Timeline 2000 July-August
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2000 Jul 1,
Vermont’s civil unions law, which granted gay couples most of the
rights, benefits and responsibilities of marriage, went into effect.
(AP, 7/1/01)
2000 Jul 1, The Confederate flag
was removed from atop South Carolina’s Statehouse.
(AP, 7/1/01)
2000 Jul 1, In Washington DC
thousands of Tibetans and their supporters rallied to urge the World
Bank to scrap a plan to resettle some 60,000 poor farmers, many of them
Chinese, on traditional Tibetan lands.
(SFEC, 7/2/00, p.A16)
2000 Jul 1, Walter Matthau, actor,
died in Santa Monica, Ca., at age 79.
(SFEC, 7/2/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 1, Australia adopted the
Goods and Services Tax (GST).
(SMH, 7/1/00)
2000 Jul 1, Canada and Russia
began to allow regular commercial air flights over the North Pole.
(WSJ, 6/8/00, p.A19)
2000 Jul 1, The Oeresund Fixed
Link (Oresund Bridge), the centerpiece of a $3.5 billion, 10-mile rail,
motorway, bridge and tunnel project between Copenhagen and southern
Sweden was scheduled for completion. Danish Queen Margrethe II met with
Swedish King Carl Gustaf XVI on the artificial isle of Peberholm, half
way across.
(WSJ, 5/26/00, p.A20)(SFEC, 6/25/00, p.T3)
2000 Jul 1, In Iran a justice
officials said 3 of 13 Jews tried on charges for spying were acquitted
and that 10 were sentenced to fines, lashes and jail terms from 4 to 13
years. An appeals court later annulled 2 of the 3 convictions against
the defendants and reduce their jail terms.
(SFC, 7/1/00, p.A13)(SFEC, 7/2/00, p.A7)(SFC,
9/22/00, p.A17)
2000 Jul 1-9, In Italy the World
Pride int’l. gay pride festival opened in Rome.
(SFEC, 6/4/00, p.C14)(SFEC, 7/2/00, p.A17)
2000 Jul 1, Lucie Blackman (21), a
British citizen working in Tokyo, became the 8th Western woman to
disappear in the last 5 years. In 2001 police found her remains encased
in concrete near the residence of Joji Obara, a wealthy businessman and
prime suspect. Obara was formally accused Apr 6, 2001. Some 4,800 tapes
were found that linked Obara to some 400 rapes over 25 years [see April
24, 2007]. On Dec 16, 2008, Obara was convicted for the abduction and
dismemberment of Blackman, but acquitted of her murder. The court also
upheld an earlier conviction for the rapes of 9 other women.
(SFC, 10/17/00, p.A13)(SFC, 2/10/01, p.A11)(SSFC,
2/11/01, p.C2)(SFC, 4/7/01, p.A11)(SFC, 4/9/01, p.A7)(AP, 12/16/08)
2000 Jul 2, In Chechnya rebels
staged 5 suicide attacks against Russian forces. One bomb killed 31
elite OMON police troops as they slept in their barracks at Argun.
(SFC, 7/4/00, p.A8)
2000 Jul 2, France beat Italy
2-to-1 in the European Championship soccer final in Rotterdam,
Netherlands.
(AP, 7/2/01)
2000 Jul 2, In Indonesia 10 people
were rescued from water close to Karakelong Island after 4 days at sea
following the sinking of the Cahaya Bahari.
(SFC, 7/3/00, p.A14)
2000 Jul 2, In Mexico Vincente Fox
(58) and his national Action Party (PAN) claimed victory over the
ruling PRI. This ended the Institutional Revolutionary Party’s 71-year
reign. In 2004 Julia Preston and Samuel Dillon authored "Opening
Mexico: The Making of a Democracy."
(SFC, 7/3/00, p.A1)(WSJ, 7/3/00, p.A8)(AP,
7/2/01)(SSFC, 2/14/04, p.M1)
2000 Jul 2, In Mongolia the
People’s Revolutionary Party won 72 seats of the 76-member legislature.
(SFC, 7/3/00, p.A14)
2000 Jul 2, In Northern Ireland
police block the marchers of the Orange Order at Portadown.
(SFC, 7/3/00, p.A12)
2000 Jul 3, President Clinton made
a congratulatory telephone call to Mexican President-elect Vicente Fox,
a day after Fox’s election.
(AP, 7/3/01)
2000 Jul 3, A 1970’s steel
observation tower that preservationists said had desecrated the
battlefield of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania was demolished.
(AP, 7/3/01)
2000 Jul 3, Harold Nicholas,
younger member of the tap-dancing Nicholas Brothers, died at age 79. In
2000 Constance Valis Hill authored "Brotherhood in Rhythm: The Jazz Tap
Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers."
(SFC, 7/5/00, p.A19)
2000 Jul 3, In Mexico the
elections showed 42.7% for Vincente Fox, 35.8% for Labastida, and 16.5%
for Cardenas.
(SFC, 7/4/00, p.A11)
2000 Jul 3, The Palestinian
leadership said that a Palestinian state would be declared by September
13.
(SFC, 7/5/00, p.A8)(WSJ, 7/5/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 4, Pres. Clinton presided
over the largest naval parade in history in Ney York harbor. Tall ships
sailed through New York Harbor during OpSail 2000, celebrating
Independence Day.
(WSJ, 7/5/00, p.A1)(AP, 7/4/01)
2000 Jul 4, In Fiji Laisenia
Qarase was sworn in as prime minister along with a 19-member all-Fijian
temporary government.
(SFC, 7/4/00, p.A9)
2000 Jul 4, In India the Cabinet
rejected a demand for political autonomy by the Kashmir state
legislature.
(SFC, 7/5/00, p.A12)
2000 Jul 4, In Indonesia 10 people
were killed over 2 days of clashes between Christians and Muslims in
the Malukus.
(SFC, 7/5/00, p.A10)
2000 Jul 4, In Northern Ireland
protestors clashed with police in Belfast for a 2nd night due to
restrictions on traditional parades in Catholic areas.
(SFC, 7/5/00, p.A10)
2000 Jul 4, In Mexico
president-elect Vincente Fox promised to fight corruption, to restart
talks with the Zapatista rebels, and to strip the Interior Ministry of
all functions but those involving political relations between the
federal and state governments.
(SFC, 7/5/00, p.A4)
2000 Jul 4, In Sri Lanka the
government reimposed censorship on local media and foreign journalists
reporting on the civil war.
(SFC, 7/5/00, p.A4)
2000 Jul 5, At the United Nations,
President Clinton signed an international agreement to ban the forcible
recruitment of youths as soldiers in armed conflict, and a companion
accord to protect children from being forced into slavery, prostitution
and pornography.
(AP, 7/5/01)
2000 Jul 5, Thomas Junta, a hockey
father, killed coach Michael Costin (40) following a practice hockey
match in Reading, Mass. Junta went on trial in 2001. In 2001 Junta was
found guilty of involuntary manslaughter. In 2002 Junta was sentenced 6
to 10 years in prison.
(SFC, 1/3/02, p.A3)(SFC, 1/11/02, p.A3)(SFC,
1/12/02, p.A1)(SFC, 1/26/02, p.A3)
2000 Jul 5, In Northern Ireland
rioting continued for a 4th day to force authorities to allow the
Orange Order to parade down Garvaghy Road in Portadown.
(SFC, 7/6/00, p.A12)
2000 In the Ivory Coast the
military reached an agreement with mutinous soldiers. Lump sum payments
of $1,600 were promised to soldiers, who had demanded $9000.
(SFC, 7/6/00, p.A13)
2000 Jul 5, In the Philippines the
army carried out a large offensive against Muslim separatists and
bombarded the 25,000-acre Camp Abubakar on southern Mindanao.
(SFC, 7/6/00, p.A13)
2000 Jul 5, The UN Security
Council placed a diamond ban on the rebels of Sierra Leone to strangle
their ability to finance the civil war. 90% of the diamond mines were
in rebel hands.
(SFC, 7/6/00, p.A12)(AP, 7/5/01)
2000 Jul 5, In Ukraine the
Chernobyl nuclear plant drew pledges of $715 million from Western
nations for a 5-year project to replace the protective tomb built to
close off the 1986 nuclear accident.
(WSJ, 7/6/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 6, Venus Williams beat
her younger sister Serena 6-2, 7-6 (3) to reach the Wimbledon final;
their singles match was the first between sisters in a Grand Slam
semifinal.
(AP, 7/6/01)
2000 Jul 6, The body of
19-year-old Cory Erving, son of basketball star Julius "Dr. J" Erving,
was found in his car at the bottom of a Florida pond; he’d been missing
since May 28th.
(AP, 7/6/01)
2000 Jul 6, A heat wave in
Southeast Europe left 25 people dead as temperatures rose to 113
degrees in some places.
(SFC, 7/7/00, p.D3)
2000 Jul 6, In China 3 separatists
were executed in Urumqi by firing squad immediately after a public
sentencing.
(SFC, 7/13/00, p.C4)
2000 Jul 6, The German parliament
offered a formal apology to Nazi-era slave and forced laborers as it
passed a bill setting up a five billion-dollar compensation fund.
(AP, 7/6/01)
2000 Jul 6, In Malaysia commandos
ended a 4-day standoff and forced the surrender of 27 militants of
Al-Ma’unah (Brotherhood of Inner Power), led by Amin Razali. 2
non-Muslim hostages were slain in the process. 19 cult members were
found guilty Dec 27, 2001.
(SFC, 7/7/00, p.D6)(SFEC, 8/13/00, p.B9)(SFC,
12/28/01, p.A4)
2000 Jul 6, In Northern Ireland
British authorities banned a 2nd Protestant parade from passing through
Catholic territory.
(SFC, 7/7/00, p.A12)
2000 Jul 6, In Nicaragua a 5.9
earthquake was centered in Laguna de Apoyo. At least 4 children died.
(SFC, 7/7/00, p.D6)(SFC, 7/8/00, p.A12)
2000 Jul 6, In Serbia Pres.
Milosevic changed the constitution to allow himself to run for
re-election. He also reduced Montenegro’s power in the Yugoslav
federation by changing how delegates are selected for the upper house.
(SFC, 7/7/00, p.A12)
2000 Jul 6, In Spain a bus enroute
to a summer camp for teens collided with a truck hauling pigs near
Soria and at least 25 people were killed.
(SFC, 7/7/00, p.D6)
2000 Jul 6, In Sri Lanka the
military reported 50 guerrillas killed in commando attacks on northern
Tamil bases. Tamil rebels reported 35 dead.
(SFC, 7/7/00, p.D6)
2000 Jul 7, The 4th installment of
the "Harry Potter" series, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," by
J.K. Rowling went on sale.
(SFC, 7/8/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 7, In Denver Episcopal
bishops approved an alliance with the nation’s largest Lutheran
denomination.
(SFC, 7/8/00, p.A3)
2000 Jul 7, President Clinton
postponed the first federal execution since 1963 so that death row
inmate Juan Raul Garza could ask for clemency under guidelines being
updated by the government. Garza was executed June 19, 2001.
(AP, 7/7/01)
2000 Jul 7, A$100 million US test
missile failed to hit a dummy warhead from another missile. It was the
2nd failure of 3 tests.
(SFC, 7/8/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 7, In West Virginia 2
teenagers (17) in Grant Town confessed to killing Arthur Warren Jr.
(26), a gay man. They beat him to death and then drove over his body
several times to make it look like a hit-and-run.
(SFC, 7/8/00, p.A4)
2000 Jul 7, Stock car driver Kenny
Irwin was killed when his car slammed into a wall during practice at
New Hampshire International Speedway; he was 30.
(AP, 7/7/01)
2000 Jul 7, In Austria the
parliament approved a $415 million fund to compensate Nazi-era victims
of forced labor.
(SFC, 7/8/00, p.C14)
2000 Jul 7, Three days of
torrential rains over central China left at least 22 people dead in
Sichuan. Thousands of buildings, 17 bridges and 7 hydroelectric power
stations were damaged. In Guangxi Zhuang a bus fell into the Liujiang
River in Liuzhou and at least 65 people were killed.
(SFC, 7/8/00, p.D8)(SFC, 7/10/00, p.A9)
2000 Jul 7, German drug maker
Boehringer Ingelheim said it would donate nevirapine, a drug to help
prevent the transmission of AIDS from mothers to infants, to every
nation in the developing world that asks for it.
(SFC, 7/8/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 7, In Fiji supporters of
George Speight seized up to 30 hostages at Korovou.
(SFC, 7/8/00, p.A11)
2000 Jul 7, In Nicaragua another
earthquake struck and at least 2 people were killed.
(SFC, 7/8/00, p.A12)
2000 Jul 7, Typhoon Kai Tak killed
at least 39 people in the Philippines and moved on to Japan.
(SFC, 7/8/00, p.A11)(WSJ, 7/10/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 7, The World Bank
cancelled its Chinese resettlement project for Tibet. China then
withdrew its request for a $40 million loan and vowed to proceed with
its own development program.
(SFC, 7/8/00, p.A10)
2000 Jul 8, Venus Williams beat
Lindsay Davenport 6-3, 7-6 (3) for her first Grand Slam title, becoming
the first black women’s champion at Wimbledon since Althea Gibson in
1957-58.
(WSJ, 7/10/00, p.A1)(AP, 7/8/01)
2000 Jul 8, The Pentagon’s missile
defense project suffered its latest setback when a rocket that had
taken off from Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific failed to intercept a
target missile launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
(AP, 7/8/01)
2000 Jul 8, F.M. Esfandiary,
"chronic optimist," died at age 69. "There is no scarcity, there is
only the psychology of scarcity." His written works included "Days of
Sacrifice" and "Optimism One."
(SFC, 7/12/00, p.A17)
2000 Jul 8, In Germany over a
million people gathered in Berlin for the techno music Love Parade at
Tiergarten park.
(SFEC, 7/9/00, p.C11)
2000 Jul 8, In Iran a student
march to mark a bloody rally one year ago turned violent as police
charged thousands of students in Tehran.
(SFEC, 7/9/00, p.C11)
2000 Jul 8, In Japan a Typhoon
Kirogi hit the eastern coast and left 3 people dead.
(SFEC, 7/9/00, p.C11)
2000 Jul 8, A bomb exploded at the
Stewartstown Royal Ulster Constabulary station with no injuries. The
Orange Order announced plans to bring the country to a halt the next
day if they are not allowed to march down Garvaghy Road in Portadown.
(SFEC, 7/9/00, p.C12)
2000 Jul 8, In Russia Pres. Putin
made his first state of the nation address and called for increased
power to the central government to overcome a bleak diagnosis of the
country’s ills.
(SFEC, 7/9/00, p.C11)
2000 Jul 9, Top-seeded Pete
Sampras won his seventh Wimbledon title as he defeated Patrick Rafter,
6-7 (10), 7-6 (5), 6-4, 6-2.
(WSJ, 7/11/00, p.A1)(AP, 7/8/01)
2000 Jul 9, In Afghanistan Mary
MacMakin was arrested for violating the Taliban ban on employing women.
She led the NGO: "Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Support for
Afghanistan," (PARSA). MacMakin was released 3 days later ordered to
leave the country with accusations of spying and trying to convert
Muslims to Christianity.
(SFC, 7/10/00, p.A8)(SFC, 7/13/00, p.A13)
2000 Jul 9, In Fiji rebels signed
a deal to return their captives in exchange for an end to the country’s
multiracial democracy.
(SFC, 7/10/00, p.A8)
2000 Jul 9, Voters in Haiti cast
ballots for 44 seats of the 83-member Chamber of Deputies. Most voters
ignored the balloting and int’l. observers called the elections
"fundamentally flawed."
(SFC, 7/10/00, p.A9)(WSJ, 7/14/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 9, In Northern Ireland
some 2000 Orange Order marchers held a peaceful march at Drumcree.
(SFC, 7/10/00, p.A8)
2000 Jul 9, In the Philippines
government troops captured the headquarters of the Moro Islamic
Liberation Front at Camp Abubakar in Maguindanao province.
(SFC, 7/10/00, p.A10)
2000 Jul 9, In Russia a bomb
attack at a food market in Vladikavkaz in North Ossetia left 5 people
dead. Another bomb in a department store at the port of Rostov-on-Don
on the Black Sea left 2 people dead.
(SFC, 7/10/00, p.A9)
2000 Jul 9, The 13th Int’l. AIDS
Conference convened in Durban, South Africa. Pres. Thabo Mbeki opened
the conference and insisted that poverty was a greater enemy than the
AIDS virus. Hundreds of delegates walked out.
(SFC, 7/7/00, p.A1)(SFC, 7/10/00, p.A1)(AP, 7/8/01)
2000 Jul 9, In Zimbabwe 12 people
died in a soccer stampede set off when police fired tear gas at
bottle-throwing fans during a World Cup qualifier between Zimbabwe and
South Africa in Harare. South Africa’s 2-0 victory over Zimbabwe was
ruled official.
(WSJ, 7/10/00, p.A1)(AP, 7/8/01)
2000 Jul 10, Pres. Clinton moved
to establish an 84 million gallon stockpile of heating oil for the
Northeast.
(SFC, 7/11/00, p.A7)
2000 Jul 10, Texas Governor George
W. Bush, facing a skeptical audience, told the NAACP convention in
Baltimore that "the party of Lincoln has not always carried the mantle
of Lincoln," and promised to work to improve relations.
(AP, 7/10/01)
2000 Jul 10, Justin Pierce (25),
actor, committed suicide by hanging himself in hotel room of the
Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. His last movie, Looking for
Leonard (2002), was not released until two years after his death
because production had been halted due to lack of funds. His character
subsequently disappeared from the film without explanation. He was born
March 21, 1975 in Paddington, London, England.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0682399/)
2000 Jul 10, DASA (minus MTU)
merged with Aerospatiale-Matra of France and Construcciones
Aeronáuticas SA (CASA) of Spain to form the European Aeronautic
Defence and Space Company (EADS). DASA was founded as Deutsche
Aerospace AG on May 19, 1989 by the merger of Daimler-Benz's aerospace
interests (MTU, Dornier and two divisions of AEG). In July 1989 the two
AEG divisions were themselves merged within Deutsche Aerospace to form
Telefunken Systemtechnik (TST). In December 1989 Daimler-Benz acquired
Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm (MBB) and merged it into DASA.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DASA)
2000 Jul 10, In Israel Pres. Ezer
Weizman resigned following his alleged improper acceptance of $453,000
from Edouard Sarousi, a French textile magnate.
(SFC, 7/11/00, p.A9)(AP, 7/10/01)
2000 Jul 10, In Kosovo an Albanian
boy (5) was killed when an American soldier’s rifle discharged
accidentally.
(SFC, 7/11/00, p.A14)
2000 Jul 10, In Mexico Augustin
Vasquez Mendoza was arrested in Tehuacan. In 2005 he was extradited
from Mexico to the United States to stand trial for his role in the
murder of DEA Special Agent Richard Fass in Glendale, Arizona, on June
30, 1994.
(SFC, 7/11/00,
p.A10)(http://crime.about.com/b/a/145527.htm)
2000 Jul 10, In Nigeria over 100
people, many of them children, were burned to death after a damaged
gasoline pipe exploded near the villages of Adeje and Oviri-Court in
the Niger Delta. The toll was later raised to 200.
(SFC, 7/12/00, p.A8)(SFC, 7/15/00, p.A12)
2000 Jul 10, In the Philippines a
garbage dump in Quezon City, a Manila suburb, collapsed and burst into
flames. At least 124 people were killed in the Lupang Pangako
shantytown at the Payatas dump. The camp was called the Promised Land.
200 were feared to have died.
(SFC, 7/11/00, p.A14)(WSJ, 7/111/00, p.A1)(SFC,
7/12/00, p.A10)(SFC, 7/13/00, p.C4)(SFC, 7/15/00, p.A24)
2000 Jul 10, In Russia Oleg
Belonenko, director of the Uralmashzadov machine-tool manufacturing
operation, was killed by 2 gunmen in Yekaterinburg.
(SFC, 7/11/00, p.A10)
2000 Jul 10, In Togo UN Sec. Gen.
Kofi Annan opened a summit conference of the Organization of African
Unity.
(SFC, 7/11/00, p.A12)
2000 Jul 11, In Cincinnati the
African Methodist Episcopal Church, the nation’s oldest black church,
elected Rev. Vashti Murphy McKenzie as its 1st female bishop in its
213-year history.
(SFC, 7/12/00, p.A3)(AP, 7/11/01)
2000 Jul 11, The American League
defeated the National League 6-to-3 in the All-Star Game.
(AP, 7/11/01)
2000 Jul 11, A Middle East summit
hosted by President Clinton opened at Camp David between Israeli Prime
Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
(AP, 7/11/01)(SFC, 7/12/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 11, In NYC a brownstone
apartment building collapsed in Brooklyn and at least 3 people were
killed.
(SFC, 7/13/00, p.A7)
2000 Jul 11, Robert Runcie, the
former archbishop of Canterbury, died in Hertfordshire, England, at age
78.
(AP, 7/11/01)
2000 Jul 11, In China it was
reported that 6 members of a Uighur separatist group were executed.
(WSJ, 7/12/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 11, In Kashmir Muslim
militants killed 3 Buddhist monks at a vehicle check at Rangdum and
escaped with Harfurth Rolf, a German tourist. Rolf’s body was found Aug
3 on a glacier in the Kishtwar mountain range.
(SFC, 8/5/00, p.A11)
2000 Jul 11, In Russia Prime
Minister Kasyanov warned business barons that the immunity they enjoyed
under the Yeltsin government was over. Lukoil was charged with tax
evasion and the offices of Gazprom and media-Most were raided in a
fraud case. Also the head of RAO Norilsk Nickel was told to pay $140
million extra for his controlling stake.
(WSJ, 7/12/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 11, In Uganda rival clans
of the Karamojong tribe clashed and 63 cattle herders were killed.
(SFC, 7/14/00, p.D2)
2000 Jul 12, The New Hampshire
House of Representatives voted to impeach Chief Justice David A. Brock
for perpetuating misconduct and a culture of secrecy. It the first such
action against an official in the state since 1790. He was later
acquitted in a state Senate trial.
(SFC, 7/13/00, p.A3)(AP, 7/12/01)
2000 Jul 12, In Philadelphia a
WPVI News camera showed city police beat and kick Thomas Jones (30)
over nationwide TV. Jones had stolen a patrol car and shot at an
officer. Jones later pleaded guilty to carjacking and other crimes, and
was sentenced to 18 to 36 years in prison. Ballistic tests later showed
that Officer Michael Livewell was shot in the thumb by another officer
during their struggle with Jones. 13 police officers were later
suspended for up to 15 days in connection with the incident.
(SFC, 7/14/00, p.A1,16)(SFC, 8/8/00, p.A5)(AP,
7/12/05)
2000 Jul 12, Gemstar, a pioneer in
interactive TV, merged with TV Guide in a stock deal valued at $14.2
billion with Gemstar founder Henry C. Yuen as chairman and CEO. In 2003
the SEC filed fraud charges against Yuen for overstated revenues and
Yuen erased the contents of his hard drive. In 2005 Yuen pleaded guilty
to one criminal count of obstruction of justice. In 2006 a federal
judge found Yuen liable on civil fraud charges and ordered him to pay
$22 million in disgorgement, interest and fine.
(WSJ, 4/25/07, p.A1,9)
2000 Jul 12, In Fiji coup leaders
released the last 18 hostages and ended a standoff that began May 18.
2000 Jul 12, In India at least 71
people were killed after part of Balbati Hill collapsed in eastern
Bombay. The death toll from monsoon rains over 2 days reached 135 for
Maharashtra and Gujarat states.
(SFC, 7/13/00, p.C4)(SFC, 7/14/00, p.D2)(SFC,
7/15/00, p.A13) (SFC, 7/13/00, p.A12)
2000 Jul 12, Israel cancelled
plans to sell an AWACS-equipped plane to China.
(WSJ, 7/13/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 12, The Russian-made
Zvezda service module for the Int’l. Space Station was launched from
the Baikonur site in Kazakstan.
(SFC, 7/11/00, p.A8)(SFC, 7/12/00, p.A8)
2000 Jul 12, In Spain a car bomb
exploded at the entrance of the Corte Ingles department store in
Madrid. 10 people were injured.
(SFC, 7/13/00, p.C4)
2000 Jul 12, In Togo 36 African
heads of state signed a draft treaty seen as a step toward an African
Union.
(SFC, 7/13/00, p.C4)
2000 Jul 13, Fellow Democrat Bill
Bradley endorsed Vice President Al Gore for president, four months
after conceding their fight for the White House.
(AP, 7/13/01)
2000 Jul 13, It was reported that
the US and Vietnam had completed a trade agreement for generally
unfettered commerce between the two countries.
(SFC, 7/13/00, p.A12)
2000 Jul 13, In China a mudslide
following heavy rains killed at least 119 villagers in Ziyang county in
Shaanxi province. The death toll was later raised to 213 with another
23 killed in the Liangshan area of Sichuan province.
(SFC, 7/17/00, p.A13)(SFC, 7/21/00, p.B7)
2000 Jul 13, In Fiji the Great
Council of Chiefs elected Ratu Josefa Iloilo as the new president.
(SFC, 7/14/00, p.A13)
2000 Jul 13, In southern Sudan
rebels reported the killing of at least 92 pro-government fighters of
the Murahilin tribe after 2 days of fighting.
(SFC, 7/14/00, p.D2)
2000 Jul 14, In Florida a
Miami-Dade County jury awarded $144.8 billion in punitive damages to
500,000 Florida smokers. Tobacco executives planned to appeal. In 2003
a state appeals court reversed not only the award but also the class
action unifying hundreds of thousands of sick Florida smokers under a
single lawsuit; the Florida Supreme Court agreed in May 2004 to review
that decision.
(SFC, 7/15/00, p.A1)(SFC, 5/22/03, p.A10)(AP,
7/14/05)
2000 Jul 14, In Waco, Texas, a
federal jury decided that federal agents were not responsible for the
deaths of 80 Branch Davidians in 1993.
(SFC, 7/15/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 14, A powerful flare
erupted on the sun. It was the largest solar radiation event since Oct,
1989, and the associated coronal mass ejection was expected to trigger
geomagnetic disturbances on Earth.
(SFC, 7/15/00, p.A2)(SFEC, 7/16/00, p.A16)
2000 Jul 14, Actress Meredith
MacRae of TV’s "Petticoat Junction" died in Manhattan Beach,
California, at age 56.
(AP, 7/14/01)
2000 Jul 14, In Australia John
Roche contacted the Australian intelligence agency, known as ASIO to
discuss information regarding his contacts with al-Qaeda.
(LAT, 6/7/04)
2000 Jul 14, Mark Oliphant, a
physicist who helped split the atom in 1932, died at age 98. He founded
the Australian Academy of Science and was appointed as the governor of
South Australia state (1971-1976).
(SFC, 7/18/00, p.A22)
2000 Jul 14, In Canada a tornado
hit the Green Acres campground near Red Deer, Alberta, and 9 people
were killed. A 10th camper died the next day.
(SFEC, 7/16/00, p.A2)(SFC, 7/17/00, p.A13)
2000 Jul 14, In Germany the
Parliament passed a major tax-cut program.
(SFC, 7/15/00, p.A16)
2000 Jul 14, In Durban, South
Africa, Nelson Mandela closed the 13th Int’l. Conference on AIDS with a
call for scientists to set aside differences with Pres. Thabo Mbeki and
to concentrate on fighting the disease.
(SFC, 7/15/00, p.A1)(AP, 7/14/01)
2000 Jul 15, Lennox Lewis stopped
Francois Botha at 2:39 of the second round to retain his WBC and IBF
heavyweight titles in London.
(AP, 7/15/01)
2000 Jul 15, John O. Pastore,
former Rhode Island governor and longtime US senator, died at age 93.
(AP, 7/15/01)
2000 Jul 15, From China it was
reported that an attack force of 700,000 ducks and chickens, trained to
hunt and eat insects at the sound of a whistle, were placed in the
locust-plagued fields of Xinjiang province.
(SFC, 7/15/00, p.A24)
2000 Jul 15, In Colombia 13 police
officers were executed by rebels following their surrender to a missile
attack in Roncesvalles.
(SFC, 7/17/00, p.A13)
2000 Jul 15, Iran test-fired an
upgraded version of its 800-mile range, Shabab-3 missile.
(SFEC, 7/16/00, p.B9)
2000 Jul 15, In Sierra Leone UN
troops freed 222 Indian peacekeepers and 11 military observers held by
rebels since May 1. One Indian peacekeeper was killed and 7 others
injured.
(SFEC, 7/16/00, p.B9)(SFC, 7/18/00, p.A12)
2000 Jul 16, Families and friends
of the victims of the TWA Flight 800 explosion broke ground for a new
memorial on the Long Island shore not far from where the plane went
down in 1996, killing all 230 people on board.
(WSJ, 7/18/96, p.A1)(AP, 7/16/01)
2000 Jul 16, An oil leak in Parana
state began near the Getulio Vargas Refinery in Araucaria and dumped
over 1 million gallons of crude into a tributary of the Iguacu River.
Petrobras was later fined $94 million for the country’s worst spill in
25 years.
(SFC, 7/18/00, p.A12)(SFC, 8/3/00, p.A13)
2000 Jul 16, In Indonesia a 2nd
day of fighting left 20 people dead after Indonesian troops joined
Muslim militants against Christian gangs in the Maluku Islands.
(SFC, 7/17/00, p.A12)
2000 Jul 16, In Nigeria another
pipeline blast killed over 100 people between the villages of Ifie and
Ijala. The line was punctured to steal fuel.
(SFC, 7/17/00, p.A13)(WSJ, 7/17/00, p.A1)(WSJ,
7/18/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 16, In Pakistan a bomb
exploded on a train leaving Hyderabab and 10 people were killed.
(SFC, 7/17/00, p.A13)
2000 Jul 17, In India an Alliance
Air Boeing 737 jet with 58 people caught fire and crashed into two
homes just before landing at Patna airport. 7 people survived and
another 4 were killed on the ground. A total of 56 people were killed
on board and on the ground.
(SFC, 7/17/00, p.A15)(SFC, 7/18/00, p.A12)(AP,
7/17/01)
2000 Jul 17, Nepal’s King Birendra
abolished debt-bondage slavery following efforts by Kevin Bales, an
American anti-slavery activist. Soon some 40,00 families in 5 districts
suddenly found themselves emancipated and evicted by slaveholders. They
moved into refugee camps and by 2007 a third still lived in the camps.
In 2007 Bales authored “Ending Slavery: How We Free Today’s Slaves.”
(SSFC, 9/30/07, p.M1)
2000 Jul 17, In Russia Boris
Berezovsky planned to resign his seat in the Duma and launch an
opposition movement against Pres. Putin.
(SFC, 7/18/00, p.A12)(WSJ, 7/18/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 17, Bashar Assad, son of
Hafez Assad, began a seven-year term as Syria’s 16th head of state.
(AP, 7/17/01)
2000 Jul 18, Shrugging off a veto
threat from President Clinton, the Senate voted 61-to-38 in favor of
eliminating the so-called "marriage penalty" by cutting taxes for
virtually every married couple.
(AP, 7/18/01)
2000 Jul 18, Sen. Paul Coverdell
(Republican, Georgia) died in Atlanta at age 61 from a cerebral
hemorrhage.
(SFC, 7/19/00, p.A3)(AP, 7/18/01)
2000 Jul 18, In Angola rebels
abducted 14 church workers and as many as 20 civilians from the Swiss
mission of Our Lady of La Salette in Dunde.
(SFC, 7/20/00, p.C3)
2000 Jul 18, Chinese Pres. Jiang
Zemin and Russia’s Pres. Putin denounced the US proposed missile
defense program as a violation of the 1972 ABM treaty. They also vowed
to strengthen a strategic partnership between their countries.
(SFC, 7/19/00, p.A10)
2000 Jul 19, President Clinton
shuttled between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Palestinian leader
Yasser Arafat and his own experts during peace talks at Camp David
after delaying his departure for an economic summit in Japan.
(SFC, 7/19/00, p.A1)(AP, 7/19/01)
2000 Jul 19, The US announced a
plan to offer sub-Saharan African nations $1 billion in loans through
the Export-Import Bank to finance the purchase of American AIDS drugs
and medical services.
(SFC, 7/19/00, p.A10)
2000 Jul 19, In Belgium the World
Diamond Congress approved measures to track diamonds and penalties for
dealers who break rules and buy or sell "blood diamonds," those sold to
support civil wars.
(SFC, 7/20/00, p.A12)
2000 Jul 19, In Chechnya 7 Russian
servicemen were killed in 4 Russian-controlled areas.
(SFC, 7/21/00, p.B10)
2000 Jul 19, In Tilaran, Costa
Rica, a nursing-home fire killed 17 elderly people.
(WSJ, 7/20/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 19, In Okinawa over
25,000 demonstrators formed a chain around a US Air Base to protest
American presence ahead of the G-8 meeting.
(SFC, 7/21/00, p.A8)
2000 Jul 19, In North Korea
Russia’s Pres. Putin met with Kim Jong Il. Kim promised to abandon his
missile program if other states provide technology for "peaceful space
research.’ Kim later said this was just a joke.
(SFC, 7/20/00, p.A13)(WSJ, 8/15/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 19, In Russia the Duma
passed legislation that gave Pres. Putin the right to fire provincial
governors and took away the governor’s automatic immunity and
membership in the Federation Council.
(SFC, 7/20/00, p.A16)
2000 Jul 20, The Mideast summit,
resurrected only hours after its reported demise, moved forward with
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright stepping in for President
Clinton, who had left for an economic summit in Japan.
(SFC, 7/20/00, p.A1)(AP, 7/20/01)
2000 Jul 20, A federal grand jury
indicted two former Utah Olympic officials for their alleged roles in
paying one million dollars in cash and gifts to help bring the 2002
games to Salt Lake City.
(AP, 7/20/01)
2000 Jul 20, Willamette Industries
of Portland was fined $11.2 million under the federal Clean Air Act
plus $8 mil in contributions to environmental projects. It also agreed
to install an estimated $74 million worth of pollution control
equipment. The company estimated the new equipment at $28 mil.
(SFC, 7/21/00, p.A5)(WSJ, 7/21/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 20, It was reported that
an experiment at Princeton showed light traveling beyond its previous
known limit.
(SFC, 7/20/00, p.A1)(WSJ, 7/20/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 20, In Egypt at least 15
people were killed when a 6-story factory building collapsed in
Alexandria.
(SFC, 7/21/00, p.B10)
2000 Jul 20, In Japan Prime
Minister Mori presided in informal discussions between G-8 leaders and
4 leaders from poor nations. Pres. Clinton arrived in Okinawa and went
directly to the Cornerstone of peace Memorial where the names of
237,318 people, who died in the battle of Okinawa, are inscribed.
(SFC, 7/20/00, p.A12)(SFC, 7/21/00, p.A8)
2000 Jul 20, The Stock Trading
Center of Vietnam (STC), located in Ho Chi Minh City, was officially
inaugurated. Trading commenced on July 28, 2000.
(http://chinese-school.netfirms.com/abacus-stocks-Vietnam-stock-exchange.html)
2000 Jul 21, Special Counsel John
C. Danforth concluded "with 100 percent certainty" that the federal
government was innocent of wrongdoing in the siege that killed 80
members of the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, in 1993.
(AP, 7/21/01)
2000 Jul 21, Group of Eight
leaders met for an economic summit on the Japanese island of Okinawa,
where President Clinton also sought to soothe long-simmering tensions
over the huge American military presence.
(AP, 7/21/01)
2000 Jul 21, Norm Mineta, the 1st
Asian American to serve in a president’s cabinet, was sworn in as the
33rd US secretary of commerce.
(SFC, 7/22/00, p.A3)
2000 Jul 21, Researchers reported
that human general intelligence, as measured in IQ tests, came from
clearly defines regions in the frontal lobes.
(SFC, 7/21/00, p.B3)
2000 Jul 21, It was reported that
warming climate was causing Greenland to lose 11 cubic miles of ice a
year, or 12.5 trillion gallons, enough to raise sea level by .005
inches annually.
(SFC, 7/21/00, p.B3)
2000 Jul 21, It was reported that
physicists at the Fermi lab had observed evidence of the tau neutrino.
The Higgs boson still remained undetected.
(WSJ, 7/21/00, p.A1)(SFC, 7/21/00, p.B2)
2000 Jul 21, It was reported that
computers at Los Alamos simulated a nuclear blast in 3 dimensions for
the 1st time.
(WSJ, 7/21/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 21, In Hawaii a tour
helicopter crashed and killed 7 people on Maui.
(SFC, 7/22/00, p.A6)
2000 Jul 21, Marc Reisner, author
of "Cadillac Desert," died in Marin, Ca., at age 51. His 1986 book was
an angry indictment of water depletion in the American West.
(SFC, 7/24/00, p.A21)
2000 Jul 21, In Chechnya 4 Russian
soldiers were killed when a land mine blew up their truck in the Shali
region.
(SFC, 7/22/00, p.C1)
2000 Jul 21, It was reported that
the drought in Kenya had caused water and electricity rationing in
Nairobi and an appeal to the UN for $88 million to feed 3.3 million
people. 13 million people in 6 countries around the Horn of Africa were
at risk of starvation.
(SFC, 7/21/00, p.B7)
2000 Jul 21, In Russia 19 airmen
were killed when a Mi-8 helicopter crashed north of St. Petersburg.
(SFC, 7/22/00, p.C1)
2000 Jul 22, G-8 talks ended in
Okinawa and leaders pledged to do more to provide schooling, health
care and food to the poorest nations. Pres. Clinton said the US would
send $300 million in surplus farm crops to provide school lunches in
the developing world. Clinton, in Japan for a Group of Eight summit,
addressed US troops on Okinawa, where he said they "need to be good
neighbors" with the island’s residents.
(SFEC, 7/23/00, p.A1)(SFC, 7/24/00, p.A12)(AP,
7/22/01)
2000 Jul 22, Mack Metcalf (42) of
Kentucky and his wife Virginia Metcalf Merida (46) won $34.1 million in
the Powerball Lottery. They planned to split their winnings 60/40.
Mack, former forklift driver for Johnson Controls, died in 2003 at age
45. Virginia, who had worked as a corrugator for Indy Honeycomb, was
found dead in 2005.
(www.lotterybuddy.com/winner00.htm)(http://tinyurl.com/d9fez)
2000 Jul 22, Christopher McCulloch
(13) and Blaine Talmo Jr. (14) were bludgeoned to death on a school
playground in La Crescenta, Ca. Michael Demirdjian (15) was later
convicted and sentenced to 2 consecutive 25-years-to-life terms for
murder by torture.
(SFC, 10/25/06, p.B12)
2000 Jul 22, In Beijing some 100
people were rounded up in a scattered protest marking the first
anniversary of the banning of Falun Gong.
(SFEC, 7/23/00, p.B16)
2000 Jul 22, In Burundi uniformed
men killed 53 men, women and children in the village of Butaganzwa,
when they refused to go to a government regroupment camp.
(SFC, 8/1/00, p.A10)
2000 Jul 22, In South Korea
torrential rains in Seoul and Kyonggi caused floods and landslides and
killed 9 people with 4 missing.
(SFC, 7/24/00, p.A16)
2000 Jul 22, Mexican women staged
a one-day strike, more symbolic than massive, over housework.
(SFEC, 7/23/00, p.B16)
2000 Jul 22, In the Philippines
Muslim rebels ambushed a truck carrying workers for Maranao Planters
and killed 13 people, including 3 women and a 2-year-old boy. 14 were
wounded.
(SFC, 7/24/00, p.A16)
2000 Jul 23, Tiger Woods, at 24,
became the youngest player to win the career Grand Slam with a
record-breaking 19-under par in the British Open. Karrie Webb, 25, won
the US Women’s Open.
(SFC, 7/24/00, p.A1)(AP, 7/23/01)
2000 Jul 23, Lance Armstrong won
the 21-day, 2,250-mile Tour de France for the 2nd year in a row.
(WSJ, 7/24/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 23, President Clinton
rejoined the troubled Middle East talks at Camp David after hurrying
back from a four-day trip to Asia.
(AP, 7/23/01)
2000 Jul 23, Leaders of the major
industrial countries concluded their summit in Japan by announcing a
campaign to slash the number of deaths worldwide from AIDS,
tuberculosis and malaria.
(AP, 7/23/01)
2000 Jul 23, In Nigeria another
pipeline fire broke out near the port of Warri and left 40 fuel
scavengers dead.
(SFC,7/25/00, p.A14)(SFC, 7/26/00, p.A14)
2000 Jul 23, Ivory Coast voters
cast ballots for a new constitution intended to restore civilian rule.
The new constitution was approved overwhelmingly.
(SFC, 7/24/00, p.A14)(SFC, 7/26/00, p.A14)
2000 Jul 24, President Clinton
continued to mediate the Camp David Mideast summit, meeting with
Israeli, Palestinian and US negotiators.
(AP, 7/24/01)
2000 Jul 24, Georgia’s Democratic
Governor Zell Miller was appointed to the late Republican Paul
Coverdell’s Senate seat. In 2003 Miler authored "A National Party No
More."
(AP, 7/24/01)(WSJ, 11/4/03, p.D8)
2000 Jul 24, In Minneapolis,
Minn., 80 people were arrested as demonstrators protested against a
meeting of the Int’l. Society for Animal Genetics.
(SFC, 7/25/00, p.A4)
2000 Jul 24, Myanmar university
students returned to classes nearly 3.5 years after the military shut
down schools due to antigovernment protests. Loyalty pledges to the
government were required and political activity was barred.
(WSJ, 7/25/00, p.A1)(SFC, 8/23/00, p.A12)
2000 Jul 24, Michael Stone, a
pro-British paramilitary member, was freed from prison as part of
Northern Ireland’s 1998 peace accord after serving eleven years of a
life sentence for murder.
(AP, 7/24/01)
2000 Jul 24, Philippine Pres.
Joseph Estrada arrived in SF for his 1st official visit to the US.
(SFC, 7/24/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 24, A New Zealand soldier
was killed during a clash with opponents for independence, the 1st UN
peacekeeper killed in East Timor.
(SFC, 7/25/00, p.A14)
2000 Jul 25, Presidential
candidate George W. Bush announced Former Defense Sec. Dick Cheney as
his running mate.
(SFC, 7/25/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 25, In France a NY bound
Concorde jet crashed in Gonesse after takeoff and all 109 people aboard
were killed along with 4 people on the ground. Passengers included 96
Germans, 2 Danes and an Austrian. Debris from a blown tire was later
believed to have caused an engine fire. A 5th body was found in the
rubble of the Hotelissimo. It was the first-ever crash of the
supersonic jet. A final probe in 2002 attributed runway junk as the
cause of the crash.
(SFC, 7/26/00, p.A1)(SFC, 7/27/00, p.A12)(SFC,
7/29/00, p.A12)(AP, 7/25/01)(SFC, 1/17/02, p.A8)
2000 Jul 25, The
Israeli-Palestinian peace talks ended at Camp David with no success due
to the difficulty over the issue of Jerusalem.
(SFC, 7/26/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 25, In Jordan a US-made
C-130 transport plane crashed and 13 soldiers were killed.
(SFC, 7/26/00, p.A14)
2000 Jul 25, The Russian Zvezda
space module docked with the Int’l. Space Station.
(SFC, 7/26/00, p.A11)
2000 Jul 25, In Seoul, South
Korea, thousands clashed with police in the biggest anti-American
protests in 2 years.
(WSJ, 7/26/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 25, In Zimbabwe at least
230 white farmers quit working along with some businessmen in Karoi to
protest the breakdown in law and order.
(SFC, 7/26/00, p.A14)
2000 Jul 26, George W. Bush and
his just-chosen running mate, Dick Cheney, set out on their first
campaign excursion together as they visited Cheney’s former hometown of
Casper, Wyoming.
(AP, 7/26/01)
2000 Jul 26, A federal judge in
New York approved a $1.25 billion settlement between Swiss banks and
more than a-half million plaintiffs who alleged the banks had hoarded
money deposited by Holocaust victims.
(AP, 7/26/01)
2000 Jul 26, The US Navy reported
that an F-14 Tomcat jet crashed in Saudi Arabia during a training
flight. Iraqi air defense later reported that Iraqi units had shot down
a US Air Force F-14 over southern Iraq in mid July and that the Navy
report was a coverup.
(SFEC, 8/20/00, p.B16)
2000 Jul 26, Napster Inc. was hit
with a preliminary injunction to halt all illegal song swapping over
the Internet. A temporary stay was granted on appeal 2 days later.
(SFC, 7/27/00, p.A1)(SFC, 7/29/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 26, In Cuba over 1
million protestors marched in Havana against the US trade embargo.
(SFC, 7/27/00, p.C3)
2000 Jul 26, In Fiji George
Speight was arrested by the military, which then stormed a stronghold
of his followers.
(SFC, 7/27/00, p.A10)
2000 Jul 26, In Indonesia the
attorney general filed corruption charges against former Pres. Suharto.
(SFC, 7/27/00, p.A16)
2000 Jul 26, In Russia a tax
reform bill was passed that scrapped the graduated income tax in favor
of a 13% flat tax.
(SFC, 7/27/00, p.A10)
2000 Jul 27, In Chechnya 74
bodies, mostly men, were removed from a mass grave near Tangi-Chu. As
many as 80 more remained.
(SFC, 7/28/00, p.A12)
2000 Jul 27, In Germany an
explosive device detonated and injured 9 people at a train station in
Duesseldorf.
(SFC, 7/28/00, p.D3)
2000 Jul 27, In Nepal a Canadian
built Twin Otter Royal Nepal Airlines plane crashed near Jogbudha and
all 25 people aboard were killed.
(SFC, 7/28/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 27, North Korea joined
the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
(SFC, 7/28/00, p.D3)
2000 Jul 27, Yugoslav President
Slobodan Milosevic called presidential, parliamentary and local
elections for the following September. The election resulted in
Milosevic’s fall from power.
(AP, 7/27/01)
2000 Jul 28, Pres. Clinton warned
Yasser Arafat that relations with the US would be harmed if statehood
was declared without a peace deal with Israel.
(SFC, 7/29/00, p.A10)
2000 Jul 28, Bank of America,
which merged with NationsBank in 1998, announced the layoff of 10,000
people over the next year to cut costs.
(SFC, 7/29/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 28, The US FDA approved
Cipro for inhalational anthrax.
(www.lewrockwell.com/orig/sardi8.html)
2000 Jul 28, Afghan rulers ordered
a complete ban on growing poppies. Defiers of the ban were threatened
with jail.
(SFC, 7/29/00, p.A11)(SFC, 11/18/00, p.A13)
2000 Jul 28, In Northern Ireland
78 prisoners were released from the Maze Prison as part of the Good
Friday Peace Accord.
(SFC, 7/29/00, p.A12)
2000 Jul 28, In Peru violent
protests took place as Pres. Fujimori was sworn in for his 3rd
term and 5 people were killed in fires set by vandals.
(SFC, 7/29/00, p.A10)
2000 Jul 29, In China it was
reported that the Songhua River had completely dried up under the
drought that has ruined 35 million acres. 16.2 million Chinese were
left short of water.
(SFC, 7/29/00, p.D8)
2000 Jul 29, In Colombia rebels
attacked the town of Arboleda and claimed to have killed nearly 2 dozen
police officers. Troops and national police were flown to the site the
next day aboard US-supplied helicopters.
(SFC, 7/31/00, p.A12)
2000 Jul 29, Yasser Arafat set off
on a multi-country tour to drum up support for the Palestinians in the
Middle East peace process.
(AP, 7/29/01)
2000 Jul 29, In Spain a Socialist
politician was killed and Basque separatists were blamed.
(WSJ, 7/31/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 30, In Tamil Nadu, India,
film star Rajkumar and 3 companions were kidnapped by Veerappan and his
gang. Veerappan was accused of killing at least 130 police officers and
had eluded capture for 18 years. On Aug 6 the governments of Tamil Nadu
and Karnataka agreed to met rebel the kidnapper’s demands.
(SFC, 8/5/00, p.A11)(SFC, 8/7/00, p.A14)
2000 Jul 30, In Kashmir a
Pakistan-based rebel group opposed to a cease-fire attacked Indian
security forces and killed at least 3 soldiers.
(SFC, 8/1/00, p.A10)
2000 Jul 30, In Kazakhstan the
last nuclear test facility was destroyed with a controlled detonation
of 100 tons of explosives.
(SFC, 7/31/00, p.A14)
2000 Jul 30, North and South Korea
agreed to hold regular high-level talks and to re-open their suspended
border liaisons to implement earlier agreements.
(SFEC, 7/30/00, p.A2)
2000 Jul 30, In Venezuela national
elections were scheduled. 56% of the populace turned out and endorsed
Pres. Chavez to a 6-year term by a 59 to 37% margin over Francisco
Arias. Chavez’s Fifth Republic Movement won 9 of 23 state governor
races and a simple majority of the legislature. The new constitution
gave voters the right to revoke the president’s mandate after 3 years
by referendum.
(SFC, 7/29/00, p.A10)(SFC, 7/31/00, p.A12)(SFC,
8/1/00, p.A10)
2000 Jul 31, The Republican
national convention opened in Philadelphia, with George W. Bush’s name
put into nomination for president.
(SFEC, 7/30/00, p.A1)(AP, 7/31/01)
2000 Jul 31, William Maxwell
(b.1908) novelist and editor for the New Yorker, died in NYC. In 2008
the Library of America published a 2-volume edition of his fiction.
(WSJ, 9/5/08,
p.W6)(www.answers.com/topic/maxwell-william-keepers-jr)
2000 Jul 31, US and British
diplomats accused the Pres. Charles Taylor of Liberia and Pres. Blaise
Compaore of Burkina Faso of trading arms for diamonds and aiding the
rebels in Sierra Leone.
(SFC, 8/1/00, p.A8)
2000 Jul 31, A Beijing court
sentenced Cheng Kejie (66) to death for corruption. He was a former
deputy chairman of the national legislature and headed the southern
region of Guangxi from 1990-1998. Over the last week 48 people were
executed for drug trafficking. Kejie was executed in Sept.
(SFC, 8/1/00, p.A10)(SFC, 9/15/00, p.A14)
2000 Jul 31, In Israel Moshe
Katsav of the opposition Likud Party was elected president over Shimon
Peres. Prime Minister Barak survived an attempt to oust his government.
(SFC, 8/1/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 31, North and South Korea
agreed to reopen border liaison offices and reconnect a railway linking
their capitals.
(AP, 7/31/01)
2000 Jul 31, In Mexico aides of
Vincente Fox announced plans to transform the police and judiciary and
to demilitarize the anti-narcotics programs.
(SFC, 8/1/00, p.A8)
2000 Jul 31, Yugoslavia announced
that it had arrested 4 Dutch men for plotting to kidnap or kill Pres.
Milosevic to win a $5 million US reward.
(WSJ, 8/1/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 31, In Zimbabwe Vice
President Joseph Msika announced that 3,000 white-owned farms would be
resettled by landless black families.
(SFC, 8/2/00, p.A13)
2000 Jul, The Dept. of Justice
barred the proposed WorldCom acquisition of Sprint for $129 billion on
antitrust grounds.
(WSJ, 6/27/02, p.A12)
2000 Jul, Iraq’s 1st Internet
café opened with surfing censored.
(NW, 9/23/02, p.39)
2000 Jul, Ukraine’s Pres. Kuchma
authorized the sale of an advanced $100 million radar system to Iraq in
violation of UN sanctions. Evidence of the sale emerged in 2002.
(SFC, 4/16/02, p.A7)(SFC, 9/24/02, p.A18)
2000 Jul, The Vietnamese
government inaugurated the $1.8 million Saigon Software Park building
with 25 high-tech companies.
(SFC, 3/13/01, p.A18)
2000 Aug 1, In Philadelphia police
arrested at least 280 protesters and raided a warehouse site used as a
staging area for passive resistance demonstrations. 15 police officers
were injured.
(SFC, 8/2/00, p.A9)(SFC, 8/5/00, p.A3)
2000 Aug 1, A US military court in
Germany sentenced Army Staff Sergeant Frank Ronghi to life in prison
without parole for sexually assaulting and killing Merita Shabiu, an
eleven-year-old ethnic Albanian girl, while on peacekeeping duty in
Kosovo.
(AP, 8/1/01)
2000 Aug 1, In Chile the Supreme
Court was reported to have voted in secret to strip Gen. Pinochet of
his senatorial immunity.
(SFC, 8/2/00, p.A12)
2000 Aug 1, Costa Rica planned to
begin offering free e-mail access to all its citizens through the
government owned commercial Internet monopoly, RACSA.
(SFEC, 6/18/00, p.A15)
2000 Aug 1, In Indonesia a car
bomb exploded outside the house of the Philippine ambassador. Two
people were killed and 22 wounded including Ambassador Leonides Caday.
(SFC, 8/2/00, p.A12)
2000 Aug 1, In Kashmir terrorists
killed nearly 50 people in 2 attacks. 18 men at a village in the
Anantnag area were killed as well as 30 Hindu pilgrims and Muslim
porters on their way to the Amarmath cave shrine at Pahalgam.
(SFC, 8/2/00, p.A13)
2000 Aug 1, Two Britons and 2
Canadians were arrested in northern Montenegro while driving to Kosovo
on suspicion of spying and terrorism.
(SFC, 8/8/00, p.A12)
2000 Aug 2, Pres. Clinton delayed
the federal execution of Juan Raul Garza, convicted in 1993 for killing
3 men in Texas in 1990-1991. Garza, a Texas drug kingpin, was executed
June 19th, 2001.
(SFC, 8/3/00, p.A3)(AP, 8/2/01)
2000 Aug 2, Republicans awarded
Texas Governor George W. Bush their 2000 presidential nomination at the
party’s convention in Philadelphia and ratified Dick Cheney as his
running mate.
(AP, 8/2/01)
2000 Aug 2, Former President Ford
was hospitalized after suffering one, possibly two, small strokes.
(AP, 8/2/01)
2000 Aug 2, In SF a jury awarded
17 bakery workers of Interstate Brands Corp. $120 million for racial
discrimination.
(SFC, 8/3/00, p.A1)
2000 Aug 2, In India rain in Tibet
flooded the Sutlej River in India and drowned at least 107 people in
Himachal Pradesh state.
(SFC, 8/3/00, p.A13)
2000 Aug 2, In Kashmir the death
toll from guerrilla attacks climbed to 101.
(SFC, 8/3/00, p.A12)
2000 Aug 2, In the Solomon Islands
warring militias signed a cease-fire on an Australian warship off the
capital of Honiara.
(WSJ, 8/3/00, p.A1)
2000 Aug 2, Zimbabwe’s Congress of
Trade Unions (ZCTU) called a one day general strike to protest the
policies of Pres. Mugabe. Finance minister Simba Makoni announced that
the government had agreed to devalue its currency 24%.
(WSJ, 8/2/00, p.A17)(WSJ, 8/3/00, p.A1,9)
2000 Aug 3, George W. Bush
accepted the Republican presidential nomination at the party’s
convention in Philadelphia with a 52 minute speech He presented himself
as an outsider who would return "civility and respect" to Washington
politics.
(SFC, 8/4/00, p.A1)(AP, 8/3/01)
2000 Aug 3, It was reported that
scientists had developed the genetic blueprint of the cholera bacterium.
(SFC, 8/3/00, p.A10)
2000 Aug 3, Canadian sailors
dropped from helicopters and took over the GTS Katie, a private
American freighter, that held 3 Canadian soldiers and $250 million in
military equipment that was being returned from Kosovo. The freighter
had refused to dock over a payment dispute.
(SFC, 8/4/00, p.A17)
2000 Aug 3, In Indonesia
prosecutors charged former Pres. Suharto with corruption for allegedly
skimming $750 million in public funds from charities under his control.
(SFC, 8/4/00, p.D3)
2000 Aug 3, In Sri Lanka the
government presented rebels with a new constitution that offered
autonomy to minority Tamils. Ramil Wickremesinghe, opposition United
National Party leader, rejected the offer.
(SFC, 8/4/00, p.D3)(SFC, 8/5/00, p.A11)
2000 Aug 4, Fresh from the
Republican national convention in Philadelphia, GOP presidential
nominee George W. Bush and running mate Dick Cheney began an air and
rail tour of four swing states: Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and
Illinois. For his part, Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore
mocked the Republican gathering as a special-interests-sponsored sham.
(AP, 8/4/01)
2000 Aug 4, NY officials issued a
statewide alert for West Nile encephalitis after the 1st case of the
year was reported on Staten Island.
(SFC, 8/5/00, p.A3)
2000 Aug 4, In England the Queen
Mum celebrated her 100th birthday.
(SFC, 8/4/00, p.A18)
2000 Aug 4, It was reported that
the war in Chechnya had killed 2,508 Russian soldiers since 8/2/99. A
mother’s group put the figure up to 6,000.
(WSJ, 8/4/00, p.A1)
2000 Aug 4, In Georgia three Red
Cross workers were believed to have been kidnapped. Their car was found
the next day near the border with Chechnya.
(SFC, 8/7/00, p.C16)(WSJ, 8/7/00, p.A1)
2000 Aug 4, Ildefonso Salido
Ibarra, owner of the El Debate newspaper, was kidnapped in Sinaloa
state. He was released after 4 days.
(SFEC, 11/12/00, p.A19)(http://tinyurl.com/25oh9b)
2000 Aug 4, Russia reported that
Chechen rebels had decapitated 2 Russian colonels, who had been seized
earlier in the Vedeno region.
(SFC, 8/5/00, p.C1)
2000 Aug 5, President Clinton
vetoed a Republican-sponsored tax cut for married couples, describing
it as "the first installment of a fiscally reckless tax strategy."
(AP, 8/5/01)
2000 Aug 5, Sir Alec Guinness
(86), English film actor, died at a southern England hospital. In 2004
Piers Paul Read authored "Alec Guinness: The Authorised Biography."
(SFC, 8/7/00, p.A1)(AP, 8/5/01)(Econ, 1/24/04, p.76)
2000 Aug 5, In Afghanistan gunmen
killed 12 people including 7 Afghans working for the United Nations’
mine clearing agency in western Herat.
(SFC, 8/7/00, p.A12)
2000 Aug 5, In Colombia
congressman Oscar Tulio Lizcano was abducted by the FARC. He was freed
by a military operation in 2008.
(AP, 10/26/08)
2000 Aug 5, Iran reported that at
least 1000 dogs were killed in Tehran over the last month. Islam
regarded dogs as impure.
(SFC, 8/5/00, p.A22)
2000 Aug 5, UN peacekeeping troops
began spreading out along the border between Israel and Lebanon.
(SFEC, 8/6/00, p.C9)
2000 Aug 6,
Workers at Verizon, the nation’s largest local telephone company, went
on an 18-day strike over working conditions and union representation.
(AP, 8/6/01)
2000 Aug 6, In Burundi Hutu rebels
ambushed a truck carrying military cadets and 28 soldiers and 6
civilians were killed near Nyabiraba village.
(SFC, 8/8/00, p.A12)
2000 Aug 6, In Colombia rightist
paramilitary killed 6 men in Vilanueva.
(SFC, 8/9/00, p.A14)
2000 Aug 6, In Nigeria an
overcrowded boat capsized on the Atlantic coast near the Cameroon
border and at least 40 people drowned. 42 survived.
(SFC, 8/8/00, p.A12)
2000 Aug 6, In San Juan, Puerto
Rico, thousands rallied to protest new US military exercises on Vieques.
(SFC, 8/7/00, p.A3)
2000 Aug 6, Russian officials
reported that scores of rebels were killed in weekend artillery attacks
outside Grozny, Chechnya, following warnings of a possible rebel
offensive. As many as 160 insurgents were reported killed.
(SFC, 8/7/00, p.A12)(SFC, 8/8/00, p.A12)
2000 Aug 7, Vice President and
Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore selected Connecticut Senator
Joseph Lieberman as his running mate; Lieberman was the first Jew on a
major party’s presidential ticket.
(SFC, 8/8/00, p.A1)(AP, 8/7/01)
2000 Aug 7, It was reported that
another 16 people were killed by rebels in northern Colombia and that
Occidental Petroleum had halted production at its 2nd largest field due
to rebel attacks. Rightist paramilitary killed 7 villagers in San Diego.
(WSJ, 8/7/00, p.A1)(SFC, 8/9/00, p.A14)
2000 Aug 7, Chechen rebels claimed
11 Russian soldiers in a military convoy were killed by a remote
controlled mine.
(SFC, 8/8/00, p.A12)
2000 Aug 7, In Malaysia Anwar
Ibrahim, former deputy prime minister, was convicted of sodomy and
sentenced to 9 years in prison. Sukma Dermawan, Ibrahim’s codefendant
and adopted brother, was also found guilty.
(SFC, 8/8/00, p.A11)
2000 Aug 7, In Spain a bomb
exploded in Bilbao and killed 3 suspected Basque separatists, who
appeared to be transporting explosives.
(SFC, 8/8/00, p.A12)
2000 Aug 7, Venezuela’s Pres. Hugo
Chavez arrived in Saudi Arabia to begin a tour of 10 oil-producing
nations that included Iraq.
(SFC, 8/8/00, p.A10)
2000 Aug 8, Vice President Al Gore
formally introduced and celebrated his Jewish running mate, Senator
Joseph Lieberman, during an appearance in Gore’s home state of
Tennessee.
(AP, 8/8/01)
2000 Aug 8, Audiotapes recorded
Enron traders deliberately congesting Western power lines: “If you can
congest it, that’s a moneymaker no matter what.”
(SFC, 6/15/04, p.A1)
2000 Aug 8, Some 109 nuclear waste
sites in 27 states, Puerto Rico and territorial islands of the Pacific
would remain dangerous for centuries according to a new report by the
US National Research Council.
(WSJ, 8/8/00, p.A24)
2000 Aug 8, The Civil War
submarine Hunley was raised and returned to Charleston, SC. State Sen.
Glenn McConnell raised funds for the Hunley project, which by 2006
reached $13.8 million, with another $15.5 million committed.
(SFC, 8/9/00, p.A3)(Econ, 4/10/04, p.25)
2000 Aug 8, In Bhutan flash floods
and mudslides left at least 50 people dead.
(SFC, 8/9/00, p.A14)
2000 Aug 8, Chile’s Supreme Court
stripped General Augusto Pinochet’s immunity, clearing the way for the
former dictator to be tried on human rights charges. However, an
appeals court later ruled Pinochet unfit to stand trial because of his
deteriorating health and mental condition.
(SFC, 8/9/00, p.A10)(AP, 8/8/01)
2000 Aug 8, In northeast India
flash floods and mudslides left at least 80 people dead and 2 million
homeless.
(SFC, 8/9/00, p.A14)
2000 Aug 8, In Iran the daily
Bahar newspaper was closed by the hard-line judiciary for "disturbing
public opinion."
(SFC, 8/9/00, p.A14)
2000 Aug 8, In Kashmir the
militant Hizbul Mujahedeen called off its cease-fire.
(SFC, 8/9/00, p.A11)
2000 Aug 8, In Russia a bomb
exploded through an underground walkway in Moscow’s Pushkin Square and
at least 13 people were killed. Another bomb was found and defused.
(SFC, 8/9/00, p.A1)(AP, 8/8/01)
2000 Aug 8, In Spain a car bomb
exploded in Madrid, where 11 people were injured and in Zumaia where 1
man was killed. The ETA was blamed.
(SFC, 8/9/00, p.A14)
2000 Aug 9, Bridgestone /
Firestone Inc. announced the recall of 6.5 million tires used mainly on
Ford SUVs and light trucks due to 46 [88] deaths and over [250] 300
accidents related to the tires.
(SFC, 8/10/00, p.A2)(SFC, 9/6/00, p.A1)
2000 Aug 9, Nicholas Samuel
Markowitz (b.1984), having been kidnapped in Los Angeles, was murdered
near Santa Barbara after a feud over drug money between his
half-brother Benjamin Markowitz and Jesse James Hollywood (20). The
murder inspired the 2006 film “Alpha Dog.” Hollywood was not present at
the murder, but ordered it. He immediately skipped town, but was
arrested five years later in Saquarema, Brazil with his pregnant
girlfriend Marcia Reis. In July, 2009, he was convicted of first-degree
murder and kidnapping and jurors recommended life in prison.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Markowitz)(SFC, 7/16/09, p.A6)
2000 Aug 9, In New Jersey 2 small
planes collided in midair and the bulk of one plane crashed through the
roof a house. All 11 passengers were killed.
(SFC, 8/10/00, p.A3)
2000 Aug 9, In Texas Brian Keith
Roberson (36) was executed for the 1986 stabbing deaths of an elderly
couple in Dallas. Oliver Cruz (33) was executed for the 1988 abduction,
rape and fatal stabbing of a 24-year-old woman in San Antonio.
(SFC, 8/10/00, p.A2)
2000 Aug 9, In Indonesia Pres.
Wahid announced that he would hand over daily government operations to
Vice Pres. Megawati Sukarno.
(SFC, 8/10/00, p.A10)
2000 Aug 9, In Spain Francisco
Casanova Vicente, army officer, was shot twice in the back as he
arrived home in Pamplona. The murder was blamed on the ETA.
(SFC, 8/10/00, p.A11)
2000 Aug 10, The Reform Party’s
convention opened in Long Beach, Ca., amid a struggle for control
between delegates supporting Pat Buchanan and party leaders. $12.5
million in federal matching funds was at stake. Buchanan moved his
faction to the right and dissidents broke off to a separate convention.
The Federal Election Commission awarded the campaign money to Buchanan
in Sept.
(SFC, 8/10/00, p.A3)(SFC, 8/11/00, p.A1)(SFC,
9/13/00, p.A2)
2000 Aug 10, A US Navy helicopter
crashed in the Gulf of Mexico. 2 crew members were rescued, 2 were
killed and 2 were missing.
(SFC, 8/11/00, p.D3)
2000 Aug 10, In Congo rebels
fought government troops near Dongo. Jean-Pierre Bemba, head of the
Ugandan backed Congolese Liberation Movement, said his rebels had
killed some 800 government soldiers on riverboats using missiles.
(SFC, 8/12/00, p.A11)
2000 Aug 10, In Iraq Pres. Chavez
of Venezuela held talks with Pres. Saddam Hussein in support of
upcoming oil talks in Caracas. Chavez defied the United States by being
the first head of state to visit Iraq since the Gulf War.
(SFC, 8/11/00, p.A15)(AP, 8/10/01)
2000 Aug 10, In Kashmir 11 people
were killed and 19 wounded from a car bomb set off by the Hizbul
Mujahedeen.
(SFC, 8/11/00, p.A14)
2000 Aug 11, Pat Buchanan won the
Reform Party’s presidential nomination and named Ezola Foster (62), a
black former teacher, as his running mate. Dissidents, disputed by
party founder Ross Perot’s supporters, chose physicist John Hagelin at
a rump convention.
(SFC, 8/12/00, p.A3)(AP, 8/11/01)
2000 Aug 11, The National
Transportation Safety Board released evidence reports in the October
31st, 1999, crash of EgyptAir Flight 990 off the New England coast; a
transcript of the cockpit voice recording showed the chilling details
of the pilot’s futile struggle to save the Boeing 767 and its 217
occupants.
(AP, 8/11/01)
2000 Aug 11, A jury in Orlando,
Fla., ordered the Disney Co. to pay $240 million to Nicholas Stracick
and Edward Russell for stealing their ideas for a sports complex.
(SFC, 8/12/00, p.A3)
2000 Aug 11, As many as 8 people
subdued Jonathan Burton (19) during a flight to Salt Lake City from Las
Vegas after he broke into the cockpit. Burton was pronounced dead on
arrival to a Salt Lake hospital.
(SFC, 9/21/00, p.A6)
2000 Aug 11, British and US
bombers struck southern Iraq and Iraqi military reported 2 people
killed and 19 injured.
(SFC, 8/14/00, p.A12)
2000 Aug 12, Evander Holyfield won
a 12-round unanimous decision over John Ruiz in Las Vegas for the
vacant WBA heavyweight title.
(AP, 8/12/01)
2000 Aug 12, Loretta Young, film
actress, died at age 87. She made nearly 100 movies in over 70 years.
She had a daughter, Judy Lewis, by Clark Gable in 1935. Her memoir "The
Things I Had to Learn" was published in 1961. In 2000 Joan Wester
Anderson authored "Forever Young."
(SFEC, 8/13/00, p.B10)(SFC, 11/18/00, p.B7)
2000 Aug 12, British and US
bombers struck southern Iraq for a 2nd day and Iraqi military reported
3 people injured.
(SFC, 8/14/00, p.A12)
2000 Aug 12, In Congo a
Russian-made Antonov crashed on approach to Tshikapa and 27 people were
killed.
(WSJ, 8/14/00, p.A1)
2000 Aug 12, A Russian nuclear
submarine, the Kursk, became trapped on the floor of the Barents Sea
during naval exercises. 118 sailors were trapped in the Oscar-II class
submarine that was thought to have suffered a torpedo-room explosion.
On August 21 Norwegian divers confirmed that all the sailors had died.
The Kursk was raised in 2001.
(SFC, 8/14/00, p.A13)(SFC, 8/15/00, p.A1)(WSJ,
8/15/00, p.A1)(WSJ, 8/16/00, p.A1)(SFC, 8/21/00, p.A1)(WSJ, 10/9/01,
p.A1)
2000 Aug 13, On the eve of the
Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, 3500 protesters
demonstrated against police brutality and in support of Mumia
Abu-Jamal, on death row for killing a Philadelphia police officer.
(AP, 8/13/01)
2000 Aug 13, It was reported that
physicist Humphrey Maris of Brown Univ. had reported findings in June
to the Quantum Fluids and Solids Conference that challenged the
indivisibility of electrons.
(SFEC, 8/13/00, p.A1)
2000 Aug 13, In Kashmir 16 people
were killed and dozens injured in explosions and gun battles across the
province. 2 land mines killed 6 soldiers and 10 rebels died in battles
with government troops.
(SFC, 8/14/00, p.A13)(SFC, 8/15/00, p.A14)
2000 Aug 13, Over 2,000 Somali
leaders gathered in Djibouti to form a central government with a new
225-member parliament. Somalia swore in legislators for its first
central government after almost a decade of internecine warfare.
(SFC, 8/14/00, p.A1)(AP, 8/13/01)
2000 Aug 13, Pres. Chavez of
Venezuela held talks in Libya with Moammar Khadafy and proceeded to
Nigeria to meet Pres. Obasanjo.
(SFC, 8/14/00, p.A14)
2000 Aug 14, The Democratic
convention opened in Los Angeles at Staples Auditorium. Demonstrators
fought with police following a concert by the band Rage Against the
Machine. The concert followed a "March of Corporate Shame" through
downtown LA. President Clinton offered a triumphant review of his years
in office, and exhorted delegates to propel Al Gore on the road to
succeed him.
(SFC, 8/15/00, p.A5)(AP, 8/14/01)
2000 cAug 14, In India a
train bombing in Uttar Pradesh killed 7 people and injured dozens.
Pakistani agents were blamed.
(WSJ, 8/15/00, p.A1)
2000 Aug 14, NATO peacekeepers
shut down the Serb-run Trepca smelter at Zvecan, Kosovo, due to
environmental pollution.
(SFC, 8/15/00, p.A12)
2000 Aug 14, In Kyrgyzstan a 4-day
clash between Islamic militants and government troops left as many as
95 people dead. The militants were said to belong to the Islamic
Movement of Uzbekistan, which was trying to carve out an independent
state.
(SFC, 8/15/00, p.A14)
2000 Aug 14, The Russian Orthodox
Church announced the canonization of Nicholas II and his immediate
family, executed in 1918.
(SFC, 8/15/00, p.A12)
2000 Aug 15, Democrats stirred
memories of President John F. Kennedy at their national convention in
Los Angeles, with his daughter, Caroline, taking a rare turn in the
spotlight and beckoning delegates to turn the New Frontier into a
"timeless call" that would send Al Gore to the White House.
(AP, 8/15/01)
2000 Aug 15, US warplanes bombed
air defense sites in northern Iraq.
(SFC, 8/16/00, p.A18)
2000 Aug 15, Edward Walker, the
inventor of the lava lamp and promoter of nudism, died at age 82.
(SFEC, 8/20/00, p.B9)
2000 Aug 15, British Airways
joined Air France in grounding its Concorde supersonic jets in the wake
of the July 25th crash near Paris that claimed 113 lives.
(SFC, 8/16/00, p.A17)(AP, 8/15/01)
2000 Aug 15, In Colombia
authorities and US Secret Service agents captured 10 leaders of a
counterfeiting ring that had sent over $40 million in bogus bills to
the US over the last 2 years.
(SFC, 8/17/00, p.A15)
2000 Aug 15, In Colombia 6
students were killed after they were caught in a cross fire between
leftist rebels and government troops. The students were on a field trip
with teachers. An investigation followed and a military coverup was
suspected. 5 officers and 36 soldiers were suspended for the deaths.
(SFC, 8/16/00, p.A18)(SFC, 8/17/00, p.A15)(WSJ,
8/17/00, p.A1)(SFC, 8/19/00, p.A10)
2000 Aug 15, In Israel 4
prostitutes died in Tel Aviv when a brothel was set on fire. Police
suspected a serial arsonist.
(SFC, 8/16/00, p.A18)
2000 Aug 15, One hundred people
from North Korea and 100 people from South Korea held temporary
reunions with family members not seen in 50 years.
(SFC, 8/15/00, p.A13)(AP, 8/15/01)
2000 Aug 15, South Korea released
3,586 prisoners in an amnesty.
(WSJ, 8/16/00, p.A1)
2000 Aug 16, Delegates to the
Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles formally nominated Al
Gore for president.
(AP, 8/16/01)
2000 Aug 16, Senator John McCain
(Republican, Arizona) was diagnosed with a second bout of melanoma. The
cancer was later surgically removed, with no sign that it had spread.
(AP, 8/16/01)
2000 Aug 16, Montana Gov. Marc
Racicot declared the whole state a disaster area due to the raging
fires.
(SFC, 8/17/00, p.A3)
2000 Aug 16, In Afghanistan the
Taliban shut down 25 bakeries run by widows saying that Islam forbids
women to work.
(SFC, 8/17/00, p.A16)
2000 Aug 16, In Brazil armed
hijacked an airliner and forced it to land in southern Parana state.
They escaped with an estimated $3.3 million in stolen money.
(SFC, 8/17/00, p.A15)
2000 Aug 16, In Chechnya 2
civilians were killed when rebels blew up a police car in Grozny.
(SFC, 8/18/00, p.D6)
2000 Aug 16, Hipolito Mejia (59)
assumed the presidency of the Dominican Republic succeeding Leonel
Fernandez. He proceeded to use foreign borrowing to finance public
spending.
(SFC, 8/17/00, p.A16)(Econ, 12/13/03, p.35)
2000 Aug 16, It was reported that
Libya had paid millions to free 9 Westerners held hostage by Muslim
rebels in the Philippines.
(SFC, 8/16/00, p.A17)
2000 Aug 16, In Uganda at least 18
people died after a fire ignited while they scooped oil from an
overturned tanker.
(SFC, 8/17/00, p.A16)
2000 Aug 17, Al Gore accepted the
Democratic nomination for president, pledging a "better, fairer, more
prosperous America" at the party's convention in Los Angeles. Shortly
before Gore spoke, his running mate, Joseph Lieberman, was nominated by
acclamation.
(SFC, 8/18/00, p.A1)(AP, 8/17/05)
2000 Aug 17, Word leaked out that
Independent Counsel Robert Ray was assembling a new grand jury to
investigate President Clinton's conduct in the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
Democrats charged Republicans were behind the release of information,
but a federal judge said he was inadvertently responsible for the
disclosure.
(AP, 8/17/05)
2000 Aug 17, It was reported that
researchers had cloned pigs for the 1st time.
(WSJ, 8/17/00, p.A1)
2000 Aug 17, It was reported that
a soybean aphid from China threatened the $13.5 billion US soybean
market.
(WSJ, 8/17/00, p.A2)
2000 Aug 17, In Afghanistan the
Taliban reversed its decision against women working in bakeries.
(SFC, 8/18/00, p.D6)
2000 Aug 17, A bomb, planted by
the Revolutionary Armed Forces Colombia, exploded in the village of
Carmen de Bolivar and 2 children were killed.
(SFC, 8/19/00, p.A10)
2000 Aug 17, India opened its
first fashion show in Mumbai, Lakme India Fashion Week.
(http://lifestyle.indianetzone.com/fashion/1/lakme_india_fashion_week_(lifw).htm)
2000 Aug 17, In Latvia a bomb
exploded in Riga and 21 people were injured.
(SFC, 8/18/00, p.D6)
2000 Aug 18, In Chechnya rebels
killed 8 Russian soldiers in several attacks on checkpoints and
roadblocks.
(SFC, 8/19/00, p.A10)
2000 Aug 18, Alberto Orlandez
Gamboa, a Colombian drug cartel leader known as "The Snail," was
extradited to the US to stand trial for drug trafficking and money
laundering.
(SFC, 8/19/00, p.A10)
2000 Aug 18, In Indonesia the
700-member People’s Consultative Assembly passed a decree that allowed
the security forces to keep 38 seats in the legislature until 2009 and
banned retroactive prosecution of human rights cases.
(SFC, 8/19/00, p.A8)
2000 Aug 18, In Japan the Mount
Oyama volcano erupted for a 5th time on the island of Miyake. The
eruptions began July 9 after 17 years of dormancy.
(SFC, 8/19/00, p.A9)
2000 Aug 18, In Mexico 15 people
were killed when violence broke out during the inauguration of Mayor
Jesus Tolentino in Chimalhuacan, a suburb of Mexico City and part of
the area known as the misery belt. Tolentino defeated Guadalupe Buendia
a PRI cacique (power broker). Buendia supporters battled with Antorcha
Popular (Popular Torch), widely regarded as a paramilitary movement.
[see Aug 27]
(SFC, 8/19/00, p.A9)(WSJ, 8/28/00, p.A1)(SFEC,
9/3/00, p.A20)
2000 Aug 18, In the Philippines 3
Malaysians were released by Abu Sayyaf rebels.
(WSJ, 8/21/00, p.A12)
2000 Aug 18, Government forces
seized 5 tons of cocaine as part of the "Orinoco 2000" probe financed
by the US DEA. Another 5 tons was discovered at the Doble Uno ranch
just days later. The cocaine was suspected to have been dropped from
Colombia.
(SFC, 8/21/00, p.A10)(SFC, 8/26/00, p.A10)
2000 Aug 18, It was reported in
Vietnam that the former Ho Chi Minh Trail, known as Highway 14 from
Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City, was being expanded in a 4-year project at a
cost of $400 million to become the Ho Chi Minh Highway.
(SFC, 8/18/00, p.D2)
2000 Aug 19, Pres. Clinton signed
the Global Aids and Tuberculosis Relief Act of 2000. It included a
trust fund to care for African AIDS patients. AIDS was killing 6,000
people a day and had orphaned 15% of the children in the worst affected
cities.
(SFC, 8/19/00, p.A5)(SFEC, 8/20/00, p.A7)
2000 Aug 19, In New Mexico a gas
pipeline explosion near Carlsbad killed 10 people camping on the banks
of the Pecos River. An 11th victim died 2 days later. Investigators
found corrosion in the blown pipe wall. Amanda Smith (25), the 12th
victim, died in Sept.
(SFC, 8/21/00, p.A3)(SFC, 8/22/00, p.A4)(SFC,
9/6/00, p.A7)
2000 Aug 19, It was reported that
9 people had died in Ethiopia’s Afar region after the Awash River burst
its banks and inundated the Danakil Lowlands. 30,000 people were left
homeless.
(SFC, 8/19/00, p.B12)
2000 Aug 19, In Monrovia, Liberia,
four journalists for British TV were charged with espionage while
filming for a 3-part documentary about Liberia, Mauritania, Mali and
Angola. They were freed Aug 25.
(SFC, 8/21/00, p.A10)(SFC, 8/26/00, p.A9)
2000 Aug 19, Hugo Chavez took the
oath of office as president of Venezuela after a landslide re-election.
(AP, 8/19/01)
2000 Aug 20, Tiger Woods won the
PGA Championship in a playoff over Bob May, becoming the first player
since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win three majors in one year. Woods, winner
of four of the last five majors, won his first in a playoff. He became
the first player to repeat as PGA champion since Denny Shute in 1937.
Woods, with an 18-under 270, holds the scoring record in relation to
par in every major championship.
(AP, 8/20/01)
2000 Aug 20, In Kenya 16 people
were killed after 9 runaway train cars carrying liquefied gas derailed
and exploded at the Athi River station. 9 of 37 injured died soon after.
(SFC, 8/21/00, p.A10)(SFC, 8/22/00, p.A12)
2000 Aug 20, Norwegian divers
examined the Russian submarine Kursk as the British LR5 mini-submarine
prepared for a rescue attempt. 118 Russian sailors were believed dead.
In 2001 it was reported that the Kursk carried nuclear weapons when it
sank, but Russia denied this. The ship was raised Oct 8, 2001. The
severed bow was left for later recovery.
(SFEC, 8/20/00, p.A1)(WSJ, 4/5/01, p.A1)(WSJ,
4/6/01, p.A1)(SFC, 10/8/01, p.B2)
2000 Aug 20, In Spain a bomb
killed 2 Spanish Civil Guard officers in Sallent de Gallego. The ETA
was blamed.
(SFC, 8/21/00, p.A8)
2000 Aug 20, At the Vatican some 2
million young people closed the 6-day World Youth festival dubbed the
Catholic Woodstock.
(SFC, 8/21/00, p.A9)
2000 Aug 21, Britain deployed
troops in Belfast after 2 men were killed in a feud between Protestant
paramilitary factions. Sam Rocket was gunned down 2 days later in
retaliation. The Ulster Defense Assoc. and the Ulster Volunteer Force
appeared to be feuding over control of rackets.
(WSJ, 8/22/00, p.A1)(SFC, 8/25/00, p.D5)(WSJ,
8/25/00, p.A1)
2000 Aug 21, In China an
earthquake in Wuding county, Yunnan province, left 177,000 people
homeless and 211 injured.
(SFC, 8/26/00, p.A9)
2000 Aug 21, Iraq threatened to
retaliate against Turkey over airstrikes that left some 40 civilians
dead.
(WSJ, 8/22/00, p.A1)
2000 Aug 21, In Kashmir Muslim
guerrillas used booby traps to kill 5 Indian soldiers, while Indian
security forces killed 8 people believed to be part of the separatist
movement. Indian shelling into the Pakistani controlled side killed a
man and an 8-year-old girl. In Jachil Dhara guerrilla set explosives
killed an Indian general and a colonel.
(SFC, 8/22/00, p.A12)
2000 Aug 21, Norwegian divers
opened the hatch to the Russian Kursk submarine but found no sign of
life.
(SFC, 8/21/00, p.A1)
2000 Aug 21, In the Philippines
rebels killed 17 army soldiers in Negros Occidental province.
(SFC, 8/22/00, p.A12)
2000 Aug 21, In Sierra Leone Issa
Sesay, the top field commander of the Revolutionary United Front,
replaced Foday Sankoh as head.
(SFC, 8/22/00, p.A11)(WSJ, 8/22/00, p.A1)
2000 Aug 22, Publishers Clearing
House agreed to pay $18 million to 24 states and the District of
Columbia to settle allegations it had used deceptive promotions in its
sweepstakes mailings.
(AP, 8/22/01)
2000 Aug 22, In Japan Mitsubishi
Motors admitted that it had concealed tens of thousands customer
complaints about automobile defects since 1977.
(SFC, 8/23/00, p.A10)
2000 Aug 22, In Malaysia 15 people
including 13 children were killed when a tractor-trailer rig collided
with a school van in Sarawak.
(SFC, 8/24/00, p.A13)
2000 Aug 22, In Russia Pres. Putin
met with grieving relatives of the 118 seamen who died in the Kursk
nuclear submarine.
(SFC, 8/23/00, p.A10)
2000 Aug 22, In Taiwan Typhoon
Bilis struck with winds over 100 mph and 3 people were killed.
(SFC, 8/23/00, p.A11)
2000 Aug 22, In West Timor
pro-Indonesia militiamen severely beat 3 UN relief workers. UN relief
work in West Timor was suspended the next day.
(SFC, 8/24/00, p.A13)
2000 Aug 23, The Clinton
administration released guidelines for federally funded scientists to
conduct research on human embryonic stem cells.
(SFC, 8/23/00, p.A1)
2000 Aug 23, Pres. Clinton ordered
millions in relief funds for electricity users in southern California
and an investigation into the state’s power market.
(SFC, 8/24/00, p.A1)
2000 Aug 23, The final winner of
the "Survivor" TV contest set on Pulau Tiga island was broadcast to as
many as 40-50 million viewers. Richard Hatch (39), a corporate trainer
from Newport, R.I., won the $1 million grand prize. In 2006 Hatch was
convicted on three counts related to tax evasion and was sentenced to
51 months in federal prison plus three years of supervised probation.
(SFC, 8/23/00, p.A1)(SFC, 8/24/00,
p.A1)(http://tinyurl.com/4sna5j)
2000 Aug 23, Negotiators for
Verizon and more than 35,000 telephone workers reached tentative
agreement on a new contract, ending an 18-day strike.
(AP, 8/23/01)
2000 Aug 23, Boeing made the first
successful launch of its Delta III rocket.
(SFC, 8/24/00, p.A3)
2000 Aug 23, In Bahrain a Gulf Air
Airbus A320 crashed on approach to Manama and all 143 people aboard
were killed including 36 children.
(SFC, 8/24/00, p.A1)
2000 Aug 23, A boat from Indonesia
capsized in the Strait of Malucca and Malaysian authorities rescued 7
of 100 passengers.
(SFC, 8/26/00, p.A9)
2000 Aug 23, In Russia Pres. Putin
took responsibility for the Kursk nuclear submarine disaster.
(SFC, 8/24/00, p.A12)
2000 Aug 23, In Sudan a boat
capsized on the Blue Nile near Sinja and 35 people, mostly
schoolchildren, died.
(SFC, 8/25/00, p.D8)
2000 Aug 24, Pres. Clinton and
Vice President Al Gore met with Pres.-elect Vincente Fox of Mexico. Fox
promoted his ideas on an open border a day before he met with Texas
Gov. George W. Bush in Dallas.
(SFC, 8/25/00, p.A14)(AP, 8/24/01)
2000 Aug 24, Ricardo Miguel
Cavallo, a suspected torturer from the Argentine "dirty war"
(1976-1983), was arrested in Mexico after former political prisoners
identified him. Cavallo was extradited to Spain in 2003 and charged
with genocide and terrorism.
(SFC, 8/25/00, p.D4)(AP, 6/30/03)
2000 Aug 24, Fighting from
Chechnya spilled into Ingushetia and 100 rebels were reported killed by
Russian forces.
(SFC, 8/25/00, p.D8)
2000 Aug 24, It was reported that
13 street kids had been killed over the last 7 months in Honduras.
(SFC, 8/24/00, p.A12)
2000 Aug 24, In India it was
reported that 49 people were killed following torrential rains in
Andhra Pradesh.
(SFC, 8/25/00, p.D8)
2000 Aug 24, India and Pakistan
traded accusations over a clash in Kashmir. India claimed that 10
Pakistani fighters were killed, while Pakistan said 2 were killed.
(SFC, 8/25/00, p.D8)
2000 Aug 24, John Kaiser (67), an
American priest of the Society of St. Joseph, was found shot to death
near Naivasha, Kenya. Kaiser was critical of the government’s human
rights record. In 2007 a Kenyan court ruled that his death was a
homicide.
(SFC, 8/25/00, p.D7)(AP, 8/11/03)(AP, 8/1/07)
2000 Aug 24, In the Philippines
police found the bodies of 5 truck drivers kidnapped 2 days earlier in
Maguindanao province.
(SFC, 8/25/00, p.D8)
2000 Aug 24, In Russia Pres. Putin
raised wage 20% for members of the military, police and security forces
effective Dec 1.
(SFC, 8/25/00, p.D8)
2000 Aug 25, Daniel Wiant (35),
former executive of the American Cancer Society, pleaded guilty to
embezzling nearly $8 million form the charity.
(SFC, 8/26/00, p.A7)
2000 Aug 25, The shares of Emulex
Corp. fell 62% due to a false report on the company. The drop caused an
estimated $50 million investor losses. Shares recovered after the
company refuted the reports. Mark Simeon Jakob (23) of El Segundo was
arrested a week later for perpetrating the hoax, which netted him
$186,000. He was later sentenced to nearly four years in prison for
wire and securities fraud.
(SFC, 9/1/00, p.A1)(AP, 8/24/01)
2000 Aug 25, In West Virginia the
new $75 million Robert C. Boyd Green Bank Telescope, the world’s
largest fully steerable radio telescope, was dedicated following almost
10 years of construction.
(WSJ, 8/28/00, p.B11E)
2000 Aug 25, German intelligence
confirmed that it had discovered a secret Iraqi missile factory near
Baghdad. Some 250 technicians were reported working on ARABIL-100
short-range missiles.
(SFC, 8/26/00, p.A9)
2000 Aug 25, Former Serbian
president Ivan Stambolic (64) disappeared. In 2003 his body was found
in a lime-covered grave on a mountain in northern Serbia. In 2005
Milosevic's paramilitary commander, his secret police chief and five
others were convicted and sentenced for the killing of Stambolic.
(SFC, 9/1/00, p.A16)(SFC, 4/5/01, p.A10)(AP,
3/28/03)(AP, 7/18/05)
2000 Aug 26, The Houston Comets
won their fourth straight WNBA championship by defeating the New York
Liberty 79-73.
(AP, 8/24/01)
2000 Aug 26, Maracaibo, Venezuela,
won the Little League World Series title, defeating Bellaire, Texas,
3-2.
(AP, 8/24/01)
2000 Aug 26, Pres. Clinton visited
Nigeria. Pres. Obasanjo, head of 110 million people, pressed Clinton to
help reduce the country’s $32 billion debt. Clinton appealed to the
leaders of the oil-rich nation to set aside political acrimony so that
their citizens could lift themselves from poverty and isolation.
(SFEC, 8/27/00, p.A14)(AP, 8/24/01)
2000 Aug 26, United Airlines
signed a tentative accord with its 10,000 pilots following 20 months of
negotiations.
(SFEC, 8/27/00, p.A1)
2000 Aug 26, In Israel 3 Israeli
soldiers were killed in a West Bank shootout with Palestinian militants
of Hamas. The Israeli raid was an attempt to capture Mahmoud Abu Hanoud
near Nablus. Hanoud was wounded and escaped.
(SFEC, 8/27/00, p.C12)(SFC, 8/28/00, p.A11)
2000 Aug 26, In Sierra Leone 11
British soldiers were seized by the "West side Boys," a faction of a
former pro-government alliance.
(SFEC, 8/27/00, p.C11)
2000 Aug 26, In Somalia Abdiqasim
Salad Hassan, a former interior minister, won the presidential
elections.
(SFEC, 8/27/00, p.C12)
2000 Aug 26, In Sasolburg, South
Africa, black employee John Mosoko Rampuru (37) died after being
dragged behind a pickup for over 3 miles by white building contractor
Pieter Odendaal (44). On November 12, 2001, the Bloemfontein High Court
sentenced Odendaal to 10 years in jail after finding him guilty of
culpable homicide but not murder with intent. Judge AP van Coller
suspended 3 years of Odendaal's sentence and freed him on bail pending
appeal.
(SFEC, 9/10/00,
p.C12)(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1651683.stm)
2000 Aug 27, Pres. Clinton visited
the village of Ushafa in Nigeria and urged Nigerians to confront the
"tyranny" of AIDS.
(SFC, 8/28/00, p.A1)
2000 Aug 27, In Colombia gunmen
killed at least 17 people in 2 massacres at Cienaga and Buenaventura.
(SFC, 8/28/00, p.A12)
2000 Aug 27, In Costa Rica 10
people were killed when a small plane crashed into a volcano.
(SFC, 8/28/00, p.A12)
2000 Aug 27, In Iran fighting
between students and hard-liners in Khorramabad left a police officer
dead.
(SFC, 8/30/00, p.B10)
2000 Aug 27, In Lebanon elections
were held for 63 seats of the 128-member parliament for Mount Lebanon
and North Lebanon.
(SFC, 8/28/00, p.A11)
2000 Aug 27, Kidnappers in the
southern Philippines released 6 foreign hostages for a reported $5
million in ransom. The 5 were part of a group of 21 kidnapped on Apr 23.
(SFC, 8/28/00, p.A11)
2000 Aug 27, In Moscow the
Ostankino television tower caught on fire and burned for close to 26
hours. 2 people were found dead in an elevator that fell some 1000 feet
during the fire. A 3rd body was later found in the elevator shaft.
(SFC, 8/28/00, p.A12)(SFC, 8/29/00, p.A7)(WSJ,
8/30/00, p.A1)
2000 Aug 27, In Russia a ferry
collided with a barge at the Votkinsky reservoir and 6 people were
killed with 16 injured.
(SFC, 8/28/00, p.A12)
2000 Aug 28, Pres. Clinton stopped
in Burundi where Tutsi minority parties refused to sign a deal with the
Hutu majority. Clinton urged the parties to work for peace.
(SFC, 8/29/00, p.A6)
2000 Aug 28, Four Chinese students
and a man whose sister was killed in the Tiananmen Square massacre
filed a suit in NYC against Li Peng, head of the Chinese Parliament,
for human rights abuses.
(SFC, 9/1/00, p.A16)
2000 Aug 28, An apparent
murder-suicide left a professor and a graduate student dead at the
Univ. of Arkansas. It was later found that the graduate student had
been kicked out of a degree program.
(WSJ, 8/28/00, p.A1)(WSJ, 8/30/00, p.A1)
2000 Aug 28, Foster’s Brewing of
Australia reported a deal to buy the California Beringer winery for
some $1.5 billion.
(SFC, 8/29/00, p.A1)
2000 Aug 28, In Indonesia the
parliament agreed to begin a formal investigation into 2 financial
scandals involving Pres. Wahid.
(SFC, 8/29/00, p.A8)
2000 Aug 28, Iraq charged that 311
of its citizens had been killed and 927 wounded by US and British
warplanes since the bombing campaign began in Dec 1998.
(WSJ, 8/28/00, p.A1)
2000 Aug 28, In Israel Prime
Minister Barak said that he planned to complete a peace deal and call
for approval by a referendum.
(SFC, 8/29/00, p.A6)
2000 Aug 28, In Mexico Rodolfo
Montiel, winner of a 2000 Goldman environmental prize for fighting
rampant deforestation, was convicted on drugs and weapons charges and
sentenced to 6 years and 8 months in jail. Human rights groups allege
that he was tortured and that the charges were trumped up.
(SFC, 8/29/00, p.A1)
2000 Aug 28, Authorities in Peru
announced that four years after military judges convicted American Lori
Berenson of planning a rebel attack, the military had overturned her
life sentence, clearing the way for a new civilian trial. Berenson, who
maintained her innocence, was convicted June, 1999, of "terrorist
collaboration" and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
(AP, 8/28/01)
2000 Aug 28, In the Philippines
Abu Sayyaf guerrillas abducted Jeffrey Schilling (24), their first
American hostage.
(SFC, 8/30/00, p.A1)
2000 Aug 29, President Clinton
ended a four-day trip to Africa with a brief visit to Cairo, where he
sought the help of President Hosni Mubarak on the Middle East peace
process, i.e. a deal between Israel and the Palestinians.
(SFC, 8/30/00, p.A12)(AP, 8/29/01)
2000 Aug 29, Montana Gov. Marc
Racicot asked Pres. Clinton to declare the state a federal disaster
area due to the wildfires.
(SFC, 8/30/00, p.A3)
2000 Aug 29, Pope John Paul II
laid down moral guidelines for medical research in the 21st century,
endorsing organ donation and adult stem cell study, but condemning
human cloning and embryo experiments.
(AP, 8/29/01)
2000 Aug 29, In Belgium the
government announced a package of tax reductions worth $2.9 billion.
(SFC, 9/1/00, p.D2)
2000 Aug 29, A videotape by Pres.
Clinton sought to calm fears over a $1.3 billion aid package expected
to escalate the guerrilla war in Colombia. Pres. Clinton was scheduled
to arrive the next day. Plan Colombia was America’s 3rd largest
military aid package after Israel and Egypt.
(SFC, 8/30/00, p.A14)(SSFC, 11/11/07, p.M5)
2000 Aug 29, In France Interior
Minister Jean-Pierre Chevenement resigned over a proposed peace plan
for Corsica. The plan offered limited rights to pass laws beginning in
2004 for the 250,000 inhabitants.
(SFC, 8/30/00, p.A12)
2000 Aug 29, In Libya 6 former
hostages held captive in the Philippines arrived to thank Moammar
Khadafy for his role in securing their release.
(SFC, 8/30/00, p.A12)
2000 Aug 29, In Spain Manuel
Indiano (29), a councilman in Zumarraga, was shot and killed outside
his candy store. The ETA was blamed.
(SFC, 8/30/00, p.B10)
2000 Aug 30, Pres. Clinton stopped
in Colombia and pledged that US aid would not lead to military
escalation in the drug war. The recent $1.5 billion military aid
package was part of a broader $7.5 billion Colombian plan to fight
drugs, help refugees and strengthen government institutions.
(SFC, 8/31/00, p.A1)
2000 Aug 30, In China’s Fujian
province police arrested a Catholic priest, 20 nuns, 2 laymen and a
seminarian in Luoyuan county. Rev. Liu Shaozhang (38) was reported to
have been severely beaten and that parishioners bought the release of 2
nuns.
(SFC, 9/2/00, p.C16)
2000 Aug 30, It was reported that
many professional and entrepreneurs were leaving Colombia and Venezuela
due to civil war and economic policies.
(WSJ, 8/30/00, p.A1)
2000 Aug 31, President Clinton
vetoed a bill that would have gradually repealed inheritance taxes,
saying it would have benefited the wealthiest Americans while
threatening the nation's financial well-being.
(AP, 8/31/01)
2000 Aug 31, It was reported that
computer scientists had created a robot to design and build other
robots almost entirely without human help.
(SFC, 8/31/00, p.A1)
2000 Aug 31, It was reported that
malaria researchers had identified the mechanism by which the parasite
feeds on blood cells.
(WSJ, 8/31/00, p.A1)
2000 Aug 31, A meeting of South
American presidents opened in Brasilia. They expressed concern over the
civil war in Colombia and planned to discuss the creation of a South
American trade block.
(SFC, 9/1/00, p.A16)
2000 Aug 31, In France the
government announced a package of tax reductions worth $16.5 billion
over 3 years.
(SFC, 9/1/00, p.D2)
2000 Aug 31, In Indonesia Suharto
claimed illness and failed to show up for the 1st day of his corruption
trial.
(SFC, 9/1/00, p.A18)
2000 Aug 31, In Mexico retired
Gen. Francisco Hermosillo and Brig. Gen. Mario Arturo Acosta Chaparro
were arrested for collaborating with the Juarez drug cartel.
(SFC, 9/2/00, p.A14)
2000 Aug 31, In Ukraine Pres.
Kuchma declared 4 villages near Mykolaiv an ecological disaster zone
due to illnesses of some 400 residents since July 4. Chemical poisoning
from Soviet-era rocket fuel leaks was blamed.
(SFC, 9/1/00, p.D5)
2000 Aug, The IMU attempted fresh
incursions into Uzbekistan from Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.
(AP, 3/30/04)
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