October 11, 2003

F.T.C. Begins Enforcing Do-Not-Call Registry After nearly two weeks of court-ordered delays, the Federal Trade Commission began taking complaints from people who have placed phone numbers on the national do-not-call registry but have continued to receive pitches from telemarketers. The Federal Communications Commission has been taking some complaints in recent days as well, but because it does not manage the registry, its enforcement efforts are more limited. The government planned to put the registry into effect on Oct. 1, but a federal court ruling in a lawsuit brought by the telemarketing industry delayed the enforcement of the do-not-call list by the F.T.C. [Page C2.]

Rutgers University campus in New Brunswick, New Jersey, is embroiled in fierce debate between pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian factions; heavy police presence separates two sides at clamorous rally; photos (M)

Bank of Japan, seeking to spur economy by damping rising interest rates and yen, raises amount of money it can pump into markets to 32 trillion yen ($293 billion) from 30 trillion yen; weaker yen could erase worries that Japan's recovery is in danger of stalling and help Prime Min Junichiro Koizumi in Nov elections; Resona Holdings, one of Japan's largest banks, discloses under pressure from regulators that it will probably lose 1.76 trillion yen ($16 billion) in six months ended Sept 30 as it writes off more problem loans; Bank of Japan move and Resona's aggressive write-offs suggest policy makers are more squarely confronting economic woes; currency graphs and table; photo (M)

New York Stock Exchange says it owes top officials other than ex-chairman Richard A Grasso, who resigned because of pay dispute, $133 million in retirement pay; interim chairman John S Reed says Grasso made compensation recommendations and board approved them; co-presidents Robert G Britz and Catherine R Kinney, close Grasso associates, are to get $22 million each; they each got $3.6 million in 2002 and over $4 million in 2001; Edward A Kwalwasser, exchange's top regulator, and William R Johnson, former exchange president and part-time adviser to Grasso, got surprisingly high salaries and bonuses; exchange members question high pay; photo (M)

Vice Pres Dick Cheney lashes out at critics of Bush administration's Iraq policy, speech, Heritage Foundation; holds that arguments against war are naive and dangerous; remarks come at end of contentious week that included Pres Bush's announcement of reorganization to give White House more control over Iraq occupation, public spat between Defense Sec Donald H Rumsfeld and national security adviser Condoleeza Rice over control of mission and growing violence in Iraq (M)