INSIDE
Date: 01 March 1996
A Talk With the I.R.A.
Replaying Thursday, February 29, 1996
The February 29, 1996 was a Thursday under the star sign of ♓. It was the 59 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 Saturday, February 28, 2026, 130 days ago. Your next birthday is on Sunday, February 28, 2027, in 234 days. You have lived for 11,087 days, or about 266,088 hours, or about 15,965,286 minutes, or about 957,917,160 seconds.
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29th of February 1996 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on February 29, 1996
SPORTS PEOPLE: BASKETBALL;Jordan and Barkley Fined
Date: 29 February 1996
MICHAEL JORDAN and CHARLES BARKLEY were fined $10,000 each by the National Basketball Association for failing to show up for a media availability day on the Friday before the N.B.A. All-Star Game in San Antonio. Jordan and Barkley were reportedly playing golf at the time, either in Las Vegas or Phoenix. Jordan received a similar fine in 1993 for missing the obligatory session. (AP)
Liberties;Gasping for Eire
Date: 29 February 1996
By Maureen Dowd
Maureen Dowd
I'm not taking the fall. Sure, I know what you're thinking. He's an Irish Catholic and a journalist. I'm an Irish Catholic and a journalist. Two peas in a pod. Chips off the old sod.
Day at the Races, Night at Journalism
Date: 29 February 1996
To the Editor: Re Howell Raines's "Fallows Fallacy" (Editorial Notebook, Feb. 25):
At the Top of TV News, A Star Is Made, Not Born
Date: 01 March 1996
By Janet Maslin
Janet Maslin
IN "Up Close and Personal," Michelle Pfeiffer morphs gorgeously from tacky would-be television-news talent at a local Miami station to sleek, glamorous network swan. Her transformation is overseen by Robert Redford, who might as well be saying "Here's looking at you, kid," with every appreciative gaze. These two stars, well matched and vastly charming, also happen to be playing actual grown-ups, with knowing dialogue supplied by Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne. Ms. Pfeiffer, when the inevitable love affair is consummated: "Why didn't we do this before?"
COMPANY NEWS;HANSON TO SELL SOME FORESTS AND SAWMILLS
Date: 29 February 1996
Hanson P.L.C., the British-American industrial conglomerate, said yesterday that it would sell forests and sawmills in the American South to the Weyerhaeuser Company for $500 million. Hanson said its Cavenham Forest Industries subsidiary would sell 661,200 acres of timberland in Louisiana and Mississippi, as well as four sawmills, to Weyerhaeuser, which is based in Tacoma, Wash. This is the first announced disposal since Hanson said in December that it would sell all of Cavenham's timber and sawmill operations in the United States. (AP)
COMPANY NEWS;DETAILS OF CAMPBELL TAGGART SPINOFF ARE RELEASED
Date: 29 February 1996
The Anheuser-Busch Companies announced the terms yesterday of the planned spinoff of its baking business. The company expects to distribute to stockholders one share in the business, Campbell Taggart Inc., for every 25 Anheuser-Busch shares held, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The new concern, to be renamed the Earthgrains Company, will distribute a total of 10.2 million common shares, based on the 254 million Anheuser-Busch shares outstanding as of Jan. 31. Based on the closing price Tuesday on the New York Stock Exchange, the spinoff is valued at $684.7 million. Anheuser-Busch also agreed to sell its Cape Cod Potato Chips business, as well as the plant in Hyannis, Mass., where the chips are made, back to the founder, Steve Bernard. Terms were not disclosed. (Dow Jones)
COMPANY NEWS;B.P. SEEN IN EUROPEAN DEAL WITH MOBIL
Date: 29 February 1996
The British Petroleum Company and the Mobil Corporation plan to combine their European refining, gasoline-station and lubricants operations in a $5 billion deal, according to articles today in The Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal. Under an agreement expected to be announced today, B.P. would control the refining and marketing businesses, while Mobil would handle the lubricants operation, the newspapers said. B.P. would have a 70 percent interest in the venture, which would have combined annual sales of $20 billion. The companies are expected to take charges totaling $400 million to start the venture. Company officials declined to comment last night. Separately, Mobil agreed yesterday to sell its Tucker Housewares subsidiary, which makes plastic containers and other products, to the Zeta Consumer Products Corporation for an undisclosed price. (Reuters)