23 augustus 1997 was een zaterdag onder het sterrenbeeld ♌. Het was de 234e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was William J. (Bill) Clinton.
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Date: 24 August 1997
By Tom Kuntz
Tom Kuntz
Pres Clinton made early reference to building bridge to 21st century, but he is not alone in infusing his utterances with grandiose air of millennial reference; nation's newspapers and newsweeklies have included hundreds of uses of 'as we approach the millennium' and its variants; some quotes; drawing (M)
Date: 23 August 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Aames Financial Corp is reportedly considering putting itself up for sale (S)4
Date: 23 August 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Ecolab Inc buys 14.9 percent stake in Gibson Chemical Industries Ltd of Australia for about $18.7 million and says it is considering buying more (S)9
Date: 23 August 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Apollo Group Inc agrees to buy College for Financial Planning for about $35 million from National Endowment for Financial Education (S)
Date: 23 August 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Sun Healthcare Group Inc reduces number of shares it will pay in its acquisition of Retirement Care Associates Inc, after Retirement Care says it will restate its financial results for 1997 fiscal year; Sun agreed in May to buy Retirement Care for $367 million; change reduces value of transaction by about $7.22 million (S)
Date: 23 August 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Boston Celtics sign free agents Chris Mills, a forward, and Tyus Edney, a guard (S)5
Date: 23 August 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Japanese Government panel led by Prime Min Ryutaro Hashimoto proposes that $814 million postal insurance system, known as Kampo, be turned into private company by year 2001; Kampo is world's largest life insurer (S)
Date: 23 August 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Daiwa Securities Co, Japan's second-largest brokerage firm, say authorities are investigating whether it paid off same racketeer, Ryuichi Koike, who extorted millions of dollars from other large financial companies, including Nomura Securities Co (S)1
Date: 23 August 1997
INTERNATIONAL 3-6 Repairs to Mir Succeed Despite New Mishaps The crew of the Mir carried out the riskiest repairs in the Russian space station's history. While trying to restore electrical cables cut off after a supply ship crashed into the station, a compartment began to leak and an astronaut's glove came loose, but the flight director managed to carry off the repair effort. 1
Date: 24 August 1997
INTERNATIONAL 3-16 High-Risk Strategy For NATO in Bosnia As NATO presses what many people in Bosnia view as a final campaign to carry out the faltering peace agreement -- by seizing police stations and feverishly working with Bosnian Serb opposition leaders to build an alternative power base -- foreign and local officials are expressing concern over the substantial risks. 1 Sinking, in Hong Kong Shadow The tiny Portuguese colony Macao has been engulfed in a gang war of increasing ferocity, in sharp contrast to Hong Kong, 40 miles away. Both places return to Chinese rule this year, but unlike Hong Kong, Macao is declining into a setting for gang wars, sour-looking gamblers and high-heeled prostitutes. 1