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Jun. 26, 2002: Mideast Worries Impinge on G-8 Summit. CALGARY, Alberta. Leaders Reject Bush's Position on Arafat. Most of the leaders of the Group of Eight -- the United States, Canada, Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Italy and Russia -- had already issued statements distancing themselves from Bush's insistence that Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader, be replaced before serious peace negotiations with Israel can begin. "It is for the Palestinians to elect their own leaders," British Prime Minister Tony Blair said as he departed London today for the summit. More Wash. Post.
June 25, 2002: Gender gap among college grads. Where are all the men? Not only were the head of student government, the senior class president and 96 of Morgan's 141 honorstudents women, but so were two-thirds of the university's 860 graduates. At colleges and universities across the United States, the proportion of bachelor's degrees awarded to women reached a post-war high this year at an estimated 57 percent. The gender gap is even greater among Hispanics -- only 40 percent of that ethnic group's college graduates are male -- and African Americans, who are now seeing two women earn bachelor's degrees for every man. The trend, which began in the mid-1980s. More Wash. Post.
Arafat brushes off Bush’s peace plan. Yasser Arafat on Tuesday brushed off President Bush’s call for new Palestinian leadership, saying it was up to Palestinians to decide the matter in elections. Elsewhere, reaction was also cool. Arab commentators called Bush’s hardened stance dangerous, and the European Union stopped short of endorsing the proposal. Israel, meanwhile, welcomed Bush’s speech. More NBC.
June 24, 2002: Israeli forces surround Arafat. Israeli tanks entered Ramallah and surrounded Yasser Arafat’s compound early Monday while the Palestinian leader and his aides were inside, as Israel appeared to follow through on its new policy of gradually retaking land with no plans to leave until Palestinian attacks stop. Elsewhere, Israeli helicopters fired on two cars in the Gaza Strip, killing at least six Palestinians, including several militants. Israeli forces have besieged Arafat’s compound on and off since last December, and Monday’s action marked the third time this month that troops have surrounded his offices, which now consist of many battered and scorched buildings that cover a full city block. More NBC.
Jun. 23, 2002: Advice columnist Ann Landers dead at 83. Frank, feisty, funny, with a voice as brash as her advice, Eppie Lederer better known as Ann Landers, advice-giver to the world had a ready answer for people who wondered why strangers turned to her for help with their most intimate problems. For over 40 years, Ann Landers was the world’s best read and most widely syndicated newspaper column, a fixture in 1,200 newspapers, offering a daily snapshot of a society in transition to an audience of some 90 million readers. Since 1987, her home base was the Chicago Tribune. More Chicago Tribune.
Jun 18, 2002: Blast hits bus in Jerusalem. A suicide bomber blew himself up on a crowded city bus in Jerusalem during morning rush hour Tuesday, killing 14 passengers and wounding at least 29, police and radio reports said. On Monday, as Israel began building a controversial electronic fence to keep suicide bombers out, a Palestinian extremist on Monday crossed into Israeli territory and detonated an explosive charge, killing only himself. More NBC .
June 14, 2002: Bomb rips U.S. facility in Pakistan. KARACHI, Pakistan, A suicide attacker crashed a bomb-laden vehicle into a guard post outside the U.S. Consulate in Karachi on Friday, killing at least 11 Pakistanis and injuring dozens more. More NBC.
June 11 , 2002: Much of 9/11 donations still unspent. Of the $2.3 billion raised by the largest charities in the nine months since the terrorist attacks, 29 cents of each dollar has gone to the survivors of those killed. More NBC.
June 7, 2002: Bush wants home security on Cabinet. Declaring that the United States is waging a titanic struggle against terror, President Bush on Thursday proposed the creation of a Cabinet-level domestic security agency as part of a sweeping transformation intended to prevent more terror attacks on the United States. More NBC.
June 5, 2002: Blast tears through bus in Israel. An Islamic militant blew himself up in a car packed with explosives alongside a crowded Israeli bus Wednesday, igniting a massive fireball that killed 16 people and wounded dozens. The suicide attack came on the 35th anniversary of the start of the 1967 Mideast War and during a visit to the region by CIA chief George Tenet. Passengers were hurled onto the pavement as the bus tumbled; others, including a man and woman embracing in their final moments, died trapped in the burning vehicle. Many passengers were soldiers traveling to bases in the West Bank. More NBC.
Gauging impact of a nuclear shootout. The specter of an all-out nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan is causing deep alarm around the world, and American military officials and war-gaming analysts agree the human toll in South Asia would be catastrophic. But the effects of radioactive fallout on the rest of the planet, while certainly of great long-term consequence, would be less severe than the fallout that followed the largest atmospheric tests of the 1950s and 1960s. More NBC.