WHERE dude ranches once flourished, Wickenburg, Ariz., has found a new identity as a center for detoxification and other treatments. Once your psychological problems are under control, there are plenty of horses for riding into the sunset. Page 6.  

Desert Detox

OUTRIGGER canoes have long been identified with Hawaii, but they're showing up these days in unlikely places like Massachusetts, Texas and New York. Paddlers say the ''aloha spirit'' sets the sport apart from kayaking and conventional canoeing. Several cities around the nation have clubs for enthusiasts. Page 8.  

Canoeing, Hawaiian-Style

General Electric Co's lawyers attack European Commission during appeal of commission's veto of GE's $43 billion acquisition of Honeywell in 2001; deal will not be revived even if GE's legal team persuades Court of First Instance in Luxembourg to annnul three-year-old order; GE and Honeywell are appealing ruling in order to clarify European law on mergers (M)

G.E. Attacks European Ruling on Honeywell Merger

Los Angeles Lakers defeat Minnesota Timberwolves, 92-85, to lead Western Conference final series, 3-1; photos (M)

Busy Bryant Leads Lakers To a Victory

Brazil's economy grew at annual rate of 2.7 perent in first quarter; industry grew 2.9 percent and services, 1.2 percent; household consumption rose 1.2 percent (S)

World Business Briefing | Americas: Brazil: Economic Rebound

Clyde Haberman column on start-up library at Bread and Life soup kitchen that is trying to feed minds along with bodies of Brooklyn's poor; Rita Marie Trucios, kitchen's director, has ambitious plans to increase services at library (M)

Soup Kitchen Tries Feeding Hungry Minds

More schools like Ohio State University are taking advantage of Title IX funding and offering full scholarships to female rowers who might have very little rowing experience, if any; photos (M)

Never Rowed? Take a Free Ride

Sen John Kerry opens two-week critique of Bush administration foreign policy by accusing Pres Bush of abandoning American alliance-building of post-World War II era and rushing to war in Iraq, speech in Seattle; says Bush failed to exhaust diplomacy and failed to assemble international team; pledges to restore American leadership that Bush has undermined; says Bush is too stubborn to rescue flawed Iraq strategy; speech comes at risky time for Kerry; continued turmoil in Iraq and prisoner abuse scandal have led to growing doubts about Bush's policies, but Kerry is under pressure from his own party to present more forceful alternative; many antiwar Democrats are calling for definite date for pulling out of Iraq; it is unclear if Kerry's balancing act will satisfy them; photo (M)

Kerry Outlines Foreign Policy, Attacking Bush

Floods in Haiti and Dominican Republic took everything, and everyone, in their path; aid workers, soldiers and villagers struggle to save living, find lost and bury dead; many hundreds of people remain missing three days after spring rains made rivers run wild; government officials in both nations say confirmed death toll from devastating floods reached 900 but could go as high as 2,000, making it one of worst natural disasters in Caribbean history; greatest losses are in Haiti; Red Cross workers say 11,200 families, and probably more, have been displaced by flood in both nations; there is little natural barrier for heavy rains because most trees have been cut for charcoal; photos; maps (M)

Grief as Haitians And Dominicans Tally Flood Toll

Stephen Holden Critic's Notebook column reviews latest original Broadway cast albums: Wicked, The Boy From Oz, Avenue Q, Taboo, Assassins, Bombay Dreams, Caroline, or Change, Gypsy and Wonderful Town; photos (M)

Yellow Brick Road Leads Show Tunes Down a New Path

Serena Williams defeats Maria Kirilenko to advance to third round of French Open; photo (M)

Williamses Avoid Joining Upset Parade

Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts makes crucial $73.1 million debt payment, securing temporary respite from financial problems that still threaten to force it into bankruptcy; photo (M)

Trump Hotels Makes Payment On Its Debt

Article on Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island in northern Michigan as resort prepares for Memorial Day weekend and start of summer season; photos; map (M)

A Luxury Liner of a Hotel Readies for Another Voyage

Unemployed residents of former East Germany are emigrating west and leaving behind eerie still-life landscape of shrinking cities, depression-level unemployment and 1.3 million empty apartments; 100,000 apartments are vacant in Berlin, most of them in former East Berlin; 42,000 apartments are empty in Leipzig; eastern Germany has shrunk by 3.1 million residents since Berlin Wall fell in November 1989, reducing population from 16.7 million to 13.6 million; unemployment in former East Germany was 18.8 percent in April compared with 8.5 percent in west; competition to retain young residents is so intense that some communities, like Heiligengrabe, 50 miles northwest of Berlin, are offering subsidies of up to 8,000 euros to families with children who agree to move in, buy land and build homes; map; photo (M)

Last Out, Please Turn Off the Lights

Alessandra Stanley reviews two-hour finale of ABC crime drama Line of Fire starring David Paymer; photos (M)

A Brainy Boss's Proper Farewell

Federal Reserve says that New York City's tax base has shifted over last 30 years, leaving it increasingly dependent on income and corporate taxes and vulnerable to boom and bust cyles of Wall Street; income and corporate taxes have more than doubled from 1970 to 2002, to about 34 percent, while portion derived from property and sales tax revenue has remained steady or declined; property taxes have gone from 51 percent of total revenues in 1977 to 38 percent in 2002; property taxes are considered more stable source of income and less affected by financial cycles; economists differ in regard to which system is better for city; graph (M)

Fed Says City Leans Heavily On Income Tax

US reaches free trade agreement with Bahrain, first Middle East nation since Pres Bush announced his goal of creating free trade area for region; US trade representative Robert B Zoellick says agreement will eliminate all duties on consumer and industrial products at annual two-way trade of $887 million in goods; Bahrain's Finance Min Abdulla Hassan Saif hopes pact will position Bahrain as permanent gateway for trade in region (M)

U.S. and Bahrain Reach A Free Trade Agreement

Russia's Yukos oil company says it may go bankrupt by end of 2004 if it is forced to pay billions of dollars in back taxes (S)

World Business Briefing | Europe: Russia: Warning From Oil Company

Armrests of Long Island Rail Road's new M7 cars are catching riders' pants and pockets, tearing them and causing scores of complaints; ergonomically designed rest is four-tenths of an inch longer than those on former C3 cars on which seats were modeled; designers will re-examine seats; photos, chart comparing old and new seats (M)

Rrrrrrrippp! Another Victim Of Armrests On the L.I.R.R.

 British Seize Radical Cleric Sought by U.S.  Britain has arrested a radical Islamic cleric after the United States requested his extradition on terrorism charges. Attorney General John Ashcroft announced that an 11-count indictment of the cleric included charges of hostage-taking in connection with an attack on 16 tourists in Yemen in 1998. He is also charged with conspiring to provide support to Al Qaeda.   PAGE A12    New Post for Cardinal Law  Cardinal Bernard F. Law, who was forced to resign as leader of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston after the sexual-abuse scandal, was chosen by Pope John Paul II to head a basilica in Rome.   PAGE A13

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Bombardier reports net loss of $174 million in its fiscal first quarter, compared with profit of $54 million year earlier; revenue rose 6 percent (S)

World Business Briefing | Americas: Canada: Loss At Bombardier

TAKE Walt Disney World, add one small child (yours), stir in crowds and long lines and place under a hot sun. A recipe for disaster? Not if you strategize properly, learn the short cuts and make liberal use of the Fastpass kiosks. Page 3.  

Mastering Disney World

Sensitive military equipment, brand-new components for oil rigs and water plants and whole complexes of older buildings are being smuggled out of Iraq on flatbed trucks, even as United States spends billions of dollars to rebuild Iraq's civil and military infrastructure; estimated 100 semitrailers loaded with what is billed as Iraqi scrap metal are streaming each day into Jordan, one of six countries sharing border with Iraq; American officials claim sensitive equipment is closely monitored and much of rest leaving country is legitimate removal; many experts disagree, saying much of what is going on amounts to vast looting operation; International Atomic Energy Agency official Jacques Baute says satellite photographs of hundreds of military-industrial sites in Iraq show that entire buildings and complexes of buildings have been vanishing from photographs in past few months; pieces of Iraqi metal bearing tags put in place by United Nations Monitoring Verification and Inspection Commission during Saddam Hussein's rule have been spotted in Jordanian scrapyards; recent examinations of Jordanian scrapyards turn up astounding quantity of scrap metal and new components from Iraq's civil infrastructure; photos; maps (L)

In Jordan's Scrapyards, Signs of a Looted Iraq

Nortel Networks, which is being investigated for possible accounting irregularities, names John Manley, former Canadian finance minister and deputy prime minister, to its board; photo (S)

World Business Briefing | Americas: Canada: Nortel Names A Director

Dave Anderson Sports of The Times column contends that New York Mets pitcher Tom Glavine has won some important games this season; photo (M)

Sports of The Times; The Mets 'Gotta Believe' in Glavine

Michael A. Buonauro was an American webcomic artist, and author. Best known for his webcomic Marvelous Bob, Buonauro had co-created various other webcomics in collaboration with Jeff Lofvers.

Michael Buonauro, American author and illustrator (born 1979)

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John Tolos, nicknamed "The Golden Greek", was a Canadian professional wrestler, and professional wrestling manager.

John Tolos, Greek-Canadian wrestler (born 1930)

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The Iraqi Governing Council (IGC) was the provisional government of Iraq from 13 July 2003 to 1 June 2004. It was established by and served under the United States-led Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA). The IGC consisted of various Iraqi political and tribal leaders who were appointed by the CPA to provide advice and leadership of the country until the June 2004 transfer of sovereignty to the Iraqi Interim Government.

The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, as prime minister of Iraq's interim government.

May 28, 2004

Headlines from May 28, 2004

Desert Detox

Canoeing, Hawaiian-Style

G.E. Attacks European Ruling on Honeywell Merger

Busy Bryant Leads Lakers To a Victory

World Business Briefing | Americas: Brazil: Economic Rebound

Billboard 200

Confessions

Here For The Party

Living Legends

D12 World

The Reason

Notable Deaths

Historical Events

Historical Context for May 28, 2004