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. He was
convicted of kidnapping and murdering Metzler and sentenced to life
in prison. In 2011 Gaefgen was awarded euro3,000 ($4,290) in damages
because a police officer had threatened violence during an
interrogation.
(AP, 10/1/02)(AP, 4/11/03)(AP, 8/4/11)
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 (1938-2003) $850,000 in
medical costs and $28 billion in punitive damages against Philip
Morris. On Dec 18 a judge reduced the punitive award to $28 million.
The punitive portion was reduced to $13.8 million in 2009. This was
upheld by a state appeals court in 2011.
(SFC, 10/5/02, p.A2)(SFC, 12/19/02, p.A8)(SFC,
8/18/11, p.C6)
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, Gul Rahman,
suspected of links to al-Qaida, was picked up from a home in
Islamabad and taken with four other people to a CIA black site
called the Salt Pit near the Kabul Airport. He was stripped naked,
doused in cold water and then left to die in the CIA-run prison.
Rahman died Nov. 20, 2002, but his identity was not known until
revealed by an Associated Press investigation in March 2010.
(AP, 1/5/11)
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, The US enacted the
Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act (ATPDEA) as a
replacement for the similar Andean Trade Preference Act (ATPA). It
granted duty-free access to a wide range of exports from Bolivia,
Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andean_Trade_Promotion_and_Drug_Eradication_Act)
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 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, 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, “Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the
South China Sea,” with ASEAN (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)(www.aseansec.org/13163.htm)
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, San Francisco
voters approved Measure F, legislation to create a civilian
entertainment commission to oversee entertainment permits. This was
previously handled by the police department. The Board of
Supervisors had adopted the ordinance, authored by Sup Mark Leno,
creating an Entertainment Commission. The 7-member Entertainment
Commission will begin work in July 2003. SF voters approved a $1.6
billion bond measure to rebuild the Hetch Hetchy water system. Prop
D, a city public power proposal, lost. Prop N, the Care Not Cash
homeless reform measure of Sup. Gavin Newsom, passed. Prop O, Sup.
Ammiano’s measure to limit Prop N, lost.
(www.smartvoter.org/2002/11/05/ca/sf/meas/F/)(SFC, 11/7/02, p.A25)
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. The Saudi of Yemeni descent was captured in Dubai and flown
to a CIA prison in Afghanistan and then onto Thailand where he was
waterboarded and interrogated. He had allegedly planned the Oct 12,
2000, attack on the US Navy destroyer Cole.
(AP, 11/21/02)(SFC, 9/29/11, p.A2)
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. Some 200 people died in ensuing
riots and the writer of the article was forced to flee to Norway.
(AP, 11/21/02)(Econ, 4/30/11, p.72)
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 PM 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, China signed a
preliminary agreement with Indonesia aimed at halting the trade in
illegal logs. 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 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 Orlando Figes authored
"Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia."
(SSFC, 11/3/02, p.M6)
2002 Richard Florida authored
“The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work,
Leisure, Community And Everyday Life.”
(Econ, 9/10/11, SR p.10)
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 Richard Hunter authored
“World without Secrets: Business, Crime and Privacy in the Age of
Ubiquitous Computing.”
(http://tinyurl.com/4c9c2lo)(Econ, 2/26/11, p.77)
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 Michael Williams, British
geographer, authored “Deforesting the Earth: From Prehistory to
Global Crisis, An Abridgment.”
(www.amazon.com/Deforesting-Earth-Prehistory-Global-Crisis/dp/0226899268)
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 documentary film
“Daughter from Danang” was created by Gail Dolgin (d.2010 at 65).
The film was about the reunion of an Asian American woman and her
mother in Vietnam, separated in the 1975 “Operation Babylift.”
(SFC, 10/22/10, p.D9)
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 The Transglobal Secure
Collaboration Program (TSCP) was founded as concerns of data
leakage, intellectual property protection, and export control
compliance began to rise. It was a cooperative effort by the leading
defense and aerospace firms, supported by the US Department of
Defense (DoD) and the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) to develop a
framework of policies and mechanisms to enable secure collaboration
across multiple jurisdictions.
(http://tinyurl.com/3sfx69x)
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 Alabama’s William E.
Donaldson Correctional Facility began a meditation program. The
Vispassana program had been successfully used in India for decades,
but was soon shut down over concerns by Christians that it was some
sort of evangelical Buddhism. The program was re-instated in 2006
and by had 2007 led to 20% fewer disciplinary actions at the prison.
(SFC, 2/3/11, p.A12)
2002 In Massachusetts a US
marshal knocked on the door of Lithuanian immigrant Vladas
Zajanckauskas (b.1915) to serve him with papers alleging he was a
high-ranking noncommissioned officer in a Nazi training camp who
took part in one of the most heinous massacres of World War II, the
1943 liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto. Zajanckauskas denied having
been in Warsaw.
(www.evri.com/person/vladas-zajanckauskas-0xad165)(SSFC, 4/4/10,
Par. p.5)
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 Ohio launched its Third
Frontier program, a visionary initiative within the Department of
Development to firmly establish the state as an innovation leader.
With a 10-year initial life and a bipartisan commitment of $1.6
billion, the Ohio Third Frontier expands the state's high-tech
research capabilities that are designed to accelerate the pace of
commercialization within Ohio.
(http://thirdfrontier.com/)
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 NASA said yes to a $2.5
billion plan for a successor to the Hubble space telescope, launched
in 1990, that would use infra-red, rather than visible light, to be
ready in 2010. By 2011 the James Webb space telescope, now costing
$8.8 billion, was still in the workshop with an estimated launch in
2018.
(Econ, 11/12/11, p.94)
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 The Brazilian film “Cidade
de Deus” (City of God) was set in a suburb of Rio and made the
lawless squalor there internationally known.
(Econ, 6/12/10, p.42)
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 China formed its Snow
Leopards anti-terrorism unit charged with securing the 2008 Beijing
Olympics. Its mandate was to combat terrorism, control riots,
dispose of bombs, respond to hijackings and carry out other special
tasks.
(AP, 8/13/11)
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 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 French president Jacques
Chirac received three million euros ($4 million) from Ivory Coast's
Laurent Gbagbo to finance his electoral campaign. This was made
public in 2011 by Robert Bourgi, a lawyer with a network of African
contacts who advised Chirac before changing camps in 2005 to aid
French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Bourgi also named Senegal's
Abdoulaye Wade, Burkina Faso's Blaise Compaore, and
Congo-Brazzaville's Denis Sassou Nguesso and Gabon's Omar Bongo as
contributors. Bourgi later said he was mistaken concerning
(Senegal's president) Abdoulaye Wade and his son" Karim Wade.
(AFP, 9/12/11)(AP, 9/26/11)
2002 In France Paris Mayor
Bertand Delanoe inaugurated Paris Plages, 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 banned thong bikinis, topless sunbathing and
nudity at the summer sand-in-the-city event.
(AP, 7/29/06)
2002 France convicted George
Soros of insider trading. He was fined euro2.2 million for
purchasing shares in French bank Societe Generale in 1988, days
after being informed about a planned takeover bid for the bank.
(AP, 10/6/11)
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 Greenland Jonathan
Motzfeldt lost an internal party struggle to fellow Siumut Hans
Enoksen who replaced him as premier. Motzfeldt then became speaker
of Greenland's Parliament, but resigned in 2008 amid allegations
that he groped a female civil servant. He denied wrongdoing and was
never charged.
(AP, 10/29/10)
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 In India some 2,000
Muslims were murdered this year in western Gujarat state in a pogrom
carried out with the collusion of police and senior members of the
ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
(Econ, 7/31/10, p.30)
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 Indonesia passed
broadcasting legislation that said the state will issue licenses. It
was assumed that the Indonesia Broadcasting Commission (KPI), an
independent state body, would issue the licenses. In 2006 the
information ministry pushed to take control.
(Econ, 2/4/06, p.40)
2002 Benny Wenda a leader of an
insurgency against Indonesian rule in the eastern province of Papua,
escaped from a Papuan jail and was granted asylum in Britain. He
remained wanted by authorities in his homeland for alleged arson and
murder. In 2011 Indonesia had Interpol put Wenda (37) on a wanted
list as he continued to promote the cause of Papuan independence.
(AFP, 11/25/11)
2002 In Iran Shahla Jahed, who
had become what is known as a "temporary wife" of former soccer star
Nasser Mohammad Khani, was charged with stabbing his wife, Laleh
Saharkhizan, to death and convicted of murder in 2004 and again in
2009, after her appeal was denied. She was hanged on Dec 1, 2010.
(AP, 12/1/10)
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 Nissan launched a joint
effort in China with car manufacturer Dongfeng.
(Econ, 6/12/10, p.71)
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 The Serbian economy showed
signs of recovery after 13 years of Milosevic's mismanagement and
the end of international sanctions imposed to stop Milosevic from
waging war on his neighbors. The national currency, the dinar, has
been relatively stable since Milosevic's ouster. Authorities have
launched reforms in hopes of joining the European Union.
(AP, 9/29/02)
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)
2000 The Bank of Spain began
requiring leading banks to set aside a portion of profits against
future losses.
(Econ, 2/19/11, p.78)
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 Xstrata was born out of
the initial public offering of the coal mines of Glencore, a private
commodity trader based in Switzerland. It was first listed on the
London Stock Exchange as it acquired Glencore's coal assets in
Australia and South Africa. The Company was founded in 1926 in
Switzerland as Sudelektra, an infrastructure and electricity
projects concern operating in Latin America.
(Econ, 3/13/10, p.68)
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 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 The World Bank Doing
Business Project was launched. In 2003 it began publishing an annual
“Doing Business” survey of how countries compare on some of the most
important factors in opening, running and closing a firm.
(www.doingbusiness.org/about-us)(Econ, 11/6/10,
p.77)
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 In Venezuela prison gang
bosses reached an agreement about this time on an internal
self-government that taxed fellow inmates.
(Econ, 7/16/11, p.40)
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)
2002-2008 Peru’s murder rate tripled over this
period as the country became the world’s biggest cocaine exporter.
(Econ, 4/2/11, p.31)
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