2 Gossip Columnists Leave Daily News
Date: 27 March 1997
By David M. Halbfinger
David
Pete Hamill, new editor of The Daily News, accepts resignations of gossip columnists A J Benza and Michael Lewittes (S)
Replaying Wednesday, March 26, 1997
The March 26, 1997 was a Wednesday under the star sign of ♈. It was the 84 day of the year. President of the United States was William J. (Bill) Clinton.
If you were born on this day, you are 29 years old. Your last birthday was on the Thursday, March 26, 2026, 100 days ago. Your next birthday is on Friday, March 26, 2027, in 264 days. You have lived for 10,692 days, or about 256,623 hours, or about 15,397,417 minutes, or about 923,845,020 seconds.
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26th of March 1997 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on March 26, 1997
Commissioner Deals With Sensitive Issue In a Masterly Way
Date: 27 March 1997
By Clifton Brown
Clifton Brown
Article lauds NBA Comr David Stern for fining New Jersey Nets coach John Calipari $25,000 and Miami Heat announcer David Halberstam $2,500 for their racially insensitive remarks (M)
Stern Fines Calipari $25,000 for Insulting Reporter
Date: 27 March 1997
By Selena Roberts
Selena Roberts
NBA Comr David Stern fines New Jersey Nets coach John Calipari $25,000 for his calling Newark Star-Ledger reporter Dan Garcia 'a Mexican idiot'; he also fines Miami Heat broadcaster David Halberstam $2,500 for his inappropriate remarks about slaves during broadcast of Heat basketball game (M)
Italy's Trial Of Century May Last That Long
Date: 27 March 1997
By Celestine Bohlen
Celestine Bohlen
Former Italian Prime Min Giulio Andreotti is being tried in Rome on charges that he acted as political patron of Mafia; billed as Italy's trial of century when it began 18 months ago, case has now acquired timeless quality not uncommon to Italian judicial system; trial is only one part of Andreotti case; in separate trial now entering its second year, Andreotti also faces charges of having commissioned killing by Mafia of muckraking journalist in 1979 (M)
Senators Hope Their Road Show Revives Campaign Financing Bill
Date: 26 March 1997
By Eric Schmitt
Eric Schmitt
Sens Russell D Feingold and John McCain, whose bipartisan campaign finance reform bill is stalled in Congress, open tour, Boston, to spur grass-roots support; plan populist approach, using pep rallies, talk radio and meetings with newspaper editorial boards; McCain notes incumbents are unwilling to change rules that benefit themselves; photo (M)
Nomura Securities' Head Office Raided
Date: 26 March 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Prosecutors in Tokyo raid head office of Nomura Securities Co, which is under investigation for illegal trades (S)
Daimler-Benz Rebounds With $1.7 Billion Profit
Date: 27 March 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Daimler-Benz AG rebounds from record $3.4 billion loss in 1995 to higher-than-expected profit of $1.7 billion in 1996 (S)
Veba of Germany to Trade on Big Board
Date: 27 March 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
New York Stock Exchange announces listing of German electric utility, Veba AG (S)
CHECKERS AND RALLY'S TO MERGE RESTAURANT OPERATIONS
Date: 26 March 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Checkers Drive-In Restaurants Inc will buy Rally's Hamburgers Inc for about $113.5 million in stock; merger terms noted (S)
COMMERZBANK TO BUY MONTGOMERY SUBSIDIARY
Date: 26 March 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Montgomery Securities Inc will sell money management subsidiary to Commerzbank AG for approximately $250 million (S)