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US News Archive for June 2005:
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Real-life brothers in arms
As the war in Iraq stretches on, American military families feel a mixture of pride and anxiety that comes with having a loved one in a combat zone. For Leon and Tammy Pruett those feelings are multiplied four times as their sons -- two shop workers, a bartender, and a missionary -- are all in Iraq on National Guard service...
CNN - June 15, 2005
Autopsy: No sign of abuse
Terri Schiavo's autopsy found that no amount of therapy would have reversed the severely brain-damaged woman's condition -- and no evidence she was abused, medical examiners said Wednesday. But disagreement between her husband and her parents continues, and the cause of her 1990 collapse remains unclear...
CNN - June 15, 2005
Ex-hostage thanks Iraqi rescuers
Freed Australian hostage Douglas Wood thanks Iraqi troops for helping to free him from insurgents who had held him for six weeks. Wood, 64, in a message read by Australia's counterterrorism chief Nick Warner, said he was "extremely happy and relieved to be free again."...
CNN - June 15, 2005
Pakistan Lifts Travel Ban on Rape Victim
Pakistan lifted a travel restriction on Mukhtar Mai, the woman who was gang-raped in 2002 on the orders of a village council to punish an act attributed to her brother...
New York Times - June 15, 2005
Bloomberg Unveils Plans for the New Yankee Stadium
For the second time in a week, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg unveiled plans this afternoon for a new baseball stadium...
New York Times - June 15, 2005
NASA Returns Discovery to Launch Pad With New Fuel Tank
The ship and seven astronauts are set to launch on July 13 for a mission to resupply the International Space Station...
New York Times - June 15, 2005
Future of Guantánamo Camp Under Study, Attorney General Says
At a Senate hearing today, U.S. officials insisted that they were going to extraordinary lengths to protect prisoners' rights...
New York Times - June 15, 2005
2 Former Bristol-Myers Executives Charged With Fraud
Two former executives of the Bristol-Myers Squibb Company were indicted on conspiracy and securities fraud charges related to artificially inflating revenues...
New York Times - June 15, 2005
Consumer Prices Drop for First Time in 10 Months
The Consumer Price Index declined 0.1 percent in May as energy prices dropped sharply, providing evidence that inflationary pressures may have peaked for the year...
New York Times - June 15, 2005
Football: Argentina beat Tunisia
Juan Riquelme and Javier Saviola score as Argentina beat Tunisia 2-1 in the Confederations Cup...
BBC News - June 15, 2005
Mexico ex-leader can be charged
Mexico's Supreme Court rules that ex-President Luis Echeverria can be charged over a 1971 massacre...
BBC News - June 15, 2005
Orphans return to Vietnam
Thirty years ago, they left as tiny children aboard a desperate flight from war-torn Vietnam. On Wednesday, they returned as 21 grown men and women, visiting their now-peaceful homeland to commemorate the first of the "Operation Babylift" flights that eventually took 3,000 Vietnamese children to the United States...
CNN - June 15, 2005
Autopsy: Schiavo's brain half the normal size
An autopsy on Terri Schiavo backed her husband's contention that she was in a persistent vegetative state, finding that she had massive and irreversible brain damage and was blind, the medical examiner's office said today. The autopsy also found no evidence that she was strangled or otherwise abused...
CNN - June 15, 2005
Iraq restaurant blast kills 23
A lunchtime suicide bombing at a restaurant on an Iraqi military base kills 23 Iraqi soldiers and wounded 28 other people -- mostly soldiers, police say...
CNN - June 15, 2005
Yankees' Stadium Plans Stepping Up to the Plate
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg will unveil plans today for a new home for the Yankees...
New York Times - June 15, 2005
Schiavo's Brain Was Severely Deteriorated, Autopsy Says
An autopsy has found "nothing inconsistent" with the diagnosis that Terri Schiavo was in a persistent vegetative state...
New York Times - June 15, 2005
OPEC Increases Oil Output by 500,000 Barrels a Day
The increase, which officially puts the output quotas of OPEC members at 28 million barrels a day, was considered mostly symbolic...
New York Times - June 15, 2005
Woman eyeing Chile's top job
Michelle Bachelet - a single mother and self-described socialist - tells the BBC why she wants to be Chile's first woman president...
BBC News - June 15, 2005
Chinese fridge maker eyes Maytag
Maytag which makes Hoover is being viewed as a takeover target by Chinese fridge and washing-machine maker Haier...
BBC News - June 15, 2005
US inflation concerns ease in May
US inflation falls in May for the first time in ten months, backing recent comments by Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan that inflation is under control...
BBC News - June 15, 2005
Golf: Woods rues player shortage
Tiger Woods reveals his disappointment at still being the only African-American competing at the highest level...
BBC News - June 15, 2005
No trauma before Schiavo collapse
An autopsy report on brain-damaged Terri Schiavo says she she suffered no trauma prior to her collapse in 1990...
BBC News - June 15, 2005
Annan faces new questions
Investigators probing the United Nations' oil-for-food program say they are reviewing an e-mail that suggests a communication between Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the company that won a lucrative contract and employed his son. An Annan spokesman discounted the document's significance...
CNN - June 15, 2005
Iraq restaurant blast kills 20
An explosions at a restaurant on an Iraqi military base kills at least 20 people, including 17 Iraqi soldiers, and wounds 20 others, police say...
CNN - June 15, 2005
Australia and U.S. Barring Him, Chinese Says
The Chinese diplomat who defected to Australia only to be rebuffed says he also sought asylum at the U.S. Embassy, and was turned away there as well...
New York Times - June 15, 2005
JP Morgan pays $2bn in Enron case
JP Morgan Chase agrees "in principle" to pay $2.2bn to former Enron investors over a lawsuit arising from the energy firm's collapse...
BBC News - June 15, 2005
Viacom agrees to split business
The board of US media giant Viacom approves plans to split the company into two, in an attempt to realise more value from assets such as MTV...
BBC News - June 15, 2005
Football: Ronaldo seeks new deal
Cristiano Ronaldo's agent calls for an improved contract for the Man Utd star...
BBC News - June 15, 2005
US deserter reunited with mother
A former US soldier who deserted to North Korea has returned to his home country for the first time in 40 years...
BBC News - June 15, 2005
Earthquake off California coast
A powerful magnitude 7 earthquake strikes off the California coast, a day after a quake kills 11 in Chile...
BBC News - June 15, 2005
Aruba beach search ends
A search near an Aruba beachfront hotel that began Tuesday afternoon has ended with apparently no new clues in the search for 18-year-old Natalee Holloway, the Alabama student missing since May 30...
CNN - June 15, 2005
Schiavo autopsy to be released
The medical examiner's office plans to release its autopsy report Wednesday on Terri Schiavo -- findings her family hopes will shed light on the cause of the collapse that left her severely brain-damaged 15 years ago...
CNN - June 15, 2005
Rafsanjani: U.S. must do more
Iranian President candidate Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said Tuesday the United States has taken "steps in the right direction" but must do more to prove to Iranians that it has relinquished what he called "a hostile attitude."...
CNN - June 15, 2005
California Reins In Clinics Using Marijuana for Medical Purposes
Even before the Supreme Court upheld the federal government's authority over marijuana, San Francisco officials have been questioning how much of the drug is enough...
New York Times - June 15, 2005
To Reading and Writing, Add Sweating and Sweltering
As New York wilts under a heat wave, many schoolchildren are stuck in aging schools without air-conditioning...
New York Times - June 15, 2005
New Sight in Chernobyl's Dead Zone: Tourists
It's the strangest vacation excursion available in the former Soviet Union: the tour of Chernobyl, scene of the worst civilian disaster of the nuclear age...
New York Times - June 15, 2005
Best Buy Profit Increased 85% in First Quarter
MINNEAPOLIS, June 14 (AP) - First-quarter profit at the Best Buy Company rose 85 percent, far ahead of analysts' expectations, on strong sales of televisions and digital music players...
New York Times - June 15, 2005
A City Turns Innkeeper
In Denver, municipal financing is backing a hotel that is the latest effort to bring more traffic to a once-moribund downtown...
New York Times - June 15, 2005
Cutting the Deals, With Enthusiasm
No one would accuse Jonathan L. Mechanic, the powerful real estate lawyer, of being quiet, least of all himself. But he both laughed and cringed when asked to confirm that he is the first to lunge across a negotiating table and grab a shirt collar to establish his turf...
New York Times - June 15, 2005
Buyout Firm to Acquire Wyndham
A Blackstone Group affiliate has agreed to purchase Wyndham International, the public company with 150 upscale hotels, for $1.44 billion in cash. Wyndham's board has approved the deal, and the shareholders will probably vote on the offer in the early fall. Shareholders would be paid $1.15 a share, the company announced yesterday...
New York Times - June 15, 2005
Lehman Brothers Posts 12% Profit Increase
The party isn't over yet at Lehman Brothers...
New York Times - June 15, 2005
A Self-Imposed Ban on Drug Ads
The drug maker Bristol-Myers Squibb said that it had imposed a ban on advertising its new drugs to consumers in their first year on the market...
New York Times - June 15, 2005
Central American Trade Pact Passes First Congressional Test
The Central America Free Trade Agreement narrowly passed its first Congressional test on Tuesday...
New York Times - June 15, 2005
Knight Ridder Says Earnings Could Be Flat
Knight Ridder warned that its second-quarter earnings could be flat with year-ago results, because of charges and weak results at the company's Detroit operations...
New York Times - June 15, 2005
Rap Label Is Spared Millions After Appeal on Fraud Case
A federal appeals court panel reversed a jury's decision against the Def Jam Recordings music label and its former chairman...
New York Times - June 15, 2005
A Campaign to Derail Verizon-MCI Deal
A large hedge fund plans to mount a campaign against Verizon's takeover of MCI, hoping to coax Qwest Communications into reviving its previous offer for the company...
New York Times - June 15, 2005
Civilian Dogfight at the Air Show
After several years in which Boeing seemed in danger of being flattened by the Airbus juggernaut, it has stormed back into contention...
New York Times - June 15, 2005
Ford Credit Unit Settles Debt Case
WASHINGTON, June 14 (AP) - The credit arm of the Ford Motor Company has agreed to pay $700,000 in restitution to settle accusations of promoting its Ford Money Market Account in a way that could mislead investors about its risk...
New York Times - June 15, 2005
Candidates Emerging as Morgan Seeks Chief
The board of Morgan Stanley has begun its search for a unifying chief executive in earnest, extending feelers to a wide range of executives...
New York Times - June 15, 2005
European Commission Is Expected to Rule That AstraZeneca Abused Patent
The European Commission is expected to find AstraZeneca guilty of abusing the patent protection granted to its best-selling anti-ulcer drug, Losec...
New York Times - June 15, 2005
Coalition Seeks a Federal Insurance Regulator
Frustrated by the sluggishness and inconsistencies of state regulation, 135 insurance companies, agencies, banks and financial services trade groups urged Congress yesterday to establish a federal regulator for the insurance industry...
New York Times - June 15, 2005
Times Names 2 to New Positions
The New York Times named Thomas Carley senior vice president for strategic planning, with Cristian Edwards succeeding him as president of News Services...
New York Times - June 15, 2005
F.C.C. Starts Inquiry Into Subsidy Fund
The Federal Communications Commission began an inquiry into the Universal Service Fund that provides subsidies for phone service in rural areas, schools and libraries...
New York Times - June 15, 2005
Ex-Fugitive Gets Hostile Reception in South Korea
Kim Woo Choong, the founder of the dissolved Daewoo corporate empire, returned home Tuesday after almost six years as a fugitive...
New York Times - June 15, 2005
OPEC Considers Doubling Previous Plan for Quota Increase
OPEC is considering doubling a proposed increase in oil production quotas, as a spike in prices this week underscored concern about volatile energy markets...
New York Times - June 15, 2005
Wholesale Prices and Retail Sales Decline
WASHINGTON, June 15 (AP) - Wholesale prices fell at the fastest pace in more than two years in May, the Labor Department reported on Tuesday, helping to ease concerns that the big increases in energy costs in recent months might lead to inflation troubles...
New York Times - June 15, 2005
Panel Urges Limits on Use of a Heart Drug
A panel of cardiologists delivered a setback to Johnson & Johnson, recommending that the company's Natrecor not be given to outpatients...
New York Times - June 15, 2005
Benign Inflation Data Cited for Second Day of Small Gains
By The Associated Press...
New York Times - June 15, 2005
Paribas Unit to Acquire Midwest Bank
The BancWest Corporation, a unit of BNP Paribas, the French bank, agreed to acquire the Commercial Federal Corporation, a Midwestern savings and loan company...
New York Times - June 15, 2005
S.E.C. to Investigate OfficeMax's Books
ITASCA, Ill., June 14, (AP) - OfficeMax, the office supplies retailer, said on Tuesday that the Securities and Exchange Commission had issued a formal order of investigation related to its internal accounting inquiry...
New York Times - June 15, 2005
Inhaled Insulin Is Effective, Pfizer Reports
Pfizer, the drug maker, said that Exubera, an inhaled insulin powder in development, worked as well as injectable insulin in a study of 226 patients...
New York Times - June 15, 2005
J. P. Morgan Chase to Pay Investors $2.2 Billion
J. P. Morgan Chase has agreed to pay $2.2 billion to Enron investors who accused the bank of participating in the accounting scandal that led to Enron's collapse...
New York Times - June 15, 2005
Medicare Officials Insisting on Wider Choices in Drug Benefits
As companies devise insurance policies for the new Medicare drug program, federal officials are pressing them to offer a surprisingly generous array of choices...
New York Times - June 15, 2005
G.M. Board Wants Cut in Benefits
The board of General Motors has given the United Automobile Workers union until the end of the month to agree to cuts in its members' health care benefits...
New York Times - June 15, 2005
China Is Said to Consider $15 Billion Bailout of Stock Market
The creation of a huge fund to invest in mainland stocks would be the Chinese government's most striking effort yet to prop up share prices...
New York Times - June 15, 2005
Viacom Board Agrees to Split of Company
Viacom's directors voted to split the company in two, supporting a plan by its chairman, Sumner Redstone, to increase the value of the company's shares...
New York Times - June 15, 2005
2 European Giants Betting Banks Can Blur Borders
With the purchase of the HVB Group, the chief executive of UniCredito is wagering that one financial firm can successfully straddle Europe...
New York Times - June 15, 2005
Demand for Natural Gas Brings Big Import Plans, and Objections
Energy companies are aggressively championing the creation of a global market for natural gas, but it will not happen easily...
New York Times - June 15, 2005
NBA: Pistons too good for Spurs
Detroit claw their way back into the NBA Finals with a 96-79 win over San Antonio in the third match of the series...
BBC News - June 15, 2005
Earthquake off California coast
A powerful magnitude 7 earthquake strikes off the coast of northern California...
BBC News - June 15, 2005
US deplores border 'corruption'
A US official warns moves to slow drug traffic across the Mexican border are being stymied by corruption there...
BBC News - June 15, 2005
Deserter Jenkins back on US soil
Charles Robert Jenkins, who deserted to North Korea in 1965, arrives in the US for the first time in 40 years...
BBC News - June 15, 2005
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