21 mei 1997 was een woensdag onder het sterrenbeeld ♉. Het was de 140e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was William J. (Bill) Clinton.
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Date: 22 May 1997
By SUZANNE DALEY
Suzanne DALEY
Roelf Meyer, dismissed by former South African Pres F W de Klerk from task of remaking National Party to attract black voters, forms new political movement he hopes will attract both blacks and whites; move seen another sign of National Party decline (M)
Date: 22 May 1997
By DAVID W. CHEN
David CHEN
Fourteen New York City high school students compete for $130,000 worth of scholarships to top culinary schools in country; competition, which is in its seventh year, is sponsored by Careers Through Culinary Arts Program; photo (M)
Date: 22 May 1997
German utility Veba AG plans to buy 36.4 percent stake in chemical and metal company Degussa AG; Veba will pay 2.9 billion marks ($1.7 billion) stake held by GFC Gesellschaft fuer Chemiewerte (S)
Date: 22 May 1997
By ALAN RIDING
Alan RIDING
Resignation of Genista McIntosh as chief executive of Royal Opera House at Covent Garden is latest event in continuing melodrama that has repeatedly thrust Covent Garden into headlines over last four years; there has always been resentment that taxpayers' money is used to subsidize lyrical amusement of elite minority, but it bubbled to surface in 1995, when Covent Garden won $125 million grant from profits of new National Lottery to help pay for its refurbishment; photo of Mary Allen, who has been named to replace McIntosh (M)
Date: 22 May 1997
By DINITIA SMITH
Dinitia SMITH
American Academy of Arts and Letters holds its annual 'ceremonial' to induct new members and award $750,000 worth of prizes to select group of nonmembers; academy exists to confer elite status on artists and to award prizes to up-and-coming talent; rules for election to academy have been called labyrinthine, and academy itself has been scorned and envied; photo (M)
Date: 22 May 1997
By TONY MARCANO
Tony MARCANO
Calf escapes from from a truck in Baychester section of Bronx and is lassoed by police officers after a chase; three ewes and a ram are later found in cramped conditions at Ely Live Poultry Market (S)
Date: 22 May 1997
Novell Inc says it will cut about 50 jobs, or 15 percent of its 400-member work force in Europe; does not confirm report posted on the Internet that it will cut staff at its US operations (S)
Date: 22 May 1997
Aetna Inc agrees to acquire Financial Network Investment Corp, closely held company that provides financial planning; financial terms undisclosed (S)