29 november 1998 was een zondag onder het sterrenbeeld ♐. Het was de 332e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was William J. (Bill) Clinton.
Als je op deze dag bent geboren, ben je 27 jaar oud. Je laatste verjaardag was op zaterdag 29 november 2025, 203 dagen geleden. Je volgende verjaardag is op zondag 29 november 2026, in 161 dagen. Je hebt 10.065 dagen geleefd, of ongeveer 241.563 uur, of ongeveer 14.493.786 minuten, of ongeveer 869.627.160 seconden.
Date: 30 November 1998
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Jupiter Communications survey of news addicts who use Internet finds they are most interested in national and international news and are more likely to use broadcast and cable television news sites than newspaper sites for quick look at breaking headlines; finds they consider on-line news almost as reliable as news from more traditional outlets (M)
Date: 30 November 1998
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Gremah Boucar, newly honored by Committee to Protect Journalists, offers simple news broadcasts and open-mike programs on his Niger radio station; his willingness to reflect diverse political viewpoints has sometimes offended military government, which has at times smashed equipment, arrested and threatened him; photo (M)
Date: 30 November 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
France will sell France Telecom SA shares to public for 390 francs, or $67.90 each, raising at least $6.4 billion; sale is heavily oversubscribed, as is sale of France Telecom's convertible bonds; institutional investors will pay extra 10 francs per share (S)
Date: 29 November 1998
INTERNATIONAL 3-27 Jewish Organizations Fight Over Swiss Bank Proceeds A battle is flaring between Jewish groups, plaintiffs' lawyers and concentration camp survivors over the $1.25 billion paid by Swiss banks to settle Holocaust-related lawsuits, and potentially billions more from claims against companies in Germany, Austria and other countries. 1 High-Level Purge in Belgrade President Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia has conducted an extraordinary purge of his innermost circle, dismissing the leaders of the army, the air force and the intelligence service as well as one of his most trusted political commissars. 1
Date: 30 November 1998
INTERNATIONAL A3-12 Blow to Hindu Nationalists In State Elections in India Voters in India outraged by rising food prices handed a humiliating defeat to the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party in a series of important state elections. The party lost in Delhi, the district that includes the nation's capital, and in the Hindi heartland state of Rajasthan. In a stunning resurrection, the Congress Party kept a firm hold on power in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, the country's largest. A3
Date: 29 November 1998
By Linda Spear
Linda Spear
Profile of and interview with former news correspondent Meredith Vieira, who comments on her stint as moderator of morning television talk show The View; photo (M)
Date: 30 November 1998
By Steven Greenhouse
Steven Greenhouse
News analysis contends that takeover of District Council 37, New York City's largest municipal union, by its parent American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, is stark indication of how far council, once revered pioneer of public sector unionism, has fallen; task facing parent union in restoring order, integrity and luster to Council discussed (M)
Date: 29 November 1998
By Francis X. Clines
Francis Clines
Man in the News profile of Harold M Ickes; Atty Gen Janet Reno is considering whether to appoint independent counsel to look into whether Ickes committed perjury when testifying before Congressional panel on question regarding what he knew about Clinton Administration's position regarding Diamond Walnut strike; photo (M)
Date: 29 November 1998
Jaime Rodriguez slips and falls under subway train at 42d Street and Eighth Avenue; he is in stable condition at area hospital (S)
Date: 30 November 1998
Two Long Island teenagers are killed and two others critically injured when their car strikes tree in Ronkonkoma (S)