10 augustus 1997 was een zondag onder het sterrenbeeld ♌. Het was de 221e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was William J. (Bill) Clinton.
Als je op deze dag bent geboren, ben je 28 jaar oud. Je laatste verjaardag was op zondag 10 augustus 2025, 308 dagen geleden. Je volgende verjaardag is op maandag 10 augustus 2026, in 56 dagen. Je hebt 10.535 dagen geleefd, of ongeveer 252.858 uur, of ongeveer 15.171.527 minuten, of ongeveer 910.291.620 seconden.
Date: 10 August 1997
By Jane Perlez
Jane Perlez
Pres Slobodan Milosevic's total control over propaganda of Serbian media discussed; photos; state television, which has fed Serbs with undiluted diet of nationalism for ten years, now concentrates on keeping Milosevic in power, using what journalist Dragan Cicic calls 'primitive simplicity' and 'unchecked hatred' (S)
Date: 11 August 1997
By Doreen Carvajal
Doreen Carvajal
HarperCollins faces task of convincing agents and authors of its commitment to future following announcement by its parent News Corp that it had no plans to sell struggling publishing house; some agents are warning their authors to look elsewhere for publisher; rival publishers, sensing opportunity, have already started putting out feelers to some popular HarperCollins authors; one of these, Susan Isaacs, says she will stay with HarperCollins, but she made pointed critique of publisher's decision to cancel more than 100 books for missed deadlines and work house deemed unpublishable in currently weak market; photo (M)
Date: 11 August 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Stocks trade lower in Tokyo on Aug 11; at midday break, Nikkei index of 225 stocks is down 351.23 points, or 1.79 percent, at 19,253.23 (S)
Date: 11 August 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Fitch Investors Service LP says it is in merger talks with IBCA Ltd of London in hopes of creating credit-rating agency to challenge industry leaders; IBCA is majority owned by Fimalac SA (S)
Date: 11 August 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Yamaichi Securities Co is third large Japanese financial company to force its top board members to resign because of accusations they had paid off Ryuichi Koike, admitted racketeer, in widening payoff scandal; Yamaichi says its 11 directors, including chairman, Tsugio Yukihira, and president, Atsui Miki, will step down (S)
Date: 11 August 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
United States orders for machine tools rose 38.9 percent in June from month before, to $894 million, according to joint report from Assn for Manufacturing Technology and American Machine Tool Distributors' Assn; June's gain is fourth rise in last five months, bringing total level of orders in first half of year up 19.7 percent, to $4.4 billion (S)
Date: 10 August 1997
Photos of some softly-flowing casual fashions of the moment
Date: 10 August 1997
INTERNATIONAL 3-10 Envoy's Mission to Bosnia Ends With Scant Progress President Clinton's special envoy to Bosnia ended talks with Slobodan Milosevic, the president of Yugoslavia, without any breakthrough on shoring up the Dayton peace agreements. The envoy, Richard C. Holbrooke, said he was skeptical about a pledge made at the meeting that Radavan Karadzic, the former president of Serbian-controlled Bosnia, would be kept from wielding power behind the scenes. The United Nations tribunal at The Hague has indicted him for war crimes. Instead of dealing with threats to peace, Mr. Holbrooke spent the bulk of his time haggling over telephone area codes and the appointments of ambassadors. 1
Date: 11 August 1997
INTERNATIONAL A3-9 Envoy Meets Obstacles In Mideast Talks Dennis B. Ross, President Clinton's special envoy to the Middle East, began his effort to restore what he called ''the security underpinnings'' of Israeli-Palestinian ties. He met separately for hours with Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader. The two sides expressed very different opinions about what Mr. Ross should be trying to achieve, and each again accused the other of acting in bad faith. A1 Under Montserrat's Volcano Residents of Montserrat were forced to consider whether they could still inhabit their Caribbean island as the Soufriere Hills volcano continued its forceful and frequent eruptions. With eruptions every 12 hours, a destroyed capital city and residents living in makeshift mass shelters, people contemplated their future in a place where safety is harder and harder to find. A1
Date: 10 August 1997
Jennifer Anne Diamond, a television news producer, was married last evening to Brett Alan Haber, a television sports announcer. Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum performed the ceremony at the Parker Meridian in New York. The bride, 28, works for the ABC News program ''World News Tonight Weekend'' in New York. She graduated from Cornell University.