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AOL's recent increase in monthly fee, coupled with discontent among its subscribers, leads competing services such as Microsoft's MSN and EarthLink to expand their businesses by recruiting AOL defectors; photos (M)
NATO will send force of up to 3,000 troops to Macedonia to disarm ethnic Albanian reels if political settlement is reached to end insurgency there; mission would probably be led by British and draw predominantly on forces from European nations; United States is likely to provide transport, intelligence and other forms of support, but not troops, in keeping with Bush administration's skeptical approach toward peacekeeping; NATO force was requested by Pres Boris Trajkovski of Macedonia; peace talks are stalemated and shaky cease-fire declared by his government is to expire on June 25; International Crisis Group, research organization, warns that situation is perilous and getting more dangerous every day, raising prospect of all-out civil war; NATO secretary general Lord Robertson agrees that Macedonia is 'close to civil war' (M)
Tracking shares in Sony Communication Network Corp begin trading on Tokyo Stock Exchange at 10 percent discount to price of 3,300 yen ($26.84) set before its first public offering; Sony chief financial officer Teruhisa Tokunaka comments; photo (S)
Lori Berenson, 31-year-old New Yorker held for more than five years in Peruvian prisons on terrorism charges, is convicted by civilian court of collaborating in foiled terrorist plot to take entire Peruvian Congress hostage, and sentenced to 20 years in prison; three-judge tribunal in Lima rules that she rented house in Lima with co-conspirator to provide base for Marxist terrorist organization, Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA), bought computer and communications gear for group, and used press credentials as cover to scrutinize halls of Congress and facilitate eventual attack; Berenson claims she is innocent of charges, but she again refuses to condemn MRTA; her parents and lawyer say they will appeal to Peruvian Supreme Court and international human rights tribunals; photo (M)
Psychologists and computer scientists collaborate in attempt to develop improved computer simulations for soldiers and officers training to function in actual military situations; this involves departing from doctrine, or prescribed procedure, to factor in human behavior and emotions that govern it; such simulations are still experimental; among institutions developing these programs is Intelligence Systems Division at Information Sciences Institute; photos (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 20, 2001, covering June 21, 2001.
Staind
Radiohead
St. Lunatics
Soundtrack
Destiny's Child
2001Alexandra Obolentseva, Russian chess player[†]
Alexandra Sergeevna Obolentseva is a Russian chess player. She was awarded the title Woman Grandmaster by FIDE in 2018. Obolentseva has won the World Youth Chess Championships, the World Schools Chess Championships and the European Schools Chess Championships in her age girls category.
2001John Lee Hooker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1917)[†]
John Lee Hooker was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. The son of a sharecropper, he rose to prominence performing an electric guitar-style adaptation of Delta blues that he developed in Detroit. Hooker often incorporated other elements, including talking blues and early North Mississippi hill country blues. He developed his own driving-rhythm boogie style, distinct from the 1930s–1940s piano-derived boogie-woogie. Hooker was ranked 35 in Rolling Stone's 2015 list of 100 greatest guitarists, and has been cited as one of the greatest male blues vocalists of all time.
2001Soad Hosny, Egyptian actress and singer (born 1942)[†]
Soad Mohammad Kamal Hosny was an Egyptian actress. She was known as the "Cinderella of the Screen" and one of the most influential actresses in the Middle East and the Arab world. She is generally regarded as one of Egypt's most iconic female performers of the 20th-century, who played leading roles for many of the country's top directors, in a career spanning 83 films between 1959 and 1991, garnering several national and international accolades.
2001Carroll O'Connor, American actor and producer (born 1924)[†]
John Carroll O'Connor was an American actor whose television career spanned over four decades. He found widespread fame as Archie Bunker, the main character in the CBS television sitcoms All in the Family (1971–1979) and its continuation, Archie Bunker's Place (1979–1983). He later starred in the NBC/CBS television crime drama In the Heat of the Night (1988–1995), where he played the role of police chief William "Bill" Gillespie. In the late 1990s, he played Gus Stemple, the father of Jamie Buchman on Mad About You. In 1996, O'Connor was ranked number 38 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time. He won five Emmys and one Golden Globe Award.
2001A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen.[†]
Alexandria is an independent city in Northern Virginia, United States. It lies on the western bank of the Potomac River approximately 7 miles (11 km) south of D.C. The city's population of 159,467 at the 2020 census made it the sixth-most populous city in Virginia and 169th-most populous city in the U.S. Alexandria is a principal city of the Washington metropolitan area, which is part of the larger Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area.
In 2001, the world population was approximately 6,254,936,459 people[†]