.Timeline 2000 Sep-Oct.
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2000 Sep 1, Pres.
Clinton put the anti-missile national defense system on hold and passed
the decision for moving the project forward to his successor.
(SFC, 9/2/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 1, It was reported that
an experimental antioxidant extended the lives of nematode worms by an
average 44%.
(WSJ, 9/1/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 1, In Afghanistan the
mine-clearing operations were scheduled to be cut by 50% after the UN
reported lack of funds. 300 people were reported injured by mines every
month. Estimates of mines varied from 5-10 million.
(SFC, 9/2/00, p.C16)
2000 Sep 1, In Argentina a judge
moved to strip immunity from 8 senators who allegedly received bribes
from the administration of Pres. Fernando de la Rua for votes on labor
reform.
(SFC, 9/2/00, p.C16)
2000 Sep 1, In Bangladesh 13 boats
with 130 fishermen were reported sunk during rainstorms.
(SFC, 9/2/00, p.C16)
2000 Sep 1, Typhoon Maria struck 2
southern provinces between Huizhou and Shanwei and killed 47 people
with $223 million in damages.
(WSJ, 9/6/00, p.A1)(SFC, 9/9/00, p.A22)
2000 Sep 1, In Guinea 50 people
were killed by attackers on Massadou village.
(SFC, 9/18/00, p.A8)
2000 Sep 1, In Indonesia
prosecutors named 19 people, including 3 generals as possible suspects
in the killings and destruction in East Timor in Sept. 1999.
(SFC, 9/2/00, p.A12)
2000 Sep 1, In Mexico Pres.
Zedillo gave his last State of the Nation address.
(SFC, 9/2/00, p.A12)
2000 Sep 1, In the Philippines Abu
Sayyaf rebels demanded $10 million for the release of Jeffrey Schilling
and later said that Schilling had begun a hunger strike.
(SFC, 9/2/00, p.A12)
2000 Sep 1, South Korea
repatriated 63 North Korean spies as a gesture of reconciliation.
(SFC, 9/2/00, p.A13)
2000 Sep 1, The mandatory use of
helmets became effective in Vietnam. An estimated 20 people per day
were being killed on the nation's highway system. 80% of the victims
rode 125-cc motorcycles.
(SFEC, 9/17/00, p.A10)
2000 Sep 2, The California opening
for the 6,356 mile American Discovery Trail was celebrated at Crissy
Field in SF. The 15-state trail is the result of an 11-year effort
backed by Backpacker Magazine and the American Hiking Society.
(SFEC, 9/3/00, p.C1)
2000 Sep 2, In Nevada some 28,000
people gathered for the finale of the Burning Man festival in the Black
Rock Desert.
(SFEC, 9/3/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 2, Curt Siodmak,
novelist, screenwriter and film director, died at age 98. His
autobiography "Wolf Man’s Maker" was published soon after his death.
(SFC, 11/21/00, p.A25)
2000 Sep 2, In Colombia a US-made
warplane crashed and 7 airmen were killed during heavy fighting with
rebels. Another 8 soldiers were killed along with 12 rebels in the
combat on Mount Montezuma, 155 miles west of Bogota. A rebel assault on
a police station at Tomarrazon in Guajira state left 7 police officers
dead.
(SFEC, 9/3/00, p.A15)(SFC, 9/4/00, p.A9)
2000 Sep 2, Hundreds of thousands
of North Koreans welcomed home 63 former spies and guerrillas released
by South Korea.
(AP, 9/2/01)
2000 Sep 3, The presidential
candidates squabbled over debate schedules as Republican George W. Bush
announced he had accepted three prime-time sessions. Democrat Al Gore
rejected the plan, saying the formats proposed by Bush could limit the
audience and amount of face-to-face debate time.
(AP, 9/3/01)
2000 Sep 3, In California 5.2
earthquake was centered in Napa and injured over 40 people.
(SFC, 9/4/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 3, In Egypt a 2-day
meeting of Arab League foreign ministers opened. Yasser Arafat said he
would not accept a peace deal without control of Jerusalem.
(SFC, 9/4/00, p.B10)
2000 Sep 3, In Israel Arjey Deri,
former leader of the Shas Party, began a 3-year term for bribery and
fraud.
(SFC, 9/4/00, p.A8)
2000 Sep 3, In Lebanon elections
were held for the remaining 65 seats of parliament. Hezbollah had
agreed to accept only 12 seats in a coalition with the Shiite Amal
Party. Parliamentary seats were apportioned according to religious
denomination based on a census from 1932. Candidates backed by former
Prime Minister Rafik Hariri gained a powerful majority.
(SFEC, 9/3/00, p.A18)(SFC, 9/4/00, p.B10)
2000 Sep 3, In Sri Lanka the
government began "Operation Sunrise" against rebels in the Jaffna
Peninsula.
(SFC, 9/4/00, p.A12)
2000 Sep 3, At the Vatican Pope
John Paul II beatified Pope Pius IX and Pope John XXIII.
(SFC, 9/4/00, p.A8)
2000 Sep 4, In Australia a
Beechcraft King Air 200 plane crashed near Mount Isa after flying for 6
hours on autopilot. 8 people were killed and believed to have blacked
out after loss of cabin pressure following takeoff from Perth.
(SFC, 9/6/00, p.A11)
2000 Sep 4, French investigators
announced that a stray length of metal which had gashed a tire of a
supersonic Concorde, leading to a fuel tank fire and the plane's fatal
crash the previous July, probably came from a Continental Airlines
plane that had taken off on the same runway four minutes earlier.
(AP, 9/4/01)
2000 Sep 4, In France farmers
along with and truckers and taxi drivers protested high fuel costs with
demonstrations at 80 facilities.
(SFC, 9/5/00, p.A12)
2000 Sep 4, In Sri Lanka the
government "Operation Sunrise" left some 144 government soldiers and
over 230 rebels dead along with some 766 wounded.
(SFC, 9/5/00, p.A12)
2000 Sep 4, In Uganda at least 41
people died when an overloaded ferry sank in Lake Albert, 140 miles
north of Kampala.
(SFC, 9/8/00, p.D2)
2000 Sep 5, On the eve of
congressional hearings into the recall of 6.5 million Firestone tires,
Ford Motor Co. released new documents to bolster its contention that it
had no reason to doubt the safety of the tires being investigated in 88
deaths.
(AP, 9/5/01)
2000 Sep 5, Oyster harvesting was
shut down in Galveston Bay as a large toxic algal bloom began to spread
from the Texas Gulf Coast to the Florida panhandle. Million of fish
began to die.
(SFC, 9/30/00, p.B10)
2000 Sep 5, In Honduras protestors
from the Chorti tribe began blocking Copan Archeological Park and
demanded land to farm. Police removed some 900 protestors on Sep 7 and
at least 17 people were injured.
(SFC, 9/9/00, p.A12)
2000 Sep 5, The Vatican issued a
statement that declared efforts to depict all religions as equal are
wrong and reasserted that the Catholic Church is the one true church.
(WSJ, 9/6/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 6, Vice pres. Gore
released his economic plan in the form of a 200-page book.
(SFC, 9/6/00, p.A4)
2000 Sep 6, Michael Swango, a
former doctor suspected in a string of poisoning deaths, pleaded guilty
to killing three patients in a Long Island, N.Y., hospital, and was
sentenced to life in prison without parole.
(AP, 9/6/01)
2000 Sep 6, In Afghanistan the
Taliban captured Taloqan, 160 miles north of Kabul. The Taliban lost
about 500 soldiers, while the opposition lost about 300.
(SFC, 9/7/00, p.A12)(SFC, 9/8/00, p.D2)
2000 Sep 6, In Colombia police
found a 100-foot submarine under construction by cocaine smugglers 18
miles from Bogota.
(SFC, 9/8/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 6, Two top officials of
Hong Kong Univ. resigned after it was found that they and an advisor
had pressured a prominent pollster to suppress surveys critical of Tung
Chee-hwa.
(SFC, 9/6/00, p.A10)
2000 Sep 6, Israeli police
officers pummeled 3 Palestinian detainees and took pictures of
themselves holding their victims by the hair. The officers were later
indicted.
(SFC, 9/19/00, p.A10)
2000 Sep 6, In Somalia clan
fighting left at least 25 people dead and 18 injured in villages north
of Mogadishu.
(WSJ, 9/7/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 6, In West Timor
thousands of armed militia rampaged through a UN office in Atambua and
killed at least 3 UN workers and burned their bodies. UN relief workers
were flown out the next day and 90,000 refugees faced shortages of food
and medicine. The militia attack followed the death of Olivio Mendosa
Moruk, an East Timorese militia leader. In 2001 Julius Naisama was
sentenced to 20 months in jail for his part in the attack. 5 others
received sentences of 10-16 months.
(SFC, 9/7/0, p.A1)(SFC, 9/8/00, p.A12)(SFC, 9/13/00,
p.A14)(SFC, 5/5/01, p.D2)
2000 Sep 6, World leaders gathered
in NYC for a UN Millennium Summit to bring peace and prosperity to the
world.
(WSJ, 9/5/00, p.A1)(SFC, 9/5/00, p.A10)(SFC, 9/7/00,
p.A10)
2000 Sep 7, In SF a US District
Judge ruled that federal authorities cannot strip doctors of their
license to prescribe medicine if the physicians advise their patients
to use marijuana.
(SFC, 9/8/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 7, A jury in Coeur
D'Alene, Idaho, awarded $6.3 million to a woman and her son who were
attacked by Aryan Nations guards outside the white supremacist group's
north Idaho headquarters.
(AP, 9/7/01)
2000 Sep 7, Scientists reported
that the ozone layer over Antarctica had grown to 11 million square
miles.
(SFC, 9/8/00, p.A7)
2000 Sep 7, In Chechnya 4 Russian
soldiers were killed during a rebel ambush in Grozny.
(SFC, 9/9/00, p.A12)
2000 Sep 7, The UN Security
Council approved an organizational overhaul of UN peacekeeping.
(SFC, 9/8/00, p.A12)
2000 Sep 7, In France taxi drivers
began "Operation Escargot," driving into cities at a snails pace, to
protest gasoline prices.
(SFC, 9/8/00, p.A14)
2000 Sep 7, In West Timor 20
people were reported killed in the village of Betun in another rampage
by militiamen.
(SFC, 9/9/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 8, The US Bureau of
Indian Affairs marked its 175th birthday and Kevin Grover, head of the
bureau, offered a formal apology to American Indians for the misdeeds
of the agency that included massacres, forced relocations of tribes and
attempts to wipe out Indian cultures.
(SFC, 9/9/00, p.A3)(AP, 9/8/01)
2000 Sep 8, The space shuttle
Atlantis blasted into orbit to deliver supplies to the new int’l. space
station.
(SFC, 9/9/00, p.A3)
2000 Sep 8, In China the
government of Shaanxi province appropriated 123 Zhong Gong properties
and land worth $36.5 million.
(SFC, 9/9/00, p.A12)
2000 Sep 8, In China a truck
carrying explosives blew up in Urumqi. 100 casualties were reported.
(SFC, 9/9/00, p.A12)
2000 Sep 8, In Ecuador the dollar
became the official currency for business transactions. Sucres would
still be exchangeable at banks for 6 months. Inflation for the year was
projected to be at least 85.4%.
(SFC, 9/8/00, p.D2)
2000 Sep 8, In the Philippines Abu
Sayyaf rebels freed 4 more hostages held since April 23. Libya paid a
reported $1 million per hostage. The hostages later reported that
rebels had raped female hostages.
(SFC, 9/9/00, p.A10)(SFEC, 9/10/00, p.C15)(SFC,
9/11/00, p.A14)
2000 Sep 8, In Russia Defense
Minister Igor Sergeyev confirmed that a troop reduction of
350,000 was to be completed by 2003.
(SFC, 9/9/00, p.A10)
2000 Sep 8, In Russia alleged
crime boss Gocha Tsagarenshvili was gunned down in St. Petersburg.
(SFC, 9/9/00, p.A12)
2000 Sep 8, In Rwanda 51 civilians
were killed by government troops retreating from Dongo. Ugandan-backed
Congolese rebels later discovered the bodies.
(SFC, 9/16/00, p.A12)
2000 Sep 8, Tuvalu was reported to
have become the 189th member of the United Nations. The country
consisted of 10 square miles on 9 atolls with a population of 9,000.
(SFC, 9/8/00, p.A12)
2000 Sep 8, The UN Millennium
Summit ended in NYC with the adoption of an 8-page plan, the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) to cure the world’s direst problems. Pledges
were made to halve the proportion of people in poverty, to reverse the
spread of AIDS, and to strengthen the UN’s ability to keep peace. The
plan under Jeffrey Sachs proposed 7 basic reforms to improve lives and
provide livelihoods.
(SFC, 9/9/00, p.A1)(AP, 9/8/01)(Econ, 1/22/05,
p.69)(Econ, 4/29/06, p.52)
2000 Sep 9, Venus Williams beat
Lindsay Davenport 6-4, 7-5 for the U.S. Open women's singles
championship, her first Grand Slam title.
(AP, 9/9/01)
2000 Sep 9, President Clinton
proposed spending about $1.6 billion to help communities recover from
recent Western wildfires.
(AP, 9/9/01)
2000 Sep 9, California celebrated
its 150th birthday.
(SFC, 9/8/00, p.A3)
2000 Sep 9, In Congo rebels
captured Dongo and forced the retreat of government troops toward
Imese. Scores were killed in a 36-hour battle.
(SFC, 9/11/00, p.13)
2000 Sep 9, In France union
leaders called for an end to the 6-day fuel protests.
(SFEC, 9/10/00, p.A18)
2000 Sep 9, It was reported that
Venezuela had begun a criminal investigation against Ford and Firestone
due to at least 47 deaths from defective tires on Ford Explorers.
(SFC, 9/9/00, p.A10)
2000 Sep 10, The Broadway show
"Cats" closed after nearly 18 years and 7,485 performances at the NYC
Winter Garden.
(SFC, 9/11/00, p.F4)
2000 Sep 10, The TV series "West
Wing" won a record 9 Emmys at the 52nd Annual Prime Time Emmy Awards,
including best drama series; NBC's "Will & Grace" won best comedy.
(SFC, 9/11/00, p.A1)(AP, 9/10/01)
2000 Sep 10, Controversial
basketball coach Bob Knight was fired by Indiana University for what
was called a pattern of unacceptable behavior.
(AP, 9/10/01)
2000 Sep 10, Marat Safin beat Pete
Sampras 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 to become the first Russian to win the U.S. Open.
(AP, 9/10/01)
2000 Sep 10, Tiger Woods won the
Canadian Open by one stroke over Grant Waite.
(AP, 9/10/01)
2000 Sep 10, The US federal
government agreed to drop its case against Wen Ho Lee, a former Los
Alamos scientist, in exchange for a single guilty plea for downloading
classified material to an insecure computer. Lee was released 3 days
later.
(SFC, 9/11/00, p.A1)(SFC, 9/14/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 10, The space shuttle
Atlantis docked with the international space station.
(AP, 9/10/01)
2000 Sep 10, In Austria OPEC
ministers planned to call for a 2% raise in oil output. Ministers
approved a 3% hike of 800,000 barrels of oil.
(SFEC, 9/10/00, p.A1)(SFC, 9/11/00, p.B8)
2000 Sep 10, In Hong Kong
elections were held. Democrats gained seats in the legislative council
but most seats were filled with pro-Beijing and big-business candidates.
(WSJ, 9/12/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 10, In Italy a flood in
Calabria killed at least 10 people at the Le Giare campground near
Soverato.
(SFC, 9/11/00, p.B8)
2000 Sep 10, In Malaysia Abu
Sayyaf rebels kidnapped 3 men from Pandanan Island off Borneo and took
them to Jolo island in the Philippines.
(WSJ, 9/12/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 10, The Palestine Central
Council in Gaza postponed the Sep 13 deadline for statehood and planned
to pursue another round of peace talks.
(SFC, 9/11/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 10, In Sierra Leone
British troops stormed the jungle base of the West Side Boys and freed
7 hostages. 25 rebels were killed along with 1 British soldier. 18
rebels were taken prisoner including leader Foday Kallay. SAS troopers
eradicated the West Side Boys led by Commanders Mega-Rapist, Slaughter
and others.
(SFC, 9/11/00, p.A8)(Econ, 10/22/05, p.61)
2000 Sep 10, In Sri Lanka
government forces destroyed 14 Tamil Tiger bunkers in Jaffna. 12
soldiers and 70 guerrillas were killed.
(SFC, 9/11/00, p.B8)
2000 Sep 11, The US FTC issued a
scathing 104-page report that found media producers systematically
marketed violent, adult fare to young consumers.
(SFC, 9/11/00, p.A3)
2000 Sep 11, In Australia some
5,000 protestors rallied against the Asia-Pacific Economic Summit 2000
in Melbourne.
(SFC, 9/11/00, p.A14)
2000 Sep 11, In Barbados officials
at a conference on AIDS in the Caribbean pledged $120 million to fight
the disease.
(SFC, 9/13/00, p.A13)
2000 Sep 11, British farmers and
others protested fuel prices and blockades at refineries caused
shortages and panic buying. Prime Minister Blair refused to make
concessions.
(SFC, 9/11/00, p.A13)(WSJ, 9/13/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 11, In Congo rebels and
Ugandan troops killed at least 30 pro-Kabila Mai-Mai fighters at
Butembo in the Masisi region.
(SFC, 9/13/00, p.A14)
2000 Sep 11, In central and
southern Japan torrential rains left 7 people dead. In Nagoya the
Shinkawa River overflowed.
(SFC, 9/13/00, p.A14)
2000 Sep 12, Hillary Rodham became
the first first lady to win an election as she claimed victory in the
New York Democratic Senate primary, defeating little-known opponent Dr.
Mark McMahon.
(AP, 9/12/01)
2000 Sep 12, Chase Manhattan
agreed to acquire J.P. Morgan for about $36 billion in stock.
(WSJ, 9/13/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 12, Stanley Turrentine,
saxophonist, died at age 66.
(SFC, 9/13/00, p.A23)
2000 Sep 12, A series of clashes
between police and protesters marred a generally peaceful second day of
the three-day Asia-Pacific Economic Summit in Melbourne, Australia.
(AP, 9/12/01)
2000 Sep 12, The EU lifted
diplomatic sanctions against Austria.
(SFC, 9/13/00, p.A12)
2000 Sep 12, In Chechnya a truck
bomb killed a woman and her daughter in the Oktyabrsky market in Grozny.
(SFC, 9/14/00, p.C7)
2000 Sep 12, In the Netherlands a
bill was passed that converted same-sex partnerships into full-fledged
marriages.
(SFC, 9/13/00, p.A12)
2000 Sep 12, In Zimbabwe the stock
exchange made a record 500 point gain after the IMF announced that it
would not resume financial assistance. The official inflation was 53.6%
and local cash could not be moved out of the country.
(WSJ, 9/15/00, p.A17)
2000 Sep 13, With the US
government all but abandoning its case against him, former Los Alamos
scientist Wen Ho Lee pleaded guilty in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to a
single count of mishandling nuclear secrets; he was then set free with
an apology from U.S. District Judge James Parker, who said the
government's actions had "embarrassed our entire nation."
(AP, 9/13/01)
2000 Sep 13, In Indonesia a car
bomb exploded in the garage of the Jakarta stock exchange and at least
13-15 people were killed.
(SFC, 9/14/00, p.C2)(WSJ, 9/14/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 13, In South Africa the
government announced war with the Muslim vigilante group, PAGAD, People
Against Gangsterism and Drugs, following a series of bombings.
(SFC, 9/14/00, p.C7)
2000 Sep 13, In Spain masked
police raided the EKIN offices, the fund-raising wing of the ETA. 20
people were arrested.
(SFC, 9/14/00, p.C5)
2000 Sep 14, President Clinton
said he was "quite troubled" by the way the Energy and Justice
departments had handled the Wen Ho Lee case, and he expressed his
regrets.
(AP, 9/14/01)
2000 Sep 14, US Government
scientists narrowly rejected a proposal to ease the ban on gay male
blood donors, citing uncertainty over whether the move would increase
the AIDS risk to the nation's blood supply.
(AP, 9/14/01)
2000 Sep 14, In Belgium truck
drivers agreed to lift a blockade of highways and fuel depots after 5
days of fuel cost protests.
(SFC, 9/15/00, p.A14)
2000 Sep 14, In Burma the military
lifted restrictions against Suu Kyi and 8 other leaders of the National
League for Democracy.
(SFC, 9/16/00, p.A10)
2000 Sep 14, In Cambodia and
Vietnam the Mekong River flooded. At least 89 people had died in
Cambodia and 8 in Vietnam since the floods began in July.
(SFC, 9/15/00, p.A18)
2000 Sep 14, Germany banned the
Blood and Honor skinhead group saying it spread Nazism through music,
magazines and web sites.
(SFC, 9/15/00, p.D4)
2000 Sep 14, In Peru a video was
broadcast that showed Vladimiro Montesinos, the country’s chief spy,
bribing congressman Alberto Kouri to support Pres. Fujimori. The heads
of Peru’s 14 military divisions were all from the military-school class
of Montesinos. The annual military budget was $1.5 billion. There were
allegations that Montesinos was involved in the sale of AK47 assault
rifles to rebels in Colombia. In 2009 Fujimori acknowledged that soon
after the video emerged he paid Montesinos $15 million in state money
to quit.
(SFC, 9/16/00, p.A10)(WSJ, 9/20/00, p.A23)(SFC,
9/22/00, p.D3)(AP, 7/13/09)
2000 Sep 14, In the Philippines
guerrillas bombed 3 gas stations and lawmakers planned to undo economic
reforms and nationalize oil imports to cut soaring fuel costs.
(WSJ, 9/15/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 14, In Spain Ramon
Rekalde, a former Socialist Party official, was wounded with a shot in
the head in San Sebastian. The ETA was blamed.
(SFC, 9/15/00, p.D2)
2000 Sep 15, The new San Francisco
Int’l. Terminal opened at a cost of $950 million. SFO operations at
Terminal 2 ceased in December as part of a $2.5 billion airport master
plan.
(SFC, 9/16/00, p.A15)(SFC, 5/13/08, p.D4)
2000 Sep 15, In Australia the
XXVII Olympic Games opened in Sidney. The 2000 Summer Olympics opened
with a seemingly endless parade of athletes and coaches and a
spectacular display that included wild fantasy, blazing color, and
booming cheers; Aborigine runner Cathy Freeman ignited an Olympic ring
of fire.
(SFC, 9/16/00, p.A1)(AP, 9/15/01)
2000 Sep 15, Truckers across
Europe blocked highways to protest high fuel costs. Protests hit Spain,
Germany, Ireland, Poland and the Czech Republic.
(SFC, 9/16/00, p.A10)
2000 Sep 15, In Indonesia Pres.
Wahid called for the arrest of Hutomo Mandala Putra, aka Tommy Suharto,
in connection with the recent terrorist bombing. Putra met with police
on his own accord.
(SFC, 9/16/00, p.A10)
2000 Sep 15, In Italy the Mafia
was reported to be engaged in a $500 million business of illegal dog
fighting. An estimated 5,000 dogs died annually from the fighting.
(SFC, 9/15/00, p.A16)
2000 Sep 15, In Uganda the
chimpanzee population was estimated at about 3,000 and declining due to
refugees from Congo eating small apes.
(SFC, 9/15/00, p.D2)
2000 Sep 16, Campaign aides for
Democrat Al Gore and Republican George W. Bush agreed on a series of
three debates.
(AP, 9/16/01)
2000 Sep 16, American Nancy
Johnson captured the first gold medal of the Sydney Olympics, winning
the women's 10-meter air rifle.
(AP, 9/16/01)
2000 Sep 16, In Peru Pres.
Fujimori, engulfed in a bribery scandal, announced that he would call
an immediate general election and not seek office. He also decided to
deactivate the National Intelligence Service.
(SFEC, 9/17/00, p.A11)
2000 Sep 16, In the Philippines
the military under orders from Pres. Estrada staged a surprise
attack on Abu Sayyaf rebels on Jolo Island.
(SFC, 9/16/00, p.A1)(SFEC, 9/17/00, p.A2)
2000 Sep 16, Hrihori Gongadze
(31), journalist, disappeared in Kiev. He was an outspoken critic of
the government and of high-level corruption. A beheaded body, believed
to be his, was found in Nov. Gongadze was the founder of the Internet
news site Ukrainian Truth. In 2001 the government announced that he was
killed by criminals who were also murdered and that the killings had
nothing to do with politics. Suspects in the murder were arrested in
2005. In 2005 a commission investigating the kidnapping and killing of
Gongadze accused parliament's Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn of instigating
the slaying. Findings stemmed from recordings in which voices
resembling those of Lytvyn, former President Leonid Kuchma and other
officials are heard allegedly conspiring against Gongadze. The trial of
three former police officers charged with killing Gongadze opened in
2006. In 2008 a court in Kiev jailed three former police officers for
between 12 and 13 years for the murder of Ukrainian journalist Georgy
Gongadze. In 2009 National Security Service agents arrested the fourth
suspect, Olexiy Pukach, who was working as the chief of the Interior
Ministry's surveillance department at the time of the killing.
(SFC, 11/17/00, p.D6)(SFC, 12/14/00, p.C4)(SFC,
5/16/01, p.D14)(SFC, 3/2/05, p.A3)(AP, 9/21/05)(AP, 1/10/06)(AFP,
3/15/08)(AP, 7/22/09)
2000 Sep 17, In Sydney, Australia,
swimmer Tom Dolan of the United States won the 400-meter individual
medley.
(AP, 9/17/01)
2000 Sep 17, In Brazil gangs of
armed gunmen broke into jails and freed over 200 inmates. 2 breaks
occurred in Sumare and Santa Isabel. A 3rd took place the next day in
Sao Paolo.
(SFC, 9/19/00, p.A10)
2000 Sep 17, In Chechnya attackers
gunned down Col. Shamil Azayev, deputy chief of police in Vedeno.
(SFC, 9/18/00, p.A9)
2000 Sep 17, In Colombia
government troops engaged FARC rebels at Dabeiba. The offensive had
started Sep 13 and high casualties were reported. ELN rebels kidnapped
about 54 people from roadside restaurants near Cali.
(SFC, 9/18/00, p.A9)(SFC, 11/1/00, p.A17)
2000 Sep 17, In Guinea a UN
worker, Mensah Kpognon, was killed in Macenta where attackers also
burned down the military garrison. Gunmen from Liberia were blamed. A
second worker, Sapeu Laurence Djeya, was also kidnapped in the raid,
and later released.
(SFC, 9/18/00, p.A8)(SFC, 9/29/00, p.D2)(AP, 9/17/01)
2000 Sep 17, In India 7 people
were killed after police opened fire in Ahmedabad in Gujarat state
following mob violence during municipal elections.
(SFC, 9/18/00, p.A9)
2000 Sep 17, In Israel Prime
Minister Barak signed orders to privatize El Al. He had recently
pledged public transport on the Sabbath within 2 months and had the
cabinet begin the legal process for removing citizens’ religion from
identity cards.
(SFC, 9/18/00, p.A9)
2000 Sep 17, In Korea a
ground-breaking ceremony was held at Imjingak for a railroad to connect
the capitals of North and South Korea.
(SFC, 9/18/00, p.A9)
2000 Sep 17, In the Philippines
military forces said 6 Abu Sayyaf guerrillas were killed and 20
arrested. The pursuit continued.
(SFC, 9/18/00, p.A8)
2000 Sep 17, In Sri Lanka
government troops captured Chavakachcheri, 6 miles east of Jaffna. 4
soldiers and 1 officer were reported killed.
(SFC, 9/18/00, p.A9)
2000 Sep 18, The first working day
of a transit strike that began over the weekend forced nearly a
half-million Southern California commuters to scrounge for rides or get
behind the wheel themselves.
(AP, 9/18/01)
2000 Sep 18, It was reported that
scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab had fashioned the smallest
transistor using a buckyball, single molecule of carbon-60.
(SFC, 9/18/00, p.A6)
2000 Sep 18, In Argentina 2 men,
suspected in the assassination of Paraguayan Vice Pres. Luis Maria
Argana, escaped from jail.
(SFC, 9/19/00, p.A10)
2000 Sep 18, In Colombia gunmen
released 23 captives from as many as 80 in the highlands outside Cali.
(SFC, 9/19/00, p.A9)
2000 Sep 18, In Indonesia Gen.
Rusdihardjo, the national police chief, was fired by Pres. Wahid for
not arresting Tommy Suharto.
(SFC, 9/19/00, p.A9)
2000 Sep 18, In the Ivory Coast
loyalist soldiers drove back attackers in an assassination attempt on
Gen. Guei. 2 bodyguards were killed.
(SFC, 9/19/00, p.A10)
2000 Sep 18, In Jordan a military
tribunal sentenced 6 Muslim militants to death for planned terrorist
attacks against US and Israeli targets in Jordan. 4 of the 6 were at
large and tried in absentia.
(SFC, 9/19/00, p.A12)
2000 Sep 18, It was reported that
Kenya was losing 50,000 ebony trees annually due to the thriving
wood-carving industry. An estimated 80,000 carvers used the wood.
(SFC, 9/18/00, p.A8)
2000 Sep 18, Workers began
rebuilding a railway line between the capitals of North and South Korea.
(AP, 9/18/01)
2000 Sep 18, Somali gunmen freed 2
European aid workers.
(SFC, 9/19/00, p.A10)
2000 Sep 19, In Australia the
Romanian women's gymnastics team won the gold medal at the Sydney
Olympics; Russia won the silver, China took the bronze, and the U.S.
placed fourth.
(AP, 9/19/01)
2000 Sep 19, The US Senate voted
83-15 to end trade restrictions on China. The vote also removed a
fiscal obstacle to Beijing’s 14-year drive to join the WTO.
(SFC, 9/20/00, p.A1)(WSJ, 9/20/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 19, Kenneth E. Behring, a
West Coast developer, gave $80 million to the Smithsonian Institution’s
National Museum of American History.
(WSJ, 9/20/00, p.A12)
2000 Sep 19, Researchers reported
for the 1st time that a new vaccine was effective against Staph
infections.
(WSJ, 9/20/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 19, Current world oil
demand was running at 76 million barrels a day.
(WSJ, 9/19/00, p.A23)
2000 Sep 19, Nine Cubans were
rescued at sea after their Antonov AN-2 biplane plunged into the Gulf
of Mexico. The cargo ship Chios Dream pulled found the survivors and a
10th body. Immigration officials soon granted their legal entry to the
US.
(SFC, 9/20/00, p.A12)(SFC, 9/22/00, p.A9)
2000 Sep 19, In East Timor the UN
granted its peacekeepers the right to shoot at armed attackers without
warning.
(SFC, 9/20/00, p.A14)
2000 Sep 19, Japan’s research
whaling fleet returned home with 88 whales that included 43 Bryde
whales, 5 sperm and 40 minke whales.
(SFC, 9/20/00, p.A14)
2000 Sep 19, In Pakistan a bomb
exploded in a produce market and 16 people were killed in Islamabad.
Over 80 people were wounded.
(SFC, 9/20/00, p.A14)
2000 Sep 19, In the Philippines a
government court ruled that nearly $627 million in Swiss bank deposits
belonging to the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos should go to the
government.
(SFC, 9/20/00, p.A14)
2000 Sep 20, Robert Ray, the
independent counsel who succeeded Kenneth Starr, ended the $52 million
Whitewater probe ended without charges against the Clintons.
(WSJ, 9/21/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 20, Prosecutors charged a
Manhattan immigration lawyer with helping run a smuggling ring for
Chinese immigrants. Robert Porges (61) collected as much as $13 million
in fees for helping transport as many as 7,000 illegal immigrants from
China to the US.
(SFC, 9/21/00, p.A3)
2000 Sep 20, The space shuttle
Atlantis returned after hauling in 3 tons of equipment for the int’l.
space station.
(WSJ, 9/21/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 20, A report by the UN
Population Fund said the discrimination and violence against women
"remain firmly rooted in cultures around the world."
(SFC, 9/21/00, p.C4)
2000 The euro hit a 20-month low
of 84.44 to the dollar.
(SFC, 9/21/00, p.C2)
2000 Sep 20, In London a small
missile hit the M16 intelligence agency at Vauxhall Cross and exploded
on the 8th floor with minor damage. A rocket-propelled grenade launcher
was later found near the scene.
(SFC, 9/21/00, p.A12)(SFC, 9/22/00, p.A18)
2000 Sep 20, In Colombia ELN
rebels released 12 of 55 hostages seized near Cali. They still held 43.
(SFC, 9/21/00, p.A13)
2000 Sep 20, In Indonesia Pres.
Wahid fired Gen. Fachrul Razi, the deputy commander of the armed
forces, due to the slow pace of reform in West Timor. Some 120,000
refugees in West Timor faced hunger due to the withdrawal of aid groups.
(SFC, 9/21/00, p.C3)
2000 Sep 20, In the Philippines 2
French television journalists were rescued from Abu Sayyaf rebels. 7
rebels were reported killed and 20 captured after 5 days of fighting.
(SFC, 9/20/00, p.A14)
2000 Sep 20, In Russia gunmen
seized at least 4 hostages in the southern town of Lazarevskoye. They
demanded $30 million and a helicopter. The gunmen surrendered after 2
days and the incident was believed to have been faked and started on a
drunken whim.
(SFC, 9/22/00, p.A17)(SFC, 9/23/00, p.A11)
2000 Sep 20, Former Soviet
cosmonaut Gherman Titov died at age 65.
(AP, 9/20/01)
2000 Sep 21, In West Bengal,
India, the release of water from 2 dams left tens of thousands of
people stranded. Floods following torrential rains left at least 59
people dead.
(WSJ, 9/22/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 21, A Belgrade court
found Pres. Clinton and other world leaders guilty of war crimes for
the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. 14 leaders were sentenced in
absentia to 20 years in prison. The 120-page indictment charged the
leaders for the deaths of 546 Yugoslav army soldiers, 138 Serbian
police officers and 504 civilians, including 88 children.
(SFC, 9/22/00, p.A16)
2000 Sep 21, An Iranian appeals
court reduced the prison terms for 10 Jews convicted of "cooperating"
with Israel, in a case that had drawn international criticism.
(AP, 9/21/01)
2000 Sep 21, In Spain Jose Luis
Ruiz Casado (42), a town councilor, was shot and killed in Sant Adria
de Besos outside of Barcelona. The ETA was blamed.
(SFC, 9/22/00, p.D2)
2000 Sep 21, In Southeast Asia the
death toll from floods reached 235. The Red Cross issued an appeal for
emergency aid to Cambodia.
(SFC, 9/22/00, p.D2)
2000 Sep 22, The Cincinnati
Symphony premiered "The Millennium Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra" by
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich. The work was commissioned by 27 orchestras.
(SFC, 9/22/00, p.C9)
2000 Sep 22, Pres. Clinton moved
to release 30 million barrels of crude oil from the nation’s
570-million-barrel emergency stockpile in a future’s market exchange to
alleviate winter fuel costs.
(SFC, 9/23/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 22, The US Federal
Reserve joined counterparts in Europe and Japan to intervene in
currency markets in support of the euro. G7 action supported the euro.
(SFC, 9/23/00, p.D1)(Econ, 3/29/08, p.100)
2000 Sep 22, The US government web
site firstgov.gov, a consolidation of 20,000 government sites, made its
debut. Eric Brewer of Inktomi led the project.
(SFC, 9/22/00, p.B1)
2000 Sep 22, Kraft Foods recalled
all taco shells sold nationwide in supermarkets under the Taco Bell
brand after tests confirmed they were made with StarLink, a genetically
engineered corn not approved for human consumption.
(AP, 9/22/01)
2000 Sep 22, In the Czech Republic
hundreds of anti-nuclear protestors from Austria, Germany and the Czech
Republic called for a halt to activation of the Temelin plant located
near the Austrian border to allow for safety and environmental tests.
(SFC, 9/23/00, p.A12)
2000 Sep 22, France allowed a
chartered aircraft with humanitarian personnel to fly to Baghdad.
(SFC, 9/23/00, p.A8)
2000 Sep 22, Venezuela’s Pres.
Chavez announced his 1st major spending program. The $2.1 billion plan
included $819 million for infrastructure and $756 million for social
programs. The rest was for economic stimuli, technology and security.
(SFC, 9/28/00, p.A11)
2000 Sep 23, At the Sydney
Olympics, Marion Jones won the women's 100-meter final in 10.7 seconds;
Maurice Greene took the men's 100 in 9.87 seconds.
(AP, 9/23/01)
2000 Sep 23, Carl Rowan,
prize-winning black journalist, died at age 75. His 8 books included
"Wait Till Next Year," a biography of Jackie Robinson, "Dream Makers,
Dream Breakers," a biography of Thurgood Marshall, and "The Coming Race
War in America" (1996). His autobiography was titled "Breaking
Barriers.’
(SFEC, 9/24/00, p.D15)
2000 Sep 23, World Bank and IMF
leaders gathered in Prague for a summit amidst protests. They issued a
communiqué on currency markets and oil prices.
(SFEC, 9/24/00, p.d15)
2000 Sep 23, In Indonesia police
arrested 25 people in connection with the recent bombings in Jakarta.
(SFEC, 9/24/00, p.A6)
2000 Sep 24, Janice Brustlein,
painter aka Biala, died in Paris at age 97.
(SFC, 10/14/00, p.A24)
2000 Sep 24, In Bangladesh
flooding forced some 60,000 to flee their homes and at least 9 people
sere killed.
(WSJ, 9/25/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 24, In France voters
approved a reduction in the presidents term of office to 5 years from 7.
(SFC, 9/25/00, p.A12)
2000 Sep 24, In India 6 days of
rain left 370 people dead or missing.
(WSJ, 9/25/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 24, Vladimiro Montesinos,
Peru’s ousted spy chief, fled to Panama.
(SFC, 9/25/00, p.A12)
2000 Sep 24, For the first time
the citizens of the Yugoslav federation, Serbia and Montenegro, voted
directly for president. Supporters of opposition candidate Vojislav
Kostunica declared victory the next day, but the election commission
said a runoff was needed, prompting massive protests that toppled
President Slobodan Milosevic.
(SFC, 9/26/00, p.A1)(AP 9/24/01)
2000 Sep 25, In NYC a US District
court ordered Radovan Karadzic, a former Bosnian Serb leader, to pay
$4.5 million in damages for 1992 war atrocities committed by his
soldiers.
(SFC, 9/26/00, p.A16)
2000 Sep 25, It was reported that
synthetic versions of the natural enzymes superoxide dismutase and
catalase extended the lives of microscopic roundworms by as much as 50%.
(SFC, 9/25/00, p.A6)
2000 Sep 25, In Sydney, Australia,
Cathy Freeman became the first Aborigine to win an individual Olympic
gold medal, capturing the women's 400 meters. Michael Johnson of the
United States became the first man to successfully defend a 400-meter
title.
(AP, 9/20/01)
2000 Sep 25, In Cuba thousands of
protestors joined Fidel Castro to protest US immigration policies.
(SFC, 9/26/00, p.A14)
2000 Sep 25, In Greece a
nationwide truckers’ strike caused fuel shortages.
(SFC, 9/26/00, p.A14)
2000 Sep 25, In Cheju, South
Korea, the North and South Korea defense ministers, Cho Sung Tae and
Kim Il Chul, met and pledged to work for reconciliation.
(SFC, 9/26/00, p.A11)
2000 Sep 25, In Nepal Maoist
rebels killed 12 police officers in Dunai with crude bombs and guns.
(SFC, 9/26/00, p.A14)
2000 Sep 25, In Serbia
(Yugoslavia) Vojislav Kostunica declared victory over Pres. Milosevic.
(SFC, 9/26/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 25, In Thailand flooding
left 47 people dead.
(WSJ, 9/26/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 26, At the Sydney
Olympics, the U.S. softball team completed a stunning comeback by
edging Japan 2-to-1 in extra innings to win its second straight gold
medal.
(AP, 9/26/01)
2000 Sep 26, The annual meetings
of the World Bank and IMF officials officially opened in Prague with
delegates from 182 nations. Protestors numbered far less than the
expected 20,000. An estimated 6,000 protestors battled police with
homemade gasoline bombs and cobblestones from the streets.
(SFC, 9/26/00, p.A11)(SFC, 9/27/00, p.A14)
2000 Sep 26, Actor Richard
Mulligan died at age 67.
(AP, 9/26/01)
2000 Sep 26, A Greek ferry, the
Express Samina, with 510 passengers sank near the Aegean Sea island of
Paros. At least 75 people were killed. The captain and 4 crew members
were arrested following the collision of the ship with a well-known
rock marked by a visible light. Survivors said crew members were
watching a soccer match on tv. The ship was operated by Minoan Flying
Dolphins.
(SFC, 9/27/00, p.A18)(SFC, 9/28/00, p.A12)(SFC,
9/30/00, p.A12)
2000 Sep 26, In the Philippines
the Supreme Court announced an 18-month sentence for Tommy Suharto for
corruption.
(SFC, 9/27/00, p.A15)
2000 Sep 26, Philippine Abu Sayyaf
rebels claimed to have escaped from Jolo Island.
(SFC, 9/27/00, p.A15)
2000 Sep 26, The Yugoslav
government under Slobodan Milosevic conceded loss in the presidential
elections but called for a runoff saying Kostunica won only 48% vs. 40%
for Milosevic. The move that prompted mass protests leading to
Milosevic's ouster.
(SFC, 9/27/00, p.A1)(AP, 9/26/01)
2000 Sep 27, In Sydney, Australia,
the U.S. Olympic baseball team beat Cuba 4-0 to capture its first
baseball gold medal.
(AP, 9/27/01)
2000 Sep 27, Venus Williams became
only the second player to win Wimbledon, the U.S. Open and the Olympics
in the same year with her 6-2, 6-4 victory over Elena Dementieva. The
first was Steffi Graf, in 1988.
(AP, 9/27/01)
2000 Sep 27, It was reported that
the Asian swamp eel, Monopterus albus, was within a mile of the fragile
Florida Everglades National Park.
(WSJ, 9/27/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 27, In China an explosion
at the Muchonggou Coal Mine in Shuicheng, Guizhou province, killed 118
miners.
(SFC, 9/28/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 27, In the Czech Republic
IMF and World Bank officials ended their meetings a day early due to
disruptions by protestors. Some 600 demonstrators were arrested from an
estimated total of 12,000.
(SFC, 9/28/00, p.C2)
2000 Sep 27, In Egypt Shereef
Fawzi Mohammad el-Falali (35), a civil engineer, was arrested in
Heliopolis for providing intelligence information to Israel.
(SFC, 11/29/00, p.C7)
2000 Sep 27, Jordan planned a
flight to Iraq regardless of clearance from the UN sanctions committee.
(SFC, 9/27/00, p.A15)
2000 Sep 27, OPEC’s top leaders
gathered in Caracas for a 2-day meeting. OPEC speakers called on
Western countries to reduce taxes levied on oil to ease prices.
(SFC, 9/27/00, p.A1)(SFC, 9/28/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 27, In the Philippines
Jolo Island villagers in Lapu dumped 3 Abu Sayyaf rebel bodies at a
police station. 3 villagers were also killed in the fight with rebels.
(SFC, 9/28/00, p.C2)
2000 Sep 27, In the Philippines 10
people died after some 50 rebels of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front
attacked farmers and soldiers in Carmen village, North Cotabato
province.
(SFC, 9/29/00, p.D2)
2000 Sep 27, In Syria 99
intellectuals published a demand for more democracy and freedom of
expression.
(SFC, 9/29/00, p.D5)
2000 Sep 28, In Sydney, Australia,
Venus Williams earned her second Olympic gold medal, teaming with
sister Serena in the final of women's doubles to beat Miriam Oremans
and Kristie Boogert of the Netherlands, 6-1, 6-1.
(AP, 9/28/01)
2000 Sep 28, Capping a 12-year
battle, the US FDA approved the French abortion pill, RU-486
(mifepristone). It will be sold as Mifeprex by Danco Laboratories.
(SFC, 9/29/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 28, In Washington DC a
gay, deaf student at Gallaudet Univ. was beaten to death. Thomas Minch
(18) was later arrested for the death of Eric Franklin Plunkett (19).
Minch was released within 24 hours. In 2002 Joseph M. Mesa Jr. was
convicted of killing and robbing 2 Gallaudet classmates. [See Feb 3,
2001]
(SFC, 10/4/00, p.A2)(SFC, 10/5/00, p.A2)(SFC,
5/22/02, p.A9)
2000 Sep 28, Peter Gennaro (80),
choreographer, died.
(AP, 9/28/05)
2000 Sep 28, In Canada Pierre
Elliott Trudeau, 2-time former premier, died at age 80. He led Canada
from 1968-1979 and from 1980-1984.
(SFC, 9/29/00, p.D7)
2000 Sep 28, In Chechnya Russian
troops reportedly killed Isa Munayev, a rebel military commander.
(SFC, 10/4/00, p.A12)
2000 Sep 28, Danes voted 53-47%
not to join the European Monetary Union.
(SFC, 9/28/00, p.A12)(SFC, 9/29/00, p.A18)
2000 Sep 28, In India some 1,000
people were left dead following 10 days of torrential rains.
(SFC, 9/29/00, p.A20)
2000 Sep 28, In Indonesia a court
dismissed the corruption case against former Pres. Suharto (79) after
doctors concluded he was too ill to stand trial.
(SFC, 9/29/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 28, Ariel Sharon led an
armed contingent of supporters to the top of Temple Mount in Jerusalem,
the site of 2 mosques, and incited Arab demonstrations. This marked the
beginning of the 2nd Palestinian uprising (Intifada).
(SFC, 4/30/02, p.A8)(SFC, 3/23/04, p.A11)
2000 Sep 28, Peru’s Pres. Fujimori
flew to Washington to meet with OAS officials as rumors of a coup
swirled.
(WSJ, 9/29/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 28, OPEC leaders in
Venezuela signed a united declaration of 20 resolutions and agreed to
meet again in 5 years.
(SFC, 9/29/00, p.A17)
2000 Sep 29, A US AM-RAAM missile
sale to Taiwan was designed so that delivery would not occur unless
China threatened an attack.
(SFC, 9/30/00, p.A14)
2000 Sep 29, US navy pilot, Lt.
Bruce Joseph Donald, was killed when his F/A-18C Hornet fighter crashed
into the Persian Gulf.
(SFC, 10/2/00, p.A5)
2000 Sep 29, Five people were
killed in clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli police at
the Temple Mount. It was the 2nd day of clashes following a visit to
the site by Ariel Sharon.
(SFC, 9/30/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 29, In Serbia thousands
rallied across the country against Pres. Milosevic.
(SFC, 9/30/00, p.A10)
2000 Sep 30, In Sydney, Australia,
Marion Jones won Olympic gold in the U.S. women's 1,600-meter relay and
bronze with the 400-meter squad, making her the only woman to win five
track medals at one Olympics. In 2007 the IOC stripped Jones of her 5
medals due to use of steroids.
(AP, 9/30/01)(WSJ, 12/13/07, p.A1)
2000 Sep 30, The US and EU reached
an agreement in Brussels to avert a trade war over a US tax-break for
exporters.
(SFEC, 10/1/00, p.A13)
2000 Sep 30, A Catholic priest
crashed his car into a building housing an abortion clinic in Rockford,
Ill., and attacked it with an ax. The Rev. John Earl later pleaded
guilty to damaging property, and was sentenced to 30 months' probation
and two days in county jail.
(AP, 9/30/01)
2000 Sep 30, Jacquelyn Reinach,
writer, died at age 70. Her books included the "Sweet Pickles" series
of children’s stories. She also authored the women’s song "Liberation
Now."
(SFC, 10/6/00, p.D5)
2000 Sep 30, In Northern Ireland
the last 4 inmates left the Maze prison as part of the Good Friday
Peace agreement. The prison was scheduled for shutdown.
(SFEC, 10/1/00, p.D14)
2000 Sep 30, Palestinians clashed
with Israeli forces across the West Bank and Gaza for a 3rd day and 12
Palestinians were killed with over 500 injured. Mohammed Jamal Aldura
(12) was among the dead and French TV showed him clinging to his father
as they were caught in gunfire. The Israeli Army later said that
Palestinian gunfire may have killed the boy.
(SFEC, 10/1/00, p.A1)(SFC, 10/2/00, p.A12)(SFC,
11/28/00, p.A16)
2000 Sep, Pres. Clinton signed the
Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (Ralupa).
(SSFC, 3/11/01, p.A17,19)
2000 Sep, Tyco Corp. forgave $33
million in relocation loans for CEO Dennis Kozlowski and $16.6 million
for CFO Mark Swartz, related to their moves to Boca Raton.
(WSJ, 4/5/04, p.A8)
2000 Oct 1, Stanley Kunitz
(1905-2006) succeeded Robert Pinsky as the US poet laureate.
(SFEC, 10/22/00, BR p.2)(SFC, 5/16/06, p.B5)
2000 Oct 1, On the last day of the
27th Olympics in Sydney, the U.S. men's basketball team beat France for
the gold medal. The United States led the way in the final medal tally,
collecting 97 (39 gold, 25 silver and 33 bronze); Russia was second
with 88 (32, 28 and 28), China third with 59 (28, 16, 15) and host
Australia was fourth, with 58.
(SFC, 10/2/00, p.A1)(WSJ, 10/2/00, p.A1)(AP, 10/1/01)
2000 Oct 1, Robert Allen,
composer, died at age 73. His songs included "Chances Are," "Moments to
Remember," and "Home for the Holidays."
(SFC, 10/6/00, p.D5)
2000 Oct 1, Pope John Paul II
canonized as martyrs 87 Chinese believers and 33 European missionaries
killed between 1648 and 1930. He also canonized Mother Katherine Drexel
(d.1955), a Philadelphia heiress, who became a nun.
(SFC, 10/2/00, p.A12)
2000 Oct 1, In Brazil some 110
million voted in municipal elections with advances by the Workers
Party. A tilt to the left was seen as a response to corruption.
(WSJ, 10/3/00, p.A23)
2000 Oct 1, In China Falun Dafa
staged one of the biggest Tiananmen Square protests since it was banned
14 months earlier.
(WSJ, 10/2/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 1, In India officials in
West Bengal state said 997 people had died due to flooding over the
past 3 weeks. 45 people were reported killed in Bangladesh.
(SFC, 10/2/00, p.A14)
2000 Oct 1, Israeli forces fought
Palestinian rioters for a 3rd day and at least 12 Palestinians were
killed. The fighting spread from the West Bank and Gaza to towns and
cities inside Israel.
(SFC, 10/2/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 2, Pres. Clinton signed
into law the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) as Title 1 of
the Trade and Development Act of 2000. It offered tangible incentives
for African countries to continue their efforts to open their economies
and build free markets.
(www.agoa.gov/)(http://tinyurl.com/3yj69b)
2000 Oct 2, Virginia Gov. James
Gilmore granted an absolute pardon to Earl Washington Jr., 17 years
after the mentally retarded man was convicted for the rape and homicide
of a mother of 3. An initial 1994 DNA test indicated another man in the
case. A new DNA test identified a convicted rapist. In 2006 a federal
jury awarded $2.25 million to Washington.
(SFC, 10/3/00, p.A4)(SFC, 5/6/06, p.A3)
2000 Oct 2, Britain’s 1st bill of
rights went into effect.
(SFC, 10/2/00, p.A13)
2000 Oct 2, Israeli troops fired
on protesting Arabs. 19 people were killed in the West Bank and Gaza
and another 7 in Arab towns of northern Galilee. The 4 day toll rose to
48 dead and over 1,300 wounded. In 2003 the Or Commission blamed the
government of PM Barak for not paying attention to rising discontent
among Israel’s Arabs. In 2005 Israeli authorities, citing lack of
evidence, said they would not file charges against any police officers
for the killings of 13 Arabs during the October, 2000, riots.
(SFC, 10/3/00, p.A1)(WSJ, 10/3/00, p.A1)(SFC,
9/18/05, p.A3)
2000 Oct 2, In the Philippines
soldiers freed 12 Christian evangelists from Abu Sayyaf rebels after
one escaped and alerted the military. The guerrillas escaped with 5
remaining hostages.
(SFC, 10/3/00, p.A8)
2000 Oct 2, In Serbia the
opposition staged a general strike as Pres. Milosevic went on national
TV and called on his countrymen to re-elect him. In his first public
address since a disputed election, Milosevic branded his opponents
puppets of the West. A wave of unrest aimed at driving him from power
swept Yugoslavia, and the government responded by arresting dozens of
strike leaders.
(SFC, 10/3/00, p.A8)(AP, 10/2/01)
2000 Oct 2, In Sri Lanka a
suspected suicide bomber killed at least 19 people at a political rally.
(WSJ, 10/3/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 3, Vice Pres. Al Gore and
Gov. George W. Bush engaged in their 1st presidential debate, a 90
minute match at the Clark Athletic Center of the Univ. of
Massachusetts. "Bush may have won by not losing." Gore and Bush clashed
over tax cuts, Medicare prescription drug benefits and campaign finance.
(SFC, 10/4/00, p.A1)(AP, 10/3/01)
2000 Oct 3, The Natuna Sea, a
Panama-registered tanker, went aground between Indonesia and Singapore
and spilled some 2 million gallons of crude oil.
(SFC, 10/4/00, p.A12)
2000 Oct 3, In the Dominican
Republic an arms depot exploded and 2 civilians were killed in San
Cristobal.
(WSJ, 10/4/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 3, In Indonesia Hutomo
Mandala Putra, aka Tommy Suharto, admitted that he was guilty of
corruption and asked for clemency.
(SFC, 10/4/00, p.A10)
2000 Oct 3, A cease-fire between
Israel and the Palestinians quickly crumbled and the death toll climbed
to at least 54. Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat planned to meet in Paris
to seek an end to the conflict.
(SFC, 10/4/00, p.A10)
2000 Oct 4, 3Com was expected to
announce plans to join with Harris Interactive for the largest Internet
survey to date.
(SFC, 10/4/00, p.D1)
2000 Oct 4, In Indonesia Pres.
Wahid denied clemency to Tommy Suharto and ordered the arrest of a
Timorese militia chief.
(SFC, 10/5/00, p.A12)
2000 Oct 4, In Israel Barak agreed
to withdraw heavy arms from the West Bank and Gaza in a bid to halt
violence. Amid fresh bloodshed in the West Bank and Gaza, Secretary of
State Madeleine Albright brought Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat together for talks in Paris.
(WSJ, 10/5/00, p.A1)(AP, 10/4/01)
2000 Oct 4, In the Ivory Coast a
bus-station bombing killed 4 people and a state of emergency was
declared.
(WSJ, 10/6/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 4, In Serbia the
Constitutional Court set aside part of the Sep 24 voting results in a
move seen to buy time for Pres. Milosevic. Citizens blocked an attempt
by the government to use force against strikers and protesters. Major
protests were planned to force Milosevic from office.
(SFC, 10/5/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 5, "The Beatles
Anthology," a $60 oversize volume with 1,200 photos, went on sale.
(SFC, 10/4/00, p.E1)
2000 Oct 5, In the only debate of
presidential running mates during the 2000 campaign Dick Cheney and Joe
Lieberman, the vice-presidential candidates, debated over national TV
from Centre College in Danville, Ky. Republican Cheney and Democrat
Lieberman disagreed firmly but politely about military readiness, tax
cuts and the future of Social Security.
(SFC, 10/6/00, p.A1)(AP, 10/5/01)
2000 Oct 5, The European Central
Bank (ECB) raised interest rates by a quarter % to 4.75%.
(SFC, 10/6/00, p.B2)
2000 Oct 5, Israeli tanks pulled
back from forward positions and Palestinian security forces cleared
stone throwers from the streets in the 1st steps of a US-brokered
cease-fire.
(SFC, 10/6/00, p.A17)
2000 Oct 5, In western Japan a 7.3
earthquake struck and at least 106 people were injured.
(SFC, 10/6/00, p.D6)(SFC, 10/7/00, p.A8)(SFEC,
10/8/00, p.A18)
2000 Oct 5, Nigerians from Libya
arrived home on repatriation flights and bore tales of a pogrom by
youths resentful of economic immigrants.
(WSJ, 10/6/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 5, In the Philippines
Pres Estrada presided over the surrender of 600 Muslim rebels.
(WSJ, 10/6/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 5, Vojislav Kostunica
spoke from the balcony of City Hall as several hundred thousand
protestors, led by workers from Cacak, took over Belgrade, the
parliament building and TV station. The state Tanjug news agency
switched allegiance to Vojislav Kostunica.
(SFC, 10/6/00, p.A1,16)(SFC, 10/7/00, p.A8)
2000 Oct 5, In Sri Lanka a suicide
explosion near an election rally left 13 people dead in Medawachchiya.
(SFC, 10/6/00, p.D4)
2000 Oct 5, In Tanzania 18 people
died and 39 were injured as a bus swerved to avoid a presidential
motorcade and hit a crowd of people.
(WSJ, 10/6/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 6, The US jobless rate
was reported at 3.9%, a 3-decade low.
(SFC, 10/7/00, p.A3)
2000 Oct 6, New Power Holdings, an
IPO launched by Enron, climbed 29% to close at $27. In 2002 it was sold
to a British energy firm for $1.05 per share.
(WSJ, 3/25/02, p.A1)
2000 Oct 6, Richard Farnsworth
(80), stuntman-turned-actor, died at his New Mexico ranch.
(AP, 10/6/01)
2000 Oct 6, In Argentina Vice
President Carlos Alvarez resigned amid a fallout over a corruption
scandal and a Cabinet shake-up.
(SFC, 10/7/00, p.A12)
2000 Oct 6, In Bolivia Indian
leaders and government ministers agreed to prop up corn prices, reverse
a land titling process and revert water rights back to Indian peasants.
This followed 3 weeks of road blocks that had paralyzed the economy.
(SFC, 10/7/00, p.A9)
2000 Oct 6, In Indonesia 7 people
were killed and 38 injured in Irian Jaya following a clash after police
and soldiers lowered the separatist Free Papua Movement’s "Morning
Star" flag in Wamena town.
(SFC, 10/7/00, p.A12)
2000 Oct 6, Israel pulled troops
from Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus in an effort to ease tensions.
(SFC, 10/7/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 6, In the Ivory Coast the
Supreme Court disqualified former Prime Minister Alassane Ouattara and
most other candidates from the presidential elections.
(SFC, 10/7/00, p.A10)
2000 Oct 6, In Reynosa, Mexico, a
DC932 plane with 83 passengers overran a runway and crashed into a
group of homes and then a canal. 6 people walking along the canal were
killed.
(SFC, 10/7/00, p.A12)
2000 Oct 6, In Peru a 5,000 barrel
oil spill by an Argentine company threatened the water resources of
some 10,000 inhabitants in the northern jungle.
(SFEC, 10/8/00, p.A24)
2000 Oct 6, In Serbia Slobodan
Milosevic resigned and the opposition celebrated across the country.
Milosevic conceded defeat to Vojislav Kostunica in Yugoslavia's
presidential elections, a day after protesters angry at Milosevic for
clinging to power stormed parliament and ended his 13-year autocratic
regime.
(SFC, 10/7/00, p.A1)(AP, 10/6/01)
2000 Oct 7, Three Israeli soldiers
were kidnapped on the Lebanon border. Un peacekeepers made a film 18
hours later that showed Hezbollah guerrillas, the vehicles used and
other evidence of the abduction.
(SFC, 7/12/01, p.A12)
2000 Oct 7, Palestinians tore up
Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus and Hezbollah guerrillas captured 3 Israeli
soldiers. Prime Minister Ehud Barak threatened to use force and to halt
the peace process unless the violence stopped.
(SFEC, 10/8/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 7, In Serbia Vojislav
Kostunica was sworn in as the 1st popularly elected president of
Yugoslavia. He was backed by an 18-party coalition.
(SFEC 10/8/00, p.A1)(SFC, 10/9/00, p.A10)
2000 Oct 8, It was reported that
Austria had agreed to pay $400 million to slave and forced laborers
sent there by Hitler during WW II.
(SFEC, 10/8/00, p.A28)
2000 Oct 8, In southwestern
Bangladesh fresh rains submerged 25 villages.
(SFC, 10/9/00, p.A11)
2000 Oct 8, In Belgium municipal
and provincial elections showed the far right Flemish Bloc gaining
popular support.
(SFC, 10/9/00, p.A11)
2000 Oct 8, Chechen rebels crossed
into Ingushetia and attacked a police patrol. 2 officers were killed
and 3 wounded.
(SFC, 10/9/00, p.A11)
2000 Oct 8-11, In El Salvador a
week of deaths from sugarcane liquor contaminated with methyl alcohol
increased to 51. Bottles of Thunderbolt were suspected to have been
refilled with a mixture of methanol and resold to poor farmworkers.
Liquor sales were banned after 117 deaths.
(SFC, 10/9/00, p.A11)(SFC, 10/11/00, p.A14)(WSJ,
10/12/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 8, In Lithuania the
Social Democrat coalition led by former CP boss, Algirdas Brazauskas,
surpassed the ruling Conservatives.
(SFC, 10/9/00, p.A11)
2000 Oct 8, In Poland Pres.
Aleksander Kwasniewski won a second five-year term in national
elections with 55% of the vote.
(SFC, 10/9/00, p.A10)(AP, 10/8/01)
2000 Oct 9, The Nobel Prize in
physiology or medicine was awarded to Paul Greengard and Eric Kandel of
the US and Arvid Carlsson of Sweden for research in how memory works
and for laying the foundation for the development of anti-depressants.
In 2006 Kandel authored “In search of Memory: The Emergence of a New
Science of Mind.”
(SFC, 10/10/00, p.A3)(Econ, 3/4/06, p.78)
2000 Oct 9, In Chechnya 3 Russian
soldiers were shot to death in Urus-Martan.
(SFC, 10/10/00, p.A13)
2000 Oct 9, The EU lifted an oil
embargo and other sanctions against Yugoslavia as Pres. Kostunica
secured the resignations of Prime Minister Momir Bulatovic and Interior
Minister Vlajko Stojilkovic.
(SFC, 10/10/00, p.A12)
2000 Oct 9, Israel backed from a
deadline against the Palestinians to stop violence in the West Bank and
Gaza.
(SFC, 10/10/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 9, In the Philippines
Gov. Luis Singson of Ilocos Sur province charged that Pres. Estrada
received over $11 million in payoffs, mostly from illegal gambling.
(SFC, 10/10/00, p.A13)
2000 Oct 9, In Spain Luis Portero,
a head state attorney for the Andalusian Superior Court, was shot to
death in Granada. The ETA was suspected.
(SFC, 10/10/00, p.A13)
2000 Oct 9, Turkey became the 9th
nation to send a token humanitarian flight to Iraq.
(SFC, 10/10/00, p.A13)
2000 Oct 10, The Nobel Prize in
physics was awarded to Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments, co-inventor of
the computer chip, Herbert Kroemer (72) of UC Santa Barbara and Zhores
Alferov (70) of Russia for work in high-speed transistors and tiny
lasers.
(SFC, 10/11/00, p.A1,6)
2000 Oct 10, The Nobel Prize in
chemistry was awarded to Alan Heeger (64) of UC Santa Barbara, Alan
MacDiarmed (73) of Univ. of Pennsylvania, and Hideki Shirakawa (64) of
the Univ. of Tsukuba for their work in modifying plastics to conduct
electricity.
(SFC, 10/11/00, p.A6)(Econ, 9/16/06, p.89)
2000 Oct 10, Pres. Clinton met
with Vice Marshal Jo Myong Rok, the most senior North Korean official
to ever visit the US.
(WSJ, 10/10/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 10, In Kentucky sludge
from a coal mines broke through a waste lagoon of the A.T. Massey Coal
Co. and some 250 million gallons hit coldwater Creek and Wolf Creek
near Inez. Gov. Paul E. Patton declared a 10-county emergency.
(SFC, 12/30/00, p.A20)
2000 Oct 10, Minnesota’s Rep.
Bruce Vento, a 12-term liberal Democrat, died at age 60. He championed
environmental and homeless causes. The Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary in
St. Paul was named in his honor.
(SFC, 10/12/00, p.C2)(LP, Spring 2006, p.25)
2000 Oct 10, In Ethiopia Prime
Minister Meles Zenawi was re-elected by acclamation in parliament to
another 5-year term.
(SFC, 10/11/00, p.A14)
2000 Oct 10, In the Philippines 15
Abu Sayyaf rebels surrendered in Talipao town on Jolo Island. 129
guerrillas were reported killed and 53 captured during the recent
assault on Jolo.
(SFC, 10/11/00, p.A4)
2000 Oct 10, In Sri Lanka at least
5 people were killed in violence during parliamentary elections.
Kumaratunga’s People’s Alliance led the voting over the United National
Party with 107 seats to 89 in the 225-seat legislature.
(WSJ, 10/11/00, p.A1)(SFC, 10/12/00, p.A16)(SFC,
10/13/00, p.D3)
2000 Oct 10, In Sri Lanka Sirimavo
Bandaranaike, the 1st woman in the world to serve as a prime minister,
died at age 84 just after voting in elections.
(SFC, 10/11/00, p.A24)
2000 Oct 10, In Zimbabwe Pres.
Mugabe pardoned offenders for thousands of politically motivated crimes
committed between Jan 1 and July 31.
(SFC, 10/11/00, p.A14)
2000 Oct 11, The Nobel Prize in
economics went to Daniel McFadden (63) of UC Berkeley for developing
ways of analyzing consumer decisions and to James Heckman of Univ. of
Chicago for developing techniques to strip out hidden biases in studies
of the labor force.
(SFC, 10/12/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 11, Pres. Clinton agreed
to sign legislation to lift the embargo on food sales to Cuba. It also
provided aid to drought-stricken farmers and allowed the import of
US-made drugs that are sold cheaper in other countries.
(SFC, 10/12/00, p.A7)
2000 Oct 11, Bush and Gore engaged
in their 2nd debate at Wake Forest in North Carolina. They spent the
first half politely discussing foreign policy, and the second half
clashing over domestic issues.
(SFC, 10/12/00, p.A1)(AP, 10/11/01)
2000 Oct 11, The shuttle Discovery
with a crew of 7 lifted off from Cape Canaveral for an 11-day mission
to the Int’l. Space Station. It marked the shuttle fleet’s 100th
mission.
(SFC, 10/12/00, p.A3)(WSJ, 10/12/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 11, Celera Genomics
announced the completion of the mapping of the lab mouse’s genome.
(WSJ, 10/12/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 11, Palestinians
continued to riot in Gaza and the West Bank and the death toll
approached 100.
(SFC, 10/12/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 11, In Venezuela tens of
thousands of oil workers went on strike for higher wages.
(SFC, 10/12/00, p.A16)
2000 Oct 12, The Nobel Prize in
literature was won by Gao Xingjian (60), an exiled Chinese writer
living in Paris. His novels include "Soul Mountain," based on a 1986
walking tour along the Yangtze River.
(SFC, 10/13/00, p.A16)
2000 Oct 12, Pres. Clinton lifted
key economic sanctions against Serbia.
(SFC, 10/13/00, p.A16)
2000 Oct 12, North Korea’s
Vice-Marshal Jo Myong Rok presented Pres. Clinton with a personal
invitation from Pres. Kim to visit Pyongyang. The Clinton
administration and North Korea issued a joint communique asserting a
decision to "fundamentally improve" their relations.
(SFC, 10/13/00, p.A17)(WSJ, 1/2/03, p.A1)
2000 Oct 12, The DJIA fell 379.21
(3.6%) to 10,034, while the NASDAQ fell 93.81 (3%) to 3074 in response
to the Middle East crises.
(SFC, 10/13/00, p.A1)(WSJ, 10/13/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 12, A US Navy destroyer,
the USS Cole, refueling in Yemen suffered an enormous explosion in what
appeared to be a terrorist attack. Initial reports had at least 6
sailors killed with 11 missing. The death toll was revised to 17. The
8,600-ton Cole was returned to the US aboard the Norwegian ship Blue
Marlin. In 2001 a video tape by "Al-Sahab Productions" circulated among
Muslim militants with footage of the bombed vessel. The Cole returned
to active duty in 2003 following $250 million in repairs. In 2007 Walid
Muhammad bin Attash told a military tribunal at Guantanamo that he was
responsible for organizing the Cole attack as well as the 1998 bombings
in Kenya and Tanzania.
(SFC, 10/13/00, p.A1)(SFC, 10/14/00, p.A1)(SFC,
11/7/00, p.A12)(SFC, 6/20/01, p.A8)(WSJ, 12/1/03, p.A1)(SFC, 3/20/07,
p.A3)
2000 Oct 12, In Chechnya a car
bomb exploded outside a Grozny police stations and at least 10 people
were killed.
(SFC, 10/13/00, p.D3)
2000 Oct 12, In Ecuador suspected
Columbian FARC guerrillas kidnapped 5 Americans and 5 other foreign oil
workers, hijacked a helicopter, and crossed back to Columbia. It was
later suspected that the kidnappers were Ecuadoran criminals rather
than Colombian guerrillas. One American was later killed and 2
Frenchmen escaped.
(SFC, 10/13/00, p.A17)(SFC, 10/20/00, p.D8)(WSJ,
2/2/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 12, The Palestinian
Authority released hundreds of prisoners including senior Islamic
militants.
(SFC, 10/13/00, p.A5)
2000 Oct 12, A mob of Palestinians
beat at least 2 Israeli reserve soldiers to death. Israeli helicopters
fired missiles at targets in Gaza in retaliation. Two reservist
soldiers, Cpl. Vadim Norjitz (33) and Yossi Avrahami (38) were on their
way to their army base in the West Bank in October 2000 but took a
wrong turn and ended up in Ramallah. Israel later arrested at least
four suspects in the killing. In 2007 a 5th suspect, Ayman Zaban, was
caught in an upscale neighborhood of the northern West Bank city of
Nablus.
(SFC, 10/13/00, p.A1)(AP, 9/26/07)
2000 Oct 13, The Nobel Peace Prize
was awarded to Pres. Kim Dae Jung (74) of South Korea for his efforts
to make peace with North Korea.
(SFC, 10/14/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 13, A US federal appeals
court ruled that residents of Puerto Rico cannot vote in presidential
elections unless the island becomes a state or the US Constitution is
amended.
(SFC, 10/14/00, p.A4)
2000 Oct 13, The DJIA rose 157.61
to 10,192, while the NASDAQ rose 242 (7.9%) to 3316, in a possible dead
cat bounce.
(SFC, 10/14/00, p.D1)
2000 Oct 13, Chevron announced
plans to acquire Texaco in a deal valued at $37 billion. Chevron and
Texaco agreed to merge on Oct 15 for $35 billion in stock and $7.5
billion in debt.
(SFC, 10/14/00, p.A1)(SFC, 10/16/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 13, Gus Hall (90),
longtime American communist, died in New York.
(AP, 10/13/01)
2000 Oct 13, Jean Peters, film
actress and former wife of Howard Hughes, died at age 73.
(SFC, 10/21/00, p.A24)
2000 Oct 13, In Serbia a new
agreement was reached to hold parliamentary elections on Dec 24.
(SFC, 10/14/00, p.A10)
2000 Oct 13, Janko "Tuta" Janjic
(43), a war crimes suspect, killed himself in Foca, a town in the Serb
section of Bosnia, when NATO troops came to arrest him.
(SFC, 10/14/00, p.A10)
2000 Oct 14, Angelo Perez Baraquio
(24), Miss Hawaii, was crowned Miss America in Atlanta City, NJ.
(SFEC, 10/15/00, p.A2)
2000 Oct 14, Six San Francisco Bay
Area people associated with the Flying Doctors aid group were killed
when their plane crashed in Ensenada, Mexico.
(SFEC, 10/15/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 14, In Belarus
parliamentary elections were held. Authorities hand-picked most
candidates and those with known anti-Lukoshenko views were barred from
running. The average salary in Belarus was $50 per month.
(SFEC, 10/15/00, p.A22)
2000 Oct 14, In Indonesia police
arrested Alip Agung Suwondo, Pres. Wassid’s masseur, on suspicion of
trying to steal $4 million in state funds.
(SFC, 10/16/00, p.F8)
2000 Oct 14, Philippine troops
arrested 36 suspected supporters of Abu Sayyaf rebels and 6 others
surrendered on Jolo Island.
(SFC, 10/16/00, p.F8)
2000 Oct 14, A Saudi jetliner was
hijacked with over 100 people and landed in Baghdad. 2 hijackers were
arrested.
(SFEC, 10/15/00, p.A10)
2000 Oct 14, In Somalia Pres.
Abdiqasim Salad Hassan returned from Djibouti.
(SFC, 10/16/00, p.F8)
2000 Oct 14, In Switzerland a
mudslide in Gondo left 18 people missing.
(SFEC, 10/15/00, p.A20)
2000 Oct 14, In Uganda it was
reported that at least 35 people of the northern Gulu district had died
in recent weeks of a hemorrhagic fever possibly caused by the Ebola or
Marburg virus.
(SFC, 10/14/00, p.A16)(SFC, 10/18/00, p.A12)
2000 Oct 15, President Clinton
left Washington for emergency talks in Egypt with Israeli and Arab
leaders.
(AP, 10/15/01)
2000 Oct 15, New York Times movie
and drama critic Vincent Canby died at age 76.
(AP, 10/15/01)
2000 Oct 15, In Belarus
parliamentary elections were held. Authorities hand-picked most
candidates and those with known anti-Lukoshenko views were barred from
running. The average salary in Belarus was $50 per month. An opposition
call for a boycott failed due to rural government support.
(SFEC, 10/15/00, p.A22)(SFC, 10/16/00, p.F8)
2000 Oct 15, The Palestinian
Hezbollah seized an Israeli colonel, Elchanan Tennenbaum, in
Switzerland.
(SFC, 10/16/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 15, Two rival Solomon
Island militia groups signed a peace agreement in Australia.
(SFC, 10/16/00, p.F8)
2000 Oct 15, At least 31 people
were killed as landslides due to heavy rains continued in the Alps of
Switzerland and Italy. 23 died in northern Italy and 8 in southern
Switzerland.
(SFC, 10/16/00, p.F8)(SFC, 10/18/00, p.A14)(SFC,
10/19/00, p.C4)
2000 Oct 16, The New York Mets
beat the St. Louis Cardinals 7-to-0 to win the National League
championship series four games to one.
(AP, 10/16/01)
2000 Oct 16, President Clinton
launched a fresh effort to try to cool Middle East tensions at an
emergency summit in Egypt that included Israeli and Palestinian
leaders, as well as the leaders of Egypt and Jordan and U.N.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
(AP, 10/16/01)
2000 Oct 16, Louis Farrakhan
planned a one million family march in Washington to seek spiritual
strength and political empowerment. Thousands gathered in the National
Mall to celebrate the American family.
(SFC, 10/14/00, p.A3)(SFC, 10/17/00, p.A3)
2000 Oct 16, Missouri Gov. Mel
Carnahan, his son, Roger Carnahan, and chief of staff Chris Sifford
were killed in a plane crash near St. Louis. Roger Carnahan piloted the
twin-engine Cessna in stormy weather.
(SFC, 10/17/00, p.A1)(SFC, 10/18/00, p.A3)
2000 Oct 16, The Chinese press
endorsed the building of a $12 billion river project to divert water
from the Yangtze north to the Yellow River.
(SFC, 10/19/00, p.C3)
2000 Oct 16, A Middle East summit
was planned to begin at Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt. Violent
demonstrations continued in the West Bank and Gaza and 2 Palestinians
were killed.
(SFEC, 10/15/00, p.A1)(SFC, 10/17/00, p.A13)
2000 Oct 16, Israel announced the
kidnapping by Hizbullah of Elchanan Tannenbaum (b.1946), a colonel in
Israel’s reserves. He was kidnapped in Dubai and taken to Lebanon.
Tannenbaum was released in January 2004 as part of a prisoner swap with
Hezbollah. The swap exchanged 435 prisoners held by Israel in return
for Tannenbaum's release and the return of the bodies of 3 soldiers
killed during an ambush along the Israeli-Lebanese border.
(Econ, 9/6/08,
p.99)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elchanan_Tennenbaum)
2000 Oct 16, In Lagos, Nigeria,
over 100 people died in clashes between Hausas and Yorubas. Most of the
dead were believed to be Hausas.
(SFC, 10/17/00, p.A16)(WSJ, 10/18/00, p.A1)(SFC,
10/20/00, p.D8)
2000 Oct 16, Milosevic allies
agreed to share power until elections. A German newspaper reported that
the Milosevic family had $100 million in foreign accounts with some of
the money from drug trafficking. Swiss authorities had already frozen
100 bank accounts worth $57 million linked to Milosevic and his allies.
(WSJ, 10/17/00, p.A1)(SFC, 10/21/00, p.A12)
2000 Oct 16, In Spain Col. Antonio
Munoz Carinanos (58), a military doctor, was killed in Seville by 3
suspected Basque gunmen. 2 suspects were arrested.
(WSJ, 10/17/00, p.A1)(SFC, 10/18/00, p.A26)
2000 Oct 16, In Zimbabwe hundreds
rampaged in eastern Harare over food prices. Opposition leaders called
for the resignation of Pres. Mugabe.
(SFC, 10/17/00, p.A16)(SFC, 10/18/00, p.A26)
2000 Oct 17, The New York Yankees
followed the Mets into the World Series, beating the Seattle Mariners
9-to-7 and winning the American League championship series four games
to two.
(AP, 10/17/01)
2000 Oct 17, Al Gore and George W.
Bush held their 3rd and last TV debate from St. Louis with a town hall
format.
(WSJ, 10/17/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 17, The month long Los
Angeles transit authority strike ended following negotiations brokered
by Jesse Jackson.
(SFC, 10/18/00, p.A3)
2000 Oct 17, In Britain the London
to Leeds train derailed at Hatfield and 4 people were killed with 70
injured.
(SFC, 10/18/00,
p.A14)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatfield_rail_crash)
2000 Oct 17, In Chechnya it was
reported that mines planted by rebels killed 4 Russian soldiers.
(SFC, 10/18/00, p.A26)
2000 Oct 17, Ending an emergency
summit in Egypt, Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed to publicly
urge an end to a burst of bloody conflict and to consult within two
weeks on restarting the ravaged Mideast peace process.
(SFC, 10/18/00, p.A1)(AP, 10/17/01)
2000 Oct 17, Montenegro Pres. Milo
Djukanovic refused to take part in national institutions with Serbia
until the Montenegro-Serbia relationship is redefined.
(SFC, 10/18/00, p.A12)
2000 Oct 18, President Clinton
honored the 17 sailors killed in a suicide bomb attack against the USS
Cole as he attended a ceremony at the Norfolk Naval Station in Virginia.
(AP, 10/18/01)
2000 Oct 18, Julie London, singer
and actress, died in Los Angeles at age 74.
(SFC, 10/19/00, p.A29)
2000 Oct 18, Broadway musical star
Gwen Verdon died in Woodstock, Vt., at age 75.
(AP, 10/18/01)
2000 Oct 18, In Angola gunmen
attacked 2 buses at Andurie and killed dozens of people.
(SFC, 10/21/00, p.A14)
2000 Oct 18, In Bosnia over 1,000
Bosnian Serb high school students rioted in Brcko and demanded an end
to the city’s multiethnic status.
(SFC, 10/19/00, p.C2)
2000 Oct 18, The World Bank
endorsed a $3.5 billion oil project in Chad with 80% of the revenues to
go to development. 10% was to be invested for future generations. The
pipeline was to go from southern Chad to an Atlantic port in Cameroon.
By 2008 rather than comply with the bank’s strictures, Chad had repaid
its loans in full and spent its oil money as it pleased.
(SFC, 11/23/00, p.D5)(Econ, 9/27/08, p.63)
2000 Oct 18, In China a human
rights group reported that 3 members of Falun Gong died after their
arrest by police. 57 Falun Gong members have died under police custody
during the 15-month crackdown.
(SFC, 10/19/00, p.C10)
2000 Oct 18, In Israel undercover
agents captured as many as 8 Palestinians believed to have taken part
in the lynching death of 2 Israeli soldiers.
(SFC, 10/19/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 18, Hundreds of Italian
police raided the Univ. of Messina. 79 faculty and staff were later
indicted on organized crime charges.
(SFC, 1/8/01, p.A4)
2000 Oct 18, In southern Italy the
bodies of 6 illegal immigrants, believed to be Kurds, were found dumped
on the side of a highway.
(SFC, 10/19/00, p.C10)
2000 Oct 18, In the Philippines
opposition legislators filed a resolution for the impeachment of Pres.
Estrada for taking bribes. Some 15,000 people massed in Manila and
called for Estrada’s resignation.
(SFC, 10/19/00, p.A17)
2000 Oct 19, A panel of US
scientists recommended that the FDA ban the drug ingredient
phenylpropanolamine (PPA), a common ingredient in decongestants and
appetite suppressants due to the risk of hemorrhagic stroke in young
women. The FDA issued a warning on PPA on Nov 6.
(SFC, 10/20/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 19, It was reported that
scientists had brought to life 4 strains of bacteria entombed in salt
crystals of New Mexico rock for 250 million years.
(SFC, 10/19/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 19, In East Timor Jose
Ramos-Horta, Nobel Peace laureate, was sworn in as the foreign
minister.
(SFC, 10/20/00, p.D8)
2000 Oct 19, Israeli soldiers
fought with Palestinian militiamen in the West Bank and 2 people were
killed with 18 wounded.
(SFC, 10/20/00, p.A16)
2000 Oct 19, In the Philippines at
least 9 people were reported killed and 11 wounded in several attacks
by the MILF.
(SFC, 10/20/00, p.D8)
2000 Oct 19, In Sri Lanka a
suicide bomber killed himself, 2 other people and injured 21 in Colombo
after police challenged him near the Town Hall.
(SFC, 10/19/00, p.C10)(SFC, 10/20/00, p.a16)
2000 Oct 20, Egyptian-born Ali
Mohamed, a U.S. citizen who'd served in the Army (1986), pleaded guilty
in New York to helping plan the deadly U.S. Embassy bombings in Africa
in 1998 that killed 224 people, including 12 Americans. It was later
reported that Mohamed, a former Egyptian Army major, had served as an
FBI informant.
(AP, 10/20/01)(SSFC, 11/4/01, p.A1)
2000 Oct 20, In Colombia FARC
guerrillas near Dabeiba killed 54 members of the army and national
police. 22 were killed in the crash of a US-made Black hawk helicopter
hit by gunfire.
(SFC, 10/21/00, p.A12)
2000 Oct 20, Israeli troops killed
at least 9 Palestinians and wounded dozens in numerous West Bank
clashes. The Israeli-Palestinian truce brokered by President Clinton
collapsed in a hail of gunfire, with Israeli troops killing nine
Palestinians and wounding 67.
(SFC, 10/21/00, p.A1)(AP, 10/20/01)
2000 Oct 20, In Japan the Kyoei
Life Insurance Co. filed for bankruptcy. The failure of the
11th-largest Japanese live insurer marked the biggest corporate failure
since WW II.
(SFC, 10/21/00, p.D1)
2000 Oct 20, In Mexico City a fire
at the Lohobombo salsa club killed at least 19 people.
(SFC, 10/21/00, p.A13)
2000 Oct 21, The former passenger
ship S.S. Belofin-1, sank near Cape Town while on tow for demolition.
The ship was originally built in 1931 as the Matson luxury liner
"Monterey" and served as a troop transport during WW II. She was
renamed a number of times and was also known as the Matsonia, Lurline
(after the 1932 original demolished in 1987), and Britanis.
(Ind, 11/4/00,5A)
2000 Oct 21, Tens of thousands of
Palestinians took to the streets in marches and funerals in Gaza and
the West Bank. 4 Palestinians were killed and over 100 injured.
(SFEC, 10/22/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 21, Fifteen Arab leaders
met in Cairo for a 2-day summit, their first summit in four years. They
condemned Israel for violence and made proposals to deal with Israel.
The Libyan delegation walked out, angry over signs the summit would
stop short of calling for breaking ties with Israel.
(SFEC, 10/22/00, p.A1,21)(AP, 10/21/01)
2000 Oct 22, US Sec. of State
Madeleine Albright arrived in North Korea to pave the way for a
possible visit by Pres. Clinton.
(SFC, 10/23/00, p.A10)
2000 Oct 22, In SF Claire
Tempongko (28) was repeatedly stabbed to death by her ex-boyfriend
Tarin. Ramirez (27) in front of her 2 children (5 & 10) in her
basement apartment on 22nd Ave. A month before her death Tempongko had
lodged 2 police reports against Ramirez. In 2004 the city settled a
case for police inaction for $500,000. In 2006 Ramirez was arrested
near Cancun, Mexico. In 2007 he was returned to the US to face trial.
In 2008 Ramirez was convicted of 2nd-degree murder.
(SFC, 10/24/00,
p.A1)(www.purpleberets.org/violence_tempongko.html)(SFCM, 8/24/03,
p.12)(SFC, 10/1/08, p.B5)
2000 Oct 22, In Afghanistan
opposition forces captured a mountain pass near Taloqan and killed at
least 42 Taliban soldiers.
(SFC, 10/23/00, p.A11)
2000 Oct 22, Arab nations demanded
a UN war crimes tribunal for Israelis responsible for Palestinian
deaths and formally ended economic cooperation with Israel. Ehud Barak
suspended Israeli participation in the peace process. He called for a
"timeout" to decide whether negotiations can be salvaged. Arab leaders
meeting in Egypt wrapped up a two-day summit on Israeli-Palestinian
violence with a declaration that stopped short of an outright call for
cutting ties with Israel.
(SFC, 10/23/00, p.A1)(AP, 10/22/01)
2000 Oct 22, Canada’s Prime
Minister Jean Chretien called for new elections in an attempt to
increase his parliamentary majority.
(SFC, 10/23/00, p.A10)
2000 Oct 22, In the Ivory Coast
elections were held with candidates from the 2 biggest parties
excluded. All candidates from the Muslim north, 40% of the population,
were excluded. The tally was halted when early returns put Socialist
Laurent Gbagho ahead.
(SFC, 10/23/00, p.A10)(WSJ, 10/24/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 22, In Spain Maximo
Casada Carrera (44), a prison officer, was killed by a car bomb in
Vitoria. The ETA was blamed.
(SFC, 10/23/00, p.A11)
2000 Oct 23, Pres. Clinton signed
a bill for a national standard of .08% as the legal limit for alcohol
in drunken driving.
(SFC, 10/24/00, p.A8)
2000 Oct 23, Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright held groundbreaking talks in North Korea with
communist leader Kim Jong Il.
(AP, 10/23/01)
2000 Oct 23, It was reported that
General Electric had agreed to buy Honeywell for $48.4 billion in stock
and assumed debt.
(SFC, 10/23/00, p.D1)
2000 Oct 23, In India at least 16
people were killed in 2 attacks in Assam state. Police blamed the
United Liberation Front of Asom. Over 10,000 people have been killed
since the group began its campaign 2 decades ago.
(SFC, 10/24/00, p.A16)
2000 Oct 23, In Israel Prime
Minister Barak opened negotiations with Ariel Sharon and the Likud
Party for a broad-based emergency government.
(SFC, 10/24/00, p.A14)
2000 Oct 23, The Int’l. Commission
on Kosovo recommended that Kosovo become a separate state when the
safety of its minorities can be guaranteed.
(SFC, 10/24/00, p.A16)
2000 Oct 23, In Lebanon Pres.
Lahoud appointed Rafik Hariri as prime minister.
(SFC, 10/24/00, p.A16)
2000 Oct 23, Two more Palestinians
died from injuries received during rioting in Nablus.
(SFC, 10/24/00, p.A14)
2000 Oct 23, In Peru Vladimiro
Montesinos, the former intelligence chief, landed in Pisco as police
and protesters clashed in Lima.
(SFC, 10/24/00, p.A14)
2000 Oct 23, Senegal struck the
1st cut-rate deal for AIDS drugs with discounts as much as 90% from US
retail prices.
(WSJ, 10/24/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 23, In Sri Lanka rebels
launched an attack against the navy base at Trincomalee. The military
said 24 combatants died including 18 rebels.
(WSJ, 10/24/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 24, The US signed a free
trade deal with Jordan that included labor rights and environmental
standards.
(SFC, 10/25/00, p.A16)
2000 Oct 24, The space shuttle
Discovery landed at Edwards Air Force Base following the 100th shuttle
flight and work on the Int’l. Space Station.
(SFC, 10/25/00, p.A3)
2000 Oct 24, In Chechnya 13
Russian soldiers died from rebel mines and attacks and 24 were wounded.
(SFC, 10/25/00, p.A16)
2000 Oct 24, In Colombia political
abductions rose to 5 over the last 3 days. Rebel and right wing
paramilitaries were suspected in the kidnapping of the opposition
Liberal Party members.
(SFC, 10/25/00, p.A16)
2000 Oct 24, In Italy the
Parliament approved a law to end the 200-year old draft in favor of an
all volunteer military. The armed forces planned reductions to
190,000 from 270,000 within 7 years.
(SFC, 10/25/00, p.A16)
2000 Oct 24, In the Ivory Coast
Gen. Robert Guei declared himself the winner in presidential elections
and dissolved the electoral commission that showed his main opponent in
the lead. Protests broke out, at least 2 people were killed and a state
of emergency was declared.
(SFC, 10/25/00, p.A15)(WSJ, 10/25/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 24, In North Korea Kim
Jong Il promised not to launch any ballistic missiles during talks with
US Sec. of State Madeleine Albright in return for a package that
included the launch of a North Korean satellite.
(SFC, 10/25/00, p.A17)(WSJ, 10/25/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 24, In the Philippines a
rebel commander and 18 followers surrendered on Jolo Island.
(SFC, 10/25/00, p.A16)
2000 Oct 25, Europe with support
from Canada and Japan announced a $280 million support package for
Colombian efforts to make peace with leftist rebels.
(SFC, 10/26/00, p.D8)
2000 Oct 25, In the Ivory Coast a
people’s revolt forced Gen. Robert Guei out of power. Laurent Gbagbo
(55) of the Ivorian Popular Front was introduced over state TV as the
new head of state.
(SFC, 10/26/00, p.A16)
2000 Oct 25, In Peru Pres.
Fujimori ordered the arrest of Vladimiro Montesinos.
(WSJ, 10/26/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 25, In the Philippines 3
Malaysian hostages held by rebels were rescued on Jolo Island.
(SFC, 10/25/00, p.A16)(SFC, 10/26/00, p.D8)
2000 Oct 25, Russian divers began
to recover bodies from the Kursk submarine. A note was found that
indicated 23 men had survived the initial accident but were unable to
escape.
(SFC, 10/26/00, p.A16)(SFC, 10/27/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 25, A Russian plane with
at least 75 passengers and crew crashed while trying to land in
Georgia. All were feared dead.
(SFC, 10/26/00, p.D8)
2000 Oct 25, In Sierra Leone the
1,800 man peacekeeping contingent from Jordan began to withdraw and
charged that rich nations were not doing their share.
(WSJ, 10/26/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 25, In Sri Lanka some
3000 Sinhala villagers in Bindunuwewa attacked a Tamil rebel child
rehabilitation center and killed 26 ex-fighters (14-25). They were
angered when the child soldiers took hostage a Sinhalese officer.
(SFC, 10/26/00, p.D8)(Econ, 7/18/09, p.40)
2000 Oct 25, In Zimbabwe the
opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) presented articles of
impeachment against Pres. Mugabe.
(SFC, 10/26/00, p.A16)
2000 Oct 26, The New York Yankees
became the first team in more than a quarter century to win three
straight World Series championships, beating the New York Mets 4-to-2
in game five of their "Subway Series." The Yankees matched the Oakland
Athletics' three in a row from 1972-74, and won their fourth title in
five years.
(AP, 10/26/01)
2000 Oct 26, The US FDA planned to
ban 2 fluoroquinolone antibiotics used by poultry farmers due to fears
that humans might become infected with germs that resist treatment.
(SFC, 10/27/00, p.A3)
2000 Oct 26, UN sponsored
scientists reported that pollution had contributed substantially to
global warming.
(SFC, 10/26/00, p.A3)
2000 Oct 26, In China at least 100
Falun Gong sect members were dragged from Tiananmen Square following a
protest one the year anniversary of a government ban of the cult.
(SFC, 10/27/00, p.A21)
2000 Oct 26, In Israel a
Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up at an Israeli army outpost.
129 people, mostly Palestinians, were reported killed in over four
weeks of fighting.
(SFC, 10/27/00, p.A20)
2000 Oct 26, In the Ivory Coast
dozens of people were reported killed as supporters of Alassane
Ouattara called for new elections.
(SFC, 10/27/00, p.A21)
2000 Oct 26, Diamonds from Sierra
Leone arrived in Antwerp under a new UN plan to keep diamond revenues
from financing civil war.
(SFC, 10/28/00, p.A12)
2000 Oct 26, In Venezuela Pres.
Chavez greeted Fidel Castro and they planned an accord for oil
shipments to Cuba in exchange for bartered products and services.
(SFC, 10/27/00, p.D2)
2000 Oct 27, Canadian authorities
arrested the men they say masterminded the 1985 bombing of an Air India
jumbo jet near Ireland that claimed the lives of all 329 people aboard.
(AP, 10/27/01)
2000 Oct 27, In China the state
media reported that auditors had found over $11 billion in mismanaged
funds in government offices and businesses.
(SFC, 10/28/00, p.A14)
2000 Oct 27, In Ivory Coast the
bodies of 57 young men were found outside Abidjan. Ouattara claimed the
men were members of his Rally of the Republicans party and were killed
by paramilitary police. 8 gendarmes were acquitted in 2001 due to lack
of evidence.
(SFEC, 10/29/00, p.A22)(SFC, 8/4/01, p.A10)
2000 Oct 27, Palestinians clashed
with Israelis in a "Day of Rage" and 4 were killed with 150 people
injured.
(SFC, 10/28/00, p.A12)
2000 Oct 27, In Taiwan Pres. Chen
Shui Bian halted construction of a 4th nuclear power plant near
Kungliao. The $5.5 bil project was one-third complete.
(SFC, 10/28/00, p.A14)
2000 Oct 27, Pres. Kostunica
applied for Yugoslavia’s membership in the United Nations.
(SFC, 10/28/00, p.A14)
2000 Oct 28, In Kosovo municipal
elections were held. Ibrahim Rugova declared victory for his League for
a Democratic Kosovo and won 21 of 27 contested municipalities.
(SFEC, 10/29/00, p.A17)(SFC, 10/29/00, p.A1)(SFC,
10/31/00, p.A14)
2000 Oct 28, David Trimble, leader
of Northern Ireland's biggest Protestant party, narrowly won a crucial
party battle, keeping alive the province's power-sharing government.
(AP, 10/28/01)
2000 Oct 28, Palestinians clashed
with Israeli troops and at least 29 were wounded.
(SFEC, 10/29/00, p.A18)
2000 Oct 29, The wounded destroyer
USS Cole departed Aden, Yemen, towed by tugboats to a Norwegian
heavy-lift ship to be taken home to repair the gaping hole in its side;
17 sailors were killed in a suicide bombing attack on Oct. 12.
(AP, 10/29/01)
2000 Oct 29, Israeli tanks rolled
through Gaza to secure free movement for Jewish settlers. 5
Palestinians were killed in Gaza, Nablus and Jenin.
(SFC, 10/30/00, p.A10)
2000 Oct 29, In Kyrgyzstan Pres.
Askar Askaev coasted to a 3rd term in flawed elections where 5 rivals
were given no real chance to win. Askaev claimed 73% of the vote.
(WSJ, 10/30/00, p.A1)(SFC, 10/31/00, p.A14)
2000 Oct 29, Lt. Col. Ollanta
Humala led some 51 soldiers in a revolt against pres. Fujimori in
Toquepala. They kidnapped Gen. Oscar Bardales. In 2006 former spy chief
Vladimiro Montesinos called Humala's uprising a "farce, an operation of
deception and manipulation" designed to "facilitate my exit from the
country on the sailboat Karisma."
(SFC, 10/30/00, p.A10)(AP, 5/20/06)
2000 Oct 29, In the Philippines
Typhoon Xangsane left 14 dead on Luzon and moved toward China.
(WSJ, 10/30/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 29, In Tanzania elections
were held. The leader of Zanzibar charged that ballots were kept from
opposition strongholds. Police later fired on protesters and officials
agreed to rerun voting in 16 of 50 districts.
(WSJ, 10/30/00, p.A1)(WSJ, 10/31/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 30, Steve Allen, TV
entertainer, died at his home in Encino at age 78. He was the creator
of the "Tonight Show," had recorded 49 albums, wrote 53 books and
starred in and appeared in numerous TV shows.
(SFC, 11/1/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 30, A heavy storm swept
over Western Europe and at least 8 people were killed.
(SFC, 10/31/00, p.A14)
2000 Oct 30, In Indonesia at least
43 people died in landslides on Java due to heavy rains.
(SFC, 10/31/00, p.A14)
2000 Oct 30, Israel fired rockets
from helicopter gunships in the West Bank and Gaza as a warning against
the use of guerrilla tactics. The death rose to 133 Palestinians and 10
Israelis.
(SFC, 10/31/00, p.A12)
2000 Oct 30, In Peru a revolt of
renegade troops drew to a close as most of those involved were rounded
up. Lt. Col Humala and 7 soldiers remained at large.
(SFC, 10/31/00, p.A13)
2000 Oct 30, In Madrid, Spain, a
car bomb killed Supreme Court magistrate Jose Francisco Querol (69),
his driver and an escort. 35 were wounded and the ETA was blamed.
(SFC, 10/31/00, p.A12)(WSJ, 10/31/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 31, American astronaut
Bill Shepherd and Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev of Russia rocketed
into orbit aboard a Soyuz rocket for the Int’l. Space Station for a
4-month stay. They would become the first residents of the
international space station.
(www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/shepherd.html)(SFC,
10/31/00, p.A12)(AP, 10/31/01)
2000 Oct 31, Ring Lardner Jr., a
Hollywood screenwriter, died at age 85. He was one of the Hollywood
Ten, who were blacklisted in the 1947 McCarthy hearings.
(SFC, 11/2/00, p.a23)
2000 Oct 31, Samuel R. Pierce Jr.
(78), former US Housing Secretary, died.
(AP, 10/31/01)
2000 Oct 31, In Angola a Russian
Antonov 26 charter plane burst into flames after takeoff and all 48
people aboard were killed. Unita rebels later claimed responsibility.
(SFC, 11/2/00, p.A13)(WSJ, 11/3/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 31, In Germany the Expo
2000 closed in Hanover.
(WSJ, 6/29/00, p.A24)
2000 Oct 31, In Jerusalem Yasser
Arafat called for renewed resistance. At least 4 Palestinians were
killed along the eastern Gaza Strip.
(SFC, 11/1/00, p.A16)
2000 Oct 31, An Italian cargo ship
sank in the English Channel with 6,000 tons of chemicals that included
the toxic styrene, a known carcinogen, along with isopropyl alcohol and
methyl ethyl ketone.
(SFC, 11/1/00, p.A17)
2000 Oct 31, A Singapore Airlines
Boeing 747-400 jet crashed on takeoff from Taiwan as Typhoon Xangsane
approached. Flight SQ006 was bound for Los Angeles. The plane
apparently hit construction equipment on a closed runway. The airlines
announced a $400,000 payment to victim’s families after admitting to
pilot error. 83 people were killed when the pilots took off on the
wrong runway. The pilots were not prosecuted.
(WSJ, 11/1/00, p.A1)(SFC, 11/3/00, p.A16)(SFEC,
11/5/00, p.A1)(AP, 6/14/02)
2000 Oct, Pres. Clinton signed
into law the Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act (TSRA),
which for the first time allowed US companies to sell agricultural
products, medical supplies, and processed foods on a cash basis
directly to Cuba.
(www.uiowa.edu/ifdebook/issues/cuba/perspectives/carrasco.shtml)
2000 Oct, Sotheby’s auction house
and former chief executive Diana Brooks pleaded guilty to fixing
commission prices and fees with rival Christie’s. In 2001 Sotheby’s
agreed to pay a $45 million fine.
(SSFC, 2/4/01, p.A2)
2000 Oct, In China some 6 million
census takers began the 5th national census.
(SFC, 10/14/00, p.A12)
2000 Oct, In southern Mali the
Morila gold mine opened near Sanso. By 2005 it had generated nearly
$180 million in profits. Randgold Resources and Anglo-Gold Ashanti of
South Africa divided an 80% stake and the Mali government owned the
rest. Benefits to local people proved miniscule and after 5 years Sanso
still had no electricity and no paved roads.
(SFC, 9/22/05, p.A14)
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