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THE WEEK THAT WAS

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The World

Violent protests engulfed Arequipa, Peru, in response to a plan to privatize two state-owned electricity utilities. President Alejandro Toledo declared a state of emergency.

EgyptAir removed its long-time chairman, Muhammad Fahim Rayan, in an effort to revamp the airline plagued by significant losses since Sept. 11.

Saudi Arabia arrested 13 men accused of being linked to an al-Qaida plot to shoot down a U.S. military aircraft with a shoulder-fired missile.

Villagers in Rwanda began convening courts across the country in preparation for community trials of thousands of suspects in the 1994 massacres that left up to 500,000 dead.

Hamid Karzai was sworn in as president of Afghanistan and promised to fight corruption and political intimidation.

The Pentagon announced that Army Special Forces soldiers will begin training Phillippine soldiers in smaller groups than previously and will soon join the Filipinos in searches for terrorists.

A nurse, working at The Hague, was indicted in the deaths of up to 13 people in her care who were reportedly killed when they were administered high doses of medicine and other substances.

Middle East violence continued with several incidents leaving tens dead and hundreds wounded, including two Palestinian suicide attacks, Israeli shelling of Jenin civilians and a Palestinian attack on an Israeli family.

An asteroid the size of a soccer field missed hitting Earth by 75,000 miles, coming closer than any known approach of an object of that size in decades.

A car bomb in Saudi Arabia killed a British banker.

Ten people drowned off Tunisia while swimming to a boat they hoped would take them to Italy, Tunisian newspapers reported.

More than 600 dead seals have washed up on beaches in Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands in a new outbreak of a virus that ravaged populations in 1988.

The Nation

Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura announced that he will not seek re-election.

Tiger Woods overcame the weather and Phil Mickelson to win the U.S. Open by three strokes.

A federal appeals court upheld a U.S. District judge's decision that "special interest" immigration hearings must be open to the public.

The Supreme Court ruled that the Internal Revenue Service could use broad estimates of servers' tip income to calculate payroll taxes owed by restaurants.

A San Francisco judge overturned the murder conviction of Marjorie Knoller in the dog mauling that claimed the life of one of her neighbors. Knoller's husband, Robert Noel, was sentenced to the maximum four-year prison term.

The Supreme Court, in an 8-1 decision involving Jehovah's Witnesses, ruled that under the First Amendment people have the right to solicit door to door for religious, political or other noncommercial causes without first receiving government permission.

A poll by The Washington Post found that two-thirds of Catholics think the recent conference of Catholic bishops did not go far enough in the guidelines they adopted to deal with cases of sexual abuse by priests.

George Stephanopoulos, the former presidential aide during the Clinton administration, was named sole anchor of This Week, a Sunday morning political program on ABC.

J. Carter Brown, former head of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, died of cancer at the age of 67.

A Miami jury awarded Lynn French, a flight attendent suffering from chronic sinus problems, $5.5 million in compensatory damages from tobacco companies, in the nation's first secondhand-smoke judgment.

Duke junior forward Mike Dunleavy will forgo his final season with the Blue Devils basketball team and enter the NBA draft.

U.S. Forest Service employee Terry Barton was charged by a federal grand jury with deliberately starting the Hayman fire, the largest wildfire in Colorado history.

Martha Stewart denied charges of insider trading in connection with her sale of ImClone stock the day before the FDA announced it would not approve the company's key drug.

Southwest Airlines announced that passengers too large to fit into a single seat will be required to buy an extra ticket.

The trial of Sidney Dorsey, a former sheriff accused of ordering the murder of his successor, began in Albany, Ga.

Scholar Donald Foster recanted his theory that an obscure 578-line poem called "A Funeral Elegy" was written by William Shakespeare, in the face of new evidence pointing to John Ford as the poem's author.

The Federal Election Commission voted to give state and local parties more time to use soft money in primary elections, concluding that regulation by federal law may begin only after a candidate is on a primary ballot.

A divided Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 vote that executing the mentally retarded is unconstitutionally cruel.

A California teen-ager, Charles Williams, pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder and 13 counts of attempted murder in a shooting rampage that killed two students at a San Diego high school last year.

The White House was partially evacuated when a light aircraft flew within the new four-mile security radius.

The Region

The body of Rodney R. Cocking, a Carroll County psychologist, was found in a wooded watershed area of Frederick County.

Former President Bill Clinton received a Father's Day gift - a chocolate Labrador retriever pup, bred by Wild Goose Kennels of Federalsburg, to replace his dog Buddy, who was killed by a car.

State schools Superintendent Nancy S. Grasmick announced that she would not switch parties and enter as a running mate in Republican Rep. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s campaign for governor.

The foundation for late Baltimore-born financier Reginald F. Lewis announced an agreement to donate $5 million to the endowment for the African-American museum to be built near the Inner Harbor.

Six commuters were injured when two trains, a northbound Amtrak train and a southbound MARC train, collided near Penn Station in Baltimore.

Baltimore and the Maryland Port Administration will receive a combined $3.76 million from the federal government to improve overall security around the port.

The Aberdeen IronBirds, Cal Ripken's newly acquired Single-A ball club, made their debut at Ripken Stadium.

Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co. Inc. announced that it will move its headquarters from Atlanta to Montgomery County, a move expected to create 140 jobs.

An Amtrak train, passing through the railroad station in Aberdeen, struck and killed an unidentified man as he crossed the tracks.

Naoko Nakajima, estranged wife of Robert Emmett Filippi, the man accused of killing the couple's two children, filed a request in Howard County Circuit Court to freeze the couple's marital assets so that he could not use the money to support his criminal defense.

Mayor O'Malley announced a program offering cash rewards for tips leading to the arrest of people illegally dumping trash in Baltimore.

Chief clerk for Anne Arundel County Circuit Court, Robert P. Duckworth, filed a complaint in an attempt to get the state's new congressional district map thrown out.

A Harford County Circuit Court judge issued an injunction forbidding lawyer Thomas J. McLaughlin from practicing law in Maryland after a judge found that the lawyer collected more than $200,000 from elderly clients whom he did not help.

Quote

"The match is about to begin."

Translation of an Arabic intercept received Sept. 10, 2001, by the National Security Agency, one of two ominous intercepts not translated until two days later, according to published reports.

Enron's moneymakers

Enron disclosed the compensation paid to top executives and traders in the year before the Dec. 2, 2001, bankruptcy. Here are the largest cash payments:

Kenneth L. Lay, chairman* $103,559,793

Mark A. Frevert, trading executive** 17,252,530

John J. Lavorato, trading executive 10,425,757

Jeffrey K. Skilling chief executive 8,682,716

Amanda K. Martin, operations executive 8,407,016

John D. Arnold, energy trader*** 8,000,000

J. Clifford Baxter, vice chairman 5,634,343

Timothy N. Belden, energy trader 5,501,630

David W. Delainey. energy Services chief 4,747,979

Lawrence G. Whalley, trading executive 4,677,574

Phillip K. Allen, energy trader 4,484,442

John R. Sherriff, international executive 4,335,388

Jeffrey McMahon, president 4,099,771

Mark E. Haedicke, unit general counsel 3,859,065

James B. Fallon, broadband trader 3,676,340

Louise Kitchen, trading executive 3,471,141

Mark S. Muller, operations executive 3,202,070

Stanley C. Horton, operations executive 3,131,860

Lou L. Pai, energy services chief 3,123,383

Gene E. Humphrey, community services 3,100,224

*Includes a loan of $81,525,000; the outstanding balance as of Dec. 1, 2001, was $7.5 million. Repayments during the period were made with stock. Also includes $10 million for the purchase of two annuity contracts.

**Includes a loan of $2 million.

***Bonus in connection with proposed Dynegy merger. Other compensation not disclosed.

SOURCE: The New York Times and Enron

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