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Immigration Accord Many of the estimated three million Mexican immigrants living illegally in the United States could become permanent legal residents under a new plan. PAGE A4 Inhalers Linked to 10 Deaths At least 10 asthma patients may have died after using drug inhalers that were later recalled by Schering-Plough, according to reports filed with regulators. The F.D.A. is investigating the reports. PAGE C1
John Tierney The Big City column finds way to look at New York's heat wave that makes it seem bearable by contrasting it with stories of survival in extraordinary circumstances (M)
Palestinian suicide bomber blows himself up in crowded Israeli restaurant in Jerusalem, killing at least 14 people besides himself, including six children, and wounding about 130 others; Israel responds with sweeping assault on Yasir Arafat's Palestinian Authority; dozens of Israeli police officers occupy Orient House, headquarters of Palestine Liberation Orgn in East Jerusalem, where they lower Palestinian flag and raise Israeli flag in its place; half dozen Palestinian guards are taken in for questioning, and documents are reportedly removed from house; police seize eight other Palestinian offices in East Jerusalem, including building housing Palestinian intelligence services; in Ramallah, Israeli F-16 fighter planes fire missiles that destroy Palestinian police headquarters; Israeli tanks said to enter Palestinian-controlled areas in Gaza Strip; Israeli officials describe events as 'pinpoint actions' against what they call sources of latest attack; senior Palestinian official and former peace negotiator, Ahmed Qurei, calls it re-occupation; visiting American woman, Judith L Greenbaum, is among dead in Jerusalem attack; photos (M)
Retailers' Sales Rise 2.4% As Shoppers Grow Cautious In malls and Main Streets across the country, shoppers appear to be closely watching how and where they spend their money, with retail sales rising just 2.4 percent over all in July. Discount retailers posted the strongest gains, with Wal-Mart and Kmart doing better than expected, but other merchants had disappointing sales. Gap, for example, said that sales in stores open at least a year fell 12 percent, steeper than expected. [Page C3.]
Commerzbank AG reports 87 percent decline in second-quarter 2001 net, to $83 million, compared with year-earlier period; photo (S)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 8, 2001, covering August 10, 2001.
*NSYNC
Alicia Keys
D12
Staind
Aaliyah
2001Lou Boudreau, American baseball player and manager (born 1917)[†]
Louis Boudreau, nicknamed "Old Shufflefoot", "Handsome Lou", and "the Good Kid", was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for 15 seasons, primarily as a shortstop on the Cleveland Indians, and managed four teams for 15 seasons including 10 seasons as a player-manager. He was also a radio announcer for the Chicago Cubs and in college was a dual-sport athlete in baseball and basketball, earning All-American honors in basketball for the University of Illinois.
2001The 2001 Angola train attack occurred, causing 252 deaths.[†]
The 2001 Angola train attack was an attack during the Angolan Civil War when on 10 August 2001 UNITA forces derailed a train travelling between towns of Zenza and Dondo with an anti-tank mine and then attacked the passengers with small arms fire.
2001Space Shuttle program: The Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-105 to the International Space Station, carrying the astronauts of Expedition 3 to replace the crew of Expedition 2.[†]
The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished routine transportation for Earth-to-orbit crew and cargo from 1981 to 2011. Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS), taken from a 1969 plan for a system of reusable spacecraft where it was the only item funded for development, as a proposed nuclear shuttle in the plan was cancelled in 1972. It flew 135 missions and carried 355 astronauts from 16 countries, many on multiple trips.
In 2001, the world population was approximately 6,254,936,459 people[†]