Timeline 2002 January - March
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2002 Jan 1, No. 2
Oregon defeated No. 3 Colorado 38-16 in the Fiesta Bowl.
(AP, 1/1/03)
2002 Jan 1, Michael Bloomberg
succeeded Rudolph Giuliani as New York City's mayor.
(AP, 1/1/03)
2002 Jan 1, Pres. Bush announced
that envoy Gen. Anthony Zinni would return to the Middle East to push
for steps to renew peace talks.
(SFC, 1/2/02, p.A9)
2002 Jan 1, Eduardo Duhalde, a
Peronist and former vice-president, was chosen as Argentina's new
president, the 5th in less than 2 weeks.
(SFC, 1/2/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan 1, Egyptian state
television launched a new program directed at Israelis. It was planned
to extend the 30 min show to 2 hours.
(SFC, 1/2/02, p.A9)
2002 Jan 1, In Europe 50 billion
new euro coins and 14 billion new euro notes began circulating in 12
participating countries in the most ambitious currency changeover in
history: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece,
Luxembourg, Spain, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands and Portugal.
(SFC, 1/2/02, p.A8)(AP, 1/1/03)
2002 Jan 1, Pakistan ordered the
country's military intelligence agency to cut off backing for Islamic
militant groups fighting in Kashmir.
(SFC, 1/2/02, p.A3)
2002 Jan 1, It was reported that
the number of Vietnamese AIDS cases, people living with HIV, had
reached 40,000. 12-18k new cases were predicted for the coming years.
(SFC, 1/1/02, p.A15)
2002 Jan 2, The No. 5 Florida
Gators crushed No. 6 Maryland 56-23 in the Orange Bowl.
(AP, 1/2/03)
2002 Jan 2, The new Afghan
government confirmed that American bombs had killed the Taliban's
intelligence chief, Qari Ahmadullah.
(AP, 1/2/03)
2002 Jan 2, In Argentina Eduardo
Duhalde was sworn in as president.
(SFC, 1/3/02, p.A6)
2002 Jan 2, In Australia fires
continued near Sydney and almost 160 houses were lost. 21 arson
suspects had been arrested since the fires began Christmas eve. Arson
bombs were found in Sydney's northern suburbs.
(SFC, 1/3/02, p.A4)
2002 Jan 2, In India, Kashmir,
militants detonated 2 grenades near the legislature killing 1 police
officer and wounding at least 24. 2 soldiers were later killed by
militants at an Indian military post in Darhal.
(SFC, 1/3/02, p.A3)
2002 Jan 2, Foreign ministers of
India and Pakistan shook hands at a regional summit in Nepal.
(SFC, 1/3/02, p.A3)
2002 Jan 2, Anil Agarwal, founder
and leader of India’s Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), died of
cancer. Leadership passed to Sunita Narain.
(www.cseindia.org/aboutus/anilji/anilji.htm)(Econ,
8/26/06, p.51)
2002 Jan 2, In Zambia Levy
Mwanawasa (1948-2008) of the ruling Multiparty Democracy (MMD) was
sworn in as president despite protests of ballot stuffing and voter
intimidation. An appeal for a recount was rejected. Nearly 85% of the
country’s 10 million people lived on less than $1 a day. Unrest closed
much of Lusaka. Zambia’s inflation at this time was 21.7%.
(SFC, 1/3/02, p.A4)(WSJ, 1/3/02, p.A1)(SFC, 8/20/08,
p.B4)
2002 Jan 3, Miami beat Nebraska
37-14 in the Rose Bowl.
(AP, 1/3/03)
2002 Jan 3, A three-year federal
investigation into the political and personal finances of Sen. Robert
Torricelli, D-N.J., ended with no criminal charges.
(AP, 1/3/03)
2002 Jan 3, A judge in Alabama
ruled that former Ku Klux Klansman Bobby Frank Cherry was mentally
competent to stand trial on murder charges in the 1963 Birmingham
church bombing that killed four black girls. Cherry was later
convicted, and served a life sentence until his death in November 2004.
(AP, 1/3/07)
2002 Jan 3, US warplanes hit an al
Qaeda compound in the Khost region south of Tora Bora and Islamic
fighters near Baghran were reported to be in negotiations.
(SFC, 1/4/02, p.A19)(WSJ, 1/4/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan 3, The US announced
increased military operations in Somalia and prepared to send Marines
there. It was suspected that Al Qaeda fighters might attempt fleeing to
Somalia.
(SFC, 1/4/02, p.A19)(WSJ, 1/4/02, p.A14)
2002 Jan 3, In Florida the
conviction of Juan Melendez for a 1983 murder was overturned after he
had spent 17 years on death row. In 2000 the transcript of another
man's confession, withheld by prosecutors, was found.
(SFC, 1/4/02, p.A17)(WSJ, 1/4/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan 3, In the US south the
largest snowstorm in a decade stranded thousands and left at least 9
people dead.
(SFC, 1/4/02, p.A7)
2002 Jan 3, Afghan troops beat
back refugees seeking food at a Red Crescent compound in
Jalalabad. There were numerous reports of stolen wheat and relief
supplies attributed to members of the Eastern Shura.
(SFC, 1/4/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan 3, Argentina failed to
make a $28 million payment on a foreign loan. A devaluation of the peso
by 30-40% was expected soon. Duhalde named Jorge Remes Lenicov, former
economic chief of Buenos Aires, as his finance minister.
(SFC, 1/4/02, p.A5)(WSJ, 1/4/02, p.A5)
2002 Jan 3, In Australia fires
continued for the 11th straight day. At least 40 were fires were
started by arsonists. Over 100 fires covered 1,250 square miles.
(SFC, 1/4/02, p.A14)
2002 Jan 3, Israel seized a ship,
Karine A, in the Red Sea carrying 50 tons of advanced weapons allegedly
for the Palestinian Authority. Most of the equipment was from Iran.
Operation Noah's Ark was not reported until the next day when US envoy
Gen. Zinni arrived to promote peace talks. Hezbollah helped broker the
deal and it was reported to have been overseen by Fuad Shubaki, a close
aide to Arafat. Captain Omar Akawi, a member of Fatwah, said he was in
contact with Adel Awadallah, an alias for Adel Mughrabi, a weapons
buyer for the Palestinian Authority.
(SFC, 1/5/02, p.A1,9)(SFC, 1/7/02, p.A3)(SFC,
1/8/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan 3, Juan Garcia Esquivel,
pianist and composer, died in Mexico at age 83. He turned out 10 albums
in the US from 1957-1963.
(SFC, 1/10/02, p.A16)
2002 Jan 3, Alfred Henry Heineken
(78), builder of a global beer brand, died in the Netherlands. Freddie
designed the green bottle and logo. In 1983 he was abducted for weeks
and released unharmed.
(WSJ, 1/4/02, p.A1)(SFC, 1/5/02, p.A22)
2002 Jan 3, Russian forces fought
Chechen rebels for a 6th day in a conflict that left 40 dead. In other
action 5 Russian soldiers were killed in attacks across Chechnya.
Fighting continued in Tsotsin-Yurt. Moscow claimed 100 rebels killed,
but rebels disputed that and said 40 Russians were killed.
(SFC, 1/4/02, p.A17)(WSJ, 1/4/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan 3, The UN made public a
decision by Kofi Annan to pursue war crimes in Sierra Leone with a war
crimes tribunal.
(SFC, 1/5/02, p.A7)
2002 Jan 4, The US Postal Service
announced an increase in 1st class stamps to 37 cents from 34 to take
place June 30.
(SFC, 1/5/02, p.A3)
2002 Jan 4, A WSJ editorial by
former US Army officer Ralph Peters blamed Saudi Arabia as the source
of fundamentalist terrorism. "We must be prepared to seize the Saudi
oil fields and administer them for the greater good."
(WSJ, 1/4/02, p.A12)
2002 Jan 4, Florida coach Steve
Spurrier resigned to pursue an NFL job, two days after leading the
Gators to victory over Maryland in the Orange Bowl.
(AP, 1/4/07)
2002 Jan 4, The WSJ quoted Ali K.
Shukri, retired Jordanian general: a strike on Iraq "is not a question
of whether it's going to happen, but when—and it is coming." Action in
the spring was suggested.
(WSJ, 1/4/02, p.A6)
2002 Jan 4, George and Marisol
Gari, members of the Wasp network Cuban spy ring, were sentenced in
Florida to 7 and 3.5 years.
(SFC, 1/5/02, p.A6)
2002 Jan 4, US Army Special Forces
Sgt. Ross Chapman (31) was killed by enemy fire near Khost,
Afghanistan. He became the 1st US soldier to die there by enemy fire.
(SFC, 1/5/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan 4, Antonio Todde, an
Italian shepherd listed by Guinness as the world's oldest man, died
just shy of his 113th birthday. "Just love your brother and drink a
good glass of red wine every day."
(SFC, 1/5/02, p.A22)
2002 Jan 4, In Argentina Pres.
Duhalde acknowledged that the nation will devalue the peso.
(SFC, 1/5/02, p.A6)
2002 Jan 4, In England a
twin-engine Bombardier Challenger plane crashed at Birmingham
International Airport. Pilots Thomas Boydston (51) Robert Norton (58)
and Timothy Vandevort (41) were killed along with John Shumejda (56)
the president and chief executive of agricultural giant AGCO, and Ed
Swingle (60), the company's senior VP for sales and marketing. A 2004
report said that the crash was caused by the crew's failure to de-ice
the wings before takeoff.
(AP, 8/19/04)
2002 Jan 4, India reported the
death of 15 soldiers and a number of civilians near Amritsar due to the
mishandling of an ammunition filled truck.
(SSFC, 1/13/02, p.A18)
2002 Jan 4, Pakistan continued to
round up alleged militants. Some 200 were said to have been arrested in
the last 10 days. Key leaders of Lashkar-e-Tayyaba and Jaish-e-Mohammed
were among the detained. Pakistan also handed over senior al Qaeda
trainer al-Shaykh al-Libi to the US military.
(SFC, 1/5/02, p.A3,15)
2002 Jan 4, Dolly the 1996
Scotland-born cloned sheep, was reported to be suffering from
arthritis, a sign of premature aging.
(SFEC, 2/23/96, p.C1)(SFC, 1/5/02, p.A2)
2002 Jan 4, Russia announced that
it would reduce its military by over 15%.
(SFC, 1/5/02, p.A6)
2002 Jan 4, South Asian leaders
began a 2-day meeting in Nepal.
(SFC, 1/4/02, p.A3)
2002 Jan 4, It was reported that
$54 million in short term food aid was needed to ward off widespread
starvation in Zimbabwe. The AIDS epidemic, called "Nkondombera" (a
Shona word for "no condom") was claiming over 2,000 people per week.
Inflation was running at over 100% per month. Unemployment was
estimated at 50%.
(SFC, 1/5/02, p.A5)
2002 Jan 5, It was reported that
funds for the Iraqi National Congress (INC), the leading opposition
group to Saddam Hussein, were suspended due to accounting problems.
(SFC, 1/5/02, p.15)
2002 Jan 5, In Florida Charles J.
Bishop (15) crashed a stolen Cessna 172 airplane into the 40-story
Tampa Bank of American building. Bishop left a note saying he acted
alone and expressed sympathy for Osama bin Laden.
(SSFC, 1/6/02, p.A12)
2002 Jan 5, Canada reported plans
to send 900 troops to assist with peacekeeping in Afghanistan.
(SSFC, 1/6/02, p.A9)
2002 Jan 5, Italy's foreign
minister, Renato Ruggiero, resigned after a spat with PM Silvio
Berlusconi over the government's lukewarm reception of the euro.
(SFC, 1/7/02, p.A5)(AP, 1/5/03)
2002 Jan 5, Singapore reported
that authorities had arrested 15 suspected militants between Dec 9-24,
some of whom were al Qaeda trained in Afghanistan.
(SSFC, 1/6/02, p.A8)(SFC, 1/7/02, p.A8)
2002 Jan 6, US envoy Zinni wound
up his 2nd mission to the Middle East with little progress on peace
talks.
(WSJ, 1/7/02, p.A10)
2002 Jan 6, Christa Worthington
(46), fashion writer, was found dead at her home in Truro on Cape Cod,
Mass. Her 2-year-old daughter was next to her, covered in blood but
unharmed. In 2005 DNA evidence identified Christopher McCowen, a local
trash collector, as the murderer. In 2006 McCowen was convicted and
sentenced to life without parole.
(SFC, 4/16/05, p.A5)(SFC, 11/17/06, p.A4)
2002 Jan 6, Anti-Taliban troops in
Afghanistan planned to starve out 7 al Qaeda members holed up in a
Kandahar hospital.
(SFC, 1/7/02, p.A8)
2002 Jan 6, Argentina devalued its
currency 29% with an official exchange rate of 1.4 pesos to the dollar
and promised to ease limits on cash withdrawals. This ended a
decade-long policy pegging the currency one-to-one with the U.S.
dollar. In the year that followed, the peso lost 70 percent of its
value against the dollar.
(SFC, 1/7/02, p.A3)(WSJ, 1/7/02, p.A3)(AP, 1/6/03)
2002 Jan 6, It was reported that
Costa Rica required medical professionals to serve a year treating
disadvantaged communities. Mandatory community service programs were in
place for high school students.
(SSFC, 1/6/02, p.A3)
2002 Jan 6, Construction began to
expand Camp X-Ray at the US Guantanamo base in Cuba to house detainees
from Afghanistan. The 1st prisoners arrived Jan 11. As the number of
prisoners rose Camp Delta was added.
(WSJ, 1/26/05, p.A10)
2002 Jan 6, It was reported that
Egypt required female graduates of secondary schools, exempt from the
military draft, to spend 6 months in a service program.
(SSFC, 1/6/02, p.A3)
2002 Jan 6, India shot down an
unmanned Pakistani spy plane. Pres. Vajpayee met with PM Tony Blair in
New Delhi.
(SFC, 1/7/02, p.A3)
2002 Jan 6, Italy's Premier
Berlusconi named himself interim foreign minister.
(SFC, 1/7/02, p.A5)
2002 Jan 6, It was reported that
Malaysia authorities had arrested 13 suspected members of extremist
groups since Dec 9 with possible links to the Sep 11 attacks.
(SSFC, 1/6/02, p.A8)
2002 Jan 6, It was reported that
Mexico had a national service program that required participation by
all university graduates and that medical students were required to
work in disadvantaged communities for one year before being licensed.
(SSFC, 1/6/02, p.A3)
2002 Jan 6, It was reported that
Nigeria had a National Youth Service Corps that required participation
by all university graduates under age 30.
(SSFC, 1/6/02, p.A3)
2002 Jan 7, US planes bombed cave
complexes in Afghanistan as British PM Tony Blair and 9 U.S. senators
swept into Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan for an unannounced visit and
promised Afghan leaders their full support in rebuilding the shattered
country..
(SFC, 1/8/02, p.A11)(WSJ, 1/8/02, p.A1)(AP, 1/7/03)
2002 Jan 7, Louis Pollak, a
federal judge in Philadelphia, challenged the scientific validity of
fingerprint evidence. In March Pollak declared fingerprint id to be the
"bedrock of forensic science."
(SSFC, 2/24/02, p.A1)(SFC, 3/14/02, p.A3)
2002 Jan 7, Yves Saint Laurent
announced his retirement and closure of the fashion house he'd started
40 years earlier.
(SFC, 1/8/02, p.A1)(AP, 1/7/03)
2002 Jan 7, Scientists reported
that symptoms of Parkinson's were relieved in rats when stem cells were
injected into their brains.
(WSJ, 1/8/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan 7, Comedian Avery
Schreiber died in Los Angeles at age 66.
(AP, 1/7/03)
2002 Jan 7, In Kandahar 7 Taliban
officials surrendered and were released by the governor. None of the
released were on US wanted lists.
(SFC, 1/10/02, p.A1)(SFC, 1/11/02, p.A13)
2002 Jan 8, Ozzie Smith, regarded
as the finest-fielding shortstop ever, was elected to the Baseball Hall
of Fame on his first try.
(AP, 1/8/03)
2002 Jan 8, Pres. Bush signed an
education bill that tied federal aid to test performance. It was the
most far-reaching federal education bill in nearly 4 decades.
(WSJ, 1/9/02, p.A1)(AP, 1/8/03)
2002 Jan 8, The Bush
administration sent a secret report to Congress, the "Nuclear Posture
Review," that said the Pentagon needs to be prepared to use nuclear
weapons against 7 nations: China, Russia, Iraq, North Korea, Syria,
Iran, and Libya. A furor erupted when it was leaked to the press in
March.
(SFC, 3/9/02, p.A1)(SFC, 3/11/02, p.A3)
2002 Jan 8, Dave Thomas (69),
founder of Wendy's hamburger chain, died in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
(SFC, 1/9/02, p.A1)(AP, 1/8/03)
2002 Jan 8, Cecilia Garcia (24)
was found dead by her father in the shower of her home in Livermore. In
2010 Bryan Vulgamore (34) of Modesto was charged with her murder.
(SFC, 1/21/10, p.C2)
2002 Jan 8, US soldiers captured
14 suspected fighters at the Zhawar Kili cave and bunker complex near
Khost. An al Qaeda fighter blew himself up with a grenade during an
escape attempt at a Kandahar hospital. 2 senior al Qaeda leaders were
reported caught with documents and laptops, while fleeing bombing in
eastern Afghanistan. An intensified search was reported to be in
progress for Abu Zubeida (Zain al-Abidin Muhammad Husain), the director
of external affairs for al Qaeda.
(SFC, 1/9/02, p.A8)
2002 Jan 8, The Most Rev. George
Carey, the Archbishop of Canterbury, announced his retirement as
spiritual leader of the world's 70 million Anglicans.
(AP, 1/8/03)
2002 Jan 8, India and Pakistan
traded fire on their Kashmir border.
(WSJ, 1/9/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan 8, Iran's Revolutionary
Court began the closed door trial of 15 men charged with plotting to
overthrow the Islamic system
(SFC, 1/9/02, p.A5)
2002 Jan 9, The Bush
administration and the auto industry agreed to promote development of
pollution-free cars and trucks powered by hydrogen fuel cells.
(AP, 1/9/03)
2002 Jan 9, The US Supreme Court
ruled that jurors weighing a death sentence must be told if a life term
excludes parole.
(WSJ, 1/10/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan 9, Lawyers advised the
Pentagon that the Geneva Conventions do not apply to the Taliban or al
Qaeda and that the President has the authority to suspend the Geneva
Conventions.
(SFC, 6/23/04, p.A13)
2002 Jan 9, Ashley Pond (12) was
last seen in Oregon City, 20 miles south of Portland, Or. Miranda
Gaddis (13) disappeared from the same neighborhood on Mar 8. The
remains of Gaddis were found Aug 24 behind the house of Ward Weaver
(39), who lived across the street. Weaver was arrested Aug 13 for the
rape of his 19-year-old son's girlfriend. Pond's remains were found Aug
25.
(SSFC, 8/25/02, p.A7)(SFC, 8/26/02, p.A3)(SFC,
8/27/02, p.A3)
2002 Jan 9, A US KC-130 aerial
refueler crashed at Kharan, Pakistan, and all 7 marines aboard were
killed.
(SFC, 1/10/02, p.A1)(WSJ, 1/10/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan 9, In Colombia Pres.
Pastrana gave FARC 48 hours to retire from their designated safe haven.
(SFC, 1/10/02, p.A8)
2002 Jan 9, In Israel 2 Hamas
gunmen attacked a military post and killed 4 Israeli soldiers. Israel
halted work on a mosque next to the Christian Basilica of the
Annunciation.
(SFC, 1/10/02, p.A1)(AP, 1/9/03)
2002 Jan 9, In the Philippines
Gen. Diomedio Villanueva said some 100 US military advisers will be
allowed to join front-line Philippine troops fighting Abu Sayyaf rebels.
(SFC, 1/10/02, p.A8)
2002 Jan 9, In Zimbabwe the
military chiefs put their support behind Pres. Mugabe saying they would
only accept a president who fought in the war for independence.
(SFC, 1/10/02, p.A8)
2002 Jan 10, Todd Eldredge won his
6th US Figure Skating Championship title.
(AP, 1/10/03)
2002 Jan 10, The White House
revealed that Enron Corp. had sought the administration's help shortly
before collapsing with the life savings of many workers.
(AP, 1/10/03)
2002 Jan 10, A US military
transport took off carrying al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners to the US
Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba. Prisoners were set up in an area
called Camp X-Ray. In 2004 David Rose authored “Guantanamo: The War on
Human Rights.”
(SFC, 1/11/02, p.A5)(SFC, 1/26/02, p.A10)(SSFC,
11/21/04, p.E6)
2002 Jan 10, US Energy Sec.
Spencer Abraham said he found the Nevada site at Yucca Mountain
"scientifically sound and suitable" as a nuclear waste repository.
(SFC, 1/11/02, p.A3)(WSJ, 1/11/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan 10, A CIA report said
China, North Korea and Iran will probably have long-range missile
capable of reaching the US by 2015.
(SFC, 1/11/02, p.A7)
2002 Jan 10, Ethan Zohn (27) was
the latest million dollar "Survivor" winner.
(SFC, 1/11/02, p.A2)
2002 Jan 10, An F-16 crashed near
the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey. The pilot ejected safely.
(SFC, 1/11/02, p.A5)
2002 Jan 10, In Afghanistan gunmen
attacked the Kandahar airport as a US military transport took off
carrying al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners to the US Guantanamo Bay naval
base in Cuba. Prisoners were set up in an area called Camp X-Ray.
(SFC, 1/11/02, p.A5)(SFC, 1/26/02, p.A10)
2002 Jan 10, In Argentina
thousands of middle-class families protested in Buenos Aires. The
government had ordered checking deposits of $10k and savings over $3k
switched to fixed-term deposits and out of reach for at least a year.
(SSFC, 1/13/02, p.A17)
2002 Jan 10, In Chechnya Russian
troops lifted a weeklong blockade of Argun.
(WSJ, 1/11/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan 10, In Colombia Pres.
Pastrana sent troops to the demilitarized zone occupied by the FARC.
(SFC, 1/11/02, p.A6)
2002 Jan 10, In Gabon a medical
team fled the site of an Ebola outbreak following threats after they
insisted that villagers not touch corpses at funerals.
(WSJ, 1/11/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan 10, Israel demolished
dozens of Palestinian homes in Rafah. The Islamic Jihad said it would
resume attacks as Palestinian police arrested 2 of its members
(SFC, 1/11/02, p.A3)(WSJ, 1/11/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan 11, Alan Greenspan said
the US economy is still vulnerable.
(SFC, 1/12/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan 11, The first planeload
of al-Qaida prisoners from Afghanistan arrived at a U.S. military
detention camp in Guantanamo, Cuba.
(AP, 1/11/03)
2002 Jan 11, Ford Motor Co.
announced it was eliminating 35,000 jobs, closing five plants and
dropping four models.
(SFC, 1/12/02, p.B1)(AP, 1/11/03)
2002 Jan 11, Frank Gruttadauria
(44), Lehman Brothers stock broker, was last seen in Cleveland. It was
later reported that $300 million were missing from the accounts of some
2 dozen Lehman clients. Gruttadauria turned himself in Feb 9.
(WSJ, 2/8/02, p.A1)(SSFC, 2/10/02, p.A15)
2002 Jan 11, In Argentina the peso
sank 40% on its 1st day of floating trade after 11 years of being tied
to the U.S. dollar.
(SFC, 1/12/02, p.A14)(AP, 1/11/03)
2002 Jan 11, Israeli tanks and
bulldozers plowed up runways at the Gaza Int'l. Airport. Palestinian
police detained 2 Palestinian officials suspected of smuggling arms
into Gaza.
(SFC, 1/11/02, p.A3)(SFC, 1/12/02, p.A6)
2002 Jan 11, In Russia an appeals
court ordered the liquidation of TV-6, the country's last major
independent TV channel.
(SFC, 1/12/02, p.A2)
2002 Jan 12, Michelle Kwan won her
fifth successive U.S. Figure Skating Championships crown and sixth
overall.
(AP, 1/12/03)
2002 Jan 12, The United States
intensified its anti-terror campaign in eastern Afghanistan, dropping
bombs on suspected al-Qaida and Taliban hideouts.
(SSFC, 1/13/02, p.A8)(AP, 1/12/03)
2002 Jan 12, Cyrus R. Vance (84),
former US Sec. of State under Jimmy Carter, died in New York.
(SSFC, 1/13/02, p.A27)(AP, 1/12/03)
2002 cJan 12, The World Food
Program halted aid shipments to Afghanistan this week due to theft and
looting by bandits and warlords.
(SSFC, 1/13/02, p.A10)
2002 Jan 12, In Colombia Pres.
Pastrana rejected a last minute FARC proposal to save the peace process.
(SSFC, 1/13/02, p.A19)
2002 Jan 12, Israeli missile boats
hit a Palestinian fuel depot in a 4th day of reprisals.
(SSFC, 1/13/02, p.A20)
2002 Jan 12, Malaysia announced
the arrests of 2 more suspected militants tied to al Qaeda and linked
to a cell in Singapore.
(SSFC, 1/13/02, p.A11)
2002 Jan 12-13, In Mexico a rain
storm was followed by a freeze and as many as 270 million monarch
butterflies were killed at the Rosario and Sierra Chincua colonies in
Michoacan state.
(SFC, 2/12/02, p.A4)(SFC, 2/18/02, p.A3)
2002 Jan 12, In Nigeria fighting
broke out in Owo when members of the Odua People's Congress approached
the palace of a Yoruba tribal leader. Dozens were feared dead.
(SFC, 1/14/02, p.A6)
2002 Jan 12, In Northern Ireland
Protestant militants, the Red Hand Defenders, killed a Catholic
postman, Daniel McColgan (20). On Jan 16 the group announced that it
was disbanding and lifting its threat to kill Catholic workers.
(WSJ, 1/14/02, p.A1)(SFC, 1/17/02, p.a10)
2002 Jan 12, Pakistan's Pres.
Musharraf vowed to crack down on militant Islamists using Pakistan as a
base of operations in Kashmir. Musharraf also announced new regulations
on education criteria for the estimated 6,000 madrassas, the Islamic
schools.
(SSFC, 1/13/02, p.A1)(SFC, 1/21/02, p.A10)
2002 Jan 12, In Zimbabwe police
fired on some 5,000 opposition supporters in Buhera. Opposition MDC
offices were wet on fire in Kwekwe.
(SFC, 1/15/02, p.A9)
2002 Jan 13, The off-Broadway
musical "The Fantasticks" was performed for the last time, ending a run
of nearly 42 years and 17,162 shows.
(AP, 1/13/03)
2002 Jan 13, Pres. Bush lost
consciousness briefly after he choked on a cookie while watching a
football game on TV.
(SFC, 1/14/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan 13, Treasury Secretary
Paul O'Neill and Commerce Secretary Don Evans said on talk shows they
had never considered intervening in Enron's spiral toward bankruptcy,
nor informed President Bush of requests for help from the fallen energy
giant.
(AP, 1/13/03)
2002 Jan 13, Christian Michael
Longo (27), wanted on charges of killing his wife and three children in
2001 and dumping their bodies into coastal waters off Oregon, was
arrested in Mexico. Longo had fled the US and impersonated journalist
Michael Finkel while abroad. Finkel was fired by the NY Times Magazine
in February for creating a composite character in a story on child
slavery in West Africa. In 2005 Finkel authored “True Story: Murder,
Memoir, Mea Culpa.”
(SFC, 1/15/02, p.A1)(AP, 1/13/03)(SSFC, 6/5/05, p.B2)
2002 Jan 13, Ted Demme, film and
TV director, died at age 38 while playing in a celebrity basketball
game in Santa Monica.
(SFC, 1/15/02, p.A17)
2002 Jan 13, In India armed
militants in Tripura state killed 16 and wounded 10 in the Singicherra
area. The outlawed National Liberation Front of Tripura targeted
Bengali immigrants.
(SFC, 1/14/02, p.A6)
2002 Jan 13, Muslim scholars
concluded a 6-day conference in Mecca and issued a definition of
terrorism as: "all acts of aggression committed by individuals, groups
or states against human beings, including attacks on their religion,
life, intellect or property.
(WSJ, 1/14/02, p.A12)
2002 Jan 14, Two members of
Congress released excerpts of a letter to Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay
the previous August in which Enron executive Sherron Watkins warned of
the reckless practices that eventually brought down the energy-trading
giant.
(AP, 1/14/03)
2002 Jan 14, US warplanes began to
seal caves near Khost, Afghanistan.
(WSJ, 1/15/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan 14, In Colombia the
government and FARC rebels agreed to salvage peace talks.
(SFC, 1/15/02, p.A9)
2002 Jan 14, An Israeli bomb in
the West Bank killed Raed Karmi (27), a Palestinian militia leader. A
short time later a Palestinian gunmen killed an Israeli and wounded
another in a roadside ambush.
(SFC, 1/15/02, p.A8)
2002 Jan 14, In Pakistan police
continued a round-up of Islamic militants and increased the number of
detainees to nearly 1,500.
(SFC, 1/15/02, p.A10)
2002 Jan 14, PM Bulent Ecevit of
Turkey began a 5-day visit to Washington.
(WSJ, 1/14/02, p.A12)
2002 Jan 14, The World Trade
Organization (WTO) decided the European Union could ask for punitive
tariffs on U.S. imports.
(AP, 1/14/03)
2002 Jan 15, It was reported that
an American, Clark Russell Bowers (37), had been taken hostage in
Afghanistan with ransom at $25k.
(SFC, 1/15/02, p.A10)
2002 Jan 15, Nancy Pelosi,
California Senator, began her position as Democratic whip.
(SFC, 1/15/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan 15, John Walker Lindh of
Marin, Ca., was charged with conspiring to kill Americans as a Taliban
member in Afghanistan.
(SFC, 1/16/02, p.A1)(SFC, 1/25/02, p.A20)
2002 Jan 15, In Argentina
protesters rioted in 3 provinces as the peso fell to 1.95 to the dollar
from 1.7
(SFC, 1/16/02, p.A8)
2002 Jan 15, Fighting began in
Burundi between the army and Hutu rebels. At least 60 people were dead
after a week.
(SFC, 1/26/02, p.A8)
2002 Jan 15, China reported that
at least 50 miners were killed in 3 separate mine accidents.
(SFC, 1/16/02, p.A7)
2002 Jan 15, In Colombia FARC
rebels staged attacks in Puente Quetame, Ibague, Guayabal and Cubarral
following an accord to continue peace talks. At least 4 people were
killed.
(SFC, 1/16/02, p.A8)
2002 Jan 15, Palestinian gunmen
killed 2 Israelis in separate attacks in the West Bank and near
Jerusalem. Avi Boaz (71) was abducted and killed after visiting with a
Palestinian family. The Palestinian Authority arrested Ahmed Saadat,
sec. gen'l. of the PFLP.
(SFC, 1/16/02, p.A7)(SFC, 1/17/02, p.A11)
2002 Jan 15, Philippine police
arrested Fathur Rohman Al-Ghozi of Indonesia, an alleged bomb-maker in
an al Qaeda linked terrorist cell. Ghozi admitted to providing
munitions and financing for the Dec 30, 2000, attack in Manila that
killed 22.
(WSJ, 1/21/02, p.A10)
2002 Jan 15, In the Philippines 15
people were killed in a shootout between Muslim demonstrators and
police in Jolo.
(SFC, 1/16/02, p.A7)
2002 Jan 16, Richard Reid, the al
Qaeda trained shoe-bomber, was indicted on 9 counts in Boston. Reid
pleaded guilty Oct 4.
(SFC, 1/17/02, p.A1)(AP, 10/4/02)
2002 Jan 16, Mokhtar Haouari was
sentenced to 24 years in prison for providing fake ID and $3,000 to
Ahmed Ressam in 1999. Ressam planned to detonate explosives at the LA
Int'l. Airport during millennium celebrations.
(SFC, 1/17/02, p.A12)
2002 Jan 16, Four former SLA
members, Sara Jane Olson, William Harris, Emily Harris and Michael
Bortin, were arrested in California for the 1975 slaying of Myrna Lee
Opsahl.
(SFC, 1/17/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan 16, In Grundy, Va., Peter
Odighizuwa shot and killed the dean, a professor and a student at the
Appalachian School of Law following suspension due to low grades. He
was later found incompetent to stand trial.
(SFC, 1/17/02, p.A3)(AP, 1/16/03)
2002 Jan 16, In Afghanistan Hamid
Karzai issued a decree that banned the cultivation of opium poppies.
(SFC, 1/17/02, p.A12)
2002 Jan 16, In Cyprus rival
leaders, Glafcos Clerides and Rauf Denktash, met on the border in
Nicosia in the 1st formal negotiation in 4 years.
(SFC, 1/17/02, p.A8)
2002 Jan 16, In Indonesia a Boeing
737-300 with 60 people crash-landed on a river in Java. One person was
killed and 23 injured.
(SFC, 1/17/02, p.A10)
2002 Jan 16, In Pakistan the
government announced electoral reforms and freed non-Muslims to vote
along with the Islamic majority. Lower house seats were increased to
350 from 237 and college graduation was made a requirement for
candidates.
(SFC, 1/17/02, p.A13)
2002 Jan 16, Pakistan police
arrested 5 al Qaeda members in Punjab province as they attempted to
flee disguised under burqas.
(SFC, 1/18/02, p.A18)
2002 Jan 16, In the West Bank a
Palestinian killed another Palestinian, who was mistaken for an Israeli.
(SFC, 1/17/02, p.A11)
2002 Jan 17, Enron fired
accounting firm Arthur Andersen, citing its destruction of thousands of
documents and its accounting advice; for its part, Andersen said its
relationship with Enron ended in early December 2001 when the company
slid into the biggest corporate bankruptcy in U.S. history.
(AP, 1/17/03)
2002 Jan 17, US Sec. of State
Powell visited Afghanistan and pledged that the US would not abandon
the country.
(SFC, 1/18/02, p.A20)(WSJ, 1/18/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan 17, In Arizona 2 A-10
Thunderbolt II attack jets collided and 1 pilot was killed.
(SFC, 1/18/02, p.A4)
2002 Jan 17, In Argentina Roque
Maccarone, president of the Central Bank, resigned in a dispute with
Economic Minister Remes Lenicov over ways to preserved the value of the
peso.
(SFC, 1/18/02, p.A6)
2002 Jan 17, The Congo volcano
Mount Nyiragongo erupted near Goma and rivers of lava destroyed 14
villages. Goma was devastated and some 400,000 people fled their homes.
At least 50 people were killed.
(SFC, 1/18/02, p.A8)(SFC, 1/19/02, p.A1)(SSFC,
1/20/02, p.A16)
2002 Jan 17, An Ecuadoran
oil-company plane crashed in Colombia and all 26 aboard were feared
dead. The plane was found Jan 24 with no survivors.
(WSJ, 1/21/02, p.A1)(SFC, 1/25/02, p.A15)
2002 Jan 17, In Leicester,
England, police arrested 2 Algerian men allegedly involved in a plot to
bomb the US Embassy in Paris. Another 8 men were arrested north of
London under the Terrorism Act.
(SFC, 1/18/02, p.A16)
2002 Jan 17, In Hadera, Israel, a
Palestinian gunmen opened fire at a bat mitzvah party and killed 6
people before he was beaten and killed. 30 more were wounded.
(SFC, 1/18/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan 17, In Nigeria labor
leaders ended a 2-day general strike after Adams Oshiomole and other
activists of the Labor Congress were arrested.
(SFC, 1/18/02, p.A8)
2002 Jan 17, In Peru some 200
Aguaruna Indians attacked settlers near the Ecuador border and killed
14 people. Landless peasants had begun settling the area in 1989.
(SFC, 1/19/02, p.A4)
2002 Jan 17, Camilo Jose Cela
(85), Spanish novelist and 1989 Noble Prize winner, died in Madrid.
(WSJ, 1/18/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan 18, New US bomb-screening
measures went into effect that included tying passengers to their
checked baggage.
(WSJ, 1/18/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan 18, Sara Jane
Olson, '70s radical-turned-suburban mother, was sentenced in Los
Angeles to 20 years to life in prison for plotting to blow up a pair of
police cars 27 years earlier. On March 17 2008 Olson was released on
parole, but soon returned to prison for another year due to an alleged
clerical error made in 2004. In 2009 Olson (62) was freed from prison
in California and returned to Minnesota to serve a year long
parole.
(AP, 1/18/03)(AP, 3/21/08)(SFC, 3/24/08, p.B1)(SFC,
3/18/09, p.A5)
2002 Jan 18, Talk magazine
announced it was shutting down, less than three years after its highly
publicized launch.
(AP, 1/18/03)
2002 Jan 18, Estimates of Afghan
civilian deaths from US bombing were set at 1,000 to 1,300 by the Mass.
think tank, Project on Defense Alternatives.
(SFC, 1/19/02, p.A6)
2002 Jan 18, US forces took 6
terrorism suspects, held since October, from Bosnia after local courts
ruled that there was too little evidence to hold them. The suspects
included Bensayah Belkacem, a key European al Qaeda lieutenant.
Protesters clashed with riot police.
(SFC, 1/19/02, p.A12)(SFC, 1/23/02, p.A9)(WSJ,
3/18/02, p.A10)
2002 Jan 18, In Brazil Celso
Daniel, the PT mayor of Santo Andre, a Sao Paulo suburb, was kidnapped
by a gang seeking to free comrades from prison. His bullet-riddled body
was found Jan 20. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Brazil claimed
responsibility (Brazilian Revolutionary Action Front) for the killing
and the Sep murder of another Workers' Party mayor.
(WSJ, 1/21/02, p.A1)(SFC, 1/26/02, p.A8)
2002 Jan 18, Bayer AG disclosed
that as many as 100 deaths might be linked to Baycol, a promising
cholesterol drug that was withdrawn in Aug 2001.
(WSJ, 1/21/02, p.A10)
2002 Jan 18, Five Colombian police
officers died while protecting a downed UH-1N helicopter. The US
helicopter was destroyed to keep it out of rebel hands.
(SFC, 1/25/02, p.A15)
2002 Jan 18, Israeli forces bombed
the Palestinian town of Tulkarm and at least 2 Palestinians were
killed. Two Israeli tanks and an armored personnel carrier parked
outside Yasser Arafat's headquarters, confining the Palestinian leader
to his office complex a day after a Palestinian gunman burst into a
banquet hall and gunned down six Israelis.
(SFC, 1/19/02, p.A1)(AP, 1/18/03)
2002 Jan 18, In Mexico Feliz
Alonso Fernandez Garcia, editor of the weekly Nueva Opcion magazine,
was shot and killed after filing a report that linked former mayor Raul
Rodriguez Barrera and drug traffickers.
(SFC, 1/24/02, p.A8)
2002 Jan 18, It was reported that
the biography: "Vladimir Putin: a Life Story" by Oleg Blotsky was being
released in Moscow.
(SFC, 1/18/02, p.A7)
2002 Jan 19, Benneta Buell-Wilson
(42) was left a paraplegic after her Ford Explorer rolled over in San
Diego County after she swerved to avoid an obstacle on the road. An
initial ruling awarded her $122 million in compensation and $246
million in punitive damages. The trial judge reduced the total to $150
million. In 2006 an appeals court reduced the total award to $82
million. In 2009 the US Supreme Court upheld her $55 million in
punitive damages.
(SFC, 7/20/06, p.B2)(SFC, 12/1/09, p.C3)
2002 Jan 19, It was reported that
China had imposed new Internet controls and required service providers
to screen all e-mail messages for political content.
(SFC, 1/19/02, p.A4)
2002 Jan 19, Israel troops set off
a powerful explosion that gutted the official Palestinian broadcasting
building in Ramallah, dealing another retaliatory blow to Yasser Arafat
and the Palestinian Authority.
(SFC, 1/19/02, p.A1)(AP, 1/19/03)
2002 Jan 19, Mexican federal
officials froze the bank accounts 9 current and former executive of
Petroleos Mexicano in a $120 million corruption scheme tied to the PRI.
(SFC, 1/22/02, p.A8)
2002 Jan 19, Spain arrested 2
suspected members of al Qaeda.
(SSFC, 1/20/02, p.A4)
2002 Jan 20, In the 59th annual
Golden Globes Ron Howard's "A Beautiful Mind" was named best drama and
its star, Russell Crowe, the top dramatic actor; Sissy Spacek was named
best dramatic actress for "In the Bedroom" while Baz Luhrmann's "Moulin
Rouge" won 3 awards including best musical or comedy.
(SFC, 1/21/02, p.D1)(AP, 1/20/03)
2002 Jan 20, A US CH-53E Super
Stallion helicopter crashed in Afghanistan after take off from Bagram
air base. Marines Dwight Morgan and Walter Cohee III were killed.
(AP, 1/20/03)(SSFC, 1/20/02, p.A14)(SFC, 1/21/02,
p.A1)
2002 Jan 20, Carrie Hamilton,
actress and daughter of Carol Burnett, died of cancer at age 38.
(SFC, 1/21/02, p.B5)
2002 Jan 20, John Jackson,
Virginia bluesman, died at age 77.
(SFC, 1/22/02, p.A20)
2002 Jan 20, In Colombia rebel and
government negotiators agreed to a timetable for cease-fire talks.
(SFC, 1/21/02, p.A11)
2002 Jan 20, Thousands of
Congolese left Rwanda to return to Goma after receiving scant help.
(SFC, 1/21/02, p.A3)
2002 Jan 20, Israeli forces took
control of Tulkarem in the West Bank and soldiers arrested dozens of
suspected militants.
(SFC, 1/21/02, p.A7)
2002 Jan 21, Sec. of State Colin
Powell said the US would contribute $297 million for Afghan
reconstruction over the coming year during a conference on Afghan
reconstruction in Tokyo. Int'l. donors pledged over $4.5 billion over 5
years.
(SFC, 1/21/02, p.A1)(SFC, 1/22/02, p.A12)
2002 Jan 21, K-Mart, the 3rd
largest US discount retailer, filed for bankruptcy protection. Kmart
was operating 2,114 stores with 250,000 employees.
(SFC, 1/22/02, p.A1)(Ind, 2/2/02, 5A)
2002 Jan 21, Peggy Lee (b.1920),
jazz and blues singer, died at age 81 in Bel Air, Calif.
(SFC, 1/23/02, p.A2)(AP, 1/21/03)
2002 Jan 21, In Goma, Congo, a gas
station exploded after some spilled gas was ignited by lava. Dozens of
people looting gasoline were killed.
(SFC, 1/22/02, p.A6)
2002 Jan 21, In Alexandria, Egypt,
a small group of leading rabbis, Muslim clerics and bishops signed the
Alexandria Doctrine, which condemned violence and insisted that holy
places be kept open.
(http://tinyurl.com/2pey69)(Econ, 11/3/07, SR p.13)
2002 Jan 21, Haiti's prime
minister quit amid political and economic woes.
(WSJ, 1/22/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan 21, Israeli forces
invaded Nablus, killed Palestinians and arrested 9 suspected militants.
PM Sharon decided to reopen the Temple Mount to non-Muslims. The Waqf
clerical trust imposed a ban on non-Muslims in Sep, 2000.
(SFC, 1/22/02, p.A7)
2002 Jan 21, In Kashmir 21 people
died in violence.
(WSJ, 1/22/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan 21, In Russia the media
minister took TV6 off the air after journalists there failed to cut
ties with owner Boris Berezovsky. Russian troops rounded up dozens in
Dagestan following an earlier bomb attack that killed 7 soldiers.
(SFC, 1/22/02, p.A8)
2002 Jan 22, Kmart Corp., the
discount chain that gave America the BlueLight Special, filed for
Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
(AP, 1/22/07)
2002 Jan 22, Stanley Marcus
(b.1905), former president and chairman of the Texas based Nieman
Marcus department store chain, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Marcus)
2002 Jan 22, Jack Shea (91), a
gold medal-winning speedskater and patriarch of the nation's first
family with three generations of Olympians, died in Lake Placid, N.Y.,
of injuries suffered in a car accident.
(AP, 1/22/03)
2002 Jan 22, US officials reported
that Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, a former head of al Qaeda training in
Afghanistan, had provided information on an alleged plot to blow up the
US Embassy in Yemen a week earlier.
(SFC, 1/23/02, p.A9)
2002 Jan 22, The Myanmar army was
charged by Amnesty Int’l. of killing and torturing hundreds of ethnic
Shan villagers. Some 300,000 Shan villagers have been forced to flee
their homes in the past 2 years.
(SFC, 1/23/02, p.A6)
2002 Jan 25, Chinese PM Zhu Rongji
visited Bangalore and said: You are number one in software, and we are
number one in hardware. If Indian software and Chinese hardware work
together, we can create a force that will be number one in the world.
(SSFC, 1/27/02, p.A24)
2002 Jan 22, At least 4 police
officers were killed when 2 gunmen opened fired at the American Center
in Calcutta. 19 people were wounded. 3 Bangladeshis and 3 teachers from
an Islamic school were later arrested and charged with murder. Gangster
Aftab Ansari was later arrested in Dubai and said his motive was to
punish police for killing his friend, Asif Raza Khan, last year.
Harkat-ul Jihadi-e-Islami (HUJEI) was later implicated. In 2005 7
people were sentenced to death for the killings.
(SFC, 1/22/02, p.A8)(SFC, 1/23/02, p.A4)(SFC,
1/24/02, p.A7)(SSFC, 2/10/02, p.A14)(SFC, 2/15/02, p.A20)(AP, 4/27/05)
2002 Jan 22, In Indonesia troops
shot and killed Abdullah Syafei, commander of the Free Aceh Movement.
(SFC, 1/24/02, p.A8)
2002 Jan 22, Israeli troops killed
4 Hamas militants in Nablus. Yousef Soragji (42), mastermind of several
suicide bombings, was among the dead.
(SFC, 1/23/02, p.A6)(SFC, 1/24/02, p.A7)
2002 Jan 22, In Israel a
Palestinian gunman killed 2 women in Jerusalem and wounded 14 others
before he was killed by police.
(SFC, 1/23/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan 22, Pres. Putin said that
Russian fitness and sports infrastructure had so declined in the last
decade that only 1 in 10 citizens exercise of play sports.
(SSFC, 2/10/02, p.A13)
2002 Jan 22, The Global Fund to
Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria was established as a Swiss
Foundation.
(www.theglobalfund.org/en/about/publications/)
2002 Jan 23, Pres. Bush said he
would ask for $48 billion in additional spending for the armed services
next year, the biggest defense spending increase in 20 years. Federal
deficits were expected for the next 2 years.
(SFC, 1/24/02, p.A1)(AP, 1/23/03)
2002 Jan 23, US authorities raised
the reward for information leading to the arrest of the anthrax
perpetrator to $2.5 million.
(SFC, 1/24/02, p.A12)
2002 Jan 23, Enron CEO Kenneth Lay
(59) resigned under pressure.
(SFC, 1/24/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan 23-2002 Jan 24, US
soldiers captured 27 Taliban fighters in Hazar Qadam, north of
Kandahar. Gov. Jan Muhammad Khan later said that 60 people were killed
and denied that any were Taliban or al Qaeda fighters. US military
later acknowledged that some of the dead may have been allies. The
captives were released Feb 6 and reported that they had been beaten and
abused. The Pentagon acknowledged Feb 21 that 16 villagers were
mistakenly killed.
(SFC, 1/25/02, p.A18)(SSFC, 1/27/02, p.A8)(SFC,
2/2/02, p.A10)(SFC, 2/7/02, p.A19)(SSFC, 2/10/02, p.A18)(SFC, 2/11/02,
p.A1)(SFC, 2/22/02, p.A16)
2002 Jan 23, John Walker Lindh, a
U.S.-born Taliban fighter, was returned to the United States to face
criminal charges that he'd conspired to kill fellow Americans.
(AP, 1/23/03)
2002 Jan 23, It was reported that
China was moving 17,000 settlers to a traditionally Tibetan region.
(WSJ, 1/23/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan 23, In Congo some 22.5
tons of food was distributed to the volcano stricken people of Goma.
(SFC, 1/24/02, p.A8)
2002 Jan 23, Israeli jets attacked
Hezbollah sites in Lebanon after a disputed border area was shelled.
(WSJ, 1/24/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan 23, Daniel Pearl, Wall
Street Journal reporter, was kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan, by the
"National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty." A
deadline to kill him was extended a day pending 4 demands that
included: the return of Pakistanis in Cuba; access to lawyers for
Pakistani detainees in the US; the return of a former Taliban
ambassador; and the release of F-16 jets purchased by Pakistan in the
1980s. Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh became the chief suspect. Pearl was
later murdered.
(SFC, 1/28/02, p.A8)(SFC, 1/30/02, p.A6)(SFC,
2/1/02, p.A24)(SFC, 2/8/02, p.A18)
2002 Jan 23, Papua New Guinea
voted to grant autonomy and the right to a referendum on total
independence to Bougainville.
(SFC, 1/24/02, p.A8)
2002 Jan 23, In Puerto Rico 17
people were charged in a corruption scandal that involved $4.3 million
in diverted federal funds.
(SFC, 1/24/02, p.A4)
2002 Jan 23, The UN sent famine
relief to Zimbabwe.
(SFC, 1/24/02, p.A8)
2002 Jan 24, A House committee
opened hearings into the collapse of energy giant Enron Corp. Officials
of Enron's accounting firm, Arthur Andersen, claimed fired auditor
David Duncan was solely responsible for the massive destruction of
Enron documents; Duncan refused to answer questions, invoking the Fifth
Amendment.
(AP, 1/24/03)
2002 Jan 24, The US imposed
sanctions on 3 Chinese entities accused of giving chemical and
biological arms technology to Iran.
(WSJ, 1/25/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan 24, John Walker Lindh,
the so-called "American Taliban," made his first court appearance in
suburban Washington D.C.
(AP, 1/24/03)
2002 Jan 24, In Juneau, Alaska,
Joseph Frederick (18) displayed a banner reading “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” as
the Olympic torch passed by. The head teacher at his high school
suspended him and Frederick sued in return. The case moved up to the US
Supreme Court. In 2007 the US Supreme Court ruled 5-3 that schools may
punish youths for statements that might promote drug use.
(Econ, 3/24/07, p.35)(SFC, 6/26/07, p.A8)
2002 Jan 24, The Florida state
pension fund reported a $325 million loss from the demise of Enron. The
Univ. of California reported a $145 million loss.
(SFC, 1/25/02, p.A24)
2002 Jan 24, In Missouri a mobile
home fire killed 7 people.
(SFC, 1/25/02, p.A3)
2002 Jan 24, Argentina approved a
law allowing the Central Bank to print nearly $13 billion in new
money to help pay salaries and bills as citizens protested over their
frozen accounts.
(SFC, 1/25/02, p.A15)
2002 Jan 24, In Australia some 200
mainly Afghan asylum seekers continued their hunger strike for a 10th
day in Woomera. Some had sewn their lips together. Australia resumed
processing asylum applications following a mass suicide attempt.
(SFC, 1/25/02, p.A15)(WSJ, 1/25/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan 24, India tested an
intermediate-range Agni-II missile over the Bay of Bengal.
(SFC, 1/25/02, p.A15)
2002 Jan 24, Israeli troops killed
a Palestinian intelligence officer and 2 others died in what looked
like a failed suicide mission.
(WSJ, 1/25/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan 24, In Beirut, Lebanon, a
car bomb killed Elie Hobeika and three others. Hobeika, a former
Christian militia chieftain, led a 1982 massacre of Palestinian
refugees in the Sabra and Chatilla camps. He had recently agreed to
testify against Israeli PM Ariel Sharon in connection with the
massacre. Lebanese for a Free and Independent Lebanon claimed
responsibility for the car bomb.
(SFC, 1/25/02, p.A10)
2002 Jan 24, In Pakistan Pres.
Musharraf announced legislative elections for October.
(SFC, 1/25/02, p.A14)
2002 Jan 25, A senior House
Democrat called for Thomas White, Sec. of the Army and former Enron
executive, to testify on his role at Enron.
(SFC, 1/26/02, p.A15)
2002 Jan 25, In Cambridge, Mass.,
Thomas Junta was sentenced 6 to 10 years in prison for beating another
man to death at their sons' hockey practice.
(AP, 1/25/03)
2002 Jan 25, In Pittsburgh 2
masked gunmen killed 2 men and a young girl in a sandwich shop.
(SSFC, 1/27/02, p.A17)
2002 Jan 25, J. Clifford Baxter, a
former Enron vice-chairman, was found dead of apparent suicide in Sugar
Land, a Houston suburb. He had reportedly complained about the
company's questionable accounting practices.
(SFC, 1/26/02, p.A1)(SFC, 4/12/02, p.A14)(AP,
1/25/03)
2002 Jan 25, In Afghanistan
leaders called for an increase in peacekeeping troops as warlords
competed for power outside of Kabul.
(SFC, 1/26/02, p.A14)
2002 Jan 25, A boat full of
Haitian migrants capsized near the Bahamas and at least 14 people were
drowned.
(SFC, 1/26/02, p.AA8)
2002 Jan 25, A bomb in Bogota,
Colombia, killed 4 police officers and a girl (5). FARC rebels were
blamed.
(SSFC, 1/27/02, p.A19)
2002 cJan 25, Chinese PM Zhu
Rongji visited Bangalore, India, and said: Your are number one in
software, and we are number one in hardware. If Indian software and
Chinese hardware work together, we can create a force that will be
number one in the world.
(SSFC, 1/27/02, p.A24)
2002 Jan 25, A Palestinian suicide
bomber sd'd in a Tel Aviv neighborhood and at least 25 people were
wounded following an Israeli missile attack in the Gaza Strip that
killed a senior Hamas commander. Separately 2 Hamas members were killed
by Israeli troops.
(SFC, 1/26/02, p.A6)
2002 Jan 26, Jennifer Capriati
produced the greatest comeback in a Grand Slam final to overcome
Martina Hingis (news) and defend her Australian Open title, 4-6, 7-6
(7), 6-2.
(AP, 1/26/03)
2002 Jan 26, In a preview of his
State of the Union address, President Bush pledged in his Saturday
radio address to "work to create jobs and renew the strength of our
economy."
(AP, 1/26/03)
2002 Jan 26, Sec. of State Powell
asked Pres. Bush to declare that the US is bound by the Geneva
Conventions in the treatment of Afghan captives at Guantanamo Bay.
(SSFC, 1/27/02, p.A)
2002 Jan 26, The Honduras Congress
elected Justice Vilma Cecilia Morales as the 1st woman to head the
Supreme Court.
(SSFC, 1/27/02, p.A19)
2002 Jan 26, The Palestinian
Authority again called for an end to all bombing and shooting attacks
against Israel. Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian passing
through an army checkpoint and militants were hit by an tank shell when
they tried to lay an explosive near a border fence.
(SSFC, 1/27/02, p.A18)
2002 Jan 27, The Feb 3 Super Bowl
matchup was decided as the New England Patriots upset the Pittsburgh
Steelers, 24-to-17, to win the AFC championship and the St. Louis Rams
defeated the Philadelphia Eagles, 29-to-24, to win the NFC championship.
(WSJ, 1/28/02, p.A1)(AP, 1/27/03)
2002 Jan 27, Thomas Johansson
defeated Marat Safin 3-6, 6-4, 6-4, 7-6 (4) to win the Australian Open
final.
(AP, 1/27/03)
2002 Jan 27, Vice Pres. Dick
Cheney said he would not release Enron related energy task force
documents from last year's meetings. Cheney and Rumsfeld said al Qaeda
prisoner status at Guantanamo Bay would not change to POW.
(SFC, 1/28/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan 27, Hamid Karzai, interim
Afghan leader, began a visit to the US and asked Afghan Americans to
return and help with reconstruction.
(SFC, 1/28/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan 27, Honduras restored
diplomatic ties with Cuba just before Ricardo Maduro took office.
(WSJ, 1/28/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan 27, Iran's Pres. Khatami
met with Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri in Tehran as part of an
effort to restore ties.
(SFC, 2/1/02, p.A18)
2002 Jan 27, Iraq admitted an
int'l. nuclear-inspection team (IAEA) on a 4-day mission to a site near
Baghdad.
(WSJ, 1/28/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan 27, In Nigeria explosions
at the Ikeja military base rocked Lagos. Over 1,000 people died when
they fled the area and drowned in Oke Afa drainage canal. Deaths from
panic later rose to 600 and then 1,000-2,000.
(SFC, 1/29/02, p.A5)(SFC, 1/30/02, p.A9)(SFC,
1/31/02, p.A9)(SSFC, 2/3/02, p.A17)(AP, 1/27/03)
2002 Jan 27, A Palestinian woman,
Wafa Idris (28), exploded herself on Jaffa St. in Jerusalem and killed
an Israeli man (81). Over 150 others were injured.
(SFC, 1/28/02, p.A1)(SFC, 1/31/02, p.A8)(AP, 1/27/03)
2002 Jan 27, A Russian military
helicopter crashed in Chechnya and all 14 aboard were killed including
generals.
(SFC, 1/28/02, p.A7)(WSJ, 1/28/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan 27, In Uzbekistan a
referendum, largely regarded as rigged, extended Pres. Islam Karimov’s
term to 7 years from 5.
(WSJ, 5/13/02, p.A13)(AP, 3/30/04)
2002 Jan 28, Hamid Karzai became
the first Afghan leader to visit Washington in 39 years; President
George W. Bush promised a "lasting partnership" with Afghanistan.
(AP, 1/28/03)
2002 Jan 28, US forces and Afghan
militiamen attacked and killed 6 al Qaeda gunmen, who had been holed up
at the Mir Wais Hospital in Kandahar.
(SFC, 1/28/02, p.A9)(SFC, 1/29/02, p.A10)(NW,
8/26/02, p.39)
2002 Jan 28, Palm Inc. introduced
its $449 i705 handheld computer with wireless e-mail and message
service.
(SFC, 1/28/02, p.E1)
2002 Jan 28, An Ecuadoran TAME
Airlines Boeing 727-100 crashed along the Colombia border with 92
people aboard. The wreckage was found on a glacier of the Nevado de
Cumbal volcano and there were no survivors.
(SFC, 1/29/02, p.A8)(SFC, 1/30/02, p.A8)
2002 Jan 28, Israeli police killed
a Palestinian car thief as he barreled through an army checkpoint in a
stolen car.
(SFC, 1/29/02, p.A8)(WSJ, 1/29/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan 28, In Sweden Astrid
Lindgren (b.1907), author of "Pippi Longstocking" (1945), died in
Stockholm.
(SFC, 1/29/02, p.A17)
2002 Jan 28, In Zimbabwe Pres.
Mugabe's government announced plans for compulsory national youth
service training.
(SFC, 1/29/02, p.A8)
2002 Jan 29, Pres. Bush made his
1st State of the Union address and declared that the "war against
terror is only beginning." Bush singled out Iran, Iraq and North Korea
as an "axis of evil." He also appealed to Americans to volunteer for
community services. The “axis of evil” phrase was co-coined by Bush’s
speechwriter David Frum.
(SFC, 1/30/02, p.A1)(SFC, 1/31/02, p.A1)(SFC,
2/1/02, p.A3)(Econ, 4/21/07, p.36)
2002 Jan 29, In California Stephen
Wayne Anderson (48), was executed for the 1980 murder of Elizabeth
Lyman (81) during a robbery in her home. He spent years on death row
and wrote a number of award-winning plays, books and poems.
(SSFC, 1/27/02, p.A3)(SFC, 1/30/02, p.A13)
2002 Jan 29, Actor Harold Russell
(88), who received two Oscars for his sensitive portrayal of a disabled
veteran in "The Best Years of Our Lives," died in Needham, Mass.
(AP, 1/29/03)
2002 Jan 29, In Albania PM Ilir
Meta (32) resigned following months of disputes with party leaders.
(SFC, 1/30/02, p.A9)
2002 Jan 29, In China historian Xu
Zerong (David Tsui) was sentenced to 13 years in prison for providing
classified historical documents, pertaining to Chinese operations
during the Korean war, to unspecified overseas parties.
(SSFC, 2/3/02, p.A17)
2002 Jan 29, In Japan PM Koizumi
fired foreign minister Makiko Tanaka. Yoriko Kawaguchi was soon chosen
to replace her.
(SFC, 1/30/02, p.A8)(SFC, 2/1/02, p.A15)
2002 Jan 29, Israeli troops raided
the Palestinian village of Artas and arrested Mohammed Eyosh (31), a
local Jihad leader. 4 others were wounded in gunfire.
(SFC, 1/30/02, p.A8)
2002 Jan 29, In South Africa
Doctors Without Borders defied patent law and imported a generic AIDS
drug from Brazil.
(WSJ, 1/30/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan 30, Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld said the United States would watch closely to see what
Iraq, Iran and North Korea did next, a day after President Bush singled
them out as part of a dangerous "axis of evil."
(AP, 1/30/03)
2002 Jan 30, Congressional
investigators and the GAO planned to sue the White House to obtain a
list of executives who met with the Cheney task force that developed
Bush's energy policy in 2001. Enron officials were on the list.
(WSJ, 1/31/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan 30, The US Federal
Reserve finished a 2-day meeting and did not change short-term interest
rates. The DJIA rose 144 to 9,762. NASDAQ rose 20 to 1,913.
(SFC, 1/31/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan 30, The 3.5-ton satellite
Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUNE), launched in 1992, broke up in
Earth’s atmosphere over Egypt. It had surveyed the entire Milky Way and
beyond and transmitted date until Jan 31 2001.
(SFC, 1/30/02,
p.A2)(www.cbc.ca/health/story/2002/01/31/satellite020131.html)
2002 Jan 30, Inge Morath (78),
Austrian-born photographer and wife of Arthur Miller, died in NYC.
(SFC, 2/4/02, p.B5)
2002 Jan 30, Interim Afghan leader
Hamid Karzai visited the World Trade Center site and placed a wreath of
yellow roses by a memorial wall as he surveyed the ruins of the Sept.
11, 2001, terrorist attack.
(AP, 1/30/03)
2002 Jan 30, In Afghanistan war
lords Padsha Khan Zadran and Saifullah led fighting for the control of
Paktia province.
(SFC, 1/31/02, p.A6)
2002 Jan 30, In Chile it was
reported that the remains of some 10 victims of the Pinochet regime had
been found at Fuerte Arteaga, an army base north of Santiago.
(SFC, 1/31/02, p.A9)
2002 Jan 30, In Ireland the Roman
Catholic Church agreed to pay $110 million in cash and property to
Irish children sexually abused by priests, nuns and other church
officials in past decades. There were as many as 7,000 potential
claimants for payouts ranging from $43k to 260k.
(SFC, 1/31/02, p.A9)(SFC, 2/1/02, p.A16)
2002 Jan 30, In Italy Samuele
Lorenzi (3), was found bludgeoned to death in the family's Alpine home.
His mother Anna Maria Franzoni, who denied the murder, was convicted
and sentenced to 30 years in prison. In 2007 a Turin appeals court
upheld the conviction but reduced her sentence to 16 years.
(AP, 4/27/07)
2002 Jan 30, A Palestinian suicide
bomber, Murad Abu Asal (23), killed himself and wounded 2 Israeli Shin
Bet officers near Taibe.
(SFC, 1/31/02, p.A8)
2002 Jan 31, The Bush
administration handed abortion opponents a symbolic victory,
classifying a developing fetus as an "unborn child" as a way of
extending prenatal care to low-income pregnant women under the State
Children's Health Insurance Program.
(SFC, 2/1/02, p.A1)(AP, 1/31/03)
2002 Jan 31, Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld said in a speech that the United States had to prepare
for potential surprise attacks "vastly more deadly" than the Sept. 11
terrorist hijackings.
(AP, 1/31/03)
2002 Jan 31, Some 3,000
participants met at the 31st World Economic Forum in NYC at the
Waldorf-Astoria with scattered demonstrations outside.
(SFC, 1/31/02, p.A3)(SFC, 2/1/02, p.A10)
2002 Jan 31, Kentucky, cited by
the NCAA for more than three dozen recruiting violations, was placed on
three years' probation.
(AP, 1/31/03)
2002 Jan 31, The central US was
hit by a winter storm that left at least 15 dead.
(WSJ, 2/1/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan 31, It was reported that
the US and Kazakstan planned a joint venture to use a former Soviet
nuclear weapons plant to process uranium for power plants and absorb
atomic workers.
(WSJ, 1/31/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan 31, US troops began a
6-month exercise for Filipino soldiers on Zamboanga, who were hunting
Abu Sayyaf extremists.
(SFC, 2/1/02, p.A24)
2002 Jan 31, In Afghanistan
warlord Saifullah defeated troops under Padsha Khan Zadran in Gardez
and some 50 people were killed.
(SFC, 2/1/02, p.A24)
2002 Jan 31, Ecuador designated a
557 sq-km (215 sq-mi) area in the Amazon rainforest the Cofan
Ecological Reserve. Field Museum scientists from Chicago assisted Cofan
Indians and Ecuadoran scientists by cataloging the species in the area
and declaring it to be the most biologically diverse mountain range in
the world.
(EB, 2002, p.11)
2002 Jan 31, An interview was
published in which Israeli PM Ariel Sharon said that he regrets that
Israel failed to take the opportunity to kill Palestinian leader Yasir
Arafat in Lebanon 20 years ago.
(EB, 2002, p.11)
2002 Jan 31, Crossair, a regional
carrier and successor airline to the bankrupt Swissair, announced plans
that will make it Europe's 4th largest international airline, under the
new name Swiss.
(EB, 2002, p.11)(Econ, 2/14/04, p.10)
2002 Jan 31, Zimbabwe enacted a
new media law that required local media people to be licensed and
restricted foreign reporters from working freely.
(SFC, 2/1/02, p.A15)
2002 Jan, Apple Corp. introduced a
line of iMacs with a swiveling flat screen on a circular base
containing an 800 MHz G4 processor. It was priced at $1,799.
(SFC, 1/24/04, p.A12)
2002 Jan, Ford Motor Co. took a $1
billion write-off on its stock pile of precious metals, mostly
palladium.
(WSJ, 2/6/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan, Indonesia renamed Irian
Jaya to Papua and gave it greater autonomy.
(SSFC, 9/1/02, p.A15)
2002 Jan, Pakistan banned the
militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba.
(WSJ, 12/8/08, p.A6)
2002 Jan, Russia's Accounting
Chamber charged that $270 million in US and European aid, intended to
clean up and build storage facilities for radioactive waste, had
disappeared.
(SSFC, 9/1/02, p.A17)
2002 Jan, The Global Fund was
formed as a charitable foundation, based in Geneva. The Board held its
first meeting and in April 2002 approved the first round of grants. The
concept of the new int’l effort, to increase coordination and mobilize
additional resources to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, was
first proposed at the July 2000 G-8 Summit in Okinawa. Richard,
Feachem, who served as the 1st executive director, stepped down in 2006.
(www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2002/15583.htm)(SFC,
3/7/06, p.B8)
2002 Feb 1, President George W.
Bush responded to the collapse of Enron by proposing regulation reforms
of 401(k) retirement plans. Justice Department investigators directed
Bush's staff to preserve the paper trail of any contact with Enron. The
US Justice Dept. asked the president's staff for all Enron-related
documents back to Jan 1, 1999.
(AP, 2/1/03)(SFC, 2/2/02, p.A1)
2002 Feb 1, Pres. Bush named Jim
Tower (45), former Florida Sec. of Health, to lead his initiative to
give federal money to religious charities.
(SFC, 2/2/02, p.A5)
2002 Feb 1, Actress Winona Ryder
was charged with four felony counts stemming from her shoplifting
arrest at a Saks Fifth Avenue store in Beverly Hills, Calif., the
previous December. Ryder was later convicted of felony grand theft and
vandalism, and received three years' probation.
(AP, 2/1/03)
2002 Feb 1, The NCAA placed
Alabama on five years' probation, jolting the football program with a
two-year bowl ban and heavy scholarship reductions.
(AP, 2/1/03)
2002 Feb 1, Amtrak announced a new
austerity plan and hope Congress would provide $1.2 billion in
financing next year. Amtrak lost $1.1 billion last year.
(SFC, 2/2/02, p.A3)
2002 Feb 1, The Idaho Legislature
voted 50-20 to override Gov. Dirk Kempthorne's veto and repeal term
limits.
(SFC, 2/2/02, p.A5)
2002 Feb 1, Comet Ikeya-Zhang was
discovered by 2 amateur astronomers in Japan and China. Its closest
approach to Earth was projected for Apr 30. It last flew into the solar
system nearly 350 years earlier.
(SFC, 3/23/02, p.A3)
2002 Feb 1, Danielle van Dam (7)
went missing from Sabre Springs, her San Diego suburban home. David
Westerfield (49), a neighbor, was arrested Feb 22 after her blood was
found on his clothing and in his motor home. Her body was found Feb 27
some 25 miles northeast of San Diego at Dehesa. Westerfield was
convicted of her kidnapping and murder on Aug 21 and was sentenced to
death Jan 3, 2003.
(NW, 2/18/02, p.34)(SFC, 2/23/02, p.A3)(SFC,
2/28/02, p.A3)(SFC, 8/22/02, p.A3)(SFC, 1/4/03, p.A3)
2002 Feb 1, In Argentina the
Supreme Court ruled 5-0 that the banking freeze was unconstitutional.
(SFC, 2/2/02, p.A7)
2002 Feb 1, It was reported that
Riduan Isamuddin (36), an Indonesian cleric known as Hambali, was a
Southeast Asian pointman for an al Qaeda network.
(WSJ, 2/1/02, p.A13)
2002 Feb 1, In Israel over 100
reserve combat officers denounced the army for immoral behavior toward
Palestinian civilians and placed ads in newspapers including Haaretz:
"We will no longer fight beyond the Green Line with the aim of
dominating, expelling, starving and humiliating an entire people."
(SFC, 2/2/02, p.A7)
2002 Feb 1, In Kuwait a huge oil
field fire killed 4 workers and shut down production of some 600,000
daily barrels.
(SFC, 2/2/02, p.A7)
2002 Feb 2, Jim Kelly of the
Buffalo Bills and Pittsburgh Steelers star John Stallworth were elected
to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
(AP, 2/2/03)
2002 Feb 2, The NHL World
All-Stars rallied to defeat North America 8-5.
(AP, 2/2/03)
2002 Feb 2, The Bush
administration approved a $700 million grant to help rebuild lower
Manhattan devastated by the Sep 11 terrorist attacks.
(SSFC, 2/3/02, p.A13)
2002 Feb 2, In NYC protesters of
the World Economic Forum turned out in large numbers. Inside foreign
economic leaders criticized the US for protectionist policies, and Bill
Gates and U2 rock star Bono pushed for increases in foreign aid by rich
countries to poor countries.
(SSFC, 2/3/02, p.A3)(AP, 2/2/03)
2002 Feb 2, New Orleans voters
approved a $1 per hour increase in the minimum wage above the $5.15
federal standard in a referendum that went to court for resolution.
(SSFC, 2/17/02, p.A9)
2002 Feb 2, A special committee of
the Enron Corp. board filed a 217-page report that concluded Enron
executives had manipulated company profits.
(SSFC, 2/3/02, p.A1)
2002 Feb 2, In Lagos, Nigeria,
fighting broke out between militants of the Yoruba and Hausa tribes. At
least 55 people were killed over the next 2 days as fighting spread.
(SFC, 2/4/02, p.A3)(SFC, 2/5/02, p.A5)
2002 Feb 2, In Pakistan police
arrested 2 people in Karachi linked to the Jan 23 kidnapping of WSJ
reporter Daniel Pearl.
(SSFC, 2/3/02, p.A7)
2002 Feb 3, In Superbowl XXXVI the
New England Patriots beat the St. Louis Rams 20-17 with a 48-yard field
goal by Adam Vinatieri as time expired. Patriot quarterback Tom Brady
(24) was named MVP.
(SFC, 2/4/02, p.C1)
2002 Feb 3, Former Enron chairman
Kenneth Lay backed out of testifying before Congress about the collapse
of the energy giant.
(AP, 2/3/03)
2002 Feb 3, Argentina unveiled a
plan to rescue the economy that included a partial easement of the
banking freeze and a free-floating peso.
(SFC, 2/4/02, p.A4)
2002 Feb 3, In Cambodia's 1st
local elections Hun Sen's Cambodian People's Party won control of up to
1600 of the 1,621 local councils. A US monitoring group said the polls
were competently run but neither free nor fair.
(SFC, 2/5/02, p.A7)
2002 Feb 3, In Cuba Fidel Castro
met with Pres. Fox of Mexico.
(SFC, 2/4/02, p.A4)
2002 Feb 3, In Israel the Cabinet
backed PM Sharon for initiating talks with Palestinian officials.
(SFC, 2/4/02, p.A4)
2002 Feb 3, In Costa Rica
presidential elections Abel Pacheco, of the ruling Social Christian
Unity Party, won 38.5% of the vote and Rolando Araya, National
Liberation Party, won 30.9%. A runoff was scheduled for Apr 7.
(SFC, 2/5/02, p.A7)
2002 Feb 3, A 6.0-6.2 earthquake
hit Turkey and as least 45 people were killed. The epicenter was about
135 miles southwest of Ankara.
(SFC, 2/4/02, p.A3)(WSJ, 2/4/02, p.A1)
2002 Feb 4, Pres. Bush released
his $2.13 trillion budget plan for the coming federal year. It included
a 12% increase in military spending and cuts in highway and job
training.
(SSFC, 2/3/02, p.A1)(SFC, 2/5/02, p.A1)
2002 Feb 4, The World Economic
Forum concluded five days of meetings in New York.
(AP, 2/4/03)
2002 Feb 4, Former Enron chairman
and chief executive Kenneth Lay resigned from the board, cutting his
last tie to the company beyond stock ownership.
(AP, 2/4/03)
2002 Feb 4, A New Jersey teenager
(16) began a 2-day shooting spree on the outskirts of Philadelphia that
left 6 people dead. He was arrested Feb 22.
(SSFC, 2/24/02, p.A1)
2002 Feb 4, The CIA believed that
it killed a top al Qaeda official with a Hellfire missile, Predator
aerial drone, near Zawar Kili, Afghanistan. 7 al Qaeda members were
killed. At least some of those killed were innocent villagers. At
Zhawara 3 local villagers were killed while looking for scrap metal.
(WSJ, 2/7/02, p.A1)(SFC, 2/8/02, p.A18)(SFC,
2/11/02, p.A10)(SFC, 2/12/02, p.A16)(SSFC, 2/17/02, p.A18)(SSFC,
7/21/02, p.A14)
2002 Feb 4, In Afghanistan
northern militia factions agreed to withdraw from Mazar-e-Sharif and
create a new joint security force.
(SFC, 2/5/02, p.A8)
2002 Feb 4, In Havana, Cuba, Pres.
Fox of Mexico met with 7 prominent dissidents.
(SFC, 2/5/02, p.A7)
2002 Feb 4, An 8-year corruption
investigation of Elf Aquitaine, a French oil firm privatized in 1994,
ended with 40 people implicated.
(SFC, 2/5/02, p.A6)
2002 Feb 4, Israeli PM Peres said
Iran had put elite forces into Lebanon and had supplied Hezbollah with
10,000 rockets with ranges of 13-44 miles.
(SFC, 2/5/02, p.A10)
2002 Feb 4, In the Gaza Strip 5
Palestinians were killed when their car exploded. Israeli military said
the men were carrying an explosive device that went off early. 5
Palestinians died in a Gaza helicopter attack.
(SFC, 2/5/02, p.A5)(WSJ, 2/5/02, p.A1)
2002 Feb 5, Pres. Bush promoted
his call for $5.9 billion to be dedicated to bioterrorism preparedness
as part of a $38 billion homeland defense.
(SFC, 2/6/02, p.A13)
2002 Feb 5, US officials announced
plans to train and arm Colombian troops to protect the key Cano Limon
oil pipeline.
(SFC, 2/7/02, p.A12)
2002 Feb 5, A federal grand jury
in Alexandria, Va., indicted John Walker Lindh on 10 charges, alleging
he was trained by Osama bin Laden's network and then conspired with the
Taliban to kill Americans. Lindh later pleaded guilty to lesser
offenses and was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison.
(SFC, 2/6/02, p.A1)(AP, 2/5/07)
2002 Feb 5, Committees in both the
House and Senate decided to subpoena former Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay
to appear to tell what he knew of Enron's complex financial dealings.
(Lay did appear, but refused to testify, citing his Fifth Amendment
rights.) At a Senate hearing, Deborah Perrotta, a laid-off Enron
employee, wept as she described how her retirement savings all but
disappeared when the company failed.
(AP, 2/5/07)
2002 Feb 5, In Canada a police
raid on the farmstead of Robert and David Pickton in Port Coquitlan,
BC, turned up evidence of 2 missing women. Since 1984 at least 50
prostitutes had vanished from the streets of Vancouver. Robert Pickton
was arrested Feb 22. In 2003 the murder charges against Pickton rose to
22. Pickton’s trial began Jan 22, 2007, with prosecutors saying the he
had confessed to killing 49 women.
(SFC, 2/9/02, p.A9)(SFC, 12/16/03, p.A14)(WSJ,
1/23/06, p.A1)
2002 Feb 5, In Italy the health
ministry confirmed the country's 1st case of mad cow disease.
(SFC, 2/6/02, p.A9)
2002 Feb 5, In Pakistan 2 men
associated with the kidnapping of journalist Daniel Pearl were arrested
in a Karachi suburb. Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh (28), Islamic militant,
turned himself in to Ejah Shah, the home secretary in Punjab province.
(SFC, 2/6/02, p.A14)(SFC, 2/15/02, p.A20)
2002 Feb 5, In Jenin, 3
Palestinians members of the Kameel clan were killed by a mob after a
court sentenced them to 15 year jail terms for the murder of another
clan member.
(SFC, 2/6/02, p.A9)
2002 Feb 5, In Nigeria troops
cracked down on ethnic fighting in Lagos following 3 days of clashes
that left over 100 dead.
(WSJ, 2/6/02, p.A1)
2002 Feb 5, In Durban, South
Africa, a commuter train collided with a freight train and 18 people
were killed.
(SFC, 2/6/02, p.A9)
2002 Feb 6, A federal judge
ordered John Walker Lindh, the so-called "American Taliban," held
without bail pending trial.
(AP, 2/6/03)
2002 Feb 6, John Rusnak (37), a
currency trader at Allfirst, a Baltimore subsidiary of Allied Irish
Banks, was accused of stealing $750 million.
(SFC, 2/7/02, p.B1)
2002 Feb 6, Britain's Queen
Elizabeth II reached a bittersweet milestone, somberly marking 50 years
as monarch on the anniversary of the death of her father, King George
VI.
(AP, 2/6/03)
2002 Feb 6, Max Perutz (b.1914),
Austrian-born molecular biologist, died in England. He won the Nobel
Prize in chemistry in 1962 for his work on the structure of hemoglobin.
In 2007 Georgina Ferry authored “Max Perutz and the Secret of Life.”
(Econ, 8/25/07,
p.77)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Perutz)
2002 Feb 6, In the Republic of
Congo a new death from Ebola raised fears that it had spread from Gabon.
(WSJ, 2/7/02, p.A1)
2002 Feb 6, Egypt won a pledge for
$10 billion in aid from 37 donor nations.
(SFC, 2/8/02, p.A12)
2002 Feb 6, German unemployment
figures for January rose to 4 million.
(SFC, 2/7/02, p.A11)
2002 Feb 6, The PLO issued a
17-page document that listed their actions to stop terrorism.
Meanwhile, Hamas gunman, Mohammed Ziad Khalili (26), killed 2 Israelis
in Hamra, a mother and daughter, before he was killed by commandos.
Israel responded with 2 missiles shot at a Palestinian prison and
government complex in Nablus.
(SFC, 2/7/02, p.A10)(SFC, 2/8/02, p.A8)
2002 Feb 6, The Philippine
opposition made a legal move that gave Pres. Arroyo 10 days to justify
the presence of US troops.
(SFC, 2/7/02, p.A12)
2002 Feb 7, Pres. Bush met with
Israel's PM Sharon and said he would continue to press the Palestinian
Authority to crack down on terrorism. Bush rebuffed a plea to sever
ties with Arafat.
(SFC, 2/8/02, p.A8)(WSJ, 2/8/02, p.A1)
2002 Feb 7, The Bush
administration allowed Geneva accords to cover Taliban fighters but not
members of al Qaeda.
(SFC, 2/8/02, p.A1)
2002 Feb 7, A US federal court
ruled that it is unconstitutional to sentence a felon to 25 years to
life for shoplifting, which was allowed under the California "three
strikes law."
(SFC, 2/8/02, p.A1)
2002 Feb 7, Former Enron chief
executive Jeffrey Skilling insisted to skeptical lawmakers that he knew
of nothing improper about the complex web of partnerships that brought
down the company.
(AP, 2/7/03)
2002 Feb 7, Authorities in
Oklahoma captured the last of four escaped prison inmates from Texas
who'd been on the run for more than a week.
(AP, 2/7/03)
2002 Feb 7, In Liberia rebel
forces, Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy, attacked
Klay Junction 25 miles north of Monrovia.
(SFC, 2/9/02, p.A3)
2002 Feb 8, Pres. Bush opened the
19th Winter Olympic Games as part of a 3-hour ceremony at Rice-Eccles
Stadium at the Univ. of Utah campus, which included an emotional
tribute to America's heroes, from the pioneers of the West to past
Olympic champions to the thousands who perished on Sept. 11, 2001.
(SFC, 2/9/02, p.A1)(AP, 2/8/03)
2002 Feb 8, A bankruptcy judge
rejected a reorganization plan proposed by Pacific Gas and Electric.
(SFC, 2/9/02, p.A1)
2002 Feb 8, In Texas a $60 million
casino run by the Tigua Indians was shut down following lobbying
efforts by religious activist Ralph Reed and Washington lobbyists Jack
Abramoff and Michael Scanlon. Abramoff and Scanlon then persuaded the
tribe to pay $4.2 million to lobby Congress to reopen it. Senate
hearings on the process opened in 2004.
(SSFC, 9/26/04, p.A10)
2002 Feb 8, William T. Dillard
(b.1914), founder of Dillard's department store chain, died in Little
Rock, Ark.
(SFC, 2/11/02, p.B5)(AP, 2/8/03)
2002 Feb 8, Marine Sgt. Todd
Sommer (23) died in his home in San Diego. His death was at first ruled
a heart attack but later tests found high arsenic levels in his liver.
In 2005 his wife, Cynthia Sommers, was charged with 1st degree murder.
In 2007 his wife, Cynthia Sommer (33) was convicted of murdering him
with arsenic so she could cash in on his $250,000 life insurance
policy, some of which she used to have her breasts enlarged.
(SFC, 12/16/05, p.A2)(AP, 1/30/07)
2002 Feb 8, In Afghanistan Mullah
Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil, Taliban foreign minister, surrendered in
Kandahar and was turned over to US military.
(SFC, 2/9/02, p.A14)
2002 Feb 8, Interim Afghan leader
Hamid Karzai met with Pakistan Pres. Musharraf in Islamabad and they
agreed to bury past misunderstandings.
(SFC, 2/9/02, p.A14)
2002 Feb 8, In Israel at least 2
Palestinians were killed when a bomb exploded prematurely. In Jerusalem
an Israeli woman was stabbed to death while strolling in the Peace
Forest. Police caught 4 Palestinians and one died following his arrest.
(SFC, 2/9/02, p.A7)
2002 Feb 9, At the Winter Olympics
in Salt Lake City, Jochem Uytdehaage of the Netherlands won the gold
medal in the men's 5,000-meter speedskating race in world record time
of 6:14.66.
(AP, 2/9/03)
2002 Feb 9, Oakland's Rich Gannon
led the AFC to a 38-30 victory over the NFC in the Pro Bowl.
(AP, 2/9/03)
2002 Feb 9, The US and Pakistan
signed an agreement to enhance defense cooperation.
(SSFC, 2/10/02, p.A19)
2002 Feb 9, The Afghan government
released 320 captured Taliban fighters and gave each soldier the
equivalent of $15 as a gesture of reconciliation.
(SFC, 2/9/02, p.A18)
2002 Feb 9, In Algeria security
forces killed Antar Zouabri, head of the Armed Islamic Group, and 2
other insurgents in Boufarik.
(SSFC, 2/10/02, p.A14)
2002 Feb 9, Britain's Princess
Margaret (71), the high-spirited and unconventional sister of Queen
Elizabeth II, died in London.
(SSFC, 2/10/02, p.A12)(AP, 2/9/03)
2002 Feb 9, East Timor approved a
draft for a new constitution. Full independence was scheduled for May
20.
(SSFC, 2/10/02, p.A14)
2002 Feb 9, In Honduras police
broke up a drug-smuggling, kidnapping and bank robbery ring in Lempira.
It was an arm of cartels based in Tijuana.
(SSFC, 2/10/02, p.A14)
2002 Feb 9, In South Africa
Bulelani Vukwana (29), shot and killed his girlfriend and 9 others
before killing himself in Mdantsane suburb of East London.
(SFC, 2/11/02, p.A8)
2002 Feb 10, Snowboarder Kelly
Clark won America's first gold at the Salt Lake City Olympics in
women's halfpipe. Claudia Pechstein of Germany shattered her own world
record in the three-thousand-meter speedskating event, crossing the
line in 3:57.70.
(AP, 2/10/03)
2002 Feb 10, The Western
Conference defeated the Eastern Conference, 135-120, in the NBA
All-Star Game.
(AP, 2/10/03)
2002 Feb 10, A spokeswoman said
former Enron chairman Kenneth Lay would refuse to answer questions when
he appeared before Congress under subpoena.
(AP, 2/10/03)
2002 Feb 10, Convict-author Jack
Henry Abbott (58) committed suicide in his cell.
(AP, 2/10/07)
2002 Feb 10, Dave Van Ronk,
folksinger and mentor to Bob Dylan, died in NY at age 65.
(WSJ, 2/11/02, p.A1)
2002 Feb 10, Vernon A. Walters
(85), former UN ambassador and aide to 7 presidents, died in West Palm
Beach, Florida.
(WSJ, 2/15/02, p.A1)
2002 Feb 10, In Mexico Sinaloa
state police reportedly shot and killed drug boss Ramon Felix Arellano
(37).
(SFC, 2/23/02, p.A12)
2002 Feb 10, Two Palestinian Hamas
gunmen attacked Israeli soldiers at Beersheva. 2 soldiers were killed
before the gunmen were slain.
(SFC, 2/11/02, p.A3)
2002 Feb 11, Americans Ross
Powers, Danny Kass and J.J. Thomas took gold, silver and bronze in the
men's halfpipe at the Salt Lake City Olympics. Gold medals for the
Olympics free-style skating event went to Russians Anton Sikharulidze
and Elena Berezhnaya. French judge Marie-Reine Le Gougne later admitted
to being pressured to support the Russian team. On Feb 15 Olympic
officials awarded a 2nd gold medal to Canadians David Pelletier and
Jamie Sale for their performance.
(SFC, 2/16/02, p.A1)(AP, 2/11/03)
2002 Feb 11, The FBI issued a
warning for a possible terrorist assault and identified Fawaz Yahya
al-Rabeei, a Yemeni national, as a possible attacker.
(SFC, 2/12/02, p.A1)
2002 Feb 11, SF sued PG&E for
a $5 billion refund to ratepayers.
(SFC, 2/12/02, p.B1)
2002 Feb 11, In Afghanistan opium
vendors shut down in Kandahar under US military orders.
(SFC, 2/12/02, p.A14)
2002 Feb 11, The Argentine peso
was put to float for the 1st time in a decade and dropped about 5% to
2.1 pesos to the dollar.
(SFC, 2/12/02, p.A10)
2002 Feb 11, In Colombia suspected
FARC rebels sent 2 bombs into a southern army garrison and killed 10
sleeping soldiers.
(SFC, 2/12/02, p.A10)
2002 Feb 11, In Indonesia warring
Christians and Muslims from Maluku province began 2 days of peace talks.
(SFC, 2/12/02, p.A10)
2002 Feb 11, Israel bombed the
Palestinian security headquarters in the Gaza Strip for a 2nd day in
response to the use of a Kassam-2 rocket by Hamas.
(SFC, 2/12/02, p.A8)(AP, 2/11/03)
2002 Feb 11, In Jordan Raed Hijazi
(33) was convicted and sentenced to be hung for plotting to blow up
tourist sites during millennium celebrations. [see Dec 2000]
(SFC, 2/12/02, p.A12)
2002 Feb 12, "The Lord of the
Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" received 13 Academy Award
nominations; tied for second with eight nods were "A Beautiful Mind"
and "Moulin Rouge."
(AP, 2/11/03)
2002 Feb 12, Sec. of State Colin
Powell said the Bush administration was considering a variety of
options to topple Iraq's Saddam Hussein.
(SFC, 2/12/02, p.A17)
2002 Feb 12, John Hamilton, US
ambassador to Peru, said the US would triple anti-drug funding to over
$150 million.
(SFC, 2/13/02, p.A16)
2002 Feb 12, Kenneth Lay, former
Enron CEO, pleaded the 5th amendment before a Senate panel
investigation of the Enron demise. Lay expressed "profound sadness"
about the collapse of the energy giant, but refused to testify at a
Senate hearing.
(SFC, 2/12/02, p.A1)(AP, 2/11/03)
2002 Feb 12, The International
Skating Union announced it would conduct an "internal assessment" of
the Olympic judging that gave the Russians the pairs figure skating
gold medal over the Canadians.
(AP, 2/11/03)
2002 Feb 12, It was reported that
AP estimated 600 civilians killed in the Afghan campaign.
(WSJ, 2/12/02, p.A1)
2002 Feb 12, In NYC Ronald
Popadich of New Jersey struck 19 pedestrians at 6 spots along Seventh
Ave. near Madison Square Garden and one died 2 days later. He struck 7
more people Feb 13. He shot his girlfriend, Lisa Gotkin Feb 10, and a
cab driver on Feb 13.
(SFC, 2/16/02, p.A8)
2002 Feb 12-13, The Chinese lunar
calendar marked this as the new year, 4700, the Year of the Horse.
(SFC, 2/12/02, p.A14)
2002 Feb 12, In Indonesia
Christian and Muslim factions from Maluku agreed to end their 3-year
war, ban militias and establish a joint security patrol.
(SFC, 2/13/02, p.A16)
2002 Feb 12, An Iran Air Tours
Tupelov Tu-154 crashed into the Sefid Kouh mountains near Khorramabad
killing all 119 on board.
(SFC, 2/13/02, p.A12)(AP, 2/11/03)
2002 Feb 12, In Pakistan police
arrested Ahmed Saeed Sheikh, the prime suspect in the kidnapping of WSJ
reported Daniel Pearl. Pakistan charged 3 men in connection with the
kidnapping. They and a fourth man were later convicted of Pearl's
murder.
(SFC, 2/13/02, p.A18)(AP, 2/11/03)
2002 Feb 12, In Venezuela Pres.
Chavez said the currency would go on float.
(WSJ, 2/13/02, p.A1)
2002 Feb 12, Former Yugoslav
president Slobodan Milosevic went on trial in The Hague, accused of war
crimes.
(AP, 2/11/03)
2002 Feb 13, Pres. Bush welcomed
Pres. Musharraf to the White House. Musharraf sought a revival of arms
deals and relaxed tariffs on textiles. The Bush administration agreed
to $142 million in trade benefits.
(SFC, 2/14/02, p.A10)(SFC, 2/15/02, p.A14)
2002 Feb 13, The US House of Reps.
voted 240-189 to ban unlimited "soft money" donations to national
parties as part of the Shays-Meehan campaign finance bill. Individual
contributions were raised from 1k to 2k.
(SFC, 2/14/02, p.A1)(WSJ, 2/15/02, p.A1)
2002 Feb 13, John Walker Lindh
pleaded innocent in federal court in Alexandria, Va., to conspiring to
kill Americans and supporting the Taliban and terrorist organizations.
(AP, 2/13/03)
2002 Feb 13, Britain's Queen
Elizabeth II made former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani an
honorary knight.
(AP, 2/13/03)
2002 Feb 13, In a startling
development at the Salt Lake City winter games, the head of the French
Olympic team said the French figure skating judge had been pressured to
"act in a certain way" before she voted to give the gold medal to the
Russians in pairs.
(AP, 2/13/03)
2002 Feb 13, Waylon Jennings
(b.1937), country singer, died in Chandler, Arizona at age 64. His
5-decade career included 60 albums.
(SFC, 2/14/02, p.A2)
2002 Feb 13, Argentina adopted a
20% tax on energy exports.
(WSJ, 2/14/02, p.A14)
2002 Feb 13, Israeli troops seized
3 Palestinian towns and a refugee camp in Gaza Strip from where rockets
and mortars were fired and at least 5 people were killed. 3 Palestinian
police officers were killed in Deir al-Balah where 3 police posts were
destroyed.
(SFC, 2/13/02, p.A9)(WSJ, 2/14/02, p.A15)
2002 Feb 13, The Scottish
Parliament outlawed fox hunting with dogs.
(SFC, 2/14/02, p.A8)
2002 Feb 13, In Pakistan Ahmed
Omar Saeed Sheikh (28), Islamic militant, said he believed WSJ reporter
Daniel Pearl was dead. Sheikh said Pearl was shot and killed during a
failed escape attempt on Jan 31.
(SFC, 2/14/02, p.A8)(SFC, 2/15/02, p.A20)
2002 Feb 13, In Venezuela the
bolivar fell nearly 19% with the abandonment of exchange controls by
Pres. Chavez, who also announced a 7% cut in government spending to
help close a projected $8 billion deficit.
(SFC, 2/14/02, p.B6)
2002 Feb 13, In Yemen Sameer
Mohammed Ahmed al-Hada (25), an al Qaeda fugitive, died as troops
closed in and a hand grenade exploded in his hand. Family members were
also linked to al-Qaeda.
(WSJ, 2/14/02, p.A1)(SFC, 2/15/02, p.A18)
2002 Feb 13, Morgan Tsvangirai,
Zimbabwe opposition leader, was implicated in a plot to overthrow Pres.
Mugabe in film footage made by a consulting firm with ties to Mugabe.
Tsvangirai said the tape was contrived.
(SFC, 2/14/02, p.A9)(WSJ, 2/14/02, p.A1)
2002 Feb 14, Pres. Bush proposed
an environmental plan that would encourage businesses to cut pollution
and develop more energy-efficient technology.
(SFC, 2/15/02, p.A5)
2002 Feb 14, The US House voted to
ban unregulated contributions to national political parties.
(AP, 2/14/03)
2002 Feb 14, Sharon Watkins, Enron
Vice President, testified that Jeffrey Skilling was behind the
accounting that led to the company's bankruptcy and that CEO Kenneth
Lay was probably duped by his executives and was unaware of the depth
of Enron's problems. Watkins told a House subcommittee it was common
knowledge at the company that partnerships were used improperly to hide
debt and inflate profits.
(SFC, 2/15/02, p.A1)(AP, 2/14/03)
2002 Feb 14, The 168th annual
meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
opened in Boston with a bleak assessment of planet health and a call
for conservation of resources.
(SFC, 2/15/02, p.A3)
2002 Feb 14, It was reported that
scientists at NIH had developed the 1st vaccine effective against staph
bacteria.
(SFC, 2/14/02, p.A4)
2002 Feb 14, Jayson Williams (34),
former NBA star and NBC Sports commentator, accidentally shot and
killed Costas Christofi (55), a limousine driver. Williams turned
himself in Feb 25. In 2003 Williams paid the Christofi family more than
$2 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit. On Jan 11, 2010,
Williams pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and was expected serve at
least 18 months in prison for accidentally killing Christofi in his
bedroom.
(SFC, 2/26/02, p.A3)(AP, 1/11/10)
2002 Feb 14, J. Desmond Clark, UC
Berkeley professor emeritus of anthropology, died in Oakland at age 85.
His work included over 18 books including "the Pre-history of Africa"
(1970).
(SFC, 2/16/02, p.A25)
2002 Feb 14, In Bahrain Sheikh
Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa declared himself king and approved plans for a
constitutional monarchy. Parliamentary elections were scheduled for
October and municipal elections in May. Women were to be allowed to
vote and stand as candidates for the 1st time. Foreigners would be
allowed to vote under certain conditions.
(SFC, 2/15/02, p.A10)(WSJ, 2/15/02, p.A14)
2002 Feb 14, In China 41
foreigners were arrested and later expelled following pro Falun Gong
demonstrations on Tiananmen Square.
(SFC, 2/16/02, p.A14)
2002 Feb 14, In Kabul,
Afghanistan, Abdul Rahman, the Air Transportation Minister, was
reported killed by a mob of Muslim pilgrims at Kabul Airport seeking
transport to Mecca. Hamid Karzai later said senior officials were
responsible and blamed the killing on a personal vendetta. Gen. Tawhidi
and Gen. Beg were among the accused. Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah
later said the attack was not premeditated.
(SFC, 2/15/02, p.A20)(SFC, 2/16/02, p.A3)(SFC,
2/21/02, p.A16)
2002 Feb 14, In the Netherlands
Slobodan Milosevic spoke on his own behalf on the 3rd day of his trial.
He denied all blame for a decade of carnage in the Balkans and
displayed pictures of victims of NATO air raids. Milosevic justified
his actions as a "struggle against terrorism" and said he was a victim
of twisted facts and "terrible fabrication."
(SFC, 2/15/02, p.A8)(AP, 2/14/03)
2002 Feb 14, In the Netherlands
the Int'l. Court of Justice cited diplomatic immunity and ruled that
Belgium cannot try former and current world leaders. Belgium adopted a
law in 1993 that empowered judges to hear war crimes and genocide cases
regardless of where the alleged crimes occurred or who committed them.
(SFC, 2/15/02, p.A8)
2002 Feb 14, Militant Palestinians
attacked an Israeli tank in the Gaza Strip and 3 soldiers were killed.
(SFC, 2/15/02, p.A10)
2002 Feb 14, Palestinian Abu
Zubaydah (30) was identified as the new chief of operations for al
Qaeda and was believed to be organizing al Qaeda remnants for new
attacks against the US.
(SFC, 2/14/02, p.A10)
2002 Feb 15, Pres. Bush approved
the Nevada Yucca Mountain site for nuclear waste. Nevada filed suit to
block the decision.
(SFC, 2/16/02, p.A7)
2002 Feb 15, Skating and Olympics
officials awarded Canadian pairs figure skaters Jamie Sale and David
Pelletier a gold medal, while letting the Russian pair, Elena
Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze, keep their gold medal, as a way to
resolve a judging controversy that had dominated the Winter Games in
Salt Lake City.
(AP, 2/15/03)
2002 Feb 15, American and Belgian
officials said Sanjivan Ruprah, a Kenyan diamond mine owner, offered
details between al Qaeda and the arms-trading operations of Victor
Bout, a Russian broker described as the head of the world's largest
arms-trafficking organization.
(SFC, 2/16/02, p.A4)
2002 Feb 15, Globalstar, a
satellite telephone company, filed for bankruptcy. The company had
spent $4 billion to launch a network of 48 communications satellites.
(SFC, 2/16/02, p.B1)
2002 Feb 15, Howard K. Smith (87),
war correspondent and news analyst (ABC co-anchor), died in Bethesda,
Md.
(SFC, 2/19/02, p.A14)
2002 Feb 15, Peter Voulkos
(b.1924), ceramic artist, died in Bowling Green, Ohio.
(www.ceramicsculpture.com/Pages-Voulkos/obit.htm)
2002 Feb 15, In Britain asylum
seekers rioted at the Yarl's Wood institution near Bedford and 20
escaped. 10 were soon captured.
(SFC, 2/16/02, p.A13)
2002 Feb 15, An Israeli commando
leader was killed by a falling wall as his troops demolished a
Palestinian militant's home in the West Bank. Israel fired rockets at
PLO offices in the Jabalija refugee camp and one security officer was
killed. Israeli Sgt. Lee Nahman Akunis (20) was killed by Fatah gunmen
outside the West Bank village of Skurda.
(SFC, 2/16/02, p.A9)
2002 Feb 16, Pres. Bush departed
on a 6-day Asia trip. Enroute to a three-nation tour of Asia, Bush
stopped off at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska, where he told
hundreds of cheering US soldiers that "America will not blink" in the
fight against terrorism and Osama bin Laden.
(SFC, 2/16/02, p.A3)(AP, 2/16/07)
2002 Feb 16, In Noble, Ga.,
officials found 334 decomposing bodies at the Tri-State Crematory,
where the furnace had not worked for years. Ray Brent Marsh (28),
manager of the family operation, was arrested and charged with 5 counts
of theft by deception. In 2004 families of the dead settled a
class-action suit for $80 million. Marsh pleaded guilty and was
sentenced to twelve years in prison, with credit for the time he had
served before making bond, plus seventy-five years of probation.
(SSFC, 2/17/02,
p.A6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-State_Crematory#Criminal_prosecution)
2002 Feb 16, Mark Meier, glacier
expert, predicted that oceans would rise 7-11 inches by the end of this
century due to polar warming.
(SSFC, 2/17/02, p.A4)
2002 John W. Gardner (89), founder
Common Cause, a citizen's lobby for the well-being of the nation, died.
Gardner joined Pres. Johnson's cabinet in 1965 where he started
Medicare and presided over the creation of PBS.
(SFC, 2/18/02, p.A6)
2002 Feb 16, In Afghanistan
British peacekeepers came under fire at an observation post in Kabul.
(SSFC, 2/17/02, p.A18)
2002 Feb 16-200 Feb 17, In
Afghanistan US forces made bombing raids aimed at controlling clashes
among militia forces. Pentagon officials later said the attacks were
against suspected al Qaeda fighters.
(SFC, 2/19/02, p.A9)(SFC, 2/20/02, p.A14)
2002 Feb 16, Some 20,000 Israelis
rallied for peace in Tel Aviv. 2 Israelis were killed when a
Palestinian suicide bombed sd'd in a pizza restaurant in the West Bank
settlement of Karnei Shomron. In Jenin Nazih Abu Sabaah, a Hamas
leader, was killed by a car bomb. In the Bureij refugee camp 3
Palestinians were killed in gunfire with Israeli troops.
(SSFC, 2/17/02, p.A12)
2002 Feb 16, Zimbabwe expelled
Pierre Schori, head of the EU's 150-member mission to observe
elections. EU officials threatened sanctions.
(SFC, 2/16/02, p.A14)(SSFC, 2/17/02, p.A13)
2002 Feb 17, Pres. Bush opened a
three-nation Asian tour in recession-wracked Japan, where he urged PM
Junichiro Koizumi to follow through on long-promised economic reforms.
(SFC, 2/18/02, p.A1)(AP, 2/17/07)
2002 Feb 17, The new US
Transportation Security Administration took over supervision of
aviation security from the airline industry and the Federal Aviation
Administration.
(AP, 2/17/07)
2002 Feb 17, Ward Burton took
advantage of Sterling Marlin's blunder for his first victory in the
Daytona 500. Marlin, who appeared in control of the race, was penalized
for getting out of his car and pulling briefly on a damaged fender
during the stoppage.
(AP, 2/17/07)
2002 Feb 17, Israeli police foiled
an attempted suicide bombing near Hadera. One man was shot and killed
and another killed when his stolen car exploded. The Al Aqsa Martyrs
Brigades claimed the 2 dead as its members.
(SFC, 2/18/02, p.A9)
2002 Feb 17, In Nepal Communist
rebels killed 129 police, soldiers and civilians in Mangalsen and
Sanphebaga.
(SFC, 2/18/02, p.A3)
2002 Feb 17, Saudi Crown Prince
Abdullah presented a Middle East peace plan to NY Times columnist
Thomas Friedman. It included Arab recognition of Israel's right to
exist if Israel pulled back from lands that were once part of Jordan,
including East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
(SFC, 2/26/02, p.A1)
2002 Feb 17, In Saudi Arabia a man
was sentenced to 6 years in prison and 4,750 lashes for having sex with
his wife's sister. The woman, who did not consent, was sentenced to 6
months and 65 lashes.
(SFC, 2/18/02, p.A10)
2002 Feb 18, Addressing Japan's
national legislature, President George Bush said the country's
recession-ravaged economy was "on the path to reform," and he urged the
Diet to help curb the spread of terrorism in the region.
(AP, 2/18/07)
2002 Feb 18, The EU ordered home
from Zimbabwe its 30-member observer team and voted to impose
sanctions, which included cutting off $110 million in aid, a ban on
travel to the EU by Mugabe and 20 Cabinet members and freezing of
assets.
(SFC, 2/19/02, p.A8)
2002 Feb 18, France's Marina
Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat narrowly won the Olympic ice dancing gold
medal.
(AP, 2/18/07)
2002 Feb 18, A Palestinian
militant ambushed a settler's convoy, shot 3 people dead and blew
himself up. A car bombing outside Jerusalem killed an Israeli policeman
along with the bomber. 2 Palestinian gunmen attacked a settlement in
the Gaza Strip and one was killed.
(SFC, 2/19/02, p.A6)
2002 Feb 19, President Bush opened
a two-day visit to South Korea. Bush urged the “despotic regime” in
North Korea to reunite with the free South.
(SFC, 2/20/02, p.A14)(AP, 2/19/07)
2002 Feb 19, The US Supreme Court
ok'd peer grading in schools.
(SFC, 2/20/02, p.A3)
2002 Feb 19, In Salt Lake City, a
win by bobsledders Jill Bakken and Vonetta Flowers gave the United
States 21 medals in the Winter Games; Flowers became the first black
athlete ever to strike gold at the Winter Olympics.
(AP, 2/19/07)
2002 Feb 19, A suit was filed on
behalf of 3 detainees, one Australian and 2 British citizens, held at
Guantanamo, Cuba.
(SFC, 2/19/02, p.A10)
2002 Feb 19, In Bolivia a flash
flood in La Paz killed at least 22 people. The death toll later climbed
to 52.
(SFC, 2/20/02, p.A11)(SFC, 2/21/02, p.A13)
2002 Feb 19, In Cairo, Egypt, an
overcrowded train en route from Cairo to the southern city of Luxor
burst into flames from a gas cannister. It then traveled 2 1/2 miles
before the driver stopped. 361 people were killed.
(SFC, 2/20/02, p.A9)(SFC, 2/21/02, p.A8)(AFP,
5/27/04)
2002 Feb 19, In Germany a man, who
recently lost his job, killed 2 ex-bosses and the principal of his
former high school in Freising.
(WSJ, 2/20/02, p.A1)
2002 Feb 19, Israeli-Palestinian
fighting left 15 people dead. 6 Israeli soldiers died at a checkpoint.
(SFC, 2/20/02, p.A8)(SFC, 2/21/02, p.A1)
2002 Feb 19, Italian authorities
arrested 4 Moroccans in Rome, members of the Salafist Group for Call
and Combat. Maps were found of the US Embassy, small quantities of
cyanide, and a map of the city's water system.
(SFC, 2/21/02, p.A16)
2002 Feb 19, In Jordan a military
prosecutor froze the assets of some prominent businessmen and former
intelligence officials. Fraudulent loans were reported to be as much as
$85 million.
(WSJ, 2/20/02, p.A18)
2002 Feb 19, In Liberia rebels
were repelled at Heindi and Bong Mines, 20 miles northeast of Monrovia,
as some 15,000 civilians fled.
(SFC, 2/21/02, p.A13)
2002 Feb 19, It was reported that
Pakistan had begun disbanding the Afghan and Kashmir units of its
Inter-Services Intelligence agency.
(SFC, 2/20/02, p.A14)
2002 Feb 19, Peru's justice
minister ruled out a presidential pardon for Lori Berenson after the
Supreme Court confirmed the American woman's 20-year sentence for
aiding leftist rebels.
(AP, 2/19/07)
2002 Feb 19, In Saudi Arabia some
2 million Muslims gathered in Mecca for the annual hajj.
(SFC, 2/20/02, p.A11)
2002 Feb 20, President Bush, on
the final leg of his Asian trip, arrived in China, where he urged
President Jiang Zemin to respect religious freedoms.
(AP, 2/20/07)
2002 Feb 20, At the Salt Lake City
Winter Olympics, Jim Shea won the men's skeleton race, finishing the
two runs at Utah Olympic Park in one minute, 41.96 seconds. The victory
was the culmination of an emotional two months for Shea, whose
91-year-old grandfather, Olympic gold medal speedskater Jack Shea, died
four weeks earlier. American speedskater Apolo Anton Ohno won the 1,500
meters after South Korean Kim Dong-sung, who had crossed the finish
line ahead of him, was disqualified.
(SFC, 2/21/02, p.A1)(AP, 2/20/07)
2002 Feb 20, The Pentagon said its
new Office of Strategic Influence would not spread falsehoods in the
media to advance US war goals. The office was closed down Feb 26.
(WSJ, 2/21/02, p.A1)(SFC, 2/27/02, p.A9)
2002 Feb 20, In Colombia Pres.
Pastrana ended peace talks with the FARC and ordered his military to
retake the southern rebel haven.
(SFC, 2/21/02, p.A10)
2002 Feb 20, The Israeli Supreme
Court ruled that the state must recognized as Jews people converted by
Reform and Conservative rabbis in Israel.
(SFC, 2/21/02, p.A15)
2002 Feb 20, Israeli forces fired
on Palestinian police compounds and killed 12 security officials
including 4 guards at Gaza police compounds and 6 policemen in Nablus.
(SFC, 2/20/02, p.A8)
2002 Feb 20, In Nepal 12 Maoist
guerrillas were killed in fighting at Kalikot and other locations.
(SFC, 2/21/02, p.A13)
2002 Feb 20, In Sudan a government
helicopter gunship attacked civilians waiting for food at a UN site and
at least 17 people were killed. The US suspended peace efforts
following the attack.
(SFC, 2/22/02, p.A13)
2002 Feb 21, In Salt Lake City
Sarah Hughes (16) of Great neck, NY, won 1st place in the Olympics
women’s free skate competition, leaving teammate Michelle Kwan to
settle for a bronze.
(SFC, 2/22/02, p.A1)(AP, 2/21/07)
2002 Feb 21, Pres. Bush met with
Pres. Zemin in Beijing and both agreed to work on the reunification of
North and South Korea. They disagreed over controls on exports of
missile technology. Pres. Bush answered questions in a live broadcast
and reaffirmed the US right to protect Taiwan.
(SFC, 2/21/02, p.A12)(SFC, 2/22/02, p.A12)(WSJ,
2/22/02, p.A1)
2002 Feb 21, In New Jersey a
retired police officer, John W. Mabie (70) shot and killed his
22-year-old daughter and then killed 3 neighbors.
(SFC, 2/22/02, p.A5)
2002 Feb 21, It was acknowledged
that WSJ reporter Daniel Pearl was dead after a video was received that
showed an assailant slash his throat. On May 30, Pearl's wife in Paris
gave birth to a baby boy, Adam D. Pearl.
(SFC, 2/22/02, p.A1)(SFC, 5/31/02, p.A18)
2002 Feb 21, A US MH-47E Chinook
helicopter with 10 soldiers crashed into the Mindanao Sea in the
Philippines. 3 bodies were found by local fishermen. A salvage team
found 5 more bodies Mar 30.
(SFC, 2/22/02, p.A17)(SFC, 2/23/02, p.A14)(SSFC,
3/31/02, p.A17)
2002 Feb 21, The Colombia Air
Force dropped 1,500 and 500 pound bombs on FARC rebel sites.
(SFC, 2/22/02, p.A1)
2002 Feb 21, Israeli tanks and
troops pushed into Gaza City and destroyed a broadcast facility. 6
Palestinians were reported killed. Yasser Arafat repeated a call to
halt violence and his security forces arrested 3 suspects in the Oct 17
assassination of Israeli Cabinet minister Zeevi. PM Sharon called for
buffer zones and the disarming of Palestinians.
(SFC, 2/21/02, p.A1)(SFC, 2/22/02, p.A9)(WSJ,
2/22/02, p.A1)
2002 Feb 21, In Nepal the army
killed 48 guerrillas and the parliament extended the state of emergency
by 3 months.
(SFC, 2/22/02, p.A14)
2002 Feb 21, Sri Lanka approved a
Norwegian long-term cease-fire plan already approved by Tamil Tiger
rebels.
(SFC, 2/22/02, p.A13)
2002 Feb 22, An Alabama jury found
Monsanto and its corporate successors (Solutia Inc.) guilty of
releasing tons of PCBs in Anniston between 1935-1979. In 2004 some
18,447 plaintiffs were scheduled to an average of $7,725, while 27
lawyers were scheduled to receive over $4 million each.
(SFC, 2/23/02, p.A7)(SFC, 3/24/04, p.A5)
2002 Feb 22, The California state
Supreme Court struck down the “Son of Sam” law that required felons to
turn over profits from books and movies to their victims.
(SFC, 2/22/02, p.A1)
2002 Feb 22, Police in San Diego
arrested David Westerfield in connection with the disappearance of
7-year-old Danielle van Dam. Westerfield was later sentenced to death
for Danielle's murder.
(AP, 2/22/07)
2002 Feb 22, A New Jersey teenager
(16) was arrested for killing 6 people in a 2-day shooting spree on the
outskirts of Philadelphia that began Feb 4.
(SSFC, 2/24/02, p.A1)
2002 Feb 22, Northrup Grumman bid
$5.9 billion for TRW Corp. [see Jul 1]
(SFC, 7/2/02, p.B1)
2002 Feb 23, Penn State pole
vaulter Kevin Dare died after landing on his head during the Big Ten
indoor championships in Minneapolis.
(AP, 2/23/07)
2002 Feb 22, Chuck Jones, cartoon
animator, died at age 89. His work included Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and
Road Runner.
(SFC, 2/23/02, p.A2)(SFC, 2/27/02, p.D2)(WSJ,
3/1/02, p.A14)
2002 Feb 22, In Angola government
troops reportedly killed UNITA rebel leader Jonas Savimbi (67) in
Moxico province.
(SFC, 2/23/02, p.A1)
2002 Feb 22, In London the
Millennium Bridge reopened to the public.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/1829053.stm)
2002 Feb 22, Colombia began to
airlift some 34,000 soldiers of the elite Rapid Deployment Force into
San Vicente del Caguan, the largest town in the FARC territory.
(SFC, 2/23/02, p.A9)(SSFC, 2/24/02, p.A18)
2002 Feb 22, Madagascar declared a
3-month state of emergency after the main opposition leader, Marc
Ravalomanana, declared himself president following a 2-month dispute.
(SFC, 2/23/02, p.A11)
2002 Feb 22, In Nepal rebels
attacked a police post and killed at least 32 officers. They killed 5
bus passengers in a separate attack. The army said 10 rebels were
killed in other fighting. Rebels called a 2-day nationwide general
strike.
(SFC, 2/23/02, p.A12)(SSFC, 2/24/02, p.A20)
2002 Feb 22, In Russia an AN-26
military cargo plane crashed in Lakhta and 17 people were killed.
(SFC, 2/23/02, p.A12)
2002 Feb 22, Pakistan complained
over the US sale to India of surveillance radar, the AN/TPQ-36
Firefinder system.
(SFC, 2/23/02, p.A14)
2002 Feb 22, Sri Lanka and Tamil
Tiger rebels signed a Norwegian long-term cease-fire plan. The death
toll stood at more than 65,000 when the cease-fire was signed.
(SFC, 2/23/02, p.A9)(AP, 7/3/06)
2002 Feb 23, The US government
said it had clues that Osama bin Laden was still alive in Afghanistan.
(SSFC, 2/24/02, p.A16)
2002 Feb 23, It was reported that
Bergen and Hudson counties of New Jersey were placed on water
restrictions as the worst drought in 75 years lingered on along the
East Coast.
(SFC, 2/23/02, p.A24)
2002 Feb 23, In Colombia FARC
rebels kidnapped Ingrid Betancourt (40), a presidential candidate, near
La Montanita enroute to San Vicente del Caguan. She was the author of
“Until Death do us Part: My Struggle to Reclaim Colombia.” Clara Rojas
(37) was also kidnapped. Rohas gave birth to a son in 2004 from whom
she was separated. She was released in Jan 2008. Betancourt and other
hostages were freed in a military operation in July, 2008.
(SFC, 2/25/02, p.A6)(Econ, 3/20/04, p.37)(SFC,
12/19/08, p.A1)
2002 Feb 23, Switzerland largest
bank said it was freezing accounts containing money of the family of
Sani Abacha of Nigeria, dictator from 1993-1998. The total blocked now
reached $720 million.
(SSFC, 2/24/02, p.A20)
2002 Feb 24, The XIX Winter
Olympics in Salt Lake City came to a close. In one of the last events
Canada beat the US hockey team 5-2 for the gold. Cross-country skiers
from Spain and Russia were stripped of gold medals for failing drug
tests.
(SFC, 2/25/02, p.A1)(WSJ, 2/25/02, p.A1)
2002 Feb 24, Leo Ornstein,
Russian-born Futurist composer, died at age 108-109 in Green Bay, Wisc.
In 1918 Frederick H. Martens authored "Leo Ornstein: The Man, His
Ideas, His Work." In 1990 Ornstein composed his last work: the Eighth
Piano Sonata.
(SFC, 3/8/02, p.A31)
2002 Feb 24, In La Macarena,
Colombia, 7 civilians were reported killed by retreating rebels.
(SFC, 2/27/02, p.A7)
2002 Feb 24, In India the BJP
party was defeated in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Manipur and the new state
of Uttaranchal. It retained control in only 4 of the 28 states.
(SFC, 2/25/02, p.A7)
2002 Feb 24, A Palestinian woman
(27) gave birth after being shot by Israeli troops as she was being
driven to a hospital.
(SFC, 2/26/02, p.A11)
2002 Feb 24, In Mexico the PRI
held its 1st ever open election for party leadership.
(SFC, 2/25/02, p.A7)
2002 Feb 25, In NYC after a
35-year plot to accept bribes and cheat the city out of tax revenues,
16 tax assessors were arrested and charged with altering values of over
500 properties worth some $8 billion.
(SFC, 2/26/02, p.A5)
2002 Feb 25, Former NBA star
Jayson Williams was charged with manslaughter in the shooting death of
Costas "Gus" Christofi, a limousine driver at Williams' estate in
Alexandria Township, N.J. A jury convicted Williams in 2004 of trying
to cover up the slaying; it acquitted Williams of aggravated
manslaughter but deadlocked on a lesser charge of reckless manslaughter.
(AP, 2/25/07)
2002 Feb 25, Two women, Israeli
(Tamar Lifshitz) and a Palestinian (Maysoun Hayek), gave birth after
being shot in separate incidents. The Palestinian's woman's husband was
shot to death as they drove to a hospital in Nablus. The Israeli
woman's father was killed in an ambush along with another man. 4
Israelis were killed at a bus stop in Jerusalem by a gunmen who was
killed.
(SFC, 2/26/02, p.A11)(WSJ, 2/26/02, p.A1)
2002 Feb 25, NATO offered Russia a
modified membership, with no veto power over political or military
policies.
(SFC, 2/26/02, p.A7)
2002 Feb 25, In Venezuela Gen.
Roman Gomez became the 4th military officer to call for Pres. Chavez to
step down.
(SFC, 2/26/02, p.A7)
2002 Feb 25, In Zimbabwe Morgan
Tsvangirai, presidential candidate, was charged with treason for
allegedly plotting to assassinate Pres. Mugabe.
(SFC, 2/26/02, p.A6)
2002 Feb 26, It was reported that
the US has begun providing the former Soviet Republic of Georgia with
military aid to counter terrorist threats in the Pankisi Gorge region.
Some 100-200 US soldiers were included in the $64 million program to
begin in mid-March.
(SFC, 2/27/02, p.A8)(WSJ, 2/27/02, p.A4)(SFC,
3/2/02, p.A11)
2002 Feb 26, Former Enron chief
executive Jeffrey Skilling, at times combative, insisted during a
Senate hearing that he knew nothing about manipulation of company books
and denied misleading Congress as alleged by some lawmakers and Enron
officials.
(AP, 2/26/07)
2002 Feb 26, Pharmacist Robert R.
Courtney pleaded guilty in Kansas City, Mo., to watering down
chemotherapy drugs. Courtney was later sentenced to 30 years in prison.
(AP, 2/26/07)
2002 Feb 26, Lawrence Tierney,
actor in some 80 films, died at age 82.
(SFC, 3/1/02, p.A33)
2002 Feb 26, In Austria a train
wreck in Wampersdorf left 7 people dead.
(SFC, 2/27/02, p.A7)
2002 Feb 26, In Colombia 7 people
were killed in various attacks blamed on the FARC. A rebel bombing
campaign against infrastructure continued.
(SFC, 2/27/02, p.A7)
2002 Feb 26, Congo peace talks
were suspended a day after the opening ceremony due to wrangling over
which political parties would be allowed to participate.
(SFC, 2/27/02, p.A7)
2002 Feb 26, In Pakistan gunmen
killed 9 people and wounded over 10 others in an attack on a Shiite
mosque in Rawalpindi. The Sunni group Army of the Prophet's Companions
was believed responsible.
(SFC, 2/27/02, p.A9)
2002 Feb 27, Alicia Keys won in 5
categories at the 44th annual Grammy Awards. Train won for best rock
song: "Drops of Jupiter," U2 won for best record of the year: "Walk
On," and Various Artists won the album of the year: "O Brother, Where
Art Thou."
(SFC, 2/28/02, p.A1)
2002 Feb 27, US officials
announced a $5 million reward for information in the kidnap-murder in
Pakistan of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
(AP, 2/27/07)
2002 Feb 27, Eric V. Schaeffer
ended his 12-year EPA career with a missive accusing the Bush
administration of dragging its feet on lawsuits against 9 power
companies blamed for a quarter of the nation's annual sulfur dioxide
pollution.
(SFC, 3/1/02, p.A9)
2002 Feb 27, Spike Milligan (83),
British comedian died in Rye, England.
(AP, 2/27/07)
2002 Feb 27, In Havana 21 Cubans
took refuge in the Mexican Embassy after plowing through its gates in a
stolen bus. Mexican diplomats found the Cubans to be economic refugees
and requested a raid. A Cuban special unit arrested the asylum seekers
on Mar 1.
(SFC, 3/1/02, p.A16)(SFC, 3/2/02, p.A8)
2002 Feb 27, In India Muslim
attackers allegedly set fire to a train carrying Hindu nationalists and
58 were killed as the Sabarmati Express left Godhra in Gujarat state.
Hindu nationalists went rampaging and at least 5 Muslims were killed in
other towns. 3 months of rioting followed with over 1000 dead. In 2005
a government panel said the fire was not set by a Muslim mob. Narendra
Modi, chief minister of Gujarat, was later blamed for the violence.
(SFC, 2/28/02, p.A7)(SFC, 6/28/03, p.A3)(WSJ,
1/18/05, p.A1)(Econ, 3/26/05, p.44)
2002 Feb 27, Israeli troops killed
4 armed Palestinians and a Palestinian worker killed an Israeli factory
manager. A Palestinian woman killed herself and wounded 4 others at a
road block in the West Bank.
(SFC, 2/28/02, p.A8)
2002 Feb 27, Nepalese soldiers
killed 27 rebels over the last 2 days as part of a military offensive.
(SFC, 2/28/02, p.A9)
2002 Feb 28, Dr. Ellen Feinberg
(43) stabbed to death her 10-year-old son and wounded a younger son in
Champaign, Ill.
(SFC, 3/2/02, p.A6)
2002 Feb 28, In Gujarat state,
Hindu mobs killed over 158 people, burned shops and attacked residences
in Ahmadabad to avenge the killing of 58 Hindu activists. In 2007
a series of videotaped confessions showed Hindu activists acknowledging
their roles in the killings and detailing blatant state collusion.
(SFC, 3/1/02, p.A1,12)(SFC, 10/25/07, p.A13)
2002 Feb 28, In Hong Kong Tung
Chee-hwa won a 2nd term after a nomination period expired with
challengers.
(SFC, 3/1/02, p.A17)
2002 Feb 28, Israeli troops
assaulted 2 West Bank refugee camps. One Israeli soldier and 12
Palestinian fighters were killed.
(SFC, 3/1/02, p.A13)(WSJ, 3/1/02, p.A10)
2002 Feb 28, Japan reportedly
planned to double its whale catch to 260 whales and include the
endangered sei whale.
(SFC, 3/1/02, p.A19)
2002 Feb 28, In Amman, Jordan, a
bomb killed 2 passersby and destroyed the car of a top anti-terrorism
official's wife.
(WSJ, 3/1/02, p.A1)
2002 Feb 28, In Madagascar Pres.
Didier Ratsiraka declared martial law following 2 months of strikes and
mass protests.
(SFC, 3/1/02, p.A17)
2002 Feb 28, In Pakistan gunmen
attacked a police bus in a bid to free prisoners that included a
suspect in the slaying of Daniel Pearl. A policeman and a prisoner were
killed.
(WSJ, 3/1/02, p.A1)
2002 Feb, Arthur Anderson &
Co. agreed to pay $10.3 million to settle shareholder suits arising
from the Boston Market bankruptcy.
(WSJ, 6/7/02, p.A6)
2002 Feb, Florida Bay experienced
a mass of "black water" spread over some 700 sq. miles north of the
Keys. It was thought to be caused by an algal bloom.
(SFC, 4/6/02, p.C10)
2002 Feb, A US intelligence report
said that it was probable that Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, a former head of
al Qaeda training in Afghanistan, was misleading debriefers with
allegations about Iraqi support for al-Qaeda’s work with illicit
weapons. The report was declassified in 2005.
(SSFC, 11/6/05, p.A11)
2002 Feb, Joseph C. Wilson IV,
former US diplomat and veteran of the diplomatic wars of Iraq and
Africa, was sent on a secret mission to Niger to determine if Iraqis
had tried to purchase yellowcake uranium from Africa to build nuclear
weapons. Wilson spent a week in Niger chatting with locals about the
allegation, coming to the conclusion that the yellowcake charges were
probably unfounded. His wife, Valerie Plame, was a CIA operative. In
2006 it was reported that Plame was part of an operation tracking the
proliferation of nuclear weapons material into Iran.
(WP, 7/17/05)(WSJ, 7/18/05, p.A4)(AFP, 5/2/06)
2002 Feb, Dr Wakefield and
Professor O'Leary published a paper in the journal Molecular Pathology
which suggests a possible link between the measles virus and bowel
disease in children with developmental disorders. The study set out to
investigate whether children with developmental disorders such as
autism and a bowel disorder also had the measles virus in their gut. It
found traces of the virus in the guts of 75 children out of 91 with
bowel disease, but in only five out of 70 healthy children. The
researchers theorized that the virus may act as a trigger, leading to
problems with the immune system. Dr Wakefield said most of the children
in the study had had MMR, though a few had had the single vaccine. He
and his colleague emphasized that it would be wrong to jump to any
hasty conclusions about MMR causing either bowel disease or
developmental disorders such as autism.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1808956.stm)
2002 Feb, A team from the
Royal Free Hospital - where Dr Wakefield carried out his initial
research - published a study on the British Medical Journal website
saying there is no link between MMR and autism. The team looked at
almost 500 children with autism born between 1979 and 1998. It found
the proportion of children with developmental regression (autism) or
bowel disorders did not change significantly over that time.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1808956.stm)
2002 Feb, Sudan arrested 9
terrorists including Anas al-Liby, a senior al Qaeda operative.
(SFC, 3/19/02, p.A9)
2002 Mar 1, Pres. Bush approved
plans to send some 100 US troops to Yemen to help train the nation's
military to fight terrorists.
(SFC, 3/2/02, p.A14)
2002 Mar 1, Under pressure from
prosecutors, the Archdiocese of Boston agreed to turn over the names of
people allegedly molested by priests.
(AP, 3/1/07)
2002 Mar 1, The space shuttle
Columbia with 7 astronauts blasted into orbit on an 11-day mission that
included work on the Hubble Space Telescope.
(SFC, 3/2/02, p.A3)
2002 Mar 1, NASA scientists said
that vast ice fields had been detected under the surface of Mars with a
gamma ray spectrometer on the Odyssey orbiter
(SFC, 3/2/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 1, Grand American series
driver Jeff Clinton was killed during practice in a crash at
Homestead-Miami Speedway.
(AP, 3/1/07)
2002 Mar 1, In China laid-off
workers of the Daqing Oilfield Co. began massive protests for
re-negotiation of early retirement packages. Some 86,000 of 260,000
workers had been laid off since 1999. Daily protests hit as many as 50k
workers.
(WSJ, 3/14/02, p.A1)(SFC, 3/20/02, p.A9)
2002 Mar 1, In Gujarat, India, the
death toll from Hindu-Muslim violence passed 300 and some 3,500 troops
moved into Ahmadabad to quell the violence. 14 Muslims burned to death
in the Best Bakery in Vadodara. 21 Hindus, accused of murder, were
later acquitted after almost 40 witnesses withdrew evidence.
(SFC, 3/2/02, p.A1)(Econ, 9/20/03, p.40)
2002 Mar 1, Israeli troops swept
through refugee camps in Jenin and Nablus looking for terror suspects.
One solder was killed along with 6 Palestinians fighters and a
10-year-old girl.
(SFC, 3/2/02, p.A7)
2002 Mar 2, US and Afghan forces
attacked hundreds of suspected al Qaeda and Taliban fighters in eastern
Afghanistan in Operation Anaconda. US soldier Stanley Harriman (34) was
killed and friendly fire was later suspected.
(SSFC, 3/3/02, p.A1)(SFC, 3/13/02, p.A12)(SFC,
3/29/02, p.A10)
2002 Mar 2, From Brazil it was
reported that at least 23 people had died from dengue fever in Rio de
Janeiro and that officially some 52,000 had become ill.
(SFC, 3/2/02, p.A10)
2002 Mar 2, In Colombia the bodies
of Sen. Martha Catalina Daniels, her driver, Carlos Lozano, and Ana
Maria Medina, the wife of a local politician, were found outside
Zipacon, 35 miles north of Bogota. FARC was suspected.
(SFC, 3/4/02, p.A3)
2002 Mar 2, Egypt's Pres. Mubarek
(73) began a 4-day visit to the US.
(SSFC, 3/3/02, p.A19)
2002 Mar 2, In Jerusalem a suicide
bomber killed himself and 9 others including several children. In the
West Bank gunmen opened fire on Israeli motorists and killed 9 people.
(SSFC, 3/3/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 2-3, Macedonia police
killed 7 men who allegedly attempted an ambush near Butel, a suburb of
Skopje. Police said the attackers were probably Pakistanis. Foreign
officials later discounted these assertions and suspected that they
were illegal immigrants. A 2 year investigation followed in the
so-called "Rastanski Lozja" action, and revealed police staged the
killing to show they were participating in the U.S.-led campaign
against terrorism. A bomb blast at the Macedonia consulate in Karachi
on Dec 5, 2002, killed 3 people in apparent retaliation.
(SSFC, 3/3/02, p.A15)(WSJ, 3/8/02, p.A8)(SFC,
4/5/02, p.H1)(AP, 4/30/04)(SFC, 5/1/04, p.A7)
2002 Mar 3, US military forces and
6 allied nations made air and ground assaults against al Qaeda and
Taliban fighters in the Afghan Shah-e-Kot mountains of eastern Paktia
province.
(SFC, 3/4/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 3, Harlan Howard (74),
song writer, died. His hits included "Heartaches by the Number" and "I
Fall to Pieces," made famous by Patsy Cline.
(SFC, 3/5/02, p.A18)
2002 Mar 3, A 7.2 earthquake was
centered in northeast Afghanistan and at least 100 people were killed.
(SFC, 3/5/02, p.A10)
2002 Mar 3, In Ahmadabad, India,
the death toll from Hindu-Muslim violence climbed to 538 as Hindu mobs
continued attacks on Muslims.
(SFC, 3/4/02, p.A8)
2002 Mar 3, Israel used jets and
helicopters to strike Palestinian targets. 4 Palestinians were killed.
(SFC, 3/4/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 3, In Kenya the Taliban
gang (Kikuyu) killed 2 members of the Mungiki gang (Luo). The violence
in east Nairobi left at least 20 people dead.
(SFC, 3/5/02, p.A7)
2002 Mar 3, Syria's Pres. Assad
officially visited Lebanon for the 1st time in 27 years and met with
Lebanon's Pres. Emile Lahoud.
(SFC, 3/4/02, p.A5)
2002 Mar 3, Switzerland voted in a
referendum to join the UN, the 190th member, abandoning almost 200
years of formal neutrality.
(SFC, 3/4/02, p.A2)(Econ, 2/14/04, Survey p.4)(AP,
3/3/07)
2002 Mar 3, In Vietnam a 3-day
US-Vietnamese conference on Agent Orange began. High dioxin levels were
found in people 30 years after spraying ended.
(SSFC, 3/3/02, p.A11)
2002 Mar 4, In Afghanistan at
least 7 US soldiers were killed while trying to drop off reconnaissance
teams in fighting in Paktia province. 6 of the soldiers were killed in
an effort to try to rescue a 7th during Operation Anaconda.
(SFC, 3/5/02, p.A1)(SFC, 3/6/02, p.A1,12)
2002 Mar 4, Roy Porter (b.1946),
British historian, died. He had recently published "Madness: A Brief
History." His other books included “The Greatest Benefit to Mankind”
(1997), a survey of the history of medicine.
(www.guardian.co.uk/news/2002/mar/05/guardianobituaries.obituaries)(SSFC,
4/21/02,
p.M3)(WSJ, 10/4/08, p.W8)
2002 Mar 4, European Union’s 15
members ratified the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, but failed to
set pollutant-emission levels to meet the accord’s targets.
(AP, 3/4/07)
2002 Mar 4, El Salvador declared a
state of emergency in the town of Berlin after some 60 horses died from
apparent anthrax infections.
(SFC, 3/5/02, p.A7)
2002 Mar 4, In Ahmadabad, India,
Hindu militants razed the 80-year-old Manchaji mosque and erected a
foot-tall statue of the monkey god Hanuman in its place. The death toll
from Hindu-Muslim violence in the region climbed to 544.
(SFC, 3/5/02, p.A6)
2002 Mar 4, Israeli forces killed
at least 14 Palestinians including the wife of an Islamic militant and
their 3 children.
(SFC, 3/5/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 4, In Kashmir separatist
violence left at least 17 people dead. This included 8 Islamic
militants killed by Indian soldiers.
(SFC, 3/5/02, p.A7)
2002 Mar 4, In Kosovo Ibrahim
Rugova, moderate Albanian leader, became Kosovo's 1st president and
joined PM Bajram Rexhepi to push for independence.
(SFC, 3/5/02, p.A7)
2002 Mar 5, Pres. Bush approved
tariffs of 8-30% on several types of imported steel.
(SFC, 3/6/02, p.A4)
2002 Mar 5, Pres. Bush planned to
nominate Elias Zerhouni, vice dean of John Hopkins School of Medicine,
as director of the NIH.
(SFC, 3/6/02, p.A3)
2002 Mar 5, Pres. Bush met with
Egypt's Pres. Mubarek, who called for greater US involvement in seeking
Middle East peace.
(SFC, 3/5/02, p.A11)(SFC, 3/6/02, p.A13)
2002 Mar 5, In California state
elections Bill Simon won the Republican race over Richard Riordan
(49-30) to face Gov. Davis in Nov. In Modesto Rep. Gary Condit lost to
Assemblyman Dennis Cardoza (56-37) for the Democratic nomination to
Congress. Voters rejected Prop 45, an easing of term limits.
(SFC, 3/6/02, p.A1)(SFC, 3/7/02, p.A13)
2002 Mar 5, It was reported that a
team of physicists claimed nuclear fusion utilizing a burst of
ultrasound on a bubble of gases in a phenomenon known as
sonoluminescence. Details were to appear the journal Science. In 2008
Purdue Univ. said physicist Rusi Taleyarkhan was guilty of misconduct
in his research.
(SFC, 3/5/02, p.A4)(SFC, 7/19/08, p.A4)
2002 Mar 5, Joyce and Pete
Cottrell of New Hampshire began to walk the trans-continental American
Discovery Trail. They left the Atlantic coast at Cape Henlopen, Del.,
and arrived at the Pacific Ocean at Point Reyes, Ca., Aug 19, 2003.
(SFC, 8/20/03, p.A2)
2002 Mar 5, In China Falun Gong
members cut into a cable network in Changchun and broadcast its
messages for some 50 minutes.
(SFC, 3/8/02, p.A12)(WSJ, 3/8/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 5, In Tel Aviv a gunmen
killed 3 people at a restaurant in the early hours and wounded 31 other
before he was killed. A suicide bomber blew himself up at the Afula bus
station and 1 Israeli was killed. In Dura a Palestinian police officer
was killed and 4 wounded during a gunfight with Israeli soldiers.
(SFC, 3/5/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 5, In the Philippines a
6.8 earthquake struck about 10 miles under the sea some 147 miles
southwest of General Santos and 4 people were killed.
(SFC, 3/6/02, p.A8)
2002 Mar 5, In Zimbabwe Pres.
Mugabe reinstated controversial election laws that had been struck down
by the Supreme Court.
(SFC, 3/6/02, p.A7)
2002 Mar 6, US commanders in
Afghanistan committed an additional 300 troops to the battle zone in
the Shah-I-Kot mountains. Taliban and al-Qaeda forces were reported to
have swollen by as many as 500 fighters. US jets killed 14 people in
the area including women and children.
(SFC, 3/7/02, p.A1)(WSJ, 3/13/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 6, It was reported that a
3-year study of heavy marijuana users showed that long-term pot smoking
impaired brain function.
(SFC, 3/6/02, p.A2)
2002 Mar 6, It was reported that a
diet rich in tomato products can lower the risk of prostate cancer
(Journal of National Cancer Institute).
(SFC, 3/6/02, p.A2)(WSJ, 3/6/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 6, Astronauts
successfully replaced a power-control unit on the Hubble space
telescope.
(WSJ, 3/7/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 6, In Kabul, Afghanistan,
3 Danish and 2 German peacekeeping soldiers were killed while defusing
a soviet era missile.
(WSJ, 3/7/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 6, China announced a
17.6% increase in defense spending.
(SFC, 3/7/02, p.A7)
2002 Mar 6, It was reported that
new regulations (Kuschelregel, the cuddle rule) required German pig
farmers to spend at least 20 seconds each day looking at each pig.
(WSJ, 3/6/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 6, Israeli forces struck
Palestinian targets by land and sea. 13 Palestinians and 2 Israelis
were left dead.
(SFC, 3/7/02, p.A6)(WSJ, 3/7/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 7, The US House passed
417-3 a bill cutting taxes and extending unemployment benefits.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2002 Mar 7, Brazil’s 4-party
coalition collapsed with the pullout of the Liberal Front Party.
Roseana Sarney (40), Gov. of Maranhao state and PFL presidential
candidate, was involved in a scandal over a consulting firm she owned
with her husband. Sarney called the government investigation a
witch-hunt. Her presidential bid was killed when images of half a
million dollars in banknotes, found at her husband’s office, were
broadcast on television.
(SFC, 3/8/02, p.A13)(SFC, 3/9/02, p.A7)(Econ,
2/27/10, p.43)
2002 Mar 7, In Myanmar Aye Zaw Win
(54) and 3 adult sons, 4 relatives of former dictator Ne Win, were
arrested and some military officers were dismissed for planning a coup.
Later Ne Win and his daughter were put under house arrest. Aye Zaw Win
and his 3 sons were convicted and sentenced to death Sep 26.
(SSFC, 3/10/02, p.A15)(SFC, 3/19/02, p.A7)(SFC,
9/27/02, p.A11)
2002 Mar 7, In India the death
toll from Hindu-Muslim violence in the region climbed to 665, and was
expected to climb if construction begins Mar 15 on a Hindu temple in
Ayodha.
(WSJ, 3/8/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 7, Irish voters narrowly
rejected an abortion proposal that would have tightened a near total
ban.
(SFC, 3/8/02, p.A14)
2002 Mar 7, Venezuela sent some
2,000 troops to its border with Colombia to block fleeing rebels.
(WSJ, 3/8/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 8, The US Senate passed
the economic stimulus bill. Pres. Bush signed it the next day. The
Senate bill cut taxes and extended unemployment benefits.
(SFC, 3/9/02, p.A4)(WSJ, 3/11/02, p.A1)(AP, 3/8/07)
2002 Mar 8, The US Labor Dept.
reported an addition of 66,000 jobs in February, the 1st increase in 8
months.
(SFC, 3/9/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 8, The Holy Land
Foundation filed suit against the US Departments of Justice, Treasury
and State for violation of its civil rights and putting it out of
business as a suspected conduit for terrorist funds.
(SFC, 3/16/02, p.A14)
2002 Mar 8, K-Mart announced the
closure of 284 stores and layoffs of 22,000.
(SFC, 3/9/02, p.B1)
2002 Mar 8, In Noble, Georgia, the
parents and sister of Ray Brent Marsh were arrested for signing death
certificates even though they were not licensed. The number of corpses
found at the Tri-State Crematory rose to 339. [see Feb 16]
(SFC, 3/9/02, p.A3)
2002 Mar 8, It was reported that
scientists had found a link between SV40, a simian virus, and
non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
(SFC, 3/9/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 8, A gunman killed 5
Israelis in Gaza. Israeli forces attacked Palestinian positions and
killed 36 including Maj. Gen. Ahmed Mefraj. This was the deadliest day
in 17 months of fighting.
(SFC, 3/8/02, p.A11)(SFC, 3/9/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 8, Pakistan prepared to
expel thousands of foreign students studying at religious schools.
(SFC, 3/9/02, p.A13)
2002 Mar 8, Natalya Skryl,
business reporter, was struck from behind in Taganrog, southwestern
Russia, and died the next day. She had been investigating the struggle
for a metallurgical plant.
(SSFC, 5/12/02, p.A3)
2002 Mar 9, The Director's Guild
of America voted top honors to director Ron Howard for the film "A
Beautiful Mind" starring Russel Crowe. Crowe portrayed John Nash, a
Nobel laureate who struggled with mental illness.
(SSFC, 3/10/02, p.A2)
2002 Mar 9, Melissa Gilbert was
elected president of the Screen Actors Guild, defeating challenger
Valerie Harper.
(AP, 3/9/07)
2002 Mar 9, Jamil Abdullah
al-Amin, aka H. Rap Brown (58), was convicted by an Atlanta jury for
the murder of a sheriff’s deputy on Mar 16, 2000. Brown was sentenced
to life in prison without parole on Mar 13.
(SSFC, 3/10/02, p.A6)(SFC, 3/13/02, p.A4)(AP, 3/9/07)
2002 Mar 9, A Marine Corps
helicopter from Beaufort, SC, crashed in the Atlantic Ocean during a
rescue operation from a downed civilian helicopter. 2 people were
killed.
(SSFC, 3/10/02, p.A6)
2002 Mar 9, The space shuttle
Columbia's astronauts released the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit
after five days of repairs.
(AP, 3/9/07)
2002 Mar 9, In Chicago scaffolding
under high winds tore loose from the John Hancock Center and fatally
crushed 3 people.
(SSFC, 3/10/02, p.A6)
2002 Mar 9, In Cairo Arab foreign
ministers met and voiced support for a Middle East peace proposal by
Saudi Arabia.
(SSFC, 3/10/02, p.A16)
2002 Mar 9, A pair of Palestinian
gunmen tossed grenades and opened fire at a seafront hotel in Netanya
and 3 people were killed including a baby. A Palestinian suicide bomber
blew himself up in a Jerusalem café and killed 11 others.
Israeli forces destroyed Arafat's office building in Gaza and left 6
Palestinians dead including a 15-year-old girl. Hamas claimed
responsibility.
(SSFC, 3/10/02, p.A1,16)(SFC, 7/24/02, p.A14)
2002 Mar 9, In Pueblo, Mexico,
police arrested Benjamin Arellano Felix, head of the Tijuana drug
cartel.
(SSFC, 3/10/02, p.A14)
2002 Mar 10, Russell Crowe won
best actor honors at the Screen Actors Guild awards for "A Beautiful
Mind" while Halle Berry won best actress for "Monster's Ball."
(AP, 3/10/07)
2002 Mar 10, Irene Worth (85),
3-time Tony winning actress, died in New York.
(SFC, 3/12/02, p.A21)(AP, 3/10/07)
2002 Mar 10, In Colombia voters
maintained the Liberal Party as the largest force in the 268-member,
2-chamber legislature. Poling in 15 of the nation's 1,097
municipalities was cancelled due to rebel interference.
(SFC, 3/11/02, p.A10)
2002 Mar 10, In India religious
violence left 2 more dead in Panvad and Rajpipla, villages 60 and 95
miles away from Ahmadabad.
(SFC, 3/12/02, p.A7)
2002 Mar 10, In the Republic of
Congo Pres. Dennis Sassou-Nguesso won elections with 89% of the vote.
Turnout was nearly 75%.
(SFC, 3/14/02, p.A8)
2002 Mar 10, Israeli helicopters
destroyed Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's office in Gaza City, hours
after 11 Israelis were killed in a suicide bombing in a cafe across the
street from Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's residence in Jerusalem.
(AP, 3/10/07)
2002 Mar 10, In Zimbabwe the high
court ordered the government to extend voting to a 3rd day as long
lines continued following the deadline. In Harare police chased away
some 2.5-3 thousand people from a polling station following the
extension.
(SFC, 3/11/02, p.A7)(WSJ, 3/11/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 11, The National Book
Critics Circle (f.1974) awarded top honors to W.G. Sebald (d.2001) for
his novel "Austerlitz." Nicholson Baker won the nonfiction category for
"Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper." Martin Amis
won the criticism category for "The War Against Cliché." Albert
Goldbarth won the poetry category for "Saving Lives." Adam Sisman won
the biography category for "Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of
the Life of Dr. Johnson."
(SFC, 3/12/02, p.A2)
2002 Mar 11, Pres. Bush outlines a
"second stage of the war on terror" in an address that marked the
6-months since the Sep 11 terrorist attacks.
(SFC, 3/12/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 11, It was reported that
the US CIA and State Dept. was interviewing former Iraqi generals for a
possible overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
(SFC, 3/12/02, p.A12)
2002 Mar 11, James Tobin (b.1918),
a key Kennedy advisor and economics Nobelist (portfolio theory, 1981),
died in New Haven, Conn. He developed the ideas of Keynesian economics,
and advocated government intervention to stabilize output and avoid
recessions. Outside of academia, Tobin was widely known for his
suggestion of a tax on foreign exchange transactions, now known as the
"Tobin tax."
(WSJ, 3/13/02,
p.A1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Tobin)
2002 Mar 11, Israeli forces swept
into the Jabaliya camp in Gaza and 23 residents were killed in heavy
fighting. PM Sharon announced that Arafat was free to resume traveling
about the West Bank and Gaza.
(SFC, 3/12/02, p.A6)(WSJ, 3/12/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 11, In Pakistan Shakeel
Anwar, head of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi extremist group, was killed in a
gun battle with police. He was wanted in the slaying of 38 people
including a former foreign minister.
(SFC, 3/12/02, p.A10)
2002 Mar 11, In Zimbabwe the polls
closed. A request for a 4th day of voting was denied.
(SFC, 3/12/02, p.A70)
2002 Mar 12, The Bush
administration announced a 5-color code system to alert Americans on
the danger level posed by terrorists. Homeland security chief Tom Ridge
announced that America was at yellow alert as he unveiled a color-coded
system for terror warnings.
(SFC, 3/13/02, p.A1)(AP, 3/12/07)
2002 Mar 12, In Houston a jury
found Andrea Pia Yates (37) guilty of capital murder for drowning her 5
children. On Mar 15 she was sentenced to life in prison. Her conviction
was overturned in 2005 by an appeals court which ruled a prosecution
expert witness gave false testimony at her trial. In 2006 a jury found
her not guilty by reason of insanity.
(SFC, 3/13/02, p.A1)(SFC, 3/16/02, p.A1)(SFC,
7/27/06, p.A3)
2002 Mar 12, Martin Buser captured
his fourth victory in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
(AP, 3/12/07)
2002 Mar 12, The space shuttle
Columbia returned to Earth, ending the Hubble Space Telescope repair
mission.
(AP, 3/12/07)
2002 Mar 12, In Lynbrook, NY, Rev.
Lawrence Penzes (50) was shot dead at Our Lady of Peace Church on Long
Island along with Mrs. Eileen Tosner (73) sitting in a pew. Penzes
(b.1952), ordained in 1978, was shot in the back as he turned to sit
just after finishing the homily next to the altar. Long Island police
soon captured mentally-deranged Peter J. Troy (34), who had fired at
least six shots from a.22-caliber rifle.
(SFC, 3/13/02,
p.A7)(www.safran-arts.com/42day/history/h4mar/h4mar12.html#deaths)
2002 Mar 12, Spyros Kyprianou
(69), former Cyprus president (1977-1988), died of pelvic cancer.
(SFC, 3/13/02, p.A26)
2002 Mar 12, In Jordan US VP
Cheney met with King Abdullah II, who expressed concern over any
possible strike against Iraq.
(SFC, 3/13/02, p.A11)
2002 Mar 12, Israeli forces took
control of Ramallah. 35 Palestinians were killed in the last 24 hours
along with 7 Israelis.
(SFC, 3/13/02, p.A1)(WSJ, 3/13/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 12, The UN Security
Council endorsed a Palestinian state for the 1st time and called for an
immediate cease-fire.
(SFC, 3/13/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 13, President Bush
declared at a news conference that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was a
menace "and we're going to deal with him," and said Osama bin Laden had
been reduced to a marginal figure in the war on terrorism.
(AP, 3/13/07)
2002 Mar 13, The US Senate
rejected higher fuel economy standards for cars.
(SFC, 3/14/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 13, Pres. Mubarek of
Egypt said he would press Iraq to readmit UN weapons inspectors and had
received indications of agreement.
(SFC, 3/14/02, p.A6)
2002 Mar 13, Hans-Georg Gadamer
(102), German philosopher and influential in hermeneutics (the study of
the understanding and meaning of texts), died. His work included "Truth
and Method" (1960).
(SFC, 3/26/02, p.A24)
2002 Mar 13, In India a high-court
panel ruled that no religious ceremony may be held in Ayodhya at the
67-acre site of the former Babri Masjid mosque, destroyed by Hindus in
1992. Mahant Paramhans Ramchandra, head of the Ram temple movement,
vowed to defy the court order.
(SFC, 3/14/02, p.A7)(SFC, 3/15/02, p.A16)
2002 Mar 13, In Indonesia Sjahril
Sabirin, governor of the central bank, was convicted of corruption and
sentenced to 3 years in prison. In 1999 some $80 million intended for
the bailout of PT Bank Bali was used to help finance the election
campaign of then Pres. Habibie.
(WSJ, 3/14/02, p.A10)
2002 Mar 13, Palestinians set off
a bomb next to an Israeli tank escorting a convoy in Gaza and 3
Israelis were killed. 2 Palestinians stabbed an Israeli husband and
wife in Nachliel. An Italian photographer was killed by fire from an
Israeli tank.
(SFC, 3/14/02, p.A6)(WSJ, 3/14/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 13, In Zimbabwe Pres.
Mugabe was declared the winner with 1.6 million votes to Tsvangirai's
1.2 mil. The opposition apposed the results and many observers
described the process as deeply flawed.
(SFC, 3/14/02, p.A7)
2002 Mar 14, The US Justice Dept.
unveiled a criminal indictment against Arthur Anderson LLP on
obstruction of justice charges in the Enron case.
(SFC, 3/15/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 14, The Bush
administration demanded that PM Ariel Sharon order a withdrawal from
Palestinian controlled areas.
(SFC, 3/15/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 14, VP Cheney traveled to
Yemen to press for joint efforts against remnants of al Qaeda.
(SFC, 3/15/02, p.A14)
2002 Mar 14, A New Jersey federal
grand jury indicted Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh for the kidnapping and
murder of journalist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan.
(SFC, 3/15/02, p.A14)
2002 Mar 14, John C. Polkinghorne,
a British mathematical physicist and Anglican priest, was named winner
of the 2002 $1 million Templeton Prize.
(SFC, 3/15/02, p.A4)
2002 Mar 14, It was reported that
scientists had developed a brain implant that allowed monkeys to
control a computer cursor by thought alone.
(SFC, 3/14/02, p.A2)
2002 Mar 14, In Georgia a
125-vehicle pileup left 4 people dead on foggy I-75.
(SFC, 3/15/02, p.A3)
2002 Mar 14, PM Ariel Sharon
announced a staged withdrawal from Ramallah ending the 2-week
"Operation Vital Security" and met with US envoy Anthony Zinni.
(SFC, 3/15/02, p.A1)(SFC, 3/16/02, p.A7)
2002 Mar 14, In Pakistan Pres.
Musharraf said the war in Afghanistan is over. The 12 day Operation
Anaconda left as many as 800 enemy fighters dead.
(SFC, 3/15/02, p.A14)
2002 Mar 14, Yugoslavia was
declared dead as Serbia and Montenegro agreed to rename their
federation: "Serbia and Montenegro."
(SFC, 3/15/02, p.A6)
2002 Mar 14, Yugoslav military
forces arrested a US diplomat and Yugoslav general outside Belgrade
with accusations of espionage. The diplomat was released after 15
hours. Former Gen. Perisic, deputy Prime minister, was released
Mar 16.
(SFC, 3/16/02, p.A8)(SSFC, 3/17/02, p.A20)
2002 Mar 15, Disney opened
its new $532.9 million movie-themed park adjacent to Disneyland Paris.
(WSJ, 3/12/02, p.B1)
2002 Mar 15, A Houston jury spared
Andrea Yates’ life after prosecutors stopped short of demanding the
death penalty for the tormented mother who’d drowned her five children
in the bathtub. Yates was sentenced to life in prison; however, she was
later acquitted by reason of insanity in a retrial.
(AP, 3/15/07)
2002 Mar 15, In Lewisville, Texas,
Jackson Carr (6) was killed and buried by his older sister (15) and
brother (10). His body was found the next day.
(SFC, 4/17/02, p.A5)
2002 Mar 15, Sylvester “Pat”
Weaver (93), TV pioneer, died in Santa Barbara, Calif. He had created
NBC’s “Today” and “Tonight” shows.
(AP, 3/15/07)
2002 Mar 15, China allowed 25
North Korean asylum seekers to leave the Spanish Embassy in Beijing for
South Korea by way of the Philippines.
(WSJ, 3/18/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 15, Adm. Zinni, US envoy,
met with Yasser Arafat in Ramallah and demanded that he reign in
militants and enforced a cease fire.
(SFC, 3/16/02, p.A7)
2002 Mar 15, William Scholl (81),
creator of Dr. Scholl's sandal, died on the Isle of Man. The family
shoe business was begun by his uncle, an American physician, in 1906.
(SFC, 3/26/02, p.A21)
2002 Mar 16, VP Cheney invited
Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah to visit with Pres. Bush in Texas for talks
on the Middle East.
(SFC, 3/18/02, p.A3)
2002 Mar 16, In Ohio Brittanie
Cecil (13) was struck by a flying hockey puck during a game between the
hometown Columbus Blue Jackets and the Calgary Flames; she died two
days later.
(AP, 3/15/07)
2002 Mar 16, In Cali, Colombia,
gunmen killed Archbishop Isaias Duarte Cancino (63), a critic of
leftist rebels. A hired assassin was arrested in June.
(SSFC, 3/17/02, p.A20)(SFC, 3/18/02, p.A3)(AP,
6/9/02)
2002 Mar 17, After nearly a year's
run, Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick left the Broadway hit musical
"The Producers." They later returned for a limited engagement.
(AP, 3/17/07)
2002 Mar 17, US troops killed 16
al Qaeda fighters in the Gardez region.
(WSJ, 3/19/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 17, It was reported that
McDonald's Corp. had agreed to give $410 million to vegetarian groups,
Hindu and Sikh organizations and to pay $4,000 to 12 plaintiffs to
settle a suit over the use of beef tallow in french fries.
(SSFC, 3/17/02, p.A22)
2002 Mar 17, Israeli and
Palestinian officials met to prepare for a cease-fire following
meetings with US envoy Adm. Zinni. A Palestinian gunman opened fire in
Kfar Saba. He killed an Israeli high school student (18) and was shot
dead. A suicide bomber detonated himself in Jerusalem.
(SSFC, 3/17/02, p.A1)(SFC, 3/18/02, p.A3)
2002 Mar 17, In Karadzigach,
Kyrgyzstan, 5 people were killed during a protest over the sentencing
of lawmaker Azimbek Beknazarov. Beknazarov was jailed for asking why
Pres. Akayev ceded territory to China in 2001.
(SFC, 3/19/02, p.A7)(WSJ, 5/13/02, p.A13)
2002 Mar 17, In Islamabad,
Pakistan, 2 attackers hurled grenades into a Protestant Int'l. Church
and 5 people were killed including a US Embassy employee, Barbara
Green, and her daughter Kristen Wormsley (17). Investigators later
believed that the attack was by a lone suicide bomber, one of the dead.
(SFC, 3/18/02, p.A1)(SFC, 3/19/02, p.A10)
2002 Mar 17, In Portugal the
Social Democrats won elections with 40% of the vote to 37.85% for the
Socialists. The SD gained 102 seats and the Popular Party won 14 giving
them a majority in the 230-seat parliament. Jose Manuel Durao Barroso
became prime minister.
(SFC, 3/18/02, p.A5)(Econ, 3/27/04, p.51)
2002 Mar 18, The FBI "Operation
Candyman" snared over 90 people following a 14-month investigation of
child pornography over the Internet.
(SFC, 3/19/02, p.A3)
2002 Mar 18, A US federal grand
jury unsealed a Mar 7 indictment against 7 men that included 3
Colombian guerrillas for smuggling planeloads of cocaine. These
included Tomas Molina Caracas, commander of the FARC 16th Front.
(SFC, 3/19/02, p.A6)
2002 Mar 18, Flooding hit
Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia following a 2nd day of heavy rains.
(SFC, 3/19/02, p.A3)
2002 Mar 18, In Ohio Brittanie
Cecil (13) died 2 days after being hit by a hockey puck while watching
an NHL game between the Columbus Blue Jackets and Calgary Flames. It
was apparently the first such fan fatality in NHL history.
(SFC, 3/20/02, p.A2)(AP, 3/18/07)
2002 Mar 18, Angola's army and
Unita rebels began cease-fire talks.
(WSJ, 3/18/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 18, Britain planned to
send 1,700 troops to Afghanistan to join the 6,300 US forces.
(WSJ, 3/19/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 18, Britain's House of
Commons again voted to ban fox hunting along with the hunting of stags
and hares with packs of hounds.
(SFC, 3/19/02, p.A7)
2002 Mar 18, Van Leo (80),
Armenian-born Egyptian photographer (Leon Boyadjian), died. His
portraits gave Egypt’s beggars, strippers and the elite the look of
Hollywood film stars.
(SFC, 3/22/02,
p.A27)(http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2002/579/cu6.htm)
2002 Mar 18, In India police shot
and killed 4 people while trying to disperse mobs and stop looting in 2
towns, Bharuch and Modasa, in Gujarat state.
(SFC, 3/20/02, p.A10)
2002 Mar 18, Israel withdrew some
forces from Palestinian-ruled territory as VP Cheney arrived to help
with peace talks.
(SFC, 3/19/02, p.A1)(WSJ, 3/19/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 18, A UN conference on
aid opened in Mexico.
(WSJ, 3/18/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 18, In Spain police
discovered at least 19 corpses at the home and car of an ex-funeral
parlor employee in Malaga.
(SFC, 3/20/02, p.A10)
2002 Mar 18, In Zimbabwe Terry
Ford became the 10th white farmer killed by militants in the last 2
years.
(SFC, 3/19/02, p.A8)
2002 Mar 19, US intelligence
analyst Ana Belen Montes pleaded guilty in federal court to spying for
Cuba; she was later sentenced to 25 years in prison.
(AP, 3/19/07)
2002 Mar 19, Former
Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega's appeal for parole was turned down,
despite his attorney's argument that he should be released because of
his longtime service to the U.S. government while in power and as a
paid CIA source.
(AP, 3/19/03)
2002 Mar 19, Carly Fiorina, head
of Hewlett-Packard, claimed victory by a slim margin in a proxy battle
to buy Compaq Computer. Some $180 million was reportedly spent in
the effort to win votes.
(SFC, 3/20/02, p.A1,21)
2002 Mar 19, Scientists reported
that the Larsen B ice shelf in Antarctica, covering some 1,250 square
miles, had collapsed into small icebergs over the last 35 days.
(SFC, 3/20/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 19, A 5th body was found
in New Melones Lake near Sonora, Ca. Meyer Muscatel (58), a Sherman
Oaks contractor, was found last October. A Russian crime gang was
suspected. Alexander Umansky (35) and George Safiev (37), found Mar 17,
were suspected to be among the 4 dead. The body of Nick Kharabadze
(29), was found Mar 18. 4 men were already indicted in connection with
their disappearance: Iouri Mikhel, Jurijus Kadamovas, Petro Krylov and
Ainar Altmanis. Altmanis, a Latvian citizen, later admitted
orchestrating the plot to kidnap wealthy businessmen. In 2004 Aleksejus
Markovskis pleaded guilty to conspiracy and was later sentenced to 15
years in prison. In 2007 Jurijus Kadamovas and Iouri Mikhel were
convicted of orchestrating the kidnapping-for-ransom scheme and
sentenced to death. Petro Krylov was convicted April 26 and sentenced
to life in prison.
(SFC, 3/21/02, p.A3)(SFC, 3/22/02, p.A3)(SFC,
6/7/02, p.A9)(SFC, 1/18/07, p.B10)(SFC, 4/27/07, p.B5)(SFC, 1/18/08,
p.B4)
2002 Mar 19, In Britain the House
of Lords voted for restrictions on hunting with hounds (366-59).
(SFC, 3/20/02, p.A10)
2002 Mar 19, In Burundi fighting
between the Tutsi dominated army and Hutu rebels forced over 16,000
people from their homes over the last 2 days.
(SFC, 3/20/02, p.A10)
2002 Mar 19, In Bologna, Italy,
Claudio Scajola, a labor adviser to the government, was assassinated.
The Red Brigades claimed responsibility.
(SFC, 3/21/02, p.A8)
2002 Mar 19, Zimbabwe was
suspended by the 54-nation Commonwealth for one year as punishment for
Pres. Mugabe's conduct during the elections.
(SFC, 3/20/02, p.A11)
2002 Mar 20, The US Senate
approved the bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002. It was better
remembered as the McCain-Feingold bill on campaign finance reform after
its senatorial sponsors. Pres. Bush planned to sign it. In 2003 a
3-judge panel ruled most of the provisions unconstitutional.
(SFC, 3/21/02, p.A1)(SFC, 5/3/03, p.A1)(Econ,
9/12/09, p.40)
2002 Mar 20, US began war games
with South Korea, the biggest ever.
(WSJ, 3/21/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 20, Arthur Andersen
pleaded innocent to charges it had shredded documents and deleted
computer files related to Enron. Andersen was later found guilty of
obstruction of justice; it received probation and was fined $500,000.
(AP, 3/20/07)
2002 Mar 20, Heavy storms and
severe flooding extended to West Virginia. Kentucky Gov. Paul Patton
declared 12 counties emergencies.
(SFC, 3/21/02, p.A3)
2002 Mar 20, At Fort Drum, NY, a
soldier was killed and 14 were injured when 2 artillery shells fell far
short of their target.
(SFC, 3/21/02, p.A5)
2002 Mar 20, In Bosnia the US
Embassy was shut down to the public due to a possible terrorist threat.
(SSFC, 3/24/02, p.A18)
2002 Mar 20, Steven Harper
(b.1959), an evangelical Christian, was chosen as head of Canada’s
conservative Alliance Party.
(Econ, 10/14/06,
p.42)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Alliance)
2002 Mar 20, China deployed
military police to at least 2 northeast cities to quell labor protests.
(WSJ, 3/21/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 20, In Israel a suicide
bomber blew himself up on a crowded bus and 7 people were killed. The
Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
(SFC, 3/20/02, p.A1)(SFC, 3/21/02, p.A9)
2002 Mar 20, In Italy 928 illegal
immigrants, mostly ethnic Kurds, arrived on a rusty cargo ship. A state
of emergency was declared to deal with the problem.
(SFC, 3/21/02, p.A10)
2002 Mar 20, In Pakistan Gen.
Musharraf met with members of the Muslim League and planned a
referendum to support his rule for another 5 years. Civilian opposition
leaders condemned the plan.
(SFC, 3/23/02, p.A13)
2002 Mar 20, In Lima, Peru, a car
bomb explosion outside the US Embassy killed 9 people. Pres. Bush was
scheduled to arrive 3 days later.
(SFC, 3/21/02, p.A8)(SFC, 3/22/02, p.A13)
2002 Mar 20, In Zimbabwe
opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was charged with treason,
fingerprinted and released on bail.
(SFC, 3/21/02, p.A10)
2002 Mar 21, Alexei Yagudin won
the men's title at the World Figure Skating Championships in Nagano,
Japan.
(AP, 3/21/03)
2002 Mar 21, President Bush began
a four-day trip to Latin America.
(AP, 3/21/03)
2002 Mar 21, Marjorie Knoller,
whose two huge dogs mauled neighbor Diane Whipple to death in their San
Francisco apartment building, was convicted in Los Angeles of murder
and involuntary manslaughter; her husband, Robert Noel, was found
guilty of involuntary manslaughter. A judge later threw out the murder
conviction against Knoller; she was sentenced to four years in prison.
Noel was also sentenced to four years.
(AP, 3/21/03)
2002 Mar 21, Herman Talmadge (88),
former Georgia governor and U.S. senator died in Hampton, Ga.
(AP, 3/21/03)
2002 Mar 21, It was reported that
Georgian fighters expected to use their US training against
secessionists in Abkhazia, which was unofficially protected by Russia.
(SFC, 3/21/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 21, In Jerusalem Mohammed
Hashaika (22) blew himself up on King George St. and killed 3 Israelis.
Truce talks were cancelled.
(SFC, 3/22/02, p.A9)(WSJ, 3/22/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 21, In Italy a tour bus
traveling from Lucca to Florence collided with a truck and at least 3
Americans were killed.
(SFC, 3/22/02, p.A10)
2002 Mar 21, A local Spanish
official was shot to death by gunmen in the Basque region. Police
suspected the ETA.
(WSJ, 3/22/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 21, In Diyarbakir,
Turkey, thousands of Kurdish youths battled Turkish police after
authorities banned the celebration of Nowruz, the Zoroastrian New Year.
(SFC, 3/22/02, p.A10)
2002 Mar 21, A UN meeting on
poverty, despair and violence opened in Mexico City.
(SFC, 3/22/02, p.A13)
2002 Mar 22, The TV show "Wall
Street Week" with Louis Rukeyser, begun in 1970, was scheduled for its
last show on Jun 28, but PBS dropped Mr. Rukeyser after this evening's
broadcast.
(SFC, 3/22/02, p.B5)(WSJ, 4/1/02, p.A10)
2002 Mar 22, Pres. Bush addressed
the UN meeting in Monterey, Mexico, and called on wealthy nations to
link foreign aid to economic reform. Bush had already proposed an extra
$10 billion over 3 years starting in 2004. US aid was about .01% of GDP
as compared to 1% of GDP for Denmark.
(SFC, 3/23/02, p.A1)(SSFC, 3/24/02, p.D3)
2002 Mar 22, The US State Dept.
ordered all non-essential Embassy and Consulate personnel in Pakistan
to return home.
(SFC, 3/23/02, p.A13)
2002 Mar 22, A US postal panel
approved a 3 cent increase in first-class stamps to 37 cents around Jun
30.
(WSJ, 3/25/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 22, A Portland,
Oregon, jury ordered Philip Morris to pay $150 million in
punitive damages for falsely representing low-tar cigarettes as
healthier than regular cigarettes.
(SFC, 3/23/02, p.A4)
2002 Mar 22, Thomas Kelly (72),
the Grumman engineer who had overseen the building of the 1969 lunar
module, died.
(SFC, 3/29/02, p.A24)
2002 Mar 22, The Argentine peso
closed down 18% to 3.1 to the dollar. IMF loans appeared distant.
(WSJ, 3/25/02, p.A12)
2002 Mar 22, Israelis and
Palestinians resumed cease-fire negotiations despite another suicide
bombing outside Jenin. Only the bomber was killed.
(SFC, 3/23/02, p.A10)
2002 Mar 22, It was reported that
the Taiwan government had seized copies of Next magazine that included
details of a secret $100 million fund used by former pres. Lee Teng-hui
and current officials for diplomatic missions and policy initiatives.
Some 220,000 copies did get distributed.
(SFC, 3/22/02, p.A10)(SFC, 3/29/02, p.A5)
2002 Mar 23, The History Channel
hosted it's 4th annual Harry Awards, named after Herodotus, for the
best historical film of 2001.
(WSJ, 3/18/02, p.A16)
2002 Mar 23, Irina Slutskaya
captured her first world title, defeating four-time champion Michelle
Kwan at the World Figure Skating Championships in Nagano, Japan.
(AP, 3/23/03)
2002 Mar 23, Pres. Bush met with
Pres. Toledo in Lima, Peru, and called for a "war without quarter"
against terrorism and drug trafficking in the region. 18 demonstrators
were arrested.
(SSFC, 3/24/02, p.A17)
2002 Mar 23, It was reported that
the Air Force Academy had implicated 38 cadets in a drug scandal that
began in Dec 2000.
(SFC, 3/23/02, p.A4)
2002 Mar 23, Eileen Farrell (82),
opera and pop soprano, died in New Jersey. In 1999 Brian Kellow
co-wrote her biography "Can't Help Singing."
(SFC, 3/25/02, p.B5)
2002 Mar 23, Girls in Afghanistan
celebrated their return to school for the first time in years.
(AP, 3/23/03)
2002 Mar 23, In Pakistan members
of the Alliance for Restoration of Democracy were arrested and a rally
for the ouster of Pres. Musharraf was blocked.
(SSFC, 3/24/02, p.A22)
2002 Mar 24, Pres. Bush, during a
6-hour visit to El Salvador, held out the promise of expanded trade to
Central American nations.
(AP, 3/24/03)
2002 Mar 24, The 74th annual
Academy Awards were held at the Kodak theater in LA. Halle Berry for
"Monster's Ball" became the 1st black woman to be named best actress;
Denzel Washington became the second black actor, after Sidney Poitier,
to win in the best actor category, for "Training Day," "A Beautiful
Mind" won for best picture and gathered 4 awards as did "Lord of the
Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring."
(SFC, 3/25/02, p.A1,11)(AP, 3/24/03)
2002 Mar 24, Israeli troops and
tanks entered the Rafah refugee camp and 3 residents were killed. 2
more Palestinians were killed as they tried to throw a grenade at a
military post near Dugit. Clashes between Israelis and Palestinians
left at least 9 Palestinians dead along with 2 Israelis. US envoy Zinni
presented a cease-fire proposal to Israeli and Palestinian negotiators.
(SSFC, 3/24/02, p.A14)(SFC, 3/25/02, p.A8)
2002 Mar 24, It was reported that
Russia had launched a new nuclear-powered submarine called Gepard
(Cheetah).
(SSFC, 3/24/02, Par p.22)
2002 Mar 25, The Bush
administration released thousands of documents on its energy task force
just before a midnight deadline. They showed that Spencer Abraham, Sec.
of Energy, had relied almost exclusively on industry representatives
with no input from conservation or environmental groups.
(SFC, 3/26/02, p.A3)(SFC, 3/27/02, p.A3)
2002 Mar 25, The US pushed for
Ariel Sharon to allow Yasser Arafat to attend an Arab summit in Beirut.
(SFC, 3/26/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 25, The National Parks
Conservation Association released its annual list of "America's Ten
Most Endangered National Parks."
(SFC, 3/26/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 25, A 5.8-6.1 earthquake
in Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan was centered 105 miles north
of Kabul and early reports of deaths reached to 1,800. The city of
Nahrin was reported destroyed. Deaths in Baghlan province were reduced
to 600-800 with 100,000 left homeless.
(SFC, 3/26/02, p.A6)(SFC, 3/27/02, p.A1)(SFC,
3/29/02, p.A9)(SFC, 3/30/02, p.A10)(AP, 6/22/02)(AP, 3/25/03)
2002 Mar 25, The Argentine peso
fell to 3.4-3.8 to the dollar. Long lines formed outside banks and
exchange houses in Buenos Aires.
(SFC, 3/26/02, p.B3)(WSJ, 3/26/02, p.A14)
2002 Mar 25, It was reported that
educational changes for younger students in Japan included every
Saturday off, a 30% decrease in rote learning, and new integral study
classes to foster thinking.
(WSJ, 3/25/02, p.A12)
2002 Mar 25, North and South Korea
issued a joint statement with plans to resume dialogue to improve
relations.
(SFC, 3/25/02, p.A8)
2002 Mar 25, In Madagascar
opposition supporters thwarted an attempt by the military to seize
control of Parliament.
(SFC, 3/26/02, p.A6)
2002 Mar 26, Pres. Bush nominated
Richard Carmona (52), a trauma surgeon from Arizona, as
surgeon-general. Elias Zerhouni, a Johns Hopkins Univ. administrator,
was nominated to the NIH.
(SFC, 3/27/02, p.A3)
2002 Mar 26, The US Supreme Court
upheld regulations that allowed federal housing officials to evict an
entire household if even one member is arrested for drug violations.
(SFC, 3/27/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 26, Joseph Berardino, CEO
of Arthur Anderson, resigned over the Enron fallout.
(WSJ, 3/27/02, p.C1)
2002 Mar 26, India passed a
Prevention of Terrorism bill that allowed a 3-month detention of
suspects without charges plus an additional 3 months with court
approval.
(SFC, 3/27/02, p.A6)
2002 Mar 26, Yasser Arafat
declared that he would not attend the Arab league conference in Beirut
due to restrictions imposed by PM Sharon. His Cabinet accused Israel of
trying to "blackmail" the Palestinian leader with tough conditions for
letting him go. Israeli security forces stopped a car that exploded
with 2 men inside.
(SFC, 3/27/02, p.A1)(AP, 3/26/03)
2002 Mar 26, In Serbia 2 Albanian
gunmen were killed in what police said was a battle between rebel
factions.
(WSJ, 3/27/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 27, The US Supreme Court
ruled that illegal immigrants do not have the same rights as Americans
when they are wrongly fired from US jobs.
(WSJ, 3/28/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 27, Milton Berle (93),
known as Uncle Miltie and Mr. Television, died. He rose to TV stardom
as the host of Texaco Star Theater in 1948. He was said to be
freakishly well-endowed. Haskel Frankel co-wrote: "Milton Berle, an
Autobiography" in 1974.
(SFC, 3/28/02, p.A1)(SSFC, 4/16/06, p.M6)
2002 Mar 27, Dudley Moore (66),
British actor and musician, died. His films included "10" and "Arthur."
(SFC, 3/28/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 27, Billy Wilder (95),
Austrian-born Hollywood film writer and director, died. He wrote and
directed numerous films and won 6 Oscars. In 1999 Cameron Crowe
authored "Conversations with Billy Wilder."
(AP, 3/27/03)(SFC, 3/29/02, p.A1,14)
2002 Mar 27, In France Richard
Durn (33), described as a tormented loner looking for a political
cause, opened fire at the end of a city council meeting in Nanterre, a
suburb of Paris, and killed 8 city council members. Durn jumped to his
death under police custody on Mar 28.
(SFC, 3/27/02, p.A7)(SFC, 3/28/02, p.A17)(AP,
3/27/07)
2002 Mar 27, In Beirut the Arab
League opened a summit of its 22 member states. Egypt's Pres. Mubarek
did not attend. It dissolved into chaos when Palestinian delegates
stalked out when Arafat was not given a prominent place for a live
broadcast. Arafat endorsed the peace initiative of Prince Abdullah.
(SFC, 3/26/02, p.A10)(WSJ, 3/27/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 27, A Palestinian Hamas
suicide bomber killed 29 Israelis gathered at the Park Hotel in Netanya
for the Passover Seder.
(SFC, 3/28/02, p.A1)(SFC, 3/29/02, p.A11)(SFC,
4/15/02, p.A12)(AP, 3/27/03)
2002 Mar 28, A US diplomat,
reportedly the CIA station chief, was pulled from Belgrade following
accusations that he was receiving military secrets.
(WSJ, 3/29/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 28, Walter Hewlett, a
dissident director of Hewlett-Packard Co., claimed HP used corporate
assets to entice and coerce certain financial institutions to vote for
the merger with Compaq Corp.
(SFC, 3/29/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 28, US Air Force Staff
Sergeant Timothy Woodland was convicted in a Japanese court and
sentenced to nearly three years in prison for raping a woman on the
southern island of Okinawa.
(AP, 3/28/03)
2002 Mar 28, Matthew J. Bourgeois
(35), a Navy Seal from Tallahassee, was killed by a land mine in
Kandahar.
(SFC, 3/29/02, p.A9)
2002 Mar 28, A US Navy helicopter
crashed on Split Mountain in the Sequoia National Forest and 2 crew
members were killed.
(SFC, 3/29/02, p.A5)
2002 Mar 28, In Beirut the Arab
League committed to accepting Israel as a neighbor under conditions
that included the creation of an independent Palestinian state and
Israel's full withdrawal from war-won lands, an offer that Israel did
not accept.
(SFC, 3/29/02, p.A15)(AP,
3/28/03)(www.mideastweb.org/saudipeace.htm)
2002 Mar 28, A Hamas attack left 4
Israelis dead in a West Bank settlement. Arafat said he was ready to
call for a cease-fire.
(WSJ, 3/29/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 28, In Pakistan police in
Faisalabad and Lahore seized over 40 suspects in the Islamabad bombing.
At least 2 suspects were killed in Faisalabad. Abu Zubaydah, a top al
Qaeda commander, was among those arrested.
(SFC, 3/29/02, p.A10)(SSFC, 3/31/02, p.A17)(SFC,
4/2/02, p.A7)
2002 Mar 28, Pope John Paul II
accepted the resignation of Julius Paetz, archbishop of Poznan, Poland,
due to a sex scandal and accusations of molesting young seminarians.
(SFC, 3/29/02, p.A7)
2002 Mar 29, At Fort Irwin, Ca., a
mortar round exploded prematurely and 3 soldiers were killed.
(SFC, 3/30/02, p.A3)
2002 Mar 29, France reported the
successful cloning of rabbits using genetic material from adult cells.
(SFC, 3/30/02, p.A3)
2002 Mar 29, Israel declared
Yasser Arafat an "enemy" and sent troops and tanks to isolate him in
his Ramallah headquarters. 5 Palestinians, possibly executed, and 2
Israelis were killed in the takeover. In Jerusalem a suicide bomber,
Ayat Akhras (18) killed herself and 2 Israelis. In the Gaza Strip a
Palestinian man stabbed to death 2 elderly Israelis and was shot to
death by soldiers.
(SFC, 3/29/02, p.A1)(SFC, 3/30/02, p.A1,11)(SSFC,
3/31/02, p.A18)
2002 Mar 29, Iraq expressed
interest in resuming relations with Kuwait.
(SFC, 3/30/02, p.A11)
2002 Mar 29, It was reported that
Russia had announced plans to build a nuclear plant for North Korea.
(WSJ, 3/30/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 29, It was reported that
Thailand planned to market a drug combination of 3 AIDS drugs in one
cheap pill.
(WSJ, 3/29/02, p.B1)
2002 Mar 30, The United States
joined other UN Security Council members in adopting a resolution
calling on Israel to withdraw its troops from Palestinian cities,
including Ramallah, where Yasser Arafat headquarters was under siege.
(AP, 3/30/03)
2002 Mar 30, The Angola government
and Unita signed a preliminary cease-fire agreement. The deal carved up
the nation's diamond mines among officials in Luanda and the rebels.
(SSFC, 3/31/02, p.A12)(WSJ, 4/1/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 30, It was reported that
a massive dust storm spread from northwest China to South Korea. It was
largest recorded since records began 130 years ago. Trans Pacific winds
carried the dust clouds west.
(SFC, 3/30/02, p.A20)
2002 Mar 30, Britain’s Queen
Elizabeth (b.1900), the Queen Mother, died at age 101 in her sleep at
Royal Lodge, Windsor. In 2009 William Shawcross authored “Queen
Elizabeth, the Queen Mother: The Official Biography.”
(SSFC, 3/31/02, p.A3)(AP, 3/30/04)(Econ, 9/19/09,
p.97)
2002 Mar 30, In Kashmir suspected
Islamic militants exchanged fire with Indian police in Jammu and 10
people were killed.
(SSFC, 3/31/02, p.A17)
2002 Mar 30, A suicide bomber,
Mohannad Salahat (22), struck in Tel Aviv and 32 people were injured.
Israeli troops sealed Arafat in his Ramallah compound.
(SSFC, 3/31/02, p.A1)(SFC, 4/1/02, p.A1)(SFC,
7/24/02, p.A14)
2002 Mar 31, Connecticut beat
Oklahoma 82-70 to conclude its second unbeaten season with a third
women's national championship.
(AP, 3/31/03)
2002 Mar 31, Barry Took (73),
British comedian and comic writer, died. He helped produce "Monty
Python's Flying Circus." His autobiography was titled "A Point of View."
(SFC, 4/1/02, p.B5)
2002 Mar 31, On Australia’s
Norfolk Island Glenn McNeill (24) of New Zealand hit Janelle Patton
(29) with his car and later stabbed her "just to make sure she was
dead." McNeill was arrested in 2006 based on DNA evidence. Patton
suffered 64 separate injuries including a fractured skull and numerous
stab wounds in the attack In 2007 McNeill told police he had been
smoking cannabis when he hit Patton. On Mar 9 a jury convicted McNeill
of murder. On July 25 he was sentenced to 24 years in jail.
(AP, 8/12/02)(Econ, 7/10/04, p.38)(Reuters,
3/9/07)(AFP, 7/25/07)
2002 Mar 31, Men in the Czech
Republic chased female relatives and friends for the traditional Easter
leg thwacking.
(WSJ, 3/28/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 31, In France an arson
attack destroyed Marseille's Or Aviv temple. It was the 3rd synagogue
attack over the Passover weekend.
(SFC, 4/2/02, p.A8)
2002 Mar 31, Israeli forces
entered Qalqilya and Bethlehem. 2 Palestinians were killed after they
fired on Israeli soldiers. Some 40 European and American peace
activists joined Yasser Arafat. Israeli PM Ariel Sharon vowed to smash
Palestinian militants in a broadcast speech that came the same day as a
suicide bombing in Haifa that killed 15 Israelis. In 2009 Shimon Shiran
died of wounds suffered in the bombing that also killed his daughter
Adi (17).
(SFC, 4/1/02, p.A1,10)(AP, 3/31/07)(AP, 4/12/09)
`2002 cMar 31, In Madagascar a
bridge linking the capital to a southern port was blown up.
(WSJ, 4/1/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 31, On Norfolk Island
Glenn McNeill (24) of New Zealand hit Janelle Patton (29) with his car
and later stabbed her "just to make sure she was dead." McNeill was
arrested in 2006 based on DNA evidence. In 2007 McNeill told police he
had been smoking cannabis when he hit Patton.
(AFP, 2/7/07)
2002 Mar 31, Serbia's government,
faced with a midnight suspension of US aid, issued arrest warrants
against 4 former Milosevic associates.
(SFC, 4/1/02, p.A6)
2002 Mar 31, In Taiwan a 6.8-7.1
earthquake hit and 5 construction workers were killed in Taipei when 2
construction cranes fell from the 60th floor of a new building
projected to be the tallest in the city. Taipei 101 reached 1,679 feet
on completion and claimed to be have the highest structural top,
tallest roof and highest occupied floor.
(SFC, 4/1/02, p.A7)(WSJ, 4/1/02, p.A1)(SSFC, 8/8/04,
p.A22)
2002 Mar 31, In Ukraine elections
the pro-Western Our Ukraine led by former PM Viktor Yuschenko led with
23%. The Communist Party had 20%. Pres. Kuchma's United Ukraine
had 13% and expected 119 seats in parliament. The parties provide half
the 450 sets of the parliament, known as the Verkhovna Rada. Direct
elections decide the other half.
(SFC, 4/1/02, p.A6)(SFC, 4/2/02, p.A6)(SFC, 4/3/02,
p.A7)
2002 Mar 31, Pope John Paul II
used his Easter message to call for an end to violence in the Holy Land.
(AP, 3/31/03)
2002 Mar, In Freeport, Texas, a
group of private investors formed Freeport Waterfront Properties with
hopes of developing a private marina. Their development plans led to
the city’s filing for eminent domain to acquire land owned by Western
Seafood, a private shrimping business. In 2007 Carla T. Main authored
“Bulldozed,” an account of this ongoing struggle.
(WSJ, 12/18/07, p.D5)
2002 Mar, In the Netherlands the
Liveable Rotterdam Party catapulted Pim Fortuyn, its chief figurehead,
onto the national stage. Fortuyn rode a wave of dissatisfaction over
immigration, Islam and the elitism of the ruling Labor Party. He was
shot to death May 6.
(Econ, 3/11/06, p.46)
2002 Mar, The condo-resort ship,
The World, first set sail from Oslo, Norway. The $280 million, 12-deck
cruise ship ran into financing problems and was sold Oct 31, 2003, for
$71 million to a residents' partnership.
(WSJ, 2/20/04, p.A1)
2002 Mar, Uzbekistan and the
United States signed a strategic partnership agreement that boosted
U.S. aid to the country.
(AP, 3/30/04)
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