The August 6, 1995 was a Sunday under the star sign of ♌. It was the 217 day of the year. President of the United States was William J. (Bill) Clinton.
If you were born on this day, you are 30 years old. Your last birthday was on the Wednesday, August 6, 2025, 48 days ago. Your next birthday is on Thursday, August 6, 2026, in 316 days. You have lived for 11,006 days, or about 264,161 hours, or about 15,849,684 minutes, or about 950,981,040 seconds.
6th of August 1995 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on August 6, 1995
Newspaper Decides Not to Fight Singapore Libel Award
Date: 06 August 1995
By William Glaberson
William Glaberson
The International Herald Tribune, which has been assessed $678,000 in damages in Singapore for an opinion article that was held to have libeled officials of the authoritarian Government there, will not fight the court decision, the paper's president says. He also says the paper plans to continue printing and distributing an edition in Singapore despite the July 26 ruling. The fight over the opinion article, published in August 1994, and a second one published by the paper in October has put The International Herald Tribune at the center of an awkward struggle over how far American news organizations will compromise with governments that reject American concepts of a free press.
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SUNDAY, August 6, 1995; SALESMANSHIP: Pushing The Right Buttons
Date: 06 August 1995
Quorum International is a marketing company based in Phoenix that says it has at least 20,000 salespeople peddling personal, home and car alarms to their family and friends. When Quorum reps drop into your living room, the pins on their lapels ask: "Are You Alarmed?" Then they give you a pamphlet that warns "a violent crime involving a personal assault occurs every 19 seconds" and they start pushing products like My Paal (shown above), a personal security alarm geared for the teen-age market. For a warning blast, push the button; to activate a 103-decibel continuous alarm, pull the pin.
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Japanese Stocks Lower
Date: 07 August 1995
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Japanese stocks traded lower today. Midway through the afternoon session, the Nikkei index of 225 issues was down 224.50 points, or 1.34 percent, at 16,516.70. On Friday, the Nikkei lost 152.51 points.
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 07 August 1995
INTERNATIONAL A2-7 SERBIAN REFUGEES FLEE CROATIA Terrified of reprisals at the hands of Croatian Army troops, tens of thousands of Serbs became refugees, streaming out of Croatia for Bosnia and Yugoslavia. A1 CROATIA DECLARES VICTORY Three days after it launched an offensive, the Croatian Army declared victory over rebel Serbs in the region they call Krajina. A6 CUBA ABANDONS HOPE FOR A THAW After months of diplomacy that raised Cuban hopes for a thaw in its relations with Washington, Havana appears to have abandoned hopes for an improvement before the U.S. presidential election. A1 COLOMBIAN DRUG SUSPECT HELD A top leader of the Cali drug cartel was arrested by the Colombian police in what U.S. and Colombian officials describe as a final blow to the world's largest drug-trafficking organization. A3 THE LUCKIEST CITY IN JAPAN Half a century ago, an American bomber was sent to drop the world's first plutonium bomb on the Japanese city of Kokura. But cloud cover prevented the attack, and the aircraft turned toward Nagasaki. A7 CHRISTOPHER IN VIETNAM In a speech in Hanoi, Secretary of State Warren Christopher declared that Vietnam's best hope of achieving prosperity lies in independent courts, a free press and an end to authoritarianism. A7 Art lovers still pay the price of the Uffizi gallery bombing. A2 A veteran of civil rights marches leads Israeli protests. A5 Ste. Anne de Beaupre Journal: Keeping hawkers from shrine. A4 NATIONAL A8-10, B6-8 BUILDING A BUDGET COALITION The White House is starting to look at a budget strategy that would rely on rallying a coalition of Democrats and moderate Republicans around an alternative to the Republican balanced budget plan. A1 DOLE'S WELFARE PLAN CRITICIZED Senator Bob Dole's plan to overhaul the nation's welfare was called too weak by two of his principal rivals for the Republican Presidential nomination: Senator Phil Gramm and Gov. Pete Wilson. A1 BEHIND THE G.O.P. GAINS Congressional Sketchbook: Representative Charles Canady's panel on the Constitution has gone little noticed but has shaped some of the heavier legislation of the House's Newtonian revolution. B6 CHANGE FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD For Planned Parenthood, general-practice patients may be the only way the organization can survive in a health marketplace undergoing radical change. A1 MEDIA DIVERGENCE Globalization of the entertainment business is seen as a threat by both media executives and independent TV stations. A1 ADVENTURE IN A CORN FIELD A corn farmer near Shippensburg, Pa., has constructed the world's largest maze. A8 UNION CANDIDATES GET SPECIFIC News analysis: Nearly two months into their election campaign, the candidates to lead the A.F.L.-C.I.O. are turning initially vague platforms into ever more specific promises and even some action. A8 DEAL IN BOMB CASE The lawyer for Timothy McVeigh, the prime suspect in the Oklahoma City bombing, said he expected his client's Army buddy to be indicted on lesser charges in exchange for testifying for the prosecution. A9 REPUBLICANS AND CHARITIES Conservative Republicans are trying to quiet the voice of charities and other nonprofits in the shaping of Government policy. A10 A lobster season in Biscayne Bay, Fla., gives divers a chance. B8 Talk continued on regional telephone worker contracts. A8 METRO DIGEST B1 BURDEN OF PROOF Immigrants' rights groups contend that residency rules in some suburban school districts are so burdensome that some districts have locked out poor immigrant families, undocumented or not. A1 Business Digest D1 Arts/Entertainment C9-14 British furor over arts grants from national lottery proceeds. C9 Music: The Santa Fe Opera's "Modern Painters." C9 Tafelmusik. C10 Primus at Roseland. C11 Works by Libby Larsen. C11 Ray Davies and the Kinks. C11 Dance: Solos from Japan. C9 Books: "Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb." C14 Sports C1-7 Autos: Earnhardt's magic. C2 Baseball: Yanks lose in 12th. C1 A visit by Ripken. C1 Mets finally recover. C5 Columns: Vecsey on women's soccer. C2 On Pro Football. C3 Football: Giants win exhibition opener. C3 Obituaries B10 Agha Hasan Abedi, Pakistani businessman who founded B.C.C.I. Jerzy Toeplitz, film historian. Editorials/Op-Ed A12-13 Editorials House of environmental horrors. China: Kind words, little effect. Star Wars, the sequel. Letters Anthony Lewis: The new priorities. Bob Herbert: A lesson in blood. Orlando Patterson: Affirmative action, on the merit system. Bridge C12 Chronicle B2 Crossword C12
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 06 August 1995
International 3-13 SERBIAN OUTPOST FALLS TO CROATS Croatian Government forces captured Knin, the capital of the Serbian rebel region of Krajina, and linked up with troops of the Bosnian Muslim enclave of Bihac. 1
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Family Calls An Arrest In Bombing A Mistake
Date: 07 August 1995
By Joel Greenberg
Joel Greenberg
Eyad Ismail's college notebooks are still stacked on his desk in his family's house, on a hill high above the Roman ruins sprawling next to this sun-baked market town. Except for an occasional visit by concerned relatives and friends, there is dead silence around the house, a plain dwelling of stucco and stone flanked by grapevines and olive trees at the side of a narrow, winding road.
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Michelle Coes, Jason Tiballi
Date: 06 August 1995
Michelle Foskett Coes, a daughter of Linda and Rufus Coes Jr. of Small Point, Me., was married yesterday to Jason Robert Tiballi, a son of Katherine Scudder Tiballi of Burlington, Vt., and the late Robert D. Barnhill, and an adopted son of Frederick Primo Tiballi of Burlington. The Rev. Jill Small performed the ceremony at the Phippsburg (Me.) Congregational Church. The bride and the bridegroom graduated from Bates College.
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SUNDAY, August 6, 1995; THE SWAT TEAM: Mosquito Alert
Date: 06 August 1995
As if there isn't enough to worry about when you step outside these days, a company called Multidata wants to arm you with mosquito forecasts. The Minnetonka, Minn., concern combines data from past mosquito counts -- yes, there really are people who count mosquitoes for a living -- with weather reports to predict up to two weeks in advance the number of mosquitoes that will be infesting a given locale. "Being as how we are from Minnesota and know a little about these critters, we think of mosquitoes in terms of their pestiferous aspects," says David Frenz, director of research at Multidata, which hopes to have the forecasts available by next spring.
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In TV Deregulation, Qualms About Losing Local Control
Date: 07 August 1995
By Mark Landler
Mark Landler
G. V. Montgomery is worried that the Walt Disney Company could bring sex and violence to the South. Mr. Montgomery is a Democratic Representative from Mississippi, and during a House debate on the communications bill last week, he cited Disney as a reason not to lift Government restrictions on the ownership of media properties. In Mr. Montgomery's home district, the local ABC affiliates routinely pre-empt programming, like the racy "N.Y.P.D. Blue," that might offend their viewers. Now that Disney is acquiring ABC, Mr. Montgomery fears that the company could snap up ABC stations like WLOV in Columbus, Miss., which is owned by an independent businessman.
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The Trophy In Eisner's Big Deal
Date: 06 August 1995
By Bill Carter and Richard Sandomir
Bill Carter
WHEN he announced the $19 billion acquisition of Capital Cities/ABC last Monday, Michael D. Eisner, chairman of the Walt Disney Company, expressed boundless enthusiasm for his newest, globally popular attraction, an asset that he called "a magic name" comparable as a brand to Coca-Cola and Kodak: ESPN. As he moved from the news conference announcing the stunning acquisition to interviews with newspapers, magazines, CNN's "Larry King Live" and ABC's "Nightline," Mr. Eisner reserved most of his evident delight in the second largest takeover in United States history for the vast possibilities that he foresaw from the combination of "Disney imagineering" with the global brand identity of ESPN, the all-sports cable channel begun by Getty Oil in 1979.
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