Week of August 1, 2000
Republican convention in Philadelphia - Dick Cheney accepts the vice
presidential nomination with a promise of “a better way and a stiff dose of truth.”
Vice presidential nominee
Dick Cheney
charges that
Washington has grown increasingly dysfunctional in recent
years because of “weak leadership” from a White House
that is preoccupied with politics instead of policy.
President Clinton vetoes a Republican-backed bill that
would but taxes for most married couples - the so-called
marriage penalty tax.
A dead robin infected with the West Nile virus is found in a
Boston neighborhood, confirming mosquitoes are
spreading the potentially fatal disease locally.
The FDA approves the Bristol-Myers Squibb’s new diabetes drug “Glucovance,”
which helps patients control their blood sugar better than some existing pills.
A military court in Wuerzburg, Germany sentences Army soldier Frank Ronghi to
life in prison without parole for killing an 11-yearold ethnic Albanian girl while on
peacekeeping duty in Kosovo.
Sears, Roebuck & Co. suspends sales of several popular Firestone sport utility
tires pending a federal probe of scores of accidents caused by tread failures.
Speaking of SUV’s - Ford rolls out its next-general explorer - a redesign crucial
to its efforts to maintain its market share of sport utility vehicles.
Queen Elizabeth turns 100 - as tens of thousands
of well wishers turn out at Buckingham Palace.
Sports -
Venus Williams
wins her third
consecutive tennis title with a win at La Costa over
Monica Seles.
Entertainment news -
Passing - Actor sir Alec Guinness (86).
