The January 22, 2004 was a Thursday under the star sign of ♒. It was the 21 day of the year. President of the United States was George W. Bush.
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22nd of January 2004 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on January 22, 2004
Liberty Media Fuels Speculation By Adding to News Corp. Stake
Date: 23 January 2004
By Geraldine Fabrikant
Geraldine Fabrikant
One day after Liberty Media Corp, controlled by John C Malone, said it was increasing its voting stake in News Corp, investors are still wondering what Malone is up to; company has been quietly increasing its stakes in number of properties where it already has investment; Malone is positioning himself to play greater role at News Corp by increasing his voting interest to about 9 percent; Australia law says Liberty, as foreign investor in Australian company cannot buy controlling stake without government permission; Liberty spokesman Michael Erickson says Malone is not actively seeking board seat at News Corp (M)
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Market Place; In Surprise, Liberty Media Fattens Stake in News Corp.
Date: 22 January 2004
By Geraldine Fabrikant
Geraldine Fabrikant
Liberty Media Corp increases its voting stake in News Corp to 9.1 percent, making it second-largest shareholder after Murdoch family, which controls 30 percent of vote; will control 17 percent of News Corp because it still holds large number of nonvoting shares; some industry experts say move appears to be hostile transaction because John C Malone, who controls Liberty Media, has so drastically increased his voting stake without informing News Corp chairman, Rupert Murdoch; photos (M)
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In Sign Zimbabwe Crackdown Is Easing, Newspaper Reopens
Date: 23 January 2004
By Sharon Lafraniere
Sharon Lafraniere
The Daily News, Zimbabwe's only independent daily newspaper, hits streets for first time in nearly four months after high court judge orders police to stop interfering with its publication; is fierce critic of Pres Robert Mugabe; South African Pres Thabo Mbeki says Mugabe's governing party has agreed to formal negotiations with political opposition, in possible sign that Mugabe may want to ease country's protracted crisis; but spokesmen for Mugabe's party and opposition movement, which seeks his ouster, deny there has been any progress; analysts say Mugabe's erratic behavior makes it hard to predict whether conciliatory gestures presage real change; Daily News has been shut down and then allowed to publish before; photo (M)
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Selecting Stewart Jury: How Much Publicity Is Too Much?
Date: 23 January 2004
By Constance L. Hays
Constance Hays
Jury selection in Martha Stewart trial continues to play out behind closed doors, and prosecutors move to keep it that way; US attorney's office files brief in favor of continuing to bar reporters and others from observing questioning of prospective jurors in trial of Stewart and her former stockbroker Peter Bacanovic; document urges appeals court to uphold Jan 15 order from Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum that closed proceedings; various news organizations, including New York Times, have sought to have order overturned and will argue before appeals court on Jan 26; photo (M)
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World Briefing | Europe: Russia: 10 Tons Of Cold Ones
Date: 22 January 2004
By Sophia Kishkovsky (NYT)
Sophia NYT
Russian Itar-Tass news agency reports that ten tons of beer, submerged in Irtysh River (Russia) after delivery truck accident, have been liberated from icy water by Ministry of Emergency Situation divers; weeklong rescue did not effect product, which brewery says is still fit for sale (S)
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A Smiling Dean Turns to Television to Undo the Damage From Television
Date: 23 January 2004
By Alessandra Stanley
Alessandra Stanley
Howard Dean appears with wife Judith on Primetime Thursday, in attempt to defuse criticism that arose from his ferocious, almost maniacal concession speech in Iowa; clips of speech have been played over and over on television news and provoked mocking on Internet and late-night talk shows (M)
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BBC Faults Itself in Review Of Furor on the Case for War
Date: 22 January 2004
By Patrick E. Tyler
Patrick Tyler
BBC broadcasts documentary that includes litany of its own mistakes in reporting suspected misuse of intelligence leading up to war in Iraq; Lord Hutton, respected jurist, is expected to pronounce verdict on whether Prime Min Tony Blair exaggerated case for war shortly; outcome of his inquiry has turned into referendum on Blair's political future and BBC's credibility; BBC is described by its own producers as being too loose with language, too distracted to investigate charges that its reporting was wrong, and simply negligent in checking basis of two-minute report that members of Blair's staff had 'sexed up' case to go to war with Iraq by using intelligence they 'probably knew' was wrong; BBC claims British intelligence chiefs were too willing to approve sensational formulations that Blair's staff wanted to use to persuade public that Saddam Hussein was imminent threat (M)
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Senate Inquiry Into Memos That Went Astray Nears End
Date: 23 January 2004
By Neil A. Lewis
Neil Lewis
Senate sergeant-at-arms William Pickle says he is nearing end to investigation into how several confidential memorandums written by Democratic staff aides about dealing with judicial nominations ended up in hands of Republican staff members; Pickle began his probe after Democrats complained that their confidential memorandums were being stolen and distributed to conservative news outlets; Pickle says he will issue report to Judiciary Committee (M)
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Canadian Mounties Seize Reporter's Files in Terrorist Case
Date: 22 January 2004
By Clifford Krauss
Clifford Krauss
Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers raid home and newspaper office of Juliet O'Neill, reporter for The Ottawa Citizen, in effort to learn how she obtained secret documents concerning Syrian-born Canadian citizen who was arrested in United States as suspected Al Qaeda terrorist; O'Neill faces possible criminal charges for violating one of several sweeping laws passed after 9/11 that prohibit possession or communication of many sorts of secret security information; incident is biggest constitutional challenge to freedom of press in Canada in decades; O'Neill's front-page article on Nov 8 outlined Canadian intelligence dossier on Maher Arar, who was seized in New York and then deported to Syria for detention, where he says he was tortured before being released; fact that American officials sent him to Syria for interrogation without Ottawa's permission has become sore point in US-Canadian relations; Arar has never been charged with crime and plans to sue United States for wrongfully expelling him to Syria; photo (M)
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World Briefing | Africa: Ivory Coast: Policeman Guilty Of Murder
Date: 23 January 2004
By Somini Sengupta (NYT)
Somini NYT
Abidjan (Ivory Coast) police officer Theodore Dago Sery is convicted of murdering Jean Helene, French journalist for Radio France International, in October 2003; is sentenced to 17 years in prison (S)
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