23 december 2002 was een maandag onder het sterrenbeeld ♑. Het was de 356e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was George W. Bush.
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Date: 24 December 2002
By Rachel L. Swarns (NYT)
Rachel Swarns
Mozambique news agency reports officials are investigating possible involvement of Nyimpine Chissano, President Joaquim Chissano's son, in slaying of journalist Carlos Cardoso two years ago; reporter was killed while investigating bank fraud tied to many influential people (S)
Date: 23 December 2002
By Jim Rutenberg
Jim Rutenberg
CNN informally seeks to learn whether Mary Matalin, who is resigning as strategist for Vice Pres Dick Cheney, wants to return to cable network where she once worked; photo (M)
Date: 23 December 2002
By Elisabeth Bumiller
Elisabeth Bumiller
Interview with Mary Matalin, who is leaving her job as strategist for Vice Pres Dick Cheney; she says that while White House remains accommodating to working mothers, she wants to spend more time with her daughters; says she will continue to advise Cheney on strategy and press matters from outside White House; photo (M)
Date: 24 December 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Dial Corp, maker of Dial soap and Purex detergent, agrees to sell its Argentine business to Southern Cross Group at a loss of as much as $60 million after currency devaluation and recession hurt sales in that country this year; Southern Cross will pay $6 million for business (S)
Date: 24 December 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Novartis wins approval to sell its cancer drug Gleevec in United States as first treatment doctors should try for patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (S)
Date: 24 December 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
ICN Pharmaceuticals plans to remove all but one member of board at Ribapharm as it evaluates whether to shed its 80 percent ownership of company; directors to be removed include Ribapharm chairman, Johnson Y N Lau, who remains chief executive (S)
Date: 24 December 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Charter Communications, cable TV operator, dismisses its chief financial officer, Kent Kalkwarf, and its chief operating officer, David Barford, because of federal investigation into company's accounting (S)
Date: 24 December 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Baxter International wins FDA approval of its new kidney dialysis solution, Extraneal (S)
Date: 24 December 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Wal-Mart Stores says that December sales are near low end of its forecast of increase of 3 percent to 5 percent (S)
Date: 24 December 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
SanDisk Corp, one of world's biggest makers of flash-memory data storage products, says it settled patent lawsuit with Micron Technology over memory chips that retain information when power is off (S)