Profile of Marine Staff Sgt Riayan Tejeda, who was raised in Washington Heights, New York City, and was killed in Iraq at age 26; neighborhood friends comment; photo (M)

At Journey's End, a Marine Is Mourned

Los Angeles Lakers prepare for playoff games, with many considering team's fortitude and chemistry questionable after inconsistent season; photos (M)

For Lakers, Postseason Has Become Real Season

Dewitt (NY) man John T Jamelske is charged with holding number of teenage girls captive in his homemade basement bunker for as long as two years; reportedly targeted runaways and drug addicts whose disappearance would likely go unnoticed and kept them in concrete cells, controlling when they bathed, slept and ate, and forcing them to have sex with him; photo (M)

Town Loner Charged in Chilling Case of Sexual Captivity

William C Rhoden Sports of The Times column contends that Los Angeles Lakers' rough season and New Jersey Nets' youth and relative inexperience should make their playoff runs trying times; photo (M)

Sports of The Times; Road Back to Finals Will Test Lakers and Nets

Toyota Motor Co is introducing its latest Prius, which will get about 55 miles per gallon and be first midsize vehicle with hybrid technology as Ford Motor Co scales back expectations for its first hybrid-powered vehicle and backpedals on pledge to improve fuel economy of its sport utility vehicles; situation is complicated and bleak from perspective of reducing oil consumption; Toyota, Honda Motor and Nissan Motor are flooding American market with SUV's of all sizes; Toyota and Nissan are redoubling efforts to take on last largely unchallenged stronghold of Detroit automakers: pickup truck; sales of new-model SUV's from Japan far outnumber gas-sipping hybrids; graph; photo (M)

Cloaked in Green, But Pushing Trucks

Indiana Pacers hope tempestuous forward Ron Artest, who has been suspended six times for total of 12 games, can control his temper as team heads into playoffs; photos (M)

Artest Is Trying To Play It Cool

Jamaica High School (NYC) basketball player Mohammad Sarfaraz Hussain, born in Pakistan but living in America for nearly 10 years, faces deportation after parents died just before earning their citizenship; has friends and family here in New York and no one in Pakistan, and feels more American than immigrant; photos (M)

All-American? U.S. Says No; Teenager May Be Deported, but Pakistan Isn't Home

A Role for the U.N., or Not; the Iraqi Leaders' Whereabouts

Police arrest two unidentified men in connection with fatal shooting of Fair Lawn (NJ) police officer Mary Ann Collura; are still searching for third suspect; photos (M)

In New Jersey, 2 Are Arrested In Shootings Of 2 Officers

Rip! Zap! Ding! It's a Classic 6-Minute Pot Roast

 Husband Held in Slayings  The husband of a pregnant Modesto, Calif., woman who vanished on Christmas Eve was arrested in connection with her death and that of the fetus, the police said.   PAGE A8    Confusion on North Korea  North Korea appeared to announce that it was starting to reprocess nuclear fuel rods. But it then withdrew the statement from its official Web site amid confusion over the accuracy of the translation.   PAGE A2

INSIDE

Fate of Kachadoorian family, which unknowingly drove into one of biggest firefights of Iraq war on Apr 8 while trying to flee Baghdad, seems to crystallize much about nature of conflict, its terror, confusion and goodness; marines who shot at family's three cars, killing three men when panicked drivers ignored orders to stop, were cut off and under murderous Iraqi fire; had not meant to kill men and later risked lives to pull other family members out of line of fire; incident haunts many of those it touched; photos (M)

For Family in Iraq, 3 Deaths From a Moment of Confusion

American Airlines drops plans to pay large bonuses to seven top executives if they stayed with company until January 2005; says it will keep money in much-criticized trust fund set up to protect pensions of 45 executives in case it files bankruptcy protection; flight attendants' union says it will vote again soon on $340 million in critical concessions its members narrowly agreed to give company on April 16; American announcement comes after union leaders denounced AMR Corp chief executive Donald J Carty and other officials for agreeing to take compensation packages while they were seeking annual labor concessions worth $1.8 billion and for not disclosing them during negotiations; photo (M)

American Air Pulls Back Bonus Plans

Shiite Muslim cleric Sayed Abbas has declared himself mayor of Kut and taken up residence in ornate city hall, surrounded by legions of zealous Iraqi followers; US military commanders, who dismiss him as clown and sham, are embarrassed and frustrated by spectacle of cleric receiving homage from followers as he calls for resistance to 'dividers,' oblique reference to Americans (M)

Cleric Assumes a Bully Pulpit

Bush administration officials say United States will ask United Nations to lift international penalties against Iraq in phases, retaining UN supervision of Iraq's oil sales for now but gradually transferring other parts of its economy to new Iraqi authority assembled with US guidance; say US will seek three or four Security Council resolutions over several months to lift sanctions; seek to counter efforts by France, Russia and other Council members to link lifting of sanctions to broader role for UN (M)

Bush Plans to Ask U.N. to Lift Penalties Against Iraq in Phases

Intel will face its strongest challenge in more than decade when archrival Advanced Micro Devices formally unveils Opteron 64-bit microprocessor next week; Opteron represents attempt by Advanced Micro to undermine Intel's blueprint for dividing computing universe into two worlds: one represented by its desktop 32-bit Pentium processors and other by its pricier, corporation-oriented Itanium 64-bit chips; many industry executives see Opteron processor and Athlon 64, its companion desktop version to be released in fall, as make-or-break test for Advanced Micro as it tries to carve out secure, profitable position within Intel's shadow; Advanced Micro's chief executive Hector Ruiz comments; photo (M)

As Industry Shifts, New Chip Seeks Footing

Abu Dhabi television broadcasts new videotape of Saddam Hussein, said to have been made on April 9, showing him thronged by well-wishers in Baghdad in broad daylight, on same day that US troops seized control of capital; intelligence officials express doubt, but tapes prolong debate on whether Hussein is alive (M)

New Tape of Hussein Prolongs Debate on His Fate

As the Bush administration continued efforts to find whether President Saddam Hussein of Iraq was alive or dead, an Abu Dhabi television station broadcast a videotape showing Mr. Hussein greeting well-wishers in a Baghdad neighborhood. The station said it was told the tape was made on April 9, the day Mr. Hussein's statue in a central Baghdad square was pulled down. American intelligence officials expressed doubt about the date of the tape.  

Tape Shows Hussein But Resolves Nothing

New York State Governor George E Pataki vetoes bill that would have given school districts more time to present budgets to voters, forcing school districts to lock in votes on budgets two weeks earlier than hoped for by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate majority leader Joseph L Bruno; photos (M)

Schools Fail To Gain Time For Budgets

Isaias P Umali II is arrested and charged with killing Guernica nightclub bouncer Dana Blake on day that Blake's funeral is held; reportedly tried to commit suicide after learning that Blake had died,

On the Day of Bouncer's Funeral, A Martial Arts Student Is Charged

Interviews with soldiers wounded in Iraq at Bethesda, Md, hospital; many tell of visits to chaplains and other counselors as some of long-term physical and emotional effects of war become evident; photos (M)

In Military Wards, Questions and Fears From the Wounded

 Subcontractors to Receive Bulk of Iraq Reconstruction  Although the Bechtel Group has been selected as the prime contractor for up to $680 million worth of reconstruction work in Iraq, a substantial percentage of that money -- half or more, by some estimates -- will actually flow to subcontractors, which are expected to rely heavily on Iraqi workers, government and company officials said.    A spokesman for the United States Agency for International Development, which awarded the contract on Thursday, said Bechtel has said it plans on using Iraqi resources to the greatest degree possible. [Page B8.]

BUSINESS DIGEST

F.D.A. Approval Of Nasal Vaccine For Flu Expected

Once Dangerous Pilgrimage Is Forbidden No More

Sunni and Shiite Muslims put aside differences to demonstrate against United States and Saddam Hussein and for Islamic state after prayer service at Sunni mosque, Baghdad; Ahmad Chalabi, scion of wealthy Shiite clan who returned to his native Baghdad this week for first time in 45 years, emerges from well-guarded seclusion to claim role in Iraq's future, news conference; over 100 Shiite clerics meet in Baghdad's vast Shiite slum to discuss security and aid for city's Shiites; meeting quickly becomes power play by radical faction that hopes to gain control over divided Shiites; map; photos (M)

SUNNIS AND SHIITES UNITE TO PROTEST U.S. AND HUSSEIN

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April 19, 2003

Headlines from April 19, 2003

At Journey's End, a Marine Is Mourned

For Lakers, Postseason Has Become Real Season

Town Loner Charged in Chilling Case of Sexual Captivity

Sports of The Times; Road Back to Finals Will Test Lakers and Nets

Cloaked in Green, But Pushing Trucks

Billboard 200

Meteora

Get Rich Or Die Tryin'

Now 12

One Heart

Come Away With Me

Notable Births

Historical Context for April 19, 2003