27 oktober 2001 was een zaterdag onder het sterrenbeeld ♏. Het was de 299e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was George W. Bush.
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Date: 27 October 2001
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
More than week after submitting lists of questions to be answered by Osama bin Laden, neither CNN nor Al Jazeera, Arabic-language news network, has received response or any indication that one will be coming soon (M)
Date: 28 October 2001
By Seth Schiesel and Andrew Ross Sorkin
Seth Schiesel
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Date: 27 October 2001
By Alessandra Stanley
Alessandra Stanley
American culture, particularly television news, is showcasing women in power as they cover war in Afghanistan, promote it from government podiums and help wage it in bomber jets and on aircraft carriers; yet enemy terrain is ruled by Islamic fundamentalists who have made veil obligatory and banned women from public life; as Bush administration seeks to help broker coalition government to someday replace Taliban, Pres Bush advisers warn that president's message must be muted for fear of alienating potential Muslim allies in Afghanistan and region; photo of Pentagon spokeswoman Victoria Clarke, one of American women whose visibility contrasts with women's status in Afghanistan (M)
Date: 28 October 2001
By David Gonzalez
David Gonzalez
Over 70 journalists face criminal charges in Panama, whose draconian press laws lets public officials bring 'disrespect charges' against journalists who publish exposes or unflattering commentaries; most defendants in cases already settled have been pardoned or fined; laws also let officials block press access to wide variety of government documents deemed confidential almost by whim; journalists charge laws are part of antidemocratic effort to silence and punish critics; cartoon (M)/
Date: 27 October 2001
By Dana Canedy
Dana Canedy
State and local health officials in Florida begin notifying about 400 American Media employees that despite two blood tests analyzed by federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, they cannot definitely determine which of workers had been exposed to anthrax; say anyone who spent hour or more in American Media building in Boca Raton in two months ending Oct 7 should consider themselves exposed and continue 60-day regimen of Cipro antibiotics; building remains closed; photo (M)
Date: 27 October 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Kraft Foods, which is integrating Nabisco Holdings into its business, is offering some workers in US early retirement in program that is expected to eliminate 1,000 jobs (S)
Date: 27 October 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Lockheed Martin Corp reports third-quarter profit of $213 million compared with loss of $704 million year earlier; sales rose 7.1 percent, to $6.38 billion; company receives contract to build $200 billion Joint Strike Fighter (S)
Date: 27 October 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
General Motors Acceptance Corp sells $6 billion worth of debt (S)
Date: 27 October 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Phelps Dodge Crop, second-largest copper producer, will lose $1.20 to $1.35 a share in fourth quarter as price of metal fell (S)
Date: 27 October 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
CMS Energy Corp expects to raise $2.4 billion by selling assets outside US as company moves to expand its North American pipeline network and energy-trading business; is in talks to sell stakes in Loy Yang power plant in Australia, as well as natural gas fields and methanol plant in Equatorial Guinea, for $1.2 billion (S)