Word for Word/Arab TV News; Heard in the Street
Date: 28 April 2002
By Marc D. Charney
Marc
Word for Word column excerpts news of Israeli-Arab conflict as reported by Al Jazeera, Arab satellite television network, and by CNN; photo (M)
Replaying Sunday, April 28, 2002
The April 28, 2002 was a Sunday under the star sign of ♉. It was the 117 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 Tuesday, April 28, 2026, 52 days ago. Your next birthday is on Wednesday, April 28, 2027, in 312 days. You have lived for 8,818 days, or about 211,633 hours, or about 12,698,000 minutes, or about 761,880,000 seconds.
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28th of April 2002 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on April 28, 2002
NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 29 April 2002
INTERNATIONAL A3-12 Israelis and Palestinians Agree to Plan on Ramallah Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed to a Bush administration compromise to end the armed siege of Yasir Arafat, overcoming the stalemate in Ramallah and freeing the Palestinian leader to travel the world for the first time in more than four months. The Israeli government, however, continued to resist the United Nations, blocking for now an international investigation of fighting this month in Jenin, in the West Bank. A1 Austria Mourns Victims of Nazis The last remains of handicapped or mentally ill children experimented upon and then killed by the Nazis were buried in Vienna in a moving ceremony of remembrance and public apology. From 1940 to 1945, when Austria was a part of Hitler's Third Reich, at least 789 deformed or mentally handicapped children were killed at the clinic called Am Spiegelgrund as a part of the Nazis' program to rid society of ''genetically impure'' people. A3
At Fox News, the Colonel Who Wasn't
Date: 29 April 2002
By Jim Rutenberg
Jim Rutenberg
Records indicate Joseph A Cafasso, military consultant to Fox News Channel in its coverage of fighting in Afghanistan, misrepresented himself as former Special Forces colonel; Cafasso, who left Fox abruptly in Mar amid complaints he overstepped his bounds and became nuisance, was dishonorably discharged from Army as private after 44 days of boot camp; apparently has used his story of battlefield glories to make friends and find work and acceptance amid community of retired military officers; Fox News executives admit he was not who he said he was, but say he had effective network of military sources and helped gather apparently accurate news; photo (M)
Northwest Pilots in Pact
Date: 29 April 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Northwest Airlines reaches tentative accord with its pilots to extend their contract through September 2003; pact calls for 4.5 percent pay increase in Sept and 5.5 percent raise in Sept 2003 (S)
Hewlett Chiefs File Motion
Date: 29 April 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Hewlett-Packard, responding to suit by Walter B Hewlett, asks court to absolve top officers Carleton S Fiorina and Robert P Wayman of wrongdoing in gathering shareholder votes for its bid for Compaq Computer (S)
NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 28 April 2002
INTERNATIONAL 3-17 Arabs in Disguise Kill 4 In West Bank Settlement Three Palestinian gunmen dressed as Israeli soldiers cut through the fence of an Israeli settlement in the West Bank and attacked residents, killing four, including a 5-year-old girl, the Israeli Army said. 1 After Israel's biggest military offensive since 1967 in the West Bank, settlers seem to have the upper hand. Some have fled, but as their numbers grow, many Israelis, afraid of suicide attacks, identify with them. 1
The Hurdles And the Goal
Date: 29 April 2002
By Patrick E. Tyler
Patrick Tyler
News analysis; Pres Bush's winning of Israeli agreement to end siege of Yasir Arafat's compound in Ramallah may be important step to shore up American credibility with Arab world by repositioning American foreign policy in Middle East, but volatile crisis is far from over and he faces even more difficult challenge of getting warring parties back to negotiating table where expectations for American pressure remain high on both sides; photo (M)
The New Yorker: Add Hard News, Hold the Glitter
Date: 29 April 2002
By David Carr
David Carr
David Remnick's stewardship as New Yorker magazine editor assessed as magazine is up for 9 National Magazine Awards; his news-driven, high-tempo version of magazine is short on historical idiosyncrasies; his steady approach seems to have ensured magazine's future; circulation graph; photos (M)
Ishihara in Tokyo : Japan's Le Pen is bad news for foreigners
Date: 29 April 2002
By Robyn Lim, International Herald Tribune
Robyn Lim
Will France's political earthquake be repeated in Japan? The ultra-rightist Jean-Marie Le Pen has knocked the Socialist prime minister, Lionel Jospin, out of the race for the French presidency. Can Shintaro Ishihara, his Japanese counterpart, bring down t
FRONT LINES
Date: 28 April 2002
By Andrea Kannapell
Andrea Kannapell
Front Lines update on news from Mideast and terrorism front; photo (M)