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US News Archive for June 2005:
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Police offer theories on teen's disappearance
Six days after Alabama student Natalee Holloway disappeared while in Aruba, police said they have three theories about what happened to teen who was celebrating her graduation from high school. Police spent much of Saturday afternoon at a hotel under renovation close to the Holiday Inn where Holloway stayed in during her time in Aruba...
CNN - June 4, 2005
Police offer theories on teen's disappearance
Aruba police have three theories concerning a missing high school student from Alabama, Aruba's deputy police chief said Saturday, six days after the student disappeared on a senior trip to the island...
CNN - June 4, 2005
Report Presses Easy Ways to Fix Airline Security
Modest changes in screening passengers and bags could enhance security at the nation's airports and help reduce waits...
New York Times - June 4, 2005
After Hurricanes, an Unclear Future for 'Lake O'
Last year's hurricanes stirred up runoff that had rested for decades on the bottom of Lake Okeechobee, in Florida, disrupting the lake's ecosystem...
New York Times - June 4, 2005
Suspected Al-Zarqawi deputy arrested in Iraq
A suspected deputy of terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has been captured in the restive Iraqi city of Mosul, the Iraqi military said today. Iraqi and U.S.-led coalition forces arrested Mullah Mahdi and five other suspected terrorists -- Mahdi's brother, three other Iraqis and a Syrian, Iraqi Maj. Gen. Khalil al-Obeidi said...
CNN - June 4, 2005
Hundreds mourn Beirut journalist
Throwing rose petals and waving red, white and green Lebanese flags, hundreds of mourners line the streets of central Beirut for the funeral procession of an anti-Syrian journalist amid calls for an international investigation into his death...
CNN - June 4, 2005
More FBI agents join island hunt for missing teen
More FBI agents headed to Aruba to help search for an Alabama teenager whose disappearance on the last day of a high school graduation trip has shaken the quiet Dutch Caribbean island...
CNN - June 4, 2005
Report Details Easy Ways to Fix Airline Security
Significant gaps in security at the nation's airports could be curtailed by quickly making a wide range of relatively modest changes in screening people and bags...
New York Times - June 4, 2005
Frist, His Authority Questioned, Says He'll Prevail in the Long Run
The Senate majority leader faces a test of whether he can re-establish his authority after a rapid sequence of events that many say diminished his standing...
New York Times - June 4, 2005
Henin-Hardenne Wins a Lopsided Final
Justine Henin-Hardenne of Belgium, needed only one hour and two minutes to finish off her 6-1, 6-1 victory and secure her second French Open title...
New York Times - June 4, 2005
U.S.: Guards, detainees mishandled Quran
A U.S. military investigation has found four confirmed incidents in which U.S. personnel mishandled the Quran at the Guantanamo Bay prison for suspected terrorists, including one in which guards kicked a detainee's holy book. The investigation also found that detainees -- not U.S. soldiers -- tried to flush the Quran down a toilet...
CNN - June 4, 2005
Rumsfeld sparks China row
China's military buildup is a threat to Asian security, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has told an Asian regional defense conference. The director of the Asia bureau of China's foreign ministry, Cui Tiankai, says every country is entitled to spend money necessary for its own defense...
CNN - June 4, 2005
A Doctor Seeking Solace in an Endless Line of Patients
Dr. Dan Murphy is trying to make a difference in East Timor while searching, he says, for some kind of redemption...
New York Times - June 4, 2005
Cricket: W Indies v Pakistan
Pakistan reach 336-6 after a stuttering start to the second Test against West Indies in Jamaica...
BBC News - June 4, 2005
UN sets out proposals for reform
The UN details plans for sweeping reform, including a new human rights council and convention on terrorism...
BBC News - June 4, 2005
Detainees, not soldiers, flushed Quran
A U.S. military investigation into the mishandling of the Muslim holy book at the Guantanamo Bay prison for suspected terrorists has determined that detainees -- not U.S. soldiers -- attempted to flush the Quran down the toilet there...
CNN - June 4, 2005
Rumsfeld: China needs freer government
It is time for China to open its political system as widely as it has eased restrictions on its economy, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Friday while enroute to a conference on Asian security...
CNN - June 4, 2005
Refugees in Limbo: Ordered Out of U.S., but With Nowhere to Go
Keyse G. Jama was deported to Somalia only to be returned to a Minneapolis suburb when Somali officials rejected his papers and turned him away...
New York Times - June 4, 2005
Crucial Vote on Manhattan Stadium Is Put Off in Albany
The postponement was announced after Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver signaled his intention to vote against the stadium...
New York Times - June 4, 2005
Military Details Koran Incidents at Base in Cuba
A military inquiry has found that guards or interrogators at Guantánamo Bay abused the Koran, in some cases intentionally...
New York Times - June 4, 2005
Despite Years of U.S. Pressure, Taliban Fight On in Jagged Hills
The intensity of the fighting in remote corners of Afghanistan reveals the Taliban to be still a well-supplied fighting force...
New York Times - June 4, 2005
Apple Shares Slide on Reports of a Slowdown in iPod Sales
Shares of Apple Computer dropped almost 5 percent on Friday on speculation that the company might be experiencing a slowdown in sales of iPods...
New York Times - June 4, 2005
How to Exorcise a Corporate Scandal
In the corporate scandals of the last four years, the goal of government policy has been to rehabilitate wayward companies rather than liquidate them...
New York Times - June 4, 2005
What Would Steve McQueen Rent?
Unless you have a heart condition, you simply have to consider renting an exotic car...
New York Times - June 4, 2005
Leslie Smith, 87, a Matchbox Car Creator, Dies
Leslie Smith, who for several decades after World War II was the world's largest automaker, at least in part because he made the world's smallest autos, died on May 26 at his home in North London. Mr. Smith, a founder, president and longtime chief executive of Matchbox Toys, was 87...
New York Times - June 4, 2005
With Luck, Al Capone Slept Here
George Washington may not have slept there, but your house could still be historically significant...
New York Times - June 4, 2005
Slow Growth in May for Service Sector
By The Associated Press...
New York Times - June 4, 2005
Billiton Acquires Control of Rival Mining Company in Australia
The world's largest mining company, BHP Billiton, won control of a rival, WMC Resources of Australia, on Friday...
New York Times - June 4, 2005
Investigators Raid Fruit Companies in Europe
European antitrust officials raided the offices of banana and pineapple suppliers, after a tip that the companies may have conspired to fix prices for many years...
New York Times - June 4, 2005
Weak Report on Job Growth Keeps Investors Cautious
Do stock investors believe that the economy is resilient while inflation remains contained? Or do the surprisingly weak jobs and manufacturing reports for May mean investors will worry that the economy is slowing enough to put a crimp in corporate earnings?...
New York Times - June 4, 2005
Jurors Report a Deadlock in the Trial of Scrushy
The jurors in the fraud trial of Richard Scrushy said that they were deadlocked on all counts, prompting the judge to issue an order to resume deliberations...
New York Times - June 4, 2005
Saks Reopens an Inquiry of Deductions
Three weeks after the Securities and Exchange Commission expanded its inquiry at Saks Fifth Avenue to include chargebacks - deductions merchants take on their payments to clothing suppliers for mistakes the suppliers are said to have made - Saks announced yesterday that it would reopen its own inquiry...
New York Times - June 4, 2005
Tylenol Maker Recalls Children's Products
The maker of Tylenol said it was voluntarily recalling several children's products because label information might be confusing...
New York Times - June 4, 2005
Holders Hear Wal-Mart Defy Critics
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., June 3 (AP) - Wal-Mart Stores used its annual shareholders' meeting Friday to try to convince two divergent groups - the company's social critics and Wall Street - that it was on the right path...
New York Times - June 4, 2005
Morgan Stanley's Top Lawyer, as Expected, Is to Retire Once a Successor Is Found
The departure of Donald G. Kempf Jr. will cap his tumultuous six-year stint as Morgan Stanley's general counsel...
New York Times - June 4, 2005
Making Sponsors Walk the Plank
Any company that tries to pull a fast one on an increasingly media-savvy populace should first consider the power of blogs...
New York Times - June 4, 2005
Help! My A.R.M. Is Moving
Adjustable-rate mortgages, or A.R.M.'s, are ideal for some, but they are mind-numbingly complex...
New York Times - June 4, 2005
Oil Prices Are Up, Scandals Are Down and Trade Squabbles Erupt
Not so long ago, it looked as if the country was in the middle of a Decade of Corporate Scandal. Beginning with the bankruptcy of Enron in 2001, there has been a steady drumbeat of corporate blowups, including the WorldCom fraud, the Wall Street analysts' scandal, the mutual fund trading chicanery, HealthSouth's dodgy accounting and now the balance-sheet legerdemain of the American International Group and other big insurers...
New York Times - June 4, 2005
Now Playing on Broadway: The Money Pit
Producers of an Off Broadway show chose to keep it Of Broadway, signaling something important about the impossible economics of the Broadway theater...
New York Times - June 4, 2005
Quattrone Asks Appeals Court to Reverse His Guilty Verdict
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - June 4, 2005
L-3 to Acquire Titan, Expanding Share of Military Market
L-3 Communications announced yesterday that it had reached an agreement to acquire Titan, a military contractor, for about $2 billion in cash, expanding its share of the lucrative market to provide services to military and intelligence agencies...
New York Times - June 4, 2005
His, Hers and the Bank's
Magazines are tripping over themselves to give families financial advice, often on how to make saving and investing less emotional for couples...
New York Times - June 4, 2005
Hiring Brakes Sharply After Big April Gains
Job creation slowed to a crawl in May, but the unemployment rate edged down to its lowest point since September 2001...
New York Times - June 4, 2005
Rival Moving Beyond Roots Entwined With Starbucks
Peet's Coffee and Tea, which has long served a small but intense group of anti-Starbucks aficionados, has stepped up its expansion plans...
New York Times - June 4, 2005
An Insider's Critique of the Health Care System
Many people think the health care system in the U.S. needs to be fixed. It may be a surprise that Henry McKinnell, chairman and chief executive of Pfizer, is among them...
New York Times - June 4, 2005
Japan Squeezes to Get the Most of Costly Fuel
Japan is urging citizens to replace their appliances and buy hybrid vehicles, as part of an effort to save energy...
New York Times - June 4, 2005
Surging Woods nears Sluman
Tiger Woods draws within a shot of Jeff Sluman's lead at the Memorial Tournament...
BBC News - June 4, 2005
Venezuela to stage war games
Venezuelan civilians and reservists are due to take part in massive military manoeuvres across the country...
BBC News - June 4, 2005
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