Timeline November 2002
Return to home
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, 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 resolution 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 and Alabama, killing at least 36 people. More than
100 were injured.
(AP, 11/11/02)(SFC, 11/12/02, p.A4)
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 U.S. counter
terrorism officials said is probably authentic.
(AP, 11/13/02)
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, Iraq accepted a tough
new U.N. resolution that will return U.N. weapons inspectors to the
country after nearly four years.
(AP, 11/13/02)
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 Yanukovich, 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, 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 U.N.
resolution to disarm.
(AP, 11/21/02)
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 22-23, 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 when plants
modernize.
(WSJ, 11/25/02, p.A1)
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 rapidly through
the forests of British Columbia, Canada's largest lumber exporting
province, with the deadly insects now found in a area nearly
three-quarters the size of Sweden.
(Reuters, 11/22/02)
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 ages 26, 19, and 18; and a girl of 16.
(AP, 11/23/02)
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.
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(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, 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, 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)
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