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World

Earthquake hits Düzce; hundreds dead three months after Izmit

Magnitude 7.2. The fault that broke in August has broken again, to the east. Bolu and Düzce are in the dark.

DÜZCE · November 12, 1999

Nation

Veterans Day; the 11th hour of the 11th day

Federal offices closed. The armistice is 81 years old.

WASHINGTON · November 11, 1999

Science

52 days until January 1, 2000

Wednesday’s number.

WASHINGTON · November 10, 1999

World

Berlin marks ten years since the Wall opened

Nov. 9, 1989. The Brandenburg Gate. A city that was two cities is still counting what changed.

BERLIN · November 9, 1999

Science

54 days until January 1, 2000

Monday’s number.

WASHINGTON · November 8, 1999

Science

55 days until January 1, 2000

Sunday’s number.

WASHINGTON · November 7, 1999

World

Australia votes no on a republic; the Queen remains head of state

54.9 percent no. No state voted yes. Only the capital territory did. A second question, on a new preamble, also failed.

CANBERRA · November 6, 1999

Business

Judge Jackson: Microsoft has monopoly power in Windows

Findings of fact in the government’s case. A final judgment on the law is still to come. The share price fell.

WASHINGTON · November 5, 1999

Science

58 days until January 1, 2000

Thursday’s number.

WASHINGTON · November 4, 1999

Science

59 days until January 1, 2000

Wednesday’s number.

WASHINGTON · November 3, 1999

Sports

The N.B.A. opens the 1999–2000 season

A full 82-game schedule. Last winter’s lockout is over. Jordan is still retired.

NEW YORK · November 2, 1999

Science

61 days until January 1, 2000

Monday’s number.

WASHINGTON · November 1, 1999

World

EgyptAir Flight 990 goes down off Nantucket; 217 aboard

The Boeing 767 left Kennedy for Cairo. Radar lost it south of the island. Ships and aircraft are searching.

NANTUCKET · October 31, 1999

World

Last day on Dragør-Limhamn; Scandlines shuts the southern ferry

Winter losses, and the Øresund Bridge due on 1 July 2000. Felix and Scania are laid up in Helsingborg for sale.

DRAGØR · October 31, 1999

World

Orissa still cut off a day after the cyclone

Paradip, Puri, the coastal districts. Telephone links have not come back. Officials have not issued a death toll.

BHUBANESWAR · October 30, 1999

World

A cyclone comes ashore in Orissa; the coastal districts go dark

Landfall near Paradip on Friday. Wind recorders failed. Officials have not issued a death toll.

BHUBANESWAR · October 29, 1999

Science

65 days until January 1, 2000

Thursday’s number.

WASHINGTON · October 28, 1999

Sports

Yankees sweep the Braves; a 25th championship, 4-1 in Game 4

Roger Clemens started. Mariano Rivera finished. Jim Leyritz hit a home run. 56,752 at Yankee Stadium. New York’s third title in four years.

NEW YORK · October 27, 1999

World

Gunmen kill the prime minister and the speaker in the Armenian parliament

Eight dead. Vazgen Sargsyan and Karen Demirchyan. Nairi Hunanyan led the group. They said it was a coup.

YEREVAN · October 27, 1999

Sports

Curtis homers in the 10th; Yankees take Game 3, 6–5

The first Series game in the Bronx. Atlanta had the lead. Chad Curtis ended it.

NEW YORK · October 26, 1999

Nation

Payne Stewart’s Learjet crashes in South Dakota; six are dead

Orlando to Dallas. The plane flew for hours after radio contact was lost. Fighters intercepted it. It came down near Aberdeen.

ABERDEEN · October 25, 1999

Sports

Yankees take Game 2, 7–2, and leave Atlanta with a series lead

Sunday night at Turner Field. New York has won the first two. The Series moves to the Bronx.

ATLANTA · October 24, 1999

Sports

Yankees take Game 1 of the World Series, 4–1, at Turner Field

Orlando Hernández went seven innings. Atlanta, in its fifth Series of the decade, did not find the lead.

ATLANTA · October 23, 1999

Science

71 days until January 1, 2000

Friday’s number.

WASHINGTON · October 22, 1999

Science

72 days until January 1, 2000

Thursday’s number.

WASHINGTON · October 21, 1999

Sports

Yankees and Braves wait; Game 1 is Saturday in Atlanta

New York won the American League on Monday. Atlanta won the National League on Tuesday.

NEW YORK · October 20, 1999

Sports

Braves win Game 6 in 11 innings, 10–9, and go to the World Series

Turner Field. Kenny Rogers walked in the winning run. Atlanta takes the series 4–2.

ATLANTA · October 19, 1999

Sports

Yankees beat the Red Sox and win the A.L. Championship Series

Fenway Park, a Monday. New York takes the series four games to one. The World Series is next.

BOSTON · October 18, 1999

Sports

Ventura’s grand slam is scored a single; Mets win in 15, 4–3

The longest postseason game. Shea Stadium. The Mets force a Game 6 in Atlanta.

NEW YORK · October 17, 1999

Sports

Mets take Game 4, 3–2, and avoid a sweep at Shea

Saturday night in Queens. Atlanta still leads the series, 3–1.

NEW YORK · October 16, 1999

World

The Nobel Peace Prize goes to Médecins Sans Frontières

Doctors Without Borders. Wars and epidemics. Friday in Oslo.

OSLO · October 15, 1999

Science

79 days until January 1, 2000

Thursday’s number.

WASHINGTON · October 14, 1999

Sports

Braves take Game 2 from the Mets, 4–3

Turner Field. The Mets are down two games to none.

ATLANTA · October 13, 1999

Nation

The Senate rejects the test-ban treaty, 48–51

Ratification needed 67. Robert Byrd voted present. President Clinton signed the treaty in 1996.

WASHINGTON · October 13, 1999

World

Army chief Musharraf seizes power in Pakistan

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is detained. The general, returning from Sri Lanka, was nearly refused a runway. He has the state. The constitution is, for the moment, a rumor.

ISLAMABAD · October 12, 1999

World

The U.N. marks a world of six billion; a boy in Sarajevo is the symbol

Adnan Mević, born two minutes after midnight at Koševo hospital. Kofi Annan is in the Balkans and is due to visit.

SARAJEVO · October 12, 1999

Science

Nobel in medicine: Günter Blobel, for how proteins find their place

Rockefeller University. Signals inside the cell. Monday’s prize.

STOCKHOLM · October 11, 1999

Science

83 days until January 1, 2000

Sunday’s number.

WASHINGTON · October 10, 1999

Science

The SR-71 Blackbird flies its last official flight

NASA and the Air Force retire the reconnaissance jet. It had flown since the 1960s.

EDWARDS · October 9, 1999

Science

85 days until January 1, 2000

Friday’s number.

WASHINGTON · October 8, 1999

Business

UPS will not carry handguns on the ground trucks

Overnight air only, starting Monday. Rifles and shotguns stay on the brown vans. The company cites theft.

ATLANTA · October 7, 1999

Science

86 days until January 1, 2000

Thursday’s number.

WASHINGTON · October 7, 1999

World

Chechnya says it will not sit under the bombs

Izmailov names Budyonnovsk. Two Russian aircraft are down. Moscow says it holds the north to the Terek.

MOSCOW · October 6, 1999

World

Annan asks the Council to run East Timor for two to three years

A transitional administration with up to 8,950 troops. The Council has not voted.

NEW YORK · October 6, 1999

Sports

Braves beat the Astros 5–1; Millwood allows one hit

Turner Field. Kevin Millwood went the distance. José Lima took the loss. Ken Caminiti homered.

ATLANTA · October 6, 1999

Sports

Diamondbacks beat the Mets 7–1 and tie the series

Todd Stottlemyre. Kenny Rogers took the loss. Steve Finley drove in five. The series is one game apiece.

PHOENIX · October 6, 1999

World

INTERFET fires at Suai; two Australians are wounded

A militia convoy broke a roadblock. One hundred and sixteen men were detained. Two soldiers are stable.

SUAI · October 6, 1999

World

Maskhadov declares martial law; clerics are asked for a holy war

The order took effect Wednesday. Russian troops are digging in on the north bank of the Terek. At least 125,000 people have left.

GROZNY · October 6, 1999

World

Obuchi opens a three-party cabinet and talks of a 2,000-yen note

The Liberal Democrats, the Liberals and New Komeito. Miyazawa stays at finance. Kono is foreign minister.

TOKYO · October 6, 1999

Sports

Owners give Houston the 32nd franchise; McNair’s fee is $700 million

The vote was 29–0, two abstentions. Los Angeles is out. The club is to play in 2002.

ATLANTA · October 6, 1999

World

Vajpayee’s alliance takes a majority; Congress has the votes and not the seats

Counting from the election that ended on Sunday. The BJP is the largest party. Sonia Gandhi’s Congress is second.

NEW DELHI · October 6, 1999

Science

87 days until January 1, 2000

Wednesday’s number.

WASHINGTON · October 6, 1999

World

Two trains collide at Ladbroke Grove; more than 30 dead

A Thames Turbo went through a red signal outside Paddington and met a First Great Western express. Fire followed the wreck.

LONDON · October 5, 1999

Sports

Astros beat Maddux and the Braves 6–1

Game 1 at Turner Field. Shane Reynolds got the win. Ken Caminiti homered in the ninth.

ATLANTA · October 5, 1999

Sports

Mets beat the Diamondbacks 8–4 and take Game 1

Bank One Ballpark. Turk Wendell got the win. Randy Johnson took the loss.

PHOENIX · October 5, 1999

World

Putin says the army has reached the Terek

About a third of Chechnya, he said. The Chechen staff denies that two northern districts are fully taken. Four Russians are dead.

MOSCOW · October 5, 1999

Sports

Yankees shut out the Rangers 8–0 in the opener

Orlando Hernandez. Bernie Williams drove in six. New York leads the series, one game to none.

NEW YORK · October 5, 1999

Science

88 days until January 1, 2000

Tuesday’s number.

WASHINGTON · October 5, 1999

Sports

Mets shut out the Reds 5–0 and take the wild card

Al Leiter’s two-hit complete game. Alfonzo and Henderson homered. Cincinnati is out.

CINCINNATI · October 4, 1999

Science

89 days until January 1, 2000

Monday’s number.

WASHINGTON · October 4, 1999

World

Haider’s Freedom Party finishes second in Austria

The Social Democrats remain first. The People’s Party is third. No coalition has been formed.

VIENNA · October 3, 1999

Sports

Cowboys beat the Cardinals 35–7 and go to 3–0

Texas Stadium. Aikman threw two touchdown passes. Smith scored from a yard out.

DALLAS · October 3, 1999

Sports

Devil Rays beat the Yankees 6–2; the regular season is over

Randy Winn’s grand slam. New York finishes 98–64. The East was already decided.

TAMPA · October 3, 1999

Science

90 days until January 1, 2000

Sunday’s number.

WASHINGTON · October 3, 1999

World

Russian troops are still a few miles inside Chechnya

Saturday. No report of a push to Grozny. The air strikes have not stopped.

MOSCOW · October 2, 1999

Sports

Alabama beats Florida 40–39 in overtime at Gainesville

The Gators’ home streak ends at 30. Shaun Alexander scored four touchdowns for the Crimson Tide.

GAINESVILLE · October 2, 1999

Sports

Bourque scores his 386th and passes Coffey

The Bruins beat Carolina 3–1. The goal is the most by a defenceman.

BOSTON · October 2, 1999

Culture

Giuliani says he will cut the city’s money to the Brooklyn Museum

Sensation opened Saturday. Hundreds protested a picture of the Virgin made with elephant dung.

NEW YORK · October 2, 1999

Sports

Mets shut out the Pirates 7–0; Atlanta loses 1–0

Rick Reed went the distance and struck out 12. The Mets are 95–66, seven behind the Braves.

NEW YORK · October 2, 1999

Weather

Princeville has not come out of the Tar

Saturday. The count of 31 dead has not been closed.

TARBORO · October 2, 1999

Sports

The Thrashers lose their first game, 4–1 to the Devils

Kelly Buchberger scored Atlanta’s first goal. 18,545 at Philips Arena.

ATLANTA · October 2, 1999

World

Two of the Tokaimura workers are critical; the reaction is over

More than 310,000 people were told to stay indoors. The three men are alive.

TOKAI · October 2, 1999

Sports

Yankees beat the Devil Rays 3–2; Cone wins, Rivera saves

Chili Davis and Scott Brosius homered. New York is 98–63.

TAMPA · October 2, 1999

Science

91 days until January 1, 2000

Saturday’s number.

WASHINGTON · October 2, 1999

World

Russian troops step into Chechnya, a few miles, and stop

Putin says combat operations are under way. Chechen officials say the columns went in about six miles and pulled back. No major battle was reported.

MOSCOW · October 1, 1999

Nation

A U.S. kill vehicle hits a dummy warhead over the Pacific

Friday night. A Minuteman left Vandenberg at 7:02. The intercept was about 7:32 Pacific time.

WASHINGTON · October 1, 1999

Sports

Braves beat the Marlins 4–1; Smoltz strikes out 11

John Rocker saved it. Ryan Klesko homered. Atlanta is 102–58.

ATLANTA · October 1, 1999

World

China marks 50 years of the People’s Republic with a vast parade

Tanks, missiles and a million-odd spectators filled Tiananmen Square. Jiang Zemin took the salute. The century the party seized in 1949 is the one it still holds.

BEIJING · October 1, 1999

Sports

Ganguly scores 139 as India beats Zimbabwe

Eleven fours and five sixes. India made 277 for 6. Zimbabwe were out for 170.

NAIROBI · October 1, 1999

Culture

Günter Grass is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature

The Swedish Academy named him Thursday. ‘The Tin Drum.’ The last German to win it was Heinrich Böll.

STOCKHOLM · October 1, 1999

Science

NASA: the Mars orbiter was lost in a mix of pounds and newtons

The agency said so on Thursday. One team sent pound-seconds. The other read newton-seconds. The craft has not called in since last week.

PASADENA · October 1, 1999

Weather

Princeville is still under the Tar

Friday. The count of 31 dead has not been closed.

TARBORO · October 1, 1999

Sports

Rockets trade Scottie Pippen to the Trail Blazers

Portland sends six players. The deal is announced Friday.

HOUSTON · October 1, 1999

World

The chain reaction at Tokaimura is stopped

The governor confirmed it at 6:15 a.m. The water jacket around the tank was drained. The three men are still alive.

TOKAI · October 1, 1999

Sports

The Oilers retire Gretzky’s 99, then tie the Rangers 1–1

A pre-game ceremony. The number will not be worn again in Edmonton.

EDMONTON · October 1, 1999

Sports

Yankees beat the Devil Rays 11–7 and go to 97–63

Tropicana Field. Pettitte started. Mendoza got the win. Rivera saved it. Girardi, Martinez and Strawberry homered.

TAMPA · October 1, 1999

Science

92 days until January 1, 2000

Friday’s number.

WASHINGTON · October 1, 1999

World

Nuclear accident at Tokaimura; three workers irradiated

A uranium solution went critical at a fuel plant in Ibaraki. The reaction lasted hours. Nearby houses were told to stay indoors.

TOKAI · September 30, 1999

World

A magnitude-7.5 quake hits Oaxaca

11:31 a.m. local time. Felt in Mexico City. The count of the dead is not closed.

OAXACA · September 30, 1999

Sports

Braves beat the Mets 4–3 in 11; New York is eight back

Edgardo Alfonzo homered to tie it. Brian Jordan tripled to open the 11th. Terry Mulholland got the win.

NEW YORK · September 30, 1999

World

Clinton calls the Tokaimura accident a hard day for Japan

He offered help. Two of the three workers are in critical condition.

WASHINGTON · September 30, 1999

Science

NASA says a units mix-up lost the Mars orbiter

Thursday. Pound-seconds were read as newton-seconds. The $125 million craft has been silent since last week.

PASADENA · September 30, 1999

World

The bombing of Chechnya goes on; no confirmed crossing

Thursday. Aircraft are still up. The Defence Ministry has not said that ground troops are inside the republic.

MOSCOW · September 30, 1999

Weather

The Tar is still over Princeville

Thursday. Thirty-one dead, and the list is not closed.

TARBORO · September 30, 1999

Sports

Yankees split in Baltimore and clinch the East

Clemens loses 0–5 to Mussina. Hernandez wins the night game 12–5. New York is 96–63, five games up.

BALTIMORE · September 30, 1999

Science

93 days until January 1, 2000

Thursday’s number.

WASHINGTON · September 30, 1999

World

A man drives into Shimonoseki Station, then uses a knife

About 4:25 p.m. He was arrested on the platform. The count of the dead is not closed.

SHIMONOSEKI · September 29, 1999

World

Jets are still on Grozny; ground troops have not crossed

Wednesday. The air force has not stopped. The Defence Ministry has not said that soldiers are inside Chechnya.

MOSCOW · September 29, 1999

Sports

Mets beat Maddux and the Braves 9–2

John Olerud’s grand slam. Al Leiter. The Mets are 93–65, seven games back. Atlanta is 100–58.

NEW YORK · September 29, 1999

Weather

Princeville has not come out of the Tar

Wednesday. The count of 31 dead has not been closed.

TARBORO · September 29, 1999

Sports

Rain calls off the Yankees; the magic number is two

The game at Camden Yards was postponed. A day-night doubleheader is set for Thursday. The division is not clinched.

BALTIMORE · September 29, 1999

World

Taiwan’s dead are still listed at 2,084

Monday morning’s figure. It has not been closed. The rescue phase was shut on Saturday.

TAIPEI · September 29, 1999

Science

94 days until January 1, 2000

Wednesday’s number.

WASHINGTON · September 29, 1999

World

Russian jets hit Grozny; two oil refineries burn

Fifty missions. Four districts of the capital. Putin says the bases have to be destroyed. Ground troops have not gone in.

MOSCOW · September 28, 1999

Sports

Braves beat the Mets 9–3; Atlanta is 100–57

Tom Glavine. Orel Hershiser was out in the first. The Mets are 92–65, eight games back.

NEW YORK · September 28, 1999

Science

Mars Climate Orbiter has not called in

No signal since Thursday. Controllers said the craft was entering low.

PASADENA · September 28, 1999

Weather

Princeville is still in the Tar

Tuesday. The count of 31 dead has not been closed.

TARBORO · September 28, 1999

World

Taiwan’s list still stands at 2,084

Monday morning’s figure. The rescue phase was closed Saturday. The number is not final.

TAIPEI · September 28, 1999

Sports

Yankees beat the Orioles 9–5 and go to 95–62

Camden Yards. Tino Martinez homered. Ramiro Mendoza got the win. The division is not clinched.

BALTIMORE · September 28, 1999

Science

95 days until January 1, 2000

Tuesday’s number.

WASHINGTON · September 28, 1999

World

Indonesia hands security in East Timor to INTERFET

A closed ceremony at military headquarters. Maj. Gen. Syahnakri to Maj. Gen. Cosgrove. About 1,000 Indonesian personnel remain.

DILI · September 27, 1999

Sports

Devil Rays beat the Yankees 10–6; Irabu is out in the second

Fred McGriff homered in the first. New York is 94–62. The East lead is four games.

NEW YORK · September 27, 1999

Weather

Princeville is still under the Tar

Monday. The count of 31 dead has not been closed.

TARBORO · September 27, 1999

World

Putin: this is terrorism, not a civil war

Monday. He said Russian soldiers would not be put under fire. Ground troops have not entered Chechnya.

MOSCOW · September 27, 1999

Science

Still no signal from Mars Climate Orbiter

Contact stopped Thursday, when the craft went behind the planet. Controllers said it was entering low.

PASADENA · September 27, 1999

World

Taiwan’s dead stand at 2,084; the rescue phase is closed

Monday, 10 a.m. 8,664 injured. About 162 still listed under the slabs. The number is not final.

TAIPEI · September 27, 1999

Science

96 days until January 1, 2000

Monday’s number.

WASHINGTON · September 27, 1999

World

A 6.8 aftershock hits Taiwan; three more are dead

About 8 a.m., near Sun Moon Lake. A 12-storey block in Mingchien came down. The list stands at 2,060. It is not closed.

TAIPEI · September 26, 1999

Sports

Braves shut out the Expos 10–0 and go to 99–57

Sunday in Montreal. The Mets, at 92–64, are seven games back.

MONTREAL · September 26, 1999

Sports

Devil Rays beat the Yankees 6–5; the division waits

Andy Pettitte. New York is 94–61. The East is not clinched.

NEW YORK · September 26, 1999

World

Flights over East Timor show towns levelled and empty

Reconnaissance. UNAMET has begun to look into the killings. INTERFET is still in Dili.

DILI · September 26, 1999

World

Lee’s emergency is for six months

It lets the government spend and use the army without waiting on parliament. About 100,000 are without a house.

TAIPEI · September 26, 1999

Sports

Patriots beat the Giants 16–14; the Rams rout Atlanta 35–7

Sunday night in Foxboro. Adam Vinatieri kicked three field goals. Kurt Warner’s Rams scored 35.

FOXBORO · September 26, 1999

Sports

Phillies beat the Mets 3–2; New York is 92–64

Paul Byrd. Rick Reed took the loss. Veterans Stadium.

PHILADELPHIA · September 26, 1999

World

Russian aircraft are hitting across Chechnya; the ground troops have not gone in

The strikes now cover the republic, not only the border. There is still no invasion order.

MOSCOW · September 26, 1999

Weather

The Tar has not given Princeville back

Sunday. Last week’s count of 31 dead is not closed.

TARBORO · September 26, 1999

Science

97 days until January 1, 2000

Sunday’s number.

WASHINGTON · September 26, 1999

World

Lee declares an emergency; Friday’s count was 2,188 dead

Taichung and Nantou are disaster areas. A boy of six was pulled out after 87 hours. The list is not closed.

TAIPEI · September 25, 1999

World

Air attacks on Chechnya go on; still no ground order

Troops remain on the Dagestan line. A general said Thursday there was no invasion order.

MOSCOW · September 25, 1999

Sports

Devil Rays beat the Yankees 2–1; their first win at the Stadium

David Cone. Bernie Williams homered. New York is 94–60. The division is not clinched.

NEW YORK · September 25, 1999

World

Hu accuses Beijing of slowing quake aid

The foreign minister, on Friday. He said the mainland was using the disaster.

TAIPEI · September 25, 1999

Science

Mars Climate Orbiter is still silent

No signal since Thursday, when the craft went behind the planet. Controllers said it was entering low.

PASADENA · September 25, 1999

Sports

Phillies beat the Mets 4–2; New York is 92–63

Veterans Stadium, the Saturday afternoon.

PHILADELPHIA · September 25, 1999

Weather

Princeville is still in the Tar; Floyd’s dead are not a closed list

Saturday’s water. The count of 31 has not been closed.

TARBORO · September 25, 1999

Science

98 days until January 1, 2000

Saturday’s number.

WASHINGTON · September 25, 1999

World

INTERFET sweeps Dili; militia checkpoints come down

Operation Brighton, Friday afternoon. Australian infantry, Gurkhas, armour. Commanders said no shot was fired in the sweep.

DILI · September 24, 1999

World

Air attacks on Chechnya continue; still no ground order

The border force is in place. A general said Thursday there was no invasion order.

MOSCOW · September 24, 1999

World

Patrushev: the Ryazan sacks were sugar, and the scare was an exercise

The FSB chief, on NTV. Residents spent the night out of a 12-storey block. He said there were no explosives.

MOSCOW · September 24, 1999

Sports

Phillies beat the Mets 3–2; New York is 92–62

Veterans Stadium. Atlanta is four games up after the series in Turner Field.

PHILADELPHIA · September 24, 1999

Sports

Soriano’s first homer wins it, 4–3; the Yankees are in the playoffs

A walk-off against Tampa Bay. New York is 94–59. The berth is clinched.

NEW YORK · September 24, 1999

World

Taiwan’s count stands at 1,869; crews are still in the slabs

Thursday’s figure. It has not been closed. National Day next month is off.

TAIPEI · September 24, 1999

Science

99 days until January 1, 2000

Friday’s number.

WASHINGTON · September 24, 1999

World

Taiwan’s dead reach 1,869; National Day is cancelled

4,460 injured. About 2,600 still listed as trapped. Aftershocks overnight. The count is not closed.

TAIPEI · September 23, 1999

Sports

Braves beat the Mets 6–3; New York is four games back

The third night at Turner Field. Atlanta is 96–57. The Mets are 92–61.

ATLANTA · September 23, 1999

World

Dutch reporter Sander Thoenes is found dead in Dili

Killed Tuesday in Becora. Financial Times. He was 30. INTERFET is in the capital.

DILI · September 23, 1999

World

Gunfire in Dili; Cosgrove calls the morning “engagements”

Three militia arrested. Australian troops met Indonesian soldiers at an empty camp. About 500 militia were reported in Liquiçá.

DILI · September 23, 1999

World

Jets hit Chechen bases; a general says there is no invasion order

The border remains sealed. The Defence Ministry blames militants for the apartment bombs. Maskhadov has denied it.

MOSCOW · September 23, 1999

Science

NASA loses the Mars Climate Orbiter as it goes behind the planet

Contact stopped about 5:30 a.m. Eastern. The burn had started. The craft was entering low. It left Earth in December 1998.

PASADENA · September 23, 1999

World

Ryazan: three sacks in a basement; the block is emptied

A 12-storey house, 125 miles from Moscow. A timer. Police said the crystals looked like cyclonite. No blast.

RYAZAN · September 23, 1999

Weather

The Tar is still high; Floyd’s dead are not a closed list

Princeville remains in the water. Saturday’s count was 31. Trailers are up in Rocky Mount.

TARBORO · September 23, 1999

Sports

Yankees beat the White Sox 5–2 and go to 93–59

Three of three so far against Chicago. The East lead is five games.

NEW YORK · September 23, 1999

Science

100 days until January 1, 2000

Thursday’s number.

WASHINGTON · September 23, 1999

World

Taiwan’s dead pass 1,700; nearly 3,000 still listed as trapped

Interior Ministry: 1,712 dead, 4,005 hurt. The Tunghsing Building in Taipei still has people in it. The count is not closed.

TAIPEI · September 22, 1999

World

Air attacks on Chechen bases go on; still no ground order

About 30,000 troops on the administrative border. Putin has not sent them in.

MOSCOW · September 22, 1999

World

Australian platoons take Baucau airfield; Cosgrove says weeks, not days

The second day of lifts is done. He warned the territory is not yet under control. A militia clash left four dead.

DILI · September 22, 1999

Sports

Braves beat the Mets 5–2; New York is three games back

Turner Field, the second night. Atlanta is 95–57. The Mets are 92–60.

ATLANTA · September 22, 1999

World

K.L.A. signs the demobilization; a Kosovo Protection Corps is the new name

NATO agreed more than 200 may carry guns. The deal had been due Sunday.

PRISTINA · September 22, 1999

Weather

Trailers go up in Rocky Mount; 1,600 Floyd houses are gone

State officials: 30,000 more with major flood damage. Saturday’s dead numbered 31. The count is not closed.

ROCKY MOUNT · September 22, 1999

Sports

Yankees take the White Sox 5–4; they are 92–59

Posada. O’Neill late. Chicago is still in town Thursday.

NEW YORK · September 22, 1999

Science

101 days until January 1, 2000

Wednesday’s number.

WASHINGTON · September 22, 1999

World

A 7.6 quake hits Taiwan before dawn; the dead are still being counted

1:47 a.m., near Chi-Chi in Nantou County. A 12-story block down in Taipei. Power out across the island. The count is not closed.

TAIPEI · September 21, 1999

World

A Dutch reporter is killed in Dili

Sander Thoenes, 30, Financial Times. He had flown in from Jakarta. INTERFET is at the airfield.

DILI · September 21, 1999

World

Air attacks on Chechen bases continue; no ground order

The border force is still there. Putin has said the 1996 deal was a mistake.

MOSCOW · September 21, 1999

Sports

Braves take the Mets 2–1; New York falls two games back

Turner Field. The Mets are 92–59. Atlanta is 94–57.

ATLANTA · September 21, 1999

World

Cosgrove: so far, so good; armour comes ashore in Dili

Black Hawks at the airfield. Trucks and light armour from the ships. Militias have not all gone.

DILI · September 21, 1999

World

Jiang offers help to Taiwan after the quake

The tremor was felt in Jiangxi. Beijing and Taipei do not have official ties.

BEIJING · September 21, 1999

Sports

Pettitte beats the White Sox 3–1; Yankees are 91–59

O’Neill drove in two. Rivera the save. Paid crowd 29,248.

NEW YORK · September 21, 1999

Weather

Princeville is still in the Tar; Floyd’s flood has not gone

Five days after the eye. Saturday’s dead numbered 31. Helicopters are still the road in places.

TARBORO · September 21, 1999

Science

102 days until January 1, 2000

Tuesday’s number.

WASHINGTON · September 21, 1999

World

INTERFET lands in Dili; Australian troops take the airfield

Major General Peter Cosgrove commands the force. It is Australia’s largest deployment since Vietnam. Indonesia has consented. The militias have not all gone.

DILI · September 20, 1999

World

1,190 INTERFET troops in Dili; more sorties Tuesday

Twenty-five Hercules flights, Cosgrove’s Falcon, a Sea King. Tobruk and Jervis Bay are due at the port Tuesday.

DILI · September 20, 1999

Sports

Cowboys beat the Falcons 24–7 on Monday night

Emmitt Smith two scores. Greg Ellis an 87-yard interception return. Dallas is 2–0. Atlanta is 0–2.

DALLAS · September 20, 1999

World

Raisa Gorbachev dies in Münster; she was 67

Leukemia. University Hospital. Mikhail Gorbachev was with her. She had been in the clinic since July.

MUNSTER · September 20, 1999

Weather

The Tar is still up; Floyd’s inland flood is not finished

Princeville remains in the water. Saturday’s dead numbered 31. The count is not closed.

TARBORO · September 20, 1999

World

Troops hold the Chechen border; the air attacks continue

About 30,000 men. Putin has not ordered a ground assault. Maskhadov has denied the bombs.

MOSCOW · September 20, 1999

Science

103 days until January 1, 2000

Monday’s number.

WASHINGTON · September 20, 1999

World

Cosgrove in Dili: the force comes Monday; it is not on the ground

A 90-minute meeting with Maj. Gen. Syahnakri. He called the cooperation first class. No landing today.

DILI · September 19, 1999

World

30,000 Russian troops on the Chechen border; Putin calls the 1996 deal a mistake

The military press service, on Sunday. Air attacks continue. He has not ordered a ground assault.

MOSCOW · September 19, 1999

Weather

Floyd’s remnant is absorbed; the Carolinas still have the water

The Hurricane Center: no longer a distinct storm. The Tar has not crested. Saturday’s dead numbered 31.

MIAMI · September 19, 1999

Sports

Mets take the Phillies 8–6; Olerud hits a three-run homer

Dotel the winner. Paid crowd 51,560. New York is 92–58, one game behind Atlanta.

NEW YORK · September 19, 1999

World

Ogata: East Timorese in West Timor need somewhere to go

The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, from Atambua. Militia still hold the roads in the east.

ATAMBUA · September 19, 1999

Sports

Patriots come from 28–7 down and beat Manning’s Colts 31–28

Bledsoe. Vinatieri. Week 2. New England is 2–0.

FOXBORO · September 19, 1999

Sports

Raiders beat the Vikings 22–17 in Minneapolis

Gannon. Cunningham had 364 yards. Oakland is 1–1. Minnesota is 1–1.

MINNEAPOLIS · September 19, 1999

Sports

Redskins put 50 on the Giants, 50–21

Week 2. Washington is 2–0. New York is 0–2.

NEW YORK · September 19, 1999

Weather

The Tar has not crested; eastern counties are still a rescue

Princeville remains in the river. The dead were 31 yesterday. Helicopters are still the road.

TARBORO · September 19, 1999

Sports

Yankees take the series 11–7 and leave Cleveland 90–59

Three of four. The offense picked Cone up. Boston is still back.

CLEVELAND · September 19, 1999

Science

104 days until January 1, 2000

Sunday’s number.

WASHINGTON · September 19, 1999

Weather

The rivers take the towns; Floyd’s dead number 31

The Tar is still rising. Princeville and Tarboro are in it. Most of the dead drowned after the wind had gone.

TARBORO · September 18, 1999

World

A second day of air drops; the U.N. puts 200,000 to 300,000 in the hills

David Wimhurst in Darwin. About 20 tons on Saturday. The roads are still the militias’.

DARWIN · September 18, 1999

World

Aircraft hit bases on the Chechen border; armour is moving up

A military spokesman: the raids are to stop another attack on Dagestan. NTV showed vehicles on the administrative line.

MOSCOW · September 18, 1999

World

Cosgrove is due in Dili Sunday for talks; the force is not on the ground

A three-hour meeting with Maj. Gen. Syahnakri. Nine ships are at sea. The landing is not Saturday.

DARWIN · September 18, 1999

Weather

Floyd’s remnant crosses Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland

No longer a hurricane. The Carolinas still have the flood. Canada has the rain.

HALIFAX · September 18, 1999

World

Gusmão leaves Jakarta; he is thought to be bound for Darwin

The independence leader left the Indonesian capital on Saturday. He had been released from house arrest last week.

JAKARTA · September 18, 1999

Sports

Mets pound the Phillies 11–1; Ordoñez hits a grand slam

Masato Yoshii. Agbayani homered. New York is one game behind Atlanta.

NEW YORK · September 18, 1999

Sports

No. 4 Florida beats No. 2 Tennessee, 23–21

Gainesville. Saturday. The Volunteers fall in the Southeastern Conference.

GAINESVILLE · September 18, 1999

Sports

Sosa hits his 60th; he is the first to do it two years running

Jason Bere of the Brewers. Last year he hit 66. McGwire had 70.

CHICAGO · September 18, 1999

World

The task group sails from Darwin; Dili is still waiting

Adelaide, Anzac, Tobruk and the rest left harbour. The landing is not Saturday. Resolution 1264 is three days old.

DARWIN · September 18, 1999

Nation

Three drown in the northern suburbs; Floyd’s tail wrecked the creeks

A father walking a flooded bridge. A nine-year-old girl. Rockland and Dutchess. The city itself was spared the worst.

NEW YORK · September 18, 1999

Science

105 days until January 1, 2000

Saturday’s number.

WASHINGTON · September 18, 1999

Sports

Indians take one back, 5–4; Yankees fall to 89–59

El Duque took the loss. The series is not a sweep.

CLEVELAND · September 18, 1999

Weather

Floyd’s flood closes the interstates; the death toll reaches 16

I-40 and I-95 under water. Helicopters off rooftops. Bound Brook fought a fire from boats. The storm is gone. The rivers are not.

WILMINGTON · September 17, 1999

Sports

Clemens goes seven; Yankees take the Indians 9–4 and the A.L.’s best record

89–58. O’Neill drove in six. The East lead is a September cushion.

CLEVELAND · September 17, 1999

World

Gusmão: Falintil will cooperate; no reprisals against the militias

The independence leader, still in Jakarta. The force is in Darwin. Dili has no foreign troops.

JAKARTA · September 17, 1999

World

Indonesian troops begin to leave East Timor as the force waits in Darwin

Maj. Gen. Syahnakri said they would go as the foreigners came in. Trucks have been moving west. No landing today.

DILI · September 17, 1999

World

INTERFET is named; commanders say the first lift is this weekend

Australia will put 4,500 into a force of about 7,000. Adm. Barrie: the most significant undertaking since the last war. Dili has not seen them.

DARWIN · September 17, 1999

Weather

Mud and rock come off the Palisades; Floyd’s tail wrecks Piermont

Thursday night into Friday. Trees and cars buried. At least seven deaths have been blamed on the storm in the mid-Atlantic.

PIERMONT · September 17, 1999

Sports

Phillies beat the Mets 8–5 at Shea; Leiter takes the loss

Randy Wolf struck out 11 in six innings. Benny Agbayani hit a home run. Paid crowd 31,842.

NEW YORK · September 17, 1999

World

Police name two men of Chechen origin in the Moscow apartment bombs

Putin, after the Federation Council: harsh measures, a tighter border, no ground troops into Chechnya.

MOSCOW · September 17, 1999

World

Putin: tighten the Chechen border; no ground troops

After the Federation Council. Officials still blame the Caucasus. Maskhadov has denied the bombs.

MOSCOW · September 17, 1999

Weather

The National Guard lifts more than 1,200 from flooded homes in Clarkstown

Floyd’s remnants. Garden State Parkway had been shut. Bergen County asked Clinton for a disaster declaration.

CLARKSTOWN · September 17, 1999

World

Two Australian C-130s drop rice and blankets over the hills

The first aid since the 30 August vote. Ermera, about 20,000 people. No foreign troops have landed.

DARWIN · September 17, 1999

World

Volgodonsk: 18 dead, more than 200 hurt after the truck bomb

The fourth apartment house in twelve days. Moscow is still at Kashirskoye and Guryanova.

VOLGODONSK · September 17, 1999

Science

106 days until January 1, 2000

Friday’s number.

WASHINGTON · September 17, 1999

World

Algeria votes 98.6 percent yes on Bouteflika’s civil concord

The Interior Ministry overnight. Turnout 85 percent of 17.5 million registered. An amnesty law for Islamist fighters.

ALGIERS · September 17, 1999

Weather

Floyd comes ashore at Cape Fear as a Category 2 hurricane

Cape Fear, about 3 a.m. Category 2. A foot of rain on ground Dennis had already soaked. Clinton has declared an emergency for 66 counties.

WILMINGTON · September 16, 1999

Nation

Albright defends aid to Russia and tells Moscow to fight corruption

A speech at the Carnegie Endowment. No more multilateral help, she said, without safeguards. Congress wants the package cut.

WASHINGTON · September 16, 1999

Nation

Clinton claims executive privilege over the F.A.L.N. clemency

A letter to Representative Dan Burton. Reno backed it. Eleven of the prisoners were freed last Friday.

WASHINGTON · September 16, 1999

Nation

Clinton sends 200 Americans to the Timor force — not in combat

Intelligence, logistics, communications. Australia still leads. No U.S. infantry in Dili. None of the force is in Dili.

WASHINGTON · September 16, 1999

Nation

Congress lets its own pay rise 3.4 percent; the next president would get $400,000

The Senate voted 54–38. The House had passed the bill Wednesday. Federal workers would get 4.8 percent. Clinton is expected to sign.

WASHINGTON · September 16, 1999

Weather

Horry County takes 15 to 20 inches; the Waccamaw is rising

Myrtle Beach is among the wettest points. Drainage failed. Floodwater was reported three feet deep in places.

MYRTLE BEACH · September 16, 1999

World

Indonesia tears up the 1995 security treaty with Australia

The Agreement to Maintain Security is dead. Habibie accepted a force on Sunday. Darwin is filling anyway.

JAKARTA · September 16, 1999

World

Indonesia’s commander in Dili says his troops will pull out as the force lands

Maj. Gen. Kiki Syahnakri: once they are in, he will go. He hopes it takes no more than a week. No foreign soldiers have landed.

DILI · September 16, 1999

Weather

New York shuts the schools; Floyd is a tropical storm by the time it arrives

Subways mostly run. Some suburban lines do not. The beaches are closed. The tail should be gone by Friday morning.

NEW YORK · September 16, 1999

World

The force assembles in Darwin; Dili still has no foreign troops

Gurkhas are arriving. Thailand will send the deputy commander. Resolution 1264 is a day old. The landing is not Thursday.

DARWIN · September 16, 1999

World

Truck bomb rips a nine-story house in Volgodonsk; at least 17 dead

5:57 a.m. A GAZ truck. The fourth apartment blast in twelve days. Moscow still has two wrecked houses.

VOLGODONSK · September 16, 1999

Sports

Yankees beat the Indians 9–5 and go to 88–58

Boston had the day off. The East lead ticks out again.

CLEVELAND · September 16, 1999

World

Yeltsin: the bombers will not break us; close the Chechen frontier

A message after Volgodonsk. Officials still blame the Caucasus. Maskhadov still denies it.

MOSCOW · September 16, 1999

Science

107 days until January 1, 2000

Thursday’s number.

WASHINGTON · September 16, 1999

World

Security Council authorises a multinational force for East Timor

Resolution 1264, unanimous. Chapter VII. Australia will lead. All necessary measures. The soldiers are not in Dili.

NEW YORK · September 15, 1999

Nation

2.6 million told to leave: the largest peacetime evacuation on the books

Gore said so Wednesday. Florida is coming home. The Carolinas are still going out. The eye is still at sea.

MIAMI · September 15, 1999

Nation

Congress sends Clinton a $792 billion tax cut he has promised to veto

The Republican bill reached the White House on Wednesday. The veto is not a surprise. The fight is the point.

WASHINGTON · September 15, 1999

Nation

F.C.C. lets cellphones use satellites to tell 911 where the call is

A 5–0 vote. About 70,000 wireless 911 calls a day. Dispatchers have been guessing.

WASHINGTON · September 15, 1999

Weather

Floyd skirts Florida and turns north; the Carolinas are next

The eye is still offshore. More than a million already off the Florida coast. Georgia and South Carolina have been told to move. No United States landfall.

MIAMI · September 15, 1999

Nation

Gunman kills seven, then himself, at a Fort Worth church

Wedgwood Baptist, See You at the Pole. Four of the dead were teenagers. Larry Gene Ashbrook, 47, of Forest Hill. Police gave no motive.

FORT WORTH · September 15, 1999

World

In Darwin the troops wait; in Dili there are still none

The mandate was voted Wednesday. Australian units are on the harbour. No foreign soldier has landed.

DARWIN · September 15, 1999

Sports

Mets beat the Rockies 10–5 and go to 90–57

Agbayani’s homer. A Wednesday at Coors. The wild card is still a race.

DENVER · September 15, 1999

Nation

Mexico’s former drug prosecutor is found dead in New Jersey

Mario Ruiz Massieu, 48, under house arrest, facing a Houston money-laundering case. His wife found him. An arraignment had been set for Thursday.

PALISADES PARK, N.J. · September 15, 1999

World

The five powers report progress on a new Iraq inspections deal

Sanctions eased in return for inspectors. No vote yet. Baghdad has not said yes.

UNITED NATIONS · September 15, 1999

World

The mandate is voted; Dili still has no foreign troops

Resolution 1264 is paper. The compound is still the compound. Australia is assembling. The landing is not today.

DILI · September 15, 1999

World

Two Moscow apartment houses in five days; crews still at both

Kashirskoye Highway and Guryanova Street. Officials blame the Caucasus. No group has claimed the bombs.

MOSCOW · September 15, 1999

Sports

Yankees take the series 6–4 and leave Toronto 87–58

Two nights after Wells beat them. The East lead holds.

TORONTO · September 15, 1999

Science

108 days until January 1, 2000

Wednesday’s number.

WASHINGTON · September 15, 1999

World

Athens, eight days on: dogs still working the northwest

The official count is still open. The suburbs have not been released.

ATHENS · September 15, 1999

World

At least 95 dead in Monday’s blast on Kashirskoye Highway

The brick house. A second Moscow apartment bombing in five days. Monday was mourning. Tuesday is the search.

MOSCOW · September 14, 1999

World

Athens, seven days on: the search is still a search

The northwest suburbs. The official count is still open.

ATHENS · September 14, 1999

Weather

More than a million ordered off the Florida coast; Floyd is in the Bahamas

Category 4, still at sea. Hurricane warnings from Florida City toward Georgia. No United States landfall.

MIAMI · September 14, 1999

World

Security Council works through the night on a Timor mandate

A draft to authorise force. Troops, ships and aircraft are being assembled. The vote is not tonight’s. Dili has no foreign soldiers.

NEW YORK · September 14, 1999

Sports

Yankees answer 10–6; Williams and O’Neill each drive in four

A night after Wells beat them 2–1. Bernie Williams a grand slam in the eighth. Paul O’Neill another in the ninth. New York is 86–58.

TORONTO · September 14, 1999

Science

109 days until January 1, 2000

Tuesday’s number.

WASHINGTON · September 14, 1999

World

Izmit counts a second night in the tents after the aftershock

Seven dead Monday. The August wreckage is still the landscape. People will not go back inside.

IZMIT · September 14, 1999

World

Second Moscow apartment house destroyed at dawn on Kashirskoye Highway

Five a.m. An eight-story brick block, six kilometres from Thursday’s blast. Monday was already a day of mourning.

MOSCOW · September 13, 1999

World

Aftershock hits Izmit; seven dead, hundreds hurt

A 5.8 tremor just before 3 p.m. People jumped from balconies. The big quake was 17 August. The tents are still the address.

IZMIT · September 13, 1999

World

Alatas flies to New York; the Council is writing the mandate

Jakarta accepted a force on Sunday. The foreign minister is to work out the details. Australia will lead. No foreign soldiers are in Dili.

NEW YORK · September 13, 1999

World

Athens, six days on: the search has not been called off

The northwest suburbs. The official count is still open.

ATHENS · September 13, 1999

Sports

Blue Jays beat the Yankees 2–1

A night after Boston swept the Bronx. New York is 85–58.

TORONTO · September 13, 1999

Sports

Broncos retire Elway’s 7; then they lose 38–21

Monday night at Mile High. The number came down. Miami took the game. Denver is 0–1.

DENVER · September 13, 1999

Sports

Dolphins beat the Broncos 38–21 on Monday night

Miami at Mile High. The defending A.F.C. West is 0–1. The league’s second night.

DENVER · September 13, 1999

Weather

Floyd is a Category 4 hurricane, about 165 miles north of Grand Turk

Winds 155 miles an hour. Pressure 921 millibars. The strongest storm of the season. No U.S. landfall. The Bahamas are being watched.

MIAMI · September 13, 1999

Weather

Hurricane warning up for the northwest Bahamas; Florida is on a watch

Floyd is Category 4 and still at sea. No American landfall. The next islands in the way have the warning.

MIAMI · September 13, 1999

World

Jakarta has accepted a force; the soldiers are not on the ground

Habibie reversed himself on Sunday. The Security Council is writing the mandate. Australia will lead. Dili is still a compound.

DILI · September 13, 1999

Culture

The Practice and Ally McBeal take the Emmys; Sopranos get two

David E. Kelley’s two series took drama and comedy. Edie Falco won. Dennis Franz won his fourth. The new HBO show did not sweep.

LOS ANGELES · September 13, 1999

Science

110 days until January 1, 2000

Monday’s number.

WASHINGTON · September 13, 1999

World

Habibie accepts a UN force for East Timor

After a week of militia violence, Indonesia has agreed to an international peacekeeping force. Australia will lead it. The Security Council is writing the mandate.

JAKARTA · September 12, 1999

Sports

Agassi comes back from two sets to one and wins the Open

6–4, 6–7 (5–7), 6–7 (2–7), 6–3, 6–2 over Todd Martin. Three hours 23 minutes. His fifth Slam, his second U.S. title. Serena won Saturday.

NEW YORK · September 12, 1999

World

Athens, five days on: the northwest suburbs are still a search

Officials have not closed the death toll. Some of the city is still outdoors.

ATHENS · September 12, 1999

Sports

Clemens and the Red Sox complete a sweep, 4–1

Boston takes three in the Bronx. The Yankees are 85–57. Pedro had Friday. Saturday was 11–10. Sunday was the Rocket.

NEW YORK · September 12, 1999

Sports

Cowboys beat the Redskins 41–35 in overtime

The Sunday opener in Washington. Troy Aikman against Brad Johnson. The league is open.

WASHINGTON · September 12, 1999

Weather

Floyd is a major hurricane, still at sea

Category 3 this morning about 315 miles north of San Juan. Strengthening. No U.S. watch has been posted. No landfall.

MIAMI · September 12, 1999

Sports

Jaguars open with 41–3 over the 49ers

Alltel Stadium. A crowd of 68,678. San Francisco had three points. The league is open.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. · September 12, 1999

World

Moscow to mourn the Guryanova dead on Monday

Ninety confirmed on Friday. Luzhkov has called it terror. Putin is still at APEC. Crews are still in the rubble.

MOSCOW · September 12, 1999

Sports

The Browns come back and lose 43–0 to Pittsburgh

Cleveland’s first National Football League game since 1995. Sunday night. The Steelers did not trail.

CLEVELAND · September 12, 1999

Science

111 days until January 1, 2000

Sunday’s number. 9/9/99 is already a Thursday that passed.

WASHINGTON · September 12, 1999

Sports

Serena Williams, 17, wins the U.S. Open

6–3, 7–6 (7–4) over Martina Hingis. Her first Grand Slam singles title. The first Black woman to win the U.S. championship since Althea Gibson in 1958.

NEW YORK · September 11, 1999

Sports

Agassi and Martin set an all-American final

Agassi beat Kafelnikov 1–6, 6–3, 6–3, 6–3. Martin beat Pioline 6–4, 6–1, 6–2. Sunday they play for the Open. Serena already has the women’s title.

NEW YORK · September 11, 1999

World

Athens, four days on: the search has not been called off

The northwest suburbs. The official count is still open. Some of the city is still outdoors.

ATHENS · September 11, 1999

World

Britain cuts off arms sales to Indonesia

Robin Cook announced the embargo on Saturday. Clinton on Thursday had already suspended American military programs. Jakarta has not accepted a force.

LONDON · September 11, 1999

World

Clinton keeps the pressure on; Jakarta has not accepted a force

APEC is in its second day. The compound in Dili was entered Friday. Australia is still offering to lead.

AUCKLAND · September 11, 1999

World

Clinton: future aid depends on what Indonesia does from today

He spoke at APEC on Saturday. The military programs were already cut Thursday. Jakarta has still not accepted a force.

AUCKLAND · September 11, 1999

Weather

Hurricane Floyd is a Category 2 storm, still well out to sea

Upgraded from a tropical storm on Friday. About 265 miles north of Barbuda this morning. No U.S. watch. No landfall.

MIAMI · September 11, 1999

Sports

Red Sox beat the Yankees 11–10

A night after Pedro’s 17 strikeouts. New York is 85–56. Sunday is the series closer.

NEW YORK · September 11, 1999

World

Rescuers still at Guryanova Street; Moscow will mourn on Monday

Ninety confirmed dead. Luzhkov has called it a terrorist act. Putin is in Auckland. Yeltsin stayed.

MOSCOW · September 11, 1999

Science

112 days until January 1, 2000

Saturday’s number.

WASHINGTON · September 11, 1999

World

Moscow blast: 90 confirmed dead; mayor calls it a terrorist act

The count rose sharply on the second day. Luzhkov said there was no longer any doubt. Putin has named Monday a day of mourning.

MOSCOW · September 10, 1999

Business

Andreessen steps down as AOL’s chief technology officer

He remains a strategic adviser. Bill Raduchel, late of Sun Microsystems, takes the job. Netscape’s founder is 28.

DULLES, Va. · September 10, 1999

World

Athens is still a search; three days after Parnitha

Crews remain in the northwest suburbs. The official count has not been closed. People are still sleeping outdoors.

ATHENS · September 10, 1999

World

East Timor, not trade, takes APEC

Pacific Rim leaders opened a summit on Friday. Clinton said Timor would be an important part of the talks. Ramos-Horta is in town asking for a force.

AUCKLAND · September 10, 1999

Weather

Floyd is a hurricane, about 210 miles east-northeast of Barbuda

Upgraded Friday. The National Hurricane Center is watching the western Atlantic. No U.S. watch has been posted.

MIAMI · September 10, 1999

Sports

Hingis beats Venus and kills the all-Williams final

6–1, 4–6, 6–3. Richard Williams left his seat in the second set. Serena is already in Saturday’s final.

NEW YORK · September 10, 1999

World

Militias enter the U.N. compound as staff are being flown out

The Indonesian military had promised protection. After the aircraft left, the militias went in. Damage was done. Clinton, in Auckland, demanded a force.

DILI · September 10, 1999

Sports

Pedro Martínez one-hits the Yankees; 17 strikeouts

Red Sox 3–1. Chili Davis homered in the second for the only New York hit. A crowd of 55,239. Pedro is 21–4.

NEW YORK · September 10, 1999

World

Putin still flies to Auckland after the Moscow blast

Yeltsin is staying in Moscow. The prime minister is the Russian name at APEC. The apartment house is the other file.

MOSCOW · September 10, 1999

Sports

Reds beat the Marlins 4–2

A crowd of 23,262. The game took 2 hours 45 minutes. The wild card is still September’s.

CINCINNATI · September 10, 1999

Business

Sega says more than 225,000 Dreamcasts sold in the first 24 hours

About $98 million in hardware and software. Some launch discs may be faulty. The machine went on sale Thursday.

NEW YORK · September 10, 1999

Sports

Serena beats Davenport and reaches her first Slam final

6–4, 1–6, 6–4. Rain delayed the match more than five hours. Saturday she plays Martina Hingis. Venus lost in the other semi.

NEW YORK · September 10, 1999

Science

113 days until January 1, 2000

Friday’s number. 9/9/99 is already a Thursday that passed.

WASHINGTON · September 10, 1999

World

Blast rips a nine-story apartment house in southeast Moscow; 40 dead

Just after midnight on Guryanova Street. Two stairwells down. About 150 hurt. Luzhkov says a bomb.

MOSCOW · September 9, 1999

Science

9/9/99 passes; the machines do not stop

Some older programs used 9999 as an end-of-file code. Governments watched. The disruption was minimal. January 1 is still the test.

WASHINGTON · September 9, 1999

World

Athens still digging; the count is not finished

Two days after the shock. Crews are in the northwest suburbs. An 11-year-old boy was pulled out after 23 hours. Rain has slowed the work.

ATHENS · September 9, 1999

World

Clinton suspends all U.S. military programs with Indonesia

Effective immediately. If Jakarta will not stop the killing in East Timor, he said, it must invite the international community in. New lending is already frozen.

WASHINGTON · September 9, 1999

Weather

Floyd is still a tropical storm, and still well out to sea

Named Wednesday. Strengthening is forecast. No landfall is on the advisory. Dennis is finished.

MIAMI · September 9, 1999

Culture

Lauryn Hill takes Video of the Year; Britney plays the Opera House

Chris Rock hosted at the Met. Hill’s Doo Wop (That Thing) is the first hip-hop video to win the top prize. She took four awards.

NEW YORK · September 9, 1999

World

Martial law is two days old; the compound is still the address

Clinton cut the military programs. Jakarta has not accepted a force. UNAMET is inside the fence. Belo is in Darwin.

DILI · September 9, 1999

Business

Sega’s Dreamcast goes on sale in North America

The last console Sega will put in American stores. Sonic is on the box. The price is $199. Japan had it in November.

NEW YORK · September 9, 1999

Science

114 days until January 1, 2000

Thursday’s number. The nines did not stop the machines.

WASHINGTON · September 9, 1999

World

Athens count rises: at least 64 dead, 60 still missing

Fifteen hundred injured, officials said Wednesday. Crews are in the slabs in the northwest suburbs. Turkey’s teams have arrived.

ATHENS · September 8, 1999

Culture

‘The Sixth Sense’ posts a record Labor Day; fifth week at No. 1

About $29.3 million over four days. It beats The Fugitive’s $17.2 million from 1993. The cume is about $176 million.

LOS ANGELES · September 8, 1999

World

Aftershocks keep Athens outdoors; parks and beaches filled overnight

Hundreds of jolts since Tuesday afternoon. Tens of thousands slept in the open. The national road jammed as people left the city.

ATHENS · September 8, 1999

Sports

Agassi beats Escudé and reaches the Open semifinals

7–6, 6–3, 6–4. Kafelnikov also went through, in five sets against Krajicek.

NEW YORK · September 8, 1999

Sports

Athletics beat the Red Sox 6–2

A crowd of 20,251. The game took 2 hours 53 minutes. Boston is 79–61.

OAKLAND · September 8, 1999

Business

Bank of England raises rates a quarter-point, to 5.25 percent

The City had not priced it. The FTSE 100 closed down 55.90 at 6,253.60. The pound rose.

LONDON · September 8, 1999

Sports

Braves beat the Cardinals 5–4; Atlanta is 89–52

A crowd of 36,454. The game took 2 hours 28 minutes. The East is still theirs.

ATLANTA · September 8, 1999

World

C-130s are still bringing people into Darwin

The flights that started Monday have not stopped. Belo is already there. UNAMET staff keep coming off the aircraft.

DARWIN · September 8, 1999

Sports

Denmark stun Italy 3–2 in Naples

Italy led 2–0. Jørgensen, Wieghorst and Tomasson turned the San Paolo around. The play-offs are still on the fixture list. The night will travel anyway.

NAPLES · September 8, 1999

Sports

El Guerrouj breaks the 2,000-meter world record

4:44.79 on Tuesday night at ISTAF. He already has the mile and the 1,500. Morceli had all three.

BERLIN · September 8, 1999

World

Habibie tells a U.N. delegation the bloodshed reports are ‘fantasies’

A United Nations team reached Jakarta on Wednesday. The president called the accounts from Dili lies. Martial law is a day old.

JAKARTA · September 8, 1999

Nation

Helicopters spray New York again after the encephalitis cases

The city is still calling it St. Louis encephalitis. Standing water and adult mosquitoes are the targets. Queens was first.

NEW YORK · September 8, 1999

World

Jakarta says no to an international force

Indonesia will handle security itself, officials said. Australia has been asking. The Security Council has not voted a mandate.

JAKARTA · September 8, 1999

Sports

Mets beat the Giants 7–5 and split the set

A crowd of 26,499. The game took 3 hours 13 minutes. Tuesday they had lost 7–4.

NEW YORK · September 8, 1999

Sports

Reds beat the Cubs 6–4

A crowd of 35,200. The game took 2 hours 52 minutes. Cincinnati takes the series.

CHICAGO · September 8, 1999

World

Second day in the slabs; dogs are working Ano Liosia

The official count is at least 64 dead and 60 missing. About 1,500 have been treated.

ATHENS · September 8, 1999

Sports

Serena Williams, 17, beats Seles and reaches her first Slam semifinal

4–6, 6–3, 6–2. Next is Lindsay Davenport, the defending champion. Venus is already in the other half.

NEW YORK · September 8, 1999

Weather

The depression is now Tropical Storm Floyd

About 800 miles east of the Leeward Islands. Forty miles an hour at 5 a.m. About 60 by night. Further strengthening is forecast.

MIAMI · September 8, 1999

Business

The Viacom–CBS paper is the talk of the Street

Nearly $37 billion in stock. Second-largest media company if it closes. Regulators have not spoken.

NEW YORK · September 8, 1999

Sports

Yankees beat the Royals 9–5

A crowd of 15,247. The game took 3 hours 46 minutes. New York is 85–54.

KANSAS CITY · September 8, 1999

World

Yeltsin telephones Clinton; the Kremlin rejects the money-laundering file

The two spoke Wednesday. Dagestan, arms control and the new prime minister, Vladimir Putin, were on the call. The Bank of New York story is still in the papers.

MOSCOW · September 8, 1999

Science

115 days until January 1, 2000

Wednesday’s number.

WASHINGTON · September 8, 1999

World

Earthquake hits Athens; dozens dead, the count still moving

A quake northwest of the capital brought down apartment blocks in the afternoon. Rescue crews are in the rubble. The count of the dead is still being made.

ATHENS · September 7, 1999

Culture

‘Runaway Bride’ holds second behind ‘The Sixth Sense’

Julia Roberts and Richard Gere. About $400,000 on Tuesday. The summer picture has not left.

LOS ANGELES · September 7, 1999

Culture

‘The Sixth Sense’ is still first after Labor Day

About $1.7 million on Tuesday. Runaway Bride is next. The secret is still the ticket.

LOS ANGELES · September 7, 1999

World

43,000 have crossed into West Timor; 60,000 more are being moved

A Tuesday count from the border. Indonesian forces are pushing people west. The camps on the other side are already short.

KUPANG · September 7, 1999

Weather

A tropical depression forms in the far eastern Atlantic

The National Hurricane Center is watching a wave well out to sea. Dennis is already inland and dying. This one is days from any coast.

MIAMI · September 7, 1999

Sports

Astros beat the Phillies 8–6

A crowd of 12,934. The game took 3 hours 25 minutes.

PHILADELPHIA · September 7, 1999

World

Bishop Belo is flown to Darwin after his house was burned

The Nobel laureate left Dili a day after militias attacked the compound. UNAMET is still inside its headquarters. The C-130s are still running.

DARWIN · September 7, 1999

Sports

Braves beat the Cardinals 3–2; Atlanta is 88–52

Tuesday night in the National League East. The Braves still hold the division.

ATLANTA · September 7, 1999

Sports

Cubs take the opener 2–1; Reds take the night 10–3

A doubleheader at Wrigley. The night crowd was 33,040. The game took three hours. The wild card is still September’s.

CHICAGO · September 7, 1999

Weather

Dennis is extratropical over New York; the name is finished

Landfall was Saturday at Cape Lookout. Tuesday the low is inland and dying. The rivers in Carolina still have the rain.

RALEIGH · September 7, 1999

World

Dili’s streets are empty; the compound is not

Martial law is the paper from Jakarta. Fires are the fact on the ground. UNAMET has not left the fence.

DILI · September 7, 1999

Culture

Enrique Iglesias’s ‘Bailamos’ holds No. 1 in the United States

The song reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 last week. It is still there on Tuesday.

NEW YORK · September 7, 1999

Sports

Giants beat the Mets 7–4 at Shea

A crowd of 24,002. The game took 3 hours 43 minutes. New York is 84–55.

NEW YORK · September 7, 1999

Nation

Hampton is still a cleanup after the tornado and the storm

Clinton signed the disaster paper Monday. Dennis is off the map. The apartments are not back.

HAMPTON, Va. · September 7, 1999

World

Indonesia puts East Timor under martial law

The decree is Tuesday. Dili is still burning. UNAMET is the compound. Belo is already in Darwin.

JAKARTA · September 7, 1999

Sports

Mariners beat the Blue Jays 7–4 at Safeco

A crowd of 39,709. The game took 2 hours 43 minutes.

SEATTLE · September 7, 1999

Sports

Marlins beat the Dodgers 2–1; two Canadians start

Ryan Dempster against Éric Gagné. Neither got the decision. A crowd of 13,644. The game took 2 hours 46 minutes.

MIAMI · September 7, 1999

Nation

New York keeps spraying after the encephalitis cases in Queens

The city is treating it as St. Louis encephalitis. Standing water is being treated. Helicopters flew last week.

NEW YORK · September 7, 1999

World

Night search in the northwest suburbs; a factory is down

Crews are in the slabs. Ano Liosia was named first. The official count is not finished.

ATHENS · September 7, 1999

Science

Offices reopen; the tests are not finished

Labor Day is over. There are 116 days until January 1, 2000. The machines do not take the holiday.

WASHINGTON · September 7, 1999

Sports

Pirates beat the Padres 3–1

A crowd of 11,058. The game took 2 hours 34 minutes.

PITTSBURGH · September 7, 1999

Sports

Red Sox beat the Athletics 5–3 on the road

A crowd of 21,195. The game took 3 hours 28 minutes. Boston is 79–60.

OAKLAND · September 7, 1999

Sports

Royals beat the Yankees 6–3 at Kauffman

A crowd of 14,207. The game took 3 hours 28 minutes. New York is 84–54.

KANSAS CITY · September 7, 1999

Business

S&P 500 closes at 1,350.45

The first full session after Labor Day. Viacom and CBS agreed to combine the same day.

NEW YORK · September 7, 1999

Sports

Seles beats Capriati 6–4, 6–3 and stays in the Open

Monica Seles is the No. 4 seed. Jennifer Capriati is out. Mary Pierce also went through.

NEW YORK · September 7, 1999

Sports

Sosa goes hitless in the opener; the night game is Cincinnati’s

The Cubs won 2–1 in the afternoon. The Reds won 10–3 after dark. Sosa’s home-run lead is still his.

CHICAGO · September 7, 1999

Weather

The Tar and the Neuse still have Dennis’s rain

The name is off the map. The rivers are not. Ocracoke measured more than a foot last week. Highway 12 is still a problem.

RALEIGH · September 7, 1999

World

Three weeks after Izmit, Ankara sends help to Athens

The Marmara camps are still up. Tuesday the same geology hit a second capital.

IZMIT · September 7, 1999

Sports

Todd Martin comes back from two sets down to beat Rusedski

5–7, 0–6, 7–6, 6–4, 6–4. The American stays in the U.S. Open. Sampras is already gone.

NEW YORK · September 7, 1999

World

Turkey offers crews to Athens three weeks after Izmit

The two capitals spent August as rivals. Tuesday they are in the same geology.

ANKARA · September 7, 1999

Sports

U.S. Open plays a Tuesday night; grounds admission is $35

The last day at that price. The Mets are at Shea the same night. Martin already survived Rusedski.

NEW YORK · September 7, 1999

World

UN staff stay in the compound with the people who cannot leave

The C-130s are taking those who can reach the field. The compound still has a crowd inside the fence.

DILI · September 7, 1999

World

UNAMET holds the Dili compound; the rest of the map is empty

The eight regional offices closed Monday. Staff who remain are inside the headquarters. Vehicles on the airport road were already fired on.

DILI · September 7, 1999

Business

Viacom to buy CBS in a deal near $37 billion

The companies agreed Tuesday. The combination would be the world’s second-largest media company. Sumner Redstone would lead it.

NEW YORK · September 7, 1999

Nation

Western wildfires are still burning after Labor Day

California and the other dry states. Crews that worked the holiday are still on the lines.

SACRAMENTO · September 7, 1999

Science

116 days until January 1, 2000

Tuesday’s number.

WASHINGTON · September 7, 1999

World

Massacre at the church in Suai; priests are among the dead

Hundreds were inside Ave Maria when Laksaur militia and soldiers entered on Monday. Three priests are among the dead. A first official total is not agreed.

SUAI · September 6, 1999

Business

50 million Europeans are online; almost none of them shop

A European Commission study. Sweden and Denmark are near 20 percent of households. E-mail is the use. Commerce is not.

BRUSSELS · September 6, 1999

Sports

Angels beat the Yankees 5–3 on Labor Day

A crowd of 31,749. The game took 2 hours 44 minutes. New York is 84–53.

ANAHEIM · September 6, 1999

World

Australian C-130s begin taking UN staff out of East Timor

The RAAF started an evacuation on Monday. The security picture overnight has already cut how many can reach the airfield.

DARWIN · September 6, 1999

Nation

Clinton declares a major disaster in Virginia after Dennis

Tropical Storm Dennis and the tornadoes with it. Federal help is open to residents and businesses in Hampton.

WASHINGTON · September 6, 1999

Weather

Dennis is a remnant; the rivers still have the week of rain

Landfall was Saturday at Cape Lookout. Labor Day the name is inland and dying. Ocracoke has already measured more than a foot.

RALEIGH · September 6, 1999

Culture

Labor Day: ‘The Sixth Sense’ posts a holiday record

Four days, about $29 million. The largest Labor Day weekend to date. The picture has been first since August.

LOS ANGELES · September 6, 1999

World

Militias burn Bishop Belo’s house; thousands had taken refuge there

The Nobel laureate’s residence was attacked on Monday. He is being moved out of Dili. The church in Suai was hit the same day.

DILI · September 6, 1999

World

Militias raid the Red Cross compound; staff taken at gunpoint

About 2,000 people were inside. Expatriate ICRC staff are being flown to Darwin. The house is no longer a refuge.

DILI · September 6, 1999

World

Mubarak survives a knife attack in Port Said

A man reached the car as the president greeted the crowd. The wound is to the hand. Guards killed the attacker. Mubarak gave the speech anyway.

PORT SAID · September 6, 1999

Sports

U.S. Open plays Labor Day; the second week is next

Sampras is gone. Rafter is gone. The grounds are open. The finals are Saturday and Sunday.

NEW YORK · September 6, 1999

World

UNAMET abandons its eight regional offices and pulls back to Dili

International staff are being withdrawn to headquarters. Vehicles on the road to the airport were fired on.

DILI · September 6, 1999

Science

117 days until January 1, 2000

Monday’s number. Labor Day.

WASHINGTON · September 6, 1999

World

Dili burns a second day; UNAMET stays inside the compound

The result is a day old. Militias and elements of the security forces are still in the streets. Foreign staff are being told to keep their heads down.

DILI · September 5, 1999

World

Columns leave Dili for the hills and for West Timor

Tens of thousands are on the roads. Foreign journalists are leaving. UNAMET has not left the compound.

DILI · September 5, 1999

Weather

Dennis is inland and weakening; the rivers have the rain

Landfall was Saturday at Cape Lookout. Sunday the center is over the state. Ocracoke has already measured more than a foot.

RALEIGH · September 5, 1999

Culture

Labor Day Sunday: ‘The Sixth Sense’ is still the picture

Four weeks at No. 1. The holiday weekend is this film’s. Monday is the last day of it.

LOS ANGELES · September 5, 1999

World

Militias and soldiers attack the Catholic diocese in Dili

Hundreds had taken refuge there. Annan is pressing Jakarta to restore order or accept an international force.

DILI · September 5, 1999

Nation

New England Airlines Piper goes down after takeoff from Westerly

The scheduled hop was to Block Island. The pilot and two passengers were killed. Two others were badly hurt.

WESTERLY, R.I. · September 5, 1999

Sports

Reds beat the Phillies again, 9–7, a day after 22–3

Cincinnati scored nine this time. The game took 2 hours 46 minutes. The National League wild card is still September’s argument.

PHILADELPHIA · September 5, 1999

World

Rescuers dig at a wrecked apartment house in Buynaksk

The blast was Saturday night. The building housed Russian military families. The count is still rising.

BUYNAKSK · September 5, 1999

Culture

Shania Twain’s ‘Come On Over’ is No. 1 in Britain again

It rose from No. 3. The album has been on the U.K. chart for 74 weeks.

LONDON · September 5, 1999

World

Suai: houses and offices burn; hundreds are inside a church

Laksaur militia and soldiers hit a neighborhood on Saturday. On Sunday evening the town itself is on fire. The Ave Maria church is the refuge.

SUAI · September 5, 1999

Sports

U.S. Open plays a Labor Day Sunday without its top seed

Sampras withdrew. Rafter retired. The second week starts after the holiday. The Mets are in the other park in Queens.

NEW YORK · September 5, 1999

Sports

Yankees beat the Angels 8–3 on the road

A crowd of 35,481. The game took 3 hours 16 minutes. New York is 84–52.

ANAHEIM · September 5, 1999

Science

118 days until January 1, 2000

Sunday’s number.

WASHINGTON · September 5, 1999

World

East Timor rejects autonomy: 78.5 percent vote for independence

Ian Martin read the numbers in Dili. Kofi Annan read them in New York. 344,580 to 94,388. The ballot was 30 August. The count finished this morning.

DILI · September 4, 1999

World

Barak and Arafat sign a timetable at Sharm el-Sheikh

Albright, Mubarak and King Abdullah looked on. Israel is to give up more of the West Bank. Three hundred and fifty prisoners are to be released. Final-status talks are to resume.

SHARM EL-SHEIKH · September 4, 1999

Weather

Dennis comes ashore at Cape Lookout as a strong tropical storm

Landfall just before 5 p.m. Winds near 70 miles an hour. The hurricane flag was never restored. The Banks have had the rain for a week.

MIAMI · September 4, 1999

Culture

Labor Day Saturday: ‘The Sixth Sense’ still owns the multiplex

Four weeks at No. 1. About $147 million already. The holiday box office is this picture’s.

LOS ANGELES · September 4, 1999

Sports

Mets beat the Rockies 4–2 at Shea

A crowd of 43,431. The game took 2 hours 31 minutes. September in Queens.

NEW YORK · September 4, 1999

Sports

Reds 22–3: nine home runs in one night against Philadelphia

Cincinnati tied a National League record. Eddie Taubensee hit two. Seven teammates hit one each. Labor Day weekend, and the Phillies were finished early.

CINCINNATI · September 4, 1999

World

Truck bomb levels an apartment house in Buynaksk; 64 dead

Twenty-three of the dead are children. The building housed Russian military families. A second truck near a hospital was defused.

BUYNAKSK · September 4, 1999

Sports

U.S. Open plays through Labor Day without Sampras

The world No. 1 is gone. The defending champion is gone. The second week starts after the holiday.

NEW YORK · September 4, 1999

Nation

Willow Fire at 63,375 acres and half contained; Bridge Fire still out

More than 2,700 people on the lines northeast of Lake Arrowhead. The Bridge Fire has burned another 7,100 acres.

LAKE ARROWHEAD, Calif. · September 4, 1999

World

Within hours of the result, militias set fires in Dili

Ian Martin read the numbers this morning. By afternoon the capital was burning. Journalists and observers are leaving. The UNAMET compound is the other address.

DILI · September 4, 1999

Science

119 days until January 1, 2000

Saturday’s number.

WASHINGTON · September 4, 1999

World

Annan tells the Security Council: East Timor has rejected autonomy

78.5 percent against. 344,580 to 94,388. He spoke at 9:02 p.m. in New York. In Dili it is already 4 September.

UNITED NATIONS · September 3, 1999

Nation

City sprays northern Queens; CDC calls the illness St. Louis encephalitis

Helicopters and trucks went out at dusk. The federal laboratory result came back Friday. Dead crows are still in the parks.

QUEENS, N.Y. · September 3, 1999

Weather

Dennis hangs south of Hatteras; the rain has not left the Banks

The tropical storm is still at sea. A burst of convection is in the forecast. Landfall is not today.

MIAMI · September 3, 1999

World

Eighty-seven vehicles in fog on Highway 401; eight dead

Visibility dropped to almost nothing east of Windsor. Seven died at the scene. One died later. Forty-five were injured. The airport’s fog warning did not go out.

WINDSOR, Ontario · September 3, 1999

Sports

Indians beat the Orioles 7–6 and stay in front

A crowd of 41,521. The game took 3 hours 20 minutes. Cleveland is 84–50.

BALTIMORE · September 3, 1999

Culture

Labor Day weekend opens with ‘The Sixth Sense’ still first

Four weeks at No. 1. About $147 million already. The holiday is three days of the same secret.

LOS ANGELES · September 3, 1999

World

LAPA 3142: the wreck is still on the river road

Three days after the overrun the count is 65. Investigators have the recorders. The destination was Córdoba.

BUENOS AIRES · September 3, 1999

World

Maliana burns overnight; UN staff shelter in a police station

Militia surrounded the UNAMET office at dusk. Two local drivers were killed. By morning at least 20 houses were on fire. The count is nearly done. It is not public.

MALIANA · September 3, 1999

Sports

U.S. Open second week is next; Sampras is already gone

The world No. 1 withdrew. The defending champion retired. Labor Day weekend is the middle of the draw.

NEW YORK · September 3, 1999

World

UNAMET said this morning the count was nearly done

The split was still inside the building at midday. Tonight the Secretary-General has read it in New York.

DILI · September 3, 1999

Nation

United Shuttle 2036 drops at 24,000 feet; about 15 hurt

Los Angeles to San Francisco, Thursday afternoon. Investigators have the Friday file. The jet is a Boeing 737.

SAN FRANCISCO · September 3, 1999

Science

120 days until January 1, 2000

Friday’s number. Four months, if you count from here.

WASHINGTON · September 3, 1999

World

Militias open a campaign of arson across the territory

Pro-Jakarta groups, at times with elements of the Indonesian security forces, are looting and burning beyond Dili. The count is still not public.

DILI · September 2, 1999

Culture

‘The Sixth Sense’ is still first; $147 million and counting

Thursday’s take was just under $2 million. The picture has been No. 1 for four weeks. Labor Day weekend is next.

LOS ANGELES · September 2, 1999

Weather

Dennis is pushed south; the Banks are still in the rain

A ridge over the eastern United States has turned the tropical storm. Winds are still near 50 miles an hour. Highway 12 is not clear.

MIAMI · September 2, 1999

Sports

Indians beat the Angels 6–5 and keep the best record

A crowd of 43,369 at Jacobs Field. The game took 2 hours 44 minutes. Cleveland is still the team to catch in the American League.

CLEVELAND · September 2, 1999

Nation

New York prepares to spray northern Queens at dusk Friday

The working name is still St. Louis encephalitis. Dead crows are still in the parks. Labor Day weekend is the clock.

QUEENS, N.Y. · September 2, 1999

World

The boxes are still being counted; UNAMET will not read a number today

The result is to be announced in Dili and in New York together. Thursday is the third day of the count. The split is still inside.

DILI · September 2, 1999

World

The LAPA wreck is still on the Costanera; the count stays at 65

Thursday is the second full day after the overrun. Investigators are on the field. Córdoba was the destination. The flight never left the ground.

BUENOS AIRES · September 2, 1999

Sports

The U.S. Open goes on without Sampras

The world No. 1 withdrew with a herniated disk. Rafter is already out. The first week is not finished.

NEW YORK · September 2, 1999

World

Two UN local staff killed; militia surrounds the Maliana office

The compound in Dili is still open. Maliana is not. The count has not been read. It will not be read today.

MALIANA · September 2, 1999

Science

121 days until January 1, 2000

Thursday’s number.

WASHINGTON · September 2, 1999

World

Militia attack outside UNAMET; Annan condemns the killings

Aitarak moved on independence supporters beside the compound this afternoon. The Secretary-General’s office said at least two people were killed. The count is still inside.

DILI · September 1, 1999

World

A hundred years of the September Compromise

In the first days of September 1899, Danish employers and the unions signed the settlement that still sits under the labour market. This week is the centenary.

COPENHAGEN · September 1, 1999

Business

Apple’s Power Mac G4 arrives; Motorola’s chip is the point

Steve Jobs showed the tower at Seybold on Tuesday. The PowerPC G4 has a vector unit Apple calls the Velocity Engine. Prices start with a 400-megahertz machine.

SAN FRANCISCO · September 1, 1999

Sports

Athletics beat the Yankees 7–1; Cleveland takes the best record

Oakland scored in four innings at the Stadium. The Yankees are 81–51. The Indians, after beating Anaheim, sit a game ahead.

NEW YORK · September 1, 1999

Sports

Baseball and the umpires reach an interim deal; 22 are still out

The mass resignations were to take effect Thursday. An agreement today pays the men through the year. It does not put all of them back on the field.

NEW YORK · September 1, 1999

Business

Boeing 717 wins joint FAA and JAA certification

The 100-seat twinjet is the first airliner certified on a single American-European basis. AirTran is to take the first one this month.

LONG BEACH, Calif. · September 1, 1999

World

Buenos Aires counts the LAPA dead; 37 got out of the 737

Sixty-five were killed on Tuesday night, 63 on the aircraft and two on the ground. The wreck is still on the Costanera.

BUENOS AIRES · September 1, 1999

World

Cessna hits Mount Meru; 10 American tourists among 12 dead

A Northern Air charter from the Serengeti came down in cloud on the volcano. No one on board survived. Rescuers reached the wreck overnight.

ARUSHA · September 1, 1999

Nation

Clinton declares a federal emergency as California burns

Preparedness Level IV. The Willow Fire has crossed Highway 173. Thirty structures are gone. The Bridge Fire is north of Azusa.

WASHINGTON · September 1, 1999

Weather

Dennis is a tropical storm; the Outer Banks are not done with it

The National Hurricane Center took the hurricane flag down on Wednesday. The eye is still at sea east of Hatteras. Highway 12 is still overwashed.

MIAMI · September 1, 1999

Sports

Indians beat Anaheim 8–1 and take the league’s best record

Dave Burba went the distance. Jacobs Field sold another night. Cleveland is 82–50.

CLEVELAND · September 1, 1999

Sports

Mets beat the Astros 9–5 at the Astrodome

New York is 81–53. The crowd was 24,112. September in a dome.

HOUSTON · September 1, 1999

Culture

Outside Providence opens; the Farrellys go back to Pawtucket

Miramax has put the picture into wide American release today. Alec Baldwin is the father. Amy Smart is the girl at prep school. Peter Farrelly’s 1988 novel is the source.

LOS ANGELES · September 1, 1999

Nation

Queens encephalitis cluster is still unnamed; the city will spray

Northern Queens has the patients. Dead crows are still in the parks. The working name remains St. Louis encephalitis. Labor Day weekend is the spray window.

QUEENS, N.Y. · September 1, 1999

Sports

Sampras withdraws from the Open; Rafter is already out

A herniated disk. The world No. 1 will not play. The two-time defending champion retired Tuesday with a shoulder. Queens has lost its top names in two days.

NEW YORK · September 1, 1999

World

Sixty years since Germany walked into Poland

Westerplatte was first. The war in Europe began this morning in 1939. The century is ending with the monuments still being laid.

GDANSK · September 1, 1999

Weather

Smoke from northern forest fires covers the valleys

Plumas and Shasta-Trinity are burning. Satellite pictures on Wednesday showed the plumes. Containment is not the word from the forests.

REDDING, Calif. · September 1, 1999

World

The boxes are in Dili; the split is still not public

Helicopters finished the haul. The count is central. UNAMET will not read a result today. Militias are on the streets of the capital.

DILI · September 1, 1999

Nation

Ty says Beanie Babies will be retired on New Year’s Eve

A notice on the company’s Web site named 11:59 p.m. Central time, 31 December. Collectors went to the phones. Ty did not expand on the line.

CHICAGO · September 1, 1999

Culture

Venice opens with Eyes Wide Shut; Kubrick’s last picture

The 56th festival runs through 11 September. Emir Kusturica is president of the jury. The opening film is already in American theatres.

VENICE · September 1, 1999

Science

122 days until January 1, 2000

Wednesday’s number. September is the first full month that is only 1999.

WASHINGTON · September 1, 1999

World

Boxes to Dili; UNAMET will not read a result today

Polling closed yesterday. Helicopters are lifting the sealed boxes. Turnout was very heavy. The split of the vote is not public. Militias have not left the roads.

DILI · August 31, 1999

Sports

Athletics beat the Yankees 3–2 in extra innings

Oakland takes the series even. The Yankees are 81–50, tied with Cleveland for the league’s best record.

NEW YORK · August 31, 1999

Business

Clear Channel will stream stations with Windows Media

Microsoft’s format. More than 44 million listeners a week, the company said.

SAN ANTONIO · August 31, 1999

Weather

Dennis stalls east of Cape Hatteras; the eye stays at sea

Steering currents have collapsed. The hurricane is drifting. Highway 12 is still overwashed. Power is out in pockets of the Outer Banks.

HATTERAS, N.C. · August 31, 1999

World

Ever Decent is still in the Channel; the fire was declared out yesterday

The containership has not been moved to Zeebrugge. Cyanide and other cargo are still on board. The Strait is watching the weather.

DOVER · August 31, 1999

World

Gleno convoy reaches Dili; 150 UN staff get through

They were blocked all day. Tonight a 17-vehicle convoy drove into UNAMET headquarters. Local staff came with them.

DILI · August 31, 1999

Sports

Indians score 10 in the eighth and beat Anaheim 14–12

They trailed 12–4. Jacobs Field sold out again. The win ties them with the Yankees for the best record in the league.

CLEVELAND · August 31, 1999

World

LAPA 737 overruns at Aeroparque; 65 dead

Flight 3142 did not get airborne. It ran off the runway, crossed the Costanera and hit a gas plant. Sixty-three people on the aircraft and two on the ground were killed. Córdoba was the destination.

BUENOS AIRES · August 31, 1999

Science

Microsoft ships a patch for two ActiveX holes

A malicious page could act on a Windows machine. The fix is out Tuesday.

REDMOND, Wash. · August 31, 1999

Weather

South Carolina cleans up; a tropical storm warning runs to Maryland

Dennis’s eye is east of Hatteras. Gusts near Cape Fear had reached 80 m.p.h. The gale warning is posted as far as Delaware.

CHARLESTON, S.C. · August 31, 1999

Nation

The Sixth Sense is still first; $143 million and climbing

Bruce Willis. A boy who sees the dead. Four weeks in, it has not left the top of the American chart.

LOS ANGELES · August 31, 1999

Sports

The U.S. Open’s first round continues in Queens

Hard courts. Heat. Day two. The last Grand Slam of the year is not yet the second week.

NEW YORK · August 31, 1999

Science

123 days until January 1, 2000

Tuesday’s number. The boxes in Dili are the other clock.

WASHINGTON · August 31, 1999

World

East Timor votes: long lines, a UN ballot, militias still about

Polling stations opened this morning. People have walked miles. The United Nations is counting heads, not yet results. Jakarta is pledged to honor the vote. The roads will have the last word.

DILI · August 30, 1999

World

Australia watches the Timor ballot; ships are in northern waters

Canberra has pledged to honor the United Nations process. The Defence Force is at Darwin. No landing has been ordered. Monday is a vote, not a deployment.

DARWIN · August 30, 1999

Weather

Dennis crawls off North Carolina; the eye stays at sea

The hurricane is moving slowly north along the coast. The center has not come ashore. Beaches are losing sand. Tens of thousands are without power.

MOREHEAD CITY, N.C. · August 30, 1999

World

Fire out on Ever Decent; she prepares to move to Zeebrugge

The Maritime and Coastguard Agency said so today. Seven days after the collision. Cyanide containers remain on board for the tow.

DOVER · August 30, 1999

World

Jakarta says it will honor the Timor vote; the army is still there

President Habibie offered the ballot in January. The Indonesian military remains in the territory. Militias that spent August on the roads have not been disarmed.

JAKARTA · August 30, 1999

Sports

The U.S. Open begins in Queens

The last Grand Slam of the year. Hard courts. Heat. The draw is posted. First balls today.

NEW YORK · August 30, 1999

World

UNAMET closes the stations; turnout was heavy, the count is not tonight

Polling ended at 16:00 in Dili. Boxes are being moved. The United Nations will not read a result today. Militias have not left the roads.

DILI · August 30, 1999

Weather

Wilmington shuts schools and courts as Dennis stays offshore

New Hanover County closed offices for the day. The Red Cross opened shelters. The eye has not come ashore. Highway 12 is already overwashed.

WILMINGTON, N.C. · August 30, 1999

Science

124 days until January 1, 2000

Monday’s number. The ballot in East Timor is the other clock.

WASHINGTON · August 30, 1999

World

East Timor votes tomorrow; militias still on the roads tonight

Polling stations open in the morning. Jakarta is pledged to keep order.

DILI · August 29, 1999

Culture

‘The Sixth Sense’ still first; domestic take near $140 million

Sunday’s estimated $5.57 million put the running total at about $138.9 million. It has been first since it opened. Mickey Blue Eyes is second tonight.

LOS ANGELES · August 29, 1999

World

Annan asks East Timor for a day of peace at the ballot

On the eve of the United Nations consultation the secretary-general called for restraint and tolerance. Polling is Monday.

NEW YORK · August 29, 1999

World

Cargo ship Iris I founders off Portugal; eight crew rescued

The Saint Vincent–registered vessel went down in the Atlantic at 41 degrees 42 minutes north, 9 degrees 42 minutes west. The crew was taken off.

LISBON · August 29, 1999

Nation

Cessna T210M crashes near Marcola; three dead

The aircraft, N747CC, hit trees on a forested hillside. The pilot and two passengers were killed.

PORTLAND · August 29, 1999

Weather

Dennis is a Category 2 hurricane, 105 mph, headed toward the Carolina coast

Central pressure 962 millibars. The National Weather Service said the storm approached the region on Sunday as a strong Category 2. No landfall has been named.

MIAMI · August 29, 1999

World

Ever Decent still in the Channel five days after the collision

Tugs remain alongside. Two cyanide containers are still on board. The Maritime and Coastguard Agency has not yet declared the fire out.

DOVER · August 29, 1999

Sports

Jong Song-ok of North Korea wins the women’s marathon

2:26:59. Ari Ichihashi of Japan 2:27:02. Lidia Șimon of Romania 2:27:41. North Korea’s first world title in athletics. She dedicated the gold to Kim Jong-il.

SEVILLE · August 29, 1999

Sports

Kipketer wins the 800 meters in Seville in 1:43.30

His third consecutive world title. Hezekiel Sepeng of South Africa took silver in 1:43.32. Djabir Saïd-Guerni of Algeria was third in 1:44.18. The final was at 20:30.

SEVILLE · August 29, 1999

World

KLA demilitarization is due by Sept. 19; Kosovo remains tense

The June undertaking with KFOR gave the Kosovo Liberation Army 90 days. Hashim Thaçi is the political director. Weapons are still being collected.

PRISTINA · August 29, 1999

Culture

Lou Bega’s ‘Mambo No. 5’ opens at No. 1 in Britain

The German singer’s version of Perez Prado’s 1949 mambo entered the UK singles chart at the top. Two weeks at No. 1 begin today.

LONDON · August 29, 1999

World

Melbourne trains and trams pass to private operators today

The franchises take effect Sunday. Bayside Trains and V/Line Passenger are among them. National Express takes V/Line Passenger.

MELBOURNE · August 29, 1999

Sports

Morten Olsen named to succeed Bo Johansson after Euro 2000

The Danish Football Association has appointed the former captain. He takes the national team when Johansson’s contract ends next summer.

COPENHAGEN · August 29, 1999

World

Nyrup speaks at Ejer Bavnehøj on the tower’s 75th year

The prime minister addressed a folk meeting at the hill in Jutland. The tower was raised in 1924.

SKANDERBORG · August 29, 1999

Sports

Sosa hits his 54th; Cubs beat the Dodgers 6-0

The home run leads the majors. Sunday night at Dodger Stadium.

LOS ANGELES · August 29, 1999

World

Sowind Air Piper loses power and puts down in a Manitoba marsh

Everyone on board got out near Princess Harbour. Fire later destroyed the aircraft.

WINNIPEG · August 29, 1999

Sports

United States win the 4x100 in 37.59; Britain take silver

World-leading time at 19:50. Drummond, Montgomery, Lewis, Greene. Great Britain 37.73, a European record. Brazil 38.05.

SEVILLE · August 29, 1999

Nation

Wildfires in the West have burned more than 150,000 acres; a firefighter is dead

Stephen Masto of Santa Barbara died of heat stroke Friday on the Camuesa Fire. The Willow Fire, burning since Saturday in the San Bernardino forest, is into Apple Valley. Homes have been evacuated.

SAN FRANCISCO · August 29, 1999

Science

125 days until January 1, 2000

Federal agencies say they are nearly done. Banks have run weekend tests. The White House Y2K office has asked the public not to empty accounts.

WASHINGTON · August 29, 1999

World

U.S. warns Indonesia over violence two days before the ballot

The State Department put Jakarta on notice as militias still roam Dili. Monday’s independence vote is still on the calendar. Getting to a polling station is the other question.

WASHINGTON · August 28, 1999

World

A prince is born at Rigshospitalet; Margrethe’s first grandchild

Prince Joachim and Princess Alexandra have a son, Nikolai William Alexander Frederik. He is a prince of Denmark and in the line of succession. The flags came out in the morning.

COPENHAGEN · August 28, 1999

Weather

Hurricane Dennis churns toward the southeastern coast

The storm is near the eastern Bahamas. Watches are up on the Florida east coast. The National Hurricane Center is not yet naming a landfall. The weekend is for plywood.

MIAMI · August 28, 1999

Science

Last full crew leaves Mir; for the first time in a decade, no one is in space

Soyuz TM-29 landed in Kazakhstan at 00:35 GMT. The station that has been aloft for 13 years is empty. Money, not physics, will decide whether it comes down in pieces.

BAIKONUR · August 28, 1999

Sports

Liverpool beat Arsenal 2-0; Fowler from 30 yards, Berger later

FA Carling Premiership. Fowler 8 minutes, Berger 76. Sander Westerveld saved a late penalty from Davor Šuker. Attendance 44,886.

LIVERPOOL · August 28, 1999

Nation

Pataki signs Kendra’s Law; courts may order outpatient treatment

The bill is named for Kendra Webdale, pushed under a subway train in January. Albany has given judges a new tool. The argument over consent is already filed.

ALBANY · August 28, 1999

World

U.N. official warns that problems on the ground are undercutting aid to Kosovo

A United Nations official said aid deliveries are being slowed by problems on the ground. Refugees have returned faster than housing can be rebuilt.

PRISTINA · August 28, 1999

Nation

U.S. expands police powers to monitor cellular phones

The F.C.C. has sided with the F.B.I. on what a 1994 wiretap law means for mobile networks. Privacy groups had asked the commission to draw a narrower line. It has not.

WASHINGTON · August 28, 1999

Science

126 days until January 1, 2000

The date is a Saturday party in the public mind. In the machine rooms it is still a two-digit year.

WASHINGTON · August 28, 1999

Business

ICO follows Iridium into bankruptcy court

Two weeks after Iridium filed, another satellite-phone company is in Chapter 11. The sky is full of hardware. The customers are not.

NEW YORK · August 28, 1999

Culture

Philip Glass’s Fifth Symphony has its premiere at the festival

Requiem, Bardo, Nirmanakaya. Dennis Russell Davies conducts the Radio Symphonie Orchester Wien. First performance tonight at the Salzburg Festival.

SALZBURG · August 28, 1999

Business

Stocks fall after Greenspan ties the rate debate to the markets

The chairman’s latest remarks left traders to decide whether another increase is coming. They sold first. The tape was down on Friday. Saturday is for reading him again.

WASHINGTON · August 28, 1999

World

Belgrade calls a Kosovo grave proof NATO will not protect Serbs

KFOR has belatedly confirmed at least 15 bodies at a site in Grljare. Yugoslavia wants the Security Council in. The alliance says the dead are a crime, not a pretext to send the army back.

BELGRADE · August 27, 1999

Business

Bank of New York missed $4.2 billion in suspect Russian transfers

Investigators say nine accounts moved the money for months before the bank knew. A Kremlin official denies the corruption stories attached to it.

NEW YORK · August 27, 1999

World

Foes of independence rampage in Dili; at least five dead

Guns, rocks and buildings on fire, three days before the UN ballot. Jakarta says the vote will be free. The capital is not.

DILI · August 27, 1999

Sports

Greene and Miller sweep the 200; the United States owns the short sprints

He ran 19.90. She ran 21.77, a world lead. Training partners, two golds, and Marion Jones already gone from the meet.

SEVILLE · August 27, 1999

Weather

Hurricane watch posted on Florida’s east coast as Dennis slows

The National Hurricane Center has a watch from Sebastian Inlet to Fernandina Beach. The storm has turned northwest and will not hurry. North Carolina is already reading the advisories.

MIAMI · August 27, 1999

Sports

Kipketer through to Sunday’s 800-meter final

Denmark’s man won his semifinal after dark in Seville. The world-record holder has looked untroubled. The gold is two nights away.

SEVILLE · August 27, 1999

Nation

Two more encephalitis cases in Queens as crows keep falling

City health officials have three patients now. They are still calling it St. Louis encephalitis. The birds in the parks are a second file.

QUEENS, N.Y. · August 27, 1999

World

Venezuelan Congress threatens to sit in defiance of Chávez’s assembly

A new constituent body has effectively shut the old parliament. Opposition leaders say democracy is the thing being rewritten.

CARACAS · August 27, 1999

Culture

‘The Sixth Sense’ still first; ‘The 13th Warrior’ opens behind it

A ghost story audiences will not discuss took in about $5.8 million on Friday. Antonio Banderas’s Viking picture is second, and will not catch it this weekend.

LOS ANGELES · August 27, 1999

Science

127 days until January 1, 2000

The countdown is still the other clock in the newsroom. Banks, airlines and city halls are still testing. Friday did not change the date.

WASHINGTON · August 27, 1999

Culture

Aguilera’s ‘Genie in a Bottle’ holds No. 1 a fifth week

The 18-year-old’s first single is still the song on the radio. Enrique Iglesias is next in line. The summer has one more Friday at the top.

NEW YORK · August 27, 1999

Nation

Cardinal O’Connor, 79, hospitalized for tests

Weakness and nausea. A second day of examinations. His spokesman said the cardinal was upbeat. The archdiocese did not name a disease.

NEW YORK · August 27, 1999

Sports

Five more umpires to be cut as the resignation ploy collapses

The union asked for arbitration on Friday. Both leagues said no. Twenty-two men are already out. Five more are next.

NEW YORK · August 27, 1999

Nation

Gates earmarks $750 million to speed vaccines for the poor

The Microsoft chairman’s foundation is putting a sum that would have been a national budget a generation ago into shots that still take a decade to reach the children who need them.

SEATTLE · August 27, 1999

Culture

Ginger Spice is No. 1 on her own: ‘Mi Chico Latino’

Geri Halliwell’s second solo single entered the British chart at the top last weekend. It is still there on Friday. Mambo No. 5 is the record coming for it.

LONDON · August 27, 1999

World

Hélder Câmara, Recife’s archbishop of the poor, dies at 90

The Brazilian bishop who said that when he fed the poor they called him a saint, and when he asked why they were poor they called him a communist.

RECIFE · August 27, 1999

Business

Internet board backs a single rule for stolen names

ICANN accepted a uniform dispute policy on Thursday. Cybersquatters who sat on other people’s trademarks now have one process, not a dozen lawsuits.

LOS ANGELES · August 27, 1999

Sports

Japan reaches the Little League final; rain stalls Toms River

Hirakata, Osaka, is through. The New Jersey side that won it two years ago waited on the weather in Pennsylvania.

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. · August 27, 1999

Sports

Mori takes the 400-meter hurdles in 47.72

Italy’s Fabrizio Mori ran a world lead. France’s Stéphane Diagana was second. A championship that has been about American sprints had a European night.

SEVILLE · August 27, 1999

Culture

Puff Daddy’s ‘Forever’ is out, two years after ‘No Way Out’

Bad Boy’s second album arrived Tuesday. The first one made him the face of the label. This one has to do the same work without the same year behind it.

NEW YORK · August 27, 1999

Science

Researchers break a 512-bit RSA key

A 155-digit number that was supposed to be a lock is now factors on a printout. Banks still using keys that size have been told, again, to move.

AMSTERDAM · August 27, 1999

Business

S.E.C. charges nine firms over Year 2000 filings

Five money managers and four transfer agents, the commission says, failed to tell investors how ready they are for January 1. The countdown has a docket.

WASHINGTON · August 27, 1999

Sports

Sosa hits his 53rd; the league lead is still his

Thursday against San Francisco at Wrigley. A year after 66, he is again the man the bleachers stand up for.

CHICAGO · August 27, 1999

Nation

The TV judge is still on the real bench in Memphis

Joseph B. Brown Jr. hears criminal cases by day and tapes a syndicated court show the country now knows by his name. The two rooms are not the same room.

MEMPHIS · August 27, 1999

World

Towns try to freeze out Aum as Japan argues over the cult’s rights

Four years after the Tokyo subway attack, residents in places like Otawara are still trying to keep members from settling. Lawyers call it a ban the constitution does not allow.

OTAWARA, Japan · August 27, 1999

World

Turkey blocks some Muslim aid as the quake death count still rises

Ankara is screening who may work in the rubble. Greece and Israel are already there. Some Islamic charities are not.

IZMIT · August 27, 1999

World

Ever Decent confirmed to be carrying 32 tonnes of cyanide

Authorities say the containers are not believed to be in immediate danger of going overboard. The ship is still burning. The exclusion zone holds.

DOVER · August 26, 1999

World

Norwegian Cruise Line cancels four sailings after Channel collision

The Norwegian Dream will sit in a German yard until mid-October after striking the burning container ship Ever Decent near the Dover Strait.

MIAMI · August 26, 1999

Science

128 days until January 1, 2000

Governments, banks and the Pentagon say they are ready. Programmers still hunting two-digit year bugs are less sure.

WASHINGTON · August 26, 1999

Nation

Drop in AIDS deaths is slowing, health officials report

The steep declines that followed new drug combinations have flattened, and doctors warn that the epidemic is not over.

ATLANTA · August 26, 1999

Weather

Hurricane warnings posted in the Bahamas as Dennis creeps west

The storm is now a hurricane. Its movement is slow and uncertain. The southeastern U.S. coast is being told to watch, not yet to run.

MIAMI · August 26, 1999

Sports

Kipketer through the 800-meter heats in Seville, easily

Denmark’s world-record holder opened his championships at night in Heat 1. He looked as he always looks. The final is Sunday.

SEVILLE · August 26, 1999

Sports

Michael Johnson smashes 400-meter world record in 43.18

The American, already the man to beat at 200 and 400 meters, runs the fastest one-lap race in history on a hot night in Seville.

SEVILLE · August 26, 1999

Business

Microsoft ships a 502 KB fix for Windows 98 shutdown freezes

The Shutdown Supplement is for Second Edition users whose PCs freeze — or reboot — instead of switching off. It is a small file for a small, very public bug.

REDMOND, Wash. · August 26, 1999

Business

Microsoft ships Word 98 Special Edition for the iMac and iBook

The $99 package bundles the word processor with a browser, mail program, clip art and greeting-card templates — a pitch at households that bought Apple’s new machines.

REDMOND, Wash. · August 26, 1999

World

Militia violence rises in East Timor ahead of independence vote

Four days before a U.N.-run ballot on autonomy or independence, armed groups loyal to Jakarta are burning houses and threatening voters.

DILI · August 26, 1999

Nation

Reno orders a new inquiry after FBI admits pyrotechnic gas at Waco

The attorney general, who approved the 1993 raid, says she was not told that military-style tear-gas rounds were used on the last day of the siege.

WASHINGTON · August 26, 1999

Weather

Tropical Storm Dennis stalls near the Bahamas, could become a hurricane

Sustained winds have reached 65 mph. Watches and warnings are up across the islands; the southeastern U.S. coast is on notice.

MIAMI · August 25, 1999

Sports

Colin Jackson is world champion in the 110-meter hurdles

The Welshman runs 13.04 to beat Cuba’s Anier García and American Duane Ross on a fast Seville track.

SEVILLE · August 25, 1999

Nation

Dozens arrested in drug-and-weapons sting at Miami International

Investigators say airline employees and contractors smuggled cocaine and firearms through airport security. Officials call it a warning.

MIAMI · August 25, 1999

World

Ever Decent still burning in the Channel a day after the collision

Firefighting tugs remain alongside. The Norwegian Dream is in Dover. Investigators are already asking how two large ships met in the fog.

DOVER · August 25, 1999

Sports

Marion Jones’ sprint double ends on a stretcher in Seville

The world’s fastest woman pulled up in her 200-meter semifinal with back spasms and cramps, and was carried from the track.

SEVILLE · August 25, 1999

World

Rain and a fresh aftershock deepen the misery in northwest Turkey

More than a week after the 7.4 earthquake, about 200,000 people remain homeless. Temporary housing is being organized as the weather turns.

GÖLCÜK · August 25, 1999

World

A week on, 200,000 still sleep in the streets of the Marmara

Seven days after the 7.4 shock at 3:01 a.m., apartment blocks still lie on the people who were in their beds. The homeless have not gone indoors.

İZMIT · August 24, 1999

World

Cruise liner and container ship collide in fog off Dover

The Norwegian Dream and the Ever Decent met before dawn in the Dover Strait. The box ship is on fire. The cruise ship is heading for port.

DOVER · August 24, 1999

World

SAS Tokyo flight aborts takeoff at high speed; no injuries

A Boeing 767 bound for Narita rejected takeoff on runway 22R at Kastrup. One hundred and ninety-one people were aboard. They walked off.

COPENHAGEN · August 24, 1999

Sports

Yankees wreck Texas 21–3; a Monday night in Arlington

76–48. Twenty-one runs. The Rangers could not get out of the inning.

ARLINGTON · August 23, 1999

Nation

A cluster of encephalitis cases in New York has doctors sending samples west

Hospitals in Queens have seen a handful of patients with fever, weakness and confusion. The city has not named the virus. Birds have been dying.

NEW YORK · August 23, 1999

World

A week of aftershocks: the tents are the city now

Rescue has become recovery in most streets. The number is still not one the government will sign.

GÖLCÜK · August 22, 1999

Sports

Greene runs 9.80 in Seville and takes the 100 meters

A championship record. Bruny Surin of Canada was a blink behind. Dwain Chambers of Britain took bronze. The American is the fastest man in the world tonight.

SEVILLE · August 22, 1999

Sports

Yankees beat the Twins 5–3 and go to 75–48

Sunday in the Dome. Greene had Seville. The Bronx had a road win.

MINNEAPOLIS · August 22, 1999

Science

Giant panda cub born at the San Diego Zoo

Bai Yun delivered this morning. The father is Shi Shi. The cub is unnamed. No giant panda born in the United States has yet survived to adulthood.

SAN DIEGO · August 21, 1999

World

Four days on, the Marmara death toll is still being counted

Officials have stopped promising a final number. The refinery fire is not out. Two hundred thousand people are sleeping outdoors.

ADAPAZARI · August 21, 1999

Sports

The world championships open in Seville, in heat that will decide medals

Juan Carlos opened the meet. Two hundred and one nations are here. The track is fast. The air is not. Johnson, Greene and Jones are the names the city already knows.

SEVILLE · August 20, 1999

World

Three days on, the Marmara is still a rescue, then a recovery

The Tüpraş column is still in the sky. Hundreds of thousands will not sleep indoors. The number is not closed.

İZMIT · August 20, 1999

Sports

Yankees take the Twins 9–3 on the road

74–47. Friday in the Metrodome.

MINNEAPOLIS · August 20, 1999

World

Aftershocks and Greek crews: Turkey’s second night in the rubble

Two moderate shocks west of the epicenter sent people back into the streets. The death toll is in the thousands and not finished. Athens has not gone home.

GÖLCÜK · August 19, 1999

World

Sixteen Danes and nine dogs join the search in İzmit

A Danish civil-defense team has arrived in the earthquake zone with rescue dogs. They have worked collapses before. The rubble is two days old.

İZMIT · August 19, 1999

World

Death toll climbs past 2,000 as the İzmit refinery burns into a second day

Naphtha from a ruptured tank set the Tüpraş plant alight. Aircraft are dumping foam. Rescuers are still in the apartments. Greece has sent teams.

İZMIT · August 18, 1999

Sports

Royals shut the Yankees out 3–0

73–46. A rare blank. The East lead holds anyway.

NEW YORK · August 18, 1999

World

Powerful earthquake levels towns near Istanbul; thousands feared dead

A magnitude 7.4 shock struck at 3:01 a.m. along the North Anatolian Fault. Gölcük, İzmit and Adapazarı are in ruins. The death toll is still climbing.

ISTANBUL · August 17, 1999

Sports

Yankees beat the Royals 5–2 while Turkey counts the dead

73–45. A Tuesday night in a week the world is elsewhere.

NEW YORK · August 17, 1999

Culture

‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire’ opens on ABC and immediately owns the night

Regis Philbin’s quiz, imported from Britain, pulled more than 10 million viewers in its first outings. Other networks are already rewriting their fall.

NEW YORK · August 16, 1999

World

Bosnian leaders accused of stealing up to $1 billion in aid

An international anti-fraud unit in Sarajevo says nationalist officials from all three communities have plundered reconstruction money. The presidency disputes the scale.

SARAJEVO · August 16, 1999

World

Hospital orderlies walk out in Frederiksborg over outsourcing

About 450 cleaners and porters at three hospitals struck Monday against a plan to hand their work to a private contractor. Wards are running short.

HILLERØD · August 16, 1999

World

Oslo trains still roll onto the ferry at Helsingør

The Copenhagen-Oslo passenger cars take the 20-minute crossing to Helsingborg. Goods already use DanLink from Copenhagen’s Free Port. The Øresund Bridge opens 1 July 2000. After that, no more trains on this ferry.

HELSINGØR · August 15, 1999

Sports

Woods holds off García by one stroke to win the PGA at Medinah

At 23 he has a second major. At 19, Sergio García nearly took it from him on a Sunday that golf will talk about into the next century.

MEDINAH, ILL. · August 15, 1999

World

29 killed at a fake roadblock on the Algerian-Moroccan frontier

Gunmen posing as a checkpoint near Beni Ounif murdered civilians on Sunday. Algiers blamed terrorists. Rabat closed a border post. The two governments are barely speaking.

ALGIERS · August 15, 1999

Nation

40,000 fill Central Park to hear the Dalai Lama on compassion

Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader closed a New York visit with a free lecture on the East Meadow. The police had planned for 20,000.

NEW YORK · August 15, 1999

World

Last span set on the Øresund Bridge; two crowns meet over the sound

The crane Svanen lowered the final 140-meter section at dawn. Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Victoria walked to the join. Traffic waits until July 2000. The steel is in.

ØRESUND · August 14, 1999

Sports

Pee Wee Reese, the Dodgers’ captain who stood with Jackie Robinson, dies at 81

The Hall of Fame shortstop, a ten-time All-Star and the infield of Brooklyn’s only world championship, died of cancer in Louisville.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. · August 14, 1999

Sports

New Zealand clinches a third Tri-Nations as South Africa nips Australia 10-9

A dropped-goal afternoon in Cape Town settled the southern hemisphere. The All Blacks had already done enough. The Wallabies had not.

CAPE TOWN · August 14, 1999

Sports

Graf retires at once: 22 majors, still ranked third in the world

Heidelberg, Friday. She has no regrets. The U.S. Open will go on without her.

HEIDELBERG · August 13, 1999

World

China mobilizes militia along the coast facing Taiwan

Reservists and militiamen in a war of nerves. No landing. Lee’s ‘state-to-state’ line is still the argument.

BEIJING · August 13, 1999

World

Gunmen kill Jaime Garzón, Colombia’s satirist, on the way to his studio

5:45 a.m., a motorcycle, a Jeep Cherokee. He was 38. He had been threatened. He had a meeting set for Saturday.

BOGOTA · August 13, 1999

World

Ignatz Bubis, who led Germany’s Jews, dies at 72

A Holocaust survivor. Chairman of the Central Council. Frankfurt said he was the country’s conscience. The cause was not given.

FRANKFURT · August 13, 1999

Sports

Yankees pound the Twins 14–2; Pettitte goes eight, 22 hits

Knoblauch’s grand slam. They are 71–43. Friday night the Stadium was loud.

NEW YORK · August 13, 1999

Science

141 days until January 1, 2000

Friday’s number.

WASHINGTON · August 13, 1999

Nation

Kansas’s vote to drop evolution lands on the nation’s front pages

A day after the 6-4 decision in Topeka, scientists, pastors and candidates are all talking. Textbook writers are not reprinting anything yet.

TOPEKA, Kan. · August 12, 1999

Nation

Anthony Radziwill, cousin and closest friend of John F. Kennedy Jr., dies at 40

He had cancer. He had been an Emmy-winning television producer. He had buried his cousin a month ago. The family is again in black.

NEW YORK · August 12, 1999

Science

A total solar eclipse crosses Europe, the first since 1961

The moon’s shadow ran from Cornwall to India. Millions stood in fields and city squares. Clouds spoiled the show in some places and made theater of it in others.

MUNICH · August 11, 1999

Science

Denmark sees a deep partial eclipse as totality misses the country

Copenhagen looked up at noon. The moon took most of the sun. The shadow’s center line ran south of the border, through Cornwall and Germany. Danes got the show without the dark.

COPENHAGEN · August 11, 1999

Nation

Kansas board deletes evolution from the state’s science standards

A 6-4 vote removes nearly all mention of Darwin from what Kansas will test. Science teachers and university presidents called it a national embarrassment.

TOPEKA, Kan. · August 11, 1999

Weather

Rare tornado tears through downtown Salt Lake City

An F2 funnel, almost unheard of along the Wasatch, killed one person, injured more than 80 and did more than $170 million in damage in about ten minutes.

SALT LAKE CITY · August 11, 1999

World

India shoots down a Pakistani naval patrol plane; 16 dead

A MiG-21 fired on a Breguet Atlantique over the Rann of Kutch. Both nuclear capitals give conflicting maps. The wreckage is on the salt.

NEW DELHI · August 10, 1999

Science

Europe waits up for a total eclipse, the first since 1961

Tomorrow the moon’s shadow will run from Cornwall to India. Hotels are full. Glasses are sold out. The forecast is mixed, which is the only forecast that matters.

LONDON · August 10, 1999

Nation

Gunman wounds five at a Jewish community center; a postal worker is later killed

A white supremacist opened fire at the North Valley Jewish Community Center in Granada Hills. Hours later a Filipino-American letter carrier was shot to death.

LOS ANGELES · August 10, 1999

World

Chechen fighters push into Dagestan; Russian troops answer in the hills

Armed groups crossed from Chechnya over the weekend. Villages in the Botlikh district are contested. Moscow has sent armor and aircraft.

MAKHACHKALA · August 9, 1999

World

China rejects a papal visit, citing the Vatican’s ties to Taiwan

Beijing turned down efforts to bring Pope John Paul II to the mainland. The Holy See still recognizes Taipei, not Beijing.

BEIJING · August 9, 1999

Nation

Clinton awards the Medal of Freedom to Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter

The former president and first lady were honored for public service after leaving office — Habitat houses, elections watched, diseases fought.

WASHINGTON · August 9, 1999

World

Yeltsin names Vladimir Putin, a little-known spy chief, as prime minister

The fifth premier in 17 months is a 46-year-old former KGB officer who has run the domestic security service. Markets barely moved.

MOSCOW · August 9, 1999

World

The U.N. moves to govern Kosovo, filling a vacuum the KLA had claimed

The mission in Pristina is asserting itself as the province’s government. Serb police left under the June agreement. Bernard Kouchner said the KLA will not be the police, the courts or the customs.

PRISTINA · August 8, 1999

World

Russian troops move on villages seized in Dagestan

A day after fighters crossed from Chechnya, Moscow has helicopters over Botlikh. The hamlets are still in other hands. The war is a day old.

MAKHACHKALA · August 8, 1999

World

Armed groups cross from Chechnya and seize villages in Dagestan

Fighters led by Shamil Basayev and Ibn al-Khattab have taken hamlets in the Botlikh district. Moscow is sending troops. It is the first day.

MAKHACHKALA · August 7, 1999

World

A year after the embassy bombing, Nairobi is still counting the wounded

Two hundred and thirteen people died on August 7, 1998. The blast was aimed at Americans. Most of the dead were Kenyan. The street has not gone back to what it was.

NAIROBI · August 7, 1999

Business

Hearst agrees to buy the San Francisco Chronicle

The family that has published the Examiner for more than a century is buying the larger paper across town. What becomes of the Examiner is the next fight.

SAN FRANCISCO · August 7, 1999

Sports

Yankees win a brawl night in Seattle, 11–8

66–42. The Emerald City was not friendly. The scoreboard was.

SEATTLE · August 6, 1999

Culture

‘The Sixth Sense’ opens as the summer’s quiet shock

A ghost story starring Bruce Willis and a child who sees the dead took in more than $26 million in its first weekend, with audiences told not to talk.

LOS ANGELES · August 6, 1999

Sports

McGwire hits his 500th home run, and the Cardinals still lose

A shot into the left-field seats at Busch made him the 16th man in the 500 club. St. Louis fell 10-3 to San Diego. The ball was the story.

ST. LOUIS · August 5, 1999

Sports

Tino hits his 200th; Yankees take Seattle 7–4

65–42. McGwire had 500 in St. Louis. Martinez had a round number of his own.

SEATTLE · August 5, 1999

World

NATO names Britain’s George Robertson as secretary-general

The defense minister who ran the Kosovo air war will succeed Javier Solana. The alliance wanted a politician who had already been through a fight.

BRUSSELS · August 4, 1999

Sports

Yankees answer 8–3; Williams and Irabu beat the Jays

64–42. The series is not Toronto’s.

NEW YORK · August 4, 1999

World

A grass fire melts the S-train signals at Central

Monday’s fire took the cables between Copenhagen Central and Dybbølsbro. Tuesday the trains are walked through by telephone. Østerport was shut for a gas.

COPENHAGEN · August 3, 1999

Nation

Zapruder’s heirs awarded $16 million for the film of the assassination

Arbitrators put a price on 26 seconds of 8-millimeter film. The government keeps the original. The family keeps the money, and the copyright.

WASHINGTON · August 3, 1999

Sports

Blue Jays beat the Yankees 3–1; Batista does the rest

63–42. A Tuesday night that would not start.

NEW YORK · August 3, 1999

World

China test-fires a long-range missile that can reach the United States

The Dongfeng-31, a solid-fuel rocket, was launched from a desert range. Beijing called it a routine test. Washington called it a reminder.

BEIJING · August 2, 1999

World

Two passenger trains collide in eastern India; more than 250 dead

A head-on wreck. Cars were crushed. Rescue went on through the night.

GAISAL · August 2, 1999

Nation

Fired Los Alamos scientist denies he gave nuclear secrets to China

Wen Ho Lee, dismissed from the weapons lab in March, says he is not a spy. Investigators have not charged him. The files he is said to have moved are still the argument.

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. · August 1, 1999

Sports

Yankees fall 5–4 at Fenway; Jeter cannot finish it

A Sunday loss. They are 62–41. The East is still theirs, thinner.

BOSTON · August 1, 1999

World

Helsingør-Helsingborg carries more than 300,000 cars in July

A monthly record for Scandlines, despite HH-Ferries on the same 20-minute crossing. The Øresund Bridge is still unfinished. The three almost-new ferries have had a full month.

HELSINGØR · July 31, 1999

Science

NASA crashes Lunar Prospector into the Moon, hunting for water

The orbiter ended a 19-month mission in a planned impact near the south pole. Scientists hope the plume will show ice. Telescopes are watching. The Moon did not comment.

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. · July 31, 1999

Culture

A $60,000 horror picture opens and the lines go around the block

The Blair Witch Project, shot on video in the woods of Maryland, arrived in a handful of theaters. Audiences have been told it might be real. They are buying tickets as if it were.

LOS ANGELES · July 30, 1999

Nation

Twelve killed in attack on Atlanta day-trading offices

A 44-year-old day trader opened fire at two Buckhead brokerage firms. Police later found his family dead at home. Officials called it the worst shooting in Georgia’s history.

ATLANTA · July 29, 1999

Nation

Woodstock ’99 is over; Rome, N.Y., is cleaning the field

The last night had fires. Vendors were looted. The promoters are counting. The town is counting too.

ROME, N.Y. · July 28, 1999

World

Twenty-one dead in a flash flood on a canyoning trip near Interlaken

A gorge above Saxeten. A wall of water. Most of the dead are young, and most of them Australian. The company that sold the day is answering questions the mountain already answered.

INTERLAKEN · July 27, 1999

Sports

Barry Sanders retires from the Lions, 1,457 yards short of Payton

He is 31. Ten seasons. 15,269 rushing yards. Training camp was to open tomorrow. He issued a statement instead.

DETROIT · July 27, 1999

World

Fighting in Kargil ends after two months on the ridge

India and Pakistan have stopped the guns along the Line of Control. The heights are Indian again. The dead are still being counted. Neither side will call it a draw.

NEW DELHI · July 26, 1999

Sports

Lance Armstrong, 28 months after cancer, wins the Tour de France

The Texan rode into Paris in yellow after a three-week domination that cycling had not seen from an American since LeMond.

PARIS · July 25, 1999

Culture

Woodstock ’99 ends in fires, looting and a long argument

The 30th-anniversary festival at a former air force base in Rome, N.Y., closed with burning trailers, sexual-assault reports and a $38 ticket for water.

ROME, N.Y. · July 25, 1999

Sports

Armstrong in yellow, one day from Paris

He won the time trial at Futuroscope. The Tour ends tomorrow on the Champs-Élysées. He had cancer. He is still in the jersey.

FUTUROSCOPE · July 24, 1999

Nation

A memorial Mass for Kennedy and the Bessettes

St. Thomas More on the Upper East Side. The president and the first lady in the pews. A city that had watched the search now sat still for an hour.

NEW YORK · July 23, 1999

World

King Hassan II dead at 70; Mohammed VI takes the throne

The monarch who ruled Morocco for 38 years died in Rabat. His son, 35, is king. Arab capitals sent condolences. The succession was prepared. The street is quiet.

RABAT · July 23, 1999

Culture

Woodstock ’99 opens on a treeless tarmac in 100-degree heat

More than 200,000 have come to a former air-force base in Rome, N.Y., for a 30th-anniversary festival. Water is $4. Shade is a rumor. The music has not started the argument yet.

ROME, N.Y. · July 23, 1999

World

Beijing outlaws Falun Gong

The Ministry of Civil Affairs. The movement is declared illegal. Rallies were in the cities on Wednesday.

BEIJING · July 22, 1999

Nation

Kennedy, Bessette and Bessette are committed to the sea

The Navy destroyer Briscoe took the ashes off the Vineyard. A family that has buried its men in Arlington chose the water the plane went into.

ABOARD THE U.S.S. BRISCOE · July 22, 1999

World

Falun Gong followers rally against a crackdown

Thousands have turned out in Chinese cities after Beijing moved on the meditation movement. The squares are not empty.

BEIJING · July 21, 1999

Science

Thirty years after Armstrong stepped off the ladder

July 20, 1969, is a date schoolchildren still know. The three men are alive. NASA is talking about going back. The hardware that did it is in museums.

HOUSTON · July 20, 1999

Nation

NOAA ship locates wreckage of Kennedy’s plane off the Vineyard

Side-scan sonar on the Rude found fragments three days after the Piper went in. The Coast Guard search has not been called off. The family is in Hyannis Port.

MARTHA'S VINEYARD · July 19, 1999

Sports

David Cone throws a perfect game against the Expos

Twenty-seven up, twenty-seven down, on Yogi Berra Day. It is the 16th perfect game in major-league history. The Stadium, for two hours, had a different lead.

NEW YORK · July 18, 1999

Nation

Search for Kennedy’s plane enters a second day off the Vineyard

Coast Guard cutters and Navy salvage ships are working a wreckage field west of Gay Head. The family is at Hyannis Port. The nation is watching the water.

GAY HEAD, Mass. · July 17, 1999

Nation

John F. Kennedy Jr.’s plane missing off Martha’s Vineyard

The Piper Saratoga, with Kennedy, his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and her sister Lauren aboard, went off radar on a night flight from New Jersey.

GAY HEAD, Mass. · July 16, 1999

Sports

Safeco Field opens; the Mariners leave the Kingdome

A retractable roof, real grass, and a first pitch in a park built for rain. San Diego won the opener. The city did not come for the score.

SEATTLE · July 15, 1999

Nation

‘Big Blue’ crane collapse kills three ironworkers at Miller Park

A 567-foot crane fell while lifting a roof section at the Brewers’ new stadium. Jeffrey Wischer, William DeGrave and Jerome Starr died. The park is a wreck and a gravesite.

MILWAUKEE · July 14, 1999

Nation

Railroad Killer surrenders at the border to a Texas Ranger

Rafael Reséndez-Ramírez, on the F.B.I.’s Ten Most Wanted list, walked up to Drew Carter after his sister made the call. The murders along the rails are the charge.

EL PASO · July 13, 1999

World

Student protests spread to 18 cities

The dormitory raid in Tehran has a country behind it now. Police and vigilantes are on the squares.

TEHRAN · July 12, 1999

World

India says it has recaptured the Kargil heights

After two months of fighting along the Line of Control, New Delhi announced the peaks were back in its hands. Pakistani troops are withdrawing. Neither capital will call it a war.

NEW DELHI · July 11, 1999

Sports

United States wins the Women’s World Cup on penalty kicks

90,185 at the Rose Bowl watched Brandi Chastain’s winning shot. China hit the post in extra time. A sport changed in an afternoon.

PASADENA, Calif. · July 10, 1999

World

Police and militiamen storm a Tehran University dormitory

The raid came after Thursday’s protest over a closed newspaper. Students are dead or missing, depending on who is counting. The capital has not had a night like it in years.

TEHRAN · July 9, 1999

Culture

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is published

Bloomsbury released the third book at 15:45, a time chosen so children would not leave school to queue. The American edition is due in September.

LONDON · July 8, 1999

World

Tehran students march after a reformist paper is shut

The press court closed Salam. Hundreds walked at the university. President Khatami’s opening is being tested in the street, not in a column.

TEHRAN · July 8, 1999

Sports

El Guerrouj runs the mile in 3:43.13, a world record

The Moroccan, already the 1,500-meter record-holder, took Noureddine Morceli’s mile mark in the Golden Gala. The clock looked like a typing error. It was not.

ROME · July 7, 1999

World

Ehud Barak sworn in, pledging a ‘true, lasting peace’

The former general took office as prime minister and said talks with the Palestinians and with Syria would be the work of the government. Netanyahu is out. The file is open.

JERUSALEM · July 6, 1999

Nation

The Midwest gunman shoots himself after a chase; two are dead

Benjamin Nathaniel Smith, 21, a disciple of a white-supremacist church, is dead by his own hand. A Korean student in Bloomington is the second person he killed. Eight others were wounded.

SALEM, Ill. · July 5, 1999

Sports

Sampras beats Agassi for a sixth Wimbledon title

Pete Sampras won 6–3, 6–4, 7–5 on Centre Court, passing Björn Borg’s modern mark and taking a 12th Grand Slam. Independence Day at home was a London afternoon.

LONDON · July 4, 1999

Sports

Davenport beats Graf for her first Wimbledon title

Lindsay Davenport, 23, won 6-4, 7-5. Graf, in what may be her last final here, was two games from taking it to a third. The American has the plate. The German has the years.

WIMBLEDON · July 3, 1999

Nation

A gunman in a car kills a former coach in a weekend of racial shootings

Ricky Byrdsong, who coached Northwestern, is dead in Skokie. Other shots in Indiana and Illinois have hit Jews, Blacks and Asians. The man is still at large.

SKOKIE, Ill. · July 2, 1999

World

Finland takes the EU presidency until 31 December

Paavo Lipponen is prime minister. The European Council meets in Helsinki in December. Finland is in the euro; Denmark and Sweden are not.

HELSINKI · July 1, 1999

World

Queen opens Scotland’s first parliament in nearly 300 years

Donald Dewar, the first minister, called it the most historic day in Scotland since 1707. The chamber sits in the Assembly Hall on the Mound until a new building is finished at Holyrood.

EDINBURGH · July 1, 1999

World

Fire at a seaside camp in Hwaseong kills 23, most of them children

A dormitory at the Sealand Youth Training Center burned before dawn. Kindergarten groups were asleep inside.

HWASEONG, South Korea · June 30, 1999

Culture

‘South Park’ goes to the multiplex, R-rated and uncut

Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s cartoon opened Wednesday. Paramount is selling a musical that the television show could not say. Parents’ groups are already counting the words.

LOS ANGELES · June 30, 1999

World

A Turkish court sentences Öcalan to death

The PKK leader, seized in Nairobi in February, has been condemned on İmralı. Europe will ask Ankara not to hang him. The southeast has heard the sentence.

ANKARA · June 29, 1999

Nation

Clinton would spend the surplus on the debt, then Social Security

The president’s plan is to run the red ink off the books, shore up the two trusts, and talk about a tax cut after that. The Republican Congress has the cut first.

WASHINGTON · June 28, 1999

World

KFOR is in its third week; the province is still being sorted

NATO troops are on the roads. Serb police have been leaving. Ethnic Albanians are coming back. Houses are burning in both directions.

PRISTINA · June 27, 1999

World

Fighting continues on the Kargil heights; the road to Leh is the prize

India has used the air force since May. Pakistan denies regular troops are across the Line of Control. Two nuclear states are still on the ridge.

NEW DELHI · June 26, 1999

Sports

San Antonio Spurs win their first NBA title, 78–77

Tim Duncan was named MVP. The Knicks, the first eighth seed in a final, lost Game 5 in the Garden that was not theirs. A lockout season ends with a trophy in Texas.

SAN ANTONIO · June 25, 1999

World

World Bank approves a Tibet resettlement loan the United States opposed

One hundred and sixty million dollars to move 58,000 farmers in a Tibetan area of Qinghai. Washington asked for a delay. The board voted anyway.

WASHINGTON · June 24, 1999

Sports

The United States put seven past North Korea in Foxborough

Mia Hamm, Kristine Lilly, the rest of a side that is supposed to win this thing at home. Group play is not the trophy. It is a warning.

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. · June 23, 1999

Nation

Senate votes the back dues to the United Nations

Ninety-eight to one, more than $800 million. Helms got conditions. The check is still not in the mail until the House agrees. The arrears are a decade old.

WASHINGTON · June 22, 1999

Sports

Wimbledon opens; Sampras and Graf are the names on the board

The championships begin on the grass. Pete Sampras is going for a sixth gentlemen’s title. Steffi Graf is in the draw and has said this may be the last.

WIMBLEDON · June 21, 1999

World

G-8 leaves Cologne with a Kosovo paper and a debt promise

The seven rich countries and Russia closed a weekend on the Rhine. Poor-country debt is to be cut faster. The communiqué treated the Kosovo war as finished business.

COLOGNE · June 20, 1999

Sports

Payne Stewart wins the U.S. Open at Pinehurst by one stroke

Pinehurst No. 2. Phil Mickelson was one behind. Stewart, 42, has a second Open title.

PINEHURST · June 20, 1999

Culture

Prince Edward marries Sophie Rhys-Jones at Windsor

The queen’s youngest son took a public-relations executive as his wife in St. George’s Chapel. The guest list was smaller than the last royal wedding. The hats were not.

WINDSOR · June 19, 1999

World

G-8 opens on the Rhine with Kosovo and debt on the table

Clinton, Yeltsin, Schröder and the rest at the Museum Ludwig. The war they spent the spring watching is supposed to be over. The poorest countries want the debts cut.

COLOGNE · June 18, 1999

World

A carnival against capital fills the City as the G-8 meets

J18, they called it. Masks, sound systems, and broken glass in the Square Mile. Cologne has the leaders. London has the streets that do not want them.

LONDON · June 18, 1999

World

Iran arrests 13 Jews on espionage charges

The accusation is work for the United States and Israel. Shiraz is the city named. The case is already a fight between the elected president and the other state.

TEHRAN · June 17, 1999

Nation

Gore opens his campaign in Carthage: he wants the job

The vice president made it official in his hometown. Bill Bradley is already in. The Democratic race now has two names on a ballot that is still 17 months away.

CARTHAGE, Tenn. · June 16, 1999

World

Thabo Mbeki sworn in as president, succeeding Mandela

The ANC’s man took the oath in Pretoria after an election the party won easily. Nelson Mandela is a private citizen. The rainbow now has a manager, not a saint.

PRETORIA · June 16, 1999

World

Thousands of Albanians walk back through a mountain pass

NATO and the KLA hold the track. UNHCR asked them to wait. The pass is full anyway. Homes are a rumor at the other end.

MORINA · June 15, 1999

World

Albanian refugees start the walk home; Serbs start the other way

Two days after KFOR crossed the border, Albanian refugees began walking back from Macedonia and Albania. UNHCR asked them not to rush.

BLACE, Macedonia · June 14, 1999

World

Serb forces pull out of Pristina as KFOR comes in

Hundreds of Yugoslav soldiers have left the capital. British, French and American troops are on the roads. Russians are already at the airport.

PRISTINA · June 13, 1999

Nation

Bush says it in Iowa: he is running for president

On a farm near Cedar Rapids the Texas governor ends the exploratory phase. The Republican field now has a front-runner with a declaration.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa · June 12, 1999

World

KFOR enters Kosovo; Russian troops reach Pristina first

British and other NATO units crossed from Macedonia at dawn. A Russian column, unannounced, was already at the airport. The peace has a race in it.

PRISTINA · June 12, 1999

World

Russian troops move on Kosovo; NATO is still on the Macedonian side

A column from Bosnia has been seen heading for Pristina. Moscow was not given a sector in the peace plan it liked. Tonight it is writing one with trucks.

PRISTINA · June 11, 1999

World

Social Democrats finish first in Denmark’s Europe vote; June Movement second

Sixteen seats. Turnout 50.5 percent. Social Democrats 324,256 votes. June Movement 317,508.

COPENHAGEN · June 10, 1999

World

NATO suspends the air campaign over Yugoslavia

Secretary-General Solana ordered a halt after Belgrade began to pull forces from Kosovo. The bombers are on the ground. They can be back in the air if the withdrawal stalls.

BRUSSELS · June 10, 1999

World

NATO and Yugoslavia sign the Kumanovo agreement

Serb forces will leave Kosovo. An international force will go in. After seventy-eight days of bombing, the war has a piece of paper. The roads are not yet safe.

KUMANOVO, Macedonia · June 9, 1999

Nation