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US News Archive for January 2005:
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Iraq vote also a test for U.S.
The United States' plan to bring democracy to Iraq faces its most important test Sunday when Iraqis vote in their first multiparty national elections in more than 50 years. But on the eve of balloting in Baghdad, a rocket attack killed two Americans at the U.S. embassy. And an Iraqi police official fears there could be hundreds more attacks being planned to disrupt voting...
CNN - January 29, 2005
Emotional Iraqis cast their ballots in U.S.
Abdul al-Najr woke up early Saturday with his wife, piled into a car with three friends and drove 250 miles from St. Louis to the polling place here, where jubilant Iraqis danced and held hands in the steady, cold rain...
CNN - January 29, 2005
In Jacksonville, Faith, Hope and Charity at a Super Bowl
Some residents are trying to infuse faith into the week of celebrations that culminate on Feb. 6 with Super Bowl XXXIX...
New York Times - January 29, 2005
Under One Roof, Aging Together Yet Alone
In the last decade the number of elderly Americans in assisted living has tripled, to nearly one million...
New York Times - January 29, 2005
The Vote, and Democracy Itself, Leave Anxious Iraqis Divided
Questions over the election go beyond U.S. stewardship, to issues that touch on whether it was ever realistic to think that democracy could be implanted in Iraq...
New York Times - January 29, 2005
U.S. Is Close to Eliminating AIDS in Infants, Officials Say
Mother-to-child transmission of H.I.V. has dropped so sharply that public health officials now talk about wiping it out...
New York Times - January 29, 2005
Ice storm shuts down Georgia roads
A winter storm dumping snow, sleet and ice on the Southeast is being blamed for at least two deaths in Georgia. The storm could dump up to four inches of the wintry mix across the region and may cause massive power outages...
CNN - January 29, 2005
Attacks escalate in countdown to elections
On the eve of Iraq's landmark elections, a mortar round hit the U.S. Embassy inside Baghdad's fortified Green Zone, killing a U.S. military member and a civilian, U.S. military officials said. The embassy attack followed two earlier bombings that been killed at least eight people at a U.S.-Iraqi military center...
CNN - January 29, 2005
8 killed in Iraq attacks
With just hours to go before Iraq's first free election in half a century, at least eight people have been killed in two bombings at a U.S.-Iraqi military center...
CNN - January 29, 2005
Bracing for Expected Violence, Iraqis Prepare to Vote
Election workers today readied polling places for the first nationwide vote in more than 40 years, while troops prepared for a potentially violent onslaught from insurgents...
New York Times - January 29, 2005
One Vote, but Many Reactions: Resolve, Discouragement, Joy
Many Iraqis do not accept that fundamental choices about the shape of their future political system should be made by a foreign power, but questions over the election go beyond the U.S. stewardship...
New York Times - January 29, 2005
The Great Middle East Shake-Up
The war in Iraq is transforming the Middle East and its relations with the United States in directions the Bush administration might not have expected...
New York Times - January 29, 2005
Judge Criticized Killer’s Lawyer Before Reprieve
The lawyer who early this morning delayed the execution of Michael Bruce Ross, the convicted serial killer who was scheduled to be the first person put to death in Connecticut in 45 years, acted hours after a conference call in which a federal judge criticized his handling of the case...
New York Times - January 29, 2005
C.I.A. Said to Rebuff Congress on Nazi Files
The C.I.A. and Congress are heading for a showdown over the agency's refusal to provide all of the documents it has on the relationship between American intelligence and Nazi war criminals...
New York Times - January 29, 2005
The 'Salvador option'
Tom Gibb revisits the horrors of El Salvador's civil war as it emerges some US officials are considering similar tactics in Iraq...
BBC News - January 29, 2005
Actress Stone raises fast million
Hollywood star Sharon Stone persuades political leaders and executives to part with their money to help fight malaria...
BBC News - January 29, 2005
Bombings mark eve of Iraq election
With just hours to go before Iraq's first free election in half a century, at least eight people have been killed in two bombings at a U.S.-Iraqi military center. In Baghdad, police and the U.S. military closed and locked down bridges early Saturday to protect against attacks by insurgents, who have vowed to launch a wave of attacks ahead of Sunday's landmark elections...
CNN - January 29, 2005
A Dry Run, With Mock Voters Casting Ballots Inside, Snipers Keeping Watch Outside
As the election infrastructure came together piece by piece, local and national officials implored Iraqis to vote on Sunday...
New York Times - January 29, 2005
For Iraqi Expatriates in the U.S., a Chance to Savor the Vote
But even as they exulted in the opportunity to vote, many expatriates expressed deep fears about Sunday's vote in Iraq...
New York Times - January 29, 2005
Security Nominee Gave Advice to the C.I.A. on Torture Laws
President Bush's nominee for homeland security secretary advised the C.I.A. on the legality of coercive interrogation methods...
New York Times - January 29, 2005
Killer's Execution Is Delayed Despite Supreme Court Ruling
The Supreme Court turned down moves to postpone Connecticut's execution of a convicted serial killer. But state officials delayed the execution until Monday...
New York Times - January 29, 2005
A Merger in Search of a Home. Yours.
Procter & Gamble and Gillette almost walked away from the deal that could give them a lock on the average American household...
New York Times - January 29, 2005
Big Health Plan Suspends Use of Painkiller
Kaiser Permanente has stopped dispensing Bextra, an arthritis and pain drug made by Pfizer that may increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes...
New York Times - January 29, 2005
MCI May Be New Belle of the Acquisition Ball
Most industry analysts expect the other Bell operating companies to pursue MCI rather than get into a messy bidding war with SBC Communications over AT&T...
New York Times - January 29, 2005
Another Clock Is Ticking at Delta Air Lines
The hours are ticking down to what Delta considers the biggest single overhaul of an airline's timetables in the history of aviation...
New York Times - January 29, 2005
Growth Pace of Economy Slowed to 3.1% in 4th Quarter
It was the weakest quarterly pace in nearly two years, held down by a surge in imports, which substituted for production at home...
New York Times - January 29, 2005
Lucky 8 Pays 60 in Boeing Deal
Evidently in touch with its customers, Boeing agreed to sell 60 planes of its newest design to China, and said it would give the model a propitious number...
New York Times - January 29, 2005
Baseball: Sosa 'Baltimore bound'
MLB star Sammy Sosa is traded from Chicago Cubs to Baltimore Orioles, say reports...
BBC News - January 29, 2005
Election eve lock-downs begin in Iraq
On the eve of Iraq's first free election in half a century, Iraqi police and the U.S. military closed and locked down bridges across the capital as a security precaution. Meanwhile, insurgents continue to try to intimidate potential voters in Iraq. Leaflets appeared in two neighborhoods that threatened to fill Baghdad's streets with voters' blood. ...
CNN - January 29, 2005
Bolivians laud autonomy move
Tens of thousands celebrate the creation of an assembly as a first step to self-rule in Bolivia's Santa Cruz province...
BBC News - January 29, 2005
Colombia and Venezuela make up
Colombia and Venezuela say a diplomatic crisis over the capture of a Colombian rebel is over...
BBC News - January 29, 2005
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