- December 1, 2003
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December 1 ,2003 =*
Occupation of Iraq :
** The firefight in which more than 50Iraqi s are reported killed is now thought to have been an attemptedcurrency heist. [http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3253236.stm]
** One GI is killed Monday in fighting west ofBaghdad . [http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/12/01/sprj.irq.main/index.html]
*World AIDS Day :
** US Health SecretaryTommy Thompson warns that the world is losing the war againstAIDS . Thompson said, "We need America, theEuropean Union and everybody. Nobody is going to be spared unless we all come together in the fight against this disease." [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3254706.stm]
** UKSecretary of State for International Development Hilary Benn announces that the UK's funding forUNAids will rise to GBP £6 million in2004 ; this figure compares to the UK's projectedIraq War -related costs of approximately GBP £3 billion. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3252238.stm]
** UN Secretary-GeneralKofi Annan reportedly tells theBBC that the world is losing the war against AIDS becausegovernment s remain indifferent to the threat. [http://edition.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/11/30/un.aids.ap/index.html]
** Chinese PremierWen Jiabao marks World AIDS Day by visiting AIDS victims in aBeijing hospital. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3252160.stm]
* TheUN 'sInternational Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda hands down a life sentence toJuvenal Kajelijeli , a former mayor ofMukingo , for his role in the1994 genocide in which more than 500,000Rwanda ns were killed. [http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=515&ncid=723&e=5&u=/ap/20031201/ap_on_re_af/un_rwanda_tribunal]
* King Harald V of Norway is announced to be suffering from cancer of the bladder; he will be operated on next Monday,December 8 . During the King's illness and two to three month convalescence, Crown Prince Haakon will be actingregent . [http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article.jhtml?articleID=682035]
* PresidentChen Shui-bian says that the hundreds of missiles thePeople's Republic of China has aimed atTaiwan justifies holding a referendum on independence. The referendum bill recently passed by theLegislative Yuan only allows votes on sovereignty if the country is attacked by a foreign power. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3252246.stm]
*Boeing Chairman andChief Executive Officer Phil Condit resigns, a week after theaviation giant fires itsChief Financial Officer in an ethicsscandal . The move comes as the company faces scrutiny by the Defense Department for a government plan to acquireBoeing 767 planes for use as refueling tankers and answers questions about the ousters of two executives for ethical misconduct during the period it was being negotiated. FormerMcDonnell Douglas CEO Harry Stonecipher will succeed Condit as CEO, while formerHewlett-Packard chairman and CEOLewis Platt takes over as chairman. [http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=businessNews&storyID=412789§ion=finance]
* InFlandreau, South Dakota , jury selection begins in themanslaughter trial of former South Dakota Governor and current US CongressmanBill Janklow . [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,104431,00.html]
* Thecross country cycling organization "LOCO " was founded inShreveport /Bossier City .
* TheXbox Music Mixer was released.
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