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Small businesses that operated in World Trade Center have received less-than-adequate compensation for their losses in Sept 11 attacks; stories are so wrenching that some lawyers who have been giving them free legal advice are now trying to help them create advocacy group; many are confused by sea of bureaucracy they must navigate in order to qualify for benefits; photos (M)
Unemployment rate in New York City shoots up to 7.4 percent, as more than 10,000 jobs disappear from city's battered economy; job losses since Sept 11 attack on World Trade Center top 100,000, record-breaking drop for three-month period; economists are generally relieved, saying damage could have been much worse; graph (M)
American International Group threatens to scuttle agreement to take over Hyundai Securities, Hyundai Trust and Securities and Hyundai Investment Trust Management, financial units of Hyundai group; consortium led by AIG has raises stakes with demand for government guarantee to cover hidden debts accrued by troubled companies; government has reportedly agreed to guarantee less than half hidden debt of companies (M)
Airbus Industrie says it will cut costs by $530 million this year through early retirement of about 1,200 employees and other measures; says by eliminating overtime and part-time work, company will reduce its labor costs equivalent of 4,800 more full-time jobs without resorting to layoffs; senior vice president John J Leahy expects airlines to order total of only 300 to 350 large civilian airliners from Airbus and Boeing Co in 2002, down from 546 in 2001; president Noel Forgeard says Airbus will aggressively seek military contracts to offset plunge in civilian sales (M)
Justice Dept announces global manhunt for five suspected members of Al Qaeda who were videotaped in Afghanistan offering what Atty Gen John Aschroft describes as 'martyrdom messages,' indicating they could be preparing for suicide attack; says five hourlong videotapes were found by American special forces in rubble of compound occupied by Muhammad Atef, one of Osama bin Laden's chief commanders; Atef was believed killed in airstrike on Kabul in Nov; Ashcroft says men on tapes represent significant threat, and asks people around world for help to 'identify, locate and incapacitate terrorists'; one of five, Ramzi Muhammad Abdullah bin al-Shibh, was named last Nov as unindicted co-conspirator in case brought against Zacarias Moussaoui; Shibh was associate of Mohamed Atta, suspected ringleader of Sept 11 attacks; other four men on tapes are mystery; their names are Abd al-Rahim, Muhammad Sa'id Ali Hasan and Khalid Ibn Muhammad al-Juhani; fourth man's name is unknown; Ashcroft says authorities do not know their nationalities or backgrounds, or when tapes were made; their pictures are being circulated to police agencies around world (L)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 16, 2002, covering January 18, 2002.
Creed
Linkin Park
Ludacris
Nickelback
Various Artists
2002Anastasia Zakharova, Russian tennis player[†]
Anastasia Vladimirovna Zakharova is a Russian tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of world No. 93 in singles and No. 93 in doubles. Zakharova has won sixteen singles and eight doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.
2002Ki-Jana Hoever, Dutch footballer[†]
Ki-Jana Delano Hoever is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a defender for Auxerre, on loan from Premier League club Wolverhampton Wanderers.
2002Karim Adeyemi, German footballer[†]
Karim David Adeyemi is a German professional footballer who plays as a winger or forward for Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund and the Germany national team.
2002The Sierra Leone Civil War is declared over.[†]
The Sierra Leonean Civil War (1991–2002) was a civil war in Sierra Leone that began on 23 March 1991 when the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), with support from the special forces of Liberian dictator Charles Taylor, the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL), intervened in Sierra Leone in an attempt to overthrow the Joseph Momoh government. The resulting civil war lasted almost 11 years, and had over 50,000, up to 70,000, casualties in total; an estimated 2.5 million people were displaced during the conflict, and widespread atrocities occurred.
In 2002, the world population was approximately 6,337,730,342 people[†]