New Jersey lawmakers approve two bills that could alter state's landscape for generations; one will protect much of state's drinking water by limiting development in area known as Highlands, but critics have lambasted Gov James McGreevey for trading out benefits of that bill for one that streamlines building permit process in much of state, which is likely to accelerate construction in some areas; second bill passed quickly and with no floor debate, illustrating construction lobby's political muscle; legal experts say rules are so lax now that they are not likely to withstand court challenges; map shows desinated growth areas (M)

New Jersey Blocks Off Highlands But Eases Other Rules for Builders

Hybrid Vehicles Hit the Heartland...Barely

Tiger Woods finishes second round of US Open at seven shots behind leaders; photos (M)

Woods Stages Late Rally And Waits for the Wind

Redesign of Chock Full o' Nuts coffee can eliminates black silhouette of New York skyline, which included image of Twin Towers; new design is yellow silhouette on yellow background with more recognizable building images and no World Trade Center; although some people wanted company to retain image, brand manager says packaging changed to reflect new flavor, attract younger market and possibly ease customers' painful memories of Sept 11 attacks; photo (M)

Lost Towers, Reflected in a Can

New York Mets defeat Detroit Tigers, 3-2; Mets catcher Mike Piazza is honored for setting record for most career home runs by catcher; photo (M)

Piazza Honored, but Cameron Takes Bows

Connecticut Supreme Court rules that House committee considering Gov John Rowland's impeachment has authority to order him to testify, rejecting Rowland's claims that separation of powers denies legislature authority to subpoena him; committee members say they do not expect decision to prompt Rowland to testify; lawyers on both sides say decision could have broad impact for its attempt to clarify lines between government powers; photo (M)

Court Upholds Subpoena For Rowland

Police in East New York, Brooklyn, charge Jamel Robinson and Dashorn Washington, neighborhood 15-year-olds, with beating to death Billy Pearson, 51-year-old homeless man; say teenagers were looking for someone to rob when they found Pearson sleeping in parked car at 3 AM; say beating took place along four-block stretch; residents say Pearson had been sleeping on streets for years; photos (M)

Seeking Answers on a 4-Block Path to a Killing

Former Pres Bill Clinton, in 957-page autobiography that discusses both his flaws and what he calls hypocrisy of his enemies, blames his affair with Monica Lewinsky on 'old demons' that have haunted him all his life; says affair was personally humiliating and almost cost him his presidency and his marriage; book, My Life, will be released with initial printing of 1.5 million copies; Clinton received advance of over $10 million for memoir; he writes that independent counsel Kenneth W Starr was tribune of organized right-wing cabal that was determined to destroy his presidency; admits that his actions were immoral and foolish, but says he was determined not to let Starr drive him from office because of them; photo of Harlem bookstore (M)

In a Sprawling Memoir, Clinton Cites Storms and Settles Scores

Nation's Roman Catholic bishops approve statement on Catholics in Political Life that brands politicians who support abortion rights as 'cooperating in evil' and leaves door open for bishops to deny communion to such lawmakers; bishops stop short of saying that those lawmakers should be forbidden to take communion; statement provides backing to bishops on both sides of what has become very public debate set off by presidential candidacy of Sen John Kerry; it is adopted by vote of 183 to 6 (M)

POLITICIANS FACE BISHOPS' CENSURE IN ABORTION RIFT

United Airlines scrambles to revise its bid for $1.6 billion in federal loan guarantees; Treasury Department's decision to let it make unusual third aid bid, chance denied other airlines, stirs political storm; Treasury official says decision came after both White House and House Speaker J Dennis Hastert spoke with Sec John W Snow; industry analysts say airline would remain financially shaky even with loan guarantees; photos (M)

Another Loan Chance Puts United in a Political Storm; Airline, Its Wings Clipped Twice, Is Given an Unusual Third Shot

Photo of spectators placing final calls from Shinnecock Hills Golf Club, Southampton, NY, where they must surrender their cellphones before entering for US Open

INSIDE

Oil services company Halliburton drops ties with former top official Albert J Stanley after probes show he secretly enriched self by channeling up to $5 million from elaborate payment scheme to win contract to build $4 billion natural gas complex in Nigeria to Swiss bank account; also cuts ties with William Chaudan, whom it suspects was involved in scheme; two retired from company's KBR unit, but continued to work as consultants at company; investigators seek to determine whether $180 million web of payments by Halliburton and its partners in project, including French construction group Technip, added up to illegal commissions for Halliburton executives and Nigerian officials; Halliburton chief executive David Lesar sends employees e-mail message warning of heightened and exaggerated political attacks on company; says two former executives violated company's business conduct code; Halliburton also cuts ties to Tri-Star Investments, company controlled by Jeffrey Tesler and described by French newspapers as mastermind of scheme (M)

Halliburton Severs Link With 2 Over Nigeria Inquiry

Dan Barry About New York column on Billy Sternberg, whose grandfather Maurice Bloch died in 1929 while New York was in grips of Tammany Hall corruption; Sternberg believes Bloch was murdered because of his political aspirations and is obsessed with discovering circumstances of his death (M)

About New York; Asking Why Judge Crater Never Called

Phil Mickelson and Shigeki Maruyama share second-round lead at US Open; photos (M)

Mickelson Displaying New Fondness for Majors

9/11 Commission staff report asserts that there is 'no evidence' that Saudi Arabian government or senior Saudi officials financed Al Qaeda; joint Congressional committee in 2002 reportedly concluded opposite in classified study; new report says Al Qaeda 'found fertile fund-raising ground' in Saudi Arabia, where extreme religious views are common, and charitable giving is essential to culture; also asserts that 1996 terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia, believed to have been carried out by Saudi Shiite group operating with help from Iran, may also have involved support from Al Qaeda; concludes that Osama bin Laden has less personal wealth than has been widely believed and did not fund Al Qaeda through personal fortune and network of businesses; photo (M)

NO SAUDI PAYMENT TO QAEDA IS FOUND

Raw sewage has been treated in Baghdad for first time in over decade, but achievement remains cloaked in secrecy for security reasons; stream of treated water that eventually found its way into Tigris River was hardly more than trickle, but accomplishment is all but epoch-making in city where sewage plants are in disrepair; US Agency for International Development and its major contractor, Bechtel Corp, are in charge of project; some engineers say secrecy defeats original purpose of work; photo of guard at restarted sewage plant (M)

It's a Dirty Job, But They Do It, Secretly, in Iraq

Justice Department will not seek death penalty against Dominican Alejandro De Asa Sanchez after Judge Jack Weinstein rules that it would be violation of international law; Sanchez was extradited on condition that he not be executed and although prosecutor says order by Dominican judge was not binding, Weinstein disagrees; Sanchez is accused of two murders and running Brooklyn drug ring (M)

Bowing to an Extradition Deal, U.S. Will Forgo Death Penalty

 Glaxo to Create a Web Site To List All Drug Trials  Facing complaints that it selectively disclosed results from pediatric trials of its antidepressant drug Paxil, GlaxoSmithKline said that it planned to create a Web site that would publicly list all clinical trials on its marketed drugs.     The company said that the Web site would include the results of all tests run on a drug before its approval for marketing as well as subsequent tests of that medication for new uses or on new types of patients. [Page C2.]

BUSINESS DIGEST

Saudi Arabian militant group executes kidnapped American engineer Paul M Johnson Jr and posts pictures of his beheaded corpse on Web site; Saudi security forces kill Abdelaziz al-Muqrin, leader of group, during gunfight shortly after Johnson's photos are posted; group is offshoot of Al Qaeda that claims responsibility for kidnapping and recent attacks on Saudi expatriates; Johnson was employee of Lockheed Martin; recent terrorist attacks in Saudi Arabia noted; map; photos (M)

ACTING ON THREAT, SAUDI GROUP KILLS CAPTIVE AMERICAN

Crowds at US Open are forced to relinquish their cell phones at gates to Shinnecock Hills Golf Club; photo (M)

Such Sorrow To Part With Cellphones

Viacom Inc, which owns 82 percent of video rental chain Blockbuster Inc, expects to get $738 million in cash from Blockbuster as part of complex deal to spin it off; Blockbuster will borrow over $905 million to pay $5 special cash dividend on each of its shares; aim is to let shareholders exchange Viacom shares for Blockbuster stock; analysts say deal will let Viacom, which will retire millions of its shares, avoid tax consequences of traditional sale while fueling company's growth (M)

Payout Is Set By Blockbuster To Viacom

House, 237-171, rejects move to provide $446 million to pay for security initiatives in cities believed to be at greatest risk of terrorist attack; vote is largely split along regional lines and brings condemnation from New York officials, especially Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who have long complained that antiterrorism money is doled out in pork-barrel fashion rather than according to vulnerability; Sen Hillary Clinton plans to explore other legislative avenues of allocating money to New York (M)

House Rejects Increased Aid To Secure Cities at High Risk

Lawyer in Rigas Trial Says Prosecutors Oversimplified Case

May 26 review of Eric Lax book The Mold in Dr Florey's Coat attributed distinction incorrectly to Anne Miller, patient injected with penicillin in 1942; she was not first American to receive it

Corrections

New York Gov George Pataki sends to legislature revised proposal for $1.4 billion expansion of Jacob K Javits Convention Center only weeks after he submitted original bill; first bill met with resistance because it included elements that tied it to new Jets stadium and, while there is support for expanding convention center in Albany, stadium proposal is more controversial; details of bill noted (M)

Pataki Offers New Proposal For Javits Center Expansion

Amelia Eve Gibson, known as Millie Gibson, is an English actress. She is best known for portraying Kelly Neelan in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street from 2019 to 2022, and Ruby Sunday in the BBC-Disney+ co-production science-fiction series Doctor Who From 2023 to 2025.

Millie Gibson, English actress

Millie_Gibson


Clayton Kirkpatrick was an American journalist who was the editor of the Chicago Tribune newspaper from 1969 until 1979. He is credited with modernizing the Tribune, shifting its news coverage and editorial page away from reflexive partisanship and—in a famous editorial—calling for the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974.

June 19, 2004

Headlines from June 19, 2004

New Jersey Blocks Off Highlands But Eases Other Rules for Builders

Hybrid Vehicles Hit the Heartland...Barely

Woods Stages Late Rally And Waits for the Wind

Lost Towers, Reflected in a Can

Piazza Honored, but Cameron Takes Bows

Billboard 200

Confessions

Under My Skin

Here For The Party

Musicology

Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)

Notable Births

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for June 19, 2004