However, the situation has not returned to the pre-1968 level and the number of successful hijackings continues to be high-an average of 18 per annum during the 10-year period between 1988 and 1997, as against the pre-1968 average of five.

The U. S. Peace Corps returned to Botswana in August 2002 with a focus on HIV / AIDS-related programs after concluding 30 years of more broadly targeted assistance in 1997.

Many of the Yakoma soldiers who left the country after the mutinies in 1996 – 1997 have now returned and must also be reintegrated into the army.

At about noon on 2 May 1997, Major officially returned his seals of office as Prime Minister to The Queen.

By the time Labour returned to government in 1997 after 18 years in opposition, Tony Blair ( leader since 1994 ) had abandoned the Labour policy of going back on Tory-led union reforms, as well as ending the commitment of nationalisation of industries and utilities.

Jobs returned to Apple as a consultant in 1997 and then after the 4th of July weekend the same year became interim CEO.

In 1997, the elephant returned, taking its current form: Stomper.

Denis Sassou-Nguesso, who returned to power when the war ended in October 1997, publicly expressed interest in moving forward on economic reforms and privatization and in renewing cooperation with international financial institutions.

Subsequently, in 1997 Imperium Games published Marc Miller's Traveller, often referred to as T4, which returned to the classic setting and game system, though not without some major alterations.

* 15 July 1997 Gianni Versace was shot dead, aged 50, on the steps of his Miami Beach mansion as he returned from a morning walk on Ocean Drive.

Hong Kong would eventually be returned to China in 1997.

In 1997, Queen returned to the studio to record " No-One but You ( Only the Good Die Young )".

Diaz returned to mainstream films with My Best Friend's Wedding and A Life Less Ordinary, both released in 1997.

Supergrass returned to Sawmills studio to co-produce follow up album, In It For The Money ( released April 1997 ), with John Cornfield.

In parallel with this effort, some of the JFS development team returned to the AIX Operating System Development Group in 1997 and started to move this new JFS source base to the AIX operating system.

After a 1997 – 1998 exhibit of Schiele's work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the painting was seized by order of the New York County District Attorney and had been tied up in litigation by heirs of its former owner who claim that the painting was Nazi plunder and should be returned to them.

Hjördis recovered from her alcoholism after Niven's death in 1983, but returned to it before her own death of a stroke in 1997 at age 78.

In 1997 just 6 years later after pulling out of both US and Canadian Markets, Peugeot returned to Mexico after a 36-year absence under the Free Trade Agreement between both Mexico and Chile.

From the 2007 season onwards the Seven Network returned as the official V8 Supercars broadcaster, after Network Ten had shown the series for almost a decade after taking the rights from Seven in 1997, ending Seven's 35 year reign as the official broadcaster of V8 Supercars.

She returned to Broadway in 1997, taking over the title role in the musical Victor / Victoria, replacing Julie Andrews.

Following the release of Ridiculous, Don Snow ( now known as Jonn Savannah ) returned to Squeeze yet again as their touring keyboard player, but by 1997, the Squeeze line-up had officially dwindled down to just Difford and Tilbrook.

He returned to Hanoi in 1997 as the first United States Ambassador to Vietnam.

Watford experienced a decade of decline between 1987 and 1997, before Taylor returned as full-time manager, leading the team to successive promotions from the renamed Second Division to the Premier League.

" Lord Donoughue, an admirer of the series who was head of James Callaghan's policy unit at 10 Downing Street from 1976 to 1979, noticed that, when the Labour Party returned to power in 1997 after 18 years in opposition, a number of junior Ministers took so seriously the relationships with civil servants as depicted by Jay and Lynn that they were unduly wary of senior officials and allowed this suspicion to influence their behaviour.

Bakshi returned to television with the live-action film Cool and the Crazy ( 1994 ) and the anthology series Spicy City ( 1997 ).

Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani in 1997 signed legislation designating the southwest corner of West 54th Street and Broadway, the corner on which John J. Fitz Gerald lived from 1934 to 1963, as " Big Apple Corner.

* The Illuminated Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks, Michael Green contributor, New York: Broadway Books, 1997 ISBN 978-0-7679-0002-7.

In 1954, Sondheim wrote both music and lyrics for Saturday Night, which was never produced on Broadway and was shelved until a 1997 production at London's Bridewell Theatre.

A 1997 musical stage adaptation had a brief Broadway run.

In 1997, the score was adapted into a Broadway musical version which won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 1998.

She replaced Marcia Gay Harden as Harper Pitt in Tony Kushner's Angels in America ( 1994 ), received a Tony nomination for her performance in Indiscretions ( Les Parents Terribles ) ( 1996, her sixth Broadway show ) and, though she originally lost the part to another actress, eventually took over the role of Lala Levy in the Tony-winning The Last Night of Ballyhoo ( 1997 ).

The play was revived on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre, opening on December 8, 1997 and closing on June 28, 1998 after 230 performances and 12 previews.

In the 1997 / 98 Broadway season he starred in the new chamber musical Triumph of Love opposite Betty Buckley, based on Mariveaux's classic comedy.

* Joseph Kolinski ( actor ) ( 1997 ) (" Titanic: A New Musical ") Broadway musical that ran for 804 perormances

Golden Child later became his second Broadway venture and won the 1997 Obie Award for its Off-Broadway production and gave Hwang his second Tony nomination.

The team ’ s last original work to reach Broadway during Ebb's life opened in 1997.

Steve Allen remembered Hornsby, Broadway Open House and Fred Allen in a 1997 interview:

He proved his ability as a character actor in films including The Crying Game ( 1992 ), Enchanted April ( 1992 ), Bullets Over Broadway ( 1994 ), The Borrowers ( 1997 ), and Little Voice ( 1998 ) before taking a leading role in another Mike Leigh film, Topsy-Turvy ( 1999 ), playing dramatist Sir William S. Gilbert.

* The Illuminated Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks, Michael Green contributor, New York: Broadway Books, 1997 ISBN 0-7679-0002-2.

He is known for writing the music and lyrics to Broadway musicals, including Nine in 1982, and Titanic in 1997, both of which won Tony Awards for best musical and best score.

* Titanic ( original Broadway cast ( 1997 ; Grammy Award nomination ), original Dutch cast, original Hamburg cast )

It drew mostly negative reviews, and the Broadway opening that had been scheduled for 17 April 1997, was subsequently cancelled.

* Fools Rush In ( 1997 ) Several scenes, including the 72nd St. & Broadway Subway station and CPW

In 1997, Blades headed the cast of singer / songwriter Paul Simon's first Broadway musical, The Capeman, based on a true story about a violent youth who becomes a poet in prison, which also starred Marc Anthony and Ednita Nazario.

He appeared with Jason Robards in the 1994 revival of Harold Pinter's No Man's Land and scored one of his greatest successes in 1997 in Barrymore, which he also toured with after a successful Broadway run.

In 1997, she appeared in a Broadway revival of Grease.

Paige transferred to the American production of Sunset Boulevard to make her Broadway debut at the Minskoff Theatre on 12 September 1996, staying with the show until it closed on 22 March 1997.

A year later, he helped conceive the 1997 Broadway revue Dream, which starred Whiting and contained many Mercer songs.