Le 7 octobre 2001 était un dimanche sous le signe astral du ♎. C'était le 279ème jour de l'année. Le président des États-Unis était George W. Bush.
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Date: 07 October 2001
By Warren Strugatch
Warren Strugatch
Article on backlash from advertisers after Cablevision's News 12 all-news channel bars reporters and anchors from wearing American flag lapel pins on air in wake of terrorist attacks; photos (M)
Date: 07 October 2001
By Warren Strugatch
Warren Strugatch
Article on backlash among advertisers created when News 12, Cablevision's all-news channel on Long Island, ordered its reporters and anchors not to wear American flag lapel pins on air or in field after September 11 terrorist attacks; photo (M)
Date: 08 October 2001
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Minnesota Gov Jesse Ventura and Alabama Gov Donald Siegelman have raised concerns by going to unusual lengths to keep information from reporters or news organizations that have fallen from favor; Siegelman has ordered all state agencies not to respond to inquiries from Eddie Curran, investigative reporter for Mobile Register, and has ruled that all news media requests for state records be channeled through governor's top legal aide; accuses Curran of being biased and unprofessional; Ventura says he will no longer speak with home-state reporters after several asked him about his acceptance of travel and lodging expenses from ABC television program Good Morning America; photos (M)
Date: 07 October 2001
By Kathryn Shattuck
Kathryn Shattuck
Nickelodeon will broadcast five-part special, Blue's Big News, for preschoolers; drawing (S)
Date: 08 October 2001
By David Firestone
David Firestone
Plans for leisurely Sunday activities are interrupted as air strikes against Taliban strongholds in Afghanistan begin; many television networks adopt all-news format, lighting up screens with fuzzy shadows and ghostly tracer missiles; Americans express fear and support, as they attend sports events, shop and try to maintain familiar routines; photo (M)
Date: 08 October 2001
By Marilyn Berger
Marilyn Berger
Herblock, The Washington Post editorial cartoonist, whose critical eye and rapier pen made him one of the leading journalists of his time, died Sunday in Washington.
Date: 07 October 2001
By Todd S. Purdum
Todd Purdum
Government can be expected to try to control, and regulate, flow of information that is vital to informed public debate on war against terrorism, and ultimately, to sustained public support (M)
Date: 07 October 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Duke, the defending national champion, has recruited a freshman class that rivals Michigan's Fab Five of 1991 as the best in college basketball history.
Date: 07 October 2001
INTERNATIONAL A3-32 Sharon Expresses Regret Over Warning To U.S. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel apologized for what he called a misunderstanding caused by his warning that the United States risked appeasing Arab nations the way Europe appeased Adolf Hitler before World War II. The comment, made last week, caused three days of extremely turbulent diplomacy between the two allies. A3 Russia Shifts Stance on Plane President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia was said to have challenged Ukraine's insistence that it had not accidentally shot down a Siberian Airlines jet on Thursday, calling its version of events ''incomplete.'' Another Russian said that many ''foreign'' objects had been found in the wreckage. A15
Date: 08 October 2001
INTERNATIONAL A3-8 Suicide Bombing in Israel And Clashes in West Bank Despite a cease-fire, the violence between Palestinians and Israelis barely paused. The first suicide bomber to strike in Israel during the current cease-fire killed himself and one Israeli at a kibbutz in northern Israel. In the West Bank city of Hebron, a Palestinian was shot dead and three were injured. Israeli troops attacked two neighborhoods there on Friday in an effort to stop sniper attacks. Israeli troops continued to hold their positions in areas of Hebron that by previous agreement are Palestinian-controlled. A6 New Detail on Russian Crash A tape recording on the ground registered a scream from a crew member aboard a Russian passenger plane at the moment that it exploded over the Black Sea last week, a Russian official said. Russian investigators are continuing to sift through wreckage of the SibirAir TU-154 jet recovered from the Black Sea to try to learn why the airliner exploded and plunged into the sea 87 miles off Russia's coast. Investigators reported finding several foreign objects in the wreckage, which supports the contention of American military officials that the plane was downed by an Ukrainian missile gone awry when it was fired during a military exercise. A8