El 17 de gener de 1999 era un diumenge sota el signe estrella de ♑. Era el 16 dia de l'any. El president dels Estats Units era William J. (Bill) Clinton.
Si vas néixer aquest dia, tens 27 anys. El teu darrer aniversari va ser el dissabte, 17 de gener de 2026, fa 146 dies. El teu proper aniversari és el diumenge, 17 de gener de 2027, d'aquí a 218 dies. Heu viscut durant 10.008 dies, o unes 240.215 hores, o uns 14.412.928 minuts, o uns 864.775.680 segons.
Date: 17 January 1999
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Questions of news ethics and sleaze discussed with regard to coverage of Larry Flynt's revelations of sinfulness among Republicans in hot pursuit of Pres Clinton's indiscretions; Flynt photo (S)
Date: 18 January 1999
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Page 2 of The Daily News in New York, which formerly included brief news articles, has been transformed into column listing happenings around town; it is brainchild of Harold Evans, editorial director of The News, and written by Sharon King; Daily News staff complainsgrumbles about change; photo (S)
Date: 18 January 1999
By Michael Wines
Michael Wines
Belarus Govt of Pres Aleksandr G Lukashenko is using ingenious array of methods to muzzle free-speaking journalists, from beatings to financial pressure, to extent that independent press seldom speaks above whisper; watchdog groups charge Govt with systematically suppressing press freedoms that nation's Constitution supposedly guarantee; accuse it of seeking since 1994 to control independent press with clear aim of driving such outlets out of business; map (M)
Date: 18 January 1999
By Dylan Loeb McClain
Dylan McClain
Two professors at Columbia University are working on prototype system that would enable journalists on assignment, and others, to download information from Internet and provide information about their surroundings; gear would include goggles, portable computer and hand-held computer, battery pack, wireless radio network and radio modem, and differential global positioning satellite system; photo of student demonstrating proposed mobile journalist work station (M)
Date: 18 January 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA says it raised its stake in Gucci Group NV to 26.7 percent, strengthening its influence over the Italian company and providing platform from which to make eventual takeover offer; LVMH says it does not plan takeover bid for Gucci 'under present conditions' (S)
Date: 18 January 1999
INTERNATIONAL A3-10 NATO Urges Yugoslavia To Respect Cease-Fire Divided NATO delegates in Brussels, confronted with growing violence in Kosovo, called on President Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia to respect a cease-fire, but backed off reviving NATO plans from last fall to bomb Serbian targets in Kosovo and Serbia proper. A6 Yeltsin Hospitalized for Ulcer President Boris N. Yeltsin was found to have an acute bleeding stomach ulcer and was sent to a Moscow hospital, barely three weeks after doctors declared him fully recovered from pneumonia and exhaustion. A3
Date: 17 January 1999
INTERNATIONAL 3-13 Dozens of Mutilated Bodies Found After Serb Attack The bodies of 45 ethnic Albanians were found shot or mutilated in what appears to be the worst killing spree of the nearly year-old conflict in Kosovo, threatening a return to full-scale combat in the province. 1
Date: 17 January 1999
By Andy Meisler
Andy Meisler
Andy Meisler article on popular National Public Radio hyperliterate program Says You!, which presents wordplay quizes in parlor game format; quiz is moderated by its creator and producer, Richard Sher; drawing (M)
Date: 17 January 1999
By James Barron
James Barron
Comment on Mayo Clinic study suggesting that old-fashioned fidgeting helps certain people control their weight unconsciously; Karen Miller-Kovach of Weight Watchers warns that fidgeters seem to be born, not made (S)
Date: 18 January 1999
Tower Air 747 bound for San Francisco turns around in midair and returns to Kennedy International Airport after an engine catches fire (S)