Thursday, April 20, 2000

Cancer, particularly colon cancer, may take 15 years to develop. We don't know the effect of diet on the other stages of the cancer. Dr. Moshe Shike of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, responding to a report which says high-fiber diet does not prevent polyps that can lead to colorectal cancer.

• U.S. President Bill Clinton is scheduled to meet with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in Washington.
• Italy holds the Procession of the Addolorata.
• The Philippines celebrates Morione's Festival with a masquerade and Lenten plays.

• On Friday, April 21, Good Friday is celebrated.
• On Saturday, April 22, parliamentary by-elections are held in Bangladesh's northern Rajshahi district.
• On Sunday, April 23, Easter is celebrated.
• On Monday, April 24, the space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to launch.
• On Tuesday, April 25, a fresh round of peace talks is expected to begin under mediation of former South African President Nelson Mandela.

• In 1792, France declared war on Austria, marking the start of the French Revolutionary Wars.
• In 1889, Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau, Austria.
• In 1945, during World War II, allied forces took control of the German cities of Nuremberg and Stuttgart.
• In 1971, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the use of busing to achieve racial desegregation in schools.
• In 1978, a Korean Air Lines Boeing 707 crash-landed in northwestern Russia after being fired on by a Soviet interceptor after entering Soviet airspace. Two passengers were killed.
• In 1980, the first Cubans sailing to the United States as part of the massive Mariel boatlift reached Florida.