كان ٢ ديسمبر ١٩٩٦ الاثنين تحت علامة النجمة ♐. كان هذا هو يوم 336 من السنة. كان رئيس الولايات المتحدة William J. (Bill) Clinton.
إذا كنت قد ولدت في هذا اليوم ، فأنت تبلغ٪ s سنة. كان عيد ميلادك الأخير في 29 ، الثلاثاء، ٢ ديسمبر ٢٠٢٥ يوم مضى. عيد ميلادك القادم في 198 ، بعد الأربعاء، ٢ ديسمبر ٢٠٢٦ يوم. لقد عشت لمدة 166 يوم ، أو حوالي ١٠٬٧٩٠ ساعة ، أو حوالي ٢٥٨٬٩٦٣ دقيقة ، أو حوالي ١٥٬٥٣٧٬٧٩٨ ثانية.
Date: 02 December 1996
By William Safire
William Safire
William Safire Op-Ed column urges Clinton White House to bring back regular, wide-open, televised news conference; says regular news conference imposes necessary policy discipline on President and his entire administration (M)
Date: 03 December 1996
By Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges
Radio B-92, only independent radio station in Serbia, continues to broadcast, even as Government has jammed its transmissions since start of massive street protests against Government's annulment of results of recent elections (M)
Date: 03 December 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Great Western Financial Corp plans to cut 800 jobs, or nearly 6% of its work force, by end of next year; some 400 people have already been told they will lose their jobs (S)
Date: 02 December 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Stocks traded sharply lower here this afternoon after a quiet morning session. The Nikkei index of 225 issues fell 345.67 points, or 1.64 percent, to 20,674.69. On Friday, the Nikkei lost 15.18 points.
Date: 03 December 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
ABN Amro Holding NV, leading Dutch bank, declines to comment on report in trade publication that it had held discussions about acquiring Weiss, Peck & Greer LLC (S)
Date: 02 December 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Loewen Group says that Texas court has dismissed lawsuit filed by Service Corp International that sought to stop antitrust challenge of its $3.2 billion hostile takeover bid for Loewen, second-largest operator of funeral homes in United States (S)
Date: 03 December 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Crude oil prices surge on New York Mercantile Exchange after Mexico closes five big ports because of bad weather, move that threatens to disrupt exports to United States (S)
Date: 02 December 1996
INTERNATIONAL A3-9 MILOSEVIC AND THE MINERS The fate of President Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia, who has faced almost two weeks of street protests, may ultimately hinge on whether miners strike in a bleak region of the southeast. A1 ROMANIAN LEADER SWORN IN President Emil Constantinescu pledged a new start for his nation in a Romanian Orthodox inauguration that was a milestone for post-Communist Eastern Europe. A3 DEATH SQUAD CHARGE IN PERU A retired Peruvian general is being held in prison, after alleging in a television interview that an infamous military death squad had been reactivated and was responsible for a recent bombing. A5 AGREEMENT ON OKINAWA BASE The United States and Japan announced that an American military helicopter base in Okinawa would be transferred onto a huge offshore platform as a way to reduce the noise and danger on the island. A6 PITFALLS FOR AFRICA FORCE News analysis: Even a scaled-down international force to help refugees in Zaire is fraught with problems and could worsen the conflict there, aid workers say. A8 ZAIRE RECALLS ENVOY FROM FRANCE Zaire recalled its Ambassador to France after thousands of people rallied to demand that he be charged in the deaths of two schoolboys in a traffic accident. A8 PEACE PACT IN SIERRA LEONE The signing of a peace agreement this weekend ending a five-year civil war in Sierra Leone was the end product of skillful negotiations conducted by Africans themselves. A8 OFF THE STREETS IN ZAMBIA At a farm in Zambia, there is no caning of students, no stealing and no glue to sniff, only pigs, okra and the kindness that keeps children off the streets. A9 Mexico City Journal: Where life imitates art imitates life. A4 NATIONAL A10-12, B7-9 SMALLER DEFICIT SEEN The Republican leaders in Congress are reducing their estimate of the growth of the deficit, bringing them closer to the White House's figures, leaders of both parties say. A1 REWRITING COPYRIGHT LAW Experts from 160 countries plan to rewrite international copyright agreements -- which have been under technological siege -- for the first time in the era of the personal computer and the Internet. A1 STRONG WEEKEND SALES Shoppers, apparently feeling more flush than during last year's holiday season, hit the malls over the weekend with a vigor not seen in a few years, retailers said. A1 CULTURES CLASH IN NEBRASKA When an Iraqi refugee family in Lincoln. Neb., proudly announced the marriage of their two young daughters, local officials accused them of a crime. A10 REVIVAL FOR TRAIN STATIONS Kansas City's plan to renovate its historic Union Station is one of many across the nation to rescue graceful old train stations in what amounts to a second railroad boom, a century after the Golden Age of Railroads. A10 A HAZARD IN TIRES Rhode Island's biggest environmental hazard is not a faulty water treatment plant or reckless factory, but a pile of old tires in a Providence suburb. A12 MORE STUDENTS GO ABROAD A new survey has found that increasing numbers of American college students are studying overseas, and that more of them are venturing farther afield. B9 TRADING BLAME IN BALTIMORE Many Baltimore residents are wondering who is to blame for the loss of the Baltimore Orioles' popular radio announcer after an apparent contract dispute. B7 CHANGED POLITICAL FORCES An American Place: The Timken Company and the Timken family, both bulwarks of the community in Stark County, Ohio, provide a measure of how much the nation's political and economic values have changed with time. B8 METRO REPORT B1-6 THIEF OF TIMES SQUARE A hoard of stolen wallets and pocketbooks found by workers renovating the Apollo Theater on West 42d Street is perhaps nothing more than a tantalizing historical footnote. But as a reminder of a particular time and place -- a turning point in the social history of New York City's most famous crossroads -- the discovery provides a rich symbol of the long decline, and now the rapid renaissance, of Times Square. A1 GIULIANI'S WARCHEST Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani's intentionally aggressive style of political fund raising for his re-election has produced an unusually high reliance on big givers, with an average campaign contribution of $1,122. That figure is the highest average contribution in the eight years since the city tightened restrictions on public campaign financing. A1 DEFENDING INMATES' LIVES Unlike traditional criminal defense, which looks for fractures in the prosecution's case, lawyers for New York State's Capital Defender Office, which oversees the representation of defendants who may face the death penalty, must also look beyond the nightmarish crime, to ferret out the nightmarish history of the criminal. A1 Business Digest D1 Arts/Entertainment C11-16 Arts prizes multiply, and so do doubts. C11 Frank Langella on Noel Coward. C11 Music: ''Carmen.'' C12 Oscar Brown Jr. C13 Dance: The New York City Ballet in ''The Nutcracker.'' C12 Books: Critic's Notebook C11 For holiday giving. C16 Television: Critic's Notebook C14 ''The Prosecutors'' and ''Code Name: Wolverine.'' C14 Sports C1-9 Football: Eagles blank Giants. C1 O'Donnell injured again, and Jets lose again. C1 Columns: Anderson on Giants. C7 Moran on college football. C3 Golf: Couples wins Skins. C4 Obituaries B12 Tiny Tim, singer who flirted, chastely, with fame John Williamson, Nets star in the 1970's Editorials/Op-Ed A14-15 Editorials The city's temporary windfall. Mexico's disappearing reforms. Driving teen-agers from drugs. A warm holiday ritual. Letters Anthony Lewis: Which side are we on? Bob Herbert: Death at an early age. William Safire: President vs. press. Jane Smiley: Shakespeare in action. Chronicle B10 Bridge C14 Crossword C16
Date: 03 December 1996
International A3-10 LESS SUPPORT FOR BOUTROS-GHALI In a move that could signal an end to Boutros Boutros-Ghali's campaign for a second term as United Nations Secretary General, African states have been released from their pledge to stand behind him in the face of American opposition. A1 ASIA'S RISING POWER China is stirring anxiety among its neighbors as leaders in Beijing show a willing to use force and raise defense spending to create a more potent military. A1 HARBINGER FOR RWANDA Butare province has become a test case for Rwanda, where the mass return of refugees who participated in atrocities two years ago is already generating tensions. A6 ZAIRE REBELS CLAIM ADVANCES A Tutsi-led rebel group said it had captured towns at the northern and southern ends of a 250-mile front in eastern Zaire and parts of the regional capital. A6 SERBIA'S UNHEARD HEROES If there are any heroes in the wave of protests in Serbia, they are at Radio B-92, Belgrade's only independent station, which has broadcast even as the Government has jammed its transmissions. A3 HAVEL HAS LUNG CANCER REMOVED The Czech President, Vaclav Havel, had a cancerous tumor cut from his right lung and half of the lung removed, but doctors said his prognosis ''should be good.'' A3 SHAKE-UP IN MEXICO President Ernesto Zedillo of Mexico dismissed his attorney general, who had piled up a series of failures investigating political crimes. A5 BASQUE REBELS SWITCH TARGETS In a major change of strategy, Basque separatists fighting against Spain, angered by a crackdown in France, have begun planning reprisals on French targets. A8 DISPUTE WITHIN NATO Disagreement over a French demand that the United States cede control of a major NATO command has delayed plans to approve a reorganization of the alliance. A9 El Bolson Journal: The hidden toll of the hanta virus. A4 National A12-22, B9 POWELL SUPPORTS GULF RESEARCH Colin Powell said he supported a wide ranging Government investigation to ''get to the bottom'' of the mysterious illnesses reported by gulf war veterans. A1 COURT HEARS ADVERTISING CASE An unusual free-speech case before the Supreme Court presented the Justices with the question of whether businesses have a right to decline to participate in a Government-required advertising program intended to bolster their industry. A1 CHILDREN AND PUNISHMENT The case of an abused 15-year-old girl who burned down her house last year, killing her mother and sister, raises a host of issues about the consequences of the rush to try adolescents in adult courts. A1 NO KEATING CONVICTION A judge threw out the last criminal conviction against Charles H. Keating Jr., a central figure in the savings and loan scandal. A1 COLLEGE YEARBOOKS FADE College yearbooks are disappearing, largely because more students are attending university in irregular patterns, taking time off from school, or accelerating, but not graduating with their classes. A12 LETTER FROM RIADY RELEASED President Clinton said he received a letter in 1993 from Mochtar Riady, an Indonesian tycoon whose family had contributed to the Democrats, urging him to normalize relations with Vietnam. A18 RETHINKING SHUTDOWNS The head of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said shutdowns enforced by her agency at plants in Connecticut and elsewhere might never have been necessary if the agency had spotted their problems early enough. A19 TOWNS FOR POST OFFICES Livingston, Mont., and many other small towns around the country, are fighting to maintain a little bit of history in its tiny downtown: a post office. B9 TOWN FLUSH WITH MILLIONAIRES Roby Journal: The Texas Lottery Commission confirmed that Roby, Tex., population 616, has 39 instant millionaires. A12 Metro Report B1-8 Business Digest D1 Arts/Entertainment C13-18 Sherlock Holmes manuscript for sale. C13 Television networks aim few shows at teen-agers. C13 In three new films, facts get some assistance. C13 American Ballet Theater finds new 'homes.' C14 Music: Critic's Choice. C14 Mazzy Star. C15 Brentano String Quartet. C16 Books: ''A History of Reading.'' C17 Sports B13-18 Columns: Berkow on Marty Glickman. B13 TV Sports. B17 Football: Jets will go with Foley for the rest of the season. B13 N.F.L. notebook. B15 Basketball: Pat Riley speaks. B13 A sensational high school team. B13 Science Times C1-11 Most social of canids, the African wild dog gets some respect. C1 On the track of the wild neutrino, and closing in. C1 Bad genes may once have conferred survival advantages. C1 Fashion B10 Chic scales the heights, or walks the dog Obituaries B12 Editorials/Op-Ed A24-25 Editorials Mr. Clinton's welfare challenge. A strong start for the trade panel. Brent Staples: Special education. Letters Russell Baker: Must Be Finicky. A. M. Rosenthal: Log cabin in New York. William Shawcross: The price of dumping Boutros-Ghali. Neil J. Sullivan: A bad deal for baseball. Chronicle B6 Chess C10 Crossword C14
Date: 03 December 1996
By Iver Peterson
Iver Peterson
Austin American-Statesman, Cox Enterprises newspaper in Austin, Texas, is among handful of newspapers experimenting with offering 'customized' editions of their papers to readers; it is part of campaign to acclimate newspaper subscribers to buying a different type of newspaper service, one that offers varying content according to price; according to this thinking, basic subscription rate would still buy the same multipart paper, with sections devoted to local news, sports, basic business news and so on, that people are used to now; for extra 25 or 50 cents a week, however, subscribers would get additional sections devoted to material that is not available in basic edition, just as cable systems offer premium channels to subscribers who pay higher fees; Nashville Tennessean, Gannett Company newspaper, has already taken this next step, selling premium channels to subscribers who pay higher fees (M)