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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1999
Page
2
Japan passed a record 1999 budget of 682.5 billion dollars aimed at jump starting growth amid a banking crisis and weak domestic demand. Experts warn quick fixes like tax cuts and public works may not fix underlying structural flaws needed for a true rebound.
Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic defies pressure refusing to allow foreign peacekeepers, threatening NATO airstrikes if no deal by Saturday. US envoy Hill meets resistance as Clinton and Albright push for progress, while EU mediator Petritsch notes no extension beyond the deadline. Milutinovic attends talks urging focus on political matters rather than NATO troop imposition.
The Commerce Department reports the US trade deficit reached 168.8 billion dollars in 1998, up 53 percent from 1997 and topping the 1987 record. Despite a smaller December deficit, economists warn the gap will widen this year amid global recessions and Latin American fears.
Mel B delivers daughter Phoenix Chi weighing 5.5 pounds at a London hospital on Friday evening three weeks before her due date. Father Jimmy Gulzar reports mother and child are well as Scary Spice shares joy and meaning behind the name.
Rosemary Clooney spent a morning with the Muppets in a Sesame Street appearance planned for Monday. Julie Andrews will join a 90 minute video panel on violence against women with Kofi Annan on International Women’s Day. Jennifer Flowers speaks at Oxford Union denying advocacy of affairs while discussing sex power and propaganda in a debate setting.
The roundup links Jackson City Council president Louis Armstrong to alleged firebombing of the Jackson Advocate, with former aide Clinton Moses pleading guilty to bank robbery and bombing. In Texas, DNA ties James Byrd Jr. murder suspects to a shirt with victim blood, while drug firms settle a gouging suit for 176 million. In Pittsburgh, no federal civil rights charges will be filed over the 1995 Jonny Gammage death. officials say the officers’ conduct was not unlawful and the death was an accident.
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