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Article on second annual Five Mountains Dance Festival organized by village of Warangan, Indonesia, to spotlight traditional Javanese and American dance forms; photos (M)
Klaus Zwickel resigns early as chairman of IG Metall, Germany's most powerful union, after failing to block his deputy, Jurgen Peters, from succeeding him; scores Peters for refusing to accept personal consequences for calling disastrous June strike in eastern Germany, news conference; feud between union's leaders is seen as part of broader struggle over future of organized labor in Europe; Peters built his appeal to members on militant style repudiated during strike by Germans across political spectrum; photos (M)
Many sleepaway camps are doing away with traditional model of eight-week program with limited parental contact to accommodate changing needs and expectations of campers and their families; increased contact includes more telephone calls, e-mail, posting images of campers on Web site and even weekends at home; American Camping Assn has no figures on how many camps are changing, but say they have seen trend toward new flexibility; map; photos (M)
US marines arrive by helicopter to protect US Embassy in Monrovia and help evacuate foreigners in midst of heavy shelling by rebel forces; hundreds of enraged Liberians lay mutilated bodies by embassy's gates, demanding that US intervene; photos; map; mortar rounds pound neighborhood near embassy, one shell dropping on grounds (M)
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Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 16, 2003, covering July 22, 2003.
Ashanti
Beyonce
Luther Vandross
Michelle Branch
50 Cent
2003Members of 101st Airborne of the United States, aided by Special Forces, attack a compound in Iraq, killing Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay, along with Mustapha Hussein, Qusay's 14-year-old son, and a bodyguard.[†]
The 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) ("Screaming Eagles") is a light infantry division of the United States Army that specializes in air assault operations. The 101st is designed to plan, coordinate, and execute brigade-sized air assault operations that can be conducted in one period of darkness, at distances up to 500 nautical miles, to seize key terrain and hold it for up to 14 days. In recent years, the 101st was active in foreign internal defense and counterterrorism operations in Iraq, in Afghanistan in 2015–2016, and in Syria, as part of Operation Inherent Resolve in 2018–2021.
In 2003, the world population was approximately 6,420,361,634 people[†]