9. мај 1999. је био недеља под знаком звездице ♉. Био је 128 дан у години. Председник Сједињених Држава је био William J. (Bill) Clinton.
Ако сте рођени на данашњи дан, имате 27 година. Ваш последњи рођендан је био субота, 9. мај 2026., пре 38 дана. Ваш следећи рођендан је недеља, 9. мај 2027., за 326 дана. Живели сте 9.900 дана, или око 237.614 сати, или око 14.256.855 минута, или око 855.411.300 секунди.
Date: 10 May 1999
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
New York Daily News, Wall Street Journal and Gannett Co's suburban Journal News run advertising drives apparently targeting The New York Times; Dow Jones & Co, Wall Street Journal publisher, denies its billboard across street from New York Times building targets Times; Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr comments; photo (M)
Date: 10 May 1999
By Lisa Napoli
Lisa Napoli
Deja News to change name to Deja and shift focus from trying to make newsgroups, on-line equivalent of kaffeeklatsches, easier to use to supplying data on people, activities and products; chief executive Tom Phillips sees shift attracting more advertisers; photo (M)
Date: 09 May 1999
By David Firestone
David Firestone
Article examines tendency of news media to assign news value to accidents, based not on how many lives were lost, but on how and where victims happened to die; photos (M)
Date: 10 May 1999
By Celia W. Dugger
Celia Dugger
Najam Sethi, prominent Pakistani journalist who has been harshly critical of Government, is seized and detained by Pakistani authorities; is among several arrested, interrogated and harassed during past week; colleagues and New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists say Government is apparently retaliating against editors and writers for giving interviews to BBC about high-level corruption; Government spokesman says Sethi is being interrogated by Pakistani intelligence agents about his alleged links to India's intelligence agency (M)
Date: 09 May 1999
By Philip Shenon
Philip Shenon
Clinton Administration will offer riot-control training to Indonesian police in preparation for national elections in June, despite concerns by human rights groups over abysmal human rights record of country's police; under plan, team of American police commanders will be sent to Indonesia within days to offer instruction on how to handle crowds and riots, and how to improve relations between police and news organizations and oppposition political parties (M)
Date: 09 May 1999
By Anthony Depalma
Anthony Depalma
Western-leaning Govt of republic of Montenegro, which has pulled out of Serbian federation in all but name and refused to accept declaration of war passed in Belgrade after start of NATO bombing, is giving special treatment to foreign journalists; says aim is to prevent state-controlled Serbian media from presenting only images of what is actually happening in and around Kosovo, even though fear and uncertainty stemming from break with Belgrade is seen as major factor; country's tradition of independent journalism, unique for Balkans, noted; photo (M)
Date: 10 May 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Teleglobe Inc, Canada's largest international long-distance phone company, to spend $5 billion (US) over next five years to increase its network's capacity and reach (S)
Date: 09 May 1999
INTERNATIONAL 3-13 NATO Mistook Embassy As Belgrade Arms Agency A NATO aircraft bombed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade because the military command mistakenly believed it was a Serbian weapons agency, NATO officials said. It was not clear who was responsible for the mistake. Officials said the Central Intelligence Agency had picked the target. It is possible that the target was picked using an outdated map of Belgrade, a NATO official said. 1
Date: 09 May 1999
By Alfred Corn
Alfred Corn
Alfred Corn reviews novel Human Voices by Penelope Fitzgerald (M)
Date: 10 May 1999
INTERNATIONAL A3-11 More China Protests Over Embassy Bombing American diplomats said they felt like hostages in their offices as tens of thousands of furious demonstrators marched to protest NATO's bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade and pelted American Embassy buildings in Beijing with eggs, stones, paint balloons and chunks of concrete. Protests also occurred in other cities over the weekend, including Shanghai and Chengdu, where the American Consul General's home was set on fire. A1 Satellite-guided bombs from a B-2 bomber struck the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade on Friday night because C.I.A. analysts used outdated maps, and military databases designed to catch such mistakes had the wrong address for the embassy, American officials said. A1