27 april 1997 was een zondag onder het sterrenbeeld ♉. Het was de 116e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was William J. (Bill) Clinton.
Als je op deze dag bent geboren, ben je 29 jaar oud. Je laatste verjaardag was op maandag 27 april 2026, 52 dagen geleden. Je volgende verjaardag is op dinsdag 27 april 2027, in 312 dagen. Je hebt 10.644 dagen geleefd, of ongeveer 255.464 uur, of ongeveer 15.327.859 minuten, of ongeveer 919.671.540 seconden.
Date: 27 April 1997
By William H. Honan
William Honan
Stanford University, after months of urging US News & World Report magazine to change college survey and rankings it calls 'misleading and inaccurate,' is using World Wide Web to furnish data itself; urges other colleges to follow suit; Alvin Sanoff, college guide managing editor, defends guide but pledges changes in next guide (M)
Date: 28 April 1997
By Lynette Holloway
Lynette Holloway
Mayor Rudolph W Giuliani of New York defends his administration against complaints that city officials routinely withhold information about workings of city government from the public; Giuliani claims news media might be dissatisfied, but public is not; he does not address complaints from various civic groups and public officials, including State Comptroller H Carl McCall, who has issued subpoenas to force administration to comply with audits he plans to conduct on delivery of city services (M)
Date: 28 April 1997
By Elizabeth Kolbert
Elizabeth Kolbert
Mayor Rudolph W Giuliani of New York City has sought to mute his would-be critics simply by keeping them away from the facts; civic groups are resorting to filing Freedom of Information Act requests to obtain even routine information about city services, such as deployment of police officers, and The Daily News has successfully sued administration in State Supreme Court over its refusal to comply with Freedom of Information Act requests for reports on wrongdoing by city officials; Giuliani contends that his administration is doing better job because it does not spend time on every niggling request for information; Norman Siegel of New York Civil Liberties Union sees fundamental issue involving open government (M)
Date: 28 April 1997
By Robert D. McFadden
Robert
Correspondents, veterans and diplomats involved in Vietnam War will meet in New York to discuss its legacy, but without presence of Pham Xuan An, Time Magazine correspondent who was secret agent for Hanoi during war; organizers of meeting say he was denied exit visa by Vietnamese Government; his colleagues in press corps recall him as knowledgeable reporter; photo (M)
Date: 27 April 1997
By David Firestone
David Firestone
Women's City Club becomes latest in list of New York citizens and organizations to charge they are unable to obtain information about workings of municipal government under Mayor Rudolph Giuliani; Frances Levenson of club's housing task force describes workers 'afraid' to release statistical data; The New York Times, Daily News and other media organizations have had Freedom of Information requests turned down and have filed suit, but ordinary citizens are often left with no recourse; Giuliani office says administration has been more accessible than any other, but outsiders charge City Hall seems insular and defensive, viewing criticism as partisan; Raymond D Horton of Citizens Budget Commission charges 'stonewalling'; list of other groups and officials whose information requests were turned down (M)
Date: 27 April 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Major League Baseball data show 19 percent of players were born outside United States; majority of foreign players are from Latin America (S)
Date: 28 April 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Dollar rises in early trading after Group of Seven leading industrial nations ends meeting, Washington, with warnings about currency's strength but no direct action to bring it down (S)
Date: 27 April 1997
INTERNATIONAL 3-13 U.S. Debates New Threats To Mexican Traffickers The Clinton Administration is debating proposals to impose stringent economic penalties on Mexico's biggest drug traffickers. The measures include freezing the American assets of suspected drug smugglers and blocking their access to American banks. Such sanctions have been imposed against Colombians. 1 Calamity in North Korea As famine spreads in secretive North Korea, it is hard to gauge the full dimensions of the disaster. But farmlands are plainly parched and yield almost nothing. Rural people have grown accustomed to eating grass and bark. And now even those are falling into short supply. 3
Date: 28 April 1997
INTERNATIONAL A3-9 Labor Far Ahead in Polls As British Election Nears Four separate newspaper polls showed Britain's Labor Party leading in Thursday's election by margins ranging from 15 to 24 percent. But many voters also told pollsters that they were unsure of what Labor's leader, Tony Blair, plans for Britain. A1 Deadline Set on Zaire Refugees The Zairian rebel leader, Laurent Kabila, said he was giving the international community 60 days to evacuate Rwandan refugees from central Zaire. He has come under heavy international pressure over the refugees since an estimated 85,000 severely weakened Rwandan Hutu vanished from refugee camps after reportedly being set upon by villagers and by Mr. Kabila's fighters. A3
Date: 27 April 1997
Elizabeth W. Barrett, the daughter of Dr. Robert E. Barrett and Dr. Virginia W. Barrett of Sparkill, N.Y., was married yesterday to Alexander Gadd, the son of Irma M. Gadd of New York and Laurence D. Gadd of Alford, Mass. Benjamin W. Mehlman, a grandfather of the bridegroom and a former village justice of Ocean Beach, Fire Island, N.Y., officiated at the Friends Meeting House in New York. The Rev. Percy Brathwaite, an Episcopal priest, took part in the ceremony.