health damage from smoking.
(AP, 4/28/99)
1998 Apr 28, The Senate opened a new round of hearings on alleged
abuse and mismanagement at the Internal Revenue Service.
(AP, 4/28/99)
1998 Apr 28, The Arizona Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional
a voter-approved law requiring English be used in official state and local
business.
(SFC, 4/29/98, p.A4)
1998 Apr 28, In SF Supervisor Mabel Tang announced that the Boy
Scouts of America will be barred from taking part in a city charity drive
due to the groups stance against admitting gays.
(SFC, 4/29/98, p.A15)
1998 Apr 28, In Algeria 40 people were killed in a massacre at
a village in Medea province.
(SFC, 4/29/98, p.A11)
1998 Apr 28, In Iraq Americares, a US relief organization, flew
in $2 million in medical supplies for 22 centers throughout the country.
(SFC, 4/30/98, p.A10)
1998 Apr 28, In Nigeria a military tribunal sentenced 6 men to
death for plotting a 1997 coup against Gen’l. Abacha. Gen’l. Oladipo Diya,
former deputy head of state, maintained that he was framed by officers
close to Abacha who fabricated the plot.
(SFC, 4/29/98, p.A10)
1998 Apr 29, The United States, Canada, and Mexico agreed to eliminate
tariffs on items accounting for $1 billion in trade at a meeting in Paris
of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
(AP, 4/29/99)
1998 Apr 29, The US and European powers decided to impose new
sanctions and agreed to freeze the assets of Yugoslavia. A ban on investments
would follow in 10 days if security police was not withdrawn from Kosova.
(SFC, 4/30/98, p.A8)
1998 Apr 29, The US Supreme Court called for ending judicial
delays of execution in a 5-4 vote. This reversed the US Court of Appeals
Aug, 1997, reprieve for Thomas Thompson, accused of the 1981 murder of
Ginger Fleischli in California and reinstated his death penalty.
(SFC, 4/30/98, p.A1)
1998 Apr 29, In England it was reported that Nicholas van Hoogstraten
was building the largest and most expensive house of the century in Sussex,
named Hamilton Place at a cost of $50 million. The palace was to include
a gallery for his French furniture and a mausoleum for his future.
(WSJ, 4/29/98, p.A20)
1979 Apr 29, British writer Douglas Adams, author of the 1979
classic "The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy," began marketing his CD-ROM
game "Starship Titanic."
(SFC, 4/29/98, p.E1)
1998 April 29, Israel formally opened the celebration of the
50th anniversary of its founding. According to the Gregorian calendar,
the anniversary fell on May 14th.
(WSJ, 4/30/98, p.A1)(AP, 4/29/03)
1998 Apr 29, In the Philippines Imelda Marco withdrew from the
presidential race.
(SFC, 4/30/98, p.A8)
1998 Apr 30, President Clinton questioned the conduct of Whitewater
prosecutor Kenneth Starr and dismissed Republican challenges to his own
character as "high-level static" during a news conference.
(AP, 4/30/99)
1998 Apr 30, The US Senate approved the expansion of NATO to
include Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic.
(SFC, 5/1/98, p.A3)
1998 Apr 30, United and Delta airlines formed an alliance that
would control one-third of all U.S. passenger seats.
(AP, 4/30/99)
1998 Apr 30, In Florida lawmakers passed a bill that required
girls under 18 to notify at least one parent prior to an abortion.
(SFC, 5/1/98, p.A3)
1998 Apr 30, A study reported in the New England Journal of medicine
that RU-486, an abortion pill, was 92% effective in causing abortions with
15 days without surgery.
(SFC, 4/30/98, p.A3)
1998 Apr 30, A report in Nature traced mammals back to around
100 million years before the present using a "molecular clock."
(SFC, 4/30/98, p.A1)
1998 Apr 30, The 85,000 ton Disney cruise ship Disney Magic was
scheduled to debut.
(SFEC, 1/18/98, p.T5)
1998 Apr 30, In California Daniel V. Jones (40) blew up his truck
and fatally shot himself on a connector bridge between the harbor and Century
Freeways freeway with live TV coverage. He had HIV and displayed an anti-HMO
banner before killing himself.
(SFC, 5/1/98, p.A3)(SFC, 5/2/98, p.A3)
1998 Apr 30, In Indiana Antione Whitehead (19) robbed the KeyBank
in Carmel and killed Penny Schmitt (32) and shot 3 co-workers. He had just
been refused a loan and killed himself following an intensive manhunt.
(SFC, 5/1/98, p.A10)
1998 Apr 30, In Northern Ireland the IRA refused to disarm as
part of the peace accord, which demanded the decommission of weaponry to
begin in June and finish in 2 years.
(SFC, 5/1/98, p.D2)
1998 Apr, Eugene Genovese was elected president of the Historical
Society, a new professional organization for historians opposed to the
politicization of historical studies.
(WSJ, 7/17/98, p.W11)
1998 Apr, Pope John Paul II forced Cardinal Hans Hermann Groer
of Austria, accused of sexually molesting young boys, to relinquish all
duties.
(SFC, 6/20/98, p.B3)
1998 Apr, In China Lin Hai (30), a software entrepreneur, was
arrested for inciting subversion by providing 30,000 Chinese e-mail addresses
to Li Hongkuan, a US based Chinese dissident. [see Dec 4]
(SFC, 12/5/98, p.A10)(Wired, 2/99, p.127)
1998 Apr, In Congo the government banned the African Association
for Defense of Human Rights.
(SFC, 10/2/98, p.B7)
1998 Apr, In Hong Kong a new $20 billion airport was scheduled
to opened.
(Hem., 5/97, p.71)
1998 Apr, In India the 68-acre Int’l. Tech Park (ITP) in Bangalore
was scheduled to open as a joint venture between Singaporean companies,
the Tata Group of India, and the state of Karnataka.
(WSJ, 3/25/98, p.B10)
1998 Apr, In India suspected separatist guerrillas shot and killed
29 Hindus in the Jammu and Kashmir region.
(SFC, 6/20/98, p.D1)
1998 Apr, The Kazakstan government investment banks to sell off
minority stakes in four state enterprises: 2 oil and 2 mining companies,
and planned to expand its privatization program.
(WSJ, 5/14/98, p.A14)
1998 Apr, In Romania Radu Vasile became Prime Minister and began
reforms with an economic program to restore domestic and foreign confidence.
(WSJ, 5/6/98, p.A18)
1998 Apr, In Somaliland authorities in Hargeysa established a
war crimes committee to investigate the Barre-era human rights violations.
(SFC, 7/11/98, p.A12)
1998 Apr, Turkish archeologists discovered what appeared to be
the ruins of the Great Palace built by Constantine in 330 AD.
(SFC, 7/27/98, p.A8)
1998 Spring, In Iraq Abbas Janabi (50), a former journalist and
personal secretary to Odai Hussein (34), defected and went into hiding
in Europe. Janabi later corroborated reports that Odai was responsible
for extensive oil smuggling along with other material goods.
(SFC, 10/21/98, p.C2)