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William C Rhoden Sports of The Times column discusses career of New Jersey Nets official scorer Herb Turetzky; he discusses team's success this season; photo (M)
Pakistan's intelligence agency provided safe passage for weapons and ammunition to arm Taliban month after Pakistan government agreed to end such support; twice in Oct, Pakistani border guards in Khyber Pass waved on convoys of trucks headed into Afghanistan said to be stocked with rifles, ammunition and rocket-propelled grenade launchers for Taliban fighters; Pakistani military, as promised, has withdrawn advisers from Afghanistan, move Western intelligence officials see as crucial factor in surprisingly swift collapse of Taliban forces when confronted by Northern Alliance; but Pakistan's intelligence agency remains what many describe as state within a state, with independent, and worrying, political tendencies; photos (M)
Bitter weeklong strike by teacher's union in Middletown, NJ, ends abruptly as teachers agree to honor court back-to-back work order and return to their classrooms without contract; about 225 teachers, secretaries and other union members are ordered released from jail where they were being held for staging illegal strike (M)
Federal trade panel recommends hefty duties on imported steel, making it likely that Bush administration will enact most sweeping protections for US steel makers since 1980's; prices of vehicles, appliances and other steel products would likely rise; proposed import tariffs of from 5 percent to 40 percent would reward workers and businesses in West Virginia, Pennsylvania and other swing states seen as crucial to winning presidential elections; quotas are also proposed; photos (M)
On College Football column discusses outlook for Heisman Trophy award; finalists are quarterbacks Eric Crouch (Nebraska), Rex Grossman (Florida), Ken Dorsey (Miami) and Joey Harrington (Oregon); photo (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 5, 2001, covering December 8, 2001.
Creed
Various Artists
Britney Spears
Garth Brooks
Various Artists
2001Josh Christopher, American basketball player[†]
Joshua Evan Christopher is an American professional basketball player for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association (NBA), on a two-way contract with the Sioux Falls Skyforce of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for the Arizona State Sun Devils. He is a 6-foot-4-inch (1.93 m), 215-pound (98 kg) shooting guard.
2001Mirza Delibašić, Bosnian basketball player and coach (born 1954)[†]
Mirza Delibašić was a Bosnian professional basketball player and coach.
2001Betty Holberton, American computer scientist and programmer (born 1917)[†]
Frances Elizabeth Holberton was an American computer scientist who was one of the six original programmers of the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, ENIAC. The other five ENIAC programmers were Jean Bartik, Ruth Teitelbaum, Kathleen Antonelli, Marlyn Meltzer, and Frances Spence.
2001A raid conducted by the Internal Security Department (ISD) of Singapore foils a Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) plot to bomb foreign embassies in Singapore.[†]
The Internal Security Department (ISD) is the domestic intelligence, counter-espionage, counterterrorism, and primary security agency of Singapore under the purview of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA). It is tasked to confront national security threats ranging from subversion or sedition, foreign influence, spying or espionage, domestic or international terrorism, and political or racial/religious extremism.
In 2001, the world population was approximately 6,254,936,459 people[†]