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Even before firefighters extinguished the flames at the Pentagon, military and civilian personnel returned to a building where the principal business was drawing up plans to retaliate. Two-fifths of the Pentagon was shut the day after a hijacked airliner crashed into it. Officials said preliminary counts suggested roughly 200 people may have died.
Two passengers aboard United Airlines Boeing 767, which crashed near Pittsburgh after hijacking by terrorists, learned about horror of World Trade Center in cellular telephone calls from wives and reportedly vowed to try to fight hijackers; Jeremy Glick reportedly told wife three Arab-looking men carrying knives took control of plane; passenger Thomas E Burnett Jr reportedly told wife one passenger was stabbed to death and that group of other passengers was getting ready to take action; partial list of passenger and crew; map; photo (M)
Floyd Norris column holds destroying World Trade Center, symbolically heart of world financial system, will not destroy America's financial system; says resumption of trading will show there are things terrorists cannot destroy; photo (M)
AES Corp's $500-million deal with Ugandan government to build massive dam at Bujagali Falls, six miles from where Nile River begins, has encountered huge obstacles since proposal seven years ago; American executives confront corruption and and cultural and environmental challenge, including vociferous opposition from environmentalists and rafting operators and those who fear disturbing resting places of ancestral spirits; photos; Nile is sacred for people along its banks, and AES report to World Bank acknowledges that 'dwelling places' of 'spirits' will have to be relocated, with appropriate ceremony; 100-foot-high dam would vastly expand power capacity in country where less than five percent of population has electricity (M)
Cantor Fitzgerald LP, government bond trading firm, has emerged as magnet for Wall Street's concern about devastation and personal tragedy that financial community has experienced from destruction of World Trade Center; of Cantor's more than 2,300 employees worldwide, about 1,000 worked at company's headquarters on 101st, 103d, 104th and 105th floors of One World Trade Center; only about 270 workers have been accounted for; among those missing is William Meehan, firm's chief market strategist (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 12, 2001, covering September 13, 2001.
Aaliyah
Mary J. Blige
Slipknot
Alicia Keys
Maxwell
2001Johnny Craig, American sailor and illustrator (born 1926)[†]
John Thomas Alexis Craig, was an American comic book artist notable for his work with the EC Comics line of the 1950s. He sometimes used the pseudonyms Jay Taycee and F. C. Aljohn.
2001Jaroslav Drobný, Czech-English ice hockey player and tennis player (born 1921)[†]
Jaroslav Drobný was a world No. 1 amateur tennis and ice hockey champion. He left Czechoslovakia in 1949 and travelled as an Egyptian citizen before becoming a citizen of the United Kingdom in 1959, where he died in 2001. In 1951, he became the first and, to date, only Egyptian to win the French Open, while doing likewise at the Wimbledon Championships in 1954. He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1983. He played internationally for the Czechoslovakia men's national ice hockey team, and was inducted in the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame.
2001Dorothy McGuire, American actress (born 1916)[†]
Dorothy Hackett McGuire was an American actress. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Gentleman's Agreement (1947) and won the National Board of Review Award for Best Actress for Friendly Persuasion (1956). She starred as the mother in the popular films Old Yeller (1957) and Swiss Family Robinson (1960).
In 2001, the world population was approximately 6,254,936,459 people[†]