The August 17, 1997 was a Sunday under the star sign of ♌. It was the 228 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, August 17, 2025, 320 days ago. Your next birthday is on Monday, August 17, 2026, in 44 days. You have lived for 10,547 days, or about 253,137 hours, or about 15,188,262 minutes, or about 911,295,720 seconds.
Date: 17 August 1997
By Lawrie Mifflin
Lawrie Mifflin
Local television news programs in New York battle for market share against each other and reruns of of series like Seinfield; photos (L)
Date: 18 August 1997
By Anthony Lewis
Anthony Lewis
Anthony Lewis Op-Ed column deplores immigration nightmare of Cable News Network journalist John Psaropoulos, who was mistakenly deported under new immigration law that requires expedited removal of aliens ineligible to live in US, with ban on their returning for five years; law eliminates or severely restricts right to court review of orders by Immigration and Naturalization Service officials (M)
Date: 18 August 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Nikkei index of 225 Japanese stock issues is down 391.74 points, over 2 percent, at midday at 18,934.29 (Aug 18) (S)
Date: 18 August 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Dart Group agrees to pay $52.4 million to Robert, Gloria and Linda Haft as part of settlement to end Haft family's control of Dart; accord brings Dart closer to settlement under which founder Herbert Haft will retire (S)
Date: 17 August 1997
INTERNATIONAL 3-19 Chinese Happily Break The 'One-Child' Rule As relentless economic growth erodes the old Chinese system of control over people's lives, millions are finding that with determination and some cash, they can gain official approval of their plans to have a second child. 1 No Mir Scapegoats Mir's astronauts, newly returned, are taking on their earthly critics. Feeling singled out as scapegoats, they have issued a pointed reminder: the Mir is an 11-year old, jury-rigged flying tool kit that was originally supposed to last five years. It has suffered through 1,500 malfunctions during its time in space and even minor problems there can become scary very quickly. 1
Date: 18 August 1997
INTERNATIONAL A3-9 A Mexican Tale of Drugs, Crime, Torture and the U.S. The case of Alejandro Enrique Hodoyan, an American citizen who was kidnapped and detained illegally in Mexico, illustrates the perils for the United States of working with the secretive Mexican military, which has been given a central role in the drug war despite a growing record of corruption and brutality. A1 Mexico Challenged on Rights Human rights groups released a report rebutting the Mexican Government's previous claims of cracking down on torture. The organizations said that Mexico has manipulated statistics to cast a better light on its human rights record. A9
Date: 18 August 1997
By Jesse McKinley
Jesse McKinley
Rutgers University student is raped and nearly strangled with cord of an electric fan at her off-campus apartment (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)
Date: 17 August 1997
By Nicholas D. Kristof
Nicholas
South Korea's ruling party seeks to embarrass main opposition party by trumpeting apparent defection of party religious adviser Oh Ik Jae to North Korea; Oh once headed Chondogyo, indigenous religion; both his party and religion distance selves from Oh (M)/
Date: 18 August 1997
By David Barboza
David Barboza
Small investors seem unfazed by recent 247-point drop in Dow Jones industrial average; feel similar market adjustments have repeatedly occurred in long bull market that many analysts say began in 1982; few of the dozens of investors interviewed believe that market is seriously ailing, and many of them display a degree of self-assuredness that seems to border on arrogance (M)
Date: 18 August 1997
By Michael Janofsky
Michael Janofsky
Marion S Barry, mayor of Washington, DC, for 15 of last 19 years, has been reduced to little more than titular leader whom many residents blame for city's downfall; legislative action since Republicans won control of Congress in 1994 has shifted his powers to financial control board created by Congress to correct decades of inefficiency in city government; photos (M)