Timeline 2002 October - December
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2002 Oct 1, The
West Coast dockworker lockout continued.
(SFC, 10/2/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 1, The DJIA rose 346 to
7,938. Nasdaq rose 41 to 1,213.
(SFC, 10/2/02, p.B1)
2002 Oct 1, New Jersey Democrats
chose former Senator Frank Lautenberg to be on the November ballot in
place of scandal-tainted Senator Robert Torricelli.
(AP, 10/1/03)
2002 Oct 1, Walter H. Annenberg
(94), media tycoon, philanthropist and former ambassador, died in
Wynnewood, Pa. Biographies included "Legacy: A Biography of Moses and
Walter Annenberg" by Christopher Ogden and "The Annenbergs" by John
Cooney.
(SFC, 10/2/02, p.A2)
2002 Oct 1, The French bolstered
their forces in Ivory Coast, flying in reinforcements and establishing
a tactical command post for military action in its embattled former
colony.
(AP, 10/1/02)
2002 Oct 1, German police found
the body of Jakob von Metzler, 11-year-old heir to a Frankfurt family
banking fortune, bundled under a lakeside dock, days after the boy was
kidnapped and a nearly million-dollar ransom was paid. In 2003 Magnus
Gaefgen (28) told the Frankfurt state court that he had not intended
the Sept. 27 kidnapping to end in death.
(AP, 10/1/02)(AP, 4/11/03)
2002 Oct 1, Two Indian naval
reconnaissance planes taking part in a ceremonial flypast collided in
mid-air over the western state of Goa, killing 15 people.
(Reuters, 10/1/02)(SFC, 10/2/02, p.A10)
2002 Oct 1, In Indian Kashmir
gunmen killed 9 people on a bus and attacked several polling stations
as voters shunned the third round of elections in the troubled state's
separatist heartland. 6 paramilitary troopers were killed when their
vehicle exploded south of Srinagar.
(Reuters, 10/1/02)(SFC, 10/2/02, p.A12)
2002 Oct 1, Allied aircraft
launched an airstrike in the southern no-fly zone over Iraq after Iraqi
aircraft penetrated the restricted area. Iraq agreed to a plan for the
return of UN weapons inspectors for the first time in nearly four
years, but ignored US demands for access to Saddam Hussein's palaces
and other contested sites. Iraq said it expected an advance party in
Baghdad in two weeks.
(AP, 10/1/07)(AP, 10/2/02)
2002 Oct 1, Rwanda began pulling
out 6,000 troops from a Congo border province, the latest stage in a
withdrawal of all its forces that it hopes to complete by week's end.
(AP, 10/1/02)
2002 Oct 1, In South Africa tens
of thousands of workers blew whistles and sang protest songs as they
marched in a nationwide strike protesting the government's
privatization plans.
(AP, 10/1/02)
2002 Oct 2, Andrew Fastow (40),
the former chief financial officer of Enron Corp. was charged with
securities, wire and mail fraud, money laundering and conspiring to
inflate Enron's profits and enrich himself at the company’s expense. On
Sep 26, 2006, Fastow was sentenced to 6 years in prison.
(AP, 10/2/02)(SFC, 9/27/06, p.C1)
2002 Oct 2, The New Jersey Supreme
Court ruled unanimously that the Democratic Party could replace Sen.
Torricelli on the November ballot with former senator Frank Lautenberg.
(AP, 10/2/03)
2002 Oct 2, West Coast dockworkers
and shippers agreed to federal mediation as the 4-day lockout paralyzed
29 ports.
(SFC, 10/3/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 2, James Martin (55) was
shot to death by a sniper in Wheaton, Md. He was the 1st to die at the
hands of a local serial killer. The next day, five people in the
Washington D.C. area were shot dead, setting off a frantic manhunt.
John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo were later arrested for 10
killings and three woundings; Muhammad has been sentenced to death,
Malvo to life in prison.
(NW, 10/21/02, p.28)(AP, 10/2/07)
2002 Oct 2, Norman O. Brown (89),
author of "Life Against Death" (1959), died in Santa Cruz, Ca.
(SFC, 10/7/02, p.A19)
2002 Oct 2, Bosnian Serb wartime
leader Biljana Plavsic, one of the highest-ranking suspects at the U.N.
war crimes tribunal, pleaded guilty to one count of crimes against
humanity.
(AP, 10/2/02)
2002 Oct 2, In the Philippines a
bomb killed an American soldier in Zamboanga and was detonated by a
Filipino on a motorcycle who died in the blast that killed one other
person.
(Reuters, 10/3/02)(WSJ, 10/4/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 2, In northern Syria
mountain homes collapsed after caves beneath them gave way in the Sawad
Hill district. 31 people were killed and 22 injured.
(AP, 10/2/02)(SFC, 10/3/02, p.A9)
2002 Oct 3, The United States
forgave two-thirds of Yugoslavia's debt on in a sign of improving
relations with the country's reformist leadership.
(AP, 10/3/02)
2002 Oct 3, The annual Ig Nobel
prizes were awarded in Cambridge, Mass. 10 prizewinners from 10 nations
included the corporate directors of Enron, Adelphia, Global Crossing,
Qwest, Tyco, WorldCom and 21 other companies for adopting imaginary
numbers for use in the business world.
(SSFC, 10/6/02, p.A4)
2002 Oct 3, Police hunted for a
"skilled shooter" who murdered five random victims over 16 hours with a
high-powered rifle in Montgomery County, Maryland, just a short
distance from Washington DC. A 6th victim was killed in DC. James
Buchanon (39), Premkumar Walekar (54), Sarah Ramos (34), Lori Ann Lewis
Rivera (25) and Pascal Charlot (72) became the 2nd to 6th victims.
(SFC, 10/4/02, p.A3)(SFC, 10/5/02, p.A3)(SSFC,
10/12/02, p.A4)(NW, 10/21/02, p.28)
2002 Oct 3, Hurricane Lili gave
Louisiana's coast a 100 mph battering.
(AP, 10/3/03)
2002 Oct 3, Int'l. teams of
scientists declared that the genetic code of Plasmodium falciprum, the
parasite that causes most human malaria, has been identified along with
the genetic code of Anopheles gambiae, the mosquito most responsible
for human malaria transmission.
(SFC, 10/3/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 3, Wu-chi Liu (95),
China-born scholar, died in Menlo Park, Ca. His books included "A Short
History of Confucian Philosophy" and "An Introduction to Chinese
Literature." He was also the senior editor of "Sunflower Splendor," an
anthology that encompassed 3,000 years of Chinese poetry in translation.
(SFC, 10/18/02, p.A26)
2002 Oct 3, Canada said it planned
to create 10 huge new national parks and five marine conservation areas
over the next five years to protect unique landscapes and animals.
(Reuters, 10/3/02)
2002 Oct 3, In France tens of
thousands of public workers marched through Paris to protest plans to
sell off parts of state-owned companies.
(AP, 10/3/02)
2002 Oct 3, In Guatemala Col. Juan
Valencia was found guilty of ordering the killing of human rights
activist Myrna Mack in 1990 and sentenced to a maximum 30 years in
prison. But two other military officials were acquitted.
(AP, 10/4/02)
2002 Oct 3, India said it had
killed eight Islamic militants trying to enter Indian Kashmir from
Pakistani territory as the state battles a surge in rebel violence just
days before the end of a disputed election.
(Reuters, 10/3/02)
2002 Oct 3, NATO and European
Union called on Croatia to cooperate with the U.N. War Crimes Tribunal,
urging the government to hand over indicted war crimes suspect Gen.
Janko Bobetko.
(AP, 10/3/02)
2002 Oct 3, Turkey formally
commuted Kurdish guerrilla leader Abdullah Ocalan's death sentence to
life in prison after parliament abolished capital punishment two months
ago in a bid to join the European Union.
(AP, 10/3/02)
2002 Oct 4, Hans Blix, UN weapons
inspector, endorsed a US demand that Iraq make a full declaration of
its weapons program before inspections resume.
(SFC, 10/5/02, p.A7)
2002 Oct 4, John Walker Lindh, the
so-called "American Taliban," received a 20-year sentence after a
sobbing, halting plea for forgiveness before a federal judge in
Alexandria, Va.
(AP, 10/4/07)
2002 Oct 4, Richard C. Reid
pleaded guilty to trying to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight with
explosives hidden in his shoes and declared himself a follower of Osama
bin Laden.
(AP, 10/4/02)
2002 Oct 4, US federal agents
arrested 4 suspected al Qaeda terrorists, 3 in Portland and 1 in
Detroit. 2 other suspected cell members were overseas.
(SFC, 10/5/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 4, A jury in Los Angeles
awarded former smoker Betty Bullock (64) $28 billion in punitive
damages against Philip Morris. On Dec 18 a judge reduced the award to
$28 million.
(SFC, 10/5/02, p.A2)(SFC, 12/19/02, p.A8)
2002 Oct 4, The DJIA fell 188 to
7,528. Nasdaq fell 25 to 1,139.
(SFC, 10/5/02, p.B1)
2002 Oct 4, In Newark, Ca, a boy
(17) was beaten to death after he showed up at a party dressed as a
girl.
(SFC, 10/18/02, p.A21)
2002 Oct 4, In Barbados
delegations from Russia, Cuba, South Africa, Colombia and France's
overseas territories abandoned an anti-racism conference that voted to
exclude whites saying they'll have no part in discrimination. The
walkout, on the fourth day of the six-day African and African
Descendants World Conference Against Racism, came after a day of
negotiations failed. Some 200 delegates had voted Wednesday for whites
and Asians to leave the deliberations, saying slavery was too painful a
subject to discuss in front of non-Africans.
(AP, 10/5/02)
2002 Oct 4, In France Jamal Derrar
(22) poured gasoline over Sohane Benziane (17) and then approached her
with a cigarette lighter, setting her on fire. She died later at a
hospital with burns over 80 percent of her body. In 2006 Derrar was
convicted for acts of torture and barbarity that led to unintentional
death. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
(AP, 4/8/06)
2002 Oct 4, Foreign ministers from
six Pacific nations arrived in Java's ancient royal capital of
Yogyakarta for a day of talks that Indonesia said would tackle the
thorny issue of terrorism.
(AP, 10/4/02)
2002 Oct 4, Lawmakers from rival
Iraqi Kurdish factions met for the first time in 8 years, in a rare
show of political unity ahead of a possible U.S. attack on Iraq.
(AP, 10/4/02)
2002 Oct 4, In Nepal King
Gyanendra stunned the country when he announced he was firing Prime
Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, postponing November elections and assuming
direct power for the first time since absolute rule by the monarchy was
abolished in 1990.
(Reuters, 10/5/02)
2002 Oct 4, North Korean officials
told a visiting US delegation that the country has a second covert
nuclear weapons program.
(AP, 4/24/03)
2002 Oct 4, Pakistan said it
successfully test-fired a medium-range surface-to-surface ballistic
missile. It was named Hatf-IV (Shaheen-1) and had a range of 700 km
(430 miles).
(AP, 10/4/02)
2002 Oct 4, In central Somalia
heavy fighting between the Sa'ad subclan and the Majerten clan killed
at least 10 people and injured 25 others.
(AP, 10/5/02)
2002 Oct 4, Regional mediators
said the Sudanese government and southern rebels have agreed to a
cessation of hostilities and the resumption of peace talks to end the
country's 15-year civil war.
(AP, 10/4/02)
2002 Oct 5, Addressing police and
National Guardsmen in New Hampshire, President Bush warned that Saddam
Hussein could strike without notice and inflict "massive and sudden
horror" on America.
(AP, 10/5/03)
2002 Oct 5, The Pacific Maritime
Assoc. and dockworkers agreed to open Hawaii and Alaska to shipments of
needed perishable supplies.
(SSFC, 10/6/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 5, Foreign ministers from
six Pacific nations (Australia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, New
Zealand and East Timor) ended a day of talks in Indonesia's ancient
royal capital Yogyakarta, vowing to fight terrorism together but said
little about how they would do it.
(Reuters, 10/5/02)
2002 Oct 5, In Bosnia elections
the centrist Muslim Party for Democratic Action reported the party was
in the lead following a 55% turnout. Bosnia's three nationalist parties
beat moderates in the country's first self-organized elections since
the 1992-1995 war. Postwar Bosnia is made up of two mini-states, the
Serb republic and the Muslim-Croat federation. The two have wide powers
and are linked by a joint parliament and government. Elections provided
winners with four years in office instead of two.
(AP, 10/6/02)(AP, 10/5/03)
2002 Oct 5, Israeli soldiers
enforcing a curfew shot Amer Hashem, a 15-year-old Palestinian boy in
Nablus, during clashes with stone-throwing protesters. It was the eve
of an international round of peace diplomacy.
(AP, 10/5/02)(SFC, 10/5/02, p.A8)(SSFC, 10/6/02,
p.A18)
2002 Oct 5, In Latvia the
pro-business New Era party appeared set to win the most seats in
parliamentary elections to choose the government that will lead this
ex-Soviet republic into the European Union and NATO. Einars Repse led
polls for election as prime minister.
(AP, 10/4/02)(AP, 10/6/02)
2002 Oct 5, Rwanda withdrew its
last troops from neighboring Congo, with some 1,100 soldiers marching
in single file out of the war-ravaged country.
(AP, 10/5/02)
2002 Oct 6, Almost 200 cargo ships
carrying food, manufacturing equipment and retail goods sat idle all
along the U.S. West Coast after four days of talks failed to bring an
end to the longest work stoppage in the region in 30 years.
(Reuters, 10/6/02)
2002 Oct 6, Brazilian voters voted
46% in favor of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, former factory worker and
union boss, as president. Jose Alencar was da Silva's running mate. A
runoff with Jose Sera (23%) was scheduled.
(WSJ, 10/2/02, p.A1)(AP, 10/6/02)(SFC, 10/8/02,
p.A10)
2002 Oct 6, In Colombia Jose
Arroyave, a regional commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of
Colombia (FARC), was among 7 rebels killed in a military offensive.
(AP, 10/7/02)
2002 Oct 6, A fire broke out on
the Limberg, a French oil tanker off the coast of Yemen, setting
barrels of oil ablaze and sparking an explosion killing one Bulgarian
crew member. The explosion was soon determined to be the result of a
terrorist attack. Insurance paid out $70 million for the damages.
(AP, 10/6/02)(SFC, 10/11/02, p.A13)(AP,
10/6/03)(Econ, 4/22/06, p.73)
2002 Oct 6, Prince Claus (76), the
German-born husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, died in
Amsterdam.
(AP, 10/6/03)
2002 Oct 6, Pope John Paul II
raised to sainthood Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer the Spanish priest
who founded the conservative Catholic organization Opus Dei (1928),
only 27 years after his death.
(AP, 10/6/02)
2002 Oct 7, The Nobel Prize for
Medicine went to Sydney Brenner and John E. Sulston of Britain and H.
Robert Horvitz of the US for their work on how genes regulate organ
development and cell death.
(ADN, 10/8/02, p.A4)(SFC, 10/8/02, p.A2)
2002 Oct 7, In a somber address to
the nation to support his action against Iraq, President Bush labeled
Saddam Hussein a "homicidal dictator" and said the threat from Iraq was
unique and imminent: "We refuse to live in fear."
(SFC, 10/8/02, p.A1)(AP, 10/7/03)
2002 Oct 7, Space shuttle Atlantis
carried 6 astronauts and a 14-ton girder for installation on the int'l.
space station.
(ADN, 10/8/02, p.A4)
2002 Oct 7, In Bowie, Md., a
13-year-old boy was shot and critically wounded by a sniper at Benjamin
Tasker Middle School. The shooting was linked to 6 previous killings
and a card was found nearby that said: "I am God."
(ADN, 10/8/02, p.A6)(SFC, 10/8/02, p.A1)(SFC,
10/9/02, p.A3)
2002 Oct 7, In Afghanistan new
notes replaced the old multiple currencies.
(ADN, 10/8/02, p.A4)
2002 Oct 7, In Burundi 2 smaller
factions of the main rebel movements signed a cease-fire aimed at
ending the 9-year civil war.
(AP, 10/8/02)
2002 Oct 7, Israeli forces killed
16 Palestinians in Gaza that included a missile strike that killed 11.
Hamas vowed revenge attacks.
(SFC, 10/7/02, p.A1)(SFC, 10/8/02, p.A1)(WSJ,
10/9/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 7, Elections in Trinidad
and Tobago were won by Prime Minister Patrick Manning's black-dominated
party with 20 of the 36 parliamentary seats.
(AP, 10/8/02)
2002 Oct 8, President Bush, used
the Taft-Hartley Act and won a federal court order to reopen West Coast
ports and impose a cease-fire that would end a caustic 10-day labor
lockout, which has cost the fragile economy $1 billion to $2 billion a
day. A restraining order was issued through Oct 16.
(AP, 10/8/02)(SFC, 10/9/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 8, Two Kuwaitis opened
fire on U.S. troops on a military exercise on a Kuwait's Failaka Island
in the Persian Gulf, fatally wounding a Marine in what the Interior
Ministry called a "terrorist" attack.
(AP, 10/8/02)(SFC, 10/9/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 8, Astronomers reported a
frozen object beyond Pluto some 800 miles across. They named it Quaoar,
after a creation force in Southern California Indian mythology. The
Asteroid 50000 Quaoar (2002LM60) was identified in the Kuiper Belt with
the Hubble telescope.
(ADN, 10/8/02, p.A4)(SFC, 12/30/02, p.A6)
2002 Oct 8, A nasal spray named
PT-141, made by Palatin Tech., was reported to raise sexual desire.
(ADN, 10/8/02, p.A4)
2002 Oct 8, The 2002 Red List of
Threatened Species, produced by a network of experts, reported that 811
species had disappeared over the last 500 years. 11,167 plants and
animals were on the list, up 121 since 2000.
(ADN, 10/8/02, p.A5)
2002 Oct 8, In Colombia heavily
armed police in tanks and on foot raided one of Medellin's most
dangerous neighborhoods in an effort to regain control from leftist
rebels and their rivals, the right-wing paramilitaries.
(AP, 10/9/02)
2002 Oct 8, Israeli forces entered
Hebron following a sniper attack that wounded 4 Israelis. Israeli
tankfire killed a Palestinian girl in the Gaza Strip.
(WSJ, 10/9/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 8, Japan's government
came under pressure to shield the economy from an expected wave of
bankruptcies resulting from tough new bank reforms as new evidence
emerged that a brief recovery was shuddering to a halt.
(Reuters, 10/8/02)
2002 Oct 8, Masatoshi Koshiba (76)
was named one of this year's Nobel Prize winners for Physics, marking
Japan's third science Nobel in as many years. Riccardo Giacconi (71) of
Assoc. Univ. in Washington DC and Raymond Davis Jr. (87) of Univ. of
Pennsylvania shared the prize awarded for their work on neutrinos that
revised thinking about the nature of the universe.
(AP, 10/8/02)(SFC, 10/9/02, p.A2)(WSJ, 10/9/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 8, In Indian Kashmir
suspected Muslim separatist militants disguised as policemen stormed a
polling station, gunning down two soldiers, as turbulent state
elections ended. A 44% turnout ousted the pro-Indian national
Conference.
(Reuters, 10/8/02)(SFC, 10/11/02, p.A10)
2002 Oct 8, In Caracas, Venezuela,
city police used tear gas to disperse a group of their colleagues who
tried to seize the department's communications system in an ongoing
eight-day strike.
(AP, 10/8/02)
2002 Oct 9, Daniel Kahneman, 68, a
U.S. and Israeli citizen based at Princeton University in New Jersey
and Vernon L. Smith, 75, of George Mason University in Fairfax, Va.,
won the Nobel prize for economics for pioneering the use of
psychological and experimental economics in decision-making. Kahneman,
an economic behaviorist, believed people tend to judge their well-being
relative to others rather than in absolute terms.
(AP, 10/9/02)(Econ, 8/30/03, p.56)
2002 Oct 9, West Coast
longshoremen returned to ports crammed with cargo after a lockout that
ended only after President Bush intervened.
(AP, 10/9/03)
2002 Oct 9, The space shuttle
"Atlantis" arrived at the international space station, bringing with it
a 14-ton girder.
(AP, 10/9/03)
2002 Oct 9, Newly-declassified
Pentagon reports acknowledge that the United States used deadly
chemical and biological warfare agents during Cold War military tests
on American soil and in Britain and Canada from 1962-1971.
(Reuters, 10/9/02)
2002 Oct 9, The DJIA fell 215 to
7,286. Nasdaq fell 15 to 1,114.
(SFC, 10/10/02, p.B1)
2002 Oct 9, Aileen Wuornos (46), a
former prostitute, was executed for killing 6 men along Florida
highways. She became the 10th woman executed in the US since capital
punishment resumed in 1977.
(SFC, 7/2/01, p.A7)(SFC, 10/10/02, p.A7)
2002 Oct 9, Dean Meyers (53) of
Gaithersburg, Md., was shot to death in Manassas, Va., in a shooting
that appeared to be linked to 6 previous sniper attacks in the area. In
2009 sniper John Allen Muhammad (48) was executed in Virginia for the
killing of Meyers.
(SFC, 10/10/02, p.A1)(SSFC, 10/12/02, p.A4)(SFC,
11/11/09, p.A7)
2002 Oct 9, In Armenia Aram
Petrosian and Akop Khachatrian were sentenced to death for leading an
armed band that terrorized Vanadzor, killing 5 people, robbing homes
and racketeering. The government prepared to ask parliament to abolish
the moratorium on the death penalty.
(AP, 10/9/02)
2002 Oct 9, The European Union's
executive Commission declared Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Cyprus,
Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovenia,
and Slovakia nearly ready for EU membership and recommended they be
invited to join in 2004. Romania and Bulgaria likely will be delayed
until 2007 because of weak economies, the Commission said, adding
Turkey was the weakest link among candidates.
(AP, 10/9/02)
2002 Oct 9, India claimed victory
after completing a turbulent state election in Indian Kashmir which it
long saw as an essential rite of passage before it could consider talks
with Pakistan.
(AP, 10/9/02)
2002 Oct 9, Koichi Tanaka (43),
research scientist for precision equipment maker Shimadzu Corporation,
won Japan's second Nobel prize. His development of methods of analyzing
proteins, along with work by John Fenn of the United States and Kurt
Wuethrich of Switzerland, paved the way for new drugs to tackle
diseases.
(AP, 10/9/02)
2002 Oct 9, Morocco's king
appointed former Interior Minister Driss Jettou as prime minister,
directing him to move quickly on economic and social reforms.
(AP, 10/9/02)
2002 Oct 9, Russian census takers
officially began counting its population in the first tally of the
nation's inhabitants in 13 years. The Muslims were found to number 14.5
million, 10% of the 145 million total.
(AP, 10/9/02)(Econ, 4/7/07, p.47)
2002 Oct 10, Imre Kertesz (72), a
Hungarian novelist and secular Jew, won the Nobel Prize for literature.
His books included "Fiasco" (1988) and "Kaddish for a Child Not Born"
(1990).
(SFC, 10/11/02, p.A2)(SFC, 12/5/02, p.E5)
2002 Oct 10, The US Congress gave
Pres. Bush authorization to use armed forces against Iraq. The House
voted 296-133 in favor.
(SFC, 10/11/02, p.A1)(WSJ, 10/11/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 10, Two executives who'd
overseen WorldCom's financial record-keeping pleaded guilty to charges
stemming from a federal probe of the company's accounting scandal.
(AP, 10/10/03)
2002 Oct 10, Allied planes bombed
radar and missile sites in the southern no-fly zone over Iraq,
targeting President Saddam Hussein's air defenses for the third time
this week.
(AP, 10/10/02)
2002 Oct 10, The DJIA rose
247 to 7,533.95. Nasdaq rose 49 to 1,163.
(SFC, 10/11/02, p.B1)
2002 Oct 10, Bernard Ridder Jr.
(85), former St. Paul , Minn., newspaper executive, died in California.
He was the head or Ridder Publications when it merged with the Knight
group in 1974.
(SFC, 10/11/02, p.A24)
2002 Oct 10, In Algeria Prime
Minister Ali Benflis' party swept local elections, with voting in the
restive Berber region marred by a boycott, riots and attacks on police
officers. The National Liberation Front gained control of 668 out of
1,541 town councils and took 43 of 48 district councils.
(AP, 10/12/02)
2002 Oct 10, The United Nations'
highest judicial body ruled in favor of Cameroon in a border dispute
with Nigeria, giving it possession of an oil-rich peninsula in the Gulf
of Guinea.
(AP, 10/12/02)
2002 Oct 10, China sent Zhu
Xiaohua (53), its most senior financial official nabbed for corruption,
to jail for 15 years, but spared him the executioner's bullet after he
confessed to taking bribes prosecutors knew nothing about.
(AP, 10/10/02)
2002 Oct 10, Pakistan held
elections under emergency laws imposed by General Musharraf in 1999. 4
people were killed and at least 42 wounded in clashes at several
polling stations during an election meant to return the country to
civilian rule. A party loyal to President Pervez Musharraf emerged on
top in elections which were dismissed as flawed by EU observers. The
United Action Forum, a coalition of 6 Islamist parties, won 51 of 272
seats and secured control of 2 of 4 provincial assemblies. The PPP won
at least 70 of the seats. All the Islamist parties combined won 11% of
the popular vote.
(Reuters, 10/12/02)(SFC, 10/12/02, p.A8)(WSJ,
10/11/02, p.A10)(Econ, 11/17/07, p.50)
2002 Oct 10, A Palestinian suicide
bomber killed a woman and wounded 12 other people by blowing himself up
near a bus in Israel, but the driver and passengers prevented a higher
death toll by stopping him boarding.
(AP, 10/10/02)
2002 Oct 10, In the southern
Philippines a bomb ripped through a bus terminal in Kidapawan City in
North Cotobato province, killed 6 people and wounding 2 dozen in the
latest of a series of bomb attacks in the violence-hit region.
(Reuters, 10/10/02)(SFC, 10/12/02, p.A11)
2002 Oct 10, In Venezuela hundreds
of thousands marched through Caracas calling for the ouster of Pres.
Chavez.
(WSJ, 10/11/02, p.A10)
2002 Oct 11, Former US Pres.
Carter won the Nobel Peace prize.
(SFC, 10/12/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 11, The Senate joined the
House in approving, 77-23, the use of America's military might against
Iraq.
(AP, 10/11/03)
2002 Oct 11, Kenneth Bridges (53)
was shot and killed in Spotsylvania, Va., the 8th victim of the DC area
sniper. In 2004 Lee Boyd Malvo (19) in a plea bargain accepted life in
prison for the murder of Bridges.
(SFC, 10/12/02, p.A1)(SSFC, 10/12/02, p.A4)(SFC,
10/27/04, p.A3)
2002 Oct 11, In Burlingame, Ca., 4
bank robbers killed Alice Martel (34), the Wells Fargo bank manager,
and fled with about $4,000. Seti Scanlon (24), Sikai Fano Telea (26),
Manny Liu (25) and Amu Wynn (26) were all soon arrested. Scanlon was
convicted of murder in 2004 and sentenced to life in prison. In 2005
Telea was sentenced to life in prison. Wynn was sentenced 40 years to
life. Liu, the driver, was sentenced to 36 years and 4 months after a
plea bargain.
(SFC, 10/12/02, p.A1)(SFC, 11/4/02, p.A17)(SFC,
11/11/02, p.A17)(SFC, 7/13/05, p.B4)
2002 Oct 11, In Wisconsin 10
people were killed in a crash on I-43 that involved over 2 dozen
vehicles north of Milwaukee.
(SFC, 10/12/02, p.A4)
2002 Oct 11, In Vantaa, Finland, a
blast in the Myyrmanni shopping mall of suburban Helsinki killed 7
people, including chemistry student Petri Gerdt (19), the suspected
bomber. 80 others were injured.
(AP, 10/12/02)(SSFC, 10/12/02, p.A20)(SFC, 10/16/02,
p.A14)
2002 Oct 11, The Philippine
military reported that marines clashed with Abu Sayyaf rebels on Jolo
Island and at least 11 soldiers were killed.
(SSFC, 10/12/02, p.A20)
2002 Oct 12, Ray Conniff (85),
band leader of "easy-listening" hits, died in Escondido, Ca.
(WSJ, 10/15/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 12, It was reported that
164,000 Eritrean refugees had begun returning home from camps in Sudan.
Some 60,000 had already returned since 2001.
(SFC, 10/12/02, p.A10)
2002 Oct 12, In western India 4
people were killed as Hindus and Muslims clashed in the town of Solapur
in continuing violence triggered after U.S. preacher Jerry Falwell
called the Prophet Mohammad a terrorist.
(Reuters, 10/12/02)
2002 Oct 12, In Indonesia a car
bomb ripped through the Sari Club at the Kuta Beach resort packed with
foreign tourists on the island of Bali, sparking a blaze that killed
202 people and injured 300 others. It was the worst terrorist act in
Indonesia's history. Authorities said a second bomb exploded near the
island's U.S. consular office. An estimated 100 victims were from
Australia. Imam Samudra was later charged with engineering the blast.
In 2004 Samudra (34) published a jailhouse autobiography “Me Against
the Terrorist,” in which he called for fellow Muslim radicals to take
the holy war to cyberspace. In 2005 Sally Neighbour authored “In the
Shadow of Swords: How Islamic Terrorists Declared War on Australia.”
(AP, 10/13/02)(SSFC, 10/12/02, p.A1)(SFC, 12/17/04,
p.W1)(Econ, 12/17/05, p.83)
2002 Oct 12, Kuwait's interior
minister said that 15 Kuwaitis in police custody had confessed to a
deadly attack on U.S. Marines, but that no firm link has been
established between them and al-Qaida.
(AP, 10/12/02)
2002 Oct 12, Seven Filipino
soldiers died and 25 others were wounded in a fierce clash with Muslim
rebels deep in the jungle of southern Sulu island.
(Reuters, 10/12/02)
2002 Oct 12, Dolma Tsering won the
first Miss Tibet beauty pageant, an event its organizers said would
reinforce Tibetan identity.
(Reuters, 10/12/02)
2002 Oct 12, In Ukraine tens of
thousands of protesters laid out their charges against President Leonid
Kuchma at a "people's tribunal" , and opposition lawmakers said
prosecutors promised to review their complaints.
(AP, 10/12/02)
2002 Oct 13, The Anaheim Angels
routed the Minnesota Twins 13-5 to win the American League Championship
Series in five games.
(AP, 10/13/03)
2002 Oct 13, In Lewiston, Maine,
over 200 people marched in support of Somali immigrants. Over 1,000
Somalis had settled in the town over the last 18 months.
(SFC, 10/14/02, p.A9)
2002 Oct 13, In Iowa up to 11
bodies of suspected Mexican immigrants were found in a Union Pacific
rail car. The car had left Matamoros, Mexico, in June, and had been
parked in Oklahoma since mid-June.
(SFC, 10/16/02, p.A3)
2002 Oct 13, Horace Logan (86),
producer of the Louisiana Hayride country music show (b.1948), died in
New Orleans.
(SFC, 10/14/02, p.A26)
2002 Oct 13, Stephen Ambrose
(b.Jan 10, 1936), historian, died in New Orleans. His books included
"D-Day June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II."
(SFC, 10/14/02, p.A26)
2002 Oct 13, In eastern Congo
fighting broke out in a strategic port when pro-government tribal
fighters tried to wrest control of the town from rebels.
(AP, 10/12/02)
2002 Oct 13, In Greece opposition
conservatives claimed victory in local elections, but appeared to fall
short of gaining a powerful protest vote against the long-governing
Socialists.
(AP, 10/14/02)
2002 Oct 13, In Israel about
140,000 public workers went on strike to protest government plans to
tax contributions to pension funds.
(AP, 10/13/02)
2002 Oct 13, Israeli troops backed
by tanks and a helicopter entered the Rafah refugee camp hunting for
tunnels used to smuggle weapons and drugs into the Gaza Strip. Two
Palestinians were killed and 28 wounded.
(AP, 10/13/02)
2002 Oct 13, A Palestinian
militant, whose clan has been targeted previously by Israeli security
forces, was killed when a public telephone exploded in his hand. He was
one of six Palestinians to die in a day of violence.
(AP, 10/13/02)
2002 Oct 13, Philippine troops
pounded Muslim guerrilla positions with bombs and cannon fire, killing
20 rebels, as fighting raged for the second day in the country's
troubled south.
(AP, 10/12/02)
2002 Oct 13, In Russia 10 people
died of hypothermia in Moscow over the weekend, bringing the death toll
for the current cold season to 32.
(AP, 10/14/02)
2002 Oct 13, In Serbia a moderate
nationalist and a pro-Western pragmatist faced each other in the second
round of presidential elections. Less than 50% of the electorate turned
out rendering the results invalid.
(AP, 10/13/02)(SFC, 10/14/02, p.A9)
2002 Oct 13, In Somalia a boat
that had carried 120 Somalis and Ethiopians from the village of Marear
more than two weeks ago, landed with 50 survivors. The engine failed,
leaving them drifting in the Gulf of Aden. At least 70 people who were
headed to Persian Gulf states in search of jobs died.
(AP, 10/14/02)
2002 Oct 13, In Zimbabwe Sir
Garfield Todd (93), the former prime minister of Southern Rhodesia
(1953-1958), as Zimbabwe was once known, died after suffering a stroke.
(AP, 10/13/02)
2002 Oct 14, The SF Giants won the
National League Championship with a 2-1 victory over the St. Louis
Cardinals.
(SFC, 10/15/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 14, President Bush called
recent attacks in Kuwait, Indonesia and Yemen part of a grim pattern of
terror, and said, "We've got a long way to go" to defeat Osama bin
Laden's global network.
(AP, 10/14/03)
2002 Oct 14, In New Mexico VP
Cheney met with representatives of Bajagua, a start-up waste processing
firm targeting waste water in Tijuana, Mexico. Waste from Tijuana
flowed into San Diego County and its Tijuana River estuary. Bajagua
spent $585,000 in lobbying efforts from 2001-2006. Estimates of costs
to the US ranged from $580-780 million. A 1999 environmental impact
statement called the Bajagua plan not feasible.
(WSJ, 1/27/07, p.A15)
2002 Oct 14, Linda Franklin (47)
of Arlington, Va., was shot in the head and killed as she and her
husband loaded packages into their car outside a Home Depot at the
Seven Corners Shopping Center. She had worked as an analyst for the FBI.
(SFC, 10/15/02, p.A1)(AP, 10/15/02)
2002 Oct 14, Britain suspended
Northern Ireland's power-sharing government after a spying row threw
the fledgling peace process into its worst political crisis since the
Good Friday peace accord was signed in 1998.
(AP, 10/14/02)
2002 Oct 14, A Costa Rica
investment operation called The Brothers Fund (Ofinter Foreign Exchange
SA) collapsed and siblings Luis Enrique (63) and Osvaldo Villalobos
(58) were held responsible.
(WSJ, 12/13/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 14, Gen. Adel Labib, gov.
of Qena Province in southern Egypt, ordered a ban on shisha (water
pipe) smoking.
(SSFC, 10/27/02, p.F7)
2002 Oct 14, Israeli troops killed
2 Islamic Jihad militants outside Jenin.
(WSJ, 10/15/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 14, In Kenya Pres. Moi
anointed Uhurru Kenyatta (41), the son of former 1st Pres. Jomo
Kenyatta, as his successor. Tens of thousands gathered to protest his
decision.
(SFC, 10/15/02, p.A9)
2002 Oct 14, In Serbia Pres.
Kostunica protested that some 630,000 ghost voters inflated the number
of voters.
(SFC, 10/15/02, p.A8)
2002 Oct 15, Former New York City
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani will be paid $4.3 million plus expenses for a
one-year contract to advise Mexico City's mayor on reducing crime.
(AP, 10/15/02)
2002 Oct 15, ImClone Systems
founder Sam Waksal pleaded guilty in New York in the biotech company's
insider trading scandal.
(AP, 10/15/03)
2002 Oct 15, Illinois opened
hearings on 140 death row cases.
(SFC, 10/15/02, p.A3)
2002 Oct 15, The DJIA rose 378 to
8,255. Nasdaq rose 61.9 to 1,282.
(SFC, 10/16/02, p.B1)
2002 Oct 15, It was reported that
duct tape is effective in removing warts when worn over the wart for a
number of days.
(SFC, 10/15/02, p.A2)
2002 Oct 15, A listeria outbreak
blamed for at east 7 deaths in the northeast was traced to a Wampler
Foods plant in Franconia, Pa.
(SFC, 10/16/02, p.A5)
2002 Oct 15, Allied planes bombed
a military command facility in the southern no-fly zone over Iraq after
taking fire from Iraqi forces.
(AP, 10/15/02)
2002 Oct 15, In Canada a man
facing workplace discipline shot and killed two co-workers at a
provincial office in Kamloops, British Columbia, before taking his own
life.
(Reuters, 10/16/02)
2002 Oct 15, Yaacov "Zeev" Farkas
(b.1923), called the founder of the political cartoonist's art in
Israel, died. He was born in Hungary and survived the Nazi
concentration camp at Dachau.
(AP, 10/16/02)(SFC, 10/17/02, p.A28)
2002 Oct 15, In Iraq Saddam
Hussein won the presidential referendum for another 7-year term. He
claimed a 100% victory the next day.
(SFC, 10/16/02, p.A9)
2002 Oct 15, In Italy a heavily
armed man fatally shot his ex-wife and six other relatives and
neighbors and then killed himself in Chieri, a suburb of Turin.
(AP, 10/15/02)(SFC, 10/16/02, p.A16)
2002 Oct 15, In Jamaica 3 people
were shot dead outside Kingston.
(SFC, 10/16/02, p.A17)
2002 Oct 15, In Japan 5 citizens
snatched by North Korean agents in 1978, returned home for a visit.
(SFC, 10/16/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 15, In northern Russia a
Soyuz-U rocket carrying an EU research communications satellite
exploded several seconds after liftoff from a launch pad, killing one
soldier.
(AP, 10/16/02)(WSJ, 10/17/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 15, Sudan's government
signed an agreement with rebels to suspend fighting during talks to end
their 20-year-old war.
(AP, 10/15/02)
2002 Oct 15, A judge opened a
criminal case against embattled Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, a
day after U.S. and British experts began investigating allegations that
he approved the sale of a radar system to Iraq.
(AP, 10/15/02)
2002 Oct 16, President Bush signed
a congressional resolution authorizing war against Iraq.
(AP, 10/16/07)
2002 Oct 16, The US offered a
compromise proposal at the UN that called for serious consequences if
Iraq does not comply with weapons inspections.
(SFC, 10/17/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 16, A Bush administration
official reported that North Korea had told the United States it has a
secret nuclear weapons program in violation of a 1994 agreement signed
with the Clinton administration.
(AP, 10/16/02)(SFC, 10/17/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 16, In Baltimore Angela
Dawson (36) burned to death with 4 of her children after a drug pusher,
Darrell Brooks (21), set fire to her home. Carnell Dawson Sr. (43) died
from his burns Oct 23.
(SFC, 10/18/02, p.A3)(SFC, 10/24/02, p.A6)
2002 Oct 16, In Colombia more than
1,000 police and soldiers backed by helicopter gunships stormed Comuna
13, a violence-plagued neighborhood in Medellin, exchanging heavy fire
with leftist rebels. Authorities said at least nine people were killed,
including a 16-year-old boy. In 2009 Diego Fernando Murillo, a
Colombian warlord awaiting sentencing in New York City after pleading
guilty to drug-trafficking charges, said former army chief Gen. Mario
Montoya mounted the joint operation with his illegal, far-right militia.
(AP, 10/16/02)(SFC, 10/17/02,
p.A16)(www.colombiajournal.org/colombia137.htm)(AP, 3/3/09)
2002 Oct 16, Egypt inaugurated the
new $230 million Bibliotheca Alexandrina, a modern version of the
ancient library known for a freedom of thought and expression lacking
in today's Middle East. It was funded mostly by Iraq, the UAR and Saudi
Arabia. The planned capacity was 4 million books.
(SFC, 5/30/02, p.D11)(AP, 10/16/02)
2002 Oct 16, Rebels controlling
the northern half of Ivory Coast agreed to a truce with the government
they attempted to overthrow.
(AP, 10/16/02)
2002 Oct 16, In Jamaica Prime
Minister P.J. Patterson's party became the country's first leader
elected to three straight terms. Jamaicans turned out in large numbers
to vote despite pelting rains and concerns of violence in an election
they hoped would revive a sagging economy and ease spiraling crime.
(AP, 10/17/02)
2002 Oct 16, The Dutch government
collapsed amid infighting in the List party.
(WSJ, 10/17/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 16, Paraguay's vice
president Julio Cesar Franco resigned after months of political
feuding, to meet a deadline to run for the presidency.
(AP, 10/16/02)
2002 Oct 17, Timothy Belden,
former Enron executive, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and agreed to
cooperate with federal prosecutors. Belden admitted to giving grid
operators false information and shipping power from within California
out of state and selling it back at higher prices.
(SFC, 10/18/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 17, Ira Einhorn, the '70s
hippie guru who had fled to Europe after being charged with murder, was
convicted in Philadelphia of killing his girlfriend, Holly Maddux, and
stuffing her corpse in his closet a quarter-century earlier. He was
later sentenced to life without parole.
(AP, 10/17/03)
2002 Oct 17, Israeli tanks fired
artillery shells and machine guns after coming under attack by
anti-tank missiles, killing at least 6 Palestinians and wounding more
than 40 in the southern Gaza town of Rafah.
(AP, 10/17/02)(SFC, 10/18/02, p.A18)
2002 Oct 17, In the Philippines
bombings in Zamboanga killed 7 people and injured 152. Militants of Abu
Sayyaf were suspected.
(SFC, 10/18/02, p.A10)
2002 Oct 18, The Vatican demanded
that America's Roman Catholic bishops revise their hard-line crackdown
policy on sexually abusive priests.
(AP, 10/18/03)
2002 Oct 18, Two US Navy planes,
F/A-18F Super Hornet jets, collided off the Big Sur coast of California
and 4 pilots were killed.
(SFC, 10/19/02, p.A17)
2002 Oct 18, Space shuttle
Atlantis returned to Earth following an 11-day mission to the int'l.
space station.
(SFC, 10/19/02, p.A16)
2002 Oct 18, A Chilean judge
indicted six current and retired army officers, including two generals,
in the 1993 slaying of a chemist with former dictator Augusto
Pinochet's secret service.
(AP, 10/19/02)
2002 Oct 18, According to Greek
scientists, the length of a man's index finger can accurately predict
the length of his penis. The findings are published in the September
issue of the journal Urology.
(Reuters, 10/18/02)
2002 Oct 18, In Columbia FARC
rebels shot and killed Luis Antonio Motta (42), the mayor, and two town
councilmen of Campoalegre, after earlier telling them to resign or face
execution.
(AP, 10/20/02)
2002 Oct 18, India assumed direct
control over Kashmir after elections failed to produce a viable
government.
(WSJ, 10/18/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 18, Ivory Coast began a
new cease-fire ending four weeks of fighting between government and
rebel forces.
(AP, 10/29/02)
2002 Oct 18, Five trucks carrying
looted Kuwaiti archives left the Iraqi capital, bound for Kuwait.
(AP, 10/18/02)
2002 Oct 18, Pakistan matched
India's pledge to demobilize along the border.
(WSJ, 10/18/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 18, In the Philippines a
bomb ripped through a bus in Quezon City, a Manila suburb,
killing 2 people and injuring 20 others.
(AP, 10/18/02)(SFC, 10/19/02, p.A12)
2002 Oct 18, Valentin Tsvetkov
(54), the governor of Russia's Far Eastern region of Magadan, was
assassinated on a busy central Moscow street in what police said was a
contract killing.
(AP, 10/18/02)
2002 Oct 19, In York, Pa., former
mayor Charlie Robertson was acquitted and two other men were convicted
in the shotgun slaying of Lillie Belle Allen, a young black woman,
during race riots that tore the city apart in 1969.
(AP, 10/19/03)
2002 Oct 19, In Ashland, Va.,
Jeffrey Hopper (37) was shot and seriously wounded in what appeared to
be another sniper attack. The sniper left a note that included a
request for $10 million and threats to focus on children.
(SSFC, 10/20/02, p.A3)(SFC, 10/23/02, p.A1)(AP,
10/19/07)
2002 Oct 19, A rebel group in
Congo said that it recaptured a strategic port in the eastern part of
the country and took dozens of prisoners after heavy fighting.
(AP, 10/19/02)
2002 Oct 19, Greeks traveled to
their hometowns for the second time in two weeks, to participate in
runoff local elections seen as an important test for the long-governing
Socialists.
(AP, 10/19/02)
2002 Oct 19, Indonesian police
arrested Abu Bakar Bashir (Abubakar Baasyir), a militant Muslim cleric,
in a terror probe hours after the government issued two emergency
anti-terror decrees to strengthen its hand after the Bali car bomb
carnage. Bashir was hospitalized Oct 18.
(Reuters, 10/19/02)(SSFC, 10/20/02, p.A11)
2002 Oct 19, Irish residents
endorsed the European Union's plans to expand eastward. 63 percent of
voters in the referendum approved the expansion proposal, which will
admit up to 12 new members and bring the EU's membership to almost 500
million.
(AP, 10/21/02)
2002 Oct 19, In Indian Kashmir at
least 4 suspected militants were shot dead while others detonated a
bomb, killing a policeman and wounding 15 people.
(Reuters, 10/19/02)
2002 Oct 19, In Mexico Manuel
Alvarez Bravo (100), a photographer whose remarkable 80-year portfolio
contained everything from mystical portraits of a bygone era to the
striking realism of murdered laborers, died.
(AP, 10/20/02)
2002 Oct 19, In Russia a car bomb
exploded at a packed McDonald's restaurant in Moscow, injuring at least
seven people. A boy (17) died later from injuries.
(AP, 10/19/02)(SFC, 10/21/02, p.A5)
2002 Oct 20, Yao Ming (22), a
7-foot-5 basketball player from China, arrived in Texas to join the
Houston Rockets.
(WSJ, 10/22/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 20, The Galaxy fishing
ship, ported in Seattle, exploded and burned 750 miles SW of Alaska. 1
man was killed and 2 were missing.
(WSJ, 10/22/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 20, In Ecuador at least
five candidates had a shot at qualifying for a runoff spot in
presidential elections. With 53 percent of the votes counted, Lucio
Gutierrez (45) a dismissed army colonel, led with 19% of the vote.
Banana magnate Alvaro Noboa (51) Ecuador's richest businessman, was
close behind with 17.6%.
(AP, 10/20/02)(AP, 10/21/02)
2002 Oct 20, In Iraq President
Saddam Hussein issued an amnesty to all political prisoners and exiles
to mark his perfect 100 percent uncontested election.
(AP, 10/20/02)
2002 Oct 20, In Montenegro the
pro-independence party of Pres. Milo Djukanovic won 39 of the 75 seats.
(AP, 10/20/02)(SFC, 10/21/02, p.A5)
2002 Oct 20, In the Philippines a
bomb exploded at an open-air Christian shrine in the southern city of
Zamboanga, killing one marine and wounding 16 people.
(Reuters, 10/20/02)
2002 Oct 20, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov,
incumbent president of the Russian region of Kalmykia since 1993, led
all vote-getters in a re-election bid. Ilyumzhinov, a millionaire and
president of the international chess federation FIDE, led the field of
11 candidates with 47.6 percent of the vote.
(AP, 10/21/02)
2002 Oct 20, Sudan's government
lifted a ban on relief flights to the southern Equatoria region after
it signed a cease-fire with southern rebels.
(AP, 10/20/02)
2002 Oct 21, Pres. Bush said he
would try diplomacy "one more time," but did not think Saddam Hussein
would disarm, even if doing so would allow him to remain in power.
(AP, 10/21/03)
2002 Oct 21, Scientists reported a
new immunoassay for mad cow disease that takes about a year for results.
(SFC, 10/21/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 21, It was reported that
Prof. Vijay Pende of Stanford successfully led a program to use shared
computing power to decipher protein folding in BBA5, a man-made chain
of 23 amino acids.
(SFC, 10/21/02, p.A4)
2002 Oct 21, APEC delegates,
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, from Australia, Brunei, Canada,
Chile, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia,
Mexico, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Russia,
Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, the United States and Vietnam began
meetings at Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, to discuss terrorism and the world
economy.
(AP, 10/22/02)
2002 Oct 21, In Australia Xiang
Huan Yun (36) opened fire at Monash University in Melbourne in, killing
two people and seriously wounding 5 others. Yun was soon charged with
two counts of murder and five counts of attempted murder.
(AP, 10/21/02)(AP, 10/22/02)
2002 Oct 21, In Colombia Air Force
planes bombed guerrillas on their way to attack a western town, killing
70 of them.
(AP, 10/21/02)
2002 Oct 21, Millions of Cubans
went to the polls to choose new municipal officials, the men and women
charged with solving all manner of neighborhood problems, from lack of
water to deteriorating buildings.
(AP, 10/21/02)
2002 Oct 21, A bus bombing near
Hadera killed 14 Israelis, along with two attackers. Israel held off on
immediate retaliation, but troops next day destroyed the homes of a
suicide bomber and a suspected militant.
(AP, 10/22/02)(SFC, 10/22/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 21, In Malawi police
arrested Gwanda Chakuamba, the main opposition leader, accusing him of
impersonating President Bakili Muluzi by signing the president's name
to a controversial letter on statehouse stationery. The arrest came
amid a government crackdown on opponents of a constitutional amendment
that would allow Muluzi to run for a third term when his second
five-year term expires in 2004. Chakuamba was released the same day.
(AP, 10/21/02)(AP, 10/22/02)
2002 Oct 21, In Mexico officials
said 25 people were arrested who had infiltrated the army, police and
attorney general's office on behalf of drug kingpins.
(SFC, 10/22/02, p.A11)
2002 Oct 21, In Venezuela
thousands of stores closed and workers stayed home to demand that Hugo
Chavez call early elections.
(AP, 10/21/02)(SFC, 10/22/02, p.A11)
2002 Oct 21, A UN panel accused
criminal groups linked to the armies of Rwanda, Uganda, Zimbabwe and
Congo of plundering Congo's riches, and called on the United Nations to
impose financial restrictions on 29 companies and 54 individuals.
(AP, 10/21/02)
2002 Oct 22, The US added Jemaah
Islamiyah of Indonesia to its list of terrorist organizations.
(WSJ, 10/23/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 22, In Aspen Hill,
Maryland, Conrad Everton Johnson (35), a bus driver, was shot in the
chest and died during surgery. The shooting was suspected to be related
to the serial sniper who already killed nine people this month. This
was the 13th and final attack linked by authorities to the
Washington-area sniper attacks.
(AP, 10/22/02)(SFC, 10/23/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 22, It was reported that
a gene was identified that related to attention-deficit disorders and
that it was located in a region of the human genome identified with
autism.
(WSJ, 10/22/02, p.D3)
2002 Oct 22, Richards Helms (89),
CIA director who was fired by Richard Nixon, died. In 2003 his
autobiography "A Look Over My Shoulder," co-written with William Hood,
was published.
(WSJ, 10/24/02, p.A1)(WSJ, 6/5/03, p.D8)
2002 Oct 22, Allied planes bombed
a military air defense site in the northern no-fly zone over Iraq after
taking fire from Iraqi forces.
(AP, 10/22/02)
2002 Oct 22, Geraldine of Albania
(87), the wife of King Zog (d.1961), died in Tirana.
(SFC, 10/28/02, p.A17)
2002 Oct 22, Canadian writer Yann
Martel won the Booker Prize for "Life of Pi," his quirky fable about a
boy's survival after a shipwreck.
(Reuters, 10/22/02)
2002 Oct 22, In Colombia a bomb
exploded outside police headquarters in Bogota, killing two people and
wounding nearly a dozen more.
(AP, 10/22/02)
2002 Oct 22, The Colombian navy
seized 2.75 tons of cocaine when officials intercepted a speedboat on
the high seas.
(AP, 10/22/02)
2002 Oct 22, A ferry carrying 51
people and a shipment of oil sank in rough weather in the Caspian Sea.
One report said five onboard the ferry were rescued. The Mercury II
freight and passenger ferry was making its way from the port of Aktau,
Kazakhstan, heading southwest to the Azerbaijani capital Baku.
(AP, 10/22/02)(WSJ, 10/23/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 22, It was reported that
special forces in the Pankisi Gorge of Georgia had captured 15 Arab
militants linked to al Qaeda.
(SFC, 10/22/02, p.A7)
2002 Oct 22, The Yugoslav
government released a statement saying it had dismissed Jovan Cekovic,
a former army general, and chief of Yugoimport following NATO evidence
that it had engaged in exporting and refurbishing military equipment
for Iraq.
(SFC, 10/23/02, p.A9)
2002 Oct 22, In Zimbabwe a top
opposition lawmaker who was in jail on murder charges was found dead in
his cell, prompting calls for an independent investigation and autopsy.
Learnmore Jongwe (28) had been in custody since July, when he was
arrested in the stabbing death of his wife.
(AP, 10/22/02)
2002 Oct 23, Pres. Bush signed a
$355.5 billion military budget, a $34 billion increase over fiscal 2002.
(SFC, 10/24/02, p.A3)
2002 Oct 23, Pres. Bush signed the
Russian Democracy Act of 2002, intended to strengthen civil society and
independent media in Russia. It authorized more than $50 million for
democracy-building programs such as investigative journalism training
and cultural exchanges.
(AP, 11/4/02)
2002 Oct 23, Allied planes bombed
two military air defense sites in the southern no-fly zone over Iraq in
the third round of strikes in a week.
(AP, 10/23/02)
2002 Oct 23, Adolph Green
(b.1914), lyricist, died. His work with Betty Comden included the
screenplay for "Singin' in the Rain."
(SFC, 10/25/02, p.A4)
2002 Oct 23, Lady Antonia Fraser
(96), the Countess of Longford, a historian who wrote biographies of
Queen Victoria and the Duke of Wellington, died. She was born as
Elizabeth Harman and wrote under the name Elizabeth Longford.
(AP, 10/23/02)(SFC, 10/28/02, p.A17)
2002 Oct 23, In China rescuers
fought to save 29 miners trapped underground after a coal mine
explosion in the northern province of Shanxi killed 21. China's death
toll from mining accidents up to July this year was 3,620, up 4.8
percent from a year earlier.
(AP, 10/25/02)(Reuters, 10/26/02)
2002 Oct 23, In Moscow 40-50
Chechen separatist guerrillas seized a theater and threatened to shoot
or blow up 700 hostages unless Russia pulled its troops out of their
homeland. The next day they killed one woman.
(AP, 10/24/02)(SFC, 10/24/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 23, The European
Parliament's Conference of Presidents announced that it chose Oswaldo
Paya of Cuba for the prestigious 2002 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of
Thought.
(AP, 10/24/02)
2002 Oct 23, The Nigerian
government said it rejects a World Court ruling that granted possession
of a disputed oil-rich peninsula to neighboring Cameroon.
(AP, 10/23/02)
2002 Oct 23, Turkey's chief
prosecutor moved to outlaw the Justice and Development Party for
ignoring court order that Erdogan step down as leader. The moderate
Islamic party, led by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was also Turkey's most
popular party.
(SFC, 10/24/02, p.A11)(AP, 11/4/02)
2002 Oct 24, John Allen Muhammad
(41), an Army veteran who recently converted to Islam, and John Lee
Malvo (17) were arrested near Frederick, Maryland, in connection with
the sniper shootings that left 10 dead and 3 wounded. In 2003 a judge
ruled that Malvo could be tried as an adult. Muhammad began to argue
his own defense on Oct 20. On Mar 9, 2004, John Allen Muhammad was
sentenced to death. In 2006 Malvo was sentenced to life in prison for 6
murders in Maryland.
(AP, 10/24/02)(SFC, 10/25/02, p.A1)(SFC, 1/16/03,
p.A5)(SFC, 10/21/03, p.A7)(SFC, 3/10/04, p.A3)(SFC, 11/9/06, p.A3)
2002 Oct 24, Joseph Mabrey was
found shot to death in his car in the 3200 block of Storer Ave. in
Oakland, Ca. A gang called the Nut Cases killed 4 more people over the
next 10 weeks. Gang members were arrested in January, 2003. In 2006
Demarcus Ralls (21) was convicted on 3 counts of 1st degree murder plus
other charges. He was sentenced to 4 consecutive life terms in prison.
5 other gang members still awaited trial.
(SFC, 2/6/06, p.A11)(SFC, 3/23/06, p.B2)(SFC,
7/29/06, p.B3)
2002 Oct 24, It was reported that
over 8,000 backyard poultry had been killed in southern California to
stop the spread of Exotic Newcastle disease. The deadly avian infection
last surfaced in California the 1970s when some 12 million birds were
destroyed. The number of chickens killed reached 100,000.
(SFC, 10/24/02, p.G2)(SFC, 10/26/02, p.A3)(SFC,
12/28/02, p.A3)
2002 Oct 24, In Algeria attackers
killed 21 members of the same family, including a three-month old baby,
in a massacre that bore the hallmarks of Islamic extremists.
(AP, 10/25/02)
2002 Oct 24, In southern Australia
a train and a school bus collided, killing six people.
(AP, 10/24/02)
2002 Oct 24, Bahrain held its
first legislative elections in nearly 30 years. Results showed a mix of
secularist and Islamic candidates winning seats, with two women
securing places in run-off polls.
(AP, 10/25/02)
2002 Oct 24, In Bangui, Central
African Republic, rebels loyal to the deposed army chief of staff
fought members of the presidential guard and Libyan troops for control
of the airport.
(AP, 10/26/02)
2002 Oct 24, In Iraq officials
told many foreign journalists to leave due to coverage of recent
protests.
(SFC, 10/25/02, p.A3)
2002 Oct 24, In Kenya would-be
carjackers shot and killed Esterlin Abdi Arush (45), a Somali human
rights activist, at the gate of the house where she was staying in
Nairobi.
(AP, 10/25/02)
2002 Oct 24, Libya has decided to
withdraw from the Arab League, Moammar Gadhafi's government announced.
(AP, 10/24/02)
2002 Oct 24, Nigeria's parliament
approved changes to an oil revenue-sharing law that gives state
governments a share of revenues from offshore oil and gas production.
(AP, 10/25/02)
2002 Oct 25, In Minnesota a small
plane crash killed Sen. Paul Wellstone (58), his wife, daughter and 5
others. His re-election race was seen as critical to the balance of
power in the Senate, where the Democrats held a 50-to-49 edge.
(AP, 10/26/02)
2002 Oct 25, Peggy Moran (84),
film actress, died. She made over 30 horror films in the 1930s and
1940s.
(SFC, 11/2/02, p.A22)
2002 Oct 25, In Utah 2 F-16
fighter jets collided during training and 1 pilot survived. The 2nd
pilot's body was found Oct 26.
(SFC, 10/26/02, p.A5)(SSFC, 10/27/02, p.A20)
2002 Oct 25, Richard Harris (72),
Irish film actor, died in London. His work included appearances in over
80 films.
(SFC, 10/26/02, p.A2)(AP, 10/25/07)
2002 Oct 25, Australia's prime
minister promised to give the world's 50 poorest countries better
access to his nation's markets and called on other rich nations to do
the same.
(AP, 10/26/02)
2002 Oct 25, In Brazil unknown
gunmen shot and killed eight people in the state of Sao Paulo in two
killings. In the first six months of 2002, the state's Public Security
Bureau registered 6,159 homicides.
(AP, 10/26/02)
2002 Oct 25, Koki Ishii (61), a
Japanese opposition lawmaker known for his aggressive probing into
ruling party corruption scandals, was stabbed to death in what could be
the nation's first political assassination in more than four decades.
The Democratic Party politician was attacked in front of his home in
central Tokyo by an unidentified man in his 50s who ran away.
(AP, 10/25/02)
2002 Oct 25, In Kenya Pres. Daniel
arap Moi announced the end of his 24-year rule, dissolved parliament
and kicked off the campaign for a new elections.
(SFC, 10/26/02, p.A6)
2002 Oct 25, Hurricane Kenna hit
Mexico's Pacific coast and over 150 people were injured in the states
of Jalisco, Nayarit and Sinaloa. 3 people were later reported killed.
Damages were estimated in tens of millions.
(SFC, 10/26/02, p.A7)(SSFC, 10/27/02, p.A20)
2002 Oct 25, Russia pledged not to
kill Chechen guerrillas holding some 600 hostages in a Moscow theater
if they freed all their captives. Chechens released eight children and
then set a dawn Saturday deadline to begin killing the rest of their
captives if Russia does not agree to pull its army out of Chechnya.
(AP, 10/25/02)
2002 Oct 25, In Spain Jose Antonio
Rodriguez Vega (44), a serial killer sentenced to 440 years in jail for
raping and strangling 16 elderly widows, was murdered in prison. Two
prisoners with makeshift knives attacked Vega in the courtyard of Topas
jail in western Salamanca province.
(AP, 10/25/02)
2002 Oct 26, President Bush
launched urgent diplomatic talks to unite Japan, South Korea and other
allies behind a strategy to deal with a nuclear-armed North Korea. He
also sought support for possible war with Iraq as Pacific Rim leaders
stung by terrorism gathered for their annual summit.
(AP, 10/26/02)
2002 Oct 26, Tens of thousands of
anti-war protesters circled the White House after Jesse Jackson and
other speakers denounced the Bush administration's Iraq policies.
(AP, 10/26/03)
2002 Oct 26, In eastern Oklahoma
Daniel H. Fears, a teenager apparently angered by a neighbor, went on a
shooting spree that left two people dead and at least seven injured.
(AP, 10/27/02)(SFC, 10/28/02, p.A4)
2002 Oct 26, Five civilians were
killed by Colombian rebels near Bogota.
(AP, 10/27/02)
2002 Oct 26, In the Czech Republic
the race for a third of the seats in the Czech Parliament's upper
chamber had a record low turnout of 24 percent.
(AP, 10/26/02)
2002 Oct 26, In Kosovo voters in
30 municipalities elected 920 local councilors for U.N.-supervised
assemblies that are slated to assume increased authority over the
coming years.
(AP, 10/26/02)
2002 Oct 26, Pacific Rim prime
ministers and presidents united to tackle the most urgent of missions,
preventing the melting borders of a connected world from enabling
terrorists to undermine the push toward prosperity.
(AP, 10/26/02)
2002 Oct 26, Russian special
forces, using gas to knock out Chechen guerrillas, stormed a Moscow
theater in a dawn raid that left dozens of hostages dead along with
most of their rebel captors. Russian special forces killed 41 rebels,
including leader Movsar Barayev, and freed more about 600 captives in
the third day of a hostage drama. 129 captives were killed. All the
dead hostages except for 1 were killed by the gas later suspected to be
the anesthetic carfentanyl possibly mixed with halothane.
(SFC, 10/26/02, p.A1)(SFC, 10/28/02, p.A1)(WSJ,
10/31/02, p.A1)(SFC, 11/9/02, p.A7)(AP, 10/26/03)
2002 Oct 26, In southeastern
Turkey 3 teenagers were killed after they accidentally set off a mortar
shell, where Turkish troops and Kurdish rebels battled for years.
(AP, 10/26/02)
2002 Oct 27, The Anaheim Angels
beat the SF Giants in the 7th game of the baseball World Series 4-1.
(SFC, 10/28/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 27, Emmitt Smith broke
the NFL career rushing yardage record held by the late Walter Payton.
(AP, 10/27/03)
2002 Oct 27, The Australian
government listed the militant Islamic network Jemaah Islamiyah as a
terrorist group.
(AP, 10/30/02)
2002 Oct 27, In Brazil Luiz Inacio
Lula da Silva (57) won elections with 61% of the runoff vote. He
reiterated that his administration would honor Brazil's $230 billion
foreign debt, but said lending institutions and the international
community "must know that we cannot have people suffering from hunger
every day."
(AP, 10/28/02)
2002 Oct 27, A fierce storm
pummeled Europe with deadly gale-force winds, killing 34 people and
leaving hundreds of thousands without electricity.
(AP, 10/28/02)(WSJ, 10/29/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 27, In India separatist
guerrillas in Assam state killed 22 villagers. Members of the National
Democratic Front of Bodoland operated out of bases in Bhutan. The
10-year insurgency has left over 10,000 dead.
(SFC, 10/28/02, p.A7)
2002 Oct 27, Kashmir's new ruling
coalition vowed to release political prisoners and probe custodial
deaths as a first step to end a separatist revolt.
(AP, 10/27/02)
2002 Oct 27, A Kosovo mayor was
killed with 2 guards by allies of a rival ethnic Albanian party.
(WSJ, 10/28/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 27, Kurdish rebels
clashed with Turkish soldiers in the mainly Kurdish southeast, leaving
an insurgent dead and five soldiers wounded.
(AP, 10/27/02)
2002 Oct 27, A Palestinian suicide
bomber blew up as Israeli soldiers were shooting him, killing three
people and himself at a gas station just outside Ariel, one of the
largest Jewish settlements in the West Bank. The 18 people injured
included several soldiers. Hours later, Israeli troops shot and killed
two armed Palestinian militants in the nearby Palestinian city of
Nablus.
(AP, 10/27/02)
2002 Oct 27, Polish voters chose
mayors directly for the first time since the end of communism in local
elections seen as a tests of popularity for the year-old national
government.
(AP, 10/27/02)
2002 Oct 27, In Sicily Mount Etna
began spewing thick clouds of ash and magma.
(AP, 10/28/02)
2002 Oct 27, Togo held
parliamentary elections that were boycotted by major opposition parties
but contested by 14 smaller groups.
(AP, 10/27/02)
2002 Oct 28, In Arizona Robert
Flores (41), a failing nursing student, shot and killed 3 professors
and then himself at the College of Nursing in Tucson.
(SFC, 10/28/02, p.A4)
2002 Oct 28, Chechen President
Aslan Maskhadov is prepared to hold unconditional talks with the
Russian leadership to find a political solution to the bloody conflict
in Chechnya, his envoy said.
(Reuters, 10/28/02)
2002 Oct 28, It was reported that
200 farms in China tap 7,000 live, caged bears for their bile in an
excruciating process. Owners slice into the bears to milk bile from
their gall bladder with a tube. Bear bile is viewed as a panacea in
traditional Chinese medicine. Many bears do not survive the initial
operation and few live longer than 10 years, less than half the average
life expectancy.
(Reuters, 10/28/02)
2002 Oct 28, In Colombia a car
bomb set in front of a school killed 2 police officers and wounded 11
others, just hours before President Alvaro Uribe visited Arauca.
(AP, 10/28/02)
2002 Oct 28, In Jordan an assassin
pumped eight shots into Laurence Foley (62), an employee of the US
Agency for International Development, outside his home in the first
known killing of a Western envoy in Amman. 2 suspects were arrested Dec
14. Abu Musab Zarqawi was suspected in the murder. In 2009 a military
court convicted Al-Qaida militant Mohammed Ahmed Youssef al-Jaghbeer in
a retrial for the murder of Foley and sentenced him to death.
(AP, 10/28/02)(WSJ, 12/16/02, p.A1)(WSJ, 2/10/04,
p.A8)(SFC, 7/14/09, p.A2)
2002 Oct 28, Russian President
Vladimir Putin led a national day of mourning as relatives and friends
grieved for the more than 100 captives who died in the siege at a
Moscow theater.
(AP, 10/28/07)
2002 Oct 28, Zimbabwe's ruling
party won a sweeping victory in a parliamentary by-election. The
opposition said that the vote was rigged and swayed by violence and
intimidation.
(AP, 10/29/02)
2002 Oct 29, The federal
government filed charges against Washington sniper suspect John Allen
Muhammad under a 1946 extortion law that could bring the death penalty,
accusing him of a murderous plot to get $10 million.
(AP, 10/29/03)
2002 Oct 29, In SF the 9th Circuit
Court of Appeals said the federal government cannot punish California
doctors who recommend marijuana use to their patients.
(SFC, 10/30/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 29, A Minneapolis
memorial service for the late Sen. Paul Wellstone turned into a virtual
political rally as friends and relatives urged Minnesotans to honor his
memory by putting a Democrat in his seat.
(AP, 10/29/07)
2002 Oct 29, More than 200 illegal
Haitian migrants jumped overboard and rushed onto a major Miami
highway, bringing attention to the plight of a people desperate to
escape the unending violence created by Haiti's politics and poverty.
(AP, 2/11/04)
2002 Oct 29, Chang-lin Tien (67),
former UC Berkeley chancellor (1990-1997), died.
(WSJ, 10/31/02, p.A1)(SFC, 10/31/02, p.A1)
2002 Andre de Toth (b.1913), film
director, died. His films included the 3-D "House of Wax" (1953).
(SFC, 11/1/02, p.A28)
2002 Oct 29, In Bermuda some 6,000
children stayed home from school as teachers continued to strike to
demand salaries on par with government officials.
(AP, 10/29/02)
2002 Oct 29, In Brazil Pres.-elect
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva promised to honor the foreign debt but also
pledged that ending hunger would be his chief priority.
(AP, 10/29/02)
2002 Oct 29, China and the United
States have agreed to resume military-to-military ties with plans to
hold talks at senior level in the near future.
(AP, 10/29/02)
2002 Oct 29, In Colombia suspected
rebels killed seven people, including a teenage girl, in scattered
attacks over two days.
(AP, 10/29/02)
2002 Oct 29, The Palestinian
parliament approved the new 19-member Cabinet of Yasser Arafat.
(AP, 10/29/02)
2002 Oct 29, A Russian helicopter
was shot down in Chechnya by a missile, killing all three crew and one
passenger aboard.
(AP, 10/29/02)
2002 Oct 29, In southwestern
Somalia hundreds of rival militiamen armed with heavy weapons fought
for control of a strategic border town, leaving 25 dead and 37 wounded.
(AP, 10/29/02)
2002 Oct 29, In Uruguay 4
ministers in President Jorge Batlle's Cabinet have resigned to protest
his handling of the economy, escalating a crisis in his ruling
coalition.
(AP, 10/29/02)
2002 Oct 29, In Vietnam at least
60 people were killed, including 22 linked to American International
Assurance (AIA), when fire engulfed a commercial building in Ho Chi
Minh City, state media and officials.
(Reuters, 10/30/02)
2002 Oct 30, In Minnesota Walter
Mondale took the ballot place of the late Sen. Wellstone. Mondale ended
up losing to Republican Norm Coleman.
(WSJ, 10/31/02, p.A1)(AP, 10/30/03)
2002 Oct 30, DJ Jam Master Jay
(Jason Mizell), rap artist, was shot to death in Queens, NYC.
(SFC, 11/1/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 30, Allied warplanes
bombed Iraqi defense systems in the northern no-fly zone over Iraq
after being fired upon during routine patrols.
(AP, 10/30/02)
2002 Oct 30, In Belarus
authorities reported the discovery of a mass grave on a military base
at Slutsk with the remains of up to 12,000 people killed during World
War II. Some 800,000 Jew of Belarus were killed by Nazis.
(AP, 10/31/02)
2002 Oct 30, In Sao Paulo, Brazil,
Suzanne von Richtofen (22) let her lover Daniel Cravinhos (21) and his
brother, Christian (26) into her house, and checked to make sure her
parents were sleeping. Then the brothers sneaked into the parents'
bedroom and bludgeoned them to death with iron bars. In 2006 all 3 were
tried for murder. Each was convicted and sentenced to 40 years in
prison. Daniel Cravinhos said he beat Manfred and Marisa von Richtofen
to death with an iron bar as they slept at home in a wealthy district
of Sao Paulo because the couple's daughter, Suzanne von Richtofen,
persuaded him to do it.
(AP, 6/5/06)(AP, 7/17/06)(AP, 7/22/06)
2002 Oct 30, Freeview TV, jointly
owned by the BBC, Crown Castle International and BSkyB, was launched in
the UK as an alternative to PayTV.
(www.answers.com/topic/freeview)
2002 Oct 30, Danish police
arrested Akhmed Zakayev (43), a top aide to Aslan Maskhadov, former
Chechen president.
(SFC, 10/31/02, p.A31)
2002 Oct 30, Senior Sinn Fein-IRA
figure Martin McGuinness declared his war has ended in a documentary
broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corp.
(AP, 10/29/02)
2002 Oct 30, Israeli Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon's broad-based coalition collapsed when Cabinet
ministers from the moderate Labor Party resigned in a dispute over
funding for Jewish settlements.
(AP, 10/30/03)
2002 Oct 30, A Palestinian gunman
killed two teenage girls and a woman in a Jewish settlement in the West
Bank before being shot dead in a firefight with soldiers and
residents.
(AP, 10/30/02)
2002 Oct 30, Russia launched a
rocket carrying two cosmonauts and a Belgian astronaut to the
international space station for an eight-day mission.
(AP, 10/30/02)
2002 Oct 30, A series of bomb
blasts rocked the poor township of Soweto, SA, killing one person,
ripping a hole in a mosque and damaging several railway stations and
rail lines running into the nearby city of Johannesburg. The Boeremag
(Afrikaner Power) was believed responsible.
(AP, 10/30/02)(SFC, 11/2/02, p.A7)
2002 Oct 30, Nine people, mostly
Canadian or British tourists, were killed and at least 10 more injured
when their bus crashed in South Africa, police said.
(Reuters, 10/30/02)
2002 Oct 31-2002 Nov 1, Inmates at
San Quentin performed the verse drama "John Brown's Body" by Stephen
Vincent Benet under the direction of Joseph De Francesca.
(SFC, 11/19/02, p.D1)(EW)
2002 Oct 31, Authorities charged
the two Washington sniper suspects John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd
Malvo with murder in a Louisiana attack that came just two days after a
similar slaying in Alabama.
(AP, 10/31/03)
2002 Oct 31, The Securities and
Exchange Commission ordered an investigation into allegations that
Chairman Harvey Pitt had concealed information on the corporate ties of
William Webster. Pitt and Webster both ended up resigning.
(AP, 10/31/03)(AP, 10/31/07)
2002 Oct 31, In SF the Halloween
party in the Castro district turned violent. 4 people were stabbed and
30 were arrested as police were pelted with bottles.
(SFC, 10/28/06, p.B3)
2002 Oct 31, The Central African
Republic claimed to have put down a coup attempt by rebels backing
General Francois Bozize, an ousted army chief of staff.
(AP, 11/1/02)(Econ, 5/26/07, p.52)
2002 Oct 31, Chechen rebels killed
six Russian servicemen, a Chechen policeman and a local administrator,
as Russian forces intensified searches for rebels in the wake of the
Moscow theater siege.
(AP, 11/1/02)
2002 Oct 31, In Greece Michalis
Stasinopoulos (99), a legal scholar who challenged Greece's 1967-74
military dictatorship and served as president after it collapsed, died.
(AP, 11/1/02)
2002 Oct 31, A strong earthquake
rocked central and southern Italy, trapping about 50 children in a
school in San Giuliano di Puglia after the building's roof collapsed.
27 children and a teacher were killed.
(AP, 10/31/02)(AP, 11/1/07)
2002 Oct 31, Velupillai
Prabhakaran, the reclusive leader of Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger
guerrillas, was sentenced in absentia to 200 years' jail, as government
and rebel officials began talks in Thailand to try to end 19 years of
war.
(Reuters, 10/31/02)
2002 Oct, A memorandum, drafted by
Sec. of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, circulated among the top members of
the Bush administration with some 30 warnings that included: a possible
failure of finding WMD in Iraq, stabilization and reconstruction in
Iraq could take 8-10 years, Syria and Iran could help US enemies in
Iraq.
(WSJ, 4/8/08, p.D8)
2002 Oct, A US Army incinerator
was scheduled to begin destroying chemical weapons stockpiled at the
Anniston Army Depot in Ala. A global treaty called for complete
destruction by 2004.
(SFC, 9/15/02, p.A5)
2002 Oct, Turkey’s ISE stock index
began to rise and increased 400% by February 2006.
(Econ, 6/3/06, p.74)
2002 Nov 1, A US judge upheld the
2001 proposed settlement between Microsoft and the Dept. of Justice.
(SFC, 11/2/02, p.A1)
2002 Nov 1, West Coast dockworkers
and shipping lines reached a tentative agreement on key issues.
(SFC, 11/2/02, p.A1)
2002 Nov 1, Scientists reported
that 22-47% of Earth's plant species are in danger of becoming extinct
due to human activity.
(SFC, 11/1/02, p.A4)
2002 Nov 1, In Bahrain Islamic and
secular candidates won run-off votes for seats in the parliament,
according to final results. 2 women lost in run-off races.
(AP, 11/1/02)
2002 Nov 1, Queen Elizabeth II
surprise revelation that she knew butler Paul Burrell had taken some of
Princess Diana's possessions for safekeeping prompted prosecutors to
drop theft charges against the servant.
(AP, 11/1/03)
2002 Nov 1, Israel Amir (99), the
first commander of the Israeli air force (1948), died in a Tel Aviv
hospital.
(AP, 11/2/02)(SFC, 11/2/02, p.A22)
2002 Nov 1, Jakov Sirotkovic (80),
a prominent economist and high-ranking member of the Communist party in
the former Yugoslavia (head of the Cabinet in Croatia), died.
(AP, 11/1/02)
2002 Nov 1, In Morocco a fire
erupted at an overcrowded Sidi Moussa jail in coastal El Jadida,
killing at least 49 inmates and injuring dozens of other people.
(AP, 11/1/02)
2002 Nov 1, Russian lawmakers
passed amendments that would sharply curb news coverage of
anti-terrorist operations and prohibit the media from carrying rebel
statements, a legislative step officials called increasingly urgent in
light of last week's hostage crisis.
(AP, 11/1/02)
2002 Nov 1, A Russian spacecraft
carrying two cosmonauts and a Belgian astronaut docked with the
international space station.
(AP, 11/1/03)
2002 Nov 1, In South Korea Kim
Hong-up, the 2nd son of President Kim Dae-jung was sentenced to jail
and fined on graft charges, closing one chapter in scandals that have
marred the ageing democracy leader's final year in office.
(AP, 11/1/02)
2002 Nov 2, Pres. Bush called
Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein a "dangerous man" with links to terrorist
networks, and said that UN inspections for weapons of mass destruction
were critical.
(AP, 11/2/03)
2002 Nov 2, Gay Games VI opened in
Sydney, Australia, before some 40,000 spectators.
(SSFC, 11/3/02, p.A13)
2002 Nov 2, In Burundi at least
15,000 people have fled their homes as fighting between the army and
rebels escalated despite peace talks.
(AP, 11/2/02)
2002 Nov 2, In the Czech Republic
the opposition center-right Civic Democratic Party won 9 Senate seats
in elections for 26 of 81 seats, costing the governing coalition its
majority in Parliament's upper house in a result that could influence
the choice of a successor to President Vaclav Havel.
(AP, 11/3/02)
2002 Nov 2, In Indonesia a
powerful earthquake struck near Sumatra island and killed at least two
people, injured scores and left more than 5,000 people on a nearby
island homeless.
(Reuters, 11/3/02)
2002 Nov 2, In Kashmir Mufti
Muhammad Sayeed, head of the People's Democratic Party, was sworn in as
chief minister after 2 rifle grenades were thrown at his home. 16
people were killed in violence that followed.
(SSFC, 11/3/02, p.A10)(WSJ, 11/4/02, p.A1)
2002 Nov 2, Kuwait closed the
office of Al-Jazeera, the Arab world's most popular satellite TV
network, claiming it was "not objective."
(AP, 11/3/02)
2002 Nov 2, Rex Mwanawasa (43),
the brother of Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa, was found dead in a
hotel room in Pretoria.
(AP, 11/3/02)
2002 Nov 3, Kit Armstrong (10),
pianist and sophomore at a Utah college, performed before a sold out
audience at Stanford's Dinkelspiel Auditorium.
(SFC, 11/4/02, p.D1)
2002 Nov 3, The NYC marathon was
won by Rodgers Rop of Kenya in 2:08:06; Joyce Chepchumba of Kenya won
the women's title in 2:25:55.
(WSJ, 11/4/02, p.A1)
2002 Nov 3, A 7.9 earthquake hit
Alaska 90 miles south of Fairbanks.
(SFC, 11/4/02, p.A2)
2002 Nov 3, Actor Jonathan Harris
(87) died in Encino, California.
(AP, 11/3/03)
2002 Nov 3, In Afghanistan Pres.
Karzai fired over 15 provincial officials for abuse of authority,
corruption and narcotics trafficking.
(SFC, 11/4/02, p.A10)
2002 Nov 3, In Argentina Leonardo
Bertulazzi (51) was arrested. He was believed to be head of logistics
for the Red Brigades, which is blamed for the kidnapping and
assassination of former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro in 1978.
(AP, 11/4/02)
2002 Nov 3, Lonnie Donegan (71),
British musician, died. His hits included "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose
its Flavor on the Bed Post Overnight" and "Rock Island Line" which
inspired John Lennon and George Harrison.
(SFC, 11/6/02, p.A34)
2002 Nov 3, Chechen rebels shot
down a Russian military helicopter, killing nine servicemen, after
Moscow said its forces had launched new military action to crush
attempts by the guerrillas to stage "new acts of terror."
(Reuters, 11/3/02)
2002 Nov 3, Dzhumber Lezhava
returned to Tbilisi, Georgia, ending a nine-year trip around the world
by bicycle.
(AP, 11/3/02)
2002 Nov 3, In India police killed
2 members of Lashkar-i-Taiba during a gunbattle at a New Delhi shopping
center.
(SFC, 11/4/02, p.A7)
2002 Nov 3, A moderate earthquake
jolted northern Pakistan, killing 17 people and injuring 30, many of
them critically.
(AP, 11/3/02)(Reuters, 11/4/02)
2002 Nov 3, Saudi Arabia said it
would not permit bases on its soil in an attack against Iraq and would
not grant flyover rights to US military planes even if the UN sanctions
an invasion. Prince Saud later said a final decision had not been made.
(SFC, 11/4/02, p.A3)(SFC, 11/5/02, p.A7)
2002 Nov 3, In Turkey the
Islamic-rooted Justice and Development Party (AK) won a parliamentary
majority in elections (34.2%), the first time in 15 years that any
party has been in a position to govern alone. The party pledged to wipe
out corruption. It also pledged to maintain the nation's pro-Western
stance, quickly moving to soothe worries that this crucial U.S. ally
would undergo a radical shift toward Islam; Republican People's Party
(social democrats): 19.4%; True Path Party (center-rightist): 9.5%;
National Action Party (nationalists): 8.3%. About 90% of incumbent
members of parliament lost.
(AP, 11/4/02)(SFC, 11/4/02, p.A1)(SFC, 11/15/02,
p.J6)(Econ, 7/25/05, p.44)
2002 Nov 3, In northwest Yemen 6
al-Qaida suspects were killed when the car they were traveling in was
struck by a missile from a US Predator drone. Qaed Salim Sinan
al-Harethi, a suspected al-Qaida leader, was among the dead along with
Kamal Derwish, a member of the Lackawanna, NY, sleeper cell.
(SFC, 11/5/02, p.A1)(SFC, 11/6/02, p.A15)(SFC,
11/9/02, p.A3)(AP, 11/3/03)
2002 Nov 4, President Bush
barnstormed through four battleground states, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas
and Texas, in a final appeal for Republicans in Congress; Democrats
worked for a strong voter turnout to tilt key races their way.
(AP, 11/4/03)
2002 Nov 4, In Minnesota Gov.
Ventura named his aide, Independent Dean Barkley, to serve out the term
of the late Sen. Wellstone.
(SFC, 11/5/02, p.A1)
2002 Nov 4, Eagle Scout Darrell
Lambert (19) of Port Orchard, Wa., was told to leave the Boy Scout
organization due to his atheist belief. "The Boy Scouts is a
faith-based organization and the issue of God is not negotiable." He
was given 1 week to declare belief in a higher power.
(SSFC, 11/3/02, p.A5)(SFC, 11/5/02, p.A5)
2002 Nov 4, Jerry Sohl (88),
science fiction author, died in Thousand Oaks, California. His books
included "The Transcendent Man" and "The Altered Ego."
(SFC, 11/11/02, p.A20)
2002 Nov 4, China signed a
landmark agreement with Southeast Asian countries (Brunei, Malaysia,
Philippines, Vietnam) on avoiding open conflict in the disputed South
China Sea Spratly Islands. Indonesia objected and Taiwan was barred
from signing.
(Reuters, 11/4/02)(Econ, 5/22/04, p.40)
2002 Nov 4, Indonesian navy boats
and civilian craft searched waters off the volatile eastern city of
Ambon for survivors from a packed ferry that sank overnight, killing
five people and leaving 73 missing.
(Reuters, 11/4/02)
2002 cNov 4, An Ulster Catholic
man was beaten and his hands were nailed to a fence post outside
Belfast.
(WSJ, 11/5/02, p.A1)
2002 Nov 4, Two Palestinians,
including a Hamas militant wanted by Israel, were killed when their car
exploded in the middle of the street in the West Bank city of Nablus.
(AP, 11/4/02)
2002 Nov 4, Senegal Pres.
Abdoulaye Wade dismissed his prime minister and the rest of the Cabinet
in a shake up widely anticipated since the deadly capsizing of a
state-run ferry.
(AP, 11/4/02)
2002 Nov 4, In South Korea 15,000
civil servants went on strike protesting against both the proposal to
shorten the working week and a government ban on public sector unions.
(Reuters, 11/5/02)
2002 Nov 4, A party with Islamic
roots won a landslide victory in Turkish elections.
(AP, 11/4/03)
2002 Nov 5, Barbados-born author
Austin Clarke won the 2002 Giller Prize, Canada's most lucrative and
glamorous fiction award, for his novel, "The Polished Hoe".
(Reuters, 11/6/02)
2002 Nov 5, Randy Johnson won his
record-tying 4th straight Nat'l. League Cy Young Award.
(AP, 11/5/03)
2002 Nov 5, Republicans seized
control of the U.S. Congress, reclaiming power in the Senate and
expanding their majority in the House of Representatives in a historic
sweep for Republican President George W. Bush.
(Reuters, 11/6/02)
2002 Nov 5, In Georgia Democratic
Gov. Roy Barnes (b.1948) was voted out of office. He had been the main
sponsor for legislation to make it easier to sack incompetent teachers.
(Econ, 3/3/07, SR
p.11)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Barnes)
2002 Nov 5, Mitt Romney, a Mormon
and Harvard graduate (business and law), was elected Republican
governor of Massachusetts. He had made a fortune as a venture
capitalist with investments in Domino’s and Staples.
(Econ, 9/30/06,
p.44)(www.rga.org/governors/state.aspx?St=MA)
2002 Nov 5, Michigan voters
elected Democrat Jennifer Granholm (43) as governor.
(NW, 12/30/02, p.62)
2002 Nov 5, In Minnesota Tim
Pawlenty, Republican, was elected governor. He captured 30 of the 38
counties that Gov. Ventura had won. Republican Norm Coleman defeated
Walter Mondale for the US Senate.
(Econ, 5/22/04, p.29)(Econ, 9/6/08, p.38)
2002 Nov 5, Chuck McGee, director
of the New Hampshire Republican Party, jammed Democratic phone banks on
election day as Rep. John Sununu beat Dem. Gov. Jeanne Shaheen. McGee
pleaded guilty in 2004. In 2007 an appeals judge reversed McGee’s
conviction.
(SFC, 7/29/04, p.A3)(WSJ, 3/22/07, p.A1)
2002 Nov 5, Bill Richardson
(b.1947) was elected governor of New Mexico. Over the next 4 years he
brought some 60 film productions to the state, cut personal income tax
rates by 40%, halved the capital gains tax and provided generous tax
credits to job-creating businesses.
(Econ, 7/8/06, p.26)(http://rulers.org/2002-11.html)
2002 Nov 5, Securities and
Exchange Commission Chairman Harvey Pitt resigned under pressure after
a series of political missteps that had embarrassed the White House.
(AP, 11/5/03)
2002 Nov 5, The ASEAN group
(Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam,
Brunei, Thailand and Myanmar) ended a 2-day conference in Cambodia that
was also attended by representatives from China, Japan, and India and
South Africa.
(AP, 11/5/02)
2002 Nov 5, Canadian Prime
Minister Jean Chretien suffered an embarrassing defeat when many
disgruntled legislators from his Liberal Party voted with opposition
members to strip him of the right to appoint the heads of parliamentary
committees.
(Reuters, 11/6/02)
2002 Nov 5, China finished
blocking the Yangtze River at the Three Gorges Dam, paving the way for
the world's biggest hydroelectricity and flood control project to come
on stream next year.
(Reuters, 11/6/02)
2002 Nov 5, Indonesian police
arrested Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, the bomb maker of the Oct 12 attack on
Bali. In 2003 he was convicted and sentenced to die by firing squad.
(WSJ, 7/2/03, p.A6)(SFC, 8/8/03, p.A3)
2002 Nov 5, Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon dissolved Parliament and called early elections for February,
after he failed to rebuild his crumbling government. Ex-premier,
Benjamin Netanyahu, announced that he accepts PM Ariel Sharon's offer
to serve as foreign minister until early elections are held.
(AP, 11/5/02)
2002 Nov 5, Israeli soldiers came
under fire and responded by killing a Palestinian and injuring 16
others in the southern Gaza Strip.
(AP, 11/5/02)
2002 Nov 5, In Latvia Einars
Repse, a former head of the Central Bank who campaigned against
corruption, was nominated to be the next PM.
(AP, 11/5/02)
2002 Nov 5, Montenegro's ruling
party nominated president Milo Djukanovic to serve as the new prime
minister. The presidential vote is set for Dec 22.
(AP, 11/5/02)
2002 Nov 5, In South Korea some
120,000 auto workers (KCTU) struck Hyundai and 165 other workplaces as
unions escalated protests over working conditions ahead of December's
presidential elections.
(AP, 11/5/02)
2002 Nov 5, In Switzerland
representatives of over 40 countries along with industry
representatives and advocacy groups passed a UN-backed certification
plan to block the trade of illicit diamonds.
(SFC, 11/6/02, p.A18)
2002 Nov 6, The US Federal Reserve
cut interest rates .5% from 1.75 to 1.25. The Dow rose 92 to 8771 and
Nasdaq rose 17 to 1418.99.
(SFC, 11/7/02, p.A22)
2002 Nov 6, A new U.S. draft
resolution on Iraq set off a final diplomatic push for tough new
weapons inspections, backed by threats of force if Saddam Hussein
continues to skirt his disarmament obligations.
(AP, 11/7/02)
2002 Nov 6, Alabama Gov. Don
Siegelman called for a state recount following his loss to GOP Rep. Bob
Riley by 3,195 votes. Siegelman conceded Nov 18.
(SFC, 11/9/02, p.A4)(WSJ, 11/19/02, p.A1)
2002 Nov 6, A jury in Beverly
Hills, Calif., convicted Winona Ryder of stealing $5,500 worth of
high-fashion merchandise from Saks Fifth Avenue, but a prosecutor said
she would not seek to put the actress behind bars.
(AP, 11/6/03)
2002 Nov 6, Muslims across the
world started fasting for the holy month of Ramadan.
(Reuters, 11/6/02)
2002 Nov 6, A bus carrying workers
home for an Islamic holiday collided with a truck and overturned east
of Cairo, killing 24 people and wounding 25 others.
(AP, 11/6/02)
2002 Nov 6, In Fiji a military
panel convicted 15 elite army soldiers of mutiny for their roles in a
deadly shootout at the country's main barracks two years ago.
(AP, 11/6/02)
2002 Nov 6, In France a fire broke
out on an overnight express train, filling a sleeper car with smoke and
killing 12 passengers. Five Americans were among the dead, including
two children.
(AP, 11/6/02)
2002 Nov 6, In Iran University
professor Hashem Aghajari, was sentenced to death on charges of
insulting Islam's prophet and questioning the hard-line clergy's
interpretation of Islam. He was also was sentenced to 74 lashes, banned
from teaching for 10 years and exiled to three remote Iranian cities
for 8 years. The death sentence was overturned in 2003 and reimposed
May 3, 2004. The 2nd death sentence was again overturned. Aghajari was
released on bail July 31, 2004.
(AP, 11/7/02)(WSJ, 5/5/04, p.A1)(AP, 7/3/04)(SSFC,
8/1/04, p.A16)
2002 Nov 6, Benjamin Netanyahu was
approved as Israel's foreign minister, bringing him into the Cabinet of
the man he seeks to succeed, Ariel Sharon.
(AP, 11/6/02)
2002 Nov 6, In Luxembourg a
twin-engine Fokker-50 plane crashed in fog as it approached Findel
Airport, killing 17 people and seriously injuring five others.
(AP, 11/6/02)(WSJ, 11/7/02, p.A1)
2002 Nov 6, In Morocco King
Mohammed VI said the call for a referendum in Western Sahara to
determine whether the people want independence is "null" and
"inapplicable," his first public dismissal of the plan first put
forward in 1991.
(AP, 11/6/02)
2002 Nov 6, A Palestinian laborer
opened fire in a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip where he worked,
killing his employer and another Israeli before being shot dead.
(AP, 11/6/02)
2002 Nov 6, Muslim guerrillas
strafed a southern Philippine village with automatic rifle fire,
killing seven people in retaliation for an offensive by troops.
(Reuters, 11/7/02)
2002 Nov 7, In his first news
conference since the midterm elections, President Bush, charting an
agenda for the new Republican Congress, said that homeland security
came first and that an economic-recovery plan with new tax cuts would
wait until the next year.
(AP, 11/7/03)
2002 Nov 7, Dick Gephardt stepped
down as House Democratic leader in the wake of his party's election
losses.
(AP, 11/7/03)
2002 Nov 7, The US FDA approved a
20 minute easy to use AIDS test manufactured by OraSure.
(SFC, 11/7/02, p.A4)
2002 Nov 7, In Concordia,
Colombia, some 500 men and women sacked the buildings of the local
government offices, political offices, and state phone operations in
response to the murder of mayoral candidate Eugenio Escalante (47) by
the AUC.
(SFC, 11/19/02, p.A12)
2002 Nov 7, Rudolf Augstein (79),
who founded the U.S.-style Der Spiegel newsweekly in the ruins of
postwar Germany and turned it into the country's most respected
magazine, died of pneumonia.
(AP, 11/7/02)
2002 Nov 7, Nearly 99 percent of
voters on Gibraltar rejected the idea of Britain sharing its colony
with Spain in a stinging rebuff to any plans for joint sovereignty.
(AP, 11/8/02)
2002 Nov 7, In Indonesia a light
plane crashed on an islet off Borneo 3 minutes after it took off,
killing seven of the 10 people aboard.
(Reuters, 11/7/02)
2002 Nov 7, Latvia's parliament
gave its approval to a new government headed by former Central Bank
president Einars Repse, who vowed to stop corruption in the ex-Soviet
Baltic republic.
(AP, 11/7/02)
2002 Nov 7, Amnesty International
and other rights groups charged that slavery by north African Arabs and
Berbers and others persists in the West African nation of Mauritania,
two decades after its official abolition.
(AP, 11/7/02)
2002 Nov 8, Pres. Bush said the
new UN Resolution 1441 presented the Iraqi regime "with a final test."
(AP, 11/8/03)
2002 Nov 8, The California State
Medical Board moved to suspend the licenses of Dr. Chae Hyun Moon and
Dr. Fidel Realyvasquez of Redding Medical Center for performing
needless heart surgeries from 1992-2002. In 2003 Tenet Healthcare,
owner of RMC, paid $54 million to settle federal charges related to the
allegations. In 2004 Tenet agreed to pay an additional $395 million to
settle cases with over 769 heart patients. In 2007 Stephen Klaidman
authored “Coronary: A True Story of Medicine Gone Awry.”
(SSFC, 11/10/02, p.A18)(SFC, 12/22/04, p.A1)(SSFC,
2/18/07, p.E1)
2002 Nov 8, China's President
Jiang Zemin opened the Communist Party to businessmen to preserve its
grip on power as he kicked off a congress at which his generation of
leaders is due to retire.
(Reuters, 11/8/02)(Econ, 3/10/07, p.9)
2002 Nov 8, Nigeria's Supreme
Court scrapped limits on the number of political parties, opening the
way for dozens of groups hoping to battle President Olusegun Obasanjo's
ruling party in 2003 elections.
(AP, 11/9/02)
2002 Nov 8, The UN Security
Council unanimously approved a tough new Iraq resolution, aimed at
forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm or face "serious consequences." Iraq
has until Nov. 15 to accept its terms and pledge to comply. Iraq has
until Dec. 8 to provide weapons inspectors and the Security Council
with a complete declaration of all aspects of its chemical, biological
and nuclear programs. Weapons inspectors have until Dec. 23 to resume
their work in Iraq. Weapons inspectors are to report to the Security
Council 60 days after the start of their work. If inspectors resume
their work on Dec. 23, the latest they would be able to report to the
council would be Feb. 21, 2003.
(AP, 11/8/02)
2002 Nov 9, President Bush said in
his radio address that Saddam Hussein faced a final test to surrender
weapons of mass destruction.
(AP, 11/9/03)
2002 Nov 9, Allan Chu (17) of
Saratoga, Ca., won top honors in a Siemens Westinghouse competition for
his work on a new algorithm to compress Internet data.
(SFC, 11/12/02, p.A17)
2002 Nov 9, In London Rabah
Chehaj-Bias (21), Karim Kadouri (33) Rabah Kadre (35) were arrested and
charged under the Terrorism Act with possessing materials for the
"preparation, instigation or commission" of terrorism.
(AP, 11/18/02)
2002 Nov 9, In Colombia a teenager
(17) hurled a grenade at a bar in Medellin, killing two people and
injuring 18 others.
(AP, 11/10/02)
2002 Nov 9, Iyad Sawalha, a senior
member of the militant Islamic Jihad group, was killed in an overnight
army operation in the West Bank.
(AP, 11/9/02)
2002 Nov 9, Some 450,000 marched
through Florence in a protest against globalization and U.S. policy in
Iraq.
(AP, 11/10/02)
2002 Nov 9, A dry winter and a wet
summer ravaged Italy's grapevines, causing the worst harvest in half a
century. Some regions were spared the disasters, like the area in
Tuscany where Chianti is produced and parts of southern Italy.
(AP, 11/9/02)
2002 Nov 9, Singapore opposition
leader Chee Soon Juan was released from prison after serving 5 weeks
for trying to hold a May Day rally without a permit at the entrance to
the grounds of the President's official residence.
(Reuters, 11/9/02)
2002 Nov 10, Bush administration
officials promised "zero-tolerance" if Saddam Hussein refused to comply
with international calls to disarm.
(AP, 11/10/03)
2002 Nov 10, U.S. warplanes flying
from an aircraft carrier in the Gulf struck missile sites in southern
Iraq in response to hostile acts.
(AP, 11/11/02)
2002 Nov 10, A series of
pulverizing storms barreled through more than a half-dozen US states
including Tennessee, Ohio, Alabama, Mississippi and Pennsylvania,
killing at least 36 people. More than 100 were injured.
(SFC, 11/12/02, p.A4)(AP, 11/10/07)
2002 Nov 10, In Jordan police
clashed with a gang of alleged smugglers led by a Muslim extremist who
escaped from custody 10 days ago, and several people were killed.
(AP, 11/10/02)
2002 Nov 10, A car carrying two
Palestinians exploded as Israeli police moved to stop the vehicle near
Israel's border with the West Bank.
(AP, 11/10/02)
2002 Nov 10, A Palestinian gunman
crawled under a security fence at the Kibbutz Metzer communal farm,
burst into a home and shot dead a mother and her two children as she
was reading them a bedtime story. The gunman then killed two more
Israelis before escaping in the dark.
(AP, 11/11/02)
2002 Nov 10, In Slovenia PM Janez
Drnovsek, who has pushed to align the tiny alpine nation closer with
Western Europe, finished 1st in presidential elections but will have to
face a runoff.
(AP, 11/11/02)
2002 Nov 11, Bill Gates of
Microsoft pledged $100 million to fight AIDS in India.
(SFC, 11/12/02, p.A11)
2002 Nov 11, A two-seat crop
sprayer crammed with eight members of a Cuban family, including a baby,
landed at the Key West airport in an apparent bid for asylum by those
aboard.
(AP, 11/12/02)
2002 Nov 11, In Afghanistan police
shot and killed at least 2 students during protests over poor housing
conditions at a dormitory in Kabul.
(SFC, 11/12/02, p.A11)(SFC, 11/12/02, p.A16)
2002 Nov 11, In the CAR a
baggage-laden roof of an overloaded river taxi near Kouango collapsed
on passengers, crushing 58 people.
(AP, 11/23/02)
2002 Nov 11, Jorge Enrique
Jimenez, one of Latin America's leading bishops, was kidnapped along
with Rev. Desiderio Orejuela as they went to hold a religious service
in central Colombia.
(AP, 11/11/02)
2002 Nov 11, Colombian soldiers
killed 4 members of a right-wing paramilitary group and seven leftist
rebels during fighting in separate incidents.
(AP, 11/12/02)
2002 Nov 11, Pres. Joseph Kabila
has suspended every official accused in a U.N. report on the plunder of
Congo's gold, diamond and other riches.
(AP, 11/12/02)
2002 Nov 11, Iraqi lawmakers
denounced a new UN resolution on weapons inspections as dishonest,
provocative and worthy of rejection. But the Iraqi parliament said it
ultimately would trust whatever President Saddam Hussein decided.
(AP, 11/11/03)
2002 Nov 11, Islamic militants in
Kashmir killed 13 police in a bomb attack.
(WSJ, 11/12/02, p.A1)
2002 Nov 11, Nepal security forces
killed at least 10 rebels as guerrillas called for a 30day strike.
(WSJ, 11/12/02, p.A1)
2002 Nov 11, In the Philippines a
Fokker passenger plane, trailing smoke from its left engine, plunged
into Manila Bay shortly after taking off from Manila, with 18 of the 34
people aboard killed or missing and presumed dead.
(AP, 11/11/02)
2002 Nov 11, Russian troops
ambushed Chechen rebels near Grozhny and 6 guerrillas were reported
killed. [see Apr 29, 2004]
(WSJ, 11/12/02, p.A1)
2002 Nov 11, UN Secretary-General
Kofi Annan presented Greek and Turkish Cypriots with a plan to unite
their divided island into a single country modeled on Switzerland, with
two equal states.
(AP, 11/11/02)
2002 Nov 11, Border police in
Zimbabwe shot and killed Richard Gilman (58), a Connecticut man
who was on a humanitarian mission in Africa.
(AP, 11/12/02)
2002 Nov 11, Zimbabwean journalist
and publisher Mark Chavunduka (37), whose arrest and subsequent torture
helped expose his government's increasing repression of dissent, died
after a prolonged illness.
(AP, 11/13/02)
2002 Nov 12, Former FBI Director
William Webster resigned under pressure as head of a special accounting
oversight board created by Congress to rebuild public confidence shaken
by a cascade of business scandals.
(AP, 11/12/03)
2002 Nov 12, An Arab TV station
broadcast an audiotape of Osama bin Laden, a voice that US counter
terrorism officials said is probably authentic. The message praised
terrorist strikes in Bali and Moscow and threatened Western nations
over any attack on Iraq.
(AP, 11/13/02)(AP, 11/12/07)
2002 Nov 12, China's Communist
Party congress held a preliminary vote for a new crop of leaders
expected to replace President Jiang Zemin and other party chieftains
this week.
(Reuters, 11/12/02)
2002 Nov 12, In Egypt a court
sentenced Mohammed el-Wakil, the news director of a state-owned
television station, to 18 years of hard labor in prison on bribery and
drug charges.
(AP, 11/13/02)
2002 Nov 12, An explosion at a
private ammunition warehouse in an eastern German town killed at least
three people.
(AP, 11/12/02)
2002 Nov 12, Thousands of Iranian
students ignored official warnings and demonstrated for the fourth day
running against a dissident's death sentence and to demand freedom of
speech and political reform.
(Reuters, 11/12/02)
2002 Nov 12, The Nigerian navy
raided a village in the swamps of the Niger Delta killing five people
after attackers from the village robbed a ChevronTexaco oil boat.
(AP, 11/14/02)
2002 Nov 12, Clashes between
Venezuelan troops and supporters of President Hugo Chavez killed one
person, wounded 20 and prompted an appeal for peace from the head of
the Organization of American States.
(AP, 11/13/02)
2002 Nov 13, U.S. Roman Catholic
bishops overwhelmingly approved a compromise sex abuse policy after the
Vatican demanded they make changes to balance fairness to priests with
compassion for victims.
(AP, 11/13/03)
2002 Nov 13, Irv Rubin (57),
Jewish Defense League leader, died nine days after what federal
authorities said was a suicide attempt in jail.
(AP, 11/13/03)
2002 Nov 13, Some 200 people were
feared dead after 19 boats disappeared in a storm off Bangladesh.
(WSJ, 11/14/02, p.A1)
2002 Nov 13, Delegates to China's
Communist Party Congress confirmed that Jiang Zemin would step down as
party chief and make way for a new generation of leaders this week.
(AP, 11/13/02)
2002 Nov 13, Claiming Iraq was
seeking the "path of peace," Saddam Hussein's government agreed to the
return of international weapons inspectors.
(AP, 11/13/07)
2002 Nov 13, Philippine Muslim
gunmen linked to the al Qaeda network have demanded a ransom of 16
million pesos ($300,000) for their seven Indonesian and Filipino
hostages kidnapped in June and August.
(AP, 11/13/02)
2002 Nov 13, The
Bahamian-registered Prestige, with 85,000 tons of oil, sprang a leak
during a storm off the coast of Spain. Some 3,300 tons leaked and began
reaching the coast of Spain after a few days.
(AP, 11/16/02)
2002 Nov 13, Rebels in northern
Uganda attacked three villages, hacking and clubbing nine people to
death.
(AP, 11/15/02)
2002 Nov 13, A U.N. body voted to
restrict the international trade of bigleaf mahogany, sea horses and 26
species of sea turtles, but failed to pass legislation to protect two
species of threatened sharks.
(AP, 11/14/02)
2002 Nov 14, Nancy Pelosi became
the 1st woman to lead a party in the US Congress after Democrats voted
177-29 in support of the liberal from SF. Robert Menendez of New Jersey
was elected as caucus chairman, the highest post ever held by an
Hispanic.
(SFC, 11/15/02, p.A1)
2002 Nov 14, The New England
Journal of Medicine reported a study that found C-reactive protein
(CRP) to be a major trigger of heart attacks.
(SFC, 11/14/02, p.A1)
2002 Nov 14, Pakistani Aimal Khan
Kasi (Kansi) was put to death by injection at a prison in Jarratt, Va.,
for the slayings of two CIA employees in 1993. [see Nov 14, 1997]
(AP, 11/14/03)(Econ, 3/10/07, TQ p.29)
2002 Nov 14, Eddie Bracken (87),
actor-comedian died in Montclair, N.J.
(AP, 11/14/03)(www.imdb.com/name/nm0102787/)
2002 Nov 14, Argentina will not
fully meet an $809 million World Bank debt payment deadline, resulting
in a multilateral debt default that will likely cut off one of its last
avenues to aid.
(Reuters, 11/14/02)
2002 Nov 14, Australia added four
more Islamic groups to its list of banned "terrorist" organizations and
said that anyone linked to the groups and living in Australia would be
targeted by police and security forces.
(Reuters, 11/14/02)
2002 Nov 14, In Sydney, Australia,
some 1,000 protesters demonstrated against globalization and a possible
war with Iraq, and blocked downtown intersections in defiance of a ban
on mass street gatherings imposed for a two-day mini-summit of the
World Trade Organization (WTO).
(AP, 11/13/02)
2002 Nov 14, The British
government hardened its position against fire fighters who walked off
their jobs and left the country to rely on soldiers answering alarms in
antiquated military trucks. Three elderly people died in house fires on
the first night of the strike.
(AP, 11/14/02)
2002 Nov 14, Chinese Communist
Party chief Jiang Zemin ushered in a new generation of leaders under Hu
Jintao in the first orderly succession since the party took power in
1949.
(Reuters, 11/14/02)
2002 Nov 14, Israeli troops
captured the alleged mastermind of a shooting attack on an Israeli
kibbutz in his West Bank hideout, and seized suspected weapons makers
in the deepest raid into Gaza City in two years.
(AP, 11/14/02)
2002 Nov 14, In Panevezys,
Lithuania, LNK TV sponsored a Miss Captivity Pageant with 8 finalists
from the local women's prison. Kristina (21) won $1,150 in the contest
that was broadcast nationally the next day.
(SFC, 11/29/02, p.K10)
2002 Nov 14, In Nepal thousands of
Maoist rebels stormed two remote towns, fighting pitched battles with
security forces in which at least 118 people were killed.
(Reuters, 11/15/02)
2002 Nov 14, Diplomats from the
United States, European Union, South Korea and Japan decided to cut off
the shipments of oil to North Korea in response to its violation of a
1994 nuclear agreement.
(Reuters, 11/15/02)
2002 Nov 14, In Singapore the 7th
Asian Congress of Sexology opened.
(Reuters, 11/14/02)
2002 Nov 14, Pope John Paul II
made a historic speech to Italy's parliament, urging Italians to work
for world peace, uphold their Christian values and have more babies.
(AP, 11/14/03)
2002 Nov 15, The FBI warned that
al-Qaida may be planning a "spectacular" terrorist attack intended to
damage the U.S. economy and inflict large-scale casualties.
(AP, 11/15/02)
2002 Nov 15, US aircraft exchanged
fire with Iraqi ground forces near An Najaf, about 85 miles south of
Baghdad.
(SFC, 11/16/02, p.A6)
2002 Nov 15, Hu Jintao replaced
Jiang Zemin as China's Communist Party leader.
(AP, 11/15/03)
2002 Nov 15, In Colombia Bishop
Jorge Enrique Jimenez and Rev. Desiderio Orjuela were freed by army
troops in a gunbattle that left one rebel captor dead and 2 captured.
(AP, 11/16/02)
2002 Nov 15, Latin American
leaders gathered in Bavaro, Dominican Republic, for the 12th annual
Ibero-American Summit to discuss ways to ease poverty, fight drug
trafficking and heal internal strife.
(AP, 11/15/02)
2002 Nov 15, Palestinian militants
raked Israeli troops and settlers with gunfire in an ambush, killing 12
Israelis in Hebron.
(AP, 11/15/03)
2002 Nov 16, A high-ranking
Russian officer was killed and a top Chechen official abducted at
gunpoint in new fighting in the southern Russian republic.
(AP, 11/16/02)
2002 Nov 16, Hussein Bicar
(89), Egypt's well-known portrait artist and painter, died.
(AP, 11/17/02)
2002 Nov 16, In an open letter to
the Iraqi Parliament, Pres. Saddam Hussein said he had no choice but to
accept a tough new UN weapons inspection resolution because the US and
Israel had shown their "claws and teeth" and declared unilateral war on
the Iraqi people.
(AP, 11/16/03)
2002 Nov 16, Israeli troops retook
control of Hebron blindfolding Palestinian suspects and herding them
into army buses, after militant gunmen ambushed a procession of Jewish
worshippers, killing 12 Israelis, mostly security forces.
(AP, 11/16/02)
2002 Nov 16, In Italy thousands of
anti-globalization demonstrators marched in Rome, Florence and Naples
to protest the arrests of 20 people, including a leader of the
movement, on charges stemming from violent protests last year.
(AP, 11/16/02)
2002 Nov 16, Kyrgyzstan police
detained more than 200 activists who traveled to the Kyrgyz capital,
Bishkek, for an anti-government assembly calling on Pres. Askar Akayev
to resign. They were all released by the next day.
(AP, 11/17/02)
2002 Nov 16, In Mexico
unidentified assailants killed a family of five, including two children
aged 8 and 14 and two of the family's servants, by slitting their
throats or shooting them.
(AP, 11/17/02)
2002 Nov 16, Abdullah Gul, a
moderate politician from a party with Islamic roots, was chosen to be
Turkey's next prime minister, but he was widely regarded as a stand-in
for the party's real leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
(AP, 11/16/02)
2002 Nov 16, Ukraine Pres. Leonid
Kuchma fired the government of Prime Minister Anatoly Kinakh and
nominated Victor Yanukovych, governor of the Danetsk coal region, as PM.
(AP, 11/16/02)(SSFC, 11/17/02, p.A19)
2002 Nov 16, In Venezuela Pres.
Hugo Chavez ordered the federal takeover of the Caracas police force,
sending soldiers and armored vehicles to stations throughout the
capital. His opponents vowed to block the move and mounted street
protests.
(AP, 11/17/02)
2002 Nov 16, Zimbabwe's government
froze prices on a range of products from tractors to diapers, moving to
ease an economic crisis that has been worsened by continuing political
violence.
(AP, 11/16/02)
2002 Nov 17, In Ankoro, Congo,
government troops torched homes and shot residents in apparent
reprisals for the beating of a soldier. Estimates of the death toll
ranged from 29 to over 100.
(AP, 11/21/02)
2002 Nov 17, Indonesian police
investigating the Bali blasts identified Imam Samudra as a key suspect
as the chief planner of the attacks and said he learned bomb-making in
Afghanistan. Samudra was the field co-coordinator who decided where to
place the bombs in a crowded night club district. A colleague, named
Dulmatin, then triggered the bombs by mobile phone.
(Reuters, 11/17/02)
2002 Nov 17, Tawfiq Fukra (23), an
Israeli Arab accused of trying to hijack an El Al Airlines flight,
wanted to copy the September 11 suicide attacks on the United States
and fly the aircraft into a public building in Tel Aviv.
(Reuters, 11/18/02)
2002 Nov 17, Israeli statesman
Abba Eban (87) died. He helped persuade the world to approve creation
of the Jewish state and dominated Israeli diplomacy for decades.
(AP, 11/17/02)
2002 Nov 17, An Italian court
reversed an acquittal and sentenced former Premier Giulio Andreotti
(83) to 24 years in prison for complicity in the 1979 slaying of a
muckraking journalist.
(AP, 11/18/02)
2002 Nov 17, In Jamaica gunmen
opened fire outside a busy street market in a rare daylight attack in
Kingston, killing five people and injuring three.
(AP, 11/17/02)
2002 Nov 17, Leaders from Latin
America, Spain and Portugal closed their summit with new pledges of
support for struggling coffee-growing countries.
(AP, 11/17/02)
2002 Nov 17, Voters in Peru backed
opposition candidates in first-ever regional elections intended to
shift power from the capital to the provinces.
(AP, 11/18/02)
2002 Nov 17, In the Mbeya region
of southwestern Tanzania at least 19 prisoners died from suffocation in
an overcrowded jail cell.
(AP, 11/19/02)
2002 Nov 17, Ukraine Pres. Leonid
Kuchma went to China seeking support for his request that U.N.
inspectors verify that his government did not transfer radar systems to
Iraq.
(AP, 11/17/02)
2002 Nov 18, A US federal review
court expanded the government's power to use wiretaps and searches to
prosecute suspected terrorists and spies.
(SFC, 11/19/02, p.A1)
2002 Nov 18, James Coburn (74),
film actor, died. His films included "Our Man Flint" and "The
Magnificent Seven."
(SFC, 11/19/02, p.A2)
2002 Nov 18, It was reported that
Dubai was constructing the $5.5 billion Palm Island resort project,
scheduled for completion in 2006. The $4.9 billion Dubailand tourist
city included 45 theme parks, sports centers and discovery zones.
(WSJ, 11/18/02, p.A1)(Econ, 12/6/03, p.42)
2002 Nov 18, The Greek Cypriot
government said it accepted "as a basis for negotiations" a U.N. plan
for the reunification of the divided eastern Mediterranean island.
(AP, 11/18/02)
2002 Nov 18, In India a rebel land
mine killed at least 20 people in a bus in Andhra Pradesh state. The
leftist People's War Group was blamed.
(SFC, 11/19/02, p.A10)
2002 Nov 18, UN inspectors
returned to Iraq after a 4-year hiatus to resume the search for weapons
of mass destruction.
(AP, 11/18/03)
2002 Nov 18, Zimbabwe banned
citizens from swearing or making offensive gestures during the passage
of Pres. Mugabe's motorcades.
(WSJ, 11/19/02, p.A1)
2002 Nov 19, It was reported that
Ruth Lilly (87), great-grandchild of pharmaceutical magnate Eli Lilly,
had given Poetry Magazine, founded in Chicago in 1912, a $100 million
endowment.
(SFC, 11/19/02, p.A3)
2002 Nov 19, The US Senate voted
90-9 to create a Homeland Security Department.
(AP, 11/19/02)
2002 Nov 19, The US Dept. of
Energy awarded IBM a contract to develop a 100 teraflop computer (ASCI
Purple), the estimated speed of the human brain. This followed the
recent development of a Japanese NEC computer that was clocked at 36.5
teraflops, trillions of floating point operations a second, more than 4
times the fastest US computer. Completion was expected in 2004.
(WSJ, 11/19/02, p.B1)
2002 Nov 19, It was reported that
the Holland America cruise ship Amsterdam was in its 4th week of
battling the Norwalk gastrointestinal virus.
(WSJ, 11/19/02, p.B1)
2002 Nov 19, It was reported that
Ken Thomson, billionaire media baron and Canada's richest man, will
donate his C$300 million ($190 million) art collection to the Art
Gallery of Ontario.
(AP, 11/19/02)
2002 Nov 19, In Red Bluff, Ca.,
police officer David Mobilio (31) was shot to death at a gas station.
On Nov 25 Andrew Hampton McCrae (23), an ex-soldier and drifter, posted
a message on the Internet admitting the murder. On Nov 26 McCrae was
arrested in Concord, NH.
(SFC, 11/27/02, p.A1)
2002 Nov 19, Singer Michael
Jackson made an appearance outside his Berlin hotel and briefly held
his youngest child, Prince Michael II, over a fourth-floor balcony in
front of dozens of fans waiting below.
(AP, 11/19/03)
2002 Nov 19, UN weapons inspectors
wrapped up a two-day visit to Iraq.
(AP, 11/19/03)
2002 Nov 19, Italian newspapers
reported that the 'ndrangheta, the Calabrian version of the Sicilian
Mafia, received 3 percent of the multimillion dollar contracts for work
on stretches of the highway that passed through their "territory."
(AP, 11/20/02)
2002 Nov 19, Vito Ciancimino
(b.1924), former mayor of Palermo and leading Mafioso tied to the
Corleonese clan, died while under house arrest. In 2006 Francesco Zummo
faced charges of laundering money to Monaco on behalf of Ciancimino.
(Econ, 2/18/06,
p.70)(www.centroimpastato.it/php/crono.php3?month=11&year=2002)
2002 Nov 19, In Mozambique Manuel
dos Santos Fernandes told Judge Augusto Paulino that he and two of his
fellow accused had killed top investigative journalist Carlos Cardoso
in return for a promise of $20,000 from President Joaquim Chissano's
son Nhimpine.
(AP, 11/20/02)
2002 Nov 19, Five Palestinians
died when Israeli soldiers swept through the West Bank town of
Tulkarem, one a leading militant and another a teenager who had climbed
on top of an Israeli armored vehicle.
(AP, 11/19/02)
2002 Nov 19, The Prestige oil
tanker, carrying 20 million gallons of fuel oil, broke in two and sank
in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Spain. It leaked up to 1.02
million gallons of oil and threatened a spill nearly twice as big as
the Exxon Valdez in 1989. Leakage continued at some 33,000 gallons per
day and could drain until 2006. Spain later put the estimated cost of
the Prestige oil tanker spill at least $1.05 billion.
(AP, 11/19/02)(WSJ, 12/11/02, p.A1)(AP, 1/15/03)
2002 Nov 20, On the eve of a NATO
summit in the Czech Republic, President Bush, recalling Europe's grim
history of "excusing aggression," challenged skeptical allies to stand
firm against Saddam Hussein.
(WSJ, 11/20/02, p.A1)(AP, 11/20/03)
2002 Nov 20, Louisiana began
offering a $4-a-tail bounty on the swamp-dwelling nutria rodent, due to
wetlands damage from devoured plants.
(SFC, 11/20/02, p.A2)
2002 Nov 20, Thomas Mohaghan (65),
founder of Domino's Pizza, pledged at least $220 million to build the
Catholic Ave Maria Univ. near Naples, Fla.
(SFC, 11/21/02, p.A7)
2002 Nov 20, A German doctor
conducted Britain's first public autopsy in more than 170 years, an
event denounced by the British Medical Association's Head of Ethics as
"degrading and disrespectful."
(AP, 11/20/03)
2002 Nov 20, Francoise Ducros,
aide to PM Chretien of Canada, called Pres. Bush a moron during a
private conversation in Prague. She resigned Nov 26.
(SFC, 11/23/02, p.A1)(AP, 11/26/02)
2002 Nov 20, In Riobamba, Ecuador,
a series of explosions at an ammunition depot left at least 7 people
dead and 140 injured.
(WSJ, 11/21/02, p.A1)(AP, 11/22/02)
2002 Nov 20, The EU, except for
Portugal, banned Belarus Pres. Lukashenko and top aides to protest
human rights abuses under his rule.
(WSJ, 11/20/02, p.A1)
2002 Nov 20, Israel's Labor Party
chose Amram Mitzna, ex-general and Haifa mayor, as its leader in the
Jan 28 elections.
(WSJ, 11/20/02, p.A1)
2002 Nov 20, Israeli troops shot
and killed Amr Qudsi (15), a Palestinian teenager in a confrontation in
Tulkarem.
(AP, 11/20/02)
2002 Nov 20, In Port-of-Spain,
Trinidad, Phillip Seerattan (17) opened fire with a pistol at a school
for foreign students, wounding a security guard before being shot to
death by police.
(AP, 11/21/02)
2002 Nov 21, The United States and
the Philippines signed a controversial agreement which would allow U.S.
forces to use the Asian country as a supply point for military
operations.
(AP, 11/21/02)
2002 Nov 21, A US-led consortium
said it is suspending construction of 2 new nuclear reactors in North
Korea.
(SFC, 6/28/08, p.A3)
2002 Nov 21, The US National Book
Awards were presented. Robert A. Caro won the non-fiction award for
"Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson;" the fiction award
went to Julia Glass for "Three Junes;" the poetry award was won by Ruth
Stone for "In the Next Galaxy."
(SFC, 11/21/02, p.A2)
2002 Nov 21, Intensive cleaning
began aboard the cruise ship Disney Magic after over 100 passengers
fell sick from an unknown stomach virus.
(SFC, 11/23/02, p.A2)
2002 Nov 21, Merck published a
study of vaccine that prevents cervical cancers caused by human
papilloma virus (HPV) that could be available by 2006.
(WSJ, 11/21/02, p.A1)(SFC, 11/21/02, p.A1)
2002 Nov 21, The International
Monetary Fund agreed to Argentina's request to postpone for a year a
$141 million loan payment due the next day.
(AP, 11/21/02)
2002 Nov 21, In Australia speaker
Jonathan Hunt ruled that "knitting is permitted in the house but is not
permitted from the minister's chair." Retired lawmaker Marilyn Waring
admitted to knitting 32 garments during 9 years in Parliament. She said
in her autobiography it was the only productive thing she had
accomplished in the debating chamber.
(AP, 11/23/02)
2002 Nov 21, The 19 NATO leaders
demanded that Iraq "fully and immediately" comply with a UN resolution
to disarm. It was at the NATO Summit in Prague that the NATO
Response Force initiative was announced together with the other major
military transformation initiatives, the Prague Capabilities Commitment
and the fundamental revision of the NATO military command structure.
The NRF concept was approved by Ministers of Defense in June 2003 in
Brussels.
(AP,
11/21/02)(http://www.nato.int/issues/nrf/index.html)
2002 Nov 21, The Baltic nations of
Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania joined former communist states Bulgaria,
Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia as the next wave of NATO states.
(AP, 11/21/02)
2002 Nov 21, Al-Qaida leader Abd
al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the network's chief of operations in the Persian
Gulf, was reported to have been captured earlier in the month.
(AP, 11/21/02)
2002 Nov 21, In Indonesia Imam
Samudra (35), the suspected mastermind of last month's devastating Bali
bombings was arrested near Jakarta.
(Reuters, 11/21/02)
2002 Nov 21, A Palestinian man
wearing a bomb belt blew himself up on a Jerusalem city bus packed with
high school students and soldiers, killing 11 passengers and wounding
dozens in a morning rush hour attack. Four of the victims were aged 8
to 16.
(AP, 11/21/02)
2002 Nov 21, Prince Takamado, a
member of the Japanese imperial household known for his love of sports,
died after collapsing while playing squash.
(Reuters, 11/21/02)
2002 Nov 21, In Sidon, Lebanon,
Bonnie Witherall (31), an American missionary, was shot and killed at a
Christian center that provides medical care and aid to Palestinian
refugees.
(AP, 11/21/02)
2002 Nov 21, In Kaduna, Nigeria,
protesters set fire to cars and churches in the during demonstrations
over a newspaper article suggesting Islam's founding prophet might have
chosen a wife from among contestants in the Miss World beauty pageant
in Nigeria. Witnesses said at least four people were stabbed and burned
to death.
(AP, 11/21/02)
2002 Nov 21, In Pakistan Mir
Zafarullah Khan Jamali, a moderate government loyalist, was elected PM.
(SFC, 11/22/02, p.A11)
2002 Nov 21, In northern Pakistan
a 5.5 earthquake hit the Gilgit region and at least 25 people were
killed.
(SFC, 11/22/02, p.A18)
2002 Nov 22, “Cupid’s Span,” a
sculpture by Claes Oldenburg and his wife Coosje van Bruggen (d.2009 at
66), was set on the Embarcadero at the foot of the Bay Bridge.
(SFC, 11/23/02, p.A1)(SFC, 1/20/09, p.B5)
2002 Nov 22-23, President Bush
stopped in Vilnius after a NATO summit at which Lithuania and six other
former communist countries received invitations to join the alliance:
"The long night of fear, uncertainty and loneliness is over."
(AP, 11/23/02)
2002 Nov 22, The US EPA eased
rules requiring installation of anti-pollution gear. The Bush
administration eased clean air rules to allow utilities, refineries and
manufacturers to avoid having to install new anti-pollution equipment
when they modernized their plants.
(WSJ, 11/25/02, p.A1)(AP, 11/22/07)
2002 Nov 22, Amilcar de Castro
(82), Brazilian sculptor, died. His work was composed from massive
sheets of iron.
(SFC, 12/3/02, p.A24)
2002 Nov 22, A senior U.N.
official from Britain was shot and killed during an exchange of fire
between Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen in the West Bank refugee
camp of Jenin.
(AP, 11/22/02)
2002 Nov 22, Firefighters across
Britain launched an eight-day strike after their union accused the
government of wrecking a last-minute pay deal.
(AP, 11/22/02)
2002 Nov 22, Burundi's largest
rebel faction launched a mortar attack on Bujumbura from the
surrounding hills, causing thousands of residents to flee their homes
in the northern part of the city.
(AP, 11/22/02)
2002 Nov 22, An epidemic of
tree-killing pine beetles was reported to be spreading through the
forests of British Columbia, Canada's largest lumber exporting
province. The deadly insects had also entered northern Alberta and were
now found in a area nearly three-quarters the size of Sweden. By 2008
the mountain pine beetle had infested and killed over half the
lodgepole pine forest in the center of BC and made inroads into 11
western American states.
(Reuters, 11/22/02)(Econ, 7/5/08, p.47)
2002 Nov 22, Indonesia reported
that 3 workers at a gas field operated by U.S. oil and gas giant
ExxonMobil in Aceh province had been abducted. They were released after
2 days.
(AP, 11/22/02)(AP, 11/24/02)
2002 Nov 22, In Mexico City
thousands of teachers marched to protest the deaths and disappearances
of some 152 teachers over the last 10 years.
(SFC, 11/23/02, p.A10)
2002 Nov 22, In Kaduna, Nigeria,
Christian youths retaliated against Muslims in the 3rd day of riots
triggered by a newspaper article about the Miss World pageant. Red
Cross officials said about 100 had died and 500 were injured.
(AP, 11/22/02)
2002 Nov 22, At the NATO summit in
Prague, Russian President Vladimir Putin told President Bush the United
States should not wage war alone against Iraq, and questioned whether
Pakistan and Saudi Arabia were doing enough to fight terrorism.
(AP, 11/22/03)
2002 Nov 23, President Bush
visited Vilnius, Lithuania, and Bucharest, Romania, where he vowed to
defend hard-won freedoms behind the former Iron Curtain.
(AP, 11/23/03)
2002 Nov 23, West Coast dock
workers and shipping lines reached a tentative 6-year contract.
(SSFC, 11/24/02, p.A23)
2002 Nov 23, An Algerian militant
group suspected of links to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida killed nine
soldiers in violent clashes east of Algiers. Four police officers were
killed 2 days earlier in Bourmedes.
(AP, 11/24/02)
2002 Nov 23, Azerbaijan Pres.
Geidar Aliev said that he and Armenian Pres. Robert Kocharian have
agreed to seek a peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
(AP, 11/23/02)
2002 Nov 23, Chilean artist
Roberto Echaurren Matta (91), a master of surrealist painting and
sculpture, died at a hospital near Rome.
(AP, 11/24/02)
2002 Nov 23, At Loughborough,
England, 4 people were charged with murdering Adam Morrell (14), whose
body parts were found scattered around the town. The suspects included
three men and a girl. On December 17, 2002 the following sentences were
handed down: Matthew Welsh (19), the dominant figure in a gang, was
sentenced to at least 20 years in prison. His girl friend Sarah Morris
(17), was found guilty of deliberately assaulting the youngster but
cleared of his murder. Nathan Barnett (27) was ordered to be detained
indefinitely in secure accommodation under the Mental Health Act after
he pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished
responsibility. Daniel Biggs (19) was cleared of murder and inflicting
grievous bodily harm, but sentenced to two and a half years in custody
for conspiring to pervert the course of justice.
(AP,
11/23/02)(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/3255720.stm)
2002 Nov 23, In Indian-ruled
Kashmir 12 people, including six soldiers, were killed and 23 injured
when their bus ran over a landmine planted by suspected militants.
(Reuters, 11/23/02)
2002 Nov 23, Some of the world's
richest countries agreed to offer about $4.3 billion in financial
support for debt-ridden Lebanon.
(AP, 11/23/02)
2002 Nov 23, Miss World organizers
moved the beauty pageant from Nigeria to London after three days of
Muslim-Christian bloodletting killed 215 people. The violence was
triggered by a newspaper's suggestion that the Islamic prophet Muhammad
would have liked the event.
(AP, 11/23/02)(AP, 11/24/02)
2002 Nov 23, Two Palestinian
suicide bombers blew up an explosives-laden fishing boat close to an
Israeli patrol craft, wounding four sailors, in the first such attack
since the start of the Palestinian uprising.
(AP, 11/23/02)
2002 Nov 23, Tens of thousands of
Taiwan farmers took to the streets to protest against the planned
reform of shaky agricultural co-ops, a day after the premier and
finance minister offered to resign over the controversy.
(Reuters, 11/23/02)
2002 Nov 23, Turkey's new prime
minister presented his program to parliament, saying his top priorities
are joining the European Union and revitalizing the slumping economy.
(AP, 11/23/02)
2002 Nov 24, Harriet Doerr
(b.1910), author of "Stone for Ibarra" (1984), died in Pasadena.
(SFC, 11/28/02, p.A30)
2002 Nov 24, John Rawls (81),
philosopher, died in Boston. His work included "A Theory of Justice"
(1971), which advanced the concept of a social compact. The Rawls test:
“Would the best off accept the arrangements if they believed at any
moment they might find themselves in the place of the worst off."
(WSJ, 11/26/02, p.A1)(SFC, 11/29/02, p.A27)
2002 Nov 24, In Austria Chancellor
Wolfgang Schuessel's conservative party made large gains to dominate
parliamentary elections.
(AP, 11/24/02)
2002 Nov 24, A tanker carrying
20,000 tons of liquefied petroleum gas was on fire in Chinese waters
about 38 kilometers east of Hong Kong, risking a huge explosion.
(Reuters, 11/24/02)
2002 Nov 24, The Central Colombian
Pipeline, known by its Spanish acronym Ocensa, had to be shut down
after an attack near the town of Aguazul.
(AP, 11/25/02)
2002 Nov 24, Negotiations between
the Congolese government and two rebel groups produced an agreement in
principle on the workings of a transitional government.
(AP, 11/24/02)
2002 Nov 24, In Ecuador Lucio
Gutierrez (45), who led a Jan 2000 coup against Pres. Jamil Mahuad, was
elected over billionaire Alvaro Noboa (52) in a runoff election.
(SSFC, 11/24/02, p.F1)(AP, 11/25/02)(SFC, 11/25/02,
p.A3)
2002 Nov 24, In a letter to UN
Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the Iraqi government complained that the
small print behind upcoming weapons inspections would give Washington a
pretext to attack.
(AP, 11/24/03)
2002 Nov 24, In Maan, Jordan, one
person was killed and several wounded in shootings between officers and
crowds who attacked police patrols. The city is home to conservative
Bedouin tribesmen who are heavily armed and oppose the government's
pro-Western stance and Jordan's 1994 peace treaty with Israel.
(AP, 11/27/02)
2002 Nov 24, In Kashmir militants
stormed a Hindu temple and engaged security forces in a 10-hour
gunfight that killed 14 people.
(SFC, 11/27/02, p.A17)
2002 Nov 24, Philippine communist
rebels killed four soldiers when about 30 rebels opened fire on a
military convoy returning to base from a mission.
(Reuters, 11/25/02)
2002 Nov 24, The government of
Vietnam estimated AIDS at 107,000 cases and pointed to the estimated
40,000 prostitutes as the chief source. AIDS workers said 70% of the
infected were drug users and claimed 200,000 cases.
(SSFC, 11/24/02, p.A3)
2002 Nov 25, Pres. Bush signed
into law the Department of Homeland Security and named Tom Ridge as
head of the Cabinet-level office.
(SFC, 11/26/02, p.A1)
2002 Nov 25, US federal
investigators reported that they had uncovered the largest identity
theft ring ever seen. They alleged that 3 men had victimized over
30,000 people and caused the loss of millions.
(SFC, 11/26/02, p.A1)
2002 Nov 25, Space shuttle
Endeavour arrived at the international space station, delivering one
American and two Russians, and another girder for the orbiting outpost.
(AP, 11/25/03)
2002 Nov 25, Eugene V. Rostow
(89), former US State Department official, died.
(AP, 11/25/03)
2002 Nov 25, Karel Reisz (b.1926),
Czech-born film director, died in London. He fled Nazi occupation in
1938. His film career began in Britain and moved on to Hollywood where
his work included "The French Lieutenant's Woman."
(SFC, 11/28/02, p.A30)
2002 Nov 25, In France striking
truckers blockaded roadways in about 20 locations, but police
intervened to dismantle several barricades that had slowed access to
airports and highways.
(AP, 11/25/02)
2002 Nov 25, Indian security
forces shot dead two suspected Muslim militants who had attacked Hindu
temples in Indian Kashmir, ending a bloody siege that cast a shadow
over efforts to bring peace to the disputed region.
(AP, 11/25/02)
2002 Nov 25, An overloaded bus
crashed off a bridge into a boulder-strewn gorge in central India,
killing at least 36 people and injuring 45.
(Reuters, 11/25/02)
2002 Nov 25, Israeli troops shot
and killed an 8-year-old Palestinian boy in Nablus as hundreds of
youths ignored a curfew and threw stones at soldiers on their way home
from school. Israeli troops and armored vehicles pulled out of
Bethlehem.
(AP, 11/25/02)
2002 Nov 25, Floods caused by 2
days of heavy rains in Morocco killed at least 37 people, collapsed
homes, shut down rail travel and damaged the country's huge oil
refinery.
(AP, 11/26/02)
2002 Nov 25, Pakistan's military
said it had killed and wounded several Indian troops in the heaviest
exchange of fire across the military control line in disputed Kashmir
in recent days.
(AP, 11/25/02)
2002 Nov 25, Philippine communist
rebels, fleeing pursuing soldiers, torched a mobile phone relay station
at Puerto Galera, a resort close to the capital Manila which is one of
the country's best-known scuba diving spots.
(Reuters, 11/25/02)
2002 Nov 26, WorldCom and the
government settled a civil lawsuit over the company's $9 billion
accounting scandal.
(AP, 11/26/03)
2002 Nov 26, The World Health
Organization confirmed an outbreak of flu in rebel-controlled northern
Congo, and the country's health minister said more than 500 people have
died.
(AP, 11/26/02)
2002 Nov 26, A United Nations
report said that for the first time in the 20-year history of the AIDS
epidemic, about as many women as men were infected with HIV.
(AP, 11/26/03)
2002 Nov 26, A poll of 50,000
people, commissioned by Durex condom makers SSL International and
released in Malaysia, showed the French had sex an average 167 times a
year, pipping the Danes and the Dutch for the number one spot. It was a
bad year for sex in the United States, which came in eleventh with an
average of 138, after heading the rankings in 2001. Britons scored an
average of 149 times. At the bottom of the pile, Singapore's 110 times
was two less than Thailand's. Four in 10 people in India did not have
sex until they were married and Norwegians were most likely to have sex
on the first date, the survey showed. Norwegians, along with South
Africans, were also more likely than any other nationality to have a
one-night stand. Those in Taiwan were least likely; just 20 percent
surveyed had a one-night stand.
(Reuters, 11/26/02)
2002 Nov 26, Cuban musician Polo
Montanez (47), born as Fernando Borrego, died from head injuries
suffered in a Nov 20 car crash. His country-style music was hugely
popular throughout Latin America.
(AP, 11/27/02)(SFC, 11/29/02, p.A27)
2002 Nov 26, French air traffic
controllers walked off the job as part of a nationwide protest by civil
servants.
(AP, 11/26/02)
2002 Nov 26, Iraqi air defense
units fired at American and British warplanes that carried out dozens
of sorties in the country.
(AP, 11/26/02)
2002 Nov 26, Israeli aircraft
attacked a building in Jenin's refugee camp and killed 2 Palestinian
militants.
(WSJ, 11/27/02, p.A1)
2002 Nov 26, In Kashmir's
Kralapora village 3 schoolboys were killed when they hit a live grenade
that they mistook for a cricket ball.
(SFC, 11/27/02, p.A17)
2002 Nov 26, About 2,000 members
of Mexico's former ruling party seized government buildings in two
Guerrero state towns, claiming fraud in the recent election of the
towns' mayors.
(AP, 11/27/02)
2002 Nov 26, The Astra-1K
satellite was launched atop a Russian Proton rocket from the Baikonur
cosmodrome in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan. The world's
largest communications satellite, manufactured by France's Alcatel
Space corporation for Societe Europeene des Satellites of Luxembourg,
was lost after it went into the wrong orbit.
(AP, 11/26/02)(WSJ, 11/27/02, p.A1)
2002 Nov 27, Pres. Bush selected
Henry Kissinger to lead an investigation into intelligence lapses
before the Sept. 11 attacks. Report deadline was mid-2004. The
following month Kissinger stepped down, citing controversy over
potential conflicts of interest with his business clients.
(SFC, 11/28/02, p.A1)(WSJ, 11/29/02, p.A1)(AP,
11/27/03)
2002 Nov 27, President Bush gave
the go-ahead to open U.S. highways to Mexican trucks beyond the current
20-mile border zone. On Jan 16, 2003, a federal appeals court halted
the plan for environmental reviews.
{BushGW, USA, Mexico}
(SFC, 1/17/03, p.A5)(AP, 11/27/03)
2002 Nov 27, Donald Rumsfeld, US
Defense Sec., approved a list of techniques to be used for
interrogating prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The order was
rescinded Jan 15, 2003. A new list of techniques was issued Apr 16,
2003. He signed the Dec 2.
(WSJ, 6/10/04, p.A3)(SFC, 6/23/04, p.A13)
2002 Nov 27, The DJIA rose 255 to
8,931. Nasdaq rose 43 to 1,487.
(SFC, 11/28/02, p.B1)
2002 Nov 27, China arrested
flamboyant flower magnate Yang Bin (39), a Dutch national, on charges
of fraud and other commercial crimes, just two months after North Korea
named him head of a new free-trade enclave.
(AP, 11/27/02)
2002 Nov 27, A WHO official said
simultaneous outbreaks of the flu and meningitis have killed 185 people
in a rebel-controlled area of northwestern Congo.
(AP, 11/27/02)
2002 Nov 27, French police
arrested a man in Lyon after he tried to hijack an Alitalia flight
carrying 57 passengers from Bologna to Paris.
(Reuters, 11/27/02)
2002 Nov 27, International arms
monitors searched a military missile-testing range and a state factory
outside Baghdad, starting a new round of inspections that could
determine the future of peace in the Middle East.
(AP, 11/27/02)
2002 Nov 27-2002 Nov 28, Fighting
resumed in Ivory Coast, shattering a month long truce, after rebel
forces attacked government positions in the west of the country.
Government soldiers slaughtered more than 120 civilians suspected of
collaborating with rebels in Monoko-Zohi.
(AP, 11/27/02)(AP, 12/7/02)
2002 Nov 27, Daniel Baraniuk (27)
from Gdansk, Poland, set a new pole-sitting world record, coming down
from his perch in a German fun park after 196 days and nights.
(AP, 11/27/02)
2002 Nov 27, Russian officials
renewed their drive to close sprawling tent camps in the republic of
Ingushetia that are home to tens of thousands of Chechen refugees.
(AP, 11/27/02)
2002 Nov 27, Velupillai
Prabhakaran, leader of Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers, said he was willing to
settle for regional autonomy.
(AP, 11/27/02)
2002 Nov 28, Thousands of Haitians
demonstrated against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's government and
clashed with whip-wielding Aristide supporters.
(AP, 11/29/02)
2002 Nov 28, Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon easily won re-election as the Likud Party leader, defeating his
hawkish foreign minister by positioning himself as a centrist in a
tactic that could help him in January elections against the Labor
Party's dovish Amram Mitzna.
(AP, 11/29/02)
2002 Nov 28, A shooting attack in
northern Israel killed 6 Israelis. Two Palestinian gunmen opened fire
on a Likud Party office crowded with voters casting ballots in a
leadership race and also attacked passengers at a nearby bus terminal
in northern Israel.
(AP, 11/28/02)(SFC, 11/29/02, p.A1)
2002 Nov 28, In Kenya 3 suicide
bombers attacked an Israeli-owned hotel, killing 13 other people. At
least two missiles were fired at, but missed, an Israeli airliner
taking off from the Mombasa airport.
(AP, 11/28/02)(SFC, 11/29/02, p.A1)(SFC, 11/30/02,
p.A1)
2002 Nov 29, The White House
quietly announced that federal workers would get a smaller pay raise
the following month because President Bush was freezing part of the
increase, citing the fight against terrorism.
(AP, 11/29/03)
2002 Nov 29, Celebrity publicist
Lizzie Grubman left the Suffolk County, N.Y., jail after serving 37
days of a 60-day sentence for backing her sport utility vehicle into a
crowd outside a trendy Hamptons nightclub and fleeing.
(AP, 11/29/03)
2002 Nov 29, It was reported that
TransOrbital Inc. had signed a $20 million contract with Kosmotras,
Moscow's int'l. space company, to use decommissioned ballistic missiles
for commercial launches to the moon.
(SFC, 11/29/02, p.K3)
2002 Nov 29, In Colombia the AUC,
the largest right-wing paramilitary group, announced that it would
begin a unilateral cease-fire Dec 1.
(AP, 11/29/02)
2002 Nov 29, Israeli troops blew
up the homes of two Palestinian gunmen who attacked an office of Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon's Likud Party during a primary vote, killing six
Israelis and wounding more than 20.
(AP, 11/29/02)
2002 Nov 29, Tens of thousands of
people demonstrated across the Middle East in a day of solidarity with
Palestinians in the annual Jerusalem Day, which marked the 1947 UN
partition of Palestine.
(AP, 11/29/02)
2002 Nov 29, Romania urged the EU
to reject a request by Hungarian producers for the exclusive right to
sell a regional brandy in EU countries under the generic name
"palinka." The Eastern European brandy, made from fermented fruit
pears, plums, apricots or grapes, has been produced in the region under
different names. In Hungary and in Romania's northwest region of
Transylvania, it is called "palinka," or "palinca," while in southern
Romania it is called "tuica," and in Moldova and Bulgaria "rakiya."
(AP, 11/30/02)
2002 Nov 29, Denis Solovyov, a
Russian soldier, on patrol along the Georgia border, opened fire on
fellow servicemen killing at least eight of them and wounding three
others. Solovyov was apparently under the influence of narcotics.
(AP, 11/29/02)
2002 Nov 29, Five Russian
servicemen and a paramilitary policeman serving in Chechnya were killed
in clashes with rebels and from mine explosions.
(AP, 11/30/02)
2002 Nov 29, A gold mining
operation owned by a Canadian company planned to begin constructing a
$97 million mine early next year on a mining concession in Suriname's
interior.
(AP, 11/29/02)
2002 Nov 30, It was reported that
NYC estimated 37,000 homeless.
(SFC, 11/30/02, p.A4)
2002 Nov 30, In Uttar Pradesh,
India, a mystery epidemic was reported to have killed 44 at least
Indian children in just over a month.
(Reuters, 11/30/02)
2002 Nov 30, International weapons
hunters in Iraq paid an unannounced visit to a military post previously
declared "sensitive" and restricted by Baghdad.
(AP, 11/30/03)
2002 Nov 30, At least 11 people
were killed and 30 wounded in separatist clashes in the northern Indian
state of Jammu and Kashmir.
(AP, 11/30/02)
2002 Nov 30, A 16-year-old
Palestinian boy was shot and killed on his way home from school east of
Gaza city, and another was wounded.
(AP, 11/30/02)
2002 Nov 30, Israeli troops shot
dead one Palestinian and a second Palestinian man died under the rubble
of one of the three homes the soldiers demolished in an overnight
operation in the Gaza Strip.
(AP, 12/1/02)
2002 Nov 30, In the Ivory Coast
French troops evacuated the city of Man. The western rebels called
themselves the Ivorian Popular Movement for the Greater West and held
Danane. The northern rebels called themselves the Patriotic Movement of
Ivory Coast and denied connection to the western rebels.
(SSFC, 12/1/02, p.A18)
2002 Nov 30, Turkey lifted curfews
and restrictions on gatherings in two predominantly Kurdish provinces,
ending 15 years of emergency rule in southeastern Turkey and fulfilling
a requirement toward joining the European Union.
(AP, 11/30/02)
2002 Nov 30, A fire ripped through
the packed La Guajira nightclub in downtown Caracas, killing 50 people,
most of them suffocated by smoke in what was one of the deadliest
blazes in Venezuela's recent history.
(AP, 12/3/02)(AP, 11/30/03)
2002 Nov, Artisan Pictures
released "Standing in the Shadows of Motown," a tribute to the Funk
Brothers, the studio musicians behind the Motown hits. They included
pianist Earl Van Dyke, bassist James Jamerson, vibes player Jack
Ashford, and pianist Joe Hunter.
(WSJ, 11/26/02, p.D8)
2002 Nov, In Washington state
Puget Sound Energy cancelled an 18-month program that had been touted
to save customers energy via a variable rate plan. Customer had quit
the program in droves after finding that the special plan cost more
than ordinary ones.
(Econ, 10/10/09, p.73)
2002 Nov, North Korean leader Kim
Jong Il in a private message to Pres. Bush said the US and North Korea
"should be able to resolve the nuclear issue in compliance with the
demands of the new century." The message was not disclosed until 2005.
(AP, 6/22/05)
2002 Nov, Delaware's 2002 Pumpkin'
Chunkin' contest was won by the 2nd Amendment team from Michigan.
(DC, 2/9/03)
2002 Nov, Heinrich Kieber, an
employee of Liechtenstein’s LGT Treuhand AG, ended his services with
the company and stole confidential data on thousands of customers and
beneficiaries. He was convicted of fraud and theft in 2004 and
sentenced to 3 years probation. German authorities later confirmed the
purchase of Liechtenstein banking data from an informant for some $6.2
million.
(WSJ, 2/25/08, p.A6)
2002 Nov, In Montenegro Svetlana
C. (28) of Moldava escaped from a brothel near the capital, Podgorica,
and went to the police. Local newspapers reported that politicians and
other members of Montenegro's ruling elite frequented the brothel and
took part in orgies at which women were tortured.
(AP, 7/7/03)
2002 Nov, 52 governments ratified
and adopted the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme setting up an
internationally recognized certification system for rough diamonds and
establishing national import/export standards. This followed meetings
that had begun in Kimberley, South Africa, in 2000. The scheme was
fully implemented in August 2003.
(www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/diamond/kimberlindex.htm)
2002 Dec 1, Sen. Kerry of
Massachusetts announced that he would seek the Democratic nomination
for president.
(WSJ, 11/3/04, p.A6)
2002 Dec 1, The US federal Bureau
of Land Management (BLM) began rounding up over 2,650 wild horses in
Nevada to prevent starving and rangeland destruction.
(SFC, 11/29/02, p.J7)
2002 Dec 1, Edward Latimer "Ned"
Beach (b.1918), former Navy captain and author, died at age 84. His
books included "Run Silent, Run Deep" (1955), "Around the World
Submerged" (1962) and "Scapegoats! A Defense of Kimmel and short at
Pearl Harbor."
(SFC, 12/2/02, p.A19)(WSJ, 12/4/02, p.D10)
2002 Dec 1, In Gaibandha,
Bangladesh, least 30 people, mostly women and children, were killed in
a stampede after a wall collapsed during a give-away of clothes and
money.
(Reuters, 12/1/02)
2002 Dec 1, Colombia's largest
right-wing paramilitary group began a unilateral cease-fire in its
long-running battle against leftist rebels.
(AP, 12/1/03)
2002 Dec 1, Martin Lee, Hong
Kong's pre-eminent champion of democracy, stepped down as leader of the
territory's most popular political party.
(Reuters, 12/1/02)
2002 Dec 1, Prof. Saburo Ienaga,
Japanese historian, died at age 89. He had led battles against the
government screening of textbooks.
(SFC, 12/2/02, p.A19)
2002 Dec 1, In Kashmir 10 people,
including 4 militants, were killed in fresh clashes between Muslim
guerrillas and Indian security forces.
(Reuters, 12/1/02)
2002 Dec 1, Russia won its first
Davis Cup title by rallying to beat defending champion France 3-2.
(AP, 12/1/03)
2002 Dec 1, PM Janez Drnovsek (52)
won Slovenia's presidential election and promised to keep the former
Yugoslav republic on a pro-Western course. In 1999 he had a cancerous
kidney removed, and in 2005 revealed that doctors had diagnosed
"formations" on his lungs and liver in 2001.
(AP, 12/2/02)(SSFC, 12/2/02, p.a10)(AP, 9/29/06)
2002 Dec 1, In Istanbul, Turkey,
some 10,000 people took part in a protest against a U.S.-led war in
neighboring Iraq.
(AP, 12/1/02)
2002 Dec 1, Venezuela museum
officials discovered that Henri Matisse's "Odalisque in Red Pants," a
1925 painting of a topless, raven-haired woman kneeling on a floor,
worth about $3 million, was stolen as long as two years ago from the
Sofia Imber Museum of Contemporary Art and replaced by an imitation.
(AP, 2/1/03)
2002 Dec 1, World AIDS Day marked
42 million HIV positive people around the world with 75% in sub-Saharan
Africa.
(AP, 12/2/02)
2002 Dec 2, The US Supreme Court
agreed to decide whether minorities can be given a boost to get into
universities. In June, a divided Court allowed the nation's colleges
and universities to select students based in part on race, but
emphasized that race could not be the overriding factor.
(AP, 12/2/03)
2002 Dec 2, US Defense Sec. Donald
Rumsfeld signed a directive approving coercive interrogation methods
for detainees at Guantanamo Bay. The techniques were rescinded in early
2003 following objections by Pentagon lawyers. [see Nov 27]
(SFC, 2/22/06, p.A7)
2002 Dec 2, Achille Castiglioni
(84), Italian interior designer and architect, died in Milan.
(AP, 12/2/03)
2002 Dec 2, Ivan Illich (76),
former Catholic priest and author, died in Germany. His work included
"De-Schooling Society" (1971).
(SFC, 12/4/02, p.A28)
2002 Dec 2, Mal Waldron (77), jazz
pianist, died. He was the last accompanist for Billie Holiday and
composed "Soul Eyes," a ballad for John Coltrane.
(SFC, 12/4/02, p.A28)
2002 Dec 2, A statement attributed
to al-Qaida claimed responsibility for the Nov 28 car-bombing of an
Israeli-owned hotel in Kenya and the attempted shoot-down of an Israeli
airliner.
(AP, 12/2/03)
2002 Dec 2, Belarus said its
ambassador to Japan has refused an order to return to the ex-Soviet
state in what the envoy's friends said could be an attempt to stage a
"Cold War-style" defection.
(Reuters, 12/2/02)
2002 Dec 2, In Beijing Russia's
Pres. Putin and Jiang Zemin signed a 13-page declaration calling for a
"multi-polar" world and peaceful solutions in Iraq and North Korea.
(SFC, 12/3/02, p.A8)
2002 Dec 2, Israeli troops shot
dead a Palestinian gunman trying to enter a Jewish settlement in the
Gaza Strip, and a Palestinian teenager was killed when a mob of stone
throwers clashed with troops in the West Bank town of Jenin.
(AP, 12/2/02)
2002 Dec 2, In Russia a car hit a
land mine and exploded near a settlement housing Russian military
personnel outside Moscow, killing a businessman and his two employees.
(AP, 12/2/02)
2002 Dec 2, Venezuela's opposition
launched a general strike to protest President Hugo Chavez's defiant
refusal to call a referendum on his rule, closing hundreds of
businesses in Caracas.
(AP, 12/2/02)
2002 Dec 3, Thousands of personnel
files released under a court order showed that the Archdiocese of
Boston went to great lengths to hide priests accused of abuse,
including clergy who allegedly snorted cocaine and had sex with girls
aspiring to be nuns.
(AP, 12/3/03)
2002 Dec 3, In western Algeria 6
soldiers and 6 suspected Islamic militants were killed during fighting
in the Stamboul forest.
(AP, 12/8/02)
2002 Dec 3, In Burundi Pres.
Pierre Buyoya and Pierre Nkurunziza, leader of the main faction of the
Forces for the Defense of Democracy, or FDD, agreed to a cease-fire in
their 9-year civil war (effective Dec 30), in theory leaving only one
rebel group fighting in a conflict that has killed more than 200,000
people.
(AP, 12/3/02)
2002 Dec 3, U.N. weapons
inspectors made their first unannounced visit to one of Iraqi leader
Saddam Hussein's presidential palaces.
(AP, 12/3/03)
2002 Dec 3, An Israeli soldier in
Ramallah shot and killed a 95-year-old Palestinian woman as her taxi
tried a back road to go around an Israeli checkpoint.
(SFC, 12/4/02, p.A14)
2002 Dec 3, Shanghai will host the
2010 World Exposition after bidding fiercely to organize an event
expected to fuel millions of dollars of investment, Expo officials
announced in Monaco.
(Reuters, 12/3/02)
2002 Dec 3, The US Supreme Court
justices heard arguments on whether federal laws intended to combat
organized crime and corruption could be used against anti-abortion
demonstrators. In Feb, 2003, the court ruled that such laws were
improperly used to punish abortion opponents.
(AP, 12/4/03)
2002 Dec 4, A US federal board
rejected a 1.8 billion loan guarantee for United Airlines.
(SFC, 12/5/02, p.A1)(WSJ, 12/5/02, p.A1)
2002 Dec 4, The governor of
Mississippi signed legislation capping punitive damage awards at $20
million.
(WSJ, 12/5/02, p.A1)
2002 Dec 4, John Weaver,
historian, died in Las Vegas. His books included "Los Angeles: The
Enormous Village" (1980).
(SFC, 12/7/02, p.A25)
2002 Dec 4, Jesus Antonio
Nunez, mayor of the western Colombian town of Ambalema, was
assassinated, apparently after going to a meeting with the country's
main rebel group. He was the 13th mayor killed this year.
(AP, 12/5/02)
2002 Dec 4, Security forces fired
on student protesters in the East Timorese capital, killing two people
and prompting angry mobs to loot shops and set fire to several
buildings, including the prime minister's house.
(AP, 12/4/02)
2002 Dec 4, Iraqi forces shot at
allied aircraft patrolling the no-fly zone and U.S. planes retaliated
by bombing part of the country's air defense system.
(AP, 12/4/02)
2002 Dec 4, Israeli soldiers
killed two suspected Islamic militants in a gun battle in a West Bank
village, and Israeli helicopters fired missiles on a Palestinian
government complex in the Gaza Strip, killing a security guard and
injuring five people.
(AP, 12/4/02)
2002 Dec 4, Kurdish militiamen of
the PUK battled Islamic militants (Ansar al-Islam) believed to be
linked to al-Qaida in northern Iraq, and as many as 30 militiamen were
killed or wounded.
(AP, 12/4/02)(SFC, 12/6/02, p.A18)
2002 Dec 4, Separatists in
Indonesia's Aceh province commemorated the 26th anniversary of their
fight with at least one military flag-raising ceremony and vows to keep
fighting Jakarta's rule.
(AP, 12/4/02)
2002 Dec 4, Thailand released
thousands of prisoners, including many jailed for minor narcotics
offences, to mark the 75th birthday of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the
world's longest reigning monarch.
(Reuters, 12/4/02)
2002 Dec 5, Trent Lott, Senate
Republican leader from Mississippi, made remarks that supported Sen.
Strom Thurmond's 1948 segregationist platform. The resulting firestorm
prompted Lott to resign his leadership position. Strom Thurmond, the
oldest and longest-serving senator in history, celebrated his 100th
birthday on Capitol Hill.
(SFC, 12/13/02, p.A4)(AP, 12/5/03)
2002 Dec 5, In Kansas City, Mo. a
pharmacist who had diluted chemotherapy drugs given to thousands of
cancer patients was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
(AP, 12/5/03)
2002 Dec 5, A severe ice and snow
storm snarled the eastern US down into the Carolinas, where over a
million customers lost power. 29 deaths were blamed on the storm and
its aftermath.
(SFC, 12/6/02, p.A3)(SSFC, 12/8/02, p.A14)
2002 Dec 5, The genetic code of
the Black 6 mouse, the most common breed of laboratory mouse, was
published in Nature.
(SFC, 12/5/02, p.A1)
2002 Dec 5, Roone Arledge (71),
ABC executive, died in New York.
(AP, 12/5/03)
2002 Dec 5, In Brazil 6 South
American presidents convened a summit of the continent's largest
trading bloc, aiming to work out a timetable for a free trade agreement
covering most of the continent.
(AP, 12/6/02)
2002 Dec 5, Ne Win (91), former
general and dictator, died in Yangon. His 26 years in power bankrupted
Myanmar (Burma) economically and spiritually.
(SFC, 12/6/02, p.A30)(WSJ, 12/6/02, p.A1)
2002 Dec 5, In Canada the high
court ruled that higher life forms such as mice can't be patented.
(WSJ, 12/6/02, p.A1)
2002 Dec 5, Kenya's Pres. Moi and
Ethiopian President Meles Zenawi met at the White House with Pres. Bush
to discuss terrorism as well as drought, AIDS and other problems facing
Africa.
(AP, 12/6/02)
2002 Dec 5, An explosion at
a McDonald's Restaurant in Makassar on Sulawesi island killed three
people and seriously wounded 11. A 2nd blast took place an hour later
in a car showroom owned by Indonesia's Social Welfare Minister Yusuf
Kalla.
(Reuters, 12/6/02)
2002 Dec 5, In Mexico City an
angry mob beat to death two of three youths who allegedly tried to rob
a taxi driver.
(AP, 12/6/02)
2002 Dec 5, In Pakistan a bomb
exploded at the Macedonian Consulate and 3 people were killed. Revenge
for a Mar 2 killing of 7 militants in Skopje was suspected.
(SFC, 12/6/02, p.A16)
2002 Dec 6, President Bush pushed
Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and economic adviser Larry Lindsey from
their jobs in a Cabinet shakeup as the unemployment rate hit 6%.
(AP, 12/6/02)(SFC, 12/7/02, p.A1)
2002 Dec 6, Actress Winona Ryder
was sentenced to community service as part of a probationary term for
stealing more than $5,500 worth of merchandise from a Saks Fifth Avenue
store in Beverly Hills, Calif.
(AP, 12/6/03)
2002 Dec 6, Philip Berrigan (79),
former Catholic priest, died in Baltimore. He helped galvanize
opposition to the Vietnam War in the late 1960s.
(SFC, 12/7/02, p.A3)
2002 Dec 6, In Brazil South
American leaders set a timetable for creating a free trade agreement to
cover South America and possibly the Caribbean.
(AP, 12/7/02)
2002 Dec 6, The EU agreed to ban
single-hull tankers, likely to be effective in 2010.
(SFC, 12/7/02, p.A15)
2002 Dec 6, Ten Palestinians,
including two U.N. employees, were killed in chaotic battles that
erupted when Israeli troops, tanks and helicopter gunships poured into
a Gaza Strip refugee camp, searching for a fugitive militant allegedly
involved in a fatal bombing.
(AP, 12/6/02)
2002 Dec 6, A U.N. envoy wrapped
up an inspection of Uzbekistan's prisons by saying he found signs of
systematic torture despite being denied full access to two of the most
notorious jails.
(AP, 12/6/02)
2002 Dec 6, In Venezuela at least
one gunman opened fire on a Caracas square packed with opponents of
Pres. Hugo Chavez, killing three people as strikers trying to force a
change of government. Captains and officers of 12 of the nation's 13
oil tankers joined the strike.
(Reuters, 12/6/02)(SFC, 12/7/02, p.A1)
2002 Dec 7, Louisiana Democratic
Sen. Mary Landrieu beat Republican Suzanne Terrell in a runoff 52-48%,
despite a recent visit by Pres. Bush.
(WSJ, 12/4/02, p.A1)(AP, 12/8/02)
2002 Dec 7, Entertainment giant
Vivendi Universal signed an agreement to build a Universal Studios
theme park in booming Shanghai, beating much-fancied Walt Disney Co to
the punch.
(Reuters, 12/7/02)
2002 Dec 7, Space shuttle
Endeavour returned to Earth along with space station voyagers Peggy
Whitsun, Valery Korzun and Sergei Treschev.
(SSFC, 12/8/02, p.A14)
2002 Dec 7, In Australia wildfires
raging across Sydney's northern fringe blackened 250,000 acres.
(AP, 12/7/02)
2002 Dec 7, In Bangladesh 19
people were killed and nearly 300 wounded in near-simultaneous bomb
blasts at four cinemas packed with families celebrating the end of the
Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
(Reuters, 12/7/02)(SSFC, 12/8/02, p.A9)(AP, 12/7/03)
2002 Dec 7, In London Azra Akin,
Miss Turkey, won the Miss World Pageant bringing to a close the pageant
that had incited deadly rioting in Nigeria, the original site of the
event.
(AP, 12/7/02)
2002 Dec 7, The Iraqi government
presented to the rest of the world a 12,000 page declaration detailing
its nuclear, chemical and biological activities and formally declaring
to the UN that it has no weapons of mass destruction. Saddam Hussein
grudgingly apologized to Kuwaitis for invading their country in 1990.
(AP, 12/7/02)(SSFC, 12/8/02, p.A1)
2002 Dec 7, In Kashmir 14 people,
including eight Muslim rebels, were killed in fresh separatist
violence, as a four-day truce announced by a hardline militant group
neared its end.
(Reuters, 12/8/02)
2002 Dec 7, In Liberia civilians
were killed in a government offensive on a rebel-held town. Their
deaths were blamed on crossfire.
(AP, 12/9/02)
2002 Dec 7, In the Seychelles
after 3 days of voting Pres. France Albert Rene's party retained
control of parliament even though the main opposition party more than
tripled its number of seats.
(AP, 12/7/02)
2002 Dec 8, Directors of 18
American and European art museums signed a "Declaration on the
Importance and Value of Universal Museums."
(WSJ, 12/12/02, p.D10)
2002 Dec 8, Painter and sculptor
Keith Tyson, whose playful artwork is inspired by scientific theories
and often ponders the role of computers in the modern world, won
Britain's prestigious Turner Prize.
(AP, 12/9/02)
2002 Dec 8, Devi Sridhar (18) of
Coral Gables, Florida, was one of 32 recipients of the Rhodes
scholarship and the youngest ever US recipient.
(SFC, 12/13/02, p.J1)
2002 Dec 8, The Colombian air
force bombed a rebel camp and claimed about 40 guerrillas were killed.
(AP, 12/8/02)
2002 Dec 8, Typhoon Pongsona hit
Guam with wind gusts of more than 180 mph. The U.S. territory was
declared a federal disaster area.
(AP, 12/11/02)
2002 Dec 8, In Karnataka, India,
Hannur Nagappa, a former state minister, was found dead. He had been
kidnapped Aug 25 by the bandit Koose Muniswamy Veerappan.
(SFC, 12/9/02, p.A7)
2002 Dec 8, Iraq's massive dossier
detailing its chemical, biological and nuclear programs arrived in New
York; the U.N. Security Council agreed to give full copies to the
United States and the four other permanent council members — Britain,
France, Russia and China.
(AP, 12/8/03)
2002 Dec 8, Israeli soldiers
killed a Palestinian woman and wounded her 3 children at the Tel Sultan
refugee camp near the settlement of Rafiah Yam.
(SFC, 12/9/02, p.A12)
2002 Dec 8, In Nepal 5 people were
killed and more than 30 were injured when Maoist rebels blew up a bus
in east Nepal.
(Reuters, 12/8/02)
2002 Dec 8, In Serbia voters chose
between a moderate nationalist and two extreme right-wing candidates to
become president.
(AP, 12/8/02)
2002 Dec 9, Pres. Bush chose John
Snow, chairman of CSX Corp., to replace Paul O'Neill as secretary of
the Treasury. Bush fired Paul O'Neill 3 days earlier.
(SFC, 12/9/02, p.A1)
2002 Dec 9, Senate Republican
leader Trent Lott apologized for remarks he'd made praising the 1948
presidential run of then-segregationist Strom Thurmond, saying, "A poor
choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embraced the
discarded policies of the past."
(AP, 12/9/03)
2002 Dec 9, The United States
received a copy Monday of Saddam Hussein's massive arms declaration as
inspectors began combing the dossier for clues about whether Iraq is
free of weapons of mass destruction.
(AP, 12/9/02)
2002 Dec 9, US and Spanish forces
seized an unflagged ship from North Korea that was carrying Scud
missiles to Yemen.
(SFC, 12/11/02, p.A1)
2002 Dec 9, United Airlines filed
for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and reported losses of $20 million a day.
(SFC, 12/9/02, p.A1)(SFC, 12/10/02, p.A1)
2002 Dec 9, The UN Security
Council lifted 9-year-old sanctions against Angola's UNITA movement,
welcoming efforts by the government and the former rebel group to end
the country's civil war.
(AP, 12/9/02)
2002 Dec 9, In Angra dos Reis,
Brazil, mudslides triggered by torrential rains slashed through this
southeastern city, burying houses and killing at least 34 people.
(AP, 12/10/02)
2002 Dec 9, In Bogota, Colombia, a
car bomb exploded near a police command post, during lunch hour,
injuring at least 58 passersby.
(AP, 12/9/02)
2002 Dec 9, Indonesia and rebels
in Aceh signed an accord to end one of the world's longest-running
insurgencies.
(Reuters, 12/9/02)
2002 Dec 9, Israeli soldiers
killed Basem Kou (28), a mentally handicapped Palestinian near Beit
Lid. At Nablus Israeli soldiers fired on a taxi and killed Rehaneh
Hesham Kilani (25) and injured 2 other passengers.
(SFC, 12/10/02, p.A8)
2002 Dec 9, Serbia headed for a
major political crisis after it failed a second time to elect a
president, with supporters of the top vote-getter vowing to challenge
the outcome.
(AP, 12/9/02)
2002 Dec 9, In Venezuela a general
strike aimed at ousting leftist President Hugo Chavez sparked panic
buying at supermarkets and gasoline stations and forced the national
guard to commandeer delivery trucks and ensure that service stations
opened.
(AP, 12/9/02)
2002 Dec 10, Pres. Bush named
William Donaldson (71), co-founder of a Wall Street brokerage firm, to
head the SEC.
(SFC, 12/11/02, p.A1)
2002 Dec 10, A U.S. F-16 fighter
bombed an Iraqi surface-to-air missile system after Iraq moved it deep
into the southern no-fly zone.
(AP, 12/10/02)
2002 Dec 10, The Colombian army
reported that at least 8 right-wing militia members were killed by
leftist guerrillas near Tierradentro. A local clinic reported at least
28 militia members dead along with 2 rebels.
(SFC, 12/11/02, p.A13)
2002 Dec 10, A train accident at
Coliseo, Cuba, killed 14 people and injured more than 70.
(AP, 12/11/02)(SFC, 12/12/02, p.A20)
2002 Dec 10, In Portugal a
national strike forced schools to cancel classes, reduced hospital care
to emergency treatment, left garbage uncollected and clogged roads with
traffic as most public transport stopped running.
(AP, 12/10/02)
2002 Dec 10, Saudi dissidents
reported a new radio station, Sawt al-Islah (the Voice of Reform), had
started broadcasting from Europe to push for reforms.
(SFC, 12/11/02, p.A14)
2002 Dec 10, In Sweden King Carl
XIV Gustaf awarded the Nobel Prizes. Former US Pres. Jimmy Carter
accepted the Peace Prize for his diplomacy in the Middle East in the
1970s.
(AP, 12/10/02)
2002 Dec 11, It was reported that
the US had filed allegations that tens of millions of dollars paid by
American oil companies to Kazakstan during the 1990s wound up in Swiss
bank accounts of top Kazakstani officials.
(SFC, 12/11/02, p.A15)
2002 Dec 11, The United States let
an intercepted shipment of North Korean missiles proceed to the Persian
Gulf country of Yemen a day after the vessel was detained.
(AP, 12/11/03)
2002 Dec 11, A congressional
report found that intelligence agencies that were supposed to protect
Americans from the Sept. 11 hijackers failed to do so because they were
poorly organized, poorly equipped and slow to pursue clues that might
have prevented the attacks.
(AP, 12/11/03)
2002 Dec 11, It was reported that
the Chicago-based Pritzker family planned to break up its $15 billion
empire over the next decade.
(WSJ, 12/12/02, p.B1)
2002 Dec 11, Bank of America
agreed to pay $1.6 billion for a 25% stake in Grupo Financiero
Santander Serfin, one of Mexico's largest banks.
(WSJ, 12/12/02, p.A1)
2002 Dec 11, A US Black Hawk
helicopter on routine training crashed and killed five American
soldiers in the hills of central Honduras.
(AP, 12/14/02)(SFC, 12/13/02, p.A14)
2002 Dec 11, Chile's Pres. Ricardo
Lagos announced it had reached an agreement for a free trade accord
with the United States.
(AP, 12/11/02)(SFC, 12/12/02, p.A20)
2002 Dec 11, In Indonesia a
mudslide above a resort in East Java killed at least 60 people.
Tree-cutting above the resort was blamed and a suit against a
state-owned forestry company was planned.
(SFC, 12/14/02, p.A7)
2002 Dec 11, Israeli troops killed
a suspected Palestinian militant in a West Bank refugee camp as he
tried to escape.
(AP, 12/11/02)
2002 Dec 11, Israeli troops in
Gaza shot and killed 5 unarmed Palestinians trying to penetrate a
security fence.
(SFC, 12/13/02, p.A22)
2002 Dec 11, A Nicaraguan judge
ordered three U.S. companies to pay $490 million to 583 banana workers
allegedly affected by the use of the pesticide Nemagon.
(AP, 12/14/02)
2002 Dec 11, A Pakistan human
rights group said 461 women had been killed this year by family members
in so-called honor killings in Punjab and Sindh, up from 372 last year.
(SFC, 12/12/02, p.A14)
2002 Dec 11, Yemen said Scud
missiles found hidden aboard a North Korean ship seized by Spain and
the United States were destined for its army and demanded them back.
Pres. Bush ordered them released. Bush later created a coalition of
members to block arms shipments "of proliferation concern."
(Reuters, 12/11/02)(SFC, 12/12/02, p.A19)(WSJ,
10/21/03, p.A1)
2002 Dec 12, Pres. Bush announced
a series of regulatory changes to allow religious social-service
organizations to receive more government grants and contracts. Bush
named Stephen Friedman, former chairman of Goldman Sachs, as his chief
economic advisor.
(SFC, 12/13/02, p.A3)(SFC, 12/13/02, p.A8)
2002 Dec 12, President Bush
publicly rebuked Senate Republican leader Trent Lott for his statement
that appeared to embrace half-century-old segregationist politics,
calling it "offensive" and "wrong."
(AP, 12/12/03)
2002 Dec 12, President Bush named
Wall Street investment banker Stephen Friedman to head his National
Economic Council, replacing Lawrence Lindsey, who'd been ousted along
with Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill.
(AP, 12/12/03)
2002 Dec 12, Actor Nick Nolte
pleaded no contest in Malibu, Calif., to one count of driving under the
influence of drugs; he was sentenced to three years' probation.
(AP, 12/12/03)
2002 Dec 12, Dee Brown (94),
author of "Bury My heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the
American West" (1970), died in Little Rock, Ark.
(SFC, 12/16/02, p.A23)
2002 Dec 12, Brad Dexter (85),
film actor, died. His films included "The Magnificent Seven" and "Run
Silent, Run Deep."
(SFC, 12/16/02, p.A23)
2002 Dec 12, In western Algeria a
bomb exploded at an outdoor market, killing four people and wounding 16.
(AP, 12/12/02)
2002 Dec 12, Australia's highest
court dismissed one of the nation's longest running tribal land claims.
The Yorta tribe began the battle in 1994 for a special property right
known as native title in 800 square miles of land around the Murray
River in eastern Australia. The area is now occupied by farmers.
(AP, 12/12/02)
2002 Dec 12, In Brazil Pres.-elect
Lula da Silva nominated Henrique Meirelles, a former executive for
FleetBoston, as Central Bank governor.
(WSJ, 12/14/02, p.A12)
2002 Dec 12, Israeli troops near
Hebron shot and killed 2 armed Palestinians in separate incidents.
(SFC, 12/13/02, p.A22)
2002 Dec 12, North Korea said it
was immediately activating the nuclear reactor at Yongbyon that was
shut down in 1994, due to suspension of fuel deliveries.
(SFC, 12/13/02, p.A1)
2002 Dec 12, OPEC agreed to cut
oil production by as much as 7%, well ahead of a seasonal decline.
(SFC, 12/13/02, p.B1)
2002 Dec 13, President Bush
announced he would take the smallpox vaccine along with U.S. military
forces, but was not recommending the potentially risky inoculation for
most Americans.
(AP, 12/13/03)
2002 Dec 13, Henry Kissinger
resigned as head of the new commission to investigate the Sep 11 terror
attacks.
(SFC, 12/14/02, p.A1)
2002 Dec 13, Pope John Paul II
accepted the resignation, due to sex abuse, of Boston's Cardinal
Bernard Law (71).
(SFC, 12/14/02, p.A1)(AP, 12/13/07)
2002 Dec 13, Monsignor Ignatius
Wang (68) of SF was named as an auxiliary bishop for the SF
Archdiocese, the 1st US bishop of Asian ancestry.
(SFC, 12/14/02, p.A1)
2002 Dec 13, In Australia an
attacker poured hydrochloric acid on the face and down the throat of
Dominic Li, a Sydney suburban accountant. Li went into a coma and died
three weeks later. In 2006 a man who helped arrange Li’s murder was
sentenced to up to 18 years in jail.
(Reuters, 2/17/06)
2002 Dec 13, In Colombia 2 bombs
exploded in Bogota, one targeting a senator in his office and another
hitting a luxury residential hotel where lawmakers stay. At least 16
people were wounded in the bombings.
(AP, 12/14/02)
2002 Dec 13, The EU reached
agreement to accept 10 new countries in 2004. These included Czech
Republic, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland,
Slovakia, and Slovenia.
(SFC, 12/14/02, p.A3)
2002 Dec 13, Japan's ruling
coalition agreed to tax reforms to revive the economy.
(FT, 12/14/02, p.3)
2002 Dec 13, In northwest Liberia
an overcrowded boat capsized, killing at least 48 people and leaving
more than 100 others missing.
(AP, 12/16/02)
2002 Dec 13, Hamas marked its 15th
anniversary with a rally that drew some 30,000 supporters in southern
Gaza.
(SFC, 12/14/02, p.A6)
2002 Dec 13, The U.N. Security
Council condemned "acts of terror" against Israel in Kenya and deplored
the claims of responsibility by the al-Qaida terror network.
(AP, 12/13/03)
2002 Dec 14, Sheik Hamad bin Isa
Al Khalifa, the king of Bahrain, inaugurated the first parliament in
nearly 30 years.
(AP, 12/14/02)
2002 Dec 14, Salman Raduyev
(b.1967), the Chechen warlord who led a bloody 1996 raid on a Russian
hospital that killed 78 people, died in a Russian hard labor camp while
serving a life sentence.
(AP, 12/15/02)
2002 Dec 14, Jordanian police
announced the arrest of two alleged al-Qaida members in the October
killing of American diplomat Laurence Foley.
(AP, 12/14/03)
2002 Dec 14, The Norwegian
Tricolor, a cargo ship carrying nearly 2,900 luxury cars capsized and
sank after colliding with the Bahamas-registered Kariba cargo ship in
the English Channel. Tricolor carried 2,862 cars, high-end BMWs, Volvos
and Saabs, and 77 other items, mainly tractors and large crane parts.
(AP, 12/14/02)
2002 Dec 14, Tens of thousands of
South Koreans railed against the U.S. military and mourned two girls
killed by American soldiers in a road accident.
(Reuters, 12/14/02)
2002 Dec 15, Former VP Al Gore
announced he would not seek the US presidency in 2004.
(SFC, 12/16/02, p.A1)
2002 Dec 15, Tens of thousands of
Hong Kong people took part in one of the territory's biggest marches in
years, denouncing plans for an anti-subversion law they fear will erode
freedom and civil liberties.
(Reuters, 12/15/02)
2002 Dec 15, India's ruling Hindu
nationalists swept to victory in an election in the western state of
Gujarat. The BJP won 125 of 182 seats.
(Reuters, 12/15/02)(SFC, 12/16/02, p.A14)
2002 Dec 15, Israel barred
Palestinian Pres. Yasser Arafat from visiting Bethlehem for Christmas
and decided to keep its army in the West Bank city over the holiday.
(Reuters, 12/15/02)
2002 Dec 15, Japan won golf's
World Cup for the first time in 45 years.
(AP, 12/15/03)
2002 Dec 15, Troops in Nepal shot
dead 11 Maoist rebels during gunbattles across the troubled Himalayan
nation over the past 24 hours, while guerrillas killed a soldier in the
west of the country.
(Reuters, 12/15/02)
2002 Dec 15, In Venezuela hundreds
of thousands of people marched through the capital demanding Pres.
Chavez step down. The strike had cut oil output by at least 70%.
(WSJ, 12/14/02, p.A12)(AP, 12/15/02)
2002 Dec 16, Pres. Bush named
Thomas Kean, former Gov. of New Jersey, to replace Henry
Kissinger as head of the Sep. 11 investigation panel.
(SFC, 12/17/02, p.A2)
2002 Dec 16, Senate Republican
leader Trent Lott, in an interview on Black Entertainment Television,
asked black Americans to forgive his seeming nostalgia for segregation.
(AP, 12/16/03)
2002 Dec 16, A jury in Baltimore
acquitted former altar boy Dontee Stokes of attempted murder in the
shooting of a Roman Catholic priest he'd claimed molested him a decade
earlier.
(AP, 12/16/03)
2002 Dec 16, The EPA issued a
water-pollution rule to cover animal waste from "factory farms."
(WSJ, 12/17/02, p.A1)
2002 Dec 16, It was reported that
a severe drought ravaging most of Australia's rural sector will slash
farm exports by 13 percent this fiscal year. Triggered by abnormal sea
temperatures, El Nino was blamed for severe drought in Australia, which
slashed crops and caused a liquidation of the nation's livestock. The
drought continued thru 2005.
(AP, 12/16/02)(AP, 5/24/05)
2002 Dec 16, Canada ratified the
Kyoto Protocol, the 1997 treaty on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
(AP, 12/16/03)
2002 Dec 16, French counter
terrorism agents arrested 4 suspected Islamic militants in a Paris
suburb. The three Algerians and a Moroccan had an unidentified liquid
and an anti-contamination suit.
(AP, 12/17/02)
2002 Dec 16, Israeli soldiers
killed three Palestinians, including two armed Hamas fighters, and
troops also destroyed 16 shacks, leaving more than 200 people homeless
in confrontations in the Gaza Strip.
(AP, 12/16/02)(SFC, 12/17/02, p.A13)
2002 Dec 17, U.S. President George
W. Bush ordered the military to begin deploying a national missile
defense system with land- and sea-based interceptor rockets to be
operational starting in 2004.
(Reuters, 12/17/02)(SFC, 12/18/02, p.A1)
2002 Dec 17, In New York Gov.
George Pataki signed a bill extending civil rights protections to gays
and lesbians in the state.
(SFC, 12/18/02, p.A3)
2002 Dec 17, Insurance and finance
company Conseco Incorporated filed for Chapter Eleven protection in the
third-largest bankruptcy in U.S. history.
(AP, 12/17/03)
2002 Dec 17, Playwright Frederick
Knott (86), who wrote "Dial M For Murder" and "Wait Until Dark," died
in NYC.
(AP, 12/17/03)
2002 Dec 17, Congo's government,
rebels and political opposition signed a power-sharing agreement after
four years of war and 2.5 million lives lost.
(AP, 12/17/02)
2002 Dec 17, Iraqi exiles in
London declared they want to build a "new Iraq" and agreed on a
power-sharing plan that for the first time recognizes the political
clout of Shiite Muslims, a majority in a nation long controlled by
Sunni Muslims such as Saddam Hussein. Some delegates walked out of the
London meeting warning of possible civil war if they were sidelined in
any new government.
(AP, 12/17/02)(Reuters, 12/17/02)
2002 Dec 17, Mohammed Jawad
allegedly attacked US troops with a grenade. He was arrested and later
transferred to Guantanamo Bay. US authorities claimed he was at least
16-years old at the time of his arrest, but it later emerged he may
have been as young as 12.
(SFC, 7/31/09,
p.A5)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Jawad)
2002 Dec 17, Malaysia won control
of two tiny palm-fringed islands when the World Court ruled in its
favor in a long-running dispute with Indonesia.
(Reuters, 12/17/02)
2002 Dec 17, The Interfax news
agency reported that Russia has lost 4,705 soldiers, officers and
policemen in Chechnya since 1999.
(AP, 12/18/02)
2002 Dec 18, Embattled Senate
Republican leader Trent Lott sustained a double-barreled setback as
Rhode Island Sen. Lincoln Chafee broke ranks to call for a change in
party leadership and Secretary of State Colin Powell forcefully
criticized Lott's controversial remarks on race.
(AP, 12/18/03)
2002 Dec 18, Robert Johnson, the
billionaire founder of Black Entertainment Television, became the 1st
African American to own a major sports team. The NBA awarded him rights
to the expansion franchise in Charlotte.
(SFC, 12/19/02, p.A2)
2002 Dec 18, In California Gov.
Davis announced a $34.8 billion cash shortage over the next 18 months
and that tax increases would be needed. A legislative analyst later
assessed the deficit at $21 billion.
(SFC, 12/19/02, p.A1)(SFC, 1/8/03, p.A17)
2002 Dec 18, Conseco Corp. filed
for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
(WSJ, 12/18/02, p.A3)
2002 Dec 18, At least 4 tornadoes
hit Arkansas and Missouri and killed 3 people with 30 injured.
(SFC, 12/19/02, p.A4)
2002 Dec 18, In Brazil a ferry
accident on a the Para River killed at least 22 people with 28 more
believed missing. The death toll grew to 44.
(AP, 12/19/02)(AP, 12/23/02)
2002 Dec 18, In Sudan a bus
crashed and burst into flames after hitting a hole on an ill-maintained
highway known as "the road of death," killing 30 people.
(AP, 12/19/02)
2002 Dec 19, US Secretary of State
Colin Powell declared Iraq in "material breach" of a U.N. disarmament
resolution.
(AP, 12/19/03)
2002 Dec 19, U.N. weapons
inspectors reported that Iraq's new arms declaration contained
inconsistencies and contradictions and didn't answer key questions
about its nuclear, chemical and biological programs.
(AP, 12/19/02)
2002 Dec 19, Sen. Patty Murray of
Washington told high school students that Osama bin Laden was popular
in poor countries because of his charitable works and challenged the US
to do the same.
(SFC, 12/21/02, p.A3)
2002 Dec 19, Ten US brokerage
firms agreed to pay $1.44 billion in fines to end investigations over
misleading stock recommendations.
(SFC, 12/20/02, p.A1)(SFC, 12/21/02, p.B1)
2002 Dec 19, After a prosecutor
cited new DNA evidence, a judge in New York threw out the convictions
of five young men in a 1989 attack on a Central Park jogger who had
been raped and left for dead.
(AP, 12/19/03)
2002 Dec 19, A tornado in Newton,
Mississippi, hit stores and injured at least 50 people. Gov. Musgrove
declared a local state of emergency.
(WSJ, 12/20/02, p.A1)
2002 Dec 19, In Afghanistan a
grenade attack in Kabul injured 4 people including 2 French citizens. 2
Afghan interpreters died from their wounds the next day.
(SFC, 12/21/02, p.A9)
2002 Dec 19, In Cambodia some 1
million people participated in the transfer of some remains of Buddha
from Phnom Penh to a new shrine in Oudong.
(SFC, 12/20/02, p.A18)
2002 Dec 19, In India Maoist
rebels killed 18 policemen in an ambush in a dense forest in the
eastern state of Jharkhand.
(Reuters, 12/20/02)
2002 Dec 19, In the Ivory Coast
rebels captured the city of Man in the coffee-rich west and vowed to
continue their push until they reached the commercial capital, as
French troops prepared to face them.
(AP, 12/19/02)
2002 Dec 19, Suspected militants
killed three young women (21-22) in their homes just days after posters
appeared in India's Jammu and Kashmir state ordering women to wear a
veil.
(Reuters, 12/20/02)
2002 Dec 19, In South Korea
elections Roh Moo-hyun (56) had 48.9 percent and Lee Hoi-chang 46.6
percent. Turnout among the nation's 35 million eligible voters was
70.2%.
(AP, 12/19/02)
2002 Dec 19, In Pakistan Asif
Ramzi, a member of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, died with 3 others in a covert
bomb-making facility in Karachi.
(SFC, 12/20/02, p.A24)
2002 Dec 19, It was reported that
AIDS in Thailand infected 1 in 60 people and that by 2006 some 50,000
annual deaths would result from AIDS-related causes.
(SFC, 12/19/02, p.A18)
2002 Dec 20, Trent Lott (61) of
Mississippi stepped down as Senate Majority Leader two weeks after
igniting a political firestorm with racially charged remarks. Sen. Bill
Frist (50), a Tennessee heart surgeon, was expected to replace
him.
(SFC, 12/20/02, p.A3)(SFC, 12/21/02, p.A1)(AP,
12/20/03)
2002 Dec 20, U.S. jets fired on
two Iraqi air defense sites in the southern no-fly zone after an Iraqi
jet entered the restricted air space.
(AP, 12/20/02)
2002 Dec 20, Ted Williams' eldest
daughter, Bobby-Jo Williams Ferrell, dropped her objections to her
siblings' decision to have the Hall of Famer's body frozen at a
cryonics lab in Arizona.
(AP, 12/20/03)
2002 Dec 20, The US 10 biggest
brokerages agreed to pay $1.44 billion and fundamentally change the way
they did business to settle allegations they'd misled investors by
hyping certain companies' stocks.
(AP, 12/20/03)
2002 Dec 20, Grote Reber
(90), a pioneer of radio astronomy died in Tasmania. He followed up
Karl Jansky's 1933 announcement of the discovery of radio waves from
space and in his spare time in 1937 built a 30-foot antenna dish, the
1st radio telescope, in his back yard in Wheaton, Ill., and managed to
pick up signals two years later.
(AP, 12/25/02)
2002 Dec 20, Canada's Supreme
Court ruled that the book "One Dad, Two Dads, Brown Dad, Blue Dads" and
others with gay themes cannot be banned from kindergarten classrooms of
a Canadian school on religious grounds.
(Reuters, 12/20/02)
2002 Dec 20, Climbing energy
prices pushed Canadian inflation to an 11-year high last month, well
above the central bank's target range, but analysts said the steep
inflation rate would not yet trigger higher interest rates.
(Reuters, 12/20/02)
2002 Dec 20, Colombia's senate
extended a measure that gives the government emergency powers in its
battle against outlawed armed groups. Suspected ELN rebels opened fire
on a police station and set off a car bomb in an attack in eastern
Colombia that left four people dead and 17 wounded.
(AP, 12/21/02)
2002 Dec 20, The European Union
agreed to cuts in its fleet and cod catch quotas, but ignored
scientific advice to ban cod fishing altogether to save stocks from
near extinction in EU waters.
(AP, 12/20/02)
2002 Dec 20, Pope John Paul
II brought Mother Teresa (d.1997) closer to sainthood when he approved
a miracle attributed to the nun.
(AP, 12/20/02)
2002 Dec 20, U.N. weapons
inspectors put Iraq on notice that it must provide far more evidence
about its weapons of mass destruction. Chief U.N. weapons inspector
Hans Blix urged the United States and Britain to hand over any evidence
they have about Iraq's secret weapons programs so U.N. inspectors can
check it on the ground. The US began sharing sensitive information with
the UN.
(AP, 12/20/02)(AP, 12/21/02)(SFC, 12/21/02, p.A7)
2002 Dec 20, In Venezuela hundreds
of thousands of whistle-blowing demonstrators demanding President Hugo
Chavez's resignation took to the streets on the 19th day of a general
strike.
(AP, 12/20/02)
2002 Dec 20, Yemeni security
forces battled suspected al-Qaida members holed up in a building in a
gunfight that left 2 policemen dead.
(AP, 12/20/02)
2002 Dec 21, President Bush
received a smallpox vaccination, fulfilling a promise he'd made when he
ordered inoculations for about a-half million U.S. troops.
(AP, 12/21/03)
2002 Dec 21, In Oregon the bodies
of Renee Morris (31), Bryant (10), Alexis (8), and Jonathan (4), were
found by hunters in Tillamook State Forest. Edward Morris (37) was
arrested Jan 4.
(SSFC, 1/5/03, p.A7)
2002 Dec 21, Hank Lusetti (86),
former Stanford all-American basketball player, died. Lusetti is
credited with introducing the one-handed jump shot.
(WSJ, 6/9/04, p.D8)( www.hoopville.net)
2002 Dec 21, In Afghanistan 6
people in a German military helicopter and up to eight on the ground
were killed when the aircraft crashed before landing at an airport near
the capital Kabul.
(Reuters, 12/21/02)
2002 Dec 21, French forces opened
fire on rebels in western Ivory Coast, trying to stop the insurgents
from pushing past them toward the commercial capital Abidjan.
(AP, 12/21/02)
2002 Dec 21, French television
journalist, Patrick Bourrat, was struck while crossing the path of an
incoming tank during US military exercises in Kuwait. Bourrat died the
next day.
(AP, 12/22/02)
2002 Dec 21, In southern India an
express train jumped the tracks, killing at least 18 people and
injuring 80.
(Reuters, 12/21/02)
2002 Dec 21, In Pakistan 2 people
were killed in Hyderabad when a bomb ripped through their bus.
(Reuters, 12/21/02)
2002 Dec 21, An 11-year-old
Palestinian girl died of a gunshot wound in the Gaza Strip, where
Israeli troops reinforced a blockade.
(AP, 12/21/02)
2002 Dec 21, In Qatar some Persian
Gulf leaders opened a summit by calling for regional unity and fast
inspections by U.N. experts searching for weapons of mass destruction
in Iraq.
(AP, 12/21/02)
2002 Dec 21, In Spain Jose Hierro
(80), a poet who won the Spanish-speaking world's highest literary
award while writing in a Madrid coffee shop, died.
(AP, 12/21/02)
2002 Dec 22, Time magazine named
Coleen Rowley, Cynthia Cooper and Sherron Watkins as Persons of the
Year for their whistle-blowing efforts against the FBI, WorldCom and
Enron.
(SFC, 12/23/02, p.A2)
2002 Dec 22, Afghanistan's 6
neighbors (Iran, Pakistan, China, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and
Uzbekistan) agreed to halt meddling and signed a non-intervention
agreement in Kabul.
(SFC, 12/23/02, p.A3)
2002 Dec 22, Joe Strummer (50),
lead singer of the legendary British punk band The Clash, died in
Broomfield, England.
(SFC, 12/24/02, p.A2)(AP, 12/22/03)
2002 Dec 22, Suspected Colombian
rebels blew up a bus carrying workers to a U.S.-run oil field, killing
two and wounding 11.
(AP, 12/23/02)
2002 Dec 22, In Guyana Desmond
Hoyte (b.1929), former President (1985-1992) died.
(AP, 12/30/02)
2002 Dec 22, In Lithuania Valdas
Adamkus failed to get an absolute majority (35.2%) in national
elections, forcing him into a Jan. 5 runoff with former Prime Minister
Rolandas Paksas (19.8%).
(AP, 12/23/02)
2002 Dec 22, Montenegro held
presidential elections but voters failed to turn out in sufficient
numbers.
(AP, 12/22/02)(WSJ, 12/24/02, p.A1)
2002 Dec 22, North Korea said it
had begun removing U.N. monitoring equipment from a nuclear reactor at
the centre of the communist state's suspected pursuit of nuclear
weapons.
(Reuters, 12/22/02)
2002 Dec 22, In Spain tens of
thousands of people marched in silence through the coastal city of
Bilbao to demand the dissolution of the armed Basque separatist group
ETA.
(AP, 12/22/02)
2002 Dec 23, US Senate Republicans
unanimously elected Bill Frist to succeed Trent Lott as their leader in
the next Congress.
(AP, 12/23/03)
2002 Dec 23, More than 100
Gabonese students took over their embassy in Senegal, trapping three
diplomats overnight to protest unpaid scholarships.
(AP, 12/24/02)
2002 Dec 23, Iraqi aircraft shot
down a U.S. unmanned surveillance drone over southern Iraq.
(AP, 12/23/02)
2002 Dec 23, In central Iran a
Ukrainian An-140 aircraft, carrying Ukrainian and Russian aerospace
scientists from Turkey, flew into a mountainside while preparing to
land killing all 46 people on board. Airport officials said pilot
"carelessness" caused the plane to crash.
(AP, 12/24/02)
2002 Dec 23, Israeli troops killed
two Hamas activists, including a leading militiaman, as the men rode a
tractor near the West Bank town of Jenin.
(AP, 12/23/02)
2002 Dec 23, North Korea
dismantled UN surveillance cameras and broke locks on the Yangbyon
reprocessing plant for spent nuclear fuel.
(SFC, 12/24/02, p.A1)
2002 Dec 23, More air traffic
controllers joined a hunger strike in Siberia and other parts of the
country as Russia's labor minister rejected their demand for a 30
percent pay increase.
(AP, 12/23/02)
2002 Dec 24, Laci Peterson (27)
disappeared from her Modesto, Ca., neighborhood. She was 8-months
pregnant. A reward for her return soon reached $500,000. On Jan 24
Amber Frey stepped forward and admitted to an affair with Scott
Peterson, the husband of Laci. Laci’s body was found April 14 near the
SF Bay Berkeley Marina, where Scott had gone fishing on Dec 24. [see
Apr 18, 2003] Peterson convicted of 1st degree murder on Nov 12, 2004.
(SSFC, 12/29/02, p.A23)(SFC, 1/25/03, p.A1)(AP,
11/12/04)
2002 Dec 24, Chinese pro-democracy
activist Xu Wenli was released from a prison in Beijing and flown to
the United States.
(AP, 12/24/03)
2002 Dec 24, Suspected members of
Colombia's largest paramilitary group (AUC) killed two police officers
and wounded another in southwest Colombia.
(AP, 12/25/02)
2002 Dec 24, A brutal riot by
prisoners in a jail outside Guatemala's capital left 18 inmates dead
over two days, including one person by decapitation and 14 others who
were burned to death.
(AP, 12/25/02)
2002 Dec 24, In India's mainly
Muslim state of Kashmir 4 civilians and 9 separatist guerrillas were
killed in the latest rebel violence.
(Reuters, 12/24/02)
2002 Dec 24, Saddam Hussein said
in an address read on television that Iraqis were ready to fight a holy
war against the United States.
(AP, 12/24/03)
2002 Dec 24, Israeli PM Sharon
said Saddam Hussein had transferred chemical and biological weapons to
Syria.
(SFC, 12/25/02, p.A16)
2002 Dec 24, Israeli soldiers
killed a Palestinian teenager in the Gaza Strip.
(AP, 12/24/02)
2002 Dec 24, North Korea ratcheted
up its standoff with Washington, starting repairs at a long-frozen
nuclear reactor and warning that U.S. policy was leading to an
"uncontrollable catastrophe" and the "brink of nuclear war."
(AP, 12/24/03)
2002 Dec 24, In the southern
Philippines a bomb believed planted by Muslim Moro rebels killed 16
people, including Mayor Saudie Ampatuan in Datu Piang.
(AP, 12/24/02)(SFC, 12/25/02, p.A16)(WSJ, 12/26/02,
p.A1)
2002 Dec 24, In Somalia 3
unidentified gunmen opened fire on a school minibus in Mogadishu,
killing four students and wounding 10 others.
(AP, 12/24/02)
2002 Dec 25, Andrew Whittaker of
Hurricane, W. Va., won the Powerball lottery ticket for $314.9 million.
(SFC, 12/30/02, p.A2)
2002 Dec 25, Katie Hnida became
the first woman to play in a Division I football game when she
attempted an extra point following a New Mexico touchdown in the Las
Vegas Bowl. Hnida, a walk-on junior, had her kick blocked but by then
she had already made history in the 27-13 loss to UCLA.
(AP, 12/25/03)
2002 Dec 25, A US winter
storm left up to 3 feet of snow across the Northeast. The storm claimed
23 people in its weeklong march across the country.
(WSJ, 12/26/02, p.A1)(AP, 12/25/03)
2002 Dec 25, In Chechnya 28
guerrillas laid down their weapons in Grozny. A pro-Russian party
leader and at least 4 Russians were killed in the last 24 hrs.
(SFC, 12/25/02, p.A17)
2002 Dec 25, Israeli troops killed
a member of the militant Hamas group and arrested another in the West
Bank city of Nablus.
(AP, 12/25/02)
2002 Dec 25, Russian air traffic
controllers reached an agreement on wage increases paving the way for
an end to a hunger strike that disrupted air travel.
(AP, 12/25/02)
2002 Dec 25, In Pakistan a grenade
killed a girl and two other worshippers at a church in the village of
Chianwala, about 40 miles northwest of Lahore.
(AP, 12/25/02)(WSJ, 12/26/02, p.A1)
2002 Dec 25, Pope John Paul II
delivered a Christmas message in which he said war had to be and could
be avoided even in a world made fearful by terrorism.
(AP, 12/25/03)
2002 Dec 26, Brigitte Boisselier,
a chemist and head of Clonaid, said the world's first human clone, a
7-pound baby girl, was born by Caesarean section. She was associated
with the Raelian religion, founded by Claude Vorilhon in 1973. The
claim was subsequently dismissed by scientists for lack of proof.
(AP, 12/27/02)(Reuters, 12/27/02)(SFC, 12/28/02,
p.A5)
2002 Dec 26, The Int'l. Atomic
Energy Agency (IAEA) said North Korea had moved 1,000 fresh fuel rods
to a nuclear reactor that produces plutonium used in nuclear warheads.
(AP, 12/26/02)
2002 Dec 26, In Curtiba, Brazil, a
C-95 Bandeirante air force plane crashed during an emergency landing,
killing two people and injuring the other 14 people aboard.
(AP, 12/26/02)
2002 Dec 26, Israeli soldiers
hunting militiamen in the West Bank killed 9 Palestinians in separate
clashes across the West Bank and Gaza.
(AP, 12/26/02)(SFC, 12/27/02, p.A12)
2002 Dec 26, In the southern
Philippines suspected Muslim rebels killed 12 workers as they rode in a
truck to a Canadian-owned mine. Extortion was suspected.
(WSJ, 12/27/02, p.A1)
2002 Dec 26, In Trinidad police
reported that 4 people were slain over the Christmas holidays, bringing
the number of killings to a record 164 this year.
(AP, 12/26/02)
2002 Dec 27, Gov. Engler of
Michigan signed a bill eliminating mandatory minimum sentences for drug
crimes.
(WSJ, 12/30/02, p.A1)
2002 Dec 27, The hamlet of
Bridgeville on Highway 36 in Humboldt County, Ca., was sold on Ebay for
$1.77 million. The eBay deal failed and in 2004 Southern California
investor purchased the 82-acre town for $700,000.
(SFC, 12/28/02, p.A3)(SFC, 5/21/04, p.B3)
2002 Dec 27, Keith Mackie-Harris
and Jerry Duckworth were shot to death at a party in the 800 block of
Campbell St. in Oakland, Ca. A gang called the Nut Cases was found
responsible and gang members faced trial in 2006. In 2007 Joe Ralls
(31) was sentenced to 23 years in prison for the killings.
(SFC, 2/6/06, p.A11)(SFC, 5/12/07, p.B2)
2002 Dec 27, George Roy Hill (81),
film director, died. His films included "The Sting" and "Butch Cassidy
and the Sundance Kid."
(SFC, 12/28/02, p.A1)
2002 Dec 27, Argentine lawmakers
approved the 2003 budget and ratified a new central bank chief, helping
President Eduardo Duhalde's efforts to secure an aid agreement with the
IMF.
(AP, 12/27/02)
2002 Dec 27, Chechen rebel suicide
bombers rammed vehicles packed with a ton of explosives into the local
government headquarters in Grozny, gutting the building and killing at
least 83 people.
(Reuters, 12/27/02)(AP, 12/28/02)(SFC, 12/31/02,
p.A7)
2002 Dec 27, In Indonesia at least
9 people including two children were killed and 50 injured when heavy
rain triggered a mud slide on Sumatra island.
(Reuters, 12/27/02)
2002 Dec 27, Palestinian gunmen
killed 4 Israelis at the Otniel religious community near Hebron.
(SFC, 12/28/02, p.A9)
2002 Dec 27, In Kenya political
veteran Mwai Kibaki (71), head of an opposition alliance that promised
to fight corruption and revive Kenya's ailing economy, won the
elections over Uhuru Kenyatta 62% to 31%. The opposition alliance
won 125 of 210 elective seats in the National Assembly, breaking the
ruling party's 39-year grip on power. Kibaki promised to curb
corruption.
(AP, 12/28/02)(SFC, 12/28/02, p.A11)(AP,
1/2/03)(Econ, 12/18/04, p.65)
2002 Dec 27, A defiant North Korea
ordered U.N. nuclear inspectors to leave the country and said it would
restart a laboratory capable of producing plutonium for nuclear
weapons. But the U.N. nuclear watchdog said its inspectors were
"staying put" for the time being.
(AP, 12/27/03)
2002 Dec 27, In Bishkek,
Kyrgyzstan, 7 people were killed and 26 injured when a container of
fireworks exploded, detonating a gas tank in the Dordoi market.
(AP, 12/27/02)
2002 Dec 27, Poland announced it
will buy 48 U.S.-made F-16 jet fighters from Lockheed Martin for $3.5
billion to upgrade its air force to NATO standards.
(AP, 12/27/02)
2002 Dec 27, Russia said it will
no longer accept US Peace Corps volunteers, after suggesting the
workers were spying.
(AP, 12/27/02)(SFC, 12/28/02, p.A11)
2002 Dec 27, Uruguay's Congress
approved a plan to merge 3 major banks verging on insolvency amid the
country's economic crisis.
(AP, 12/27/02)
2002 Dec 28, US federal
unemployment benefits ended for nearly 800,000.
(SFC, 12/28/02, p.A5)
2002 Dec 28, In Yerevan, Armenia,
Tigran Nagdalian, chief of the leading TV station was shot and killed.
In October, Mark Grigorian, deputy head of the Caucasus Institute for
Mass Media, suffered lung and head injuries in a grenade attack.
(AP, 12/29/02)
2002 Dec 28, Iraq delivered a list
to UN officials naming over 500 scientists who have worked on nuclear,
chemical, biological and missile programs.
(AP, 12/28/02)
2002 Dec 28, Israeli troops
clashed with Palestinian university students, a day after four Israelis
died in a Palestinian attack on Jewish seminary students.
(AP, 12/28/02)
2002 Dec 28, Libyan soldiers ended
a yearlong deployment to protect the Central African Republic
government against a string of coup attempts. They were to be replaced
by troops from Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Gabon
and Mali.
(AP, 12/31/02)
2002 Dec 28, The U.N. nuclear
agency said its inspectors would leave North Korea early next week
after the communist state said it would expel them and press on with
its nuclear plans.
(Reuters, 12/28/02)
2002 Dec 28, In Yemen a gunman
shot and killed Jarallah Omar, a senior politician, after Omar spoke as
a guest at an Islamic party's congress at San'a.
(AP, 12/28/02)
2002 Dec 29, Secretary of State
Colin Powell, making the rounds of the Sunday television talk shows,
said there was still time to find a diplomatic resolution to North
Korea's development of nuclear weapons, and that the situation hadn't
yet reached the crisis stage.
(AP, 12/29/03)
2002 Dec 29, Israeli soldiers
fired toward Palestinian protesters in the West Bank and Gaza Strip,
killing an 11-year-old boy and wounding a cameraman on assignment for
AP TV News.
(AP, 12/29/02)
2002 Dec 29, Cyclone Zoe hit the
Solomon Islands' Tikopia, Fataka and Anuta islands, with the eye of the
cyclone sweeping over Tikopia. The islanders survived and aid arrived
Jan 5.
(AP, 12/30/02)(AP, 1/5/03)
2002 Dec 30, Mary Brian (96), film
star born as Louise Byrdie Dantzler, died. She had appeared in 82 films
between 1924 and 1947.
(SFC, 1/4/03, p.A15)
2002 Dec 30, China launched its
Shenzhou IV spacecraft in a test launch to prepare for manned space
voyages.
(SFC, 12/30/02, p.A8)
2002 Dec 30, In England Mary
Wesley (90), who published her first novel when she was 70 and went on
to produce a string of slightly racy best sellers, died. Her books
included "The Camomile Lawn" and "A Sensible Life." In 2006 Patrick
Marnham authored “Wild Mary: The Life of Mary Wesley.”
(AP, 12/31/02)(Econ, 6/10/06, p.87)
2002 Dec 30, In Greece Dora
Bakoyianni (48) was sworn in as the mayor of Athens, the first woman
ever to hold the post.
(AP, 12/30/02)
2002 Dec 30, A fire broke out in
an Iranian prison, killing 27 prisoners and injuring 50 others.
(AP, 12/30/02)
2002 Dec 30, British and US
warplanes flying multiple missions attacked Iraq air defense facilities
after an Iraqi fighter jet penetrated the southern no-fly zone.
(AP, 12/31/02)
2002 Dec 30, In Chechnya rebels
staged attacks on pro-Moscow forces and killed 4 people in Grozny.
(SFC, 12/31/02, p.A7)
2002 Dec 30, Israeli soldiers
killed three Palestinians, including a gunman, while Israel's Supreme
Court ruled that reserve soldiers have no right to refuse service in
the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Border policemen Shahar Botbeka and Denis
Alhazov and 2 others abducted several Hebron residents, among them
17-year-old Amran Abu Hamadiya, and took them for a ride in their jeep.
They abused the men and beat them with truncheons and rifles. They
hurled Abu Hamadiya out of the moving vehicle, causing his death. In
2008 Botbeka and Alhazov were convicted of manslaughter for their
part in the kidnapping and wrongful death of Hamadiya.
(AP,
12/30/02)(www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1017498.html)
2002 Dec 30, In the Ivory
Coast a rebel helicopter bombing killed 12 civilians and injured
several more.
(AP, 1/2/03)
2002 Dec 30, Turkmenistan's high
court rapidly convicted and sentenced Boris Shikhmuradov, a former
foreign minister, to 25 years in prison for plotting an attempt to kill
Pres. Niyazov. Loyalists increased the sentence to life.
(AP, 12/30/02)
2002 Dec 30, The UN passed a
resolution by a 13-0 vote with Russia and Syria abstaining that put new
limits on Iraq for purchases of certain communications equipment and
antibiotics.
(AP, 1/2/03)
2002 Dec 30, In Yemen a suspected
Muslim extremist, hiding his gun cradled like a baby, slipped into the
Jibla Baptist Hospital and opened fire, killing three American
missionaries: Dr. Martha Myers (57), William Koehn (60), and Kathleen
Gariety (53). A 4th was seriously wounding. Abed Abdul Razak Kamel was
sentenced to death in May for killing the missionaries. Kamel was
executed on Feb 27, 2006.
(AP, 12/30/02)(SFC, 12/31/02, p.A4)(AP,
12/30/03)(AP, 2/27/06)
2002 Dec 31, President Bush told
reporters an attack by Saddam Hussein or a terrorist ally "would
cripple our economy."
(AP, 12/31/03)
2002 Dec 31, Paul O’Neill
(b.1935), the 72nd treasury secretary (2001-2002) under Pres. George W.
Bush, was replaced by John Snow. O’Neill had disagreed with the Bush’s
deficit- boosting tax cuts. In 2004 journalist Ron Suskind authored
“The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the
Education of Paul O'Neill”, describing the Bush administration during
O'Neill's tenure.
(Econ, 9/27/08, p.46)
2002 Dec 31, US executions for the
year rose from 66 to71 with 33 in Texas.
(SSFC, 12/29/02, p.A3)
2002 Dec 31, Australia's asylum
seeker detention centers were in turmoil following an attempted mass
breakout and riot in a Sydney centre, an armed stand off at another and
fires burning in two.
(Reuters, 12/31/02)
2002 Dec 31, In China a
German-designed magnetic-levitation train hit 260 mph on its maiden run
between Shanghai and Pudong airport.
(SFC, 1/1/03, p.A10)
2002 Dec 31, Two U.N. nuclear
inspectors expelled by North Korea arrived in China, leaving the
communist nation's nuclear program isolated from international scrutiny.
(AP, 12/31/03)
2002 Dec 31, In Colombia at least
12 people, including eight civilians, were killed in attacks by
suspected rebels around the country.
(AP, 1/1/03)
2002 Dec 31, Mexico City's only
English-language newspaper, The News, shut down along with its sister
Spanish-language publication, Novedades, after more than 50 years in
operation.
(AP, 12/31/02)
2002 Dec 31, In Mexico illegal
fireworks stands ignited in the port city of Veracruz as revelers
thronged a marketplace to buy New Year's supplies. The blaze quickly
engulfed an entire city block and killed at least 28 people.
(AP, 1/1/03)
2002 Dec 31, In Puerto Rico police
recaptured one of five convicts who escaped from prison when a
helicopter swooped into their maximum security compound and spirited
them away.
(AP, 12/31/02)
2002 Dec, In Fort Worth, Texas,
the $65 million Modern Art Museum, opened. It was designed by Tadao
Ando of Japan.
(WSJ, 12/17/02, p.D8)
2002 Dec, In Afghanistan two
inmates died one week apart at the Bagram prison near Kabul. They were
officially said to have died of natural causes but an enquiry later
revealed that they had been beaten, deprived of sleep and kept
constantly chained.
(AFP, 1/9/10)
2002 Dec, Gunmen hired by Ricardo
Salinas Pliego, owner of TV Azteca, took control of a small UHF TV
station in Mexico City.
(WSJ, 2/27/04, p.A1)
2002 Dec, Two thieves broke in
through the roof of the Vincent van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and stole
two paintings by van Gogh valued at $30 million. The men were convicted
a year later, but the paintings were not recovered.
(AP, 2/11/08)
2002 Dec, In Romania Kurt W.
Treptow of Miami Beach, Fl., was sentenced to the maximum of seven
years in for offenses involving two girls, ages 10 and 13, whom he
invited into his home in Iasi. A Romanian woman was also convicted of
being his accomplice. Treptow was released in 2007 after writing a book
entitled "The life and Times of Vlad Dracul" while in prison.
(AP, 2/27/07)
2002 Dec, In Uganda Nile
Breweries, owned by SABMiller began selling a new kind of clear
lager-like beer called Eagle. Industrial enzymes were used to convert
starches in sorghum to sugars. It sold well and expanded to other
countries in the region.
(Econ, 7/12/03, p.59)(Econ, 9/9/06, p.61)
2002 Amir Aczel authored
"Entanglement: The Greatest Mystery in Physics."
(SSFC, 11/10/02, p.M3)
2002 Clara Bingham and Laura Leedy
Gansler authored "Class Action: The Story of Lois Jenson and the
Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law."
(SSFC, 7/14/02, p.M6)
2002 Philip Bobbit, American
professor of Law, authored “The Shield of Achilles: War peace and the
Course of History.”
(Econ, 4/5/08, p.87)
2002 Paul Blustein authored "The
Chastening," an examination of the IMF throughout the 1990s.
(WSJ, 4/18/02, p.D7)
2002 Reuven Brenner authored "The
Force of Finance: The Triumph of Capital Markets." A study of world
finance that examines economic growth and the flow of capital.
"Attitude beats latitude."
(WSJ, 6/13/02, p.D11)
2002 Robert A. Caro authored
"Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate," the 3rd volume of his 4-Vol.
biography of Pres. Johnson that included "The Path to Power" (1982) and
"Means of Ascent" (1990).
(WSJ, 5/1/02, p.D7)(SSFC, 5/5/02, p.M2)
2002 John Cassidy authored
"Dot.Con: The Greatest Story Ever Sold."
(WSJ, 2/1/02, p.AW8)
2002 Christopher Chant authored "A
Century of Triumph: The History of Aviation."
(WSJ, 11/1/02, p.W10)
2002 The "Harvard Design School
Guide to Shopping" was edited by Chuihua Judy Chung, Jeffrey Inaba, Rem
Koolhaas and Sze Tsung Leong. "Not only is shopping melting into
shopping, but everything is melting into shopping."
(SSFC, 2/24/02, p.M6)
2002 Eliot A. Cohen authored
"Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen and Leadership in Wartime." He
covered how Lincoln, Churchill, Clemenceau and Ben-Gurion handled the
military men that served them.
(WSJ, 6/27/02, p.D9)
2002 Richard Cohen authored "A
History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers and Olympic
Champions."
(SSFC, 12/8/02, p.M3)
2002 Tyler Cowen authored
"Creative Destruction: How Globalization Is Changing the World's
Cultures."
(WSJ, 12/12/02, p.D10)
2002 Curt Coughlin authored
"Saddam: King of Terror."
(SSFC, 11/24/02, p.M1)
2002 Michael Crichton authored
"Prey," an novel that portrayed a mayhem of nanotechnology mixed with
biotechnology.
(WSJ, 11/22/02, p.W10)
2002 Devra Davis authored "When
Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle
Against Pollution."
(SSFC, 12/22/02, p.M5)
2002 In Turkey Abdurrahman
Dilipak, an Islamist, and Sanar Yurdatapan, an atheist, authored "Red
and Green," or "Green and Red," on current questions of faith and
social issues such as the role of women.
(SFC, 11/29/02, p.K4)
2002 Orlando Figes authored
"Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia."
(SSFC, 11/3/02, p.M6)
2002 Dr. P.M. Forni, an Italian
immigrant, authored “Choosing Civility: The Twenty-five Rules of
Considerate Conduct.” The book was adopted by Columbia, Maryland, a
city founded as an experiment in urban idealism.
(WSJ, 4/5/08, p.A1)
2002 Carlos Fuentes published his
novel “La silla del aguila,” in Mexico. In 2006 an English translation
by Kristina Cordero was published as “The Eagle’s Throne.”
(SSFC, 5/27/06, p.M1)
2002 Francis Fukuyama authored
"Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution," a
warning against the potentials of the new biotech marvels. He
identifies "Factor X" as the essence of human nature and defines it as:
"the capacity to combine reason, language, moral choice and emotions in
ways that produce politics, art and religion.'
(WSJ, 4/9/02, p.D19)(SSFC, 4/21/02, p.M1)
2002 John Lewis Gaddis authored
"The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past."
(SSFC, 12/15/02, p.M7)
2002 Lou Gerstner (b.1942)),
former CEO of IBM (1993-2002), authored, "Who Says Elephants Can't
Dance," an account of his leadership at IBM.
(SFC, 11/18/02, p.E1)(Econ, 10/25/08, SR p.13)
2002 Larry Gonick authored "The
Cartoon History of the Universe III: From the Rise of Arabia to the
Renaissance."
(SSFC, 12/1/02, p.M4)
2002 Stephen Jay Gould authored
"The Structure of Evolutionary Theory," an elaboration of his
punctuated equilibrium theory, an update of Darwin's evolutionary ideas.
(SSFC, 4/14/02, p.M1)
2002 Thomas Hine authored "I Want
That: How We All Became Shoppers," a cultural history of shopping.
(SSFC, 12/8/02, p.M1)
2002 Alistaire Horne authored
"Seven Ages of Paris," a history of the city.
(SSFC, 12/1/02, p.M6)
2002 Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
authored "Rereading Sex: Battles over Sexual Knowledge and suppression
in Nineteenth-Century America.
(SSFC, 9/8/02, p.M2)
2002 Merritt Lerley authored
"Wondrous Contrivances," a history of technological progress.
(WSJ, 2/27/02, p.A18)
2002 Derrick Jensen authored "The
Culture of Make Believe," a look at the consequences of Western
civilization's relentless quest for money.
(SSFC, 4/21/02, p.M6)
2002 Roger Kimbell authored "The
Lives of the Mind: The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to
Wodehouse."
(WSJ, 10/18/02, p.W17)(WSJ, 11/7/02, p.D8)
2002 Andrew Kimbrell edited "Fatal
Harvest: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture," an encyclopedia of
what's gone wrong with how we provide food in the modern world.
(SSFC, 6/23/02, p.M6)
2002 Robin Kirk authored "More
Terrible Than Death," an account of the violence in Colombia.
(WSJ, 1/16/03, p.D8)
2002 Peter Kivy authored "The
Possessor and the Possessed," in which he explores the philosophical
ideas about creativity.
(WSJ, 1/17/02, p.A12)
2002 James Howard Kunstler
authored "The City in Mind," a comparison of Europe's urban centers
with those in the US.
(WSJ, 1/7/02, p.A1)
2002 Mark Kurlansky authored
"Salt: A World History."
(SSFC, 1/27/02, p.M6)
2002 Mario Livio authored "The
Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number."
Also known as the golden mean of golden section, phi represents the
following relationship of 2 lines in a plane figure: A is to B as B is
to the sum of A and B.
(WUD, 1994 p.607)(SSFC, 12/1/02, p.M4)
2002 Sandra Mackey authored "The
Reckoning: Iraq and the Legacy of Saddam Hussein."
(SSFC, 6/30/02, p.M1)
2002 Adeline Yen Mah authored "A
Thousand Pieces of Gold: A Memoir of China's Past Through Its Proverbs."
(SSFC, 11/3/02, p.M1)
2002 David Matsumoto authored "The
New Japan: Debunking Seven Cultural Stereotypes."
(SSFC, 8/4/02, p.M5)
2002 William McDonough and Michael
Braungart authored “Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things.”
(Econ, 6/9/07, TQ p.26)
2002 Colin McGinn authored "The
Making of a Philosopher: My Journey Through 20th Century Philosophy."
(SSFC, 5/12/02, p.M2)(WSJ, 5/21/02, p.D7)
2002 Midori, a San Francisco sex
educator, authored “The Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage.”
(SSFC, 2/10/08, p.F3)
2002 "The Sexual Life of Catherine
M. by Catherine Millet" was published in the US following a
successful introduction in France.
(NW, 5/27/02, p.70)
2002 Joshua Muravchik authored
"Heaven On Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism." He traced the
history of socialism through the notable devotees of collective
ownership: Marx, Engels, Lenin etc.
(WSJ, 4/1/02, p.A10)
2002 Lt. Col. John Nagl authored
“Learning to Eat with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya
and Vietnam.
(WSJ, 3/20/06, p.A1)
2002 Susan Nieman authored "Evil
in Modern Thought." It included a look at the philosophical traditions
with respect to moral sense.
(WSJ, 9/3/02, p.D8)
2002 Mark A. Noll authored
"America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln," a treatment
of American religious thought and the genesis of American civilization.
(WSJ, 12/17/02, p.D8)
2002 Michael Novak authored "On
Two Wings: Humble Faith and Common Sense at the American Founding."
(WSJ, 2/4/02, p.A14)
2002 Joseph S. Nye authored "The
Paradox of American Power: Why the World's Only Superpower Can't Go It
Alone."
(SSFC, 3/24/02, p.M4)
2002 Kristen O’Hara authored “Sex
as Nature Intended It.” O’Hara claimed that women are more likely to
enjoy intercourse if their male partner is uncircumcised.
(SSFC, 7/15/07, p.F3)
2002 The family of Christopher
Paolini (18) self-published his book "Eragon" before it captivated a
young stepson of author Carl Hiassen, who brought the book to the
attention of his publisher. "Eragon" was republished in 2003 by Random
House's Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers. Paolini was
home-schooled in Montana.
(AP, 9/18/05)
2002 Kevin Phillips authored
"Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich," in
which he traced the progress of corruption, luxury and speculation in
America.
(WSJ, 5/15/02, p.D7)(SSFC, 6/2/02, p.M1)
2002 Steven Pinker authored "The
Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature," an examination of
human nature and the political implications that follow the explication
of human behavior.
(WSJ, 9/26/02, p.D10)(SSFC, 10/20/02, p.M2)
2002 Ellen Joan Pollock authored
"The Pretender: How Martin Frankel Fooled the Financial World…"
(WSJ, 1/7/02, p.C1)
2002 Kenneth M. Pollack authored
"The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq."
(WSJ, 10/10/02, p.D10)
2002 Richard Porter authored “The
Economics of Waste.”
(Econ, 2/28/09, SR p.6)
2002 Richard A. Possner, federal
judge, authored "Public Intellectuals," a critical look at current
intellectuals.
(WSJ, 1/15/02, p.A14)
2002 Konstantin Pulikovsky, a
Russian representative in North Korea, authored "Orient Express," a
book on Kim Jong Il's journeys to Russia.
(SFC, 12/6/02, p.J3)
2002 Ahmed Rashid, author of
"Taliban," authored "The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia."
(SSFC, 3/3/02, p.M1)
2002 Jasper Ridley authored "The
Freemasons: A History of the World's Most Powerful Secret Society."
(WSJ, 2/6/02, p.A16)
2002 David Rieff authored "A Bed
for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis," a history of humanitarianism.
(SSFC, 11/24/02, p.M5)
2002 Mark Robichaux authored
"Cable Cowboy: John Malone and the Rise of the Modern Cable Business."
(WSJ, 10/31/02, p.A1)
2002 Olivier Roy authored
“Globalised Islam: The Search for a New Ummah.” 1st published in
French, an updated English version came out in 2004.
(Econ, 10/16/04, p.79)
2002 Matthew Scully authored
"Dominion: The Power of Man, the suffering of Animals, and the Call to
Mercy," in which he pleaded for the humane treatment of animals.
(WSJ, 10/30/02, p.D8)
2002 Peter Schweizer authored
"Reagan's War: The Epic Story of His Forty-Year Struggle and Final
Triumph Over Communism." Peter J. Wallison authored the biography
"Ronald Reagan."
(SSFC, 11/10/02, p.M6)(WSJ, 12/24/02, p.D4)
2002 George Soros authored "On
Globalization."
(WSJ, 3/14/02, p.B1)
2002 Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize
winner (2001), authored "Globalization and Its Discontents," in which
he explains how the IMF affects the world.
(SSFC, 7/21/02, p.M5)(Econ, 9/9/06, p.78)
2002 Charles Taylor authored
"Varieties of Religion Today," an update on the 1902 book by William
James.
(WSJ, 3/18/02, p.A16)
2002 Dick Teresi authored "Lost
Discoveries: The Ancient Roots of Modern Science—from the Babylonians
to the Maya."
(WSJ, 12/11/02, p.D8)
2002 Elijah Wald authored
"Narcocorrido: A Journey Into the Music of Drugs, Guns and Guerrillas."
(WSJ, 3/20/02, p.A20)
2002 Stuart Walton authored "Out
of It: A Cultural History of Intoxication." It was survey of drug use
and misuse over the last 6,000 years.
(SSFC, 11/3/02, p.M4)
2002 Rick Warren, Texas
evangelical preacher, authored his multi-million seller “The Purpose
Driven Life.” It became the best-selling hardcover in American history.
(Econ, 1/8/05, p.31)(WSJ, 1/27/08, p.B8)(WSJ,
1/27/08, p.B8)
2002 James D. Watson authored
"Genes, Girls and Gamow: After the Double Helix."
(SSFC, 2/10/02, p.M2)
2002 Stephen R. Weisman authored
“The Great Tax Wars,” a survey of the US income tax since 1913.
(WSJ, 9/25/02, p.D8)
2002 Robert Whitaker authored "Mad
in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine and the Enduring Mistreatment of
the Mentally Ill."
(SSFC, 4/18/04, p.F5)
2002 Bernard Williams authored
"Truth and Truthfulness: An Essay in Genealogy." It tempered the
postmodernist line that "truth expresses no more than the power of some
individual or group to impose its view of things on everyone else."
(SSFC, 9/22/02, p.M2)
2002 Edward O. Wilson authored
"The Future of Life," a discussion of the biodiversity crises.
(SSFC, 1/20/02, p.M2)
2002 Caroline Winterer authored
"The Culture of Classicism," a history of the study of classicism in
America during the 18th and 19th centuries.
(WSJ, 1/28/02, p.A13)
2002 Stephen Wolfram (42) authored
"A New Kind of Science." He expanded on the idea that very simple rules
can generate extremely complicated results." It included insights from
computer technology to explain everything.
(SFC, 5/27/02, p.59)(SFC, 7/1/02, p.A4)
2002 Patrick Wright authored
"Tank: The Progress of a Monstrous War Machine."
(SSFC, 8/4/02, p.M6)
2002 The Spanish pop song
"Asereje" (The Ketchup Song), by the Munoz sisters (Lola, Lucia and
Pilar Munoz) became a hit.
(SFC, 11/30/02, p.D1)
2002 Heinz introduced the upside
down squeezable ketchup bottle.
(AH, 6/07, p.11)
2002 The 1st Int’l. knitting
contest was held in NYC. The winner managed 180 stitches in 3 minutes.
(WSJ, 2/28/05, p.A1)
2002 Pres. Bush unveiled a new
fund called the Millennium Challenge Account to fund honest governments
pursuing sound economic policies. Its 1st grant, made to Madagascar on
Apr 18, 2005, was for $110 million.
(Econ, 4/23/05, p.75)
2002 The USDA approved definitions
and standards regarding organic wines for domestic winemakers and
imported wine, effective with the 2003 vintage.
(WSJ, 5/12/06, p.W6)
2002 The Fraud Discovery Institute
of San Diego, Ca., co-founded by Barry Minkow (b.1967), former CEO of
ZZZZ Best (1982-1987), released its first software product. Minkow was
himself convicted of fraud in 1987 and served 7 years in prison
(1988-1995).
(http://tinyurl.com/qg2g7)(www.frauddiscovery.net/barrybio.html)
2002 In San Francisco Dave Eggers
opened 826 Valencia, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center for youth.
The idea was later replicated in half a dozen cities nationwide.
(SFC, 11/24/09, p.A12)
2002 San Francisco’s MUNI planned
to have completed a 150-room boutique hotel and shopping complex across
from the Ferry Building.
(SFC, 10/2/97, p.A17)
2002 San Francisco sent the Murphy
windmill cap in golden Gate park to the Netherlands for restoration.
(SFC, 6/26/02, p.A18)
2002 In San Francisco St. John’s
Evangelical Lutheran Church at 3134 22nd St. was sold for $2.5 million
the United Int’l. World Buddhism Assoc. The church dated back to the
1900s.
(SFC, 12/31/04, p.B5)
2002 John P. Rogers (b.1966), a
failing entrepreneur from Minnesota, founded Pay By Touch in San
Francisco, a firm seeking to use biometric authentication to transform
how America pays its bills. Rogers had a record of cocaine abuse that
went back to his time in Minnesota. By 2007 the firm failed following
investments of some $340 million.
(SSFC, 12/7/08, p.A1)
2002 Architect Frank Gehry founded
Gehry Technologies. The company developed software based on the CATIA
product design tool by Dassault Systems, and later marketed it as
Digital Project, a building information modeling (BIM) tool.
(Econ, 6/7/08, TQ p.20)
2002 Carl Schramm took over as
head of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, based in Kansas City,
Missouri.
(Econ, 11/5/05, p.72)
2002 eBay bought PayPal, founded
by Elon Musk, for $1.5 billion in shares.
(Econ, 5/22/04, p.71)(Econ, 3/24/07, p.78)
2002 Bram Cohen created
BitTorrent, an online file sharing program. It increased the download
time for large files by breaking them into pieces and reassembling them
on arrival.
(SSFC, 8/6/06, p.F3)
2002 Friendster pioneered social
networking via Web sites. It was funded by entrepreneur Jonathan
Abrams. In 2006 Friendster was granted a patent covering “a method and
apparatus for calculating, displaying and acting upon relationships in
a social network.”
(WSJ, 7/27/06, p.B1)
2002 Yahoo acquired Inktomi.
(SFC, 2/2/08, p.C1)
2002 Hewlett-Packard introduced
the 1st rewritable DVD system compatible with standard DVD players.
(SFC, 1/13/01, p.A15)
2002 The average CEO in the US
earned 282 times the salary of an average worker. In 1982 the ratio was
42 to 1.
(WSJ, 4/12/04, p.R11)
2002 Losses for the 9 biggest US
airlines totaled 11.2 billion for the year.
(WSJ, 1/2/04, p.R8)
2002 NASA removed 5 of 9 safety
panel members and 2 consultants following a report that safety problems
loomed if the agency's budget was not increased.
(SSFC, 2/3/03, p.A1)
2002 In Utah Waldo Wilcox deeded
his Range Creek Canyon lands to the public for $2.5 million as part of
a conservation deal. He had sold the property to the Trust for Public
Land in 2001 for $2.5 million.
(WSJ, 1/31/06, p.B6)(Sm, 3/06, p.70)
2002 Mayor Michael Bloomberg took
charge of NYC’s school system. He soon opened 15 small high schools. In
2003 he got money from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help
open 169 more.
(Econ, 1/20/07, p.41)
2002 Google’s index surpassed 3
billion Web pages.
(SFC, 2/2/08, p.C1)
2002 LinkedIn, a Silicon Valley
startup, was founded by Reid Hoffman to manage his own network of
business contacts.
(Econ, 9/27/08, p.76)
2002 The US prison population grew
2.6% to 2.1 million.
(WSJ, 7/28/03, p.A1)
2002 The US Geological Survey
estimated there may be 1.9 trillion cubic feet of gas in the Marcellus
Shale of Pennsylvania. In 2008 Prof. Terry Engelder of Pennsylvania
State Univ. estimated the amount at 168 trillion cubic feet. US
consumption in 2007 was 23.05 trillion.
(WSJ, 4/2/08, p.A2)
2002 World oil production reached
nearly 67 million barrels per day.
(SSFC, 3/21/04, p.J3)
2002 US soldiers at Bagram air
base roughed up an Afghan prisoner named Dilawar, who died shortly
after a 5-day beating. In 2005 an Army interrogator pleaded guilty to
assault and was demoted. Several other soldiers faced charges. In 2005
an Ohio-based Army reservist was reduced to private for the beating.
(SFC, 8/4/05, p.A5)(SFC, 8/19/05, p.A3)
2002 Angola’s TAAG Airlines lost
its monopoly of air transportation and was forced to adopt to new
market conditions.
(Econ, 1/5/08, Angola p.6)
2002 In Bangladesh Operation Clean
Heart rooted thousands of Rohingyas, dark-skinned members of a poor,
Muslin minority from Myanmar, from local villages. Myanmar’s ruling
junta called them residents of Rakhine state, pressed them into slave
labor and severely restricted their rights to travel and marry. This
led to the Rohingya border camp named Tal, on the banks of the Naf
River in Bangladesh.
(Econ, 12/1/07, p.56)
2002 Bangladesh enacted acid
control laws as the country recorded 490 cases of acid attacks. An
attacker would face at a minimum seven years in jail or even the death
penalty. Such attacks dropped to 187 in 2007, the 5th consecutive year
of decline.
(AFP, 3/23/08)
2002 Gary McKinnon was caught in
London and after breaking into 97 US military and NASA computers, while
allegedly searching for UFO’s. His hacking from 2001-2002 caused an
estimated $700,000 of damage. In 2008 McKinnon (42) was diagnosed with
Asperger’s syndrome. He also lost an appeal against being extradited to
the US to face charges. In 2009 he offered to plead guilty to a
criminal charge in Britain to avoid extradition to the United States.
(SFC, 7/31/08, p.A14)(AP, 1/12/09)(Econ, 8/8/09,
p.51)
2002 Canada’s Research in Motion
(RIM) lost a patent infringement suit to NTP, a company comprised of
little more than lawyers and the patents of Thomas Campana (d.2004),
the holder of over 50 patents on wireless-data systems.
(Econ, 11/26/05, p.76)
2002 The World RPS Society,
promoters of the rock-paper-scissors game, held its 1st int’l.
tournament in Toronto, Canada. Pete Lovering of Toronto won the
competition.
(WSJ, 3/3/06, p.A1)
2002 In Chile a census counted 15%
of the population claiming to be evangelicals, a Latin America synonym
for Protestants.
(Econ, 11/8/08, p.52)
2002 In China the International
Trade City Mall opened in Zhejiang province. The giant 4-story mall had
30,000 stores across 18 million square feet, the equivalent of 350
football fields.
(SFC, 12/8/06, p.A31)
2002 China began constructing a
$3.2 billion railroad to Tibet, to be completed in 2007.
(SFC, 11/5/03, p.A13)
2002 China announced a $5.25
billion East-West natural gas project. A Western consortium backed out
in 2004.
(WSJ, 8/4/04, p.A11)
2002 Citigroup paid $70 million
for a 4.6% stake in Shanghai Pudong Development, China’s 8th largest
bank. In 2006 it pushed to raise the stake to 19.9%.
(Econ, 5/20/06, Survey p.21)
2002 Bankers looted some $483
million from the Bank of China in the southern Guangdong province and
then fled the country.
(WSJ, 8/4/03, p.A1)
2002 China took over its whole
portion of the Internet naming system as part of its program to control
Internet access.
(WSJ, 2/13/06, p.A9)
2002 Tencent Holdings PLC, a
Chinese Internet company, designed a virtual currency payment system
for users in its virtual world. The system caught on and users began
trading it at a discount to the yuan. In 2007 Chinese ministries and
the central bank waged a crackdown on the QQ coin in order to prevent
money laundering.
(WSJ, 3/30/07, p.B1)
2002 China's exports totaled $325
billion.
(Econ, 12/20/03, p.98)
2002 China surpassed the US as
Taiwan's top trading partner.
(WSJ, 4/20/04, p.A18)
2002 China surpassed the US to
become the world's largest beer market by volume.
(WSJ, 3/10/04, p.A1)(WSJ, 3/904, p.A1)
2002 Official Chinese statistics
said some 7,000 miners died in accidents in this year.
(SFC, 4/3/03, p.D1)
2002 A UN analysis of timber
statistics for 2002 showed China's reported import of logs from
Indonesia to be 200 times higher that the figures reported by
Indonesian customs.
(WSJ, 12/23/03, p.A12)
2002 China and ASEAN agreed to a
China-ASEAN free-trade area to be implemented in stages up to 2015.
(Econ, 3/31/07, SR p.8)
2002 The Colombia coffee
federation, set up in 1927, began opening local coffee shops under the
Valdez name. Juan Valdez, an idealized coffee farmer, and his mule
Conchita became the public face of Colombian coffee in the 1960s.
(Econ, 10/1/05, p.37)
2002 Dubai began creating a
world-class financial centre as part of its diversification into
service industries before running out of oil and gas.
(Econ, 7/10/04, p.64)
2002 Egypt expelled Amr Khaled, a
Muslim minister, for attracting large crowds at Cairo mosques. Khaled
moved to the US and beamed TV programs to Egypt and the rest of the
Arab world. His broadcast aired on Iqra, a Saudi-owned religious
satellite channel and he spoke out against terrorism and despair.
(SSFC, 2/26/06, p.A15)
2002 Egypt’s economy expanded
about 3.2% in 2001 and 2002. The population stood at about 67 million.
(WSJ, 1/18/02, p.A1)(WSJ, 8/6/04, p.A7)
2002 The EU set up Eurojust to
help prosecutors with the worst cross-border crimes.
(Econ, 6/10/06, p.52)
2002 An EU regulation forced banks
to charge no more for cross-border transfers within the euro area of up
to 12,500 euros than they did for domestic ones.
(Econ, 3/31/07, p.82)
2002 The EU decided to go ahead
and launch a satellite navigation network, Galileo, to rival America's
Global Positioning System (GPS). Operations were scheduled to begin in
2008.
(Econ, 1/31/04, p.78)
2002 The European hedge fund
charity ARK (Absolute Return for Kids) was established to provide AIDS
treatment in Africa, to help children in orphanages in eastern Europe
and to finance education in Britain.
(Econ, 6/2/07,
p.80)(www.arkonline.org/about/our_mission.html)
2002 Mayor Bertand Delanoe
inaugurated Paris Plages in 2002, filling sections of the left and
right banks of the Seine with sand and installing spray misters,
hammocks, parasols and other beach-style accoutrements. In 2006 Paris
City Hall has banned thong bikinis, topless sunbathing and nudity at
the summer sand-in-the-city event.
(AP, 7/29/06)
2002 Paris businessman Tawfiq
Mathlouthi launched Mecca Cola.
(SFC, 6/27/03, p.D1)
2002 Arcelor Corp., a European
steelmaker, was created following the merger of France’s Usinor,
Spain’s Aceralia, and Luxembourg’s Arbed.
(Econ, 2/4/06, p.56)
2002 Pres. Omar Bongo decided to
preserve a tenth of Gabon's 103,000 square miles in 13 nature preserves
based on stories and photographs by Mike Fay and Nick Nichols.
(SSFC, 10/5/03, p.D10)
2002 The German film “Nirgendwo in
Afrika” (Nowhere in Africa) won an Oscar.
(Econ, 2/3/07, p.83)
2002 Gibraltar’s 2.5-sq. mile area
was home to some 23,000 people.
(WSJ, 4/8/02, p.A8)
2002 In Guatemala anti-drug forces
led a bloody raid on Chocon, a corn-growing village. 2 locals were
killed but no drug seizures were made. In 2003 16 members of the drug
force were sentenced to 25 years in prison for the violent raid.
(AP, 4/10/03)
2002 Zach Niles, Banker White and
Chris Veland, novice American filmmakers, visited Guinea and discovered
a group of musicians in the Sembakounya Refugee Camp called the Refugee
All Stars. Members had left Sierra Leone in 1999. Niles and White made
a film of the group, which gained int’l recognition and by 2006
organized a tour for the group in the US.
(SFC, 7/13/06, p.E1)
2002 Guinea-Bissau Pres. Kumba
Yala dissolved Parliament and delayed elections 3 times.
(AP, 10/6/03)
2002 Indonesia passed legislation
to create its Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), which was
established in 2003.
(Econ, 9/27/08,
p.54)(www.icac.org.hk/newsl/issue22eng/button3.htm)
2002 Israel closed to Palestinians
the West Bank section of Route 443 linking Jerusalem and Tel Aviv,
after militants shot at Israeli vehicles on the highway and killed
several motorists.
(AP, 12/30/09)
2002 A stone ossuary, looted from
a Jerusalem cave, was found by a French scholar with an Aramaic
inscription that read "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus." In 2003
the stone ossuary was declared a fake. In 2008 Nina Burleigh authored
“Unholy Business: A True Tale of Faith, Greed & Forgery in the Holy
Land.”
(WSJ, 10/20/08, p.A17)
2002 Tsutomu Yamaguchi
(1916-2010), twice-victim of the 1945 nuclear bombs in Japan, published
a collection of 31-syllable poems (tanka) that reflected on his WWII
ordeal.
(Econ, 1/16/10,
p.85)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_Yamaguchi)
2002 Tokyo Electric Power shut its
17 nuclear reactors after it was caught falsifying safety records to
hide cracks at some plants.
(Econ, 7/25/05, p.58)
2002 Abdul Razak Baginda helped
Malaysia negotiate the purchase of French submarines.
(WSJ, 3/29/07, p.A13)
2002 Mexico ended its visa
requirement for Brazilians as both countries liberalized their trade
regimes. Illegal immigration of Brazilians to the US via Mexico quickly
increased.
(WSJ, 1/24/05, p.A16)
2002 Alyn Ware of New Zealand, a
campaigner against nuclear weapons, established a network of lawmakers
worldwide to campaign against nuclear weapons at the UN.
(AP, 10/13/09)
2002 Niger’s population of
about 11 million was 90% Muslim.
(WSJ, 1/2/98, p.8)(WSJ, 5/10/02, p.A5)
2002 North Korea’s first cyber
cafe opened. Access to the Internet was highly restricted.
(Econ, 2/3/07, p.43)
2002 The freighter Turubong 1
sailed from the North Korean port of Chongjin. Somewhere in the Sea of
Japan off the coast of the quiet village of Sakaiminato, its crew
dumped 522 pounds of amphetamines overboard for retrieval by smugglers.
In 2006 Japanese police made their first arrests in the case, seven
Japanese and a South Korean intermediary. Authorities said North Korea
was involved as a government.
(AP, 8/11/06)
2002 In Peru Huberth and Gerson
Jara founded their nonfiction magazine Etiqueta Negra.
(SFC, 3/21/06, p.E1)(www.etiquetanegra.com.pe)
2002 The Philippine budget deficit
was 5.4% of GDP. Mineral reserves were estimated at $840 billion.
(Econ, 3/26/05, p.72)(Econ, 7/22/06, p.63)
2002 In Romania almost 90% of the
country’s people at this time were Eastern Orthodox and 1% Eastern Rite
Catholics.
(SFC, 5/25/02, p.A27)
2002 Russia changed its
citizenship law to allow massive distribution of passports to people in
the Abkhazia and South Ossetia regions of Georgia.
(Econ, 10/3/09, p.65)
2002 Over 21,000 people were
murdered in South Africa this year.
(Econ, 10/11/03, p.52)
2002 South African Breweries
bought America’s Miller Brewing for $5.6 billion.
(Econ, 5/15/04, p.64)
2002 Spain planed to abolish the
draft by the end of this year and to reduce its military to about
168,000.
(SFEC, 10/31/99, p.A28)
2002 The Web site Hoopshype.com
was started by 3 young men from Spain. By 2008 the site was attracting
half a million unique visitors a month.
(WSJ, 3/21/08, p.W1)
2002 In Sudan the Machakos
Protocol outlined steps necessary to achieve peace.
(WSJ, 10/22/03, p.A4)
2002 The Sudan Peace Act
threatened a series of US diplomatic actions against Sudan’s Islamist
regime if it did not end its civil war against Christian and animist
tribes in the south.
(WSJ, 5/26/04, p.A1)
2002 Swaziland's King Mswati III
abducted a schoolgirl for his 10th wife.
(Econ, 2/18/06, p.48)
2002 In Sweden gunmen stole about
$5.6 million in foreign currency being unloaded from a plane at
Stockholm's Arlanda airport. Several suspects were arrested, but all
were released due to lack of evidence.
(AP, 3/8/06)
2002 A European firm won a $43
million settlement against the Ukraine state in a dispute over an
oil-refinery contract. Ukraine refused to pay and the company seized 2
Ruslan transport planes, one in Canada and one in Brussels.
(WSJ, 1/19/05, p.A1)
2002 Uzbekistan lifted official
censorship.
(Econ, 3/27/04, p.44)
2002 In Venezuela Pres. Chavez cut
off supplies to Industrias Veneco Ca after CEO Pedro Carmona’s brief
2-day coup. Franklin Duran and Carlos Kauffman purchased Veneco and the
company grew with new government contracts.
(WSJ, 3/10/08, p.A5)
2002 The World Bank committed $3.5
billion to Turkey in this year.
(WSJ, 4/2/03, p.A14)
2002 Under Venezuelan President
Hugo Chavez, the Oct 12 holiday name Día de la Raza was changed
to Día de la Resistencia Indígena (Day of Indigenous
Resistance) to commemorate the Indigenous peoples' resistance to
European settlement. Between 1921 and 2002, Venezuela had celebrated
Día de la Raza along with many other Latin American nations. The
holiday was officially established in 1921 under President Juan Vicente
Gomez.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_Indigenous_Resistance)
2002 Zambia eliminated school fess
for elementary-level students. This increased the proportion of student
attendance to 85% in 2004 from 71% in 2000. At the same time mandatory
extra fees were imposed on parents and class sizes increased to 80 or
more pupils.
(WSJ, 3/21/07, p.B11)
2002 Zambia’s former Pres.
Frederick Chiluba divorced his wife. Mrs. Chiluba tried to sue him for
$400 million, her alleged share of the riches he had stolen over a
decade in power. Her case was dismissed.
(Econ, 12/18/04, p.61)
2002 A number of elephants were
killed in Zambia this year as verified by studies of DNA completed in
2007. 37 tested tusks matched elephant genetics in Zambia and nearby
regions.
(Econ, 3/3/07, p.83)
2002 Zimbabwe held a census but
results were not made public. In 2004 the population was reported to be
11.6 million. Normal growth should have put the number at 14 million.
(Econ, 11/27/04, p.48)
2002-2004 The US funneled $57.8 million to the
Ukraine to support of pro-Democracy activities.
(SSFC, 12/19/04, p.A3)
2002-2006 America’s population was later estimated to
have increased by some 500,000 illegal immigrants per year during this
period.
(Econ, 1/5/08, SR p.4)
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