Timeline 1998 June
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1998 Jun 1, The
MacArthur Foundation disbursed 29 genius grants with cash prizes
ranging from $375,000 to $220,000. Included in the winners were poet
Ishmael Reed; computer programmer Tim Berners-Lee (pioneer developer of
the WWW), historian Mike Davis ("City of Quartz," a history of Los
Angeles), Ayesha Jalal (historian of the cultures of India and
Pakistan), and Peter Miller (Berlin scholar of early modern European
intellectual history).
(SFC, 6/2/98, p.A2)
1998 Jun 1, President Clinton
abruptly abandoned his executive privilege claim in the Monica Lewinsky
investigation, reducing the prospect of a quick Supreme Court review of
a dispute over the testimony of presidential aides.
(AP, 6/1/99)
1998 Jun 1, In Mass. Rev. Eugene
F. Rivers had his picture on the cover of Time Mag. for his youth
ministry work in Dorchester. His Operation 2006 planned to put an adult
volunteer into the life of every at-risk child in Dorchester, who
needed help, by the year 2006.
(WSJ, 6/5/98, p.W13)
1998 Jun 1, In Michigan a new $22
million Kellogg’s Cereal City USA opened in Battle Creek. It was owned
by the non-profit Heritage Center Foundation.
(SFEC, 8/2/98, p.T7)
1998 Jun 1, In Philadelphia the
largest transit union went on strike and shut down a system that served
435,000 people a day. This followed 3 months of negotiations with the
transportation authority (SEPTA).
(SFC, 6/2/98, p.A5)
1998 Jun 1, American Home Products
agreed to acquire Monsanto Co. in a deal valued at $35.08 billion.
(WSJ, 6/2/98, p.A3)
1998 Jun 1, It was reported that
investment flow out of Latin America was becoming a stampede.
(WSJ, 6/2/98, p.A16)
1998 Jun 1, In Burma the military
sentenced Aung Thein and Ko Hla Myint to 14 years in prison for handing
out copies of a letter from the Shan State Army addressed to Lt. Gen’l.
Khin Nyunt, the head of military intelligence, back in March.
(SFC, 6/9/98, p.A14)
1998 Jun 1, From El Salvador it
was reported that just 2% of the forest remained in the country that
was once covered by forest.
(SFC, 6/1/98, p.A8)
1998 Jun 1, In France pilots of
Air France began a pay-dispute strike.
(SFC, 6/2/98, p.A11)
1998 Jun 1, In India Prime
Minister Vajpayee announced that large budget increases of 14% for the
armed forces, 68% for nuclear research and 62% for missile programs was
approved. Social programs were increased 35%.
(SFC, 6/2/98, p.A11)
1998 Jun 1, In Indonesia the new
government announced a broad inquiry into corruption under ex-Pres.
Suharto.
(SFC, 6/2/98, p.A11)
1998 Jun 1, Thousands of refugees
from Kosovo, Serbia, poured into Albania to escape deadly fighting that
began last week around Decani. 39 people were reported dead.
(WSJ, 6/2/98, p.A3)(AP, 6/1/99)
1998 Jun 1, In Russia the stock
market tumbled 10% in panic selling. Prime Minister Kiriyenko reduced
the auction cost for the sale of state’s Rosneft Oil Co. to $1.6 bil.
(SFC, 6/2/98, p.A11)
1998 Jun 1, In South Korea Pres.
Kim Dae Jung urged the US and western nations to end sanctions against
North Korea.
(SFC, 6/2/98, p.A10)
1998 Jun 1, Zambia dropped charges
against former Pres. Kaunda and released him after Kaunda pledged to
retire.
(SFC, 6/2/98, p.A11)
1998 Jun 2, Voters in California
passed Proposition 227, which effectively abolished the state's
30-year-old bilingual education program by requiring that all children
be taught in English.
(AP, 6/2/99)
1998 Jun 2, Monica Lewinsky hired
a new defense team, Jacob Stein and Plato Cacheris, replacing William
H. Ginsburg as her lead attorney.
(AP, 6/2/99)
1998 Jun 2, In Florida Bishop J.
Keith Symons (65) announced his resignation as head of the Palm Beach
diocese after admitting that he molested 5 boys early in his career.
Bishop Robert N. Lynch was named as temp. administrator over the
200,000 Catholics in the 5-county diocese.
(SFC, 6/3/98, p.A3)
1998 Jun 2, Space Shuttle
Discovery was launched and it planned to pick up astronaut Andrew
Thomas from the Mir space station.
(WSJ, 6/3/98, p.A1)
1998 Jun 2, Royal Caribbean
Cruises admitted to routinely dumping oily waste into the Caribbean and
agreed to pay a fine of $9 million. It was estimated that 80% of the
oil pollution in the world’s seas was caused by routing dumping by
ships of all sorts.
(SFC, 6/3/98, p.A6)
1998 Jun 2, In Burma 26 farmers
were gunned down near Murng-Kerng.
(SFC, 8/8/98, p.A12)
1998 Jun 2, In Mexico the military
leader of an anti-narcotics investigation was kidnapped and beaten by
henchmen of Ramon Alcides Magana, aka El Metro. At the same time his
office was robbed of evidence linking Yucatan Gov. Mario Villanueva
Madrid to El Metro.
(SFC, 12/14/98, p.C2)
1998 Jun 2, In Russia Yeltsin held
a meeting with the country’s most powerful business leaders and urged
them to help keep investors from fleeing. Russian stocks rose 12%.
(SFC, 6/3/98, p.A12)
1998 Jun 3, An 87-foot memorial to
Crazy Horse, sculpted into rock near Custer in the South Dakota Black
Hills by Korczak Ziolkowski (d.1982), was dedicated after 50 years of
work.
(SFC, 4/13/98, p.A5)(SSFC, 7/28/02, Par p.11)
1998 Jun 3, Pres. Clinton
announced the renewal of favored nation trade status with China.
President Clinton urged Congress to renew normal trade benefits for
China, saying good relations with Beijing were crucial amid fears of a
nuclear arms race in South Asia.
(SFC, 6/4/98, p.A3)(AP, 6/3/99)
1998 Jun 3, In New York City
hundreds of sidewalk food vendors held a 1-day strike and paraded
through lower Manhattan.
(SFC, 6/4/98, p.A3)
1998 Jun 3, The US FDA approved
Rebetron, a combination of two anti-viral drugs (interferon and
ribavirin), to treat Chronic Hepatitis C.
(SFC, 6/4/98, p.A9)
1998 Jun 3, Eritrean and Ethiopian
soldiers clashed in heavy fighting along their disputed border.
(SFC, 6/4/98, p.A11)
1998 Jun 3, In Germany the
high-speed ICE 884 train derailed near Eschede and 94 [101] people were
killed. A damaged wheel was later cited as the cause.
(SFC, 6/4/98, p.A1)(WSJ, 6/8/98, p.A1)(AP, 6/3/99)
1998 Jun 3, Mexico announced that
it would prosecute US customs officials for breaking numerous Mexican
laws in the undercover Casablanca operation that was announced May 18.
(SFC, 6/4/98, p.A3)
1998 Jun 3, In Mexico Chiapas Gov.
Roberto Albores ordered a thousand police officers and soldiers into
the town of Nicolas Ruiz where 141 people were arrested for supporting
Zapatista rebels.
(SFC, 6/4/98, p.A10)
1998 Jun 3, The Kremlin announced
a crackdown on skinheads.
(SFEC, 7/5/98, p.T8)
1998 Jun 3, Special Serbian forces
reported 40 people killed in a 5-day operation in Kosovo.
(SFC, 6/4/98, p.A10)
1998 Jun 3, From Sierra Leone it
was reported that 243,000 refugees had fled to camps in Liberia and
Guinea in terror of the ousted junta’s loyalists.
(WSJ, 6/3/98, p.A1)
1998 Jun 4, It was reported that
Duke Univ. scientists reported that they were able to change
sickled blood cells into normal cells using genetic therapy.
(SFC, 6/5/98, p.A7)
1998 Jun 4, In Denver a federal
judge sentenced Terry Nichols to life in prison without parole for
conspiring in 1995 to bomb the Alfred Murrah Federal Building in
Oklahoma City.
(SFC, 6/5/98, p.A1)(AP, 6/4/99)
1998 Jun 4, Americans aboard the
shuttle Discovery arrived at the Russian space station Mir to pick up
U.S. astronaut Andrew Thomas, who'd spent four months in orbit.
(AP, 6/4/99)
1998 Jun 4, In Bluff, Utah, Robert
Mason (26), one of 3 suspects in the May 29 killing of a Cortez, Colo.,
police officer, was found dead with a gunshot wound to his head.
(SFC, 6/5/98, p.A3)
1998 Jun 4, A team of physicists
from Japan reported that they had established that the subnuclear
neutrino particles had mass.
(SFC, 6/5/98, p.A1)
1998 Jun 4, Shirley Polykoff, the
pioneering advertising woman who authored the "Does she... or doesn’t
she" for Clairol hair dyes in 1956, died at age 90. She wrote the 1975
book "Does She... or Doesn’t She? And How She Die It."
(SFC, 6/9/98, p.A24)
1998 Jun 4, In Britain the House
of Commons decided to get rid of its collapsible top hats, a tradition
that dated from 19th century.
(SFC, 6/5/98, p.D4)
1998 Jun 4, In Indonesia creditor
banks unveiled a plan to restructure $80 billion of foreign debt owed
by banks and corporations.
(WSJ, 6/5/98, p.A1)
1998 Jun 4, Mexico, Saudi Arabia
and Venezuela agreed to cuts in oil production and exports for the 2nd
time this year in order to raise prices.
(WSJ, 6/5/98, p.A2)
1998 Jun 4, In Pristina, Serbia,
the Kosovo Albanians withdrew from negotiations with Serbia due to the
new Serbian offensive.
(SFC, 6/5/98, p.D2)
1998 Jun 4, In Taiwan it was
reported that an airborne virus had killed 26 children in the last 6
weeks. Another 132 were hospitalized and as many as 9,000 were
infected. Efforts to fight the disease were being centralized.
Enterovirus 71 soon claimed 7 more children.
(WSJ, 6/5/98, p.A1)(SFC, 6/19/98, p.B4)
1998 Jun 5, Some 3,400 workers at
a GM stamping plant in Flint, Mich., went on strike. The strike closed
five assembly plants and idled workers nationwide for seven weeks.
(SFC, 6/6/98, p.A7)(AP, 6/5/99)
1998 Jun 5, Volkswagen AG won
approval to buy Rolls-Royce Motor Cars for $703 million. However, BMW
later purchased the Rolls-Royce brand name and logo.
(AP, 6/5/99)(SFC, 6/6/98, p.D1)
1998 Jun 5, Some 70,000 white bass
at the Cheney Reservoir west of Wichita had died over the past week
from unexplained causes. The reservoir in the north fork of the
Ninnescah River was the main drinking water source for Wichita.
(SFC, 6/6/98, p.A4)
1998 Jun 5, In Texas an estimated
22,000 trout died in the Guadalupe River after eating dead fire ants
that fell into the river after mating.
(SFC, 6/6/98, p.A4)
1998 Jun 5, Alfred Kazin (b.1915),
literary critic, died on his birthday. Kazin’s work included 3
autobiographical volumes: “A Walker in the City,” “Starting Out in the
Thirties,” and “New York Jew.” In 2003 Ted Solotaroff edited
"Alfred Kazin's America: Critical and Personal Writings." In 2007
Richard M. Cook authored “Alfred Kazin: A Biography.”
(SSFC, 10/19/03, p.M2)(WSJ, 1/12/08, p.W9)(SFC,
2/7/08, p.E2)
1998 Jun 5, In Cambodia over 1,000
former Khmer Rouge soldiers were inducted into the Cambodian army at
Anlong Veng. Khmer Rouge leader Ta Mok and some loyalists were still in
the jungles along the Thai border.
(SFC, 6/6/98, p.A11)
1998 Jun 5, In Matamoros, Mexico,
Salvador Gomez, a former policeman and drug cartel leader, was arrested.
(SFC, 6/8/98, p.A12)
1998 Jun 5-6, Eritrea and Ethiopia
sent warplanes on bombing raids against each other. In Mekele,
Ethiopia, at least 40 people were killed and over 100 wounded.
(SFC, 6/6/98, p.A10)(SFC, 6/8/98, p.A12)
1998 Jun 6, In Boston Cardinal
Bernard Law announced that he defrocked retired priest, John Geoghan,
who was accused of sexually molesting more than 50 children over 3
decades. The church had already paid millions to settle claims brought
by dozens of alleged victims. Geoghan went on trial in 2002 and was
convicted for fondling a boy in 1992. Geoghan was sentenced 9-10 years
in prison for molesting a 10-year-old boy.
(SFEC, 6/7/98, p.A8)(WSJ, 1/18/02, p.W18)(SFC,
1/19/02, p.A2)(SFC, 2/22/02, p.A3)
1998 Jun 6, "Real Quiet" was
denied horse racing's Triple Crown as "Victory Gallop" won the Belmont
Stakes by a nose.
(AP, 6/6/99)
1998 Jun 6, Fires in east-central
Florida burned 1,700 wooded acres near Palm Coast and 1,200 acres in
Seminole County.
(SFC, 6/8/98, p.A2)
1998 Jun 6, India reported that
1,359 people had died over the past 3 weeks due to the severe heat
wave. The death toll was raised to 2,500.
(SFC, 6/6/98, p.A4)(SFC, 6/9/98, p.A14)
1998 Jun 6, The UN Security
Council demanded in a unanimous vote that India and Pakistan refrain
from further nuclear tests and sign nuclear control agreements.
(AP, 6/6/99)
1998 Jun 6, A strike by Philippine
Airline workers abruptly grounded all flights in the Philippine Islands.
(SFC, 6/8/98, p.A17)
1998 Jun 7, "The Lion King" won
the Tony Award for best musical along with 5 other awards. "Ragtime"
won 4 awards as did "Cabaret" and "The Beauty Queen of Leenane." "Art"
was named best play.
(SFC, 6/8/98, p.D1)(AP, 6/7/99)
1998 Jun 7, James Byrd Junior, a
49-year-old black man, was chained to a pickup truck and dragged to his
death in Jasper, Texas. Three white men were arrested; 2 of the men
were sentenced to death and the 3rd received life in prison. [see Jun 9]
(SFC, 6/9/98, p.A3)(AP, 6/7/00)
1998 Jun 7, CNN and Time magazine
reported that a secret 1970 raid called Operation Tailwind by a Special
Forces unit called the Studies and Observations Group (SOG) used the
nerve gas sarin in Laos to kill American armed service members who had
defected. A report in 1998 allegedly confirmed that over 100 people
were killed including up to 20 American military defectors. Adm. Thomas
Moorer, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the time,
confirmed in 1998 that nerve gas was used. CNN and Time magazine later
recanted the story due to insufficient evidence. Reporter April Oliver
and senior producer Jack Smith were fired. Oliver stood by her story
and in 1999 filed suit against CNN and retired Army Gen. John Singlaub,
her source for the Tailwind report.
(SFC, 6/8/98, p.A3)(WSJ, 6/26/98, p.W13)(SFC,
7/3/98, p.A1)(SFC, 7/4/98, p.C2)(SFC, 5/8/99, p.A3)
1998 Jun 7, In Colombia drug
cartel leader Alberto Orlandez Gamboa, alias "the Snail," was arrested.
(SFC, 6/8/98, p.A12)
1998 Jun 7, In Mexico army troops
killed 11 [12] leftist rebels of the EPR near Ayutla in Guerrero state.
Another 5 were wounded and 21 were arrested. Erika Zamora Pardo, an EPR
member, later testified that the guerrillas were shot when they
surrendered with their hands up. She also testified that civilians
trapped in a schoolhouse also tried to surrender, but that soldiers
threw a fragmentation grenade in their midst.
(SFC, 6/8/98, p.A10)(SFC, 6/15/98, p.A14)
1998 Jun 7, In Pakistan a bomb
exploded on a passenger train in the southern Sindh province near
Sukkur. 26 people were killed and 45 wounded. Pakistan later blamed the
Indian Research and Analysis Wing (RAW). India denied involvement.
(SFEC, 6/7/98, p.A18)(SFC, 6/8/98, p.A12)(WSJ,
6/8/98, p.A1)
1998 Jun 7, In Serbia Pres.
Milosevic agreed to allow diplomatic observers to enter and move about
in Kosovo.
(SFC, 6/8/98, p.A10)
1998 Jun 8, Charlton Heston was
installed as the new head of the National Rifle Association (NRA).
(SFC, 6/9/98, p.A4)
1998 Jun 8, The US FTC filed a
suit against Intel Corp. for using its monopoly power to bully other
computer companies.
(SFC, 6/9/98, p.A1)
1998 Jun 8, Wells Fargo and
Norwest Corp. reported a merger plan valued at $30-34 billion to form
the nation’s 6th-7th largest bank.
(SFC, 6/8/98, p.A1)(SFC, 6/9/98, p.A10)
1998 Jun 8, In New Mexico the $77
million Sloan Digital Sky Survey was reported to be about to start
probing the universe.
(SFC, 6/9/98, p.A3)
1998 Jun 8, The shuttle Discovery
pulled away from Mir, ending America's three-year space partnership
with Russia.
(AP, 6/8/99)
1998 Jun 8, In Haysville, Kansas,
a Debruce Grain Elevator exploded and killed 2 men. Four people were
trapped in the wreckage. The death toll rose to five after more victims
were found the next day.
(SFC, 6/9/98, p.A6)(SFC, 6/11/98, p.A3)
1998 Jun 8, Eritrea appealed for
direct talks with Ethiopia to end the border war.
(SFC, 6/9/98, p.A14)
1998 Jun 8, In Mexico Catholic
Bishop Samuel Ruiz resigned as chief mediator in peace negotiations
with the Zapatista guerrillas. The committee that he led also resigned
and accused the government of standing in the way of peace.
(SFC, 6/9/98, p.A12)
1998 Jun 8, Nigeria’s Gen’l. Sani
Abacha (54) died of a heart attack in the arms of 2 Indian prostitutes
and a local virgin. Gen’l. Abdulsalam Abubakar, the defense chief of
staff, was quickly named the new head of state.
(SFC, 6/9/98, p.A11)(Econ, 12/18/04, p.62)
1998 Jun 8, In Russia the number
of AIDS was reported to have quadrupled since 1996 to 8,313, mainly due
to intravenous drug-taking.
(SFC, 6/9/98, p.A14)
1998 Jun 8, Larisa Yudina (53), an
independent journalist in the southern Russian Republic of Kalmykia,
was found dead in a pond with a fractured skull and multiple stab
wounds. She had pursued investigations of corruption of Kirsan
Ilyumzhinov, the president of Kalmykia. The murder was called a
political killing. Two aides of Ilyumzhinov were later arrested by the
police and confessed to the killing. The aides were sentenced to
21-year prison terms.
(SFC, 6/13/98, p.A10)(SFC, 6/17/98, p.C2)(SFC,
11/30/99, p.D3)
1998 Jun 8, It was reported that
Turkish soldiers had killed 37 Kurdish insurgents in the southeast
provinces of Sirnak, Siirt, and Diyarbakir.
(SFC, 6/9/98, p.A14)
1998 Jun 9, President Clinton
unleashed a torrent of public works money, signing a $203 billion
transportation bill.
(SFC, 6/10/98, p.A2)(AP, 6/9/99)
1998 Jun 9, In Salt Lake City the
Southern Baptist Convention approved a new statement on the family that
said wives must live in submission to their husbands and that
homosexuality was a perversion.
(SFC, 6/10/98, p.A1)
1998 Jun 9, Three white men, Shawn
Allen Berry (23), Lawrence Russell Brewer (31) and John William King
(23), were charged for the Jun 7 murder of James Byrd Jr. King was
convicted of murder Feb 23, 1999, and was sentenced to death. Brewer
was found guilty of capital murder on Sep 20, 1999 and was sentenced to
death Sep 23. Berry was sentenced to life in prison.
(SFC, 6/10/98, p.A3)(SFC, 2/24/99, p.A1)(SFC,
9/14/99, p.A10)(SFC, 9/21/99, p.A3)(SFC, 9/24/99, p.A3)(SFC, 11/19/99,
p.A3)
1998 Jun 9, Heavy fighting erupted
on the Ethiopian-Eritrean frontier in the latest stage of their
undeclared war.
(SFC, 6/10/98, p.A8)
1998 Jun 9, Senegal and Guinea
sent troops to aid Pres. Vieira in Guinea-Bissau. Rebels led by
Ansumane Mane had just staged a coup to end the 18-year rule of Pres.
Vieira, who was accused of corruption.
(SFC, 6/10/98, p.A9)
1998 Jun 9, Some 30 Haitians
drowned when police in the British Turks and Caicos Islands fired on a
boat jammed with about 100 refugees.
(WSJ, 6/10/98, p.A1)
1998 Jun 9, At least 205 people
were killed by a cyclone that hit on India’s western coast at
Porbunder. At least 15,000 people were forced to evacuate. The death
toll was increased to 420 and 150 people were missing. The death toll
was increased to 835.
(SFC, 6/10/98, p.A9)(WSJ, 6/11/98, p.A1)(SFC,
6/13/98, p.A11)
1998 Jun 9, Indonesia’s Pres.
Habibie offered to grant special status to East Timor in exchange for
peace and signed a decree to release 10 jailed East Timor rebels.
(SFC, 6/10/98, p.A10)
1998 Jun 9, In Russia Yuri Yurkov,
head of the State Statistics Committee, was arrested with 2 top aides
for falsifying data to help corporations avoid taxes.
(SFC, 6/10/98, p.A8)
1998 Jun 10, A jury in
Jacksonville, Fla. ordered Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corp. to pay
nearly $1 million to the family of Roland Maddox, who had died after
smoking Lucky Strikes for almost 50 years. A Florida appeals court
later overturned the verdict.
(AP, 6/10/99)(AP, 6/10/08)
1998 Jun 10, The Wisconsin Supreme
court ruled that taxpayer could be used to send poor children to
private religious schools.
(SFC, 6/11/98, p.A3)
1998 Jun 10, It was reported that
scientists had decoded the DNA sequence for Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
(SFC, 6/11/98, p.A2)
1998 Jun 10, Belarus delayed a
deadline for foreign diplomats to leave their residences to permit
repairs following protests by diplomats.
(WSJ, 6/10/98, p.A1)
1998 Jun 10, In France pilots
agreed to end their 10-day strike after accepting shares in Air France
in exchange for salary cuts.
(SFC, 6/11/98, p.A10)
1998 Jun 10, In Mexico 9 people
were killed in Chiapas when the army tried to retake control of El
Bosque. 52 people were arrested.
(SFC, 6/11/98, p.A10)
1998 Jun 10, The Russian market
fell for a 5th straight day and the government failed to sell enough
treasury bills to cover its short-term debt.
(SFC, 6/11/98, p.C2)
1998 Jun 10, In Sudan three aid
workers were killed when gunmen opened fire on a UN relief convoy.
(SFC, 6/11/98, p.C2)
1998 Jun 10-Jul 12, The World Cup
soccer championships were scheduled to be held in France.
(SFEC, 5/10/98, p.A22)
1998 Jun 11, Mitsubishi Motors
agreed to pay $34 million to settle allegations that women on the
assembly line at its Illinois factory were groped and insulted and that
managers did nothing to stop it.
(AP, 6/11/99)
1998 Jun 11, In Burundi military
leader Pierre Buyoya was sworn in as president by the democratically
elected parliament.
(SFC, 6/12/98, p.A14)
1998 Jun 11, China ordered
officials in its nearly 1 million villages to open their activities to
public scrutiny.
(SFC, 6/12/98, p.A14)
1998 Jun 11, Fighting between
Eritrea and Ethiopia was reported 50 miles from Eritrea’s Red Sea port
of Assab.
(SFC, 6/12/98, p.A12)
1998 Jun 11, Between 1,500 and
2,000 foreigners, mostly Portuguese, were evacuated by ship from the
capital of Guinea-Bissau, where civil war raged.
(AP, 6/11/03)
1998 Jun 11, Pakistan announced a
moratorium on nuclear tests and offered to enter into bilateral talks
with India.
(WSJ, 6/12/98, p.A1)
1998 Jun 12, Strikes at GM plants
in Flint idled 13 assembly plants and dozens of parts operations and
50,900 workers in the US, Canada and Mexico.
(SFC, 6/13/98, p.A3)
1998 Jun 12, A jury in
Hattiesburg, Miss., convicted 17-year-old Luke Woodham of killing two
students and wounding seven others at Pearl High School.
(AP, 6/12/99)
1998 Jun 12, Space shuttle
Discovery returned to Earth, bringing home the last American to live
aboard Mir and closing out three years of U.S.-Russian cooperation
aboard the aging space station.
(AP, 6/12/99)
1998 Jun 12, Leo Buscaglia,
columnist, lecturer and social philosopher known as "Dr. Hug," died at
age 74.
(SFC, 6/13/98, p.A21)
1998 Jun 12, In China torrential
rains began in Hunan province and led to the death of at least 40
people. Over 100,000 homes were destroyed.
(SFC, 6/20/98, p.A4)
1998 Jun 12, The G8 industrialized
nations agreed to halt all loans to India and Pakistan except those for
humanitarian purposes.
(SFC, 6/13/98, p.A1)
1998 Jun 12, In Guinea-Bissau some
200 people drowned as they fled the country by boat.
(SFC, 6/15/98, p.A12)
1998 Jun 12, In France Jean-Paul
Guerlain (63), renowned perfumer, was shot and his mansion was
plundered when some 12 armed and masked men invaded his home.
(SFC, 6/13/98, p.A11)
1998 Jun 12, In Nigeria security
forces broke up a planned mass protest organized to mark the 5-year
anniversary of the annulment of the last presidential elections.
(SFC, 6/13/98, p.A10)
1998 Jun 13, President Clinton
visited Thurston High School in Springfield, Ore., where two students
were killed and 22 others wounded the previous month.
(AP, 6/13/99)
1998 Jun 13, Civil rights leaders
and politicians called for an end to racial violence as hundreds of
mourners gathered in Jasper, Texas, for the funeral of James Byrd Jr.,
a black man who police said was brutally killed by white supremacists.
(AP, 6/13/99)
1998 Jun 13, It was reported that
in Madagascar a grasshopper swarm, 7 miles long, had spread into the
capital city of Antananarivo.
(SFC, 6/13/98, p.A7)
1998 Jun 13, It was reported that
the Old World Screwworm had broken out in Iraq, Kuwait and Bahrain. 19
people were reported infected by the disease in which carnivorous
larvae hatch from eggs laid in broken skin.
(SFC, 6/13/98, p.A7)
1998 Jun 13, In London Reg Smythe,
creator of the Andy Capp comic strip, died at age 81.
(SFC, 6/16/98, p.A22)
1998 Jun 13, In Israel Nissim
Aloni, playwright, died at age 72. His work included "Most Cruel the
King" (1953); "The Emperor’s New Clothes" (1961), "The American
Princess" (1963); "The Revolution and the Chicken" (1964); "The Bride
and the Butterfly Hunter" (1967); "Napoleon, Dead or Alive" (1970); and
"The Gypsies of Jaffa" (1971).
(SFC, 6/16/98, p.A22)
1998 Jun 13, In Bihar state,
India, Brij Bihari Prasad, a former state minister in the Rashtriya
Janata Party, was killed along with his guard.
(SFC, 6/16/98, p.A12)
1998 Jun 14, The Chicago Bulls
clinched their sixth NBA championship, defeating the Utah Jazz in game
six played in Salt Lake City, 87-86.
(AP, 6/14/03)
1998 Jun 14, Tori Murden of
Louisville, Ky., departed from North Carolina in a 23-foot fiberglass
rowboat in an attempt to become the first woman to row across the
Atlantic.
(SFC, 8/12/98, p.A8)
1998 cJun 14, The Boston Globe
asked for the resignation of columnist Patricia Smith due to fabricated
quotations and people in her column. The New Republic recently reported
that writer Stephen Glass had fabricated parts or all of 27 of 41
articles.
(SFC, 6/29/98, p.A4)
1998 Jun 14, In NYC Antoine Reid,
a squeegee man, was allegedly shot by off-duty officer Michael Meyer
after soaping Meyer’s car window. Reid later filed a $100 million suit
against the city and the police dept.
(SFC, 6/29/98, p.A4)
1998 Jun 14, Ethiopia and Eritrea
agreed to halt the use of air strikes in their border war.
(SFC, 6/15/98, p.A10)
1998 Jun 14, In Guinea-Bissau the
fighting intensified and thousands of people sought escape routes.
(SFC, 6/15/98, p.A12)
1998 Jun 14, In Bihar state,
India, Ajit Kumar Sarkar was the 2nd legislator in 2 days to be killed
by gunmen. Two Sarkar supporters were also killed.
(SFC, 6/16/98, p.A12)
1998 Jun 14, In Kosovo the
fighting intensified as Serbs launched 500 grenades into villages in
western Kosovo.
(SFC, 6/15/98, p.A1)(WSJ, 6/15/98, p.A1)
1998 Jun 15, The US Supreme Court
ruled unanimously that state prison inmates are protected by the
Americans with Disabilities Act.
(AP, 6/15/99)
1998 Jun 15, In Richmond,
Virginia, Quinshawn Booker (14) fired 8-9 rounds from a .32 caliber
semiautomatic pistol at Armstrong High School and wounded a coach and a
volunteer aide.
(SFC, 6/16/98, p.A3)
1998 Jun 15, US F-16 fighter jets
took off as part of a 13-nation, 85 warplane NATO show of force over
Albania and Macedonia. Meanwhile Serb forces attacked 4 Kosovo villages
with grenades and helicopter gunships and began sealing off the border
to Albania.
(SFC, 6/15/98, p.A1)(WSJ, 6/15/98, p.A1)(SFC,
6/16/98, p.A1)(WSJ, 6/16/98, p.A1)(SFC, 6/20/98, p.B2)(AP, 6/15/99)
1998 Jun 15, In Indonesia Habibie
replaced the attorney general, a Suharto appointee, with Major Gen’l.
Andi Muhammad Galib, chief of the military’s law office and chief
auditor.
(SFC, 6/16/98, p.A10)
1998 Jun 15, In Nigeria nine
prominent political prisoners were released.
(SFC, 6/16/98, p.A10)
1998 Jun 16, The Detroit Red Wings
took home the Stanley Cup for the second consecutive year after
completing a sweep of the Washington Capitals with a 4-1 victory in
game four.
(AP, 6/16/03)
1998 Jun 16, A woman (40) in
Florida gave birth to a baby boy, named Sean, shown live on the
Internet.
(SFC, 6/17/98, p.A3)
1998 Jun 16, Massachusetts'
highest court cleared the way for Louise Woodward to return home to
England, upholding a judge's ruling that freed the au pair convicted of
killing a baby.
(AP, 6/16/99)
1998 Jun 16, In Afghanistan the
Taliban ordered the closing of over 100 private schools that had been
educating girls. Schools would not be allowed to teach girls older than
8 and lessons were to be limited to the Koran.
(SFC, 6/17/98, p.C16)
1998 Jun 16, North Korea admitted
that it had sold missiles abroad and would continue to do so to
generate needed income.
(SFC, 6/17/98, p.A14)
1998 Jun 16, In South Korea Chung
Ju-Yung (83), a wealthy industrialist, led 500 cattle in 50 open
trucks, his Operation Rawhide, across the border to North Korea. He
recently published an autobiography.
(SFC, 6/17/98, p.C16)
1998 Jun 16, Senegal fired
artillery into Guinea-Bissau to support Pres. Vieira.
(WSJ, 6/17/98, p.A1)
1998 Jun 16, In Serbia Pres.
Milosevic agreed to allow monitors into Kosovo and to begin talks with
Kosovo Albanian leaders, but not to withdraw his military forces until
"terrorist activities subside."
(WSJ, 6/17/98, p.A1)
1998 Jun 17, The Pritzker
Architecture Prize was awarded to Italian architect Renzo Piano (60).
(USAT, 6/17/98, p.1D)
1998 Jun 17, The US Senate snuffed
out Congress' first bill to curb teen smoking, with Democrats accusing
Republicans of being owned by Big Tobacco, and Republicans charging the
measure was laden with too many amendments.
(AP, 6/17/03)
1998 Jun 17, Japanese Prime
Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto welcomed a rare U.S. intervention in
currency markets to support the sinking yen. The US and Japan bought
billions of dollars worth of yen to stabilize the Japanese currency.
(SFC, 6/18/98, p.A1) (AP, 6/17/99)
1998 Jun 17, Scientists announced
the 3-D structure of the key protein that the HIV virus uses to unlock
and enter cells.
(SFC, 6/18/98, p.A1)
1998 Jun 17, In Albania
representatives of 5 Kosovo political parties met in Tirana and
announced plans to organize defenses against the Serbian
anti-insurgency campaign.
(SFC, 6/19/98, p.B2)
1998 Jun 17, In Cairo Sheik
Mohammed Sharawi died at age 87. The popular cleric lectured on
Egyptian TV and his teachings were widely acclaimed. He supported
female circumcision and ruled that women should not be appointed to top
government positions or become judges.
(SFC, 6/19/98, p.B6)
1998 Jun 17, In Israel Nahum
Manbar, an Israeli businessman, was convicted of endangering security
through the sale of $16 million in information and chemical weapons
components to Iran.
(SFC, 6/18/98, p.A20)
1998 Jun 17, Andrei Kozlenok, a
diamond merchant, was extradited from Greece to Russia, on charges of
stealing $180 million in gold and gems from the Russian government in
1992. Kozlenok used the money to set up shop in SF and then moved to
Belgium to avoid extradition.
(SFC, 6/20/98, p.B1)
1998 Jun 17, In Russia Pres.
Yeltsin named Anatoly Chubais as Russia’s chief liaison to the IMF.
Chubais was also reinstated as a deputy premier.
(WSJ, 6/18/98, p.A1)
1998 Jun 17, In Rwanda Hutu rebels
killed at least 25 and wounded 62 Tutsis at a camp for displaced people
north of Kigali.
(SFC, 6/18/98, p.A20)
1998 Jun 17, In Paramaribo,
Suriname, four million acres of rain forest was dedicated as the
Suriname Wilderness Nature Reserve.
(SFC, 6/18/98, p.A20)
1998 Jun 17, Serb troops killed at
least 10 Albanians they said were trying to cross the border into
Kosovo.
(WSJ, 6/18/98, p.A1)
1998 Jun 18, President Clinton
appointed UN ambassador Bill Richardson to replace Energy Secretary
Federico Pena and named Bosnian peace architect and diplomatic
troubleshooter Richard Holbrooke as the new representative to the
United Nations. The Holbrooke nomination was held up for a year because
of ethics questions.
(AP, 6/18/03)
1998 Jun 18, Smoking was banned in
SF public parks and recreation centers, but the larger city parks were
exempt.
(SFC, 6/19/98, p.A17)
1998 Jun 18, In Portage, Ind., a
Chicago-bound commuter train struck a truck and dislodged a steel coil
that crashed into the first train car and crushed 3 people to death.
(SFC, 6/19/98, p.A3)(AP, 6/18/99)
1998 Jun 18, In North Carolina an
Amtrak train crashed into a tractor-trailer and killed the driver. Ten
others were injured.
(SFC, 6/19/98, p.A3)
1998 Jun 18, China formally
declared it new housing policy that eliminated the right of workers to
cost-free apartments by the end of the year.
(SFC, 6/19/98, p.A12)
1998 Jun 18, In Nigeria six more
political detainees were released.
(SFC, 6/19/98, p.B7)
1998 Jun 18, In Puerto Rico
fearing loss of their jobs 6,400 workers of Telefonica went on strike
and began cutting telephone cables.
(SFC, 6/26/98, p.A2)(SFC, 6/30/98, p.A3)
1998 Jun 19, A study published in
the British medical journal The Lancet said smoking more than doubles
the risk of developing dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
(AP, 6/19/03)
1998 Jun 19, Pope John Paul II
began his third visit to Austria for 3 days.
(SFC, 6/20/98, p.B3)(AP, 6/19/99)
1998 Jun 19, In India suspected
separatist guerrillas shot and killed 25 male members of 2 Hindu
wedding parties in Jammu and Kashmir state.
(SFC, 6/20/98, p.D1)
1998 Jun 19, In Mexico the 37th
annual US-Mexico Parliamentary Session opened.
(SFC, 6/22/98, p.A10)
1998 Jun 19, Switzerland's three
biggest banks offered $600 million to settle claims they'd stolen the
assets of Holocaust victims; outraged Jewish leaders called the offer
insultingly low.
(AP, 6/19/99)
1998 Jun 19, In Yemen a 40% price
increase for gasoline, kerosene and cooking gas led to protests for the
next 4 days.
(SFC, 6/23/98, p.A12)
1998 Jun 20, On the eve of
Father's Day, President Clinton used his weekly radio address to
announce the release of the first wave of almost $60 million in
prostate cancer research grants.
(AP, 6/20/08)
1998 Jun 20, Seven people were
killed on the Pennsylvania Turnpike when a Greyhound bus crashed into a
tractor-trailer parked on the shoulder. At least 18 people were hurt.
The driver was on his last run before retirement. He was among the dead
with his wife and boy that they took care of.
(SFEC, 6/21/98, p.A10)(WSJ, 6/22/98, p.A1)
1998 Jun 20, In Belarus
ambassadors of the EU nations announced that they would leave the
country to protest a government move barring them from their homes.
(SFEC, 6/21/98, p.A17)
1998 Jun 20, Iran reversed its
opposition to a UN plan, passed the previous day, permitting Iraq to
spend $300 million of revenues from the oil-for-food program to buy
spare parts to rebuild its oil industry.
(SFEC, 6/21/98, p.A25)
1998 Jun 20, Suekiku Miyanaga
(107), Japan’s oldest person, died in Osumi.
(SFEC, 6/21/98, p.A25)
1998 Jun 20, In Kosovo 3 Serbian
police were killed and four were held by the Kosovo separatist army
during fighting in the Decani area..
(SFEC, 6/21/98, p.A25)
1998 Jun 21, In the soccer World
Cup Iran knocked out the US team 2-1.
(SFC, 6/22/98, p.A8)
1998 Jun 21, The Chechen security
chief, Lecha Khulygov, and a guerrilla commander, Vakha Dzhafarov,
fatally shot each other in an argument over a demonstration by rebel
supporters.
(SFC, 6/22/98, p.A10)
1998 Jun 21, In Colombia, former
Bogota Mayor Andres Pastrana was elected president, defeating Horacio
Serpa, a key player in the scandal-tainted administration of President
Ernesto Samper.
(SFC, 6/22/98, p.A8)(AP, 6/21/08)
1998 Jun 21, In the Czech Republic
the Social Democrats placed first in parliamentary elections.
(WSJ, 6/22/98, p.A1)
1998 Jun 21, In England the Druids
were allowed to celebrate the Summer Solstice at Stonehenge.
(SFC, 6/22/98, p.A10)
1998 Jun 21, In India a deal was
signed in New Delhi with Russia to build power plants for two nuclear
reactors.
(SFC, 6/23/98, p.A12)
1998 Jun 21, The Israeli Cabinet
approved a plan to expand Jerusalem’s control far beyond its current
borders, despite protests from Palestinians and warnings from
Washington that the move was "provocative."
(SFC, 6/22/98, p.A8)
1998 Jun 21, In Moscow a violent
storm left 6 dead and heavy damage to the Bolshoi Theater and the wall
of the Kremlin.
(SFC, 6/22/98, p.A10)
1998 Jun 21, Elections were held
in Togo. When returns showed Pres. Eyadama trailing one of his generals
took over the ballot counting. Soldiers killed hundreds. Vote counting
stopped, and Eyadema was declared winner.
(SFC, 6/25/98, p.A12)(SFC, 7/24/99, p.C1)(AP, 6/1/03)
1998 Jun 22, The US Supreme Court
made it much harder for students who are sexually harassed by teachers
to hold school districts financially responsible, ruling 5-4 that a key
anti-bias law applies only if administrators know about the misconduct.
1998 Jun 22, In Britain
legislators voted to lower the age of consent for homosexual acts to
16, the norm in the EU.
(SFC, 6/23/98, p.A10)
1998 Jun 22, Hong Kong suspended
government land sales to bolster prices and announced a stimulus
package to revive the economy.
(SFC, 6/23/98, p.A9)
1998 Jun 22, South Korea captured
a small North Korean submarine that was entangled in a fishing net. The
sub sank while under tow and 9 crewmen were later found dead with rifle
wounds to the head.
(SFC, 6/23/98, p.A9)(SFC, 6/24/98, p.A10)(SFC,
6/26/98, p.A13)(WSJ, 6/26/98, p.A1)
1998 Jun 22, In Kosovo ethnic
Albanians kidnapped 3 Serbs and took over the mine pit at Belacevac.
(WSJ, 6/23/98, p.A1)(SFC, 6/30/98, p.A8)
1998 Jun 22, In Yemen police fired
on protestors reacting to fuel price increases. At least one person was
killed in Taiz and 3 were killed in Sanaa. Protestors called for the
resignation of Prime Minister Abdul Karim al-Iryani.
(SFC, 6/23/98, p.A12)
1998 Jun 23, President Clinton
said the reported discovery of traces of deadly nerve gas on an Iraqi
missile warhead gave the United States new ammunition to maintain tough
U.N. sanctions against the Baghdad government.
(AP, 6/23/99)
1998 Jun 23, US Congressional
leaders approved a plan to reduce the period for investment capital
gains to 12 months from 18 and the rate from 20% to 15%. It was planned
to be retroactive to Jan 1, 1998.
(SFC, 6/24/98, p.A8)
1998 Jun 23, The US FDA announced
the approval of rifapentine, a drug to treat pulmonary TB.
(SFC, 6/24/98, p.A2)
1998 Jun 23, In Chicago some 4,500
got sick from an outbreak of E. coli possibly due to contaminated
potato salad at Iwan’s Deli in Orland Park.
(SFC, 6/24/98, p.A9)
1998 Jun 23, In Georgia a virulent
E. coli, O157:H7, sickened at least 6 children after playing in a
Marietta water park.
(SFC, 6/24/98, p.A9)
1998 Jun 23, Laboratory grown
adult nerve cells were implanted into a human brain for the first time
to treat a stroke at the Univ. of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
(SFC, 7/2/98, p.A2)
1998 Jun 23, In Florida some 260
fires raged across the state.
(SFC, 6/24/98, p.A3)
1998 Jun 23, Maureen O’Sullivan
(b.1911), film actress, died in Scottsdale, Arizona. She had starred as
Jane in the Tarzan movies with Johnny Weissmuller.
(SFC, 6/24/98,
p.C2)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_O%27Sullivan)
1998 Jun 23, Pakistan and India
agreed to negotiations in Sri Lanka. Their prime ministers would meet
during a South Asian summit starting Jul 29.
(SFC, 6/24/98, p.A12)
1998 Jun 23, In Russia Pres.
Yeltsin called for a package of emergency fiscal measures to bolster
the economy and threatened to dissolve parliament if the measures were
not quickly passed.
(SFC, 6/24/98, p.A10)
1998 Jun 23, In Spain a Boeing 727
with 131 people was hijacked and diverted to Valencia.
(SFC, 6/23/98, p.A11)
1998 Jun 23, In Yemen police
killed 6 people blocking fuel trucks in the 5th day of violence. The
government ordered increased fuel prices to pay off an $80 million IMF
loan.
(WSJ, 6/24/98, p.A1)
1998 Jun 24, The Clinton
administration claimed that Syria has an active chemical weapons
program and has armed missiles with the nerve gas sarin.
(SFC, 6/25/98, p.A9)
1998 Jun 24, President Clinton
left on a nine-day visit to China amid a swirl of controversy over his
policy toward the Beijing government.
(WSJ, 6/25/98, p.A1)(AP, 6/24/99)
1998 Jun 24, AT&T Corp. struck
a deal to buy cable television giant Tele-Communications Inc. for $31.7
billion dollars. Combined sales were estimated to be $60 billion.
(SFC, 6/24/98, p.A1) (AP, 6/24/99)
1998 Jun 24, In China Wang Youcai
and other dissidents announced plans to form the China Democracy Party
and applied to officials in Zhejiang province for permission to set up
a local committee.
(SFC, 2/05/04, p.A3)
1998 Jun 24, In Colombia rebels
seized Ed Leonard of the Terramundo Drilling Co. of Canada. They asked
for a ransom of $2 million from the Grey Star Resources Co., which had
hired Terramundo for exploratory work.
(SFC, 11/7/98, p.C1)
1998 Jun 24, In Hungary the Young
Democrats Party and the Smallholders Party agreed to form the next
government.
(SFC, 6/25/98, p.A12)
1998 Jun 24, In Northern Ireland a
car bomb exploded in Newtownhamilton and injured a 13-year-old boy. The
INLA claimed responsibility.
(SFC, 6/26/98, p.A12)
1998 Jun 24, In Puerto Rico Gov.
Pedro Rossello signed a law completed the $1.9 billion sale of
Telefonica to a US consortium led by GTE.
(SFC, 6/26/98, p.A2)
1998 Jun 24, In Togo thousands
protested the declared victory of Pres. Gngassigbe Eyadema, who has
ruled over the last 31 years. EU observers declared that the electoral
process was flawed.
(SFC, 6/25/98, p.A12)
1998 Jun 24, In Turkey the
constitutional court ruled that adultery was no longer a crime for
women. Adultery, legal for men for a long time, had been punishable for
women with up to 3 years in prison.
(SFC, 6/25/98, p.A11)
1998 Jun 25, Pres. Clinton landed
in Xian, China. In Zhejiang province democracy activists announced the
formation of the China Democracy Party. Some of the organizers were
later arrested and jailed.
(SFC, 6/26/98, p.A1)(SFC, 7/13/98, p.A8)
1998 Jun 25, The US Supreme Court
rejected a 1997 line-item veto law as unconstitutional, and ruled that
those infected with HIV are protected by the Americans With
Disabilities Act.
(AP, 6/25/99)
1998 Jun 25, Susan McDougal was
ordered free by a federal judge in Little Rock, who reduced her
sentence to the time already served.
(SFC, 6/26/98, p.A3)
1998 Jun 25, The US Supreme Court
struck down the line-tem veto. It held that the law violated the
constitutional requirement that legislation be passed by both houses
and presented in its entirety to the president.
(SFC, 6/26/98, p.A1)
1998 Jun 25, The US Supreme Court
ruled that "decency" can be considered in awarding federal arts grants.
(SFC, 6/26/98, p.A3)
1998 Jun 25, A planet, 1.9 times
bigger than Jupiter, was reported found to be circling the small star
Gliese 876, 15 light-years from Earth.
(SFC, 6/25/98, p.A5)
1998 Jun 25, On Kauai, Ha., a
helicopter crash killed at least 5 of 6 people on Mount Waialeale.
(SFC, 6/26/98, p.A3)
1998 Jun 25, Albanian security
personnel (SHIK) under CIA guidance arrested Shawki Salama Attiya, a
Tirana cell forger. Over the next month they made a successful raids on
more suspected members of the Egyptian Jihad terrorist organization.
The suspected terrorists were turned over to anti-terrorist officials
in Egypt, where they delivered forced confessions following torture.
(SFC, 8/13/98, p.A16)(WSJ, 11/20/01, p.A1)
1998 Jun 25, In Algeria Lounes
Matoub (42), a popular singer and Berber patriot, was killed near Beni
Douala. The Armed Islamic Group later claimed responsibility.
(SFC, 6/27/98, p.A13)(SFC, 7/2/98, p.C2)
1998 Jun 25, In Indonesia a
revised IMF bailout deal was loaded with fuel and food subsidies for
the nation’s poor.
(SFC, 6/26/98, p.D2)
1998 Jun 25, In Indonesia it was
reported that two new tribes were found in the Mamberamo river area of
Irian Jaya.
(SFC, 6/26/98, p.D2)
1998 Jun 25, In Northern Ireland
voters chose members for the new 108-seat Northern Ireland Assembly.
Parties committed to the peace settlement emerged as victors.
Anti-agreement forces accounted for 29 of the 108 seats.
(SFC, 4/23/98, p.A12)(SFC, 6/26/98, p.A12)(SFC,
6/27/98, p.A10)
1998 Jun 25, Two Israeli soldiers
were killed in southern Lebanon by a roadside bomb and seriously
wounded 3. Meanwhile the government traded the corpses of 40 Lebanese
guerrillas and the release of 60 Lebanese prisoners for the body of
Itamar Ilya, a commando killed on Sep 5, 1997.
(SFC, 6/26/98, p.A16)
1998 Jun 25, Nigeria released 17
more political prisoners.
(WSJ, 6/26/98, p.A1)
1998 Jun 25, Marek Papala (38),
former national police chief, was killed in Warsaw as he stepped out of
his car outside his home. He was scheduled to be liaison officer to the
EU with efforts directed at organized crime. Some 300-400 organized
gangs were operating in Poland. Polish officials accused Edward Mazur,
who holds Polish and US citizenship, of enticing another man to shoot
Papala for $40,000. Mazur faced murder charges in Poland in the
shooting death of Papala. In 2006 Mazur remained in the US federal
government's Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago pending an
extradition hearing.
(SFC, 6/27/98, p.A14)(AP, 11/28/06)
1998 Jun 25, In Puerto Rico
protestors planted bombs, smashed bank machines and burned telephone
cables in reaction to the privatization of the phone company.
(SFC, 6/26/98, p.A2)
1998 Jun 25, In Romania the Senate
voted to keep some 125 million secret police files locked away.
(SFC, 6/26/98, p.D2)
1998 Jun 25, In Russia a balcony
collapsed at the Russian National Freestyle wrestling Competition in
Nalchik and killed 22 people.
(SFC, 6/26/98, p.D2)
1998 Jun 25, The Vatican agreed to
sign a joint declaration with the Lutheran Church on how humans receive
God’s forgiveness and salvation.
(SFC, 6/26/98, p.D2)
1998 Jun 26, Pres. Clinton visited
Beijing and chided China about its human rights record, but said
Beijing and Washington must cooperated "for the future sake of the
world."
(SFC, 6/27/98, p.A1)
1998 Jun 26, The US agreed to
modernize 10 helicopters for Colombia and to provide 6 new ones to
fight drug traffickers.
(SFC, 6/27/98, p.A14)
1998 Jun 26, The US Supreme Court
issued a landmark sexual harassment ruling, putting employers on notice
that they can be held responsible for supervisors' misconduct even if
they knew nothing about it.
(AP, 6/26/99)
1998 Jun 26, Hundreds rioted in
eastern Algeria over the death of Lounes Matoub, a popular singer.
(SFC, 6/27/98, p.A13)
1998 Jun 26, In Israel some 1,500
marchers in Tel Aviv celebrated gay pride.
(SFEC, 7/20/98, p.A16)
1998 Jun 26, In the Ivory Coast
Alioune Blondin Beye, a diplomat from Mali, crashed in a small plane
near Abidjan. He had just met with Togo Pres. Gnassigbe Eyadema to
support peace talks in Angola. Three other passengers were Koffi Adjovi
of Togo, journalist Moktar Gueye of Senegal, and Baendegar Dessandre of
Chad.
(SFEC, 6/28/98, p.A18)
1998 Jun 26, In Norway a draft law
was passed to set aside $58 million for Jewish survivors of Nazi death
camps.
(SFC, 6/27/98, p.A14)
1998 Jun 26, In Taiwan summer
camps were ordered to be closed and children under 14 barred from
swimming pools to fight an intestinal virus that has recently killed 52
children.
(SFC, 6/27/98, p.A14)
1998 Jun 26, In Thailand four
Pakistanis were reported to have been arrested in Bangkok. They were
suspected of planning to assassinate US Ambassador William Itoh and to
launch a terrorist strike against the US embassy.
(SFC, 6/27/98, p.A14)
1998 Jun 27, Pres. Clinton held a
live news conference with Pres. Jiang Zemin in Beijing that was
broadcast across China. President Clinton and President Jiang Zemin
offered an uncensored airing of differences on human rights, freedom,
trade and Tibet.
(SFEC, 6/28/98, p.A1)(AP, 6/27/99)
1998 Jun 27, Heavy thunderstorms
in the Northeast and Midwest left at least 5 people dead. The annual
Ben & Jerry’s One World One Heart festival at Sugarbush, Vermont,
was cancelled.
(SFEC, 6/28/98, p.A8)
1998 Jun 27, In Burma soldiers of
the Light Infantry Battalion 246 shot and killed 23 villagers in Kaeng
Tawn. The dead included 7 children and 2 women.
(SFC, 8/8/98, p.A12)
1998 Jun 27, In Germany some
10,000 gays and lesbians took part in the 20th commemoration of
Christopher St. Day with a march through Berlin.
(SFEC, 6/28/98, p.A20)
1998 Jun 27, In East Timor Manuel
Soares (21) was shot dead in Manatuto when troops opened fire to quell
a clash between Pro-Indonesia and pro-independence supporters. Three EU
envoys arrived on a fact-finding mission.
(SFEC, 6/28/98, p.A20)
1998 Jun 27, In Malaysia the new
$3.61 bil airport at Kuala Lumpur was scheduled to open. The new $2.25
billion int’l. airport covered 25,000 acres and was opened by King
Tuanku Jaafar.
(WSJ, 8/30/96, p.B8B)(SFEC, 6/28/98, p.A17)
1998 Jun 27, In southern Turkey a
6.3 earthquake around Adana and Ceyhan killed at least 144 people and
injured about a 1,000.
(SFEC, 6/28/98, p.A21)(WSJ, 6/29/98, p.A1)(SFC,
7/4/98, p.A7)
1998 Jun 28, The Cincinnati
Enquirer published an apology and agreed to pay Chiquita Brands Int’l.
$10 million to avoid suit for articles critical of the company’s
business. The articles were reportedly based on voice mails stolen from
Chiquita. Chiquita is based in Cincinnati and is controlled by
financier Carl H. Lindner Jr. Reporter Michael Gallagher was fired and
later sued by Chiquita. His 18-page article alleged that Chiquita used
life-threatening pesticides, had a Honduran Army raze a village to
close a plantation, and that Colombian officials had been bribed to
allow the shipment of drugs on its ships.
(SFC, 6/29/98, p.A4)(SFC, 7/3/98, p.A13)
1998 Jun 28, The 12th World AIDS
Conference opened in Geneva with some 12,000 participants.
(SFC, 6/29/98, p.A1)(AP, 6/28/99)
1998 Jun 28, Storms in the US
Midwest and East coast left 21 people dead.
(SFC, 6/29/98, p.A2)(SFC, 6/30/98, p.A3)
1998 Jun 28, Major Gen’l. Marion
Carl (82), a WW II fighter pilot, was fatally shot at his home in
southern Oregon during a robbery. Jesse Stuart Fanus (19) was later
arrested for the murder. Fanus was convicted in March and a jury
sentenced him to be executed in May, 1999.
(SFC, 7/6/98, p.A7)(SFC, 5/6/99, p.A3)
1998 Jun 28, In Puerto Rico the
Greater Committee of Labor Organizations voted for a work stoppage over
the sale of the state phone company.
(SFC, 6/30/98, p.A3)
1998 Jun 29, With negotiations on
a new labor agreement at a standstill, the NBA announced that a lockout
would be imposed at midnight.
(AP, 6/29/99)
1998 Jun 29, It was reported that
Mike Corbin had begun manufacturing the single-seat Sparrow, 3-wheel
vehicle in Hollister, Ca. The 960 pound electric vehicle was designed
for a range of 60 miles on a single charge with a top speed of 60 mph.
It was priced at $12,900.
(SFC, 6/29/98, p.A17)
1998 Jun 29, Students at Peking
University peppered President Clinton with polite but critical
questions about America's human rights record, Taiwan policy and views
on China in an exchange televised live across the vast nation. In
Beijing US corporations announced major sales agreements with China
worth nearly $2 billion.
(SFC, 6/30/98, p.A8)(AP, 6/29/08)
1998 Jun 29, Serbian troops opened
a series of attacks in Kosovo in the mining town of Belacevac and
Lapushnik. Albanian KLA rebels had taken over the huge open mine pit at
Belacevac last week.
(SFC, 6/30/98, p.A8)
1998 Jun 30, A US fighter jet
fired a missile at an Iraqi anti-aircraft site after the site’s radar
locked on a British warplane.
(SFC, 7/1/98, p.A1)
1998 Jun 30, Officials confirmed
that the remains of a Vietnam War serviceman buried in the Tomb of the
Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery were identified as those of Air
Force pilot Michael J. Blassie.
(AP, 6/29/99)
1998 Jun 30, Linda Tripp, whose
tape-and-tell friendship with Monica Lewinsky spurred a White House
crisis, spent six hours testifying before a grand jury in Washington.
(AP, 6/29/99)
1998 Jun 30, A federal judge
halted enforcement of a new Florida law that imposed 5-year prison
terms on doctors who perform a type of late-term abortion.
(SFC, 7/1/98, p.A3)
1998 Jun 30, Judge Joan
Comparet-Cassani in Long Beach, Ca., ordered the activation of a stun
belt (50,000 volts), fitted under the jail jumpsuit of defendant Ronnie
Hawkins, for his repeated interruptions.
(SFC, 7/10/98, p.A3)(SFC, 8/7/99, p.A17)
1998 Jun 30, In NYC some 20,000
construction workers rallied to protest the city’s use of a nonunion
contractor.
(SFC, 7/1/98, p.A1)
1998 Jun 30, In Geneva AIDS
specialists from SF reported a patient infected with a strain of HIV
resistant to the new anti-viral drugs.
(SFC, 7/1/98, p.A1)
1998 Jun 30, In Haiti Theodore
Beaubrun, a leading comedian, died at age 79.
(SFC, 7/4/98, p.C2)
1998 Jun 30, In Malaysia the new
Kuala Lumpur Int’l. Airport (KLIA) began operations.
(SFEC, 7/5/98, p.T3)(Econ, 2/7/09, p.35)
1998 Jun 30, Serbian forces
recaptured the Kosovo coal mine at Belacevac.
(SFC, 7/1/98, p.A8)
1998 Jun 30, In the Philippines
Joseph Estrada took his oath of office as the nation’s 13th president.
(SFC, 6/30/98, p.A10)
1998 Jun, The first module of an
int’l. space station, US funded and Russian-built, was to be launched
at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakstan. [it was postponed]
(SFC, 1/30/98, p.A7)
1998 Jun, At Kennedy airport newly
elected Kampala, Uganda, mayor Nasser Ntge Sebaggala was arrested for
lying to custom's agents, bringing in $108,000 in traveler's checks
without declaring them and defrauding the BostonBank. He was convicted
in 1999 and sentenced to 15 months in prison.
(SFC, 3/5/99, p.A12)
1998 Jun, Adrian Carrera Fuentes,
former director of the Mexican Federal Judicial Police, was allowed to
travel to the US to testify. In Houston he told a grand jury that he
had collected nearly $2 million in drug bribes in 1993-1994 and turned
the money over to Mario Ruiz Massieu, who fled Mexico in 1995.
(SFC, 7/15/98, p.A8)
1998 Jun, In England Dr. Harold F.
Shipman came under suspicion of murder when former Preston Mayor
Kathleen Grundy (81) was found dead and toxicologists later found that
she'd been given a large dose of heroin. Her revised will arrived at a
law firm on the same day with her $640,000 estate willed to Shipman. 14
other female patients were also suspected to have been murdered by
Shipman. Shipman was convicted in 2000 and sentenced to 15 life
sentences. In 2001 Shipman was suspected of having injected hundreds of
elderly women with diamorphine over his 24-year career. In 2002 an
investigation reported that Shipman had killed at least 215 people over
23 years.
(SFC, 12/9/99, p.C8)(SFC, 1/6/01, p.A1)(SFC,
7/20/02, p.A8)
1998 Jun, A US federal grand jury
indicted Osama bin Laden on terrorist conspiracy charges. Prince Turki
al Faisal of Saudi Arabia, chief of Saudi intelligence, negotiated with
the Taliban in Kandahar, Afghanistan, for the ouster or custody for
trial in Saudi Arabia of Osama bin Laden. Negotiations broke down after
the Aug 7 US embassy bombings in Africa.
(SFEC, 8/8/99, p.A15)(SSFC, 9/30/01, p.A14)
1998 Jun, In Guinea-Bissau a
rebellion was triggered by the dismissal of Brigadier Ansumane Mane.
The top military commander was dismissed for allegedly running guns to
separatist fighters in Senegal.
(SFC, 2/2/99, p.A9)
1998 Jun, In Nicaragua a group of
ex-Sandinistas called the Revolutionary Armed Forces ambushed a
government army patrol in Matagalpa and killed 4 soldiers.
(SFC, 7/27/98, p.A8)
1998 Jun, In South Africa four
bombings occurred in the center of Cape Town and attributed to rival
gangs.
(SFEC, 7/5/98, p.T8)
1998 Jun, In Sri Lanka Pres.
Kumaratunga ordered censorship on war reporting.
(SFC, 8/8/98, p.B1)
1998 Jun, In Tibet 5 nuns at the
Drapchi prison committed suicide in the face of Chinese torture. The
nuns had been arrested for protesting China’s occupation of Tibet. They
were tortured for refusing to sing patriotic songs.
(SFC, 10/6/00, p.A18)
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