16 maart 2003 was een zondag onder het sterrenbeeld ♓. Het was de 74e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was George W. Bush.
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Date: 17 March 2003
NBC TO RECALL BAGHDAD STAFF With talk of imminent war intensifying, NBC News said it was planning to pull its staff out of Baghdad immediately. It was the first of the major television networks to so, but it is not expected to be the last, competing news organizations said.
Date: 17 March 2003
By Matthew Mirapaul
Matthew Mirapaul
Audio and video capabilities of Internet inspire political cartoonists like Don Asmussen, Brian Duffy and Mark Fiore to create animated cartoons for Web; drawing (M)
Date: 16 March 2003
By Ted Widmer
Ted Widmer
Ted Widmer reviews following books: What Liberal Media?: The Truth About Bias and the News by Eric Alterman; and Democracy and the News by Herbert J Gans; drawing (M)
Date: 16 March 2003
By Lynette Clemetson
Lynette Clemetson
Assignment to carrier Abraham Lincoln in Persian Gulf gives television reporter Pat Dooris time with his brother, Cmdr Bill Dooris, pilot whose squadron would play key role in any air assault on Iraq; he comments on efforts to win assignment; photos (M)
Date: 17 March 2003
By Teresa Riordan
Teresa Riordan
Gregory Aharonian, publisher of Internet Patent News, reports that companies are donating bogus patents to universities and claiming big tax deductions on their federal taxes; singles out SBC Communications, which donated patent covering virus-screen programs to University of Texas; SBC valued patent at $7.3 million, but Aharonia says it is probably unenforceable and therefore worthless; photo (M)
Date: 17 March 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Bombardier will cut about 665 of 2,000 jobs at Toronto plant that makes Q Series, or Dash-8, turboprop airplanes (S)
Date: 17 March 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Warren E Buffett, billionaire investor, says companies will not regain investors' trust as long as compensation for chief executives, including stock options, keeps rising while share prices of their companies fall; addresses chief executives at conference on corporate governance in Charlotte, NC (S)
Date: 16 March 2003
INTERNATIONAL 3-11 List of Iraqi War Criminals Released by White House The Bush administration has named several top Iraqi officials, including Saddam Hussein's two sons, who would be tried for war crimes or crimes against humanity after an American-led attack on Iraq, a senior American official said. 1 The American-led coalition that is preparing to topple Mr. Hussein's government is planning for a complex invasion of Iraq to begin even as allied troops are still arriving in the region, senior commanders say. 1
Date: 17 March 2003
INTERNATIONAL A2-10 Bush and Allies Seem Set For War to Depose Hussein President Bush and the leaders of Britain and Spain issued an ultimatum to the United Nations Security Council, declaring that the diplomatic effort to win support for disarming Iraq would end today. They made it clear that they were ready to start a war to depose Saddam Hussein, with or without the endorsement of the United Nations. A1 Battling the American deadline for war, but reluctant to destroy its relationship with Washington, France is seeking an 11th-hour compromise that will avoid a rupture at the United Nations, senior French officials said. But the Bush administration rejected a written declaration by France, Germany and Russia, and with China's support, for more negotiations, as well as a compromise proposal by President Jacques Chirac of France. A12
Date: 16 March 2003
By Herbert J. Gans
Herbert Gans
"The country's democracy may belong directly or indirectly to its citizens, but the democratic process can only be truly meaningful if these citizens are informed."