- November 23, 2003
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BBC "Correspondent" programme, based oncomputer-generated image s, suggests that theWarren Commission 's controversialmagic bullet theory , in which is was claimed that the same bullet hit PresidentJohn F. Kennedy and GovernorJohn Connally during Kennedy's assassination in1963 , was correct. Using state of the art computer generated images based on theZapruder film , the programme concludes that a lone gunman could have shot Kennedy.ABC News andCourt TV arrived at a similar conclusion [http://www.courttv.com/onair/shows/kennedy/index.html]
*Beleaguered Georgian PresidentEduard Shevardnadze resigns. Elections will be in 45 days, but until then,Nino Burdzhanadze will be the acting president. [http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=2&u=/ap/20031123/ap_on_re_eu/georgia_protests] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3231534.stm]
* Nationalist party HDZ appears set to beat the ruling centre-left coalition inCroatia 's general election. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3230260.stm] [http://uk.news.yahoo.com/031123/325/eeqic.html]
*EADS , the largest European aircraft company, is doing preliminary work on ahypersonic passenger aircraft that would take the place of the recently-retiredConcorde ; the planning includes collaboration with Japanese firms and METI. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3231354.stm] However, its subsidiaryAirbus ' A380 'super-jumbo' sub-sonic vehicle is the product expected to become the dominant commercial aircraft in the near-future. [http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=businessNews&storyID=3877882]
*The "New York Times " reports that theFBI is actively monitoring and gathering intelligence on anti-war protest movements' activities, ostensibly to detect possible terrorist activity. Opponents such as theACLU criticize the practice as regressionary to the days ofJ. Edgar Hoover 's intense monitoring of private organizations for potentialCommunist links. [http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/23/national/23FBI.html?ei=5062&en=67560367b7120964&ex=1070168400&partner=GOOGLE&pagewanted=all&position=] [http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/11/23/security.fbi.reut/index.html]
* ThePeople's Republic of China plans to start tests of aSARS vaccine on humans by the end of December; trials with monkeys show that the vaccine was effective. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3230418.stm]
*10,000 trade unionists, environmentalists, and farmworkers march inMiami to protest against theFree Trade Area of the Americas expansion meeting. Other street protests erupt into violent confronations with police several times throughout the day. Protester sources indicate upwards of 250 protesters incarcerated, along with reports of physical and sexual assault while in custody. [http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/11/15/8771331] [http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/22/0011213] [http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1122-03.htm] [http://www.ictsd.org/weekly/03-11-19/story3.htm] [http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/7266885.htm] Other demonstrations take place in cities throughout the Americas.
*Occupation of Iraq :
** Three US troops are killed in Iraq, two of them in a civilian vehicle inMosul and the third in a roadside bombing inBaquba . A mob desecrates the bodies of the Mosul victims and loots their gear. [http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=540&u=/ap/20031123/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_630&printer=1] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3230690.stm]
** A female acting ambassador to the USA is chosen by Iraq'sGoverning Council :Rend al-Rahim Francke , an Iraqi/American educated in Britain, France and Lebanon. [http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=4PU2ESEZODN0ECRBAE0CFFA?type=topNews&storyID=3877806]
* A US military helicopter crashes nearBagram ,Afghanistan , killing five soldiers and wounding seven. [http://uk.news.yahoo.com/031123/325/eeqjm.html]
* Indian newspapers reported on the results of an in-depth [http://www.ciet.org/www/image/download/Pak2002baseline.pdf 2002 survey] of 57,321 Pakistanis in 89 districts ofPakistan . Although the survey was primarily concerned with the performance of local governments, the newspapers mischaracterized its results as the "utter dissatisfaction" of Pakistanis with the government of Pakistani presidentPervez Musharraf . [http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=26297] [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/297394.cms] [http://origin.ndtv.com/template/template.asp?template=&id=45317&callid=1]
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