The December 7, 1997 was a Sunday under the star sign of ♐. It was the 340 day of the year. President of the United States was William J. (Bill) Clinton.
If you were born on this day, you are 28 years old. Your last birthday was on the Sunday, December 7, 2025, 201 days ago. Your next birthday is on Monday, December 7, 2026, in 163 days. You have lived for 10,428 days, or about 250,272 hours, or about 15,016,368 minutes, or about 900,982,080 seconds.
Date: 08 December 1997
By Saul Hansell
Saul Hansell
Some of biggest news organizations, scrambling to make huge investments in Internet pay off, have begun linking advertisements to news on their World Wide Web sites more closely than in mainstream print or broadcast media; examples cited (M)
Date: 08 December 1997
By Geraldine Fabrikant
Geraldine Fabrikant
Dow Jones & Company and NBC, after months of negotiations, are close to deal that would merge overseas operations of CNBC, cable business and entertainment channel, with Dow Jones's Asia Business News and its European Business News (S)
Date: 07 December 1997
By Max Frankel
Max Frankel
Max Frankel column says news media do a poor job covering religion; says media prefer to dwell on the feel-good stuff about religons or sensational stories about pious phonies and cults rather than explore the ways in which faith inspires public morality and political action in society; drawing (L)
Date: 08 December 1997
By Iver Peterson
Iver Peterson
Richard Mellon Scaife, wealthy philanthropist and benefactor of conservative Republican causes, has spent tens of millions of dollars to turn Tribune Review of Greensburg, Pa, small suburban daily he has owned since 1970, into full fledged metropolitan newspaper; his aim is to create conservative challenger to dominant and more middle-of-the road Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; photo (M)
Date: 08 December 1997
By Howard W. French
Howard French
Six months after Laurent Kabila toppled Government of Pres Mobutu Sese Seko in former Zaire and banned political activity by any party but his own, there is little sign that Government intends to loosen hold on country's politics; under Kabila's Government, members of opposition party have been jailed, others have have been forbidden to travel abroad and have had houses and offices ransacked; critical Congolese journalists have been repeatedly arrested (M)
Date: 08 December 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
American orders for machine tools rose in October for second consecutive month, pushing total purchases so far this year to $6.87 billion, 17.6 percent above 1996's level (S)
Date: 08 December 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Stocks prices decline on Tokyo Stock Exchange and in Seoul on December 8 as weakening South Korean currency threatens to erode Japanese competitiveness; Nikkei average lost 266.34 points, to close at 16,158.14; Korean composite index loses 20.82 points, to close at 414.91 (S)
Date: 08 December 1997
INTERNATIONAL A3-12 Rescue Package Has Far-Reaching Reforms No previous bailout package organized by the International Monetary Fund has ever extended as deeply into a whole business culture as the one prepared for South Korea. A1 Russia Grounds Giant Planes Russia grounded its fleet of AN-124 transport planes as investigators searched for the cause of a plane crash in Siberia that killed as many as 62 people near Irkutsk. Rescuers said they had recovered 48 bodies and parts of 6 others. The plane was carrying two Sukhoi jet fighter planes to Vietnam, which had purchased them. Several of the huge AN-124s have crashed in recent years. A3
Date: 07 December 1997
INTERNATIONAL 3-21 Cargo Plane Crashes Into Apartment in Siberia A military cargo jet crashed into an apartment house 20 seconds after takeoff in the Siberian city of Irkutsk, causing devastation on the ground. The authorities feared that the death toll could reach 80, with scored of others injured. 1
Date: 08 December 1997
Police say woman, not yet identified, died after being bound by wrist and set on fire inside an apartment, West 150th Street, Harlem, New York City (S)