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Sunday, October 20, 1996

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  • "Deep Throat said in Watergate, follow the money. It turns out in this administration, every time you follow the money, there's more money. And every time there's more money, there's more corruption. And every time there's more corruption, there's another story. And each day it gets weirder."
    -- House Speaker Newt Gingrich


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    Today's Events


  • Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev will speak on human rights during a visit to the University of Connecticut.

  • Albania is scheduled to hold local elections; all parties, including those which withdrew from the controversial general election, have agreed to participate in the local vote.

  • General elections are also scheduled in Nicaragua. The vote is expected to mark the first time in Nicaraguan history that one elected civilian government peacefully hands over power to another.

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    On the horizon


  • On Monday, October 21, the International Conference on Ozone Protection Technologies opens in Washington, D.C.

  • On Tuesday, October 22, a conference on the Impact of European Unity on the Economics of the Arab World is scheduled to be held in Cairo in conjunction with the Arab League.

  • On Wednesday, October 23, Joseph Waldholtz, the ex- husband of Rep. Enid Greene, R-Utah, is expected to receive his sentence for bank, election and tax fraud. Waldholtz was Greene's 1994 campaign manager.

  • On Friday, October 25, the International Association for Muslim Women and Children is scheduled to hold a prayer session for peace in Palestine. The executive director of the Minaret of Freedom Institute, Dr. Imad ad-Deen Ahmad, leads the prayer.

  • On Friday, October 25, Mikhail Gorbachev is scheduled to sign copies of his recently published book, "Memoirs," at Borders Books and Music in Washington, D.C.

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    On this day


  • In 1616, Danish physician and mathematician Thomas Bartholin was born. In 1652, he became the first to describe fully the human lymphatic system.

  • In 1632, English architect and astronomer Sir Christopher Wren born. He designed and built more than 50 churches in London, most notably St. Paul's Cathedral.

  • In 1740, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor and pretender to the throne of Spain, died.

  • In 1784, Lord Palmerston, British statesman, born as Henry John Temple. He was prime minister twice between 1855 and 1865.

  • In 1818, by agreement between the United States and Britain, the U.S.-Canada border was set at the 49th parallel, with a joint occupation of Oregon for 10 years.

  • In 1827, in the Greek War of Independence, the Turkish and Egyptian fleets were destroyed by the British, French and Russians at the Battle of Navarino.

  • In 1891, British physicist Sir James Chadwick was born. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1935 for his discovery of the neutron.

  • In 1918, in the third of an exchange of notes between U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and the Germans aimed at an armistice, the Germans agreed to further concessions.

  • In 1935, Mao Tse-tung and his Communist forces ended their "Long March" at Yan'an, in Shaanxi, northwest China, one year after beginning their epic flight from Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang armies in the southeast.

  • In 1944, in World War II, Russian and Yugoslav forces captured Belgrade.

  • In 1960, the trial started in London of Penguin Books, charged with contravening Britain's Obscene Publications Act by publishing D.H. Lawrence's novel "Lady Chatterley's Lover."

  • In 1964, Herbert Hoover, who served as 31st president of the United States, died.

  • In 1971, West German Chancellor Willy Brandt was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

  • In 1973, Queen Elizabeth II officially opened the Sydney Opera House in Australia.

  • In 1986, in Israel, Likud party leader Yitzhak Shamir took over as prime minister from Labor's Shimon Peres under a 1984 power-sharing arrangement.

  • In 1989, Sir Anthony Quayle, English actor best remembered for his roles in "Lawrence of Arabia," "Ice Cold in Alex" and "The Guns of Navarone," died of cancer.

  • In 1994, a landmine explosion killed Tajikistan's deputy prime minister, casting a shadow over the first day of a cease-fire between the ex-communist government and the Afghanistan-based opposition.

  • In 1995, Willy Claes resigned as NATO secretary-general, brought down by a Belgian corruption scandal after a year in the job.

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    Newslink


    The deadline is inching closer. And neither Bill Clinton nor Bob Dole want to end up in The Political Graveyard. Find out more than you'd ever want to know about the final resting places of the political elite.

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    Holidays and more


  • Today is Revolution Day in Guatemala

  • It's Kenyatta Day in Kenya.

  • Dr. Joyce Brothers is 68.

  • Columnist Art Buchwald is 71.

  • Actor William Christopher is 64.

  • Musician Tom Petty is 44.



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    Sources: Reuters Ltd.,
    Chase's Calendar of Events 1996, J.P. Morgan



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