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DIED. HABIB BOURGUIBA, 96, Tunisia's liberator from French colonial rule in 1956, and the nation's pro-Western President for Life until a 1987 bloodless coup; in Monastir, Tunisia. He modernized his country and promoted women's rights and moderation toward Israel...
...Jackson's ruling--to Congress and to the court of public opinion--and it seemed to be working. Senate majority leader Trent Lott called on fellow lawmakers to investigate whether the Administration had pushed the company too far. House majority leader Dick Armey (dubbed "MS Dick Armey" for his pro-Redmond sympathies) said he'd "rather break up the Justice Department" than Microsoft. Republicans put Al Gore on notice that they intend to make an issue of the case this fall, but Democrats seemed just as caught up as the G.O.P. was in Gatesmania. New Jersey Senator Robert Torricelli lamented...
...general in the Kremlin as President of "democratic Russia" is not an "unhappy accident." Putin's election crowns a shift in Russia's mass consciousness from romantic, yet real, pro-democratic expectations toward demand for a "strong hand...
SENTENCED. LAWRENCE TAYLOR, 41, pro football Hall of Famer; to three months' house arrest, five years' probation and a $10,000 fine; for income tax evasion; in Camden...
DIED. JEAN LEOPOLD DOMINIQUE, 69, pro-democracy director of Radio Haiti Inter; from gunshots by attackers; in Port-au-Prince (see Eulogy, below...