Timeline 2000 Nov-Dec
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2000 Nov 1, In
Chechnya rebels killed 14 Russian soldiers in a series of raids.
(WSJ, 11/2/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 1, 3 Israelis and 6
Palestinians were killed in West Bank clashes.
(SFC, 11/2/00, p.A12)
2000 Nov 1, In Serbia Flora
Brovina, an Albanian activist, was released from prison after serving
18 months for alleged terrorism.
(SFC, 11/2/00, p.A12)
2000 Nov 1, Yugoslavia was
accepted into the United Nations.
(SFC, 11/2/00, p.A12)
2000 Nov 2, The Alameda County DA
charged 4 Oakland, Ca., police officers, known as "The Riders," with 48
felonies that included charges of beating suspects and planting
evidence. In 2003 a court acquitted the officers of misconduct charges.
A retrial began in 2004. In 2005 a 2nd trial ended in a mistrial.
(SFC, 11/2/00, p.A1)(SFC, 10/1/03, p.A1)(SFC,
11/2/04, p.B5)(SFC, 5/20/05, p.B1)
2000 Nov 2, A US and British air
strike in southern Iraq wounded 3 people.
(SFC, 11/3/00, p.A18)
2000 Nov 2, It was reported that
82 species of marine and estuarine fish in the waters off of Canada,
Mexico and the US were in danger of extinction due to over fishing and
habitat destruction.
(SFC, 11/2/00, p.A8)
2000 Nov 2, An American astronaut
and two Russian cosmonauts became the first residents of the
international space station, christening it "Alpha" at the start of
their four-month mission.
(AP, 11/2/02)
2000 Nov 2, In Fiji some 40
soldiers of the Counter Revolutionary Warfare unit attempted to take
over the main military base at Suva. 8 people were killed. Most of the
renegade soldiers were soon captured.
(SFC, 11/4/00, p.A14)
2000 Nov 2, In Jerusalem a car
bomb killed 2 Israelis on a day when a cease-fire, worked out between
Arafat and Shimon Peres, was to be announced.
(SFC, 11/3/00, p.A16)
2000 Nov 2, In the Philippines
Pres. Estrada offered to let voters decide his future in a referendum
as more members of his cabinet resigned.
(SFC, 11/3/00, p.A18)
2000 Nov 3, Four days before
Election Day, Texas Gov. George W. Bush found himself being peppered
with questions about the revelation that he'd been arrested for driving
under the influence in 1976. Bush supporters accused Democrats of
"dirty tricks," prompting a denial of involvement from Vice President
Al Gore's campaign. Tom Connolly, a Portland, Maine, lawyer, said he
was the source of the disclosure.
(AP, 11/3/01)
2000 Nov 3, Five people died in
central Texas over the last 2 days in car accidents due to flooding.
(SFEC, 11/5/00, p.A7)
2000 Nov 3, UN officials brokered
a deal between the rebels of Afghanistan and the Taliban to begin talks
to end the civil war.
(SFC, 11/4/00, p.A14)
2000 Nov 3, In Indonesia Hutomo
Mandala Putra (Tommy Suharto) went missing after prosecutors issued a
warrant for his arrest.
(SFC, 11/4/00, p.A14)
2000 Nov 3, Swiss authorities
froze about $50 million in bank accounts tied to Vladimiro Montesinos,
the ex-spy chief of Peru.
(SFC, 11/4/00, p.A13)
2001 Nov 4, President Clinton
vetoed a bill that would have criminalized the leaking of government
secrets.
(AP, 11/4/01)
2000 Nov 4, In Israel the clashes
eased as Pres. Barak and Yasser Arafat announced separate visits to
Washington for talks with Pres. Clinton.
(SFEC, 11/5/00, p.A11)
2000 Nov 4, In the Philippines
tens of thousands rallied in Manila for Pres. Estrada to resign.
(SFEC, 11/5/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 4, In Yugoslavia the
parliament approved the country's first communist-free government in
more than half a century. The government under Pres. Kostunica was
approved by a vote of 136-19.
(SFEC, 11/5/00, p.A15)(AP, 11/4/01)
2000 Nov 5, Abdelkhader el-Mouaziz
of Morocco won the NYC Marathon in 2:10:9. Ludmila Petrova of Russia
won among the women in 2:25:45.
(WSJ, 11/6/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 5, It was reported that
brain stem cells from cadavers could regenerate into healthy neurons.
(SFC, 11/6/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 5, David Brower,
environmentalist and the 1st executive director of the Sierra Club,
died at age 88.
(SFC, 11/7/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 5, Jimmie Davis,
Louisiana's "singing governor," died in Baton Rouge; he was believed to
be 101.
(AP, 11/5/01)
2000 Nov 5, In Congo at least 20
people were killed in Bunia, before Uganda sent in tanks and troops to
protect Ernest Wamba dia Wamba in a dispute with Mbusa Nyamwisi.
(SFC, 11/8/00, p.B4)
2000 Nov 5, Haile Selassie
(1892-1975), former ruler Ethiopia (1930-1974), was buried in a
cathedral crypt. His body was found in 1992 on the grounds of his
former palace, where he died while under house arrest.
(SFC, 11/6/00, p.A12)
2000 Nov 5, In Iraq passenger
flights resumed in the no-fly zones in a challenge to US and British
imposed sanctions.
(SFC, 11/6/00, p.A12)
2000 Nov 5, Clashes in the West
Bank and Gaza left 2 Palestinians killed and 17 injured.
(SFC, 11/6/00, p.A12)
2000 Nov 5, In Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia, thousands of people protested the rule of Prime Minister
Mahathir Mohamad.
(SFC, 11/6/00, p.A15)
2000 Nov 5, In Nigeria at least 96
people were killed when an oil tanker truck slammed into a line of
parked vehicles at a police check point between Ife and Ibadan.
(SFC, 11/7/00, p.B2)
2000 Nov 6, On Election Eve,
George W. Bush and Al Gore campaigned through the final hours of their
run for the White House, seeking last-minute momentum in a costly and
exhausting race to become the nation's 43rd president.
(AP, 11/6/01)
2000 Nov 6, Surgeons in
Manchester, England, separated conjoined twin girls, a procedure that
involved allowing one of the girls to die, while giving the survivor a
chance at life.
(AP, 11/6/01)
2000 Nov 6, Storms in Western
Europe killed at least 19 people.
(WSJ, 11/7/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 6, Buddhadeb
Bhattacharjee (b.1944), poet and playwright, became the chief minister
of India’s West Bengal state.
(Econ, 11/24/07,
p.74)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhadeb_Bhattacharya)
2000 Nov 6 In India a mob of
Sunnis attacked Shiites in the market area of Mubarakpur in Uttar
Pradesh state and 13 people were killed.
(SFC, 11/7/00, p.B2)
2000 Nov 6, Israel rejected a plan
for international observers in its conflict with the Palestinians.
(SFC, 11/7/00, p.B2)
2000 Nov 6, In Serbia prisoners
rioted in Sremska Mitrovica for shorter sentences and a new prison
management. They were also angry over a proposed amnesty law that would
free Albanian political prisoners.
(SFC, 11/7/00, p.B2)
2000 Nov 6, In Zanzibar the ruling
Chama Cha Mapinduzi won 34 of the 50 seats in the House of
Representatives. The opposition Civic United Front took the remaining
16 seats.
(SFC, 11/7/00, p.B2)
2000 Nov 7, Pres. Clinton named
George Mitchell to head a fact-finding team in the Israeli-Palestinian
upheaval.
(SFC, 11/7/00, p.B2)
2000 Nov 7, In US elections Al
Gore conceded to George Bush and then retracted his concession based on
an early prediction of the vote in Florida, which was reversed as too
close to call. Hillary Clinton won the NY Senate seat. In 2001 Bill
Sammon authored "At Any Cost: How Al Gore Tried to Steal the Election"
and Alan M Dershowitz authored ""Supreme Injustice: How the High Court
Hijacked Election 2000."
(SFC, 11/8/00, p.A1)(WSJ, 11/8/00, p.A1)(WSJ,
6/18/01, p.A17)
2000 Nov 7, George Bush won
Colorado by 8% points. Ralph Nader took over 5% of the vote.
(Econ, 8/28/04, p.30)
2000 Nov 7, California voters
approved Prop 39 for school bonds to pass with a 55% majority. Prop 36,
the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act, was also approved. It
called for transferring drug arrestees from the criminal justice system
into treatment programs. Voters approved Prop. 1A, a pro-Indian
gambling measure.
(SFC, 11/9/00, p.A1)(SFC, 11/13/00, p.A1)(SFC,
5/11/04, p.B8)
2000 Nov 7, Missouri’s late Gov.
Mel Carnahan won the Senate election over Rep. John Ashcroft.
Carnahan’s widow Jean had already agreed to assume the seat if her
husband won.
(SFC, 11/9/00, p.A11)
2000 Nov 7, Wisconsin voters
supported Al Gore by a margin of some 5,700 votes.
(Econ, 7/24/04, p.30)(Econ, 9/13/08, p.39)
2000 Nov 7, William Leonard
Pickard (55) was arrested on charges of conspiring to operate a massive
LSD lab in Wamego, Ka.
(SSFC, 6/10/01, p.A1)
2000 Nov 7, In Denmark Queen
Mother Ingrid died at age 90. She was born Ingrid Victoria Sofie Louise
Margaretha at the royal castle in Stockholm as the daughter of King
Gustaf VI Adolf.
(SFC, 11/8/00, p.B7)
2000 Nov 7, In Serbia prisoner
riots expanded to Pozarevac and Nis where the rape of women inmates was
reported.
(SFC, 11/8/00, p.B4)
2000 Nov 7, In Taiwan the
legislature adopted bills to clear the way for a recall vote against
Pres. Chen Shui-bian.
(SFC, 11/8/00, p.B2)
2000 Nov 7, In Venezuela the
congress granted Pres. Chavez fast track powers to decree laws without
parliamentary debate.
(SFC, 11/8/00, p.B5)
2000 Nov 7, In Zimbabwe white
farmers appealed to the highest court on the constitutionality of the
emergency powers used by Pres. Mugabe for farm seizures.
(SFC, 11/10/00, p.A16)
2000 Nov 8, A statewide recount
began in Florida, which emerged as critical in deciding the winner of
the 2000 presidential election. 19,000 votes were reported disqualified
in West Palm Beach. Early that day, Vice President Al Gore telephoned
Texas Gov. George W. Bush to concede, but called back about an hour
later to retract his concession.
(SFC, 11/9/00, p.A1)(AP, 11/8/01)
2000 Nov 8, Waco special counsel
John C. Danforth released his final report absolving the government of
wrongdoing in the 1993 siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Texas.
(AP, 11/8/01)
2000 Nov 8, In China 11 people
were sentenced to death for their role in a giant smuggling ring, the
Yuanhua Group, that moved some $6.4 billion in goods with the
complicity of mayors, police and customs officers.
(SFC, 11/9/00, p.C2)
2000 Nov 8, Israeli troops killed
4 Palestinian teenagers and Palestinian gunmen ambushed and killed an
Israeli woman (24).
(SFC, 11/9/00, p.C2)
2000 Nov 8, Fusako Shigenobu,
founder of the Japanese Red Army, was arrested in Osaka after 20 years
underground.
(SFC, 11/9/00, p.C2)
2000 Nov 8, Saudi Arabia opened
its border with Iraq and signed export contracts to nearly $600 million
under exceptions to US sanctions.
(WSJ, 11/8/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 8, In Tanzania the
National Electoral Commission announced that Pres. Benjamin Mkapa had
won the Oct 29 multi-party elections with 71.7% of the vote. In
Zanzibar Amani Karume was declared president.
(SFC, 11/9/00, p.C5)(WSJ, 11/8/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 9, George W. Bush's lead
over Al Gore in all-or-nothing Florida slipped beneath 300 votes in a
suspense-filled recount, as Democrats threw the presidential election
to the courts, claiming "an injustice unparalleled in our history."
(AP, 11/9/01)
2000 Nov 9, Pres. Clinton met with
Yasser Arafat in Washington in an effort to end the bloodshed between
Israel and Palestine.
(SFC, 11/10/00, p.A16)
2000 Nov 9, Pres. Clinton
established the 293,000-acre Vermillion Cliffs in northern Arizona as a
national monument. He also ordered 661,000 acres of federal land added
to the 54,400-acre craters of the Moon National Monument in central
Idaho.
(SFC, 11/10/00, p.A6)
2000 Nov 9, William Leonard
Pickard (55) and Clyde Apperson (45) of California were indicted by a
grand jury in Kansas City for running a massive LSD laboratory inside a
decommissioned nuclear missile silo in Wamego, Ka. Leonard was
sentenced on November 25, 2003 to two concurrent life sentences without
parole. Apperson was sentenced on November 24, 2003 to 30 years of
imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
(SFC, 12/7/00,
p.A1)(http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/313/pickard.shtml)
2000 Nov 9, It was reported that
Cancer drug tests showed that endostatin cut blood to tumors. It was
also reported that statin cholesterol drugs might cut the risk of
dementia as in Alzheimer’s disease.
(WSJ, 11/10/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 9, Hundreds of thousands
of Germans marched to condemn a wave of right-wing violence in an
"Uprising of the Upright."
(SFC, 11/10/00, p.A16)
2000 Nov 9, Israeli helicopter
gunships fired missiles at a Palestinian vehicle and killed Fatah
militia leader Hussein Abayat along with 2 nearby women.
(SFC, 11/10/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 9, In Kosovo 4 Gypsies
were killed in an ambush.
(WSJ, 11/10/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 9, Mozambique
police killed 10 opposition demonstrators in Maputo. In Montepuez
Renamo opposition supporters stormed a prison and freed 93 inmates. 7
police officers and 18 civilians died in election protests.
(SFC, 11/10/00, p.D2)(SFC, 11/24/00, p.D4)
2000 Nov 9, In Russia the
government announced plans to shrink the 3 million member armed forces
by 600,000.
(SFC, 11/10/00, p.D6)
2000 Nov 10, The battle over
Florida's disputed presidential election continued, with George W.
Bush's camp pressing Al Gore to concede without pursuing multiple
recounts, and Democrats pressing ahead with protests, determined to
find enough votes to erase Bush's razor-thin lead in initial counting.
An unofficial tally gave Bush a 327-vote lead.
(SFC, 11/11/00, p.A1)(AP, 11/10/01)
2000 Nov 10, The US Nasdaq market
fell 171 points to 3,028.99, its lowest reading since Nov 3, 1999.
(SFC, 11/11/00, p.B1)
2000 Nov 10, In Burma some 125
Karen guerrillas overran a Burmese military camp near the Thai border.
30 escaped and one soldier was killed.
(SFC, 11/11/00, p.C18)
2000 Nov 10, In Colombia a car
bomb in Cali injured 11 civilians. The ELN was blamed.
(SFC, 11/11/00, p.C18)
2000 Nov 10, In Indonesia hundreds
of thousands of people began converging on Banda Aceh, capital of Aceh
province, for demonstrations on independence.
(SFC, 11/11/00, p.A14)
2000 Nov 10, Israel sealed
Bethlehem and Ramallah. Israeli troops killed 5 Palestinians in clashes
in the West Bank and Gaza. One Israeli soldier was killed in shooting
following a funeral for militia commander Hussein Abayat.
(SFC, 11/11/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 10, In Montenegro Pres.
Djukanovic called for international recognition as an independent state
from Serbia. He threatened a referendum on seceding from Yugoslavia
unless their union is radically revamped.
(SFC, 11/11/00, p.A14)
2000 Nov 10, In the Philippines, a
landslide buried 11 children in Kabugao, Apayao province.
(SFC, 11/11/00, p.C18)
2000 Nov 10, In Zimbabwe the
Supreme Court ruled that the government’s land reform plan and
occupations of white-owned farms were illegal.
(SFC, 11/11/00, p.A16)
2000 Nov 11, Pres. Clinton led
groundbreaking ceremonies in Washington DC for the National WW II
Memorial.
(AH, 4/01, p.14)
2000 Nov 11, Republicans went to
court, seeking an order to block manual recounts from continuing in
Florida's razor-thin presidential election.
(AP, 11/11/01)
2000 Nov 11, Lennox Lewis won a
unanimous 12-round decision over David Tua in Las Vegas to retain his
WBC and IBF heavyweight titles.
(AP, 11/11/01)
2000 Nov 11, In Austria a fire
consumed a cable car crammed with skiers and snowboarders in an Alpine
tunnel at Kitzsteinhorn mountain near Kaprun. 155 people, mostly
children and teenagers, were killed. In 2008 a settlement provided
relatives of the people who died a share of euro13.9 million (US$21.5
million) in compensation.
(WSJ, 11/15/00, p.A1)(WSJ, 11/16/00, p.A1)(AP,
11/11/05)(AP, 6/17/08)
2000 Nov 11, General elections
were held in Bosnia.
(SFEC, 11/12/00, p.A24)
2000 Nov 11, A Dagestan Airlines
jet was hijacked. The Russian plane was forced to and in Israel with 58
people aboard. Pres. Barak, enroute to Washington, returned to handle
the crises. The hijacker surrendered and the plane was returned to
Moscow.
(SFEC, 11/12/00, p.A22)(SFC, 11/13/00, p.A12)
2000 Nov 11, Fighting in the West
Bank left 8 Palestinians dead along with 1 Israeli soldier.
(SFEC, 11/12/00, p.A19)
2000 Nov 11, In Indonesia at least
27 people were killed when police cracked down on tens of thousands of
protestors in Aceh.
(WSJ, 11/13/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 11, In Lebanon two
4-story apartment buildings collapsed and at least 9 people were killed
and 27 injured.
(SFEC, 11/12/00, p.A19)(SFC, 11/13/00, p.A14)
2000 Nov 12, On the eve of a
federal court hearing on the Florida presidential election, advocates
for George W. Bush and Al Gore previewed their legal strategies, with
Democrats justifying painstaking recounts and Republicans saying the
practice could result in political "mischief" and human error.
(AP, 11/12/01)
2000 Nov 12, Pres. Clinton met
with Ehud Barak in an effort to end Arab-Israeli fighting. Meanwhile
one Palestinian youth was killed in Gaza.
(SFC, 11/13/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 12, In Florida Palm Beach
election officials decided to recount all county votes, some 425,000,
by hand.
(SFEC, 11/12/00, p.1)
2000 Nov 12, Leah Rabin, an
outspoken campaigner for Mideast peace following the 1995 assassination
of her husband, former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, died at
age 72.
(AP, 11/12/01)
2000 Nov 12, Uganda confirmed a
new case of Ebola in Masindi, the 3rd district to confirm the deadly
virus.
(SFC, 11/13/00, p.A14)
2000 Nov 13, Joe Mullen and Denis
Savard were among those inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.
(AP, 11/13/01)
2000 Nov 13, The vote count in
Florida was set to conclude though absentee ballots remained. Lawyers
for George W. Bush failed to win a court order barring manual recounts
of ballots in Florida. Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris
announced she would end the recounting at 5 p.m. the next day -
prompting an immediate appeal by lawyers for Al Gore.
(WSJ, 11/13/00, p.A1)(AP, 11/13/01)
2000 Nov 13, The US government
declared the wild Atlantic salmon an endangered species.
(SFC, 11/14/00, p.A7)
2000 Nov 13, Two US F-16 military
jets collided over waters off of northern Japan. One pilot was rescued
and the other was missing.
(SFC, 11/13/00, p.A14)
2000 Nov 13, In India about 1000
people demonstrated in New Delhi against the building of some 3,000
dams across the Narmada Valley and 3 Indian states.
(SFC, 11/14/00, p.A17)
2000 Nov 13, Palestinian gunmen
attacked inside Israeli controlled areas of the West Bank and Gaza and
killed 4 Israelis. Elsewhere 4 Palestinians were also killed over the
day. Fatah called for the expulsion of Israelis from Gaza and the West
Bank.
(SFC, 11/14/00, p.A16)(WSJ, 11/14/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 13, In the Philippines
the House of Representatives approved an impeachment trial to address
corruption charges against Pres. Estrada.
(SFC, 11/14/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 14, Florida Secretary of
State Katherine Harris certified George W. Bush's fragile 300-vote lead
over Al Gore, hours after a judge refused to lift a 5 p.m. deadline;
however, the judge gave Harris the authority to accept or reject
follow-up manual recount totals.
(SFC, 11/15/00, p.A1)(AP, 11/14/01)
2000 Nov 14, MP3.com agreed to pay
$53.4 million in damages to Universal Music Group.
(SFC, 11/15/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 14, Pioneering CBS Radio
newsman Robert Trout died in New York at age 91.
(AP, 11/14/01)
2000 Nov 14, In Indonesia some
50,000 rallied for independence in Aceh.
(SFC, 11/15/00, p.B2)
2000 Nov 14, In Iraq a bomb killed
6 people in Irbil.
(SFC, 11/17/00, p.D6)
2000 Nov 14, Israeli troops shot
dead 3 Palestinian teenagers (13-19) and a man was killed after
settlers threw rocks at his car.
(SFC, 11/15/00, p.A12)
2000 Nov 14, In the Philippines
some 20,000 marched in Manila for the ouster of Pres. Estrada.
(SFC, 11/15/00, p.A12)
2000 Nov 15, Al Gore made a
surprise proposal for a state-wide hand recount of Florida's 6 million
ballots - an idea immediately rejected by George W. Bush. Earlier,
Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris had rejected requests from
4 counties to update presidential vote totals with the results of hand
recounts under way at Gore's urging.
(SFC, 11/16/00, p.A1)(AP, 11/15/01)
2000 Nov 15, The US government
announced a plan to use the gnat-like phorid fly to control fire ants.
(SFC, 11/16/00, p.A3)
2000 Nov 15, The Gordon E. and
Betty I. Moore Foundation donated $5 billion for a charitable
foundation to underwrite scientific research, environmental protection
and higher education projects.
(SFC, 11/16/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 15, In Angola an Antonov
24 airplane crashed near Luanda Int’l. Airport and 39-40 people were
killed. All Antonovs were ordered grounded in Sept.
(SFC, 11/16/00, p.A17)(WSJ, 11/16/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 15, In Egypt
election results were released. The National Democratic Party of Hosmi
Mubarak won 388 of the legislature’s 444 (448) elected seats. 12 people
died in the elections and irregularities were charged. 17 seats went to
independents allied with the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.
(SFC, 11/16/00, p.A16)(WSJ, 11/16/00, p.A1)(WSJ,
9/21/01, p.A16)
2000 Nov 15, On Palestinian
Independence Day many processions turned into clashes with Israeli
forces and 8 Palestinians were killed. Israeli troops entered 3
Palestinian villages and captured 15 men suspected in recent shootings.
(SFC, 11/16/00, p.A14)
2000 Nov 16, Pres. Clinton arrived
in Hanoi, Vietnam, to develop economic and political ties. He flew in
from an economic summit in Brunei where it was agreed to restart global
trade talks in 2001.
(SFC, 11/16/00, p.A14)(SFC, 11/17/00, p.A1)(WSJ,
11/17/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 16, The US and Yugoslavia
agreed to reopen embassies in each others capitals.
(SFC, 11/17/00, p.A20)
2000 Nov 16, The Florida State
Supreme Court ruled that "there is no legal impediment to the recounts
continuing." Al Gore won a legal fight to expand manual recounts as he
struggled to trim George W. Bush's 300-vote lead in Florida's
presidential race.
(SFC, 11/17/00, p.A1)(AP, 11/16/01)
2000 Nov 16, Amtrak christened its
new bullet train, the Acela Express, with an inaugural run from
Washington DC to New York City and Boston.
(SFC, 11/16/00, p.A3)
2000 Nov 16, The Internet Corp.
for Assigned Names and Numbers adopted 7 new domains: .aero for
airports, .biz for businesses, .coop for business cooperatives, .info
for general use, .museum for accredited museums, .name for individuals,
and .pro for professionals.
(SFC, 11/17/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 16, A US Air Force F-16
collided with a small plane near Sarasota, Fla. The pilot of the Cessna
was killed, the fighter pilot ejected safely.
(WSJ, 11/17/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 16, Hosea Williams, civil
rights leader and Lt. to Martin Luther King Jr., died in Atlanta at age
74.
(SFC, 11/17/00, p.A18)
2000 Nov 16, In Colombia police
and US Secret Service cracked a billion dollar counterfeiting
operation. One man was arrested. The operation was believed to be
master-minded by Ramiro Sepulveda.
(SFC, 11/18/00, p.A14)
2000 Nov 16, Israeli forces
attacked 4 targets associated with Fatah. 2 Palestinians were killed in
clashes. Israel also reported a freeze on tax transfers to the
Palestinian Authority.
(SFC, 11/16/00, p.A14)(SFC, 11/17/00, p.A21)(WSJ,
11/17/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 16, In Kenya officials
reported that 68 people had died over the last 2 days from home-brewed
alcohol laced with high-octane fuel and mentholated spirit. The toll
was raised to 113 a day later.
(SFC, 11/17/00, p.D2)(SFC, 11/18/00, p.C16)
2000 Nov 16, In Papua New Guinea a
tidal wave followed a magnitude 8.0 earthquake and left at least one
person dead and at some 5,000 people homeless.
(WSJ, 11/22/00, p.A1)(SFC, 11/25/00, p.D8)
2000 Nov 16, In Syria Pres. Bashar
Assad announced an amnesty for some 600 political prisoners.
(SFC, 11/17/00, p.A20)
2000 Nov 17, The Clinton family
was warmly received in Hanoi, Vietnam.
(SFC, 11/18/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 17, The Florida Supreme
Court froze the state's presidential tally, forbidding Secretary of
State Katherine Harris from certifying results of the marathon vote
count just as Republican George W. Bush was advancing his minuscule
lead over Democrat Al Gore. Also, a federal appeals court refused to
block recounts under way in two heavily Democratic counties.
(SFC, 11/18/00, p.A1)(AP, 11/17/01)
2000 Nov 17, In Cincinnati at
least 6 people were arrested following protests against meetings of
corporate executives from the US and Europe for the Transatlantic
Business Dialogue.
(SFC, 11/18/00, .A3)
2000 Nov 17, In Brazil gunmen in
Sao Paulo shot to death 10 people, 13 to 20, sleeping in an abandoned
house. Drug gang retaliation was suspected.
(SFC, 11/18/00, p.C16)
2000 Nov 17, Jurgen Graf,
prominent Swiss revisionist author, arrived in Iran. He fled his
homeland rather than serve a 15-month prison sentence for "Holocaust
denial."
(www.ihr.org/conference/beirutconf/background.html)
2000 Nov 17, In Jerusalem Yasser
Arafat announced that he had given orders for Palestinian gunmen to
halt their shooting. Barak noted the possibility for int’l. supervisors
in a peace agreement.
(SFC, 11/18/00, p.A12)
2000 Nov 17, In Panama Luis
Posada, an anti-Castro terrorist, was arrested along with 3 others
Cuban-Americans for an assassination plot against Fidel Castro at a
regional summit. They were convicted of endangering public security.
(SFC, 11/22/00, p.A19)(SFC, 5/18/05, p.A9)
2000 Nov 17, In Peru a government
report acknowledged that over 4,000 people disappeared between 1980 and
1996 on suspicion of being leftist guerrillas.
(SFC, 11/18/00, p.A16)
2000 Nov 17, A car bomb in Riyadh
killed Christopher Rodway, a British technician. In 2001 3 Westerners
were arrested in connection with the bombing.
(SFC, 11/18/00, p.A12)(SFC, 2/5/01, p.A10)
2000 Nov 17, In Somalia gunmen
killed 7 people in an attack of a convoy escorting Ahmed Dualeh
Ghellel, a prominent businessman and new legislator. This was the 2nd
attack in a week against a new member of parliament.
(SFC, 11/18/00, p.C16)
2000 Nov 17, In South Africa 11
workers died from a fire while apparently locked in a floor polish
factory in Lenasia.
(SFEC, 11/19/00, p.C16)
2000 Nov 18, In Florida the
absentee ballot count raised Gov. Bush’s lead over Al Gore to 930
votes. George W. Bush's campaign fiercely attacked the hand-recounting
of votes in Florida's presidential election, depicting a process
riddled with human error and Democratic bias; Al Gore's lawyers
defended the effort in papers filed with the state Supreme Court.
(SFEC, 11/19/00, p.A1)(AP, 11/18/01)
2000 Nov 18, Some 2000 women from
19 Arab countries met in Cairo to push for improved status in their
male-dominated societies.
(SFEC, 11/19/00, p.C16)
2000 Nov 18, A Palestinian police
officer sneaked into a Jewish settlement in Gaza and shot dead an
Israeli soldier. He wounded 2 others before he was killed.
(SFEC, 11/19/00, p.A14)
2000 Nov 18, Ivan Shchur (34), a
Russian merchant seaman, was rescued from the barge Meridian, after
being adrift in Arctic ice floes for over 3 weeks.
(SFEC, 11/19/00, p.A14)
2000 Nov 19, Pres. Clinton
ended his historic 3-day visit to Vietnam.
(SFC, 11/20/00, p.A1)(AP, 11/19/01)
2000 Nov 19, US negotiators at the
Hague agreed to limit the use of forest projects to reach targets for
green house gases at global warming talks aimed writing the fine print
for the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.
(SFC, 11/20/00, p.A8)
2000 Nov 19, Attorney Charles
Ruff, who represented President Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky
scandal and his impeachment trial, died in Washington, D.C., at age 61.
(AP, 11/19/01)
2000 Nov 19, In Austria 4 skiers
died in avalanches in the Tyrol.
(SFC, 11/20/00, p.A10)
2000 Nov 19, In Chechnya 7 Russian
soldiers were killed and 10 wounded in some 2 dozen attacks by Chechen
rebels.
(SFC, 11/20/00, p.A10)
2000 Nov 19, In Colombia weekend
clashes with leftist rebels left at least 28 dead.
(WSJ, 11/20/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 19, India announced a
1-month unilateral cease-fire in Kashmir.
(SFC, 11/20/00, p.A9)
2000 Nov 19, Israeli troops killed
a 14-year-old stone thrower in Gaza. One other Palestinian was killed
and 9 wounded.
(SFC, 11/20/00, p.A8)
2000 Nov 19, In Jordan an Israeli
envoy was wounded in an apparent assassination attempt.
(SFC, 11/20/00, p.A8)
2000 Nov 19, In Tokyo Peru’s Pres.
Fujimori said he would resign within 48 hours.
(SFC, 11/20/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 20, Lawyers for Al Gore
and George W. Bush battled before the Florida Supreme Court over
whether the presidential election recount should be allowed to continue.
(SFC, 11/21/00, p.A1)(AP, 11/20/01)
2000 Nov 20, China singed an
agreement with the UN for cooperation and training on individual rights
and the rule of law.
(SFC, 11/21/00, p.A13)
2000 Nov 20, The EU began to build
its own defense force, a 60,000 man, rapid reaction corps. EU defense
chiefs pledged 100,000 soldiers, 400 planes and 100 ships for a
rapid-reaction force.
(SFEC, 11/19/00, p.A16)(WSJ, 11/21/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 20, Israel fired a
barrage of missiles on the Gaza Strip in retaliation for an attack on a
school bus that killed 2 Jewish settlers and wounded 9 others including
3 siblings who lost limbs. At least 35 people were reported wounded in
the missile attack.
(SFC, 11/21/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 20, In Mozambique Carlos
Cardoso, founder and editor of the Metical newspaper, was murdered
while driving in Maputo. He had been investigating a 1996 theft of $14
million from the Commercial Bank of Mozambique. In 2003 six men were
convicted of the murder.
(AP, 1/31/03)
2000 Nov 20, Peru’s Pres. Fujimori
announced his resignation from Tokyo, ending a 10-year reign. Acting
president Ricardo Marquez also stepped down.
(SFC, 11/21/00, p.A12)(AP, 11/20/01)
2000 Nov 20, Philippine senators
presented Pres. Estrada a 270-page articles of impeachment for
corruption and constitutional violations.
(SFC, 11/21/00, p.A12)
2000 Nov 21, Pres. Clinton agreed
not to punish China for exporting missile components to Iran and
Pakistan after China promised to end future technological cooperations
with countries seeking to develop missile weaponry.
(SFC, 11/22/00, p.A20)
2000 Nov 21, In a setback for
George W. Bush, the Florida Supreme Court granted Al Gore's request to
keep the presidential recounts going; Democrats were jubilant,
Republicans bitter and angry. The Florida Supreme Court issued a
42-page unanimous decision that called for the recount in 3 counties to
continue and that results be posted no later than 9 a.m. Nov 27.
(SFC, 11/22/00, p.A1)(AP, 11/21/01)
2000 Nov 21, Research published in
a British medical journal showed children who use mobile phones risk
suffering memory loss, sleeping disorders and headaches. The study said
that those younger than 18 are more vulnerable to cell phone radiation
because their immune systems are less robust.
(AP, 11/21/02)
2000 Nov 21, In Bosnia final
election results were released. Hard-line nationalists won support
among the Serbs and Croats. Mirko Sarovic was declared the winner of
the Bosnian Serb republic over prime minister Milorad Dodik.
(SFC, 11/22/00, p.C5)(SFC, 11/24/00, p.D8)
2000 Nov 21, Egypt recalled its
envoy from Israel to protest the bombings in Gaza.
(SFC, 11/22/00, p.A18)
2000 Nov 21, In Egypt at least 11
people were left dead after robbers escaped with $361,000 from the
National Bank of Egypt in Maragha following a gun battle with police.
(SFC, 11/22/00, p.C6)
2000 Nov 21, An Israeli motorist
was wounded and a Palestinian was killed in the Gaza Strip.
(WSJ, 11/22/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 21, In Peru the
legislature refused to accept the resignation of Pres. Fujimori and
ousted him for moral incapacity.
(SFC, 11/22/00, p.A18)
2000 Nov 21, In Serbia Slobodan
Milosevic was declared the only candidate for head of the Socialist
Party.
(SFC, 11/22/00, p.A19)
2000 Nov 21, In Spain Ernest Lluch
(63), a former government minister, was killed by suspected ETA gunmen
in a Barcelona suburb.
(SFC, 11/22/00, p.C6)
2000 Nov 22, Gov. George Bush
called on the US Supreme Court to stop the vote counting in Florida. In
Palm Beach Circuit Court Judge Jorge Labarga ordered election officials
to consider dimpled ballots. In Dade County election officials called
off the recount due to their inability to meet the Nov 27 deadline.
(SFC, 11/23/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 22, Dick Cheney,
Republican vice-presidential nominee, suffered a minor heart attack.
(SFC, 11/23/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 22, In Washington state
Democrat Maria Cantwell claimed victory for a Senate seat over
Republican incumbent Slade Gorton. This raised the next US Senate’s
female count to 13.
(SFC, 11/23/00, p.A3)
2000 Nov 22, The 1st issue of the
SF Chronicle PM was published by the Hearst Corp.
(SFC, 11/22/00, p.A1)(SSFC, 6/7/09, p.W3)
2000 Nov 22, In Colombia gunmen
killed at least 7 civilians in Nueva Valencia. The rightist
paramilitary United Self-Defense Forces was blamed.
(SFC, 11/23/00, p.D6)
2000 Nov 22, In El Salvador Pres.
Francisco Flores proposed to adopt the US dollar as the official
currency.
(SFC, 11/24/00, p.D8)
2000 Nov 22, Theodore Monod,
French environmentalist, died at age 98. He was an expert on the Sahara
Desert and authored many books including: "Meharees," "The Hippopotamus
and the Philosopher," "Bathyfolages," "Le Desert," and "memoirs of a
Naturalist Traveler."
(SFC, 11/23/00, p.D9)
2000 Nov 22, In Haiti 7 bombs
exploded around Port-au-Prince. One teenage boy was killed and 14
people were injured as weekend elections approached.
(SFC, 11/23/00, p.D6)
2000 Nov 22, In Hadera, Israel, a
car bomb killed at least 2 Israelis and wounded dozens. A Palestinian
militia leader and 3 others were killed by Israeli fire in the Gaza
Strip.
(SFC, 11/23/00, p.A20)
2000 Nov 22, In Kashmir Islamic
militants assaulted 2 Indian military positions and killed several
soldiers. 3 militants were also reported killed.
(SFC, 11/23/00, p.D6)
2000 Nov 22, An $2.5 billion oil
pipeline from Kazakhstan to the Russian port of Novorossiisk on the
Black Sea was reported completed by an int.’ consortium. Pumping of
600,000 barrels per day was expected to begin in 2001.
(SFC, 11/23/00, p.D5)
2000 Nov 22, In Peru Valentin
Paniagua was sworn in as the interim president, following the
resignation of Alberto Fujimori. He selected Javier Perez de Cuellar,
the former UN Sec. General, as prime minister.
(SFC, 11/23/00, p.A22)(AP, 11/22/01)
2000 Nov 22, In Russia power cuts
in the far east Primorye region forced hospitals and schools to close.
Some 40,000 residents of Vladivostok were had already been without heat
for days as temperatures dropped below freezing.
(SFC, 11/23/00, p.D7)
2000 Nov 22, In Saudi Arabia an
explosion hit a car and injured 3 British citizens in Riyadh.
(SFC, 11/24/00, p.D8)
2000 Nov 22, In Serbia ethnic
Albanians were blamed for police assaults in the Presevo Valley and 4
officers were reported killed over 2 days as rebel fighters moved in
from Kosovo.
(SFC, 11/23/00, p.D8)
2000 Nov 22, In Spain the
government reported its 1st case of mad cow disease.
(SFC, 11/23/00, p.D6)
2000 Nov 22, In Tanzania the state
power company, Tanesco, announced rationing measures with power cuts
8-16 hours per day until March. $61 million in bills were unpaid,
mostly from government offices.
(SFC, 11/23/00, p.D6)
2000 Nov 22, In Thailand 9 inmates
escaped from Samut Sakorn prison with 7 prison officials. Thai
commandos killed the inmates.
(SFC, 11/23/00, p.D8)
2000 Nov 22, Yemen identified the
bombers of the USS Cole as 2 Saudi Arabian citizens with Yemeni family
roots. One was named Abdul Mohsen al-Taifi and both had suspected ties
to Osama bin Laden.
(SFC, 11/23/00, p.A22)
2000 Nov 23, In Florida the
Supreme Court rejected an emergency plea by Al Gore to force Miami-Dade
County to resume manual counts. Meanwhile, Gore's lawyers argued in a
brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court that the high court should stay
out of the Florida election controversy.
(SFC, 11/24/00, p.A1)(AP, 11/23/01)
2000 Nov 23, In Chechnya 4 Russian
soldiers were killed and 18 wounded in a series of rebel attacks.
(SFC, 11/24/00, p.D8)
2000 Nov 23, In Haiti an explosion
in Carrefour killed a 7-year-old girl on her way to school and injured
2 other people.
(SFC, 11/24/00, p.D8)
2000 Nov 23, In Kosovo Xhemail
Mustafa (46), pacifist advisor to Ibrahim Rugova, was shot dead by 2
gunmen in Pristina.
(SFC, 11/24/00, p.A20)
2000 Nov 23, The Israeli army
ordered Palestinian police to leave liaison offices after 2 soldiers
were killed in the Gaza Strip. A Hamas member was killed in a car
explosion in Nablus. A Palestinian court later sentenced to death a man
convicted of helping Israeli security agents assassinate the Hamas
bomber.
(SFC, 11/24/00, p.A1)(WSJ, 11/24/00, p.A1)(WSJ,
12/8/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 23, In Mozambique some
75-83 inmates at the prison in Montepuez, arrested for the Nov 9
protests, were reported dead from either poisoning or suffocation.
(SFC, 11/24/00, p.D4)
2000 Nov 23, In Sri Lanka rebel
mortar shells killed 2 children at the Al-Manar school in Mutur.
(SFC, 11/24/00, p.D8)
2000 Nov 24, The U.S. Supreme
Court stepped into the bitter, overtime struggle for the White House,
agreeing to consider George W. Bush's appeal whether the extended
Florida ballot counting violates federal law.
(SFC, 11/25/00, p.A1)(AP, 11/24/01)
2000 Nov 24, In Cambodia several
dozen gunmen attacked government offices in Phnom Penh. At least 7
people were killed and 12 wounded. Police fought a US-based
anti-communist group known as the Cambodian Freedom Fighters (CFF). 8
were killed and 60 rounded up. 38 people, including 4 American
citizens, were later charged with terrorism. In 2002 a court sentenced
20 people to prison terms of 5 years to life for the plotting to
overthrow the government.
(SFC, 11/25/00, p.A18)(WSJ, 11/27/00, p.A1)(SFC,
11/30/00, p.C3)(SFC, 3/1/02, p.A17)
2000 Nov 24, Germany and the
Portuguese Azores Islands recorded new cases of mad cow disease. Main
land Portugal has reported 467 cases since 1990.
(SFC, 11/25/00, p.A16)
2000 Nov 24, In the Philippines
Salvador "Bubby" Dacer, a publicist who represented top political
figures, was kidnapped and later killed along with his driver. Police
boss Sen. Panfilo Lacson was later linked to the killing. In 2009 Cesar
Mancao, a former senior Philippine police official accused of the
double homicide, was extradited from the US after agreeing to testify
in the case.
(AP,
6/4/09)(http://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/3133909)
2000 Nov 24, In Serbia police gave
NATO a 72-hour deadline to stop incursions from Kosovo by ethnic
Albanian militants.
(SFC, 11/25/00, p.A15)
2000 Nov 24, From Russia Vladimir
Putin arranged for Yasser Arafat and Ehud Barak to agree by telephone
to reopen 10 joint security offices in the West Bank and Gaza.
(SFC, 11/25/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 24, It was reported that
monsoon flooding killed 10 people in Malaysia and at least 5 people in
Thailand. The death toll from flooding in Thailand reached over 30,
mostly children. Over 100 people died from the flooding and mudslides
in West Sumatra.
(SFC, 11/24/00, p.D8)(WSJ, 11/27/00, p.A1)(SFC,
11/29/00, p.C20)
2000 Nov 25, Hundreds of military
veterans and retirees, angered by the rejection of overseas absentee
ballots in Florida, held a noisy demonstration in Pensacola, one of
several rallies Republicans and Democrats staged across Florida.
(AP, 11/25/01)
2000 Nov 25, In Azerbaijan an
earthquake hit Baku and at least 3 people were killed. 20 people died
of heart attacks.
(SSFC, 11/26/00, p.D6)(WSJ, 11/27/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 25, In Bangladesh 52
people were killed in a fire at the Chowdhury Knitwear Garments factory
at Shibpur.
(SSFC, 11/26/00, p.D9)(SSFC, 4/15/01, p.D1)
2000 Nov 25, Israeli soldiers
killed 4 Palestinians and wounded over 30 in a series of clashes that
undermined field level cooperation. 2 students and 2 bakers were killed
by Israeli soldiers, who claimed Jamal Abdel Razek was a leader of the
Tanzim militia traveling with 3 bodyguards.
(SSFC, 11/26/00, p.A18)(SFC, 12/6/00, p.A16)
2000 Nov 25, In the Netherlands
the last day of the Global Warming conference at the Hague produced
only a declaration of intent to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. A
compromise between US and EU negotiators failed. An increase of 4.5 to
8 degrees Fahrenheit was predicted in the coming 100 years if
greenhouse gas emissions were not reduced.
(SFC, 11/25/00, p.C1)(SSFC, 11/26/00, p.A18)
2000 Nov 25, In Peru Walter
Ledesma, the new defense minister, announced the immediate dismissal of
12 generals.
(SSFC, 11/26/00, p.D9)
2000 Nov 25, In the Philippines
military troops retook Camp Bushra in Lanao del Sur province and
reported 10 rebels killed. The rebels reported 22 military casualties.
(SFC, 11/27/00, p.A8)
2000 Nov 26, Sec. of State
Katherine Harris certified Gov. George W. Bush as winner in the state’s
presidential election, 2,912,790 to 2,912,253, a 537-vote margin. Ralph
Nader received 97,488 votes.
(SFC, 11/27/00, p.A1)(AP, 11/26/01)(Econ, 7/24/04,
p.32)
2000 Nov 26, In Haiti major
opposition parties boycotted the presidential elections and charged
that legislative actions favored the candidates of Jean-Bertrand
Aristide. Aristide won 92% of the votes.
(SFC, 11/27/00, p.A8)(SFC, 11/30/00, p.A18)
2000 Nov 26, Israel attacked
targets in southern Lebanon after a roadside bomb killed one Israeli
soldier and wounded 2 others near the border. 4 armed Palestinians were
killed as they left Qalqilya into an area on Israeli control.
(SFC, 11/27/00, p.A8)
2000 Nov 26, In Romania
presidential elections were held. A Dec 10 runoff was expected between
Social Democrat Ion Iliescu and ultranationalist Corneliu Vadim Tudor.
Annual inflation stood at 45%.
(SSFC, 11/26/00, p.A18)(SFC, 11/27/00, p.A8)
2000 Nov 27, Al Gore filed legal
challenges to the Florida vote certification.
(SFC, 11/28/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 27, The Muslim holiday of
Ramadan began.
(SFC, 11/28/00, p.A2)
2000 Nov 27, In London, England,
Damilola Taylor (10), a Nigerian immigrant, bled to death on a
stairwell after being stabbed by members of The Young Peckham Boys. In
2001 murder charges were sought against 4 boys (14-16). In 2006 two
brothers were acquitted of assault with intent to rob. On Aug 9, 2006,
Danny Preddie (18) and Ricky Preddie (19) from Peckham, south London,
were convicted of the manslaughter of Taylor. The 2 teenage brothers
were sentenced to eight years in youth custody.
(AP, 4/4/06)(Reuters, 8/9/06)(AFP, 10/9/06)
2000 Nov 27, In Canada Prime
Minister Jean Chretien (66) led the Liberal Party to a 3rd consecutive
majority government in parliamentary elections with 41% of the popular
vote and increased their seats in parliament to 173 of 301. The 63%
turnout was a record low.
(SFC, 11/28/00, p.A16)(SFC, 11/29/00, p.A16)(WSJ,
11/29/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 27, In Sri Lanka the
Tamil Tiger rebels called for unconditional peace talks along with a
cease-fire.
(SFC, 11/28/00, p.A18)(WSJ, 11/28/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 28, George W. Bush's
lawyers asked the U.S. Supreme Court to bring "legal finality" to the
presidential election by ending any further ballot recounts; Al Gore's
team countered that the nation's highest court should not interfere in
Florida's recount dispute.
(AP, 11/28/01)
2000 Nov 28, Former Texas
Congressman Henry B. Gonzalez, who had served 37 years on Capitol Hill,
died in San Antonio at age 84.
(AP, 11/28/01)
2000 Nov 28, A 55-nation European
security meeting failed to make a tough declaration on Chechnya amid
Russian objections.
(WSJ, 11/29/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 28, Chile’s Pres. Ricardo
Lagos met with technology leaders in California’s Silicon Valley.
(SFC, 11/27/00, p.A16)
2000 Nov 28, In Guatemala angry
Q’eqchi’ Indians burned to death 5 men, aged 16-18, suspected in the
fatal shooting of a local man during a robbery in Las Conchas.
(SFC, 11/30/00, p.C7)(SFC, 12/1/00, p.D2)
2000 Nov 28, In Israel Prime
Minister Barak agreed to call for early elections.
(SFC, 11/29/00, p.A16)
2000 Nov 28, In Kashmir Muslim
separatists attacked Indian forces and 12 people were killed.
(SFC, 11/29/00, p.A18)
2000 Nov 28, In the Netherlands
lawmakers of the lower house voted 104 to 40 to legalize euthanasia
with strict guidelines.
(SFC, 11/29/00, p.A17)
2000 Nov 28, In the Philippines at
least 8 people were killed when government forces clashed with a group
that abducted Marilyn Tiu, the wife of a businessman in Zamboanga del
Sur province.
(SFC, 11/30/00, p.C7)
2000 Nov 29, Al Gore asked the
Florida Supreme court for a spedup recount. Gore said in a series of TV
interviews that he was prepared to contest the Florida presidential
vote until "the middle of December." A judge ordered all ballots from
Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties sent to Tallahassee. Florida
legislators planned a special session to name electors for George W.
Bush.
(SFC, 11/30/00, p.A1)(AP, 11/29/01)
2000 Nov 29, In Albania police
made a brief arrest of President Sali Berisha the day after a riot in
Tropoja where 2 people were killed.
(SFC, 11/30/00, p.C7)
2000 Nov 29, In Colombia gunmen
killed the mayor-elect of a town in the Putumayo region.
(SFC, 11/30/00, p.C7)
2000 Nov 30, Gov. Bush proceeded
with transition plans as Al Gore asked a Florida judge to begin an
immediate review of 13,000 ballots from Palm Beach and Dade counties.
GOP lawmakers in Tallahassee moved to award the presidency to George W.
Bush in case the courts did not by appointing their own slate of
electors.
(SFC, 12/1/00, p.A1)(AP, 11/30/01)
2000 Nov 30, The Dow Jones fell to
10,414 and the Nasdaq fell 109 points to 2,597.
(SFC, 12/1/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 30, The space shuttle
Endeavour took off to the Int’l. Space Station with a crew of 5 to
install new solar panels.
(SFC, 12/1/00, p.A14)
2000 Nov 30, In Brazil a 5,000
page report, begun in Apr 1999, was released and covered the $25
billion drug trafficking trade and implicated almost 200 public
authorities including 10 national and state legislators.
(SFC, 6/13/00, p.F2)(SFC, 12/1/00, p.A21)
2000 Nov 30, In Britain the Labor
government passed legislation that lowered the age of consent for gays
and lesbians from 18 to 16.
(SFC, 12/1/00, p.A21)
2000 Nov 30, In Indonesia Pres.
Wahid ordered military action against secessionist provinces.
(SFC, 12/1/00, p.A20)
2000 Nov 30, North and South Korea
made their 2nd exchange of 100 relatives each. Some 100,000 South
Koreans were on waiting lists for family visits.
(SFC, 12/1/00, p.D8)
2000 Nov 30, In Nigeria dozens
were incinerated while scooping gasoline from a pipeline.
(WSJ, 12/1/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 30, Palestinians rejected
a scaled-back peace plan proposed by Ehud Barak.
(SFC, 12/1/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 30, In Zimbabwe Pres.
Mbeki of South Africa and Pres. Obasanjo of Nigeria admonished Pres.
Mugabe to abide by laws and to curtail the seizure of white-owned farms.
(WSJ, 12/1/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov, Liu Dalin, a pioneering
Shanghai sexologist, authored "Sexual culture of 20th Century China."
He argued for an open-minded approach to sex.
(SFC, 12/31/00, p.B7)
2000 Nov, Estonia planned a rail
transport system with Asia to replace declining Russian oil products
shipped from Tallinn.
(WSJ, 11/13/00, p.B19B)
2000 Nov, Metin Kaplan was
sentenced in Germany for operating a terrorist organization. His group
had planned to bomb Ataturk’s mausoleum in Ankara with an airplane
packed with explosives on Turkey’s 75th anniversary. Kaplan,
known as the “caliph of Cologne,” was extradited to Turkey in 2004.
(SFC, 2/5/02, p.A9)(Econ, 9/1/07, p.53)
2000 Nov, Dieter Zetsche, head of
DaimlerChrysler’s commercial vehicle division, was tapped to be CEO of
Chrysler.
(WSJ, 5/15/07, p.A14)(http://tinyurl.com/2s2dhu)
2000 Nov, Honda introduced its
4-foot bipedal Asimo robot.
(WSJ, 9/4/01, p.A8)
2000 Nov, A Malaysian politician
was assassinated. The militant group Jemaah Islamiyah was believed to
be involved.
(WSJ, 8/13/02, p.A14)
2000 Nov, Syria opened a pipeline
to Iraq’s oil that generated at least $2 per day for Saddam Hussein’s
regime.
(SFC, 1/23/01, p.A11)
2000 Dec 1, Pres. Clinton on World
AIDS Day urged Congress to provide more money for the prevention and
treatment of AIDS. In the US 40,000 people were being infected each
year and 420,000 had died since 1981. Worldwide almost 60 million
people were infected and 16,000 more were being infected every day.
(SFC, 12/2/00, p.A6)
2000 Dec 1, The US Supreme Court
heard arguments by attorneys of Al Gore and George W. Bush on the
legality of a vote extension by the Florida Supreme Court. The Florida
Supreme Court turned down 2 Democratic pleas for an immediate count of
disputed ballots and for a new election in Palm Beach County where a
"butterfly ballot" drew protests from Democratic voters.
(SFC, 12/2/00, p.A1)(AP, 12/1/01)
2000 Dec 1, In Chile an Appeals
Court judge ordered the house arrest of Gen. Pinochet for kidnappings
following the 1973 coup.
(SFC, 12/2/00, p.A12)
2000 Dec 1, In China a shopping
mall collapsed and scores of people were killed in Dongguan.
(WSJ, 12/4/00, p.A1)
2000 Dec 1, The European
Commission demanded reductions in fishing including 60% cuts of cod and
hake catches due to overfishing.
(SFC, 12/2/00, p.A13)
2000 Dec 1, In France Michel
Roussin, former right-hand man of Pres. Jacques Chirac when he was
mayor of Paris, was arrested for a kickback scheme in school
construction projects.
(SFC, 12/5/00, p.A15)
2000 Dec 1, In Indonesia police
killed 6 separatists in Irian Jaya province after they tried to raise
their outlawed rebel flag, the "Morning Star."
(SFC, 12/2/00, p.A14)
2000 Dec 1, Iraq halted oil
production due to the UN’s refusal to authorize a new payment
arrangement for the oil-for-food program. Production was resumed
after 2 days.
(SFC, 12/4/00, p.A12)
2000 Dec 1, Israelis killed 2
Palestinians and injured over 20 in clashes in the West Bank and Gaza.
(SFC, 12/2/00, p.A13)
2000 Dec 1, In Mexico Pres.
Vicente Fox was sworn in as president of Mexico, ending 71 years of
ruling-party domination.
(WSJ, 12/1/00, p.A1)(AP, 12/1/01)
2000 Dec 1, Russia as of this date
declared that it would no longer abide by a 1995 deal to halt arms
exports to Iran. The US threatened sanctions.
(SFC, 11/23/00, p.D8)
2000 Dec 1, In South Africa the
government agreed to accept a $50 million donation of the drug
fluconazole from Pfizer to treat a brain inflammation associated with
AIDS. Recent approval was also given for nevirapine, a drug to reduce
transmission of the AIDS virus to a fetus.
(SFC, 12/2/00, p.A12)
2000 Dec 2, In India 2 trains
collided at Sarai Banjara in the Punjab and at least 46 people were
killed.
(SFC, 12/4/00, p.E2)
2000 Dec 2, In Chiapas
Subcommander Marcos announced that he would begin talks with the
government in Mexico City in Feb.
(SFC, 12/4/00, p.A12)
2000 Dec 3, In Florida Circuit
Judge Sanders Sauls finished listening to testimony on Al Gore’s
request for a hand count of 13,000 ballots in 2 counties.
(SFC, 12/4/00, p.A1)
2000 Dec 3, The cable TV Showtime
station aired the premier of "Queer as Folk," a drama about homosexuals
based on a British series.
(SFC, 12/1/00, p.C1)
2000 Dec 3, Sandra Baldwin was
elected the first female president of the U.S. Olympic Committee.
Baldwin resigned in May 2002 after she admitted lying about her
academic credentials.
(AP, 12/3/05)
2000 Dec 3, Space shuttle
Endeavour's astronauts attached the world's largest, most powerful set
of solar panels to the international space station.
(AP, 12/3/01)
2000 Dec 3, Gwendolyn Brooks,
African-American poet, died at age 83. Brooks won a 1949 Pulitzer Prize
for her 2nd book of poetry, "Annie Allen." She was the poet laureate of
Illinois since 1968.
(SFC, 12/4/00, p.E3)
2000 Dec 3, In Chechnya rebels
struck numerous check points and at least 13 Russian soldiers were
killed.
(SFC, 12/5/00, p.A16)
2000 Dec 3, In Venezuela a
referendum was scheduled on suspending the leaders of the nation’s
labor unions for 180 days pending new labor elections. Voters in a 20%
turnout approved the referendum to oust the leaders of the labor
unions. This paved the way for a government-dominated workers’
federation.
(SFC, 11/14/00, p.A17)(SFC, 12/5/00, p.A14)(WSJ,
12/5/00, p.A1)
2000 Dec 4, Pres. Clinton set
aside 84 million underwater acres along the northwestern stretch of the
Hawaiian Islands as a nature reservation.
(SFC, 12/5/00, p.A3)
2000 Dec 4, In Florida Judge Sauls
denied Al Gore’s request for a recount. The US Supreme Court set aside
the decision by the Florida Supreme Court to extend the vote counting
deadline and sent the case back to the Florida court. A Florida state
judge refused to overturn George W. Bush's certified victory in Florida.
(SFC, 12/5/00, p.A1)(AP, 12/4/01)
2000 Dec 4, PepsiCo agreed to pay
$13.4 billion to acquire Quaker Oats.
(AP, 12/4/01)
2000 Dec 4, Scientists reported
that the Novartis leukemia drug STI-571 brought cancer into remission
in most patients in clinical trials.
(SFC, 12/5/00, p.A13)
20000 Dec 4, Scientists found a
deep-sea garden of hot springs and towering spires that they called the
"Lost City" over 3,200 feet deep in the Atlantic Ocean.
(SFC, 12/16/00, p.A2)
2000 Dec 4, In southern Congo over
10,000 refugees were driven into northern Zambia due to renewed
fighting over the last 12 days.
(SFC, 12/5/00, p.A16)
2000 Dec 4, It was reported that a
mutated oral polio vaccine infected at least 3 people in the Dominican
Republic and Haiti. That standard vaccine appeared to work against the
mutated strain.
(SFC, 12/4/00, p.E2)(WSJ, 4/16/02, p.A1)
2000 Dec 4, European Union farm
ministers approved a six-month ban on animal products in fodder, part
of an extraordinary plan to stem growing panic over mad cow disease.
(AP, 12/4/01)
2000 Dec 4, In India the military
was attacked twice by suspected Islamic guerrillas and at least 5
people were killed. In Kashmir a bus carrying police officers fell into
a gorge at Baithi Chashma in the Donda district and at least 27
officers were killed.
(SFC, 12/5/00, p.A15)
2000 Dec 4, Israeli soldiers
wounded 25 people in the West Bank village of Husan.
(SFC, 12/5/00, p.A14)
2000 Dec 4, In the Ivory Coast
protestors clashed with riot police in Abidjan. The city was paralyzed
and least 2 people were killed.
(SFC, 12/5/00, p.A15)
2000 Dec 4, Pakistan said it won’t
insist to being party to Indian peace talks with Kashmiri separatists
but that it must be a party to the final settlement.
(WSJ, 12/5/00, p.A1)
2000 Dec 4, The Turkey stock
market fell 8% and marked a 2-week drop of 40% as interest rates soared
to 1,200%. Officials began talks with the IMF for a $5 billion loan.
(SFC, 12/5/00, p.A15)
2000 Dec 5, The US Nasdaq market
rose 274 points, 10.5%, to 2889 on hints from Greenspan that interest
rates may be cut. The Dow rose 338 to 10,898.
(SFC, 12/6/00, p.A1)
2000 Dec 5, Florida's highest
court kept the presidential race on the legal fast track, agreeing to a
speedy hearing of Al Gore's appeal of a ruling that in effect awarded
George W. Bush the state's 25 electoral votes.
(SFC, 12/6/00, p.A1)(AP, 12/5/01)
2000 Dec 5, The Israeli and
Palestinian violence was reported to have cost the Palestinians over
$500 million in lost wages and sales since late September.
(SFC, 12/6/00, p.A16)
2000 Dec 5, In the Ivory Coast
police battled opposition supporters for a 2nd day and at least 10
people were killed.
(SFC, 12/6/00, p.A18)
2000 Dec 5, In Japan Prime
Minister Yoshiro Mori appointed a new Cabinet that included 2 former
prime ministers, Miyazawa and Hashimoto.
(SFC, 12/5/00, p.A16)
2000 Dec 5, In Mexico Adolfo
Aguilar Zinser, the new chief of the national security council, vowed
to end illegal wiretapping.
(SFC, 12/6/00, p.C3)
2000 Dec 5, In Mexico City Manuel
Andres Lopez Obrador took office as mayor and vowed to delegate power
and resources down to the 1,352 neighborhood governments. Obrador
appointed women to 9 of his 15 cabinet seats.
(SFC, 12/6/00, p.C3)
2000 Dec 5, In South Africa 7
people were killed at 2 polling stations during the 2nd all-race
municipal elections. The elections slashed the number of municipalities
from 843 to 284 with 6 mega cities, each presided by a single mayor.
The ruling African National Congress (ANC) won at least 59% of the
contests.
(SFC, 12/6/00, p.A18)(WSJ, 12/7/00, p.A1)
2000 Dec 6, Pres. Clinton gave the
US Presidential Medal of Freedom to Alexander Aris, the son of Aung San
Suu Kyi of Burma, on behalf of his mother who was held under house
arrest.
(SFC, 12/7/00, p.C10)
2000 Dec 6, Florida Republican
leaders announced the Legislature would convene in special session to
appoint its own slate of electors in the state's contested presidential
race; Democrats denounced the action as unnecessary.
(AP, 12/6/01)
2000 Dec 6, A Pentagon
investigation concluded in a 168-page report that 3 top Army Corps of
Engineers officials manipulated a study to justify a construction binge
on the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers.
(SFC, 12/7/00, p.A3)
2000 Dec 6, Iridium Satellite won
a 1-year, $36 million Pentagon contract for unlimited use.
(WSJ, 12/7/00, p.A1)
2000 Dec 6, Actor Werner Klemperer
died in New York at age 80.
(AP, 12/6/01)
2000 Dec 6, A European Union
summit began in Nice to prepare for expansion to 27 or more members.
(SFC, 12/6/00, p.C5)
2000 Dec 6, The IMF agreed to
grant Turkey $7.5 billion in emergency loans.
(SFC, 12/7/00, p.C12)
2000 Dec 6, In Colombia a FARC
attack in Granada left at least 29 dead.
(SFC, 12/9/00, p.A18)
2000 Dec 6, The Israeli Betselem
human-rights group condemned the Israeli army for excessive force in
combating the Palestinian intifada.
(SFC, 12/7/00, p.A12)
2000 Dec 6, A Russian court found
Edmond Pope (54) guilty of espionage. Pope was sentenced to 20 years'
imprisonment by a Moscow court for espionage; however, he was pardoned
by Russian President Vladimir Putin and released eight days after his
sentencing.
(SFC, 12/7/00, p.A1)(AP, 12/6/01)
2000 Dec 6, In Ukraine the last
working reactor at Chernobyl was shut down due to a malfunction 9 days
before a scheduled permanent shut down.
(SFC, 12/7/00, p.C10)
2000 Dec 6, The World Bank
approved a $12 million grant to help Palestinians.
(SFC, 12/7/00, p.A12)
2000 Dec 7, Al Gore's lawyer,
David Boies, pleaded with the Florida Supreme Court to order vote
recounts and revive his presidential campaign. Republican attorneys
called George W. Bush the certified, rightful victor.
(WSJ, 12/6/00, p.A1)(AP, 12/7/01)
2000 Dec 7, Some 4,000 protestors
clashed with police at the opening of the EU summit in Nice.
(SFC, 12/8/00, p.A20)
2000 Dec 7, In Ghana presidential
elections were held. Representatives for the 200-seat parliament were
also chosen. Opposition candidate John Agyekum Kuffuor led Vice Pres.
John Atta Mills 48-44% in the 1st round of elections. A runoff vote was
planned within 3 weeks.
(SFC, 12/7/00, p.C18)(SFC, 12/11/00, p.F8)(WSJ,
12/11/00, p.A1)
2000 Dec 7, In India indigenous
rebels massacred 30 Hindi-speaking people in Assam state.
(SSFC, 12/17/00, p.T10)
2000 Dec 7, In Indonesia a
separatist mob attacked a police station in Jayapura, Irian Jaya, and 2
officers were killed.
(SFC, 12/8/00, p.D9)
2000 Dec 7, In the Philippines the
Senate began the impeachment trial of Pres. Estrada.
(SFC, 12/7/00, p.A12)
2000 Dec 8, The Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (FERC) lifted California’s $250 per megawatt-hour
price cap and prices skyrocketed. Enron Corp. issued internal
memorandums that its schemes to boost profits had nearly caused the
lights to go out in California.
(SSFC, 2/4/01, p.A18)(SFC, 5/10/02, p.A1)
2000 Dec 8, The Florida Supreme
Court ordered, four to three, an immediate hand count of about 45,000
disputed ballots and put Democrat Al Gore within 154 votes of George W.
Bush.
(SFC, 12/9/00, p.A1)(AP, 12/8/01)
2000 Dec 8, Richard Clarke, top
cyberspace official of the US National Security Council, warned that
several nations had already created information-warfare units for
disrupting computer networks.
(SFC, 12/9/00, p.A3)
2000 Dec 8, In Jerusalem and the
West Bank 7 Palestinians and 3 Israelis were killed in the ongoing
violence.
(SFC, 12/9/00, p.A16)
2000 Dec 8, In Russia the pardons
commission recommended to Pres. Putin that clemency be granted to
Edmond Pope.
(SFC, 12/9/00, p.A17)
2000 Dec 8, In Garaffa, Sudan,
Abbas al-Baqer Abbas opened fire at the al-Sunna al-Mohammediya Mosque
and killed 20 people. 40 others were wounded and police killed Abbas, a
member of the Takfir wal Hijra militant Islamic group.
(SFC, 12/9/00, p.A18)(SSFC, 12/10/00, p.A28)
2000 Dec 8, In Uganda the victims
with Ebola reached 400 including 160 dead.
(SFC, 12/9/00, p.A18)
2000 Dec 9, Florida State
quarterback Chris Weinke won the Heisman Trophy.
(AP, 12/9/01)
2000 Dec 9, The US Supreme ruled
5-4 to stop the recount in Florida until arguments are heard Dec 11.
(SSFC, 12/10/00, p.A1)(AP, 12/9/01)
2000 Dec 9, In Algeria 5 soldiers
and an assailant were killed in an ambush near Tissemsilt. Another 3
local guards were killed in Boghar and the attacks continued the next
day.
(SFC, 12/12/00, p.B2)
2000 Dec 9, In Chechnya 2 rebel
car bombs killed at least 19 people in Alkhan-Yurt.
(SSFC, 12/10/00, p.C5)
2000 Dec 9, In Israel Prime
Minister Barak announced that he would submit his resignation and call
for new elections.
(SSFC, 12/10/00, p.A1)(AP, 12/9/01)
2000 Dec 9, In Nigeria 62 people
were killed when a bus collided with a truck a 3rd vehicle hit the 1st
two and burst into flames.
(SFC, 12/13/00, p.B4)
2000 Dec 9, In Pakistan former
prime minister Nawaz Sharif was released from prison and sent into
exile in Saudi Arabia. He agreed to stay out of politics and forfeited
property valued at $8.3 million.
(SSFC, 12/10/00, p.A28)(WSJ, 12/11/00, p.A1)
2000 Dec 9, It was reported that
Tropical Storm Rumbia had killed at least 29 people in the Philippines.
(SFC, 12/9/00, p.D8)
2000 Dec 9, Pres. Putin said he
would follow the recommendation of the pardons commission and free
Edmond Pope. It was later reported that Pope’s efforts to buy
technology ran parallel to Canadian efforts to buy advanced Shkval
torpedoes from a defense plan in Kyrgyzstan.
(SSFC, 12/10/00, p.A27)(SFC, 1/3/01, p.A10)
2000 Dec 10, Jack S. Kilby
(1923-2005) received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention of
the microchip (1958). Zhores Alferov of Russia and Herbert Kroemer of
UC Santa Barbara shared the prize for their work on heterostructure
semiconductors.
(SFC, 12/11/00, p.A2)(SFC, 6/22/05, p.A5)
2000 Dec 10, Kim Dae Jung,
president of South Korea, received the Nobel Peace Prize for his
campaign to unify his country.
(SFC, 12/11/00, p.A2)
2000 Dec 10, In Washington,
lawyers for Al Gore and George W. Bush filed briefs outlining their
cases to be argued the next day before the U.S. Supreme Court.
(AP, 12/10/01)
2000 Dec 10, Israeli Prime
Minister Ehud Barak submitted his resignation, starting the countdown
toward a special election. Former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu
announced his intent to unseat Ehud Barak.
(SFC, 12/11/00, p.A1)(AP, 12/10/01)
2000 Dec 10, Ivory coast proceeded
with parliamentary elections against the wishes of both France and the
US.
(SFC, 12/11/00, p.A13)
2000 Dec 10, In the Philippines
Pres. Estrada announced that he would order the commutation of all
death sentences to life imprisonment.
(SFC, 12/11/00, p.F8)
2000 Dec 10, Fishermen dragged the
corpse of Dariusz Janiszewski, stripped to a shirt and underwear, from
the muddy banks of the Oder River in southwestern Poland. His body
showed signs of starvation and torture. In 2007 a court ruled that
author Krystian Bala planned and directed the grisly killing, but said
there was insufficient evidence to convict him of carrying out the
murder himself. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Bala's 2003
novel, "Amok," an alcohol- and sex-fueled tale was narrated by a man
named Chris, who stabs a woman after binding her hands behind her back
and then running the rope to a noose around her neck.
(AP, 9/5/07)
2000 Dec 10, In Romania Ion
Iliescu, former Communist turned social democrat, won the presidential
runoff elections over nationalist Corneliu Vadim Tudor 70-30%.
(SFC, 12/11/00, p.A12)
2000 Dec 10, Slovenia
re-established diplomatic ties with Yugoslavia.
(WSJ, 12/11/00, p.A1)
2000 Dec 11, Shortstop Alex
Rodriguez agreed to a $252 million deal with the Texas Rangers, by far
the most lucrative contract with any sports team.
(AP, 12/11/01)
2000 Dec 11, Pres. Clinton signed
a bipartisan $7.8 billion bill to revive the Florida Everglades. It was
the largest environmental restoration effort in history.
(Sm, 3/06, p.48)
2000 Dec 11, The U.S. Supreme
Court heard arguments from lawyers representing George W. Bush and Al
Gore concerning the Florida presidential vote recount.
(AP, 12/11/01)
2000 Dec 11, A federal appeals
court declared the Cleveland school voucher program unconstitutional.
(SFC, 12/12/00, p.A3)
2000 Dec 11, The space shuttle
Endeavour landed in Florida following its mission to install solar
panels on the int’l. space station.
(WSJ, 12/12/00, p.A1)
2000 Dec 11, A US Marine Osprey
aircraft crashed in North Carolina and all 4 people aboard were killed.
The fleet was grounded the next day.
(SFC, 12/13/00, p.A3)
2000 Dec 11, The EU in Nice
reached a compromise in the early hours on a treaty that gave the 4
most populous countries a stronger voice in decision making and paved
the way for as many as 13 new members over the next decade.
(SFC, 12/11/00, p.A12)(Econ, 3/17/07, SR p.9)
2000 Dec 11, The UN indicted 11
people in East Timor for last year’s terrorism following independence.
(SFC, 12/12/00, p.B2)
2000 Dec 11, In Iraq Saddam
Hussein sent troops into the northern Kurdish zone. Kurds and other
non-Arab Iraqis were being displaced further north.
(WSJ, 12/12/00, p.A1)(SFC, 12/13/00, p.B6)
2000 Dec 11, Syria freed some 50
Lebanese political prisoners to placate an anti-Syria movement in
Lebanon.
(SFC, 12/12/00, p.B2)
2000 Dec 11, In Trinidad Prime
Minister Basdeo Panday, head of the United National Congress, announced
victory for 19 parliamentary seats vs. 16 for the black-dominated
People’s National Movement.
(SFC, 12/12/00, p.B3)
2000 Dec 12, Pres. Clinton spoke
at the northern Irish border town of Dundalk and urged the protection
of the 1998 Good Friday peace agreement.
(SFC, 12/13/00, p.B2)
2000 Dec 12, A divided U.S.
Supreme Court reversed a state court decision for recounts in Florida's
contested election, effectively transforming George W. Bush into the
president-elect. The high court agreed, 7-to-2, to reverse the Florida
court's order of a state recount and voted 5-to-4 that there was no
acceptable procedure by which a timely new recount could take place. A
later review of the ballots suggested that George W. bush would have
won anyway.
(SFC, 12/13/00, p.A1)(WSJ, 11/12/01, p.A1)(AP,
12/12/01)
2000 Dec 12, The Marine Corps
grounded all eight of its high-tech V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft
following a fiery crash in North Carolina that killed four Marines.
(AP, 12/12/01)
2000 Dec 12, General Motors, under
new CEO Rick Wagoner, announced a restructure and planned phase out of
the Oldsmobile vehicle division following a long slide in sales.
(WSJ, 12/12/00, p.A3)(SFC, 12/13/00, p.a3)(WSJ,
12/22/08, p.B2)
2000 Dec 12, Actor George
Montgomery (84) died in Rancho Mirage, Calif.
(AP, 12/12/01)
2000 Dec 12, Ethiopia and Eritrea
signed a peace pact in Algiers. A 4,200 UN peacekeeping force was set
to patrol the border. Pres. Zenawi and Pres. Afwerki signed the accord,
which established a commission to mark the 620-mile border, exchange
prisoners, returned displaced people and hear claims for war damages.
(SFC, 12/4/00, p.E2)(WSJ, 12/5/00, p.A1)(SFC,
12/13/00, p.B3)
2000 Dec 12, It was reported that
Islamic militants in Indonesia had damaged hundreds of night spots,
mostly around greater Jakarta. The Islamic Defender’s Front (FPI) and
Front Hizbullah claimed responsibility.
(SFC, 12/12/00, p.A18)
2000 Dec 12, Israeli soldiers
killed Yousef Abu Swayeh (27), a West Bank Palestinian leader.
(SFC, 12/13/00, p.B4)
2000 Dec 12, Spanish police
arrested Valdimir Gusinsky, a Russian media magnate, on a Russian
warrant for misrepresenting assets for loans.
(SFC, 12/13/00, p.B4)
2000 Dec 13, Pres. Clinton spoke
in Northern Ireland and urged compromise to push forward the peace
process. Disputes over police reform, British military installations
and IRA weapons stayed unresolved. Clinton ended his last presidential
visit to Northern Ireland after meeting for nearly three hours with
members of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
(SFC, 12/14/00, p.C4)(AP, 12/13/01)
2000 Dec 13, Pres. Clinton
declared Wyoming a disaster area following a month of storms.
(WSJ, 12/14/00, p.A1)
2000 Dec 13, Republican George W.
Bush claimed the presidency five weeks after Election Day and a day
after the U.S. Supreme Court shut down further recounts of disputed
ballots in Florida. Democrat Al Gore conceded, delivering a call for
national unity.
(SFC, 12/14/00, p.A1)(AP, 12/13/01)
2000 Dec 13, A federal judge
upheld the Univ. of Michigan’s affirmative action program citing
diversity as a critical component of higher education.
(SFC, 12/14/00, p.A5)
2000 Dec 13, The US energy
secretary exercised emergency authority and ordered 12 generating
companies to sell power to California.
(SFC, 12/14/00, p.A1)
2000 Dec 13, Seven inmates made a
daring escape from the maximum security the Connally Unit state prison
in Kenedy, Texas. Police in Colorado caught 4 escaped convicts on Jan
22, 2001. A 5th committed suicide. The 2 at large were caught Jan 23.
The surviving six were sentenced to death for killing a Dallas-area
police officer during a robbery.
(SFC, 12/15/00, p.A11)(SFC, 1/23/01, p.A3)(SFC,
1/24/01, p.A2)(AP, 12/13/05)
2000 Dec 13, It was reported that
scientists had decoded the genome of Arabidopsis thaliana, a common
spindly weed, making it the 1st plant to have its genetic material
fully described.
(SFC, 12/14/00, p.A11)
2000 Dec 13, In Ecuador an oil
pipeline bombing killed 8 bus passengers near the Colombian border.
(WSJ, 12/14/00, p.A1)
2000 Dec 13, Fighting in Gaza left
4 Palestinian policemen dead. A Fatah activist was killed in the West
Bank.
(WSJ, 12/14/00, p.A1)
2000 Dec 13, Russia’s Pres. Putin
traveled to Cuba for business and rest. There was a $20 billion debt
owed by Cuba to the former Soviet Union.
(SFC, 12/14/00, p.C8)(SSFC, 12/17/00, p.D2)
2000 Dec 13, Russia’s prosecutor’s
office announced the close of a corruption investigation of former
Pres. Yeltsin, his daughters, and a top Kremlin official with no
charges.
(SFC, 12/14/00, p.C8)
2000 Dec 13, In Zimbabwe a white
farmer was killed amid the land-expropriation drive.
(WSJ, 12/14/00, p.A1)
2000 Dec 14, Pres. Clinton spoke
in England and urged the US and other rich countries to end farm
subsidies, spend money on fighting disease in the 3rd World and to cut
emissions to thwart global warming.
(SFC, 12/15/00, p.D8)
2000 Dec 14, President-elect
George W. Bush conferred by phone with congressional leaders of both
parties and planned a goodwill tour of Washington, D.C.; he also
received a flood of congratulatory calls from world leaders on his
first full day as president-elect.
(AP, 12/14/01)
2000 Dec 14, U.S. businessman
Edward Pope was pardoned and released by Russia after being convicted
of espionage.
(AP, 12/14/01)
2000 Dec 14, The Federal Trade
Commission unanimously approved the $111 billion merger of America
Online and Time Warner.
(AP, 12/14/01)
2000 Dec 14, In Wichita, Kansas,
brothers Reginald and Jonathan Carr abducted 5 people from a home,
subjected them to sexual acts, and executed them. 4 of the 5 died:
Aaron Sander (29), Heather Muller (25), Brad Heyka (27), and Jason
Befort (26).
(SFC, 10/15/02, p.A4)
2000 Dec 14, Vladimir Putin, the
first Russian president to visit Cuba since the collapse of the Soviet
Union, held talks with Fidel Castro in Havana.
(AP, 12/14/02)
2000 Dec 14, In the southern
Philippines Muslim extremists killed 3 passengers on a motorcycle taxi.
(SSFC, 12/17/00, p.D11)
2000 Dec 14, In Zimbabwe Pres.
Mugabe claimed that his government has no control over the economy and
blamed the "white man" as the real enemy during an address to a
Congress of the ruling Zanu-PF Party.
(SFC, 12/15/00, p.D10)
2000 Dec 15, The Clinton
administration issued a 120-page report that called global organized
crime a "full-fledged national security crises." Interpol estimated
human smuggling across int’l. borders by transnational crime syndicates
at 4 million per year with earnings up to $7 billion. Other estimates
were much higher.
(SSFC, 1/7/01, p.A14)
2000 Dec 15, The US 106th Congress
closed with a final $450 billion budget package that included increases
in education spending, expanded Medicare payments, and modest tax
breaks for investments in poor communities.
(SFC, 12/16/00, p.A3)(SSFC, 12/17/00, p.A3)
2000 Dec 15, US Congressional
compromise included federal protection for the Black Rock Desert-High
Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area, 1.2 million
acres in northwest Nevada.
(SFC, 12/16/00, p.C2)
2000 Dec 15, The US Army planned
to hold closing ceremonies for the School of the Americas in Fort
Benning, Ga. The school planned to reopen in January as the Western
Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.
(SFC, 12/13/00, p.B8)
2000 Dec 15, Federal regulators
ordered an overhaul of California's electricity market in a push to
control skyrocketing prices and curtail supply shortages.
(AP, 12/15/01)
2000 Dec 15, First Lady and
Senator-elect Hillary Rodham Clinton agreed to an $8 million book deal
with publisher Simon and Schuster for her White House memoirs.
(SFC, 12/16/00, p.A3)(AP, 12/15/01)
2000 Dec 15, Derwin Brown (46),
the sheriff-elect of DeKalb County, Georgia, was gunned down in
what police called an assassination. Brown had promised to clean up the
sheriff’s dept. and fire 38 employees. Former Sheriff Sidney Dorsey and
2 other men were charged for the murder on Nov 30, 2001. 2 other men
involved in the slaying were given immunity for testifying. A 19-count
indictment against Dorsey was handed down Feb 22, 2002. Melvin Walker
and David Ramsey were acquitted Mar 25, 2002. Dorsey was convicted Jul
10. Dorsey was sentenced to life in prison on Aug 15, 2002. In 2005 a
federal jury found Melvin Walker and David Ramsey guilty of conspiracy.
(SSFC, 12/17/00, p.A2)(SFC, 3/19/01, p.A3)(SFC,
2/23/02, p.A5)(SFC, 3/26/02, p.A5)(SFC, 7/11/02, p.A3)(SFC, 8/16/02,
p.A7)(SFC, 8/4/05, p.A3)
2000 Dec 15, Mazen Al-Najjar, a
Palestinian immigrant who had taught at the Univ. of South Florida, was
released following 3½ years in jail on secret evidence. He still
faced deportation and was suspected of having ties with the
Syrian-based Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
(SFC, 12/16/00, p.A8)
2000 Dec 15, In Colombia 2 people
were killed in Bogota when right-wing paramilitary gunmen attacked and
wounded Wilson Borja, president of the Federation of State Workers.
Borja had been organizing peace talks between the government and
leftist rebels.
(SFC, 12/16/00, p.A20)
2000 Dec 15, In Israel Ehud Barak
made a bid to restart peace talks as 6 more Palestinians were shot dead
by Israeli troops.
(SFC, 12/16/00, p.A20)
2000 Dec 15, Pres. Mbeki of South
Africa spoke at a MERCOSUR meeting in Brazil and planned to begin
negotiations to join the trading block.
(SFC, 12/31/00, p.B2)
2000 Dec 15, In Turkey an
earthquake killed 6 people including 5 men praying at the mosque of
Yasarlar village.
(SSFC, 12/17/00, p.11)
2000 Dec 15, In Ukraine the last
working nuclear plant at Chernobyl was shut down. It had recently
undergone $300 million in safety improvements. The destroyed reactor,
which contained up to 66 tons of melted nuclear fuel and 37 tons of
radioactive dust, was still leaking radiation. A new sarcophagus was
expected to cost $758 million.
(SFC, 12/15/00, p.D2)(SFC, 12/16/00, p.A22)
2000 Dec 16, Pres.-elect Bush
chose retired Gen. Colin Powell (63) to become the 65th Sec. of State,
the 1st African American to hold that post.
(SFC, 12/16/00, p.A1)(SSFC, 12/17/00, p.A1)
2000 Dec 16, In Alabama tornadoes
hit the state and 10 people were killed at a Tuscaloosa trailer park.
12 people were killed and 50 injured.
(SSFC, 12/17/00, p.A7)(WSJ, 12/18/00, p.A1)
2000 Dec 16, Federal prisoner
Theodore Kaczynski (58), aka the Unabomber, donated his writings to a
special collection at the Univ. of Michigan, where he received his
doctorate in 1977.
(SSFC, 12/17/00, p.A1)
2000 Dec 16, It was reported that
the source of the Amazon had been located at the Carhuasanta Creek on
the 18,363-foot peak of Nevado Mismi in southern Peru.
(SFC, 12/16/00, p.A22)
2000 Dec 16, In Algeria armed
gunmen shot to death 15 students and a security guard at the Lycee
Technique of Medea boarding school.
(SFC, 12/18/00, p.E6)
2000 Dec 16, In Chechnya a series
of rebel attacks killed 16 Russian soldiers. A Chechen family of 4 was
shot to death in Alkhan-Kala by unidentified assailants.
(SSFC, 12/17/00, p.D11)(SFC, 12/19/00, p.B4)
2000 Dec 16, In China Brilliance
China Automotive Holding introduced its new Zhonghua car. It boasted an
Italian design, Japanese engine, and German electronics and suspension.
(SSFC, 12/24/00, p.A12)
2000 Dec 16, In Russia a poll for
"Man of the Century" put Lenin in 1st place followed by Stalin, Andrei
Sakharov, Yuri Gagarin and Mikhail Gorbachev.
(SFC, 12/27/00, p.C4)
2000 Dec 16, In Sri Lanka
government troops stage an offensive against rebels in the northern
Jaffna Peninsula. 12 soldiers were killed along with 26 rebels.
(SSFC, 12/17/00, p.D9)
2000 Dec 17, President-elect Bush
was named Time magazine's Person of the Year.
(AP, 12/17/05)
2000 Dec 17, Pres.-elect Bush
named Condoleeza Rice (46) of Stanford to be his national security
advisor and Texas Supreme Court Justice Alberto Gonzales as White House
counsel.
(SFC, 12/18/00, p.A1)(AP, 12/17/01)
2000 Dec 17, In Chechnya a rebel
attack killed 3 Russian soldiers. A shootout with rebels in Grozny left
2 police officers and 2 rebels dead.
(SFC, 12/19/00, p.B4)(SFC, 12/18/00, p.E6)
2000 Dec 17, In Colombia gunmen
killed 11 people in the village of Chipaque. Leftist rebels were
suspected.
(SFC, 12/19/00, p.B2)
2000 Dec 17, Cuba and Russia
agreed to abandon the nuclear power plant at Juragua. Pres. Putin
pushed Castro to recognize a small portion of the Soviet-era debt,
estimated at $20 billion.
(SFC, 12/18/00, p.E6)
2000 Dec 17, Israeli and
Palestinian officials agreed to hold talks in Washington prior to the
departure of Pres. Clinton.
(SFC, 12/18/00, p.E2)
2000 Dec 17, In Mexico thousands
were ordered to evacuate the area around the Popocatepetl volcano due
to the formation of a lava dome.
(WSJ, 12/18/00, p.A1)
2000 Dec 17, In northern Italy at
least 10 climbers and skiers were killed after ice formed overnight in
the Alps.
(SFC, 12/18/00, p.E2)
2000 Dec 18, US electors voted for
their party’s candidates. In the 224 years of the Electoral College
only 9 electors had switched votes. The DC elector withheld her vote to
protest lack of representation. Bush won 271 votes, one over the
constitutional minimum, and became the official president-elect.
(WSJ, 11/15/00, p.A18)(SFC, 12/22/00, p.D2)
2000 Dec 18, Antitrust regulators
approved the merger of British drug companies Glaxo Wellcome PLC and
SmithKline Beecham PLC.
(AP, 12/18/01)
2000 Dec 18, Randolph Apperson
Hearst, billionaire newspaper heir and the last surviving son of
William Randolph Hearst, died at age 85 in New York.
(SFC, 12/19/00, p.A1)(AP, 12/18/01)
2000 Dec 18, The Argentine
government announced a $39.7 billion financial rescue package led by
the IMF.
(SFC, 12/19/00, p.B4)(WSJ, 8/23/01, p.A9)
2000 Dec 18, In Canada Pres. Putin
of Russia met with Prime Minister Chretien and together supported
existing nuclear arms accords. Chretien did not join Putin’s opposition
to a US missile defense plan.
(SFC, 12/19/00, p.B4)
2000 Dec 18, In Mexico
Popocatepetl volcano began spraying hot rock and ashes in its biggest
eruption in 1200 years.
(SFC, 12/21/00, p.A22)
2000 Dec 19, President-elect Bush
met with President Clinton in Washington.
(AP, 12/19/01)
2000 Dec 19, US stocks fell
sharply as the Federal Reserve left the interest rate unchanged at
6.5%. Nasdaq fell 112 to 2,511.
(SFC, 12/20/00, p.B1)
2000 Dec 19, Death claimed jazz
bassist Milt Hinton at age 90.
(AP, 12/19/01)
2000 Dec 19, Death claimed gospel
singer Roebuck “Pops” Staples at age 85.
(AP, 12/19/01)
2000 Dec 19, Death claimed former
New York City Mayor John V. Lindsay at age 79.
(AP, 12/19/01)
2000 Dec 19, Death claimed Rob
Buck (42), lead guitarist for the rock band 10,000 Maniacs.
(AP, 12/19/01)
2000 Dec 19, The U.N. Security
Council voted to impose broad sanctions on Afghanistan Taliban rulers
unless they closed "terrorist" training camps and surrender U.S.
embassy bombing suspect Osama bin Laden.
(AP, 12/19/01)
2000 Dec 19, In Indonesia Pres.
Wahid traveled to Aceh province. He ordered troops to stop targeting
civilians and apologized for failing to stop military abuses.
(SFC, 12/20/00, p.C4)
2000 Dec 19, In Israel Benjamin
Netanyahu dropped from the election race after the Knesset voted not to
disband itself.
(SFC, 12/19/00, p.A16)
2000 Dec 19, In Mexico over 30,000
people were evacuated from the area of the Popocatepetl volcano as the
volcano resumed activity.
(SFC, 12/20/00, p.A1)
2000 Dec 19, It was reported that
60 Russians had died of hypothermia in Moscow since the weather turned
cold on Oct 10.
(WSJ, 12/19/00, p.A1)
2000 Dec 19, In Moscow Deputy
Mayor Iosif Ordshonikidze was shot and gravely wounded by masked gunmen
near City Hall. He was overseeing construction of the
multi-billion-dollar "Citi" business district.
(SFC, 12/20/00, p.C5)
2000 Dec 19, In Sri Lanka
government soldiers detained 8 Tamil civilians. Their bodies were later
found in a mass grave.
(WSJ, 12/27/00, p.A1)
2000 Dec 19, It was reported that
swiftlet colonies in Thailand were threatened due to the excessive
harvesting of their edible nests for Chinese restaurants.
(SFC, 12/19/00, p.A16)
2000 Dec 19, In Turkey at least 17
people were killed when security forces stormed 20 prisons to end a
2-month hunger strike.
(SFC, 12/20/00, p.A20)
2000 Dec 20, Pres.-elect Bush
appointed Paul O’Neill (65) as head of the Treasury Dept., Ann Veneman
(51) as Sec. of Agriculture, Mel Martinez (54) as Sec. of Housing and
Urban Development, and Don Evans (54) as Sec of Commerce. Andrew Card
(53) was appointed his Chief of Staff and Karen Hughes (43) as
Communications Director.
(SFC, 12/21/00, p.A23)
2000 Dec 20, US stock fell
sharply. Nasdaq dropped 178 to 2,332, while the Dow dropped 265 to
10,318.
(SFC, 12/21/00, p.A1)
2000 Dec 20, It was reported that
four-fifths of the salmon spawning in the last free-flowing reach of
the Columbia River had reverted to female sex for unknown reasons.
Water temperature and environmental pollutants were suspect.
(SFC, 12/18/00, p.C3)
2000 Dec 20, A new EPA regulation
required oil refineries to remove 97% of the sulfur from diesel fuel by
2006.
(WSJ, 12/21/00, p.A1)
2000 Dec 20, John V. Lindsay,
former NYC mayor (1966-1973), died at age 79.
(SFC, 12/21/00, p.A31)
2000 Dec 20, In Afghanistan the
Taliban ordered UN offices closed and pledged to boycott peace talks.
New sanctions were imposed in response to the Taliban’s refusal to
surrender Osama bin Laden.
(SFC, 12/21/00, p.A20)
2000 Dec 20, In Chechnya 5
students and an instructor from the university in Grozny were killed in
a battle with Russian soldiers. One soldier was killed and 4 injured.
(SFC, 12/21/00, p.C6)
2000 Dec 20, In Guatemala the
Congress approved the use of the US dollar for everyday business.
(SFC, 12/21/00, p.C6)
2000 Dec 20, India and Pakistan
took steps to reduce tensions in Kashmir. India extended its cease-fire
and Pakistan announced a partial troop withdrawal.
(SFC, 12/21/00, p.A20)
2000 Dec 20, In Indonesia 9 people
were killed in a rash of shootings in Aceh province.
(SFC, 12/21/00, p.C6)
2000 Dec 20, A UN panel linked
Liberian Pres. Charles Taylor to illegal diamond smuggling and arms
trafficking with the rebels in Sierra Leone.
(SFC, 12/21/00, p.C6)
2000 Dec 20, In Turkey the fight
to gain control of the prisons entered a 2nd day. The DHKP-C, a
splinter group of Dev-Sol, led the hunger strike.
(SFC, 12/21/00, p.A20)
2000 Dec 21, President-elect
George W. Bush resigned as governor of Texas; Lt. Gov. Rick Perry
(Republican) was sworn in to replace him.
(AP, 12/21/01)(SFC, 12/22/00, p.A11)
2000 Dec 21, Final US election
results showed Al Gore with 50,996,116 votes vs. Gov. Bush with
50,456,169. Gore led by over 500,000 votes but lost to bush by one
electoral college vote.
(SFC, 12/22/00, p.A11)
2000 Dec 21, Christine Todd
Whitman, governor of New Jersey, agreed to serve as director of the EPA
for Pres.-elect Bush.
(WSJ, 12/22/00, p.A1)
2000 Dec 21, Ted Turner offered to
make up the $35 million difference between dues the US owes to the UN
and the amount Congress is wiling to pay.
(SFC, 12/22/00, p.A1)
2000 Dec 21, A UN report accused
Jonas Savimbi and UNITA rebels in Angola of trading diamonds for arms.
(SFC, 12/22/00, p.A20)
2000 Dec 21, Indonesia announced
plans for talks with local leaders in Aceh, Irian Jaya and Maluku
provinces.
(SFC, 12/22/00, p.A21)
2000 Dec 21, In Israel the
legislature blocked an attempt by Shimon Peres to run for prime
minister. The Feb 6 election pits Ariel Sharon against Ehud Barak.
(SFC, 12/22/00, p.A20)
2000 Dec 21, Israeli officials
acknowledged a "liquidation" policy for hunting down and killing
Palestinian militants.
(SFC, 12/22/00, p.A20)
2000 Dec 21, In Russia the lower
house gave preliminary backing for plans by the Ministry of Atomic
Affairs to take in spent nuclear fuel from European and Asian countries
for hard currency.
(SFC, 12/22/00, p.A20)
2000 Dec 21, In Sri Lanka Tamil
rebels announced a unilateral month-long cease-fire with hopes of
resuming peace talks. Sri Lanka launched a new offensive just hours
following the rebel cease-fire.
(SFC, 12/22/00, p.A22)(WSJ, 12/22/00, p.A1)
2000 Dec 22, Pres. Clinton granted
Christmastime clemency to 62 people including Dan Rostenkowski, former
Illinois congressman and chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.
(SFC, 12/23/00, p.A1)(AP, 12/22/05)
2000 Dec 22, Pres.-elect Bush
named Sen. John Ashcroft of Missouri to become US Attorney General, and
Gov. Christie Todd Whitman of New Jersey as head of the EPA.
(SFC, 12/23/00, p.A1)
2000 Dec 22, Madonna and film
director Guy Ritchie wed in Scotland.
(AP, 12/22/01)
2000 Dec 22, The US, Japan, Europe
and other industrial powers agreed to provide debt relief to 22 poor
nations: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau,
Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Rwanda, Sao
Tome and Principe, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Bolivia, Guyana,
Honduras and Nicaragua.
(SFC, 12/23/00, p.A14)
2000 Dec 22, UN members agreed to
reduce US dues following the Ted turner proposal to pick up a $34
million tab.
(SFC, 12/23/00, p.A12)
2000 Dec 22, In Germany 3 American
teenagers were convicted of murder for the Feb 27 deaths of 2 people,
killed from rocks thrown from a freeway overpass.
(SFC, 12/23/00, p.A1)
2000 Dec 22, In India separatists
attacked the Red Fort in New Delhi and 3 people were killed.
(WSJ, 12/26/00, p.A1)
2000 Dec 22, Israel announced that
it is prepared to surrender sovereignty over the Temple Mount in
Jerusalem as part of a peace agreement.
(SFC, 12/23/00, p.A12)
2000 Dec 22, In Mexico the army
closed a base in Chiapas and continued to pull troops from the region.
(SFC, 12/23/00, p.A14)
2000 Dec 22, In South Korea some
15,000 bank workers went on strike to protest merger plans that
threatened mass layoffs.
(SFC, 12/26/00, p.C5)
2000 Dec 22, Three armed robbers
stormed into Stockholm's National Museum and made off with a Rembrandt
self-portrait and two masterpieces by Renoir. 10 people were later
sentenced to prison for their roles in the theft; all three paintings
have been recovered.
(AP, 12/22/05)
2000 Dec 22, In Turkey government
prison raids ended after 430 inmates surrendered at Umraniye. The 4-day
siege left 28 people dead including 16 burned alive. Government forces
had not been able to enter the leftist controlled wards of Bayrampasa
prison in Istanbul for a decade.
(SSFC, 12/24/00, p.B4)
2000 Dec 23, Negotiators from
Israel and Palestine left Washington without an agreement on critical
issues.
(SSFC, 12/24/00, p.A12)
2000 Dec 23, Actor Billy Barty
died in Glendale, Calif., at age 76.
(AP, 12/23/01)
2000 Dec 23, Victor Borge, musical
humorist, died at age 91. His 1953 "Comedy in Music" ran for 849
performances at the Golden Theater on Broadway.
(SSFC, 12/24/00, p.B5)
2000 Dec 23, The UN voted to
reduce US dues and to reallocate costs among the 189 members.
(SSFC, 12/24/00, p.A1)
2000 Dec 23, In Colombia rebels
freed 42 police officers and soldiers.
(SSFC, 12/24/00, p.B4)
2000 Dec 23, In Serbia elections
the 18-party Kostunica coalition won 64.5% of the vote and over
two-thirds of the seats of the 250-seat parliament. Zoran Djindjic (48)
was projected to become prime minister.
(SSFC, 12/24/00, p.A12)(SFC, 12/25/00, p.A16)
2000 Dec 24, A group of 7 escaped
convicts robbed a sporting goods store in Irving, Texas; a police
officer, Aubrey Hawkins, was killed during the robbery. George Rivas, a
recent escapee from Connally State prison, killed the officer during a
holdup at a sporting goods store. Rivas was convicted for the murder in
2001 and was executed on Aug 14, 2008.
(SFC, 8/22/01, p.A4)(SFC, 8/30/01, p.A6)(AP,
12/24/05)(AP, 8/15/08)
2000 Dec 24, Susan Berman (55),
writer and Las Vegas mobster’s daughter, was found slain in her Los
Angeles home. She authored "Easy Street" in 1981.
(SFC, 1/5/01, p.A1,14)
2000 Dec 24, Nick Massi (73), an
original member of the Four Seasons, died.
(AP, 12/24/01)
2000 Dec 24, From Bahrain it was
reported that the emir, Sheikh Hamad, would allow a vote on a new
national charter that would make the country a constitutional monarchy.
(SFC, 12/25/00, p.B2)
2000 Dec 24, In Indonesia at least
19 people were killed when bombs exploded outside 24 churches in
Jakarta and 5 other cities and towns. In Aug 2001 Edi Sugiarto was
sentenced to 11 years in jail for planting the bombs that killed at
least 19 people.
(SFC, 12/25/00, p.A1)(SFC, 8/15/01, p.A7)(SSFC,
3/3/02, p.A16)
2000 Dec 24, In Sri Lanka
government forces raided a rebel camp in Navatkuli and killed 18,
including 14 girl soldiers.
(SFC, 12/25/00, p.A16)
2000 Dec 24, In Venezuela Pres.
Chavez appointed Adina Bastidas as vice president following the recent
appointment of Isaias Rodriquez as attorney general.
(SFC, 12/25/00, p.B4)
2000 Dec 25, Pres. Clinton laid
down a new set of proposals for peace between Israelis and
Palestinians. The proposals included a Palestinian concession for some
3.7 million refugees to give up the right of return and for Israelis to
cede sovereignty over the Temple Mount.
(SFC, 12/26/00, p.A1)(SFC, 12/27/00, p.A14)
2000 Dec 25, In central China as
many as 309 young people were killed at an unlicensed disco fire in
Louyang city.
(SFC, 12/26/00, p.C6)(AP, 12/25/01)
2000 Dec 25, In Colombia Pres.
Pastrana announced a draft for an agreement with the ELN to pull
government troops from areas in Bolivar state.
(SFC, 12/26/00, p.C2)
2000 Dec 25, In Kashmir a
car bomb went off in Indian controlled Srinagar and 8 people were
killed with 23 injured. The Pakistan-based rebel groups Jamaat-ul
Mujahedeen and Jaish-e-Mohammad claimed responsibility.
(SFC, 12/26/00, p.C4)(WSJ, 12/26/00, p.A1)
2000 Dec 25, In Pakistan bombs
exploded in 4 cities. 36 people were injured in Lahore.
(SFC, 12/26/00, p.C4)
2000 Dec 25, In Russian regional
governor elections Roman Abramovitch (34), head of the Sibneft oil
company, won in Chukotka and Vladimir Shamanov won in Ulyanovsk.
Chukotka is the Russian region across from Alaska.
(WSJ, 12/26/00, p.A1)(WSJ, 6/13/01, p.A1)
2000 Dec 26, Pres. Clinton signed
a ban on cutting shark fins and discarding the fish back to the sea.
(SFC, 12/27/00, p.A6)
2000 Dec 26, Donna Shalala, US
Sec. of Health and Human Services, blocked a GOP sponsored drug
reimportation plan intended to reduce drug prices.
(SFC, 12/27/00, p.A3)
2000 Dec 26, Michael McDermott, a
software tester at Edgewater Tech. In Wakefield, Mass., shot and killed
7 co-workers. He wielded a semiautomatic rifle and a shotgun. He was
beset by both financial and personal problems. McDermott, convicted in
2002, was sent to prison for life.
(SFC, 12/27/00, p.A1)(AP, 12/26/01)(SFC, 4/25/02,
p.A7)
2000 Dec 26, Jason Robards (78),
stage and film actor and winner of 2 Oscars and 1 Tony Award, died in
Bridgeport, Conn.
(SFC, 12/27/00, p.A1)(AP, 12/26/01)
2000 Dec 26, The Muslim holiday of
Ramadan ended.
(SFC, 12/27/00, p.A16)
2000 Dec 26, In Montenegro 3
military commanders were dismissed by the Yugoslav top defense body as
a concession to Pres. Djukanovic.
(SFC, 12/27/00, p.A16)
2000 Dec 26, In Nepal rioting
began and 4 people were killed following a rumor that Hrithnik Roshan,
an Indian film star, allegedly spoke of his hate for Nepal and its
people. Roshan denied making such comments.
(SFC, 12/28/00, p.C2)
2000 Dec 26, In Serbia power
shortages due to the summer drought caused cuts across the country.
(SFC, 12/27/00, p.A16)
2000 Dec 26, In Thailand an
anti-corruption body ruled that Thaksin Shinawatra, the leading
candidate for prime minister, engaged in financial wrongdoings that
disqualified him from holding office.
(SFC, 12/27/00, p.A15)
2000 Dec 27, Pres. Clinton
appointed Roger Gregory as the 1st African American judge to the US
Court of appeals in Richmond, Va.
(SFC, 12/28/00, p.A3)
2000 Dec 27, Software engineer
Michael McDermott pleaded innocent to 7 counts of murder in the
shooting deaths of seven co-workers the day before at an Internet
consulting company in Wakefield, Mass. McDermott was later convicted
and sentenced to life without parole.
(AP, 12/27/05)
2000 Dec 28, Pres.-elect Bush
picked Donald Rumsfeld (68) as Sec. of Defense. Rumsfeld had served in
the same position under Pres. Ford.
(SFC, 12/29/00, p.A3)
2000 Dec 28, The US FCC approved
255 applications nationwide for low-watt FM radio stations.
(SFC, 12/29/00, p.A5)
2000 Dec 28, US 2000 census
results set the population at 281,421,906, a gain of 13.2% since 1990.
In 2003 the Bueau said it over-counted by some 1.3 million.
(SFC, 12/29/00, p.A1)(WSJ, 3/13/03, p.A1)
2000 Dec 28, GE Capital Corp.
announced the closure of Montgomery Ward & Co. following 128 years
of retail operations.
(SFC, 12/29/00, p.A1)
2000 Dec 28, In the US recent bad
weather was blamed for 41 deaths: including 22 in Texas and 11 in
Oklahoma.
(SFC, 12/29/00, p.A6)
2000 Dec 28, In Argentina
government officials announced plans to spend $20 billion on public
works programs.
(SFC, 12/29/00, p.B5)
2000 Dec 28, In Burundi Hutu
rebels ambushed a commuter bus outside Bujumbura and killed 20
passengers.
(SFC, 12/30/00, p.A10)
2000 Dec 28, In Ghana runoff
elections were held with sporadic violence. John Agyekum Kuffour won
with 56.7% of the vote.
(SFC, 12/29/00, p.B3)(SFC, 12/31/00, p.B9)
2000 Dec 28, Iran and Russia
announced an expanded military and security partnership.
(SFC, 12/29/00, p.A18)
2000 Dec 28, In Israel bombs
exploded in Tel Aviv and Gaza shortly after a peace summit was
cancelled. 2 Israeli soldiers were killed.
(SFC, 12/29/00, p.A1)
2000 Dec 28, In Mexico the
Congress voted to register millions of 2nd hand vehicles imported
illegally in past years.
(SFC, 12/29/00, p.B3)
2000 Dec 28, In Sri Lanka a
cyclone hit and killed 8 people.
(SFC, 12/29/00, p.B5)
2000 Dec 29, Pres.-elect Bush
filled four more Cabinet slots, tapping Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson
as head of the Dept. of Health and Human Services. Thompson was
soon criticized for his ties to tobacco interests. Colorado Attorney
General Gale A. Norton was nominated as interior secretary, Houston
schools chief Rod Paige as secretary of education and Anthony J.
Principi to return as secretary to the Department of Veterans Affairs.
(SFC, 12/30/00, p.A1)(SFC, 1/11/01, p.A15)(AP,
12/29/01)
2000 Dec 29, A ferry collided with
another ferry ship and sank on the Meghna River in southeastern
Bangladesh. At least 178 people were killed.
(SFC, 12/30/00, p.A10)(SFC, 1/3/01, p.A12)
2000 Dec 29, In Colombia gunmen
killed Rep. Diego Turbay, a peace envoy, along with 6 other people. A
FARC unit was blamed.
(SFC, 12/30/00, p.A8)
2000 Dec 29, In Mexico congress
approved a $140 million budget.
(SFC, 12/30/00, p.A10)
2000 Dec 29, In Gaza a Palestinian
police officer was killed in a shootout as Israeli soldiers bulldozed a
grove of trees.
(SFC, 12/30/00, p.A8)
2000 Dec 29, In Sudan Gen. Omar
el-Bashir was declared the winner in elections marred by an opposition
boycott. Civil war prevented voting in 3 of the 26 provinces.
(SFC, 12/30/00, p.A10)
2000 Dec 30, A record snow fall
covered the US northern East Coast.
(SFC, 12/31/00, p.A3)
2000 Dec 30, Hollywood
screenwriter Julius J. Epstein, who co-wrote the script for
"Casablanca," died in Los Angeles at age 91.
(AP, 12/30/01)
2000 Dec 30, In the Philippines 5
bomb blasts hit Manila and at least 22 people were killed. Muslim
rebels were blamed. One of bombs was on a train and killed at least 13.
Police arrested 17 men on Jan 4. 7 Muslim guerrillas were indicted
including Salamat Hashim, chairman of the Moro Liberation Front. The
Jemaah Islamiyah, an militant group linked to al Qaeda, was involved in
the train bombing. In 2009 three men, including one of the Philippines'
top terror suspects, were sentenced to life in prison for one of the
bombings that killed 11 people. The attacks revealed close coordination
among militants across the region.
(SFC, 12/30/00, p.A1)(SFC, 12/31/00, p.A1)(SFC,
1/5/01, p.D3)(SFC, 1/9/01, p.A15)(WSJ, 8/13/02, p.A14)(AP, 1/23/09)
2000 Dec 30, Russia’s Pres. Putin
endorsed the new national anthem with words by poet Sergei Mikhalkov
(1913-2009) and the original Soviet music. Mikhalkov adjusted the text
again, replacing references to Lenin and the Soviets with a paean to
Russia's "divinely protected" forests and meadows that span from
"southern seas to the polar lands."
(SFC, 12/31/00, p.B5)(AP, 8/27/09)
2000 Dec 31, The US signed a
treaty for the creation of the 1st permanent int’l. court despite
objections by conservatives and the Pentagon.
(SFC, 1/1/01, p.A1)
2000 Dec 31, Former Sen. Alan
Cranston died in Los Altos, Calif., at age 86.
(SFC, 1/1/01, p.A1)(AP, 12/31/01)
2000 Dec 31, Flamenco dancer Jose
Greco died in Lancaster, Pa., at age 82.
(AP, 12/31/01)
2000 Dec 31, In London the
Millennium dome opened for its last day.
(SFC, 12/30/00, p.A8)
2000 Dec 31, In the West Bank
Binyamin Kahane, son of Jewish extremist Meir Kahane, and his wife
Talia were killed in an ambush by Palestinian gunmen. Israeli military
soon after killed Thabet Thabet, a Fatah leader.
(SFC, 1/1/01, p.A13)
2000 Dec 31, In Malaysia 15
parachutists planned to leap from the Petronas Towers just before
midnight and land in the new year.
(SFC, 12/31/00, p.B2)
2000 Dec 31, In Mexico Pres. Fox
ordered a 2nd military base closed in Chiapas. Separately the outgoing
Tabasco state Congress named Enrique Priego as acting governor.
(SFC, 1/1/00, p.A12)
2000 Dec 31, In Pakistan staggered
elections for municipal and district councils began. A third of the
seats were reserved for women, another third for the poor.
(SFC, 12/31/00, p.B3)
2000 Dec 31, Six Persian Gulf
nations (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab
Emirates) signed a regional defense pact.
(SFC, 1/1/01, p.A10)
2000 Dec 31, In St. Lucia machete
wielding men stormed the Castries Cathedral, hacked at worshipers and
set them ablaze. One nun was killed and 12 people injured. Two suspects
identified themselves as Rastafarian foes of corruption in the Catholic
Church.
(SFC, 1/1/01, p.A12)
2000 Dec, Harper's magazine ran an
article by Jim McManus, a "rank amateur," who had made a successful run
in the 2000 World Series of Poker. In 2003 the article was expanded
into the book "Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs and
Binion's World Series of Poker.
(SSFC, 5/4/03, p.M1)
2000 Dec, Pres. Clinton signed the
$7.8 billion Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan. CERP included
68 projects planned over 30 years.
(Econ, 10/8/05, p.32)
2000 Dec, Raed Hijazi (33), a
California-born alleged operative of Osama bin Laden, was extradited
from Syria to Jordan for planning bomb attacks on Christian, Jewish and
US targets as part of a foiled millennium plot.
(SFC, 10/3/01, p.A7)
2000 Dec, The Holy Land Greek
Orthodox Patriarch, Diodorus I, died.
(SSFC, 10/14/01, p.A17)
2000 Charles Saatchi paid $1.6
million for the Damien Hirst sculpture: "Hymn," a 20-foot-tall
anatomical model of a man.
(WSJ, 4/7/00, p.W9)
2000 Rembrandt’s “Portrait of a
Lady” (1632) was sold in London to Dutch art dealer Robert Noortman
(1946-2007) for $28.6 million.
(WSJ, 1/27/07, p.A6)
2000 Stephen Ambrose authored
"Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental
Railroad (1863-1869)."
(SFC, 9/18/00, p.F1)
2000 Fariborz Amini (1931-2004),
Iranian-born psychiatrist at UCSF, authored “A General Theory of Love.”
(SFC, 6/22/04, p.B7)
2000 Peter Baker authored "The
Breach: Inside the Impeachment and Trial of William Jefferson Clinton."
(SFC, 9/13/00, p.A2)
2000 Jacques Barzun published
"From Dawn to Decadence: 500 years of Western Cultural Life."
(WSJ, 5/18/00, p.A24)
2000 Peter L. Bernstein authored
"The Power of Gold," a history of gold.
(WSJ, 11/9/00, p.A24)
2000 Bonnie Blackburn and Leofranc
Holford-Stevens compiled "The Oxford Companion to the Year."
(SFEC, 2/20/00, Par p.7)
2000 William Blum, a Washington DC
historian, authored “Rogue State: A Guide to the World’s Only
Superpower.” Sales of the book took off in 2006 when it was quoted by
Osama bin Laden.
(SSFC, 1/22/06, p.A1)
2000 Alan Brinkley and Davis Dyer
edited "The Readers Companion to the American Presidency."
(WSJ, 2/29/00, p.A20)
2000 David Brooks authored "Bobos
in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There." The bobo term
stood for "bourgeois bohemians."
(SFEC, 6/25/00, BR p.3)
2000 Ian Buruma authored "The
Missionary and the Libertine: Love and War in the East and West."
(SFEC, 9/3/00, BR p.4)
2000 Barry Chamish authored “The
Last Days of Israel.”
(www.amazon.com)
2000 Rosemary Clooney (71) with
Joan Barthel authored a new 2nd autobiography with attached CD titled
"Girl Singer."
(WSJ, 1/10/00, p.A24)
2000 Faith D’Aluisio authored
"Robo Sapiens," a field guide on robotics. It was the 1st book to
recognize that the roboticist is to the current era what the
psychoanalyst was to the early 20th century.
(SFEC, 9/17/00, BR p.8)
2000 Stephen van Dulken authored
"Inventing the 20th Century," a rundown of the major inventions of the
last 100 years.
(WSJ, 12/6/00, p.A20)
2000 John Entine authored "Taboo:
Why black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We’re Afraid to Talk About
it."
(WSJ, 9/20/00, p.A24)
2000 John L. Esposito edited "The
Oxford History of Islam."
(WSJ, 8/14/00, p.A16)
2000 Joe Eszterhas authored
"American Rhapsody," a work that covered the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal.
The last chapter featured a soliloquy by Willard, the name for Pres.
Clinton’s "privates."
(WSJ, 7/18/00, p.A20)
2000 Stanely Fish authored "The
Trouble With Principle," in which he supports the French ideas of
"post-structuralism" and denies the possibility that people can rise
beyond the cultural forces that determine their character.
(WSJ, 2/1/00, p.A24)
2000 Linda and Roger Flavell
published "The Chronology of Words and Phrases: A Thousand years in the
History of English."
(SFEC, 9/24/00, Par p.9)
2000 Robert William Fogel authored
"The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism."
(WSJ, 6/21/00, p.A24)
2000 William L. Fox authored "The
Void, The Grid & The Sign: Traversing the Great Basin." It was
about the 189,000-square-mile region of the US where all waters drain
inward.
(SFEC, 7/16/00, BR p.8)
2000 Samuel G. Freedman authored
"Jew vs. Jew," an attempt to illuminate some of the controversy over
the question: "who is a Jew."
(WSJ, 8/8/00, p.A20)
2000 Carlos Fuentes authored his
novel "The Years with Laura Diaz," a chronicle of the 20th century
through the eyes of a Mexican woman.
(SSFC, 12/17/00, BR p.3)
2000 Andrea Gabor authored "The
Capitalist Philosopher."
(WSJ, 4/19/00, p.A28)
2000 Malcolm Gladwell authored
"The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference."
(SFEC, 3/5/00, BR p.2)
2000 Lawrence E. Harrison and
Samuel P. Huntington edited "Culture Matters."
(WSJ, 5/4/00, p.A24)
2000 Gary Hart, former US Senator,
authored "I, Che Guevara" his 2nd Cuba-based novel under the pen name
of John Blackthorn. It followed his previous work "Sins of the Father."
(SFC, 1/22/00, p.B7)
2000 Yoram Hazony authored "The
Jewish State."
(WSJ, 6/1/00, p.A20)
2000 Thomas Hibbs authored "Shows
About Nothing" He proposes that "American popular culture undermines
democracy by fostering a soft, comfortable nihilism."
(WSJ, 3/6/02, p.A14)
2000 James Davison Hunter authored
"The Death of Character," an overview of moral culture in America.
(WSJ, 9/25/00, p.A34)
2000 Jane Jacobs authored "The
Nature of Economies," a series of didactic dialogues by a circle of
environmentally minded friends.
(SFEC, 6/25/00, BR p.4)
2000 A.E. Jeffcoat authored
"Spirited Americans," a history that celebrates the American spirit.
(WSJ, 1/17/00, p.A16)
2000 Mark Juergensmeyer authored
"Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence."
(SFC, 9/20/01, p.A9)
2000 Donald Kagan and Frederick W.
Kagan authored "While America Sleeps," a diplomatic history of the 20th
century following WW II.
(WSJ, 9/27/00, p.A24)
2000 Robert D. Kaplan authored
"Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the
Caucasus," a warning of the next potential flashpoint due to the
oil-rich Caspian area.
(SSFC, 12/17/00, BR p.5)
2000 Gilles Kepel authored “Jihad:
The Trail of Political Islam.”
(WSJ, 9/16/04, p.D12)
2000 JT Leroy authored his 1st
book “Sarah. The narrator, a 12-year-old boy, has renamed himself Sarah
after his whorish mother because he has learned from her example that
"Most anything you want in this world is easier when you're a pretty
girl." In 2005 it was revealed that the author was a fake identity
created by SF residents Laura Albert, her husband Geoffrey Knoop and
Geoffrey’s sister Savannah. In 2006 Knoop acknowledged that Laura
Albert wrote “Sarah,“ and followed up in 2001 with “The heart Is
Deceitful Above All Things.”
(http://tinyurl.com/cqvnn)(SFC, 1/10/06, p.A8)(SFC,
2/7/06, p.A3)
2000 Arthur Laurents (82), writer
and director, published his memoir "Original Story By."
(SFC, 4/5/00, p.C1)(WSJ, 4/6/00, p.A20)
2000 Catherine Lavender and
Lillian Schlissel edited "The Western Women's Reader: The Remarkable
Writings of Women Who Shaped the American West, Spanning 300 Years."
(SFEC, 3/26/00, BR p.1)
2000 Christopher Locke, Rick
Levine, Doc Searl and David Weinberger authored “The Cluetrain
Manifesto,” a study of Internet marketing.
(Econ, 10/8/05,
p.76)(www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/X0001EA1A/)
2000 William Mandel (b.1917)
authored "Saying No to Power: Autobiography of a 20th Century Activist
and Thinker."
(SFEC, 9/24/00, BR p.4)
2000 Alan McFarlane authored "The
Riddle of the Modern World." It was an analysis on the development of
liberty, wealth and equality.
(WSJ, 11/1/00, p.A24)
2000 Justin Martin, authored the
biography "Greenspan: The Man Behind the Money." It was about Alan
Greenspan (74), the chairman of the US Federal Reserve.
(SFC, 9/19/00, p.19)
2000 Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza of
Colombia, Carlos Alberto Montaner of Cuba and Alvaro Vargas Llosa of
Peru authored their "Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot."
(WSJ, 3/1/00, p.A24)
2000 Prof. Carol Meyers edited
"Women in Scripture."
(WSJ, 4/7/00, p.W17)
2000 Paul Ormerod authored
"Butterfly Economics," which looked at the economics of ants and
focused on the importance of herd behavior.
(WSJ, 1/10/00, p.A24)
2000 Ilana Pardes authored “The
Biography of Ancient Israel.”
(WSJ, 8/19/06, p.P8)
2000 Sidney Poitier authored his
memoir: “The Measure of a Man: a spiritual autobiography.”
(SFC, 1/29/07, p.E2)
2000 Hugh and Nicole Pope authored
“Turkey Unveiled: A History of Modern Turkey.”
(Econ, 5/21/05, p.85)
2000 Roy Porter authored "The
Creation of the Modern World" with a focus on the English Enlightenment.
(WSJ, 12/5/00, p.A24)
2000 Jim Powell authored "The
Triumph of Liberty," a story of liberty through the lives of remarkable
people.
(WSJ, 7/111/00, p.A24)
2000 Matt Ridley authored "Genome"
a look at what scientists were finding as they read the 70-120,000
genes of the human genome.
(WSJ, 2/9/00, p.A24)
2000 Joseph Rykwert authored "The
Seduction of Place," a look at the city of the future.
(WSJ, 10/11/00, p.A24)
2000 Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
authored "A Life in the 20th Century," a memoir that covered 1917-1950.
(WSJ, 11/16/00, p.A24)
2000 John Seabrook authored
"Nobrow: The Culture of Marketing, The Marketing of Culture."
(WSJ, 2/15/00, p.A24)
2000 Yale Prof. Robert Shiller
authored “Irrational Exuberance.”
(www.irrationalexuberance.com/)
2000 Dai Sijie, Chinese-born
filmmaker, authored "Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress." It was
1st published in France.
(SSFC, 10/28/01, p.R3)
2000 Albert Sonnenfield translated
the French book: "Food A Culinary History."
(SFEC, 2/6/00, Par p.21)
2000 Hernando de Soto, Peruvian
economist, authored “The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in
the West and Fails Everywhere Else,” in which he argued that because
the poor lacked title to their assets, they could not take advantage of
them and were stuck with “dead capital.”
(http://tinyurl.com/3xxehl)(www.cato.org/special/friedman/desoto/index.html)(Econ,
8/26/06, p.62)
2000 David Swenson, Yale’s chief
investment officer, authored “Pioneering Portfolio Management: An
Unconventional Approach to Institutional Investment.”
(Econ, 12/13/08, p.88)
2000 Prof. Theodore Steinberg
authored “Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disasters in
America.”
(WSJ, 9/2/05, p.B1)
2000 Philip Stott, Prof. at London
Univ., authored "Political Ecology: Science, Myth and Power."
(WSJ, 3/25/02, p.A18)
2000 Susan Strasser authored
"Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash."
(SFC, 1/13/00, p.B3)
2000 John Sutton authored
"Marshall’s Tendencies: What Can Economist Know." Sutton traces the
development of economics as a science and asks economics to review
their work over the last 60 years.
(WSJ, 12/7/00, p.A24)
2000 Colm Toibin edited "The
Penguin Book of Irish Fiction." It covered authors over the last 300
years.
(SFEC, 3/26/00, BR p.3)
2000 Gore Vidal authored "The
Golden Age," the final installment of his –7-novel history of the US.
(SFEC, 11/12/00, BR p.5)
2000 Vol. 1 of the 4-volume "The
Jewish Political Tradition" was edited by Michael Walzer, Menachem
Lorberbaum, Noam J. Zohar and Yair Lorberbaum.
(WSJ, 6/29/00, p.A24)
2000 Alexander Waugh authored
"Time" Its Origin, Its Enigma, Its History."
(SFEC, 2/20/00, Par p.7)
2000 Bruce Wilkinson, Georgia
preacher, authored “The Prayer of Jabez,” a 93-page, $10 tract based on
a passage from the Bible. Sales made him a rich man and in 2002 he
embarked on a mission to save children in Swaziland orphaned by AIDS.
(WSJ, 12/19/05, p.A1)
2000 Gary Wills authored "Papal
Sin: Structures of Deceit," an indictment of how the Vatican has
rewritten history and twisted the truth in an effort to preserve
outdated teachings on human sexuality and gender equality.
(SFC, 6/17/00, p.C1)(SFEC, 6/18/00, BR p.5)
2000 Ruth R. Wisse authored "The
Modern Jewish Canon," an examination of modern Jewish literature.
(WSJ, 10/17/00, p.A20)
2000 Bob Woodward authored
"Maestro Greenspan’s Fed and the American Boom."
(SFEC, 11/12/00, p.A16)
2000 Boris Yeltsin, former Russian
president, authored "Midnight Diaries."
(SFEC, 10/8/00, p.A22)
2000 Afghan cab drivers in
Washington DC began meeting to discuss the poetry of Abdul Qadir Bedil
(1644-1721), Afghanistan Sufi poet, in a program called “An Evening of
Sufism.” In 2004 original members broke off and formed the group “An
Evening With the Dervishes.”
(WSJ, 7/10/06, p.A1)(http://devoted.to/bedil)
2000 Argentine composer Osvaldo
Golijov composed his "La Pasión Según San Marco." It was
commissioned for the 250th anniversary of Bach’s death and made its NYC
premiere in 2002.
(WSJ, 11/5/02, p.D8)
2000 The new $100 million,
140,000-sq.-foot Experience Music Project was due to be completed in
Seattle. It was funded by Paul G. Allen and dedicated to the
celebration of creativity in music.
(SFC, 4/15/99, p.E8)
2000 In Haines, Alaska, Dave Pahl
created his Hammer Museum, a tribute to the oldest human tool. In 2007
he struggled to retain the name as the Armand Hammer Museum of Art
changed its name to the Hammer Museum of Art and applied for a
trademark to the name.
(WSJ, 10/5/07, p.A1)
2000 Victoria Hale founded the
Institute for OneWorldHealth, a non-profit pharmaceutical, to develop
drugs for diseases endemic in developing countries.
(Econ, 4/16/05, p.69)
2000 Gary Kimovich Kasparov (37),
world chess champion (1985-2000), lost to Vladimir Kramnik (25).
(MC, 4/13/02)(SFC, 1/16/04, p.D19)
2000 The US government distributed
a record $28 billion in direct payments to subsidize farmers.
(SSFC, 12/24/00, p.A7)
2000 The Byrd amendment authorized
that money collected from anti-dumping tariffs be disbursed to US
companies hit by unfairly, low-priced imports. In 2004 the WTO ruled
this a violation of its rules.
(WSJ, 9/1/04, p.A3)
2000 A new US federal law was
enacted to protect the religious rights of prisoners. In 2003 a federal
court in Cincinnati ruled the law unconstitutional.
(SFC, 11/8/03, p.A3)
2000 The US Congress created the
T-1 visa as part of the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection
Act of 2000. It allowed victims to stay in the US for 3 years and then
apply for a green card. The act obliged governments to crack down or
face a cutoff of US aid.
(WSJ, 5/26/04, p.A8)(SFC, 10/10/06, p.A8)
2000 The US government sued Andrei
Shleifer, a top Harvard Univ. economist, for seeking profit from his
management of a foreign-aid program in Russia.
(WSJ, 10/12/04, p.A1)
2000 US legislation called the
Iran Nonproliferation Act went into effect. By 2005 it impacted the
Int’l. Space Station project due to Russian weapons trade with Iran.
(Econ, 3/12/05, p.75)
2000 The US Federal Aviation
Authority (FAA) warned carriers and airports that the prospect for a
terrorist hijacking had increased. This information was part of a Sept.
11 Commission report in 2004 and was made public in 2005.
(SFC, 9/14/05, p.A3)
2000 The Delta Regional Authority
(DRA), a federal-state partnership, was created by US Congress to
provide economic assistance to 240 counties in 8 states of the
Mississippi delta. 133 of the counties were in Arkansas, Louisiana and
Mississippi.
(Econ, 5/13/06, p.35)
2000 In West Virginia Democrat Bob
wise defeated Gov. Cecil Underwood (1922-2008).
(SFC, 11/25/08, p.B4)
2000 The Seminole Nation voted to
cast freedmen descendants out of its tribe. The US government in
response cut off most federal programs and refused to authorize gaming.
The Seminole freedman were later allowed back into the tribe.
(SFC, 3/5/07, p.A2)
2000 Jonathan Mcleod worked as an
intern for the office of Illinois Representative J. Dennis Hastert. He
later noted that Congressional Representatives do not read their mail,
that form letters are immediately thrown away, and that responses to
citizen letters are automatically processed with responses that "say
something without saying anything."
(SSFC, 1/11/04, p.D3)
2000 San Jose, Ca., Mayor Ron
Gonzales cut a back room deal with Norcal Waste System that eventually
ensured an $11.25 million pay raise for the garbage collectors without
telling the City Council. Gonzales handed union representation to the
Teamsters and reimbursed increased payroll costs with taxpayer money.
In 2005 the City Council voted 10-0 to censure Gonzales. In 2007 a
judge dismissed corruption charges against Gonzales.
(SFC, 12/9/05, p.B1)(SFC, 12/14/05, p.B1)(SFC,
6/24/06, p.A1)(SFC, 6/13/07, p.B1)
2000 Missouri adopted a
shoot-on-sight policy for feral hogs with no restrictions on time or
place.
(Econ, 12/6/08, p.42)
2000 The Mexican Sagaste-Cruz drug
ring moved in and near Wind River Reservation of Wyoming to deal
methamphetamine. They started with free meth samples. The men pursued
Indian women, providing them with meth even as they romanced them and
fathered their children. Eventually, the women needed to support their
habit, so they became dealers and used free samples to recruit new
customers.
(AP, 4/30/07)
2000 Jon Corzine, former chairman
of Goldman Sachs, spent $63 million to win a Senate seat for New
Jersey. In 2005 he planned to run for governor of NJ.
(Econ, 10/8/05, p.40)
2000 The Oregon state constitution
was amended to include a kicker, i.e. a 1979 law that stipulated that
if the state’s general-fund revenue exceeded budget estimates by 2% or
more, the excess had to go back to taxpayers.
(WSJ, 3/24/06, p.A8)
2000 In the US the ratio of
executive pay to that of the average worker rose to 525 to 1.
(Econ, 11/26/05, p.75)
2000 Conseco Corp., an insurance
and financial services giant, began struggling after an ill-fated
acquisition. The Board pushed out CEO Stephen C. Hilbert, who had
borrowed over $175 million to load up on company stock. In 2002 the
company filed for bankruptcy and pushed Hilbert's debt to over $200
million.
(WSJ, 12/5/03, p.A1)
2002 Architect Frank Gehry founded
Gehry Technologies. The company developed software based on the CATIA
product design tool by Dassault Systems, and later marketed it as
Digital Project, a building information modeling (BIM) tool.
(Econ, 5/31/08, TQ p.20)
2000 Ford Motors spun off its
parts supplier Visteon.
(Econ, 3/12/05, p.61)
2000 GM took full control of Saab.
(www.detnews.com/2005/autosinsider/0501/19/C01-63842.htm)
2000 Gurbaksh Chahal (18),
India-born entrepreneur in San Jose, Ca.,, sold his company Click Agent
for $40 million to competitor Value Click in an all stock merger. In
2007 he sold his 2nd company, Blue Lithium, to Yahoo for $300 million.
(SSFC, 10/26/08, p.F1)
2000 Orbitz, an online travel
assistance site, was put together by a group of airlines for direct
sales to consumers. In 2004 it was sold to Cendant for $1.25 billion.
(Econ, 10/1/05, p.66)
2000 The Alta Vista search engine
began allowing multi media searching.
(SFC, 2/2/08, p.C1)
2000 Google and Yahoo partnered to
provide search on yahoo.com. Google indexed over 1 billion pages,
making it the largest index on the Web.
(SFC, 2/2/08, p.C1)
2000 Baidu.com, a Chinese search
engine, was founded. It went public in 2005.
(SFC, 2/2/08, p.C1)
2000 Xiangzhong “Jerry” Yang
(d.2009 at 49), persudaded Connecticut to establish a $20 million
Center for Regenerative Biology at Storrs. In 1999 Yang helped clone a
calf named Amy, the first farm animal cloned in the US.
(SFC, 2/12/09, p.B4)
2000 Alan G. Lafley took over as
CEO of Procter & Gamble (P&G).
(WSJ, 6/1/05, p.A16)(Econ, 4/15/06, p.68)
2000 Lee Scott took over as head
of Arkansas-based Wal-Mart, the company’s 3rd boss. In late 2007 Scott
announced that he would retire at the end of January, 2009.
(Econ, 11/29/08, p.70)
2000 United Parcel Service (UPS)
introduced an algorithm called VOLCANO (Volume, Location and Aircraft
Network Optimizer), which was jointly developed with MIT.
(Econ, 9/15/07, p.86)
2000 Bradford College of
Massachusetts closed its doors and left debts of almost $20 million.
(Econ, 5/20/06, p.79)
2000 Some 400 Americans made over
$86 million each in this year.
(SSFC, 8/31/03, Par p.1)
2000 Data centers consumed .6% of
the world’s electricity. By 2005 this reached 1%.
(Econ, 5/24/08, p.19)
2000 Abbott Labs introduced
Kaletra, an AIDS drug that included Norvir, a protease inhibitor. In
2003 Abbott quintupled the price for Norvir. Abbott pricing went under
investigation in 2004.
(WSJ, 1/3/07, p.A10)
2000 Wyeth introduced Prevnar, a
vaccine to protect children against 7 strains of bacteria that can
cause ear infections, pneumonia and meningitis. In 2007 researchers
found a strain of bacteria that can cause ear infections, serotype 19A,
that was resistance to all antibiotics approved for children.
(WSJ, 10/17/07, p.D8)
2000 Dr. Leroy Hood (61), former
Caltech professor and founder of Applied Biosystems, helped form the
independent Institute for Systems Biology to explore new ideas in
bio-technology.
(Econ, 9/17/05, TQp.38)
2000 Patrick Henry College opened
in suburban Virginia. It was founded by Michael Farris: “Your calling
is to turn our nation into a Godly foundation.” In 2007 Hanna Rosin
authored “God’s Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission to Save
America.”
(Econ, 2/28/04, p.33)(SSFC, 9/2/07, p.M1)
2000 California Fish and Game
Dept. began looking into bird deaths at Searles Lake in Searles Valley,
San Bernardino County. From 2001-2007 some 348 to 706 birds died at the
lake each year. Searles Valley Minerals, formerly IMC Chemicals,
produced soda ash, boron minerals and sodium sulfate there and pumped
spent brine to form the lake. The birds had died of salt toxicosis. The
lake was also a natural repository of arsenic. Numerous area workers
complained of health problems following their employment. In 2008 the
company was sold by an affiliate of Sun Capital Partners Inc. to Nirma
Ltd., an India-based company.
(SSFC, 7/6/08, p.A10)(SFC, 7/7/08, p.A9)
2000 Forest Guardians filed a
federal lawsuit in New Mexico over bird deaths against IMC Potash
Carlsbad, a division of IMC Global. US Fish and Wildlife estimated that
from 1996-2000 over 1,600 birds had died in a shallow lake where
wastewater was discharged.
(SFC, 7/7/08, p.A9)
2000 Johnnie Lee Gray (58), self
taught African-American painter from Spartanburg SC, died. His
paintings included "The Revolution: We Shall Overcome."
(WSJ, 12/3/02, p.D4)
2000 In Afghanistan Mullah
Qudratullah Jamal, the Taliban minister of information and culture and
Aqajan Motaseb, minister of finance, lead a wrecking crew through the
National Museum. They destroyed a significant portion of the country’s
cultural heritage.
(SFC, 11/22/01, p.A11)
2000 In Burkina Faso Salibo Some
(43) created the Africa’s Sustainable Development Council (ASUDEC) to
help lift villagers out of poverty.
(SFC, 12/13/02, p.K8)
2000 In Canada Mike Lazaridis,
co-founder of Research In Motion (RIM), founded the Perimeter Institute
for Theoretical Physics just outside Ontario’s Waterloo Univ. His
initial support included a donation of C$100 million.
(Econ, 3/19/05, p.68)(Econ, 9/23/06, TQ p.36)
2000 Martin Booth authored "The
Dragon Syndicates," a history of the Chinese criminal societies known
as the triads.
(WSJ, 8/4/00, p.W7)
2000 Bill Kong, Chinese film
producer, released “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.” He had wooed
Hollywood for a year to front half of the film’s $15 million budget.
(WSJ, 9/14/05, p.A1)
2000 China's Pres. Jiang Zemin
launched the "Three Represents" program: the party must represent
China's advanced productive forces, its advanced culture and the
interests of the overwhelming majority of the people.
(Econ, 11/15/03, p.41)
2000 China’s Premier Zhu Rongji
said Beijing will no longer be livable in 35 years due to sand dunes 93
miles away and converging at an annual speed of 2 km.
(SSFC, 8/12/01, p.A21)
2000 China launched its “great
development of the west” program (often referred to as the “Go west”
policy).
(Econ, 12/3/05, p.39)
2000 In Ningbo, China, the Geely
Group began producing cars. By 2006 the plant was producing 180,000
cars a year.
(WSJ, 11/7/06, p.A1)
2000 In China coal mine fatalities
were estimated to be between 5,000 and 10,000 per year with an average
of 13 miners killed per day. Miners earned about $50 per month.
(SFC, 12/25/00, p.B6)(NW, 10/28/02, p.44R)
2000 The WHO ranked China 4th from
the bottom of 191 countries in terms of fairness of its medical
coverage.
(WSJ, 12/5/05, p.A1)
2000 Colombia passed legislation
creating the National Commission for the Seeking of Disappeared People
and authorized it to build a "unified registry" of the missing.
(AP, 8/1/06)
2000 Genmab, a biotech company
based in Denmark, went public with Dr. Lisa Drakeman of the US as CEO.
Drakeman, with a doctorate in the history of religion, had gained
biotech experience in Medarex, a firm created by her husband. In 2006
GlaxoSmithKline paid $357 million for a 10% stake in the company.
(Econ, 6/14/08, p.84)
2000 The population if Fiji this
year was about 813,000.
(SFEC, 6/11/00, p.A26)
2000 Germany’s coalition
government of leftists and Greens passed a law forbidding the shutdown
of the country’s 19 nuclear reactors by 2020.
(Econ, 11/11/06, p.72)
2000 The German power group E.ON
was formed through the merger of Veba and Viag.
(Econ, 2/25/06, p.71)
2000 In Greece a government run
organization in a post-election collapse stopped propping up the market
by trading in state corporations and caused small investors to loose
some 2 billion euros. The general index ended the year with a loss of
38.77%.
(Econ, 4/7/07, p.51)(http://tinyurl.com/ywvnyk)
2000 India converted 8 export
processing zones, which dated back to 1965, to special economic zones
(SEZs), where streamlined procedures, tax breaks and good
infrastructure lured investors to export oriented industries.
(Econ, 10/14/06, p.45)
2000 In India lawmaker Shibu Soren
led a movement that culminated in the new eastern state of Jharkhand
being hived off from Bihar. His people, the impoverished indigenous
forest-dwelling tribe members known as Adivasis, occupied the lowest
rungs of India's complex social ladder, but formed a majority.
(AP, 12/7/06)(Econ, 12/9/06, p.48)
2000 Indonesia enacted laws to
empower the nations 31 provinces and 364 local districts for services
such as education, health, water and electricity. A decentralization
policy allowed regional governments to maximize their operating
revenue. A 2006 World Bank report said the 2000 decentralization policy
caused an explosion in new taxes and charges and hampered economic
growth.
(SFC, 1/2/01, p.A8)(SFC, 1/3/01, p.A10)(WSJ,
6/29/06, p.A6)
2000 Iraq began levying an illegal
surcharge of 50 cents a barrel on its oil-for-food sales in order to
create a revenue stream directly back to Baghdad instead of the
UN’s humanitarian fund.
(WSJ, 9/18/02, p.A1)
2000 By this time Saddam Hussein’s
policy to drain the wetlands of Iraq reduced the area by 85%. Hundreds
of thousands of native Madans had left leaving as few as 20,000. After
the fall of Hussein scientists reflooded the area and by 2007 about 50%
was restored. Madan residents rose to about 90,000.
(WSJ, 3/21/07, p.B11)
2000 Amos Gitai, Israeli film
maker, directed “Kippur,” a drama about the 1973 Arab-Israeli conflict.
(SSFC, 8/6/06, p.E1)(http://tinyurl.com/gyhxr)
2000 The Bank of Japan raised the
key interest rate from zero to .25% and lowered it after 6 months when
the increase made deflation worse.
(Econ, 12/23/06, p.109)
2000 Japan recorded the 1st known
case of two or more people using the Internet to form a suicide pact.
Hundreds of suicides, if not more, from various countries copied that
pattern in the following years.
(Econ, 6/23/07, p.66)
2000 Toyota released its Prius in
the US, the first mass-produced hybrid vehicle.
(WSJ, 12/22/08, p.B2)
2000 Garth Willis of St. Paul,
Minn., founded the Alpine Fund to train local Kyrgyzstan children as
mountain guides.
(SSFC, 11/24/02, p.F5)
2000 A record 469 piracies were
reported worldwide in this year with 72 ship crew members killed. More
than a third occurred in or around Indonesian waters.
(SSFC, 11/11/01, p.F2)
2000 A loose coalition named
"Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy" (LURD) began
fighting against Charles Taylor. Covert support included the US.
(WSJ, 7/31/03, p.A19)
2000 A shipping concern in
Virginia, LISCR, helped Pres. Taylor procure weapons in violation of
the UN arms embargo. The Liberian International Ship and Corporate
Registry began managing Liberia’s shipping registry this year.
(WSJ, 10/24/01, p.A1)(Econ, 8/25/07, p.45)
2000 Both the G-8 group of leading
industrialized nations and the 26-nation Financial Action Task Force
put Liechtenstein on their blacklist of nations deemed uncooperative in
fighting money laundering. The principality scrambled to revise its
laws, and a year later was relieved to be removed from the blacklist.
(AP, 7/2/06)
2000 Mauritania launched a radio
and television campaign to end gavage, the practice of force-feeding
girls to make them gain weight as a sign of health and fertility.
Illiteracy made progress slow.
(WSJ, 12/29/04, p.A1)
2000 Pernod Ricard SA acquired the
Mexican tequila producer Viuda de Romero.
(WSJ, 9/7/05, p.B2)
2000 Pushka Gautam, Maoist
commander in Nepal, defected and established himself as a
Kathmandu-based writer.
(Econ, 12/4/04, p.41)
2000 In Nigeria Anambra Gov.
Chinwoke Mbadinuju invited a fanatical Christian group, the Bakassi
Boys, to enforce law and order after some 35 merchants were killed near
Onitsha.
(SFC, 3/26/01, p.A8)
2000 In Nigeria 12 northern states
declared sharia law.
(Econ, 2/25/06, p.54)
2000 Nigeria was rated the most
corrupt country in the world according to Transparency Int’l. By 2007
it improved to become the 32nd most corrupt.
(Econ, 10/20/07, p.66)
2000 North Korea launched a
nationwide fiber optic intranet known as Kwangmyong (bright).
(Econ, 2/3/07, p.43)
2000 Pakistan’s Pres. Musharraf
dismissed 13 senior judges and got the remaining judges to decree that
his coup was legal and necessary.
(Econ, 7/8/06, Survey p.6)
2000 In the Republic of Congo a
Brazzaville court sentenced former premier Bernard Kolelas to death for
crimes ranging from torture to the rape of prisoners during a
5-month-long civil war in 1997.
(AP, 10/14/05)
2000 A professor at Russia's
Foreign Ministry's Diplomatic Academy said that Japan still had gold
that Russia sent primarily to buy weapons during World War I, according
to Interfax. The Bolshevik Revolution toppled the czar before the war
ended and the weapons never arrived. In 2004 Russia planned to open
discussions for the return of up to $80 billion worth of gold.
(AP, 4/22/04)
2000 Global Domains International,
Inc. (GDI) launched the .WS Internet domain in partnership with
the island nation of Samoa.
(www.website.ws/about.dhtml)
2000 The Democratic Forces for the
Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) was formed after the Kinshasa-based Hutu
command and the Kivu-based Army for the Liberation of Rwanda (ALiR)
agreed to merge.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Forces_for_the_Liberation_of_Rwanda)
2000 It was estimated that Rwanda
made $20 million per month mining coltan in Congo DRC. The mineral is
used in the manufacture of capacitors for electronic equipment.
(www.american.edu/ted/ice/congo-coltan.htm)
2000 In South Africa the
Johannesburg consortium “Business Against Crime” moved its Cueincident
program, a video-monitoring system of the central business district, to
the Carlton building. Crime soon began to decline and people moved back
into the area.
(Econ, 4/8/06, Survey p.11)
2000 In Sweden, in the first round
of pension fund choice, individuals had to choose from a staggering
array of 465 funds.
(www.brookings.edu/papers/2005/06saving_weaver.aspx)
2000 In Sweden Kunskapsskolan
(Knowledge Schools), a private education provider, opened its first 6
schools. By 2008 it had 30 schools.
(Econ, 6/14/08, p.83)
2000 A UN report published in
2002, the 1st of its kind, counted 1.6 million deaths due to violence
in this year.
(WSJ, 10/3/02, p.A1)
2000 The UN launched its “Global
Compact” initiative to bring business and its critics together for an
inclusive dialogue on globalization. By 2000 ten core principles were
drawn up.
(Econ, 6/19/04, p.61)
2000 Venezuela’s largest
electricity company, Electricidad de Caracas, was bought by
Virginia-based AES for $1.7 billion. In 2007 Pres. Chavez planned to
nationalize the company.
(Econ, 1/13/07, p.p33)
2000 Vietnam introduced a liberal
companies law. Over the next 3 years 54,000 private businesses sprang
up.
(Econ, 4/17/04, p.63)
2000 Zambia Consolidated Copper
Mines (ZCCM), a state owned monopoly, was privatized after 4 years of
negotiations.
(Econ, 5/20/06, p.68)
2000-2001 Enron made almost $1 billion off of
California’s energy crises during this period. In 2006 Timothy Belden,
the architect of Enron’s market manipulation schemes, said the profits
came during the 9 months at the height of the crisis. He admitted to
shipping power out of California and then selling it back, creating the
appearance of a shortage, and jacking up prices.
(SFC, 3/2/06, p.C1)
2000-2001 Nurse Vickie Dawn Jackson injected 10 Texas
hospital patients with lethal drug doses at Nocona General Hospital. In
2006 Jackson pleaded no contest to capital murder and was sentenced to
life in prison.
(WSJ, 10/6/06,
p.A1)(http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2531512)
2000-2004 Greenhouse gas emissions grew by 3% during
each of these years. Emissions had grown 1.1% a year in the 1990s.
(Econ, 6/2/07, p.64)
2000-2006 During this period the world GDP per head
increased an average of 3.2% a year.
(Econ, 9/16/06, Survey p.4)
2000-2006 The Interphone study on mobile the threat
to human health from mobile phone use cost $30 million and involved
some 50 scientists working in 13 countries. Results proved very
confusing and inconclusive.
(Econ, 9/27/08, p.93)
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