The February 1, 2002 was a Friday under the star sign of ♒. It was the 31 day of the year. President of the United States was George W. Bush.
If you were born on this day, you are 24 years old. Your last birthday was on the Sunday, February 1, 2026, 130 days ago. Your next birthday is on Monday, February 1, 2027, in 234 days. You have lived for 8,896 days, or about 213,514 hours, or about 12,810,897 minutes, or about 768,653,820 seconds.
Date: 02 February 2002
By Rachel L. Swarns
Rachel Swarns
First casualties of raft of new lawstightening Robert Mugabe's grip on power prior to Zimbabwe's elections are two men beaten by police for trying to hold rally; parliament enacts new law curbing news media; photo (S)
Date: 01 February 2002
By Erik Eckholm
Erik Eckholm
Group in Pakistan claiming to have kidnapped Daniel Pearl, American reporter, extends its deadline to kill him by one more day, but says it will carry out threat if its demands are not met; Pakistani police say they still do not know who kidnapped Pearl; also disclose setback in case: apparent killing of key suspect who helped lure Pearl to his abductors; United States demands Pearl's unconditional release (M)
Date: 01 February 2002
Editorial joins Wall Street Journal, United States government and various human rights groups in appealing for release of Daniel Pearl, Journal reporter who remains in captivity in Pakistan, in hands of shadowy group that is threatening to kill him if US fails to meet certain demands; says kidnappers are fooling themselves if they think anyone will listen to their demands as long as Pearl is held captive
Date: 01 February 2002
By Jim Rutenberg
Jim Rutenberg
CNN broadcasts television interview from last Oct in which Osama bin Laden says anthrax attacks last fall were 'punishment from God' and hints in vague language at having hand in Sept 11 terrorist attacks; interview, conducted by Arab television network Al Jazeera, was not shown until now; CNN says it was shown against Al Jazeera's wishes (M)
Date: 01 February 2002
By Terry Anderson
Terry Anderson
Op-Ed article by Terry Anderson, journalist held hostage for seven years in Lebanon, says kidnappers of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan have little understanding of journalism or of America; says United States, like every other major government in world, long ago concluded that worst thing to do was to respond in any way to political demands of terrorists; says his own kidnappers concluded that kidnapping was not useful tactic; drawing (M)
Date: 01 February 2002
By Rachel L. Swarns
Rachel Swarns
Governing party lawmakers in Zimbabwe enact tough new media law that will require all local journalists and news organizations to be licensed and will restrict foreign reporters in country; some of harshest elements of early draft of legislation are eliminated, in bow to pressure from powerful moderates within Pres Robert Mugabe's own party; law is latest measure by government to clamp down on political opponents and to buttress Mugabe's sagging position(M)
Date: 02 February 2002
By Alessandra Stanley
Alessandra Stanley
NBC ad promoting next week's episode of The West Wingis pulled after viewers point out disturbing resemblance to plight of Daniel Pearl, Wall Street Journal reporter kidnapped in Pakistan; script written last December involves White House correspondent kidnapped in Congo (S)
Date: 02 February 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
EBay and Priceline.com say they will collaborate for online sales of airline tickets, hotel rooms and car rentals (S)
Date: 02 February 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Shares of Carolina Group rise as much as 7.3 percent in their first day of trading afer its parent, Loews Corp, finds enough demand to increase to $980 million the sale of stock in company, which makes Newport and Kent cigarettes (S)
Date: 01 February 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Lyondell Chemical acquires Occidental Petroleum's 29.5 percent stake in Equistar Chemicals, increasing its interest to 70.5 perent; Occidental will get 21 percent stake in Lyondell; Millennium Chemicals holds rest of Equistar (S)
Date: 02 February 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Adobe Systems, maker of Acrobat digital-publishing software, agrees to buy money-losing Accelio Corp of Canada for $72 million in stock (S)
Date: 02 February 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
AMR Corp will lay off 500 workers at its American Eagle commuter carrier and may sell related business, actions that would let AMR's American Airlines, largest carrier, increase its use of efficient regional jets (S)