30 juli 2000 was een zondag onder het sterrenbeeld ♌. Het was de 211e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was William J. (Bill) Clinton.
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Date: 31 July 2000
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
News organizations competed frenetically to buy photos taken by three amateurs of Concorde airplane in flames just before it crashed; economics of such deals shows little consistency; Japanese businessman has earned $50,000 so far for photo he took from another airplane at Paris airport; photo (M)
Date: 31 July 2000
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Hearst Corp, which bought San Francisco Chronicle, sold San Francisco Examiner and promised that all Examiner employees can work at Chronicle, faces task of consolidating newsrooms; must also decide whether to expand coverage in city to compete with Examiner's new owner and to expand coverage in Silicon Valley in face of new competition from San Jose Mercury News; photo (M)
Date: 31 July 2000
By Adam Nagourney With Janet Elder
Adam With
New York Times/CBS News Poll finds majority of delegates assembling for Republican National Convention in Philadelphia are notably conservative in thought and spirit, despite efforts of Gov George W Bush to portray Republican Party as increasingly moderate; finds that on most important issues delegates stand significantly to right of much of nation and even to right of rank-and-file Republican voters; most delegates delegates consider Bush conservative, if not necessarily as conservative as they consider themselves, and are overwhelmingly enthusiastic about his qualifications, political skills and chances against Vice Pres Al Gore in November; findings of poll detailed; chart; photo (M)
Date: 31 July 2000
By Craig S. Smith
Craig Smith
Interview with Jaime FlorCruz, outgoing Time magazine Beijing bureau chief, who is leaving China after 29 tumultuous years; he will spend year in New York on Council on Foreign Relations press fellowship; comments on his growing cynicism toward Communist Party and optimism about his adopted nation; photos (M)
Date: 31 July 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Intel Corp introduces faster Pentium III computer chips, regaining bragging rights to speediest processor from Advanced Micro Devices Inc (S)
Date: 31 July 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
ING Barings, ING Group unit, buys Charterhouse Securities Ltd for 127.4 million pounds ($192.2 million) from Credit Commercial de France SA (M)
Date: 31 July 2000
INTERNATIONAL A3-9 Venezuelan President Wins Expanded Powers Venezuelans granted President Hugo Chavez, a former paratrooper, a new six-year term with enhanced powers, top officials said. Mr. Chavez has promised to use his time in power to sweep away the last remnants of the traditional political order in the nation of 23 million that in recent years has been the United States' top oil supplier. A1 Reprieve For Barak It appeared that Prime Minister Ehud Barak of Israel would be able to keep his battered government afloat for the next three months, thanks to complex back-room maneuvering on the eve of a no-confidence vote in Parliament. A8
Date: 30 July 2000
INTERNATIONAL 3-12 Disgruntled Arafat Starts Diplomatic Tour Yasir Arafat left his base in the Gaza Strip on a diplomatic tour aimed at solidifying international support in the wake of the Camp David talks. As he departed for Paris, he gave vent to some of the frustration that has built up since the talks broke up over the issue of Jerusalem. 6
Date: 31 July 2000
By Rick Lyman
Rick Lyman
Coverage of Republican vice presidential candidate Dick Cheney on Sunday morning television talk shows discussed; photo (M)
Date: 30 July 2000
Robert McFarland, a former correspondent, producer and Washington bureau chief of NBC News, died on Tuesday at his home in Austin, Tex. He was 62. The cause was lymphoma, NBC said.