Timeline 1999 November
Return to home
1999 Nov 1, Pres.
Clinton met with Middle East leaders in Oslo.
(SFC, 11/1/99, p.A13)
1999 Nov 1, Coast Guard crews
searching for clues in the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990, which claimed
217 lives, found the first large piece of wreckage off the New England
coast.
(AP, 11/1/00)
1999 Nov 1, Former Chicago Bear
NFL star Walter Payton died at age 45 from a rare cancer of the bile
duct. He made the NFL Hall of Fame in 1993.
(SFC, 11/2/99, p.A1,15)
1999 Nov 1, A new Beijing Int’l.
Airport opened.
(Hem, 8/02, p.34)
1999 Nov 1, In China a 5.6
earthquake shook Shanxi and Hebei provinces and some 20,000 people were
left homeless.
(SFC, 11/13/99, p.D8)
1999 Nov 1, In Bad Reichenhall,
Germany, a teenage gunman and his sister were found dead after
commandos stormed the house from which the boy had shot and killed 2
pedestrians and injured 8 others.
(SFC, 11/2/99, p.A14)
1999 Nov 1, In Hong Kong Disney
announced a new theme park. Hong Kong will put up $2.88 billion and
have a 57% stake.
(SFC, 11/2/99, p.A14)
1999 Nov 1, In Lebanon Israeli
warplanes fired some 2 dozen missiles at 6 Hezbollah targets in Iqlim
al-Tuffah.
(SFC, 11/2/99, p.A14)
1999 Nov 1, Mexico increased its
border deposit for US registered vehicles from $11 to as much as $800
for new models for travel beyond the 15-mile border zone.
(SFC, 10/30/99, p.A1)
1999 Nov 1, In Panama the US
handed over Howard Air Force Base, Fort Kobbe and the Farfan
residential zone.
(SFC, 11/2/99, p.A14)
1999 Nov 2, Pres. Clinton met with
Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat in Oslo to revitalize the Middle
East peace process.
(SFC, 11/3/99, p.A12)
1999 Nov 2, Republicans pushed the
year’s last and biggest spending bill through Congress toward a sure
veto by President Clinton.
(AP, 11/2/00)
1999 Nov 2, In San Francisco
elections Willie Brown led with 38.7% of the vote and Supervisor Tom
Ammiano came in 2nd with 25.4%. Terence Hallinan led over Bill Fazio. A
Dec 14 runoff was scheduled for both mayor and district attorney. SF
voters backed Proposition F, a ban on ATM surcharges, and the banks
quickly sued to keep the fees. The $299 million bond measure to rebuild
Laguna Honda passed and seismic retrofit for the Central Freeway (Prop
J) was undetermined as was the plan to tear down the Central Freeway
(Prop I). Voters approved an ordnance making it harder for property
owners to evict tenants (Prop G). In 2003 a judge weakened the Prop G
ordnance. Voters passed a proposition to keep the Transbay Terminal
where it is and make sure that Caltrain is extended into the terminal’s
basement.
(SFC, 11/3/99, p.A1)(SFC, 11/4/99, p.A1,21)(SFC,
11/5/99, p.A1,18)(SFC, 5/3/03, p.A17)(SFC, 8/7/07, p.A6)
1999 Nov 2, In Honolulu, Hawaii,
Xerox repairman Byran Uyesugi (40) killed 7 people at Xerox company
offices. There was no apparent motive. He was convicted of 1st degree
murder in 2000 and sentenced to life in prison.
(SFC, 11/3/99, p.A1,14)(SFC, 6/13/00, p.A11)(AP,
11/2/00)
1999 Nov 2, Spanish Judge Baltasar
Garzon named former Argentine Pres. Leopoldo Galtieri in an indictment
along with 95 other military officers, who presided over the "Dirty
War" from 1976-1983.
(SFC, 11/3/99, p.C3)
1999 Nov 2, In France the
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the finance minister, resigned in a corruption
scandal.
(SFC, 11/3/99, p.C3)
1999 Nov 2, In India the death
toll mounted from the cyclone in Orissa state with disease, lawlessness
and vandalism on the rise. There was no power in the capital of
Bhubaneswar and Cuttack was in ruins.
(SFC, 11/3/99, p.C2)
1999 Nov 2, In Indonesia some
10,000 people in Aceh province took to the streets in Meulaboh calling
for independence.
(SFC, 11/3/99, p.C5)
1999 Nov 2, In southeastern Iraq a
missile hit the Habib camp of the dissident Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MEK)
near the border. At least 5 people were killed and Iran was blamed for
the attack.
(SFC, 11/4/99, p.A18)
1999 Nov 2, Israel resumed attacks
against Lebanon with 5 missiles at mountain targets at Jabal al-Daher.
(SFC, 11/3/99, p.C5)
1999 Nov 2, In Panama suspected
Colombian rebels hijacked 2 helicopters.
(SFC, 11/3/99, p.C2)
1999 Nov 2, In Romania dozens of
orphaned and homeless teenagers protested and urged the government to
provide jobs and housing.
(SFC, 11/3/99, p.C5)
1999 Nov 3, In Laramie, Wyoming,
Aaron McKinney (22) was convicted of murder in the October 6-7, 1998,
beating of gay Wyoming college student Matthew Shepard (21). Shepard
died on October 12, 1998, at Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins,
Colorado. McKinney and Russell Henderson, who pleaded guilty to
kidnapping and murder, were sentenced to life in prison. McKinney had
faced the possibility of being sentenced to death by lethal injection.
A deal was reached after Shepard’s parents agreed to accept two life
terms in prison for their son’s killer.
(AP,
11/3/00)(www.cnn.com/US/9911/03/gay.attack.verdict.01/)
1999 Nov 3, In Seattle a gunman
killed 2 men, wounded 2 others at the Northlake Shipyard building and
then escaped into a nearby residential area.
(SFC, 11/4/99, p.A3)
1999 Nov 3, In Guatemala 2
campaigners for Alfonso Portillo Cabrera were killed by gunmen.
(SFC, 11/4/99, p.A18)
1999 Nov 3, Kashmiri guerrillas
killed an army major and 5 others at Indian army headquarters in
Srinagar.
(SFC, 11/4/99, p.A18)
1999 Nov 3, In Vietnam storms
caused massive flooding in Quang Nam province and 150,000 homes were
under water. The Citadel at Hue was under 10 feet of water.
(SFC, 11/4/99, p.A18)
1999 Nov 3, In Zambia Wazi Kaunda
(47), the son of Kenneth Kaunda, was shot and killed by 4 gunmen at his
front gate in Lusaka. Kaunda was a senior official in the opposition
National Independence Party.
(SFC, 11/5/99, p.A17)
1999 Nov 4, Aaron McKinney, who
beat gay college student Matthew Shepard and left him to die on the
Wyoming prairie, avoided the death penalty by agreeing to serve life in
prison without parole and promising never to appeal his conviction.
(AP, 11/4/00)
1999 Nov 4, In Indonesia over
50,000 people demonstrated for independence in Aceh province. The
population in Aceh numbered 4.3 million.
(SFC, 11/5/99, p.A16)
1999 Nov 4, Some ten-thousand
Iranian students rallied outside the former US Embassy in Tehran to
mark the 20th anniversary of its seizure by Islamic militants.
(AP, 11/4/00)
1999 Nov 4, Russia allowed
thousands of refugees to flee Chechnya and the crossing at the
Sleptsovskaya border reached 500 people per hour.
(SFC, 11/5/99, p.D3)
1999 Nov 4, At Empangeni, South
Africa, rival minivan taxi operators waged a gunbattle that left at
least 10 people dead and 24 wounded.
(SFC, 11/5/99, p.A17)
1999 Nov 4, In Venezuela the
Constitutional Assembly approved a 6 year presidential term and allowed
reelection.
(SFC, 11/5/99, p.A17)
1999 Nov 4, The death toll from
flooding in Vietnam rose to 225.
(SFC, 11/5/99, p.A17)
1999 Nov 5, US District Judge
Thomas Penfield Jackson ruled in a finding of fact that Microsoft Corp.
is a monopoly and has wielded its power to stifle competition. He said
the software giant’s aggressive actions were "stifling innovation" and
hurting consumers.
(SFC, 11/6/99, p.A1)(AP, 11/5/00)
1999 Nov 5, The US Office of the
Comptroller of the Currency filed a friend-of-the-court brief that
supported the argument that local governments cannot bar ATM fees
levied by nationally chartered banks.
(SFC, 11/6/99, p.A1)
1999 Nov 5, Astronomers detected a
gas planet near the star called HD 209458, near 51 Pegasi, 153
light-years away. In 2001 scientists said the atmosphere was loaded
with sodium.
(SFC, 11/13/99, p.A2)(SFC, 11/28/01, p.A2)
1999 Nov 5, In New Delhi Pope
John Paul II began a 3 day visit to India, his first visit there in 13
years.
(SFC, 11/5/99, p.A15)(WSJ, 11/5/99, p.A1)(AP,
11/5/00)
1999 Nov 5, In Kosovo a rail
bridge was bombed in Kosovska Mitrovica just hours before a Serbian
passenger train was to pass across.
(SFEC, 11/7/99, p.A22)
1999 Nov 6, In Australia elections
to decide on severance of ties with the royal family were scheduled.
54.5% voted against a republic in which the head of state would be
elected by Parliament.
(SFC, 11/2/99, p.A12)(SFEC, 11/7/99, p.A21)
1999 Nov 6, During his visit to
India, Pope John Paul the Second praised Christian missionaries and
exhorted his bishops to spread the Christian message across Asia.
(AP, 11/6/00)
1999 Nov 6, In Pakistan a
10-member civilian cabinet, named by Gen. Musharraf, formally took
office.
(SFEC, 11/7/99, p.A24)
1999 Nov 6, Rwanda suspended
cooperation with a UN tribunal following a decision (Nov 3) by the
Int'l. Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda to release Jean-Bosco Barayagwiza,
a former Foreign Ministry official, who was held in Tanzania.
(SFEC, 11/7/99, p.A30)
1999 Nov 6, In Tajikistan secular
Pres. Emomali Rakhmonov a faced Muslim challenger.
(SFEC, 11/7/99, p.A29)
1999 Nov 7, Tiger Woods became the
first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win four straight tournaments.
(AP, 11/7/00)
1999 Nov 7, Joseph Chebet of Kenya
won the NY Marathon in 2 hrs, 9 min. and 14 sec. Adriana Fernandez of
Mexico won for the women in 2:25:06.
(WSJ, 11/8/99, p.A1)
1999 Nov 7, Relatives of the
victims of EgyptAir Flight 990 gathered in Newport, Rhode Island, to
bid them a wrenching farewell, a week after the plane crashed into the
Atlantic Ocean.
(AP, 11/7/00)
1999 Nov 7, In Chechnya Russian
soldiers dislodged rebels in Bamut. 38 civilians were reported killed
along with 28 Chechen fighters.
(SFC, 11/8/99, p.C14)
1999 Nov 7, In Athens, Greece, a
bomb exploded outside a Levi's jeans store. This was the 5th recent
attack and was thought to be linked to an upcoming Nov 13 visit by
Pres. Clinton.
(SFC, 11/8/99, p.C14)
1999 Nov 7, In Guatemala Alfonso
Portillo of the Guatemalan Republican Front (FRG) was in a close race
for the presidency with Oscar Berger of the governing National
Advancement (PAN). With 97.5% counted Portillo had 47.8% of the vote
vs. 30.3% for Berger. The FRG won 61 0f the 110-seat Congress.
(SFC, 11/8/99, p.A10)(SFC, 11/9/99, p.A13)(SFC,
11/11/99, p.A22)
1999 Nov 7, In Aceh, Indonesia,
500,000 people marched for independence.
(SFC, 11/8/99, p.A14)
1999 Nov 7, In Netanya, Israel, 3
pipe bombs exploded and 33 people were wounded on the eve of
Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
(SFC, 11/8/99, p.A14)
1999 Nov 7, In Mexico Francisco
Labastida, the PRI candidate, led the presidential primary elections
far ahead of Roberto Madrazo. Labastida (57) won 272 of the 300
districts.
(SFC, 11/8/99, p.A1)(SFC, 11/9/99, p.A12)
1999 Nov 7, In Sri Lanka the
military command was shuffled after Tamil Tigers overran 10 strategic
camps earlier in the week. Hundreds of soldiers were dead or missing.
(SFC, 11/8/99, p.C14)
1999 Nov 7, Continued heavy rain
in central Vietnam caused more flooding and the death toll rose to over
450.
(SFC, 11/8/99, p.A12)
1999 Nov 8, President Clinton
participated in a "virtual town hall meeting" on the Internet,
answering questions from pre-screened online users.
(AP, 11/8/00)
1999 Nov 8, Former President Bush
was honored in Germany for his role in the fall of the Berlin Wall ten
years earlier.
(AP, 11/8/00)
1999 Nov 8, MIT received a $100
million gift from software billionaire Kenan Sahin.
(WSJ, 11/9/99, p.A1)
1999 Nov 8, Lester Bowie (58),
jazz trumpeter and founder of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, died of
liver cancer.
(WSJ, 11/10/99, p.A1)
1999 Nov 8, In Canada employers in
BC locked out 2,000 waterfront workers and disrupted trade valued at
$60 million per day.
(WSJ, 11/9/99, p.A1)
1999 Nov 8, It was reported that 2
Congo rebel leaders were resuming their war on Kabila.
(WSJ, 11/8/99, p.A1)
1999 Nov 8, In Georgia Pope John
Paul II stopped to "build new bridges" with the Orthodox Church and
Patriarch Ilia II.
(SFC, 11/9/99, p.A14)
1999 Nov 8, Israeli and
Palestinian negotiators launched landmark talks, giving themselves an
ambitious 100-day deadline to craft the broad outlines of a peace
agreement.
(AP, 11/8/00)
1999 Nov 9, The flight data
recorder from EgyptAir Flight 990 was recovered from the Atlantic Ocean
and shipped to a National Transportation Safety Board laboratory in
Washington.
(AP, 11/9/00)
1999 Nov 9, In Congo government
forces bombed Nkembe. Rebel spokesman Kien-Kiey Mulumba said he would
no longer honor the peace accord after the government killed 100
civilians in 4 days of fighting.
(SFC, 11/10/99, p.A14)(SFC, 11/12/99, p.D2)
1999 Nov 9, With fireworks,
concerts and a huge party at the landmark Brandenburg Gate, Germany
celebrated the tenth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
(AP, 11/9/00)
1999 Nov 9, In northern Malaysia
Carolyn Janice Ahmad (35) was allegedly killed as a sacrifice to obtain
lottery tips from the Hindu goddess Kali. Her skeletal remains were
discovered in a shallow grave at an oil palm plantation in June 2001.
In 2004 a court acquitted 3 Malaysians charged with killing the
American woman.
(AP, 8/16/04)
1999 Nov 9, In Mexico a TAESA DC-9
jet exploded in flight near Uruapan and all 18 people onboard were
killed.
(SFC, 11/10/99, p.A14)
1999 Nov 9, Russia’s PM Vladimir
Putin named Dmitry Medvedev first deputy chief of staff to prime
minister.
(WSJ, 2/28/08, p.A14)
1999 Nov 9, In Sri Lanka Pres.
Chandrika Kumaratunga said 4,000 people were driven from their homes by
the rebels and that the military had suffered 101 dead and 743 wounded.
(SFC, 11/10/99, p.A14)
1999 Nov 9, In Tanzania Mikaeli
Muhimana, an ex-Rwandan official in Kibuye, was arrested in Dar es
Salaam for his role in the 1994 slaughter of Tutsis.
(SFC, 11/10/99, p.A13)
1999 Nov 10, President Clinton
decided to delay and shorten a trip to Greece in reaction to growing
security concerns and the prospect of violent anti-American
demonstrations.
(AP, 11/10/00)
1999 Nov 10, The California Budget
Project reported that raising a family in the Bay Area cost $53,736.
The Bay Area per-capita income was $38,300 and the federal poverty
level was $16,700.
(SFC, 11/10/99, p.A1)
1999 Nov 10, In Flint, Michigan, a
boiler exploded at the Clara Barton Convalescence Center. 5 people were
killed and over 20 injured.
(SFC, 11/12/99, p.A9)
1999 Nov 10, Investigators said
the flight data recorder from EgyptAir Flight 990 showed things were
normal until the autopilot mysteriously disconnected and the Boeing 767
began what appeared to be a controlled descent.
(AP, 11/10/00)
1999 Nov 10, In Morocco King
Mohammed VI dismissed Driss Basri, the minister of interior and
communications.
(SFC, 11/17/99, p.B3)
1999 Nov 10, In Serbia allies of
Pres. Milosevic passed new laws aimed at curbing the authority of local
governments.
(SFC, 11/11/99, p.A18)
1999 Nov 11, The computer virus
dubbed Bubbleboy was reported to spread through electronic mail without
attachments.
(WSJ, 11/11/99, p.A1)
1999 Nov 11, Argentine journalist
Jacobo Timerman died in Buenos Aires at age 76.
(AP, 11/11/00)
1999 Nov 11, A car bomb ripped
through a Bogota commercial district, killing at least eight people,
but President Andres Pastrana defiantly signed extradition orders for
three suspected drug traffickers.
(SFC, 11/12/99, p.A16)(WSJ, 11/12/99, p.A1)(AP,
11/11/00)
1999 Nov 11, In Britain the House
of Lords voted to strip hereditary peers of their 700-year-old right to
sit in Parliament's Upper House. 92 peers still kept seats under a
compromise.
(WSJ, 11/12/99, p.A1)
1999 Nov 11, In India a bomb
exploded on a passenger train traveling from Jammu to New Delhi and 14
people were killed with 50 injured.
(SFC, 11/12/99, p.D2)
1999 Nov 11, In Foggia, Italy, a
6-story apartment building collapsed from structural flaws and over 50
people were feared dead. An investigation blamed the collapse on cheap
materials and slipshod construction.
(SFC, 11/12/99, p.A16)(AP, 11/11/00)
1999 Nov 11, In Malaysia Prime
Minister Mahathir dissolved parliament and planned early elections.
(SFC, 11/11/99, p.A24)
1999 Nov 11, Javed Iqbal (40)
killed his 87th victim, Mohammad Imran (15). Iqbal dissolved the bodies
in vats of chemicals and left photos and notes that described his
victims. The story became public in Dec. when his killings reached 100
and he made his story public. Iqbal surrendered in Lahore, Pakistan, on
Dec 30. He was found strangled with bed sheets in his cell on Oct 7,
2001.
(SFC, 12/7/99, p.B2)(WSJ, 12/31/99, p.A1)(WSJ,
10/10/01, p.A1)
1999 Nov 12, Pres. Clinton signed
a measure knocking down Depression-era barriers and allowing banks,
investment firms and insurance companies to sell each other’s products.
Clinton signed into law the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which repealed the
Glass-Steagall Act and strengthened the separation of commerce and
financial services.
(SFC, 11/13/99, p.D1)(Econ, 9/3/05, p.65)
1999 Nov 12, In Chechnya Russian
forces took control of Gudermes and proposed to move the capital there
from Grozny.
(SFC, 11/13/99, p.A10)
1999 Nov 12, In Pakistan several
explosions near American structures struck in downtown Islamabad and
injured 6 people. It was speculated that Taliban supporters were linked
to the blasts.
(SFC, 11/12/99, p.D2)(SFC, 11/13/99, p.A10)
1999 Nov 12, In Serbia a World
Food Program flight from Rome crashed in northern Kosovo and all 24
aboard were killed. The plane was a propeller-driven ATR-42.
(SFC, 11/13/99, p.A10)
1999 Nov 12, In Turkey a 7.2 [7.1]
earthquake was centered at Duzce. At least 834 people were killed and
3000 injured. Damage from the last 2 quakes was later estimated at
$10-25 billion.
(SFC, 11/13/99, p.A1)(SFEC, 11/14/99, p.A1)(SFC,
11/15/99, p.A14)(WSJ, 11/17/99, p.A1)(SFC, 4/28/00, p.D6)(AP, 11/12/00)
1999 Nov 13, Lennox Lewis became
the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, winning a unanimous
decision over Evander Holyfield in Las Vegas.
(AP, 11/13/00)
1999 Nov 13, The Navy recovered
the cockpit voice recorder from EgyptAir Flight 990, which crashed into
the Atlantic Ocean October 31st with the loss of all 217 people aboard.
(AP, 11/13/00)
1999 Nov 13, Donald Mills, last
surviving member of the singing Mills Brothers, died in Los Angeles at
age 84.
(AP, 11/13/00)
1999 Nov 13, Heavy rains in
southeastern France caused mudslides that left at least 22 people dead
in the Tarn Aude, Eastern Pyranees and Herault regions.
(SFEC, 11/14/99, p.A15)
1999 Nov 13, In Athens, Greece,
thousands protested an upcoming visit by Pres. Clinton whose planned
visit was shortened to 1 day.
(SFEC, 11/14/99, p.A22)
1999 Nov 13, Peru and Chile signed
an agreement to end a 120-year territorial dispute. Peru was granted
the exclusive use of a pier in the Chilean port of Arica.
(SFEC, 11/14/99, p.A22)
1999 Nov 14, Democrat Bill Bradley
took center court at New York’s Madison Square Garden for a $1.5
million presidential campaign fund-raiser that featured his old Knick
teammates and former basketball rivals.
(AP, 11/14/00)
1999 Nov 14, Pres. Clinton flew to
Turkey for talks on Cyprus.
(SFC, 11/15/99, p.A14)
1999 Nov 14, UN sanctions against
Afghanistan went into effect following the Taliban refusal to turn over
Osama bin Laden. Int'l. flights were banned and overseas assets were
frozen.
(SFEC, 11/14/99, p.A14)
1999 Nov 14, In Columbia the 3rd
bomb blast in a week injured a worker at El Tiempo newspaper in Cali.
(SFC, 11/16/99, p.E4)
1999 Nov 14, In Macedonia Boris
Trajkovsky (43) of the right centrist VMRO DPMNE party was the winner
in a runoff election with 53% of the vote. Some 35,000 people later
protested the results.
(SFC, 11/19/99, p.D2)
1999 Nov 14, Pakistan was
suspended from the Commonwealth of former British-ruled nations over
the military regime's refusal to set a timeline for elections.
(WSJ, 11/15/99, p.A1)
1999 Nov 14, In the Philippines
Moro Islamic Liberation Front rebels clashed with soldiers on Mindanao
and 2 people were killed in Tibao.
(SFC, 11/15/99, p.A19)
1999 cNov 14, In Sri Lanka a bomb
injured 34 people at an opposition rally for Ranil Wickremesinghe.
(WSJ, 11/15/99, p.A1)
1999 Nov 14, In Ukraine Pres.
Kuchma won a 2nd term by a 56% margin over Petro Symonenko with 97% of
the ballots counted.
(SFC, 11/15/99, p.A17)
1999 Nov 15, The Clinton
administration claimed victory in a seven-year struggle to persuade
Congress to pay nearly $1 billion in back dues to the United Nations,
saying restrictions in the deal on backing for international family
planning would have no practical effect.
(AP, 11/15/00)
1999 Nov 15, A federal judge
blocked the San Francisco voter approved ATM initiative to prohibit
banks from charging fees to non-customers.
(SFC, 11/16/99, p.A1)
1999 Nov 15, In Afghanistan
protestors burned a UN office to the ground in anger over sanctions.
(SFC, 11/16/99, p.A12)
1999 Nov 15, In Angola the armed
forces reported that Jonas Savimbi and his UNITA forces were dislodged
from their highland strongholds.
(SFC, 11/17/99, p.A18)
1999 Nov 15, In Beijing, China, US
and Chinese trade negotiators agreed to a pact for China to join the
WTO. Charlene Barshefsky and Shi Guangsheng reached a deal that was
similar to the one the US rejected in April. Details of the plan were
made public Mar 14, 2000.
(WSJ, 11/16/99, p.A1,2)(SFC, 3/15/00, p.A3)
1999 Nov 15, In India at least 18
people were reported killed in Panchabatin village in the state of
Tripura by separatist guerrillas.
(SFC, 11/16/99, p.E4)
1999 Nov 15, In Japan a $95
million MTSAT satellite on an H-2 rocket was aborted after takeoff from
the Tanegashima Space Center. A launch in Feb. had also failed.
(SFC, 11/16/99, p.E4)
1999 Nov 15, In Nigeria fighting
began in the city of Warri in a dispute over the distribution of pipes
donated by Dutch Oil. At least 40 people were killed.
(SFC, 11/19/99, p.D2)
1999 Nov 15, In Russia the finance
minister announced that he would request the Western commercial banks
to cancel $12 billion in Soviet-era debt and reschedule another $18
billion in exchange.
(SFC, 11/16/99, p.E4)
1999 Nov 15, In Turkey Pres.
Clinton addressed the parliament and stressed his support for candidate
membership status to the EU.
(SFC, 11/16/99, p.A12)
1999 Nov 16, The US Federal
Reserve raised interest rates by .25%.
(SFC, 11/17/99, p.A1)
1999 Nov 16, California sued the
federal government to block extensions on 36 undeveloped offshore oil
leases signed by the Clinton administration Nov 12.
(SFC, 11/17/99, p.A3)
1999 Nov 16, Nathaniel Abraham, at
13 one of the youngest murder defendants in US history, was convicted
in Pontiac, Michigan, of second-degree murder for shooting a stranger
outside a convenience store with a rifle when he was eleven. Nathaniel
was sentenced to juvenile detention. He will be released Jan. 13, 2007,
when he turns 21.
(AP, 11/16/04)
1999 Nov 16, Genentech agreed to
settle a 10-year patent infringement dispute with the University of
California for $200 million. $150 million was to be in cash and $50
million for the construction of a research campus in SF.
(SFC, 11/17/99, p.C1)
1999 Nov 16, WSJ ran an article on
the nightmare of recycling plastic. PET and HDPE plastics were
discussed.
(WSJ, 11/16/99, p.B1)
1999 Nov 16, UN Sec. Gen'l. Kofi
Annan, in China for a 4-day visit, said he had a "better understanding"
of the government crackdown on the Falun Gong.
(SFC, 11/17/99, p.A17)
1999 Nov 16, A 2-day
Ibero-American summit for heads of state from Latin America, Spain and
Portugal met in Havana. Int'l. finance and the effects of economic
globalization on developing countries was the central theme. The 18
heads of state signed a Havana Declaration.
(SFEC, 11/14/99, p.A22)(SFC, 11/17/99, p.A20)
1999 Nov 17, Ha Jin, a former
member of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, won the US National
Book Award for fiction for his novel "Waiting." John W. Dower won the
nonfiction category for "Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World
War II."
(SFC, 11/18/99, p.E3)
1999 Nov 17, Officials close to
the investigation into the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990 said a relief
co-pilot alone in the cockpit had said, in Arabic: "I made my decision
now; I put my faith in God’s hands" just before the jetliner began its
fatal plunge. In Egypt, relatives angrily rejected any notion that
relief co-pilot Gameel el-Batouty had deliberately crashed the plane.
(AP, 11/17/00)
1999 Nov 17, Hurricane Lenny hit
the Virgin Islands with 150 mph winds with most of the force over St.
Croix.
(SFC, 11/18/99, p.A3)
1999 Nov 17, Azerbaijan, Georgia,
Turkey agreed to a US-backed plan for a Caspian oil pipeline from Baku
to Ceyhan to be completed in 2004. The 1st shipment was made in 2006.
(SFC, 11/18/99, p.C6)(AFP, 6/4/06)
1999 Nov 17, In Greece over 10,000
people protested against the arrival of Pres. Clinton.
(SFC, 11/18/99, p.A17)
1999 Nov 17, In Northern Ireland
the IRA said that it would back the peace agreement and agreed to
appoint a go-between to the commission charged with disarming the
paramilitaries.
(SFC, 11/18/99, p.A16)
1999 Nov 17, In Pakistan over 20
of the country's wealthiest and most powerful people were arrested for
corruption. A law was drawn up at 2 a.m. to give the government the
right to prosecute any former official for suspected corruption back to
1985.
(SFC, 11/18/99, p.A20)
1999 Nov 18, Pres. Clinton at a
conference in Turkey of the Organization for Security and Cooperation
in Europe (OSCE) urged Pres. Yeltsin to stop the bombing and rocket
attacks in Chechnya.
(SFC, 11/19/99, p.A1)
1999 Nov 18, US Congress approved
a $385 billion compromise spending bill. It included funds to pay UN
dues and restored $12 billion worth of cuts in the Medicare program.
(SFC, 11/19/99, p.A3)
1999 Nov 18, A jury in Jasper,
Texas, convicted Shawn Allen Berry of murder for his role in the
dragging death of James Byrd Junior, but spared him the death penalty.
(AP, 11/18/00)
1999 Nov 18, The US Sacagawea
"Golden Dollar" coin went into full production.
(WSJ, 11/19/99, p.C15)
1999 Nov 18, In College Station,
Texas, a pyramid of logs for a traditional football bonfire collapsed
and killed 11 students of Texas A&M University. One of 28 injured
died the next day.
(SFC, 11/19/99, p.A1)
1999 Nov 18, Paul Bowles, author
and composer, died in Tangiers at age 88. His written work included the
novel "The Sheltering Sky," which was made into a 1990 film. He also
wrote "Let It Come Down," "The Spider's House" and "Up Above the
World." His music included a "Sonata for Oboe and Clarinet."
(SFC, 11/19/99, p.D8)(WSJ, 11/23/99, p.A22)
1999 Nov 18, In Afghanistan
Taliban fighter planes bombed the opposition held Panjshir Valley and
at least 13 people were killed and 64 wounded.
(SFC, 11/19/99, p.D2)
1999 Nov 18, In Brazil assailants
broke into a house in Sao Vicente and shot 8 people to death, 2 men, 3
boys and 3 women.
(SFC, 11/19/99, p.A21)
1999 Nov 18, The UN high
commissioner for refugees, Sadako Ogata, visited Chechen refugee camps
in Ingushetia. Some 215,000 refugees had fled Russian attacks.
(SFC, 11/19/99, p.A18)
1999 Nov 18, In the southern
Philippines fighting between government troops and separatist rebels
left at least 32 dead.
(SFC, 11/19/99, p.D2)
1999 Nov 19, In Greece some 10,000
people demonstrated as Pres. Clinton rode through Athens under tight
security and proclaimed a "profound and enduring friendship." The Greek
government ran into a storm of opposition and media criticism for
failing to prevent a rampage through Athens by leftists hostile to
visiting President Clinton.
(SFC, 11/20/99, p.A1)(Excite, 11/20/99)(AP, 11/19/00)
1999 Nov 19, In Bolivia a 5-day
Conference of American Armies ended. Discussions centered on new roles
for the Latin armies such as defending democracy, fighting poverty and
eradicating drug smuggling.
(SFC, 11/20/99, p.C1)
1999 Nov 19, In Germany officials
announced an amnesty program for some 20,000 foreigners seeking asylum.
A cut off date of Jul 1, 1993 was set for eligible families.
(SFC, 11/20/99, p.A12)
1999 Nov 19, In Ramallah, West
Bank (Reuters), Israeli security forces fired tear gas and
rubber-coated metal bullets at stone-throwing Palestinians demanding
the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israel's jails.
(Excite, 11/20/99)
1999 Nov 19, In Hyderabad, India,
health officials said an outbreak of Japanese encephalitis has killed
133 people, all of them children, in the southern Indian state of
Andhra Pradesh.
(Reuters, 11/20/99)
1999 Nov 19, In Lahore, Pakistan,
an explosion ripped through a market in Lahore, the capital of Punjab
province, killing at least three people and injuring 12.
(Reuters, 11/20/99)
1999 Nov 19, In Turkey the
54-nation summit of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe (OSCE) closed with a treaty that restricted the number of tanks,
planes and artillery of every army across Europe.
(SFC, 11/20/99, p.A10)
1999 Nov 19, It was reported that
the work week was being cut from 48 to 40 hours per week in Vietnam.
(SFC, 11/19/99, p.A19)
1999 Nov 20, A day after violent
anti-American protests in Greece, President Clinton sought to heal old
wounds by acknowledging the United States had failed its "obligation to
support democracy" when it backed Greek’s harsh military junta during
the Cold War.
(AP, 11/20/00)
1999 Nov 20, In Algeria some 20
people were killed in a clash between guerrillas and security forces
south of Algiers.
(SFC, 11/23/99, p.A15)
1999 Nov 20, China completed its
first unmanned test of a spacecraft. The Shenzhou 1, or "Divine
Vessel," was launched at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Gansu
province.
(SFEC, 11/21/99, p.A1)
1999 Nov 21, President Clinton,
speaking at a conference in Florence, Italy, called on prosperous
nations to spread global wealth by helping poor countries with Internet
hookups, cell phones, debt relief and small loans.
(AP, 11/21/00)
1999 Nov 21, The Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation announced a $26 million donation to UNICEF for the
elimination of tetanus.
(SFEC, 11/21/99, p.A2)
1999 Nov 21, Some 3,000 of 8,000
demonstrators crossed onto the Fort Benning army base in Georgia to
protest against the School of the Americas and the 10 year anniversary
of Jesuit priests killed in El Salvador by soldiers trained at the
school.
(SFC, 11/22/99, p.A2)
1999 Nov 21, Quentin Crisp (born
as Denis Pratt), writer, performer and raconteur, died in Manchester,
England, at age 90. His books included "The Naked Civil Servant," "How
to Become a Virgin" and "New York Diaries."
(SFC, 11/22/99, p.C4)
1999 Nov 21, Afghanistan and Iran
resumed trade following recently imposed UN restrictions on Afghanistan.
(SFC, 11/22/99, p.A14)
1999 Nov 21, In Chechnya some
5,000 rebels barricaded themselves in Grozny in preparation for a
Russian offensive.
(SFC, 11/22/99, p.A12)
1999 Nov 21, In Colombia Jaime
Orlando Lara (30) was extradited to the US for smuggling heroine to the
US. He was the first drug offender to be extradited since 1990.
(SFC, 11/22/99, p.A12)
1999 Nov 21, In Jordan King
Abdullah pardoned 25 Hamas members and expelled 4 of them to Qatar.
(SFC, 11/22/99, p.A13)
1999 Nov 21, In South Korea
thousands of workers gathered in Seoul and demanded a reduction of the
workweek from 44 to 40 hours. They also protested government plans to
privatize state-run power, gas and financial firms.
(SFC, 11/22/99, p.A13)
1999 Nov 22, During a visit to the
former communist country of Bulgaria, President Clinton promised tens
of thousands of cheering Bulgarians in Sofia that "you too shall
overcome" in their difficult struggle for democracy and prosperity.
(SFC, 11/23/99, p.A14)(AP,
11/22/00)
1999 Nov 22, In Algeria Abdelkader
Hachani (43), a leader of the Islamic Salvation Front who spoke for
peace and reconciliation, was assassinated in Algiers.
(SFC, 11/23/99, p.A15)
1999 Nov 22, In Japan a T-33 jet
crashed and killed 2 crewmen. The crash severed a 275,000-volt power
line and some 800,000 homes lost power in the Tokyo area.
(SFC, 11/23/99, p.A16)
1999 Nov 22, In Kazakstan
authorities reported that they had detained 22 people, all members of a
Russian nationalist group called Rus, on suspicion of planning a
secessionist uprising.
(SFC, 11/23/99, p.A16)
1999 Nov 22, In Nigeria officials
reported that 43 people had been killed in the Niger Delta including 8
soldiers after some 2,000 soldiers were sent to restore order in Odi
village in southern Bayelsa state. In 2002 Pres. Obasanjo acknowledged
that he ordered the military operations in Odi that killed an estimated
1000 people.
(SFC, 11/23/99, p.A16)(SFC, 9/12/02, p.A4)
1999 Nov 22, In Tanzania it was
reported that some 500 people per day were fleeing into the country
from Burundi as fighting in Burundi intensified.
(SFC, 11/23/99, p.A16)
1999 Nov 23, Bill Gates announced
his charitable foundation will give $750 million over the next 5 years
to improve the health of young children in underdeveloped nations.
Thereafter the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization was
launched with major funding from the Gates foundation.
(SFC, 11/24/99, p.A2)(WSJ, 12/3/01, p.A1)
1999 Nov 23, In a plea met with
scant applause and silent stares, President Clinton told ethnic
Albanians in Kosovo that "you must try" to forgive Serb neighbors and
stop punishing them for the terror campaign of Slobodan Milosevic.
(SFC, 11/24/99, p.A16)(WSJ, 11/24/99, p.A1)(AP,
11/23/00)
1999 Nov 23, Defense Secretary
William Cohen called for a military-wide review of conduct after a
Pentagon study said up to 75 percent of blacks and other ethnic
minorities reported experiencing racially offensive behavior.
(AP, 11/23/00)
1999 Nov 23, In Congo Mayi-Mayi
tribal fighters, armed mostly with bows and arrows, attacked Ugandan
soldiers near Butembo and some 200 fighters were killed including about
100 Mayi-Mayi.
(SFC, 11/25/99, p.D6)
1999 Nov 23, An agreement between
Georgia and Russia was announced to cut the number of Russian forces
over the next few years.
(SFC, 11/24/99, p.C5)
1999 Nov 23, In Nazareth, Israel,
a cornerstone for a mosque was laid next to the Basilica of the
Annunciation. Shihab el-Din, a 12th-century anti-Crusader cleric, was
believed to be buried there.
(SFC, 11/24/99, p.A16)
1999 Nov 23, In Kuwait the
Parliament rejected a decree giving women the right to vote. Sheik
Jaber Al Ahmed Al Sabah had issued the decree in May. Nearly identical
legislation filed by lawmakers was pending.
(SFC, 11/24/99, p.C2)
1999 Nov 23, Mexico suspended the
operations of Taesa Airline.
(SFC, 11/24/99, p.C5)
1999 Nov 23, In Romania some 5,000
workers of the CNSLR-Fratia trade union gathered in Bucharest to
protest plummeting living standards.
(SFC, 11/24/99, p.C5)
1999 Nov 24, American Indian
farmers filed a $19 billion class-action lawsuit against the
Agriculture Department for an alleged 20-year history of loan-granting
discrimination.
(SFC, 11/25/99, p.A4)
1999 Nov 24, It was reported that
US married couples with children comprised 26% of the population as
opposed to 45% in 1972.
(SFC, 11/24/99, p.A3)
1999 Nov 24, In Britain
authorities intercepted Scud missile components labeled as auto parts
originating in Taiwan and destined for Libya.
(SFC, 1/10/00, p.A10)
1999 Nov 24-1999 Nov 25, The
Chinese ferry, Dashun, with 312 passengers caught fire and sank in
stormy seas on the Bohai Strait near Yantai in Shandong province. Only
22 passengers were rescued.
(SFC, 11/26/99, p.A1)(WSJ, 11/26/99, p.A1)(SFC,
11/27/99, p.A14)(AP, 11/24/00)
1999 Nov 24, In Croatia the
parliament passed a constitutional amendment that declared Pres.
Tudjman (77) to be temporarily disabled and acted to pass power to
Vlatko Pavletic, speaker of parliament.
(SFC, 11/25/99, p.A14)(WSJ, 11/26/99, p.A1)
1999 Nov 24, In Indonesia security
forces deployed hundreds of reinforcements to Aceh province where 6
people were killed over the past week.
(SFC, 11/25/99, p.A16)
1999 Nov 24, Mexico and the EU
agreed on terms for a free trade treaty.
(SFC, 11/25/99, p.A14)
1999 Nov 25, Britain and France
called for a 50-60 thousand European Union rapid reaction force.
(SFC, 11/26/99, p.B2)
1999 Nov 25, In Chechnya Russian
forces fired hundreds of rockets into Grozny in its fiercest assault in
the 3-month offensive.
(SFC, 11/26/99, p.A20)
1999 Nov 25, A 5-year-old boy, one
of 14 escapees from Cuba, was saved by sport fisherman off Florida
while 9 people drowned. The fate of Elian Gonzalez was in question
after his father called for his return to Cuba. This set off an
international custody battle between relatives in Miami and Elian's
father in Cuba.
(SFC, 11/26/99, p.A3)(SFC, 12/1/99, p.A7)(AP,
11/25/06)
1999 Nov 25, In Nigeria at least
27 people were killed at a food market in Kedu when Yoruba traders,
backed by members of the militant Odua People's Congress, clashed with
Hausa counterparts.
(SFC, 11/26/99, p.B4)
1999 Nov 25, In Zurich fireworks
caused light damage to 3 US-related buildings. Responsibility was taken
by a group called Freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal.
(SFC, 11/26/99, p.B4)
1999 Nov 26, In New Jersey a small
plane crashed in Newark. Pilot Itzhak Jacoby (56), his wife Gail and
daughter Atira (13) were killed. 22 people were injured on the ground.
(SFC, 11/27/99, p.A3)
1999 Nov 26, Ashley Montegu,
British-born anthropologist and author, died in New Jersey at age 95.
His over 60 books included "Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of
Race" and "The Natural Superiority of Women."
(SFC, 11/29/99, p.A26)
1999 Nov 26, Leaders of 71
developing countries demanded that the world's poorest countries be
allowed to export goods duty-free to wealthy economies. The ACP group
was meeting in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
(SFC, 11/27/99, p.A14)
1999 Nov 26, In the first speech
ever by a British prime minister to an Irish parliament, Tony Blair
predicted that Northern Ireland’s troubled peace accord would
ultimately work because of a strengthened cooperative spirit uniting
Britain and Ireland.
(AP, 11/26/00)
1999 Nov 26, In Germany the
parliament approved $16 billion in spending cuts for next year that
included cuts in pensions and jobless benefits.
(SFC, 11/27/99, p.A18)
1999 Nov 26, In India, at least
211 people died when two trains collided in the northern state of
Punjab.
(AP, 11/26/00)
1999 Nov 26, A Norwegian passenger
ferry, the catamaran Sleipner, sank at the mouth of the Boemla Fjord.
There were 16 people killed.
(SFC, 11/27/99, p.A14)(AP, 11/26/02)
1999 Nov 26, Russian commanders
announced that they would begin pursuing Chechen guerrilla forces into
their mountain hideouts.
(SFC, 11/27/99, p.A1)
1999 Nov 26, Sudan signed a peace
agreement with the opposition Umma Party in Djibouti to end the 16-year
old civil war.
(SFC, 11/27/99, p.A15)
1999 Nov 26, In Ukraine Reactor
No. 3, the functioning power plant at Chernobyl and site of the 1986
accident, reopened.
(SFC, 11/26/99, p.A22)(SFC, 11/27/99, p.A18)
1999 Nov 27, In Chechnya residents
reported 260 civilian deaths in Grozny since the beginning of Russian
assaults 2 days earlier.
(SFEC, 11/28/99, p.A19)
1999 Nov 27, In Iran Muslim reform
cleric Abdollah Nouri was sentenced to 5 years in jail and 5 years
banishment from political activity due to his demands for an end to
authoritarian rule by the religious hierarchy. His Khordad newspaper
was also ordered closed.
(SFEC, 11/28/99, p.A21)
1999 Nov 27, In New Zealand Helen
Clark, candidate for the Labor Party, claimed victory in general
elections.
(SFEC, 11/28/99, p.A21)
1999 Nov 27, In Northern Ireland
the Ulster Unionist Party approved its leader-centering government with
rivals from Sinn Fein. The Ulster Unionists cleared the way for the
speedy formation of an unprecedented Protestant-Catholic administration.
(SFEC, 11/28/99, p.A1)(AP, 11/27/04)
1999 Nov 27, In the Philippines
the 10-nation ASEAN summit opened.
(SFEC, 11/28/99, p.A10)
1999 Nov 27, In Vanuatu a tsunami
generated by a 7.1 earthquake killed 8 people on Pentecost Island. 2
people were missing and thousands feared injured and homeless. The
quake was centered 54 miles north of the capital Port Vila.
(SFC, 11/27/99, p.A15)(SFEC, 11/28/99, p.A12)
1999 Nov 27, Yemeni military
sources reported that 2 Yemeni soldiers had been killed over the last
few days in border clashes with Saudi Arabia.
(SFEC, 11/28/99, p.A26)
1999 Nov 28, Hsing-Hsing, the
popular giant panda who arrived in America in 1972 as a symbol of
US-China detente, was euthanized at age 28. Officials at Washington’s
National Zoo decided to end the panda’s life because of his
deteriorating health.
(SFC, 11/29/99, p.A2)(AP,
11/28/00)
1999 Nov 28 In Britain a naked
man, Eden Strang (26), with a sword maimed 10 people in St. Andrew's
church at Thornton Heath, a suburb of London, before he was subdued.
Strang was charged with attempted murder.
(SFC, 11/29/99, p.A12)(SFC, 11/30/99, p.D3)
1999 Nov 28, Iraqi media reported
that US warplanes bombed a school in northern Iraq and injured 8 people.
(SFC, 11/29/99, p.A16)
1999 Nov 28, ASEAN leaders in the
Philippines agreed to increase cooperation with Japan, China and South
Korea in an "East Asia Forum" known as ASEAN+3 and to move toward a
common market.
(SFC, 11/29/99, p.A14)
1999 Nov 28, In Palestine security
forces arrested a group of professionals and intellectuals who signed a
petition that accused Yasser Arafat of tyranny, corruption and
injustice.
(SFC, 11/29/99, p.A14)(WSJ, 11/29/99, p.A1)
1999 Nov 28, In South Africa a
pipe bomb injured at least 43 people at St. Elmo's pizza restaurant in
Camps Bay, just south of Cape Town.
(SFC, 11/29/99, p.A12)
1999 Nov 28, In Spain the Basque
ETA announced that it would end a 14-month cease-fire due to inaction
over their call for independence.
(SFC, 11/29/99, p.A12)
1999 Nov 28, In Sri Lanka the
rebels offered talks to end the 16-year civil war as presidential
elections approached.
(WSJ, 11/29/99, p.A1)
1999 Nov 28, Turkey reported that
some 70 Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq had been killed over the last 5
days by Turkish forces in 15 operations.
(SFC, 11/29/99, p.A16)
1999 Nov 28, In Uruguay Jorge
Batlle, candidate for the Colorado Party, won the presidency with a 52%
vote over socialist Tabare Vazquez.
(SFC, 11/29/99, p.A16)
1999 Nov 29, Pres. Clinton signed
the Satellite Television Home Viewers Act which allowed satellite
companies to compete with cable TV. It was part of a $391 billion
spending bill.
(SFC, 11/30/99, p.A1)
19999 Nov 29, The US National
Labor Relations Board ruled that medical interns can unionize and
negotiate wages and hours. This overturned a 1976 precedent.
(WSJ, 11/30/99, p.A1)
1999 Nov 29, In Seattle as many as
50,000 protestors gathered to oppose "the march of corporate
globalization."
(WSJ, 11/30/99, p.A1)
1999 Nov 29, Astronomers reported
finding 6 planets orbiting sun-like stars as close as 65 light years
from Earth.
(SFC, 11/30/99, p.A3)
1999 Nov 29, John Berry (b.1917 as
Jak Szold), American film director, died at age 82.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Berry_(film_director))
1999 Nov 29, Gene Rayburn (81),
game show host, died in Gloucester, Mass.
(AP, 11/29/04)
1999 Nov 29, In Kosovo ethnic
Albanians killed Dragoslav Basic (62) and attacked his wife and
mother-in-law during a night of festivities celebrating Kosovo's first
Flag Day since the ouster of Serbian forces. An ethnic Albanian (27)
was arrested in Dec. for the murder.
(SFC, 11/30/99, p.A14)(SFC, 12/28/99, p.A10)
1999 Nov 29, In Malaysia Prime
Minister Mahathir Mohamad and his ruling National Front coalition won
over a two-thirds majority in Parliament. Wan Azizah Ismail, wife of
Anwar Ibrahim, led the newly formed National Justice Party (Keadilan)
and won her husbands former seat. The Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party
(Pas), whose leaders favor strict Islamic law, won control of Trengganu
state and kept control of Kelantan state.
(SFC, 11/13/99, p.A12)
1999 Nov 29, Authorities worked
with a US FBI team to unearth as many as 100 bodies of disappeared
Mexicans and Americans near Ciudad Juarez. Drug traffickers were
believed responsible. By Dec 7 eight bodies were recovered. Nine bodies
were discovered after 3 weeks and initial estimates were deemed in
error. In 2000 Vicente Carillo Fuentes, believed to be in charge of all
drug trafficking in Ciudad Juarez, was charged with killing 10 people
in the area.
(SFC, 11/30/99, p.A1)(SFC, 12/8/99, p.A16)(SFC,
12/18/99, p.A16)(SFC, 9/15/00, p.A18)
1999 Nov 29, Protestant and
Catholic adversaries formed an extraordinary Northern Ireland
government to bring together every branch of opinion within the
bitterly divided society.
(SFC, 11/30/99, p.A1)(AP,
11/29/00)
1999 Nov 29, In Sudan the rebel
Sudan People's Liberation Army rejected the Djibouti reconciliation
between the government and an exiled opposition group.
(SFC, 11/30/99, p.D3)
1999 Nov 30, The FTC approved the
$81 billion merger of Exxon and Mobil Oil Corps. begun in Dec 1997.
(SFC, 12/1/99, p.A1)
1999 Nov 30, In Seattle riot
police struggled with at least 40,000 protestors who forced the World
Trade Organization to cancel the opening session of a 3-day 135-nation
trade summit meeting. Mayor Paul Schell declared a state of emergency
and a night curfew and Gov. Gary Locke called in some 200 unarmed
National Guard.
(SFC, 12/1/99, p.A1)(AP, 11/30/00)
1999 Nov 30, It was reported that
the EU passed the Electronic Signature Directive, a law that gave legal
status to digital signatures.
(WSJ, 12/1/99, p.A24B15)
1999 Nov 30, In Kuwait the
Parliament rejected a bill that would have allowed women to vote by a
vote of 32-30. Only men over 21, who had held Kuwaiti nationality for
20 years, were allowed to vote or run for office.
(SFC, 12/1/99, p.C5)
1999 Nov, The US FDA started
allowing manufacturers to claim that soy products might cut the risk of
heart disease. In 2006 long term studies cast doubts on the health
benefits of soy-based foods.
(SFC, 1/23/06, p.A2)(SSCM, 8/13/06, p.7)
1999 Nov, Ecuador’s Pres. Mahuad
agreed to a 10-year deal with the US for a $62 million upgrade of the
Air Force base at Manta as an advance post for combating narco traffic.
In 2006 president-elect Rafael Correa said he would not renew the lease.
(SFC, 12/31/00, p.B2)(Econ, 12/23/06, p.52)
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